Did you vote in the last election? Did you campaign door-to-door? When was the last time you attended a demonstration? These are the things that will improve your legal rights, not trying to use tech to hide your use of encryption.
For a start, you might snail-mail your representative and ask how you can communicate with their office privately, now that governments are starting to claim the right to intercept and store snail-mail, email, and telephone calls.
It will be amusing to watch the Irish Gov't try to enforce this.
They might have to ban statements by recent U.S. officials.
Following the 9/11 attack, the Department of Defense
designated the military response as Operation Infinite Justice.
Surely that concept is blasphemous to Christians, Jews, Muslims,
and people of many other faiths. I'm an agnostic, and I called it
blasphemous.
I run backuppc on a free Pentium III running linux. It backs up itself (tar), 2 window machines (SMB), a macbook (ssh and tar), and my website (ssh and tar). It is fully automatic, and does full, differential, and incremental backups. My wife can browse backups and restore individual files herself. If a file appears in more than one backup, even if from different machines, a single copy is stored. I now have 20 full backups, and 93 incrementals using just 36 GB. For our document folders, we do incrementals twice a day.
I make an occasional offsite backup by imaging the disk to another one (craigslist!) giving it to a family member for storage.
CONS: doesn't know about Mac resource forks, windows multiple data streams, ntfs permissions,... Configuration required condsiderable tinkering. A full restore would require reinstalling the operating system, then putting user files in their proper places.
I use BITS to transfer large files across flaky wireless networks. The way I use it, the sending end can be any http server; only the receiving end needs to run Windows and have the BITS service running. You can just use the clumsy command line bitsadmin utility to queue and manage requests. If you want transfers to continue while people log in and out of the windows machine, you must submit the job to run in the system account. The Sharpbits program mentioned about doesn't do that last I looked. You can submit a job under any account, then use the bitsadmin "/takecontrol" command to push it into the System account.
Could we get a source other than the New York Post please? The paper called itself "New York's daily picture newspaper". Since Murdoch took over, it has only gotten worse. It makes me embarrassed to live in New York City.
From Wikipedia: "In 1980, the Columbia Journalism Review asserted that "the New York Post is no longer merely a journalistic problem. It is a social problem - a force for evil."
The New York Post is for gossip, clever headlines, and sports. But not for journalism. It's like slashdot, but dumb.
I don't think most people even understand what mathematics is, so I recommend reading something about the history of mathematics. The World of Mathematics edited by James R. Newman has a very good collection of essays, fragments of ancient mathematics, and even short books. It is four volumes, but I eagerly read all of it in High School.
The parts I remember clearly are: mathematics in antiquity, Gauss, the 19th century number theorists, an essay by Poincare about creativity, and lots of amusing applications.
A Source Book in Mathematics edited by David Eugene Smith has famous papers, from the ancient world to the 20th century. Some are advanced, but it's ok to look at stuff you don't understand.
My various print dictionaries do not have any words with the prefix syncro- , nor anything related starting with cron-. Think chronology, chronograph, etc.
Every year, I read the terms of service of a bunch of online backup services, but I have not found one that gives the provider any incentive to be careful. They say they have *no liability of any kind*. Why should I trust them?
I will cheerfully pay to insure access to my data, but nobody offers me insurance.
In conventional warfare, certain actions such as hiding among civilian populations are forbidden. These actions are considered war crimes because of the collateral damage they are likely to cause. What actions in cyberspace do you think should be outlawed? How about intentionally bringing down hospital IT systems, or destroying undersea cables without regard to the effects on civilian populations?
The Iran Institute of Science and Technology ( http://www.iust.ac.ir/ ) is online, and their servers are physically in Iran, but a traceroute from Roadrunner in New York, NY shows traffic going the wrong way around the world.
Tracing route to www.iust.ac.ir [194.225.228.25]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 194.225.228.25
2 8 ms 9 ms 11 ms 10.39.192.1
3 12 ms 8 ms 7 ms gig-4-3-nycmnyg-rtr1.nyc.rr.com [24.29.98.109]
4 8 ms 9 ms 8 ms pos-3-2-nycmnya-rtr1.nyc.rr.com [24.29.130.129]
5 10 ms 9 ms 10 ms tenge-3-0-0-nwrknjmd-rtr.nyc.rr.com [24.29.119.106]
6 10 ms 9 ms 10 ms 4.79.188.37
7 23 ms 18 ms 17 ms ae-32-54.ebr2.Newark1.Level3.net [4.68.99.126]
8 29 ms 18 ms 14 ms ae-4.ebr2.Washington1.Level3.net [4.69.132.101]
9 20 ms 16 ms 19 ms ae-92-92.csw4.Washington1.Level3.net [4.69.134.158]
10 14 ms 18 ms 13 ms ae-94-94.ebr4.Washington1.Level3.net [4.69.134.189]
11 89 ms 91 ms 89 ms ae-4.ebr3.LosAngeles1.Level3.net [4.69.132.81]
12 84 ms * 84 ms ae-93-93.csw4.LosAngeles1.Level3.net [4.69.137.46]
13 84 ms 81 ms 86 ms ae-4-99.edge3.LosAngeles1.Level3.net [4.68.20.201]
14 84 ms 85 ms 83 ms SINGAPORE-T.edge3.LosAngeles1.Level3.net [4.78.195.202]
15 118 ms 84 ms 83 ms ge-7-1-0-0.laxow-cr2.ix.singtel.com [203.208.183.81]
16 85 ms 274 ms 84 ms ge-4-1-0-0.laxow-cr2.ix.singtel.com [203.208.183.90]
17 276 ms 265 ms 282 ms so-3-0-1-0.sngc3-cr2.ix.singtel.com [203.208.149.185]
18 338 ms 253 ms 269 ms ge-0-0-0-0.sngtp-dr1.ix.singtel.com [203.208.149.78]
19 254 ms 272 ms 264 ms GigabitEthernet1-1-1.sngtp-ar4.ix.singtel.com [203.208.183.114]
20 284 ms 287 ms 303 ms 203.208.192.226
21 298 ms 286 ms 290 ms 217.218.155.201
22 301 ms 299 ms 292 ms 217.218.163.252
23 328 ms 319 ms 292 ms 194.225.239.254
24 298 ms 294 ms 303 ms 194.225.228.25
Also, Escheria coli is not "nefarious." It is usually benign, and makes up a lot of the volume of your gut. Bacteria are always present in healthy adults, and the common varieties protect you from more dangerous stuff.
"Congress shall have the Power...
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors
and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"
The fundamental purpose is "to promote the useful arts"; giving rights to authors is the means. We are debating how best to promote the useful arts.
"About false positives. So what? Eyewitnesses make mistakes also."
True, but with computers making the mistakes at high speed, a lot more people will be falsely accused. I'm worried about how much damage will be done before people get used to thinking in terms of false positive and false negative rates.
Slashdot Mirror
Three significant digits?
my apology for propagating a silly meme
They can avoid the patent. Rotating through 180 degrees is the same as two reflections, across (any) two perpendicular lines.
Did you vote in the last election? Did you campaign door-to-door? When was the last time you attended a demonstration? These are the things that will improve your legal rights, not trying to use tech to hide your use of encryption.
For a start, you might snail-mail your representative and ask how you can communicate with their office privately, now that governments are starting to claim the right to intercept and store snail-mail, email, and telephone calls.
It will be amusing to watch the Irish Gov't try to enforce this. They might have to ban statements by recent U.S. officials. Following the 9/11 attack, the Department of Defense designated the military response as Operation Infinite Justice. Surely that concept is blasphemous to Christians, Jews, Muslims, and people of many other faiths. I'm an agnostic, and I called it blasphemous.
I run backuppc on a free Pentium III running linux. It backs up itself (tar), 2 window machines (SMB), a macbook (ssh and tar), and my website (ssh and tar). It is fully automatic, and does full, differential, and incremental backups. My wife can browse backups and restore individual files herself. If a file appears in more than one backup, even if from different machines, a single copy is stored. I now have 20 full backups, and 93 incrementals using just 36 GB. For our document folders, we do incrementals twice a day.
I make an occasional offsite backup by imaging the disk to another one (craigslist!) giving it to a family member for storage.
CONS: doesn't know about Mac resource forks, windows multiple data streams, ntfs permissions, ...
Configuration required condsiderable tinkering. A full restore would require reinstalling the operating system, then putting user files in their proper places.
I use BITS to transfer large files across flaky wireless networks. The way I use it, the sending end can be any http server; only the receiving end needs to run Windows and have the BITS service running. You can just use the clumsy command line bitsadmin utility to queue and manage requests. If you want transfers to continue while people log in and out of the windows machine, you must submit the job to run in the system account. The Sharpbits program mentioned about doesn't do that last I looked. You can submit a job under any account, then use the bitsadmin "/takecontrol" command to push it into the System account.
Could we get a source other than the New York Post please? The paper called itself "New York's daily picture newspaper". Since Murdoch took over, it has only gotten worse. It makes me embarrassed to live in New York City.
From Wikipedia:
"In 1980, the Columbia Journalism Review asserted that "the New York Post is no longer merely a journalistic problem. It is a social problem - a force for evil."
The New York Post is for gossip, clever headlines, and sports. But not for journalism. It's like slashdot, but dumb.
I don't belong to Anonymous, but if things get any worse I might want to join. How do I get in?
I don't think most people even understand what mathematics is, so I recommend reading something about the history of mathematics. The World of Mathematics edited by James R. Newman has a very good collection of essays, fragments of ancient mathematics, and even short books. It is four volumes, but I eagerly read all of it in High School. The parts I remember clearly are: mathematics in antiquity, Gauss, the 19th century number theorists, an essay by Poincare about creativity, and lots of amusing applications.
A Source Book in Mathematics edited by David Eugene Smith has famous papers, from the ancient world to the 20th century. Some are advanced, but it's ok to look at stuff you don't understand.
I am not a member of the Catholic League Of Decency.
s/syncronization/synchronization/
My various print dictionaries do not have any words with the prefix syncro- ,
nor anything related starting with cron-. Think chronology, chronograph, etc.
to cater the meetings to discuss the project.
Every year, I read the terms of service of a bunch of online backup services, but I have not found one that gives the provider any incentive to be careful. They say they have *no liability of any kind*. Why should I trust them?
I will cheerfully pay to insure access to my data, but nobody offers me insurance.
Wikileaks posted the wrong paper, realized it, and took it down. The paper they had was published quite openly on the arxiv.org archives:
http://arxiv.org/abs/0803.2285
Read wikileaks own discussion of the event:
http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Talk:Censored_Milfaire_Classic_Oyster_Card_break_paper_2008
An example of an incorrectly granted code-signing certificate.
http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-0104.html#7
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS01-017.mspx
Write a Thunderbird filter that matches all gmail messages and copies them to a local folder. Filtering seems to force the message to be retrieved.
War is never clean.
In conventional warfare, certain actions such as hiding among civilian populations are forbidden. These actions are considered war crimes because of the collateral damage they are likely to cause. What actions in cyberspace do you think should be outlawed? How about intentionally bringing down hospital IT systems, or destroying undersea cables without regard to the effects on civilian populations?
The Iran Institute of Science and Technology ( http://www.iust.ac.ir/ ) is online, and their servers are physically in Iran, but a traceroute from Roadrunner in New York, NY shows traffic going the wrong way around the world.
Tracing route to www.iust.ac.ir [194.225.228.25]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 194.225.228.25
2 8 ms 9 ms 11 ms 10.39.192.1
3 12 ms 8 ms 7 ms gig-4-3-nycmnyg-rtr1.nyc.rr.com [24.29.98.109]
4 8 ms 9 ms 8 ms pos-3-2-nycmnya-rtr1.nyc.rr.com [24.29.130.129]
5 10 ms 9 ms 10 ms tenge-3-0-0-nwrknjmd-rtr.nyc.rr.com [24.29.119.106]
6 10 ms 9 ms 10 ms 4.79.188.37
7 23 ms 18 ms 17 ms ae-32-54.ebr2.Newark1.Level3.net [4.68.99.126]
8 29 ms 18 ms 14 ms ae-4.ebr2.Washington1.Level3.net [4.69.132.101]
9 20 ms 16 ms 19 ms ae-92-92.csw4.Washington1.Level3.net [4.69.134.158]
10 14 ms 18 ms 13 ms ae-94-94.ebr4.Washington1.Level3.net [4.69.134.189]
11 89 ms 91 ms 89 ms ae-4.ebr3.LosAngeles1.Level3.net [4.69.132.81]
12 84 ms * 84 ms ae-93-93.csw4.LosAngeles1.Level3.net [4.69.137.46]
13 84 ms 81 ms 86 ms ae-4-99.edge3.LosAngeles1.Level3.net [4.68.20.201]
14 84 ms 85 ms 83 ms SINGAPORE-T.edge3.LosAngeles1.Level3.net [4.78.195.202]
15 118 ms 84 ms 83 ms ge-7-1-0-0.laxow-cr2.ix.singtel.com [203.208.183.81]
16 85 ms 274 ms 84 ms ge-4-1-0-0.laxow-cr2.ix.singtel.com [203.208.183.90]
17 276 ms 265 ms 282 ms so-3-0-1-0.sngc3-cr2.ix.singtel.com [203.208.149.185]
18 338 ms 253 ms 269 ms ge-0-0-0-0.sngtp-dr1.ix.singtel.com [203.208.149.78]
19 254 ms 272 ms 264 ms GigabitEthernet1-1-1.sngtp-ar4.ix.singtel.com [203.208.183.114]
20 284 ms 287 ms 303 ms 203.208.192.226
21 298 ms 286 ms 290 ms 217.218.155.201
22 301 ms 299 ms 292 ms 217.218.163.252
23 328 ms 319 ms 292 ms 194.225.239.254
24 298 ms 294 ms 303 ms 194.225.228.25
Trace complete.
Tell the highest levels of the intelligence community what you think about this idea by picking up a phone and calling any number.
I know, it's not original.
Also, Escheria coli is not "nefarious." It is usually
benign, and makes up a lot of the volume of your gut.
Bacteria are always present in healthy adults, and the
common varieties protect you from more dangerous stuff.
The index of refraction of lead is 2.6, so the
speed of light in lead is c / 2.6 = 1.1E8 m/sec.
Of course, light is absorbed pretty strongly by lead.
The index of refraction is still an important
quantity - it determines how much light is reflected
from the surface, for example.
I don't think it's a waste of time.
1) It's part of Western culture in investigate the universe and not be satisfied with "God did it."
2) If you want a "practical" reason, signal processing chips like this would help the GNU software radio project.
3) Going to the moon wasn't practical, but it got me interested in science when I was a kid.
What got you interested in science and technology?
... is not what you said.
...
"Congress shall have the Power
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors
and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"
The fundamental purpose is "to promote the useful arts"; giving rights to authors is the means.
We are debating how best to promote the useful arts.
"About false positives. So what? Eyewitnesses make mistakes also."
True, but with computers making the mistakes at high speed, a lot more people will be falsely accused. I'm worried about how much damage will be done before people get used to thinking in terms of false positive and false negative rates.