That's not how I understand the parent poster -- s/he doesn't say it's okay, s/he objects to the sensationalism.
That's exactly what I meant, thank you.
Stories about "stupid, annoying, and dangerous stuff that shouldn't happen"
are important, but I object to the altering of facts (and omissions are one form
of alteration) to try to create additional outrage, or fear, or whatever the
author wants me to think/feel. I can think for myself, thankyouverymuch.
In other words (again mine): presenting it this way is "FOXing" the story up. And/. need not steep to such lows.
took his laptop and two cell phones and asked for the passwords needed to access the encrypted material on them.
...didn't get them, gave him back his hardware and let him go.
Really, why try to sensationalize a story by omitting its outcome?
The fact that something as diriculous as "incoming data storage devices searches"
even
exist should be enough of a story by itself, and that has been known for quite a while.
But surely screening it doesn't take 7 or 8 reel changes any more, does it? What am I missing?
That "film reel" isn't a unit of measurement.
Nowadays, projecting a film in a cinema usually doesn't involve any reel changes at all, they are played from a single reel - that's what makes big multiplex cinemas with dozens of screens feasible without a huge amount of staff: once started, the projectors run unattended through the whole movie.
The limit on shot duration with film cameras is simply due to the fact that you can only fit a limited amount of film stock into a camera's "film reservoir", the magazine.
With a implosion bomb [...], all the explosive has to go off at the same time, to very close accurate (picoseconds)
Citation needed. A good one.
True, the timing has to be very accurate, but I'm pretty sure
microsecond accuracy is enough, or a million times less accurate than
your claim. I don't think detonating a chemical explosive to the
picosecond is even possible, chemical reactions are slower than that.
Are you maybe confusing this with the timescale of the nuclear reactions themselves?
No, as I stated in many location in europe, you can cover many countries with a single tower, where as in North america you can cover a single city.
Name one such location in Europe.
Please cover at least two countries completely, that shouldn't
be too difficult, as you claim to be able to cover "many".
I'm even going to let you use San Marino, Andorra, Vatican City and the like.
And I'll let you use your best case estimate of 20000km^2 covered with your tower.
the catholic church actually changed their 'canon law' so that defection is no longer available!!
No need for that. According to catholic theological doctrine, baptism is irreversible.
According to catholicism, once you're baptised, you are in for life (and beyond that;-),
completely regardless of any action that you may undertake. No, not even excommunication
throws you out for good, you just lose some rights within the church system.
Are we talking passenger trains, freight trains, or both?
Both, but with emphasis on freight.
Will this (presumably) be an electrified train system [...] ?
Of course.
Any word on where the power is expected to come from if electrified (nuclear, coal, gas, hydro)?
Switzerland's electricity is about 60% hydro/40% nuclear, with all "other" combined in the single digits.
The Swiss train company runs it's own hydro plants, but no nuclear ones, and they generate 80% of their
electricity needs themselves [PDF, page 22], so the ratio is even higher in this specific case.
The cost is too high to run next year. That is disappointing.
Bad reporting. The LHC has scheduled maintenance in 2012.
However, CERN has more accelerators than just the LHC, and those will
be shut down due to financial constraints. They don't do much cutting edge
research anyway, so the science output is largely unaffected.
Shutting down the LHC for other than technical reasons isn't planned at all.
I have been unable to confirm it either way: Does it do TRIM on SSDs now?
Yes, the kernel supports it, but to use TRIM properly, it needs support by the
rest of the OS too.
So, does Ubuntu 10.10 use TRIM on SSDs? That would be a real reason to upgrade.
They really need a proper technical "What's new" section...
Sure there's no reason you can't run 50 web servers on different ports on the same IP. except for customers who will never learn that you have to type in http://www.google.com:8080/ [google.com] instead of google.com.
It's actally no problem at all to run many webservers for different domains
on the same machine, using the same IP and all listening on port 80.
See e.g. Apache's "VirtualHost" functionality, which is used for millions of hosts without a problem.
If it hadn't been for the drama of Apollo 13, the project would never have made it to 17 missions.
JFTR: There never were 17 missions. It went
Apollo 1 (which never flew, but is included in the official
mission lists in memory of the three Astronauts killed)
Apollo 7 - Apollo 17
Apollo 2-6 did fly (while Apollo 2 and Apollo 3 aren't even official names for the missions),
but were unmanned tests of Saturn V and Saturn IB rockets.
That makes for 11 manned Apollo missions. Of those, only Apollo 8 and Apollo 10-17 actually went
to the moon, and only Apollo 11, 12 and 14-17 landed - which gives us just six manned
moon landings.
Only twelve humans have so far ever set foot on another celestial body. Not an awful lot.
The internet was designed so that it could withstand world war three, why people still building bunkers is beyond me.
Because it never was. The internet's predecessor might have
been a flat network with redundant links, but today's internet is
topologically and even more so geographically highly centralized.
If 10-20 of the world's most important IXPs are nuked (or just all
their outside links damaged) the 'net will at least fragment, and
leave some rather large regions without internet access at all.
I drove smaller, non-Autobahn roads in Germany with no speed limits. Some of them 2 lane country roads that would have been 1.5 lane roads in the US [...]
No you didn't. All standard two-lane roads in Germany have a default implicit speed limit.
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silicon != silicone, dammit.
That's not how I understand the parent poster -- s/he doesn't say it's okay, s/he objects to the sensationalism.
That's exactly what I meant, thank you.
Stories about "stupid, annoying, and dangerous stuff that shouldn't happen"
are important, but I object to the altering of facts (and omissions are one form
of alteration) to try to create additional outrage, or fear, or whatever the
author wants me to think/feel. I can think for myself, thankyouverymuch.
In other words (again mine): presenting it this way is "FOXing" the story up. And /. need not steep to such lows.
Well said.
Oh, and by the way: "diriculous"? Typo, sorry.
took his laptop and two cell phones and asked for the passwords needed to access the encrypted material on them.
Really, why try to sensationalize a story by omitting its outcome?
The fact that something as diriculous as "incoming data storage devices searches" even
exist should be enough of a story by itself, and that has been known for quite a while.
Well, every place else I am aware of has dedicated "area codes" or prefixes
for mobile phone numbers, so you know just by looking at the phone number.
Not binding a mobile phone to a location-specific code seems the sensible
thing to do, but it's probably too late to introduce this in the US.
Given this, I can understand why things are as they are.
I can still be annoyed by it though.
But surely screening it doesn't take 7 or 8 reel changes any more, does it? What am I missing?
That "film reel" isn't a unit of measurement.
Nowadays, projecting a film in a cinema usually doesn't involve any reel changes at all, they are played from a single reel - that's what makes big multiplex cinemas with dozens of screens feasible without a huge amount of staff: once started, the projectors run unattended through the whole movie.
The limit on shot duration with film cameras is simply due to the fact that you can only fit a limited amount of film stock into a camera's "film reservoir", the magazine.
With a implosion bomb [...], all the explosive has to go off at the same time, to very close accurate (picoseconds)
Citation needed. A good one.
True, the timing has to be very accurate, but I'm pretty sure
microsecond accuracy is enough, or a million times less accurate than
your claim. I don't think detonating a chemical explosive to the
picosecond is even possible, chemical reactions are slower than that.
Are you maybe confusing this with the timescale of the nuclear reactions themselves?
No, as I stated in many location in europe, you can cover many countries with a single tower, where as in North america you can cover a single city.
Name one such location in Europe.
Please cover at least two countries completely, that shouldn't
be too difficult, as you claim to be able to cover "many".
I'm even going to let you use San Marino, Andorra, Vatican City and the like.
And I'll let you use your best case estimate of 20000km^2 covered with your tower.
.
the catholic church actually changed their 'canon law' so that defection is no longer available!!
No need for that. According to catholic theological doctrine, baptism is irreversible. ;-),
According to catholicism, once you're baptised, you are in for life (and beyond that
completely regardless of any action that you may undertake. No, not even excommunication
throws you out for good, you just lose some rights within the church system.
where one telco covers Europe with "decent coverage/speed" for $250,000, one in north america covers one major city for the same budget.
I'm fascinated by how somebody with such an obviously negative amount of geographic and financial clue made it to a +4 insightful.
Are we talking passenger trains, freight trains, or both?
Both, but with emphasis on freight.
Will this (presumably) be an electrified train system [...] ?
Of course.
Any word on where the power is expected to come from if electrified (nuclear, coal, gas, hydro)?
Switzerland's electricity is about 60% hydro/40% nuclear, with all "other" combined in the single digits.
The Swiss train company runs it's own hydro plants, but no nuclear ones, and they generate 80% of their
electricity needs themselves [PDF, page 22], so the ratio is even higher in this specific case.
The cost is too high to run next year. That is disappointing.
Bad reporting. The LHC has scheduled maintenance in 2012.
However, CERN has more accelerators than just the LHC, and those will
be shut down due to financial constraints. They don't do much cutting edge
research anyway, so the science output is largely unaffected.
Shutting down the LHC for other than technical reasons isn't planned at all.
WTF is a pirated link?
Absolutely not! Space is just 100 km up while earth-based locations can be 20,000 km apart.
Considering that Earth has a diameter of about 12750km, I'd highly doubt that. ;-)
You started mixing vertical and lateral distances...
I have been unable to confirm it either way: Does it do TRIM on SSDs now?
Yes, the kernel supports it, but to use TRIM properly, it needs support by the
rest of the OS too.
So, does Ubuntu 10.10 use TRIM on SSDs? That would be a real reason to upgrade.
They really need a proper technical "What's new" section...
500,000 square feet == 11.48 acres
== 46 450 m^2
Health insurance is free in Europe.
That would be amazing news to a very large portion of the
European population. How on Earth did that make it to a +5 comment?
Also: Europe is not a country. There are dozens of different
countries with very different laws on that continent.
It is completely useless to make statements about how laws "in Europe" are.
Stop doing it.
Sure there's no reason you can't run 50 web servers on different ports on the same IP. except for customers who will never learn that you have to type in http://www.google.com:8080/ [google.com] instead of google.com.
It's actally no problem at all to run many webservers for different domains
on the same machine, using the same IP and all listening on port 80.
See e.g. Apache's "VirtualHost" functionality, which is used for millions of hosts without a problem.
If it hadn't been for the drama of Apollo 13, the project would never have made it to 17 missions.
JFTR: There never were 17 missions. It went
mission lists in memory of the three Astronauts killed)
Apollo 2-6 did fly (while Apollo 2 and Apollo 3 aren't even official names for the missions),
but were unmanned tests of Saturn V and Saturn IB rockets.
That makes for 11 manned Apollo missions. Of those, only Apollo 8 and Apollo 10-17 actually went
to the moon, and only Apollo 11, 12 and 14-17 landed - which gives us just six manned
moon landings.
Only twelve humans have so far ever set foot on another celestial body. Not an awful lot.
The key is actually 11200 bytes. It seems you took the hex data instead of the raw bytes?
Ah, damn - yes. That also explains why the picture is so dark, I was already wondering if there was an additional weakness in there...
Here you go, compact version:
The key's 22,400 bytes interpreted as raw RGB data, padded
with a single 0 at the and to make it divisible by three:
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/9746/hdcp.png
If i look at the pastbin post this is just a complex way to publish 40 keys, not ONE master key
It's the master key matrix - not an HDCP key by itself, but THE key to generate all valid HDCP keys.
man "standard two-lane road"
The internet was designed so that it could withstand world war three, why people still building bunkers is beyond me.
Because it never was. The internet's predecessor might have
been a flat network with redundant links, but today's internet is
topologically and even more so geographically highly centralized.
If 10-20 of the world's most important IXPs are nuked (or just all
their outside links damaged) the 'net will at least fragment, and
leave some rather large regions without internet access at all.
I drove smaller, non-Autobahn roads in Germany with no speed limits. Some of them 2 lane country roads that would have been 1.5 lane roads in the US [...]
No you didn't. All standard two-lane roads in Germany have a default implicit speed limit.