How hard is it to get into a US university program as an international student, say for Computer science or Astronomy master/PhD? (aside the paying-a-lot part, and English test)
Jacob Appelbaum presented a wildcard cert that you can use for any domain a week ago. Not sure why this is a story when a paypal-only forged cert comes out.
Note that you can create a SSL cert for any subdomain you host. I.e. CA root gives you *.example.com, you sub-certify a certificate for mail.myhome.example.com. So you can not blame a root CA for this issue, as anyone who is in the hierarchie can create a \x00 cert.
But it is stupid that we have scary warnings for encrypted, not authenticated traffic, but unencrypted, not authenticated websites have no warnings. It makes HTTP look more secure than HTTPS. Encrypted, not authenticated/verified HTTPS is as secure as HTTP.
You don't have to trust everyone in a Web of Trust that originated from you. It just tells you who trusts that person. What you do with that information is up to you. Also, there are several levels of trust. You don't have to sign anyones key, just the ones you met.
GPG is right to download the public key from a server, because that tells you nothing about how much you trust that person. If it would set that person automatically to fully trusted, that'd be a different story.
I was highly disturbed when they brought in the Ori as a contemporary enemy equivalent to Iraq/Afghanistan and Muslim terrorists... an evil religion -- but finally they see the light and reject their path? I mean how far can they go with bias and simplification?
I wonder how they'll bring Obama in. Maybe I'm just over-interpreting.
I hope they rip the tourists off... like, make them pay three/four times the full costs of the travel, and invest the rest into research, extensions, repairs, etc.
Lavabit has a great service concept. Only minus point: When using the free 1GB plan, the ads invalidate PGP signatures. They have ad-free 128 MB though.
That's what I was gonna say. Theoretically, you can make a public repository and write laws in an expert system language. Realistically, people use Word and want to focus on the real matter,... you know... getting it right. Some new system would likely hinder their workflow.
You can make a publicly available service that translates passed laws into changesets. Could be half-automated.
Same is true for pretty much all niche systems users have to use, e.g. supporting workflow, versioning systems.
If users would be alter the program it might be possible to improve the situation. Purists may dislike a non-programmers codebase, but hey. Either the systems have to be extremely flexible (hasn't happened yet) or a programming language that is intuitive for beginners has to be accessible without fear. I wonder if there are experiments where non-programmers are given their first programming language to learn... you'd have to take new people all the time, but it would be enlightening on how to make programming accessible for everyone.
If people would care about their battery life, they wouldn't buy iPhones, right?
But the point is valid, battery drain is pretty much the only limiting factor. Security can be solved by public-key crypto (even self-managing systems like this one).
Store-carry-forward networks will work best for delay-tolerant traffic of low to medium throughput (email, txt messaging), but why not push-to-talk too? Speex doesn't produce large files for a minute of talking. The thing can be extended to VANETs too.
I simulated such a network based on WiFi (with up to 40 meters distance). The aim was that users can exchange content (flooding) and WiFi hotspots are used to relay to the Internet. I came to the conclusion that you'll need 300 access points and 200 users in a 5000mx5500m area, but then everyone would have a network where emails can be sent from anywhere and are delivered reliably and quickly. Find the flaws here: paper.
If you dive into MANET research, you'll find that the field is almost completely based on unrepeatable simulations (partially of custom, unreleased/unverified simulators). There are almost no experiments. Maybe it is too hard for researchers, or they give up because of energy and reliability problems.
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How hard is it to get into a US university program as an international student, say for Computer science or Astronomy master/PhD?
(aside the paying-a-lot part, and English test)
Jacob Appelbaum presented a wildcard cert that you can use for any domain a week ago. Not sure why this is a story when a paypal-only forged cert comes out.
https://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-discuss/2009-September/008400.html
Note that you can create a SSL cert for any subdomain you host. I.e. CA root gives you *.example.com, you sub-certify a certificate for mail.myhome.example.com. So you can not blame a root CA for this issue, as anyone who is in the hierarchie can create a \x00 cert.
Try porting Linux to an iPAQ (hint: Ã...ngstrÃm/OpenEmbedded). You'll love the Windows mobile platform ;-)
PS: Kudos to the Mysaifu developers for making sane programming available.
But it is stupid that we have scary warnings for encrypted, not authenticated traffic, but unencrypted, not authenticated websites have no warnings.
It makes HTTP look more secure than HTTPS. Encrypted, not authenticated/verified HTTPS is as secure as HTTP.
You don't have to trust everyone in a Web of Trust that originated from you. It just tells you who trusts that person. What you do with that information is up to you. Also, there are several levels of trust. You don't have to sign anyones key, just the ones you met.
GPG is right to download the public key from a server, because that tells you nothing about how much you trust that person. If it would set that person automatically to fully trusted, that'd be a different story.
... i like the new direction :)
I was highly disturbed when they brought in the Ori as a contemporary enemy equivalent to Iraq/Afghanistan and Muslim terrorists ... an evil religion -- but finally they see the light and reject their path? I mean how far can they go with bias and simplification?
I wonder how they'll bring Obama in. Maybe I'm just over-interpreting.
Don't worry, soon you'll be able to watch your carotid artery with Google Earth.
Also make sure you have libcrack installed, so users can't set short/easy passwords.
You just want to press all the buttons to see what happens and that's not the task of a flight engineer :-)
I hope they rip the tourists off ... like, make them pay three/four times the full costs of the travel, and invest the rest into research, extensions, repairs, etc.
Doesn't that just proof that they have Internet access?
Bluehenge is the one from the Bluetooth age
Lavabit has a great service concept.
Only minus point: When using the free 1GB plan, the ads invalidate PGP signatures. They have ad-free 128 MB though.
Features: http://lavabit.com/features.html
So far, commercial customer support wasn't able to help me for questions that go beyond their FAQ. Might as well search the web.
That's what I was gonna say. Theoretically, you can make a public repository and write laws in an expert system language. ... you know ... getting it right. Some new system would likely hinder their workflow.
Realistically, people use Word and want to focus on the real matter,
You can make a publicly available service that translates passed laws into changesets. Could be half-automated.
Same is true for pretty much all niche systems users have to use, e.g. supporting workflow, versioning systems.
If users would be alter the program it might be possible to improve the situation. Purists may dislike a non-programmers codebase, but hey. Either the systems have to be extremely flexible (hasn't happened yet) or a programming language that is intuitive for beginners has to be accessible without fear. ... you'd have to take new people all the time, but it would be enlightening on how to make programming accessible for everyone.
I wonder if there are experiments where non-programmers are given their first programming language to learn
Wait, you want ssh to not be secure? wtf! Just use cifs if you don't like the encryption.
I love that they implemented multiplexing channels ... -R and -L are just awesome.
If people would care about their battery life, they wouldn't buy iPhones, right?
But the point is valid, battery drain is pretty much the only limiting factor. Security can be solved by public-key crypto (even self-managing systems like this one).
Store-carry-forward networks will work best for delay-tolerant traffic of low to medium throughput (email, txt messaging), but why not push-to-talk too? Speex doesn't produce large files for a minute of talking. The thing can be extended to VANETs too.
I'd love to see some practical research done.
I simulated such a network based on WiFi (with up to 40 meters distance). The aim was that users can exchange content (flooding) and WiFi hotspots are used to relay to the Internet. I came to the conclusion that you'll need 300 access points and 200 users in a 5000mx5500m area, but then everyone would have a network where emails can be sent from anywhere and are delivered reliably and quickly. Find the flaws here: paper.
If you dive into MANET research, you'll find that the field is almost completely based on unrepeatable simulations (partially of custom, unreleased/unverified simulators). There are almost no experiments. Maybe it is too hard for researchers, or they give up because of energy and reliability problems.
So when is Spam going to come to Wave?
Is it going to be called spave?
If there were a method to limit or defeat Spam, this would be a major selling point of switching from email to wave.
Or get it from Red Hat, but don't pay them.
Don't underestimate how sanctions and exclusion from international talks/trade can ruin countries.
The german is correct, except they pronounce it Ick in Berlin (a dialect). ...
Would be funnier if the speech had been held in Frankfurt though