While quantum computers screw over RSA and other asymmetric key crypto systems based off of the integer factorization problem, the discrete logarithm problem or the elliptic-curve discrete logarithm problem, they just substantially speed up symmetric key. The speed up of symmetric key crypto systems is substantial but all you need is to double the key length. So a 512 bit key in a real quantum computer world would be as strong as a 256 bit key in our current classical computer world. Also the reason all of the AES competitors had 256bit keys is because NIST had the good sense to think that quantum computers would become viable within the lifetime of the AES standard and wanted something that still provided the same security as 128 bit keys in a classical computer world. By the way it would take a sizeable portion of the total US annual consumption to just cycle through a 128 bit key on an ideal computer, so we are already at a hand waving level of silly at that level.
If you mean asymmetric key systems there are replacements but I am not familiar with the math behind them so I can't really comment intelligently on them.
Unless they have a machine that is made of something other than matter and occupy something other than space I'm not too worried about them cracking modern 256 bit symmetric key encryption. Even on an ideal quantum computer using Grover's Algorithm they would still need to use a sizeable fraction of the US's total annual energy consumption. This however is on ideal computers running at the temperature of the cosmic background radiation temperature so in reality they would require several orders of magnitude more energy. To put things in perspective here is Bruce Schneier's comments on the hard limits of breaking a symmetric key encryption:
One of the consequences of the second law of thermodynamics is that a certain amount of energy is necessary to represent information. To record a single bit by changing the state of a system requires an amount of energy no less than kT, where T is the absolute temperature of the system and k is the Boltzman constant. (Stick with me; the physics lesson is almost over.)
Given that k = 1.38×10^-16 erg/Kelvin, and that the ambient temperature of the universe is 3.2Kelvin, an ideal computer running at 3.2K would consume 4.4×10^-16 ergs every time it set or cleared a bit. To run a computer any colder than the cosmic background radiation would require extra energy to run a heat pump.
Now, the annual energy output of our sun is about 1.21×10^41 ergs. This is enough to power about 2.7×10^56 single bit changes on our ideal computer; enough state changes to put a 187-bit counter through all its values. If we built a Dyson sphere around the sun and captured all its energy for 32 years, without any loss, we could power a computer to count up to 2^192. Of course, it wouldn't have the energy left over to perform any useful calculations with this counter.
But that's just one star, and a measly one at that. A typical supernova releases something like 10^51 ergs. (About a hundred times as much energy would be released in the form of neutrinos, but let them go for now.) If all of this energy could be channeled into a single orgy of computation, a 219-bit counter could be cycled through all of its states.
These numbers have nothing to do with the technology of the devices; they are the maximums that thermodynamics will allow. And they strongly imply that brute-force attacks against 256-bit keys will be infeasible until computers are built from something other than matter and occupy something other than space.
So go and see what the best break for a modern symmetric crypto system is and see where it falls on the above description.
Lots of people say and feel like this, and yet, tourism at the Louvre was still down 15% in 2016
Sounds like a godsend to me. It is great that the Louvre gets a lot of visitors but the times I was there it was always packed around the popular stuff so you couldn't get close to have a good look.
We won't have any of that talk around here. Everyone know if you are a farmer or rancher you need a F350 crew cab long box with dualies, 33" mudding tires, dual stacks, and a set of truck nuts.
All silliness aside those remote areas are were renewables are a really good idea and providing you can get the needed range it seems like an EV would be a good fit. I have a lake property up in northern Minnesota that I will be putting up a cabin on at some point and have looked into the cost for getting electricity as the nearest power is over 1/2 mile away. So my options would be to pay for a run and transformer to be connected to the grid, get a cheap but noisy generator, get a quiet but expensive generator, or go with renewables and batteries. The cheapest option would be to get a noisy little generator and pay for fuel but I go up there to get away from things so who wants to a generator. The other options are all fairly cost competitive for my needs when one takes into account all of the costs right now. I'm leaning towards renewables with.5-1KW installed solar capacity with.7-1.4KW installed capacity of wind with a bank of nickle-iron batteries. The neighbors up there have a wind+solar+battery setup on their 4200sq.ft. house so they are off grid and they heat mostly with wood but do LP is used as s supplement and for the stove and water heater.
Come on now some of those reciprocating piston ICE are really efficient. Granted you wouldn't put it in a passenger vehicle, but things like 400 ton trucks, trains, and ships use those same high efficiency engines that they use in power plants that are getting close to 60% efficiency. A combine cycle heat+power natural gas turbine gets to 70% but that is only if there is a use for the waste heat otherwise they are only 50% efficient.
I have heard some of the non audiophile arguments for vinyl being popular, usually it is a collector piece with added inserts, special add-ons and larger better cover art. For photos some people just like film and film photography is something that people do because it is film, just like people still paint scenery even though photography does a better job of capturing it accurately. It is now basically art and carries its own unique characteristics that digital doesn't have it will likely be able to keep on like that forever. I still don't see a reason for there to be an uptick in cassette tape as there was nothing redeeming about it when it was new other than it was portable.
Hey just because the last fresh meal was made Friday morning and they just reheated the same shit over and over again until Monday morning doesn't mean it was awful. I never asked for a plate with a heaping pile of sausage patties that were closer to charcoal just so I could dump them in the trash on Sunday morning. I also never told the person who was cooking burgers that if they cooked them half as long they would be twice as good since they would cook every drop of moisture out of them.
The only viable way to drive insurance costs down is through the public option that the Democrats wanted in the first place and that the Republicans forced them to bury.
Please explain to me how this happened as not a single Republican voted for the ACA and were in the minority in both chambers. In the US Senate their numbers were so few that they couldn't even filibuster it. That giant turd of a law is owned entirely by the democrats. If you say it is because the Democrats negotiated in good faith with the Republicans then what about all the horse trading within their own party to get the fucking thing passed?
AGP, try VESA Local Bus when talking about a limited use bus that was deprecated quickly. Add in that VLB cards were a real bitch to get in to the slots, or at least that is my most vivid memory of them.
What you request is available now. Granted the WiFi card isn't yet supported by pfSense (should be when they get to the current OpenBSD version) but the dual NICs are. I have one (120GB SSD and 8GB RAM) as my network firewall at home and it keeps up just fine even running Squid doing MitM of HTTPS plus sending all web traffic through ClamAV and with Snort in IPS mode. One of these days I will finish getting VPN setup on it and my mobile devices so that I can connect in and not have to worry about someone on scanning my traffic when I am out using hotel, airport, public wifi.
You should have gone with one of these little guys with 8GB ram and a 120GB SSD for about $250. It has no problem keeping up on my 120/40Mbps internet connection with Snort in IPS mode, Squid with ClamAV to MitM all web traffic (yes I have it set up to MitM SSL/TLS), and also doing some DNS level blocking of shit sites (a list of sites that offer some files to use as input can be found here). At most I have gotten it to 50% cpu usage (usually on startup) and the hottest it has run was about 29C.
I would think that one could hack one of these little guys to do the encryption for you. I wouldn't trust the stock firmware either but it seems reasonable to assume that one could make them do proper encryption.
$125k seem awfully low for the valley. I make more than that in a much lower cost state. When I get calls from companies out in CA or on the east coast I laugh at their offer and tell them they can't afford me. I'm not going to take a step down in my lifestyle when changing jobs. I always explain to them that to move from the midwest I would need to be able to afford:
A ~2000 sq. ft. house on a.5 acre lot that backs up to a wooded park. It will be paid off in 10 years
That house is in one of the best school districts in the state
That house is within a 45 minute commute to work
I am paying no more than 30% of my after tax income for housing
I am able to save 30% of my income for retirement
Outright own a multi acre wooded lake lot with over 200 feet of shore line within a 2 hour drive of my house.
Near the lake property, within a couple of miles at most, there is a large amount of wooded public land open for recreational uses.
So far none of those companies who have contacted me have even tried to negotiate as they aren't willing to pay me what would be needed to maintain that lifestyle. It doesn't have to be exact but I have a feeling that if I lived out the Silicon Valley I would have to be paid close to a million a year to get anything near what I currently have. Most of the time the offer is similar (+/- 10%) to my current wage but some have been substantially higher but not enough to maintain anywhere near my current standard of living. I do get more insulting offers than anything else which I have often though were attempts to show that there aren't American who can do the job so they can bring in H-1B holders. The worst was the $35k offer I had from one medical device company on the east coast that I really did laugh at and the HR person asked if that was a good offer and I told them "No, that's fucking terrible. I make over 3x that now and I don't have to live in Boston."
That level of compensation isn't high enough as you are missing some very important aspects of H-1B workers. 1. These people have highly specialized skills that no American has. 2. They need to be brought in right now because these companies can't operate while an American is trained to do the job. You don't have to take my word for it just ask all of these companies who are using H-1B visa holders they will say this is the case. Now since these people have a skill set that cannot be found in a country of 300+ million people this must be a truly specialized skill set that has required all sorts of advanced training and knowledge which automatically means that these people should be very highly compensated. Also since these companies can't continue without these employees they are obviously more critical than any of the CxO level employees as companies seem to continue on just fine without them while a search is going on.
So given that it seems like an appropriate level of compensation for H-1B visa holders would that they are the highest compensated individuals at the company they are doing work for or are employed by. This means total compensation, base salary, bonuses, medical and dental benefits, relocation allowance, vehicle allowance, vacation, company paid travel, stock options, retirement plan, exit clauses, etc. since they are truly exceptional people that are absolutely critical.
I say make that change and we can have unlimited H-1B visa holders enter the country. However like everyone on/. we known this to not be the case and instead these people are used to drive down wages. I have written my congress critters numerous times on this issue and the only response I have ever gotten was from Senator Amy Klobuchar who responded by basically saying that if it weren't for those evil republicans she would have done something about the H-1B program. Problem is she was pushing for just expanding the program with automatic additional expansions.
It was taxpayers not citizens. A quick look up show that in 2013 (the latest year I can find data for) there were 138.3 million taxpayers. So that gives us $600,000,000/138,300,000 people so ~ $4.34 per tax payer, still not $6/taxpayer but much closer than the $1.85/person.
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While quantum computers screw over RSA and other asymmetric key crypto systems based off of the integer factorization problem, the discrete logarithm problem or the elliptic-curve discrete logarithm problem, they just substantially speed up symmetric key. The speed up of symmetric key crypto systems is substantial but all you need is to double the key length. So a 512 bit key in a real quantum computer world would be as strong as a 256 bit key in our current classical computer world. Also the reason all of the AES competitors had 256bit keys is because NIST had the good sense to think that quantum computers would become viable within the lifetime of the AES standard and wanted something that still provided the same security as 128 bit keys in a classical computer world. By the way it would take a sizeable portion of the total US annual consumption to just cycle through a 128 bit key on an ideal computer, so we are already at a hand waving level of silly at that level.
If you mean asymmetric key systems there are replacements but I am not familiar with the math behind them so I can't really comment intelligently on them.
One of the consequences of the second law of thermodynamics is that a certain amount of energy is necessary to represent information. To record a single bit by changing the state of a system requires an amount of energy no less than kT, where T is the absolute temperature of the system and k is the Boltzman constant. (Stick with me; the physics lesson is almost over.)
Given that k = 1.38×10^-16 erg/Kelvin, and that the ambient temperature of the universe is 3.2Kelvin, an ideal computer running at 3.2K would consume 4.4×10^-16 ergs every time it set or cleared a bit. To run a computer any colder than the cosmic background radiation would require extra energy to run a heat pump.
Now, the annual energy output of our sun is about 1.21×10^41 ergs. This is enough to power about 2.7×10^56 single bit changes on our ideal computer; enough state changes to put a 187-bit counter through all its values. If we built a Dyson sphere around the sun and captured all its energy for 32 years, without any loss, we could power a computer to count up to 2^192. Of course, it wouldn't have the energy left over to perform any useful calculations with this counter.
But that's just one star, and a measly one at that. A typical supernova releases something like 10^51 ergs. (About a hundred times as much energy would be released in the form of neutrinos, but let them go for now.) If all of this energy could be channeled into a single orgy of computation, a 219-bit counter could be cycled through all of its states.
These numbers have nothing to do with the technology of the devices; they are the maximums that thermodynamics will allow. And they strongly imply that brute-force attacks against 256-bit keys will be infeasible until computers are built from something other than matter and occupy something other than space.
So go and see what the best break for a modern symmetric crypto system is and see where it falls on the above description.
Lots of people say and feel like this, and yet, tourism at the Louvre was still down 15% in 2016
Sounds like a godsend to me. It is great that the Louvre gets a lot of visitors but the times I was there it was always packed around the popular stuff so you couldn't get close to have a good look.
We won't have any of that talk around here. Everyone know if you are a farmer or rancher you need a F350 crew cab long box with dualies, 33" mudding tires, dual stacks, and a set of truck nuts.
.5-1KW installed solar capacity with .7-1.4KW installed capacity of wind with a bank of nickle-iron batteries. The neighbors up there have a wind+solar+battery setup on their 4200sq.ft. house so they are off grid and they heat mostly with wood but do LP is used as s supplement and for the stove and water heater.
All silliness aside those remote areas are were renewables are a really good idea and providing you can get the needed range it seems like an EV would be a good fit. I have a lake property up in northern Minnesota that I will be putting up a cabin on at some point and have looked into the cost for getting electricity as the nearest power is over 1/2 mile away. So my options would be to pay for a run and transformer to be connected to the grid, get a cheap but noisy generator, get a quiet but expensive generator, or go with renewables and batteries. The cheapest option would be to get a noisy little generator and pay for fuel but I go up there to get away from things so who wants to a generator. The other options are all fairly cost competitive for my needs when one takes into account all of the costs right now. I'm leaning towards renewables with
Come on now some of those reciprocating piston ICE are really efficient. Granted you wouldn't put it in a passenger vehicle, but things like 400 ton trucks, trains, and ships use those same high efficiency engines that they use in power plants that are getting close to 60% efficiency. A combine cycle heat+power natural gas turbine gets to 70% but that is only if there is a use for the waste heat otherwise they are only 50% efficient.
I have heard some of the non audiophile arguments for vinyl being popular, usually it is a collector piece with added inserts, special add-ons and larger better cover art. For photos some people just like film and film photography is something that people do because it is film, just like people still paint scenery even though photography does a better job of capturing it accurately. It is now basically art and carries its own unique characteristics that digital doesn't have it will likely be able to keep on like that forever. I still don't see a reason for there to be an uptick in cassette tape as there was nothing redeeming about it when it was new other than it was portable.
Hey just because the last fresh meal was made Friday morning and they just reheated the same shit over and over again until Monday morning doesn't mean it was awful. I never asked for a plate with a heaping pile of sausage patties that were closer to charcoal just so I could dump them in the trash on Sunday morning. I also never told the person who was cooking burgers that if they cooked them half as long they would be twice as good since they would cook every drop of moisture out of them.
Hey the geek squad use to be good but that was back in like 95 before best buy bought them.
I always liked the slashback
"Yahoo" is still an powerful brand name that's decades old.
At first I though you were joking but then I thought and realized that I probably first used Yahoo in like 96 and now I feel old.
Not good enough. I say beaten to death with a steel dildo while wearing a Bugs Bunny suite.
How do you know my porn preferences?
The only viable way to drive insurance costs down is through the public option that the Democrats wanted in the first place and that the Republicans forced them to bury.
Please explain to me how this happened as not a single Republican voted for the ACA and were in the minority in both chambers. In the US Senate their numbers were so few that they couldn't even filibuster it. That giant turd of a law is owned entirely by the democrats. If you say it is because the Democrats negotiated in good faith with the Republicans then what about all the horse trading within their own party to get the fucking thing passed?
House Vote
Democrat Yes: 216
Democrat No: 34
Republican No: 178
Senate Vote
Democrat Yes: 58
Independent yes: 2
Republican No: 39
Republican not voting: 1
AGP, try VESA Local Bus when talking about a limited use bus that was deprecated quickly. Add in that VLB cards were a real bitch to get in to the slots, or at least that is my most vivid memory of them.
What you request is available now. Granted the WiFi card isn't yet supported by pfSense (should be when they get to the current OpenBSD version) but the dual NICs are. I have one (120GB SSD and 8GB RAM) as my network firewall at home and it keeps up just fine even running Squid doing MitM of HTTPS plus sending all web traffic through ClamAV and with Snort in IPS mode. One of these days I will finish getting VPN setup on it and my mobile devices so that I can connect in and not have to worry about someone on scanning my traffic when I am out using hotel, airport, public wifi.
You should have gone with one of these little guys with 8GB ram and a 120GB SSD for about $250. It has no problem keeping up on my 120/40Mbps internet connection with Snort in IPS mode, Squid with ClamAV to MitM all web traffic (yes I have it set up to MitM SSL/TLS), and also doing some DNS level blocking of shit sites (a list of sites that offer some files to use as input can be found here). At most I have gotten it to 50% cpu usage (usually on startup) and the hottest it has run was about 29C.
Well the "debate" on encryption will start a again next year with the government pushing for ever more access. It isn't like those in power haven't fucking told us what they are going to do. I mean it isn't like the assholes in power didn't publicly state that it would take a terrorist attack where encryption was used to turn the public. Then a few months later the next few terror attacks didn't mention encryption at all.
I would think that one could hack one of these little guys to do the encryption for you. I wouldn't trust the stock firmware either but it seems reasonable to assume that one could make them do proper encryption.
$125k seem awfully low for the valley. I make more than that in a much lower cost state. When I get calls from companies out in CA or on the east coast I laugh at their offer and tell them they can't afford me. I'm not going to take a step down in my lifestyle when changing jobs. I always explain to them that to move from the midwest I would need to be able to afford: .5 acre lot that backs up to a wooded park. It will be paid off in 10 years
A ~2000 sq. ft. house on a
That house is in one of the best school districts in the state
That house is within a 45 minute commute to work
I am paying no more than 30% of my after tax income for housing
I am able to save 30% of my income for retirement
Outright own a multi acre wooded lake lot with over 200 feet of shore line within a 2 hour drive of my house.
Near the lake property, within a couple of miles at most, there is a large amount of wooded public land open for recreational uses.
So far none of those companies who have contacted me have even tried to negotiate as they aren't willing to pay me what would be needed to maintain that lifestyle. It doesn't have to be exact but I have a feeling that if I lived out the Silicon Valley I would have to be paid close to a million a year to get anything near what I currently have. Most of the time the offer is similar (+/- 10%) to my current wage but some have been substantially higher but not enough to maintain anywhere near my current standard of living. I do get more insulting offers than anything else which I have often though were attempts to show that there aren't American who can do the job so they can bring in H-1B holders. The worst was the $35k offer I had from one medical device company on the east coast that I really did laugh at and the HR person asked if that was a good offer and I told them "No, that's fucking terrible. I make over 3x that now and I don't have to live in Boston."
That level of compensation isn't high enough as you are missing some very important aspects of H-1B workers.
/. we known this to not be the case and instead these people are used to drive down wages. I have written my congress critters numerous times on this issue and the only response I have ever gotten was from Senator Amy Klobuchar who responded by basically saying that if it weren't for those evil republicans she would have done something about the H-1B program. Problem is she was pushing for just expanding the program with automatic additional expansions.
1. These people have highly specialized skills that no American has.
2. They need to be brought in right now because these companies can't operate while an American is trained to do the job.
You don't have to take my word for it just ask all of these companies who are using H-1B visa holders they will say this is the case. Now since these people have a skill set that cannot be found in a country of 300+ million people this must be a truly specialized skill set that has required all sorts of advanced training and knowledge which automatically means that these people should be very highly compensated. Also since these companies can't continue without these employees they are obviously more critical than any of the CxO level employees as companies seem to continue on just fine without them while a search is going on.
So given that it seems like an appropriate level of compensation for H-1B visa holders would that they are the highest compensated individuals at the company they are doing work for or are employed by. This means total compensation, base salary, bonuses, medical and dental benefits, relocation allowance, vehicle allowance, vacation, company paid travel, stock options, retirement plan, exit clauses, etc. since they are truly exceptional people that are absolutely critical.
I say make that change and we can have unlimited H-1B visa holders enter the country. However like everyone on
It was taxpayers not citizens. A quick look up show that in 2013 (the latest year I can find data for) there were 138.3 million taxpayers. So that gives us $600,000,000/138,300,000 people so ~ $4.34 per tax payer, still not $6/taxpayer but much closer than the $1.85/person.
I remember tons of road construction with signs saying it was being done with stimulus funds.
I remember hearing about how those signs were quite expensive and paid for by the stimulus.
People who make singing, dancing ads should be slapped across the face with my cock.
I'm thinking my 8lb splitting maul would be better.
Hey come on now. That is just downright demeaning to the evil bit.
Personally I don't believe they should have to, but at the same time I believe that anyone else can mock or show disdain for them.