The most power bomb ever detonated wasn't even nuclear.
I highly doubt that as the Tsar Bomba had a yield of about 50 megatons. In looking up the largest non nuclear artificial explosions it would appear that the biggest ones only come in some where around 5 kilotons or about 1/10000 the size of the largest nuclear explosion.
You also forgot that in 1986 the sale of new fully automatic weapons to civilians was banned so any assault rifle that one could legally buy would be at least 30 years old. This is part of the reason why they are so damn expensive. Also part of that waiting period is so that a very thorough background check can be performed where you also get finger printed. It is also my understanding that when one owns a fully automatic weapon that the ATF can come and search your home to ensure that the weapon in question is actually stored properly and in your possession. Add in additional rules around them and it seems like a real pain to actually own one.
I am much the same where it seems I vary rarely agree with any of my elected officials, democrat or republican, but when they do the right thing I will commend them on their actions. Senator Franken has turned out to be better than I had thought while Senator Klobuchar continues show just how much she hates skilled American workers and the freedoms that American enjoy. Although my representative to the US House, John Kline, isn't much better than Klobuchar even if he is on the other side of the political spectrum and wants to curtail other freedoms and rights. He at least is likely to respond and has even called me personally although that conversation ended with me telling him he was either retarded or willfully ignorant as he said that the USA FREEDOM act wouldn't do something it explicitly said it would do yet he voted for it anyway.
Why do you think I said doesn't completely. I do understand that my federal elected representatives do have a general disdain for personal liberty and will try to subvert it when possible.
Thanks. It is nice to know that at least one of my senators doesn't' completely hate my freedoms (Al Franken) but that Amy Klobuchar does seem to hate freedom.
And if anyone else wants to see how their senator voted you can find it here.
Before 9/11/2001 we didn't have this list of terrorists to watch and we all saw what we ended up with. What prevents another 9/11 from happening is not the lists but installing hardened locking cockpit doors and actually locking them which has been done. Also now when some barely functional terrorist (seriously I'm surprised these guys don't choke on their own tongue) tries to light his underpants on fire the passengers on the plane seem to be more than willing to try and turn him into a grease smear on the carpet.
Even in this case the Orlando shooter was known to the FBI beforehand and had been provided additional information on him before this attack. The government seems to get lost in all the noise that they are gathering so they miss things like this douche nozzle.
As far as the number of people on the list it is kind of hard to tell but it sounds like there are probably some where well over a million people on the watch list which seems to be a pretty big fucking list of people to keep an eye on. The no fly list looks like it may contain somewhere around 50,000 people with a couple of percent being Americans. Now since it is a simple name matching thing those ~1.5% on the list who are Americans will likely affect a much larger portion of Americans who happen to share a name or have a similar name, not to mention those on the list who are not American citizens.
Also it looks like getting on the list while sounding good is open to abuse from those 2 sources. So saying that there have been some fuck ups seems like an understatement as I did a bit of searching and I haven't found a case where someone was caught because of the no fly list, so I will lump it in as being as effective as the TSA is at catching terrorists, or about as effective as the jar of mayonnaise in my fridge at the same task. So please tell me again why we should deny someone their right because their name is similar to one on a list that you can be put on without any due process by the whim of some unknown bureaucrat, that has been shown in the past to have some pretty egregious errors. If you want that how about we also deny these people's right to free speech as they could go and incite other to take action.
Well considering that some nukes are single man operable devices and that the supreme court has ruled that weapons used by the military are protected by the second amendment it seem that one should be able to own a nuke. But back to the topic at hand the 9th and 10th amendments as well as other parts of the constitution make it clear that the government can only do the things laid out in the constitution. If you want to make a claim that the commerce clause allows the federal government to regulate my movement or how I can transport my self around the country they you are welcome to do so but keep in mind what that allows and as that is a very slippery slope as has been shown in court case after court case since the Wickard v. Filburn case. I mean we had to pass the 18th amendment to ban alcohol but now it is done all the time with other drugs by regular federal law, or even being on a FDA list.
Sounds like my state except mine is solidly Democrat. I have been telling everyone in my state who isn't going to vote for Hillary to instead vote for Gary Johnson since voting for a republican presidential candidate in my state is just like throwing your vote away.
So then were in the constitution does it state that the federal government can regulate which mode of transportation Also you don't know you are on their stupid list until you are turned away at the airport so at that point they really are preventing you from traveling. I can use?
As far as the list goes there have been some big fuck-ups so my faith in it being correct is about zero as the vast majority of people on it are not terrorists. I say that because if even a sizeable amount of the people on the list were terrorists the US would look a lot more like Fallujah.
Yes he was cleared those 2 times when he was previously interviewed but then you have someone unrelated to those investigations passing along a tip and basically saying "Hey there is this guy who is acting really strange and trying to buy a pile of ammo and body armor". You then realize this is someone who has been on your radar previously so you go and assign an agent or local cop to keep tabs on the guy to see if something is out of order and if there is you go and get a warrant. You know that good old fashion police work.
In Minnesota this happened recently where someone who was previously a person of interest in the Jacob Wetterling case was re-looked at after some new information became available. It seems like they found a real awful person when checking up on him. So why doesn't law enforcement actually do their fucking job and investigate things, even if it is just to see that there really isn't anything to it?
That is the beauty of the one time pad. you can never be sure that you have recovered the correct message. At best you recover all possible plain texts (provided it is a message smaller than the 140 character limit of a tweet). For things like block ciphers (symmetric or asymmetric key) it is easy because you are usually after the key so if all blocks decrypt to something non gibberish it is highly likely that you have the correct key or key that also works. This assumes that a Message Authentication Code (MAC) wasn't also used, if one was then it becomes easy to verify that you have successfully decrypted the message.
To use your example, which is not too dissimilar to what VeraCrypt (and previously TrueCrypt) did. When someone is attempting to break a cipher they will focus on just one of them at a time and figure out how to break just that one. Once they have broken each one separately then they go and just try them in all combinations until they find one that works produces non gibberish output. If you roll your own crypto, and it isn't a one time pad with a proper true random source, you will likely screw it up and it will fall to simple stasticial analysis. Even things like wheel ciphers and reuse of a one time pad can quickly be broken through some neat little tricks where you try to find the length of the block used to encrypt.
If you are interested in some of these things a good place to start might be by reading Applied Cryptography by Bruch Schneier (if you don't want to buy the book you can easily find a PDF version online but I do suggest supporting Bruce as he seems to be a big advocate of freedom and does do a lot of good work). For a simple introduction to modern cryptanalysis you can check this guy's page out. for a more detailed explanation of linear and differential cryptanalysis you can read this paper. Those should provide a good starting point if one wants to learn about making and breaking crypto.
Specifically, the AR-15 should certainly be banned because it's capable of firing dozens of rounds per minute.
So is my shotgun and my just barely modern (made in 1897 last rebarreled in 1944) Finnish M39 rifle I use for hunting. A well trained civil war era rifleman using a musket was capable of firing off about a dozen rounds a minute, or at least that is what I remember being told on one of my trips to Fort Snelling years ago. Then there are those really evil things that General Patton called "The greatest battle implement ever devised" the M1 Garand semi automatic rifle that fires a substantially more powerful round than that used by the AR-15.
Well if buying hundreds of rounds of ammo gets the FBI called then they have been called on me a number of times. When my family goes out shooting we will easily go through a couple of spam cans of ammo. Then again we aren't looking purchase heavy duty body armor and acting strange when at the store.
Much of this aversion was due to the fact that it was Britain's desire to keep a standing professional army in the colonies that necessitated the Intolerable Acts which taxed the colonists to pay for said army.
Sounds to me like a good reason why we should dramatically scale back our army and instead train everyone in the country in case of invasion. We have troops all over the world now like Britain did and instead of the countries where our bases are footing the bill (some times because they want us there other times even when they don't) the US tax payer is.
Another was to prevent purchases by people on the FBI no fly list, which also has broad support.
While this sounds good in concept I take issue with it as that fucking list and many of the other fucking lists the government creates like the terror watch list, have no real oversight or due process associated with them. We live in a country that has laws and depriving someone of their rights without going through the proper process can't be done and is actually its self against the law. Nowhere in the constitution does it give the government to regulate an individual's travel between the states. Then add in that the people on these lists are never informed that they are on them, until they are turned away at the airport, and that there is no way to get off of them or standard documented criteria for getting on them and I certainly wouldn't want to deny someone's rights based off of their name being on a questionable list.
I can think of a few but they all involve being out in the woods in northern Minnesota and coming up on or being stalked by a large predator. Apart from that I tend to avoid known shit holes. Also it isn't like I'm going to walk around in Harlem wearing a sandwich board that says "I hate Niggers" or do other equally stupid things.
The fact the something seemed amiss with the buyer beyond just wanting body armor and a pile of ammo when he was there. If someone come in and acts very cagey and is seeking to buy body armor and ammo it seems like a reasonable thing to refuse the sale and report it to the authorities. The authorities may decide to not do anything with this information or they may go and have an officer follow them around for a couple of days to see if there is something nefarious going on in which case they could probably go and get a warrant and search the guy, his car, or his house.
There is a difference between investigating someone and digging through their stuff without a warrant. Being reported to the authorities and having them keep tabs on them was always part of the police work and usually done before getting a warrant to dig through their shit. I am advocating that we return to that old style police work of actual investigation instead of the giant fishing expeditions that they are currently pushing for where they suck up data on everyone.
Nothing individually but it sounds like the shooter was also acting a bit strange in the process as well as attempting to buy both at the same time. It is one where this didn't pass the sniff test and to the seller something seemed a bit wrong. Hell I buy ammo in bulk all the time as those spam cans of Russian military surplus ammo are a great deal if one just wants to go and waste some ammo.
While I will do this (as well as write them), I find very little comes of this. Strangely this republican proposal seems like it has a reasonable chance of passing this seems like something that could easily get bi-partisan support because it isn't a sacred cow to either side and gives the impression of doing something to solve the problem and screws over the regular citizen.
Well since G. W. Bush said they hate us because of our freedoms our government has been working tirelessly to make us safer by removing those freedoms that cause terrorists to hate us and thus lessening the chance of another attack. If we don't have any freedoms they won't hate us any more right.
That is what gets me in all of these cases. In almost every one the government really screwed the pooch. We were told by the Russians to be on the look out for the Boston bombers but we fucked that one up. The mastermind of the Paris attacks was featured as pig fucker of the month in Daesh's monthly magazine. The Orlando shooter was investigated by the FBI a few times and supposedly was reported by a gun shop owner for suspicious behavior attempting to buy ammo in bulk and body armor. So instead of the government doing their fucking job and actively investigating these people that really seem to need a closer look they instead seek to take away rights from everyone else.
I always like compilation albums as they would offer much the same experience. They were always popular in the industrial music scene so I got to find a number of other artists if there were a couple on the album I liked already. Also a good number of industrial bands would put a couple of tracks on their album that were remixed by other artists so there was exposure there as well.
It all depends on the data one is working with and how it is being used. Integers work wonders for a whole lot of things and provided that you aren't working on a collection of them (in which case you may be able to do things differently like reading from one and writing to another). This may not work in for the problem you are working on but That said the goal should be to limit the number of locks you need and there may very well be a better way of doing it in a shared memory environment that doesn't require a pile of semaphores that requires every thread waiting.
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The most power bomb ever detonated wasn't even nuclear.
I highly doubt that as the Tsar Bomba had a yield of about 50 megatons. In looking up the largest non nuclear artificial explosions it would appear that the biggest ones only come in some where around 5 kilotons or about 1/10000 the size of the largest nuclear explosion.
You also forgot that in 1986 the sale of new fully automatic weapons to civilians was banned so any assault rifle that one could legally buy would be at least 30 years old. This is part of the reason why they are so damn expensive. Also part of that waiting period is so that a very thorough background check can be performed where you also get finger printed. It is also my understanding that when one owns a fully automatic weapon that the ATF can come and search your home to ensure that the weapon in question is actually stored properly and in your possession. Add in additional rules around them and it seems like a real pain to actually own one.
I am much the same where it seems I vary rarely agree with any of my elected officials, democrat or republican, but when they do the right thing I will commend them on their actions. Senator Franken has turned out to be better than I had thought while Senator Klobuchar continues show just how much she hates skilled American workers and the freedoms that American enjoy. Although my representative to the US House, John Kline, isn't much better than Klobuchar even if he is on the other side of the political spectrum and wants to curtail other freedoms and rights. He at least is likely to respond and has even called me personally although that conversation ended with me telling him he was either retarded or willfully ignorant as he said that the USA FREEDOM act wouldn't do something it explicitly said it would do yet he voted for it anyway.
Why do you think I said doesn't completely. I do understand that my federal elected representatives do have a general disdain for personal liberty and will try to subvert it when possible.
Thanks. It is nice to know that at least one of my senators doesn't' completely hate my freedoms (Al Franken) but that Amy Klobuchar does seem to hate freedom.
And if anyone else wants to see how their senator voted you can find it here.
Before 9/11/2001 we didn't have this list of terrorists to watch and we all saw what we ended up with. What prevents another 9/11 from happening is not the lists but installing hardened locking cockpit doors and actually locking them which has been done. Also now when some barely functional terrorist (seriously I'm surprised these guys don't choke on their own tongue) tries to light his underpants on fire the passengers on the plane seem to be more than willing to try and turn him into a grease smear on the carpet.
Even in this case the Orlando shooter was known to the FBI beforehand and had been provided additional information on him before this attack. The government seems to get lost in all the noise that they are gathering so they miss things like this douche nozzle.
As far as the number of people on the list it is kind of hard to tell but it sounds like there are probably some where well over a million people on the watch list which seems to be a pretty big fucking list of people to keep an eye on. The no fly list looks like it may contain somewhere around 50,000 people with a couple of percent being Americans. Now since it is a simple name matching thing those ~1.5% on the list who are Americans will likely affect a much larger portion of Americans who happen to share a name or have a similar name, not to mention those on the list who are not American citizens.
Also it looks like getting on the list while sounding good is open to abuse from those 2 sources. So saying that there have been some fuck ups seems like an understatement as I did a bit of searching and I haven't found a case where someone was caught because of the no fly list, so I will lump it in as being as effective as the TSA is at catching terrorists, or about as effective as the jar of mayonnaise in my fridge at the same task. So please tell me again why we should deny someone their right because their name is similar to one on a list that you can be put on without any due process by the whim of some unknown bureaucrat, that has been shown in the past to have some pretty egregious errors. If you want that how about we also deny these people's right to free speech as they could go and incite other to take action.
Well considering that some nukes are single man operable devices and that the supreme court has ruled that weapons used by the military are protected by the second amendment it seem that one should be able to own a nuke. But back to the topic at hand the 9th and 10th amendments as well as other parts of the constitution make it clear that the government can only do the things laid out in the constitution. If you want to make a claim that the commerce clause allows the federal government to regulate my movement or how I can transport my self around the country they you are welcome to do so but keep in mind what that allows and as that is a very slippery slope as has been shown in court case after court case since the Wickard v. Filburn case. I mean we had to pass the 18th amendment to ban alcohol but now it is done all the time with other drugs by regular federal law, or even being on a FDA list.
So other than the 16 cosponsors and 1 sponsor, which 58 sacks of shit voted for this.
Sounds like my state except mine is solidly Democrat. I have been telling everyone in my state who isn't going to vote for Hillary to instead vote for Gary Johnson since voting for a republican presidential candidate in my state is just like throwing your vote away.
So then were in the constitution does it state that the federal government can regulate which mode of transportation Also you don't know you are on their stupid list until you are turned away at the airport so at that point they really are preventing you from traveling. I can use?
As far as the list goes there have been some big fuck-ups so my faith in it being correct is about zero as the vast majority of people on it are not terrorists. I say that because if even a sizeable amount of the people on the list were terrorists the US would look a lot more like Fallujah.
Yes he was cleared those 2 times when he was previously interviewed but then you have someone unrelated to those investigations passing along a tip and basically saying "Hey there is this guy who is acting really strange and trying to buy a pile of ammo and body armor". You then realize this is someone who has been on your radar previously so you go and assign an agent or local cop to keep tabs on the guy to see if something is out of order and if there is you go and get a warrant. You know that good old fashion police work.
In Minnesota this happened recently where someone who was previously a person of interest in the Jacob Wetterling case was re-looked at after some new information became available. It seems like they found a real awful person when checking up on him. So why doesn't law enforcement actually do their fucking job and investigate things, even if it is just to see that there really isn't anything to it?
That is the beauty of the one time pad. you can never be sure that you have recovered the correct message. At best you recover all possible plain texts (provided it is a message smaller than the 140 character limit of a tweet). For things like block ciphers (symmetric or asymmetric key) it is easy because you are usually after the key so if all blocks decrypt to something non gibberish it is highly likely that you have the correct key or key that also works. This assumes that a Message Authentication Code (MAC) wasn't also used, if one was then it becomes easy to verify that you have successfully decrypted the message.
To use your example, which is not too dissimilar to what VeraCrypt (and previously TrueCrypt) did. When someone is attempting to break a cipher they will focus on just one of them at a time and figure out how to break just that one. Once they have broken each one separately then they go and just try them in all combinations until they find one that works produces non gibberish output. If you roll your own crypto, and it isn't a one time pad with a proper true random source, you will likely screw it up and it will fall to simple stasticial analysis. Even things like wheel ciphers and reuse of a one time pad can quickly be broken through some neat little tricks where you try to find the length of the block used to encrypt.
If you are interested in some of these things a good place to start might be by reading Applied Cryptography by Bruch Schneier (if you don't want to buy the book you can easily find a PDF version online but I do suggest supporting Bruce as he seems to be a big advocate of freedom and does do a lot of good work). For a simple introduction to modern cryptanalysis you can check this guy's page out. for a more detailed explanation of linear and differential cryptanalysis you can read this paper. Those should provide a good starting point if one wants to learn about making and breaking crypto.
I thought the majority of firearm deaths were suicides, then homicides with the majority of homicides being gang related.
Specifically, the AR-15 should certainly be banned because it's capable of firing dozens of rounds per minute.
So is my shotgun and my just barely modern (made in 1897 last rebarreled in 1944) Finnish M39 rifle I use for hunting. A well trained civil war era rifleman using a musket was capable of firing off about a dozen rounds a minute, or at least that is what I remember being told on one of my trips to Fort Snelling years ago. Then there are those really evil things that General Patton called "The greatest battle implement ever devised" the M1 Garand semi automatic rifle that fires a substantially more powerful round than that used by the AR-15.
Well if buying hundreds of rounds of ammo gets the FBI called then they have been called on me a number of times. When my family goes out shooting we will easily go through a couple of spam cans of ammo. Then again we aren't looking purchase heavy duty body armor and acting strange when at the store.
Much of this aversion was due to the fact that it was Britain's desire to keep a standing professional army in the colonies that necessitated the Intolerable Acts which taxed the colonists to pay for said army.
Sounds to me like a good reason why we should dramatically scale back our army and instead train everyone in the country in case of invasion. We have troops all over the world now like Britain did and instead of the countries where our bases are footing the bill (some times because they want us there other times even when they don't) the US tax payer is.
Another was to prevent purchases by people on the FBI no fly list, which also has broad support.
While this sounds good in concept I take issue with it as that fucking list and many of the other fucking lists the government creates like the terror watch list, have no real oversight or due process associated with them. We live in a country that has laws and depriving someone of their rights without going through the proper process can't be done and is actually its self against the law. No where in the constitution does it give the government to regulate an individual's travel between the states. Then add in that the people on these lists are never informed that they are on them, until they are turned away at the airport, and that there is no way to get off of them or standard documented criteria for getting on them and I certainly wouldn't want to deny someone's rights based off of their name being on a questionable list.
I can think of a few but they all involve being out in the woods in northern Minnesota and coming up on or being stalked by a large predator. Apart from that I tend to avoid known shit holes. Also it isn't like I'm going to walk around in Harlem wearing a sandwich board that says "I hate Niggers" or do other equally stupid things.
Easy just don't encrypt with RSA or any public key crypto algorithm based on integer factorization problem, the discrete logarithm problem or the elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem as those are all trivial for quantum computers using Shor's algorithm. So that would leave something lattice based crypto as a solution for public/asymmetric key crypto. For symmetric key crypto quantum computers offer a dramatic speed up but even with the AES competition there was a belief that quantum computers weren't that far out so they went with a key length of 256. Granted using Grover's algorithm offers a very nice speed up so a 256 bit key requires only 2^128 effort that is still a huge amount of energy. Or to put it another way cycling a 128 bit counter through all possible states on an ideal computer (our best ones are many orders of magnitude worse) would take a sizeable fraction of the total world wide energy output for an entire year. That is just to generate the key space, not any decryption attempts. If you truly don't want to worry about the government likely breaking your crypto you need either a larger symmetric key, you run out of energy in this universe some where around 600 bits even on ideal quantum computers, or use a one time pad which would be unbreakable in any universe.
The fact the something seemed amiss with the buyer beyond just wanting body armor and a pile of ammo when he was there. If someone come in and acts very cagey and is seeking to buy body armor and ammo it seems like a reasonable thing to refuse the sale and report it to the authorities. The authorities may decide to not do anything with this information or they may go and have an officer follow them around for a couple of days to see if there is something nefarious going on in which case they could probably go and get a warrant and search the guy, his car, or his house.
There is a difference between investigating someone and digging through their stuff without a warrant. Being reported to the authorities and having them keep tabs on them was always part of the police work and usually done before getting a warrant to dig through their shit. I am advocating that we return to that old style police work of actual investigation instead of the giant fishing expeditions that they are currently pushing for where they suck up data on everyone.
Nothing individually but it sounds like the shooter was also acting a bit strange in the process as well as attempting to buy both at the same time. It is one where this didn't pass the sniff test and to the seller something seemed a bit wrong. Hell I buy ammo in bulk all the time as those spam cans of Russian military surplus ammo are a great deal if one just wants to go and waste some ammo.
While I will do this (as well as write them), I find very little comes of this. Strangely this republican proposal seems like it has a reasonable chance of passing this seems like something that could easily get bi-partisan support because it isn't a sacred cow to either side and gives the impression of doing something to solve the problem and screws over the regular citizen.
Well since G. W. Bush said they hate us because of our freedoms our government has been working tirelessly to make us safer by removing those freedoms that cause terrorists to hate us and thus lessening the chance of another attack. If we don't have any freedoms they won't hate us any more right.
That is what gets me in all of these cases. In almost every one the government really screwed the pooch. We were told by the Russians to be on the look out for the Boston bombers but we fucked that one up. The mastermind of the Paris attacks was featured as pig fucker of the month in Daesh's monthly magazine. The Orlando shooter was investigated by the FBI a few times and supposedly was reported by a gun shop owner for suspicious behavior attempting to buy ammo in bulk and body armor. So instead of the government doing their fucking job and actively investigating these people that really seem to need a closer look they instead seek to take away rights from everyone else.
I always like compilation albums as they would offer much the same experience. They were always popular in the industrial music scene so I got to find a number of other artists if there were a couple on the album I liked already. Also a good number of industrial bands would put a couple of tracks on their album that were remixed by other artists so there was exposure there as well.
It all depends on the data one is working with and how it is being used. Integers work wonders for a whole lot of things and provided that you aren't working on a collection of them (in which case you may be able to do things differently like reading from one and writing to another). This may not work in for the problem you are working on but That said the goal should be to limit the number of locks you need and there may very well be a better way of doing it in a shared memory environment that doesn't require a pile of semaphores that requires every thread waiting.