That said too many people seem to believe that getting shot is instant death and that you go flying backwards when shot. Having shot a number of deer (thankfully all clean good shots) and also helped track down a few of my cousin's (he unfortunately has gut shot a couple), I have see deer run for miles for the better part of a day, as well as get shot through the heart, then hear the shot, run, and then tip over dead after 10-20 meters. I haven't ever dropped one but both my uncle and cousin have, but in those cases we were hunting in southern Minnesota with 12 gauge slug guns.
To keep the seasoning good I just put some oil in the pan, put a lid on it, and toss it in the oven when ever I am baking something. This way I am making better use of that heat. Also if you are going to fry something in a bath of oil (I do schnitzel or home made doughnuts) using a cast iron pan does wonders for the seasoning.
That was back when Chrysler corp was still innovating and known for engineering. Shortly after that it really went down hill, the slant 6 was a good engine though, much like those AMC and Jeep inline 6, damn near indestructible.
If local storage ever becomes economical then there will be a huge switch to off grid electrical because, why not?
In some cases it is already competitive. I have some land up in northern Minnesota and will be putting a cabin up on it at some point. If I want power I have 3 options, a gas generator, pay for a 1/2 mile run and transformer from the power company up there, or do off grid renewable. I don't really want to fuck around with a portable gas generator as they are either inexpensive and noisy, or quiet and expensive all while requiring buying fuel and requiring maintenance. So that leaves either renewables with a low installed capacity with a large storage (given the usage pattern it will experience), or pay a huge upfront cost for a 1/2 mile run and transformer and then pay for the hookup and any usage costs I incur. In this case it looks to be in the $10,000-$20,000 range for the run and transformer so for that amount I could get a pretty nice solar+wind+battery system that would meet my needs.
I prefer my fry pans to be either cast iron (well seasoned) or copper bottomed heavy stainless steel. I can use metal spatulas and really get the pan hot for searing meat. Plus if worse comes to worse I can always club a bear to death with my 12" cast fry pan when I am out camping.
From reading that it would appear that the problem is that the key schedule in AES 256 is substantially worse than the one used in AES128. So yes it would appear to be weaker. Also it would seem that cracking AES256 is the holy grail as it is the standard and was pushed so hard so it has a rather large target on it while AES 128 and AES 192 have been ignored more since they are likely less used. Personally I wouldn't recommend using AES 128 in hopes of it preventing attack from quantum computers as it would likely only be slightly stronger than DES is against classical computers. From what I have read on the various AES ciphers the best one to use still looks like it is SERPENT even if it isn't as fast as AES or TWOFISH.
I'm not a cryptologist either but is someone who is a motivated amateur. The math for ciphers isn't that difficult to understand if you find a good source to walk you through the beginnings. For getting started with it I found this site to be helpful.
Oh, really? Then may I ask for the extradition of the entire NSA staff for hacking the accounts of French, German and Japanese politicians?
Please. I would gladly support this action. Even if you can't get the low level guys even getting the ones at the top would be worthwhile, unfortunately, French, German, and Japanese jails are far too nice for these people.
For Public key crypto there is still Lattice-based crypto which so far does not have a break on either a classical or quantum computer. For symmetric key (AES, SERPENT, TWOFISH) schemes they will still be good, but only use the 256 bit key versions as that puts the lower bounds on energy requirements to crack them near the total output of the Sun over its entire lifetime even on a quantum computer. Yes quantum computers can do some things amazingly fast but for symmetric key crypto the work is changed from 2^N to 2^(N/2), where N is the key size, which for good key sizes puts it beyond the abilities of even ideal quantum computers we could build in this solar system.
Also NIST wanted 256 bit keys for all entrants into the AES competition for that exact reason so AES, SERPENT, and TWOFISH should all be ok unless there is a break that is discovered in any of them and then you would be screwed
You're saying people should know better than the loan officer what kind of loan they need
It wasn't like the loan I qualified for was a little different from what we could actually afford, it was massively different as in for 5x the amount. Also the fact that it consumed more than our take home pay as it likely did for most people show that basic thinking and budgeting skills were lacking. From what I understand those loans were common and there still was the traditional advice that people should have followed.
who saw $10 trillion dollars worth of wealth disappear due to a massive amount of fraudulent securities
It wasn't real wealth and besides there were a lot of red flags that were there for everyone to see. Handing out piss poor loans to everyone who could write their name on the line, the fact that these were pretty new things, that some large banks were betting against these securities that they created.
The people who got fucked hard in '08 were the entire world
Not entirely I know plenty of people who came out smelling like roses, that year I only lost a 4% of my investments but over the next 3 years well over doubled it by following the simple advice of maintaining a balanced (if aggressive as I am still young enough to ride out fall) portfolio, and continuing to invest money. If you are one who can't handle even the most basic investing then most banks offer these wonderful things called Certificates of Deposit, or there are always US government bonds, neither of which offer a great return but are safe.
and especially US citizens
I will concede this but probably not the way you would like. It was a shame that US tax payers who were responsible had to prop up those who weren't. This includes banks and lenders that the invisible hand of the market was trying to bitch slap out of existence but instead the US government propped up. The various housing rescue programs to restructure and reduce payments for those who got too large of a loan or who likely should have never gotten a loan to begin with. The people who were stuck holding the bag were people like myself who wanted to refinance but because we were responsible and had made every payment on time but who's loans were underwater didn't get any special treatment and so were stuck at our old higher rates. It took years before my wife and I could go down to a 15 year mortgage at a lower rate yet the irresponsible were having the poor behavior rewarded. Yes it sucks that the government hasn't jailed various bankers as there are plenty. It sucks that the government allowed retail banks to play in the world of high finance, but that is just par for the course of the US government fucking its citizens.
But go ahead and blame it on the victims.
I was blaming the stupid. My kids do stupid shit too even when told that it is a bad idea and why it is a bad idea. When my oldest was little he liked to step on his toys and I would tell him that he will either break them or hurt himself. One day he was about to step barefoot onto a little metal play noodle grabber and I told him to not step on his toys as he will get hurt. So what does he do, decides to show me and instead of just stepping on it he stomped on it. The point is sometimes it is the victim's own fault.
How about a more recent crash. Traditionally the view with housing was to put 20% down and have a monthly payment no more than 1/3 of your take home pay on a 30 year fixed mortgage. then there was the retard run in the 2000s where all the "experts" said that was wrong. My wife and I got a house doing things the old traditional way, a bunch of friends did the new way. They thought they were so smart until the shit hit the fan and they got foreclosed on, had to file for bankruptcy, or are stuck in a house they really can't afford. We took in the the shorts on equity but at the same time we didn't worry about losing the house, or bankruptcy, as our losses are what the would call paper losses since we bought a house to live in, not use as a bank. We did eventually refinance to a 15 year mortgage with a much lower rate (4.5% to 3.00%) and it cost us $18 more a month for the payment. Anyone who had half a brain should have known something was up, especially since my wife and I were approved for some silly loan amount where our monthly payment would have been $20 less than our pretax earnings. My response to the loan officer was "Are you fucking retarded? It would be physically impossible for us to make even one payment on this." I then told him what we could afford for a monthly payment and made the poor bastard work backwards to figure out what we could actually afford.
The people who got fucked hard in 1929 were just like the people who got fucked hard in '07-'08 the ones who were over extended and didn't listen to the traditional wisdom and instead decided that the rules didn't apply this time.
We need to stop reacting to every stupid thing a politician says, and wait until there is some reasonable risk of it becoming law.
I disagree. The more they say the more the public gets acclimated to it and the more likely they are to accept it. We should take every opportunity to discredit and impugn these politicians as they will otherwise just keep this shit up until they get their way, remember SOPA, PIPA, what ever the hell replaced that?
Well learning the basics is kind of a bitch as so much of it is boring and wrote memorization. With my oldest so that he gets them I have been practicing the basic addition and subtraction and just doing the basic math facts generates more outrage from him that one would expect. Yet instead if I do a much longer, number of additions and subtractions wise, simplified one time pad decrypt or encrypt this message problem he will happily do it and won't bitch at all.
I would say it also helps if they are passionate about teaching the subject. The 2 best teachers I had in high school were very passionate about their subjects. One taught European history and the Humanities courses, the other taught the computer programming courses and geometry. Both had PhDs in their primary field, CS and humanities, and really loved teaching the subjects and were wonderful classes.
CS is not about programming, that would be the AAS in software development offered at the local Voc-Tech (a great place to learn specific skills that I do take advantage of). I had 3 programming specific courses in my CS degree, well 4 if you could that one physics class, while the rest were focused on theory with projects and assignments that may involve programming. Yes there is Big-O, Boolean logic, and in your case linear algebra, but there is also statistics (used a lot in AI), formal proofs (I use these a lot), calculus (we have a bunch of people where I work who need this). A proper CS education is best described as applied math and it wasn't until I started taking my 400 (senior level) CS courses when I finally saw that. The CS program at the school I went to actually had a math minor built into it and you were only 3 math classes away from having a dual major in math and CS.
Depends on the student. I think there are fewer students in college in engineering, math, or science courses who if they are straight A students who are people that can't learn. The critical thinking they got in their other courses helps out a lot. The hardest course I took was one called "Computer simulation of physics problems" as it fulfilled a the requirement of a non major 400 level science course. The problem was that I was the first non physics student to take the course in 15 years so while the requirements for the course were stated as needing a year of calculus based physics and some programming knowledge it had really become you had 3 to 3.5 years of physics education and you are taking this course in your last 2 semesters. I spent a couple of hours a week in the professors office getting the physics knowledge I didn't have so I could do the actual work for the class. I learned a ton. On the other hand in one of my public speaking courses I was paired up with a speech major who was so glad that she didn't have to take calculus because she just wasn't good enough at math and college algebra was really hard.
Unless you have an immersion program where people are forced to use the language, then people aren't going to learn the language at all.
That worked for me as hunger is a great motivator to learn the language. I attempted to learn Spanish in middle school and high school and was told that I should probably stop taking them because I would likely fail the next class, it was pretty obvious even to me before that. I then took a year of Spanish again in college to meet my foreign language requirement, the phrase Cs get degrees comes to mind. I didn't actually learn a foreign language until, with my previous job, I ended up living in Paris for 3 months. While I wasn't fluent I could at least have a conversation and read a paper (with a little help from a french to English dictionary). I don't begrudge the French for wanting people to speak their language when in their country. If one really tries to speak the language and puts effort into it they are much more accepting. The only problem is that now when I am in a country that speaks a romance language my mind ends up defaulting to French, even if the language is Spanish, Portuguese, or Italian.
You must be new here. I remember back in the 90s hearing people saying "My computer says it is out of memory but I have XX free MB on the hard drive". Then there was my personal favorite where they would call refer to the case as the CPU or hard drive.
I think there are a lot of people who want to see the Clinton, as well as the Bush, political dynasty buried more than they want to throw their token support behind a 3rd party. Personally I can't say I blame them as I harbor similar thoughts.
Well if the purpose of copyright is "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" I don't think someone taking a dirt nap is further incentivized to create by copyright. This likely applies to those for whom the bell is tolling as well. It is awful that such works like the Iliad, Odyssey, Divine Comedy, Beowulf, Macbeth, The Three Musketeers, etc. have fallen into the public domain. I mean how are we ever going to convince Homer to write some new stories, if only we had better copyright at the time.
The Boy Scouts of America is not a religious organization per se.
While technically true it does vary a lot by pack/troop with some being more religious than others. There still are religious requirements that need to be fulfilled but they aren't tied to any specific religion. For example the one I did with my oldest for his current cub scout rank was the "duty to god footsteps". We went to the large Buddhist temple nearby and he got to learn about their religion. He ended up telling the other scouts in his den about it and I was asked why I brought him there instead of to a christian church as this seemed completely foreign to most of the other parents (mostly Catholic and Presbyterian). My response, entirely truthful, was that I felt it was important that he learn about different religions that he otherwise would not be exposed to and learn to respect them. I do think that some of the other leaders and adults suspect that I may be one of those evil atheists/agnostics but as I don't advertise it or be a dick about it no one seems to care. I do run the NOVA and Super NOVA program in the pack, am one of the 2 range officers, and assistant den leader
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gun shot wounds to the abdomen die in seconds or minutes instead of hours or days
Well not all movies .
That said too many people seem to believe that getting shot is instant death and that you go flying backwards when shot. Having shot a number of deer (thankfully all clean good shots) and also helped track down a few of my cousin's (he unfortunately has gut shot a couple), I have see deer run for miles for the better part of a day, as well as get shot through the heart, then hear the shot, run, and then tip over dead after 10-20 meters. I haven't ever dropped one but both my uncle and cousin have, but in those cases we were hunting in southern Minnesota with 12 gauge slug guns.
To keep the seasoning good I just put some oil in the pan, put a lid on it, and toss it in the oven when ever I am baking something. This way I am making better use of that heat. Also if you are going to fry something in a bath of oil (I do schnitzel or home made doughnuts) using a cast iron pan does wonders for the seasoning.
That was back when Chrysler corp was still innovating and known for engineering. Shortly after that it really went down hill, the slant 6 was a good engine though, much like those AMC and Jeep inline 6, damn near indestructible.
If local storage ever becomes economical then there will be a huge switch to off grid electrical because, why not?
In some cases it is already competitive. I have some land up in northern Minnesota and will be putting a cabin up on it at some point. If I want power I have 3 options, a gas generator, pay for a 1/2 mile run and transformer from the power company up there, or do off grid renewable. I don't really want to fuck around with a portable gas generator as they are either inexpensive and noisy, or quiet and expensive all while requiring buying fuel and requiring maintenance. So that leaves either renewables with a low installed capacity with a large storage (given the usage pattern it will experience), or pay a huge upfront cost for a 1/2 mile run and transformer and then pay for the hookup and any usage costs I incur. In this case it looks to be in the $10,000-$20,000 range for the run and transformer so for that amount I could get a pretty nice solar+wind+battery system that would meet my needs.
I prefer my fry pans to be either cast iron (well seasoned) or copper bottomed heavy stainless steel. I can use metal spatulas and really get the pan hot for searing meat. Plus if worse comes to worse I can always club a bear to death with my 12" cast fry pan when I am out camping.
From reading that it would appear that the problem is that the key schedule in AES 256 is substantially worse than the one used in AES128. So yes it would appear to be weaker. Also it would seem that cracking AES256 is the holy grail as it is the standard and was pushed so hard so it has a rather large target on it while AES 128 and AES 192 have been ignored more since they are likely less used. Personally I wouldn't recommend using AES 128 in hopes of it preventing attack from quantum computers as it would likely only be slightly stronger than DES is against classical computers. From what I have read on the various AES ciphers the best one to use still looks like it is SERPENT even if it isn't as fast as AES or TWOFISH.
I'm not a cryptologist either but is someone who is a motivated amateur. The math for ciphers isn't that difficult to understand if you find a good source to walk you through the beginnings. For getting started with it I found this site to be helpful.
Hacking an account is illegal.
Oh, really? Then may I ask for the extradition of the entire NSA staff for hacking the accounts of French, German and Japanese politicians?
Please. I would gladly support this action. Even if you can't get the low level guys even getting the ones at the top would be worthwhile, unfortunately, French, German, and Japanese jails are far too nice for these people.
For Public key crypto there is still Lattice-based crypto which so far does not have a break on either a classical or quantum computer. For symmetric key (AES, SERPENT, TWOFISH) schemes they will still be good, but only use the 256 bit key versions as that puts the lower bounds on energy requirements to crack them near the total output of the Sun over its entire lifetime even on a quantum computer. Yes quantum computers can do some things amazingly fast but for symmetric key crypto the work is changed from 2^N to 2^(N/2), where N is the key size, which for good key sizes puts it beyond the abilities of even ideal quantum computers we could build in this solar system.
Also NIST wanted 256 bit keys for all entrants into the AES competition for that exact reason so AES, SERPENT, and TWOFISH should all be ok unless there is a break that is discovered in any of them and then you would be screwed
You're saying people should know better than the loan officer what kind of loan they need
It wasn't like the loan I qualified for was a little different from what we could actually afford, it was massively different as in for 5x the amount. Also the fact that it consumed more than our take home pay as it likely did for most people show that basic thinking and budgeting skills were lacking. From what I understand those loans were common and there still was the traditional advice that people should have followed.
who saw $10 trillion dollars worth of wealth disappear due to a massive amount of fraudulent securities
It wasn't real wealth and besides there were a lot of red flags that were there for everyone to see. Handing out piss poor loans to everyone who could write their name on the line, the fact that these were pretty new things, that some large banks were betting against these securities that they created.
The people who got fucked hard in '08 were the entire world
Not entirely I know plenty of people who came out smelling like roses, that year I only lost a 4% of my investments but over the next 3 years well over doubled it by following the simple advice of maintaining a balanced (if aggressive as I am still young enough to ride out fall) portfolio, and continuing to invest money. If you are one who can't handle even the most basic investing then most banks offer these wonderful things called Certificates of Deposit, or there are always US government bonds, neither of which offer a great return but are safe.
and especially US citizens
I will concede this but probably not the way you would like. It was a shame that US tax payers who were responsible had to prop up those who weren't. This includes banks and lenders that the invisible hand of the market was trying to bitch slap out of existence but instead the US government propped up. The various housing rescue programs to restructure and reduce payments for those who got too large of a loan or who likely should have never gotten a loan to begin with. The people who were stuck holding the bag were people like myself who wanted to refinance but because we were responsible and had made every payment on time but who's loans were underwater didn't get any special treatment and so were stuck at our old higher rates. It took years before my wife and I could go down to a 15 year mortgage at a lower rate yet the irresponsible were having the poor behavior rewarded. Yes it sucks that the government hasn't jailed various bankers as there are plenty. It sucks that the government allowed retail banks to play in the world of high finance, but that is just par for the course of the US government fucking its citizens.
But go ahead and blame it on the victims.
I was blaming the stupid. My kids do stupid shit too even when told that it is a bad idea and why it is a bad idea. When my oldest was little he liked to step on his toys and I would tell him that he will either break them or hurt himself. One day he was about to step barefoot onto a little metal play noodle grabber and I told him to not step on his toys as he will get hurt. So what does he do, decides to show me and instead of just stepping on it he stomped on it. The point is sometimes it is the victim's own fault.
Weak I have a few Z$100,000,000,000,000 notes.
How about a more recent crash. Traditionally the view with housing was to put 20% down and have a monthly payment no more than 1/3 of your take home pay on a 30 year fixed mortgage. then there was the retard run in the 2000s where all the "experts" said that was wrong. My wife and I got a house doing things the old traditional way, a bunch of friends did the new way. They thought they were so smart until the shit hit the fan and they got foreclosed on, had to file for bankruptcy, or are stuck in a house they really can't afford. We took in the the shorts on equity but at the same time we didn't worry about losing the house, or bankruptcy, as our losses are what the would call paper losses since we bought a house to live in, not use as a bank. We did eventually refinance to a 15 year mortgage with a much lower rate (4.5% to 3.00%) and it cost us $18 more a month for the payment. Anyone who had half a brain should have known something was up, especially since my wife and I were approved for some silly loan amount where our monthly payment would have been $20 less than our pretax earnings. My response to the loan officer was "Are you fucking retarded? It would be physically impossible for us to make even one payment on this." I then told him what we could afford for a monthly payment and made the poor bastard work backwards to figure out what we could actually afford.
The people who got fucked hard in 1929 were just like the people who got fucked hard in '07-'08 the ones who were over extended and didn't listen to the traditional wisdom and instead decided that the rules didn't apply this time.
We need to stop reacting to every stupid thing a politician says, and wait until there is some reasonable risk of it becoming law.
I disagree. The more they say the more the public gets acclimated to it and the more likely they are to accept it. We should take every opportunity to discredit and impugn these politicians as they will otherwise just keep this shit up until they get their way, remember SOPA, PIPA, what ever the hell replaced that?
I am sorry but Breitbart has been known to both exaggerate and make entirely false claims many times before.
So has Hilliary.
I thought that was a still birth, or did /. have an abortion?
Well learning the basics is kind of a bitch as so much of it is boring and wrote memorization. With my oldest so that he gets them I have been practicing the basic addition and subtraction and just doing the basic math facts generates more outrage from him that one would expect. Yet instead if I do a much longer, number of additions and subtractions wise, simplified one time pad decrypt or encrypt this message problem he will happily do it and won't bitch at all.
I would say it also helps if they are passionate about teaching the subject. The 2 best teachers I had in high school were very passionate about their subjects. One taught European history and the Humanities courses, the other taught the computer programming courses and geometry. Both had PhDs in their primary field, CS and humanities, and really loved teaching the subjects and were wonderful classes.
CS is not about programming, that would be the AAS in software development offered at the local Voc-Tech (a great place to learn specific skills that I do take advantage of). I had 3 programming specific courses in my CS degree, well 4 if you could that one physics class, while the rest were focused on theory with projects and assignments that may involve programming. Yes there is Big-O, Boolean logic, and in your case linear algebra, but there is also statistics (used a lot in AI), formal proofs (I use these a lot), calculus (we have a bunch of people where I work who need this). A proper CS education is best described as applied math and it wasn't until I started taking my 400 (senior level) CS courses when I finally saw that. The CS program at the school I went to actually had a math minor built into it and you were only 3 math classes away from having a dual major in math and CS.
Depends on the student. I think there are fewer students in college in engineering, math, or science courses who if they are straight A students who are people that can't learn. The critical thinking they got in their other courses helps out a lot. The hardest course I took was one called "Computer simulation of physics problems" as it fulfilled a the requirement of a non major 400 level science course. The problem was that I was the first non physics student to take the course in 15 years so while the requirements for the course were stated as needing a year of calculus based physics and some programming knowledge it had really become you had 3 to 3.5 years of physics education and you are taking this course in your last 2 semesters. I spent a couple of hours a week in the professors office getting the physics knowledge I didn't have so I could do the actual work for the class. I learned a ton. On the other hand in one of my public speaking courses I was paired up with a speech major who was so glad that she didn't have to take calculus because she just wasn't good enough at math and college algebra was really hard.
Unless you have an immersion program where people are forced to use the language, then people aren't going to learn the language at all.
That worked for me as hunger is a great motivator to learn the language. I attempted to learn Spanish in middle school and high school and was told that I should probably stop taking them because I would likely fail the next class, it was pretty obvious even to me before that. I then took a year of Spanish again in college to meet my foreign language requirement, the phrase Cs get degrees comes to mind. I didn't actually learn a foreign language until, with my previous job, I ended up living in Paris for 3 months. While I wasn't fluent I could at least have a conversation and read a paper (with a little help from a french to English dictionary). I don't begrudge the French for wanting people to speak their language when in their country. If one really tries to speak the language and puts effort into it they are much more accepting. The only problem is that now when I am in a country that speaks a romance language my mind ends up defaulting to French, even if the language is Spanish, Portuguese, or Italian.
You must be new here. I remember back in the 90s hearing people saying "My computer says it is out of memory but I have XX free MB on the hard drive". Then there was my personal favorite where they would call refer to the case as the CPU or hard drive.
I think there are a lot of people who want to see the Clinton, as well as the Bush, political dynasty buried more than they want to throw their token support behind a 3rd party. Personally I can't say I blame them as I harbor similar thoughts.
It has been described that way for a long time as I have a brother-in-law who's father worked for them ages ago and that term was in use then.
Well if the purpose of copyright is "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" I don't think someone taking a dirt nap is further incentivized to create by copyright. This likely applies to those for whom the bell is tolling as well. It is awful that such works like the Iliad, Odyssey, Divine Comedy, Beowulf, Macbeth, The Three Musketeers, etc. have fallen into the public domain. I mean how are we ever going to convince Homer to write some new stories, if only we had better copyright at the time.
The Boy Scouts of America is not a religious organization per se.
While technically true it does vary a lot by pack/troop with some being more religious than others. There still are religious requirements that need to be fulfilled but they aren't tied to any specific religion. For example the one I did with my oldest for his current cub scout rank was the "duty to god footsteps". We went to the large Buddhist temple nearby and he got to learn about their religion. He ended up telling the other scouts in his den about it and I was asked why I brought him there instead of to a christian church as this seemed completely foreign to most of the other parents (mostly Catholic and Presbyterian). My response, entirely truthful, was that I felt it was important that he learn about different religions that he otherwise would not be exposed to and learn to respect them. I do think that some of the other leaders and adults suspect that I may be one of those evil atheists/agnostics but as I don't advertise it or be a dick about it no one seems to care. I do run the NOVA and Super NOVA program in the pack, am one of the 2 range officers, and assistant den leader