Damn, beaten - this sounds exactly like part of Mr. Robot's plot...seems way too easy & convenient. What kind of total noob would hack from their home IP anyway?
A friend of mine has one on his off-grid garage/trailer thing, and decommissioning costs involve taking it down - about as much work as removing a large TV antenna - and perhaps hauling the batteries to a recycling facility. The wind turbine runs the lights, computer/network gear and sound system. Inefficient? I don't know how much wind energy is being wasted, but it works. I don't think he's touched it since he put it up almost a year ago.
The gun god demands blood sacrifice! It is the cost of irresponsible, undocumented gun ownership. Hundreds must be slain to protect you from a bit of paperwork and the hurt of libertarian feels. The fact that the NSA effectively has a full manifest of every gun owner's weapons in the US (and planet, if they wish) does not absolve you of this sacred duty.
Interesting. I'd like to mod you up, but instead I'll add that this is another argument against DRM'ed software: It could be administered by a racist asshole who will revoke your license because your country's government did something he didn't like.
I haven't seen such a thing since the '90s, so, good I guess?
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Same here, AFAIK LibreOffice was better than OO.org right out of the box. The project was overdue for a fork and just needed some motivation for it to happen, and Oracle provided it.
Nope it wasn't designed to be anonymous, it was designed to be uncontrollable and impossible to "counterfeit." Every account's history is fully traceable. Any anonymity has to be between you and the account.
Everest has been done to death. It's just a premium selfie location for rich assholes now. Not a technically challenging climb either. You just trudge through the world's longest, most horrible amusement park lineup for your moment at the top.
At the very least, there's a major hurdle of unprecedented height to flying around the universe: FTL travel that breaks the laws of physics as we currently know them.
I think that even if a species had the social cohesiveness to launch and run a generation ship, the odds of getting anywhere before some random catastrophe strikes that eventually leads to the whole ship's demise would be astronomical. They might deplete their home planet's resources from building generation ships before they have any success with them.
Animals that can do basic addition with small numbers aren't that uncommon, even some small fish can do this, yet I don't think we'd call them semi-intelligent.
I think that life is common but intelligent life is rare - which again matches up with what we see on Earth. Out of all these species there's 1 capable of building complex tools. How many other planets might have one less? Big powerful energy-guzzling brains aren't very useful in nature after all.
I also think that any Kardashev Type 2+ civilization almost certainly doesn't, and never will exist, and that even a Type 1 would be extremely uncommon. The whole Kardashev scale assumes runaway population growth which I think is a fundamental flaw. What need is there for energy beyond what a Type 1 would have available, except to support an unnecessarily huge population? If you have your population numbers under control, it's pointless. Civilizations that don't would probably snuff themselves out while they're Type 0 anyway.
Saw a story on this yesterday. It seems that because she can draw some tenuous parallels between sexbot production and prostitution, and because she thinks there's something fundamentally terrible about prostitution(?), sexbot production is wrong.:-\
Before you get to quantification, what about cheating? People would set up "learn farming" systems similar to today's "perk farming" systems, to make it look like they're watching TED talks and reading technical articles on half a dozen devices at once all day long.
It's too bad really, because I would look really good through honest use of this system B-)
Yep, I used to run an exit node but now I just run a bridge node. Exit nodes go into the web's leper colony. There are even newspaper sites with no commenting features that will ban your IP.
Having the salt available would still mean that all the hashes would need to be reversed with rainbow tables or brute-forced. These being bcrypt hashes with a built-in salt, having any "extra" salt available would hardly help.
Using the same salt for every hash is far less secure than having one for each hash too.
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do your dirty work in a VM -- then securely delete the VM. :)
Or run the VM like a LiveCD from a read-only filesystem - what happens in RAM stays in RAM...
Damn, beaten - this sounds exactly like part of Mr. Robot's plot...seems way too easy & convenient. What kind of total noob would hack from their home IP anyway?
A friend of mine has one on his off-grid garage/trailer thing, and decommissioning costs involve taking it down - about as much work as removing a large TV antenna - and perhaps hauling the batteries to a recycling facility. The wind turbine runs the lights, computer/network gear and sound system. Inefficient? I don't know how much wind energy is being wasted, but it works. I don't think he's touched it since he put it up almost a year ago.
It still has a set of driving controls - it would be fine as an autonomous car.
Came here to recommend encryption over choosing "trustworthy" hosts - trust is for suckers.
The gun god demands blood sacrifice! It is the cost of irresponsible, undocumented gun ownership. Hundreds must be slain to protect you from a bit of paperwork and the hurt of libertarian feels. The fact that the NSA effectively has a full manifest of every gun owner's weapons in the US (and planet, if they wish) does not absolve you of this sacred duty.
That's quite a name for a "massage parlor" :-P
Came here to say this.
If you make .rar files, you're part of the problem.
Interesting. I'd like to mod you up, but instead I'll add that this is another argument against DRM'ed software: It could be administered by a racist asshole who will revoke your license because your country's government did something he didn't like.
I haven't seen such a thing since the '90s, so, good I guess?
Same here, AFAIK LibreOffice was better than OO.org right out of the box. The project was overdue for a fork and just needed some motivation for it to happen, and Oracle provided it.
So we should abandon aspirations towards human rights because Saudi Arabia or North Korea don't play along?
Of course, the same as with climate treaties :-P
I don't have that problem with the ethernet surge protector built into the big APC UPS (about 6 years old) on my gaming machine.
Nope it wasn't designed to be anonymous, it was designed to be uncontrollable and impossible to "counterfeit." Every account's history is fully traceable. Any anonymity has to be between you and the account.
Everest has been done to death. It's just a premium selfie location for rich assholes now. Not a technically challenging climb either. You just trudge through the world's longest, most horrible amusement park lineup for your moment at the top.
The agreement here is not just about SONAR but also about:
pp 7 - Not ramming whales head on during training exercises
This raises so many questions. Were they doing this before? Why? Is slamming into the sides of whales still allowed?
At the very least, there's a major hurdle of unprecedented height to flying around the universe: FTL travel that breaks the laws of physics as we currently know them.
I think that even if a species had the social cohesiveness to launch and run a generation ship, the odds of getting anywhere before some random catastrophe strikes that eventually leads to the whole ship's demise would be astronomical. They might deplete their home planet's resources from building generation ships before they have any success with them.
The lack of edit capability isn't a technical deficiency, it's a cultural difference.
Animals that can do basic addition with small numbers aren't that uncommon, even some small fish can do this, yet I don't think we'd call them semi-intelligent.
I think that life is common but intelligent life is rare - which again matches up with what we see on Earth. Out of all these species there's 1 capable of building complex tools. How many other planets might have one less? Big powerful energy-guzzling brains aren't very useful in nature after all.
I also think that any Kardashev Type 2+ civilization almost certainly doesn't, and never will exist, and that even a Type 1 would be extremely uncommon. The whole Kardashev scale assumes runaway population growth which I think is a fundamental flaw. What need is there for energy beyond what a Type 1 would have available, except to support an unnecessarily huge population? If you have your population numbers under control, it's pointless. Civilizations that don't would probably snuff themselves out while they're Type 0 anyway.
Saw a story on this yesterday. It seems that because she can draw some tenuous parallels between sexbot production and prostitution, and because she thinks there's something fundamentally terrible about prostitution(?), sexbot production is wrong. :-\
Before you get to quantification, what about cheating? People would set up "learn farming" systems similar to today's "perk farming" systems, to make it look like they're watching TED talks and reading technical articles on half a dozen devices at once all day long.
It's too bad really, because I would look really good through honest use of this system B-)
Yep, I used to run an exit node but now I just run a bridge node. Exit nodes go into the web's leper colony. There are even newspaper sites with no commenting features that will ban your IP.
See also: my sig.
Having the salt available would still mean that all the hashes would need to be reversed with rainbow tables or brute-forced. These being bcrypt hashes with a built-in salt, having any "extra" salt available would hardly help.
Using the same salt for every hash is far less secure than having one for each hash too.