I see some RSA shills repeating this argument... but I don't see any explanation why they used it as the default after 2006. We really have no greater proof it's backdoor'd now than we had then... if we didn't have the 2006 analysis of Dual_EC_DRNG then Snowden's leak could be referring to a whole lot of things.
All that has happened is that the legal threshold of plausible deniability has disappeared... but the common sense threshold for plausible deniability disappeared in 2006, they knew and they kept it default. Why?
"During the one second interval when they are applied, what happens to [UTC] timestamps on files that are modified? If you're compiling, an object file may be updated or not. Or, with rsync, a file may be transferred or not."
Only with negative leapseconds, which have never been used... as long as the timebase is monotonic these shouldn't fuck up. As for POSIX using a timebase which might not be always monotonic for file timestamps... well that is sloppy coding. The sloppy coding being part of POSIX is no excuse.
"Or, what about medical equipment [based on POSIX-compliant UTC (e.g. Linux, etc.)] that gives a patient an extra one second of radiation because the master clock is based on UTC?
Also, applications [which generally don't account for leap seconds] would get lurched, sometimes with disastrous results."
What I find funny is that most people on the street are so negative when someone who has pitched a perfect game in major league baseball gets paid a lot... the performance of these sportsmen can be measured extremely accurately, the level of income they generate for their clubs can be estimated pretty well... and yet they make too much money. Whereas management who's performance can't be measured and the level of income they generate for their companies is completely fucking unknown deserve the big bucks... even most people in the street have internalized neo-liberalism.
Any way the argument for management salaries is generally "oh well their salaries are such a small part of expenses, paying them less doesn't make much sense since it doesn't affect the bottom line... better to pay more in the hope that you get the better ones".
Hip replacement, heart surgery, cancer treatments, etc etc etc.
PS. I'm willing to entertain the notion of the benefits of paleo-like diets... but blaming so much of the current generation's problem on carbs in general is just plain revisionist, my great grand parents already had bread and potatoes as staple food. What has changed is things like salt, sugar intake (soft drinks), trans fats, overeating etc... if anything the percentage of calories from carbs might have decreased due to increased meat consumption.
We've always had a significant percentage of arable land undeveloped and ways to significantly increase production... the way out has always been abundantly clear, grow more crops. We still have significant amounts of undeveloped land, but the percentage is much smaller than in Malthus his time and production increases are stalling. They are both going to hit zero at some point.
Also there are additional novel problems like peak water, peak oil, peak fossil fertilizer and peak charity (a lot of countries procreating themselves into the abyss can't feed themselves). In the past feeding the additional masses never really relied on better technology, just better organization and use of existing and already recognized resources... which might be also still for fertilizer (ie. better recycling of shit) but not so much for oil and water. We absolute need to invent new sources of extremely cheap energy in the future just to replace oil and to power desalination plants... or we're fucked.
Basically a single solution has always kept the doomsayers at bay... and that solution is running out of steam.
Only for the moment. Microsoft doesn't really care about PC gaming... the decision not to backport DirectX 11.2 and to simply not work on DirectX 12 at all shows their intentions and it might bite them in the ass.
If NVIDIA and Valve decide to heavily push Linux/OpenGL things could go south fast for Microsoft. For instance NVIDIA could decide to make an efficient shim to use their graphics card from a virtualized windows client running on top of a Linux host... at which point I could just run Windows for my legacy gaming and use Linux for my real gaming all without rebooting.
It's a bit trendy to hang the open source label on it, but that's TED for ya... still there are differences between what was possible in the old days and what is possible now.
Publishing reproducible research wasn't really possible in the past... other researchers could beg for all the lab notes, good description of the lab set up etc etc etc to be send by snail mail, but it couldn't really be published. Only the tiny and most of the time insufficient bit of information from the paper was actually published. Now publishing reproducible research has become possible... unfortunately only a handful of people are doing it.
Depends a bit on the value of the collateral, if the collateral only covers a small part of the debt then the secured lenders can still be off far worse than the senior ones.
Huh? The Times owns the pension obligations and is less likely to go bankrupt than the new business... it would have been far more shifty if the Globe had been sold to some shell company including the pension obligations.
Yep, the solution is that simple... make them criminally liable and make shit roll uphill (ie. go after management). First suit behind bars is the first time they get serious about security.
Those computers should be set up to make sirens blare the moment they get a second network connection besides the internal LAN... it should take intentional hacking to connect these computers to the internet or to connect a non-allowed computer to the internal network (normal computers aren't designed to be quiet on a network connection). It shouldn't be as easy as pulling a sticker off a USB/network port, or connecting your normal computer with internet into the internal network.
The problem isn't that "someone" wants to connect a cable to browse facebook... the problem is that management wants to do it, without sirens blaring.
When a market provides options then those options will be used for competitive advantage... always online is a competitive disadvantage, prepare to see it not be a problem. Ubisoft recanted on the PC for good reason...
Only Blizzard is the exception to prove the rule, they have the Apple like halo power to convince the sheep to ignore the cattleprods... but they saved me from making a mistake and buying Diablo 3, so all's well that ends well.
WIth physical access and knowledge of the hardware sure it's extractable... this is assuming there's no backdoor in the HSM, always a large assumption.
When you can't advertise with the non CC price there is no real use in offering discounts, easier to just pocket the money of the people who don't pay with a CC... the CC industry in the US is a clear trust. The class action suit which allowed surcharges was a chink in the armour, but they quickly bought legislators and got that fixed.
In my days in university we didn't so much have weedout classes, but moreso classes people took for years in a row... probability and statistics was one of those. Otherwise smart people can become surprisingly stupid when the questions are poised as puzzles about black and white marbles.
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There is no proof outside of mathematics, but it makes no more sense to doubt it than to doubt the sun will come up in the morning.
I see some RSA shills repeating this argument ... but I don't see any explanation why they used it as the default after 2006. We really have no greater proof it's backdoor'd now than we had then ... if we didn't have the 2006 analysis of Dual_EC_DRNG then Snowden's leak could be referring to a whole lot of things.
All that has happened is that the legal threshold of plausible deniability has disappeared ... but the common sense threshold for plausible deniability disappeared in 2006, they knew and they kept it default. Why?
"During the one second interval when they are applied, what happens to [UTC] timestamps on files that are modified? If you're compiling, an object file may be updated or not. Or, with rsync, a file may be transferred or not."
Only with negative leapseconds, which have never been used ... as long as the timebase is monotonic these shouldn't fuck up. As for POSIX using a timebase which might not be always monotonic for file timestamps ... well that is sloppy coding. The sloppy coding being part of POSIX is no excuse.
"Or, what about medical equipment [based on POSIX-compliant UTC (e.g. Linux, etc.)] that gives a patient an extra one second of radiation because the master clock is based on UTC?
Also, applications [which generally don't account for leap seconds] would get lurched, sometimes with disastrous results."
Yes, as he said ... sloppy coding.
What I find funny is that most people on the street are so negative when someone who has pitched a perfect game in major league baseball gets paid a lot ... the performance of these sportsmen can be measured extremely accurately, the level of income they generate for their clubs can be estimated pretty well ... and yet they make too much money. Whereas management who's performance can't be measured and the level of income they generate for their companies is completely fucking unknown deserve the big bucks ... even most people in the street have internalized neo-liberalism.
Any way the argument for management salaries is generally "oh well their salaries are such a small part of expenses, paying them less doesn't make much sense since it doesn't affect the bottom line ... better to pay more in the hope that you get the better ones".
They're both antifreeze ;)
If you can only be mechanically competitive 1 out of X hours with a real money spender it's part time pay to win.
Hip replacement, heart surgery, cancer treatments, etc etc etc.
PS. I'm willing to entertain the notion of the benefits of paleo-like diets ... but blaming so much of the current generation's problem on carbs in general is just plain revisionist, my great grand parents already had bread and potatoes as staple food. What has changed is things like salt, sugar intake (soft drinks), trans fats, overeating etc ... if anything the percentage of calories from carbs might have decreased due to increased meat consumption.
Well that would be the instant death of the Nuclear industry then.
A big enough space elevator could move that many people permanently into space on a daily basis.
We've always had a significant percentage of arable land undeveloped and ways to significantly increase production ... the way out has always been abundantly clear, grow more crops. We still have significant amounts of undeveloped land, but the percentage is much smaller than in Malthus his time and production increases are stalling. They are both going to hit zero at some point.
Also there are additional novel problems like peak water, peak oil, peak fossil fertilizer and peak charity (a lot of countries procreating themselves into the abyss can't feed themselves). In the past feeding the additional masses never really relied on better technology, just better organization and use of existing and already recognized resources ... which might be also still for fertilizer (ie. better recycling of shit) but not so much for oil and water. We absolute need to invent new sources of extremely cheap energy in the future just to replace oil and to power desalination plants ... or we're fucked.
Basically a single solution has always kept the doomsayers at bay ... and that solution is running out of steam.
Only for the moment. Microsoft doesn't really care about PC gaming ... the decision not to backport DirectX 11.2 and to simply not work on DirectX 12 at all shows their intentions and it might bite them in the ass.
If NVIDIA and Valve decide to heavily push Linux/OpenGL things could go south fast for Microsoft. For instance NVIDIA could decide to make an efficient shim to use their graphics card from a virtualized windows client running on top of a Linux host ... at which point I could just run Windows for my legacy gaming and use Linux for my real gaming all without rebooting.
Only in the near future ... median wages can only fall so far before the majority of the consumer market for luxury goods implodes.
It's a bit trendy to hang the open source label on it, but that's TED for ya ... still there are differences between what was possible in the old days and what is possible now.
Publishing reproducible research wasn't really possible in the past ... other researchers could beg for all the lab notes, good description of the lab set up etc etc etc to be send by snail mail, but it couldn't really be published. Only the tiny and most of the time insufficient bit of information from the paper was actually published. Now publishing reproducible research has become possible ... unfortunately only a handful of people are doing it.
Depends a bit on the value of the collateral, if the collateral only covers a small part of the debt then the secured lenders can still be off far worse than the senior ones.
Huh? The Times owns the pension obligations and is less likely to go bankrupt than the new business ... it would have been far more shifty if the Globe had been sold to some shell company including the pension obligations.
Yep, the solution is that simple ... make them criminally liable and make shit roll uphill (ie. go after management). First suit behind bars is the first time they get serious about security.
Those computers should be set up to make sirens blare the moment they get a second network connection besides the internal LAN ... it should take intentional hacking to connect these computers to the internet or to connect a non-allowed computer to the internal network (normal computers aren't designed to be quiet on a network connection). It shouldn't be as easy as pulling a sticker off a USB/network port, or connecting your normal computer with internet into the internal network.
The problem isn't that "someone" wants to connect a cable to browse facebook ... the problem is that management wants to do it, without sirens blaring.
Give them a locked down laptop for a couple thousand dollar which can only log into the VPN for the plant and fuck all else.
When a market provides options then those options will be used for competitive advantage ... always online is a competitive disadvantage, prepare to see it not be a problem. Ubisoft recanted on the PC for good reason ...
Only Blizzard is the exception to prove the rule, they have the Apple like halo power to convince the sheep to ignore the cattleprods ... but they saved me from making a mistake and buying Diablo 3, so all's well that ends well.
WIth physical access and knowledge of the hardware sure it's extractable ... this is assuming there's no backdoor in the HSM, always a large assumption.
When you can't advertise with the non CC price there is no real use in offering discounts, easier to just pocket the money of the people who don't pay with a CC ... the CC industry in the US is a clear trust. The class action suit which allowed surcharges was a chink in the armour, but they quickly bought legislators and got that fixed.
Not necessarily seriously ... feminism is the favourite topic of trolls.
Bees are mostly weak to nerve toxins designed to kill insects, a big surprise I know.
So basically it sandboxes the sandbox, letting the app think it has more privileges than it really has?
In my days in university we didn't so much have weedout classes, but moreso classes people took for years in a row ... probability and statistics was one of those. Otherwise smart people can become surprisingly stupid when the questions are poised as puzzles about black and white marbles.