There exist a wide variety of doors and locks that are immune to any lock picks, bump keys, or any other shenanigans random 12 year-olds can discover on the internet.
Even a regular lock will have obvious signs of being picked, bumped, etc.
The underlying principal of needing a unique physical object is sound. Implementations vary in the level of security they afford.
The underlying principal of automatically and wireless sending unique data to a reader is not sound. A copied key card will leave no trace of having been used in a forceful manner.
Wireless entry systems - be they bluetooth, rfid, whatever, are subject to terrible, terrible security problems.
Your rfid keycard can be scanned and cloned by someone staking out your house. Then when you're at work, they can get in with no force, take their time, and loot everything you own.
All without your keycard having ever been out of your possession.
Is slashdot so full of socially and practically inept failures that we need to discuss how to hold keys?
You put keys on a keyring. If you have a lot of keys, you have separate keyrings. [My Keys], [Work Keys]. Have even more? [My Keys], [Work Keys], [My Keys I Don't Use Much].
Keyrings stay in your front pocket. Keyrings should not be attached to backpacks, belt loops, or anything else that results in them being exposed or visible.
Carry [My Keys] with you all the time. Carry [Work Keys] when going to work. Need to always have access? Keep duplicates in a place secured by [My Keys], such as your car. Carry [My Keys I Don't Use Much] only when necessary.
Worried about losing keys? That's what locksmiths are for. In fact, there's a wide range of real-world crafts and services that can solve just about every problem you, the anxious, paranoid, hypochondriac nerd can dream up.
You do not want a skeleton key. You do not want something digital to replace your keys. You do not need technology to solve this non-problem.
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; [b]nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself[/b], nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
How do you maintain a business model built on the exclusive right to copy information in world where everything is a infinitely copied and copyable? It's like trying to legislate and sell access to saltwater while floating on a raft in the middle of the pacific.
It's more like trying to sell bottled saltwater while floating on a raft in the middle of the ocean. Anyone's free to take what they want from the ocean, but they risk being singled out by the sharks (lawyers, with freaking laser beams).
Speaking of Jon Stewart... how do they have Glen Beck and Sarah Palin on this list, but not Jon Stewart?
Jon Stewart is only popular amongst high, college-aged kids who don't even realize that there were other hosts of The Daily Show before him. And he was eclipsed in popularity by Steven Colbert long ago.
The gp said that Jon Stewart claimed "The Daily Show is as absurd and farcical as it's been since Day 1.".
This is bullshit. The Daily Show has tried to get taken more seriously in recent years. They need to have some "serious time" once in a while (typically when Stewart goes off on a rant, or has a serious guest) in order to differentiate The Daily Show from The Colbert Report.
Jon Stewart is being pushed out of his comfort zone and people are making him out to be an intellectual when he isn't. The irony is that Colbert has more of that background than Stewart, yet Colbert insists on parodying the right so hard that he's merely a self-parody of the left's "educated" and "tolerant" views of "lol the right is retarded lol lol".
Symantec will more than likely manage to screw this up just like they screw everything else up. Seriously, once upon a time their virus stuff was good. Now, you've gotta jump through hoops to remove it...
Symantec has always made great virus stuff. That shit fucks up a system to no end, and is hell to cleanly remove.
Their anti-virus stuff on the other hand, has always been shit. It fucks up a system to no end, and is hell to cleanly remove, and doesn't do it's job.
In fact any user can install standalone apps that does not come from the Mothership (a.k.a. App Store). iPhone OS supports localstorage and offline mode for HTML5/JS applications that can have their own space on the home screen and works without any browser.
Too bad HTML5 and Javascript are, you know, MARKUP and SCRIPTING languages, not PROGRAMMING languages.
There is no such thing as an HTML5 application or a Javascript application.
A cop can only fucking stop you for committing a crime. The most common reason to be stopped, by far, is a moving violation.
If you are operating a motor vehicle in any of the 50 states, you are required to have a valid driver's license which also serves as valid identification. Not carrying a valid license while driving is an arrestable offense in and of itself.
Legal or not, you're going to jail, as you should be, under the current state and federal laws.
North Korea has the air defense to shoot down our aircraft. So does China, with a few more thousand miles of hostile territory to navigate. An unmanned non-nuclear weapon with quick strike capability would be useful there. I don't think we can afford it, but that's another story.
Did you forget that we already have missiles with pinpoint accuracy that pretty much can't be shot down?
We don't need to send in planes to hit shit.
When we do it (instead of a missile), we do it because it's cheaper and because we want to keep the option to abort until the last second (and have nothing fall into enemy hands, and have no explosion in the atmosphere for all to see).
This new idea doesn't give you the option to pull out quietly a few seconds before. It's also fuck all expensive.
Existing ballistic missiles and conventional strikes make a lot more sense.
The goal is to get this new system to cost less than current ballistic missiles. I don't think they'll do it to a degree that frequently presents itself as an option between planes and ballistic missiles.
The point of this weapon is not to protect our planes, or improve upon our success with existing ballistic missiles, or to have a quicker response time.
The point of this weapon is to get the accuracy (so as to blow shit up), the size and speed (so as to not be shot down), and the cost (so as to be more trigger happy) to a point where you can justify putting a cheapo explosive on a long range missile and do a small strike.
Russian leaders complained that the technology could increase the risk of a nuclear war, because Russia would not know if the missiles carried nuclear warheads or conventional ones.
How exactly were the scientists exonerated? Seems to me the emails still said what they said, and they still did what they did, despite the cursory report, headed by people who stand to make gobs of money off of climate change legislation, that focused only on the statistics performed on the presented data.
Ever been pulling a trailer during some rain and had the light turn yellow when you're 50' from the crosswalk? Good luck stopping in time. At 30 mph you're covering ~45 feet per second.
Protip: 15 miles per hour = 22 feet per second. Exactly.
But the exact same frames are flashed multiple times because the original was shot at 24 frames per second... 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3... so if you can see any flicker in a normal movie then in a 3d movie what you see is stop motion. Anything static or barely moving looks great, but anything moving is frozen in place 2/3 of the time and in motion 1/3 of the time. This is what causes 'real 3d' movies to look so weird and jittery.
It's worse than that.
In a 2 "frame" sequence 1 1 1 2 2 2 the motion only occurs at the transition between 1 and 2.
It's still 5/6 of the time and in motion 1/6 of the time. And it's disjoint motion (left and right separate), so it's even shittier than that.
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There exist a wide variety of doors and locks that are immune to any lock picks, bump keys, or any other shenanigans random 12 year-olds can discover on the internet.
Even a regular lock will have obvious signs of being picked, bumped, etc.
The underlying principal of needing a unique physical object is sound. Implementations vary in the level of security they afford.
The underlying principal of automatically and wireless sending unique data to a reader is not sound. A copied key card will leave no trace of having been used in a forceful manner.
The problem now is that they simply don't build them like they used to.
Anything you get today would comes out of a shop in China with no documentation and lead-free solder.
Wireless entry systems - be they bluetooth, rfid, whatever, are subject to terrible, terrible security problems.
Your rfid keycard can be scanned and cloned by someone staking out your house. Then when you're at work, they can get in with no force, take their time, and loot everything you own.
All without your keycard having ever been out of your possession.
Is slashdot so full of socially and practically inept failures that we need to discuss how to hold keys?
You put keys on a keyring.
If you have a lot of keys, you have separate keyrings. [My Keys], [Work Keys]. Have even more? [My Keys], [Work Keys], [My Keys I Don't Use Much].
Keyrings stay in your front pocket.
Keyrings should not be attached to backpacks, belt loops, or anything else that results in them being exposed or visible.
Carry [My Keys] with you all the time.
Carry [Work Keys] when going to work. Need to always have access? Keep duplicates in a place secured by [My Keys], such as your car. Carry [My Keys I Don't Use Much] only when necessary.
Worried about losing keys? That's what locksmiths are for. In fact, there's a wide range of real-world crafts and services that can solve just about every problem you, the anxious, paranoid, hypochondriac nerd can dream up.
You do not want a skeleton key.
You do not want something digital to replace your keys.
You do not need technology to solve this non-problem.
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; [b]nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself[/b], nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
You're wrong.
Net Neutrality as proposed is useless.
It has giant loopholes to allow ISPs to do the same exact shit that got them in trouble in the first place.
And we won't be able to bitch because they'll just say they're Net Neutrality compliant.
http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2010/03/04
We're not going to be travelling to Mars until at the earliest the '30s, so there's no real rush.
"The '30s"?
I'm with you as long as we can bring back some slang from the 1930s.
Rube.
Trolly.
Aces.
Heater.
Murder.
Ring-a-ding-ding.
Kibosh.
Skin tickler.
Folding green.
http://www.paper-dragon.com/1939/slang.html
How do you maintain a business model built on the exclusive right to copy information in world where everything is a infinitely copied and copyable? It's like trying to legislate and sell access to saltwater while floating on a raft in the middle of the pacific.
It's more like trying to sell bottled saltwater while floating on a raft in the middle of the ocean. Anyone's free to take what they want from the ocean, but they risk being singled out by the sharks (lawyers, with freaking laser beams).
He got forked.
Speaking of Jon Stewart... how do they have Glen Beck and Sarah Palin on this list, but not Jon Stewart?
Jon Stewart is only popular amongst high, college-aged kids who don't even realize that there were other hosts of The Daily Show before him. And he was eclipsed in popularity by Steven Colbert long ago.
The gp said that Jon Stewart claimed "The Daily Show is as absurd and farcical as it's been since Day 1.".
This is bullshit. The Daily Show has tried to get taken more seriously in recent years. They need to have some "serious time" once in a while (typically when Stewart goes off on a rant, or has a serious guest) in order to differentiate The Daily Show from The Colbert Report.
Jon Stewart is being pushed out of his comfort zone and people are making him out to be an intellectual when he isn't. The irony is that Colbert has more of that background than Stewart, yet Colbert insists on parodying the right so hard that he's merely a self-parody of the left's "educated" and "tolerant" views of "lol the right is retarded lol lol".
Symantec will more than likely manage to screw this up just like they screw everything else up. Seriously, once upon a time their virus stuff was good. Now, you've gotta jump through hoops to remove it...
Symantec has always made great virus stuff. That shit fucks up a system to no end, and is hell to cleanly remove.
Their anti-virus stuff on the other hand, has always been shit. It fucks up a system to no end, and is hell to cleanly remove, and doesn't do it's job.
In fact any user can install standalone apps that does not come from the Mothership (a.k.a. App Store). iPhone OS supports localstorage and offline mode for HTML5/JS applications that can have their own space on the home screen and works without any browser.
Too bad HTML5 and Javascript are, you know, MARKUP and SCRIPTING languages, not PROGRAMMING languages.
There is no such thing as an HTML5 application or a Javascript application.
A cop can only fucking stop you for committing a crime.
The most common reason to be stopped, by far, is a moving violation.
If you are operating a motor vehicle in any of the 50 states, you are required to have a valid driver's license which also serves as valid identification. Not carrying a valid license while driving is an arrestable offense in and of itself.
Legal or not, you're going to jail, as you should be, under the current state and federal laws.
you can close and have your data deleted from facebook? do you have a list of detailed steps to go about that?
Log in, go to some link, hit this other link, confirm, and wait 30 days without logging in again.
After 30 days all you have to do is be naive enough to believe they actually did it, did it on all backups, etc.
My network isn't vulnerable because it's never fucking working.
North Korea has the air defense to shoot down our aircraft. So does China, with a few more thousand miles of hostile territory to navigate. An unmanned non-nuclear weapon with quick strike capability would be useful there. I don't think we can afford it, but that's another story.
Did you forget that we already have missiles with pinpoint accuracy that pretty much can't be shot down?
We don't need to send in planes to hit shit.
When we do it (instead of a missile), we do it because it's cheaper and because we want to keep the option to abort until the last second (and have nothing fall into enemy hands, and have no explosion in the atmosphere for all to see).
This new idea doesn't give you the option to pull out quietly a few seconds before. It's also fuck all expensive.
Existing ballistic missiles and conventional strikes make a lot more sense.
The goal is to get this new system to cost less than current ballistic missiles. I don't think they'll do it to a degree that frequently presents itself as an option between planes and ballistic missiles.
The point of this weapon is not to protect our planes, or improve upon our success with existing ballistic missiles, or to have a quicker response time.
The point of this weapon is to get the accuracy (so as to blow shit up), the size and speed (so as to not be shot down), and the cost (so as to be more trigger happy) to a point where you can justify putting a cheapo explosive on a long range missile and do a small strike.
Abandoned under Bush because
Russian leaders complained that the technology could increase the risk of a nuclear war, because Russia would not know if the missiles carried nuclear warheads or conventional ones.
Considered again under Obama because...?
How exactly were the scientists exonerated?
Seems to me the emails still said what they said, and they still did what they did, despite the cursory report, headed by people who stand to make gobs of money off of climate change legislation, that focused only on the statistics performed on the presented data.
And when someone extracts the keys from the PS3 all future blurays will refuse to play on it until you...UPDATE THE FIRMWARE.
Has anyone thought of how much more toxic all the e-butts on the ground will be than regular butts?
Surely you jest?
Electronic cigarettes are just vaporizers in the shape of a cigarette. They're reusable, essentially forever.
The author is attacking the American Lung Association for their agenda. But what's the author's agenda?
The author is attacking the ALA's stupid push to ban a healthier, workable alternative that would save countless lives.
The author is citing the ALA's agenda (i.e., $ SOURCES) as an obvious reason why.
Seriously, why?
I was going to post about how I'm a user and I have plenty of strong passwords memorized.
Then I remembered I was forced to change one of them recently.
One I haven't used since.
Then I realized I didn't know what it was.
Then I remembered it, and the wave of panic is over.
Who do I bill for the time wasted, the stress, etc.?
Ever been pulling a trailer during some rain and had the light turn yellow when you're 50' from the crosswalk? Good luck stopping in time. At 30 mph you're covering ~45 feet per second.
Protip: 15 miles per hour = 22 feet per second.
Exactly.
But the exact same frames are flashed multiple times because the original was shot at 24 frames per second... 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3... so if you can see any flicker in a normal movie then in a 3d movie what you see is stop motion. Anything static or barely moving looks great, but anything moving is frozen in place 2/3 of the time and in motion 1/3 of the time. This is what causes 'real 3d' movies to look so weird and jittery.
It's worse than that.
In a 2 "frame" sequence 1 1 1 2 2 2 the motion only occurs at the transition between 1 and 2.
It's still 5/6 of the time and in motion 1/6 of the time. And it's disjoint motion (left and right separate), so it's even shittier than that.