I know this may be incredibly ignorant on my part. Keep in mind that I do software for a living, and not forensics or anything of the matter...
But would it be possible to store a hash of a person's DNA? I know that people who run open source software typically check any sort of download for MySQL, PHP, or anything else for that matter against an MD5 string? Now, why couldn't somebody's DNA sequencing match against something like SHA1 or MD5?
I figure it might have to do with mutations / etc screwing up the hash generated. But isn't there some kind of hash that could compensate for that sort of thing?
I'm just wondering if there's a way of matching DNA without storing sensitive information like possible health defects, etc..
Personally, I would not mind something like this used for homocide or rape. I'm just concerned, like everyone else, that this will be a slippery slope towards other things.
You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake
You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else
We are all part of the same compost heap
We are the all singing, all dancing, crap of the world
You are not your bank account
You are not the clothes you wear
You are not the contents of your wallet
You are not your bowel cancer
You are not your grande latte
You are not the car you drive
You are not your fucking khaki's
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I keep a copy of Keepass with me on a USB keystick. It keeps all of my passwords in a secure place. Most of the passwords I have are 21 characters, generated randomly.
The only thing I have to remember is the password to get into Keypass and decrypt its database.
A mersenne prime is the easiest form of prime to prove (easy being least computationally expensive).
So right now, this is the largest proven prime number at this point in time. It is 1,000,000 digits larger than the next largest known prime number, (which is also a mersenne prime).
There very well may be a day where primes this large will be used for encryption purposes. But this may be a long way off.
Keep in mind, that so much of the underpinnings of today is based on mathematics from the 1600's to the early 1900's. The math we pursue today will most likely reach a practical application point next century.
My friend ran a pirate radio station for about 8 months, and had it shut down by the FCC back in February.
It's really regrettable, in the sense that the Mariposa, CA area had NO rock radio station in the area. The closest station was in Fresno, and didn't get reception well, if at all, in the area.
The station itself had a range of approximately 3 miles in any direction, which was enough for the town of about 2000 to be entertained. The only thing that was even close on the frequency was a spanish station, whose reception was incredibly poor in the radius of 20 miles from the town. Considering up there is a mostly white demographic (like 95%), I can't imagine any objection.
The thing is, creating a radio station, thanks to the FCC and government, forces the act into a business. This was something that my friend ran out of his house. He received no donations, just overwhelming community support, especially from the 700 or so high school students that had nothing to listen to on the air.
The crap part, is since that it's such a small town, there's no amount of advertising that would make up for the FCC fees alone. Therefore, Mariposa, CA is stuck with a country music station.
This story is just another one that ends up frustrating me in the end. Thank you, FCC. You properly ended up making free speech available and accessible to the upper class.
Is this to get users to do the testing, a subtle way of saying 'don't expect support', or simply a marketing ploy to generate buzz by making users feel 'exclusive'?"
Maybe it signifies, like in the case of my site Slashster, that it actually IS in alpha.
The problem, I think, is what companies consider to be alpha / beta / whatnot. Alpha is when a product is still in development / testing. Beta is when the project is feature complete, and all that's going on is bugfixing.
Sites like Friendster, Tribes, Orkut, Slashster, do not have a concrete definition of "complete". There's always more functionality to add, always stuff to incorperate, and is ever-evolving. Therefore, it never gets out of alpha / beta phase.
As for my site, as long as there's no true commercial interest within my work, it will most likely stay as "alpha." Not to say that people shouldn't expect support, but rather that they shouldn't expect things to necessarily work either;)
I wouldn't mind seeing systems like this implimentated in say, elected public offices to keep track of opinion areas, ethnic densities, crime rates, poll results, average pay. etc. To help them keep better tabs on what they need to improve and how to vote on what bill.
Thing is, typically the public views it that if you're spending large amounts of money on the police, that you're doing something to improve the community.
On the other hand, if you're spending large amounts of money on the elected officials, lots of the public will view it as waste.
As good as it is to know basic information about how people feel in your area, running your election / post based on opinion polls doesn't work. The moment public opinion changes on any issue, you'll be seen as a flip-flip with no sense of integrity.
When you run for office, you pretty much have to put all your viewpoints on the table already. You need a platform to run on. And all that research about opinion, etc should be done *before* you run, at the expense of you, not the taxpayer;)
To quote the poster for those of you too lazy to click:
So how can I be so sure about that Microsoft is using BSD licensed code? Well, the BSD license(s) require that the copyright holder is credited in documentation provided with binary distributions of the code. In their release notes for their Windows XP operating system, Microsoft credits a bunch of well-known copyright holders of open source products. It contains credits not only to the University of California at Berkeley, but also companies such as Hewlett-Packard and to individuals such as Luigi Rizzo and Phil Karn.
ESR, If you're going to be a proper advocate for free source, please be correct about the information you post. Otherwise, you're not much better than Tocqueville in that regard.
But in the case of having something asymmetric, something like this would be *incredibly* nice. I'd looove
for a free software package to integrate something like OpenSSL in, so that I could encode a column using a certificate variable.
NX-01? Is that a Star Trek reference? I always thought that Star Trek ended after First Contact. Damn... I'm glad they didn't drag that franchise out and run it into the ground...
PHP *can* run in a suexec environment. But to do that, you have to make your php run as cgi-bin.
This isn't exactly the greatest thing for performance. Not to mention having to put a !#/usr/bin/php on the top of each file.
I'm sure some mod_rewrite work could pipe all php file extensions to one script that would do a require on the file, eliminating the need for that string on the top. What a pain in the ass, though.
So your statement should read: wouldn't it be a lot more useful if they found an ingeneous way to have PHP scripts run properly with suexec and mod_php?
I, for one, would like that. It's shitty about how many hosting companies who run shared accounts make it easy for other people on the machine to sniff my Database server password.
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Social programs don't stop serial rapists / killers. I don't think the social program argument would work with all types of criminals.
But would it be possible to store a hash of a person's DNA? I know that people who run open source software typically check any sort of download for MySQL, PHP, or anything else for that matter against an MD5 string? Now, why couldn't somebody's DNA sequencing match against something like SHA1 or MD5?
I figure it might have to do with mutations / etc screwing up the hash generated. But isn't there some kind of hash that could compensate for that sort of thing?
I'm just wondering if there's a way of matching DNA without storing sensitive information like possible health defects, etc..
Personally, I would not mind something like this used for homocide or rape. I'm just concerned, like everyone else, that this will be a slippery slope towards other things.
Exactly the line I was thinking along. Good Fight Club reference, sir:
This is your life
You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake
You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else
We are all part of the same compost heap
We are the all singing, all dancing, crap of the world
You are not your bank account
You are not the clothes you wear
You are not the contents of your wallet
You are not your bowel cancer
You are not your grande latte
You are not the car you drive
You are not your fucking khaki's
Right after the Duke Nukem Forever port.
The only thing I have to remember is the password to get into Keypass and decrypt its database.
I knew the very first episode that these people were geeks when Bender was drinking liquid FORTRAN.
for x = 1 to 10000
print x
next x
No GUI will make things easier to learn it, and it's nowhere as bad as C++.
There's also a web based language, like PHP / ASP, or Perl. It's not hard to begin with, even though it can become more complicated as time goes on.
Proof of that will require a recalled grey market Pentium 1 with an FDIV "feature" added to it.
All math people wishing to prove / find your number must also "upgrade"
So right now, this is the largest proven prime number at this point in time. It is 1,000,000 digits larger than the next largest known prime number, (which is also a mersenne prime).
There very well may be a day where primes this large will be used for encryption purposes. But this may be a long way off.
Keep in mind, that so much of the underpinnings of today is based on mathematics from the 1600's to the early 1900's. The math we pursue today will most likely reach a practical application point next century.
But Pseudoprimes? Probability of primeness? Hah! You people cut corners!
It's really regrettable, in the sense that the Mariposa, CA area had NO rock radio station in the area. The closest station was in Fresno, and didn't get reception well, if at all, in the area.
The station itself had a range of approximately 3 miles in any direction, which was enough for the town of about 2000 to be entertained. The only thing that was even close on the frequency was a spanish station, whose reception was incredibly poor in the radius of 20 miles from the town. Considering up there is a mostly white demographic (like 95%), I can't imagine any objection.
The thing is, creating a radio station, thanks to the FCC and government, forces the act into a business. This was something that my friend ran out of his house. He received no donations, just overwhelming community support, especially from the 700 or so high school students that had nothing to listen to on the air.
The crap part, is since that it's such a small town, there's no amount of advertising that would make up for the FCC fees alone. Therefore, Mariposa, CA is stuck with a country music station.
This story is just another one that ends up frustrating me in the end. Thank you, FCC. You properly ended up making free speech available and accessible to the upper class.
*** END RANT ***
Phone number input for females only! Holy crap, that's a good idea!
Maybe it signifies, like in the case of my site Slashster, that it actually IS in alpha.
The problem, I think, is what companies consider to be alpha / beta / whatnot. Alpha is when a product is still in development / testing. Beta is when the project is feature complete, and all that's going on is bugfixing.
Sites like Friendster, Tribes, Orkut, Slashster, do not have a concrete definition of "complete". There's always more functionality to add, always stuff to incorperate, and is ever-evolving. Therefore, it never gets out of alpha / beta phase.
As for my site, as long as there's no true commercial interest within my work, it will most likely stay as "alpha." Not to say that people shouldn't expect support, but rather that they shouldn't expect things to necessarily work either ;)
Thing is, typically the public views it that if you're spending large amounts of money on the police, that you're doing something to improve the community.
On the other hand, if you're spending large amounts of money on the elected officials, lots of the public will view it as waste.
As good as it is to know basic information about how people feel in your area, running your election / post based on opinion polls doesn't work. The moment public opinion changes on any issue, you'll be seen as a flip-flip with no sense of integrity.
When you run for office, you pretty much have to put all your viewpoints on the table already. You need a platform to run on. And all that research about opinion, etc should be done *before* you run, at the expense of you, not the taxpayer ;)
Of course, I, with a name of DarkHelmet on Slashdot, should be the last one to complain.
Let's leave the proof to Physics:
One... two... three... *BITE*
............Three.
From ESR's journal: The point is this: Microsoft (legally) took BSD code, and the only way we know about it is through behavioural analysis.
I call Bullshit:
http://www.kuro5hin.org/comments/2004/2/15/71552/7 795/98#98
To quote the poster for those of you too lazy to click:
So how can I be so sure about that Microsoft is using BSD licensed code? Well, the BSD license(s) require that the copyright holder is credited in documentation provided with binary distributions of the code. In their release notes for their Windows XP operating system, Microsoft credits a bunch of well-known copyright holders of open source products. It contains credits not only to the University of California at Berkeley, but also companies such as Hewlett-Packard and to individuals such as Luigi Rizzo and Phil Karn.
ESR, If you're going to be a proper advocate for free source, please be correct about the information you post. Otherwise, you're not much better than Tocqueville in that regard.
Mysql has this already In the case of AES Encryption
Mysql has this already
But in the case of having something asymmetric, something like this would be *incredibly* nice. I'd looove for a free software package to integrate something like OpenSSL in, so that I could encode a column using a certificate variable.
Still, Microsoft is doing a good thing overall.
Or maybe I'm from a parallel universe...
PHP *can* run in a suexec environment. But to do that, you have to make your php run as cgi-bin.
This isn't exactly the greatest thing for performance. Not to mention having to put a !#/usr/bin/php on the top of each file.
I'm sure some mod_rewrite work could pipe all php file extensions to one script that would do a require on the file, eliminating the need for that string on the top. What a pain in the ass, though.
So your statement should read: wouldn't it be a lot more useful if they found an ingeneous way to have PHP scripts run properly with suexec and mod_php?
I, for one, would like that. It's shitty about how many hosting companies who run shared accounts make it easy for other people on the machine to sniff my Database server password.
Here is a copy of the exact same news story that does not require a registration link.
Stories like this are typically SYNDICATED, which means that you can find the exact same thing in 50 or so other newspapers, right?
Why, oh why, do people choose to link to a page that requires registration when it's totally unnecessary?
Finally, does this remind anyone else of the Animatrix, on how the skies were darkened to stop the machines?
Didn't blaster do something like this? It was an attempt at making the Windows morons not be able to go online...
Now all we need are the mac morons offline and, the net is ours again!
Yippie.
Intel's been telling me for years that I need faster hardware from THEM to get the job done...
You mean........ they were lying?!?!?
CRAP!
Tell that to the unemployed among the slashdot ranks.
I have one word for you:
DosBox