Thermal / electrical variances are linked by virtue of the fact that resistance in the circuit will increase output heat. I'm not saying that the output of the (P)RNG is predictable in any meaningful way, just that it's not really a true random number generator, and more than likely indistinguishable from the output of/dev/random.
If anything, that's not a bad thing though. It means they're both "random enough".
What? No! They've already passed the bill, are lying about having passed the bill, and lying in the statement about not including this provision to enable lying in the bill they're lying about having passed!
The tools to do the job will be provided, but they will be tools which work within the framework of the company. Bigwig with an iPad who demands always-on VPN access to sensitive data will be promptly told that he can't have it. If that means I lose my job, then at least I'm not the one responsible for the loss (Primary Data Controller) when the guy leaves it on a train / in a taxi / at his mistress's house.
I have laws to follow. Data Protection Act is a big one. I need to prove that the solutions I provide to ensure data is secure is approved and / or certified for that purpose. Currently, only Blackberry provide a remote-wipe system which I can provide an audit trail for, therefore my corporate users get a Blackberry. End of story.
The same applies for full disk encryption of laptops. I need a solution which provides an audit trail, so when the I have to call the ICO because some twat left his laptop on the car seat while he went shopping and it was stolen, I can say "User had laptop with serial number xxxxxxxx, fully encrypted and secured as shown by audit log Y. No problems here, please don't arrest me."
I would LOVE to give them Android devices and iPads, if that's what they want, but my hands are tied. I need to show the guys who control the cell doors that I'm protecting the company's assets as best as I can. If that means the guy at the top needs a Blackberry and a Windows laptop, that's what he will get. If he wants something else, he can sign a waiver stating that he accepts responsibility for the data stored on those devices as per the Data Protection Act, or he can expect a lawsuit for constructive dismissal after I resign.
Whenever I get asked the question "Has your luggage been out of your sight for any length of time or handled by other people" I really have to bite my tongue to stop saying "Yes.. the taxi driver loaded/unloaded my luggage and I haven't seen it for the last hour or so".. That would be the honest answer, but unfortunately that would be the wrong way to answer.
Check out this story It's about dwarves being put in suitcases and smuggled into coach holds to steal from other passengers cases during the journey.
What's to stop one putting a little something extra in one of the cases?
My luggage doesn't leave my sight until it's checked in. Ever.
So you meet a girl on holiday, you get along, and end up at her house for some mutual enjoyment. Things to ok but not great, and you're gone in the morning. 3 months later she accuses you of rape, an EAW is put out on you, and InterPol turn up on your doorstep at 4am to put you on an extradition flight to Poland. You're not going to jail, you're not even charged yet. You know it's a bogus claim and / or a fishing expedition, but your life is over anyway ("Arrested for rape, you say? That certainly sounds like 'bringing the company image into disripute' to me! Revoke his ID and login credentials, mail him his P45") but it's done anyway. You may not get a trial by media in Poland, but you definitely will over here.
I can see how you think that this is a reasonable state of affairs. Totally.
... [W]e need to be tough on certain types of content, not because they're undesirable, but because they are illegal - and it was a democracy that decided it was illegal.
We already have laws covering the vast majority of crime committed over the internet; Fraud, libel, counterfeiting, unlicensed duplication, patent infringement, anti-social behaviour... They all exist without the internet, and we don't need new laws covering them. We need society to adapt its thinking to the new way of doing things, not shoehorn legislation through to restrict it.
ACTA is very long and complicated document designed to do two things; - Protect aged and archaic copyright parasites like record companies - Protect the disgusting profits of western pharmaceutical companies from being diminished by unbranded generic types from India et al.
Versace really don't care if you can get a £15 imitation of their latest £1400 handbag on eBay; They don't make products for the general population. Posh Beckham doesn't shop on eBay, and she'll buy the original whether there's a fake or not. Susan Stayathomemom is not a lost sale to them, and ACTA is poison.
An infinite crowd of mathematicians enters a bar.
The first one orders a pint, the second one a half pint, the third one a quarter pint...
"I understand", says the bartender - and pours two pints....
Why is an engineer working in a bar?
An engineer, mathematician, and a physicist are all 8 feet from a woman in the bar. They discuss the age old dilemma, and great source of nerd japery, of approaching an object by stepping forwards exactly half of the remaining distance in each iteration.
The mathematician concludes that after N iterations there will be 8 divided by 2N feet remaining which will never equal zero so he gives up on the spot.
The physicist opines that if each iteration requires a finite amount of energy then the energy expended in the approach will be inversely proportional to the distance remaining and gives up on the spot.
The engineer says "After 6 steps, it'll be close enough for all practical purposes."
You're right, I shouldn't have called you a fucking idiot, and for that I apologise.
Your opinion is wrong. You need to change it. That poem is obviously about the need to fight evil at the beginning instead of waiting for it to be Too Big To Fail. This was the right time to quote that poem. If you missed that, you're missing some important cognitive skills which will help you through life.
This isn't something on which you can have opinion; It is fact. That is the meaning of the poem, and it is not open to interpretation.
Jesus, which airports have you been to where there are 0-50 in a line?!
Every major airport I've been to has had upwards of 1000 people waiting at check-in at any one time. That's 5x more than most passanger plane's total capacity.
They go for planes because it's an indication that you are safe nowhere, and terrorists can strike anywhere, even your supposedly most secure transportation. It's psychological warfare, the main weapon in "terrorism".
... and please consider saving it for more extreme situations.
When would be appropriate, in your opinion? When the damage is already done and there's nobody to listen? The Nazi's didn't START by gassing Jews and invading Poland, you fucking idiot. The guy wrote the poem to illustrate that evil starts small, and needs to be stopped early. Are you seriously suggesting that we wait until it's too powerful to stop, and THEN start complaining about it?
I don't think I've ever read anything so blatantly stupid.
Hey, don't forget. Porn of small breasted women is illegal in Australia because it's counted as child pornography...
This brings up an interesting question: What counts as small breasted? If I film my 34A girlfriend and I getting all freaky, and airport security check my phone at security for the return flight, am I likely to end up in Australia's version of Federal PMITA prison?
1) Failure to capitalise first word in the missive. 2) Misuse of comma in first sentence. 3) Mis-statement of purpose; Mr Motti wishes to protect children from sexual abuse. The result of this is "Big Brother"-esque monitoring reminiscent of a totalitarian reigime. 4) You state that "... this will not only not help children, but in fact harm everyone, including children." This system would, in fact, potentially protect some children. If you are going to refute this point, you need to provide evidence. Pointing out that black-box recording of all actions on a computer is only useful as a reactive measure, not proactive (nobody's life was saved in an air crash by the black box recorder. It is for ascribing blame after the fact). 5) What is a criminal offence in the EU, and which law is he breaking? You need to be specific, so he can check the legality himself. More importantly, you are not a lawyer, so do not tell a politician what is legal or illegal. He has access to entire departments of lawyers, and will be damn sure that, should it get to that stage, he will shoehorn this scheme through a loophole so small you'd think it was made with an electron gun. 6) Empty threats. Nice.
In short, I think you mean well, but your execution is dire. Find more who think like you, nominate an articulate spokesperson, and have them do the talking.
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Air gap and superglue in the USB ports.
Oh, you want really secure? Turn it off and never use it.
Thermal / electrical variances are linked by virtue of the fact that resistance in the circuit will increase output heat. I'm not saying that the output of the (P)RNG is predictable in any meaningful way, just that it's not really a true random number generator, and more than likely indistinguishable from the output of /dev/random.
If anything, that's not a bad thing though. It means they're both "random enough".
Just how far up on the scale of stupid is she?
And that's on a scale from 1 to 6
The diagnostic criteria for reaching 6 on the Scale of Stupid is "Unable to count to their own score on the Scale of Stupid."
They funded the guy into office. He's not going to dick about them.
You knew it was coming
What? No! They've already passed the bill, are lying about having passed the bill, and lying in the statement about not including this provision to enable lying in the bill they're lying about having passed!
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The tools to do the job will be provided, but they will be tools which work within the framework of the company. Bigwig with an iPad who demands always-on VPN access to sensitive data will be promptly told that he can't have it. If that means I lose my job, then at least I'm not the one responsible for the loss (Primary Data Controller) when the guy leaves it on a train / in a taxi / at his mistress's house.
Here is the list of CESG approved products which meet the various requirements for data protection. Let me know what you find.
Right, here's the thing.
I have laws to follow. Data Protection Act is a big one. I need to prove that the solutions I provide to ensure data is secure is approved and / or certified for that purpose. Currently, only Blackberry provide a remote-wipe system which I can provide an audit trail for, therefore my corporate users get a Blackberry. End of story.
The same applies for full disk encryption of laptops. I need a solution which provides an audit trail, so when the I have to call the ICO because some twat left his laptop on the car seat while he went shopping and it was stolen, I can say "User had laptop with serial number xxxxxxxx, fully encrypted and secured as shown by audit log Y. No problems here, please don't arrest me."
I would LOVE to give them Android devices and iPads, if that's what they want, but my hands are tied. I need to show the guys who control the cell doors that I'm protecting the company's assets as best as I can. If that means the guy at the top needs a Blackberry and a Windows laptop, that's what he will get. If he wants something else, he can sign a waiver stating that he accepts responsibility for the data stored on those devices as per the Data Protection Act, or he can expect a lawsuit for constructive dismissal after I resign.
Whenever I get asked the question "Has your luggage been out of your sight for any length of time or handled by other people" I really have to bite my tongue to stop saying "Yes .. the taxi driver loaded/unloaded my luggage and I haven't seen it for the last hour or so" .. That would be the honest answer, but unfortunately that would be the wrong way to answer.
Check out this story It's about dwarves being put in suitcases and smuggled into coach holds to steal from other passengers cases during the journey.
What's to stop one putting a little something extra in one of the cases?
My luggage doesn't leave my sight until it's checked in. Ever.
So you meet a girl on holiday, you get along, and end up at her house for some mutual enjoyment. Things to ok but not great, and you're gone in the morning. 3 months later she accuses you of rape, an EAW is put out on you, and InterPol turn up on your doorstep at 4am to put you on an extradition flight to Poland. You're not going to jail, you're not even charged yet. You know it's a bogus claim and / or a fishing expedition, but your life is over anyway ("Arrested for rape, you say? That certainly sounds like 'bringing the company image into disripute' to me! Revoke his ID and login credentials, mail him his P45") but it's done anyway. You may not get a trial by media in Poland, but you definitely will over here.
I can see how you think that this is a reasonable state of affairs. Totally.
Now all you have to do is find a way to handle files with the same name without renaming them to something useless like a hash.
Sounds like you could use an index.
Wow, that was a difficult problem to solve.
... [W]e need to be tough on certain types of content, not because they're undesirable, but because they are illegal - and it was a democracy that decided it was illegal.
We already have laws covering the vast majority of crime committed over the internet; Fraud, libel, counterfeiting, unlicensed duplication, patent infringement, anti-social behaviour... They all exist without the internet, and we don't need new laws covering them. We need society to adapt its thinking to the new way of doing things, not shoehorn legislation through to restrict it.
ACTA is very long and complicated document designed to do two things;
- Protect aged and archaic copyright parasites like record companies
- Protect the disgusting profits of western pharmaceutical companies from being diminished by unbranded generic types from India et al.
Versace really don't care if you can get a £15 imitation of their latest £1400 handbag on eBay; They don't make products for the general population. Posh Beckham doesn't shop on eBay, and she'll buy the original whether there's a fake or not. Susan Stayathomemom is not a lost sale to them, and ACTA is poison.
An infinite crowd of mathematicians enters a bar. ...
The first one orders a pint, the second one a half pint, the third one a quarter pint...
"I understand", says the bartender - and pours two pints.
Why is an engineer working in a bar?
An engineer, mathematician, and a physicist are all 8 feet from a woman in the bar. They discuss the age old dilemma, and great source of nerd japery, of approaching an object by stepping forwards exactly half of the remaining distance in each iteration. The mathematician concludes that after N iterations there will be 8 divided by 2N feet remaining which will never equal zero so he gives up on the spot. The physicist opines that if each iteration requires a finite amount of energy then the energy expended in the approach will be inversely proportional to the distance remaining and gives up on the spot. The engineer says "After 6 steps, it'll be close enough for all practical purposes."
You're damn right. They haven't even tried to tack this on to the tail end of a Child Protection bill yet. Everyone knows that scheme works just fine.
You're right, I shouldn't have called you a fucking idiot, and for that I apologise.
Your opinion is wrong. You need to change it. That poem is obviously about the need to fight evil at the beginning instead of waiting for it to be Too Big To Fail. This was the right time to quote that poem. If you missed that, you're missing some important cognitive skills which will help you through life.
This isn't something on which you can have opinion; It is fact. That is the meaning of the poem, and it is not open to interpretation.
One would suspect that this would constitute a material change in the contract, and would provide you with an opportunity to cancel without penalty.
Obviously you shouuld check with a lawyer first.
"A right to use the public roads is not a right to drive, but a right to travel along them in a legal manner."
Guess what? Most major roads prohibit travel by foot or non-motorized vehicles, especially interstates.
Which makes your entire argument moot.
You're arguing a point of logic against a point of law.
You're obviously not a lawyer.
Jesus, which airports have you been to where there are 0-50 in a line?!
Every major airport I've been to has had upwards of 1000 people waiting at check-in at any one time. That's 5x more than most passanger plane's total capacity.
They go for planes because it's an indication that you are safe nowhere, and terrorists can strike anywhere, even your supposedly most secure transportation. It's psychological warfare, the main weapon in "terrorism".
... and please consider saving it for more extreme situations.
When would be appropriate, in your opinion? When the damage is already done and there's nobody to listen? The Nazi's didn't START by gassing Jews and invading Poland, you fucking idiot. The guy wrote the poem to illustrate that evil starts small, and needs to be stopped early. Are you seriously suggesting that we wait until it's too powerful to stop, and THEN start complaining about it?
I don't think I've ever read anything so blatantly stupid.
Ron Paul has made himself unsupportable through his insane economic policies.
Can't we have some sensible politicians, please?
Hey, don't forget. Porn of small breasted women is illegal in Australia because it's counted as child pornography...
This brings up an interesting question: What counts as small breasted? If I film my 34A girlfriend and I getting all freaky, and airport security check my phone at security for the return flight, am I likely to end up in Australia's version of Federal PMITA prison?
but how is this "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters."
/. .
I already read CNN & Google News.
I already knew this.
I did not need to read this on
I can fix this problem for you!
Go back to the home screen and read through the stories that are posted. When you get to the headline for this one, don't click on it.
There! Much better, right?
So how is this tech news?
Read it again. At no point does it state "Tech news."
"News for nerds. Stuff that matters."
1) Failure to capitalise first word in the missive.
2) Misuse of comma in first sentence.
3) Mis-statement of purpose; Mr Motti wishes to protect children from sexual abuse. The result of this is "Big Brother"-esque monitoring reminiscent of a totalitarian reigime.
4) You state that "... this will not only not help children, but in fact harm everyone, including children." This system would, in fact, potentially protect some children. If you are going to refute this point, you need to provide evidence. Pointing out that black-box recording of all actions on a computer is only useful as a reactive measure, not proactive (nobody's life was saved in an air crash by the black box recorder. It is for ascribing blame after the fact).
5) What is a criminal offence in the EU, and which law is he breaking? You need to be specific, so he can check the legality himself. More importantly, you are not a lawyer, so do not tell a politician what is legal or illegal. He has access to entire departments of lawyers, and will be damn sure that, should it get to that stage, he will shoehorn this scheme through a loophole so small you'd think it was made with an electron gun.
6) Empty threats. Nice.
In short, I think you mean well, but your execution is dire. Find more who think like you, nominate an articulate spokesperson, and have them do the talking.