Why not just wipe the FLASH completely, then your battery will last 500x longer! You won't be able to do anything useful (which for most people does actually include Facebook)... but at least you won't have the odious, mind-numbing, soul-destroying task of plugging it into the wall socket every night.
The AES s:boxes already have an algebraic solution in themselves, as do every step of the process, rotates, xors, sums mod 2^32 etc. The problem is the combinatorial explosion that happens even over the course of one round when you combine all the operations, meaning there's so many simultaneous equations to solve, you'd need huge amounts of plaintext and corresponding cyphertext to even establish a few bits of the key.
... can't tell the difference between humour and reality.
Torvalds said no while nodding his head yes is a JOKE people, not a fucking admission. Please, save the tinfoil paranoia for Reddit, and keep the serious tech discussions here.
And if *everyone* simply opted out, it wouldn't make a damn of difference, as the Government would merely have a very cheap and up-to-date census of everyone in the UK. But no, you have to be fucking "precious" about it. You are exactly the kind of person who shouldn't be looking at porn, I can just imagine you in a darkened room giggling like a 6 year old while surfing the forbidden fruits. Man (or woman) the fuck up. Telling someone you like porn is not a sin.
> The only realistic solution to global warming is to bring greenhouse gas emissions, particularly CO2, down to a net zero level. Anything else is just window dressing.
So basically ban cows, because Methane is a greenhouse gas, and ban electric kettles because Water Vapour is a greenhouse gas? Would you listen to yourself? BAN ALL THE THINGS!!!
If I can't have a cup of coffee in the morning, or munch on a juicy steak, then what's the point of living anyway?
No not at all. The Court Order lists sites that can be blocked, and *dedicated* proxies that effectively point to the same place.
It does NOT give the BPI the power to "shut down any site it wants" and other hyperbolic statements that are being bandied about in the media.
Using Slippery Slope arguments is a nonsensical thing to do. Are you seriously trying to tell me that if they block some political activists site, he's not going to just register another domain and have the site back up in 5 seconds, and then scream blue-murder all over Twitter and Reddit ?
Let's stick to the facts. The BPI are playing whack-a-mole, and right now they have a considerably bigger "whacker" than in the past. Is it going to inconvenience some cheap bastards who want fr33 st00f ? Possibly. Is it the "end of the Internet as we know it, police state, 1984, dystopian nightmare etc etc". Fuck off, seriously.
Insightful comment, but about 20 years too late. Everything you accuse Google Glass of encouraging has already happened with smartphones.
People you are physically talking to will put YOU on hold while they read that "oh so important" Facebook message.
A group of teens meeting for the evening requires only a table, chairs and a 4-gang socket to charge their bloody devices on. They'll happily sit there for hours at a time NOT looking at each other, but at their iPads.
Idiots in restaurants who HAVE to photograph every starter, main course and sweet and then rush to post them on Facebook, while the meal is still in progress.
People who will happily spend hundreds of dollars on the latest iBrick, not because it's technically superior, but because it will make them "look good" in the coffee shop.
We have reached the most technically "social" generation, and yet at the same time, are the most anti-social bunch of cunts you could ever wish to meet.
And now we'll have to contend with them constantly squinting at their own foreheads, when they should be concentrating on things like driving, or walking in a straight line, or heaven forbid, fucking TALKING to the person they are with.
So like I said, no use in closing the barn door now, the horse has already bolted, careened off down the village and was last seen heading towards the knackers yard.
No, it's not the principle of the thing, everything is in the implementation.
If you say Microsoft is looking at your URLS and reading "https://somesite.com/?user=joe&pass=123 then you're a fucking idiot for sending credentials in cleartext in a GET call.
If you say Microsoft is looking at your URLS and reading "https://somesite.com" ONLY, and that the actual credentials are contained in an encrypted POST call that they're not even requesting (they're using HEAD), then that's an entirely different kettle of fish.
NOTHING secure is being leaked, this is pure hyperbole on your part, using an example designed to scare an average user, but completely nonsensical to anyone who actually works on the web. Nothing more.
Isn't this just destined to go the same way as any popular movie torrent ? An initial flurry of peers and seeds, with the seeds pumping out tons of bits, 99% of peers leeching and giving nothing back, and after a couple of weeks the torrent is good as dead, because there's one seed left who's never online, and only has 99% of the movie anyway ?
With bitcoin, I can understand the incentive, however small, of winning the lottery and actually mining a coin. With a system with is a glorified DHT for DNS addresses, what exactly is the incentive for users to contribute ? Or is it going to be yet another onion / I2P thing, full of "hype" but no substance because there simply aren't enough users to support the thing ?
Let me know when I can exchange a Bitcoin for a McDonalds.
Right now, the only thing it is being exchanged for is illegal drugs / services, virtual services such as server hosting etc, and exchanges into a REAL currency such as USD, which can be used for myriad legal purposes not tied to an online realm - such as buying a burger.
Careful, the 180 day rule applies to UNOPENED emails only, and requires a warrant.
OPENED mail can be viewed with just an Administrative Subpoena, and requires no warrant or court intervention / approval.
However, whether they use a court-issued warrant OR an Administrative Subpoena, it must be in connection with a currently ongoing investigation. They haven't written 330 million subpoenas for every man woman and child in the US (nor are renewing those documents every 180 days).
Hence, they are NOT "spying" on every email ever sent by anyone in the US. The title is hyperbole, and the tin-foil brigade lap this shit up, regardless of the actual facts.
Unless you had 6 independent disk controllers for those 6 disks, what exactly would be the point ?
You remind me of the old adage about a PHB who discovers the *nix* priority command, and decides to make everything priority 1, so that "everything will run faster".
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what sort of techno geek uses the same device for 400 years and doesn't even update the OS?
Anyone using GNU HURD?
Eccleston *was* asked, the prick just decided to do a Tom Baker 25 years on ... maybe we'll see him in the 75th ...
Why not just wipe the FLASH completely, then your battery will last 500x longer! You won't be able to do anything useful (which for most people does actually include Facebook) ... but at least you won't have the odious, mind-numbing, soul-destroying task of plugging it into the wall socket every night.
> Filezilla does not save site passwords encrypted on your system
Because having the decryption keys on the very same machine is SO MUCH SAFER !!!
> source code floating around the internet October the 13th
Adobe have source code for a Time Machine ?
The AES s:boxes already have an algebraic solution in themselves, as do every step of the process, rotates, xors, sums mod 2^32 etc. The problem is the combinatorial explosion that happens even over the course of one round when you combine all the operations, meaning there's so many simultaneous equations to solve, you'd need huge amounts of plaintext and corresponding cyphertext to even establish a few bits of the key.
... can't tell the difference between humour and reality.
Torvalds said no while nodding his head yes is a JOKE people, not a fucking admission. Please, save the tinfoil paranoia for Reddit, and keep the serious tech discussions here.
And if *everyone* simply opted out, it wouldn't make a damn of difference, as the Government would merely have a very cheap and up-to-date census of everyone in the UK. But no, you have to be fucking "precious" about it. You are exactly the kind of person who shouldn't be looking at porn, I can just imagine you in a darkened room giggling like a 6 year old while surfing the forbidden fruits. Man (or woman) the fuck up. Telling someone you like porn is not a sin.
The irony of someone talking about "taking back the Internet" on yet another thread about the "big bad NSA" ... posting from a fucking Google+ account?
Are you taking the piss, or are you really that fucking stupid?
> The only realistic solution to global warming is to bring greenhouse gas emissions, particularly CO2, down to a net zero level. Anything else is just window dressing. So basically ban cows, because Methane is a greenhouse gas, and ban electric kettles because Water Vapour is a greenhouse gas? Would you listen to yourself? BAN ALL THE THINGS!!! If I can't have a cup of coffee in the morning, or munch on a juicy steak, then what's the point of living anyway?
> Doesn't that worry you a little bit?
No not at all. The Court Order lists sites that can be blocked, and *dedicated* proxies that effectively point to the same place.
It does NOT give the BPI the power to "shut down any site it wants" and other hyperbolic statements that are being bandied about in the media.
Using Slippery Slope arguments is a nonsensical thing to do. Are you seriously trying to tell me that if they block some political activists site, he's not going to just register another domain and have the site back up in 5 seconds, and then scream blue-murder all over Twitter and Reddit ?
Let's stick to the facts. The BPI are playing whack-a-mole, and right now they have a considerably bigger "whacker" than in the past. Is it going to inconvenience some cheap bastards who want fr33 st00f ? Possibly. Is it the "end of the Internet as we know it, police state, 1984, dystopian nightmare etc etc". Fuck off, seriously.
Insightful comment, but about 20 years too late. Everything you accuse Google Glass of encouraging has already happened with smartphones.
People you are physically talking to will put YOU on hold while they read that "oh so important" Facebook message.
A group of teens meeting for the evening requires only a table, chairs and a 4-gang socket to charge their bloody devices on. They'll happily sit there for hours at a time NOT looking at each other, but at their iPads.
Idiots in restaurants who HAVE to photograph every starter, main course and sweet and then rush to post them on Facebook, while the meal is still in progress.
People who will happily spend hundreds of dollars on the latest iBrick, not because it's technically superior, but because it will make them "look good" in the coffee shop.
We have reached the most technically "social" generation, and yet at the same time, are the most anti-social bunch of cunts you could ever wish to meet.
And now we'll have to contend with them constantly squinting at their own foreheads, when they should be concentrating on things like driving, or walking in a straight line, or heaven forbid, fucking TALKING to the person they are with.
So like I said, no use in closing the barn door now, the horse has already bolted, careened off down the village and was last seen heading towards the knackers yard.
I'm pretty sure the fractions of Islamic radicals comes AFTER the blowing each other up bit ...
Yes, "unlimited" doesn't exist because there are a finite amount of atoms in the universe.
As opposed to burning 1000s of megawatts of energy the world doesn't have, sure.
Maybe in 30 years an iPad will be useful for something more than Candy Crush Saga ... but I doubt it.
No, it's not the principle of the thing, everything is in the implementation. If you say Microsoft is looking at your URLS and reading "https://somesite.com/?user=joe&pass=123 then you're a fucking idiot for sending credentials in cleartext in a GET call. If you say Microsoft is looking at your URLS and reading "https://somesite.com" ONLY, and that the actual credentials are contained in an encrypted POST call that they're not even requesting (they're using HEAD), then that's an entirely different kettle of fish. NOTHING secure is being leaked, this is pure hyperbole on your part, using an example designed to scare an average user, but completely nonsensical to anyone who actually works on the web. Nothing more.
Well that really depends if the affected sites are #1 to #50 or #99950 to #99999 now doesn't it ?
Isn't this just destined to go the same way as any popular movie torrent ? An initial flurry of peers and seeds, with the seeds pumping out tons of bits, 99% of peers leeching and giving nothing back, and after a couple of weeks the torrent is good as dead, because there's one seed left who's never online, and only has 99% of the movie anyway ?
With bitcoin, I can understand the incentive, however small, of winning the lottery and actually mining a coin. With a system with is a glorified DHT for DNS addresses, what exactly is the incentive for users to contribute ? Or is it going to be yet another onion / I2P thing, full of "hype" but no substance because there simply aren't enough users to support the thing ?
What good are traceable transactions, if you don't know WHO made them.
A hashed address doesn't identify anybody, that's kind of the point of Bitcoin. You know exactly which transactions were made, but not who owns them.
Let me know when I can exchange a Bitcoin for a McDonalds.
Right now, the only thing it is being exchanged for is illegal drugs / services, virtual services such as server hosting etc, and exchanges into a REAL currency such as USD, which can be used for myriad legal purposes not tied to an online realm - such as buying a burger.
Careful, the 180 day rule applies to UNOPENED emails only, and requires a warrant.
OPENED mail can be viewed with just an Administrative Subpoena, and requires no warrant or court intervention / approval.
However, whether they use a court-issued warrant OR an Administrative Subpoena, it must be in connection with a currently ongoing investigation. They haven't written 330 million subpoenas for every man woman and child in the US (nor are renewing those documents every 180 days).
Hence, they are NOT "spying" on every email ever sent by anyone in the US. The title is hyperbole, and the tin-foil brigade lap this shit up, regardless of the actual facts.
And this is why you are replying to posts on Slashdot, rather than doing drugs, booze and hookers on your private island in the Bahamas.
Why do you assume the kind of malware that displays a scary popup message about viruses would be running as root ?
Unless you had 6 independent disk controllers for those 6 disks, what exactly would be the point ?
You remind me of the old adage about a PHB who discovers the *nix* priority command, and decides to make everything priority 1, so that "everything will run faster".