Well, you may laugh about that, but in the past that is exactly what happened, and we try to cover it up now in scientific circles.
It took a religious liberation to stop people to adhere to ancient texts that could only be interpreted by priests. People started looking for the Creator by investigating the creation. This religiously motivated search has added tremendously to science. For example, the Frederik Ruysch collection in the KunstKammer in St Petersburg is from that period.
Alas, we like to think that science is "neutral", just observing and deducing. Any other motives are left out of the educational system. So we learn that Newton saw an apple falling and wrote his laws. And then deduce Kepler's laws from them. It actually was the other way around: Kepler thought that the creation had to be "harmonic" and therefore brilliantly simple. So planet movements could not be governed by more than second order formulas. That (and being brilliant in measurement of position of celestial bodies) led him to discover his laws, from which Newton derived his.
Now I am not in favour or against religion, but I am very much against rewriting history. Especially in science. Some problems are much easier solved with one school of thought than with another. For example, Pythogoras' theorem is easily solved with greek math, and very hard with arabic math. Even schools of thought that you might considered "flawed" can accidentally yield insightful results. Suppressing any school of thought in science is a crime to science itself, and making even making science into a form of religion (with believers in "neutrality").
You say it yourself: your crime is forgotten in real life. Only if one knows where to look and take a lot of trouble, it could be found again. Not so with Google. Heck, I could just type in the name of a village and find the article describing a domestic murder from 20 years ago. That is way different. Information can hurt. Even information that is not true.
Off course not, but you must combine it with XML, and XSLT. What purpose does it serve to only write a program in SQL at run-time, and have it interpreted at run-time if you do not let the database server wrap the results in a human-hostile text format at run-time and parse it at run-time with the client? Especially if all the object-oriented techniques now make it possible to have enough separation to request the person details at index locations 3, 17 and 173?
If you program blind-panic-style, I can imagine that you fire a zillion overly complicated queries at a server. But if your code is even halfway organized, ISAM-style requests (sorry the buzzword is "NOSQL" these days) work faster, are easier to understand and maintain, and support optimizations like caching out of the box.
They already did that. If you followed the standard, you were eligible for this "randomness". Only if you new what secret code to use, you got in front of the ignorant.
Anything but "the markets are not rigged" would gave caused a panic.
But an official regulating authority presenting itself as a complete idiot is not? Off course, they did that numerous times in the past, and always got away with it.
I owned a Seiko MessageWatch (see http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/t...). It was functional for about 3 years. Off course, a modern-day variant can be connected to a laptop or desktop computer to upgrade the firmware, which the MessageWatch could not. So the idea is ancient, but maybe the time is ripe now.
On the other hand, My Nokia N900 was supported for about 3 years as well. Maybe people want to spend a lot of money on phones, but I doubt if they want to spend that much money on a watch that is already obsolete when you open the package.
I really don't know. Maybe some sex line operator can inform you? Given their abundance, I think enough people like to be fooled.
What is more scary is that this can be used on people who just don't know any better and react to instincts. In other words: babies. Would a baby accept a robot nanny as its mum in the future?
Now I know for sure. The world has gone mad. Should I tell my neighbours that the seeds of my vegetable garden are subject to the General Plant Licence?
You can even get higher if you use staged balloons. At some point, the cable gets too heavy to support its own weight. If you use multiple stages in the cable, you can make it much longer and therefore catch more wind. I don't know what the optimum altitude for such a balloon is (at some point the reduced air density would make the efficiency decrease with altitude). This principle was already demonstrated with staged sailplanes.
So there's your attack vector. Note that you may heavily encrypt the output of all the input devices, but with your own device drivers or added hardware there is little you can do about replaying the input signals themselves. Or from "swallowing" the cards and transmitting all the PIN codes.
They don't survive the mail sorting machines. I tried. So when you use a wax seal, you will have to deliver the letter yourself. I admit, that is a good way to prevent the interception of mail as well.
Actually, they do surf the web (or did. I sure hope they fixed it). That is one of the problems with ATMs. The connection with the bank may be secured, but the devices are still attached to the big bad internet. So if you replace a device driver (or add your own piece of hardware), all communication channels are just waiting for you to be abused.
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Well, you may laugh about that, but in the past that is exactly what happened, and we try to cover it up now in scientific circles.
It took a religious liberation to stop people to adhere to ancient texts that could only be interpreted by priests. People started looking for the Creator by investigating the creation. This religiously motivated search has added tremendously to science. For example, the Frederik Ruysch collection in the KunstKammer in St Petersburg is from that period.
Alas, we like to think that science is "neutral", just observing and deducing. Any other motives are left out of the educational system. So we learn that Newton saw an apple falling and wrote his laws. And then deduce Kepler's laws from them. It actually was the other way around: Kepler thought that the creation had to be "harmonic" and therefore brilliantly simple. So planet movements could not be governed by more than second order formulas. That (and being brilliant in measurement of position of celestial bodies) led him to discover his laws, from which Newton derived his.
Now I am not in favour or against religion, but I am very much against rewriting history. Especially in science. Some problems are much easier solved with one school of thought than with another. For example, Pythogoras' theorem is easily solved with greek math, and very hard with arabic math. Even schools of thought that you might considered "flawed" can accidentally yield insightful results. Suppressing any school of thought in science is a crime to science itself, and making even making science into a form of religion (with believers in "neutrality").
At least, thanks to Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, we know that Earth is a Vega. Or has that theory been busted as well?
Ah. We have a new film title: The Resuscitator.
Finally a "slime mold" can be made by putting slime into a mold.
You say it yourself: your crime is forgotten in real life. Only if one knows where to look and take a lot of trouble, it could be found again. Not so with Google. Heck, I could just type in the name of a village and find the article describing a domestic murder from 20 years ago. That is way different. Information can hurt. Even information that is not true.
So if the NSA now knows of backdoors, it must inform the military so they can be patched, who will then be forced to publish the fixes. Right?
Is SQL really such a bad thing?
Off course not, but you must combine it with XML, and XSLT. What purpose does it serve to only write a program in SQL at run-time, and have it interpreted at run-time if you do not let the database server wrap the results in a human-hostile text format at run-time and parse it at run-time with the client? Especially if all the object-oriented techniques now make it possible to have enough separation to request the person details at index locations 3, 17 and 173?
If you program blind-panic-style, I can imagine that you fire a zillion overly complicated queries at a server. But if your code is even halfway organized, ISAM-style requests (sorry the buzzword is "NOSQL" these days) work faster, are easier to understand and maintain, and support optimizations like caching out of the box.
And in a hurricane, both fly equally well, but the chickens are better at landing.
They already did that. If you followed the standard, you were eligible for this "randomness". Only if you new what secret code to use, you got in front of the ignorant.
Anything but "the markets are not rigged" would gave caused a panic.
But an official regulating authority presenting itself as a complete idiot is not? Off course, they did that numerous times in the past, and always got away with it.
I owned a Seiko MessageWatch (see http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/t...). It was functional for about 3 years. Off course, a modern-day variant can be connected to a laptop or desktop computer to upgrade the firmware, which the MessageWatch could not. So the idea is ancient, but maybe the time is ripe now.
On the other hand, My Nokia N900 was supported for about 3 years as well. Maybe people want to spend a lot of money on phones, but I doubt if they want to spend that much money on a watch that is already obsolete when you open the package.
Yes they can. Especially the bad ones. They made cross site scripting into an art form.
I really don't know. Maybe some sex line operator can inform you? Given their abundance, I think enough people like to be fooled.
What is more scary is that this can be used on people who just don't know any better and react to instincts. In other words: babies. Would a baby accept a robot nanny as its mum in the future?
Now I know for sure. The world has gone mad. Should I tell my neighbours that the seeds of my vegetable garden are subject to the General Plant Licence?
That "fracking" takes too long. Would you settle for a tropical cyclone? The more equal pigs are working on it as you speak.
It sure looks like someone is trying to explain a housing crisis without even looking at how money is put into existence.
You forget that the USA is a capitalist state. You have the cheapest government that money can buy, not the best.
China is requiring Microsoft and Nokia to make promises on fair patent use
I think a few brain cells just exploded. What can possibly be fair about an extortion permit?
Indeed. Guns are not unknown.
Webmail loads slower?
Not that I am aware of. From the summary:
the Start menu will return to Windows sometime in the coming months
It appears that they tested it on a really slow computer. On my computer, the start menu appears just after I have clicked the button...
I think it will become an action series: the Six Million Dollar Yeast.
You can even get higher if you use staged balloons. At some point, the cable gets too heavy to support its own weight. If you use multiple stages in the cable, you can make it much longer and therefore catch more wind. I don't know what the optimum altitude for such a balloon is (at some point the reduced air density would make the efficiency decrease with altitude). This principle was already demonstrated with staged sailplanes.
Note that the cable might be ethernet,
So there's your attack vector. Note that you may heavily encrypt the output of all the input devices, but with your own device drivers or added hardware there is little you can do about replaying the input signals themselves. Or from "swallowing" the cards and transmitting all the PIN codes.
They don't survive the mail sorting machines. I tried. So when you use a wax seal, you will have to deliver the letter yourself. I admit, that is a good way to prevent the interception of mail as well.
Actually, they do surf the web (or did. I sure hope they fixed it). That is one of the problems with ATMs. The connection with the bank may be secured, but the devices are still attached to the big bad internet. So if you replace a device driver (or add your own piece of hardware), all communication channels are just waiting for you to be abused.