Here's a legitimate question though: how many disciplinary measures have actually been taken based on documents posted to wikileaks? Even if they disclose some great fraud or corrupt bargaining, what chance is there that anyone will act on it? Has anyone been taking action based on these documents to root out whatever corruption and fraud they've been posting evidence of?
Any university website to name a few. The same argument for most commercial/business websites. Or more generally, for any work-related website. There are legitimate needs for the pages that aren't entirely based on advertising revenue. There are probably many other general examples that I'm missing too....
Yes, this is definitely a valid point. However, QKD is right now at a level pretty far past quantum computation, so maybe there's hope that QKD will be widespread enough for normal users before quantum computation reaches the point where it can break heavy RSA encryption. I envision some sort of routing hub that can accept keys via QKD which then passes it securely to the client.
However, if QKD can't be managed for long distances (that is, if we don't find a good way to send it over long distances OR if we can't make reliable repeaters), then its use will be pretty limited. As mentioned throughout the thread, this is one of QKD's biggest challenges right now.
Right. And 640K should be enough for anyone too, right?
Qubits have already been demonstrated with great coherence times and we're now making great advances in fabrication so they can be scaled up to thousands of qubits and well beyond. There's no reason to believe that we won't have quantum machines with computational power meeting (if not exceeding, by a large margin) today's classical machines within a generation. Then again, if you refuse to seriously consider any technological innovation that takes more than a week to develop, maybe you don't believe in anything at all.
Obviously you didn't RTFA, which states EC cryptography is just as easily breakable via quantum computation (moreso, in fact, than RSA). The upshot: use QKD to transmit the key, then rely on classical encryption schemes (e.g. AES) for the message (for which QKD is nearly useless). Actually, it sounds perfect since QKD is generally considered unbreakable. Then again, computing power increases so quickly that I doubt AES will be secure for long.
Are you kidding? Newsflash: corporations are the government in the West. They've bought the entire US government which then proceeds to bully all their so-called allies. Look at how they manipulated Britain in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; look at how they coerced the Swedish government into taking down the pirate bay and Assange (and the same policy on copyrights has now polluted Canada too); look at how they imposed their war on drugs in other foreign countries, forcing them to obey the same anti-marijuana stands; and let's not forget about how they've been controlling the economy of Mexico and Central and South America. It's all because corporations have taken over everything.
It's not up to the governments to wise up to the corporations - it will have to start by the people to wise up to the government and make a stand against the way America has devolved and taken the rest of the world with them. And judging by the common levels of intellect in the US, that's not gonna happen... ever.
There's still the fact that IP data is available. Any user on the network will be broadcasting their activities making them vulnerable. Protecting users' anonymity is just as important as decentralizing any part of the network. In my opinion, this is the most important aspect of P2P that needs to be fixed. Not that I have any novel ideas on how that can be done....
Not to mention that it's a very small footprint: for N bits in a transmitted message, you only need log(N,2) parity bits to retain the same error correction/detection capability. You can pretty easily balance how robustly you want to protect your data with how much excess information you want to transmit.
Universities are about research, not teaching. The professor isn't cheating the students; the students just never realized that professors (most, not all) don't really care about teaching, it's just an unfortunate side-consequence of having an academia position where they can do their research.
That's how you get these canned exams and lectures. Why would the professors care? It's not their priority. Their teaching skills often have very little to do with their real goals. So hell with it.
Very good for beginners, potentially useful for more experienced users, but something that's not really critical for serious development. Honestly though, I'd see this as useful for something like formatting TeX input. For something numerical though where innocent errors can turn out pretty serious, this could cause a lot of headaches. Use with caution....
P.S. After writing this post, my 'o' key on my keyboard is overheating. I'd better not use it for a while or it might stp wrking.
I suspect your 'e' and spacebar are in greater danger. Including everything up to your P.S. and stripping the URL to plain text, including [go-oo.org]:
What you say is true if you're getting a Master's Degree. If you're getting a PhD (or anything similar), then your advisor is more important. Doesn't matter where the degree comes from, just how good your advisor and research records are. Publications, industry contacts, conference talks are what people look for then.
in any case, this is a win. these bugs are now known, and google/community will fix them within days if they haven't already been fixed (I hope Coverity had the decency to inform google prior to their press release)
But don't the carriers have a history of taking their sweet time before pushing updates down to consumers? Or is that just for major releases... hopefully they are more prompt with security updates.
Well they would have done it, but they're still trying to fix this.
And I'm sure Gates would say '3 significant figures is enough for anyone,' but I accept no fewer than 5 in which case a year is, more accurately, 364.24 days.
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Well I'd be pulling out 20 figures! But it'd be in Zimbabwean dollars, so I don't think it'd help.
Here's a legitimate question though: how many disciplinary measures have actually been taken based on documents posted to wikileaks? Even if they disclose some great fraud or corrupt bargaining, what chance is there that anyone will act on it? Has anyone been taking action based on these documents to root out whatever corruption and fraud they've been posting evidence of?
Any university website to name a few. The same argument for most commercial/business websites. Or more generally, for any work-related website. There are legitimate needs for the pages that aren't entirely based on advertising revenue. There are probably many other general examples that I'm missing too....
Yes, this is definitely a valid point. However, QKD is right now at a level pretty far past quantum computation, so maybe there's hope that QKD will be widespread enough for normal users before quantum computation reaches the point where it can break heavy RSA encryption. I envision some sort of routing hub that can accept keys via QKD which then passes it securely to the client.
However, if QKD can't be managed for long distances (that is, if we don't find a good way to send it over long distances OR if we can't make reliable repeaters), then its use will be pretty limited. As mentioned throughout the thread, this is one of QKD's biggest challenges right now.
Right. And 640K should be enough for anyone too, right?
Qubits have already been demonstrated with great coherence times and we're now making great advances in fabrication so they can be scaled up to thousands of qubits and well beyond. There's no reason to believe that we won't have quantum machines with computational power meeting (if not exceeding, by a large margin) today's classical machines within a generation. Then again, if you refuse to seriously consider any technological innovation that takes more than a week to develop, maybe you don't believe in anything at all.
Obviously you didn't RTFA, which states EC cryptography is just as easily breakable via quantum computation (moreso, in fact, than RSA). The upshot: use QKD to transmit the key, then rely on classical encryption schemes (e.g. AES) for the message (for which QKD is nearly useless). Actually, it sounds perfect since QKD is generally considered unbreakable. Then again, computing power increases so quickly that I doubt AES will be secure for long.
wow, I actually learned something FTFA.
1938 Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler
1939 Soviet Union Joseph Stalin
1979 Iran Ayatollah Khomeini
2010 United States Mark Zuckerberg
How could anyone forget Bush in a list like that?
Are you kidding? Newsflash: corporations are the government in the West. They've bought the entire US government which then proceeds to bully all their so-called allies. Look at how they manipulated Britain in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; look at how they coerced the Swedish government into taking down the pirate bay and Assange (and the same policy on copyrights has now polluted Canada too); look at how they imposed their war on drugs in other foreign countries, forcing them to obey the same anti-marijuana stands; and let's not forget about how they've been controlling the economy of Mexico and Central and South America. It's all because corporations have taken over everything.
It's not up to the governments to wise up to the corporations - it will have to start by the people to wise up to the government and make a stand against the way America has devolved and taken the rest of the world with them. And judging by the common levels of intellect in the US, that's not gonna happen... ever.
There's still the fact that IP data is available. Any user on the network will be broadcasting their activities making them vulnerable. Protecting users' anonymity is just as important as decentralizing any part of the network. In my opinion, this is the most important aspect of P2P that needs to be fixed. Not that I have any novel ideas on how that can be done....
Well that's the kind of karma you can only find on slashdot...
And it was because of this that Genplot was written (true story)
Talk about undoing your own work, huh?
Not to mention that it's a very small footprint: for N bits in a transmitted message, you only need log(N,2) parity bits to retain the same error correction/detection capability. You can pretty easily balance how robustly you want to protect your data with how much excess information you want to transmit.
How often is it that there's ever any one side that's always Right and Good?
Universities are about research, not teaching. The professor isn't cheating the students; the students just never realized that professors (most, not all) don't really care about teaching, it's just an unfortunate side-consequence of having an academia position where they can do their research.
That's how you get these canned exams and lectures. Why would the professors care? It's not their priority. Their teaching skills often have very little to do with their real goals. So hell with it.
I hope you don't have herpes.
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Among many others, I'm sure.
Very good for beginners, potentially useful for more experienced users, but something that's not really critical for serious development. Honestly though, I'd see this as useful for something like formatting TeX input. For something numerical though where innocent errors can turn out pretty serious, this could cause a lot of headaches. Use with caution....
I imagine { sed 'y/[A-Z]/[a-z]' } would work just as well
P.S. After writing this post, my 'o' key on my keyboard is overheating. I'd better not use it for a while or it might stp wrking.
I suspect your 'e' and spacebar are in greater danger. Including everything up to your P.S. and stripping the URL to plain text, including [go-oo.org]:
$ cat post | tr [A-Z] [a-z] | fold -w1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
371
230 e
182 o
160 t
138 i
117 a
109 n
Now I guess I'll wait until someone rails me with a more efficient solution...
Your right, it's getting old... someone should do it with their house next!
What you say is true if you're getting a Master's Degree. If you're getting a PhD (or anything similar), then your advisor is more important. Doesn't matter where the degree comes from, just how good your advisor and research records are. Publications, industry contacts, conference talks are what people look for then.
in any case, this is a win. these bugs are now known, and google/community will fix them within days if they haven't already been fixed (I hope Coverity had the decency to inform google prior to their press release)
But don't the carriers have a history of taking their sweet time before pushing updates down to consumers? Or is that just for major releases... hopefully they are more prompt with security updates.
You mean IPV6.1
Well they would have done it, but they're still trying to fix this.
And I'm sure Gates would say '3 significant figures is enough for anyone,' but I accept no fewer than 5 in which case a year is, more accurately, 364.24 days.