Correct. However, encryption is seen as a way around the net neutrality issue since the packet content is unknown. IPv6 adds encryption out of the box.
IPv6 was designed to be more secure and encryption is built in (IPsec). It seems that the best solution to the whole net neutrality issue is to encourage the transition to IPv6 as quickly as possible.
Imagine if the passphrase to your key was the contents of a large binary on your system. Anyone trying to break it would just see a prompt asking for a passphrase; they'd never expect to have to do something like 'cat/usr/bin/mplayer | decrypt somefile'. No, they'd just run 'decrypt somefile' and try to type something in when prompted 'Enter your passphrase: '. And good luck brute-forcing it; you it'll take forever to brute-force a passphrase that size (/usr/bin/mplayer on my system is 8195KB...good luck brute-forcing that).
It's a good idea but impractical. What if the binary you selected is patched or updated?
This wouldn't work for whole drive encryption either because accessing your passphrase would require decrypting the drive and your passphrase.
This is a form of security by obscurity which is generally not a good thing.
Unlike college, this is something they are forced to do and I think at some level they view school as a prison.
View it as a prison? Not necessarily true. I personally looked at school, especially as I got a little older, as a place to get away from my parents control. I had more "freedom" to make my own decisions at school. It was a much a chance for my family to get a break from me as it was for me to get a break from them. School also added a sense of structure and order to the days that I appreciated.
Of the four, Google seems to be the most limiting, at least on the surface. If I understand correctly, Google's offering requires the app to be written in Python and it denies some Python functionality such as file writes.
Amazon's offering, sitting at the other end of the spectrum, allows you to run a full instance of Linux complete with root level access.
The other two are not as confining as Google but more restrictive than Amazon.
On a side note, spam raining from the cloud has become a problem for at least Amazon. Some blacklists are blocking IP addresses owned by Amazon's EC2. If you want to run a mail server in the cloud, it just might rain on your parade.
I have the same problem. I came across the Eye-Fi recently and am seriously considering getting my parents one. It's basically an SD card with built-in wireless that auto offloads pics to the computer whenever it's in range of your access point.
Water vapor is a major greenhouse gas but that seldom seems to enter discussions of global warming. In fact, a number of potential "solutions" have water as a by-product. Do we really understand all the factors in global warming?
This lime idea sounds like another attempt at a quick solution to a long term problem. I fear the long term consequences will be worse than the problem.
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An aspect of the position Jobs has is the need to be ruthless. You don't get to and keep that position by coddling people. I suspect most of us would have ethical or emotional difficulties making the kinds of decisions Jobs and others like him need to make every day.
I agree that it would be difficult and a waste of money. We need to either make a concerted effort aimed directly and getting life on the moon if we are going to do it successfully.
I don't agree that populating the solar system is a good idea. We are lacking a lot of information to make that leap.
Lets look at colonizing Mars for example. Consider the limited resources here on earth. It would take a tremendous amount of resources to make Mars even remotely viable for humans. What kind of expense is that to life on Earth? Do we have the resources to sustain two planets long enough for Mars to become habitable? If we push off to Mars some quantity of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, that limits those resources here. We blame global warming on what amounts to miniscule changes in the concentration of those gases. How do we know that offloading those gases to Mars won't have some other negative impact here, perhaps to the vegetation at the base of our food chain? How do we know that that significant displacement won't in some way affect Earth's orbit or rotation? Or that the developing atmosphere won't have an effect on the orbit or rotation of Mars? When it comes to space, I've always found it funny that we tend to hear and consider only the positives with little regard for the larger impact.
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Correct. However, encryption is seen as a way around the net neutrality issue since the packet content is unknown. IPv6 adds encryption out of the box.
IPv6 was designed to be more secure and encryption is built in (IPsec). It seems that the best solution to the whole net neutrality issue is to encourage the transition to IPv6 as quickly as possible.
Imagine if the passphrase to your key was the contents of a large binary on your system. Anyone trying to break it would just see a prompt asking for a passphrase; they'd never expect to have to do something like 'cat /usr/bin/mplayer | decrypt somefile'. No, they'd just run 'decrypt somefile' and try to type something in when prompted 'Enter your passphrase: '. And good luck brute-forcing it; you it'll take forever to brute-force a passphrase that size (/usr/bin/mplayer on my system is 8195KB...good luck brute-forcing that).
It's a good idea but impractical. What if the binary you selected is patched or updated?
This wouldn't work for whole drive encryption either because accessing your passphrase would require decrypting the drive and your passphrase.
This is a form of security by obscurity which is generally not a good thing.
Unlike college, this is something they are forced to do and I think at some level they view school as a prison.
View it as a prison? Not necessarily true. I personally looked at school, especially as I got a little older, as a place to get away from my parents control. I had more "freedom" to make my own decisions at school. It was a much a chance for my family to get a break from me as it was for me to get a break from them. School also added a sense of structure and order to the days that I appreciated.
Only a broken analog clock is right twice a day. A broken electronic clock is never right since it can not display the time at all.
Of the four, Google seems to be the most limiting, at least on the surface. If I understand correctly, Google's offering requires the app to be written in Python and it denies some Python functionality such as file writes.
Amazon's offering, sitting at the other end of the spectrum, allows you to run a full instance of Linux complete with root level access.
The other two are not as confining as Google but more restrictive than Amazon.
On a side note, spam raining from the cloud has become a problem for at least Amazon. Some blacklists are blocking IP addresses owned by Amazon's EC2. If you want to run a mail server in the cloud, it just might rain on your parade.
I have the same problem. I came across the Eye-Fi recently and am seriously considering getting my parents one. It's basically an SD card with built-in wireless that auto offloads pics to the computer whenever it's in range of your access point.
Water vapor is a major greenhouse gas but that seldom seems to enter discussions of global warming. In fact, a number of potential "solutions" have water as a by-product. Do we really understand all the factors in global warming?
This lime idea sounds like another attempt at a quick solution to a long term problem. I fear the long term consequences will be worse than the problem.
An aspect of the position Jobs has is the need to be ruthless. You don't get to and keep that position by coddling people. I suspect most of us would have ethical or emotional difficulties making the kinds of decisions Jobs and others like him need to make every day.
I agree that it would be difficult and a waste of money. We need to either make a concerted effort aimed directly and getting life on the moon if we are going to do it successfully.
I don't agree that populating the solar system is a good idea. We are lacking a lot of information to make that leap.
Lets look at colonizing Mars for example. Consider the limited resources here on earth. It would take a tremendous amount of resources to make Mars even remotely viable for humans. What kind of expense is that to life on Earth? Do we have the resources to sustain two planets long enough for Mars to become habitable? If we push off to Mars some quantity of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, that limits those resources here. We blame global warming on what amounts to miniscule changes in the concentration of those gases. How do we know that offloading those gases to Mars won't have some other negative impact here, perhaps to the vegetation at the base of our food chain? How do we know that that significant displacement won't in some way affect Earth's orbit or rotation? Or that the developing atmosphere won't have an effect on the orbit or rotation of Mars? When it comes to space, I've always found it funny that we tend to hear and consider only the positives with little regard for the larger impact.