Now I would actually agree with them. I think you could find out.
Though the way to fool this system quite easily is make the entire drive appear like an encrypted file. That way they can't distinguish between where it starts and where it ends.
Then when asked to pull up the data they can't prove you one way or the other... (and you can pull up non-critical information)
Encryption is supposed to indicate random noise. But encryption in a grand sense is about writing, and rewriting data.
Let's say I have data which is number 2...
My key is 4,4,4
My encryption is:
Value1 + number -> * Value3 -> - Value4
So it is 4 + 2 * 4 - 4... And I get some number...
I do this multiple times and I get a bunch of other others. Put all of these numbers together and I get what looks like giberish (assuming the algorithm is good enough).
But here is the problem, underneath the data is a pattern. And the calculations are a pattern, as a result a pattern emerges. The pattern is called human language.
For example one strategy for passwords is to use random data. Then you have no patterns because the resulting encryption is random noise.
To give you an understanding, I deal with random numbers and I cannot use a computer based random number generator because they generate patterns.
I subscribe to a random number service which is connected to a quantum lab and space noise...
Now, to say if it is not random you can start cracking it. Guess what you are right, but what if your numbers have 500 hundred thousand places. Going in reverse to figure out what those numbers are is actually pretty hard. That is why you have these issues of finding prime numbers...
What I am guessing is that they are doing Gaussian analysis. It is actually quite simple, and not too hard to implement. If a data set is truly random then the statistics will have some basic indications that it is random.
Since encryption implements a lossless conversion then the data is not random. BECAUSE random data is just that random.
Though it would not be that hard to get around this because the statistics can be fooled. Actually would not be that hard to do that. Thinking about it, rather interesting problem...
BTW I do statistical and probabilistic analysis in a hedge fund...
Let me tell you about a situation. I was a speaker until recently. And around 98 I was giving a talk on technology X. Another speaker who was from the company who created the technology also gave a talk on technology X. Me and this other speaker knew each other, but we did not converse.
Oddly our two talks were VERY VERY similar. He in a private manner accused me of copying his slide deck. Since he was a more well known speaker and I a newbie it seemed all logical.
It was only when a good friend of mine who also worked at the company jumped in and said, "Naa, he would not do that."
Then when my good friend came later to talk to me he asked, "you did not copy, right?"
Answer was a definite NO! I did not copy. We just happened to be thinking along the same lines and came up with a VERY VERY similar slide deck.
In other words a fluke! And this is why I hate statistics and numbers without a thought behind it.
The difference is that we get a new sort of belief chain.
In the pub your degrees of freedom is 1 maybe 2, but on the Internet it truly becomes 6...
So while in a pub you will have people spewing theories, it will stay in the pub. Whereas on the Internet, a friend copies a friend, copies a friend and at the end we have the entire world believing things will come to an end.
In this stock market the reason why it was such a harsh drop was not because times were crap. But there was one thing new...
BLOGS... We have this huge echo chamber of how bad things are FROM third hand people.
If you were to say, "ok so how bad are times for you?" Most would say, "oh not so bad, but its really bad for some other folks."
Well do that enough you start wondering who these "other" folks are...
BTW I did buy heavily in this stock market drop! And I am actually positive for my ENTIRE portfolio for the year!
You do need to pick something that is relevant to the future. For example, let's say I pick graduate program in basket weaving. How much of a future is there in basket weaving?
Of course then the comment is, "but money is not everything." And there is the answer!!!
It really depends if money is important to you. To some people it is not important, and they could do a graduate program in watching how the slug crosses the road. This is not to say that watching a slug is not important. In fact to future society it is important since we do need to know everything, not just what is profitable.
Though if you say, "hey I want to make just enough money, then you should be very very careful on what you choose."
If you want to to specialize in financial engineering then you better learn how to trade! There are more than enough book worms in the financial industry. What folks now want are financial engineers that can trade or understand how to write profitable structured products.
BTW I work in the financial industry and I specialized in algo trading... I moved away from the structured product world. And I still use quite a bit of maths...
The case related to a company who used ODBC and whether or not they binded to MySQL. It was not the NuSphere case, but one that used ODBC and MySQL.
The question was if your application used ODBC and MySQL was it binding in the GPL sense?
The answer was in the fact whether or not the application could function with another database. At the time the result was that MySQL lost the case since the application could function with another database.
It was around that time MySQL GPL'd all drivers, and changed their syntax so that it would only work on their servers. That way it is a GPL binding as per the court case.
>The MySQL forking company is going to have to undo all of the anti-GPL ideas they've been riding, and convince companies that they don't need a commercial license. (Since it's not in the forking company's power to provide one.)
Actually I am going to sit back and laugh at this one. Because now they are going to have to eat their own dogfood. No short cuts!
My bet is that this will not work, unless of course they rewrite...
I have nothing against the GPL, I avoid it, but those who want to use it should have the freedom to do so. Just like it is my choice to avoid it. But the MySQL forking...
And here is the crux of the argument and why MySQL is doomed...
You see if you have a product that binds to MySQL you will have to GPL your product. Why? Simple...
1) All (most?) drivers are GPL'd. 2) The MySQL notation uses a specific parameter delimintator that is specific to MySQL. And a 4 year old court decision said that there is no binding between application and RDMS if the same code can be used on other databases. With the special notation, it is not possible and hence constitutes a GPL binding.
Personally I see MySQL falling off to the way side...
" With Windows this exploit can be used, but requires much more work and skill "
This is both an Intel and operating system issue.
I think the difference now is that Windows is pretty secure. And the effort required to break Windows is not worth the results. Whereas other operating systems have low hanging fruit and that is being exploited.
So I think it is time for the other operating systems to buckle their seat belts because it could become a rough ride.
I doubt it... If you limit copyrights to 5 to 10 years you will only put more power into the hands of the major labels.
Part of the major problem is marketing. Indie labels can't market like major labels because they do not have the power. What Indie labels hope for is that people will "discover" them out of pure chance, and it seems this is not happening. I can understand that because like the fat tail book was wrong.
What they have found in terms of Amazon is that indeed there is a long tail, but it is much thinner.
So by limiting copyright you as an artist need to make money quickly, and that means marketing quickly. Guess who can do that? The major labels, and not the indie labels...
Would this mean new artists? If you mean boy bands, and girl bands who would sell their souls for a single hit? Yupe you would get more of that. If you mean bands like the Rolling Stones? Nope, not likely...
Want to get more new music? Simple STOP BUYING THE CRAP MUSIC!!! It is really that easy...
The market is a reflection of what our buying habits are...
The problem here is probably one of process and not operating system.
One of the ways that I manage my systems is to create a zone where hackers may go, and not go.
For example, I use a good firewall. That firewalls is allowed to communicate to another firewall. Between the two firewalls is my take down zone. This means if they happen to break through the firewall all they will get are servers that can be taken down anyways.
These take down servers are virtual machine based. So if a machine goes down, who shives a ghit because you just shut down the VM, copy the old one and restart it.
The second firewall is a non entry firewall. That means there is absolutely no way at all to get through it from the outside. Only those behind the second firewall may communicate outside. And if I need to communicate to a trusted source outside the first firewall I setup a VPN server between the two firewalls. If somebody manages to hack that VPN server, you just take it down, setup new keys, restart and away you go.
By not allowing any communication into the second firewall you stop outside hackers. Then to allow communications from the inside to the outside you setup proxy servers that are trusted to communicate to the outside. Only those proxy servers may communicate with the outside world. Without those proxy servers the inside users are cut off, but you have created a wall where you can control the entries and exits.
1) I have lived and been in the US and understand your temperature issue. 2) Europe gets hot too, you know... Try France, Italy, Spain. And guess what, Italy is beside the Sahara!
The problem in the US is two fold:
1) They are way too fat! 2) They are way too used to air conditioning.
Think of it as follows, how come Mexicans seem to be able to live without air conditioning? Answer, they plan their life around the heat. Yes heat is bad, but there are reasons why the word siesta were developed.
I know myself I hate air conditioning, and I feel very happy in 35C degree heat. In fact I hate the feeling of air conditioning because it is a shock to my system.
Want to know something else, whenever I am in a hotel in Florida or Texas, I open the windows wide open and turn off the air conditioning. I am then happy as can be.
As much I as I do like Free Speech. And I really do, there is one thing that is happening to the blogging world that does need control.
Slander!
Yes Slander! I see it all too often in the financial blogging world (I work there) where people will say things without having any evidence.
Here is what he supposedly said:
The 31-year-old blogger's crime: falsely reporting that South Korea had barred banks from purchasing U.S. currency. The authorities said the blogger, Park Dae-sung, will find out his sentence on April 20 for posting the inaccurate story that prosecutors said undermined the county's credibility
That piece of inaccurate blogging is slander! He said something without having proof, and I for one think he should go to jail.
The blogging world is a good world, but bloggers should think hard before posting things like, "oh the DOW will reach 3000" There are people who actually believe this crap.
I could just as easily say the DOW will reach 20 gazillion, but it is a false statement and should not be said.
I hope more bloggers become more careful about what they say. And if bloggers are silenced for posting the truth then I for one will be the first in line to defend the truth...
>The fact that some "admin" abandoned a site, with open privileges to post on it, does not constitute theft.
The fact that some "home owner" forgot to lock the door to their house does not constitute trespassing!
>I manage servers and write code for a living, and while I'd put a stop to such practices on any site I managed, the use of the term "theft" is laughable.
I own a house and live in a house for a living, and while I'd put a stop to such practices on any property I owned, the use of the term "trespassing" is laughable.
Oh yeah not theft or trespassing at all...
I can't wait to see what the cops would say to that!
Yeah you are right, I have never been to "English Canada".
I only lived in Oakville, Mississauga, Fenelon Falls, Windsor, Waterloo...
And I have family that lives in British Columbia...
I have also lived in the greater NYC area, and North Carolina.
Here is what I found. People do not want you to consume beer during working hours. And if you visit the pub once too often after working hours you are considered to have a drinking problem...
What I am saying is that it is frowned upon to go during working hours to drink alcohol. And if you visit the pub once too often after work it is also frowned upon.
Though when people do go to pubs and bars they get rat a***d piss drunk, and I find that bizarre...
Whereas in Europe you can head over to a pub to relax and chit chat, in AMERICA (and English Canada) it is completely frowned upon.
I know whenever I am stateside and I order a beer I am completely out of the norm!
BUT yet when it comes to drinking while I sip my beer the others get piss drunk, do idiotic things, and generally make a complete a** out of themselves.
This begs the question, is the pub the problem? Or the fact that the culture in this respect has its head up its a**.
BTW I am European, grew up in North America, but now have been living in Europe for 15 years. And while Europeans have their oddities, this aspect of English North American life is really screwed...
I wish you were modded higher... The last sentence is oh so true...
>If anybody is switching away from MS, they're going to Apple.
And I know many Linux users on the desktop are switching to Apple.
While I would be willing to lay my hand in the fire for Linux on the server, I would not touch a fire with a ten foot pole for Linux on the desktop.
Three years ago I completely gave up on Linux on the Desktop. I decided to focus on Apple, and Microsoft. I have to be frank in that I have not looked back AT ALL...
As Eric Raymond says, "scratch one's itch" does not imply listening to users.
Put it as follows. We all drive cars, but using scratch one's itch it implies that we are all mechanics as well. And that is not the case, though it can be said that all mechanics do drive cars.
What the article is getting at is that you understand the user that you are empowering. In my case it is being able to understand the formulas and mathematics of the trader trying to define a trading system.
Every province has taken from other provinces at some point in history. Please study Canadian history. The idea behind the equalisation payments is to allow all of Canada to prosper.
Btw the Quebecois are Canadians My wife's family has lived in Quebec for 350 years. Can you say the same?If you can't the STFU!
Btw the trench are the first Europeans to live in North America (though Vikings) were there as well.
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Now I would actually agree with them. I think you could find out.
Though the way to fool this system quite easily is make the entire drive appear like an encrypted file. That way they can't distinguish between where it starts and where it ends.
Then when asked to pull up the data they can't prove you one way or the other... (and you can pull up non-critical information)
No...
Encryption is supposed to indicate random noise. But encryption in a grand sense is about writing, and rewriting data.
Let's say I have data which is number 2...
My key is 4,4,4
My encryption is:
Value1 + number -> * Value3 -> - Value4
So it is 4 + 2 * 4 - 4... And I get some number...
I do this multiple times and I get a bunch of other others. Put all of these numbers together and I get what looks like giberish (assuming the algorithm is good enough).
But here is the problem, underneath the data is a pattern. And the calculations are a pattern, as a result a pattern emerges. The pattern is called human language.
For example one strategy for passwords is to use random data. Then you have no patterns because the resulting encryption is random noise.
To give you an understanding, I deal with random numbers and I cannot use a computer based random number generator because they generate patterns.
I subscribe to a random number service which is connected to a quantum lab and space noise...
Now, to say if it is not random you can start cracking it. Guess what you are right, but what if your numbers have 500 hundred thousand places. Going in reverse to figure out what those numbers are is actually pretty hard. That is why you have these issues of finding prime numbers...
What I am guessing is that they are doing Gaussian analysis. It is actually quite simple, and not too hard to implement. If a data set is truly random then the statistics will have some basic indications that it is random.
Since encryption implements a lossless conversion then the data is not random. BECAUSE random data is just that random.
Though it would not be that hard to get around this because the statistics can be fooled. Actually would not be that hard to do that. Thinking about it, rather interesting problem...
BTW I do statistical and probabilistic analysis in a hedge fund...
I think that this is very dangerous...
Let me tell you about a situation. I was a speaker until recently. And around 98 I was giving a talk on technology X. Another speaker who was from the company who created the technology also gave a talk on technology X. Me and this other speaker knew each other, but we did not converse.
Oddly our two talks were VERY VERY similar. He in a private manner accused me of copying his slide deck. Since he was a more well known speaker and I a newbie it seemed all logical.
It was only when a good friend of mine who also worked at the company jumped in and said, "Naa, he would not do that."
Then when my good friend came later to talk to me he asked, "you did not copy, right?"
Answer was a definite NO! I did not copy. We just happened to be thinking along the same lines and came up with a VERY VERY similar slide deck.
In other words a fluke! And this is why I hate statistics and numbers without a thought behind it.
The difference is that we get a new sort of belief chain.
In the pub your degrees of freedom is 1 maybe 2, but on the Internet it truly becomes 6...
So while in a pub you will have people spewing theories, it will stay in the pub. Whereas on the Internet, a friend copies a friend, copies a friend and at the end we have the entire world believing things will come to an end.
In this stock market the reason why it was such a harsh drop was not because times were crap. But there was one thing new...
BLOGS... We have this huge echo chamber of how bad things are FROM third hand people.
If you were to say, "ok so how bad are times for you?" Most would say, "oh not so bad, but its really bad for some other folks."
Well do that enough you start wondering who these "other" folks are...
BTW I did buy heavily in this stock market drop! And I am actually positive for my ENTIRE portfolio for the year!
Well... I am not so sure right now...
You do need to pick something that is relevant to the future. For example, let's say I pick graduate program in basket weaving. How much of a future is there in basket weaving?
Of course then the comment is, "but money is not everything." And there is the answer!!!
It really depends if money is important to you. To some people it is not important, and they could do a graduate program in watching how the slug crosses the road. This is not to say that watching a slug is not important. In fact to future society it is important since we do need to know everything, not just what is profitable.
Though if you say, "hey I want to make just enough money, then you should be very very careful on what you choose."
If you want to to specialize in financial engineering then you better learn how to trade! There are more than enough book worms in the financial industry. What folks now want are financial engineers that can trade or understand how to write profitable structured products.
BTW I work in the financial industry and I specialized in algo trading... I moved away from the structured product world. And I still use quite a bit of maths...
The case related to a company who used ODBC and whether or not they binded to MySQL. It was not the NuSphere case, but one that used ODBC and MySQL.
The question was if your application used ODBC and MySQL was it binding in the GPL sense?
The answer was in the fact whether or not the application could function with another database. At the time the result was that MySQL lost the case since the application could function with another database.
It was around that time MySQL GPL'd all drivers, and changed their syntax so that it would only work on their servers. That way it is a GPL binding as per the court case.
>The MySQL forking company is going to have to undo all of the anti-GPL ideas they've been riding, and convince companies that they don't need a commercial license. (Since it's not in the forking company's power to provide one.)
Actually I am going to sit back and laugh at this one. Because now they are going to have to eat their own dogfood. No short cuts!
My bet is that this will not work, unless of course they rewrite...
I have nothing against the GPL, I avoid it, but those who want to use it should have the freedom to do so. Just like it is my choice to avoid it. But the MySQL forking...
And here is the crux of the argument and why MySQL is doomed...
You see if you have a product that binds to MySQL you will have to GPL your product. Why? Simple...
1) All (most?) drivers are GPL'd.
2) The MySQL notation uses a specific parameter delimintator that is specific to MySQL. And a 4 year old court decision said that there is no binding between application and RDMS if the same code can be used on other databases. With the special notation, it is not possible and hence constitutes a GPL binding.
Personally I see MySQL falling off to the way side...
Did you read the article?
" With Windows this exploit can be used, but requires much more work and skill "
This is both an Intel and operating system issue.
I think the difference now is that Windows is pretty secure. And the effort required to break Windows is not worth the results. Whereas other operating systems have low hanging fruit and that is being exploited.
So I think it is time for the other operating systems to buckle their seat belts because it could become a rough ride.
Too bad that you are anonymous because you are hitting the nail on the head...
I doubt it... If you limit copyrights to 5 to 10 years you will only put more power into the hands of the major labels.
Part of the major problem is marketing. Indie labels can't market like major labels because they do not have the power. What Indie labels hope for is that people will "discover" them out of pure chance, and it seems this is not happening. I can understand that because like the fat tail book was wrong.
What they have found in terms of Amazon is that indeed there is a long tail, but it is much thinner.
So by limiting copyright you as an artist need to make money quickly, and that means marketing quickly. Guess who can do that? The major labels, and not the indie labels...
Would this mean new artists? If you mean boy bands, and girl bands who would sell their souls for a single hit? Yupe you would get more of that. If you mean bands like the Rolling Stones? Nope, not likely...
Want to get more new music? Simple STOP BUYING THE CRAP MUSIC!!! It is really that easy...
The market is a reflection of what our buying habits are...
The problem here is probably one of process and not operating system.
One of the ways that I manage my systems is to create a zone where hackers may go, and not go.
For example, I use a good firewall. That firewalls is allowed to communicate to another firewall. Between the two firewalls is my take down zone. This means if they happen to break through the firewall all they will get are servers that can be taken down anyways.
These take down servers are virtual machine based. So if a machine goes down, who shives a ghit because you just shut down the VM, copy the old one and restart it.
The second firewall is a non entry firewall. That means there is absolutely no way at all to get through it from the outside. Only those behind the second firewall may communicate outside. And if I need to communicate to a trusted source outside the first firewall I setup a VPN server between the two firewalls. If somebody manages to hack that VPN server, you just take it down, setup new keys, restart and away you go.
By not allowing any communication into the second firewall you stop outside hackers. Then to allow communications from the inside to the outside you setup proxy servers that are trusted to communicate to the outside. Only those proxy servers may communicate with the outside world. Without those proxy servers the inside users are cut off, but you have created a wall where you can control the entries and exits.
Wait one minute PLEASE...
1) I have lived and been in the US and understand your temperature issue.
2) Europe gets hot too, you know... Try France, Italy, Spain. And guess what, Italy is beside the Sahara!
The problem in the US is two fold:
1) They are way too fat!
2) They are way too used to air conditioning.
Think of it as follows, how come Mexicans seem to be able to live without air conditioning? Answer, they plan their life around the heat. Yes heat is bad, but there are reasons why the word siesta were developed.
I know myself I hate air conditioning, and I feel very happy in 35C degree heat. In fact I hate the feeling of air conditioning because it is a shock to my system.
Want to know something else, whenever I am in a hotel in Florida or Texas, I open the windows wide open and turn off the air conditioning. I am then happy as can be.
There has to be a Star Trek episode here somewhere....
As much I as I do like Free Speech. And I really do, there is one thing that is happening to the blogging world that does need control.
Slander!
Yes Slander! I see it all too often in the financial blogging world (I work there) where people will say things without having any evidence.
Here is what he supposedly said:
The 31-year-old blogger's crime: falsely reporting that South Korea had barred banks from purchasing U.S. currency. The authorities said the blogger, Park Dae-sung, will find out his sentence on April 20 for posting the inaccurate story that prosecutors said undermined the county's credibility
That piece of inaccurate blogging is slander! He said something without having proof, and I for one think he should go to jail.
The blogging world is a good world, but bloggers should think hard before posting things like, "oh the DOW will reach 3000" There are people who actually believe this crap.
I could just as easily say the DOW will reach 20 gazillion, but it is a false statement and should not be said.
I hope more bloggers become more careful about what they say. And if bloggers are silenced for posting the truth then I for one will be the first in line to defend the truth...
>The fact that some "admin" abandoned a site, with open privileges to post on it, does not constitute theft.
The fact that some "home owner" forgot to lock the door to their house does not constitute trespassing!
>I manage servers and write code for a living, and while I'd put a stop to such practices on any site I managed, the use of the term "theft" is laughable.
I own a house and live in a house for a living, and while I'd put a stop to such practices on any property I owned, the use of the term "trespassing" is laughable.
Oh yeah not theft or trespassing at all...
I can't wait to see what the cops would say to that!
Yeah you are right, I have never been to "English Canada".
I only lived in Oakville, Mississauga, Fenelon Falls, Windsor, Waterloo...
And I have family that lives in British Columbia...
I have also lived in the greater NYC area, and North Carolina.
Here is what I found. People do not want you to consume beer during working hours. And if you visit the pub once too often after working hours you are considered to have a drinking problem...
What I am saying is that it is frowned upon to go during working hours to drink alcohol. And if you visit the pub once too often after work it is also frowned upon.
Though when people do go to pubs and bars they get rat a***d piss drunk, and I find that bizarre...
No this is AMERICA....
Whereas in Europe you can head over to a pub to relax and chit chat, in AMERICA (and English Canada) it is completely frowned upon.
I know whenever I am stateside and I order a beer I am completely out of the norm!
BUT yet when it comes to drinking while I sip my beer the others get piss drunk, do idiotic things, and generally make a complete a** out of themselves.
This begs the question, is the pub the problem? Or the fact that the culture in this respect has its head up its a**.
BTW I am European, grew up in North America, but now have been living in Europe for 15 years. And while Europeans have their oddities, this aspect of English North American life is really screwed...
I wish you were modded higher... The last sentence is oh so true...
>If anybody is switching away from MS, they're going to Apple.
And I know many Linux users on the desktop are switching to Apple.
While I would be willing to lay my hand in the fire for Linux on the server, I would not touch a fire with a ten foot pole for Linux on the desktop.
Three years ago I completely gave up on Linux on the Desktop. I decided to focus on Apple, and Microsoft. I have to be frank in that I have not looked back AT ALL...
Again on the server not the same story...
I don't agree here...
As Eric Raymond says, "scratch one's itch" does not imply listening to users.
Put it as follows. We all drive cars, but using scratch one's itch it implies that we are all mechanics as well. And that is not the case, though it can be said that all mechanics do drive cars.
What the article is getting at is that you understand the user that you are empowering. In my case it is being able to understand the formulas and mathematics of the trader trying to define a trading system.
I wish you would Goggle the news. French is actually growing in Quebec. Surprised the heck out everybody actually.
I call BS!
Every province has taken from other provinces at some point in history. Please study Canadian history. The idea behind the equalisation payments is to allow all of Canada to prosper.
Btw the Quebecois are Canadians My wife's family has lived in Quebec for 350 years. Can you say the same?If you can't the STFU!
Btw the trench are the first Europeans to live in North America (though Vikings) were there as well.
Here, here! I am an Ontarian married to a Quebecoise! And I speak 3 languages. We right now life in Switzerland with 4 languages.
My point is that we in Canada need to get along!
I for one would like to see more Alberta politics! Alberta is not Quebec, bat Alberta, BC, and even the Newfies need to be more present!