WE can cause them to completely fail. How? Make this like SETI, or the RC4 competition, in reverse!
They find needles in haystacks. Our job is MORE, BIGGER HAYSTACKS!
Create more crypto-garbage for them to sift. Expensive to crack and useless, when decrypted. Start by upgrading to Tor 2.4, and running a non-exit-node relay.
Add your own ideas. We can chaff the net with more problems than they can manage, even with their stadiums full of Xeons!
Yes, it could be a part of a back-down campaign. I think, being political animals, they could have faked this to serve different outcomes.
No doubt it is fake. None. Just as fake as the Al Qaeda conference-call that Israel was flogging. That one was so ridiculous, I kept waiting for the punch-line.
Putin assembled the details of evidence we've had indication of from numerous stories on the 'net, for a month. It's clear this was "Rebel" stuff. Are they "rebels" when they are mostly foreign, and completely funded by hostile neighbors, with support by the US through Kosovo?
Any time you hear Kosovo in the context of geopolitics, alarm bells should ring.
Remember, the universe is plenty capable of being beautiful even when it isn't inexplicable.
Wonderful sentiment. I will go further and say, it is most beautiful when being inexplicable. It dominates us, as a sub-set, yet contains and includes us - and we marvel at it - not at our mastery and prowess.
From Item 5: "Prefer symmetric cryptography over public-key cryptography. Prefer conventional discrete-log-based systems over elliptic-curve systems; the latter have constants that the NSA influences when they can."
I dismiss these papers because they hire nincompoops and frauds. They promote plagiarized stories, and take stenography from "official sources" to present as if that were the equivalent of factual reporting.
You can tout your Izvestia and Pravda, as "intellectual". If you apply that term to drivel and misinformation from Krauthamer and Friedman, you really need an education in critical thinking skills.
The whole story is an outright lie - to set up a desired chain of events, where striking Syria illegally will create an incident that can be trumped up as Iranian in origin, thus justifying an attack on the actual desired target.
You folks were all played REALLY badly, on the Iraq bait-n-switch. If you want to go for this one, will you at least walk down my Carnival Midway, first?
I have some "P.T. Barnum" theories, I'd like put to test...
We can at least capitalise on the public's fear that we get everything, and use that plausibility to say what ever the hell serves our agenda!
Ladies and gentlemen I remind you this comes from agencies that are PAID to LIE.
I'll say this. If they had factual intercepts of private Iranian military communication wit this level of detail? They'd find more value in HIDING this capability, then by showing the hole poker-hand. Instead, they release this as a PR move to push a war agenda.
You can bet, when an unnamed official source produces actual evidence of this eavesdropping capability? He will be prosecuted as a traitor - and probably hounded to Moscow.
We are as certain of the physical laws of the universe as our sensory perception and intellectual tools for extrapolation - this includes maths - can relay perception.
I suspect the quaintness of Flatland renders the parable juvenile, for those who come to this line of inquiry after Fermi, Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohrs, Godel and Feynman. Nonetheless, the case that we cannot conceive of existence, beyond that of our electromagnetic chauvinism, is telling.
Godel was convinced that God must exist, and that mathematically, set logic failed - were no such as God is.
It is convenient to dismiss Godel as having gone mad. This is the typical opinion held by those with minds inferior to that of Einstein.:-)
If there were simply a mechanism for learning, we would be able to determine algorithmically how to operate that mechanism withing defined parameters, and control for variables, to get predictable results with near-uniform outcome.
We don't need a mechanism, per se - not on a macro level, that leads to deterministic outcomes. We simply need a process...
Viewing evolution as having a mechanism is imposing a narrative view on the occurrence, after the fact - much like reaching 60, and looking back at the "story" of your life. It is our insistence in structuring our perception around narrative - this leads to foolish notions. Such as the "idea" which assumes thought emerges from the correct arrangement of fats and proteins.
Nokia failed, because it was set-up to be Microsoft's bitch. This was done with collusion of the board - to become cheap enough over time, for outright acquisition as the new hardware division in the MS "strategy" of chasing Apple.
Apologies for making this personal in any way. I take it back, for what it's worth. If we went for a Guinness together, I'm sure we'd both have a fine time of it, and enjoy the company.
I believe anybody else interested will find that Al Qaeda no longer exists, other than the way "fans of the Boston Red Sox" exist.
When there was such a beast, it was driven by Saudi funding, and US direction through the ISI in Pakistan. Bin Laden himself was a long-time "asset" of the CIA, and had visited the US at least twice in the 80's under their sponsorship as "Tim Osman".
The recent indictment of Pervez Musharraf in PK for the assassination of Benazir Bhutto is "curiously", almost a non-item in mainstream media. Right before she was killed, Bhutto began talking about the evidence she would expose, showing Bin Laden to have died in 2000/2001. Musharraf's rise and hold on power came from a coup that depended on ISi support with US backing.
The whole thing stinks. What ever does actually lurk behind the insinuating circumstances and trails of money/influence/power is just as bad, if not actually worse, that these hypotheses. The fact that they are obscured deliberately, and there is no functioning, critical investigative inquiry, means we already live in a Soviet-style managed society.
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WE can cause them to completely fail. How? Make this like SETI, or the RC4 competition, in reverse!
They find needles in haystacks. Our job is MORE, BIGGER HAYSTACKS!
Create more crypto-garbage for them to sift. Expensive to crack and useless, when decrypted. Start by upgrading to Tor 2.4, and running a non-exit-node relay.
Add your own ideas. We can chaff the net with more problems than they can manage, even with their stadiums full of Xeons!
"What you mean 'we', White Man?"
Yes.
I do not think that with reduction of variables, we can be plottted like pool-balls on a frictionless surface, bounded by perfect elasticity.
The other parable I like for this, is Groundhog Day. :-)
Yes, it could be a part of a back-down campaign. I think, being political animals, they could have faked this to serve different outcomes.
No doubt it is fake. None. Just as fake as the Al Qaeda conference-call that Israel was flogging. That one was so ridiculous, I kept waiting for the punch-line.
Putin assembled the details of evidence we've had indication of from numerous stories on the 'net, for a month. It's clear this was "Rebel" stuff. Are they "rebels" when they are mostly foreign, and completely funded by hostile neighbors, with support by the US through Kosovo?
Any time you hear Kosovo in the context of geopolitics, alarm bells should ring.
Remember, the universe is plenty capable of being beautiful even when it isn't inexplicable.
Wonderful sentiment. I will go further and say, it is most beautiful when being inexplicable. It dominates us, as a sub-set, yet contains and includes us - and we marvel at it - not at our mastery and prowess.
I DO really like your detailed information, and where you are going with this.
Again, I worry a little bit about this sort of response:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEC-Marconi_scientist_deaths_conspiracy_theory
I can't listen, either..
No. He wrote this.
Wrong Guardian Schneier link. :-)
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-how-to-remain-secure-surveillance
From Item 5:
"Prefer symmetric cryptography over public-key cryptography. Prefer conventional discrete-log-based systems over elliptic-curve systems; the latter have constants that the NSA influences when they can."
Just use bigger DH, with better cipher. AES-256? Maybe. Twofish? OK.
Bruce Schneier himself advises avoiding elliptic-curve, as being intellectually tainted by the spooks.
I dismiss these papers because they hire nincompoops and frauds. They promote plagiarized stories, and take stenography from "official sources" to present as if that were the equivalent of factual reporting.
You can tout your Izvestia and Pravda, as "intellectual". If you apply that term to drivel and misinformation from Krauthamer and Friedman, you really need an education in critical thinking skills.
The whole story is an outright lie - to set up a desired chain of events, where striking Syria illegally will create an incident that can be trumped up as Iranian in origin, thus justifying an attack on the actual desired target.
You folks were all played REALLY badly, on the Iraq bait-n-switch. If you want to go for this one, will you at least walk down my Carnival Midway, first?
I have some "P.T. Barnum" theories, I'd like put to test...
We can at least capitalise on the public's fear that we get everything, and use that plausibility to say what ever the hell serves our agenda!
Ladies and gentlemen I remind you this comes from agencies that are PAID to LIE.
I'll say this. If they had factual intercepts of private Iranian military communication wit this level of detail? They'd find more value in HIDING this capability, then by showing the hole poker-hand. Instead, they release this as a PR move to push a war agenda.
You can bet, when an unnamed official source produces actual evidence of this eavesdropping capability? He will be prosecuted as a traitor - and probably hounded to Moscow.
We are as certain of the physical laws of the universe as our sensory perception and intellectual tools for extrapolation - this includes maths - can relay perception.
I suspect the quaintness of Flatland renders the parable juvenile, for those who come to this line of inquiry after Fermi, Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohrs, Godel and Feynman. Nonetheless, the case that we cannot conceive of existence, beyond that of our electromagnetic chauvinism, is telling.
Godel was convinced that God must exist, and that mathematically, set logic failed - were no such as God is.
It is convenient to dismiss Godel as having gone mad. This is the typical opinion held by those with minds inferior to that of Einstein. :-)
If there were simply a mechanism for learning, we would be able to determine algorithmically how to operate that mechanism withing defined parameters, and control for variables, to get predictable results with near-uniform outcome.
Please excuse my French, but "No fucking way."
We don't need a mechanism, per se - not on a macro level, that leads to deterministic outcomes. We simply need a process...
Viewing evolution as having a mechanism is imposing a narrative view on the occurrence, after the fact - much like reaching 60, and looking back at the "story" of your life. It is our insistence in structuring our perception around narrative - this leads to foolish notions. Such as the "idea" which assumes thought emerges from the correct arrangement of fats and proteins.
"Hey babe, is this guy boring you? I'm from another planet!"
It sounds to me like they shot an arrow into the side of a barn, then drew a bulls-eye around it, afterwards.
I'm stuck with this bastard, for now. Just wait til I die, though!
Seriously. My friends would not be very closely identified with each other - or me. Nor would my wife or children!
I believe that "genetic purity" is a code word for incest.
Saying "feel sorry for his Father" not him, as actor in his own demise.
Empathy. It's what's for dinner.
Nokia failed, because it was set-up to be Microsoft's bitch. This was done with collusion of the board - to become cheap enough over time, for outright acquisition as the new hardware division in the MS "strategy" of chasing Apple.
OK we'll agree to disagree, here.
Apologies for making this personal in any way. I take it back, for what it's worth. If we went for a Guinness together, I'm sure we'd both have a fine time of it, and enjoy the company.
I believe anybody else interested will find that Al Qaeda no longer exists, other than the way "fans of the Boston Red Sox" exist.
When there was such a beast, it was driven by Saudi funding, and US direction through the ISI in Pakistan. Bin Laden himself was a long-time "asset" of the CIA, and had visited the US at least twice in the 80's under their sponsorship as "Tim Osman".
The recent indictment of Pervez Musharraf in PK for the assassination of Benazir Bhutto is "curiously", almost a non-item in mainstream media. Right before she was killed, Bhutto began talking about the evidence she would expose, showing Bin Laden to have died in 2000/2001. Musharraf's rise and hold on power came from a coup that depended on ISi support with US backing.
The whole thing stinks. What ever does actually lurk behind the insinuating circumstances and trails of money/influence/power is just as bad, if not actually worse, that these hypotheses. The fact that they are obscured deliberately, and there is no functioning, critical investigative inquiry, means we already live in a Soviet-style managed society.
Google yourself the term "Limited Hangout".
It was certain they'd do this, the same second that Snowden hit the wires.