If the NSA, CIA and FBI would actually use their powers for good and share the information they find to make our systems more fortified we'd be much better off than letting these exploits continue.
This is the United States Government. They do not do this sort of thing.
The first thing I expect will be regulated will be porn. Russia would rule that all gay porn should be outlawed, while the Muslim countries all agree, meaning half the world would vote to outlaw gay porn. The Muslim countries will feel that is not enough, all porn should be banned, as it is all sinful in their eyes. Pretty soon, porn is not allowed on the public internet.
And how will that be enforced? Revoking domain names?
That will be fun; it is time to implement an alternative to domain names anyway and of course porn will lead the way.
the NSA should have focused on monitoring foreign actors while helping to ensure that domestic institutions (companies, political parties, non-profits, and of course the population as a whole) have access to privacy and secure communications.
This conflicts with their mission to spy on Americans and help other agencies to spy on Americans.
Maybe NIST should be helping to provide private and secure communications... oh, nevermind.
A given engine has a maximum efficiency at a specific RPM and torque yielding a specific output power. The transmission has a number of fixed impedance matching ratios. Between these two engineered characteristics and the aerodynamics which cause loss proportional to the square of the speed, there will be one point for maximum MPG although it is really more of a broad lopsided hump falling off faster on the high side because of the square characteristic of drag loss.
If you change your transmission to a different gear, then that point will move. Continuously variable transmissions including hybrid electric ones turn the separate peaks into another continuous curve.
Electric motors have much broader efficiency curves broadening the miles per energy curve and making the drag curve more significant. The fact that an ICE powered car has a better MPG at a higher speed is a reflection of the poor efficiency of the ICE at low output power levels. As you point out, the ICE has to be sized for good performance at the expense of low power efficiency.
That wholesale price reflects both the energy production cost and the cost of availability. The power from nuclear power plant is available under conditions where the power from renewable energy is not. If you are *only* going to pay for the energy production cost, then prepare for blackouts when power is not available at any price.
The most effective technique has been to get voters to vote against their best interests by confusing them. It's been going on for a long, long time. The American Dream (TM) is an example, where people are encouraged to support policies that favour the rich in the hope that they may one day get rich and benefit from it, or because it's presented as being "fair" in a "what's mine is mine" kind of way.
Confusion is not necessary when you get to pick the candidates to be selected from.
My 240SX got its best mileage at 75 and the 300SD gets it around the same spot, due to torque curve, gearing, and aerodynamics.
That is because the combined mechanical and aerodynamic losses were minimum at that point by deliberate design; they designed for maximum efficiency at a speed which was selected beforehand. An alternative design would have higher efficiency yet at a lower speed. If the mechanical losses were always zero, then the efficiency would monotonically decrease as speed is increased (excluding some high speed effects which aircraft deal with).
The lineup in Kyllo was somewhat interesting. It was 5-4 with Scalia, Souter, Thomas, Ginsburg, and Breyer finding the search violated the Fourth Amendment while Stevens, Rehnquist, O'Connor and Kennedy dissented. The common belief that the conservative members of the court are "anti-defendant" was once again dispelled in this case.
But like Heller which was also a 5-4 case, it only depends on one justice changing and Scalia is dead so the court will likely be anti-defendant and anti-2nd Amendment soon.
I actually preferred WordStar 3.31 to the later versions. And running on the 8-bit CP/M systems of the time, it was *still* faster than Word running on a modern system.
Assuming that the e-mail is authentic. It might well be, but there should be some serious scrutiny of any evidence that has been 'dug up' by Russian intelligence running false flag ops to influence US elections. They might just be up to something....
Well, the investigators can just subpoena the emails... oh.
They aren't stupid, they bit copy (dd) the device when it's seized. Now a local police agency might not do this but anything involving the fed's is going to be copied the second they get their hands on the data, even if it's encrypted. This is directly to prevent challenges on data integrity and to prevent dead man switches.
It is a good thing then that there is no way to overcome this by storing the encryption key in such a way that it will be destroyed (or at least plausibly destroyed) in the act of seizing it.
Implementing a dead man switch for an encryption key is much easier then doing the same for volumes of data.
That's mostly true, however, as soon as you have reason to believe your prudent step of automated data deletion MIGHT be deleting something that is likely to be considered evidence in some kind of litigation, you had better turn it off. Letting it run can (and will likely) be construed as destruction of evidence.
Storage space is not infinite so how does that work if your backup onto media organized as a circular buffer? After being notified that you must retain all data, new data cannot be stored and gets lost. If the new data is backed up, then old data is overwritten. Heads they win and tails you lose?
In the worst case? How about Yahoo hands over all of their traffic to law enforcement for consideration. This would also provide email access to law enforcement from ISPs which outsource to Yahoo like AT&T.
In actual reality, most of Moore's law has stopped 6-8 years ago. Just compare a midrange CPU from back then with one from today in actual performance. Not so much of a difference.
Moore's law still applied; instead of an increase in performance, it manifested as a smaller die size which required a lower power.
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Beatings will commence and continue until moral improves.
If the NSA, CIA and FBI would actually use their powers for good and share the information they find to make our systems more fortified we'd be much better off than letting these exploits continue.
This is the United States Government. They do not do this sort of thing.
I prefer email *because* of the lack of intimacy of the human voice.
The first thing I expect will be regulated will be porn. Russia would rule that all gay porn should be outlawed, while the Muslim countries all agree, meaning half the world would vote to outlaw gay porn. The Muslim countries will feel that is not enough, all porn should be banned, as it is all sinful in their eyes. Pretty soon, porn is not allowed on the public internet.
And how will that be enforced? Revoking domain names?
That will be fun; it is time to implement an alternative to domain names anyway and of course porn will lead the way.
the NSA should have focused on monitoring foreign actors while helping to ensure that domestic institutions (companies, political parties, non-profits, and of course the population as a whole) have access to privacy and secure communications.
This conflicts with their mission to spy on Americans and help other agencies to spy on Americans.
Maybe NIST should be helping to provide private and secure communications ... oh, nevermind.
It varies by state. When I moved from California to Missouri, I had to unlearn entering the intersection for left hand turns.
We no longer trust you so go die in a fire.
It *is* as simple as that.
A given engine has a maximum efficiency at a specific RPM and torque yielding a specific output power. The transmission has a number of fixed impedance matching ratios. Between these two engineered characteristics and the aerodynamics which cause loss proportional to the square of the speed, there will be one point for maximum MPG although it is really more of a broad lopsided hump falling off faster on the high side because of the square characteristic of drag loss.
If you change your transmission to a different gear, then that point will move. Continuously variable transmissions including hybrid electric ones turn the separate peaks into another continuous curve.
Electric motors have much broader efficiency curves broadening the miles per energy curve and making the drag curve more significant. The fact that an ICE powered car has a better MPG at a higher speed is a reflection of the poor efficiency of the ICE at low output power levels. As you point out, the ICE has to be sized for good performance at the expense of low power efficiency.
But there is nothing illegal about buying milk... so why does this message need to be encrypted?
https://www.google.com/search?...
That is why the US has the lowest knife and blunt object murder rate in the developed world. Oh, wait ...
When the US was considering making unauthorized encryption unlawful, Ron Rivest came up with chaffing and winnowing.
That wholesale price reflects both the energy production cost and the cost of availability. The power from nuclear power plant is available under conditions where the power from renewable energy is not. If you are *only* going to pay for the energy production cost, then prepare for blackouts when power is not available at any price.
The most effective technique has been to get voters to vote against their best interests by confusing them. It's been going on for a long, long time. The American Dream (TM) is an example, where people are encouraged to support policies that favour the rich in the hope that they may one day get rich and benefit from it, or because it's presented as being "fair" in a "what's mine is mine" kind of way.
Confusion is not necessary when you get to pick the candidates to be selected from.
My 240SX got its best mileage at 75 and the 300SD gets it around the same spot, due to torque curve, gearing, and aerodynamics.
That is because the combined mechanical and aerodynamic losses were minimum at that point by deliberate design; they designed for maximum efficiency at a speed which was selected beforehand. An alternative design would have higher efficiency yet at a lower speed. If the mechanical losses were always zero, then the efficiency would monotonically decrease as speed is increased (excluding some high speed effects which aircraft deal with).
Don't worry. After you vote for Hillary, her foreign policy will be twice as effective.
The program APIs were practically identical making ports of 8-bit CP/M programs trivial. Even the file control block structures were the same.
The lineup in Kyllo was somewhat interesting. It was 5-4 with Scalia, Souter, Thomas, Ginsburg, and Breyer finding the search violated the Fourth Amendment while Stevens, Rehnquist, O'Connor and Kennedy dissented. The common belief that the conservative members of the court are "anti-defendant" was once again dispelled in this case.
But like Heller which was also a 5-4 case, it only depends on one justice changing and Scalia is dead so the court will likely be anti-defendant and anti-2nd Amendment soon.
[quote]I would love to see a prequel called "B4", mostly because I like puns.[/quote]
That is going to be a pretty boring prequel. Maybe the History Channel would show it as a Modern Marvels special.
I actually preferred WordStar 3.31 to the later versions. And running on the 8-bit CP/M systems of the time, it was *still* faster than Word running on a modern system.
I am sorry, what was your question?
All I saw was, "So what would happen if they held the, and nobody showed up?"
Assuming that the e-mail is authentic. It might well be, but there should be some serious scrutiny of any evidence that has been 'dug up' by Russian intelligence running false flag ops to influence US elections. They might just be up to something....
Well, the investigators can just subpoena the emails ... oh.
They aren't stupid, they bit copy (dd) the device when it's seized. Now a local police agency might not do this but anything involving the fed's is going to be copied the second they get their hands on the data, even if it's encrypted. This is directly to prevent challenges on data integrity and to prevent dead man switches.
It is a good thing then that there is no way to overcome this by storing the encryption key in such a way that it will be destroyed (or at least plausibly destroyed) in the act of seizing it.
Implementing a dead man switch for an encryption key is much easier then doing the same for volumes of data.
That's mostly true, however, as soon as you have reason to believe your prudent step of automated data deletion MIGHT be deleting something that is likely to be considered evidence in some kind of litigation, you had better turn it off. Letting it run can (and will likely) be construed as destruction of evidence.
Storage space is not infinite so how does that work if your backup onto media organized as a circular buffer? After being notified that you must retain all data, new data cannot be stored and gets lost. If the new data is backed up, then old data is overwritten. Heads they win and tails you lose?
In the worst case? How about Yahoo hands over all of their traffic to law enforcement for consideration. This would also provide email access to law enforcement from ISPs which outsource to Yahoo like AT&T.
In actual reality, most of Moore's law has stopped 6-8 years ago. Just compare a midrange CPU from back then with one from today in actual performance. Not so much of a difference.
Moore's law still applied; instead of an increase in performance, it manifested as a smaller die size which required a lower power.