Serious question, not a semantic game: What is the difference between a cryptologist (as Rogers is described) and a cryptographer?
A cryptolologist speaks cryptically (from the greak "logos" - speech). A talent very much in need to (un)explain to other people (and potentially the congress) what NSA is doing.
A cryptographer writes or draws cryptical things (graphein - to write/draw). Given that even/.-ers don't have time to RTFA (even if they actually have time to otherwise waste engaging in comments... take this as an example)... ummm... not a very useful skill for the head of an govt agency.
The pollution from coal waste is permanent, it never decays unlike nuclear waste. US coal-fired power generators pump 50 tonnes of mercury into the environment every year, it never goes away or decays, it ends up in water and the soil, in the sea and seafood. Nobody cares, any attempt to reduce these sorts of emissions is a "War on Coal".
Unless the coal power generation involves alchemy and transmutation (or a fresh supernova explosion nearby), that mercury you speak of... came from Earth environment.
A better comparison would have been the French revolution. A corrupt overclass that has little regard for the suffering happening beneath them, and actively working against the common good for their own benefit. Of course, that might not have supported his point so well since those guys mostly ended up at the guillotine.
I fail to see how this would be a better comparison, would you be so kind to enlighten me?
Specifically, how are the "technology workers" a "corrupt overclass"? Again, how come working for Google is "working against the common good"?
A bit more: is "working for their own benefit" imoral now? ('cause illegal is not)
Like... what?... they don't pay for their groceries enough/at all? Or are they able to avoid sale taxes on those groceries?
Not the tech workers themselves, who are just people working for the 1%.
The 1% who are the majority owners of the corporations that run America today would be the 'corrupt overclass'.
So... on what moral ground are the tech workers being attacked? How is this more likely with the French revolution than it is with Kristallnacht? (what makes the comparison with the French Revolution a better one?)
Specifically, how are the "technology workers" a "corrupt overclass"? Again, how come working for Google is "working against the common good"?
I believe the poster is talking about Perkins and the other 0.01%ers, not the 10%ers that ride the Google Bus. Perkins is disingenuously attempting to draw the technology workers onto his side by calling them 1%ers, but the reality is that very few of them are, or ever will be.
Ah, I see. That is plausible... (but it still doesn't make from the French Revolution a more appropriate example).
Not at all, I found myself genuinely puzzled. You know? Like any kind of person that uses a bit her/his brain to think (and affords to take a minute of time to think instead of reacting).
For one, the protestors are just going after an easy target - the employees of the companies that were using the public bus stops as their own private stops. If those protestors could, I'm sure they'd rather go after Perkins and his buddies.
So... making scape-goats from the technology workers. And this is not similar to Kristallnacht exactly how? (making jews a scape-goat just to vent the public discontent)
We have an upper class that is trying to turn our education system into a jobs training program for their exploitation.
True, but this is not something recent: this happened at least since 50 years ago. Question: why is it that only today that we see negative reactions?
A better comparison would have been the French revolution. A corrupt overclass that has little regard for the suffering happening beneath them, and actively working against the common good for their own benefit. Of course, that might not have supported his point so well since those guys mostly ended up at the guillotine.
I fail to see how this would be a better comparison, would you be so kind to enlighten me?
Specifically, how are the "technology workers" a "corrupt overclass"? Again, how come working for Google is "working against the common good"?
A bit more: is "working for their own benefit" imoral now? ('cause illegal is not) Like... what?... they don't pay for their groceries enough/at all? Or are they able to avoid sale taxes on those groceries?
This is because CONservatives... don't give a damn about security. They never have. They don't care about us peons that are their customers. I bet their upper management is celebrating how they've screwed-over the average Joe. Those GOPpers always enjoy that.
... and...
the U.S. Secret Service has confirmed it is investigating
I know where this is leading. The attack will be likened to "9/11 on retail", and:
* the "Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Tampering of POS bill of 2014" - also know as "the PATRIOT-POS v2014 act";
* it will be required those POS-es be operated from behind reinforced doors, but since the retail industry will complain about the cost...
*... the "Retail Security Agency" will be created under the DHS; it will buy and operate (on public funds, of course), "nude scanners" at the entry of each retail shop (after all, those POS-es were physically tampered... a nude scanner will certainly help detecting... ummm... POS tampering devices);
* after a while, the customers will be required to take off their shoes before enter a retail shop
* the stores will no longer allow entry while carrying bottle of liquids more than 3.4 ounces, etc and...;
*... to help the above, those stores will no longer sell liquids in bottles larger than 3.4 ounces - (yay, packaging industry and mayor Bloomberg... no longer sugary soda drinks in large cans);
...
* NSA will intercept and store the transactions recorded at each POS (the Utah stae will need extra energy capacity for the three new secretd NSA data centers). Now, mind you, this will be strictly legal (after all, it's only metadata... not like NSA would intercept any of the money or merchandise exchanged during the shopping), with safeguards implemented by FISA-courts and congressional supervision; you can trust them on that.
(what? you point to my tin-foil hat? Well... you asked to be taken care of, as a peon and average Joe that is their customer).
What if the permittivity/permeability constants of that "void" areas aren't that constant as we assume they are?
Those constants for a vacuum are fixed values, as like many constants depending on the size of a particular unit, you can choose some to be fixed depending on how you define the unit.
No, that wasn't the type of "different value for a assumed constant" I was talking about.
But even if they varied from the normal value for a vacuum, then some parts of space would act like materials with different index of refraction or like any other stuff we are quite familiar with because doing E&M with materials involves drastic changes in those values. Depending on exactly how you change it, you would get different spectra for things we know the spectrum to high levels of precision though.
Suppose that those constant are different in a part of the universe. Suppose that a transition between two level of energy in a hydrogen atom take place and a photon is emitted. Suppose this photon enters a space with values for the two constants as known to us (thus, the photon travels now with "our" speed of light) Question: except the geometry of the travel path (which may be as coming through a lens), would there be any difference in the frequency between that photon and one emitted by an atom in, say, our Sun?
Have physicists taken into account that the stars nearer the center of the galaxy are in a deeper gravity well and so will experience time at a different rate than the stars out at the edge
Yes, but only recently. They have also detected similar rings of gravitational lensing in galactic voids that have no observable matter, indicating huge amounts of invisible matter in areas with no other detectable matter within tens of millions of light years of the locations.
What if the permittivity/permeability constants of that "void" areas aren't that constant as we assume they are?
That would actually be really obvious - you'd get massive discontinuities at the boundary regions where the constants started changing, since ordinary matter straying into those regions would be re-arranged at a subatomic level - atoms flying apart, new ones forming, light being stretched and compressed etc.
Ahhh?? How come? I mean, it doesn't need to be a "boundary region" per se, the "constant" may vary gradually, within a small percentage and over large distances.
And, except for variation of several orders of magnitude that would bring the electron orbits inside the nucleus, why would "atoms fly apart"? Their orbitals would modify spatially, but I imagine the orbitals' energy could still remain the same.
Yes, light may be stretched/compressed in the same manner it happens within a lens. Wouldn't this explain a "gravitational lensing"?
Have physicists taken into account that the stars nearer the center of the galaxy are in a deeper gravity well and so will experience time at a different rate than the stars out at the edge
Yes, but only recently. They have also detected similar rings of gravitational lensing in galactic voids that have no observable matter, indicating huge amounts of invisible matter in areas with no other detectable matter within tens of millions of light years of the locations.
What if the permittivity/permeability constants of that "void" areas aren't that constant as we assume they are?
Phlogiston & Alchemy don't need Robert Boyle redefining burning yet again to make his work relevant.
FTFY
(only to show that's stupid to stick with a universe model that is in trouble only because so much was invested into it.
Never crossed your mind what would be the impact of discovering that some physical constant aren't that "constant" after all and yet we consider them as such only because we haven't yet travelled far enough to measure them in other areas of this universe?)
Ah, Italia. The country were seismologists are thrown in jail because the can't asses the risks of earthquakes,ships run aground on calm seas and neutrinos run faster than light. If they can't find dark matter in the darkness under its mountains, noone can.
On the other side, US is squeezing the last bit of the dark energy barrel (while it lasts)
They are developing software to get better orbital trajectories. We already HAVE software that manages traffic and orbital collision warnings, but the problem is that our orbital trajectory data is too inaccurate for it to be as helpful as it should be.
technology that could eventually help them monitor and control space traffic.
Yeah... right... control space traffic... my as.. (no, scratch that: Uranus)... they can barely do it for airspace, almost nothing for LEO and they dream of "space"?
(sensationalism at its best in reporting)
Given that this is at least the second (known) major Target CC breach, anyone who still holds out hope for Target's good faith may have difficulties with empiricism...
Nah dude, no problem with empe... imper... whatever you just said.
Yours, Joe Average
(does the above illustrates well the level of critical thinking into the consumer mass?)
Target just couldn't (and can't) handle this FULL-STOP
My guess: the fix is expensive to apply, it will take some time and Target hopes that not-everybody-and-their-dog will know they are still vulnerable. Because otherwise nobody would buy anything from Target on card any more - which would be quite wise for the potential customers but disastrous for Target. I think is understandable, when it comes to survival, the "better your mama mourn you than mine" applies. So hush... "jobs are at risks", "share market may crash" and what-not will keep hax0rs happy for a while.
FTFY...
Also fixed in the past:
President Abraham Lincoln was buttbuttinated by an armed buttailant after a life devoted to the reform of the US consbreastution
Why in the world the UK, with a supposedly "ELECTED" and "DEMOCRATIC" government, want to follow China in erecting their "Great Firewall" ??
Careful with that word: your message may be blocked by UK 'inteligent' filters.
Not because of the critique implied by your message, it happened before.
So I wonder if there is a correlation with China's One Child Policy, where parents may be more likely to shelter their only child? Or is there some other cultural cause?
There will be one in the future... gaming addiction will have the effect of No Child, policy or not.
Want to use your over-the-air antenna? Enter special code from the internet. Why wouldn't they do it with cars too?
Because a car is a car, not a multimedia device. As such, any extra dead weight that I don't need contributes with an extra fuel consumption.
If I don't need seat warmers, then I'll buy a car without them, not with them, wired... and dead to carry around wherever I go. Fuck, I swear God, tomcar sounds more and more the option for me.
Slashdot Mirror
Your politicians want you more stupid than they are... how could they manipulate you otherwise?
The worst thing: they a f..king stupid already.
Serious question, not a semantic game: What is the difference between a cryptologist (as Rogers is described) and a cryptographer?
A cryptolologist speaks cryptically (from the greak "logos" - speech). A talent very much in need to (un)explain to other people (and potentially the congress) what NSA is doing.
A cryptographer writes or draws cryptical things (graphein - to write/draw). Given that even /.-ers don't have time to RTFA (even if they actually have time to otherwise waste engaging in comments... take this as an example)... ummm... not a very useful skill for the head of an govt agency.
(ducks)
...to the problem that is the NSA is the entire dismantling of the NSA as an agency.
(a fool's hope) Failing that, sinking it to deep sea would do. Maybe that's why an admiral was appointed?
The pollution from coal waste is permanent, it never decays unlike nuclear waste. US coal-fired power generators pump 50 tonnes of mercury into the environment every year, it never goes away or decays, it ends up in water and the soil, in the sea and seafood. Nobody cares, any attempt to reduce these sorts of emissions is a "War on Coal".
Unless the coal power generation involves alchemy and transmutation (or a fresh supernova explosion nearby), that mercury you speak of... came from Earth environment.
A better comparison would have been the French revolution. A corrupt overclass that has little regard for the suffering happening beneath them, and actively working against the common good for their own benefit. Of course, that might not have supported his point so well since those guys mostly ended up at the guillotine.
I fail to see how this would be a better comparison, would you be so kind to enlighten me?
Specifically, how are the "technology workers" a "corrupt overclass"? Again, how come working for Google is "working against the common good"?
A bit more: is "working for their own benefit" imoral now? ('cause illegal is not) Like... what?... they don't pay for their groceries enough/at all? Or are they able to avoid sale taxes on those groceries?
Not the tech workers themselves, who are just people working for the 1%.
The 1% who are the majority owners of the corporations that run America today would be the 'corrupt overclass'.
So... on what moral ground are the tech workers being attacked? How is this more likely with the French revolution than it is with Kristallnacht? (what makes the comparison with the French Revolution a better one?)
Specifically, how are the "technology workers" a "corrupt overclass"? Again, how come working for Google is "working against the common good"?
I believe the poster is talking about Perkins and the other 0.01%ers, not the 10%ers that ride the Google Bus. Perkins is disingenuously attempting to draw the technology workers onto his side by calling them 1%ers, but the reality is that very few of them are, or ever will be.
Ah, I see. That is plausible... (but it still doesn't make from the French Revolution a more appropriate example).
Taking this a bit personally, are we?
Not at all, I found myself genuinely puzzled. You know? Like any kind of person that uses a bit her/his brain to think (and affords to take a minute of time to think instead of reacting).
For one, the protestors are just going after an easy target - the employees of the companies that were using the public bus stops as their own private stops. If those protestors could, I'm sure they'd rather go after Perkins and his buddies.
So... making scape-goats from the technology workers. And this is not similar to Kristallnacht exactly how? (making jews a scape-goat just to vent the public discontent)
We have an upper class that is trying to turn our education system into a jobs training program for their exploitation.
True, but this is not something recent: this happened at least since 50 years ago.
Question: why is it that only today that we see negative reactions?
A better comparison would have been the French revolution. A corrupt overclass that has little regard for the suffering happening beneath them, and actively working against the common good for their own benefit. Of course, that might not have supported his point so well since those guys mostly ended up at the guillotine.
I fail to see how this would be a better comparison, would you be so kind to enlighten me?
Specifically, how are the "technology workers" a "corrupt overclass"? Again, how come working for Google is "working against the common good"?
A bit more: is "working for their own benefit" imoral now? ('cause illegal is not)
Like... what?... they don't pay for their groceries enough/at all? Or are they able to avoid sale taxes on those groceries?
This is because CONservatives... don't give a damn about security. They never have. They don't care about us peons that are their customers. I bet their upper management is celebrating how they've screwed-over the average Joe. Those GOPpers always enjoy that.
... and ...
the U.S. Secret Service has confirmed it is investigating
I know where this is leading. The attack will be likened to "9/11 on retail", and: ... the "Retail Security Agency" will be created under the DHS; it will buy and operate (on public funds, of course), "nude scanners" at the entry of each retail shop (after all, those POS-es were physically tampered... a nude scanner will certainly help detecting... ummm... POS tampering devices);
...;
... to help the above, those stores will no longer sell liquids in bottles larger than 3.4 ounces - (yay, packaging industry and mayor Bloomberg... no longer sugary soda drinks in large cans);
* the "Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Tampering of POS bill of 2014" - also know as "the PATRIOT-POS v2014 act";
* it will be required those POS-es be operated from behind reinforced doors, but since the retail industry will complain about the cost...
*
* after a while, the customers will be required to take off their shoes before enter a retail shop
* the stores will no longer allow entry while carrying bottle of liquids more than 3.4 ounces, etc and
*
...
* NSA will intercept and store the transactions recorded at each POS (the Utah stae will need extra energy capacity for the three new secretd NSA data centers). Now, mind you, this will be strictly legal (after all, it's only metadata... not like NSA would intercept any of the money or merchandise exchanged during the shopping), with safeguards implemented by FISA-courts and congressional supervision; you can trust them on that.
(what? you point to my tin-foil hat? Well... you asked to be taken care of, as a peon and average Joe that is their customer).
(grin)
What if the permittivity/permeability constants of that "void" areas aren't that constant as we assume they are?
Those constants for a vacuum are fixed values, as like many constants depending on the size of a particular unit, you can choose some to be fixed depending on how you define the unit.
No, that wasn't the type of "different value for a assumed constant" I was talking about.
But even if they varied from the normal value for a vacuum, then some parts of space would act like materials with different index of refraction or like any other stuff we are quite familiar with because doing E&M with materials involves drastic changes in those values. Depending on exactly how you change it, you would get different spectra for things we know the spectrum to high levels of precision though.
Suppose that those constant are different in a part of the universe. Suppose that a transition between two level of energy in a hydrogen atom take place and a photon is emitted. Suppose this photon enters a space with values for the two constants as known to us (thus, the photon travels now with "our" speed of light)
Question: except the geometry of the travel path (which may be as coming through a lens), would there be any difference in the frequency between that photon and one emitted by an atom in, say, our Sun?
Have physicists taken into account that the stars nearer the center of the galaxy are in a deeper gravity well and so will experience time at a different rate than the stars out at the edge
Yes, but only recently. They have also detected similar rings of gravitational lensing in galactic voids that have no observable matter, indicating huge amounts of invisible matter in areas with no other detectable matter within tens of millions of light years of the locations.
What if the permittivity/permeability constants of that "void" areas aren't that constant as we assume they are?
That would actually be really obvious - you'd get massive discontinuities at the boundary regions where the constants started changing, since ordinary matter straying into those regions would be re-arranged at a subatomic level - atoms flying apart, new ones forming, light being stretched and compressed etc.
Ahhh?? How come? I mean, it doesn't need to be a "boundary region" per se, the "constant" may vary gradually, within a small percentage and over large distances.
And, except for variation of several orders of magnitude that would bring the electron orbits inside the nucleus, why would "atoms fly apart"? Their orbitals would modify spatially, but I imagine the orbitals' energy could still remain the same.
Yes, light may be stretched/compressed in the same manner it happens within a lens. Wouldn't this explain a "gravitational lensing"?
Have physicists taken into account that the stars nearer the center of the galaxy are in a deeper gravity well and so will experience time at a different rate than the stars out at the edge
Yes, but only recently. They have also detected similar rings of gravitational lensing in galactic voids that have no observable matter, indicating huge amounts of invisible matter in areas with no other detectable matter within tens of millions of light years of the locations.
What if the permittivity/permeability constants of that "void" areas aren't that constant as we assume they are?
Phlogiston & Alchemy don't need Robert Boyle redefining burning yet again to make his work relevant.
FTFY
(only to show that's stupid to stick with a universe model that is in trouble only because so much was invested into it.
Never crossed your mind what would be the impact of discovering that some physical constant aren't that "constant" after all and yet we consider them as such only because we haven't yet travelled far enough to measure them in other areas of this universe?)
Step off physicists, this field belongs to chemists.
Oh, hey guys
Ah, Italia.
The country were seismologists are thrown in jail because the can't asses the risks of earthquakes,ships run aground on calm seas and neutrinos run faster than light. If they can't find dark matter in the darkness under its mountains, noone can.
On the other side, US is squeezing the last bit of the dark energy barrel (while it lasts)
there's no change to our position: we have no current plans regarding Bitcoin
In a strage coincidence, I have no interest in Google Wallet - so I guess that works out for everyone.
It would be a first, I guess, that someone does something without planning.
They are developing software to get better orbital trajectories. We already HAVE software that manages traffic and orbital collision warnings, but the problem is that our orbital trajectory data is too inaccurate for it to be as helpful as it should be.
technology that could eventually help them monitor and control space traffic.
Yeah... right... control space traffic... my as.. (no, scratch that: Uranus)... they can barely do it for airspace, almost nothing for LEO and they dream of "space"?
(sensationalism at its best in reporting)
Midwestern faults named for a small town in the Missouri Bootheel
Need coffee. My first read resembled something lile: midwife's faults named for a small town in the Misere Brothel
Given that this is at least the second (known) major Target CC breach, anyone who still holds out hope for Target's good faith may have difficulties with empiricism...
Nah dude, no problem with empe... imper... whatever you just said.
Yours,
Joe Average
(does the above illustrates well the level of critical thinking into the consumer mass?)
Target just couldn't (and can't) handle this FULL-STOP
My guess: the fix is expensive to apply, it will take some time and Target hopes that not-everybody-and-their-dog will know they are still vulnerable.
Because otherwise nobody would buy anything from Target on card any more - which would be quite wise for the potential customers but disastrous for Target.
I think is understandable, when it comes to survival, the "better your mama mourn you than mine" applies. So hush... "jobs are at risks", "share market may crash" and what-not will keep hax0rs happy for a while.
I don't get it, how is Froslbutt profanity?
FTFY... Also fixed in the past: President Abraham Lincoln was buttbuttinated by an armed buttailant after a life devoted to the reform of the US consbreastution
Why in the world the UK, with a supposedly "ELECTED" and "DEMOCRATIC" government, want to follow China in erecting their "Great Firewall" ??
Careful with that word: your message may be blocked by UK 'inteligent' filters.
Not because of the critique implied by your message, it happened before.
So I wonder if there is a correlation with China's One Child Policy, where parents may be more likely to shelter their only child? Or is there some other cultural cause?
There will be one in the future... gaming addiction will have the effect of No Child, policy or not.
The French launch their satellites from French Polynesian island off a high tech raft launch platform. So can Virgin Atlantic.
What?... And change their name to Virgin Pacific?
Want to use your over-the-air antenna? Enter special code from the internet. Why wouldn't they do it with cars too?
Because a car is a car, not a multimedia device. As such, any extra dead weight that I don't need contributes with an extra fuel consumption.
If I don't need seat warmers, then I'll buy a car without them, not with them, wired... and dead to carry around wherever I go.
Fuck, I swear God, tomcar sounds more and more the option for me.