I read other replies to this, blah blah blah MS announced this a long time ago, XP is too old for new APIs, etc. You're missing the point folks.
As a web developer, I have been looking forward to IE9 as a means of deliverance from having to add style and functionality workarounds for IE6, IE7, and IE8. Designers have been putting rounded corners and drop shadows and complicated borders on everything for a couple years now. This stuff looks great in Firefox, Safari, Chrome, and Opera. And it doesn't show up at all in IE. I have to use GIFs. Not even PNGs --- GIFs, because IE7<7 doesn't support transparent PNG.
There are so, so many people still on XP, and using it happily to get stuff done. We're talking about Presidents and Board Chairs here, the people who pay the bills. They will not upgrade just because there is a new version of IE. So now, instead of supporting 3 versions of IE, we will need to support 4, with all of the same headaches.
So instead of celebrating at long last the release of IE9, I have to go sacrifice a goat and pray that MS will update the rendering engine in IE8 to include an HTML5 mode for XP. Damn you, Redmond!
At a high level, the success of our technique stems from exploiting the corre-lation between the most basic building blocks of speech—namely, phonemes—and the length of the packets that a VoIP codec outputs when presented with these phonemes. Intuitively, to search for a word or phrase, we first build a model by decomposing the target phrase into its most likely constituent phonemes, and then further decomposing those phonemes into the most likely packet lengths. Next, given a series of packet lengths that correspond to an encrypted VoIP conversation, we simply examine the output stream for a sub-sequence of packet lengths that match our model.
Awesome.
It's like listening to the "Mwa mwaa mwaa mwa mwa" voice that adults use in the old Peanuts television specials, and figuring out what they are saying based on the length of the "mwas" and their order in the conversation.
I think that too. It should be a matter of public record to prevent fraud.
BUT there is still the matter of privacy and plausible anonymity. An SSN is a one-to-one match with a person, and will always be treated as such, *even if the match hasn't been verified*.
In other words, your SSN is subject to misuse even beyond its magical ability to open new credit lines. I might not be able to ruin your credit, but I could still impersonate you on Google Doodles, you see?
So definitely, lets end the need to keep it a state secret. But that doesn't mean SSNs are suddenly okay to use as IDs on web services.
It's worth remembering that military drones aren't just passive.
The spying part of this is, uh okay, whatever. Less noisy than a helicopter, and the rules of evidence will probably result in most of these operations being declared off-limits without a served warrant. (I am not a lawyer, ok)
The part that scares the beejesus out of me is that some pimply kid in a dark room could decide to terminate a target with the push of a button, then sit back and take another sip of Mt. Dew while the drone heads back to base. The barrier to assassination with remote-controlled robots is just that much lower than if you have to send someone out into the field. Using drones with weapons is some cowardly, underhanded, sociopathic shit.
I think I will invest in ultra-cheap, easy-to-build, DIY anit-drone swarming robots now. Imagine a pack of paper airplanes that surrounds these things wherever they go, like trained seagulls.
This is why the world needs a British space program.
Americans will never allow their tax dollars to fund studies of sex in space, because it might not be between a husband and a wife, or result in procreation.
The term "space opera" is already around for that purpose.
I've always thought that Star Wars would make an excellent on-stage opera. Imagine everyone singing their parts--the droids already do--and the orchestra making all of the laser, starship, and lightsaber noises as part of the score.
Hmm, maybe it's time to launch a Kickstarter project....
Funny enough, they can. Their patented "one-click" shopping technology can do just that when abused by cross-site request forgery or an annoying kid sister.
I know that's not the spirit in which you posted, but come on, they aren't exactly a powerless entity either.
trying to remember an IPV6 address will give me a fucking stroke
Awesome post.
There just isn't anything amazing enough in v6 to warrant the switch from an understandable, base10 system to an insanely complex base16 one, especially when half the people smart enough to understand it are genuinely concerned that it will break everything.
Why didn't they just use base36 addresses instead? At least those would be nice and short.
The only 'problem' is that it's harder to diagnose the problem. It could be that your DNS server is broken, the client's DNS cache or resolver is broken, or that someone is poisoning the DNS cache. Unless people on the client side are resolving technical issues for you, this really isn't a problem - a minute or two with dig will let you discover which of these it is.
But that's actually really important, because silently failing or failing with a cryptic error will cause users to blame you for the problem, when in fact it is their machine/network/DNS that is poisoned.
Applications need to be rewritten to handle the case where the name resolves but to an unsigned or wrongly signed record, so that the user can ask an appropriate person for help.
That said, applications should not ever offer to allow the user to continue to the domain anyway. It's just a "hey, your network is broken for this site" message.
I've been reading James Bamford's/Body of Secrets/, a gigantic tome about the history of the NSA, circa 2001. When you think about the kind of stuff that the NSA and other government's signals intelligence services were able to listen in on in the early 1960s, it is absolutely no surprise that they have trouble hiding secrets today.
Even before they had microcomputers to do the work, they were pulling off incredible stuff. They used to look for radar signals reflected off of Soviet test missiles in order to determine the location and type of radar installations that they couldn't get close to. They knew where atmospheric conditions would allow them to listen in on signals from the other side of the planet. They were bouncing ship-to-HQ communications off the goddamn moon. I'm only up to 1970 in the book, so they are still limited by the need for human hands to tune receivers and point antennas, and recording signals on reel-to-reel tape.
So think about what the best and brightest could do with analog equipment and human operators, and extrapolate forward through the digital revolution. A single throwaway drone probably has as much sigint capability as a whole ship full of spies and millions of dollars of equipment did back in the day, if not more. Software radio? Flash storage? Map-reduce to tease patterns out of the data? We're all screwed. And anything the NSA has, other governments are likely to have as well.
The fact that someone admitted as much means that it has probably been so for at least ten years. Amazing stuff.
I'm sure there will be a ton of cynical and jaded comments here, but this is a working prototype of augmented reality that is actually immediately and unquestionably useful, even in its infant state. Even non-technical people can see the promise of this, and graspable promise equals investment.
Here's one: how to adapt LAMP applications that depend on behaviors of MySQL.
Here's another: how to adapt developers and sysadmins who are used to the mysql command line interface, mysqladmin, and my.cnf to the Postgres toolkit.
Who says they are turning a profit? The kind of people that would invest in SpaceX probably don't care if they see a return on their initial investments for 10 years, if ever. The point is to prove that commercial spaceflight is possible and desirable, not to make money out of the gate. That comes later if all goes well.
The first flight "costs" much much more than the 300th flight. If they play their cards right, the break-even point will be at around the 30th flight so that they can start to make the investors' money back with each subsequent haul.
The beauty of the game only started to emerge after you played it long enough to learn how to *really* drive the cab. And by really drive, I mean spend more time going sideways or in the air than straight-ahead driving. Also, as you began to learn the map, you could do even more stunts using the environment and shortcuts.
It definitely rewarded a zen-like combination of skilled precision and absolutely bat-shit insane risk-taking. Until you built up the chops to be able to do that, it was just a point-a to point-b driving game with pretty graphics.
So they want to ban in-flight wi-fi to keep bombs from being triggered remotely over teh interweb?
There are other wireless communications that could trigger a detonation... like cell phones, radio, or GPS signals. In a pinch they could trigger detonation using an altimeter or a clock, like in the old days.
So what's the point of banning wi-fi? The internet is just too scary for planes, I guess.
Looks like it's time to suck it up and start using XCode for your Perl/PHP/Python/Ruby development work, since most other smart IDEs are Java-based in order to be cross-platform. With so many web developers using Macs, this is going to hurt.
Now if only XCode knew how to speak PHP, it could all work out... then again, there's always VIM or EMACS.
My understanding is that the "throwback" editions are created to be kosher for Passover.
As soon as we wake up and start suing the soda companies for 20 years of poisoning us with ridiculous amounts of fructose, expect them to be available all year long.
Remeber, VLC isn't just a client, it's also a server. It's able to stream audio and video to other clients.
So if this really is a straight port, it potentially means that you could stream audio from your iPad, and audio+video from your iPhone, without using ITunes.
That's a BIG win if they let it happen and it actually works. (Two big ifs.)
Even on a bright sunny day on the top of a snow capped mountain you were shooting Kodachrome 25 at F2.8 at 125th/second. Well, I exaggerate, but you get the idea...
Big whoosh on that for anyone under 30.
Man, I wish my digital camera had an ISO 25 setting, or an equivalent sacrifice-everything-for-best-color mode.
Hey, you know what else has a unique address that can be used to track you?
That bluetooth headset that you wear around town in order to convince people that you're in the loop. Or the RFID tags in your car's tires. Or the unique pattern of resonance given off by the fillings in your teeth.
I thought the idea was that it was Google's reference phone, vanilla Android with no carrier or manufacturer add-ons. Calling it a failed experiment in online sales completely misses the point.
Come on people, this article quotes shills at Gartner and MS Research. The only statement attributed to Google is:
Andy Rubin, Google's vice president in charge of Android, denied that sales were not the problem when he spoke to the Wall Street Journal, and that the company broke even on the phones.
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Oh crap.
I read other replies to this, blah blah blah MS announced this a long time ago, XP is too old for new APIs, etc.
You're missing the point folks.
As a web developer, I have been looking forward to IE9 as a means of deliverance from having to add style and functionality workarounds for IE6, IE7, and IE8. Designers have been putting rounded corners and drop shadows and complicated borders on everything for a couple years now. This stuff looks great in Firefox, Safari, Chrome, and Opera. And it doesn't show up at all in IE. I have to use GIFs. Not even PNGs --- GIFs, because IE7<7 doesn't support transparent PNG.
There are so, so many people still on XP, and using it happily to get stuff done. We're talking about Presidents and Board Chairs here, the people who pay the bills. They will not upgrade just because there is a new version of IE. So now, instead of supporting 3 versions of IE, we will need to support 4, with all of the same headaches.
So instead of celebrating at long last the release of IE9, I have to go sacrifice a goat and pray that MS will update the rendering engine in IE8 to include an HTML5 mode for XP. Damn you, Redmond!
At a high level, the success of our technique stems from exploiting the corre-lation between the most basic building blocks of speech—namely, phonemes—and the length of the packets that a VoIP codec outputs when presented with these phonemes. Intuitively, to search for a word or phrase, we first build a model by decomposing the target phrase into its most likely constituent phonemes, and then further decomposing those phonemes into the most likely packet lengths. Next, given a series of packet lengths that correspond to an encrypted VoIP conversation, we simply examine the output stream for a sub-sequence of packet lengths that match our model.
Awesome.
It's like listening to the "Mwa mwaa mwaa mwa mwa" voice that adults use in the old Peanuts television specials, and figuring out what they are saying based on the length of the "mwas" and their order in the conversation.
I think that too. It should be a matter of public record to prevent fraud.
BUT there is still the matter of privacy and plausible anonymity. An SSN is a one-to-one match with a person, and will always be treated as such, *even if the match hasn't been verified*.
In other words, your SSN is subject to misuse even beyond its magical ability to open new credit lines. I might not be able to ruin your credit, but I could still impersonate you on Google Doodles, you see?
So definitely, lets end the need to keep it a state secret. But that doesn't mean SSNs are suddenly okay to use as IDs on web services.
It's worth remembering that military drones aren't just passive.
The spying part of this is, uh okay, whatever. Less noisy than a helicopter, and the rules of evidence will probably result in most of these operations being declared off-limits without a served warrant. (I am not a lawyer, ok)
The part that scares the beejesus out of me is that some pimply kid in a dark room could decide to terminate a target with the push of a button, then sit back and take another sip of Mt. Dew while the drone heads back to base. The barrier to assassination with remote-controlled robots is just that much lower than if you have to send someone out into the field. Using drones with weapons is some cowardly, underhanded, sociopathic shit.
I think I will invest in ultra-cheap, easy-to-build, DIY anit-drone swarming robots now. Imagine a pack of paper airplanes that surrounds these things wherever they go, like trained seagulls.
Nice writeup, thanks for that!
This is why the world needs a British space program.
Americans will never allow their tax dollars to fund studies of sex in space, because it might not be between a husband and a wife, or result in procreation.
The term "space opera" is already around for that purpose.
I've always thought that Star Wars would make an excellent on-stage opera. Imagine everyone singing their parts--the droids already do--and the orchestra making all of the laser, starship, and lightsaber noises as part of the score.
Hmm, maybe it's time to launch a Kickstarter project....
- Can amazon suck money out of my wallet? Nope.
Funny enough, they can. Their patented "one-click" shopping technology can do just that when abused by cross-site request forgery or an annoying kid sister.
I know that's not the spirit in which you posted, but come on, they aren't exactly a powerless entity either.
trying to remember an IPV6 address will give me a fucking stroke
Awesome post.
There just isn't anything amazing enough in v6 to warrant the switch from an understandable, base10 system to an insanely complex base16 one, especially when half the people smart enough to understand it are genuinely concerned that it will break everything.
Why didn't they just use base36 addresses instead? At least those would be nice and short.
The only 'problem' is that it's harder to diagnose the problem. It could be that your DNS server is broken, the client's DNS cache or resolver is broken, or that someone is poisoning the DNS cache. Unless people on the client side are resolving technical issues for you, this really isn't a problem - a minute or two with dig will let you discover which of these it is.
But that's actually really important, because silently failing or failing with a cryptic error will cause users to blame you for the problem, when in fact it is their machine/network/DNS that is poisoned.
Applications need to be rewritten to handle the case where the name resolves but to an unsigned or wrongly signed record, so that the user can ask an appropriate person for help.
That said, applications should not ever offer to allow the user to continue to the domain anyway. It's just a "hey, your network is broken for this site" message.
I've been reading James Bamford's /Body of Secrets/, a gigantic tome about the history of the NSA, circa 2001. When you think about the kind of stuff that the NSA and other government's signals intelligence services were able to listen in on in the early 1960s, it is absolutely no surprise that they have trouble hiding secrets today.
Even before they had microcomputers to do the work, they were pulling off incredible stuff. They used to look for radar signals reflected off of Soviet test missiles in order to determine the location and type of radar installations that they couldn't get close to. They knew where atmospheric conditions would allow them to listen in on signals from the other side of the planet. They were bouncing ship-to-HQ communications off the goddamn moon. I'm only up to 1970 in the book, so they are still limited by the need for human hands to tune receivers and point antennas, and recording signals on reel-to-reel tape.
So think about what the best and brightest could do with analog equipment and human operators, and extrapolate forward through the digital revolution. A single throwaway drone probably has as much sigint capability as a whole ship full of spies and millions of dollars of equipment did back in the day, if not more. Software radio? Flash storage? Map-reduce to tease patterns out of the data? We're all screwed. And anything the NSA has, other governments are likely to have as well.
The fact that someone admitted as much means that it has probably been so for at least ten years. Amazing stuff.
These guys just opened a gold mine.
I'm sure there will be a ton of cynical and jaded comments here, but this is a working prototype of augmented reality that is actually immediately and unquestionably useful, even in its infant state. Even non-technical people can see the promise of this, and graspable promise equals investment.
Bravo, and congratulations to the developers!
Postgres.
Any other questions you have?
Here's one: how to adapt LAMP applications that depend on behaviors of MySQL.
Here's another: how to adapt developers and sysadmins who are used to the mysql command line interface, mysqladmin, and my.cnf to the Postgres toolkit.
Who says they are turning a profit? The kind of people that would invest in SpaceX probably don't care if they see a return on their initial investments for 10 years, if ever. The point is to prove that commercial spaceflight is possible and desirable, not to make money out of the gate. That comes later if all goes well.
The first flight "costs" much much more than the 300th flight. If they play their cards right, the break-even point will be at around the 30th flight so that they can start to make the investors' money back with each subsequent haul.
The beauty of the game only started to emerge after you played it long enough to learn how to *really* drive the cab. And by really drive, I mean spend more time going sideways or in the air than straight-ahead driving. Also, as you began to learn the map, you could do even more stunts using the environment and shortcuts.
It definitely rewarded a zen-like combination of skilled precision and absolutely bat-shit insane risk-taking. Until you built up the chops to be able to do that, it was just a point-a to point-b driving game with pretty graphics.
So they want to ban in-flight wi-fi to keep bombs from being triggered remotely over teh interweb?
There are other wireless communications that could trigger a detonation... like cell phones, radio, or GPS signals.
In a pinch they could trigger detonation using an altimeter or a clock, like in the old days.
So what's the point of banning wi-fi? The internet is just too scary for planes, I guess.
Looks like it's time to suck it up and start using XCode for your Perl/PHP/Python/Ruby development work, since most other smart IDEs are Java-based in order to be cross-platform. With so many web developers using Macs, this is going to hurt.
Now if only XCode knew how to speak PHP, it could all work out... then again, there's always VIM or EMACS.
On the bright side, it will be dead easy to get a static IP address in France, now.
No more DHCP, that adds way too much administrative overhead.
My understanding is that the "throwback" editions are created to be kosher for Passover.
As soon as we wake up and start suing the soda companies for 20 years of poisoning us with ridiculous amounts of fructose, expect them to be available all year long.
A) White kid from Britain wants to be here - Privilege, not a right.
B) Mexican wants to live and work here - Civil Rights issue.
Go figure...
If the white kid from England was already living and working in the U.S., then it could easily be a civil rights issue.
Remeber, VLC isn't just a client, it's also a server. It's able to stream audio and video to other clients.
So if this really is a straight port, it potentially means that you could stream audio from your iPad, and audio+video from your iPhone, without using ITunes.
That's a BIG win if they let it happen and it actually works. (Two big ifs.)
Even on a bright sunny day on the top of a snow capped mountain you were shooting Kodachrome 25 at F2.8 at 125th/second. Well, I exaggerate, but you get the idea...
Big whoosh on that for anyone under 30.
Man, I wish my digital camera had an ISO 25 setting, or an equivalent sacrifice-everything-for-best-color mode.
Hey, you know what else has a unique address that can be used to track you?
That bluetooth headset that you wear around town in order to convince people that you're in the loop.
Or the RFID tags in your car's tires.
Or the unique pattern of resonance given off by the fillings in your teeth.
You have no privacy in the postmodern world.
The only way we can be safe is to have the computers design and build themselves!
I thought the idea was that it was Google's reference phone, vanilla Android with no carrier or manufacturer add-ons. Calling it a failed experiment in online sales completely misses the point.
Come on people, this article quotes shills at Gartner and MS Research. The only statement attributed to Google is:
Fud and fluff, move along.