And... It looks like "we told you to not do that ; this is another way of saying `don't do that`". Where "that" is "using a plaintext with predictable contents.
And that is why, back in the early 1990s, the first Zimmerman distribution of PGP included a suggestion to use an efficient compression algorithm on a message (packet, whatever) before starting encryption ; because that hammers out the redundancy from your message and leaves less for your attacker to work on.
OK, I may have expressed it poorly (IANA-mathematician) ; but the initial compression step makes it quite hard to differentiate the plain text from random bits. So... "poof" to known-plaintext attacks (particularly if you include, say, a time-stamp very early in the file, to reduce predictability.
My smart phone has a setting for turning on the Wi-Fi. (Implicitly it also has one that turns it off after a few hours, by draining the battery) So, when I want to use Wi-Fi on my phone (rare, being a phone it has atrocious screen size), I turn the Wi-Fi on, use it and then turn it off again.
Then again, my last phone bill told me that I'd used about 20MB of my monthly 20GB of inclusive traffic, which suggests to me that I'm not as heavy a user as they thought I would be.
Knowing that it won't actually address the problem that the OP perceives, but I set up a mail account on www.mail.ru years ago, which I use for mailing lists etc, just to confuse people. Completely screws up advertising people when they really want a live email address.
It would help to speak, or at least read, Russian while signing up. I don't recall there having been an English-language option during the set up, though there may be this-decade.
There are several suggestions what causes the the simultaneous sound, but AFAIK, no one has really made a solid case with measurements to back up their theory.
Hmmm, interesting ; an area of astronomical science with which I was previously unfamiliar.
The cited scientist seems to still be working in astronomy, if not particularly on this topic : research summary, "electrophonic" sounds, and Mongolia 1998. Doesn't seem to have updated on this since 2006.
It does sound interesting, but I can't say that I'm terribly convinced by the "radio wave interaction" hypothesis. given that a typical meteoroid is a millimetre or so across (radius 0.05mm ; take density as 2700kg./m^3 and 7.5 km/s velocity^3) has an energy of around 300 J.
Is that a lot of radio energy? It doesn't seem a lot to be distributed over hundreds of square km. It's obviously easily detectable by radio systems (people have been counting meteors by radio for the thick end of a century), but producing sonic effects in untuned, non-conductive "receivers"... that strains my credulity.
There's also a question on the efficiency of conversion of KE to radio broadcast energy.
Well, that's science for you ; anyone who is sufficiently motivated to take up the baton of research will, I'm sure, be able to follow on. Until the black helicopters drag you away to Area 51 for interrogation and re-programming. (I'm sure there are conspiracy theories lurking about in the woodwork.)
consider this: How many people use separate log-in's for the "Family" computer that stays on most of the time? Not very many I'd imagine, just too much trouble for most to deal with.
I've never (knowingly) met anyone who used that sort of set-up. Everyone gets their own computer, pretty much as soon as they can type.
I suppose that it's theoretically relevant if you've got 27 kids, or everyone back to your great-grandparents and all their descendants. That's not a normal situation.
UK average household size : 2.4 people in 2011 (http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/dcp171766_259965.pdf). For the US, it's 2.7 people (http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html).
Now... how to time-delay the release of the parachute? There's probably an app for that (detect the transition from upward flight to free-fall), but is there an appropriate output? Could you do it by, say, driving a solenoid from the data line of the USB connection?
Similar for me, but I am finding my first pair of bi-focals to be a bit of a WOMBAT, and will probably revert to separate distance and reading glasses on the next iteration.
but I'd need to get special phone-only glasses to see any more detail or smaller type.
I got a 7in tablet instead. Surfing on a phone needs both magnifying glasses (a binocular microscope, or jeweller's hands-free binocular loupe ; I use both routinely) and probes to activate the touch screen.
It must be almost heretical to some of the younger developers to hear mantras such as "smaller is better" shrugged off as self evidently stupid. Oh dear. What a pity. Never mind.
Not really, because all you have to do is your best driving once in your life and you're good for the next 50 years.
Now, change the law so everyone has to recertify every time they get their driver's license and then you might have a point.
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I've actually been arguing this point for the last 20 years, since about 5 years after I got my driving license (at age 24 or 25 ; I'd have to check my diary).
Get a driving license tomorrow, and read it's expiry date of (say) 2023-08-04, on which date you no longer have a driving license. Put a different date in there for "earliest possible driving test re-sit" of (say) 2022-08-04, so that you can manage the transition reasonably.
It sounds eminently sensible to me, and without too much stress on the training-examination system, I think that we could get there in 15 years from the current (UK) situation. But I'm used to people ignoring my suggestions ; it only gets annoying if they've asked me for advice and then try to avoid the bill when they don't like what they get.
Watching a client burn $40 million this year ; very sad, but I did tell them "don't do that" ; and they did. I got my consultants fee though.
Do people still believe, or at least pretend to believe, that crock of shit? All that inflicting pain does is motivate the victim to find some way of stopping the pain - telling the waterboarders what you think they want to hear in a modern pro-democratic example ; punching the games master in the face when he flogged me in examples from my own history. Since the games master was attempting to motivate me to give a shit about sport, and what he gained was a bloody nose, then that was really successful, wasn't it?
Which examples of causing pain can you think of that aren't cruel? Or are you one of these people who believes in beating up your own children? Or are you the BDSM auto-flagellant who was around in this thread earlier - I didn't note his/ it's/ their user name.
"Cruel" is fairly subjective (though the concept of "causes pain" isn't terribly subjective, which is a major component), but "unusual" is just a matter of statistics ; if you're the 300th person to be flogged to death in your country this year, and it's only August, then it may well be cruel, but it's hardly unusual.
That comment is in editorial text, written by a blogger and therefore dismissed as likely to be crap. The relevant quoted speech from the "Michael" person is:
"I asked if it was for sale, as more of a joke than anything, and I was surprised to have the woman behind the counter tell me it was for sale for just US$200,"
Which doesn't claim that he actually purchased it. Or indeed, if he did purchase it, it isn't at all clear if he'd have got an export license for it. I wouldn't assume that he'd have been allowed to leave the country with such equipment - and I'm decidedly unlikely to spring $200 on a casual temporary purchase. (I'm also quite annoyed at fucking politicians getting in the way of one of my clients sending me to work in DPRK ; would have been marvellous for the CV. But... Fucking politicians!)
All of the tests described could have been done in a few minutes with a modern smart phone set up as a WiFi hotspot (even if it had no mobile phone service connection), you'd expect an internet-capable device to be able to connect, even if it couldn't resolve anything off it's local (WiFi) network.
ensures (usually) that everything is kept fair for the multiple cab companies with contracts to serve the airport
I don't understand this concept of "multiple cab companies" at an airport. What happened to the good old monopoly as a tool for gouging customers? Good enough for Julius Caesar and Crassus ; good enough for me!
What did I forget... bodily fluid poisoning... vaccine-thought-controlling... irreligious... gun control... aw fuck it, the list is tedious, if not literally endless.
Distant past" would be 140 years ago in 1881 for flogging with a cat of nine tails and 77 years ago in 1936 for caning in the British navy.
... and about 55 years for flogging in British prisons.
When one was last carried out, I'm not so sure. Probably not long before then. They used to use a wonderful whipping horse with a leather sheet to control the victim's vision so that they could not see either the identity of the prison officer administering the lash, or see when the hit was going to come.
Practices have certainly varied at different times. Depending on the recruitment state of the British Navy, it was often considered bad practice to actually kill sailors while disciplining them (because you might not be able to kidnap a replacement for some time), so when the 'cat' was being applied the person would be flogged into unconsciousness, then cut down, taken to the surgeon to be treated until the surgeon considered him well enough to resume his punishment.
What Saudi practice is, I don't know, nor do I really want to find out.
Some countries (but not either Saudi Arabia or your own country of residence, it seems) have (1) constitutions which are (2) adhered to by the government and which (3) prohibit "cruel and unusual punishment."
Ideally you would know your product that well. In practice often you don't. For example, our software line at work is protected by use of hardware dongles ; in theory we should know the detailed ins and outs of that product, but in practice we don't. It's a tool that we use, but we really don't care how it works in detail ; it's not our core business ; we're not interested in it ; if it stops working, we go and find a different supplier of a comparable product.
Since he only got to tinker with it in the shop, but didn't actually buy one, then he didn't get the chance to examine it's bowels closely. for example, he notes that he could see configuration files relevant to WiFi, but couldn't get it to work. So, hardly a forensic investigation, more a quick poke around during a fag break.
What if this thing gets out of hand and plants start to become larger as they are fed more nitrogen. We could become overrun with weed type plants that we can't control.
The plants would grow bigger... until they start to run short of the next limiting nutrient. As a "for instance", maybe phosphorus? There is a reason that the commonest type of fertilizer is described as "NPK" - because it provides nitrogen (possibly fixed here, if you like that sort of pun), phosphorus and potassium, all often limiting nutrients in intensive agriculture.
The clean diesel Jetta gets 42mpg highway and 30 city. The hybrid Jetta gets 48mpg highway and 42mpg city.
Wow, those are atrocious mileage figures. What did you do to the car to damage it so badly? We're up in the 55-60 mpg range just for day-to-day running.
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Thank you for the legwork.
I shall honour your work by ... well, RTFP-ing!.
And ... It looks like "we told you to not do that ; this is another way of saying `don't do that`". Where "that" is "using a plaintext with predictable contents.
And that is why, back in the early 1990s, the first Zimmerman distribution of PGP included a suggestion to use an efficient compression algorithm on a message (packet, whatever) before starting encryption ; because that hammers out the redundancy from your message and leaves less for your attacker to work on.
OK, I may have expressed it poorly (IANA-mathematician) ; but the initial compression step makes it quite hard to differentiate the plain text from random bits. So ... "poof" to known-plaintext attacks (particularly if you include, say, a time-stamp very early in the file, to reduce predictability.
I strongly suspect that you do not understand the meaning of "exponential" in the mathematical context appropriate for this subject.
I gather that there may be a dilution of the meaning in slang to equate "exponentially" with "a lot". That is slang's problem.
And then .... shove them in with a JCB?
Then again, my last phone bill told me that I'd used about 20MB of my monthly 20GB of inclusive traffic, which suggests to me that I'm not as heavy a user as they thought I would be.
It would help to speak, or at least read, Russian while signing up. I don't recall there having been an English-language option during the set up, though there may be this-decade.
Hmmm, interesting ; an area of astronomical science with which I was previously unfamiliar.
The cited scientist seems to still be working in astronomy, if not particularly on this topic : research summary, "electrophonic" sounds, and Mongolia 1998. Doesn't seem to have updated on this since 2006.
It does sound interesting, but I can't say that I'm terribly convinced by the "radio wave interaction" hypothesis. given that a typical meteoroid is a millimetre or so across (radius 0.05mm ; take density as 2700kg./m^3 and 7.5 km/s velocity^3) has an energy of around 300 J.
Is that a lot of radio energy? It doesn't seem a lot to be distributed over hundreds of square km. It's obviously easily detectable by radio systems (people have been counting meteors by radio for the thick end of a century), but producing sonic effects in untuned, non-conductive "receivers" ... that strains my credulity.
There's also a question on the efficiency of conversion of KE to radio broadcast energy.
The "Global Electrophonic Fireball Survey" http://www.gefsproject.org/news/index.html seems to have been quiet since 2002.
Well, that's science for you ; anyone who is sufficiently motivated to take up the baton of research will, I'm sure, be able to follow on. Until the black helicopters drag you away to Area 51 for interrogation and re-programming. (I'm sure there are conspiracy theories lurking about in the woodwork.)
I've never (knowingly) met anyone who used that sort of set-up. Everyone gets their own computer, pretty much as soon as they can type.
I suppose that it's theoretically relevant if you've got 27 kids, or everyone back to your great-grandparents and all their descendants. That's not a normal situation.
UK average household size : 2.4 people in 2011 (http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/dcp171766_259965.pdf). For the US, it's 2.7 people (http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html).
Sounds like fun to me. Repeatable fun.
Now ... how to time-delay the release of the parachute? There's probably an app for that (detect the transition from upward flight to free-fall), but is there an appropriate output? Could you do it by, say, driving a solenoid from the data line of the USB connection?
I think you'll find that they started before Taylor or Fillimore was POTUS (judging from Melville, 1851).
That would be the American way of doing things, I guess. But don't forget to make a profit on the prisons.
Similar for me, but I am finding my first pair of bi-focals to be a bit of a WOMBAT, and will probably revert to separate distance and reading glasses on the next iteration.
I got a 7in tablet instead. Surfing on a phone needs both magnifying glasses (a binocular microscope, or jeweller's hands-free binocular loupe ; I use both routinely) and probes to activate the touch screen.
It must be almost heretical to some of the younger developers to hear mantras such as "smaller is better" shrugged off as self evidently stupid. Oh dear. What a pity. Never mind.
[OP here]
I've actually been arguing this point for the last 20 years, since about 5 years after I got my driving license (at age 24 or 25 ; I'd have to check my diary).
Get a driving license tomorrow, and read it's expiry date of (say) 2023-08-04, on which date you no longer have a driving license. Put a different date in there for "earliest possible driving test re-sit" of (say) 2022-08-04, so that you can manage the transition reasonably.
It sounds eminently sensible to me, and without too much stress on the training-examination system, I think that we could get there in 15 years from the current (UK) situation. But I'm used to people ignoring my suggestions ; it only gets annoying if they've asked me for advice and then try to avoid the bill when they don't like what they get.
Watching a client burn $40 million this year ; very sad, but I did tell them "don't do that" ; and they did. I got my consultants fee though.
and then assessed
And if you fail the assessment, and are subsequently found to be driving and using the new technology, then you lose you license to drive.
Do people still believe, or at least pretend to believe, that crock of shit? All that inflicting pain does is motivate the victim to find some way of stopping the pain - telling the waterboarders what you think they want to hear in a modern pro-democratic example ; punching the games master in the face when he flogged me in examples from my own history. Since the games master was attempting to motivate me to give a shit about sport, and what he gained was a bloody nose, then that was really successful, wasn't it?
Which examples of causing pain can you think of that aren't cruel? Or are you one of these people who believes in beating up your own children? Or are you the BDSM auto-flagellant who was around in this thread earlier - I didn't note his/ it's/ their user name.
"Cruel" is fairly subjective (though the concept of "causes pain" isn't terribly subjective, which is a major component), but "unusual" is just a matter of statistics ; if you're the 300th person to be flogged to death in your country this year, and it's only August, then it may well be cruel, but it's hardly unusual.
Which doesn't claim that he actually purchased it. Or indeed, if he did purchase it, it isn't at all clear if he'd have got an export license for it. I wouldn't assume that he'd have been allowed to leave the country with such equipment - and I'm decidedly unlikely to spring $200 on a casual temporary purchase. (I'm also quite annoyed at fucking politicians getting in the way of one of my clients sending me to work in DPRK ; would have been marvellous for the CV. But ... Fucking politicians!)
All of the tests described could have been done in a few minutes with a modern smart phone set up as a WiFi hotspot (even if it had no mobile phone service connection), you'd expect an internet-capable device to be able to connect, even if it couldn't resolve anything off it's local (WiFi) network.
I don't understand this concept of "multiple cab companies" at an airport. What happened to the good old monopoly as a tool for gouging customers? Good enough for Julius Caesar and Crassus ; good enough for me!
What did I forget ... bodily fluid poisoning ... vaccine-thought-controlling ... irreligious ... gun control ... aw fuck it, the list is tedious, if not literally endless.
signed : A typical American Tea Party nutjob.
... and about 55 years for flogging in British prisons.
When one was last carried out, I'm not so sure. Probably not long before then. They used to use a wonderful whipping horse with a leather sheet to control the victim's vision so that they could not see either the identity of the prison officer administering the lash, or see when the hit was going to come.
What Saudi practice is, I don't know, nor do I really want to find out.
Some countries (but not either Saudi Arabia or your own country of residence, it seems) have (1) constitutions which are (2) adhered to by the government and which (3) prohibit "cruel and unusual punishment."
Ideally you would know your product that well. In practice often you don't. For example, our software line at work is protected by use of hardware dongles ; in theory we should know the detailed ins and outs of that product, but in practice we don't. It's a tool that we use, but we really don't care how it works in detail ; it's not our core business ; we're not interested in it ; if it stops working, we go and find a different supplier of a comparable product.
Since he only got to tinker with it in the shop, but didn't actually buy one, then he didn't get the chance to examine it's bowels closely. for example, he notes that he could see configuration files relevant to WiFi, but couldn't get it to work. So, hardly a forensic investigation, more a quick poke around during a fag break.
The plants would grow bigger ... until they start to run short of the next limiting nutrient. As a "for instance", maybe phosphorus? There is a reason that the commonest type of fertilizer is described as "NPK" - because it provides nitrogen (possibly fixed here, if you like that sort of pun), phosphorus and potassium, all often limiting nutrients in intensive agriculture.
Wow, those are atrocious mileage figures. What did you do to the car to damage it so badly? We're up in the 55-60 mpg range just for day-to-day running.