They aren't selling code, they are selling a service. A huge difference, as the code is by definition free, it is only their help and expertise that they make a profit from.
. Even if Christianity is false, nobody has the right to destroy another country the way Iran wants to destroy Israel.
and what proof do you have of that statement? Why can't they destroy Israel if they wanted to? The US does it all the time, why can't they share in the fun?
As a matter of proof, the statement that a nation can't destroy another presupposes an objective moral system, or a criterion to say what one can do or not. If there is no criterion, there is no way you can object.
1/ are they truly random numbers, that is do they pass all the statistic tests of distribution? If I remember correctly quantum phenomenon are unpredictable, but are they truly random in the distributive sense, or do they have some numbers that are more likely to appear than others? It would seem that even if quantum phenomena are truly random, nonetheless the physical structure of the diamond would give a bias to one set of phenomena than another.
2/ This kind of randomness is actually pretty useless for cryptography, especially as these randoms will be impossible to verify or debug. One of the most important properties of the random function is that it gives a predictable series so that you can start your program knowing in some degree the values. To generate more 'randomness' you change the seed to the function, not the function itself.
I remember once that a certain company thought about using the microphone as a random number generator, assuming that the noise about the computer was 'random'. What they forgot is that most parts of the computer make a very cyclic noise (for example the fan), which led to some very bad security holes. What this experiment is doing could be nothing more than a certain optical noise that might not be in fact be statistically random.
Not true, anyone can sell their music on itunes. Takes some doing, but it's not that hard. Would probably recommend a service do it for you however, like this article states:
The text of the SMS is already in the Network operators computer.
I would be interested to know if the data stream (GPRS/3G) can actually be 'listened to" that is to say, that it could be unencrypted in the air. Certainly the receiving device has to be able to unencrypt it, but is it encrypted between the two points ? (could any other device intercept the data stream) ?
Well I'm sure a small business that merely fills in orders through email or has a simple internet presence, google apps is probably all they will ever need.
However there are many things in government work, such as providing an audit trail and archive for the past several years (up to 10 sometimes even more), google doesn't guarantee that. In fact if you aren't doing it on your OWN hardware you aren't doing it right.
Everything in its proper place I say. If google provides a service that is useful for businesses, I'm sure they'll succeed. Yet I would never say that that service is necessarily ideal for all circumstances and certain in some circumstances it is a huge NO GO.
Examples of abuses of non in-house email server: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_White_House_e-mail_controversy
Seriously. I have worked in the 1980's in several ex-Communist countries, over 20 years in many different parts of Eastern Europe. Never once did I have to go through the crap that Americans have to do now. I am actually an American citizen but have spent most of my life overseas, and some 7 years ago I decided to go home to see my family.
Each of the passengers on that plane had to go through an interview of some 20 minutes and extensive search through all baggage and clothing. I mentioned to the officer that it seems a little incongruous that as an American citizen that I should undergo treatment that I never witnessed in all my time in Communist countries. He did not respond. I got on my flight but I then came back to Poland and I will never return to the USA again. It simply is a different country than it was for my parents.
Goodbye America, I hope you do well but I am rather ashamed at my citizenship now. Just ten years ago it was worth something, but now I can't even travel to my country of origin without being violated more than I am as a stranger in this country. Many countries in Europe, even ex-Communist ones, treat their foreigners better than the US treats their own citizens.
Well it pretty much excludes its use in any business or government environment. The whole reason you don't have gmail in business or government is that much of internal correspondence and documents have to stay INTERNAL to the organization. Putting it on the cloud somewhere means you can't audit the emails, not to mention that most companies just don't want their private workings available to a competitor.
Chrome OS demands that your information is in the hands of someone else - which is precisely the antithesis of security (where your data is YOUR data).
Java != Javascript. They are radically different languages, and if you had worked with either of them you would know that converting from one to the other is by no means trivial.
There exist quite a few implementations of a pdf reader in Java, sme of them opensource. Icepdf comes to mind but there are many others, even whole libraries of code for this purpose.
Javascript really has nothing in common with Java except the name. You can thank the market department at Netscape for that.
<p>So, if someone doesn't like a certain type of speech, it should be restricted?</p></quote>
Yes.
It happens all the time. Even slashdot is moderated to remove trolls. Freedom is not a perfection in itself but rather the means to obtain it. Free speech only has value if what is said is actually worth something.
And in general this has nothing to do with free speech, but just being a miserable excuse of a human being.
Imagine starting a large download while on wifi, when you notice it is going too slow plug in the Ethernet cable and see the speed increase as TCP notice more bandwidth is available. And if you are on the wired network and the cable for some reason gets pulled out nothing would break, it would just cause a drop in speed until you plug it in again.
My MacBook already does this. The magic of TCP/IP is that it just searches for more routes. Adding another interface gives more routes. I believe ubuntu also does this too, though I've never taken down the server's interface.
App developers don't care about who is winning. Droid has enough of a marketshare now that any major developer is writing for both. They'd be stupid not to.
Firstly you are wrong in saying that a photon has no mass. It has no rest mass, but it certainly has energy, and even momentum (hv/c). Force is not just m*a, but even more correctly described as the change of momentum dp/dt. Gravity is a force and therefore it causes a change of momentum.
There are many papers that speculate that is light is a particular, what must be the effect of gravity upon it, dating from several years before Cavendish even.
Here is a citation of a letter from John Michell, 1783, even predicting what we call black holes today:
The idea of photons, even if the name is recent in origin, is as old as light itself. Even Aristotle tried to reconcile several theories of light as being a "streaming substance" (a substance carrying some sort of energy, see de Anima), or as a "ray". The observation of motion of dust particules in a sunlight room does not date from last century.
The more you read the works of the ancient physicists, you will discover that they certainly were not people "without any clue", but often trying to wrap their minds around some serious observations. Whether they succeeded or not is another question, but they certainly had some clue.
It does seem to be written from left to right however, as the text is mostly flush to the left margin. If it was written from the right to the left, usually people make the text flush from where they begin writting.
"SE" definitely looks like a space or some token marker, perhaps a shorthand for "Stop. End" like a telegraph.
As a kid I was fascinated by two kinds of cyphers, such as the "Tic-Tac-Toe" cypher where the letters would be put into a grid and you used the grid shapes as keys to the letters, basically a substitution cypher. A variant could be made using some well known secret word or phrase that provides the key substitution. Subtitution cyphers can be broken using frequency analysis, which is the first thing you can check with the computer. If it were that easy they would have solved it by now.
He seems to correct himself in the middle of writing (for instance see 3rd line of 2nd note, where he corrects the 'T' into an 'R', and on the first note where he corrects the first letter of the second line). This makes me think that it is more than a substitution cypher but something perhaps he counts from a certain letter to get the next one (it's easy to make mistakes counting if you are thinking of the thing you want to write), or that his key could easily miss from one letter to another. The difference from 'T' to 'R' is not very far away, so he could have miscounted in applying his algorithm.
The fact that there seems to be some delimiting symbols ('SE' is a marker of some sort) means perhaps that the algorithm had some kind of break points where to reapply. If it was a simply one-to-one correspondence he probably wouldn't use two letters for substitution of a space. It might be something simple like removing all the letters but the first and last (SpacE), with spaces following the same rule.
Also there are some lines that are very similar, for instance (3rd to last lines of 1st note):
(cdnseprsednsde74ncbe) (prtseprseonrede75ncbe)
They only differ in a few letters, namely CDN -> PRT; DNS -> ONR and the two numbers. If the message was an address or describing something with numbers (a car model year for instance) then there could be clues for trying certain transformations.
The fact that the encryption doesn't seem to encode numbers might be significant. If it were a sort of rotating cypher, where each letter is substituted and then counting from the last letter the next substitution, normally you wouldn't include numbers as then it would be difficult to subsitute past 9 (at least for a boy who doesn't know modular arithmetic).
The fact that he corrects himself so often in my opinion means that the encryption is something more complicated than a simple one way substitution. If he used it for a while there would be less errors (after awhile using substitution cyphers you almost automatically write v for e or whatever). It seems to be some kind of rotating count where errors are more prevalent.
It would really be helpful to have more examples of his handwriting and to know more about his personal habits. Breaking passwords is also more often trying to guess what a person was thinking at the time than actually trying symbols (at least when a human tries to decypher them). I wish the FBI would release more of his writing, especially his unencrypted text as that would give hints on his spelling habits and level of education in general.
Best comment so far. This is why I come here : the comments are vastly superior to the article.
One point to be made on the reason for Android is perhaps not so much for mobile ads but rather for the whole user base. Imagine having a gps tracker on all the users of your products including access to their contacts and good statistics on who they contact and how often. Just that data alone is worth much more than the development costs of an OS.
Perhaps a good example would be the special "discount cards" that shopping centers and gas . The 10% back or whatever is nothing compared to the statistics they gather on your shopping history. Knowing what your repeat customers buy is worth more money than and market testing. Google has brought this idea to a whole bew level.
True enough. The only problem is that the tools have to conform to certain standards, such as archival and accountability. That does get in the way of work, no question about it - but just like everything in life it is a cost-benefit analysis and often efficiency has to be sacrificed for the ability to archive and search. Just like programing, you can only pick so many features to implement, and soon the more features you have the worse your program performs. Beauracracy is a lot like the stack heap - you can put as much on the heap as you like, just don't expect it to come off as fast as it went in.
Notice I said "in general" - certainly for some government work there is not the need for so much paperwork and it could be streamlined. Problem is that most people dictating policy usually don't have to implement it, and those who make the laws are usually the last ones to have to obey them.
My only real point is that IT guys are also part of the system, and their draconian policies are usually established by someone else. It's a vicious cycle really, but that won't change until someone fixes human nature.
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Just a serious question - what will this hack allow me to do that I couldn't do before?
I can already install my own apps on the phone with a developer account. Does this make it any easier?
What does the hack install? Does the hack phone home? Why does it need to connect to a database?
It might be interesting to install a new OS on the phone, but seriously for a $600 device I want something that works.
So long story short what does this jailbreak give me that I don't already have?
They aren't selling code, they are selling a service. A huge difference, as the code is by definition free, it is only their help and expertise that they make a profit from.
. Even if Christianity is false, nobody has the right to destroy another country the way Iran wants to destroy Israel.
and what proof do you have of that statement? Why can't they destroy Israel if they wanted to? The US does it all the time, why can't they share in the fun?
As a matter of proof, the statement that a nation can't destroy another presupposes an objective moral system, or a criterion to say what one can do or not. If there is no criterion, there is no way you can object.
1/ are they truly random numbers, that is do they pass all the statistic tests of distribution? If I remember correctly quantum phenomenon are unpredictable, but are they truly random in the distributive sense, or do they have some numbers that are more likely to appear than others? It would seem that even if quantum phenomena are truly random, nonetheless the physical structure of the diamond would give a bias to one set of phenomena than another.
2/ This kind of randomness is actually pretty useless for cryptography, especially as these randoms will be impossible to verify or debug. One of the most important properties of the random function is that it gives a predictable series so that you can start your program knowing in some degree the values. To generate more 'randomness' you change the seed to the function, not the function itself.
I remember once that a certain company thought about using the microphone as a random number generator, assuming that the noise about the computer was 'random'. What they forgot is that most parts of the computer make a very cyclic noise (for example the fan), which led to some very bad security holes. What this experiment is doing could be nothing more than a certain optical noise that might not be in fact be statistically random.
Not true, anyone can sell their music on itunes. Takes some doing, but it's not that hard. Would probably recommend a service do it for you however, like this
article states:
http://www.garagespin.com/2009/03/09/7-ways-sell-your-music-on-itunes/
Well they seem to be selling tons of devices without flash support.
The text of the SMS is already in the Network operators computer.
I would be interested to know if the data stream (GPRS/3G) can actually be 'listened to" that is to say, that it could be unencrypted in the air. Certainly the receiving device has to be able to unencrypt it, but is it encrypted between the two points ? (could any other device intercept the data stream) ?
Well I'm sure a small business that merely fills in orders through email or has a simple internet presence, google apps is probably all they will ever need.
However there are many things in government work, such as providing an audit trail and archive for the past several years (up to 10 sometimes even more), google doesn't guarantee that. In fact if you aren't doing it on your OWN hardware you aren't doing it right.
Everything in its proper place I say. If google provides a service that is useful for businesses, I'm sure they'll succeed. Yet I would never say that that service is necessarily ideal for all circumstances and certain in some circumstances it is a huge NO GO.
Examples of abuses of non in-house email server: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_White_House_e-mail_controversy
I left the U.S.A.
Seriously. I have worked in the 1980's in several ex-Communist countries, over 20 years in many different parts of Eastern Europe. Never once did I have to go through the crap that Americans have to do now. I am actually an American citizen but have spent most of my life overseas, and some 7 years ago I decided to go home to see my family.
Each of the passengers on that plane had to go through an interview of some 20 minutes and extensive search through all baggage and clothing. I mentioned to the officer that it seems a little incongruous that as an American citizen that I should undergo treatment that I never witnessed in all my time in Communist countries. He did not respond. I got on my flight but I then came back to Poland and I will never return to the USA again. It simply is a different country than it was for my parents.
Goodbye America, I hope you do well but I am rather ashamed at my citizenship now. Just ten years ago it was worth something, but now I can't even travel to my country of origin without being violated more than I am as a stranger in this country. Many countries in Europe, even ex-Communist ones, treat their foreigners better than the US treats their own citizens.
Well it pretty much excludes its use in any business or government environment. The whole reason you don't have gmail in business or government is that much of internal correspondence and documents have to stay INTERNAL to the organization. Putting it on the cloud somewhere means you can't audit the emails, not to mention that most companies just don't want their private workings available to a competitor.
Chrome OS demands that your information is in the hands of someone else - which is precisely the antithesis of security (where your data is YOUR data).
Wow this post is incorrect on so many levels.
Java != Javascript. They are radically different languages, and if you had worked with either of them you would know that converting from one to the other is by no means trivial.
There exist quite a few implementations of a pdf reader in Java, sme of them opensource. Icepdf comes to mind but there are many others, even whole libraries of code for this purpose.
Javascript really has nothing in common with Java except the name. You can thank the market department at Netscape for that.
But not everyone on the highway is safe or careful. The seatbelt protects you mostly from accidents with other people, not yourself.
Facebook chat has pretty much replaced IRC.
Sad fact, but that is the reality now. The number of people on IRC are dwindling fast.
By the way it's blackmail, which may or may not be used against black males.
The awful truth is that the very existence of Belgium is doubted by some:
http://zapatopi.net/belgium/
<p>So, if someone doesn't like a certain type of speech, it should be restricted?</p></quote>
Yes.
It happens all the time. Even slashdot is moderated to remove trolls. Freedom is not a perfection in itself but rather the means to obtain it. Free speech only has value if what is said is actually worth something.
And in general this has nothing to do with free speech, but just being a miserable excuse of a human being.
Imagine starting a large download while on wifi, when you notice it is going too slow plug in the Ethernet cable and see the speed increase as TCP notice more bandwidth is available. And if you are on the wired network and the cable for some reason gets pulled out nothing would break, it would just cause a drop in speed until you plug it in again.
My MacBook already does this. The magic of TCP/IP is that it just searches for more routes. Adding another interface gives more routes. I believe ubuntu also does this too, though I've never taken down the server's interface.
App developers don't care about who is winning. Droid has enough of a marketshare now that any major developer is writing for both. They'd be stupid not to.
http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/08/16/why-android-developers-are-losing-money/
and the experience of a particular developer:
http://larvalabs.com/blog/iphone/android-market-sales/
Firstly you are wrong in saying that a photon has no mass. It has no rest mass, but it certainly has energy, and even momentum (hv/c). Force is not just m*a, but even more correctly described as the change of momentum dp/dt. Gravity is a force and therefore it causes a change of momentum.
There are many papers that speculate that is light is a particular, what must be the effect of gravity upon it, dating from several years before Cavendish even.
Here is a citation of a letter from John Michell, 1783, even predicting what we call black holes today:
http://books.google.pl/books?id=XpyvPTRwLoQC&pg=PA368&lpg=PA368&dq=Cavendish's+paper+on+gravity+and+light&source=bl&ots=EXGBWCHeYy&sig=g4vE442GKMsAtLsa0yH5ehiUIh8&hl=pl&ei=UEStTf2TGoPxsgaZ1c3XDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=light%20gravity&f=false
The idea of photons, even if the name is recent in origin, is as old as light itself. Even Aristotle tried to reconcile several theories of light as being a "streaming substance" (a substance carrying some sort of energy, see de Anima), or as a "ray". The observation of motion of dust particules in a sunlight room does not date from last century.
The more you read the works of the ancient physicists, you will discover that they certainly were not people "without any clue", but often trying to wrap their minds around some serious observations. Whether they succeeded or not is another question, but they certainly had some clue.
It does seem to be written from left to right however, as the text is mostly flush to the left margin. If it was written from the right to the left, usually people make the text flush from where they begin writting.
"SE" definitely looks like a space or some token marker, perhaps a shorthand for "Stop. End" like a telegraph.
As a kid I was fascinated by two kinds of cyphers, such as the "Tic-Tac-Toe" cypher where the letters would be put into a grid and you used the grid shapes as keys to the letters, basically a substitution cypher. A variant could be made using some well known secret word or phrase that provides the key substitution. Subtitution cyphers can be broken using frequency analysis, which is the first thing you can check with the computer. If it were that easy they would have solved it by now.
He seems to correct himself in the middle of writing (for instance see 3rd line of 2nd note, where he corrects the 'T' into an 'R', and on the first note where he corrects the first letter of the second line). This makes me think that it is more than a substitution cypher but something perhaps he counts from a certain letter to get the next one (it's easy to make mistakes counting if you are thinking of the thing you want to write), or that his key could easily miss from one letter to another. The difference from 'T' to 'R' is not very far away, so he could have miscounted in applying his algorithm.
The fact that there seems to be some delimiting symbols ('SE' is a marker of some sort) means perhaps that the algorithm had some kind of break points where to reapply. If it was a simply one-to-one correspondence he probably wouldn't use two letters for substitution of a space. It might be something simple like removing all the letters but the first and last (SpacE), with spaces following the same rule.
Also there are some lines that are very similar, for instance (3rd to last lines of 1st note):
(cdnseprsednsde74ncbe)
(prtseprseonrede75ncbe)
They only differ in a few letters, namely CDN -> PRT; DNS -> ONR and the two numbers. If the message was an address or describing something with numbers (a car model year for instance) then there could be clues for trying certain transformations.
The fact that the encryption doesn't seem to encode numbers might be significant. If it were a sort of rotating cypher, where each letter is substituted and then counting from the last letter the next substitution, normally you wouldn't include numbers as then it would be difficult to subsitute past 9 (at least for a boy who doesn't know modular arithmetic).
The fact that he corrects himself so often in my opinion means that the encryption is something more complicated than a simple one way substitution. If he used it for a while there would be less errors (after awhile using substitution cyphers you almost automatically write v for e or whatever). It seems to be some kind of rotating count where errors are more prevalent.
It would really be helpful to have more examples of his handwriting and to know more about his personal habits. Breaking passwords is also more often trying to guess what a person was thinking at the time than actually trying symbols (at least when a human tries to decypher them). I wish the FBI would release more of his writing, especially his unencrypted text as that would give hints on his spelling habits and level of education in general.
Best comment so far. This is why I come here : the comments are vastly superior to the article.
One point to be made on the reason for Android is perhaps not so much for mobile ads but rather for the whole user base. Imagine having a gps tracker on all the users of your products including access to their contacts and good statistics on who they contact and how often. Just that data alone is worth much more than the development costs of an OS.
Perhaps a good example would be the special "discount cards" that shopping centers and gas . The 10% back or whatever is nothing compared to the statistics they gather on your shopping history. Knowing what your repeat customers buy is worth more money than and market testing. Google has brought this idea to a whole bew level.
Actually that movie was a disappointment.
Well they had the reputation of perpetual beta software for a long time.
True enough. The only problem is that the tools have to conform to certain standards, such as archival and accountability. That does get in the way of work, no question about it - but just like everything in life it is a cost-benefit analysis and often efficiency has to be sacrificed for the ability to archive and search. Just like programing, you can only pick so many features to implement, and soon the more features you have the worse your program performs. Beauracracy is a lot like the stack heap - you can put as much on the heap as you like, just don't expect it to come off as fast as it went in.
Notice I said "in general" - certainly for some government work there is not the need for so much paperwork and it could be streamlined. Problem is that most people dictating policy usually don't have to implement it, and those who make the laws are usually the last ones to have to obey them.
My only real point is that IT guys are also part of the system, and their draconian policies are usually established by someone else. It's a vicious cycle really, but that won't change until someone fixes human nature.
Hope you have a productive day nonetheless !
You don't need to throw it out, send it to me !
If you find the ipod so bad, I'm sure I'll find someone who will take it.