Librarians are also concerned because they see the writing on the wall. Libraries may not be needed in the near future. We have the technology today to make every book in existence available to every human on the planet, and in an instantly-searchable format. This is the sort of thing a global Renaissance is made of! The only thing holding humanity back, at this point, is politics. We have IP law that relies on artificial scarcity. This is the opposite of what the goal of IP should be.
The purpose of IP law should be to encourage science and the useful arts while making their benefits available to everyone.
You witlessly attempted to avoid answering my question by trying to change the topic. I am not at all impressed. Are you going to attempt to answer my question, or do you concede to my statement that offering free medical service is a good thing the vets should be thankful for?
You are the greatest troll I've seen in a while. You appoint yourself the defender of language, even though you're wrong (as language has moved on without you). But then you go off and misuse the phrase "to beg the question." That's really awesome. You're a talented troll or a hilariously confused and proud idiot. Either way, stay around and amuse us.
What, specifically, did the pen-testers do wrong? It sounds like the credit union is the group which screwed up. They contracted a pen-test, but then went ahead an called the cops *anyway*.
What would you have done differently if you were doing the pen-test?
Actually, I know the guys at the company who ran this test. They are definitely a Linux shop. MSI is a do-anything security company that will dig through your trash to test your shredder discipline, send phishing messages to your company to test your employee information security training, and try and sneak into your datacenter to test your security guards, as well as the normal vulnerability scanning type stuff.
The outrage over this is pretty funny, because the company behind it was under contract from the organizations which were mailed. What a great big bag of lulz.
Fun fact: In one of Vernor Vinge's books, all crypto is cracked, so one of the big-money industries is in shipping OTP datasets across the universe. How cool is that?
Do you live in a world in which Venn diagrams never overlap? Do your sets lack the difference operation, because it always returns the empty set? I would like to hear more about your insights into mathematics.
That's not a very intelligent question. Obviously, OTP can be secure in the long term for any definition of long term. Public key cryptography has always been secure, and probably will be until really really good quantum computers are developed. Symmetric key crypto is as secure as ever, and there's no indication this will change soon. Some cryptographic hash algorithms are less useful today, but most are still more than good enough.
So, yes, crypto can certainly be "secure" in the long term. Protocols with design flaws (like WPA-TKIP) will never be secure. The more "obscure" the protocol, the more likely it is to be insecure, as it won't benefit from peer review.
I don't understand. How is offering vets free healthcare IN ADDITION to the healthcare options available to every other American citizen anything at all like "shooting veterans dead on the white house lawn?"
Having another option, even if its not ideal, seems like a good thing to me.
How is listening to music while you work "goofing off"? I want my government employees to be honest and productive. If they are more productive while listening to music, then by Bob allmighty, I want them to listen to some damn music.
You need to ask a lawyer. His answer will depend, at least in part, on documents you have signed as part of your employment, and on state law.
Personally, I know my company is too confused to ever go after me, my data, and my ideas after I leave, so long as I don't compete directly with them. I don't worry about their supposed ownership of my every thought and dream, despite signing those rights over to them.
Are there people out there who have more than 4GB of memory but still run old 32b operating systems? How uncharacteristically anachronistic of any technology enthusiast...
I expect that you are underestimating the costs involved traveling through Earth's gravity well. I've heard that if a rock of solid gold were orbiting Earth, it would not be economically viable to de-orbit it. Unless we discover something out there that is fantastically valuable, "industry" will not be the motivating factor for space travel.
Having self-sufficient off-world biospheres? That's a worthwhile endeavor simply because survival of the species is important; it's just not valuable to private industry (oh and suck it, libertarians).
Today, it's the email address. I put that on anything valuable. If there is room, I also add a phone number (in case it's found by a pre-digital old person). Most people in the wealthy (globally speaking) world don't think twice about returning lost items, even lost cash. If I travel to the third world, though, I try to leave anything valuable behind. When you are struggling to stay out of poverty, I'm sure it's a lot harder to decide whether or not you should return a cell phone or camera you found lying around.
You're still extrapolating way too much out of losing an edit war. That says *nothing* about the general population of any country. Such extrapolation is a sign of intellectual recklessness.
You lost an edit war on wikipedia, therefore you dismiss the entire population of the united states as brainwashed. Clearly, you are not an extremely biased individual.
That's 12 hours while running notepad with the CPU clocked to 4MHz, with the backlight on minimum (you will need to cover yourself and your netbook with a blanket and wait for your night vision to adjust), and no network connection, and with your hard drive powered down. If you save your text file to disk, or if you hold down your shift key for longer than is necessary, you will not be guaranteed the 12 hours of battery life.
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Librarians are also concerned because they see the writing on the wall. Libraries may not be needed in the near future. We have the technology today to make every book in existence available to every human on the planet, and in an instantly-searchable format. This is the sort of thing a global Renaissance is made of! The only thing holding humanity back, at this point, is politics. We have IP law that relies on artificial scarcity. This is the opposite of what the goal of IP should be.
The purpose of IP law should be to encourage science and the useful arts while making their benefits available to everyone.
How about having the British apologize to everyone who was wronged by their hateful policies in the past?
The 120Hz display bit is here:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/3D_Vision_Overview.html
This requires an NVIDIA graphics card and a 120Hz display. Furthermore, it's damn cool!
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Neither seem highly unlikely.
You witlessly attempted to avoid answering my question by trying to change the topic. I am not at all impressed. Are you going to attempt to answer my question, or do you concede to my statement that offering free medical service is a good thing the vets should be thankful for?
You are the greatest troll I've seen in a while. You appoint yourself the defender of language, even though you're wrong (as language has moved on without you). But then you go off and misuse the phrase "to beg the question." That's really awesome. You're a talented troll or a hilariously confused and proud idiot. Either way, stay around and amuse us.
What, specifically, did the pen-testers do wrong? It sounds like the credit union is the group which screwed up. They contracted a pen-test, but then went ahead an called the cops *anyway*.
What would you have done differently if you were doing the pen-test?
Actually, I know the guys at the company who ran this test. They are definitely a Linux shop. MSI is a do-anything security company that will dig through your trash to test your shredder discipline, send phishing messages to your company to test your employee information security training, and try and sneak into your datacenter to test your security guards, as well as the normal vulnerability scanning type stuff.
The outrage over this is pretty funny, because the company behind it was under contract from the organizations which were mailed. What a great big bag of lulz.
Fun fact: In one of Vernor Vinge's books, all crypto is cracked, so one of the big-money industries is in shipping OTP datasets across the universe. How cool is that?
True, but for practical purposes, it doesn't even have to be random. It just has to be unpredictable to your attacker ;-)
I would just like to add that I live in a world where the definitions of "difference" and "intersection" are swapped.
D'oh.
Do you live in a world in which Venn diagrams never overlap? Do your sets lack the difference operation, because it always returns the empty set? I would like to hear more about your insights into mathematics.
Actually, it is a mathematical fact that OTP is perfectly unbreakable. P=NP doesn't enter into it.
That's not a very intelligent question. Obviously, OTP can be secure in the long term for any definition of long term. Public key cryptography has always been secure, and probably will be until really really good quantum computers are developed. Symmetric key crypto is as secure as ever, and there's no indication this will change soon. Some cryptographic hash algorithms are less useful today, but most are still more than good enough.
So, yes, crypto can certainly be "secure" in the long term. Protocols with design flaws (like WPA-TKIP) will never be secure. The more "obscure" the protocol, the more likely it is to be insecure, as it won't benefit from peer review.
I don't understand. How is offering vets free healthcare IN ADDITION to the healthcare options available to every other American citizen anything at all like "shooting veterans dead on the white house lawn?"
Having another option, even if its not ideal, seems like a good thing to me.
Your local admin rights mean nothing to a Domain Admin.
How is listening to music while you work "goofing off"? I want my government employees to be honest and productive. If they are more productive while listening to music, then by Bob allmighty, I want them to listen to some damn music.
I once had to investigate an employee. I did so by connecting to his computer over the network and downloading everything on all mounted drives.
You can encrypt all you want, the company would still have your files using the above method.
You need to ask a lawyer. His answer will depend, at least in part, on documents you have signed as part of your employment, and on state law.
Personally, I know my company is too confused to ever go after me, my data, and my ideas after I leave, so long as I don't compete directly with them. I don't worry about their supposed ownership of my every thought and dream, despite signing those rights over to them.
Are there people out there who have more than 4GB of memory but still run old 32b operating systems? How uncharacteristically anachronistic of any technology enthusiast...
I expect that you are underestimating the costs involved traveling through Earth's gravity well. I've heard that if a rock of solid gold were orbiting Earth, it would not be economically viable to de-orbit it. Unless we discover something out there that is fantastically valuable, "industry" will not be the motivating factor for space travel.
Having self-sufficient off-world biospheres? That's a worthwhile endeavor simply because survival of the species is important; it's just not valuable to private industry (oh and suck it, libertarians).
Today, it's the email address. I put that on anything valuable. If there is room, I also add a phone number (in case it's found by a pre-digital old person). Most people in the wealthy (globally speaking) world don't think twice about returning lost items, even lost cash. If I travel to the third world, though, I try to leave anything valuable behind. When you are struggling to stay out of poverty, I'm sure it's a lot harder to decide whether or not you should return a cell phone or camera you found lying around.
You're still extrapolating way too much out of losing an edit war. That says *nothing* about the general population of any country. Such extrapolation is a sign of intellectual recklessness.
You lost an edit war on wikipedia, therefore you dismiss the entire population of the united states as brainwashed. Clearly, you are not an extremely biased individual.
That's 12 hours while running notepad with the CPU clocked to 4MHz, with the backlight on minimum (you will need to cover yourself and your netbook with a blanket and wait for your night vision to adjust), and no network connection, and with your hard drive powered down. If you save your text file to disk, or if you hold down your shift key for longer than is necessary, you will not be guaranteed the 12 hours of battery life.