Right now the whole encryption field is basically security through obscurity.
The math exists as to how to crack most crypto, it is just above most peoples heads. Much research into new attacks and methods are supressed in one form or another.
The factoring algorithms are bordering on trival... they just take a very long time to run.
Energy and technology will not drive us to space. Profit will, regardless of the nut factor. If there is profit to be had there you'd be nuts NOT to go.
If someone figures out how to make a buck by shipping people there, then they will. It is that simple.
Satellites are insanely complex and expensive - yet they exist. Why? Because someone made a profit (for the most part) by putting them there and selling their services. All so people can talk to grandma, and watch porn on demand (among other things).
Something may or may not happen with manned space travel/exploration/colonization... and the people making a profit at it will not give the first shit about the fact that Africans are dying of AIDS by the millions, or that whales are being slaughtered, or whatever.
Hydrogen is essentially a battery - stores the energy that you used to liberate it from water.
Easy to make - yes.
Easy to make in industrial quantities efficiently (or even profitably)? No.
Perhaps one day will will have uber effiecent solar hydrogen generating stations in our homes, but that is a long way off.
And, BTW, even today fresh water is too precious in many areas to simply burn (how crazy is that?). So now we are talking seawater for the hydrogen... which just tripled the problems that must be dealt with.
It seems as if you have never worked in an accredited environment.
An AIS (computer) that hosts classified information cannot have wireless capability. No wireless NIC, No bluetooth. Yes they issue waivers for this all the time, which is stupid. In that case the wireless device is to be physically shorted out (which many people don't do they simply disable in the BIOS which is also stupid).
Yes you could crack the case and get at the hard drive (which is also marked classified), good luck doing that unnoticed in a SCIF. Many times the machine itself is locked in a rack - you don't have the key. You don't have the BIOS password, and the machine is supposed to have case intrusion detection enabled. (And of course many do not).
A big problem is the accreditation process which is artificially complex. It is not more than a cottage industry: made overly complex by so called IA (information Assurance) experts who claim only THEY can properly do this task (much like an FSO in the clearance realm). They obscure the process, make it totally non-transparent, withhold info... just to preserve their job. The paperwork is astounding.
They have taken a fairly straight forward technical task and turned it into something ugly, unwieldy, and ineffective.
Phones will have a variety of ways to connect to a monitor (network, Bluetooth, HDMI, projector)
USB 3 ports for mouse, keyboard, and unlimited fast storage. Bluetooth works for this as well. This can also Connect you to wired Ethernet. They already have fine wifi.
You will just walk up to your workstation consisting of a monitor, kb, mouse, maybe an external drive (but storage could be on a remote server) and start working. All peripherals seamlessly connect to your phone, which remains in your pocket.
Why do we need laptops again? Many of these capabilities are already in existence.
Military personnel (as well as anyone with a clearance actually) is prohibited from possessing classified material that they do not have specific need to know in any way, shape, or form, regardless of where it comes from. Not to mention having it on personal or other non accredited machines.
Doesn't matter that it comes from wikileaks and that half the globe hs this info - the stuff is still classified and they are to treat it as such: no exceptions.
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In Maryland, the police recently got their asses handed to them.
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/blog/2010/09/motorcyclist_wins_taping_case.html
Right now the whole encryption field is basically security through obscurity.
The math exists as to how to crack most crypto, it is just above most peoples heads. Much research into new attacks and methods are supressed in one form or another.
The factoring algorithms are bordering on trival... they just take a very long time to run.
Energy and technology will not drive us to space. Profit will, regardless of the nut factor. If there is profit to be had there you'd be nuts NOT to go.
If someone figures out how to make a buck by shipping people there, then they will. It is that simple.
Satellites are insanely complex and expensive - yet they exist. Why? Because someone made a profit (for the most part) by putting them there and selling their services. All so people can talk to grandma, and watch porn on demand (among other things).
Something may or may not happen with manned space travel/exploration/colonization... and the people making a profit at it will not give the first shit about the fact that Africans are dying of AIDS by the millions, or that whales are being slaughtered, or whatever.
Hydrogen is essentially a battery - stores the energy that you used to liberate it from water.
Easy to make - yes.
Easy to make in industrial quantities efficiently (or even profitably)? No.
Perhaps one day will will have uber effiecent solar hydrogen generating stations in our homes, but that is a long way off.
And, BTW, even today fresh water is too precious in many areas to simply burn (how crazy is that?). So now we are talking seawater for the hydrogen... which just tripled the problems that must be dealt with.
Perhaps it's time to truly tiptoe through those .c file tulips.
That is, of course, an excellent and obvious point.
Yet it will be explained away in a cavalier attitude, followed by M$ bashing.
Because the 13 systems actually running OpenBSD are all used by the FBI I guess.
It seems as if you have never worked in an accredited environment.
An AIS (computer) that hosts classified information cannot have wireless capability. No wireless NIC, No bluetooth. Yes they issue waivers for this all the time, which is stupid. In that case the wireless device is to be physically shorted out (which many people don't do they simply disable in the BIOS which is also stupid).
Yes you could crack the case and get at the hard drive (which is also marked classified), good luck doing that unnoticed in a SCIF. Many times the machine itself is locked in a rack - you don't have the key. You don't have the BIOS password, and the machine is supposed to have case intrusion detection enabled. (And of course many do not).
A big problem is the accreditation process which is artificially complex. It is not more than a cottage industry: made overly complex by so called IA (information Assurance) experts who claim only THEY can properly do this task (much like an FSO in the clearance realm). They obscure the process, make it totally non-transparent, withhold info... just to preserve their job. The paperwork is astounding.
They have taken a fairly straight forward technical task and turned it into something ugly, unwieldy, and ineffective.
Years ago we filled the USB ports of SIPRnet nodes at our site with crazy glue.
More to the point... the client itself is free.
The monthly subscription is the money maker.
...not likely but that would be hilarious,
...but the only way to be sure is to nuke the North from orbit.
Or was it a universal feeling of entitlement while living in a welfare state?
...would accomplish much the same thing as this jamming technology.
Spinning mirrors possibly. Maybe a strobe of some sort.
True it is line of sight, but probably good enough.
One thing I would not do is smelt miles of copper wire.
Phones will have a variety of ways to connect to a monitor (network, Bluetooth, HDMI, projector)
USB 3 ports for mouse, keyboard, and unlimited fast storage. Bluetooth works for this as well. This can also Connect you to wired Ethernet. They already have fine wifi.
You will just walk up to your workstation consisting of a monitor, kb, mouse, maybe an external drive (but storage could be on a remote server) and start working. All peripherals seamlessly connect to your phone, which remains in your pocket.
Why do we need laptops again? Many of these capabilities are already in existence.
You remember those hot babes who were Florida Gators fans who ended up in Maxim? THEY made Facebook take off.
Oh that's right..... They already did!
A Mac Mini, while Intel based, almost fits these specs. It is fairly lower power.
I suppose that the fact that the algebraic and arithmetical solutions are different (yet both valid) is lost on you.
"Researchers at Texas A&M struggle with Meaning of Parenthesis."
Until today I have never seen a problem in this form i.e. "4+3+2=()+2"
4+3+2=x+2 yes. But ()?
??
While it is a simple problem and easily solved it did cause a slight moment of mental pause to figure out what I was looking at.
Kind of hard to draw conclusions based on what amounts to a trick question.
I am not espousing anything... just saying that ol' Julian is playing with a crowd that doens't consider it a game.
Insightful.
Hardly.
Much of the value of knowing an advesaries secrets vanishes if they know you know.
Military personnel (as well as anyone with a clearance actually) is prohibited from possessing classified material that they do not have specific need to know in any way, shape, or form, regardless of where it comes from. Not to mention having it on personal or other non accredited machines.
Doesn't matter that it comes from wikileaks and that half the globe hs this info - the stuff is still classified and they are to treat it as such: no exceptions.