I have children, and you're right. But the answer is not to turn the raising of your children over to machines or corporations.
Put the only machines the children can access into the most public room in the house. Do not allow them to have computers in their bedrooms (or in any room with doors) or to have wireless access to the Internet until they are old enough to buy their own computers with money they have earned themselves. Do not use any sort of censoring or blocking software, at all, ever - the lesson that stuff usually teaches is how to deceive and subvert your over-controlling parent.
When your children are using the computers, you need to regularly inspect their activity with the Mark I Eyeball. Be a parent, not a proxy for some church or software corporation.
Because, seriously, blocking them from seeing this stuff at home is a pretty sure-fire way to get the opposite of what you want. What you want is for your children to grow into well-adjusted, sexually confident, healthy adults. You do not want them to be twisted by the circumstances in which they encounter sexual material, so you want to be present when they inevitably stumble across nasty porn. When they look up and say "Daddy, what is that man doing to that other man? Why is there a sheep in his boots?" you want to be there so you can explain the difference between healthy physical relationships that include sexual activity, and exploitive abusive relationships such as your children may find presented as "normal" in Internet porn, Catholic schools, or Senate bathrooms. You do not want them to remain in ignorance until they meet an exploiter, and you do not want them to believe this is something you cannot discuss with them in real time.
If you're uncomfortable with this role, tough luck, it's kind of late now to decide you're not going to be doing any meaningful parenting. You should get in touch with the local Unitarian Universalists or United Church of Christ; they have extremely good sex education resources that they will be happy to let you study if you don't know how to deal with it. If using resources published by religious organizations seems to contradict what I said above, then you didn't understand what I said.
Teach your children age-appropriate things at the earliest age they can comprehend them. If they can play minecraft, they should have already been taught that there's a right way and a wrong way to approach sexuality, and if you aren't going to teach that lesson, somebody else is going to do it while you're not looking. Like their soccer coach, or the priest, or the music teacher, or that nice man next door, or an older child...
Human readable flat files would be the optimum storage mechanism for this task. They should be designed to be both printable and readable for a thousand years into the future.
Lloyd Alexander's Prydain series for fantasy, Heinlein's juvenile stuff for SF. And don't ask him to read the books, read the books to him. Let him find his own things to read (it'll be godawful stuff in your opinion, and that's OK).
The ITU (formerly CCITT, I think) is about as well known as an industry group can possibly be. They've been around since the 1800s, establishing standards for everything from iron-wire telegraphs to ASN.1.
Every time a corporate tool asks me to break the law, I just tell them "No problem! Put it in writing and sign it!", and then they go ask somebody else and I never hear about it again. Totally not kidding.
...a human that, at approximately 6 feet tall weighed 180 pounds would not be 500 pounds. He would be 1,440 pounds (again approximately). Don't forget that the size (and hence the mass / weight) doubles in each of the three dimensions (what we could call height, width, and thickness). This is why we have the cube square law that shows how that impressive 12 foot, 1,440 pound human would be unable to walk.
Unless such a human were made of delicious lemon meringue! There, I've run rings around you logically. And now the penguin on top of your television set will explode.
You have to admit this post makes at least as much a sense as Funnyjunk's lawyer's claims.
The "scratch" is not needed to develop the drug, it's needed to breech the barriers to market. Your logic is close to circular. Existing players use regulatory barriers to keep drug wealth restricted to the "private investor" social class. It's got little or nothing to do with actually protecting anyone from bad medicine, although that's a convenient marketing angle to dazzle the rubes in congress.
This iteration of the tablet fad is half over. In a couple of years you'll see iPads at yard sales and in college dorms wedged under the laundry room door.
In the meantime the big slow companies are panicking, thinking they missed the Next Big Thing (and in a sense, they did) and now they're going to flood the market with tablety things just in time to lose their shirts as the fad dies for the third time.
None of the above intended as any insult to Apple or the blessed Steve, please Apple Cultists don't send your flying monkeys after me for blasphemy. Obviously Apple wins this round for being the first to notice the market was ready for another round of tabletry.
Salting still helps because it makes rainbow tables useless - you'd have to generate a rainbow table for each salt. Since the salt is used only once (unique per user), you'd have to brute force each password individually.
It seems to me that generating huge rainbow tables extremely quickly should be quite doable with a large botnet, because it's inherently a highly parallelizable task.
The raw horsepower advantage of criminal botnets probably makes a lot of the existing password dogma obsolete. Criminals won't necessarily have to pay for their CPU cycles, they can externalize that cost onto Comcast's customers. Legitimate operators have to pay for operating costs.
I think your final point is right on, though - use per user salts, a global salt stored separately, do hashing on the server side, only allow password submission over encrypted channels, and do dictionary checking at password change time, and I think you'll have achieved the current state of the art.
Since we don't know what position a capital letter might occupy
Sure we do. It's the first character. And the numbers are the last two characters, and if you want to crack them quickly you start with the current year (12) and work backwards. If you make them use a special character it will be either @ or $.
Your password may be different, but I don't care - for every one person like you there's a thousand who will do just what I said, no matter what you tell them.
Because, see, all this theory is fine, but in real life your end-users don't understand and/or don't care, and when you make them use a pattern (must have at least one upper case, at least one digit) the majority of them will respond predictably, decreasing the search space.
Where sustainability is concerned, you must not extract more energy than is coming back from the interior of the earth - completely independent on whether or not you could extract more than that - because you can.
Japan is on the Ring of Fire. There's far more heat coming up than you think, at least according to every scientific survey I can find online. And since the existing Japanese geothermal plants are already pulling more heat from the earth than you say is possible, I think your math has been empirically shown to be incorrect.
But we don't have to argue theory - the Japanese are going to put our opposing claims to the test. Check this out:
And more in the works, too. Energy farming is the growth industry of our time - sustainably harvesting resources instead of permanently depleting them.
You just don't have proper PHB attitude.
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Nothing to do with ego. Programmers are expensive.
You need to shop around more, then. Try Eastern Europe or your local high school, since wages are rising in India and China. Programmers are cheap; you just burn 'em up and then kick them out the door, like Cato the Elder said. They can work in the salt mines after you use up their youth and genius.
Remember, product quality is not an issue! PHBs aren't competent to recognize quality anywhere but the golf course, and their marketing plans don't depend on providing any actual value to customers anyway. Think of your customers as prey, to be cozened and schmoozed until you've sucked all the money from their flabby corpses, then you can discard them just like programmers.
Imagine a system where all the code you spent time and money to develop is given away and anyone who wants it can use it. You'd be out of business.
Linus Torvalds begs to differ!
I've given source code away whenever possible for the last 40 years or so. It's never been a problem, ever. I get a fair wage for my work, just like a bricklayer or garbage man. I'm an artisan, not a bishop.
Those of my employers who did not allow me to give away sources are all doing far worse in the marketplace than my employers who were willing to share.
Nobody has ever come up with a figure as low as 8GW before that I can find. I think you've got something fundamentally wrong with your assumptions.
In 1998 the Geothermal Research Society of Japan and AIST were estimating a maximum exploitable capacity of 23.4 GW - assuming a series of conventional power plants that resembled absolutely nothing like "installing pipes below the whole of the country".
It's always been difficult to develop geothermal power in Japan because of the Japanese reverence for the hot springs that occur in the vicinity of the most favorable sites, and because of the Japanese government's active discouragement of geothermal investment in favor of nuclear plant subsidies. Some of that is changing.
All the reputable research I can find inside 15 minutes indicates Japan should be able to replace around half their nuclear capacity with geothermal using off-the-shelf technology. That's without doing anything with hydrothermal vents or anything else particularly innovative, just using the same old creaky victorian steam technology that their obsolete nuclear plants use.
They can probably make up the rest by putting their entertainment centers on power strips and switching to LED lights. There's really no need for aging, poorly designed nuclear plants that cost more to clean up than they can ever earn selling power.
That's not the kind of math I was talking about. I prefer real numbers. You might want to start with the geothermal map of Japan, instead of waving your hands about impressively.
There's also nothing special about nuclear technology that makes it worth fixing.
No currently available terrestrial nuclear fission reactor has ever been economically viable without government sponsorship, and taxpayers overwhelmingly do not want it.
Do something better instead of fixating on old crappy technology like nuclear fission reactors. You may as well be burning whale oil - nobody has ever made a better oil lamp than a whale oil lamp!
Developers are just disposable meatsacks to PHBs.
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The most valuable resource in computing is developer time.
Whoo, you might want to have that ego inflammation lanced. I think it's starting to interfere with your vision.
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MS didn't just open up their protocol, they invited the SAMBA team, had 2 SMB/Network lead engineers to answer their questions, and gave them a full Linux+Windows environment to play around and test different things.
Absolutely true. It's a poorly kept secret - for several weeks there I couldn't get hold of anyone on the Samba team because they were all busy over at Microsoft.
I think Microsoft has finally realized, at some point, that linux is just not a real threat to their business model. By encouraging Open Source Software they can avoid monopoly prosecution while still dominating the markets they really want the most.
Instead of stating your gut instinct as if it were fact, why don't you figure out mathematically if Japan has the geothermal energy to cleanly power their entire nation. Geo thermal is cheap and easy and Fuji-sama is a volcano, ã?
Iceland makes over 25% of their power from geothermal sources and is on track to cut over to 100% in the "forseeable future" as you put it. Japan has far more manpower and technological ability than Iceland, and the exact same equipment that is used to exploit a boiling water reactor can be used to exploit a geothermal resource. It's just heat, and the same antique technology that is used for nukes works for any other sort of hot rocks with little modification.
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I have children, and you're right. But the answer is not to turn the raising of your children over to machines or corporations.
Put the only machines the children can access into the most public room in the house. Do not allow them to have computers in their bedrooms (or in any room with doors) or to have wireless access to the Internet until they are old enough to buy their own computers with money they have earned themselves. Do not use any sort of censoring or blocking software, at all, ever - the lesson that stuff usually teaches is how to deceive and subvert your over-controlling parent.
When your children are using the computers, you need to regularly inspect their activity with the Mark I Eyeball. Be a parent, not a proxy for some church or software corporation.
Because, seriously, blocking them from seeing this stuff at home is a pretty sure-fire way to get the opposite of what you want. What you want is for your children to grow into well-adjusted, sexually confident, healthy adults. You do not want them to be twisted by the circumstances in which they encounter sexual material, so you want to be present when they inevitably stumble across nasty porn. When they look up and say "Daddy, what is that man doing to that other man? Why is there a sheep in his boots?" you want to be there so you can explain the difference between healthy physical relationships that include sexual activity, and exploitive abusive relationships such as your children may find presented as "normal" in Internet porn, Catholic schools, or Senate bathrooms. You do not want them to remain in ignorance until they meet an exploiter, and you do not want them to believe this is something you cannot discuss with them in real time.
If you're uncomfortable with this role, tough luck, it's kind of late now to decide you're not going to be doing any meaningful parenting. You should get in touch with the local Unitarian Universalists or United Church of Christ; they have extremely good sex education resources that they will be happy to let you study if you don't know how to deal with it. If using resources published by religious organizations seems to contradict what I said above, then you didn't understand what I said.
Teach your children age-appropriate things at the earliest age they can comprehend them. If they can play minecraft, they should have already been taught that there's a right way and a wrong way to approach sexuality, and if you aren't going to teach that lesson, somebody else is going to do it while you're not looking. Like their soccer coach, or the priest, or the music teacher, or that nice man next door, or an older child...
Human readable flat files would be the optimum storage mechanism for this task. They should be designed to be both printable and readable for a thousand years into the future.
Lloyd Alexander's Prydain series for fantasy, Heinlein's juvenile stuff for SF. And don't ask him to read the books, read the books to him. Let him find his own things to read (it'll be godawful stuff in your opinion, and that's OK).
I don't know any really good programmers who'd shell out more than $50 for a graphics card.
We got paid up in 2000, mostly because of Ted Turner, so it hasn't been "decades".
And didn't Bush Jr. also pay up, in order to get weak international support for his trumped-up war on Iraq?
The ITU (formerly CCITT, I think) is about as well known as an industry group can possibly be. They've been around since the 1800s, establishing standards for everything from iron-wire telegraphs to ASN.1.
Every time a corporate tool asks me to break the law, I just tell them "No problem! Put it in writing and sign it!", and then they go ask somebody else and I never hear about it again. Totally not kidding.
Unless such a human were made of delicious lemon meringue! There, I've run rings around you logically. And now the penguin on top of your television set will explode.
You have to admit this post makes at least as much a sense as Funnyjunk's lawyer's claims.
The "scratch" is not needed to develop the drug, it's needed to breech the barriers to market. Your logic is close to circular. Existing players use regulatory barriers to keep drug wealth restricted to the "private investor" social class. It's got little or nothing to do with actually protecting anyone from bad medicine, although that's a convenient marketing angle to dazzle the rubes in congress.
This iteration of the tablet fad is half over. In a couple of years you'll see iPads at yard sales and in college dorms wedged under the laundry room door.
In the meantime the big slow companies are panicking, thinking they missed the Next Big Thing (and in a sense, they did) and now they're going to flood the market with tablety things just in time to lose their shirts as the fad dies for the third time.
None of the above intended as any insult to Apple or the blessed Steve, please Apple Cultists don't send your flying monkeys after me for blasphemy. Obviously Apple wins this round for being the first to notice the market was ready for another round of tabletry.
It seems to me that generating huge rainbow tables extremely quickly should be quite doable with a large botnet, because it's inherently a highly parallelizable task.
The raw horsepower advantage of criminal botnets probably makes a lot of the existing password dogma obsolete. Criminals won't necessarily have to pay for their CPU cycles, they can externalize that cost onto Comcast's customers. Legitimate operators have to pay for operating costs.
I think your final point is right on, though - use per user salts, a global salt stored separately, do hashing on the server side, only allow password submission over encrypted channels, and do dictionary checking at password change time, and I think you'll have achieved the current state of the art.
Sure we do. It's the first character. And the numbers are the last two characters, and if you want to crack them quickly you start with the current year (12) and work backwards. If you make them use a special character it will be either @ or $.
Your password may be different, but I don't care - for every one person like you there's a thousand who will do just what I said, no matter what you tell them.
Because, see, all this theory is fine, but in real life your end-users don't understand and/or don't care, and when you make them use a pattern (must have at least one upper case, at least one digit) the majority of them will respond predictably, decreasing the search space.
Source?
Japan is on the Ring of Fire. There's far more heat coming up than you think, at least according to every scientific survey I can find online. And since the existing Japanese geothermal plants are already pulling more heat from the earth than you say is possible, I think your math has been empirically shown to be incorrect.
But we don't have to argue theory - the Japanese are going to put our opposing claims to the test. Check this out:
http://articles.marketwatch.com/2012-03-22/markets/31224074_1_japan-s-fukushima-nuclear-reactor-plant
And more in the works, too. Energy farming is the growth industry of our time - sustainably harvesting resources instead of permanently depleting them.
You need to shop around more, then. Try Eastern Europe or your local high school, since wages are rising in India and China. Programmers are cheap; you just burn 'em up and then kick them out the door, like Cato the Elder said. They can work in the salt mines after you use up their youth and genius.
Remember, product quality is not an issue! PHBs aren't competent to recognize quality anywhere but the golf course, and their marketing plans don't depend on providing any actual value to customers anyway. Think of your customers as prey, to be cozened and schmoozed until you've sucked all the money from their flabby corpses, then you can discard them just like programmers.
Linus Torvalds begs to differ!
I've given source code away whenever possible for the last 40 years or so. It's never been a problem, ever. I get a fair wage for my work, just like a bricklayer or garbage man. I'm an artisan, not a bishop.
Those of my employers who did not allow me to give away sources are all doing far worse in the marketplace than my employers who were willing to share.
Give them a copy of the source code, and if they don't like what you charge for support, they can hire somebody else to do it.
Of course if they come back later and want you to fix whatever their el cheapo programmer did to your code, they're going to have to pay extra. ;)
Nobody has ever come up with a figure as low as 8GW before that I can find. I think you've got something fundamentally wrong with your assumptions.
In 1998 the Geothermal Research Society of Japan and AIST were estimating a maximum exploitable capacity of 23.4 GW - assuming a series of conventional power plants that resembled absolutely nothing like "installing pipes below the whole of the country".
It's always been difficult to develop geothermal power in Japan because of the Japanese reverence for the hot springs that occur in the vicinity of the most favorable sites, and because of the Japanese government's active discouragement of geothermal investment in favor of nuclear plant subsidies. Some of that is changing.
All the reputable research I can find inside 15 minutes indicates Japan should be able to replace around half their nuclear capacity with geothermal using off-the-shelf technology. That's without doing anything with hydrothermal vents or anything else particularly innovative, just using the same old creaky victorian steam technology that their obsolete nuclear plants use.
They can probably make up the rest by putting their entertainment centers on power strips and switching to LED lights. There's really no need for aging, poorly designed nuclear plants that cost more to clean up than they can ever earn selling power.
That's not the kind of math I was talking about. I prefer real numbers. You might want to start with the geothermal map of Japan, instead of waving your hands about impressively.
There's also nothing special about nuclear technology that makes it worth fixing.
No currently available terrestrial nuclear fission reactor has ever been economically viable without government sponsorship, and taxpayers overwhelmingly do not want it.
Do something better instead of fixating on old crappy technology like nuclear fission reactors. You may as well be burning whale oil - nobody has ever made a better oil lamp than a whale oil lamp!
Whoo, you might want to have that ego inflammation lanced. I think it's starting to interfere with your vision.
Absolutely true. It's a poorly kept secret - for several weeks there I couldn't get hold of anyone on the Samba team because they were all busy over at Microsoft.
I think Microsoft has finally realized, at some point, that linux is just not a real threat to their business model. By encouraging Open Source Software they can avoid monopoly prosecution while still dominating the markets they really want the most.
Instead of stating your gut instinct as if it were fact, why don't you figure out mathematically if Japan has the geothermal energy to cleanly power their entire nation. Geo thermal is cheap and easy and Fuji-sama is a volcano, ã?
Iceland makes over 25% of their power from geothermal sources and is on track to cut over to 100% in the "forseeable future" as you put it. Japan has far more manpower and technological ability than Iceland, and the exact same equipment that is used to exploit a boiling water reactor can be used to exploit a geothermal resource. It's just heat, and the same antique technology that is used for nukes works for any other sort of hot rocks with little modification.
Most Americans can't understand the differences between Persia and East Boise.
whooptydoo!