"The case studies all use words like "secure", "MD5", "RSS feeds" and "encryption" to describe the security of The Cloud."
- the word "secure" is very ambiguous. Of course a lock is more secure than no lock, but we all know several types of locks exist.
- MD5 is actually outdated, cfr articles about MD5 collision attack. Even though mainstream computers are not powerful enough for such an attack, there are many trojans and other malicious software that allow infected computers to work as an attack unit in a whole cluster.
- "RSS feeds" has nothing to do with security, and is just a document in XML format to frequently publish some summary data. Of course, you can add encrypted data in an RSS feed, but I dont see much interest in that since RSS is mainly meant for short messages
- "encryption" is no guarantuee for security
Even though many people are attracked by fancy security-related terms, many forget that:
- security is determined by the weakest chain, not the strongest. Possible weaknesses are weak passwords, outdated encryption, data theft at the source or destination,...
- security is based on confidence, in the sense that the company you send secure data to can - in theory - do with it as he likes.
- most fully encrypted data is only "secure" for a certain amount of time. After all, computers become more powerful every day and more and more people use to have one (or more).
"The probability of finding love in the UK is only about 100 times better than the probability of finding intelligent life in our galaxy.'"
100 times an approximately zero probability is not a very optimistic chance
I rather believe current presidents became what they are because they have the skills as Machiavelli explained. Only geeks like us would read a book like that.
we might indeed have the technology, but I wonder whether enough data has been analysed to provide full support of these hypotheses regarding brain activity related to mental disorders. Moreover, statistical relations never prove the correlation between measurements and observations, they just give an indication (which might occur due to non-measured reasons, or by chance). Hence, I think it is important judges are well informed about the value of these kind of scans, even when correlations are highly supported (many studies, high confidence).
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religion is only an argument, take it away and one will easily find another.
"The case studies all use words like "secure", "MD5", "RSS feeds" and "encryption" to describe the security of The Cloud." - the word "secure" is very ambiguous. Of course a lock is more secure than no lock, but we all know several types of locks exist. - MD5 is actually outdated, cfr articles about MD5 collision attack. Even though mainstream computers are not powerful enough for such an attack, there are many trojans and other malicious software that allow infected computers to work as an attack unit in a whole cluster. - "RSS feeds" has nothing to do with security, and is just a document in XML format to frequently publish some summary data. Of course, you can add encrypted data in an RSS feed, but I dont see much interest in that since RSS is mainly meant for short messages - "encryption" is no guarantuee for security Even though many people are attracked by fancy security-related terms, many forget that: - security is determined by the weakest chain, not the strongest. Possible weaknesses are weak passwords, outdated encryption, data theft at the source or destination, ...
- security is based on confidence, in the sense that the company you send secure data to can - in theory - do with it as he likes.
- most fully encrypted data is only "secure" for a certain amount of time. After all, computers become more powerful every day and more and more people use to have one (or more).
wars usually involve breaking the rules rather than following them
This has been done before: thats how Tutankhamun got famous
"The probability of finding love in the UK is only about 100 times better than the probability of finding intelligent life in our galaxy.'" 100 times an approximately zero probability is not a very optimistic chance
there is a difference in the ability to sense a situation, and the knowledge how to deal with it
I rather believe current presidents became what they are because they have the skills as Machiavelli explained. Only geeks like us would read a book like that.
we might indeed have the technology, but I wonder whether enough data has been analysed to provide full support of these hypotheses regarding brain activity related to mental disorders. Moreover, statistical relations never prove the correlation between measurements and observations, they just give an indication (which might occur due to non-measured reasons, or by chance). Hence, I think it is important judges are well informed about the value of these kind of scans, even when correlations are highly supported (many studies, high confidence).
or you could clone yourself and date it btw, since when is it good to have many genes in common, I thought it rather ruins evolution