What if Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen kept AES to themselves, wouldn't that work for them and still be considered "roll your own"? Still, I think that FOSS works best for encryption; many eyes make for shallow backdoors... erhm what was the saying again? It is one of the reasons I dont really trust bloated distros like ubuntu. Too much code to inspect. (but I might be wrong;-)
Thank you for asking these questions in exactly the right place. I would like to offer you some answers to your questions. At first I tried to answer them from bottom to top, but I found out that each question has some relation to the previous one, so I did it top to bottom. My sincere excuses for the delay coming forth from my misconception. Again, this IS the best place to ask these questions! For your convenience I have put a 'Q' in front of your question, and an 'A' in front of the Answer.
Q> What *is* space exploration? When something like the humble Voyager 1 probe can continue giving usable data for such a long time, it should cause us to ask, why haven't our other missions been as successful? A> Space exploration is the exploration of the stuff on the outside of the planet earth (or Gaia as some seaweed-cracker eating nutjobs call it)
Q> The Mars rovers are another example. [xkcd.com] When you consider the scale and complexity of their task, the rovers comparatively performed on par with Voyager 1. A> This is not really a way to ask something, is it?
Q> You might say, "We can't plan for what it does after the mission is over, that's kind of the point of having a defined *mission plan*" and to that I say 'hogwash' A> Again, this is not really a proper way to ask something, is it? Please leave your comments on wired.com
Q> It is my firm belief that humans should be taking vacations on Luna *now* and soon stepping foot on Mars. We could do it. Why aren't we? A> The main reason that we do not go on holiday on the moon, or Luna as some amateurs prefer, is usually one of the following: 1 - no bars 2 - no beaches with ladies in swimming attire 3 - more importantly: no beaches with ladies in half their swimming attire. 4 - (if you are a reader of the Guardian) no museums 5 - you *constantly* have to remember where your towel is. 6 - Flip-flops fit really badly on these so-called moon-boots. 7 - any of the above
Q> NASA is a tool. Are we using it to its fullest? A> NASA is an abbreviation, or more specifically it is an acronym, not a tool. A hammer is an example of a tool.
Hopefully I answered your questions fully and may I add that the answers provided here are conclusive. If you somehow feel in need of a second opinion from another/.visitor you can request so by filing form 82BKO0E3#9320B/fsF-109 at your local Vogon station on each seventh Wednesday of the month on odd-numbered-months-even-numbered-years between 11:59 and 12:00AM or in the trash-bin whenever you feel like.
With kind regards, The/.space council & climate change spindoctors.
Yup that is correct! The government builds roads, schools, sanitation and they will even recover your lost email for you!...If you pay... They clearly refused this caller because he lives in Amsterdam (--> The Netherlands --> Yurp) and therefore didn't pay a single penny to the good old IRS. So why/would/ they help him? No $$$ --> No service...
Otherwise I am CONVINCED that they would help him out. That is how the government works, right? Helping the folks that pay for their wages, comfy chairs, first class coffee on their long leisurely coffee breaks? Always at the service of the people in a jiffy and with a smile! Always doing that little extra to make sure your every tax-penny is a well-spend-penny. The government that always goes for the 110% customer care. A wink and a tip to the hat whenever you merrily walking out of some government building where they truly understood your case. Where papers and forms are kept to a bare minimum in order to keep the well oiled machine running as cost-effective as possible. <bleep-bleep-bleep-bleep> The government that <bleep-bleep-bleep-bleep>
Wait... what? Is that my alarm clock? <bleep-bleep-bleep-bleep-bleep-bleep> I just KNEW I was dreaming...
>> What if I place a phone call to someone I know, or "have a special reason to know", may be sneezing... http://what-if.xkcd.com/55/
Whats next? Making witchcraft & sorcery illegal? Oh, wait... What? Ah... that's my fault, that bit belongs to the Saudi's and their great thinkers... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18503550 But this is about as stupid isn't it?
Yup! If you want a sub that can ONLY go to the bottom and never resurface, just hire a Spanish Engineer. Apparently they have some knowledge on that specific field.
>So the Nobel Peace Prize = "I HATE AMERICA" Prize.
In addition to that: "I HATE AMERICA BUT I LOVE THE EU"Prize. Guess who won the Nobel Peace prize last year? Huh? Huh? The US? Nope... Try again!
If they reward him (Snowden) the NPP, it shows that the committee has a backbone of Titanium and balls of Wedontgiveashitium. But is it the smartest thing to do? Mnnnnehdont think so.
In a related story to that, some researchers had a proof of concept that they could filter out the keyboardstrokes from a power line. Everytime a button on a usb-keyboard is pressed in it will give off some 'fingerprint' on the grounded bit. They somehow got information out of that. Then again, this was in a controlled lab-environment, where the power source was completely stripped of any distortion and the return was examined for little changes. Nevertheless I thought it was quite clever. I dont think that it would work on a big office with hundreds of usb-keyboards, coffeemachines, electric pencilsharpeners and whatnot. But it is a good story around the camp fire on the next NSA camping trip:-)
It seems that this rising happened during the 'day'. Sometimes our moon does that but just before I watched this video I expected it to be 'night'. Anyway, nice one! Probably Mars wont experience a lot of tidal forces from such a tiny rock;-)
Although I am against violence I must admit that some smug glasshole would be able to enrage me. Since I do agree with you that violence is not a civilised path to a better world (a glasshole free one preferably) lets go through the options. 1 - Give them the finger. CONTINUALLY. That way obnoxious behaviour is met with obnoxious behaviour. They will either figure it out, or ask their glasses. 2 - Hold your mobile up to him/her as if you were filming him/her. If he/she ask you if you are filming them just shrug and reply: Maybe. 3 - Refuse to talk to anyone with that stupid thing on their head but acknowledge their existence. Give them any excuse you see fit when they ask for it. 4 - Ignore them completely and totally and so on. No talking, no looking in their direction, nothing. When at a party and the smug ass is in your group drop the line how you used to like that person, but since he became a glasshole not anymore. When they put them off for a second warmly greet them and tell them that just a second ago a glasshole was here. 5 - When left unregarded for a second, put it in a 'safe place'. No need to trash it or throw it in a canal, but just put it somewhere and give it back when you are about to depart the situation you are in. 6 - When they try to enter your house / shop / workplace / bar / other, tell them that this is a glasshole-unfriendly place and have them put it away. Make sure they are well informed NOT to take it out under ANY circumstance. 7 - Make jokes about Glassholes. It is wrong to make jokes about people who NEED glasses (or any other stuff they cant help), but it IS funny to make jokes about stupid choices. Like jokes about neo-nazis or sports-fanatics or glassholes. 8 - Shout at them not to look at you. Be firm leaning to aggressiveness. If they want to pivot the glas-mounting-point shout even louder. "DONT LOOK AT ME. DONT LOOK AT ME! I DARE YOU!!!. (this is not assault right?)
Hear! Hear! One of the sweetest things about irony is that you never see it coming! Weird reaction too; I broke my nose and the glasses are somewhere orbiting my optical nerve right now, but the whole thing is in the cloud now! Happy happy joy joy! Hopefully the court will indeed say; that is your own fault for harassing people, now bugger off! http://youtu.be/xKTseEpWrYc
That is correct. The list looks a bit like this: 1 - fighting terrorists 2 - fighting child pornography 3 - something with global warming 4 - helping the government spy on ordinary people.
There was! On the right hand sight there is a magic coin that is used for mind control. It must be used for mind control! Cause I dont believe it is there for scale, people generally have an idea how big glasses are...
It is not recording all the time. So either one could take the chance, or to more safe, attack from behind. In case you are really against human-2-human violence, you could just rip them off from the side and crush it with your manly 'size 12'. I just can't wait to see the video's on Youtube of the smug glassholes that all end with a good ol' fashion punch on the nose. Like those weird Russian dashcam video's.
(some rather big guy) Hey! Stop filming me! Its my right to do so, this is the street you know! I said STOP FILMING ME GLASSHOLE ! ! ! (guy is now approaching) But.. but... its my right, its on the street... And on the streets you need to be streetsmart jackass (Fist comes in real fast from the lower left corner... then black)
> If I was 14 again, I'd sure as hell be hunting around frantically looking for a way out of this cage. And I'd sure as hell not be using any Microsoft products.
Hear! Hear! You are absolutely right! BUT... If you were born today there is a good chance that your lovely mom put pictures of you on FB the very moment they cut the umbilical cord. And there you go, the game is on and in the very first moment FB scores 1, you... 0 As I am writing this I realised I sound a bit like an old preacher droning on about original sin:-S
The cloud bubble can't get much bigger than this. Can it?
A bubble usually bursts when even neophytes start talking about it as if they were in it for years. Or at least this is said about stock market bubbles. There is some overlap I guess. So will the cloud burst? (pun intended) Not yet I think. There are still a lot of people who are not at all aware of this thing called the cloud.
Actually I think that it will get slightly more big. Big in the sense that at a certain moment there wont be computers any more as we know them. Just devices with little computing power (risc) lots of RAM a small SSD just big enough to hold the OS. The OS is only needed to start a browser, hardly anything else. There will be bluetooth, wifi and XG (3G/4G/5G etcetera). Everything else is on the cloud. The data, the programs, the wallpaper... everything. Any picture made will get uploaded there, and integrated with all kinds of social networks. Instantly available for anyone in your network that you gave permission to view that picture.
Also it goes without saying that the company who has the harddrives with all that data can use it however they think is good. No more privacy, no more 'your data' even less than it is now. We will be of the complete mercy of the corporations. Even if you dont like it it, some glasshole makes a picture of you and your mugshot is out there as well. The line between social networks, the cloud and the rest of the internet will get thinner and thinner. And no, I dont like that. I think it's a dystopia.
Eventually people will realise that and resist it. THEN the cloud bursts I think.
>And exactly how do they intend to enforce this against sites hosted overseas, provided the owner of the site doesn't live in Singapore either? Do they plan to build really, really long canes?
Probably they will use their guns. In the battle of Singapore (February 1942) they had all their guns pointed towards the sea. Hours long they sat there with binoculars waiting for the Japanese Imperial Navy to arrive. The Japanese soldiers did... Over land... From the back... Completely circumventing the whole defence basically. (irony is a bitch huh?) So the guns are still as good as new and ready to fire in 3... 2... 1...
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>>Rolling your own crypto won't work well.
What if Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen kept AES to themselves, wouldn't that work for them and still be considered "roll your own"?
Still, I think that FOSS works best for encryption; many eyes make for shallow backdoors... erhm what was the saying again?
It is one of the reasons I dont really trust bloated distros like ubuntu. Too much code to inspect. (but I might be wrong;-)
My dear fellow slashdotter,
/.visitor you can request so by filing form 82BKO0E3#9320B/fsF-109 at your local Vogon station on each seventh Wednesday of the month on odd-numbered-months-even-numbered-years between 11:59 and 12:00AM or in the trash-bin whenever you feel like.
/.space council & climate change spindoctors.
Thank you for asking these questions in exactly the right place. I would like to offer you some answers to your questions. At first I tried to answer them from bottom to top, but I found out that each question has some relation to the previous one, so I did it top to bottom. My sincere excuses for the delay coming forth from my misconception. Again, this IS the best place to ask these questions! For your convenience I have put a 'Q' in front of your question, and an 'A' in front of the Answer.
Q> What *is* space exploration? When something like the humble Voyager 1 probe can continue giving usable data for such a long time, it should cause us to ask, why haven't our other missions been as successful?
A> Space exploration is the exploration of the stuff on the outside of the planet earth (or Gaia as some seaweed-cracker eating nutjobs call it)
Q> The Mars rovers are another example. [xkcd.com] When you consider the scale and complexity of their task, the rovers comparatively performed on par with Voyager 1.
A> This is not really a way to ask something, is it?
Q> You might say, "We can't plan for what it does after the mission is over, that's kind of the point of having a defined *mission plan*" and to that I say 'hogwash'
A> Again, this is not really a proper way to ask something, is it? Please leave your comments on wired.com
Q> It is my firm belief that humans should be taking vacations on Luna *now* and soon stepping foot on Mars. We could do it. Why aren't we?
A> The main reason that we do not go on holiday on the moon, or Luna as some amateurs prefer, is usually one of the following:
1 - no bars
2 - no beaches with ladies in swimming attire
3 - more importantly: no beaches with ladies in half their swimming attire.
4 - (if you are a reader of the Guardian) no museums
5 - you *constantly* have to remember where your towel is.
6 - Flip-flops fit really badly on these so-called moon-boots.
7 - any of the above
Q> NASA is a tool. Are we using it to its fullest?
A> NASA is an abbreviation, or more specifically it is an acronym, not a tool. A hammer is an example of a tool.
Hopefully I answered your questions fully and may I add that the answers provided here are conclusive. If you somehow feel in need of a second opinion from another
With kind regards,
The
Yup that is correct! The government builds roads, schools, sanitation and they will even recover your lost email for you! ...If you pay... They clearly refused this caller because he lives in Amsterdam (--> The Netherlands --> Yurp) and therefore didn't pay a single penny to the good old IRS. So why /would/ they help him? No $$$ --> No service...
Otherwise I am CONVINCED that they would help him out. That is how the government works, right?
Helping the folks that pay for their wages, comfy chairs, first class coffee on their long leisurely coffee breaks?
Always at the service of the people in a jiffy and with a smile!
Always doing that little extra to make sure your every tax-penny is a well-spend-penny.
The government that always goes for the 110% customer care.
A wink and a tip to the hat whenever you merrily walking out of some government building where they truly understood your case.
Where papers and forms are kept to a bare minimum in order to keep the well oiled machine running as cost-effective as possible.
<bleep-bleep-bleep-bleep>
The government that <bleep-bleep-bleep-bleep>
Wait... what? Is that my alarm clock? <bleep-bleep-bleep-bleep-bleep-bleep>
I just KNEW I was dreaming...
At this rate that wont happen any time soon. We are probably all dead when Linux 8 will arive :-S
>> What if I place a phone call to someone I know, or "have a special reason to know", may be sneezing... http://what-if.xkcd.com/55/
Whats next? Making witchcraft & sorcery illegal?
Oh, wait...
What?
Ah... that's my fault, that bit belongs to the Saudi's and their great thinkers...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18503550
But this is about as stupid isn't it?
Exactly, all we have now is a clock that is very stable though 5 minutes ahead :-S
Yup! If you want a sub that can ONLY go to the bottom and never resurface, just hire a Spanish Engineer. Apparently they have some knowledge on that specific field.
Hey Chuck Norris!
I never knew that you post under AC here. I always assumed that your username would be root and your UID was -1.
Yes, a Vet would. An AC? Mmnnneh :-)
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
>So the Nobel Peace Prize = "I HATE AMERICA" Prize.
In addition to that: "I HATE AMERICA BUT I LOVE THE EU"Prize.
Guess who won the Nobel Peace prize last year? Huh? Huh?
The US? Nope... Try again!
If they reward him (Snowden) the NPP, it shows that the committee has a backbone of Titanium and balls of Wedontgiveashitium. But is it the smartest thing to do? Mnnnnehdont think so.
>first thing i thought was red herring ...And then you changed your linkedin profile, and posted this huh?
In a related story to that, some researchers had a proof of concept that they could filter out the keyboardstrokes from a power line. Everytime a button on a usb-keyboard is pressed in it will give off some 'fingerprint' on the grounded bit. They somehow got information out of that. Then again, this was in a controlled lab-environment, where the power source was completely stripped of any distortion and the return was examined for little changes. Nevertheless I thought it was quite clever. :-)
I dont think that it would work on a big office with hundreds of usb-keyboards, coffeemachines, electric pencilsharpeners and whatnot. But it is a good story around the camp fire on the next NSA camping trip
RTFA.
[...]reports about Dmitry Medvedev being listened in on during his visit to the G20 summit in London[...]
Apparently the whole listening in to things is somehow covered in the spy-training curriculum. Who would have guessed that huh? </sarcasm>
Why? Because someone scent you an email?
It seems that this rising happened during the 'day'. Sometimes our moon does that but just before I watched this video I expected it to be 'night'. ;-)
Anyway, nice one!
Probably Mars wont experience a lot of tidal forces from such a tiny rock
Although I am against violence I must admit that some smug glasshole would be able to enrage me. Since I do agree with you that violence is not a civilised path to a better world (a glasshole free one preferably) lets go through the options.
1 - Give them the finger. CONTINUALLY. That way obnoxious behaviour is met with obnoxious behaviour. They will either figure it out, or ask their glasses.
2 - Hold your mobile up to him/her as if you were filming him/her. If he/she ask you if you are filming them just shrug and reply: Maybe.
3 - Refuse to talk to anyone with that stupid thing on their head but acknowledge their existence. Give them any excuse you see fit when they ask for it.
4 - Ignore them completely and totally and so on. No talking, no looking in their direction, nothing. When at a party and the smug ass is in your group drop the line how you used to like that person, but since he became a glasshole not anymore. When they put them off for a second warmly greet them and tell them that just a second ago a glasshole was here.
5 - When left unregarded for a second, put it in a 'safe place'. No need to trash it or throw it in a canal, but just put it somewhere and give it back when you are about to depart the situation you are in.
6 - When they try to enter your house / shop / workplace / bar / other, tell them that this is a glasshole-unfriendly place and have them put it away. Make sure they are well informed NOT to take it out under ANY circumstance.
7 - Make jokes about Glassholes. It is wrong to make jokes about people who NEED glasses (or any other stuff they cant help), but it IS funny to make jokes about stupid choices. Like jokes about neo-nazis or sports-fanatics or glassholes.
8 - Shout at them not to look at you. Be firm leaning to aggressiveness. If they want to pivot the glas-mounting-point shout even louder. "DONT LOOK AT ME. DONT LOOK AT ME! I DARE YOU!!!. (this is not assault right?)
Ok, I am out of ideas, care to add some?
Hear! Hear! One of the sweetest things about irony is that you never see it coming!
Weird reaction too; I broke my nose and the glasses are somewhere orbiting my optical nerve right now, but the whole thing is in the cloud now! Happy happy joy joy! Hopefully the court will indeed say; that is your own fault for harassing people, now bugger off!
http://youtu.be/xKTseEpWrYc
That is correct. The list looks a bit like this:
1 - fighting terrorists
2 - fighting child pornography
3 - something with global warming
4 - helping the government spy on ordinary people.
There was!
On the right hand sight there is a magic coin that is used for mind control. It must be used for mind control!
Cause I dont believe it is there for scale, people generally have an idea how big glasses are...
It is not recording all the time. So either one could take the chance, or to more safe, attack from behind.
In case you are really against human-2-human violence, you could just rip them off from the side and crush it with your manly 'size 12'.
I just can't wait to see the video's on Youtube of the smug glassholes that all end with a good ol' fashion punch on the nose. Like those weird Russian dashcam video's.
(some rather big guy) Hey! Stop filming me!
Its my right to do so, this is the street you know!
I said STOP FILMING ME GLASSHOLE ! ! ! (guy is now approaching)
But.. but... its my right, its on the street...
And on the streets you need to be streetsmart jackass (Fist comes in real fast from the lower left corner... then black)
Must be hilarious IMHO.
> If I was 14 again, I'd sure as hell be hunting around frantically looking for a way out of this cage. And I'd sure as hell not be using any Microsoft products.
:-S
Hear! Hear! You are absolutely right! BUT...
If you were born today there is a good chance that your lovely mom put pictures of you on FB the very moment they cut the umbilical cord. And there you go, the game is on and in the very first moment FB scores 1, you... 0
As I am writing this I realised I sound a bit like an old preacher droning on about original sin
The cloud bubble can't get much bigger than this. Can it?
A bubble usually bursts when even neophytes start talking about it as if they were in it for years. Or at least this is said about stock market bubbles. There is some overlap I guess. So will the cloud burst? (pun intended) Not yet I think. There are still a lot of people who are not at all aware of this thing called the cloud.
Actually I think that it will get slightly more big. Big in the sense that at a certain moment there wont be computers any more as we know them. Just devices with little computing power (risc) lots of RAM a small SSD just big enough to hold the OS. The OS is only needed to start a browser, hardly anything else. There will be bluetooth, wifi and XG (3G/4G/5G etcetera). Everything else is on the cloud. The data, the programs, the wallpaper... everything. Any picture made will get uploaded there, and integrated with all kinds of social networks. Instantly available for anyone in your network that you gave permission to view that picture.
Also it goes without saying that the company who has the harddrives with all that data can use it however they think is good. No more privacy, no more 'your data' even less than it is now. We will be of the complete mercy of the corporations. Even if you dont like it it, some glasshole makes a picture of you and your mugshot is out there as well.
The line between social networks, the cloud and the rest of the internet will get thinner and thinner.
And no, I dont like that. I think it's a dystopia.
Eventually people will realise that and resist it. THEN the cloud bursts I think.
>And exactly how do they intend to enforce this against sites hosted overseas, provided the owner of the site doesn't live in Singapore either? Do they plan to build really, really long canes?
Probably they will use their guns. In the battle of Singapore (February 1942) they had all their guns pointed towards the sea. Hours long they sat there with binoculars waiting for the Japanese Imperial Navy to arrive. The Japanese soldiers did... Over land... From the back... Completely circumventing the whole defence basically. (irony is a bitch huh?)
So the guns are still as good as new and ready to fire in 3... 2... 1...
Bluetooth earpieces are incredibly useful. They readily tag the "people I do not want to talk to" set.
You mean like an earmark?
I Agree bro! Now lets sniff some coke from the tiddies of a 60 year old Thai whore with an arm and a leg missing