Damn... I wanted something that would take all kinds of measurements and then later plug into my usb port.That would be real marketing brilliance. Speed, power, duration, ect. correlated with attractiveness.. that sounds like some useful data.
Patent trolls only exist because patent examiners are approving patents without any idea what a significant advancement in the state of the art actually is. Educate the examiners so they quit just approving everyone who hands them a $20,000 check.
why the fump, does every american citizen say, that surveilance is okay when no american citizens are targeted? Are you really that hostile to foreigners? Here in germany, everyone against surveilance, is against surveilance everywhere. We hate your oppressive laws as much as ours.
Most of us americans who are against surveillance are against it everywhere. However, fighting against surveillance locally is currently the "low hanging fruit," especially since doing so was specifically prohibited by the law that all the agencies cite.
Also, as cynical as it sounds, spying on citizens violates our constitutional rights, while non-citizens don't have constitutional rights. So it's just an easier point to make.
the only realistic option is to set free those motherfuckers and..
That sounds like it could be interpreted as a death threat. I hope for your sake, Mr Anonymous Coward, that you used a proxy while posting that, or you could easily end up with someone knocking on your door before long.
Well the complexities of how the human mind stores memories through a holographic projection of the interference pattern in our REM states is.. well... complex. There are books about it on amazon.
The concentration of wealth at the top we have is a threat to democracy.
It seems to me we are at a real watershed.
I agree. It may well be that when having a job is rare that only those who already have money will be able to acquire wealth. It won't take long from there for the wealthy to create a class system. The question will be "what do we do with all these people who have no prospects?" I think the obvious answer will be a gladiator system.
What fun society will be then! Well.. so long as you are rich and still have rights.
Binary++ is not == Trinary. Human minds are holographic. If we made computers that operated on holographic principals we would indeed get closer to reproducing the human mind. However, being like humans is not a requirement for being intelligent.
So, let me get this straight. Whenever a user gets arrested the police already take that user's fingerprint. Your phone is now locked with your fingerprint, so the police will no longer have to ask to unlock your phone? Merely by being arrested and owning an iPhone they could claim you have given them implied access to your phone.
Once you forget about what microsoft did, consider what nokia did: They received over 5 billion Euros and get to start again with a clean slate. Man what I wouldn't give to be in those shoes right now!
Explain to me how they attach to my "PC 'end point'" on my linux workstation.
lunux != security. Although you can continue to think it is for all they care, you'll just be playing into their hands.
The fact is that lunux may have a smaller user base, but the targets on that platform are higher value in general, so there is plenty of drive to exploit lunux computers.
Compressed cypher text should be quite easy to crack shouldn't it? Most compression algorithms use a dictionary..
Of course I welcome any insight from anyone more knowledgeable since I am not well versed in cryptography.
Compression algorithms are easy to "crack", the algorithm to uncompress is known but that algorithm is very different for encryption algorithms. Compressing an encrypted file does not break the encryption in any way (however it also fails to reduce the file size, so what's the point really?) First compressing and then encrypting can make the file more secure, since brute force encryption cracking scans the file for text most of the time, and compression eliminates most of that text. However, if an attacker knows that your file is compressed and then encrypted they can just brute force against the compression headers and you've gained nothing.
Compression does not compromise your encryption in any way though. It's just a different layer with a different purpose.
If you are individually targeted by the NSA, then yes, you probably don't stand much of a chance. But they couldn't use that kind of attack vector en masse without it being discovered fairly quickly, so it still helps against dragnet fishing.
They are discovered. A talk will come out at a hacker convention exposing the latest backdoor, and the 0.1% that are actually at that convention will find a way to block that technology. The problem is that before about 3 months ago information about discovered backdoors had a very small audience and was not searchable. Now it has a larger audience, even though it's still not searchable.. so we're making baby steps.
How about this idea: Put your source code and revision history in a closed source repo. If/when the NSA sends you a gag order that includes the provision that you can't talk about it just move to the open source model. That way other people who are not under a gag order can look through your code and do your talking for you.
It looks like with all these different sources for encrypted storage and encrypted email coming up we can basically play wack-a-mole with them until the courts finally acknowledge that people still do care about privacy. I have an encrypted cloud storage solution for my personal use, at least a dozen other solutions are in active development. I say the more the merrier. There comes a point where there are just too many small providers to even try to issue gag orders any more.
Any sentence that begins with "The UN doesn't have an agenda..." is patently absurd. The UN is a group of countries, both big and small, that have come together to push their agendas. The only way it does anything is through that process.
Once we start colonizing other planets category 6 may be needed. Until then it's just political pedantry.
I'm a little confused though.. is this article about Mr. Gore exaggerating climate change to fit his agenda, or is it about the UN dismissing the signs of climate change to fit their agenda? "People and organizations promote their agendas to the exclusion of truth, news at 11. Also, stay tuned for corrections about previous stories."
No notice is probably the biggest middle finger you can give a company and still remain within the bounds of the law.
If you happen to be involved in customer service or any kind of "blue collar" work than a little notice is still appreciated and expected both ways. For Engineering, IT, or any other kind of technical job you employer isn't going to give you notice.. and if you give them more than 1 day things will just get awkward.
This was an option, unfortunately the project is over. You might be able to get one by emailing them directly.. or you could use it as a model to make your own.
Money is the most liquid medium of barter. Game money has to be converted to real money in order to have value. You would never try to pay for something outside of a game with game money, that would just be absurd. Instead you would sell the game money to an interested party, just like you would with, say, collectable baseball cards.
Bitcoins, however, are being used directly as a medium of exchange.
Apple is about fashion. iPhones are still selling like hot cakes, and people don't give a damn whether some Android device is more powerful. iStuff is hip, looks flashy, has a ton of accessories available
Ok, following you so far.
and never will stop being hip, cool and well designed. It's like the Zippo Lighter or the Vespa Scooter.
Sorry, no. The intrinsic nature of style is that things go out of style. When Steve Jobs was there Apple was refreshing it's style continuously. This is no longer true.
I don't know about the last 2, but if you avoid the first two, then you have provided yourself some significant protection from malware which often exploits vulnerabilities in Flash, Shockwave, Adobe Abrocat reader plugin, Java plugin,.
HTML5 with Javascript and WebGL is not the dark ages
So you're saying you should avoid plugins with a track record of being exploited and go ahead and use plugins from an established company that don't have such a track record? That's excellent advice.
I hate to break it to you but Unity falls into the latter category, not the former.
The problem with 12 step programs isn't the people who they work for, the problem is that so often they are presented as the only option. Not everyone who has ever used any addictive substance has no control over themselves.Some people used them for different reasons, and those people are often forcefully pushed into these 12 step programs right along side the people who need them.
Most schools are trying to come to terms with the fact that people learn differently, when will treatment programs come to terms with the fact that people recover differently?
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Damn... I wanted something that would take all kinds of measurements and then later plug into my usb port.That would be real marketing brilliance. Speed, power, duration, ect. correlated with attractiveness.. that sounds like some useful data.
Patent trolls only exist because patent examiners are approving patents without any idea what a significant advancement in the state of the art actually is. Educate the examiners so they quit just approving everyone who hands them a $20,000 check.
Well, since Snowden hasn't been convicted of anything, Obama can't pardon him, I don't think.
People can be pardoned by the president for anything, whether or not they have been convicted.
why the fump, does every american citizen say, that surveilance is okay when no american citizens are targeted? Are you really that hostile to foreigners? Here in germany, everyone against surveilance, is against surveilance everywhere. We hate your oppressive laws as much as ours.
Most of us americans who are against surveillance are against it everywhere. However, fighting against surveillance locally is currently the "low hanging fruit," especially since doing so was specifically prohibited by the law that all the agencies cite.
Also, as cynical as it sounds, spying on citizens violates our constitutional rights, while non-citizens don't have constitutional rights. So it's just an easier point to make.
the only realistic option is to set free those motherfuckers and..
That sounds like it could be interpreted as a death threat. I hope for your sake, Mr Anonymous Coward, that you used a proxy while posting that, or you could easily end up with someone knocking on your door before long.
Well the complexities of how the human mind stores memories through a holographic projection of the interference pattern in our REM states is.. well... complex. There are books about it on amazon.
Thanks for expanding on my other points.
The concentration of wealth at the top we have is a threat to democracy.
It seems to me we are at a real watershed.
I agree. It may well be that when having a job is rare that only those who already have money will be able to acquire wealth. It won't take long from there for the wealthy to create a class system. The question will be "what do we do with all these people who have no prospects?" I think the obvious answer will be a gladiator system.
What fun society will be then! Well.. so long as you are rich and still have rights.
Binary++ is not == Trinary. Human minds are holographic. If we made computers that operated on holographic principals we would indeed get closer to reproducing the human mind. However, being like humans is not a requirement for being intelligent.
So, let me get this straight. Whenever a user gets arrested the police already take that user's fingerprint. Your phone is now locked with your fingerprint, so the police will no longer have to ask to unlock your phone? Merely by being arrested and owning an iPhone they could claim you have given them implied access to your phone.
Once you forget about what microsoft did, consider what nokia did: They received over 5 billion Euros and get to start again with a clean slate. Man what I wouldn't give to be in those shoes right now!
Explain to me how they attach to my "PC 'end point'" on my linux workstation.
lunux != security. Although you can continue to think it is for all they care, you'll just be playing into their hands.
The fact is that lunux may have a smaller user base, but the targets on that platform are higher value in general, so there is plenty of drive to exploit lunux computers.
Compressed cypher text should be quite easy to crack shouldn't it? Most compression algorithms use a dictionary..
Of course I welcome any insight from anyone more knowledgeable since I am not well versed in cryptography.
Compression algorithms are easy to "crack", the algorithm to uncompress is known but that algorithm is very different for encryption algorithms. Compressing an encrypted file does not break the encryption in any way (however it also fails to reduce the file size, so what's the point really?) First compressing and then encrypting can make the file more secure, since brute force encryption cracking scans the file for text most of the time, and compression eliminates most of that text. However, if an attacker knows that your file is compressed and then encrypted they can just brute force against the compression headers and you've gained nothing.
Compression does not compromise your encryption in any way though. It's just a different layer with a different purpose.
If you are individually targeted by the NSA, then yes, you probably don't stand much of a chance. But they couldn't use that kind of attack vector en masse without it being discovered fairly quickly, so it still helps against dragnet fishing.
They are discovered. A talk will come out at a hacker convention exposing the latest backdoor, and the 0.1% that are actually at that convention will find a way to block that technology. The problem is that before about 3 months ago information about discovered backdoors had a very small audience and was not searchable. Now it has a larger audience, even though it's still not searchable.. so we're making baby steps.
How about this idea: Put your source code and revision history in a closed source repo. If/when the NSA sends you a gag order that includes the provision that you can't talk about it just move to the open source model. That way other people who are not under a gag order can look through your code and do your talking for you.
It looks like with all these different sources for encrypted storage and encrypted email coming up we can basically play wack-a-mole with them until the courts finally acknowledge that people still do care about privacy. I have an encrypted cloud storage solution for my personal use, at least a dozen other solutions are in active development. I say the more the merrier. There comes a point where there are just too many small providers to even try to issue gag orders any more.
Rediculous!
Any sentence that begins with "The UN doesn't have an agenda ..." is patently absurd. The UN is a group of countries, both big and small, that have come together to push their agendas. The only way it does anything is through that process.
Once we start colonizing other planets category 6 may be needed. Until then it's just political pedantry.
I'm a little confused though.. is this article about Mr. Gore exaggerating climate change to fit his agenda, or is it about the UN dismissing the signs of climate change to fit their agenda? "People and organizations promote their agendas to the exclusion of truth, news at 11. Also, stay tuned for corrections about previous stories."
It must be another slow news day.
No notice is probably the biggest middle finger you can give a company and still remain within the bounds of the law.
If you happen to be involved in customer service or any kind of "blue collar" work than a little notice is still appreciated and expected both ways. For Engineering, IT, or any other kind of technical job you employer isn't going to give you notice.. and if you give them more than 1 day things will just get awkward.
We are talking about the military here. If they conclude that big data is a threat what will their go-to response be? That's right.. BIGGER DATA!
Just think, now we can finally find a use for the ridiculous number of potential addresses in IPv6!
This was an option, unfortunately the project is over. You might be able to get one by emailing them directly.. or you could use it as a model to make your own.
Money is the most liquid medium of barter. Game money has to be converted to real money in order to have value. You would never try to pay for something outside of a game with game money, that would just be absurd. Instead you would sell the game money to an interested party, just like you would with, say, collectable baseball cards.
Bitcoins, however, are being used directly as a medium of exchange.
Apple is about fashion. iPhones are still selling like hot cakes, and people don't give a damn whether some Android device is more powerful. iStuff is hip, looks flashy, has a ton of accessories available
Ok, following you so far.
and never will stop being hip, cool and well designed. It's like the Zippo Lighter or the Vespa Scooter.
Sorry, no. The intrinsic nature of style is that things go out of style. When Steve Jobs was there Apple was refreshing it's style continuously. This is no longer true.
Get on it. You know you want to.
I do.
I don't know about the last 2, but if you avoid the first two, then you have provided yourself some significant protection from malware which often exploits vulnerabilities in Flash, Shockwave, Adobe Abrocat reader plugin, Java plugin,.
HTML5 with Javascript and WebGL is not the dark ages
So you're saying you should avoid plugins with a track record of being exploited and go ahead and use plugins from an established company that don't have such a track record? That's excellent advice.
I hate to break it to you but Unity falls into the latter category, not the former.
The problem with 12 step programs isn't the people who they work for, the problem is that so often they are presented as the only option. Not everyone who has ever used any addictive substance has no control over themselves.Some people used them for different reasons, and those people are often forcefully pushed into these 12 step programs right along side the people who need them.
Most schools are trying to come to terms with the fact that people learn differently, when will treatment programs come to terms with the fact that people recover differently?