Encryption keys shouldn't be treated any differently from a combination to a safe. If there's a reasonable suspicion for evidence to be hidden somewhere, the cops have a duty to search it.
Except that it's trivial to unknowingly receive a safe (encrypted file) without the key among something you download. It's pretty hard to unknowingly have a safe in your house.
Are you telling me, that I could output/dev/random to a file, place it on my friends hard drive, say it contains valuable information pertaining to a case and he could go to jail or be fined for not revealing the password/key?
This gives me an idea!
Don't get too excited, because all your "friend" has to do is XOR a known file with your random file, then give that to them as the one-time decryption pad.
Pretty likely. But good luck being able to overwrite a particular sector multiple times in a row, since the wear-leveling mechanism will try to choose a random sector each time.
The real problem here isn't just that Comcast is doing the filtering.
Please, call it what it is: forgery. They aren't just filtering packets; they are sending extra packets to trick one of the two parties into thinking the other said something he didn't.
What an interesting idea to make e-mail into a social network. Maybe they could add a way to send messages to people, and see what messages you've received from others. That'd really assist being social with people. I wonder how quickly they can get this put together.
Step 1: Release awful product Step 2: Seed the marketplace with rumours about how great the next version will be Step 3: Sell a lot of awful product (this is the Profit!!! step) Step 4: Develop next version, dropping cool features and instead devoting more development time to Microsoft Bob, Clippy, and meaningless user-interface tweaks Step 5: Loop around to Step 1. Step 6: Add really cool, useful features.
Sadly, the goto in step 5 prevents this greatness.
I'm perfectly happy with the way voting works in Oregon.
You get your ballot in the mail, and fill in the little bubbles with a pencil or pen, just like the standardized tests we're all familiar with. You fold it up and seal it in a "secrecy envelope" which does not have any personally identifying marks. Then you seal that in another envelope which has your name, mailing address, and a barcode on it; this envelope must be signed. You can either mail it, or drop it off in a secure ballot box somewhere (such as at a public library). You can do this at your convenience, it doesn't have to be on election day.
And as an added bonus, you can instead sign everything but not seal it, then hand it off to the person who's buying your vote and get paid (or threatening your employment if you vote "wrong").
On the other this is a bad precedent, they are essentially saying that "if you can't beat them, ignore them". Illegal file-sharing is not proper theft but it is without a doubt a fraud, as you are getting a service (entertainment) without paying for it.
Maybe the government is realizing that copyright law is outdated? It's not a fundamental right of human beings, just a tool that was used in the past to jump-start the publishing industry. How about a new model that doesn't require any enforcement, where people fully pay for the labor used to create the product, then it becomes freely available?
(from the article) 'It is too easy to copy these days and we do not know how to stop it.'
Maybe if we embraced the fact that copying was essentially free, we might find an even better business model which created more wealth.
[...] in a few decades, we'll enjoy [...] flying cars, and that we'll mostly enjoy the greater safety, although it would seem counter-intuitive that a flying car would be safer than a normal car
Having an extra dimension of freedom seems to me like it'd make things safer. No criss-cross intersections, thus no traffic signals. Everything's flows that go around each other.
Yep. There's this dumb (movie?) quote in a techno song where the army guy is speculating on how much energy the silent flying saucer must be using as it hovers, and I always yell at the music "That means it uses less energy, not more!". I just think of a pole holding an object up in the air; no energy is being used to keep it raised.
Lest we forget the purpose of advertising, it's simply a way to make a service/product known to others. It should be obvious that advertising is simply not needed as much now as before. The very existence of my personal website with a few projects is automatically advertised on several web search engines in the form of search results. Like many industries, advertising companies will becomre more of a parasite in the future, attempting to justify its existence (via more advertising, of course!).
His system has a 99.9% detection rate of malicious signatures, roughly equivalent to some of the best commercial systems. But it has zero false positives when commercial systems have high numbers.
Similarly, you can eliminate SPAM in the lab, but the moment you release it, the SPAM makers will adjust their strategy. That's how arms races work. So get back with us once your solution is still working 6 months from now.
Yes, the lifetime cost of SETI has been but 0.000985010707% of the cost of ONE YEAR in Iraq.
One percent equals one hundredth, so the real answer is closer to one tenth of one percent: 0.0985% (hate to correct you, since your overall point I very much agree with)
An inotify daemon, on the other hand, could be responding to lots of small requests that produce null results (temp files, disk writes over the same sectors, etc).
Nope, I read in the recent Ars article that the FSEvents mechanism logs events to a file, so it doesn't require each watching program to be constantly running. So I'd expect Time Machine to be active only when backing up or restoring. The log apparently stores just the directory the changed file was in, reducing the number of events in it.
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They just DO it. Who's going to to stop them?
Except that it's trivial to unknowingly receive a safe (encrypted file) without the key among something you download. It's pretty hard to unknowingly have a safe in your house.
Don't get too excited, because all your "friend" has to do is XOR a known file with your random file, then give that to them as the one-time decryption pad.
Pretty likely. But good luck being able to overwrite a particular sector multiple times in a row, since the wear-leveling mechanism will try to choose a random sector each time.
Please, call it what it is: forgery. They aren't just filtering packets; they are sending extra packets to trick one of the two parties into thinking the other said something he didn't.
What an interesting idea to make e-mail into a social network. Maybe they could add a way to send messages to people, and see what messages you've received from others. That'd really assist being social with people. I wonder how quickly they can get this put together.
A new step has been discovered:
Step 1: Release awful product
Step 2: Seed the marketplace with rumours about how great the next version will be
Step 3: Sell a lot of awful product (this is the Profit!!! step)
Step 4: Develop next version, dropping cool features and instead devoting more development time to Microsoft Bob, Clippy, and meaningless user-interface tweaks
Step 5: Loop around to Step 1.
Step 6: Add really cool, useful features.
Sadly, the goto in step 5 prevents this greatness.
And as an added bonus, you can instead sign everything but not seal it, then hand it off to the person who's buying your vote and get paid (or threatening your employment if you vote "wrong").
If you drive in reverse, someone's going to be dead pretty quicky.
Identity theft is another example. It's not the material itself that's stolen, it's the status in the social sphere.
You are my hero.
Maybe the government is realizing that copyright law is outdated? It's not a fundamental right of human beings, just a tool that was used in the past to jump-start the publishing industry. How about a new model that doesn't require any enforcement, where people fully pay for the labor used to create the product, then it becomes freely available?
Maybe if we embraced the fact that copying was essentially free, we might find an even better business model which created more wealth.
Don't worry, we're learning how to be like them.
Having an extra dimension of freedom seems to me like it'd make things safer. No criss-cross intersections, thus no traffic signals. Everything's flows that go around each other.
Yep. There's this dumb (movie?) quote in a techno song where the army guy is speculating on how much energy the silent flying saucer must be using as it hovers, and I always yell at the music "That means it uses less energy, not more!". I just think of a pole holding an object up in the air; no energy is being used to keep it raised.
Lest we forget the purpose of advertising, it's simply a way to make a service/product known to others. It should be obvious that advertising is simply not needed as much now as before. The very existence of my personal website with a few projects is automatically advertised on several web search engines in the form of search results. Like many industries, advertising companies will becomre more of a parasite in the future, attempting to justify its existence (via more advertising, of course!).
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Dark Helmet: Now what is it?
Radar Technician: I'm having trouble with the radar, sir.
Dark Helmet: What's wrong with it?
Radar Technician: I've lost the bleeps, the sweeps, and the creeps.
Dark Helmet: The what?
Colonel Sandurz: The what?
Dark Helmet: And the what?
Radar Technician: You know. The bleeps. [makes bleep sound effect]
Radar Technician: The sweeps. [makes sweep sound]
Radar Technician: And the creeps. [makes creep sound]
Dark Helmet: [to Colonel Sandurz] That's not all he's lost.
Similarly, you can eliminate SPAM in the lab, but the moment you release it, the SPAM makers will adjust their strategy. That's how arms races work. So get back with us once your solution is still working 6 months from now.
Aha! I read a while back that Adobe was going to a web-based model for their major applications. Fits right in.
One percent equals one hundredth, so the real answer is closer to one tenth of one percent: 0.0985% (hate to correct you, since your overall point I very much agree with)
I didn't know she was Asian.
Better wording: ... to ensure that the download goes at the same speed as other non-Bittorrent downloads.
Digital Restrictions Management is what it really means.
Nope, I read in the recent Ars article that the FSEvents mechanism logs events to a file, so it doesn't require each watching program to be constantly running. So I'd expect Time Machine to be active only when backing up or restoring. The log apparently stores just the directory the changed file was in, reducing the number of events in it.
Obligatory: Bob the Angry Flower Vegetarian's Dilemma (summary: GM the animals to have no head)