Different time periods, different tools. The Stasi needed a huge state machinery in order to carry out their monitoring because so much of the activity had to be done by an individual worker - listening to calls, reading letters. The NSA has the advantage of automation: Computers can read every email automatically and pick out only the interesting highlights or patterns.
How much effort would it have taken the Stasi to find out 'who has sent the traitor a letter over the last year?' Today, it's one SQL query.
It's also about being cheap. The Pi was expressly designed for use as an educational platform for use in schools. Children break everything, so the pi needs to be cheap enough that a school can keep replacing all the ones that get snapped/squished/thrown/scratched/smashed.
No, I'm not sure. I'm not a cryptographer, so I'm not sure exactly what maths it's doing. All I can tell you is the practical side: There is something computationally intensive that happens during the setup stage of an SSL connection, and the main purpose of a hardware cryptographic accelerator is to do that something. Usually so that a webserver may handle many more SSL connections per second than CPU alone could handle. The other approach is an appliance that sits before the webserver and does the SSL stuff, so the webserver sees only plain unencrypted HTTP and the appliance handles the encryption transparently.
AES encryption is built into all modern Intel CPUs, except a few Atoms.
The enterprise crypto co-processors are mostly for RSA key generation. Something that's only done during connection setup, but can be a substantial load on a high-traffic SSL server that creates hundreds of connections each second.
The accusation levied is that the prosecutors overdid the intimidation in their efforts to get to to accept a not-very-good plea bargain. It's a standard procedure: Inform someone that they could go to jail for decades, their life effectively owner, unemployable when they do get out, financially ruined, reputation in shreds. Throw in some scary talk about how dangerous prison is to leave them wondering how they'll survive in a place filled with violent criminals. If all goes to plan the subject will be so terrified they'll accept any plea offered. Prosecutor gets a good politically-advantageous outcome and the taxpayer is saved the cost of a drawn-out and expensive trial. There are downsides though - innocent people may be pressured into pleading guilty this way, and occasionally someone just can't take the pressure and has a breakdown, which is what happened here.
Having $200k doesn't make you rich. Having $200k in discretionary spending does. If you can afford to meet the basic bills of life and still have that much money left over to spend on recreation, then you're rich.
Many tens of millions of people actually want to go to space. Maybe hundreds. But only a very small number of those can afford to spend twenty million dollars on a holiday.
If Virgin Galactic ever get their rockets perfected, they aim to sell their trips for only a million or so. Still about three orders of magnitude too high for it to compete with the surface travel industry, and you'd only get a short stay in weightlessness anyway.
That could happen only if the current universe were itsself a false vacuum. This question is as yet unanswered, though there is a simple argument against it: If the universe were prone to a further decay, it would probably have happened by now. The current vacuum is thus likely to be the lowest one possible.
If it did happen, it wouldn't be a 'lack of universe.' It'd just be a universe of a lower vacuum energy, which would alter certain quantum effects. Which in turn would alter all manner of atomic and molecular interactions. The resulting new universe could be described as 'incompatible with life as we know it.' There'd also be a tremendous energy release at the point of transition. So you would get hit with a wall made of super-nuclear explosions, and on the other side is a region where the very structure of space is trying to tear your atoms apart, but it's still not nothing. It's even possible that life may re-evolve there, in another thirteen-odd billion years.
The key to unraveling the complexity of quantum mechanics and relativity was the realization that intuition is a combination of evolved instinct and everyday observation, and as such is utterly worthless when applied to circumstances in which we neither evolved nor observe in everyday life. Quantum or cosmic scales, speeds near that of light. Or even the origin of the universe.
How about the one just below: "I know many guys don't think about this, but there's a reason women go to bars in groups. It's a safety thing."
I see a theme in this - she seems to be assuming all men are rapists until proven otherwise.
And what is this re-tweet? "I'm the worst thing these assholes can imagine: a gun toting feminist liberal." That almost sounds like a threat of violence from her! Especially whyn ou include her obvious views on men. Talk to her uninvited, she might take it as an attempted rape and shoot you!
She certainly seems to revel in the attention: "Them: "Brianna Wu is the WORST MONSTER EVER!!!!" Me: Ah, these gamer tears are soooooo refreshing! " The reference to 'gamer tears' repeats several times, all with an image of a woman in a swimming pool or under a waterfall. She even goes out of her way to stimulate the trolling: "I think I'll get in COD Multiplayer, just announce I'm Brianna Wu, and see what happens."
She even acuses music at mixers of being covertly misogynistic: "There's also the simple fact that women's voices don't cary as well over loud music. It's harder for us to network in this environment."
She even had to tweet a screenshot when someone vandalised her husband's wikipedia page. Documenting and making a fuss is a clear case of 'feeding the trolls.
Worst of all, though: "Someone I think a lot about is Oprah, who is also from Mississippi. She is a person who radiates empathy and compassion." She likes Oprah.
At this point in history, it is predominantly and disproportionately Muslims. It wasn't always this way - Christianity had the dark ages, and was just as brutal back then as Islam is today. Perhaps in future it will change again - religions are defined by their followers more than their holy texts, and can shift in positions over a period of generations. But right now, Muslims easily claim the crown for systematic religiously-motivated violence.
Honey Boo Boo is canceled. Or more accurately, not being renewed after the current production season.
HBB's Mother has started dating her old boyfirend, who just got out of a ten-year jail sentence for rapeing HBB's older sister and is not going to be living alongside HBB herself. There are some levels of shame - and more importantly liability, if they should end up filming child abuse for the sake of entertainment - that even TV executives won't brave. Yet.
PETA is mostly composed of people who just like animals and want to see them treated well - but all flocked around a band of hardcore crazy that actually runs the organisation.
No, they did that when their Shark Week got so ridiculous that shark experts have now reached an informal agreement never to appear in a Discovery show. The channel has had to resort to lying about their affiliation to get interviews, or settle for less-respectable experts without any actual qualifications who'll say anything to get on TV.
I'm still blaming the US though, as they were the main party pushing for anti-circumvention and notice-and-takedown provisions to be included in the treaty.
If you're accusing a country of holding anti-gay views to the point of retroactively removing people from historical displays because they associated with a homosexual, then this might be one of the few situations where you're actually allowed to make a Nazi comparison.
I anticipate many people claiming that the new material just looks smoother and they could never go back to 30fps where they swear they can see the frames change. Even though, placed in blind tests, very few people are likely to be able to tell the difference.
It'll be just like the audiofool situation, with people spending their money on 96KHz sample rate recordings even though no human ear can benefit from such a thing.
No cause means both partners are equal. The money gets split evenly, and they share joint custody of children. With adultery you've a chance to get a larger portion of the assets and a means to prevent the ex having custody of children.
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Different time periods, different tools. The Stasi needed a huge state machinery in order to carry out their monitoring because so much of the activity had to be done by an individual worker - listening to calls, reading letters. The NSA has the advantage of automation: Computers can read every email automatically and pick out only the interesting highlights or patterns.
How much effort would it have taken the Stasi to find out 'who has sent the traitor a letter over the last year?' Today, it's one SQL query.
It's also about being cheap. The Pi was expressly designed for use as an educational platform for use in schools. Children break everything, so the pi needs to be cheap enough that a school can keep replacing all the ones that get snapped/squished/thrown/scratched/smashed.
No, I'm not sure. I'm not a cryptographer, so I'm not sure exactly what maths it's doing. All I can tell you is the practical side: There is something computationally intensive that happens during the setup stage of an SSL connection, and the main purpose of a hardware cryptographic accelerator is to do that something. Usually so that a webserver may handle many more SSL connections per second than CPU alone could handle. The other approach is an appliance that sits before the webserver and does the SSL stuff, so the webserver sees only plain unencrypted HTTP and the appliance handles the encryption transparently.
AES encryption is built into all modern Intel CPUs, except a few Atoms.
The enterprise crypto co-processors are mostly for RSA key generation. Something that's only done during connection setup, but can be a substantial load on a high-traffic SSL server that creates hundreds of connections each second.
The accusation levied is that the prosecutors overdid the intimidation in their efforts to get to to accept a not-very-good plea bargain. It's a standard procedure: Inform someone that they could go to jail for decades, their life effectively owner, unemployable when they do get out, financially ruined, reputation in shreds. Throw in some scary talk about how dangerous prison is to leave them wondering how they'll survive in a place filled with violent criminals. If all goes to plan the subject will be so terrified they'll accept any plea offered. Prosecutor gets a good politically-advantageous outcome and the taxpayer is saved the cost of a drawn-out and expensive trial. There are downsides though - innocent people may be pressured into pleading guilty this way, and occasionally someone just can't take the pressure and has a breakdown, which is what happened here.
Having $200k doesn't make you rich. Having $200k in discretionary spending does. If you can afford to meet the basic bills of life and still have that much money left over to spend on recreation, then you're rich.
Many tens of millions of people actually want to go to space. Maybe hundreds. But only a very small number of those can afford to spend twenty million dollars on a holiday.
If Virgin Galactic ever get their rockets perfected, they aim to sell their trips for only a million or so. Still about three orders of magnitude too high for it to compete with the surface travel industry, and you'd only get a short stay in weightlessness anyway.
I know that my understanding of the mathematics falls far short of any hope of addressing that question.
That could happen only if the current universe were itsself a false vacuum. This question is as yet unanswered, though there is a simple argument against it: If the universe were prone to a further decay, it would probably have happened by now. The current vacuum is thus likely to be the lowest one possible.
If it did happen, it wouldn't be a 'lack of universe.' It'd just be a universe of a lower vacuum energy, which would alter certain quantum effects. Which in turn would alter all manner of atomic and molecular interactions. The resulting new universe could be described as 'incompatible with life as we know it.' There'd also be a tremendous energy release at the point of transition. So you would get hit with a wall made of super-nuclear explosions, and on the other side is a region where the very structure of space is trying to tear your atoms apart, but it's still not nothing. It's even possible that life may re-evolve there, in another thirteen-odd billion years.
The key to unraveling the complexity of quantum mechanics and relativity was the realization that intuition is a combination of evolved instinct and everyday observation, and as such is utterly worthless when applied to circumstances in which we neither evolved nor observe in everyday life. Quantum or cosmic scales, speeds near that of light. Or even the origin of the universe.
How about the one just below: "I know many guys don't think about this, but there's a reason women go to bars in groups. It's a safety thing."
I see a theme in this - she seems to be assuming all men are rapists until proven otherwise.
And what is this re-tweet? "I'm the worst thing these assholes can imagine: a gun toting feminist liberal." That almost sounds like a threat of violence from her! Especially whyn ou include her obvious views on men. Talk to her uninvited, she might take it as an attempted rape and shoot you!
She certainly seems to revel in the attention: "Them: "Brianna Wu is the WORST MONSTER EVER!!!!" Me: Ah, these gamer tears are soooooo refreshing! " The reference to 'gamer tears' repeats several times, all with an image of a woman in a swimming pool or under a waterfall. She even goes out of her way to stimulate the trolling: "I think I'll get in COD Multiplayer, just announce I'm Brianna Wu, and see what happens."
She even acuses music at mixers of being covertly misogynistic: "There's also the simple fact that women's voices don't cary as well over loud music. It's harder for us to network in this environment."
She even had to tweet a screenshot when someone vandalised her husband's wikipedia page. Documenting and making a fuss is a clear case of 'feeding the trolls.
Worst of all, though: "Someone I think a lot about is Oprah, who is also from Mississippi. She is a person who radiates empathy and compassion." She likes Oprah.
She hasn't found a way to stop the death threats. She has found a way to further boost her publicity with a stunt.
I wouldn't be surprised if she'd sent some of these threats herself.
At this point in history, it is predominantly and disproportionately Muslims. It wasn't always this way - Christianity had the dark ages, and was just as brutal back then as Islam is today. Perhaps in future it will change again - religions are defined by their followers more than their holy texts, and can shift in positions over a period of generations. But right now, Muslims easily claim the crown for systematic religiously-motivated violence.
Honey Boo Boo is canceled. Or more accurately, not being renewed after the current production season.
HBB's Mother has started dating her old boyfirend, who just got out of a ten-year jail sentence for rapeing HBB's older sister and is not going to be living alongside HBB herself. There are some levels of shame - and more importantly liability, if they should end up filming child abuse for the sake of entertainment - that even TV executives won't brave. Yet.
PETA is mostly composed of people who just like animals and want to see them treated well - but all flocked around a band of hardcore crazy that actually runs the organisation.
Four men in a giant mongoose costume.
No, they did that when their Shark Week got so ridiculous that shark experts have now reached an informal agreement never to appear in a Discovery show. The channel has had to resort to lying about their affiliation to get interviews, or settle for less-respectable experts without any actual qualifications who'll say anything to get on TV.
It does now.
I'm still blaming the US though, as they were the main party pushing for anti-circumvention and notice-and-takedown provisions to be included in the treaty.
It's a piratebox. An open-source tool for this already exists.
GPS doesn't use triangulation. It uses trilateration.
If you're accusing a country of holding anti-gay views to the point of retroactively removing people from historical displays because they associated with a homosexual, then this might be one of the few situations where you're actually allowed to make a Nazi comparison.
I anticipate many people claiming that the new material just looks smoother and they could never go back to 30fps where they swear they can see the frames change. Even though, placed in blind tests, very few people are likely to be able to tell the difference.
It'll be just like the audiofool situation, with people spending their money on 96KHz sample rate recordings even though no human ear can benefit from such a thing.
No idea. I'm not Australian.
No cause means both partners are equal. The money gets split evenly, and they share joint custody of children. With adultery you've a chance to get a larger portion of the assets and a means to prevent the ex having custody of children.