If you use skype for calling telephones, you're getting ripped off horribly. Their rates are 3 to 10 times higher than good VoIP providers (personally, I recommend Diamondcard or Callcentric which both have good rates and service quality, but you can get even cheaper if you look around for lower-quality VoIP carriers), especially once you figure in the "connection fee" they added which often gets applied even when you call doesn't really go through. It's not as bad if you have a monthly plan (which waives the connection fees and has unlimited calling to selected countries) but unless your usage is really high you can still get better prices paying per-minute with other carriers (and, for some countries, you can even get cheaper unlimited plans with other carriers).
This is because "the country" is really an empire, not a country. Would you find it odd that people in places under the US's imperial control (either formally or informally) don't always speak English?
You missed the point: the NSA likely has the capacity to break systems which SHOULD provide forward secrecy, as long as the key size is sufficiently small, for example 1024-bit Diffie-Hellman. Migration to larger keys is needed to combat this. I may be mistaken, but offhand I believe with DH each additional 2 bits will double the resources needed to break it.
Binary formats DO have to be parsed and converted. They come in a particular endianness, or as a pure bitstream/bytestream (think JPEG/MPEG/etc.), with particular (mis)alignment of data (think Windows bitmaps), etc. Any code that directly interprets such data as a C structure is incorrect. Of course language features may be available in some languages to directly declare "on the wire" data structure types, but that's essentially just automated parsing.
In general, parsing text is easier than parsing binary, because it's easy to get binary parsing wrong while still having it work on your own system, whereas text parsing has to be done at least partly right to work at all.
And conversely, just because a format is "text based" does not guarantee it is human-readable or doesn't suck. Take XML for instance. The insanely low signal-to-noise ratio makes it, for all intents and purposes, non-human-readable. I've seen many binary formats that would take less effort to interpret manually than many typical large XML files.
Of course, all other things being equal, text-based is highly preferable.
This is nothing you can't do with a camera phone, a decent-angle shot of the victim's key, some trivial math, and a 3D printer. Of course I just said "3D printer" to be trendy. It works just as well with a 2D printer, cutting out the image, laying it on top of a blank key as a pattern, and taking a Dremel to it.
Neither gender or sex belongs in most databases any more than race, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, or any other sort of information that has no bearing on the business or government agency's interaction with the person. Storing more information than you should in your database only leads to headaches and possible legal liabilities.
It should be noted that doses this high will have a (possibly wanted or unwanted) contraceptive effect by early miscarriage, so women wanting to become or remain pregnant should not take such doses.
That sure explains why they ask you for your phone number, email address, rewards card, and whether you want to apply for a new credit card (while 5 more people are waiting in line behind you) every time you check out...
They don't have the power to take YOUR money. They have the power to take SOMEBODY's money. Whether or not their slick pitch works on you or not has no bearing on whether it works. You are tiny and insignificant.
Interesting. Still, I'm sure 90% of the folks who want iPhones would be happy to have the equivalent of an iPod Touch with a $15 GSM module added into it for $215...
This is as misleading as the studies that "disproved" that organic food is more nutritious. Nobody was making the claim they disproved. The basic claim about Fox News' bias is that every single story is framed in such a way to reinforce a distorted, reactionary worldview, even when it's supposedly NOT an opinion piece.
It is potentially stupid, but the reason is much more subtle than most people realize. For all its limitations and headache, C does have one key feature that makes it suitable for kernel programming where most other languages are not: the concept of well-defined storage durations and reserving storage for an object. I really question whether Lua code running as part of the kernel can be made robust under out-of-memory conditions which a kernel must be able to survive.
If your installer is taking so long that the progress bar would be visible on the screen for more than 5 or 6 refresh cycles, you're doing something wrong and you should just give up.
No, copyright prevents that. Copyright cannot be assigned or transferred implicitly. It requires an explicit signed assignment or work-for-hire status for a party other than the author to claim copyright.
If you think your personal making-a-statement against "permission culture" is more important than the practical ability of others (including distributors) to use the code you produce without exposing themselves to legal risk, then you're part of the "permission culture" - you feel entitled to deny others permission to use your work.
If you want to make a responsible statement against "permission culture", release your work into the public domain, and include a one-clause BSD license for use in jurisdictions that don't recognize public domain.
With a shot, the pediatrician/nurse administers the shot and it's done. Anti-vax nuts can opt out, but at least there's a record of them having opted out in the child's medical history. With this patch, it sounds really easy for the anti-vax parent to go get it done to avoid suspicion/confrontation, then rip it off their kid as soon as they leave the doctor's office, resulting in a child whose medical history says they had a vaccine, but who never really got one.
The class of computations for which this is possible is fairly worthless. It's not presently possible for anything with actual loops and flow control, and even if it were, timing vulnerabilities would leak tons of information.
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If you use skype for calling telephones, you're getting ripped off horribly. Their rates are 3 to 10 times higher than good VoIP providers (personally, I recommend Diamondcard or Callcentric which both have good rates and service quality, but you can get even cheaper if you look around for lower-quality VoIP carriers), especially once you figure in the "connection fee" they added which often gets applied even when you call doesn't really go through. It's not as bad if you have a monthly plan (which waives the connection fees and has unlimited calling to selected countries) but unless your usage is really high you can still get better prices paying per-minute with other carriers (and, for some countries, you can even get cheaper unlimited plans with other carriers).
This practice still exits anyway; it just has a new name. It's called "plea bargain".
I think you forgot to include your (invalid) argument for why it's wrong amid the insults and other drivel...
Fortunately there is an effective counter-measure: http://www.dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/
This is because "the country" is really an empire, not a country. Would you find it odd that people in places under the US's imperial control (either formally or informally) don't always speak English?
You missed the point: the NSA likely has the capacity to break systems which SHOULD provide forward secrecy, as long as the key size is sufficiently small, for example 1024-bit Diffie-Hellman. Migration to larger keys is needed to combat this. I may be mistaken, but offhand I believe with DH each additional 2 bits will double the resources needed to break it.
Binary formats DO have to be parsed and converted. They come in a particular endianness, or as a pure bitstream/bytestream (think JPEG/MPEG/etc.), with particular (mis)alignment of data (think Windows bitmaps), etc. Any code that directly interprets such data as a C structure is incorrect. Of course language features may be available in some languages to directly declare "on the wire" data structure types, but that's essentially just automated parsing. In general, parsing text is easier than parsing binary, because it's easy to get binary parsing wrong while still having it work on your own system, whereas text parsing has to be done at least partly right to work at all.
And conversely, just because a format is "text based" does not guarantee it is human-readable or doesn't suck. Take XML for instance. The insanely low signal-to-noise ratio makes it, for all intents and purposes, non-human-readable. I've seen many binary formats that would take less effort to interpret manually than many typical large XML files. Of course, all other things being equal, text-based is highly preferable.
Actually I just guessed this would work, but apparently somebody already made a video showing how to do it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpDJC4vK7O0
This is nothing you can't do with a camera phone, a decent-angle shot of the victim's key, some trivial math, and a 3D printer. Of course I just said "3D printer" to be trendy. It works just as well with a 2D printer, cutting out the image, laying it on top of a blank key as a pattern, and taking a Dremel to it.
Browsers need to remove support for toolbars and other features that cater to malware extensions, like they should have done 10 years ago.
Neither gender or sex belongs in most databases any more than race, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, or any other sort of information that has no bearing on the business or government agency's interaction with the person. Storing more information than you should in your database only leads to headaches and possible legal liabilities.
It should be noted that doses this high will have a (possibly wanted or unwanted) contraceptive effect by early miscarriage, so women wanting to become or remain pregnant should not take such doses.
That sure explains why they ask you for your phone number, email address, rewards card, and whether you want to apply for a new credit card (while 5 more people are waiting in line behind you) every time you check out...
They don't have the power to take YOUR money. They have the power to take SOMEBODY's money. Whether or not their slick pitch works on you or not has no bearing on whether it works. You are tiny and insignificant.
Interesting. Still, I'm sure 90% of the folks who want iPhones would be happy to have the equivalent of an iPod Touch with a $15 GSM module added into it for $215...
I love how the iPhone is EXACTLY THE SAME THING as a $200 iPod Touch, except with a GSM/3G transceiver thrown in, and yet costs $450 more...
This is as misleading as the studies that "disproved" that organic food is more nutritious. Nobody was making the claim they disproved. The basic claim about Fox News' bias is that every single story is framed in such a way to reinforce a distorted, reactionary worldview, even when it's supposedly NOT an opinion piece.
It is potentially stupid, but the reason is much more subtle than most people realize. For all its limitations and headache, C does have one key feature that makes it suitable for kernel programming where most other languages are not: the concept of well-defined storage durations and reserving storage for an object. I really question whether Lua code running as part of the kernel can be made robust under out-of-memory conditions which a kernel must be able to survive.
If your installer is taking so long that the progress bar would be visible on the screen for more than 5 or 6 refresh cycles, you're doing something wrong and you should just give up.
No, copyright prevents that. Copyright cannot be assigned or transferred implicitly. It requires an explicit signed assignment or work-for-hire status for a party other than the author to claim copyright.
If you think your personal making-a-statement against "permission culture" is more important than the practical ability of others (including distributors) to use the code you produce without exposing themselves to legal risk, then you're part of the "permission culture" - you feel entitled to deny others permission to use your work.
If you want to make a responsible statement against "permission culture", release your work into the public domain, and include a one-clause BSD license for use in jurisdictions that don't recognize public domain.
With a shot, the pediatrician/nurse administers the shot and it's done. Anti-vax nuts can opt out, but at least there's a record of them having opted out in the child's medical history. With this patch, it sounds really easy for the anti-vax parent to go get it done to avoid suspicion/confrontation, then rip it off their kid as soon as they leave the doctor's office, resulting in a child whose medical history says they had a vaccine, but who never really got one.
I can think of one trillion-dollar industry that might be interested in knowing how to cause 'nonshivering thermogenesis' in fat cells on demand...
The class of computations for which this is possible is fairly worthless. It's not presently possible for anything with actual loops and flow control, and even if it were, timing vulnerabilities would leak tons of information.