That sounds great in theory (I suppose), but, if you RTFS a bit more carefully, it's the potential for abuse that ends up being the problem.:
Scenario 1: Teenager A is emo. Teenager B is a shit disturber. Teenager A and B are friends. Teenager B thinks it would be funny to blog every single secret they know about Teen A, and add in a few other things just for added humiliation. Teen B reads it, becomes the laughingstock of their school and commits suicide.
Potential Law Application: Teen B is prosecuted under the new law, and gets some time in "juvie".
Scenario 2: You get repeatedly screwed over by your ISP/Cellphone Provider/Phone Company/whatever, and you get so upset, that you decide to do the equivalent of creating a www.<insert company name>-sucks.com website. You link to that website on your blog and rant a bit on both sites - partly to vent and partly to serve as a warning for other potential customers of that company. Potential Law Application: You are prosecuted under the new law and get some time in federal prison.
Some would agree with you that the utility of the law in scenario 1 is a good thing. Many wouldn't. However, most would agree that the potential for the abuse noted in scenario 2 is something no one wants. And I'd be willing to give you 100-to-1 odds on the bet that there would be a lineup of companies who would love to abuse this kind of law.
Egyptian majority generally persecutes Egyptian minority.
Swine Flu hits and the Egyptian majority uses that as an excuse to further persecute that minority.
Changing the name of the flu is going to stop one demographic - who actively searches for ways to persecute the other - from persecuting a second demographic? How?
I mean, I understand the linkage between the poor choice of name and the current mechanism of persecution, but it seems like you're implying that changing the name would make all persecution stop... which is something I don't agree with.
Either that, or you're hoping that you'll be able to convince the Egyptian Islamic community to slaughter Colbert...;-)
Actually, he was involved in beaver skinning and general supply chain stuff in the Great Lake area of Quebec and later Manitoba as the pioneers headed westward.
That's amazing! I like to consider myself a beaver skinner.
seriously... I mean, what longtime fan would want to see a prequel that didn't have McCoy because it was too focused on "staying true" to the cast list of 2 episodes that were quickly forgotten about?
I've been watching the series since I was a kid; I had no idea that they had different doctors in the very beginning. And I'd spend the entire movie thinking "wtf? Where's McCoy?" if they left him out. Everyone identifies with those three (kirk, mccoy and spock) and destroying that identity in the name of accuracy would be...well... stupid.
And given the level of exposure a system like that could have (especially if it gets used as widely as the GP suggests) and the probability of a compromise gets increasingly large. Especially given how insanely "juicy" it would be, as a target.
Someone posted a link to a briefing above. It's using SHA1, RSA and AES. Those are typically fairly solid algorithms (though there's a theoretical weakness in SHA1, but no exploit for it that I'm aware of). So the use of a fast symmetric cipher (AES) to handle comms after a slow asymmetric cipher (RSA) is used to handle password negotiation is known to be solid. However, the devil, as always, is in the details, and the powerpoint presentation is fairly thin on those.
Possibly. If nothing else, claiming that it's unbreakable will be a good way of getting droves of cryptographers to do everything in their power to rip the algorithms and protocols to shreds. Then at least, if v1.0 is crap, v2.0 might be better.
FTFA: Centrelink documents reported the hackers cannot break the PLAID protocol because it uses two cryptographic algorithms in its scrambling process in rapid succession - typically less than a quarter of a second - whereas other systems use a single algorithm.
Quake - June 22, 1996
After reading the abstract of the patent that you linked, it seems that Quake would fit the bill nicely for prior art./shrug
IANAL and all that...
I'm assuming the system is electric, but it could only meet the "no CO2" if the electric power is nuclear, hydro, solar, etc... If it's traditional electric power, it's just moving the source of the CO2 and perhaps the efficiency.
Note the wind turbines in the background of the video.
I just think that making lawyers gun-shy when it comes to trying to sue a large company will only hurt the little guy whose IP might actually be infringed upon.... more of a "don't shoot the messenger" mentality than a "don't hold anyone accountable" mentality.
Obviously if the lawyers actually did something wrong, then you should hold them accountable, but it really does seem like they could potentially have something (though we're all pretty damned sure that they don't.... And if they're as good at spinning lies internally as they are externally, then you really can't hold their lawyers accountable for it... well... you could, but then the next small company that claims IBM has infringed upon their IP (even if they actually *have*) won't be able to find a lawyer in all of creation that would be willing to take their case for them.
I know it sucks that the big players can abuse the system, but they will always be able to abuse it. So temper your anger with a little thought of how it could hurt the little guy, and let the big players fight amongst themselves... they'll do enough damage to eachother without the law really needing to get involved. Case in point: SCOX is fucked. So Darl and his gang have already lost everything. On the chance that they found some way to profit off of this, then it's insider trading and they should get fucked over (but that's a completely different story than whether or not the lawyers should get hung for this...)
can you prove that the lawyers knew, at the time that the case was initiated, that it was bullshit? Probably not.... it's likely that they're doing the best they can with what they know and Darl and his buddies are stalling them and feeding them info bit by bit.
Hell, I think the whole thing is absolute horse-shit, and I'm sure just about everyone here does too, but after reading this I've got a question: Do you think that it's such garbage that you would risk, say, $20k on trying to short their stock*? (that's over 10k shares atm) Knowing that, if they actually do have ground, that their stock price will skyrocket to probably something like $50/share or so, and you'll be over $50k in the hole?..... . I wouldn't...
* - Basically, as the stock loses money, you gain money, but as the stock rises in value, you lose money...without limit...
... b.b.b.but what about the evidence we've found throughout the years about the workers in the area? And what about the timelines?
I would think that this will throw a bone in some of their theories, so I'm surprised that the two researchers were even allowed on to the site... At any rate, this explains why the separation between the "stones" is so tight in certain places.
except for the lack of atmosphere, leaving it completely unprotected from meteor(ite)s... so even a giant message written in giant stone letters on the moon, would probably not last >10k years
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Scenario 1:
Teenager A is emo. Teenager B is a shit disturber. Teenager A and B are friends. Teenager B thinks it would be funny to blog every single secret they know about Teen A, and add in a few other things just for added humiliation. Teen B reads it, becomes the laughingstock of their school and commits suicide.
Potential Law Application: Teen B is prosecuted under the new law, and gets some time in "juvie".
Scenario 2:
You get repeatedly screwed over by your ISP/Cellphone Provider/Phone Company/whatever, and you get so upset, that you decide to do the equivalent of creating a www.<insert company name>-sucks.com website. You link to that website on your blog and rant a bit on both sites - partly to vent and partly to serve as a warning for other potential customers of that company.
Potential Law Application: You are prosecuted under the new law and get some time in federal prison.
Some would agree with you that the utility of the law in scenario 1 is a good thing. Many wouldn't. However, most would agree that the potential for the abuse noted in scenario 2 is something no one wants. And I'd be willing to give you 100-to-1 odds on the bet that there would be a lineup of companies who would love to abuse this kind of law.
So, let me get this straight:
Egyptian majority generally persecutes Egyptian minority.
Swine Flu hits and the Egyptian majority uses that as an excuse to further persecute that minority.
Changing the name of the flu is going to stop one demographic - who actively searches for ways to persecute the other - from persecuting a second demographic? How?
I mean, I understand the linkage between the poor choice of name and the current mechanism of persecution, but it seems like you're implying that changing the name would make all persecution stop... which is something I don't agree with.
Either that, or you're hoping that you'll be able to convince the Egyptian Islamic community to slaughter Colbert... ;-)
Actually, he was involved in beaver skinning and general supply chain stuff in the Great Lake area of Quebec and later Manitoba as the pioneers headed westward.
That's amazing! I like to consider myself a beaver skinner.
All beavers should be skinned, imo.
seriously... I mean, what longtime fan would want to see a prequel that didn't have McCoy because it was too focused on "staying true" to the cast list of 2 episodes that were quickly forgotten about?
I've been watching the series since I was a kid; I had no idea that they had different doctors in the very beginning. And I'd spend the entire movie thinking "wtf? Where's McCoy?" if they left him out. Everyone identifies with those three (kirk, mccoy and spock) and destroying that identity in the name of accuracy would be...well... stupid.
WAKKA!! WAKKA!! .... fail
Europeans did it too. Isaac Newton being one of the more prominent.
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And given the level of exposure a system like that could have (especially if it gets used as widely as the GP suggests) and the probability of a compromise gets increasingly large. Especially given how insanely "juicy" it would be, as a target.
Someone posted a link to a briefing above. It's using SHA1, RSA and AES. Those are typically fairly solid algorithms (though there's a theoretical weakness in SHA1, but no exploit for it that I'm aware of). So the use of a fast symmetric cipher (AES) to handle comms after a slow asymmetric cipher (RSA) is used to handle password negotiation is known to be solid. However, the devil, as always, is in the details, and the powerpoint presentation is fairly thin on those.
Possibly. If nothing else, claiming that it's unbreakable will be a good way of getting droves of cryptographers to do everything in their power to rip the algorithms and protocols to shreds. Then at least, if v1.0 is crap, v2.0 might be better.
... that must mean it's secure {\sarcasm}
FTFA: Centrelink documents reported the hackers cannot break the PLAID protocol because it uses two cryptographic algorithms in its scrambling process in rapid succession - typically less than a quarter of a second - whereas other systems use a single algorithm.
Wasn't the UK working on something similar to this? I believe it was something along the lines of Popular Encrypted National Identity Scheme...
... when an organization claims that they're going to provide something that's unbreakable
The claim is usually an open invitation to reduce the "unbreakable" object to ashes.
I can't believe that you'd try and imply that the two entities are incestual and "gay"!
Actually, no wait, that sounds about right...
Quake - June 22, 1996 After reading the abstract of the patent that you linked, it seems that Quake would fit the bill nicely for prior art. /shrug
IANAL and all that...
Quick, someone legislate this. We need to get this S.H.I.T. on the road right away!
I'm assuming the system is electric, but it could only meet the "no CO2" if the electric power is nuclear, hydro, solar, etc... If it's traditional electric power, it's just moving the source of the CO2 and perhaps the efficiency.
Note the wind turbines in the background of the video.
I just think that making lawyers gun-shy when it comes to trying to sue a large company will only hurt the little guy whose IP might actually be infringed upon.... more of a "don't shoot the messenger" mentality than a "don't hold anyone accountable" mentality.
Obviously if the lawyers actually did something wrong, then you should hold them accountable, but it really does seem like they could potentially have something (though we're all pretty damned sure that they don't.... And if they're as good at spinning lies internally as they are externally, then you really can't hold their lawyers accountable for it... well... you could, but then the next small company that claims IBM has infringed upon their IP (even if they actually *have*) won't be able to find a lawyer in all of creation that would be willing to take their case for them.
I know it sucks that the big players can abuse the system, but they will always be able to abuse it. So temper your anger with a little thought of how it could hurt the little guy, and let the big players fight amongst themselves... they'll do enough damage to eachother without the law really needing to get involved. Case in point: SCOX is fucked. So Darl and his gang have already lost everything. On the chance that they found some way to profit off of this, then it's insider trading and they should get fucked over (but that's a completely different story than whether or not the lawyers should get hung for this...)
can you prove that the lawyers knew, at the time that the case was initiated, that it was bullshit? Probably not.... it's likely that they're doing the best they can with what they know and Darl and his buddies are stalling them and feeding them info bit by bit.
Hell, I think the whole thing is absolute horse-shit, and I'm sure just about everyone here does too, but after reading this I've got a question: Do you think that it's such garbage that you would risk, say, $20k on trying to short their stock*? (that's over 10k shares atm) Knowing that, if they actually do have ground, that their stock price will skyrocket to probably something like $50/share or so, and you'll be over $50k in the hole?. .. .. . I wouldn't...
* - Basically, as the stock loses money, you gain money, but as the stock rises in value, you lose money...without limit...
... maybe they shorted SCOX?
... b.b.b.but what about the evidence we've found throughout the years about the workers in the area? And what about the timelines?
I would think that this will throw a bone in some of their theories, so I'm surprised that the two researchers were even allowed on to the site... At any rate, this explains why the separation between the "stones" is so tight in certain places.
I think you forgot a ROFLCOPTER in there somewhere too....
except for the lack of atmosphere, leaving it completely unprotected from meteor(ite)s ... so even a giant message written in giant stone letters on the moon, would probably not last >10k years
comic genius
... no really... ;-p
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