The article doesn't actually go into too much more detail (TV tuner only has access to two channels and can't be re-tuned, can't access the internet...), so it's not really the fault of the summary.
Conservatives in this country toss this accusation around pretty lightly. I wonder how many of them still would if they knew exactly what they were saying.
Actually, I bet they *all* still would. More's the pity.
It seems like the USPTO is doing a *slightly* better job of not granting these absurd and frivolous patents. Love to see if they keep up this kind of thing.
IMO, that's what she was doing. She's not saying, "Poor Aaron--he just couldn't take the pressure," she's calling out MIT, if not for being bullies themselves, then at least for providing aid and comfort to the bullying prosecution.
I actually had no idea that JSTOR urged against prosecution. It seems that if anyone were the "victim" of Aaron Swartz's act, it would've been them--the most MIT could complain about would've been a momentary spike in their bandwidth usage. Not that I wasn't enraged by this whole situation already, but that just strikes me as bullshit.
To be blunt, yes, that seems to be a large component right now. But data mining does not necessarily mean spying. Of great interest to a lot of agencies is mining publicly available information streams (news articles, tweets) for trends and patterns.
I just completed a job search looking for basically the same kind of jobs as you as someone with a Ph.D (in physics, so slightly different, but still), and it seemed like there was a *lot* more out there for someone with only a BA/BS or masters and a few years of job experience than for someone straight out of grad school. The issue might be where you're looking for jobs. The DC area has tons of research positions, most supporting the federal government in some way (more than just defense contractors, and defense contractors do more than just design weapons). The federal government (especially the intelligence agencies) also advertise openings for people with your background and interest.
The breakthrough is the KIND of OTP that they're using: glass plates that, they believe, cannot be (easily?) duplicated, unlike a digital OTP would be.
The key here is that the OTP is a physical object (actually, TWO physical objects) that is not easily replicated (since it's surface imperfections that give rise to the randomness in the pad). So Eve would have to be in possession of Bob's pad at the time Alice was transmitting the message in order to decipher the message. If I'm understanding this correctly.
Right: it sounds like it's TWO MATCHED OTPs (or, rather, one-time slabs), so Eve would need both Alice's slab AND Bob's slab to crack the communication. And if Alice and Bob are both in physical possession of the slabs, then Eve is better off using $5 cryptography to get at the message. The issue, of course, is that one-time pads aren't exactly practical, because, by definition, they're one-use-and-then-destroy. If you use an OTP more than once, it becomes vulnerable to cracking.
Presumably you're able to download your.psd (or whatever extension they're using now) files. And in ten years' time, I'm willing to bet that someone somewhere will have figured out how to open the file in an open-source program (just verified that Photoshop 7.0 psd's are fully compatibile with the GIMP). So yeah, in ten years, the servers might not be there. But in ten years, the software that made your files will be ten years old.
I had the same thought. Photoshop 7.0 (runs great through wine) fulfills all my photo-editing needs. I did pull up a changelog for a recent version of Photoshop, and it *does* appear to have some nice new features, but probably not worth the price for most people.
"In a galaxy, far, far away (6 billion light-years away to be precise)..."
Just pointing out that if we're observing it it must've happened 6 billion years ago as well. If you're gonna go for the Star Wars quote, might as well go all the way.
Google Play plays through Youtube. So if you can use Youtube, you should be able to use Play. Full disclosure: the one time I used Google Play to rent a movie, I ended up watching it on a Windows computer. Not because I was having issues with Linux--the Windows computer was just better situated for watching.
I posted a similar comment in the first Reader thread, but what I'm looking for is an RSS reader for Android with support for alt text (aka mouseover text). Google Reader, amazingly, has this. It's the only Android app--RSS reader or even web browser--that I've found that will let you read alt text. And yes, xkcd is a big motivator, but it turns out xkcd is popular enough that products like Pulse have special feeds with the alt text built in. The same can't be said for the myriad of other webcomics I read that use alt text.
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As the article says, not very many. It's $200 (USD), and the average income of a North Korean is $100/month.
The article doesn't actually go into too much more detail (TV tuner only has access to two channels and can't be re-tuned, can't access the internet...), so it's not really the fault of the summary.
Conservatives in this country toss this accusation around pretty lightly. I wonder how many of them still would if they knew exactly what they were saying.
Actually, I bet they *all* still would. More's the pity.
It seems like the USPTO is doing a *slightly* better job of not granting these absurd and frivolous patents. Love to see if they keep up this kind of thing.
IMO, that's what she was doing. She's not saying, "Poor Aaron--he just couldn't take the pressure," she's calling out MIT, if not for being bullies themselves, then at least for providing aid and comfort to the bullying prosecution.
I actually had no idea that JSTOR urged against prosecution. It seems that if anyone were the "victim" of Aaron Swartz's act, it would've been them--the most MIT could complain about would've been a momentary spike in their bandwidth usage. Not that I wasn't enraged by this whole situation already, but that just strikes me as bullshit.
Breaking down the verdict by charge, plea and ruling: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/national/manning-verdict/
...perhaps she'll die?
You missed the point--he's saying that root access might one day no longer be necessary, not that it'll become impossible to root an Android device.
To be blunt, yes, that seems to be a large component right now. But data mining does not necessarily mean spying. Of great interest to a lot of agencies is mining publicly available information streams (news articles, tweets) for trends and patterns.
I just completed a job search looking for basically the same kind of jobs as you as someone with a Ph.D (in physics, so slightly different, but still), and it seemed like there was a *lot* more out there for someone with only a BA/BS or masters and a few years of job experience than for someone straight out of grad school. The issue might be where you're looking for jobs. The DC area has tons of research positions, most supporting the federal government in some way (more than just defense contractors, and defense contractors do more than just design weapons). The federal government (especially the intelligence agencies) also advertise openings for people with your background and interest.
I was much more surprised to read, in an out-of-print '80s novel written by a lesser-known SF author, about drone operators remotely carrying out surgical strikes halfway across the planet, all while being denied any credit or commendation because the traditional military community doesn't consider them "pilots."
The breakthrough is the KIND of OTP that they're using: glass plates that, they believe, cannot be (easily?) duplicated, unlike a digital OTP would be.
The key here is that the OTP is a physical object (actually, TWO physical objects) that is not easily replicated (since it's surface imperfections that give rise to the randomness in the pad). So Eve would have to be in possession of Bob's pad at the time Alice was transmitting the message in order to decipher the message. If I'm understanding this correctly.
Looks like it was called POTUS-PRIME, but I haven't yet found any more information than what's on that page.
That's where the "one-time" part of the "one-time pad" comes in: you're only supposed to use an OTP cypher once before destroying it.
Right: it sounds like it's TWO MATCHED OTPs (or, rather, one-time slabs), so Eve would need both Alice's slab AND Bob's slab to crack the communication. And if Alice and Bob are both in physical possession of the slabs, then Eve is better off using $5 cryptography to get at the message. The issue, of course, is that one-time pads aren't exactly practical, because, by definition, they're one-use-and-then-destroy. If you use an OTP more than once, it becomes vulnerable to cracking.
That's generally the only way to crack a true one-time pad: steal the pad.
So you'd be cool with Photoshop CS2. Looks like a used copy of CS2 will run you $150-$300 depending on your OS.
Presumably you're able to download your .psd (or whatever extension they're using now) files. And in ten years' time, I'm willing to bet that someone somewhere will have figured out how to open the file in an open-source program (just verified that Photoshop 7.0 psd's are fully compatibile with the GIMP). So yeah, in ten years, the servers might not be there. But in ten years, the software that made your files will be ten years old.
I had the same thought. Photoshop 7.0 (runs great through wine) fulfills all my photo-editing needs. I did pull up a changelog for a recent version of Photoshop, and it *does* appear to have some nice new features, but probably not worth the price for most people.
We've already got a Vulcan. And it's closer than that.
"In a galaxy, far, far away (6 billion light-years away to be precise)..."
Just pointing out that if we're observing it it must've happened 6 billion years ago as well. If you're gonna go for the Star Wars quote, might as well go all the way.
Google Play plays through Youtube. So if you can use Youtube, you should be able to use Play. Full disclosure: the one time I used Google Play to rent a movie, I ended up watching it on a Windows computer. Not because I was having issues with Linux--the Windows computer was just better situated for watching.
I posted a similar comment in the first Reader thread, but what I'm looking for is an RSS reader for Android with support for alt text (aka mouseover text). Google Reader, amazingly, has this. It's the only Android app--RSS reader or even web browser--that I've found that will let you read alt text. And yes, xkcd is a big motivator, but it turns out xkcd is popular enough that products like Pulse have special feeds with the alt text built in. The same can't be said for the myriad of other webcomics I read that use alt text.