You got rated funny, but just in case you wanted an answer, I'd be pretty confident that the new scientist, being in.com and not.uk, was using 10^9. I'd also guess that based on getting only 30 terabytes of data per night, with 10^12 I'm pretty sure they'd be into exabytes.
Sony was sentenced to 2 years of irrelevant and random trashing and complaining for their release of a cd rootkit in their attempt to protect their cd music business. So I'm afraid they'll just have to live with critical posts like this for another year and change.
Well, since Linux clearly wasn't developed on Linux originally, I think we can safely conclude that Linus must have used some other OS to develop it. So he probably runs Windows?
The problem is that the same people make cameras in both markets, and are terrified of the day when you won't have to buy two devices from them. But inevitably, that day is coming.
I know this was rated funny, but in case anyone doesn't know, the advantage of posting an unscaled pic is that you don't have to worry about your target audience... if they have an apple cinema display with a 2560x1600 resolution, they can see pretty much all that detail. If you scale your pic down in advance to 1024x768 those users lose 75% of the viewable detail.
And working the other way, the police should have no right to read a diary on your physical premises, even if they have a warrant to search and read the contents of your diary? After all, you wrote down your most private, innermost thoughts, so the government shouldn't get access to that?
The slippery slope argument only works if you don't acknowledge that the line actually does have to be drawn somewhere, and that by consensus we've already drawn it in a place that does allow the police some access to our private thoughts if they are recorded in certain formats. The current set of formats does include unencrypted diaries, does not include encrypted media, and does not include brain scans. Changing our opinion on one particular article, encrypted media, does not require changing our opinion on brain scans, nor does it lead to it inevitably.
Indeed, apparently it is even less than 2/3rds of an island:
England is the largest and most populous home nation of the United Kingdom. It accounts for more than 83% of the total UK population, occupies most of the southern two-thirds of the island of Great Britain
And my claim is that nothing in the article or the act say that you have to point out which pictures on your hard drive are the aerial shots of the building you are planning to bomb, only that you have to let the police look through the pictures without barring access to them using encryption.
Much like a warrant to search a physical premises, having the police have the power to force you to expose your private data is perfectly reasonable, so long as it is similarly regulated by the courts. Unfortunately, as the article points out, there are problems with proving that you do or don't have the key to unencrypt, but the general principal of allowing the police to search something with a warrant does not seem problematic.
Legislators: "I'm not touching that. Let the courts decide."
Well, in all fairness to the Legislators, I think they've been abundantly clear that they would like to pass such legislation, without any real equivocation. It's just that they are aware that it is not really within their power to do so.
It's important that their politicians do everything they can to spew as much hot air as possible, as only the resulting high pressure zone can hope to keep further hurricanes at bay.
Even if this is not strictly illegal, it still smacks of wrong. (Yes, I think there are things not illegal that are still wrong.
Good grief, I hope that pretty much everyone is in agreement that illegal and immoral are intersecting sets for which the intersection is a proper subset of both sets.
They don't need to listen to everything, just what interests them. For example, if they track down one person linked to Al-Qaeda, they can then listen to all of that person's calls, and decide who is interesting among those, and then listen to all of their calls, and so on.
Or, if you are a corrupt homeland security agent, you can browse through random calls (well, profiled random calls... calls with elevated stress levels in the voice, or at odd times of night, etc) looking for someone to blackmail.
Indeed, I wouldn't claim that this particular game is great art, my claim referred only to the generalization made by the parent implying that it was unacceptable in general to make works of art about the holocaust.
Just convince everyone to run tarproxies already, or get it integrated into the standard build of sendmail? Since you're obviously hinting at going wide distribution, why not go wide distribution with a tool that has a strong research, development, and testing history behind it.
Slashdot Mirror
I mean, there's nothing there that OpenOffice hasn't had for like -3 years.
You could use this in a liquid cooling system to set up areas of high flow over the hottest parts of the processor.
You got rated funny, but just in case you wanted an answer, I'd be pretty confident that the new scientist, being in .com and not .uk, was using 10^9. I'd also guess that based on getting only 30 terabytes of data per night, with 10^12 I'm pretty sure they'd be into exabytes.
It's mildly relevant in that it may mean they are further from production than they have claimed, if they don't even have the housing finalized.
Sony was sentenced to 2 years of irrelevant and random trashing and complaining for their release of a cd rootkit in their attempt to protect their cd music business. So I'm afraid they'll just have to live with critical posts like this for another year and change.
I was aiming for a +1 funny, but i've gotten next to no responses, and no moderations either. Oh well, maybe it wasn't really humorous enough.
Well, since Linux clearly wasn't developed on Linux originally, I think we can safely conclude that Linus must have used some other OS to develop it. So he probably runs Windows?
Bad mods, 2x overrated. Just accept that some people find a non slashdot convention point of view interesting.
The problem is that the same people make cameras in both markets, and are terrified of the day when you won't have to buy two devices from them. But inevitably, that day is coming.
I know this was rated funny, but in case anyone doesn't know, the advantage of posting an unscaled pic is that you don't have to worry about your target audience ... if they have an apple cinema display with a 2560x1600 resolution, they can see pretty much all that detail. If you scale your pic down in advance to 1024x768 those users lose 75% of the viewable detail.
And working the other way, the police should have no right to read a diary on your physical premises, even if they have a warrant to search and read the contents of your diary? After all, you wrote down your most private, innermost thoughts, so the government shouldn't get access to that?
The slippery slope argument only works if you don't acknowledge that the line actually does have to be drawn somewhere, and that by consensus we've already drawn it in a place that does allow the police some access to our private thoughts if they are recorded in certain formats. The current set of formats does include unencrypted diaries, does not include encrypted media, and does not include brain scans. Changing our opinion on one particular article, encrypted media, does not require changing our opinion on brain scans, nor does it lead to it inevitably.
I suggest that the parallel is:
.doc files == ability to open closet
encryption key == admission to house
MS Word required to open
I can't find actual text for the law, but everything I've read suggests that an order (warrant) will be required:
Part 3 of RIPA gives the police powers to order the disclosure of encryption keys, or force suspects to decrypt encrypted data.
The actual language is here:
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/20000023.htm
but is fairly dense, and without greater familiarity with UK law it is hard for me to tell.
Indeed, apparently it is even less than 2/3rds of an island:
England is the largest and most populous home nation of the United Kingdom. It accounts for more than 83% of the total UK population, occupies most of the southern two-thirds of the island of Great Britain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England
Of course, a more authoritative source to put England in its place would be welcome.
And my claim is that nothing in the article or the act say that you have to point out which pictures on your hard drive are the aerial shots of the building you are planning to bomb, only that you have to let the police look through the pictures without barring access to them using encryption.
Much like a warrant to search a physical premises, having the police have the power to force you to expose your private data is perfectly reasonable, so long as it is similarly regulated by the courts. Unfortunately, as the article points out, there are problems with proving that you do or don't have the key to unencrypt, but the general principal of allowing the police to search something with a warrant does not seem problematic.
Legislators: "I'm not touching that. Let the courts decide."
Well, in all fairness to the Legislators, I think they've been abundantly clear that they would like to pass such legislation, without any real equivocation. It's just that they are aware that it is not really within their power to do so.
It's important that their politicians do everything they can to spew as much hot air as possible, as only the resulting high pressure zone can hope to keep further hurricanes at bay.
Even if this is not strictly illegal, it still smacks of wrong. (Yes, I think there are things not illegal that are still wrong.
Good grief, I hope that pretty much everyone is in agreement that illegal and immoral are intersecting sets for which the intersection is a proper subset of both sets.
They don't need to listen to everything, just what interests them. For example, if they track down one person linked to Al-Qaeda, they can then listen to all of that person's calls, and decide who is interesting among those, and then listen to all of their calls, and so on.
... calls with elevated stress levels in the voice, or at odd times of night, etc) looking for someone to blackmail.
Or, if you are a corrupt homeland security agent, you can browse through random calls (well, profiled random calls
Indeed, I wouldn't claim that this particular game is great art, my claim referred only to the generalization made by the parent implying that it was unacceptable in general to make works of art about the holocaust.
Congrats, that was the most successful AC troll i've seen in months.
It goes by various names, here's a collection of implementations (I haven't looked at spam tarring in a year or so myself):l emented
http://spamlinks.net/filter-server-tarpit.htm#imp
Just convince everyone to run tarproxies already, or get it integrated into the standard build of sendmail? Since you're obviously hinting at going wide distribution, why not go wide distribution with a tool that has a strong research, development, and testing history behind it.
Yeah, in case it was unclear, I felt that both of the works I cited were great works of art.