Because like the rest of the world, slashdot can't care about pure research, but instead only what can be put on a shelf and advertised by google now now! now!!!!?
I have never owned a dvd player without those features. I think you had particularly bad luck in your choice of players. My current main dvd player is 7 years old, and we leave the discs in pretty much always. It powers down after an hour of idle I think. (Toshiba btw).
Well, surely people in general won't bother, most people don't have well-financed, politically powerful enemies. But those who do? Surely it's worth a tiny amount of effort to them to secure their conversations?
So it seems (relatively) trivial to me to write an app that handshakes with your friend when you meet in person, exchanging keys of sufficient bit length for high-grade encryption. Then when you want to talk privately, the app encrypts the audio. This would seem to be the (pretty much permanent) end to man-in-the-middle attacks of this sort.
So out of curiosity, can anyone link to said app yet?
Sorry, I may have been mistaken, but I thought if you were bitten by a zombie, you turned, but if your brains were eaten, that was the end (for the same reason, to kill a zombie, you have to damage the head sufficiently to destroy the brain).
If you could get back to me soon, that would be great. This is a pretty serious issue, I just smashed in a lot of heads, and if I need to do something else to take care of my zombie problem I really need to know befoeljra;ljrfasfdl
I believe in both non-zero-sum games and fair deals as well. I just don't believe they are common, particularly not in our implementation of capitalism. Almost no one goes to work with a reasonable amount of leverage over their salary negotiation. And it is almost exclusively the people at the top who do in fact go to work with that leverage.
I don't think stellar engineering seems as difficult at interstellar travel. We have significant sources of hydrogen in-system, and building enough ships to evacuate the entire population is probably harder than building some simple machines to strip hydrogen off of jupiter and shoot it in the sun's direction.
The premise further up the discussion chain was to be stealthy. I think it would be challenging to form a bar that could be reliably delivered as you described without being noticed. Whereas something hidden in a cargo hold of a space ship is not necessarily subject to prying eyes.
You can't earn a vast fortune without exploiting the labor of others. Or at least, I don't think it is possible, I have yet to see a single counter-example. But even if it were possible, I would advocate taxing you as if you had, because I think it is beyond the capability of our governments to judge that sensibly. And since you're a hypothetically good person, you won't mind being merely incredibly wealthy rather than insanely wealthy.
The space based population would be capped by their industrial capacity to produce food and shelter. And even if we lifted 5% of the population off the planet, getting to 1% of the planet's industrial capacity would be an enormous challenge.
Research has generally shown that it mostly depends on environment. There's a genetic component, most likely, but its impact is dwarfed by training. As one interesting example, ABA training for autistic kids can make a 50 point difference to IQ in a couple of years.
The notion that they have 'earned' it is laughable. They have acquired it, but that is not the same thing. Exploiting others to fund your extravagant lifestyle isn't 'earning' in any sane sense of the word.
The top acquirers are benefiting from our society, they should be paying for it.
I don't think it was me that suggested that greed doesn't sometimes cause people to do things that ultimately benefits others. I only take issue with the specific example of Microsoft, since most people in the industry actually believe the contrary for that specific case.
Launch to space is about 25k/lb. But you can launch your space shuttle empty, fill it with gold and return. Falcon 9 launches at less than 60 million. So you need only return about 2400 lbs of gold to be profitable.
Wow, I don't know what history of computing you read. Microsoft is pretty universally reviled for having held back advances in computing for years. Their monopoly power prevented superior services in nearly every area from taking root.
Umm... no... just no. Who makes most of the goods and services? Working men and women. And the employment arrangement is actually exploitative and evil. We'd all be better off if capital were more fairly distributed, and that wage slavery weren't oppressing 99% of the people.
Now technically, we DON'T actually have to leave the planet to be safe... but if we don't leave, we will find it necessary to at least MOVE the planet to a different orbit.
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Because like the rest of the world, slashdot can't care about pure research, but instead only what can be put on a shelf and advertised by google now now! now!!!!?
Our sun will definitely not explode, so don't stress. Voyager is safe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun#Life_cycle
My cryogenics facility offers a 100,000 year warranty. Plenty of cushion to see if voyager will reach another star system or not.
Except for all the modern technology, of course, right?
The reality is, we're building much better stuff today than our parent's generation did.
I have never owned a dvd player without those features. I think you had particularly bad luck in your choice of players.
My current main dvd player is 7 years old, and we leave the discs in pretty much always. It powers down after an hour of idle I think.
(Toshiba btw).
Well, surely people in general won't bother, most people don't have well-financed, politically powerful enemies. But those who do? Surely it's worth a tiny amount of effort to them to secure their conversations?
You store your encryption keys in an encrypted file, and require a passcode/voice ident/etc to dial anyone you care about encrypting with.
Or you accept that end attacks are much harder to defeat than man-in-the-middle. You resync with anyone you need to encrypt with after each arrest.
So it seems (relatively) trivial to me to write an app that handshakes with your friend when you meet in person, exchanging keys of sufficient bit length for high-grade encryption. Then when you want to talk privately, the app encrypts the audio. This would seem to be the (pretty much permanent) end to man-in-the-middle attacks of this sort.
So out of curiosity, can anyone link to said app yet?
Sorry, I may have been mistaken, but I thought if you were bitten by a zombie, you turned, but if your brains were eaten, that was the end (for the same reason, to kill a zombie, you have to damage the head sufficiently to destroy the brain).
If you could get back to me soon, that would be great. This is a pretty serious issue, I just smashed in a lot of heads, and if I need to do something else to take care of my zombie problem I really need to know befoeljra;ljrfasfdl
Yeah, exactly. And there you'll be, brains eaten, with no typewriter.
I believe in both non-zero-sum games and fair deals as well. I just don't believe they are common, particularly not in our implementation of capitalism. Almost no one goes to work with a reasonable amount of leverage over their salary negotiation. And it is almost exclusively the people at the top who do in fact go to work with that leverage.
Who would want to detect us?
I don't think stellar engineering seems as difficult at interstellar travel. We have significant sources of hydrogen in-system, and building enough ships to evacuate the entire population is probably harder than building some simple machines to strip hydrogen off of jupiter and shoot it in the sun's direction.
The premise further up the discussion chain was to be stealthy. I think it would be challenging to form a bar that could be reliably delivered as you described without being noticed. Whereas something hidden in a cargo hold of a space ship is not necessarily subject to prying eyes.
You can't earn a vast fortune without exploiting the labor of others. Or at least, I don't think it is possible, I have yet to see a single counter-example. But even if it were possible, I would advocate taxing you as if you had, because I think it is beyond the capability of our governments to judge that sensibly. And since you're a hypothetically good person, you won't mind being merely incredibly wealthy rather than insanely wealthy.
The space based population would be capped by their industrial capacity to produce food and shelter. And even if we lifted 5% of the population off the planet, getting to 1% of the planet's industrial capacity would be an enormous challenge.
Research has generally shown that it mostly depends on environment. There's a genetic component, most likely, but its impact is dwarfed by training. As one interesting example, ABA training for autistic kids can make a 50 point difference to IQ in a couple of years.
None of the standard IQ tests that are in any sort of widespread use do that.
The notion that they have 'earned' it is laughable. They have acquired it, but that is not the same thing. Exploiting others to fund your extravagant lifestyle isn't 'earning' in any sane sense of the word.
The top acquirers are benefiting from our society, they should be paying for it.
I don't think it was me that suggested that greed doesn't sometimes cause people to do things that ultimately benefits others. I only take issue with the specific example of Microsoft, since most people in the industry actually believe the contrary for that specific case.
I'd prefer just to tax the extremes back down in line with sanity. There's no need to have the top 1% control 50% of all assets.
Launch to space is about 25k/lb. But you can launch your space shuttle empty, fill it with gold and return. Falcon 9 launches at less than 60 million. So you need only return about 2400 lbs of gold to be profitable.
Wow, I don't know what history of computing you read. Microsoft is pretty universally reviled for having held back advances in computing for years. Their monopoly power prevented superior services in nearly every area from taking root.
Umm ... no ... just no. Who makes most of the goods and services? Working men and women. And the employment arrangement is actually exploitative and evil. We'd all be better off if capital were more fairly distributed, and that wage slavery weren't oppressing 99% of the people.
Here you go:
http://www.universetoday.com/18431/the-suns-future/
Now technically, we DON'T actually have to leave the planet to be safe ... but if we don't leave, we will find it necessary to at least MOVE the planet to a different orbit.