The problem is that the damage is done. Nokia is dead, the spider venom injected years ago has already liquefied the innards, all that's left is for the spider to suck the guts back out. Stopping it now isn't going to save Nokia.
All we can hope is that future traders will see incoming Microsoft leadership as a strong sell signal.
So you're saying that if a CEO POs the government, they will actually enforce the law against that CEO and give him more than a slap on the wrist/cost of business penalty.
No, we're saying that if the CEO pisses off the government, the government will openly admit under oath in a court of law that it attempted to extort the CEO to get compliance. Since the only way the government can claim (without perjury, and the government would never lie about this, right? right?) that he knew that they were going to cancel their secret contracts is if they threatened to do so if he didn't participate in the (at the time) illegal warrantless mass-tapping.
An article about the NSA spying on foreign nationals in foreign countries and doing signals intelligence would probably generate traffic and outrage
Why would anyone report on that when they can get twice the outrage and twice the traffic by rerunning yet another document from Snowden regarding the NSA spying on American citizens in America and getting away with it?
Does a "gesture friendly touchpad" mean its one of those completely flat surfaces with no edges that randomly make shit flip down/out/over what I'm trying to work on because there's no way to tell when you're moving the pointer and when you're swiping the charms bar?
Yes, obviously the NSA buried a billion dollars of equipment in concrete at the bottom of the Mariana once they finished decrypting Al Qaeda's keys an hour after buying it.
No, your key is #125125215 in the queue. Though since you expressed an interest, I'm sure they can bump it up to be decrypted in the next few months.
I thought this meant the encryption is applied 5000 times:
People choose crappy passwords like ABCDE so rather than using "ABCDE" as the encryption key (which wouldn't look very random at all and therefore be very bad) for encrypting the content, the password is hashed to something that hopefully looks random, then that hash is used as the key for encryption.
The purpose of repeating that hashing process is to slow down brute force guessing against your password itself, not to protect the contents from cryptanalysis or against brute forcing all the possible hashes directly. If I want to see if your password is AAAAA, I have to repeat the algorithm 5000 times to see if the resulting hash can be used to decrypt the contents. If I don't care what your password is, I could just guess hashes starting with 0x1 to 0xFFF.... The reason attackers put up with the 5000 rounds of hashing is that even if it takes a second to calculate each password's hash, they'd still guess "ABCDE" before they guess which of the 2^x possible keys it produced.
It pretty much depends on whether your encryption algorithm may have an alternate key kz where decrypt(k1,decrypt(k2,ct)) = decrypt(kz,ct) and especially where that alternate key may be derivable from the other keys kz=f2(k1,k2)
As an example, consider xor: (plaintext xor key1) xor key2 is equivalent to plaintext xor (key1 xor key2), thus kz is (key1 xor key2).
Hadn't heard of this McGurk effect before. I was thinking it was something related to how I can still hear the noisy user interface elements in apps and games in my head when I have the sound muted and mouse over those menus that go "tink".
As for the McGurk video I saw of a man saying baa, it worked on me until the voice over told me the man was saying baa. Then I could look at the guy's lips and still hear baa.
Amazon can sell books for any price they like, down to $0, and the publisher cannot complain. Does that sound right to you? It means if a publisher irks Amazon, they can send book profits spiraling down.
No they can't, not by setting the price to $0. Amazon pays the publisher the wholesale rate of the book, then charges the customer whatever Amazon thinks the customer will pay. If they set the price to $0, the publisher will get rich off of Amazon's losses. Of course, if they were pissed off enough they could charge $10000 and then the profits would spiral.... across to some other retailer who isn't being a jackass.
"Every utility I write has an -h switch, which describes the switches option-by-option, followed by short description of the function of the utility, plus gives links to additional documentation."
That's nice. If I ever get attacked by a switch in the wild i'll know I can use -h to tell me what that switch is.
Now that I know what every switch is, tell me how to use them to achieve my goals.
That's what really makes the difference between being a reference and being instructions.
Yeah, having a hard time raging at this. There's a difference between just giving every call ever to the government for the fun of it, and having an agent show up with papers in order, asking for the calls to/from a certain number and getting only that.
Trolls generally don't announce what they're selling up front and the sealed settlements generally prohibit anyone saying what they're paying, but it appears that they want about 7-8% for each patent, which means that if your product has more than 4-5 patents in it, your patent payments will quickly become larger than your payroll. If it has more than 12 or so, your software becomes impossible to produce.
Sewing machines had this problem years ago, where rather than patenting a thing, people had run up patents on every little individual piece of the thing from the motor to the needle, so now you have patents on interactive help menus and file dialogs and filesystems in addition to patents on finding out how long you have to wait for your bus to arrive. The solution back then was The Sewing Machine Patent Combine which pooled together the patents and paid the members their share of the royalties from them. Setting aside how it would permanently destroy free (beer or speech) software, that worked fine when there were only 3 patent holders, but history has shown that the more holders there are the more likely someone is to fuck over the combine for profit (eg Rambus screwing over JEDEC by not disclosing its patents to the pool). Why would someone settle for a fraction of the patent pool when they could suck 7-8% direct from the source, especially when the proceeds would have to be divvied up between tens of thousands (if not more) patents?
The experiment worked for Ford, why should it not work for the rest of us?
Why should playing the lotto not work for the rest of us?
Some things work until a significant percentage of people do them, then it quits working. If all work is done by robots, how do you draw a salary to buy the things the robots made?
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But they're acting like diatomaceous earth doesn't exist.
Of course it exists. What they've found is diatomaceous SPACE!
The problem is that the damage is done. Nokia is dead, the spider venom injected years ago has already liquefied the innards, all that's left is for the spider to suck the guts back out. Stopping it now isn't going to save Nokia.
All we can hope is that future traders will see incoming Microsoft leadership as a strong sell signal.
Therefore, $25 million is a pittance compraed to the billions that Nokia shareholders would have lost had the deal not gone through.
How much would they have lost if Elop hadn't slit the company's throat in the first place to butcher it for Microsoft?
So you're saying that if a CEO POs the government, they will actually enforce the law against that CEO and give him more than a slap on the wrist/cost of business penalty.
No, we're saying that if the CEO pisses off the government, the government will openly admit under oath in a court of law that it attempted to extort the CEO to get compliance. Since the only way the government can claim (without perjury, and the government would never lie about this, right? right?) that he knew that they were going to cancel their secret contracts is if they threatened to do so if he didn't participate in the (at the time) illegal warrantless mass-tapping.
The Republicans would consider them to be acceptable casualties and collateral damage. And then it will be dailykos's turn.
An article about the NSA spying on foreign nationals in foreign countries and doing signals intelligence would probably generate traffic and outrage
Why would anyone report on that when they can get twice the outrage and twice the traffic by rerunning yet another document from Snowden regarding the NSA spying on American citizens in America and getting away with it?
LOL, the people in the refugee camps are the ones who FLED. They don't want to be caught standing near either the rebels OR the government.
If it was YOU and YOURS would you want a super power to level the murderer?
So we should pick a side in the assholes vs dickheads war and kill THEM and THEIRS.
I bet you wonder why our country is so hated by everyone over there.
Sorry, your complaining about the 200 grit lube is destroying stockholder value.
Does a "gesture friendly touchpad" mean its one of those completely flat surfaces with no edges that randomly make shit flip down/out/over what I'm trying to work on because there's no way to tell when you're moving the pointer and when you're swiping the charms bar?
Or does it mean one where the damn gestures are turned off by default without having to install synaptic drivers and dig through their driver menus, or hunt around in the registry, or say fuck it and replace windows entirely?
how do we explain the common practice of using magic numbers in cryptography standard, then?
They came from the government, and the government is here to help.
My LCD has an entire column of the color subpixels screwed up (i think green is permanently off)
Actually, he doesn't get the mod point back, it just disappears.
Also if you mod then post AC from the same IP, it just disappears too, only without the "you're about to undo your moderations" warning.
That would mean nobody is going to break MY key
Yes, obviously the NSA buried a billion dollars of equipment in concrete at the bottom of the Mariana once they finished decrypting Al Qaeda's keys an hour after buying it.
No, your key is #125125215 in the queue. Though since you expressed an interest, I'm sure they can bump it up to be decrypted in the next few months.
I thought this meant the encryption is applied 5000 times:
People choose crappy passwords like ABCDE so rather than using "ABCDE" as the encryption key (which wouldn't look very random at all and therefore be very bad) for encrypting the content, the password is hashed to something that hopefully looks random, then that hash is used as the key for encryption.
The purpose of repeating that hashing process is to slow down brute force guessing against your password itself, not to protect the contents from cryptanalysis or against brute forcing all the possible hashes directly. If I want to see if your password is AAAAA, I have to repeat the algorithm 5000 times to see if the resulting hash can be used to decrypt the contents. If I don't care what your password is, I could just guess hashes starting with 0x1 to 0xFFF.... The reason attackers put up with the 5000 rounds of hashing is that even if it takes a second to calculate each password's hash, they'd still guess "ABCDE" before they guess which of the 2^x possible keys it produced.
It pretty much depends on whether your encryption algorithm may have an alternate key kz where decrypt(k1,decrypt(k2,ct)) = decrypt(kz,ct) and especially where that alternate key may be derivable from the other keys kz=f2(k1,k2)
As an example, consider xor: (plaintext xor key1) xor key2 is equivalent to plaintext xor (key1 xor key2), thus kz is (key1 xor key2).
Hadn't heard of this McGurk effect before. I was thinking it was something related to how I can still hear the noisy user interface elements in apps and games in my head when I have the sound muted and mouse over those menus that go "tink".
As for the McGurk video I saw of a man saying baa, it worked on me until the voice over told me the man was saying baa. Then I could look at the guy's lips and still hear baa.
Amazon can sell books for any price they like, down to $0, and the publisher cannot complain. Does that sound right to you? It means if a publisher irks Amazon, they can send book profits spiraling down.
No they can't, not by setting the price to $0. Amazon pays the publisher the wholesale rate of the book, then charges the customer whatever Amazon thinks the customer will pay. If they set the price to $0, the publisher will get rich off of Amazon's losses. Of course, if they were pissed off enough they could charge $10000 and then the profits would spiral.... across to some other retailer who isn't being a jackass.
You know, how competition is supposed to work.
Bigger question is why we aren't talking about the NSA breaking SSL.
That's nice. If I ever get attacked by a switch in the wild i'll know I can use -h to tell me what that switch is.
Now that I know what every switch is, tell me how to use them to achieve my goals.
That's what really makes the difference between being a reference and being instructions.
Huh? Isn't that what you get with cryptsetup without LUKS? You can generate a keyfile stored somewhere else.
Yeah, having a hard time raging at this. There's a difference between just giving every call ever to the government for the fun of it, and having an agent show up with papers in order, asking for the calls to/from a certain number and getting only that.
Trolls generally don't announce what they're selling up front and the sealed settlements generally prohibit anyone saying what they're paying, but it appears that they want about 7-8% for each patent, which means that if your product has more than 4-5 patents in it, your patent payments will quickly become larger than your payroll. If it has more than 12 or so, your software becomes impossible to produce.
Sewing machines had this problem years ago, where rather than patenting a thing, people had run up patents on every little individual piece of the thing from the motor to the needle, so now you have patents on interactive help menus and file dialogs and filesystems in addition to patents on finding out how long you have to wait for your bus to arrive. The solution back then was The Sewing Machine Patent Combine which pooled together the patents and paid the members their share of the royalties from them. Setting aside how it would permanently destroy free (beer or speech) software, that worked fine when there were only 3 patent holders, but history has shown that the more holders there are the more likely someone is to fuck over the combine for profit (eg Rambus screwing over JEDEC by not disclosing its patents to the pool). Why would someone settle for a fraction of the patent pool when they could suck 7-8% direct from the source, especially when the proceeds would have to be divvied up between tens of thousands (if not more) patents?
Well, it could drive up the suspension cables or something
The experiment worked for Ford, why should it not work for the rest of us?
Why should playing the lotto not work for the rest of us?
Some things work until a significant percentage of people do them, then it quits working. If all work is done by robots, how do you draw a salary to buy the things the robots made?