Security by Obscurity is lame.
The REAL test of a good security protocol is when you publish ALL the details and the bad guys STILL can't get in.
If you are merely relying on somebody, somewhere, not saying anything, you are asking for it.
All the real security products that people actually trust are open source. I will never, ever, ever, ever, trust anything that is closed source. There could be a back door, and you can't argue with that.
Again, and again, and again, the ONLY security algorithms worth talking about are OPEN. If you can publish your work in public and STILL be secure, THAT is security. That is quite possible, it has been done many times. If you can't do that, you are just making excuses for your lame security that relies on a secret. Look at history. Your secret will be published, and then your product will be dead.
We don't have to accept it on faith. Mathematical proofs are either correct or not. Scientific theories, to the extent that they use things like wave equations and whatnot, can be accepted because we know the formulas have been proven rigorously. Furthermore, for a scientific theory to be accepted there must be no data that violates it. The current "standard" models of the world all work just fine --- if they didn't it would be obvious and they would be fixed. It has nothing to to with belief.
If you study the foundations of Mathematics, you'll find that there are several different axiom systems at base, and one can accept one (or more) of several systems, some of which yield slightly different interpretations of certain results. (For example, you can accept the Axiom of Choice, or not.) That is not a matter of belief, it is a matter of choosing which tools you want to work with. All proceeds logically from there.
In Japan, everybody has a portable phone, all the phones have id-chips in them, and everybody already uses their phone to pay for the subway. They've been doing this for years and years, now.
The only way we could possibly do any better is if you could use your phone like a Visa card. That would require all POS card readers to recognize the chips in the phones. A huge upgrade we wouldn't have to make if we had been doing it the way the Japanese have been doing it for years now.
The end of the abstract points out that no clinical significance of this finding is known.
It seems to me that the result could be caused by the slight heating of the brain due to
absorption of some of the RF energy. I wonder what would happen if they re-did the study
but used earmuffs instead of cell phones.
So the power failed. I was happy to tell people that a system that hasn't been rebooted in over a year is a system that is BADLY in need of an upgrade. I don't want to run software that old. I'm glad the power failed and gave me an excuse.
A friend of mine just told me that after he clicked on a link to look at a bit of hardware we are thinking of purchasing, his facebook page showed an ad for the same product.
They are already watching everything you do. They'd beam ads into your brain with gamma radiation if they thought it would work. People think Facebook is private, and they are wrong, of course, but intrusions like this into a perceived private space are becoming more and more unconscionable.
Slashdot lets the "good" users opt out of ads. When will FB do this? Personally I don't care because I can't stand the forced-socialization websites, with or without ads. (Facebook's pet races are rigged, by the way, lousy stink hole that it is.)
You wanna know how this story influenced me?
Here's basically how I read it.
"DARPA in a nutshell wants to know how stories or narratives influence human behavior. To this end, they are hosting a workshop called blah blah blah (STORyNET): blah blah blah 'Stories exert a powerful influence on human thoughts and behavior. They blah blah blah, blah blah. It comes as no surprise that blah blah blah blah blah"
I once played an online game where you could set the robotic factories to building robotic factories, and then after a while switch them over to building ships. In one turn you could produce a huge fleet out of nowhere. When I did this, the game designers were convinced I had cheated because "there's no other way you could get that many ships." They didn't understand their own game, or how exponential growth works. Explaining this didn't help, I was banned.
P.S. So in the next round I helped my friends actually cheat by hacking the game's database and producing written spy reports of enemy movements. Ha.
We already went over this on Fark, it's old news.
In TFA, they say (waving hands) that the reaction works BETTER when there is a constant input of energy. If they had a sustainable reaction they could plug the output into the input BUT EVEN THEY SAY they can't do this. They need constant input. This is clearly a major red flag.
Also, they are only accepting "serious requests" from "investors willing to purchase"...
This is a load of horse turd from some charlatans.
tl;dr, troll 0/10
Since most horoscopes are based on the tropical zodiac, which is tied to the equinoxes and the seasons, this points out that people who use astrology have always been implicitly assuming that the seasons have more effect on behaviour than the stars. Hear that! You haven't been using the stars for a long time. You haven't ever used the stars. The stars don't influence you (unless you are an astronomer).
''
The magnetic pole has shifted but your compass still points north.
I wrote a Python script to solve Sudoku puzzles. It takes 10 milliseconds. For a hard game where a guess is required, it takes 20 milliseconds.
Interpreted Python. 10 milliseconds. Humans are terrible at this game because they can't remember 89 things at once. But it is really trivial.
So if the politicians want to protect their privacy, they have to protect ours, too, by anonymizing those records. Neat. Or we could just trust telco employees. One of them has to have the passphrase anyway.
One Dr. to another: "Hey, this graduate student you sent me is an idiot!" Reply: "No, no, he's an idiot savant." O: "Idiot savant? He doesn't know any math, and he can barely tie his shoelaces!" R: "Yes, but he's an expert an something." O: "What would that be then?" R: "Well, I dunno, but I'm sure he's a total genius at something. You just need to find out what it is." O: "He's not a genius, he's a flippin' loon! He thinks Europe has a President! He thinks lites are lit by little golden fairies." R: "Well, he's probably a musician then. Have you tried him in front of the keyboard? Graduate students really love that." O: "This is a molecular biology lab! Well, I guess I could get him to interpret A, C, G, and T as C, G, A, and b-flat. But look, the point is, I needed somebody with technical skills! This graduate student is a complete imbecile who knows nothing useful whatsoever!" R: "Naw, he's just hungry. Give him a soda and some donuts and he'll be off proposing hypotheses all day long." O: "You're a loony. Did you go to the same undergraduate school he did? Can you read? No wait, don't answer that, I don't care."
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Security by Obscurity is lame. The REAL test of a good security protocol is when you publish ALL the details and the bad guys STILL can't get in. If you are merely relying on somebody, somewhere, not saying anything, you are asking for it. All the real security products that people actually trust are open source. I will never, ever, ever, ever, trust anything that is closed source. There could be a back door, and you can't argue with that. Again, and again, and again, the ONLY security algorithms worth talking about are OPEN. If you can publish your work in public and STILL be secure, THAT is security. That is quite possible, it has been done many times. If you can't do that, you are just making excuses for your lame security that relies on a secret. Look at history. Your secret will be published, and then your product will be dead.
Agreed.
We don't have to accept it on faith. Mathematical proofs are either correct or not. Scientific theories, to the extent that they use things like wave equations and whatnot, can be accepted because we know the formulas have been proven rigorously. Furthermore, for a scientific theory to be accepted there must be no data that violates it. The current "standard" models of the world all work just fine --- if they didn't it would be obvious and they would be fixed. It has nothing to to with belief. If you study the foundations of Mathematics, you'll find that there are several different axiom systems at base, and one can accept one (or more) of several systems, some of which yield slightly different interpretations of certain results. (For example, you can accept the Axiom of Choice, or not.) That is not a matter of belief, it is a matter of choosing which tools you want to work with. All proceeds logically from there.
In Japan, everybody has a portable phone, all the phones have id-chips in them, and everybody already uses their phone to pay for the subway. They've been doing this for years and years, now. The only way we could possibly do any better is if you could use your phone like a Visa card. That would require all POS card readers to recognize the chips in the phones. A huge upgrade we wouldn't have to make if we had been doing it the way the Japanese have been doing it for years now.
they start with something called Liquid Silk. Try doing a google search for that ...
holding it increases the chances of a number of medical problems, including gout and cancer
when you gotta go you gotta go
looks like it was already deleted
The end of the abstract points out that no clinical significance of this finding is known.
It seems to me that the result could be caused by the slight heating of the brain due to absorption of some of the RF energy. I wonder what would happen if they re-did the study but used earmuffs instead of cell phones.
Since when is Ubuntu the "good linux"?
So the power failed. I was happy to tell people that a system that hasn't been rebooted in over a year is a system that is BADLY in need of an upgrade. I don't want to run software that old. I'm glad the power failed and gave me an excuse.
A friend of mine just told me that after he clicked on a link to look at a bit of hardware we are thinking of purchasing, his facebook page showed an ad for the same product. They are already watching everything you do. They'd beam ads into your brain with gamma radiation if they thought it would work. People think Facebook is private, and they are wrong, of course, but intrusions like this into a perceived private space are becoming more and more unconscionable. Slashdot lets the "good" users opt out of ads. When will FB do this? Personally I don't care because I can't stand the forced-socialization websites, with or without ads. (Facebook's pet races are rigged, by the way, lousy stink hole that it is.)
I drink so much vegetable juice, IPV8
You wanna know how this story influenced me? Here's basically how I read it. "DARPA in a nutshell wants to know how stories or narratives influence human behavior. To this end, they are hosting a workshop called blah blah blah (STORyNET): blah blah blah 'Stories exert a powerful influence on human thoughts and behavior. They blah blah blah, blah blah. It comes as no surprise that blah blah blah blah blah"
So, now we know how they found those 100 mob members. Oh, maybe it was an informant. Maybe the informant was the phone company.
I once played an online game where you could set the robotic factories to building robotic factories, and then after a while switch them over to building ships. In one turn you could produce a huge fleet out of nowhere. When I did this, the game designers were convinced I had cheated because "there's no other way you could get that many ships." They didn't understand their own game, or how exponential growth works. Explaining this didn't help, I was banned.
P.S. So in the next round I helped my friends actually cheat by hacking the game's database and producing written spy reports of enemy movements. Ha.
We already went over this on Fark, it's old news. In TFA, they say (waving hands) that the reaction works BETTER when there is a constant input of energy. If they had a sustainable reaction they could plug the output into the input BUT EVEN THEY SAY they can't do this. They need constant input. This is clearly a major red flag. Also, they are only accepting "serious requests" from "investors willing to purchase" ...
This is a load of horse turd from some charlatans.
tl;dr, troll 0/10
Since most horoscopes are based on the tropical zodiac, which is tied to the equinoxes and the seasons, this points out that people who use astrology have always been implicitly assuming that the seasons have more effect on behaviour than the stars. Hear that! You haven't been using the stars for a long time. You haven't ever used the stars. The stars don't influence you (unless you are an astronomer). '' The magnetic pole has shifted but your compass still points north.
but may still be some time in the making hyperbole fail
I wrote a Python script to solve Sudoku puzzles. It takes 10 milliseconds. For a hard game where a guess is required, it takes 20 milliseconds. Interpreted Python. 10 milliseconds. Humans are terrible at this game because they can't remember 89 things at once. But it is really trivial.
the firewall at work blocks it
So, the soil on Mars has rocket fuel in it. You could probably even go there and make rockets.
So if the politicians want to protect their privacy, they have to protect ours, too, by anonymizing those records. Neat. Or we could just trust telco employees. One of them has to have the passphrase anyway.
One Dr. to another: "Hey, this graduate student you sent me is an idiot!"
Reply: "No, no, he's an idiot savant."
O: "Idiot savant? He doesn't know any math, and he can barely tie his shoelaces!"
R: "Yes, but he's an expert an something."
O: "What would that be then?"
R: "Well, I dunno, but I'm sure he's a total genius at something.
You just need to find out what it is."
O: "He's not a genius, he's a flippin' loon! He thinks Europe has a President!
He thinks lites are lit by little golden fairies."
R: "Well, he's probably a musician then. Have you tried him in front of the keyboard?
Graduate students really love that."
O: "This is a molecular biology lab! Well, I guess I could get him to interpret A, C, G, and T as C, G, A, and b-flat. But look, the point is, I needed somebody with technical skills! This graduate student is a complete imbecile who knows nothing useful whatsoever!"
R: "Naw, he's just hungry. Give him a soda and some donuts and he'll be off proposing hypotheses all day long."
O: "You're a loony. Did you go to the same undergraduate school he did? Can you read? No wait, don't answer that, I don't care."
etc.
I think the old joke should have been, "Hey, that slave you sold me is dead!" (not died in service; that's different, and less of a joke).
Oh, so the Flying Spaghetti Monster is really a Higgs Boson. No wonder they are so difficult to detect.