Why is everyone still happy with SSH and RSA with the specter of a quantum menace lurking just around the corner?
Because the vast majority of us don't need to keep our data secure for the next century... Even for some of the most
nefarious uses of crypto, merely lasting long enough to exceed the statute of limitations will suffice, and I'd put that as a serious fringe
case.
Personally, I only use encryption for my financial documents and to make myself a more difficult target in the present (whether to identity thieves or
the government or to my ISP trying to control my traffic). For the former, I consider basic access control (ie, keep it offline) as the first
line of defense, and the encryption as a fallback; for the latter, if it takes even five minutes more effort than merely watching the wire,
the crypto has done its job.
Even corporations don't tend to care about a scale longer than five years out (and that, only when they can even see past the next quarter)... Which
leaves really only governments caring about how soon someone like Assange can find a way to embarrass the talking heads.
But a successful nation needs to collect some kind of tax
Did you know the US had no federal income tax for the first HALF of its existence?
Making a local business charge tax while their competitors on the other side of the country (or planet) don't charge tax is damaging to the local economy.
The local taxing authority has absolute, unwavering control over exactly that issue. If their local brick & mortars can't compete with Amazon because of locally imposed sales taxes, the city/county/state can stop charging sales tax, the single most regressive tax we have on the books today.
We already pay too many different types of tax, with far too many complex exceptions. Adding another one will only make room for more, not less, abuse. Simple example, the tax proposed in TFA only applies online merchants making over $500k per year. Amazon can afford to split itself into a few thousand $499k/year sub-companies... Can your local Mom's Widget Emporium do the same?
"Similar culture"? Just because some of the people in the neighboring countries are of arabian descent too?
Yes, similar culture.
Most Americans would consider social norms in the Southeast almost diametrically opposed to those of the Northeast; but as crotchety ol' Swamp Yankee from Northern New England,I'd still take Alabama in a heartbeat over living in a Sharia-observing war-zone.
There's sometimes misdiagnosis with ADD and Aspergers as certain types can look very similar while having completely different root causes.
Could you substantiate that? I don't necessarily disbelieve you, but as modern medical science has absolutely no clue as to the causes of either, I would like to know your basis for such a claim.
Nonono, you see, now that Windows 7 actually includes something resembling real security so every app and virus can't store itself in c:\windows(\system32), Linux needs to go in exactly the opposite direction.
Now that we have fairly well-defined locations such as program files, program files (x86), windows, windows\system32, windows\syswow64, windows\winsxs, and a dozen other common (but actually somewhat consistent based on purpose) places to stick standard apps under Windows, Linux clearly needs to streamline and streamline.
We have a stupid drunken moron for President because our oligarchs and the USA imposed him.
Make no mistake, the people of Mexico have my sympathy in the present situation. But no one but them can do anything about those problems both you and I described - The corrupt politicians (on both side of the Rio) have no interest in changing things, the cartels have no interest in changing things, so the burden rests on the one group that needs things to change.
The conservative policies that protected the oligarchs and made the large corps pay ridiculously low amounts of income taxes and get large tax breaks to them ruined small family business, NAFTA ruined small farmers
Now, that I have to admit I did not realize. So basically we all hate NAFTA, except the huge industrial players who use the locals as little more than slaves. Interesting...
Mexico is a sovereign nation. Did you stop to think how condescending it sounds to say we "let" Mexico do anything?
"+5 Funny"
Mexico exists as a failed state with a weak central government allowed to exist at the whim of the cartels because it facilitates exporting their real "product", hidden in shipments of their semi-legit American-job-eliminating exports. The Mexican government explicitly educates its citizens on how to abuse their bullshit "rights" when they get busted as illegals in the US - Rights that US citizens do not have when they get set up by the local corrupt police while spending tourism dollars in Mexico.
And you think we should care it "sounds" to decide whether or not we should let - Yes, "let" - Mexico continue on its present course?
Fuck 'em. I totally oppose the war on (some) drugs, but Mexico has all but declared war on us by deliberately feeding the worst aspects of it.
Or, since the US controls the actual satellites, why not show the whiners exactly how much power they have here, and run the exercise with the GPS system really turned off (if not worldwide, at least in smallest area that will completely knock out that region)?
When the US military (sorry, *cough* NATO *cough*) actually suggests a reasonable, small-scale approach to a problem, we need to encourage them, not complain that they didn't use the bigger gun.
I enjoy DIY projects, don't get me wrong; and as a cheap bastard, I would far rather build it myself than pay twice as much for the same thing as an OEM.
That said, I know my limits. I would prefer to have a 3d printer that "just works", than spending dozens of hours trying to put together a finicky pile of junk that can sorta produce one crude design per run before it jams or self destructs and needs a major overhaul.:)
This will make things LOOK pretty. It won't make missing data suddenly appear. At best it will make something ugly LOOK a little better. But that's just a computer-generated illusion, not a reflection of reality.
Yes and no - No, you can't magically create information not present in the original image.
You can, however, calculate the most likely "true" value for any point on the image, given a sufficiently accurate model of the distortion present (in this case, an incorrect focal plane). Whether or not that allows any functionally useful interpolation, you can still get a pretty good ID from a few dozen pixels squared, if sufficiently clear (think Slashdot's Gates-Borg icon).
Strange claim, since he hasn't sought any money from anyone, not even from organizations and government programs that might normally fund ideas such as his.
You can, at worst, accuse him of believing his own hype; the con-man angle just doesn't fit.
Why would you want to waste slashdot readers time by doing a question and answer with someone that has a magic spell to create energy, but of course no one can verify it.
"today is a big test in Italy by scientists from around the world, who will be observing the technology in operation, including self-looped mode."
If it produces enough power to sustain its own activity, without consuming anything but water (and presumably nickel at a very slow rate), then at the very least we have a device from which we can use the waste heat to stay warm in the winter.
And if not, well, one more mad scientist disproven.
Either way, we will have "verified" it. The secrecy angle has no bearing on the validity of the tech - Would you honestly just give away the secret to a technology with the potential to replace OPEC's coffers with your own?
A third of the US still lacks broadband. A larger number, including myself, pays way too much for a service that technically qualifies as broadband (satellite, 3g, etc), but have such onerous bandwidth caps (not to mention random but usually short drops in service) as to make streaming movies a virtual impossibility.
It sounds great to say "we have higher margins on this side of the business, let's ditch that old crap", but just giving up on 100+ million potential customers doesn't count as the wisest of business decisions.
That said, I agree with you about the postal overhead for their mailed DVD service, and this hideously-named spinoff will eventually need to figure out how to deal with that problem.
Oh BS. I've yet to come across an ftp server than didn't except the standard rfc commands.[...] Wtf are you talking about? What are these servers running on, Windows??
Among others. Windows, and VAXen, and ancient IBM mainframes, Oh My.
Modern coders have gotten spoiled by the fact that "modern" OSs (from 'doze to Linux to OS-X) all ripped off the same stock networking code from BSD-circa-1985.
The fact that you've never had the need to communicate between systems more diverse than XP-to-RHEL doesn't reflect the reality of the business world, where your boss tells you "pull a price feed from XYZ corp", and XYZ corp still runs everything on a machine considered obsolete 20 years ago that speaks EBCDIC or uses 36-bit machine words.
So you claim it has a fault then provide the answer and say its a question? Riiight.
Uhh... Yes, he did. "FTP has faults X, Y, and Z; This alternative solves those faults". I don't see the problem.
And if you don't know how to do it then you've obviously never used ftp for much of anything so your opinions are void.
Don't act like an ass. I've "automated" more than a few FTP connections to pull in daily data feeds (EDI, price feeds, transactional data, etc). And every single one of them required slightly different syntax. Some servers don't like dir vs ls. Some always use binary mode. Some don't support mget/mput, or don't support it recursively. For EOL "conventions", you may as well flip a coin - On top of which, some servers will deal with the "wrong" EOLs, some give useful feedback, some just shit the bed. PASV solves one set of problems in exchange for another (cheap insecure home firewall? Great, no problems. Actually secure corporate firewall? Prepare for a day of agony, and expect it to break every time you get an update).
SCP also has its own problems, but you look silly mocking the GP for the suggestion.
Well, that, and the whole point of TFA centers on the fact that this storm never posed a serious threat. Not just in hindsight, but not a single verifiable data point even says "hurricane", much less "storm of the century".
Sorry if you were inconvenienced by the "mistake."
Not at all - I didn't have such good evidence as TFA to back it up, but despite living dead center of its pre-landfall track, at no point did I panic over a (hypothetical) category 2 storm making landfall 700 miles south of me. If it made first landfall in CT, I'd worry. NC, not so much.
My complaint has more to do with the future, than the past - I don't claim myself as immune from the "boy who cried wolf" effect; I'd really prefer feeling comfortable believing the next warning, rather than brushing it off and regretting that later.
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Once these ISPs learn that we're entitled to everything we want, they'll finally have to stop throttling us.
7/10. Try "Once these ISPs learn that we're entitled to" the goddamned level of service we signed up and paid for.
Matters of legality belong in the courts, not the infrastructure.
It seems you don't understand the words "democracy" and "republic". It would probably help your case if you did.
It seems you don't understand the word "corporatocracy". It would probably help your case if you did.
Why is everyone still happy with SSH and RSA with the specter of a quantum menace lurking just around the corner?
Because the vast majority of us don't need to keep our data secure for the next century... Even for some of the most nefarious uses of crypto, merely lasting long enough to exceed the statute of limitations will suffice, and I'd put that as a serious fringe case.
Personally, I only use encryption for my financial documents and to make myself a more difficult target in the present (whether to identity thieves or the government or to my ISP trying to control my traffic). For the former, I consider basic access control (ie, keep it offline) as the first line of defense, and the encryption as a fallback; for the latter, if it takes even five minutes more effort than merely watching the wire, the crypto has done its job.
Even corporations don't tend to care about a scale longer than five years out (and that, only when they can even see past the next quarter)... Which leaves really only governments caring about how soon someone like Assange can find a way to embarrass the talking heads.
But a successful nation needs to collect some kind of tax
Did you know the US had no federal income tax for the first HALF of its existence?
Making a local business charge tax while their competitors on the other side of the country (or planet) don't charge tax is damaging to the local economy.
The local taxing authority has absolute, unwavering control over exactly that issue. If their local brick & mortars can't compete with Amazon because of locally imposed sales taxes, the city/county/state can stop charging sales tax, the single most regressive tax we have on the books today.
We already pay too many different types of tax, with far too many complex exceptions. Adding another one will only make room for more, not less, abuse. Simple example, the tax proposed in TFA only applies online merchants making over $500k per year. Amazon can afford to split itself into a few thousand $499k/year sub-companies... Can your local Mom's Widget Emporium do the same?
"Similar culture"? Just because some of the people in the neighboring countries are of arabian descent too?
Yes, similar culture.
Most Americans would consider social norms in the Southeast almost diametrically opposed to those of the Northeast; but as crotchety ol' Swamp Yankee from Northern New England,I'd still take Alabama in a heartbeat over living in a Sharia-observing war-zone.
A business has accountability to its shareholders. Governments lack even that weak of a damper on their abuses.
RTFA
Nice try, but the FP summary includes far MORE detail than TFA - Proving, amusingly enough, that you haven't R'd TFA.
There's sometimes misdiagnosis with ADD and Aspergers as certain types can look very similar while having completely different root causes.
Could you substantiate that? I don't necessarily disbelieve you, but as modern medical science has absolutely no clue as to the causes of either, I would like to know your basis for such a claim.
Nonono, you see, now that Windows 7 actually includes something resembling real security so every app and virus can't store itself in c:\windows(\system32), Linux needs to go in exactly the opposite direction.
Now that we have fairly well-defined locations such as program files, program files (x86), windows, windows\system32, windows\syswow64, windows\winsxs, and a dozen other common (but actually somewhat consistent based on purpose) places to stick standard apps under Windows, Linux clearly needs to streamline and streamline.
* rolls eyes
We have a stupid drunken moron for President because our oligarchs and the USA imposed him.
Make no mistake, the people of Mexico have my sympathy in the present situation. But no one but them can do anything about those problems both you and I described - The corrupt politicians (on both side of the Rio) have no interest in changing things, the cartels have no interest in changing things, so the burden rests on the one group that needs things to change.
The conservative policies that protected the oligarchs and made the large corps pay ridiculously low amounts of income taxes and get large tax breaks to them ruined small family business, NAFTA ruined small farmers
Now, that I have to admit I did not realize. So basically we all hate NAFTA, except the huge industrial players who use the locals as little more than slaves. Interesting...
Mexico is a sovereign nation. Did you stop to think how condescending it sounds to say we "let" Mexico do anything?
"+5 Funny"
Mexico exists as a failed state with a weak central government allowed to exist at the whim of the cartels because it facilitates exporting their real "product", hidden in shipments of their semi-legit American-job-eliminating exports. The Mexican government explicitly educates its citizens on how to abuse their bullshit "rights" when they get busted as illegals in the US - Rights that US citizens do not have when they get set up by the local corrupt police while spending tourism dollars in Mexico.
And you think we should care it "sounds" to decide whether or not we should let - Yes, "let" - Mexico continue on its present course?
Fuck 'em. I totally oppose the war on (some) drugs, but Mexico has all but declared war on us by deliberately feeding the worst aspects of it.
1. Driving is a privilege, not a right.
...Or in this case, "yes"?
So, how does it feel to shill for the 1%?
3. Out west they've been doing this for decades looking for vehicles trafficking in illegal immigrants and illegal drugs.
Did you know that you can say "no"?
4. Do you mind if we search your computer?
So I can legally buy and use 10x hotter "mineral samples" for the same purpose, but I can't take apart a smoke detector?
I don't doubt you, just more proof of the stupidity of governments in general.
why not fake it?
Or, since the US controls the actual satellites, why not show the whiners exactly how much power they have here, and run the exercise with the GPS system really turned off (if not worldwide, at least in smallest area that will completely knock out that region)?
When the US military (sorry, *cough* NATO *cough*) actually suggests a reasonable, small-scale approach to a problem, we need to encourage them, not complain that they didn't use the bigger gun.
I enjoy DIY projects, don't get me wrong; and as a cheap bastard, I would far rather build it myself than pay twice as much for the same thing as an OEM.
:)
That said, I know my limits. I would prefer to have a 3d printer that "just works", than spending dozens of hours trying to put together a finicky pile of junk that can sorta produce one crude design per run before it jams or self destructs and needs a major overhaul.
This will make things LOOK pretty. It won't make missing data suddenly appear. At best it will make something ugly LOOK a little better. But that's just a computer-generated illusion, not a reflection of reality.
Yes and no - No, you can't magically create information not present in the original image.
You can, however, calculate the most likely "true" value for any point on the image, given a sufficiently accurate model of the distortion present (in this case, an incorrect focal plane). Whether or not that allows any functionally useful interpolation, you can still get a pretty good ID from a few dozen pixels squared, if sufficiently clear (think Slashdot's Gates-Borg icon).
The process is pulling money out of the gullible.
Strange claim, since he hasn't sought any money from anyone, not even from organizations and government programs that might normally fund ideas such as his.
You can, at worst, accuse him of believing his own hype; the con-man angle just doesn't fit.
Why would you want to waste slashdot readers time by doing a question and answer with someone that has a magic spell to create energy, but of course no one can verify it.
"today is a big test in Italy by scientists from around the world, who will be observing the technology in operation, including self-looped mode."
If it produces enough power to sustain its own activity, without consuming anything but water (and presumably nickel at a very slow rate), then at the very least we have a device from which we can use the waste heat to stay warm in the winter.
And if not, well, one more mad scientist disproven.
Either way, we will have "verified" it. The secrecy angle has no bearing on the validity of the tech - Would you honestly just give away the secret to a technology with the potential to replace OPEC's coffers with your own?
People disconnected will still continue to pay their ISP contract.
Or what? They'll threaten to reconnect them just so they can disconnect them again?
The DVD rental by mail business is a dead end
A third of the US still lacks broadband. A larger number, including myself, pays way too much for a service that technically qualifies as broadband (satellite, 3g, etc), but have such onerous bandwidth caps (not to mention random but usually short drops in service) as to make streaming movies a virtual impossibility.
It sounds great to say "we have higher margins on this side of the business, let's ditch that old crap", but just giving up on 100+ million potential customers doesn't count as the wisest of business decisions.
That said, I agree with you about the postal overhead for their mailed DVD service, and this hideously-named spinoff will eventually need to figure out how to deal with that problem.
Oh BS. I've yet to come across an ftp server than didn't except the standard rfc commands.[...]
Wtf are you talking about? What are these servers running on, Windows??
Among others. Windows, and VAXen, and ancient IBM mainframes, Oh My.
Modern coders have gotten spoiled by the fact that "modern" OSs (from 'doze to Linux to OS-X) all ripped off the same stock networking code from BSD-circa-1985.
The fact that you've never had the need to communicate between systems more diverse than XP-to-RHEL doesn't reflect the reality of the business world, where your boss tells you "pull a price feed from XYZ corp", and XYZ corp still runs everything on a machine considered obsolete 20 years ago that speaks EBCDIC or uses 36-bit machine words.
So you claim it has a fault then provide the answer and say its a question? Riiight.
Uhh... Yes, he did. "FTP has faults X, Y, and Z; This alternative solves those faults". I don't see the problem.
And if you don't know how to do it then you've obviously never used ftp for much of anything so your opinions are void.
Don't act like an ass. I've "automated" more than a few FTP connections to pull in daily data feeds (EDI, price feeds, transactional data, etc). And every single one of them required slightly different syntax. Some servers don't like dir vs ls. Some always use binary mode. Some don't support mget/mput, or don't support it recursively. For EOL "conventions", you may as well flip a coin - On top of which, some servers will deal with the "wrong" EOLs, some give useful feedback, some just shit the bed. PASV solves one set of problems in exchange for another (cheap insecure home firewall? Great, no problems. Actually secure corporate firewall? Prepare for a day of agony, and expect it to break every time you get an update).
SCP also has its own problems, but you look silly mocking the GP for the suggestion.
You're right, but only in hindsight.
Well, that, and the whole point of TFA centers on the fact that this storm never posed a serious threat. Not just in hindsight, but not a single verifiable data point even says "hurricane", much less "storm of the century".
Sorry if you were inconvenienced by the "mistake."
Not at all - I didn't have such good evidence as TFA to back it up, but despite living dead center of its pre-landfall track, at no point did I panic over a (hypothetical) category 2 storm making landfall 700 miles south of me. If it made first landfall in CT, I'd worry. NC, not so much.
My complaint has more to do with the future, than the past - I don't claim myself as immune from the "boy who cried wolf" effect; I'd really prefer feeling comfortable believing the next warning, rather than brushing it off and regretting that later.
I will just leave this here http://www.mobileworks.com/fairtradework.html [mobileworks.com] Full disclosure: I am one of the founders.
If not just a PR talking point, then I sincerely wish you the best of luck.
I see this as a much too slippery slope to tread lightly, though.
that crowdsource tasks to workers in India.
Say, I have this great idea for harvesting more cotton by "crowdsourcing" the task to imported workers from Africa...
Or does this "merely" mean that child labor has "shifted paradgms" from a reason to boycott a company, to a patentable business method?