You know, I'm not sure which would be worse. You being from Kentucky and not knowing *RAND* Paul is Senator and not a Congressman -- much less a different person from *RON* Paul.
Or you being from Texas and not knowing Ron Paul is retired and no longer serving in Congress. Randy Weber is now the Representative from the 14th District.
My guess is you're from neither place and just pig ignorant.
There is an old video ad on some models of Toughbook stopping a.22 and still operating. Our high school wasn't that bad, so I took their word for it.:-)
Half-a-dozen years ago when my daughter was in high school, the district piloted a "laptop progam" where all the books and assignments were done electronically. They had some deal with Microsoft and Dell with "deals" on MS Office Student and some Dell laptops.
I threw a fit and insisted we would NOT be purchasing the "required" laptops and would provide one for our daughter. The school relented because I made such a pain of myself.
Off to E-Bay I went and purchased an older, used Panasonic Toughbook. Not the latest, but ran all the software and rugged enough to stop small caliber weapons fire.
The breakage rate of those cheap, plastic Dell laptops was horrific. High schoolers casually tossed them on desks or in their locker or bookbags, resulting in over 90% of them getting returned for repair by the end of the year.
We ended up selling the Toughbook to a student entering the program in the next year. It had held up fine.
Computers given to students need to be mil-spec ruggedized if you want them to remain usable for any period of time.
There are two types of radio/tv ads sold. Network and local. You're seeing the network ads which are dictated by the parent company nationwide. The local ads are usually not that stupid.
Can't help you on the mailers. They're probably just that lazy.:-)
When that has been the pattern throughout history? Yes. He should have expected his treatment, as wrong as it is, at the very least it shouldn't have been a surprise.
The FBI originally wanted access to just Snowden's account and Lavabit refused. In order to get it, they demanded SSL keys to feed into their snoop machine so they could filter out just Snowden's info.
At that point, Lavabit AGREED to provide a tap on just Snowden. The FBI basically said "too late, we don't trust you to do it properly".
Not that they should get what they tried to -- the SSL private keys -- but the summary makes it out to be something different than what happened.
The debt ceiling isn't settled law. It, as spending, must be revisited regularly, along with the budget. U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 9, Paragraph 7.
Interesting. It was posted in Firefox 24, as it was too long to try and do thru my phone browser (Android 4.2.2). But it looked fine in both. Interesting that you see it differently.
For the longest time I had issues viewing Slashdot in the Android browser. I'd get essentially an infinite loop of comments in a threat. That seems to have been fixed about a month or so ago.
What you copied back in your reply also looks properly formatted to me.
One of the major reason public key crypto was invented is the difficulty associated with securely distributing symmetric crypto keys.
A one-time pad is essentially a massive symmetric crypto key, so you're back to square one. And good luck distributing a copy of your one-time pad to everywhere you do e-commerce with, like your bank, Amazon.com and the like.
Here's the problem. Dual_EC_DRGB is flawed, but is *required* to be implemented as part of anything that claims FIPS 140-2 compliance. Anything cryptographic you sell to the government is *required* to be FIPS 140-2 compliant, and operated in FIPS 140-2 compliant mode.
This includes just about all routers, switches, firewalls, operating systems and any other network or security gear in use by the U.S. gov't. Companies that supply this equipment include Cisco, HP, Dell, IBM, Juniper, EMC/RSA, Red Hat and others. In short -- everyone.
Granted, Dual_EC_DRGB is only one of four RNGs in the NIST suite, there is no way a user can specify *which* of those RNGs are actually used. Unlike setting cryptographic algorithms for SSL/TLS, there isn't any frontend for RNGs. They're implemented by the vendors. They're enabled in the products by a simple checkbox setting a registry entry (Windows), a kernel boot parameter (Red Hat) or config setting (most network infrastructure equipment).
Which is your vendor using? Who knows. But if we take the Snowden leaks seriously, the NSA has pressured many major companies to insert "weaknesses" or "backdoors" in various crypto-enabled gear.
Most people are thinking along the lines of "look for malicious code, odd errors or the like". But in the world of crypto, if the RNG isn't R, the entire thing collapsed like a house of cards. All tPutting it bluntly, you can't.
Here's the problem. Dual_EC_DRGB is flawed, but is *required* to be implemented as part of anything that claims FIPS 140-2 compliance. Anything cryptographic you sell to the government is *required* to be FIPS 140-2 compliant, and operated in FIPS 140-2 compliant mode.
This includes just about all routers, switches, firewalls, operating systems and any other network or security gear in use by the U.S. gov't. Companies that supply this equipment include Cisco, HP, Dell, IBM, Juniper, EMC/RSA, Red Hat and others. In short -- everyone.
Granted, Dual_EC_DRGB is only one of four RNGs in the NIST suite, there is no way a user can specify *which* of those RNGs are actually used. Unlike setting cryptographic algorithms for SSL/TLS, there isn't any frontend for RNGs. They're implemented by the vendors. They're enabled in the products by a simple checkbox setting a registry entry (Windows), a kernel boot parameter (Red Hat) or config setting (most network infrastructure equipment).
Which is your vendor using? Who knows. But if we take the Snowden leaks seriously, the NSA has pressured many major companies to insert "weaknesses" or "backdoors" in various crypto-enabled gear.
Most people are thinking along the lines of "look for malicious code, odd errors or the like". But in the world of crypto, if the RNG isn't R, the entire thing collapsed like a house of cards. All the NSA has to do is have essentially a single obfuscated line of code in the RNG. Something along the lines of "if Backdoor then RNG=Dual_EC_DRGB". Hell, in assembly it could probably be a simple JNE instruction.he NSA has to do is have essentially a single obfuscated line of code in the RNG. Something along the lines of "if Backdoor then RNG=Dual_EC_DRGB". Hell, in assembly it could probably be a simple JNE instruction.
The answer is don't use FIPS 140-2 mode, but if you're dealing with the government -- and a huge number Putting it bluntly, you can't.
Here's the problem. Dual_EC_DRGB is flawed, but is *required* to be implemented as part of anything that claims FIPS 140-2 compliance. Anything cryptographic you sell to the government is *required* to be FIPS 140-2 compliant, and operated in FIPS 140-2 compliant mode.
This includes just about all routers, switches, firewalls, operating systems and any other network or security gear in use by the U.S. gov't. Companies that supply this equipment include Cisco, HP, Dell, IBM, Juniper, EMC/RSA, Red Hat and others. In short -- everyone.
Granted, Dual_EC_DRGB is only one of four RNGs in the NIST suite, there is no way a us
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You know, I'm not sure which would be worse. You being from Kentucky and not knowing *RAND* Paul is Senator and not a Congressman -- much less a different person from *RON* Paul.
Or you being from Texas and not knowing Ron Paul is retired and no longer serving in Congress. Randy Weber is now the Representative from the 14th District.
My guess is you're from neither place and just pig ignorant.
Google "special drawing rights" or "SDR" to learn about how, who and why.
Hollywood directors guild.
No, sadly that bit is actually in the PengPod video on their page.
Try the "Let's Print Droid" app. It works great for me printing to my Brother HL2070N wireless laser printer.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blackspruce.lpd&hl=en
Not familiar with the mathematical concept of "infinity minus 1" are you?
Checklist:
1. Is it glowing?
2. Is there a smoking, glowing crater where the plant used to be?
If both are no, the back to napping.
There is an old video ad on some models of Toughbook stopping a .22 and still operating. Our high school wasn't that bad, so I took their word for it. :-)
Half-a-dozen years ago when my daughter was in high school, the district piloted a "laptop progam" where all the books and assignments were done electronically. They had some deal with Microsoft and Dell with "deals" on MS Office Student and some Dell laptops.
I threw a fit and insisted we would NOT be purchasing the "required" laptops and would provide one for our daughter. The school relented because I made such a pain of myself.
Off to E-Bay I went and purchased an older, used Panasonic Toughbook. Not the latest, but ran all the software and rugged enough to stop small caliber weapons fire.
The breakage rate of those cheap, plastic Dell laptops was horrific. High schoolers casually tossed them on desks or in their locker or bookbags, resulting in over 90% of them getting returned for repair by the end of the year.
We ended up selling the Toughbook to a student entering the program in the next year. It had held up fine.
Computers given to students need to be mil-spec ruggedized if you want them to remain usable for any period of time.
There are two types of radio/tv ads sold. Network and local. You're seeing the network ads which are dictated by the parent company nationwide. The local ads are usually not that stupid.
Can't help you on the mailers. They're probably just that lazy. :-)
When that has been the pattern throughout history? Yes. He should have expected his treatment, as wrong as it is, at the very least it shouldn't have been a surprise.
My guess is "false alarm". All that was said was "situation all clear" message.
Earlier today two entrances to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in downtown Washington, D.C. were closed due to a "suspicious package".
In 1979 the SCOTUS ruled that pen registers didn't require warrants.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pen_register#Background
The summary is wrong.
The FBI originally wanted access to just Snowden's account and Lavabit refused. In order to get it, they demanded SSL keys to feed into their snoop machine so they could filter out just Snowden's info.
At that point, Lavabit AGREED to provide a tap on just Snowden. The FBI basically said "too late, we don't trust you to do it properly".
Not that they should get what they tried to -- the SSL private keys -- but the summary makes it out to be something different than what happened.
The debt ceiling isn't settled law. It, as spending, must be revisited regularly, along with the budget. U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 9, Paragraph 7.
You forgot an important country on that list - Brazil.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_military_government#United_States_involvement
I noticed middle-click paste doesn't work on my Chromebook, either. That is, until I installed Chrubuntu-KDE, then it worked fine.
This sounds suspiciously like a Seinfeld episode.
Interesting. It was posted in Firefox 24, as it was too long to try and do thru my phone browser (Android 4.2.2). But it looked fine in both. Interesting that you see it differently.
For the longest time I had issues viewing Slashdot in the Android browser. I'd get essentially an infinite loop of comments in a threat. That seems to have been fixed about a month or so ago.
What you copied back in your reply also looks properly formatted to me.
No, why? Had Android's autocorrect infected my brain where it now reads as normal to me?
One of the major reason public key crypto was invented is the difficulty associated with securely distributing symmetric crypto keys.
A one-time pad is essentially a massive symmetric crypto key, so you're back to square one. And good luck distributing a copy of your one-time pad to everywhere you do e-commerce with, like your bank, Amazon.com and the like.
Putting it bluntly, you can't.
Here's the problem. Dual_EC_DRGB is flawed, but is *required* to be implemented as part of anything that claims FIPS 140-2 compliance. Anything cryptographic you sell to the government is *required* to be FIPS 140-2 compliant, and operated in FIPS 140-2 compliant mode.
This includes just about all routers, switches, firewalls, operating systems and any other network or security gear in use by the U.S. gov't. Companies that supply this equipment include Cisco, HP, Dell, IBM, Juniper, EMC/RSA, Red Hat and others. In short -- everyone.
Granted, Dual_EC_DRGB is only one of four RNGs in the NIST suite, there is no way a user can specify *which* of those RNGs are actually used. Unlike setting cryptographic algorithms for SSL/TLS, there isn't any frontend for RNGs. They're implemented by the vendors. They're enabled in the products by a simple checkbox setting a registry entry (Windows), a kernel boot parameter (Red Hat) or config setting (most network infrastructure equipment).
Which is your vendor using? Who knows. But if we take the Snowden leaks seriously, the NSA has pressured many major companies to insert "weaknesses" or "backdoors" in various crypto-enabled gear.
Most people are thinking along the lines of "look for malicious code, odd errors or the like". But in the world of crypto, if the RNG isn't R, the entire thing collapsed like a house of cards. All tPutting it bluntly, you can't.
Here's the problem. Dual_EC_DRGB is flawed, but is *required* to be implemented as part of anything that claims FIPS 140-2 compliance. Anything cryptographic you sell to the government is *required* to be FIPS 140-2 compliant, and operated in FIPS 140-2 compliant mode.
This includes just about all routers, switches, firewalls, operating systems and any other network or security gear in use by the U.S. gov't. Companies that supply this equipment include Cisco, HP, Dell, IBM, Juniper, EMC/RSA, Red Hat and others. In short -- everyone.
Granted, Dual_EC_DRGB is only one of four RNGs in the NIST suite, there is no way a user can specify *which* of those RNGs are actually used. Unlike setting cryptographic algorithms for SSL/TLS, there isn't any frontend for RNGs. They're implemented by the vendors. They're enabled in the products by a simple checkbox setting a registry entry (Windows), a kernel boot parameter (Red Hat) or config setting (most network infrastructure equipment).
Which is your vendor using? Who knows. But if we take the Snowden leaks seriously, the NSA has pressured many major companies to insert "weaknesses" or "backdoors" in various crypto-enabled gear.
Most people are thinking along the lines of "look for malicious code, odd errors or the like". But in the world of crypto, if the RNG isn't R, the entire thing collapsed like a house of cards. All the NSA has to do is have essentially a single obfuscated line of code in the RNG. Something along the lines of "if Backdoor then RNG=Dual_EC_DRGB". Hell, in assembly it could probably be a simple JNE instruction.he NSA has to do is have essentially a single obfuscated line of code in the RNG. Something along the lines of "if Backdoor then RNG=Dual_EC_DRGB". Hell, in assembly it could probably be a simple JNE instruction.
The answer is don't use FIPS 140-2 mode, but if you're dealing with the government -- and a huge number Putting it bluntly, you can't.
Here's the problem. Dual_EC_DRGB is flawed, but is *required* to be implemented as part of anything that claims FIPS 140-2 compliance. Anything cryptographic you sell to the government is *required* to be FIPS 140-2 compliant, and operated in FIPS 140-2 compliant mode.
This includes just about all routers, switches, firewalls, operating systems and any other network or security gear in use by the U.S. gov't. Companies that supply this equipment include Cisco, HP, Dell, IBM, Juniper, EMC/RSA, Red Hat and others. In short -- everyone.
Granted, Dual_EC_DRGB is only one of four RNGs in the NIST suite, there is no way a us
Are you sure it ins't closer to next Tuesday? I could swear that man on television asking me to send him money said it was next Tuesday.
So, God wants to play at being Michael Bay?