there is also twofish and serpent, both two AES finalists not chosen.
It wouldn't matter what we use with ubiquitous crypto (used by everyone by default, I mean). Not even the NSA has enough oomph to crack *everything*, if everyone used it for *everything.*
both great [candidates] on their own. both open source. (Do you trust closed source encryption?)
No, but that wouldn't matter for the same reason. NSA backdoors into MS or Apple crypto? I don't much fsckin' care. Don't use that !@#$.
Add in Man In The Middle stuff (AT&T wiretapping, FISA,...) and all that, and you'll still have a lot to do before you can really get off their radar and go dark. They're not stupid (well, not always), and we're not doing it smart.
On August 24, 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) defined what it means to be a "planet" within the Solar System. This definition excluded Pluto as a planet and added it as a member of the new category "dwarf planet" along with Eris and Ceres.[18] After the reclassification, Pluto was added to the list of minor planets and given the number 134340.
Not to be cruel, but it shows (however I admire your interest). This is cool stuff once you get the bug. Your account reads plausible but somewhat confused. I'm not a geologist either. I did spend about a decade as a geophysical tech. My understanding is the mid-Atlantic ridge is opening up and pushing the North American plate away from the European plate, and the Pacific plate is subducting under the Western side of the North American plate. It's convection, but the geologic timescale dwarfs that process.
This story appears to relate to the time when India slammed into Asia creating the Himalayas. Left in India's wake was this thing, sinking as fast as the Himalayas rose. When you think of the enormity of such a thing happening, it deserves the often abused word "awsome." Multiply that with the [mb]illions of years it took, and awesome doesn't begin to describe it. The geologic timescale makes life on Earth look like the blink of an eye.
Earth's gotten smacked by planetoids about six times, iirc.
As Earth accreted from stardust, it was probably smacked [mb]illions of times during its formation. You'd think we'd be used to it by now. The Chelyabinsk thing the other day shouldn't have been a very big surprise, were it not for that geological timescale thing. We've seen this happening over and over, even in the miniscule time we've been here.
It's very difficult for average people to understand things on this timescale. We're accustomed to believe a millenium is a long time. It's not. It's only a long time compared to us.
You didn't think very hard on that, did you? I've never seen socks that were left vs. right dependant, other than those funny Japanese slippers with toes (cf. gloves).
Not to diss/., but pretty much all of us know there is a large population of ignorant (meant in the nicest way; honest) people inhabiting the place, just like the rest of our little bit of the Universe. I've been watching this slow-mo trainwreck (Hanford) for more than two decades, intently watched the Yucca Mountain comedy show, and am still amazed that so little progress has been made in either in all that time.
This's how the USA works these days. This ain't the USA of 1941 or the '50s. Damn, I feel old.
Indeed. The only information this story conveys is who got the latest cheque cut by the MafiAA. Surprising for the open-ness, I must say. It's not often you see confessions writ so large and so publicly. SOP; do it the stupidest way possible, stick your fingers in your ears, damn the torpedos, and sing "Lalalalalala..." as loudly as you can. Dummies.
The members of the American military are being filtered with the question, "If your commander-in-chief orders you to fire on American citizens on American soil, will you do it?"
Citation? I really hope you're kidding because if true, you really are Nazi Amerika now. Hitler demanded the Wehrmacht swear allegiance to himself, not to Germany.
It looks like I'm soon going to find myself shivving Amerikan Nazis in the back. Where's my ice pick?
they should teach students in secondary school to be more "highly motivated".
I was highly motivated (Stanford Networking), then they peed me off with copyright/BS discussions. Assholes. I am a motivated student. I'm not motivated in any way when jerks like that are in charge. I zone out instead. There's better things to do, and life's too short to worry about them.
Cloud computing is a buzz term to a good extent that will get tacked on to everything because it is hip and current, and at the same time it is a real concept applicable to some things.
... which is a re-hash of something used forty or fifty years ago when computers were surrounded by glass walls and white-coated priests. Peddle your snakeoil elsewhere.
The process should be turned on its head. You're applying for a patent? It's up to you to prove you deserve to get it, and if it's found that you can't prove it or you fudged the attempt, you'll pay a fine for the privilege.
A fixed fine would be unworkable, and trying to scale fines to the income of the recipient can be a very complex task.
I don't think that's an insurmountable problem. You could make the fine == the filing fee, or even wave it based on an individual's circumstances (never filed before, you get a pass; second filing, filing fee; third filing,...). Ramp it up for frequent filers/corps. Patent trolls would find it self-limiting. File a patent or attempt to extort fees on an egregiously bad patent that an examiner can easily invalidate, and you *lose* big time.
The process should be turned on its head. You're applying for a patent? It's up to you to prove you deserve to get it, and if it's found that you can't prove it or you fudged the attempt, you'll pay a fine for the privilege. Any of the patent examiners discovering a bogus application wins a bounty! Why the !@#$ wasn't it designed to work this way in the beginning?!?
I was in a liquor store the other day and I noticed some nitwit has named a wine "Argento." Argent's what the Romans call that shiny, whitish coloured, semi-precious metal. "Hiyo Silver, away!" I've always been a veritable bottomless pit of useless information; just one of my many finer qualities.
Have you seen some of the goofy names being applied to wines lately? "Conundrum", "Menage a trois",...
I bet you have chihuahuas as guard dogs then for your home. After all, according to you, those chihuahuas are just as good at de fending your house as a pack of pit bulls would be!
A Chihuahua yaps just as loud as a pitbull woofs, but a Chihuahua won't mistake your kid for food and try to eat it.
On the inside dogs are TOTALLY different. Different breeds of dogs suffer from different conditions that are hereditary. Different breeds of dogs also have vastly different senses of smell, sight, hearing.
Cosmetic. Differences of degree, is all. A dog's a dog's a dog.
It's all just personal taste of course, but that's the first thought I had when I saw those new Windows Nokias.;)
I try to avoid anything that might smack as beating up on my limp-wristed compadres (hey, they're not competing against me for women:-), but I've got to admit that's funny. And I own a Nokia. Ha!
1) Leader says, "I need someone for this assignment who won't burn in the sun."
Yakuza.
2) Leader says, "I need someone brave and strong for this assignment."
Yakuza.
3) Leader says, "I need someone really smart for this assignment."
Yakuza. Not Tyson. Michael Jordan or Magic Johnston maybe. Bo Jackson? Okay. Will Smith? Naaaaahh.
So, another thing to remember is that these group differences are at best, only true in terms of aggregate measures and statistical sampling. They don't provide a reliable way to provide information about any particular individual, except on the attributes which actually define membership in the group.
That's what the Samurai spent hundreds of years trying to perfect. They had it pretty much nailed until they overstepped at Pearl Harbour.
"They don't provide a reliable way to provide information about any particular individual..."
That is what I've been saying all along here, isn't it? On the inside, every dog's a dog, from Chihauhua through to Great Dane. Ditto for homo sapiens.
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The Supreme Court that says you can't sue if you can't prove you've been spied on and and FISA says you can't find out.
Welcome to America. :-P
Note america is slipping from civilized to simply a bunch of backwaters with hi tech.
Methinks you overestimate them.
Every conservative on the court supports unreviewable police power and opposes civil liberties ...
That is odd, isn't it? What are the "Liberals" doing to oppose that? Apparently nothing. Huh.
Demopublican, Republicrat; what's the difference?
there is also twofish and serpent, both two AES finalists not chosen.
It wouldn't matter what we use with ubiquitous crypto (used by everyone by default, I mean). Not even the NSA has enough oomph to crack *everything*, if everyone used it for *everything.*
both great [candidates] on their own. both open source. (Do you trust closed source encryption?)
No, but that wouldn't matter for the same reason. NSA backdoors into MS or Apple crypto? I don't much fsckin' care. Don't use that !@#$.
Add in Man In The Middle stuff (AT&T wiretapping, FISA, ...) and all that, and you'll still have a lot to do before you can really get off their radar and go dark. They're not stupid (well, not always), and we're not doing it smart.
Neil Tyson is not a bureaucrat. Hopefully you know who that is and why he made that call.
Funny. I was going by this:
On August 24, 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) defined what it means to be a "planet" within the Solar System. This definition excluded Pluto as a planet and added it as a member of the new category "dwarf planet" along with Eris and Ceres.[18] After the reclassification, Pluto was added to the list of minor planets and given the number 134340.
This is why I like geologists, they are logical people. Astronomers never thought to call Pluto a microplanet.
That was bureaucratic BS. Pluto's a planet, and a damned interesting one.
Chick flick. I'm not surprised I've never heard of it.
I'm not a geologist ...
Not to be cruel, but it shows (however I admire your interest). This is cool stuff once you get the bug. Your account reads plausible but somewhat confused. I'm not a geologist either. I did spend about a decade as a geophysical tech. My understanding is the mid-Atlantic ridge is opening up and pushing the North American plate away from the European plate, and the Pacific plate is subducting under the Western side of the North American plate. It's convection, but the geologic timescale dwarfs that process.
This story appears to relate to the time when India slammed into Asia creating the Himalayas. Left in India's wake was this thing, sinking as fast as the Himalayas rose. When you think of the enormity of such a thing happening, it deserves the often abused word "awsome." Multiply that with the [mb]illions of years it took, and awesome doesn't begin to describe it. The geologic timescale makes life on Earth look like the blink of an eye.
Earth's gotten smacked by planetoids about six times, iirc.
As Earth accreted from stardust, it was probably smacked [mb]illions of times during its formation. You'd think we'd be used to it by now. The Chelyabinsk thing the other day shouldn't have been a very big surprise, were it not for that geological timescale thing. We've seen this happening over and over, even in the miniscule time we've been here.
It's very difficult for average people to understand things on this timescale. We're accustomed to believe a millenium is a long time. It's not. It's only a long time compared to us.
Found!, along with 200 million unmatched socks
All left feet?
You didn't think very hard on that, did you? I've never seen socks that were left vs. right dependant, other than those funny Japanese slippers with toes (cf. gloves).
This article is clearly about the dreaded Channel Associated Signaling.
In case anyone else wants to play:
(0) infidel /home/keeling_ dict cas
8 definitions found
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (18 May 2012) [foldoc]:
CAS
1. {Column Address Strobe}.
2. (channel associated signaling) {in-band
signalling}.
From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) [vera]:
CAS .NET, MS)
Code Access Security (VSTO,
From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) [vera]:
CAS
Column Address Strobe (IC, DRAM)
From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) [vera]:
CAS
Communicating Applications Specification (FAX, Intel, DCA)
From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) [vera]:
CAS
Computer Aided Selling
From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) [vera]:
CAS
Computer Algebra System
From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) [vera]:
CAS
Content Addressed Storage (EMC)
From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) [vera]:
CAS
Computerized Autodial System
How is this modded down?
Not to diss /., but pretty much all of us know there is a large population of ignorant (meant in the nicest way; honest) people inhabiting the place, just like the rest of our little bit of the Universe. I've been watching this slow-mo trainwreck (Hanford) for more than two decades, intently watched the Yucca Mountain comedy show, and am still amazed that so little progress has been made in either in all that time.
This's how the USA works these days. This ain't the USA of 1941 or the '50s. Damn, I feel old.
yays for corruption!
Indeed. The only information this story conveys is who got the latest cheque cut by the MafiAA. Surprising for the open-ness, I must say. It's not often you see confessions writ so large and so publicly. SOP; do it the stupidest way possible, stick your fingers in your ears, damn the torpedos, and sing "Lalalalalala ..." as loudly as you can. Dummies.
The members of the American military are being filtered with the question, "If your commander-in-chief orders you to fire on American citizens on American soil, will you do it?"
Citation? I really hope you're kidding because if true, you really are Nazi Amerika now. Hitler demanded the Wehrmacht swear allegiance to himself, not to Germany.
It looks like I'm soon going to find myself shivving Amerikan Nazis in the back. Where's my ice pick?
Anyway you slice it they don't have the right to confiscate it without a warrant.
Yes they do.
We have freedom of speech. No one is saying "You can't say this". They're saying "You can't say this and then hide behind anonymity".
You have freedom of speech, but if you post it anonymously and we don't like what you said, we can make it disappear.
You have the freedom of oblivion.
they should teach students in secondary school to be more "highly motivated".
I was highly motivated (Stanford Networking), then they peed me off with copyright/BS discussions. Assholes. I am a motivated student. I'm not motivated in any way when jerks like that are in charge. I zone out instead. There's better things to do, and life's too short to worry about them.
Cloud computing is a buzz term to a good extent that will get tacked on to everything because it is hip and current, and at the same time it is a real concept applicable to some things.
... which is a re-hash of something used forty or fifty years ago when computers were surrounded by glass walls and white-coated priests. Peddle your snakeoil elsewhere.
The process should be turned on its head. You're applying for a patent? It's up to you to prove you deserve to get it, and if it's found that you can't prove it or you fudged the attempt, you'll pay a fine for the privilege.
A fixed fine would be unworkable, and trying to scale fines to the income of the recipient can be a very complex task.
I don't think that's an insurmountable problem. You could make the fine == the filing fee, or even wave it based on an individual's circumstances (never filed before, you get a pass; second filing, filing fee; third filing, ...). Ramp it up for frequent filers/corps. Patent trolls would find it self-limiting. File a patent or attempt to extort fees on an egregiously bad patent that an examiner can easily invalidate, and you *lose* big time.
The process should be turned on its head. You're applying for a patent? It's up to you to prove you deserve to get it, and if it's found that you can't prove it or you fudged the attempt, you'll pay a fine for the privilege. Any of the patent examiners discovering a bogus application wins a bounty! Why the !@#$ wasn't it designed to work this way in the beginning?!?
In a perfect world ...
You have won the Obscure Trivia sweepstakes
I was in a liquor store the other day and I noticed some nitwit has named a wine "Argento." Argent's what the Romans call that shiny, whitish coloured, semi-precious metal. "Hiyo Silver, away!" I've always been a veritable bottomless pit of useless information; just one of my many finer qualities.
Have you seen some of the goofy names being applied to wines lately? "Conundrum", "Menage a trois", ...
I bet you have chihuahuas as guard dogs then for your home. After all, according to you, those chihuahuas are just as good at de fending your house as a pack of pit bulls would be!
A Chihuahua yaps just as loud as a pitbull woofs, but a Chihuahua won't mistake your kid for food and try to eat it.
On the inside dogs are TOTALLY different. Different breeds of dogs suffer from different conditions that are hereditary. Different breeds of dogs also have vastly different senses of smell, sight, hearing.
Cosmetic. Differences of degree, is all. A dog's a dog's a dog.
"racist, sexist, homophone!"
It's all just personal taste of course, but that's the first thought I had when I saw those new Windows Nokias. ;)
I try to avoid anything that might smack as beating up on my limp-wristed compadres (hey, they're not competing against me for women :-), but I've got to admit that's funny. And I own a Nokia. Ha!
1) Leader says, "I need someone for this assignment who won't burn in the sun."
Yakuza.
2) Leader says, "I need someone brave and strong for this assignment."
Yakuza.
3) Leader says, "I need someone really smart for this assignment."
Yakuza. Not Tyson. Michael Jordan or Magic Johnston maybe. Bo Jackson? Okay. Will Smith? Naaaaahh.
So, another thing to remember is that these group differences are at best, only true in terms of aggregate measures and statistical sampling. They don't provide a reliable way to provide information about any particular individual, except on the attributes which actually define membership in the group.
That's what the Samurai spent hundreds of years trying to perfect. They had it pretty much nailed until they overstepped at Pearl Harbour.
"They don't provide a reliable way to provide information about any particular individual ..."
That is what I've been saying all along here, isn't it? On the inside, every dog's a dog, from Chihauhua through to Great Dane. Ditto for homo sapiens.
What does Gladiator have in common with The Lone Ranger?
And he talks about drivel.
Fail. Think equine.