... this seems to be the most cost effective and efficient way to educate those who are young.
To hell with the young. I'm over 50, and this looks damned attractive to me. With "Stanford Graduate" on my resume, I'll be unstoppable! Mwua, ha, ha, haaaa!:-)
Seriously, there's a lot of support out there for the under 30 crowd. Not so much for us older folk. Ptheh.
However, for government stuff they use AES-256, which can take many years to brute-force a key...
Emphasis mine. I've often wondered what're the chances that *the* key ends up being the first one in the keyspace to be checked. Do crypto systems guard against that (for some value of "guard"), or is it just left to chance? That'd be a fairly damning failure if so. Who cares how big your keyspace is if one of these days, *the key* is going to show up as the first, or in the first ten/100/1000... keys checked against?
All it needs to be is secure *enough*...
Strongly agree, but what's "secure *enough*" mean when you can build a beowulf for lt. U$100/tera(?)flop?
Even with the Crays or the IBM Power series or Mainframes, despite their hardware costs, the big focus over the lifetime of the systems is the triangle relationship of power, cooling and physical space costs, which all affect each other btw.
This smells of that "IT is a *Cost* Centre" accounting crap that I hate so much. It sounds like you're ignoring all the big bucks/efficiencies/etc. that these systems are producing for the plus side of the operation. The big focus over time ought to be income vs. cost of producing that income, not "You're spending too much on X vs. Y vs. Z!"
If those data tractors are producing millions in income or efficiencies, quibbling that they're costing you some small percentage of those millions to do it should be the last thing on your mind.
[I] always liked the AMD CPUs, mostly for almost equal computing power for less money...
Me too, and because Intel's a bully. I don't support bullies.
Besides, CPU performance is only a small part of overall system performance. Doubling the speed of storage or network I/O is much easier/cheaper/more effective than dropping in a faster CPU.
So if performance/watt is your first priority, we think the current Xeons are your best option.
Who, other than NASA (et al) has performance/watt a high priority, much less their first priority? And for NASA, the priority for performance/watt's only for space bound vehicles. I doubt they're sending supercomputers into space.
As for those stories of bacteria living on satellites yada yada, just how did we find those bacteria without bringing the satellite back in contact with Earth?
It was an experiment. High-tech petri dishes were bolted to the exterior of a satellite and left alone for months. Then they were analyzed on the ISS or returned to NASA in containment vessels.
As all the cop shows prove, biometrics can just as easily rule you out as rule you in. An iris scan in an airport sounds a lot better to me than the crap the TSA uses these days, or a couple of years in Gitmo while they try to sort out their !@#$.
The tech's innocent and benign. We ought to be watching what's being done with it.
Uh, the format is supposed to be cpio and thus other tools should be able to read it?
What's the equivalent of the "-P" switch (compression method) on cpio?
I've never used cpio, and don't see why I would need to. The original author's license intended it to be free. US law has muddled beyond comprehensibility the meaning of free. I'm not a US citizen, nor am I in the US. Again, what's non-free for if not for questionably free software?
[It] seems more [than] justified to me to assume that distributing it in any way is actually illegal - even if there is no reason to believe anyone will care or even sue.
Why not wait for whoever does own it to notice and complain, then $do_the_right_thing and take it down? Why preemptively stab loyal Debian users in the back making a decade's worth of backups inaccessible for no discernable reason, other than its licensing appears to be questionable?
Is Debian a commercial concern, so not able to touch it by the original license? Should Freshmeat/Freecode be worried now that they'll be sued? I would think, "Hey we own that! Take it down!" "Okay. Done." would be a perfectly valid defense (though possibly not in Lawyerville, USA).
This is just classic "shoot yourself in the foot" stuff, for no good reason.
There's a difference between "ability" and "means" in this context. While the ability to move is there, they may not have the means due to insufficient funds or other issues holding them back.
Not to mention the absurdity factor. "You expect me to immigrate to another country in order to gain the right to legally consume $blah?!? Are you out of your mind?"
The bigger and better maintained the repo the less users have to venture to outside sources.
Usually. However, it can just as easily go the other way. Try installing afio on Debian squeeze/stable. You can't from the Debian repo's. They've decided it's so non-free, it can't even fit in the non-free section. So, what's the non-free section for again? Great, they've just made a decade of my backups inaccessible! !@#$
That drove me to Freshmeat... er, Freecode?!? When did that happen?!?
tar xzf... && make && make install
Works. Thanks Debian. Not. [I'm kidding about that last part.]
It's from the lyrics to a song by Rush. Are you more ignorant than a Canuck?
I'm a Canuck, and fsck you too. It's a lot older than fscking rock group lyrics (Plus_Ãa_change. "Plus ca change, plus ce meme chose", or en Englais, "The more things change, the more they stay the same."
... legalization of drugs in Mexico wouldn't work. The USA would have to legalize at the same time.
Canadians made a killing on Prohibition. We were shipping booze bigtime when it was illegal there.
Prohibition 2 == US-ians shooting themselves in the foot, yet again. I'm astonished their citizens put up with it. Still, makes for an opportunity for you to get rich off their dim-wittedness.
I see no difference between using personnel and using technology to follow a vehicle.
What's the point of surveillance? To follow a vehicle, or to track a potential suspect? If he loans his car to his sister, do you continue to follow the vehicle, or the potential suspect?
1: this is MUCH cheaper than having someone tail a vehicle, that makes it much more prone to abuse. 2: this device will follow the car everywhere it goes even on private land 3: fitting the device means that the cop is tampering with your property.
4: A vehicle is not a person. Vehicles can be lent, sold, stolen, shipped,...
with the Arab Spring being about the only positive change.
What's positive about it? So far we've got junta in Egypt that looks like it will take another revolution to uproot - and this one will be bloody, because the army will not fully back the protestors. In Libya, we've had a full-fledged civil war with numerous casualties, and both sides resorting to war crimes...
Hell, man, civil wars are always messy. At least a couple of tyrants have been unseated/murdered, and after winning a civil war, I doubt the participants will long suffer would-be tyrants taking their place.
Even the Arab League is talking tough to Syria. That's one heck of an improvement in itself.
GPS tracking is, in the end, a technological device, which can (and will) be defeated, spoofed, or just plain destroyed - it can't and shouldn't be considered as reliable a substitute for eyeball tracking.
In fact, I believe a number of countries have recently determined an IP address isn't proof of an individual's actions. Most anybody can drive a car too, so where's the proof that any specific individual is at the wheel?
Following that same logic, since we're legally allowed to follow police cars (admittedly something stupid to do since they have many more ways to harass you than you do to harass them), then how is it fundamentally different to place GPS tracking devices on their police cars?
They're the police, that's why. Police surveillance often includes taking pictures of persons they're interested in, often with telephoto lenses. Note many recent stories of what happens to people who take pictures of police in the performance of their duties.
US-ians should just learn to accept they're living in a police state and act accordingly.
Democracy, rather than meritocracy. I don't trust people to organize in such a way that objectively best are on top.
Most Western nations are democracies. How would you say that's been working lately? Democracy gets you the DHS, TSA, MafiAAs, Banksters, Sylvio Berlusconi, & etc.
Back in the early 1860s, Canucks were looking across their southern border at Mobocracy in action. I can't say I've seen much improvement since then. I can say I'm pretty disgusted at how this century's turning out so far, with the Arab Spring being about the only positive change.
The IETF is a meritocracy, as are most of the Free Software entities. I think they have a lot more credibility, and rightfully so, than democracy's earned in its long existence.
I don't trust a mob that values Walmart and Britney Spears to come up with anything remotely useful in the long run.
I'm afraid I'm far too jaded/disillusioned to believe in systems I've long considered broken beyond repair.
My last big gig was fixing a front-facing critical security tool for a "vicious-multinational." It took that deep-pocketed monster eleven years to bite the bullet and accept they had a problem that desperately needed fixing. Eleven years!:-O Who's got the stamina to wait around that long?!?
I consider 21st Century IT broken, and am getting out of it, ASAP. It doesn't work.
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... this seems to be the most cost effective and efficient way to educate those who are young.
To hell with the young. I'm over 50, and this looks damned attractive to me. With "Stanford Graduate" on my resume, I'll be unstoppable! Mwua, ha, ha, haaaa! :-)
Seriously, there's a lot of support out there for the under 30 crowd. Not so much for us older folk. Ptheh.
However, for government stuff they use AES-256, which can take many years to brute-force a key ...
Emphasis mine. I've often wondered what're the chances that *the* key ends up being the first one in the keyspace to be checked. Do crypto systems guard against that (for some value of "guard"), or is it just left to chance? That'd be a fairly damning failure if so. Who cares how big your keyspace is if one of these days, *the key* is going to show up as the first, or in the first ten/100/1000 ... keys checked against?
All it needs to be is secure *enough* ...
Strongly agree, but what's "secure *enough*" mean when you can build a beowulf for lt. U$100/tera(?)flop?
Even with the Crays or the IBM Power series or Mainframes, despite their hardware costs, the big focus over the lifetime of the systems is the triangle relationship of power, cooling and physical space costs, which all affect each other btw.
This smells of that "IT is a *Cost* Centre" accounting crap that I hate so much. It sounds like you're ignoring all the big bucks/efficiencies/etc. that these systems are producing for the plus side of the operation. The big focus over time ought to be income vs. cost of producing that income, not "You're spending too much on X vs. Y vs. Z!"
If those data tractors are producing millions in income or efficiencies, quibbling that they're costing you some small percentage of those millions to do it should be the last thing on your mind.
[I] always liked the AMD CPUs, mostly for almost equal computing power for less money ...
Me too, and because Intel's a bully. I don't support bullies.
Besides, CPU performance is only a small part of overall system performance. Doubling the speed of storage or network I/O is much easier/cheaper/more effective than dropping in a faster CPU.
And, I hate bullies on principle.
So if performance/watt is your first priority, we think the current Xeons are your best option.
Who, other than NASA (et al) has performance/watt a high priority, much less their first priority? And for NASA, the priority for performance/watt's only for space bound vehicles. I doubt they're sending supercomputers into space.
Bogus.
[mods, go ahead, offtopic, I agree.]
You are a truly sanctimonious asshole.
Right back at ya. :-)
Should I wait to stop murdering until someone tells me to stop? If something is illegal, it's illegal.
Equating copyright license infringement to homicide. Slick!
Illegal just means illegal. It doesn't also mean ethically or morally wrong. Anyone can find lots of things/acts that are stupidly illegal.
As for those stories of bacteria living on satellites yada yada, just how did we find those bacteria without bringing the satellite back in contact with Earth?
It was an experiment. High-tech petri dishes were bolted to the exterior of a satellite and left alone for months. Then they were analyzed on the ISS or returned to NASA in containment vessels.
As all the cop shows prove, biometrics can just as easily rule you out as rule you in. An iris scan in an airport sounds a lot better to me than the crap the TSA uses these days, or a couple of years in Gitmo while they try to sort out their !@#$.
The tech's innocent and benign. We ought to be watching what's being done with it.
Uh, the format is supposed to be cpio and thus other tools should be able to read it?
What's the equivalent of the "-P" switch (compression method) on cpio?
I've never used cpio, and don't see why I would need to. The original author's license intended it to be free. US law has muddled beyond comprehensibility the meaning of free. I'm not a US citizen, nor am I in the US. Again, what's non-free for if not for questionably free software?
[It] seems more [than] justified to me to assume that distributing it in any way is actually illegal - even if there is no reason to believe anyone will care or even sue.
Why not wait for whoever does own it to notice and complain, then $do_the_right_thing and take it down? Why preemptively stab loyal Debian users in the back making a decade's worth of backups inaccessible for no discernable reason, other than its licensing appears to be questionable?
Is Debian a commercial concern, so not able to touch it by the original license? Should Freshmeat/Freecode be worried now that they'll be sued? I would think, "Hey we own that! Take it down!" "Okay. Done." would be a perfectly valid defense (though possibly not in Lawyerville, USA).
This is just classic "shoot yourself in the foot" stuff, for no good reason.
There's a difference between "ability" and "means" in this context. While the ability to move is there, they may not have the means due to insufficient funds or other issues holding them back.
Not to mention the absurdity factor. "You expect me to immigrate to another country in order to gain the right to legally consume $blah?!? Are you out of your mind?"
The bigger and better maintained the repo the less users have to venture to outside sources.
Usually. However, it can just as easily go the other way. Try installing afio on Debian squeeze/stable. You can't from the Debian repo's. They've decided it's so non-free, it can't even fit in the non-free section. So, what's the non-free section for again? Great, they've just made a decade of my backups inaccessible! !@#$
That drove me to Freshmeat ... er, Freecode?!? When did that happen?!?
tar xzf ... && make && make install
Works. Thanks Debian. Not. [I'm kidding about that last part.]
Classic "Debian gotcha!", again. Grumble, mumble, ...
if you are 'innocent' why do you encrypt your data in the first place?
WTF are you doing on /.?!? You're obviously not getting much out of the experience. Idiot!
It's from the lyrics to a song by Rush. Are you more ignorant than a Canuck?
I'm a Canuck, and fsck you too. It's a lot older than fscking rock group lyrics (Plus_Ãa_change. "Plus ca change, plus ce meme chose", or en Englais, "The more things change, the more they stay the same."
Go back to kindergarten and start over fool.
Because organized crime just up and disappeared after Prohibition was ended, amiright?
They moved to Las Vegas, in an atempt to legitimize. Largely, it worked.
... legalization of drugs in Mexico wouldn't work. The USA would have to legalize at the same time.
Canadians made a killing on Prohibition. We were shipping booze bigtime when it was illegal there.
Prohibition 2 == US-ians shooting themselves in the foot, yet again. I'm astonished their citizens put up with it. Still, makes for an opportunity for you to get rich off their dim-wittedness.
Are atomic weapons still needed ? i think they aren'T.
Perhaps we should ask Pakistan, China, and North Korea. And Iran. And India. Who else? Rogue Soviet sympathisers?
I see no difference between using personnel and using technology to follow a vehicle.
What's the point of surveillance? To follow a vehicle, or to track a potential suspect? If he loans his car to his sister, do you continue to follow the vehicle, or the potential suspect?
1: this is MUCH cheaper than having someone tail a vehicle, that makes it much more prone to abuse.
2: this device will follow the car everywhere it goes even on private land
3: fitting the device means that the cop is tampering with your property.
4: A vehicle is not a person. Vehicles can be lent, sold, stolen, shipped, ...
with the Arab Spring being about the only positive change.
What's positive about it? So far we've got junta in Egypt that looks like it will take another revolution to uproot - and this one will be bloody, because the army will not fully back the protestors. In Libya, we've had a full-fledged civil war with numerous casualties, and both sides resorting to war crimes ...
Hell, man, civil wars are always messy. At least a couple of tyrants have been unseated/murdered, and after winning a civil war, I doubt the participants will long suffer would-be tyrants taking their place.
Even the Arab League is talking tough to Syria. That's one heck of an improvement in itself.
GPS tracking is, in the end, a technological device, which can (and will) be defeated, spoofed, or just plain destroyed - it can't and shouldn't be considered as reliable a substitute for eyeball tracking.
In fact, I believe a number of countries have recently determined an IP address isn't proof of an individual's actions. Most anybody can drive a car too, so where's the proof that any specific individual is at the wheel?
Following that same logic, since we're legally allowed to follow police cars (admittedly something stupid to do since they have many more ways to harass you than you do to harass them), then how is it fundamentally different to place GPS tracking devices on their police cars?
They're the police, that's why. Police surveillance often includes taking pictures of persons they're interested in, often with telephoto lenses. Note many recent stories of what happens to people who take pictures of police in the performance of their duties.
US-ians should just learn to accept they're living in a police state and act accordingly.
What alternatives do you offer that're better?
Democracy, rather than meritocracy. I don't trust people to organize in such a way that objectively best are on top.
Most Western nations are democracies. How would you say that's been working lately? Democracy gets you the DHS, TSA, MafiAAs, Banksters, Sylvio Berlusconi, & etc.
Back in the early 1860s, Canucks were looking across their southern border at Mobocracy in action. I can't say I've seen much improvement since then. I can say I'm pretty disgusted at how this century's turning out so far, with the Arab Spring being about the only positive change.
The IETF is a meritocracy, as are most of the Free Software entities. I think they have a lot more credibility, and rightfully so, than democracy's earned in its long existence.
I don't trust a mob that values Walmart and Britney Spears to come up with anything remotely useful in the long run.
Self-organizing doesn't seem to work, with Wikipedia being a case in point.
You've been drinking the Koolaid. More often than not, wikipedia works. What alternatives do you offer that're better?
I'm afraid I'm far too jaded/disillusioned to believe in systems I've long considered broken beyond repair.
My last big gig was fixing a front-facing critical security tool for a "vicious-multinational." It took that deep-pocketed monster eleven years to bite the bullet and accept they had a problem that desperately needed fixing. Eleven years! :-O Who's got the stamina to wait around that long?!?
I consider 21st Century IT broken, and am getting out of it, ASAP. It doesn't work.
let the public decide merit like on /.
Aside from the odd moderating hiccup (I think I've seen about two in more than a decade), I think /. works not that badly.
So, yeah. Let's go with that. Beats the crap out of the alternatives.