Considering bitcoins history of being an enabler of all sorts of messed up scams, bitcoin users should be celebrating this.
You mean like legislation has somehow prevented cash from being used for a trillion times as much [whatever the bad stuff you figure bitcoin is being used for]?
The analogy would be better if the diary was left out in the open, but closed, mind you, for everyone to see.
Once Michelle gave her data to the paper that she didn't make, she surrendered her 4th Amendment expectation of privacy per/Smith v. Maryland/. Barack just has to say he saw a Chevy Malibu drive by.
If you have a suggestion of a better system to govern masses of retards, please do present it
There are three known systems for managing human societies: religion, government, and markets. They can be stand-alone or hybrid.
In the first, almost nobody gets a say in terms of how things are run. People who don't play "go to hell" and fear is used to convince them to behave. In the second, everybody has a say, though that's largely for show. People who don't play are forced into rape cages or executed. In the third, everybody makes very small decisions all the time and the summation of those decisions exhibits emergent properties that sway how things go and that tends to correct back and forth over time. People who don't play live as agrarian hermits.
GoDaddy administrators do not have the skill to manage Linux boxes.
Years ago, when GoDaddy was insisting that their servers were fine despite that my client's site was sending TCP RST packets instead of data (they used GoDaddy because of the boobs on football, against my recommendation), the packets were coming from a FreeBSD machine. Could have been a firewall, I suppose.
Where's the full-page ad against Apple? Oh, right, better to not take on a billion-dollar behemoth and run ads against the nonprofit giving people more control over their Internet browsing experience.
FISA is way to entrenched to be simply eliminated after 35 years.
That's a good illustration of our system being one that features positive feedback loops. It has to keep getting worse until it collapses under its own weight.
It wasn't intended to be that way, but empirical evidence shows it to be the case. Judging by how every new law seems to have its own set of unintended consequences, I'm skeptical of anybody who would claim to be able to design a system that would be resistant against such biases.
It doesn't matter if RSA is cracked or not, the DH-RSA mode of TLS with perfect forward secrecy has a 300% setup performance penalty vs. non PFS modes, while the 64-bit optimized version of ECC TLS PFS only has a 15% penalty. The former is a hard sell to sysadmins - the latter, not so much.
Somebody in the open source patent pool project (IBM, Google, Redhat, etc.) needs to come up with the cash or other incentives, perhaps as a group, for the future security of the Internet, which is a critical dependency for each of them. If Blackberry were a forward-looking company they would have donated the ECC patents already, but then again, they would probably not be for sale if that was their nature.
There are bad PRNG algorithms and better PRNG algorithms, and it's worth using better ones. Plus, these devices have so many sensors that finding a fairly complex and truly random seed isn't all that difficult.
Great insight. I don't understand why linux still uses a known-weak/dev/[u]random when BSD and OSX have used a Yarrow-based PRNG for a decade, and there was even a patch for a Fortuna-based device in the -mm tree at one point.
One of the issues is people say, "just use EGD", but most people don't know about it, don't have it running, and software often uses egd only when/dev/random doesn't exist, if it can use it at all. Having two interfaces isn't the right approach. I can see an argument for leaving something like accelerometer-based entropy gathering in userspace, but as far as I know, there's not a socket setup in place where egd can feed data to/dev/random's pool.
Perhaps we need somebody to grab hold of this issue and drive it forward. Strong crypto is becoming more and more important by the week.
heh, in the US we tariff the hell out of sugar and subsidize high-fructose corn syrup. To support the War on Triglycerides, apparently.
what I find pathetic is that they ceased production for a product in such high demand. whoever handled the bankruptcy fucked up.
Are you kidding? That strategy has generated billions of dollars worth of free advertising for the Twinkie brand and demand is now at an all-time high; profits from now go to the new owners, losses from then are accounted for in the bankruptcy and get paid for by the creditors. It's brilliant, really, in a sociopathic sort of way.
FWIW, there is a mountain of Twinkie boxes and a 5x8 advertising banner at the entrance to the WalMart in Claremont, NH. I won't need any until October, when the boy wants some of those Minion cupcakes for his birthday party.
And what is the name for all of the businesses who just merrily went along with government requests?
Corporations. They make fascism much easier to implement. An out of control judiciary provides the nudges necessary to force most businesses to adopt a corporate form.
This is a good point. Dare I enter my GPG passphrase on a Droid, when Motorola is uploading some fraction of what I do to its servers in the background?
For whatever reason, MNG became a cultural thing around Mozilla, Inc. - that thing that everybody loved to hate for no good reason at all. Excuses were made and the RFE closed, despite the massive number of votes for it.
What you do is activate the CSM, which emulates older BIOS calls and maps them to UEFI functionality.
Kind of, sort of. I have a server with UEFI running a recent Xen and its Dom0 can't access more than 2GB of RAM due to a lack of native UEFI support and the way that BIOS emulation is usually done.
How many mega-cities were right by the seashore during those previous times?
And that's the crux of the problem - the wealthy landowners on the water want everybody else to pay to modify the Earth so they don't lose their investment. In the 70's my friend dug a basement 20 miles inland and 30' above sea level and found sea shells about 10 feet down. That the oceans rise and fall is news to nobody. Personally, I had the sense to buy property beyond the wave zone of an oceanic comet strike.
Transparency? I care more about the fact that they seem to be violating the constitution; whether or not that's done transparently is utterly irrelevant to me.
Yeah, the way I read this is that we'll have more raids and seizures with 1% less interception. That's more transparent, for sure.
MS should increase all of their licensing costs by 500-1000%
That's a bit much, but I do think they should go for 60%. People will pay it. Balmer is leaving shareholder money on the table.
and they can pull a Nortel while they flush themselves down the toilet.
People only run Microsoft in a data center if they have to. If they have to, they will pay what they need to.
Microsoft's calculation should be thus:
1) what is the average # of servers that one of their clients has? 2) what would it cost that client to switch over to linux? 3) charge 80% of the cost to switch over for licenses for windows.
People running Nortel could (and did) switch to Cisco for less than Nortel was charging.
It turned out that the visit from Homeland Security after the "pressure cooker" and "backpack" searches weren't a result of Google monitoring but of a report from the guy's employer after finding the search on his work computer.
The buried lead in that story was that there were hundreds of similar visits from men in black every day in the US. Either US employers really suck, or this is just another flat-out lie from the so-called security apparatus.
Absolutely - end to end security is key, and people need to get over the attitude that SMTP can never be superseded.
But, jurisdiction shopping is part of defense in depth. I need to order a new VPS for work, and it's stuff where latency to the US doesn't matter - can you give me a good reason to host it in the US?
Before today, they said the cost to industry of PRISM was going to be $40B. I'd say it just quadrupled.
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Tell us more about the leather jacking. Slowly please.
Ha, I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who has the next word occasionally intrude on the spelling of the current one!
Considering bitcoins history of being an enabler of all sorts of messed up scams, bitcoin users should be celebrating this.
You mean like legislation has somehow prevented cash from being used for a trillion times as much [whatever the bad stuff you figure bitcoin is being used for]?
Nobody says, "One Rich ANGEL Called Larry Ellison".
I'm sure they'd care if any great number of people actually used Safari.
The public perception is that there are lots of iOS devices out there, anyway.
The analogy would be better if the diary was left out in the open, but closed, mind you, for everyone to see.
Once Michelle gave her data to the paper that she didn't make, she surrendered her 4th Amendment expectation of privacy per /Smith v. Maryland/. Barack just has to say he saw a Chevy Malibu drive by.
If you have a suggestion of a better system to govern masses of retards, please do present it
There are three known systems for managing human societies: religion, government, and markets. They can be stand-alone or hybrid.
In the first, almost nobody gets a say in terms of how things are run. People who don't play "go to hell" and fear is used to convince them to behave. In the second, everybody has a say, though that's largely for show. People who don't play are forced into rape cages or executed. In the third, everybody makes very small decisions all the time and the summation of those decisions exhibits emergent properties that sway how things go and that tends to correct back and forth over time. People who don't play live as agrarian hermits.
GoDaddy administrators do not have the skill to manage Linux boxes.
Years ago, when GoDaddy was insisting that their servers were fine despite that my client's site was sending TCP RST packets instead of data (they used GoDaddy because of the boobs on football, against my recommendation), the packets were coming from a FreeBSD machine. Could have been a firewall, I suppose.
I've heard a little bit about the show ... isn't the protagonist an anti-hero methamphetamine drug lord?
And the creators are in a twist about its fans duplicating bits? Literary thematic victory, I'd have thought.
Where's the full-page ad against Apple? Oh, right, better to not take on a billion-dollar behemoth and run ads against the nonprofit giving people more control over their Internet browsing experience.
FISA is way to entrenched to be simply eliminated after 35 years.
That's a good illustration of our system being one that features positive feedback loops. It has to keep getting worse until it collapses under its own weight.
It wasn't intended to be that way, but empirical evidence shows it to be the case. Judging by how every new law seems to have its own set of unintended consequences, I'm skeptical of anybody who would claim to be able to design a system that would be resistant against such biases.
Sometimes the only winning move is not to play.
It doesn't matter if RSA is cracked or not, the DH-RSA mode of TLS with perfect forward secrecy has a 300% setup performance penalty vs. non PFS modes, while the 64-bit optimized version of ECC TLS PFS only has a 15% penalty. The former is a hard sell to sysadmins - the latter, not so much.
Somebody in the open source patent pool project (IBM, Google, Redhat, etc.) needs to come up with the cash or other incentives, perhaps as a group, for the future security of the Internet, which is a critical dependency for each of them. If Blackberry were a forward-looking company they would have donated the ECC patents already, but then again, they would probably not be for sale if that was their nature.
I can't believe there's such a thing as Minion cupcakes, after googling for images I think I'd be sick if I ate one at my age.
Me too - I'd contract the diabetus on the spot. But I also don't run around screaming for three hours at a set. Much.
There are bad PRNG algorithms and better PRNG algorithms, and it's worth using better ones. Plus, these devices have so many sensors that finding a fairly complex and truly random seed isn't all that difficult.
Great insight. I don't understand why linux still uses a known-weak /dev/[u]random when BSD and OSX have used a Yarrow-based PRNG for a decade, and there was even a patch for a Fortuna-based device in the -mm tree at one point.
One of the issues is people say, "just use EGD", but most people don't know about it, don't have it running, and software often uses egd only when /dev/random doesn't exist, if it can use it at all. Having two interfaces isn't the right approach. I can see an argument for leaving something like accelerometer-based entropy gathering in userspace, but as far as I know, there's not a socket setup in place where egd can feed data to /dev/random's pool.
Perhaps we need somebody to grab hold of this issue and drive it forward. Strong crypto is becoming more and more important by the week.
besides, most countries have taxes on sugar etc..
heh, in the US we tariff the hell out of sugar and subsidize high-fructose corn syrup. To support the War on Triglycerides, apparently.
what I find pathetic is that they ceased production for a product in such high demand. whoever handled the bankruptcy fucked up.
Are you kidding? That strategy has generated billions of dollars worth of free advertising for the Twinkie brand and demand is now at an all-time high; profits from now go to the new owners, losses from then are accounted for in the bankruptcy and get paid for by the creditors. It's brilliant, really, in a sociopathic sort of way.
FWIW, there is a mountain of Twinkie boxes and a 5x8 advertising banner at the entrance to the WalMart in Claremont, NH. I won't need any until October, when the boy wants some of those Minion cupcakes for his birthday party.
Why would you ever be "cool" with mass surveillance?
Fear. At least Francis Scott Key's contemporaries knew that you can't have a free nation of cowards. That's a boolean AND, not an OR.
And what is the name for all of the businesses who just merrily went along with government requests?
Corporations. They make fascism much easier to implement. An out of control judiciary provides the nudges necessary to force most businesses to adopt a corporate form.
The host is compromised.
This is a good point. Dare I enter my GPG passphrase on a Droid, when Motorola is uploading some fraction of what I do to its servers in the background?
How can that be?
For whatever reason, MNG became a cultural thing around Mozilla, Inc. - that thing that everybody loved to hate for no good reason at all. Excuses were made and the RFE closed, despite the massive number of votes for it.
What you do is activate the CSM, which emulates older BIOS calls and maps them to UEFI functionality.
Kind of, sort of. I have a server with UEFI running a recent Xen and its Dom0 can't access more than 2GB of RAM due to a lack of native UEFI support and the way that BIOS emulation is usually done.
It's a bit of a rough patch right now.
I'm guessing the GP is pointing to the trendline being downward since y2k.
How many mega-cities were right by the seashore during those previous times?
And that's the crux of the problem - the wealthy landowners on the water want everybody else to pay to modify the Earth so they don't lose their investment. In the 70's my friend dug a basement 20 miles inland and 30' above sea level and found sea shells about 10 feet down. That the oceans rise and fall is news to nobody. Personally, I had the sense to buy property beyond the wave zone of an oceanic comet strike.
Transparency? I care more about the fact that they seem to be violating the constitution; whether or not that's done transparently is utterly irrelevant to me.
Yeah, the way I read this is that we'll have more raids and seizures with 1% less interception. That's more transparent, for sure.
MS should increase all of their licensing costs by 500-1000%
That's a bit much, but I do think they should go for 60%. People will pay it. Balmer is leaving shareholder money on the table.
and they can pull a Nortel while they flush themselves down the toilet.
People only run Microsoft in a data center if they have to. If they have to, they will pay what they need to.
Microsoft's calculation should be thus:
1) what is the average # of servers that one of their clients has?
2) what would it cost that client to switch over to linux?
3) charge 80% of the cost to switch over for licenses for windows.
People running Nortel could (and did) switch to Cisco for less than Nortel was charging.
It turned out that the visit from Homeland Security after the "pressure cooker" and "backpack" searches weren't a result of Google monitoring but of a report from the guy's employer after finding the search on his work computer.
The buried lead in that story was that there were hundreds of similar visits from men in black every day in the US. Either US employers really suck, or this is just another flat-out lie from the so-called security apparatus.
Absolutely - end to end security is key, and people need to get over the attitude that SMTP can never be superseded.
But, jurisdiction shopping is part of defense in depth. I need to order a new VPS for work, and it's stuff where latency to the US doesn't matter - can you give me a good reason to host it in the US?
Before today, they said the cost to industry of PRISM was going to be $40B. I'd say it just quadrupled.
Or, as somebody else said, "Atlas just shrugged".