There is a social scheme to provide a level of relative security for an encrypted time capsule:
Choose n separate trusted individuals or organisations, ideally scattered around the world and unaware of who each other are
Gain promises from these entities that they will each send a block of data to the time capsule at a given time, and not before
Decide by policy how many of these entities (m) should be required to do their part, for the time capsule to be decrypted
For every combination of m entities, generate m strings, where the XOR of all these m strings arrives at the decryption key
For each of the n entities, issue the required number of strings (n-1)C(r-1) required to contribute to every combination of m entities of which this entity is a part
Each string is prefixed with a binary string of n bits, indicating by true/false values whether the string is part of a group of each of the n respective keepers
The whole set of strings given to each entity would be prefixed by a 'keeper number' and then encrypted
The time capsule curator destroys all record of who these trusted agents are, and relies on them to send their keys at the appointed time
Example - 10 keepers chosen, 4 in UK, 1 in Iceland, 2 in Australia, 1 in USA, 1 in Uruguay and 1 in Morocco. Policy chosen so that the cooperation of 7 is required to decrypt. Each keeper then is thus issued 84 strings. 1 agent dies, another agent gets busted, and a third agent becomes opposed to the decryption. This leaves 7 agents. They each send their key packages in to the time capsule curator, who decrypts each package, identifies which string within each package is need to form the key, XORs these strings, then arrives at a final decryption key.
Even if an intelligence organisation manages to extract keys from 6 of the agents, they won't be able to decrypt. If on the other hand, they kill up to 3 of the agents and stop them returning their keys, the decryption can still go ahead.
Ideally, you would want to set n and m according to perceived risk, plus the size of the data set. For example, 36 agents and 20 required would produce a key set which would fit into a cheap 8GB USB stick.
The job market is very tight, so employers are spoiled for choice. They will seek employees who can hit the ground running immediately. In this environment, they see even a week's learning curve as a waste, and would rather hire someone ordinary who can be immediately productive rather than someone great who might take a little longer.
Watch out for this changing as the economy recovers, and jobs again become an employee's market.
Self-driving cars means that people will be able to drink and "drive" to their hearts content, legally and safely. This will help to rejuvenate the ailing club/pub scene and maybe restore the live entertainment industry to grace. It would make sense for liquor companies, pubs and clubs to invest substantially in autonomous vehicle tech.
Anyone up for a new "Roaring 20s"?
On my motorbike, I'd feel much safer if all the cars around me were driverless. Human car drivers, who so often tend to blank out half-unconscious and fail to check blind spots, are the leading cause of death for bikers.
From my R&D experience across many companies, it's clear to me that a "software engineer" is a proper superset of "developer".
A 'developer' is paid to create code that works within the company's contrived runtime environment and passes a few stages of testing, while a 'software engineer' is also paid to ensure the code actually works reliably in this nebulous abstract construct called the "real world" - customer/client installations where there are innumerable environmental variables and things that can go wrong.
A "developer" nods timidly and reluctantly to Murphy while passing in the corridor. But the software engineer says "Thanks for another great night. What would you like for breakfast?"
A "developer" goes whining to her/his team leader when the tools or OS play up. A software engineer cracks out the machine-code debugger, logic analyser and oscilloscope, traces all the API calls, and spits out working patches for the bugs in the libraries, drivers and kernel.
If I had some plant that was failing at 3:15am and costing me a fortune, I know which I would prefer to have on site.
I'm thinking along the lines of the emacs "spook" function, amongst other things. You just need enough a large enough group of participants working together.
The system can be trained in weird ways. For instance, if enough people in enough places scratch their noses with their left hands, then break out in a mock fight, the system will learn to sound the alarm every time someone scratches their nose with their left hand.
Or, for something more socially useful - have people pull out a cellphone, talk for a few seconds, then pull out a mock gun and pretend to mug others. Then, the system will freak out every time some annoying jerk pulls out a cellphone in public. Along that same theme, train the system to send in the troops whenever someone adjusts their underwear in public, or picks their nose, or farts loudly...
Firefox is the greatest browser, with advanced features to benefit every user at a profound spiritual level:
* Its memory bloat teaches us to be mindful of our resources, both within the computer, and our use of our resources in everyday outer life.
* Its slowness helps teach us patience.
* When the whole browser freezes up from a bit of incompetent CPU-thrashing javascript code running in one tab, it teaches us to be responsible for our own coding decisions and how they affect others.
* Its slow startup teaches us that wonderful things don't happen instantly, and that we need to lose our attachment to time
Stay away from Chrome - it feeds the ego by promoting our addiction to instant gratification
Framing the discussion as "piracy reduction" is long obsolete. Might as well call it a "reduce gas diffusing in a vacuum" conference. They need to restart with a premise of "finding ways for content creators to be rewarded for their works". Then we might start getting some workable and relevant ideas.
Explain the navy please. If men are so obsessed with sex why do MEN volunteer to spend months if not years at sea with no females?
Because in humans, the pursuit of sex tends to abstract into the pursuit of the availability of sex. This means doing stuff which ultimately makes one more attractive to the opposite sex.
To use a money analogy, what's more valuable? A million dollars in cash, or the ability to easily earn $10,000 any time, any where?
Steal a dollar, get probation Steal a thousand dollars, get a fine Steal a million dollars, get home detention Steal a billion dollars, get a long jail term Steal a trillion dollars, get a free swag of taxpayer money and become a consultant
Researchers at the University of Botswana have taken this research a step further and decoded the encoding of stripes and the underlying alphabet. One young zebra, limping along the savannah nursing his fresh wounds, was decoded to read "lions suck!" while another slightly older male's markings were decoded to read "I got deep throated by a giraffe but all I got was this lousy T-shirt".
It would make huge sense for the alcohol industry to invest heavily in this technology. Cars which breath-test their drivers and serve as 'designated drivers' could give a huge boost to bars and nightclubs. And, no more alcohol-related traffic deaths.
Throughout US history, there have been several episodes of fear, hysteria and scapegoating. The first example is the infamous witch hunts. Post WWII, it was Sen. McCarthy-led anti-communist crusades. The famous playright Arthur Miller made the comparison very clear in his master work The Crucible. Now, it seems pedophiles are the new communists. What better a 'fear fix' than to imagine Pedobear hiding under every bed, lurking in the school staffrooms and coaching your kids' ball teams.
Airlines could do a lot to reduce carbon emissions, and also encourage better public health, by requiring passengers at checkin to stand on a large weighing platform along with their bags, and pay for the total weight. I strenuously object to subsidising the fares of obese people.
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Example - 10 keepers chosen, 4 in UK, 1 in Iceland, 2 in Australia, 1 in USA, 1 in Uruguay and 1 in Morocco. Policy chosen so that the cooperation of 7 is required to decrypt. Each keeper then is thus issued 84 strings. 1 agent dies, another agent gets busted, and a third agent becomes opposed to the decryption. This leaves 7 agents. They each send their key packages in to the time capsule curator, who decrypts each package, identifies which string within each package is need to form the key, XORs these strings, then arrives at a final decryption key. Even if an intelligence organisation manages to extract keys from 6 of the agents, they won't be able to decrypt. If on the other hand, they kill up to 3 of the agents and stop them returning their keys, the decryption can still go ahead. Ideally, you would want to set n and m according to perceived risk, plus the size of the data set. For example, 36 agents and 20 required would produce a key set which would fit into a cheap 8GB USB stick.
I can only guess that this is Australia after North Queensland has seceded off into its own banana republic
...Google Balls!
The job market is very tight, so employers are spoiled for choice. They will seek employees who can hit the ground running immediately. In this environment, they see even a week's learning curve as a waste, and would rather hire someone ordinary who can be immediately productive rather than someone great who might take a little longer. Watch out for this changing as the economy recovers, and jobs again become an employee's market.
Self-driving cars means that people will be able to drink and "drive" to their hearts content, legally and safely. This will help to rejuvenate the ailing club/pub scene and maybe restore the live entertainment industry to grace. It would make sense for liquor companies, pubs and clubs to invest substantially in autonomous vehicle tech. Anyone up for a new "Roaring 20s"?
...credentials to my Mailinator account :P
Rule 34. Or, in other words, a major internet industry needs to VC the development of advanced tactile transducers.
On my motorbike, I'd feel much safer if all the cars around me were driverless. Human car drivers, who so often tend to blank out half-unconscious and fail to check blind spots, are the leading cause of death for bikers.
If I had some plant that was failing at 3:15am and costing me a fortune, I know which I would prefer to have on site.
But the Supreme Court had no choice but to stand up for justice. No going soft on patent abuses!
I'm thinking along the lines of the emacs "spook" function, amongst other things. You just need enough a large enough group of participants working together.
The system can be trained in weird ways. For instance, if enough people in enough places scratch their noses with their left hands, then break out in a mock fight, the system will learn to sound the alarm every time someone scratches their nose with their left hand.
Or, for something more socially useful - have people pull out a cellphone, talk for a few seconds, then pull out a mock gun and pretend to mug others. Then, the system will freak out every time some annoying jerk pulls out a cellphone in public. Along that same theme, train the system to send in the troops whenever someone adjusts their underwear in public, or picks their nose, or farts loudly...
Firefox is the greatest browser, with advanced features to benefit every user at a profound spiritual level:
* Its memory bloat teaches us to be mindful of our resources, both within the computer, and our use of our resources in everyday outer life.
* Its slowness helps teach us patience.
* When the whole browser freezes up from a bit of incompetent CPU-thrashing javascript code running in one tab, it teaches us to be responsible for our own coding decisions and how they affect others.
* Its slow startup teaches us that wonderful things don't happen instantly, and that we need to lose our attachment to time
Stay away from Chrome - it feeds the ego by promoting our addiction to instant gratification
Framing the discussion as "piracy reduction" is long obsolete. Might as well call it a "reduce gas diffusing in a vacuum" conference.
They need to restart with a premise of "finding ways for content creators to be rewarded for their works". Then we might start getting some workable and relevant ideas.
(/me ducks)
After countless stints in Dependency Hell, I would ask: which is the predator, and which is the prey?
Because in humans, the pursuit of sex tends to abstract into the pursuit of the availability of sex. This means doing stuff which ultimately makes one more attractive to the opposite sex.
To use a money analogy, what's more valuable? A million dollars in cash, or the ability to easily earn $10,000 any time, any where?
Steal a dollar, get probation
Steal a thousand dollars, get a fine
Steal a million dollars, get home detention
Steal a billion dollars, get a long jail term
Steal a trillion dollars, get a free swag of taxpayer money and become a consultant
Researchers at the University of Botswana have taken this research a step further and decoded the encoding of stripes and the underlying alphabet. One young zebra, limping along the savannah nursing his fresh wounds, was decoded to read "lions suck!" while another slightly older male's markings were decoded to read "I got deep throated by a giraffe but all I got was this lousy T-shirt".
It would make huge sense for the alcohol industry to invest heavily in this technology.
Cars which breath-test their drivers and serve as 'designated drivers' could give a huge boost to bars and nightclubs. And, no more alcohol-related traffic deaths.
"My name is Mickey Mouse, and I'm an alcoholic."
"Hi Mickey!"
Or maybe it's just because PHP itself is a vast profanity.
/me dons flameproof suit and steels himself for major karma loss
I would have expected a lot more bolorful language from the python bommunity.
Silly bunts!
Throughout US history, there have been several episodes of fear, hysteria and scapegoating. The first example is the infamous witch hunts. Post WWII, it was Sen. McCarthy-led anti-communist crusades. The famous playright Arthur Miller made the comparison very clear in his master work The Crucible. Now, it seems pedophiles are the new communists. What better a 'fear fix' than to imagine Pedobear hiding under every bed, lurking in the school staffrooms and coaching your kids' ball teams.
I've seen a lot of shitty software in my time
Airlines could do a lot to reduce carbon emissions, and also encourage better public health, by requiring passengers at checkin to stand on a large weighing platform along with their bags, and pay for the total weight. I strenuously object to subsidising the fares of obese people.