An exploration of the long term ramifications of this is worth looking at, but speculatively it seems to me that the tides are driven by the moon, and so its actual gravitation/kinetic energy that is being harvested. The effects of this would be very little, because the amount of energy there is so vast...but that's just speculation.
Great post. I think it also pays to look at some of the countries like India, where the population density is really high in areas, but the resource consumption is really low. You can see ways in which in negatively impacts the standard of living, but you can also see pleasant agrarian scenarios where it isn't so bad, at least not worse than the way humans have been living for thousands of years. Our problem is with our resource consumption, the WAY we live, not the fact that we live. That people are calling to get rid of other humans before talking about trading out the SUV is kinda disturbing if you ask me.
...every programmer should work with something like this at least once. I did some audio programming work in college, and its a totally different world than the regular web dev stuff I have done, because you're working with the convergence of acoustics and physics with programming. In true signal processing apps, what you are doing has to happen FAST as well, which makes the guys who work in it true wizards, and that's without even considering the subjective recognition stuff that these researchers had to do. Kudos to them.
Well said. The market isn't often forward looking enough to deal with things. Take all the SUV's on the road, that made perfect sense when people bought them but now they regret it, because market conditions have changed but they are invested for the long term (gas prices) you either need really good information available for people or government intervention.
But you've got to love the lingo. Another big PR victory for homeland security, they now have hand held mind devices that emit "evil" colors to manipulate the mind to puke. Now, lets ask ourselves: If this was in a movie, would it be: a) something the good guys have? b) something the bad guys have?
Its hard to make general arguments about this, but I would really love to see a specific case where the prosecution rests on this kind of 'obstruction of justice' alone, or where its even a major factor. For instance a case where the defendant is accused of something but the only evidence has been encrypted and he has "forgotten" the key. I can't see him getting convicted without seriously strange legal precedents being set.
My pad was used only once, the archive was smaller than the image. I don't know much about jpeg compression, but there was a lot of white in the image from snow, so its probably not perfect as far as randomness. But the archival material wasn't that important, it was just a quick hack because I had nothing else handy.
Or hell, be thorough. Have a buddy hack your box and disrupt something, and tell 'em you were protecting yourself from hackers. Then invite them to set the legal precedent that people have to spread their ass cheecks to hackers, and see how the business community responds.
technically speaking all data is "encrypted", it's the strength of the encryption that varies.
Really good point. Any compression system might be viewed as encryption if you don't know how to decompress it.
I actually had to throw together an encryption system today to store some archival material online. I wrote a one time pad in python where my pad was just a jpeg of a mountain I had lying around. I contend that my ciphertext is art, a picture of a mountain combined with some literature. Who's to say it isn't?
When it gets to he point where you can blame other people for your inability to understand what they are saying when they weren't speaking to you, the deaf and mentally disabled will rule the world.
Thanks for that thought...I feel like were living in the age of conjecture. Its not just the talk of what the logs might mean, but of what the supposedly don't mean. People are so busy blasting Slashdot for running the story that nobody is looking deeply at what it means that there might be "bots" inside the DoDs computer system rather than something in Vista, or whether these "bots" are really what they appear in an agency that has billions of dollars invested into "information warfare".
I feel like between the people yelling about a conspiracy and the people desparately yelling about the non-existence of one, the more complex truth of what's really happening is completely lost.
I don't thinks its necessarily mac fans. I've had my macbook hacked, (it has adware on it now) and when you really get into the total lack of security culture around macs, and learn the terrifying reality of an unremovable camera and microphone embedded in your hacked computer, you see that any hacker with the secret of how to get in wants to guard it. Because with macs, its about a lot more than your files, its about being able to surveil somebody, audio and video, whenever their computer is has juice. And that's a precious thing to any hacker who has that power, you can do a lot with that beyond "pwning" their documents folder or whatever.
Oh! It was there first time? They've lost their spyware virginity? Why do they write bullshit like this? Is it so that one guy won't go "Drat! I had no idea the FBI ever installed keystroke loggers" that articles like this lie to everybody? C'mon.
Awesome! I love this kind of technology. A) Its good to see a generations information going into the void, B) its awesome to see new ways to collect data about real world objects (like records) for future generations.
This to me is the core question. Are less of these schemes actually happening now that these huge powers have been given? Because the government has some pretty extraordinary powers now, and my world world somehow still seems more dangerous than it used to be!
To be frank, though I agree I think you're also missing the worst part of this whole idea; the fact that we are headed for an energy crunch. The absolute last thing we need to be doing now is having our food supply more reliant than it already is on cheap energy.
I never thought of it that way before, but I think you're right!;)
At least somebody's asking the question at all.
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Private centralized search engines are a threat to free speech if the world becomes too dependant on them. Its not such a big deal now, but I think we need to think about it as sites like Google become integrated into more and more applications, like Firefox.
I think the popularity of web based email answers that question
I'm not so sure it does. The difference is that my email goes over the internet whether I use outlook or gmail, but my journal never does...And I'm not so sure I feel comfortable having my journal online, but I do feel okay with having it on my box.
I think it has to come down to what langauge you want to write in. MY personal favorite is Python, and therefore I work directly with mod_python. Personally, I think any language supported by.NET and Mono on the CLI is a good choice. I think honest to God that Mono is going to be a big thing in a year or two...think about it...the ability to call any non-platform-specific library from perl, python, C#, or visual basic in one web framework. That's mono at work, my friend!
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An exploration of the long term ramifications of this is worth looking at, but speculatively it seems to me that the tides are driven by the moon, and so its actual gravitation/kinetic energy that is being harvested. The effects of this would be very little, because the amount of energy there is so vast...but that's just speculation.
Great post. I think it also pays to look at some of the countries like India, where the population density is really high in areas, but the resource consumption is really low. You can see ways in which in negatively impacts the standard of living, but you can also see pleasant agrarian scenarios where it isn't so bad, at least not worse than the way humans have been living for thousands of years. Our problem is with our resource consumption, the WAY we live, not the fact that we live. That people are calling to get rid of other humans before talking about trading out the SUV is kinda disturbing if you ask me.
...every programmer should work with something like this at least once. I did some audio programming work in college, and its a totally different world than the regular web dev stuff I have done, because you're working with the convergence of acoustics and physics with programming. In true signal processing apps, what you are doing has to happen FAST as well, which makes the guys who work in it true wizards, and that's without even considering the subjective recognition stuff that these researchers had to do. Kudos to them.
The "Bundestrojaner" will only be used as a last resort and in defense to terrorism
Yes, and who defines "last resort" and "terrorism"? That's a state secret...you just have to trust em.
Well said. The market isn't often forward looking enough to deal with things. Take all the SUV's on the road, that made perfect sense when people bought them but now they regret it, because market conditions have changed but they are invested for the long term (gas prices) you either need really good information available for people or government intervention.
We're still going to need baseload power production until a cheaper method of storing power can be found.
Check out the recent Scientific American article, which talks about storing power as compressed air in underground caverns: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=a-solar-grand-plan
But you've got to love the lingo. Another big PR victory for homeland security, they now have hand held mind devices that emit "evil" colors to manipulate the mind to puke. Now, lets ask ourselves: If this was in a movie, would it be:
a) something the good guys have?
b) something the bad guys have?
Its hard to make general arguments about this, but I would really love to see a specific case where the prosecution rests on this kind of 'obstruction of justice' alone, or where its even a major factor. For instance a case where the defendant is accused of something but the only evidence has been encrypted and he has "forgotten" the key. I can't see him getting convicted without seriously strange legal precedents being set.
My pad was used only once, the archive was smaller than the image. I don't know much about jpeg compression, but there was a lot of white in the image from snow, so its probably not perfect as far as randomness. But the archival material wasn't that important, it was just a quick hack because I had nothing else handy.
Or hell, be thorough. Have a buddy hack your box and disrupt something, and tell 'em you were protecting yourself from hackers. Then invite them to set the legal precedent that people have to spread their ass cheecks to hackers, and see how the business community responds.
This is just dumb.
technically speaking all data is "encrypted", it's the strength of the encryption that varies.
Really good point. Any compression system might be viewed as encryption if you don't know how to decompress it.
I actually had to throw together an encryption system today to store some archival material online. I wrote a one time pad in python where my pad was just a jpeg of a mountain I had lying around. I contend that my ciphertext is art, a picture of a mountain combined with some literature. Who's to say it isn't?
When it gets to he point where you can blame other people for your inability to understand what they are saying when they weren't speaking to you, the deaf and mentally disabled will rule the world.
Thanks for that thought...I feel like were living in the age of conjecture. Its not just the talk of what the logs might mean, but of what the supposedly don't mean. People are so busy blasting Slashdot for running the story that nobody is looking deeply at what it means that there might be "bots" inside the DoDs computer system rather than something in Vista, or whether these "bots" are really what they appear in an agency that has billions of dollars invested into "information warfare".
I feel like between the people yelling about a conspiracy and the people desparately yelling about the non-existence of one, the more complex truth of what's really happening is completely lost.
I don't thinks its necessarily mac fans. I've had my macbook hacked, (it has adware on it now) and when you really get into the total lack of security culture around macs, and learn the terrifying reality of an unremovable camera and microphone embedded in your hacked computer, you see that any hacker with the secret of how to get in wants to guard it. Because with macs, its about a lot more than your files, its about being able to surveil somebody, audio and video, whenever their computer is has juice. And that's a precious thing to any hacker who has that power, you can do a lot with that beyond "pwning" their documents folder or whatever.
The FBI has used PC spyware for the first time
Oh! It was there first time? They've lost their spyware virginity? Why do they write bullshit like this? Is it so that one guy won't go "Drat! I had no idea the FBI ever installed keystroke loggers" that articles like this lie to everybody? C'mon.
Awesome! I love this kind of technology. A) Its good to see a generations information going into the void, B) its awesome to see new ways to collect data about real world objects (like records) for future generations.
This to me is the core question. Are less of these schemes actually happening now that these huge powers have been given? Because the government has some pretty extraordinary powers now, and my world world somehow still seems more dangerous than it used to be!
To be frank, though I agree I think you're also missing the worst part of this whole idea; the fact that we are headed for an energy crunch. The absolute last thing we need to be doing now is having our food supply more reliant than it already is on cheap energy.
I hope you would stay vegan for dietary not for ethical reasons. Grown beef would be just as ethical as grown plants that are GMO.
I never thought of it that way before, but I think you're right! ;)
Private centralized search engines are a threat to free speech if the world becomes too dependant on them. Its not such a big deal now, but I think we need to think about it as sites like Google become integrated into more and more applications, like Firefox.
I think the popularity of web based email answers that question
I'm not so sure it does. The difference is that my email goes over the internet whether I use outlook or gmail, but my journal never does...And I'm not so sure I feel comfortable having my journal online, but I do feel okay with having it on my box.
Polar bears like ice cream, which does not occur naturally
Ice cream does not occur naturally? I'll be damned!
I think it has to come down to what langauge you want to write in. MY personal favorite is Python, and therefore I work directly with mod_python. .NET and Mono on the CLI is a good choice. I think honest to God that Mono is going to be a big thing in a year or two...think about it...the ability to call any non-platform-specific library from perl, python, C#, or visual basic in one web framework. That's mono at work, my friend!
Personally, I think any language supported by
This is more repugnant than any porn I have ever seen.
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There is no free market, and you should stop hoping it's going to come in and save the day for you.
Yep, the free market is just a fairy tale. Companies who fail to produce viable products go on forever.
What are you talking about?