No. If RSA, AES, Twofish or other good method is correctly used, not even NSA can decrypt them. Yes they have lot's of mathematicians and lots of computing power. But that's not enough.
Finally, if you don't trust any methods above you allways have one time pad that is provably 100% secure. Drawback is that keylength equals to message lenght and key can't be reused.
Yeah. I tried to put tinfoil in the microwave. The point is that if you wrap tings in tinfoil, it won't let microwawes in.
All the outside special effects, sparks and lightning, just make the demonstrators look like they have been attaced by The Dark Lord of Sith (tm). Great way to get prime time TV-coverage for the cause.
Like I said in other post, communist ideas in different form have only been tried in small voluntary groups. For example early Christians tried to live according to the literal teachings of Jesus Christ. They shared everything, there was no personal property (if you have two pairs of shoes give one pair away). That did not work for same reason why all idealist groups fail. People are fundamentally individuals and want to live their own way.
I am capitalist myself btw. and don't believe living according to Jesus or Marx. But I think that learning other viewpoints is important if you want to clarify your own. Being capitalist does not mean that I should be ignorant "believer" who thinks that well working capitalism ultimately benefits those who work hard (that belief, btw. is behind protestant work ethic, not capitalism). Capitalism is all about free market, profit and capitalists (private owners of capital) and their interests.
For example, take average American worker without collage degree. That's more than 100 million workers, or 72.1% of the workforce. Their average real hourly wages (adjusted for inflation) were less at the end of 2000 than they were in 1979! And since 2000 their wages have continued to slide further. And same time this John Doe is working harder, longer hours, and still can't keep up with rising taxes, gasoline prices, utility bills, ballooning medical expenses, or the accelerating cost of paying for your kids' education?
Why is this so? Until now capitalism has been hindered by nationalism. For example in USA its common to see "Buy American" slogans etc. Goverments have been trying to block free movements of capital and goods between nations. Now when we have WTO and other international treaties we can expect that nationalism can't keep capitalism in bay anymore. This will increase productivity and competition between nations, workers and corporations as never seen before.
The net result of well working capitalism in world scale is that workers all over the world are competing in free market against each other. Capital and salary distributions follow quite closely zipf distribution. This means that majority of people will never get decent pay no matter how hard they try. And this is exactly what Marx predicted.
See: http://www.drummajorinstitute.org/plugin/template/ dmi/44/273
Marx had some deep insights of how capitalism develops. His ideas for replacement are not so deep.
There has been lots of voluntary experiments with communist like systems. For example when Jesus died, members of early Christian community lived like that. No personal property. If you had two pairs of shoes you would give other pair away. Everything was shared. Like communism, following Jesus and his example don't work for normal people.
This splitting hairs is not irrelevant. Fighting against communism today is form of propaganda. If we call China and North Korea communist countries and communism as something we are against, we can safely be friends with totalitarian regimes like Saudi Arabia. I
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Interestingly Karl Marx is nowadays subject of study of many great economists. If you study economics in Ivy League you might have to reed Marx. Reason why the father of communism is so hip is because Marx had very good understanding of capitalism.
Economists and political scientists note how the manifesto, written by Marx and Friedrich Engels, recognized the unstoppable wealth-creating power of capitalism, predicted it would conquer the world, and warned that this inevitable globalization of national economies and cultures would have divisive and painful consequences.
"The manifesto speaks to our time," says Dani Rodrik, professor of international political economy at Harvard University. "Marx saw capitalism as the driving force of history. But he also warns of the divisions that capitalism's spread would bring, of the social orders destroyed."
Yes that's true. There are different morals. There is probably no solution to all moral dilemmas. We just must live buy our own standards.
Two things:
1) There is lots of immoral actions that stem from human weakness: greed, hate and ignorance. Person or company may do actions that are against their moral code and justify them buy lying or denying their importance. This can and should be corrected.
2) There is also the information part. If corporate actions are discussed in public customers can have a choice to act on their moral values.
If these two things are enforced buy public, law and media things go better.
Companies don't live apart from moral or ethical dimensions of life.
Thinking that it's governments responsibility to make moral rules is so stupid. Moral and law are not the same thing. There is laws that are immoral and you are not supposed to make rules for all moral behavior. Law and moral may overlap but they are not the same thing. Moral behavior means that you behave morally even if there is no punishment. Only immoral people (and immoral companies) act morally because they fear punishment.
Moral values are to be expressed in all human behavior. Personal lives, work and politics. It's absurd to think that if enough people join together to run organization to make money (company), moral values do not apply.
Actually this discovery is quite important. Even some professionals are impressed [1]. It seems that lack of vitamin D causes lot's of problems in northen countries.
Here in Finland we get very little sun in winter. Leder of National Institue of Health in Finland said last winter that it would be cheaper to pay one week middle winter vacation in Spain for all finns than pay for the treatment of disases that come from lack of vitamin D. That is big amount of money.
[1] from the article:
.. The talk so impressed the American Cancer Society's chief epidemiologist, Dr. Michael Thun, that the society is reviewing its sun protection guidelines. "There is now intriguing evidence that vitamin D may have a role in the prevention as well as treatment of certain cancers," Thun said.
Even some dermatologists may be coming around. "I find the evidence to be mounting and increasingly compelling," said Dr. Allan Halpern, dermatology chief at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, who advises several cancer groups.
In the early days of cars. Driving a car was technical profession (or hobby). Cars had mecanical failures rates similar to Windows 3.X You had to know how to fix it on the road and carry tools with you.
Sysadmin is like that. 30 years ago you might hire PhD. to do sysadmin. Nowdays sysadimin is the janitor of technological world. So it is not suprice that wages go down when you don't need many years of high education to do the job.
But the way of sysadmin is not the way of technology in US or elswhere. Technology moves forward and old jobs lose their appeal. Hello! if you can create superior desing and coding you are allways employed.
My thesis is that for bigger and bigger proportion of people in the world see their economical worth diminish over the years. It is generally assumed that there is allways enough well paying jobs to support rather big middle-class in developed countries. If this assumption turns wrong, we will have classical cypherpunk future. Small elite class of welthy people and huge mass of working poor (more or less slaves). This then leads to economical downturn when middle-class don't have money to keep their economy spinning.
Create own new root servers, copy content from root dns servers, require all minor dns to direct queries to new ones. Reconfigure routers block or redirect requests to us servers. Major hassle, lots of problemos in transition phase. But doable. Lot's of financial problems to major internet companies (located in USA mainly).
I quess that US would give the roots to ICANN if UN or somebody big enough group would threaten to do this. US firms have too much to lose when dns problems occur.
Overpriced and underpriced are meaningful when you try to make make more money. Stock is overpriced when it can't make you more money in long term. Buyer and seller can make deals in any price they want. But in the long run actual performance of the company determines the right price.
Actually over- and underpriced depends from time span. Stock can be underpriced in long term and overpriced in short term. In this discussion timespan is something like 3-15 years. If I conclude that I can be richer by delaying my investment 5 years then we can say that GOOG is overpriced in 5 year scale.
Today internet usage penetration is around 14 % with ~ 900 000 000 users woldwide. Usage Growth 2000-2005 has been 146.2%.
If we expect Google to give investors 10% yearly revenue for their current market capitalization they need to get 10$ profit from each current internet user per year.
If we assume that internet usage reaches 50% of world population (3x10E9 people) in future, they must get average 2.7$ from _each_ user per year. Think if they have some competition and have 33% market share They must get 8$/year.
Notice that 2.7$ or 8$ per user must be solid profit to shareholder after all expences and taxes. This calculation is therefore quite forgiving to Google.
If each ad click is 0.05$ there must be 160 clicks/year/user to get 8$/user. 1 click every other day. How many times you click google ads per year?
Conclusion: current price of Google contains the best possible future for Google for next 10-20 years. Assumption is that (world population) must consume more Google than Coke, MacDonalds, CNN or GM.
Intresting thing to deduce from what I said. The problem that west has with Hitles is that he has been canonized as ultimate evil. Yet it is considered politically incorrect to look out how this evil functioned and gained it's power. <p> It gained power by: <ol> <li>frightening majority of it's people by telling them that nation was constantly threathened from inside and outside, <li>convincing that majority that they as a nation had special place and destiny in the world, <li>ridiculing opposite viewpoints and making them look unpatriotic. </ol> Nowdays people look out and despise flags with svastika and naziuniforms. Modern version of evil may gain it's power looking wery different but using the same method.
11. That all unearned income, and all income that does not arise from work, be abolished.
13. We demand the nationalization of all trusts.
14. We demand profit-sharing in large industries.
15. We demand a generous increase in old-age pensions.
18. We demand that ruthless war be waged against those who work to the injury of the common welfare. Traitors, usurers, profiteers, etc., are to be punished with death, regardless of creed or race.
When Hitler had his power he abolished unemployment in half year. Is that socialist enough.
Hitlers party was National Socialist Party by name. Hitler was fasist all right. By modern definition fascism is not the arian thing only. It is method to get into power:
Paxtons definition of fascism:
"... a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation
with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory
cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of
committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective
collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties
and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal
restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion."
-- Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism
Buy using above definition, fasicsm is again threathenig us with religious face on.
Joe Stalin was dictator and he got his education in Tiflis Theological Seminary. Stalin used communist party to get into power and then killed all hard line commie competitors like Leon Trotsky during Great Purge. After that the proper name of his rule was Stalinism
This might be suprice to you. Big part of the world (including Canada and Europe) might think that contry ruled by fundamental evangelist christians is politically misaligned. Or at least in danger to become one. This is not a trolling! Many of us really think so.
Another reason is that putting any political agendas in software licenses is not leagally right (You can put them there of cource, but they have no effect)
What is programming? This question determines what kind of people companies want to hire and how programmers are made.
Buisiness people and managers are playing the power game. They don't want
craftsman, they want interchangeable parts. With that midset comes
necessarily the belief that what you do is factory work. To master any craft means that the novice must dedicate years and years into learning the skill. MS certificated "programmer" is not real programmer. He/She is code slave. Behold! New class of people working nonphyscical equivalent of cotton picking is born.
If you have any true programming skills nowdays, you are promoted. End are the days of programming. You are now supposed to herd group of caffeine-addicted-monkeys or write nice pictures (UML) to them so they can write it painfully down.
Quoting one of the true masters:
The Novice has been the focus of an alarming amount of attention in the
computer field. It is not just that the preferred user is unskilled, it is
that the whole field in its application rewards novices and punishes experts.
What you learn today will be useless a few years hence, so why bother to
study and know/anything/ well? I think this is the main reason for the IT
winter we are now experiencing.
-- Erik Naggum @ comp.lang.lisp
Mace Windu goes down with style (like black dudes usually do).
Lucas fears that SWII flops (fear of losing money can make you more conservative)
This is not for kids.
Episode II was better than episode I.
Plot: One of the coolest evil overlords is born. How can it be better.
Add to that some quotes from the article:
"Entertaining from start to finish and even enthralling at times."
"The technical achievement here is on such a high level that one is lulled into taking it for granted,"
"the robot R2-D2 (Kenny Baker) delivers brilliant comic action. This holds true throughout the new film as writer-director Lucas does a much better job of interweaving comedy with the dramatic and even tragic."
What can we see deduce from all above? It seems that Lucas is back in the basics again.
Better effects, our hero R2-D2 does funny parts, Darth Vader, Yoda, awesome space battles. No new major characters. That means storyline can be more dense. You can fit all the fight scenes plus drama into the movie without destroying it.
The best Google Ad Ever!
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"There's companies that are just so cool that you just can't even deal
with it," - Bill Gates, about Google
Being the Veteran of the Bermuda Exploration Venture 1991-1953 this was really nice event to meet some members of our crew we thought we lost. Plenty thanks for great people in MIT for this heart breaking event.
Re:Common Lisp and Schem are really different.
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> Nah, I still like Perl better.
This tells lot about you. You see: PERL = Perversion Excused by Random Lispiness.
Best of you Perl coders are just sadomasochist lispers. Sadist part of you writes the code. Masochist part of you debugs and tries to maintain it. Ooh yes! Whip me. Beat me. Make me maintain Perl code.
EXTERIOR: DAGOBAH--DAY
With Yoda strapped to his back, Luke climbs up one of the many thick vines that grow in the swamp until he reaches the Dagobah statistics lab. Panting heavily, he continues his exercises--grepping, installing new packages, logging in as root, and writing replacements for two-year-old programs in Lisp.
YODA: Code! Yes. A programmer's strength flows from code maintainability, but beware of Perl. Terse syntax... more than one way to do it... default variables. The dark side of code maintainability are they. Easily they flow, quick to join you when code you write. If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will.
LUKE: Is Perl better than Lisp?
YODA: No... no... no. Quicker, easier, more seductive.
LUKE: But how will I know why Lisp is better than Perl?
YODA: You will know. When your code you try to read six months from now.
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Well, if they can, they are not revealing their decrypting skills by showing their skill in court. So we are safe.
I wonder. What about the "I can't remember", "I must have misplaced it" and "I destroyed it" defences?
The first "I can't remember" has been successfully used buy presidents and highly paid CEO's. It must be great spell in court.
Finally, if you don't trust any methods above you allways have one time pad that is provably 100% secure. Drawback is that keylength equals to message lenght and key can't be reused.
All the outside special effects, sparks and lightning, just make the demonstrators look like they have been attaced by The Dark Lord of Sith (tm). Great way to get prime time TV-coverage for the cause.
Tinfoil. Tinfoil hat, dungarees, under your normal clothes. And you can carry tinfoil placards that reflect microwaves back to police.
I am capitalist myself btw. and don't believe living according to Jesus or Marx. But I think that learning other viewpoints is important if you want to clarify your own. Being capitalist does not mean that I should be ignorant "believer" who thinks that well working capitalism ultimately benefits those who work hard (that belief, btw. is behind protestant work ethic, not capitalism). Capitalism is all about free market, profit and capitalists (private owners of capital) and their interests.
For example, take average American worker without collage degree. That's more than 100 million workers, or 72.1% of the workforce. Their average real hourly wages (adjusted for inflation) were less at the end of 2000 than they were in 1979! And since 2000 their wages have continued to slide further. And same time this John Doe is working harder, longer hours, and still can't keep up with rising taxes, gasoline prices, utility bills, ballooning medical expenses, or the accelerating cost of paying for your kids' education?
Why is this so? Until now capitalism has been hindered by nationalism. For example in USA its common to see "Buy American" slogans etc. Goverments have been trying to block free movements of capital and goods between nations. Now when we have WTO and other international treaties we can expect that nationalism can't keep capitalism in bay anymore. This will increase productivity and competition between nations, workers and corporations as never seen before.
The net result of well working capitalism in world scale is that workers all over the world are competing in free market against each other. Capital and salary distributions follow quite closely zipf distribution. This means that majority of people will never get decent pay no matter how hard they try. And this is exactly what Marx predicted. See: http://www.drummajorinstitute.org/plugin/template/ dmi/44/273
There has been lots of voluntary experiments with communist like systems. For example when Jesus died, members of early Christian community lived like that. No personal property. If you had two pairs of shoes you would give other pair away. Everything was shared. Like communism, following Jesus and his example don't work for normal people.
Interestingly Karl Marx is nowadays subject of study of many great economists. If you study economics in Ivy League you might have to reed Marx. Reason why the father of communism is so hip is because Marx had very good understanding of capitalism.
[1]The Political Science of Karl MarxYes that's true. There are different morals. There is probably no solution to all moral dilemmas. We just must live buy our own standards.
Two things:
1) There is lots of immoral actions that stem from human weakness: greed, hate and ignorance. Person or company may do actions that are against their moral code and justify them buy lying or denying their importance. This can and should be corrected.
2) There is also the information part. If corporate actions are discussed in public customers can have a choice to act on their moral values.
If these two things are enforced buy public, law and media things go better.
Thinking that it's governments responsibility to make moral rules is so stupid. Moral and law are not the same thing. There is laws that are immoral and you are not supposed to make rules for all moral behavior. Law and moral may overlap but they are not the same thing. Moral behavior means that you behave morally even if there is no punishment. Only immoral people (and immoral companies) act morally because they fear punishment.
Moral values are to be expressed in all human behavior. Personal lives, work and politics. It's absurd to think that if enough people join together to run organization to make money (company), moral values do not apply.
Here in Finland we get very little sun in winter. Leder of National Institue of Health in Finland said last winter that it would be cheaper to pay one week middle winter vacation in Spain for all finns than pay for the treatment of disases that come from lack of vitamin D. That is big amount of money.
[1] from the article:
Sysadmin is like that. 30 years ago you might hire PhD. to do sysadmin. Nowdays sysadimin is the janitor of technological world. So it is not suprice that wages go down when you don't need many years of high education to do the job.
But the way of sysadmin is not the way of technology in US or elswhere. Technology moves forward and old jobs lose their appeal. Hello! if you can create superior desing and coding you are allways employed.
My thesis is that for bigger and bigger proportion of people in the world see their economical worth diminish over the years. It is generally assumed that there is allways enough well paying jobs to support rather big middle-class in developed countries. If this assumption turns wrong, we will have classical cypherpunk future. Small elite class of welthy people and huge mass of working poor (more or less slaves). This then leads to economical downturn when middle-class don't have money to keep their economy spinning.
Please, fill the details if you are dns expert.
Create own new root servers, copy content from root dns servers, require all minor dns to direct queries to new ones. Reconfigure routers block or redirect requests to us servers. Major hassle, lots of problemos in transition phase. But doable. Lot's of financial problems to major internet companies (located in USA mainly).
I quess that US would give the roots to ICANN if UN or somebody big enough group would threaten to do this. US firms have too much to lose when dns problems occur.
Overpriced and underpriced are meaningful when you try to make make more money. Stock is overpriced when it can't make you more money in long term. Buyer and seller can make deals in any price they want. But in the long run actual performance of the company determines the right price.
Actually over- and underpriced depends from time span. Stock can be underpriced in long term and overpriced in short term. In this discussion timespan is something like 3-15 years. If I conclude that I can be richer by delaying my investment 5 years then we can say that GOOG is overpriced in 5 year scale.
Today internet usage penetration is around 14 % with ~ 900 000 000 users woldwide. Usage Growth
/year/user to get 8$/user. 1 click every other day. How many times you click google ads per year?
2000-2005 has been 146.2%.
If we expect Google to give investors 10% yearly revenue for their current market capitalization they need to get 10$ profit from each current internet user per year.
If we assume that internet usage reaches 50% of world population (3x10E9 people) in future, they must get average 2.7$ from _each_ user per year. Think if they have some competition and have 33% market share They must get 8$/year.
Notice that 2.7$ or 8$ per user must be solid profit to shareholder after all expences and taxes. This calculation is therefore quite forgiving to Google.
If each ad click is 0.05$ there must be 160 clicks
Conclusion: current price of Google contains the best possible future for Google for next 10-20 years. Assumption is that (world population) must consume more Google than Coke, MacDonalds, CNN or GM.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Intresting thing to deduce from what I said. The problem that west has with Hitles is that he has been canonized as ultimate evil. Yet it is considered politically incorrect to look out how this evil functioned and gained it's power.
<p>
It gained power by:
<ol>
<li>frightening majority of it's people by telling them that nation was constantly threathened from inside and outside,
<li>convincing that majority that they as a nation had special place and destiny in the world,
<li>ridiculing opposite viewpoints and making them look unpatriotic.
</ol>
Nowdays people look out and despise flags with svastika and naziuniforms. Modern version of evil may gain it's power looking wery different but using the same method.
I prove my case. Among The 25 Points of Hitler's Nazi Party were:
- 11. That all unearned income, and all income that does not arise from work, be abolished.
- 13. We demand the nationalization of all trusts.
- 14. We demand profit-sharing in large industries.
- 15. We demand a generous increase in old-age pensions.
- 18. We demand that ruthless war be waged against those who work to the injury of the common welfare. Traitors, usurers, profiteers, etc., are to be punished with death, regardless of creed or race.
When Hitler had his power he abolished unemployment in half year. Is that socialist enough.Joe Stalin was dictator and he got his education in Tiflis Theological Seminary. Stalin used communist party to get into power and then killed all hard line commie competitors like Leon Trotsky during Great Purge. After that the proper name of his rule was Stalinism
Another reason is that putting any political agendas in software licenses is not leagally right (You can put them there of cource, but they have no effect)
- If competitor has product that is clear market leader, make your product open source. That hurts competitors. Just giving up helps them.
- If competitor has another product that is not directly competing with your product, cut their money flow by developing free alternative.
I think Oracle using number 2 against microsoft.Buisiness people and managers are playing the power game. They don't want craftsman, they want interchangeable parts. With that midset comes necessarily the belief that what you do is factory work. To master any craft means that the novice must dedicate years and years into learning the skill. MS certificated "programmer" is not real programmer. He/She is code slave. Behold! New class of people working nonphyscical equivalent of cotton picking is born.
If you have any true programming skills nowdays, you are promoted. End are the days of programming. You are now supposed to herd group of caffeine-addicted-monkeys or write nice pictures (UML) to them so they can write it painfully down.
Quoting one of the true masters:
- Mace Windu goes down with style (like black dudes usually do).
- Lucas fears that SWII flops (fear of losing money can make you more conservative)
- This is not for kids.
- Episode II was better than episode I.
- Plot: One of the coolest evil overlords is born. How can it be better.
Add to that some quotes from the article:"Entertaining from start to finish and even enthralling at times."
"The technical achievement here is on such a high level that one is lulled into taking it for granted,"
"the robot R2-D2 (Kenny Baker) delivers brilliant comic action. This holds true throughout the new film as writer-director Lucas does a much better job of interweaving comedy with the dramatic and even tragic."
What can we see deduce from all above? It seems that Lucas is back in the basics again. Better effects, our hero R2-D2 does funny parts, Darth Vader, Yoda, awesome space battles. No new major characters. That means storyline can be more dense. You can fit all the fight scenes plus drama into the movie without destroying it.
"There's companies that are just so cool that you just can't even deal with it," - Bill Gates, about Google
Been there, done that, got the t-shirt.
Being the Veteran of the Bermuda Exploration Venture 1991-1953 this was really nice event to meet some members of our crew we thought we lost. Plenty thanks for great people in MIT for this heart breaking event.
> Nah, I still like Perl better.
This tells lot about you. You see:
PERL = Perversion Excused by Random Lispiness.
Best of you Perl coders are just sadomasochist lispers. Sadist part of you writes the code. Masochist part of you debugs and tries to maintain it. Ooh yes! Whip me. Beat me. Make me maintain Perl code.
EXTERIOR: DAGOBAH--DAY
With Yoda strapped to his back, Luke climbs up one of the many thick vines
that grow in the swamp until he reaches the Dagobah statistics lab.
Panting heavily, he continues his exercises--grepping, installing new
packages, logging in as root, and writing replacements for two-year-old
programs in Lisp.
YODA: Code! Yes. A programmer's strength flows from code
maintainability, but beware of Perl. Terse syntax... more than one
way to do it... default variables. The dark side of code
maintainability are they. Easily they flow, quick to join you when
code you write. If once you start down the dark path, forever will
it dominate your destiny, consume you it will.
LUKE: Is Perl better than Lisp?
YODA: No... no... no. Quicker, easier, more seductive.
LUKE: But how will I know why Lisp is better than Perl?
YODA: You will know. When your code you try to read six months from now.
thanks for Lorrie Wood