My friends call me a luddite, as I choose email over more centralized "social" ecosystems. Maybe they are right...but I would like to argue my reasons.
With email I am in greater control of the signal to noise ratio of my inbox through fine-grained filtering. I can make decisions over the privacy of my conversations by enforcing encryption and authentication. I can choose whether or not I am a marketing product. This freedom is made possible by open protocols implemented by a large set of clients and providers from which I can choose the most suitable.
I sincerely hope that SMTP will not go the way of NNTP.
AEHF and its predecessor MILSTAR are both geosynchronous.
Most of the military terminals have complex (expensive) antenna control systems to help with pointing, based on known ephemeris and position data. Even so, it is possible to acquire on a sidelobe.
I would agree that this technology has a ways to come before a terminal is accessible to the consumer. Not to mention that AEHF/MILSTAR are both protected SATCOM systems, and thus have a lot of security features that are traded against bandwidth.
I figured a big driver for IPv6 would be support for multicast, especially for use in audio/video services. In fact I think the AT&T U-Verse service uses IPv6 for its IPTV.
The article wasn't lauding the removal of humans from earth. Its point was to show that civilization is more fragile than it appears. Walking around a place like Manhattan, I think of our civilization as invincible. A more constant reminder that things are on a knife's edge might help us not take it all for granted.
They most likely use a circuit switched data channel. A dedicated channel is established between the mobile and base station, and has connection handshaking similar to a telephone modem. This means longer call setup time, and more latency. The article mentioned increased call latency, so that is further evidence. There are several people (including me) studying how to send data reliably over compressed audio channels.
It would be useful to have this capability. If you dump several thousand data points off of a piece of test equipment, and want a fast plot, Excel etc is where you'd turn.
Agreed. I'm pretty surprised at the response from this community. The common response is that it is a necessary evil to protect sensitive data.
For DoD clearances anyway, you go through an extensive background check. Employers screen their employees on hire. There is supposed to be a trust there from the beginning.
I agree with keeping these things away from classified networks, which are normally placed in secure areas with many special rules. Having people forfeit them at the front desk, or random bag searches, is just insulting.
A paper was published a few years ago that made "deciphering" a CDMA voice link trivial. The technique exploited a weakness in the data redundancy used to make the link more robust. The problem then boiled down to solving 42 equations w/ 42 unknowns.
Who wants to lay out millions of transistors by hand? Things have gotten pretty complex; there are so many variables to control. Complicated engineering tools take the drudgery out of design, leaving your higher-order brain functions free for more interesting (innovative?) pursuits.
The author is worried that complicated software will devalue the engineer. I agree it will, and curriculums have been softened. I don't need a degree in electrical engineering to use Cadence, or be a mechanical engineer to use Pro/E, and schools know it. But wasn't it the same with computer programming? It was a mystical art way back when, but it has since become accessible to everyone, and the level of abstraction has increased. Engineering was always something you needed lots of formal schooling in, and that's changing.
If you use the user management tool provided in the system preferences (where most people create a user), only the first 8 characters are used. The others are dropped. There is probably a way to use more, but I don't really feel its an issue.
Where it may have an impact though is the password keychain feature. My preferences are set so that when I login, the keychain is unlocked, saving me a lot of hassle. If those passwords need to be much stronger, I'd be in trouble. A brief description of the keychain from apple's site is here.
There was a comment earlier about whether osx does password shadowing; it does.
1. kick user's ass for using a scooter. Especially one that's $100k. Scooters are intrinsically uncool; no matter what, you look like such a pussy! Leave subject on cold concrete to think about their wrongdoing. Beat downs all around. I hate scooters.
Its RISC, so is there a point in programming at such a low level? I'd think that compilers these days make all but the most extremely obscure optimizations pointless. And that privilege might be reserved for the people who designed the architecture.
you po'? Go to OfficeMax, but instead of going inside like you might normally, go around back. Find a nice sturdy cardboard box. Make sure it does not have homeless smell. A few stains won't matter, it will give you some punk edge.
Its not the paint that hurts the most while paintballing. Its the kneeling/cowering behind a flimsy splinter of wood in frenzied dispair, with the knowledge that you have 1 paintball rattling around in your feeder.
For OSX I've had a great experience with Omniweb. Its fast (load time and render time), super-configurable (its config looks just like the System Prefs panel), and has a sleek UI. The slide-out bookmarks is great!
The carbonized IE is TERRIBLE, and netscape x.x seams equally crash-prone. I'm gonna stick with one of the "other" guys.
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My friends call me a luddite, as I choose email over more centralized "social" ecosystems. Maybe they are right...but I would like to argue my reasons.
With email I am in greater control of the signal to noise ratio of my inbox through fine-grained filtering. I can make decisions over the privacy of my conversations by enforcing encryption and authentication. I can choose whether or not I am a marketing product. This freedom is made possible by open protocols implemented by a large set of clients and providers from which I can choose the most suitable.
I sincerely hope that SMTP will not go the way of NNTP.
AEHF and its predecessor MILSTAR are both geosynchronous.
Most of the military terminals have complex (expensive) antenna control systems to help with pointing, based on known ephemeris and position data. Even so, it is possible to acquire on a sidelobe.
I would agree that this technology has a ways to come before a terminal is accessible to the consumer. Not to mention that AEHF/MILSTAR are both protected SATCOM systems, and thus have a lot of security features that are traded against bandwidth.
Cryptome has a copy of the wikileaks posting.
http://cryptome.org/palin-email.zip
I figured a big driver for IPv6 would be support for multicast, especially for use in audio/video services. In fact I think the AT&T U-Verse service uses IPv6 for its IPTV.
The article wasn't lauding the removal of humans from earth. Its point was to show that civilization is more fragile than it appears. Walking around a place like Manhattan, I think of our civilization as invincible. A more constant reminder that things are on a knife's edge might help us not take it all for granted.
They most likely use a circuit switched data channel. A dedicated channel is established between the mobile and base station, and has connection handshaking similar to a telephone modem. This means longer call setup time, and more latency. The article mentioned increased call latency, so that is further evidence. There are several people (including me) studying how to send data reliably over compressed audio channels.
It would be useful to have this capability. If you dump several thousand data points off of a piece of test equipment, and want a fast plot, Excel etc is where you'd turn.
Agreed. I'm pretty surprised at the response from this community. The common response is that it is a necessary evil to protect sensitive data.
For DoD clearances anyway, you go through an extensive background check. Employers screen their employees on hire. There is supposed to be a trust there from the beginning.
I agree with keeping these things away from classified networks, which are normally placed in secure areas with many special rules. Having people forfeit them at the front desk, or random bag searches, is just insulting.
The photo of the guy hunched over the computer gives insight into the target demographic.
this story sucks
whoa, are you Black Cloud from the Care Bear movie?
A paper was published a few years ago that made "deciphering" a CDMA voice link trivial. The technique exploited a weakness in the data redundancy used to make the link more robust. The problem then boiled down to solving 42 equations w/ 42 unknowns.
don't even need one. The ibook ethernet card can autosense, so you can get by with just a plain ethernet cable.
Who wants to lay out millions of transistors by hand? Things have gotten pretty complex; there are so many variables to control. Complicated engineering tools take the drudgery out of design, leaving your higher-order brain functions free for more interesting (innovative?) pursuits.
The author is worried that complicated software will devalue the engineer. I agree it will, and curriculums have been softened. I don't need a degree in electrical engineering to use Cadence, or be a mechanical engineer to use Pro/E, and schools know it. But wasn't it the same with computer programming? It was a mystical art way back when, but it has since become accessible to everyone, and the level of abstraction has increased. Engineering was always something you needed lots of formal schooling in, and that's changing.
If you use the user management tool provided in the system preferences (where most people create a user), only the first 8 characters are used. The others are dropped. There is probably a way to use more, but I don't really feel its an issue.
Where it may have an impact though is the password keychain feature. My preferences are set so that when I login, the keychain is unlocked, saving me a lot of hassle. If those passwords need to be much stronger, I'd be in trouble. A brief description of the keychain from apple's site is here.
There was a comment earlier about whether osx does password shadowing; it does.
make you do mame things.
you should be pretty good at turning left.
-W
I'm gonna:
1. kick user's ass for using a scooter. Especially one that's $100k. Scooters are intrinsically uncool; no matter what, you look like such a pussy! Leave subject on cold concrete to think about their wrongdoing. Beat downs all around. I hate scooters.
2. steal scooter
need drugs
Flat file rocks my crotch!
Its RISC, so is there a point in programming at such a low level? I'd think that compilers these days make all but the most extremely obscure optimizations pointless. And that privilege might be reserved for the people who designed the architecture.
you po'? Go to OfficeMax, but instead of going inside like you might normally, go around back. Find a nice sturdy cardboard box. Make sure it does not have homeless smell. A few stains won't matter, it will give you some punk edge.
Its not the paint that hurts the most while paintballing. Its the kneeling/cowering behind a flimsy splinter of wood in frenzied dispair, with the knowledge that you have 1 paintball rattling around in your feeder.
The EULA doesn't come up until after you install itunes. You accept the license agreement when you run it for the first time.
I didn't lose any data, that would have sucked.
For OSX I've had a great experience with Omniweb. Its fast (load time and render time), super-configurable (its config looks just like the System Prefs panel), and has a sleek UI. The slide-out bookmarks is great! The carbonized IE is TERRIBLE, and netscape x.x seams equally crash-prone. I'm gonna stick with one of the "other" guys.