Could someone explain to me, in somewhat simple terms, how adding backdoors to things like public-key encryption could be possible?
I don't mean politically, but technically and practically.
Wouldn't a backdoor in something like PGP make it inherently insecure? I mean, wouldn't it be possible to find out how the Feds are decrypting, and use that method on ALL encrypted traffic?
This sounds analogous to someone finding a way to factor the product of two large primes back into the primes.
Or am I thinking about this all in the wrong way? Would it not be a "master" type key?
That's ridiculously skewed.
Of course they generally did better.
A better money-wasting "study" would've been "students who do better on tests and get better grades are more likely to be on the chess team."
*eyebrow furrow*
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics."
-Benjamin Disraeli
(yeah, sorry.. offtopic. I'm not putting down chess. It definitely teaches problem solving skills.. I have a pet peeve with skewed stats../me clicks "No Score +1 Bonus")
P.S. Does anyone know why/. adds an extra space between the 'M' and 'L' in the above url ? Probably a bug that assumes urls don't contain more then 4 characters after the period.
(400 w's; no spaces, no linebreaks.. just the w's) into smaller groups. If not, it would screw up the HTML tabling and make for really wide (and hard to navigate) pages.
At least they were SOMEWHAT responsible.
Also interesting to note that they refer to the popunder ads as a "problem" ('Ad-blocking software will also help with this problem.'). (-:
a lot of sound cards have a "virtual input" that soft-pipes all output back into a virtual recording device (similar to a line-in, but all digital). Makes for simple ripping if it can't be done the normal way.
I also saw 2 instances where DOS reciprocated the root directory into a subdirectory..
it was very similar to a hard link (non-symbolic).. my 80MB hard drive now had maximum capacity, according to chkdsk.. and you could cd into the recursive subdirectory forever..
just don't delete the subdir.. removes everything in the \ nasty.
I've been thinking about this for a while, it's kind of entertaining (and scary) to actually try to figure out what demographic the show you're watching is trying to sell to.
Sometimes, when I'm watching some show, and see lots of ads for said products (ie, tampax, whatever that new acne-fighting birth-control pill is called) I get to thinking -- is this show primarily watched by women?
Or when I see adds for Viagra/alternatives to the big V, I get to wondering how many younger guys are watching the same show.
What really throws me is when I'm watching late night TV, and there's an ad for some kids sing-a-long tape set or something.. weird stuff..
Anyway, this prolly seems offtopic, but, I too, won't mind seeing ads for products that I might actually buy.
Then again, the thing that really pisses me off about commercials isn't the 3 minute break from the "content" but the brainwashing frequency of the commercials. I HATE seeing the same ad for the same product (Destiny's Child - Survivor comes to mind) EVERY commercial break for 2 hours straight.. drives me nuts. Wonder if tightening the demographic on a user-by-user basis will ultimately increase the frequency of individual ads..
if everyone wrote assembler, and didn't ever depend on anyone else's libraries (including OS, and BIOS), this would work.
But this won't work for the same reasons that DOS software won't run natively on Linux. There's too much dependance on general-use code (like OS based interupts (21h, f'rinstance)). (not that that's a bad thing, just in this circumstance, it makes straight-up translation impossible).
I saw a system written in 1995 that couldn't handle the new millenium. Can't we do any better than that? The GNU suite says we can, so why is it so hard with commercial software?
But the GNU "developers/managers" don't make a boatload of cash for releasing multiple version of the code with new features and bug fixes in '95, '98, 2000 (and XP whenever THAT is (-: ).
I often use Netscape 4.7 on Windows. Not to be elitist, but in a mostly-vain effort to curb IE dominance. I use Mozilla at home. Anyway.. read above for my thoughts on IE dominance. This is a prime example of why it's bad. It's not necessarily the browser, but the certs and the OS in this case, but it's pretty much the same situation.
I don't mean to sound too much like a compsiracy theorist, but...
MS sets conditions, including IE (which I don't understand since the browser is no charge anyway-- I suppose this helps sell IIS on NT for the server side)
The biggest problem with IE dominance is this:
If the day ever comes that [someone like] MS controls [almost] 100% of the browser market, that puts them effectively also in control of the web server market, the content authoring market, the browser plugin market, etc.
Case in point: [Someone like] Microsoft controls [almost] all browsers. They decide to implement encryption/authentication in their browsers that only accept data from certain servers (ie, [something like] Microsoft IIS), effectively putting server authors who don't pay the [someone like] Microsoft Tax out of business. After all, who wants to run a server that won't talk to most browsers?
But there will always be open source projects that will be able to emulate these "privileged" servers, right? This situation is starting to remind me of the whole DeCSS debacle. The DMCA would protect [someone like] Microsoft's servers from being emulated.
It's only a theory, and not ENTIRELY possible, but definitely food for thought.
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One problem is that developer's won't get off their high horse when it comes to interface.
Unfortunately, many programmers figure that if it's good enough for them, it should be good enough for everyone. If the user can't figure it out, tough.
Note: I'm not disagreeing entirely.. more like elaborating.
The truth of the matter is that programmers often don't THINK like users. It's often not a pride (high horse) issue, but more of a "well, _I_ understand how that works. It's intuitive for ME." thing.
Personally, I often find myself writing applications that have terrible interfaces, but I can't seem to make it work in a non-coder kind of way. Or more often, not even realize that it's not intuitive to non-programmer-types. I'll write something, and my boss (who's a mac guy) will look at it and be like "Why didn't you do X to this?" or "This should work like X." And as soon as he says it, I'm usually thinking that it's a great idea, and why I didn't think of it myself.
..is that his father actually stuck up for him, and believed what he said. All too often, the schools would expect the parents to just ignore the 'stupid little kid' and take their mandate as bonafide truth.
why would someone use ethernet when radio-based (or, if you are careful...wire-based) communication products are cheaper and more robust? -----
It needs to be controlable by a master computer that can link each user to any number of channels and change them around on the fly.
isn't so easy to do with plain old radio..
cool application, but likely VERY expensive..
...and it came out about the same time as Cello on the PC.
heheh.. I was hoping you'd mention Cello. I used cello on my crappy 386SX20/2MB Ram on Windows3.1 because it took Netscape (0.9x) WAAAY too long to do _anything_. Cello didn't have support for forms (at the time), so I had to use http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=[searchtermshere] to search for stuff.. heh.. those were the days (-:
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In the province where I grew up (New Brunswick, Canada), there are three (3) daily newspapers. They're all owned by J.D. Irving Inc.
I can't remember EVER reading anything bad about the Irvings in the 'paper.
Could someone explain to me, in somewhat simple terms, how adding backdoors to things like public-key encryption could be possible?
I don't mean politically, but technically and practically.
Wouldn't a backdoor in something like PGP make it inherently insecure? I mean, wouldn't it be possible to find out how the Feds are decrypting, and use that method on ALL encrypted traffic?
This sounds analogous to someone finding a way to factor the product of two large primes back into the primes.
Or am I thinking about this all in the wrong way? Would it not be a "master" type key?
I just don't get it.
That's ridiculously skewed.
/me clicks "No Score +1 Bonus")
Of course they generally did better.
A better money-wasting "study" would've been "students who do better on tests and get better grades are more likely to be on the chess team."
*eyebrow furrow*
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics."
-Benjamin Disraeli
(yeah, sorry.. offtopic. I'm not putting down chess. It definitely teaches problem solving skills.. I have a pet peeve with skewed stats..
P.S. Does anyone know why /. adds an extra space between the 'M' and 'L' in the above url ? Probably a bug that assumes urls don't contain more then 4 characters after the period.
w ww wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
nah.. it's wide-table breaking code..
same reason slash breaks this:
wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
(400 w's; no spaces, no linebreaks.. just the w's) into smaller groups. If not, it would screw up the HTML tabling and make for really wide (and hard to navigate) pages.
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I think this might be a more logical explanation..
Not that I don't appreciate a good conspiracy theory (-:
The same is supposedly true of lighting conditions when VIEWING the monitor.
The design agency I used to work at spent a small fortune on upgrading their lighting to Pantone approved bulbs and tubes.
those are both flawed.
When the jewelery is sent/stolen from the store, then there is no longer jewelery at the store.
Maybe if the thief made COPIES of the jewelery and sent the copies.... ?
I haven't had a problem with X10 ads since I visited here:
http://www.x10.com/x10ads.htm
and clicked on the "click this link to remove the ads" link.
At least they were SOMEWHAT responsible.
Also interesting to note that they refer to the popunder ads as a "problem" ('Ad-blocking software will also help with this problem.'). (-:
scared me at first.. reboot fixes it.. but it comes back..t .asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS01-033.asp) patch.. should clear it up.. I hope, anyway. (-:
upgrade your service packs/critical updates and then run this (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/defaul
a lot of sound cards have a "virtual input" that soft-pipes all output back into a virtual recording device (similar to a line-in, but all digital). Makes for simple ripping if it can't be done the normal way.
I also saw 2 instances where DOS reciprocated the root directory into a subdirectory..
it was very similar to a hard link (non-symbolic).. my 80MB hard drive now had maximum capacity, according to chkdsk.. and you could cd into the recursive subdirectory forever..
just don't delete the subdir.. removes everything in the \ nasty.
pretty sure it was Dennis Leary...
I've been thinking about this for a while, it's kind of entertaining (and scary) to actually try to figure out what demographic the show you're watching is trying to sell to.
Sometimes, when I'm watching some show, and see lots of ads for said products (ie, tampax, whatever that new acne-fighting birth-control pill is called) I get to thinking -- is this show primarily watched by women?
Or when I see adds for Viagra/alternatives to the big V, I get to wondering how many younger guys are watching the same show.
What really throws me is when I'm watching late night TV, and there's an ad for some kids sing-a-long tape set or something.. weird stuff..
Anyway, this prolly seems offtopic, but, I too, won't mind seeing ads for products that I might actually buy.
Then again, the thing that really pisses me off about commercials isn't the 3 minute break from the "content" but the brainwashing frequency of the commercials. I HATE seeing the same ad for the same product (Destiny's Child - Survivor comes to mind) EVERY commercial break for 2 hours straight.. drives me nuts. Wonder if tightening the demographic on a user-by-user basis will ultimately increase the frequency of individual ads..
if everyone wrote assembler, and didn't ever depend on anyone else's libraries (including OS, and BIOS), this would work.
But this won't work for the same reasons that DOS software won't run natively on Linux. There's too much dependance on general-use code (like OS based interupts (21h, f'rinstance)). (not that that's a bad thing, just in this circumstance, it makes straight-up translation impossible).
I saw a system written in 1995 that couldn't handle the new millenium. Can't we do any better than that? The GNU suite says we can, so why is it so hard with commercial software?
But the GNU "developers/managers" don't make a boatload of cash for releasing multiple version of the code with new features and bug fixes in '95, '98, 2000 (and XP whenever THAT is (-: ).
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I often use Netscape 4.7 on Windows. Not to be elitist, but in a mostly-vain effort to curb IE dominance. I use Mozilla at home. Anyway.. read above for my thoughts on IE dominance. This is a prime example of why it's bad. It's not necessarily the browser, but the certs and the OS in this case, but it's pretty much the same situation.
Are request shows REALLY controlled by the listeners in any OTHER mainstream media?
I don't mean to sound too much like a compsiracy theorist, but...
MS sets conditions, including IE (which I don't understand since the browser is no charge anyway-- I suppose this helps sell IIS on NT for the server side)
The biggest problem with IE dominance is this:
If the day ever comes that [someone like] MS controls [almost] 100% of the browser market, that puts them effectively also in control of the web server market, the content authoring market, the browser plugin market, etc.
Case in point: [Someone like] Microsoft controls [almost] all browsers. They decide to implement encryption/authentication in their browsers that only accept data from certain servers (ie, [something like] Microsoft IIS), effectively putting server authors who don't pay the [someone like] Microsoft Tax out of business. After all, who wants to run a server that won't talk to most browsers?
But there will always be open source projects that will be able to emulate these "privileged" servers, right? This situation is starting to remind me of the whole DeCSS debacle. The DMCA would protect [someone like] Microsoft's servers from being emulated.
It's only a theory, and not ENTIRELY possible, but definitely food for thought.
One problem is that developer's won't get off their high horse when it comes to interface.
Unfortunately, many programmers figure that if it's good enough for them, it should be good enough for everyone. If the user can't figure it out, tough.
Note: I'm not disagreeing entirely.. more like elaborating.
The truth of the matter is that programmers often don't THINK like users. It's often not a pride (high horse) issue, but more of a "well, _I_ understand how that works. It's intuitive for ME." thing.
Personally, I often find myself writing applications that have terrible interfaces, but I can't seem to make it work in a non-coder kind of way. Or more often, not even realize that it's not intuitive to non-programmer-types. I'll write something, and my boss (who's a mac guy) will look at it and be like "Why didn't you do X to this?" or "This should work like X." And as soon as he says it, I'm usually thinking that it's a great idea, and why I didn't think of it myself.
I think it's a left-brain/right-brain thing.
all natural, herbal, Valerian Root tablets work good, usually..
can't take it if you have any alcohol in you, though..
In O'Reilly Network's "Using Tomcat" series, author James Goodwill previously has explained how to install and configure Tomcat.
is this gonna hurt?
..is that his father actually stuck up for him, and believed what he said. All too often, the schools would expect the parents to just ignore the 'stupid little kid' and take their mandate as bonafide truth.
Kudos to Sean's father.
why would someone use ethernet when radio-based (or, if you are careful...wire-based) communication products are cheaper and more robust?
-----
It needs to be controlable by a master computer that can link each user to any number of channels and change them around on the fly.
isn't so easy to do with plain old radio..
cool application, but likely VERY expensive..
...and it came out about the same time as Cello on the PC.
] to search for stuff.. heh.. those were the days (-:
heheh.. I was hoping you'd mention Cello. I used cello on my crappy 386SX20/2MB Ram on Windows3.1 because it took Netscape (0.9x) WAAAY too long to do _anything_. Cello didn't have support for forms (at the time), so I had to use http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=[searchtermshere
I'd have to disagree.
The best part of the article is certainly calling Alanis Morrisette a "pop singer".
Apparently, so long as an artist sells a certain number of albums, they're automagically blobbed into the "Pop" genre.
She might be POPular, but her music certainly would not fit in the same category as, say, Elton John, or Ricky Martin.