Well, if they're stopping white people mostly because they have a real articulable suspicion that the person is in the process of or about to commit a crime, and they're stopping black people mostly because they're black, you'd expect the percentage of actual criminals to be higher among the white people.
The RSA encryption is c = m^e (mod n), where m is message, c is ciphertext, e is public exponent, and n is p*q
Decryption is m = c^d (mod n) where d is the private exponent.
The process of computing d given m,n and c is exactly the discrete logarithm problem. Given n and e, which are public, you can pick an arbitrary m and generate a corresponding c.
I guess I'd better give up that whole civilization thing too. It was a pretty silly idea. We should just go back to roaming bands of vigilantes and forget the whole "rule of law" business. It's clearly a failed experiment. Thank you, anonymous internet pundit, for helping me see the error of my ways.
Supporters of the government can validly use the "rule of law" argument when and only when the government actually starts following the law. That includes, in the US, the Bill of Rights. If the government is following the Nixonian mantra of "If the President does it, that means it is not illegal", that's the opposite of rule of law.
I know you're being snarky, Slashdot, but I'd trust the professionals at the NSA over middle management any day of the week.
I liked the NSA better before the PATRIOT act. When they were still collecting everything, but they'd be damned if they'd share it with anyone else (other than their equally secretive counterparts in allied countries), including the FBI and law enforcement. Then, they could know all about any minor felonies I might be committing (putting matches in my checked baggage, blowing stuff up in a field somewhere, buying too much sudafed, breaking DRM) and as long as I wasn't involved with a foreign power or terrorist organization that they considered an existential threat to the US, it would just sit in a file somewhere.
Now that they've got information sharing, we have the unrestricted information-gathering capacity of the NSA able to be used by regular law enforcement, abuse is much more likely.
Law enforcement IS a bunch of authoritarian, surveillance-happy asshats. Also they're not above political blackmail (ask Hoover's ghost). Some of them may in fact be competent, but a lot of them are not, and they get to bury their mistakes -- sometimes literally, sometimes just in prison.
For some mind numbingly stupid reason people keep wanting to reveal US intelligence operations to all, citizen or noncitizen alike.
No, I want them shut down. Not all of them, but programs where it's "Hi, Verizon, AT&T, we'd like all your data on everyone, kthxbai" -- that's the sort of general warrant the 4th amendment was supposed to forbid. The programs where they tap all the internet traffic in the US or out of it and store as much as they can for as long as they can... same thing.
How does facebook know who I am? From my IP address?
Because if you've logged in to facebook, they've got a cookie identifying you, which will be sent to them when you load resources (like a "like" button) from a page.
If the FBI wants to connect my identity to an IP address they can call my ISP, but I haven't seen any evidence that ISPs are routinely giving out that information to people without law enforcement credentials.
They are, however, almost certainly handing it out routinely to the NSA under the same sort of order we saw for phone metadata from Verizon Business.
That post struck me as pretty abjectly apologetic for the NSA. Sure "I donâ(TM)t think a free society is compatible with an organisation like the NSA in its current form."; but then, same paragraph no less, a bunch of fuzz about how visiting the NSA was pretty neat, and the engineers there seemed like a smart, likeable bunch, who asked good questions, and the problem is clearly with Politicians, not with the NSA (lets just not talk about the...somewhat creative...approach to informing anyone outside the NSA what the NSA does, right?)
The NSA is pretty neat. In the sense that nuclear explosions are pretty neat. In the sense of "power corrupts, absolute power is kind of neat".
They may be evil moustache-twisting gene splicers, but they're not idiots. If there were a wild citrus species which was immune, they'd be mining it for genes.
_1984_ would be my book of choice, but a look at recent tinfoil-hatter screeds...err, wait, I mean legitimate and verified news stories... in newspapers about such things as metadata about all our phone calls and postal mail being recorded forever, license plate databases tracking our vehicle's (and therefore in many cases our own) movements, etc, would also be instructive.
There's a reason the encryption on the P(Y) signal is part of a system called "anti-spoofing". The potential to spoof the C/A code was understood from the beginning, and it getting cheaper is expected as well.
Mailbox at the end of my driveway? No big deal. Door to door delivery is kind of silly, it's not like I don't walk to the end of my driveway every day anyway.
Cluster mailbox for the block 1000 feet up my 9% grade hill (or 1000 feet down, makes no difference)? F- that, post office. My neighbors and I would just join the hordes of people who drive to their mailbox.
and we took the lead out, and yet it seems in the US, people on the whole are stupider then ever. There must be some sort of reverse Flynn effect compensating for all this. I'd like to blame reality TV, but that's likely just a system.
Star Wars - though a formula setter - didn't follow movie formulas of 1977.
It's a Western, translated from American to Japanese and back, in space. So yeah, it followed movie formulas of some years back. What's old is new again and all that.
The laws of the USA define many crimes where the offense is just words. For example, talking about a crime that co-conspirators are preparing. If you believe this is against the Constitution and against the will of people, please go ahead and impeach the entire government.
Believe you me, if I had the power to do that last I'd have done so long ago.
Either way, Jobs is still dead and all his screaming and abusiveness didn't let him live one second longer.
Wrong. I had a talk with the Big Boss, and he told me that if it weren't for Jobs's screaming and abusiveness, Jobs would have "fucking gone" 10 years earlier.
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Right. From Terry v. Ohio to stop-and-frisk is a nice illustration of the slippery slope: a formal fallacy, but a practical inevitability.
(From Smith v. Maryland to ubiquitous NSA surveillance is another)
Well, if they're stopping white people mostly because they have a real articulable suspicion that the person is in the process of or about to commit a crime, and they're stopping black people mostly because they're black, you'd expect the percentage of actual criminals to be higher among the white people.
Sure. The first such class is called EXPTIME-complete.
The RSA encryption is
c = m^e (mod n), where m is message, c is ciphertext, e is public exponent, and n is p*q
Decryption is
m = c^d (mod n) where d is the private exponent.
The process of computing d given m,n and c is exactly the discrete logarithm problem. Given n and e, which are public, you can pick an arbitrary m and generate a corresponding c.
Supporters of the government can validly use the "rule of law" argument when and only when the government actually starts following the law. That includes, in the US, the Bill of Rights. If the government is following the Nixonian mantra of "If the President does it, that means it is not illegal", that's the opposite of rule of law.
I liked the NSA better before the PATRIOT act. When they were still collecting everything, but they'd be damned if they'd share it with anyone else (other than their equally secretive counterparts in allied countries), including the FBI and law enforcement. Then, they could know all about any minor felonies I might be committing (putting matches in my checked baggage, blowing stuff up in a field somewhere, buying too much sudafed, breaking DRM) and as long as I wasn't involved with a foreign power or terrorist organization that they considered an existential threat to the US, it would just sit in a file somewhere.
Now that they've got information sharing, we have the unrestricted information-gathering capacity of the NSA able to be used by regular law enforcement, abuse is much more likely.
Law enforcement IS a bunch of authoritarian, surveillance-happy asshats. Also they're not above political blackmail (ask Hoover's ghost). Some of them may in fact be competent, but a lot of them are not, and they get to bury their mistakes -- sometimes literally, sometimes just in prison.
No, I want them shut down. Not all of them, but programs where it's "Hi, Verizon, AT&T, we'd like all your data on everyone, kthxbai" -- that's the sort of general warrant the 4th amendment was supposed to forbid. The programs where they tap all the internet traffic in the US or out of it and store as much as they can for as long as they can... same thing.
Of course the Russian government cares; as long as he's around he's a thumb in the eye of the US, and that's sufficient reason to care.
Because if you've logged in to facebook, they've got a cookie identifying you, which will be sent to them when you load resources (like a "like" button) from a page.
They are, however, almost certainly handing it out routinely to the NSA under the same sort of order we saw for phone metadata from Verizon Business.
The NSA is pretty neat. In the sense that nuclear explosions are pretty neat. In the sense of "power corrupts, absolute power is kind of neat".
They may be evil moustache-twisting gene splicers, but they're not idiots. If there were a wild citrus species which was immune, they'd be mining it for genes.
_1984_ would be my book of choice, but a look at recent tinfoil-hatter screeds...err, wait, I mean legitimate and verified news stories... in newspapers about such things as metadata about all our phone calls and postal mail being recorded forever, license plate databases tracking our vehicle's (and therefore in many cases our own) movements, etc, would also be instructive.
You can't even receive the P(Y) code without the encryption key.
There's a reason the encryption on the P(Y) signal is part of a system called "anti-spoofing". The potential to spoof the C/A code was understood from the beginning, and it getting cheaper is expected as well.
Mailbox at the end of my driveway? No big deal. Door to door delivery is kind of silly, it's not like I don't walk to the end of my driveway every day anyway.
Cluster mailbox for the block 1000 feet up my 9% grade hill (or 1000 feet down, makes no difference)? F- that, post office. My neighbors and I would just join the hordes of people who drive to their mailbox.
and we took the lead out, and yet it seems in the US, people on the whole are stupider then ever. There must be some sort of reverse Flynn effect compensating for all this. I'd like to blame reality TV, but that's likely just a system.
No, the recommended dietary allowance (RDA) is not intended as a maximum dosage! The long-term upper intake level is 1.1mg. Note long-term.
It's not used all that much, because many patients have a bad reaction to it.
It's a Western, translated from American to Japanese and back, in space. So yeah, it followed movie formulas of some years back. What's old is new again and all that.
Putting your apartment on AirBnB can net you a $40,000 fine. Say "thank you" to the hotel companies.
Believe you me, if I had the power to do that last I'd have done so long ago.
Ha ha, sore that we neckbeards once again proved your perpetual motion machine wouldn't work?
Wrong. I had a talk with the Big Boss, and he told me that if it weren't for Jobs's screaming and abusiveness, Jobs would have "fucking gone" 10 years earlier.
No; as you yield ground they take it, until everything but smiling and nodding and agreeing with them is considered "being a dick".
Anyone still sneering at tinfoil hatters in this day and age has been living in cave.
Really? Most people, when presented with extremism (even non-violent) tend to back away slowly and treat said extremist as a nutjob.