Yes, it can be done by those knowledgeable or motivated enough. What percent of users? 1%? Commercially, they can be ignored (sites don't work). For prosecution, they can be focussed upon.
IPv6 would change the Internet fundamentally as it ends privacy and anonymity. Your 128-bit address most often will contain your device's 48-bit hardware MAC directly in the lower 64 bits (split by FE:FE). That MAC can track you across networks. Cookies become superfluous except as session variable holders (shopping cart). And for everything IP (incl UDP), not just HTTP[S].
Yes, I'm aware that DHCPv6 servers might anonymize the interface address, locally translating (hiding) the MAC as NATv4 currently does. Or you might be able to rewrite your MAC. Do you believe TPTB will encourage this? A dozen hw mfrs who need radio (FCC) approvals will be easy to pressure. The few non-MAC routers serve as a useful marker (surveillence filter) and can easily be tracked.
Liberty depends on not causing harm. Either accept reasonable restrictions or get none. Would you rather total strict liability? In this case, the website was willfuly negligent, potentially to the level of depraved indifference.
This is an ex-post fallacy -- just because something will [likely] become possible, does not mean that it already has happened. I have direct, personal experience of the past, and have examined artifacts from much further back. If what Elon postulates is correct, some future advanced civilization has VRd 2016 and erased all traces of 2017+, ala Matrix. It badly fails Occams Razor.
"Sabotage" is a very loaded word implying male raters are not giving the fem-oriented shows their "due", ie rate them as highly as women do. Might I suggest the men are rating the shows honestly, as men, from our unique perspective.
It has been many years since I watched any SitC, but IIRC it portrayed men very shallowly (ojbectifying) as stereotypes. The women got all the airtime and character development. I remember thinking that if a show with four guys was produced doing analogous sexual antics, it would cause howls of fem-protest. For me, there was no entertainment value, but it was an OK tactical training film.
Male-bashing is safe, ostensibly because males are "dominant". Sometimes (past) and someplaces (East) yes. But increeasingly not here, certainly not in divorce court and less so in the workplace. Women get paid 110% of men in my field.
Sorry, my friends and I had no trouble getting ZEROs for $5 at the local MicroCenter. Just keep a neteye on availability and drop in that day or next. The MCs get them in every month now.
I hope everyone is occasionally deterred from some online activities. Certain are just plain dodgy, like getting your news from the beeb. But exercising some caution is not the same as air-gap isolation.
Yes, power matters. More for the BCM USB/eth[wifi/bt] than the CPU (I had one stable at 3.8V), one reason to prefer the A+ and now Zero unless you need the SMP/RAM.
I did quite some experimentation to find a lipstick [18650 bat] charger that worked as UPS. Cables also matter--I use short and fat with 0.4ohm loop loss. A cute little LED voltage readout wired to the GPIO shows 4.80V at idle, 4.72 when loaded. But when new software (non-crippleware) fixes a problem, then how can you say it was hardware fault?
Look, I like Rasbian and have run it since my first Raspberry 2+ years ago. But I had unexpected grief with the RPi3 -- I have an RPi2 that was up and running for months (I use a lipstick charger for UPS) and it takes all sorts of USB wifi dongles automagically. So I figure no trouble for the 3.
WRONG! No end of grief, nevermind the obscure pkg imports to wheezy and BRANCH=next kernel upgrades. Wifi would NOT work. Only when I did a fresh install of jessie was it seamless. This 73 MB apt-get didn't do much -- got me from 4.4.6-v7+ to.9 . Nothing like jessie to xenial or epiphany64 or java[script]64.
The image route may just be a stealth upgrade to jessie for most. Bury the wheezy bugs.
When a cop signs a ticket [summons] they are swearing they have observed the offense. Without sworn testimony, no default [missed appearance] judgement and punishment can be legally imposed. If a copy writes ticket s/he knows is bad, s/he's just committed perjury.
Unfortunately, prosecutors most places rely heavily on police to build their cases, so are extremely reluctant to prosecute police. When they must, they use clever ticks to sabotage their own cases (Rodney King). Clear corruption, albeit without bribes.
True errors are made in both directions -- when mistakes always run in the makers favor, it is something else.
Good for you. I'm thinking of making an App for Android -- the small/low-res screens will be no disadvantage. I want to add punctuation delays and speed controls to make breaks, pausing & slight rewind egonomically easy. Otherwise, it is like drinking from a firehose. Do you have any details on the 1993 Oz TV spot?
Generally, I agree speed reading is skimming, potentially missing important details. However, there is Cliff High's Vortex Machine Assisted Reading System (1995) that flashes one word at a time centered on a small box. By getting rid of line following and other eye-mechanics, it has considerable potential but needs refinements such as punctuation delays and other automagic speed controls. It is relentless but thorough.
This sort of phishing including personal details is properly called spear-phishing. Most likely, some UK retailer/service provider "lost" parts of the customer database, including email addys and physical adress, but [interestingly] not including customer names.
If their DB included the [I hope] standard bogus "trap" entries, they should have been hit and the DB owner know of the loss. More interesting will be if they own up.
Apologies for forgetting to capitalized MBytes which was spelt out for clarity, but the title was correctly MB and no confusion should have occurred.
I avoid bits/s unless talking directly of transmission speeds, not delivered TBytes since there is a variable amount of overhead (possibly negaive in the case of compression!)
Do the math: this works out to an average of 11.6 Mbytes/s . Just about the same as a saturated 100baseT. He must have used a fleet of [cloned/family] devices, each on good towers.
Yes, shipping is a killer, especially for the Zero. I got mine in the US at the local MicroCenter for the $5.00 plus sales tax. Due to high demand they are not always in-stock, but availability does show on the web.
For once, some sense from the bench. A "reasonable person" upon learning their data had been stolen from someone who was supposed to keep it safe would then prudently take measures to detect and limit the damage if the data were misused. Things like subscribing to a monitoring service, replacing cards, increased statement monitoring. Admittedly, these are not that much cost, say US$100, but that is NOT zero.
Of course Apple can aid decryption -- they have a large number of computers that can assist in brute-forcing AES. Done.
Oh, you mean extraordinary aid to get it done before the heat death of the universe? Well, that may or may not be possible, depending on how the existing code and hardware work. A good look at the source code would settle the matter one way or the other. As for Court Orders, they can only be for things directly before the court. Otherwise, it's "legislating from the bench".
Forcing backdoors would take a law like this one, if it were constitutional and popular enough to pass. Neither very likely, but our system has been deeply corrupted by powerful interests and bureaucracies.
But it might pass both if the backdoor required physical access (no remotes) AND a specific search warrent. Send warrent & device, Apple unlocks for $1000. Unfortunately, the DAs have been corrupted by the police (need them to build cases) so there will be abuse since it is unlikely to be punished.
Does AES burned into CPU apply to the affected phone, an iP5C ? Also, it was county property (perp received with job), so they may have a key somewhere. If so, then just clone, brute-force read the full AES and read the rest.
If not, then it may be impossible. No judge can order other designs, that is clearly _ultra_vires_ and squarely "legislating from the bench".
The norm in diplomatic relations is a tit-for-tat reciprocity: When one nation allows another the do something, almost always the first nation allows the second to do the same back.
So my question is whether US negotiators have secured the right for US police to serve warrants on UK ISPs? If not, why not? Why give it away? Just because the EU might have a cow?
"Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. For, as has been pointed out several times, there is no such thing as a random number - there are only methods to produce random numbers, and a strict arithmetic procedure of course is not such a method." John von Neumann
That said, even JvN understood the usefulness of pseudo random numbers for things like Monte Carlo simulations. I believe he favored Linear Congurential Generators (Knuth liked 69069 as a multiplicand on a 32-bit word).
I question how the expected number are derived -- from the population at large? Or from college graduates? MENA graduates proportionally far more engineers than western schools.
There is also considerable confusion in the public and amongst engineers themselves about the differences with scientists. Briefly, scientists discover new effects while engineers use the available science to make their machines (systems) work.
Scientists tend to focus very narrowly on the interesting effect. Engineers might like to focus on some interesting effect, but must not miss any important effects. That's how machines break. Engineers are scientists' harshest critics.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by simple incompetence" [Napoleon] In the case of MSFT and other large bureaucracies, there may be no "simple", only complex incompetence.
Force what? There's already so much water vapor that the atmosphere is already opaque on its wavenumbers. Again, more will do nothing.
Clouds are a good question -- I have not heard any definitive resolution on whether the increased albedo is overwhelmed by the re-radiation blanket effect. My rough calcs say no (incoming -70% outgoing -50%)
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Yes, it can be done by those knowledgeable or motivated enough. What percent of users? 1%? Commercially, they can be ignored (sites don't work). For prosecution, they can be focussed upon.
IPv6 would change the Internet fundamentally as it ends privacy and anonymity. Your 128-bit address most often will contain your device's 48-bit hardware MAC directly in the lower 64 bits (split by FE:FE). That MAC can track you across networks. Cookies become superfluous except as session variable holders (shopping cart). And for everything IP (incl UDP), not just HTTP[S].
Yes, I'm aware that DHCPv6 servers might anonymize the interface address, locally translating (hiding) the MAC as NATv4 currently does. Or you might be able to rewrite your MAC. Do you believe TPTB will encourage this? A dozen hw mfrs who need radio (FCC) approvals will be easy to pressure. The few non-MAC routers serve as a useful marker (surveillence filter) and can easily be tracked.
Liberty depends on not causing harm. Either accept reasonable restrictions or get none. Would you rather total strict liability? In this case, the website was willfuly negligent, potentially to the level of depraved indifference.
This is an ex-post fallacy -- just because something will [likely] become possible, does not mean that it already has happened. I have direct, personal experience of the past, and have examined artifacts from much further back. If what Elon postulates is correct, some future advanced civilization has VRd 2016 and erased all traces of 2017+, ala Matrix. It badly fails Occams Razor.
It has been many years since I watched any SitC, but IIRC it portrayed men very shallowly (ojbectifying) as stereotypes. The women got all the airtime and character development. I remember thinking that if a show with four guys was produced doing analogous sexual antics, it would cause howls of fem-protest. For me, there was no entertainment value, but it was an OK tactical training film.
Male-bashing is safe, ostensibly because males are "dominant". Sometimes (past) and someplaces (East) yes. But increeasingly not here, certainly not in divorce court and less so in the workplace. Women get paid 110% of men in my field.
Sorry, my friends and I had no trouble getting ZEROs for $5 at the local MicroCenter. Just keep a neteye on availability and drop in that day or next. The MCs get them in every month now.
I hope everyone is occasionally deterred from some online activities. Certain are just plain dodgy, like getting your news from the beeb. But exercising some caution is not the same as air-gap isolation.
I did quite some experimentation to find a lipstick [18650 bat] charger that worked as UPS. Cables also matter--I use short and fat with 0.4ohm loop loss. A cute little LED voltage readout wired to the GPIO shows 4.80V at idle, 4.72 when loaded. But when new software (non-crippleware) fixes a problem, then how can you say it was hardware fault?
Look, I like Rasbian and have run it since my first Raspberry 2+ years ago. But I had unexpected grief with the RPi3 -- I have an RPi2 that was up and running for months (I use a lipstick charger for UPS) and it takes all sorts of USB wifi dongles automagically. So I figure no trouble for the 3.
WRONG! No end of grief, nevermind the obscure pkg imports to wheezy and BRANCH=next kernel upgrades. Wifi would NOT work. Only when I did a fresh install of jessie was it seamless. This 73 MB apt-get didn't do much -- got me from 4.4.6-v7+ to .9 . Nothing like jessie to xenial or epiphany64 or java[script]64.
The image route may just be a stealth upgrade to jessie for most. Bury the wheezy bugs.
When a cop signs a ticket [summons] they are swearing they have observed the offense. Without sworn testimony, no default [missed appearance] judgement and punishment can be legally imposed. If a copy writes ticket s/he knows is bad, s/he's just committed perjury.
Unfortunately, prosecutors most places rely heavily on police to build their cases, so are extremely reluctant to prosecute police. When they must, they use clever ticks to sabotage their own cases (Rodney King). Clear corruption, albeit without bribes.
True errors are made in both directions -- when mistakes always run in the makers favor, it is something else.
Good for you. I'm thinking of making an App for Android -- the small/low-res screens will be no disadvantage. I want to add punctuation delays and speed controls to make breaks, pausing & slight rewind egonomically easy. Otherwise, it is like drinking from a firehose. Do you have any details on the 1993 Oz TV spot?
Perhaps, but this seems to be of images or single letters, while I was referring to whole (but single) words flashing.
Generally, I agree speed reading is skimming, potentially missing important details. However, there is Cliff High's Vortex Machine Assisted Reading System (1995) that flashes one word at a time centered on a small box. By getting rid of line following and other eye-mechanics, it has considerable potential but needs refinements such as punctuation delays and other automagic speed controls. It is relentless but thorough.
Ho, hum, the Beeb is dumb!
This sort of phishing including personal details is properly called spear-phishing. Most likely, some UK retailer/service provider "lost" parts of the customer database, including email addys and physical adress, but [interestingly] not including customer names.
If their DB included the [I hope] standard bogus "trap" entries, they should have been hit and the DB owner know of the loss. More interesting will be if they own up.
Apologies for forgetting to capitalized MBytes which was spelt out for clarity, but the title was correctly MB and no confusion should have occurred. I avoid bits/s unless talking directly of transmission speeds, not delivered TBytes since there is a variable amount of overhead (possibly negaive in the case of compression!)
Do the math: this works out to an average of 11.6 Mbytes/s . Just about the same as a saturated 100baseT. He must have used a fleet of [cloned/family] devices, each on good towers.
Yes, shipping is a killer, especially for the Zero. I got mine in the US at the local MicroCenter for the $5.00 plus sales tax. Due to high demand they are not always in-stock, but availability does show on the web.
For once, some sense from the bench. A "reasonable person" upon learning their data had been stolen from someone who was supposed to keep it safe would then prudently take measures to detect and limit the damage if the data were misused. Things like subscribing to a monitoring service, replacing cards, increased statement monitoring. Admittedly, these are not that much cost, say US$100, but that is NOT zero.
Of course Apple can aid decryption -- they have a large number of computers that can assist in brute-forcing AES. Done.
Oh, you mean extraordinary aid to get it done before the heat death of the universe? Well, that may or may not be possible, depending on how the existing code and hardware work. A good look at the source code would settle the matter one way or the other. As for Court Orders, they can only be for things directly before the court. Otherwise, it's "legislating from the bench".
Forcing backdoors would take a law like this one, if it were constitutional and popular enough to pass. Neither very likely, but our system has been deeply corrupted by powerful interests and bureaucracies.
But it might pass both if the backdoor required physical access (no remotes) AND a specific search warrent. Send warrent & device, Apple unlocks for $1000. Unfortunately, the DAs have been corrupted by the police (need them to build cases) so there will be abuse since it is unlikely to be punished.
Does AES burned into CPU apply to the affected phone, an iP5C ? Also, it was county property (perp received with job), so they may have a key somewhere. If so, then just clone, brute-force read the full AES and read the rest.
If not, then it may be impossible. No judge can order other designs, that is clearly _ultra_vires_ and squarely "legislating from the bench".
The norm in diplomatic relations is a tit-for-tat reciprocity: When one nation allows another the do something, almost always the first nation allows the second to do the same back.
So my question is whether US negotiators have secured the right for US police to serve warrants on UK ISPs? If not, why not? Why give it away? Just because the EU might have a cow?
That said, even JvN understood the usefulness of pseudo random numbers for things like Monte Carlo simulations. I believe he favored Linear Congurential Generators (Knuth liked 69069 as a multiplicand on a 32-bit word).
I question how the expected number are derived -- from the population at large? Or from college graduates? MENA graduates proportionally far more engineers than western schools.
There is also considerable confusion in the public and amongst engineers themselves about the differences with scientists. Briefly, scientists discover new effects while engineers use the available science to make their machines (systems) work.
Scientists tend to focus very narrowly on the interesting effect. Engineers might like to focus on some interesting effect, but must not miss any important effects. That's how machines break. Engineers are scientists' harshest critics.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by simple incompetence" [Napoleon] In the case of MSFT and other large bureaucracies, there may be no "simple", only complex incompetence.
Force what? There's already so much water vapor that the atmosphere is already opaque on its wavenumbers. Again, more will do nothing.
Clouds are a good question -- I have not heard any definitive resolution on whether the increased albedo is overwhelmed by the re-radiation blanket effect. My rough calcs say no (incoming -70% outgoing -50%)