What about putting 2 SSDs into a software RAID 1 configuration? Does that solve the problem?
What you said is my experience, also. I haven't had catastrophic failure of a HDD in perhaps 20 years in a population of perhaps 15 computers. In my experience what most often fails is the HDD electronics, so it is possible to extract the data by temporarily replacing the HDD electronics with a circuit board from another, identical HDD. Also, of course, in the last 20 years we have replaced HDDs because of frequently replacing computers.
I also wonder how deliberate is the confusion. There are MANY areas inside Intel where there is confusion. The confusion is visible even when visiting the Intel campus in Oregon.
Funny story: I visited the Intel web site and was asked to complete a survey. I gave a few of the reasons why Intel CEO Paul Otellini should be fired, like paying $6 Billion for McAfee when Microsoft is giving away its Microsoft Security Essentials anti-virus software. A few months later Otellini left Intel; they didn't say why. I'm not saying my survey answers had an influence, I'm only making the point that the perception of Intel is widespread.
Intel has a long record of failure with consumer products. Now a completely separate division plans a TV product (???): Intel Media aims to remake TV with its own technology. This paragraph indicates some confusion and lack of competent direction: "Intel Media is run by Erik Huggers, an Intel vice president who worked previously at Microsoft and the BBC. He's assembled a team from such high-tech and media heavyweights as Apple, Netflix, Microsoft, Sky TV and Sony. Intel engineers in Oregon are participating, too, providing technical support for the project."
Oh... The Intel people are providing "technical support". Everyone else came from outside Intel??? And they don't know enough about technology to do their own support? There are many, many issues like that inside Intel.
I like your example because it demonstrates that the Calculus book is oversimplifying.
Quote from the calculus book: "A function is a relation (such that for each input, there is exactly one output)..."
I can understand why a mathematician might like to say that. However, in the real world there are many phenomena in which, for one input, there are several outputs. I want to use mathematics to model the world. Some mathematicians want to use mathematics as a hobby.
"An organized scientific approach to evaluating course materials is sorely lacking."
I agree.
Most people don't care about mathematics directly, they care about how mathematics can help them do something they want to do. But apparently the Calculus book is written by math enthusiasts. Here is an example from page 9, the 2nd page of text:
"Warning A function is a relation (such that for each input, there is exactly one output) between sets and should not be confused with either its formula or its plot."
Some people aren't interested in accomplishing anything, they just like speaking in a manner that is foreign to most people. For example, there are people who like ancient Greek and speak it to other people who like ancient Greek. They like doing something other people can't do. They see it as putting them in a class by themselves, which they think is superior. But speaking ancient Greek is a mostly useless hobby for them; it's not really helpful in a general way. If you go to such a person and ask what they have learned because of knowing ancient Greek, they often have nothing useful to say. Why? Because they aren't interested in doing anything useful, they are interested in pretending to be superior, or in living in a world by themselves.
Hah! Slashdot likes Ballmer more than the Press.
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It's interesting seeing the Slashdot comments because they are actually less negative than those of the press.
From a May 12, 2013 article in Forbes: Microsoft's CEO, Steve Ballmer, "Should Have Already Been Fired." Quote from the article:"Without a doubt, Mr. Ballmer is the worst CEO of a large publicly traded American company today."
More about Steve Ballmer from that article: "The reach of his bad leadership has extended far beyond Microsoft when it comes to destroying shareholder value -- and jobs."
Scroll down in this article to see Businessweek's January 16, 2013 cover that called Steve Ballmer "Monkey Boy".
The cover says "No More", but that doesn't take away from the fact that the magazine called him Monkey Boy -- on its cover. That's the greatest disrespect for a CEO I've ever seen.
"You can come from both ends and "meet in the middle" of the cipher to gain advantage sometimes."
My understanding, which may be mistaken, is that MITM attacks, or any kind of attacks, on data that has been encrypted with two or more encryption methods are unlikely to be successful. Since the patterns of encryption are different, finding coincidences is unlikely.
I was unable to find good information. Can you tell me where to find useful research?
Note that the free TrueCrypt offers encryption using 2 or more different encryption methods, with different keys for each method. They call it cascade encryption. Unfortunately, that term is used also for encryption using 2 or more keys with the same encryption method.
"This is a widely held misconception. Double encryption is not significantly stronger than single encryption due to the meet-in-the-middle attack."
I suggested using 2 different un-related encryption methods. Because the 2nd method is entirely different from the first, MITM does not function. Using 2 different un-related encryption methods protects against other attacks, also.
Meet-in-the-middle applies to using the same encryption method two times, using different keys.
"A codebreaker needs only one reliable correlation between the encrypted and unencrypted versions of a file in order to begin to deduce further correlations."
It is necessary to encrypt twice, using 2 different encryption methods. Then it will be impossible to find one reliable correlation.
"If cookies are eliminated, it is clear to us that consumers will get a less relevant and diverse Internet experience."
1) I'm not a "consumer". I'm a person.
2) Advertising in the U.S. has become more and more disgusting. Most ads include some dishonesty. A lot of advertising is extremely evil, such as trying to get people to eat expensive sugary food. In my opinion, you at the IAB represent one of the most destructive social forces in the United States. Most ads are attempts to get people to waste their money.
3) You don't know what experience I want. My internet interests cannot be predicted by knowing what I did in the past.
4) I don't buy things because of ads. I do research. I spend money carefully, not because I saw an ad written by someone who thinks he is smarter than me and can take advantage of some weakness in me.
5) You at the IAB obviously have NO technical knowledge. If the Mozilla browsers don't block "cookies" from being stored on my computers, I can block them other ways. And will! You have an opinion about something you don't understand.
6) A large part of what causes people to block advertising is moving pictures, which are distracting when someone is trying to read. If you want ads accepted, avoid making them intrusive and annoying.
We do some high-level support for Adobe products. We run Adobe software almost exclusively to provide support, maybe 15 times a year for a few minutes each time. $600 per year is NOT cheaper. We will help organizations move to other software.
Software companies are in a position to be extremely abusive, because it is so difficult to change to new software.
Adobe is doing the same thing: Adobe kills Creative Suite, goes subscription-only. You will no longer be allowed to have Adobe CS software on your own computer. NSA magnet, and far more expensive. As you are designing a new web site, the NSA will be viewing what you are doing. Or, of course, people who work for Adobe.
Is that true? Or, did he take advantage of a social weakness? Most people didn't know much about technology, so it was easy to take advantage. Microsoft made $40 billion selling DOS. I estimate that it took 10 man-years to write DOS. Or 20? For example, FreeDOS was written by volunteers.
Gates: "When you're dying of malaria, I suppose you'll look up and see that [Internet] balloon, and I'm not sure how it'll help you..."
Bringing health care to poor people involves many, many services and service people for health support. The support people need internet access to learn and to communicate with each other. Also, it is difficult to get educated people to work on health care if there is no internet access. The internet provides relaxing experiences after work.
Does Bill Gates really think that it is he alone who is providing fundamental health care? Does he really not understand that an entire people and an entire culture must be educated?
Here is a question: Do you have evidence that Bill Gates knows much about technology? I'm serious. Bill Gates and Nathan Myhrvold wrote a really, really poor book together, The Road Ahead.
Quote from that Wikipedia page:
The New York Times review called the book "bland and tepid" and reading "as if it had been vetted by a committee of Microsoft executives"; it is "little more than a positioning document, sold in book form with accompanying CD-ROM and designed mainly to advance the interests of the Microsoft Corporation."
That New York Times review suggests that Bill Gates and Nathan Myhrvold were deliberately engaged in fraud, and deliberately eliminated anything of value from the book before it was printed.
However, is it possible that Gates and Myhrvold just don't know much about technology? Certainly the quote from Bill Gates at the top of this comment suggests he is not a deep thinker.
It would be helpful if someone could supply quotes or stories or experiences that show Bill Gates is knowledgeable about technology.
The comment to which I'm replying indicates that Bill Gates is an adversary to the health of the planet. He does things to make himself richer that are bad for everyone else.
If you supply the Master Password in the popup window that you see if a master password is needed, then you log in to the Software Security Device (Firefox uses: "Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> Encryption: Certificates: Security Devices: Software Security Device"). If you select the Software Security Device then you notice an enabled "Log Out" button if you are logged on, otherwise the "Log In" button is enabled in that window.
Access to the encrypted names and passwords is possible as long as you are logged on to the Software Security Device and you need to log out to prevent others from accessing that data if you leave your computer unattended.
"Tools > Clear Private Data: Authenticated sessions" does the same, but also additionally will log you out of secure web sites. You may need to clear the cookies to log out of other sites.
Also, I don't have "Tools > Clear Private Data". Do you?
It seems that you disagree not only with what I said, but with the staff of the Washington Post. See the WP's own article. They don't look happy.
You said, "Bezos lacks an understanding of how the world works?... his company has operations in over 80 countries, is at the leading edge of the cloud computing revolution, has created several different markets for goods and services that never previously existed, has a logistics system that spans the planet, and generates more profit than the tax revenue of most countries."
Everything in that is Amazon's core business, very different from running a news organization. Whoever runs Amazon seems to be doing quite well. But Jeff Bezos is, more and more, distracting himself. Did you know that Bezos has a spaceflight company? Quoting: "Blue Origin... has dealt with some difficulties in recent years -- the company hasn't yet put a ship in orbit and suffered a serious setback after a prototype spacecraft crashed in August of 2011."
Another quote from the article: " In the past two years, the Post's uncertain future has led to an exodus of many of its top writers." The Washington Post is doing very badly with its present management, and that management is rapidly becoming worse.
Quoting that article again: "Last week, the Washington Post Company reported an operating loss of $49.3 million in the first six months of 2013, compared to a $33.2 million loss for the same period a year earlier..."
And... Jeff Bezos won't be running the Washington Post. Quoting Jeff Bezos: '
"I won't be leading The Washington Post day-to-day. I am happily living in 'the other Washington' where I have a day job that I love. Besides that, the Post already has an excellent leadership team that knows much more about the news business than I do, and I'm extremely grateful to them for agreeing to stay on." '
Jeff Bezos says the Washington Post "already has an excellent leadership team..." That team is losing HUGE amounts of money.
Continuing, Jeff Bezos says: "... that knows much more about the news business than I do."
That was my point.
You have disagreed not only with me, but with Jeff Bezos himself.
"I'm interested to see what form the experimentation will take."
In my opinion, that does not show sufficient insight into the real challenges.
Jeff Bezos had an idea of selling books on the internet. He hired some people to write the software. He was excellent at believing fully in the idea and doing whatever it took to make it a success. He got enormous benefits from being first. But, that is basically all.
Managing world communications is extremely different. It is necessary to manage the people. It is necessary to appeal to reporters and know how to avoid their excesses. Every writer needs editors. Those editors must have an enormous amount of social insight. Both reporters and editors must be fascinated with the way the world works.
And there are far bigger challenges. A newspaper requires deep, detailed understanding of the world around us. Jeff Bezos does not have sufficient social sophistication. He has never managed anything as complicated as a communication company producing stories throughout the world.
For example, is the present Al Qaeda alert an attempt by people in the U.S. government to sell citizens on the NSA? Why does the media talk about Snowden rather than try to understand if the NSA is doing other things that are being hidden from citizens?
Who will run for president in the next election? It is necessary to start building relationships now.
How does a newspaper manager interest U.S. citizens more in the workings of the U.S. government? Many stories about politics are poorly written and focus on less important issues. What can be done about that?
In my opinion, Jeff Bezos has never shown the kind of abilities that are required.
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What about putting 2 SSDs into a software RAID 1 configuration? Does that solve the problem?
What you said is my experience, also. I haven't had catastrophic failure of a HDD in perhaps 20 years in a population of perhaps 15 computers. In my experience what most often fails is the HDD electronics, so it is possible to extract the data by temporarily replacing the HDD electronics with a circuit board from another, identical HDD. Also, of course, in the last 20 years we have replaced HDDs because of frequently replacing computers.
I also wonder how deliberate is the confusion. There are MANY areas inside Intel where there is confusion. The confusion is visible even when visiting the Intel campus in Oregon.
Funny story: I visited the Intel web site and was asked to complete a survey. I gave a few of the reasons why Intel CEO Paul Otellini should be fired, like paying $6 Billion for McAfee when Microsoft is giving away its Microsoft Security Essentials anti-virus software. A few months later Otellini left Intel; they didn't say why. I'm not saying my survey answers had an influence, I'm only making the point that the perception of Intel is widespread.
Intel has a long record of failure with consumer products. Now a completely separate division plans a TV product (???): Intel Media aims to remake TV with its own technology. This paragraph indicates some confusion and lack of competent direction: "Intel Media is run by Erik Huggers, an Intel vice president who worked previously at Microsoft and the BBC. He's assembled a team from such high-tech and media heavyweights as Apple, Netflix, Microsoft, Sky TV and Sony. Intel engineers in Oregon are participating, too, providing technical support for the project."
Oh... The Intel people are providing "technical support". Everyone else came from outside Intel??? And they don't know enough about technology to do their own support? There are many, many issues like that inside Intel.
We are having problems with Intel RAID. Intel technical support is poorly organized.
Apparently only the CPU and chipset division of the company is well-run. All other parts of Intel seem to have little competent supervision.
I like your example because it demonstrates that the Calculus book is oversimplifying.
Quote from the calculus book: "A function is a relation (such that for each input, there is exactly one output)..."
I can understand why a mathematician might like to say that. However, in the real world there are many phenomena in which, for one input, there are several outputs. I want to use mathematics to model the world. Some mathematicians want to use mathematics as a hobby.
You are not considering the question of whether the Calculus book is helpful in learning mathematics.
"An organized scientific approach to evaluating course materials is sorely lacking."
I agree.
Most people don't care about mathematics directly, they care about how mathematics can help them do something they want to do. But apparently the Calculus book is written by math enthusiasts. Here is an example from page 9, the 2nd page of text:
"Warning A function is a relation (such that for each input, there is exactly one output) between sets and should not be confused with either its formula or its plot."
Some people aren't interested in accomplishing anything, they just like speaking in a manner that is foreign to most people. For example, there are people who like ancient Greek and speak it to other people who like ancient Greek. They like doing something other people can't do. They see it as putting them in a class by themselves, which they think is superior. But speaking ancient Greek is a mostly useless hobby for them; it's not really helpful in a general way. If you go to such a person and ask what they have learned because of knowing ancient Greek, they often have nothing useful to say. Why? Because they aren't interested in doing anything useful, they are interested in pretending to be superior, or in living in a world by themselves.
It's interesting seeing the Slashdot comments because they are actually less negative than those of the press.
From a May 12, 2013 article in Forbes: Microsoft's CEO, Steve Ballmer, "Should Have Already Been Fired." Quote from the article: "Without a doubt, Mr. Ballmer is the worst CEO of a large publicly traded American company today."
More about Steve Ballmer from that article: "The reach of his bad leadership has extended far beyond Microsoft when it comes to destroying shareholder value -- and jobs."
Scroll down in this article to see Businessweek's January 16, 2013 cover that called Steve Ballmer "Monkey Boy". The cover says "No More", but that doesn't take away from the fact that the magazine called him Monkey Boy -- on its cover. That's the greatest disrespect for a CEO I've ever seen.
"You can come from both ends and "meet in the middle" of the cipher to gain advantage sometimes."
My understanding, which may be mistaken, is that MITM attacks, or any kind of attacks, on data that has been encrypted with two or more encryption methods are unlikely to be successful. Since the patterns of encryption are different, finding coincidences is unlikely.
I was unable to find good information. Can you tell me where to find useful research?
Note that the free TrueCrypt offers encryption using 2 or more different encryption methods, with different keys for each method. They call it cascade encryption. Unfortunately, that term is used also for encryption using 2 or more keys with the same encryption method.
I suggested using 2 different un-related encryption methods. Because the 2nd method is entirely different from the first, MITM does not function. Using 2 different un-related encryption methods protects against other attacks, also.
Meet-in-the-middle applies to using the same encryption method two times, using different keys.
"A codebreaker needs only one reliable correlation between the encrypted and unencrypted versions of a file in order to begin to deduce further correlations."
It is necessary to encrypt twice, using 2 different encryption methods. Then it will be impossible to find one reliable correlation.
"If cookies are eliminated, it is clear to us that consumers will get a less relevant and diverse Internet experience."
1) I'm not a "consumer". I'm a person.
2) Advertising in the U.S. has become more and more disgusting. Most ads include some dishonesty. A lot of advertising is extremely evil, such as trying to get people to eat expensive sugary food. In my opinion, you at the IAB represent one of the most destructive social forces in the United States. Most ads are attempts to get people to waste their money.
3) You don't know what experience I want. My internet interests cannot be predicted by knowing what I did in the past.
4) I don't buy things because of ads. I do research. I spend money carefully, not because I saw an ad written by someone who thinks he is smarter than me and can take advantage of some weakness in me.
5) You at the IAB obviously have NO technical knowledge. If the Mozilla browsers don't block "cookies" from being stored on my computers, I can block them other ways. And will! You have an opinion about something you don't understand.
6) A large part of what causes people to block advertising is moving pictures, which are distracting when someone is trying to read. If you want ads accepted, avoid making them intrusive and annoying.
Bruce Schneier is sell-promoting at times, but he is the best we have for publishing about security concerns.
Question: Is what was learned about the NSA is the only thing that isn't legal?
What???? A copier changes numbers? A copier is supposed to copy.
We do some high-level support for Adobe products. We run Adobe software almost exclusively to provide support, maybe 15 times a year for a few minutes each time. $600 per year is NOT cheaper. We will help organizations move to other software.
"There is no online software."
That's not what everyone is saying. Read the comments to this article.
Software companies are in a position to be extremely abusive, because it is so difficult to change to new software.
Adobe is doing the same thing: Adobe kills Creative Suite, goes subscription-only. You will no longer be allowed to have Adobe CS software on your own computer. NSA magnet, and far more expensive. As you are designing a new web site, the NSA will be viewing what you are doing. Or, of course, people who work for Adobe.
You said, "He is an intelligent guy, ..."
Is that true? Or, did he take advantage of a social weakness? Most people didn't know much about technology, so it was easy to take advantage. Microsoft made $40 billion selling DOS. I estimate that it took 10 man-years to write DOS. Or 20? For example, FreeDOS was written by volunteers.
See my comment above, Does Bill Gates know much about technology?
Bringing health care to poor people involves many, many services and service people for health support. The support people need internet access to learn and to communicate with each other. Also, it is difficult to get educated people to work on health care if there is no internet access. The internet provides relaxing experiences after work.
Does Bill Gates really think that it is he alone who is providing fundamental health care? Does he really not understand that an entire people and an entire culture must be educated?
Here is a question: Do you have evidence that Bill Gates knows much about technology? I'm serious. Bill Gates and Nathan Myhrvold wrote a really, really poor book together, The Road Ahead.
Quote from that Wikipedia page:
That New York Times review suggests that Bill Gates and Nathan Myhrvold were deliberately engaged in fraud, and deliberately eliminated anything of value from the book before it was printed.
However, is it possible that Gates and Myhrvold just don't know much about technology? Certainly the quote from Bill Gates at the top of this comment suggests he is not a deep thinker.
It would be helpful if someone could supply quotes or stories or experiences that show Bill Gates is knowledgeable about technology.
The comment to which I'm replying indicates that Bill Gates is an adversary to the health of the planet. He does things to make himself richer that are bad for everyone else.
Important work on Firefox doesn't get done, like providing an easy way to log out from the master password.
This is how it is done now:
If you supply the Master Password in the popup window that you see if a master password is needed, then you log in to the Software Security Device (Firefox uses: "Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> Encryption: Certificates: Security Devices: Software Security Device"). If you select the Software Security Device then you notice an enabled "Log Out" button if you are logged on, otherwise the "Log In" button is enabled in that window. Access to the encrypted names and passwords is possible as long as you are logged on to the Software Security Device and you need to log out to prevent others from accessing that data if you leave your computer unattended. "Tools > Clear Private Data: Authenticated sessions" does the same, but also additionally will log you out of secure web sites. You may need to clear the cookies to log out of other sites.
Also, I don't have "Tools > Clear Private Data". Do you?
I'm disgusted, also. I regularly get crashes. Some of them are reported, some of them cause the Crash Reporter to crash.
See Mozilla Crash Reports.
Mozilla Foundation: We know better than you how your browser should be configured. We can re-configure your browser at any time.
Meanwhile, Firefox is the most unstable program in common use, if you often have a lot of windows and tabs open.
No profit. See this article: Amazon's profit-eating machine revs into overdrive. Massive revenues? Check. Profits? You must be joking!
Can you provide any evidence that Jeff Bezos understands technology? The Amazon e-ink reader was designed and built by another company.
Jeff Bezos started a spaceflight company. That company has failed.
Elon Musk started a spaceflight company. That company has been amazingly successful.
Amazon has been rapidly buying new companies. That's why Amazon has not been making a profit.
It seems that you disagree not only with what I said, but with the staff of the Washington Post. See the WP's own article. They don't look happy.
... his company has operations in over 80 countries, is at the leading edge of the cloud computing revolution, has created several different markets for goods and services that never previously existed, has a logistics system that spans the planet, and generates more profit than the tax revenue of most countries."
... has dealt with some difficulties in recent years -- the company hasn't yet put a ship in orbit and suffered a serious setback after a prototype spacecraft crashed in August of 2011."
You said, "Bezos lacks an understanding of how the world works?
Everything in that is Amazon's core business, very different from running a news organization. Whoever runs Amazon seems to be doing quite well. But Jeff Bezos is, more and more, distracting himself. Did you know that Bezos has a spaceflight company? Quoting: "Blue Origin
Another quote from the article: " In the past two years, the Post's uncertain future has led to an exodus of many of its top writers." The Washington Post is doing very badly with its present management, and that management is rapidly becoming worse.
Quoting that article again: "Last week, the Washington Post Company reported an operating loss of $49.3 million in the first six months of 2013, compared to a $33.2 million loss for the same period a year earlier..."
And... Jeff Bezos won't be running the Washington Post. Quoting Jeff Bezos: ' "I won't be leading The Washington Post day-to-day. I am happily living in 'the other Washington' where I have a day job that I love. Besides that, the Post already has an excellent leadership team that knows much more about the news business than I do, and I'm extremely grateful to them for agreeing to stay on." '
Jeff Bezos says the Washington Post "already has an excellent leadership team..." That team is losing HUGE amounts of money.
Continuing, Jeff Bezos says: "... that knows much more about the news business than I do."
That was my point.
You have disagreed not only with me, but with Jeff Bezos himself.
"I'm interested to see what form the experimentation will take."
In my opinion, that does not show sufficient insight into the real challenges.
Jeff Bezos had an idea of selling books on the internet. He hired some people to write the software. He was excellent at believing fully in the idea and doing whatever it took to make it a success. He got enormous benefits from being first. But, that is basically all.
Managing world communications is extremely different. It is necessary to manage the people. It is necessary to appeal to reporters and know how to avoid their excesses. Every writer needs editors. Those editors must have an enormous amount of social insight. Both reporters and editors must be fascinated with the way the world works.
And there are far bigger challenges. A newspaper requires deep, detailed understanding of the world around us. Jeff Bezos does not have sufficient social sophistication. He has never managed anything as complicated as a communication company producing stories throughout the world.
For example, is the present Al Qaeda alert an attempt by people in the U.S. government to sell citizens on the NSA? Why does the media talk about Snowden rather than try to understand if the NSA is doing other things that are being hidden from citizens?
Who will run for president in the next election? It is necessary to start building relationships now.
How does a newspaper manager interest U.S. citizens more in the workings of the U.S. government? Many stories about politics are poorly written and focus on less important issues. What can be done about that?
In my opinion, Jeff Bezos has never shown the kind of abilities that are required.