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off-the-record messaging is a standalone library which has also been included in a gaim plugin - its encryption with NO digital signing at all, however it still provides authentication (unlike trillians secureIM, which doesnt let you know WHO the hell you're talking to, despite the encryption.) it works for both nix and windows versions of gaim - i'm no encryption expert, but i sure um...feel a lot safer when using it.
perhaps someone more qualified than i can peruse their whitepaper and give some more informed feedback as to the security/robustness of the protocol/implementation:)
Everyone's favorite "analyst", rob enderle, has a choice quote at the end of the article here
"What makes this interesting is the way it's being implement much in the same way the graphics model is - add-in boards or on-board. This free's up the CPUs to perform other aspects of gaming. If you can off-load it, it'll make better AI etc.
On the other-hand, you can make the environment behave a lot more realistically. We'll get to the "holo-deck" much more quickly with technology like this."
-Rob Enderle
thanks for the insight (and grammar), rob. i dont mean to flame, but charlatans like this being quoted incessantly in all manner of technology-related articles disgusts me - and he rules this blowhard-for-hire tech analyst faction on high.
cogent, pertinent, well-written, intelligent - rob, just apply ONE of these attributes to any of your published ramblings. please.
this article is based solely on europe - its projections are vague at best: mainly, one would deduce, due to the fact that it only seems to cite data from 2003. perhaps it's intended to be alarmist by citing the human death factor, for the average joe who doesnt keep at all abreast of such issues - but other recent data, namely, the mauna loa anomaly and the international arctic science committee's report, appear to harbor much more catastrophic potentiality.
mauna loa is the big one to watch - with 2 years (some would argue even 1), we should know whether or not the major 2 year co2 increase is a fluke - or if it's a sign of runaway global warming (which many say we're technically in now, but accelerated to varying degrees depending on the source). this could trigger methane hydrate deposits to break free from river and seabeds by warming said bodies of water - and then, we're in anything from some really hot water (har) to aworld of shit. (note: latter link is distant future, but theoretically possible)
it seems to be that this guy is just talking out of his ass. he basically threw in a bunch of buzzwords and did no research at all in giving his (clearly uninformed, imho) opinions. while undoubtedly some of these predictions will occur to some degree, to assume, for example, that the (basically nonexistent at present) nanomedicine field will be so ripe as to allow "clearing plaque out of your arteries, and getting rid of dangerous chemicals" is laughable The contact lenses feeding you Terminator-esque telemetry also strikes me as a bit silly. Now don't color me luddite just yet - i agree that many of his predictions will come eventually true, and wish for them as much as the next guy (nanotechnology could very well hold the key to "curing" aging, for example) - had this article been labeled "2054", i might have been a bit more on board. basically, you could pick any joe on slashdot and he would give you an equally accurate, or more so, prediction of near-future society in line with current technological trends (ew i sound like roland piquepaille). so if predicting the future is your day job, its a good thing you have that whole sci-fi writer thing to back you up:)
IAA(lso)NAP(hysicist), but no, the speed of light that is so oft-quoted is light's speed in a vacuum. when passing through various mediums light can move from 0-c.
to add to any potential confusion, there's some evidence that the fine structure constant, which determines EMF strength and thus 0-c, has changed a bit over the universe's history..but last i knew anyway these claims havent been 100% proven.
well, the obvious argument for it is that its just the next step in the natural evolution of the voting process. oh, woops, cant say "evolution" in georgia.
hmm, i wonder if they're taking into account the ever-growing usability of linux to casual desktop users when giving this projection. it seems to me that in 3-4 years, just observing the trend, adoption percentages will be much higher than that. it isnt linear because as it gets better, more people try it, recommend it, etc, and obviously the price factor is big. in addition, i'd think something like the walmart cheap PC thing will be multiplying greatly as linux is shown to be user-friendly, with many more major vendors pro-offering linux in some form on their systems. maybe i'm just being optimistic, but i'd hope linux desktop adoption in 2007 would be 10-15% or higher - i guess we can hope (:
its actually 128 kbps to mars odyssey (its max throughput, incidentally)...the MO's high gainer tops out at 110 kbps. still, not too shabby, too bad it seems to be 95% crapola.
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off-the-record messaging is a standalone library which has also been included in a gaim plugin - its encryption with NO digital signing at all, however it still provides authentication (unlike trillians secureIM, which doesnt let you know WHO the hell you're talking to, despite the encryption.) it works for both nix and windows versions of gaim - i'm no encryption expert, but i sure um...feel a lot safer when using it.
perhaps someone more qualified than i can peruse their whitepaper and give some more informed feedback as to the security/robustness of the protocol/implementation :)
Everyone's favorite "analyst", rob enderle, has a choice quote at the end of the article here
thanks for the insight (and grammar), rob. i dont mean to flame, but charlatans like this being quoted incessantly in all manner of technology-related articles disgusts me - and he rules this blowhard-for-hire tech analyst faction on high.
cogent, pertinent, well-written, intelligent - rob, just apply ONE of these attributes to any of your published ramblings. please.
this article is based solely on europe - its projections are vague at best: mainly, one would deduce, due to the fact that it only seems to cite data from 2003. perhaps it's intended to be alarmist by citing the human death factor, for the average joe who doesnt keep at all abreast of such issues - but other recent data, namely, the mauna loa anomaly and the international arctic science committee's report, appear to harbor much more catastrophic potentiality.
mauna loa is the big one to watch - with 2 years (some would argue even 1), we should know whether or not the major 2 year co2 increase is a fluke - or if it's a sign of runaway global warming (which many say we're technically in now, but accelerated to varying degrees depending on the source). this could trigger methane hydrate deposits to break free from river and seabeds by warming said bodies of water - and then, we're in anything from some really hot water (har) to aworld of shit. (note: latter link is distant future, but theoretically possible)
it seems to be that this guy is just talking out of his ass. he basically threw in a bunch of buzzwords and did no research at all in giving his (clearly uninformed, imho) opinions. while undoubtedly some of these predictions will occur to some degree, to assume, for example, that the (basically nonexistent at present) nanomedicine field will be so ripe as to allow "clearing plaque out of your arteries, and getting rid of dangerous chemicals" is laughable The contact lenses feeding you Terminator-esque telemetry also strikes me as a bit silly. Now don't color me luddite just yet - i agree that many of his predictions will come eventually true, and wish for them as much as the next guy (nanotechnology could very well hold the key to "curing" aging, for example) - had this article been labeled "2054", i might have been a bit more on board. basically, you could pick any joe on slashdot and he would give you an equally accurate, or more so, prediction of near-future society in line with current technological trends (ew i sound like roland piquepaille). so if predicting the future is your day job, its a good thing you have that whole sci-fi writer thing to back you up :)
IAA(lso)NAP(hysicist), but no, the speed of light that is so oft-quoted is light's speed in a vacuum.
when passing through various mediums light can move from 0-c.
to add to any potential confusion, there's some evidence that the fine structure constant, which determines EMF strength and thus 0-c, has changed a bit over the universe's history..but last i knew anyway these claims havent been 100% proven.
well, the obvious argument for it is that its just the next step in the natural evolution of the voting process. oh, woops, cant say "evolution" in georgia.
hmm, i wonder if they're taking into account the ever-growing usability of linux to casual desktop users when giving this projection. it seems to me that in 3-4 years, just observing the trend, adoption percentages will be much higher than that. it isnt linear because as it gets better, more people try it, recommend it, etc, and obviously the price factor is big. in addition, i'd think something like the walmart cheap PC thing will be multiplying greatly as linux is shown to be user-friendly, with many more major vendors pro-offering linux in some form on their systems. maybe i'm just being optimistic, but i'd hope linux desktop adoption in 2007 would be 10-15% or higher - i guess we can hope (:
its actually 128 kbps to mars odyssey (its max throughput, incidentally)...the MO's high gainer tops out at 110 kbps. still, not too shabby, too bad it seems to be 95% crapola.
uh. it has no emissions, its hydrogen powered dude. the case of a tree-hugger barking up the wrong tree (: