Even if that would work, it leaves several people on the ISS who are entirely SOL if anything else happens to go wrong. That doesn't seem like a terribly good solution.
3. Most likely cause of destruction was damage to heat shield.
What makes you so sure? Time presents 3 possible explanations (by a TIME science correspondant, who presumably knows something), and his most likely theory is aerodynamic breakup due to a bad reentry roll.
Whew, thank goodness we're safe from Microsoft. After all, if they were, say, a huge abusive monopoly, I'm sure they'd find
some way to cut themselves a piece of the TIA cake, but as it is I'm sure they won't be part of the problem.
The patents PanIP bases its lawsuits on were granted-the first in 1996 and the second last year... The claims in these patents being asserted in the lawsuits refer to "a computerized system for selecting and ordering a variety of information, goods and services" and "an automatic data-processing system for processing business and financial transactions between entities from remote sites".
Last year?!?! Granted, they are both stupid, but how could someone have managed to get a patent on a basic part of e-commerce last year? Did the patent officer reviewing this one live in a cave?
Worst prediction: People would be talking to computers.
What's he talking about? I talk to computers all the time, especially Windows machines. "What the hell do you mean the zip drive can't be found?! It's right there!"
You forgot:
11) Make it a "trusted app" that only runs on the palladium architecture.
12) Enable in to scan your hard drive for video/music files (which will be assumed to be illegal) and then broadcast your IP to the RIAA/MPAA automated DOS-attack server.
The prototype umbrella is pink. How many police officers would normally be walking around with pink umbrellas?
Clearly the color of the prototype is the most important part. I mean, modifying a black umbrella to shoot rubber bullets would be easy, but making a pink umbrella black? That's crazy talk.
Is the umbrella used to surprise the one or people who don't know that police are armed?
Once again, cleary apearances are the most difficult thing to change. Which is easier, dressing a policeman in plain clothes (hey, maybe they could call them "plain-clothes policemen", what a novel idea), or disguising a gun to look like an innocent item?
The armored "tuk tuk" is equipped with a machine gun. Do you really need a web launcher in addition to that?
Good point. I mean, I sure can't conceive of a situation where police would want to capture someone instead of gunning them down.
Not only do many libraries not have an interest in tracking what you read, quite a few are actively doing everything they can NOT to track what you read. Libraries are very strong supporters of freedom of information, and something like the PATRIOT Act implicitly reduces freedom of information.
I know someone who works in a library, and on 9/12, a memo went to all the employees reminding everyone that library policy was not to store any information that is not absolutley necessary. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of libraries made very sure that their systems kept as little info as humanly possible once the PATRIOT Act was introduced.
Easily said, but not so easily done. How much of the spam that you receive can you actually track to its source? How do you sue someone you can't locate? Sure, you can track them down sometimes, but by the time you've done that, found a lawyer, etc, etc, what's your hourly wage for that $100? Not much.
As nice as it is that the law provides for individuals to sue, in practice it's only going to be practical for ISPs in 99% of the cases.
4096-bit keys will be safe until the military discovers how to harness quantum computing.
History is littered with the bodies of people who think that a cryptosystem is unbreakable, or essentially unbreakable. Just because we can't break something now doesn't mean a solution won't be found next year, or even next month.
There's a reason that most cryptosystems aren't proveably secure; they aren't secure. It's all a gamble that the next mathematical breakthrough in whatever field will be far enough down the road not to matter to you.
Thinking anything else, or becoming complacent with a seemingly secure system, is little better than no cryptography at all.
Not only that, but it helps people who are new, relatively unknowledgeable, but want to learn.
If you are aware this tool exists then you are security minded enough to have closed all the holes yourself.
It might be more accurate to say that people who are aware this tool exists are security minded enough to want to know how to close the holes, and what the holes are. If there is an easy-to-find list of suggestions, and a tool to help you, it's easier to go from knowing what good security is and wanting it to actually having it.
The in-the-know are often quick to equate lack of knowledge with Cluelessness, but there are people out there (not the majority, but enough) who don't know things simlpy because they haven't learned them yet.
first, every teen that drives like a jerk/idiot I can show you EXACTLY where they got that habit.
Not necessarily; people learn a lot of their driving from those around them. I moved to Cleveland several years ago (City motto: "The red lights aren't decorative?") and the vast majority of drivers here have trouble with the concept of stopping BEFORE the intersection, and stopping when the light is red, unless it's been red for 5-10 seconds.
I've seen other people who've moved here start out driving like normal people, but many quickly start driving like everone else. People go with the majority and the flow of traffic more often than they follow laws or their own ideas about driving.
If you purchase a product then the very least you should do is purchase the correct number of licences.
Agreed, but as nice as an ideal as that is, let's not forget that we live in the real world here.
You can't use lazyness and sloppyness as an excuse for violating a licence.
But what about the realities of bureaocracy? Let's not forget the recent Northwest school fiasco. Does anyone think that Microsoft was in the right forcing an impossible audit to blackmail the schools into buying their licence? It's a perfect example of what the original poster is talking about.
We need to lighten up, besides we're mostly all a bunch of MIT/CMU rejects anyway.
Not that you're bitter, of course.
Just because you didn't get into your school of choice and can't make friends doesn't mean the rest of us hate it. You're welcome to transfer out at any time. I'm with the previous poster, who thinks that the Students are the real resource here. If you don't want to be a part of that, do us all a favor.
For a group of people who are theoretically computer-savvy, there are certainly a lot of really short-sighted posts here.
To everyone who wants to know what all this bandwidth could actually be used for, and why bother if the rest of the internet is generally slower, I have only this to say:
Slashdot Mirror
Even if that would work, it leaves several people on the ISS who are entirely SOL if anything else happens to go wrong. That doesn't seem like a terribly good solution.
If they are selling recordings of their own concerts, how exactly is this piracy?
What makes you so sure? Time presents 3 possible explanations (by a TIME science correspondant, who presumably knows something), and his most likely theory is aerodynamic breakup due to a bad reentry roll.
Oh, wait...
Last year?!?! Granted, they are both stupid, but how could someone have managed to get a patent on a basic part of e-commerce last year? Did the patent officer reviewing this one live in a cave?
What's he talking about? I talk to computers all the time, especially Windows machines. "What the hell do you mean the zip drive can't be found?! It's right there!"
You forgot: 11) Make it a "trusted app" that only runs on the palladium architecture. 12) Enable in to scan your hard drive for video/music files (which will be assumed to be illegal) and then broadcast your IP to the RIAA/MPAA automated DOS-attack server.
Clearly the color of the prototype is the most important part. I mean, modifying a black umbrella to shoot rubber bullets would be easy, but making a pink umbrella black? That's crazy talk.
Once again, cleary apearances are the most difficult thing to change. Which is easier, dressing a policeman in plain clothes (hey, maybe they could call them "plain-clothes policemen", what a novel idea), or disguising a gun to look like an innocent item?
Good point. I mean, I sure can't conceive of a situation where police would want to capture someone instead of gunning them down.
Not only do many libraries not have an interest in tracking what you read, quite a few are actively doing everything they can NOT to track what you read. Libraries are very strong supporters of freedom of information, and something like the PATRIOT Act implicitly reduces freedom of information.
I know someone who works in a library, and on 9/12, a memo went to all the employees reminding everyone that library policy was not to store any information that is not absolutley necessary. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of libraries made very sure that their systems kept as little info as humanly possible once the PATRIOT Act was introduced.
Easily said, but not so easily done. How much of the spam that you receive can you actually track to its source? How do you sue someone you can't locate? Sure, you can track them down sometimes, but by the time you've done that, found a lawyer, etc, etc, what's your hourly wage for that $100? Not much.
As nice as it is that the law provides for individuals to sue, in practice it's only going to be practical for ISPs in 99% of the cases.
History is littered with the bodies of people who think that a cryptosystem is unbreakable, or essentially unbreakable. Just because we can't break something now doesn't mean a solution won't be found next year, or even next month.
There's a reason that most cryptosystems aren't proveably secure; they aren't secure. It's all a gamble that the next mathematical breakthrough in whatever field will be far enough down the road not to matter to you.
Thinking anything else, or becoming complacent with a seemingly secure system, is little better than no cryptography at all.
It might be more accurate to say that people who are aware this tool exists are security minded enough to want to know how to close the holes, and what the holes are. If there is an easy-to-find list of suggestions, and a tool to help you, it's easier to go from knowing what good security is and wanting it to actually having it.
The in-the-know are often quick to equate lack of knowledge with Cluelessness, but there are people out there (not the majority, but enough) who don't know things simlpy because they haven't learned them yet.
Not necessarily; people learn a lot of their driving from those around them. I moved to Cleveland several years ago (City motto: "The red lights aren't decorative?") and the vast majority of drivers here have trouble with the concept of stopping BEFORE the intersection, and stopping when the light is red, unless it's been red for 5-10 seconds.
I've seen other people who've moved here start out driving like normal people, but many quickly start driving like everone else. People go with the majority and the flow of traffic more often than they follow laws or their own ideas about driving.
Agreed, but as nice as an ideal as that is, let's not forget that we live in the real world here.
You can't use lazyness and sloppyness as an excuse for violating a licence.
But what about the realities of bureaocracy? Let's not forget the recent Northwest school fiasco. Does anyone think that Microsoft was in the right forcing an impossible audit to blackmail the schools into buying their licence? It's a perfect example of what the original poster is talking about.
Just because you didn't get into your school of choice and can't make friends doesn't mean the rest of us hate it. You're welcome to transfer out at any time. I'm with the previous poster, who thinks that the Students are the real resource here. If you don't want to be a part of that, do us all a favor.
Don't be.
To everyone who wants to know what all this bandwidth could actually be used for, and why bother if the rest of the internet is generally slower, I have only this to say: