Errr, what keywords do you think governments would like to scan calendars for? I don't think there is much of a market for online calendar services for drug dealers or terrorists:
11pm Pick up 2kg of uncut cocaine Weds [all-day] Cut the coke
or
Fri 9am Blow myself the fuck up outside the library
??? I mean, I can see your point that this overkill. I'm just suprised that you offhandly show such paranoia:)
Under Security & Practicality you missed a few points:
4. It leaks information. The encrypted version shows when you are busy and free 5. There's no point using a 4096-bit key. Most calendar entries are 60 characters so the key size is overkill given there is probably less than 360 bits of entropy 6. Calendar entries are highly regular, a dictionary attack would be tractable regardless of the key-size because of the limited input space
Just because you don't know how to use doesn't make it immature. I've had to do this: not quite this scenario, but somebody dumped a couple of gigs of pdfs into a common repository that gets checked out into quota'd space. The dumpfile human readable format for svn is a joy, and the tools support filtering repositories according to paths for inclusion and exclusion. Rather than just killing revisions, you can do fine-grained edits over the entire history i.e all revisions intact but one particular file erased from the history.
Out of interest, you said originally that svn wasn't as functional as cvs. What do you think is missing?
No. The parent hit the nail squarely on the end. If they had stolen his passwords and returned the device then they would have had access to his official email without him being any the wiser. Then they could have gathered intelligence on anything he had access to for the foreseeable future.
Stealing the device would just make Downing Street close the account and issue him a fresh one. Intelligence gathering does have to be subtle to be effective.
Have you seen the RedBull Air Race? Unlike this all of the planes are prop-driven rather than jets. As a result (many) of the safety issues are not as bad - and it pulls in huge crowds as a result. The London leg is coming up soon. They erect a giant inflatable course in the Thames and then takes turns racings the obstacle course. If you can catch it on a cable channel where you are then I recommend it. Great fun to watch.
The pilots are somewhat nutty doing 200-300mph a few tens of metres above the ground, and the flying is incredibly skillful (unlike the rocket nascar shit being proposed). When I first saw the adverts for it I assumed it was a cgi hoax to promote the drink. But it has been touring the world for a few years before they got big backing from RedBull.
Most "unique" contributions to society don't let their creator live off of a single piece of work. Architects don't charge recurring royalties for their work, neither do scientists. So as I asked: what makes a musician so special?
You should take into account that music has a huge popular following who are willing to pay money for it. Other creative fields do not.
Totally agree. If they were going to make this so that it didn't suck.... it would be the RedBull air-race. I guess it'll be a whole new generation of entertaining international sport against the crap American copy.
No. Completely wrong. The state of affairs that Stallman was trying to recreate was the academic approach of sharing code to programs. This was not killed off by copyright (which goes back centuries), but by commercial interests.
Killing copyright would kill the GPL. The purpose of the GPL is to ensure that people provide source to their software, so that users have the freedom to modify it according to their needs. In a world without copyright, or the GPL, people could publish executables and withhold the source. For any software that they wanted - because everything would be in the public domain.
You've stretched your analogy a little too far. Builders are not in the business of renting out houses. But landlords are, and they normally buy the property from the builder for a one-off fee. I'm sure there is a more appropriate analogy in there for musicians and record companies.
Now, it is true that builders can receive compensation for as long as they wish. Generally they do this by never finishing the bloody job and stretching it out for as long as they can. Maintenance being more profitable, in general, than construction.
In general, dishwashers get paid well below other professions (and well below what they contracted for). Work is intermittent (A local used to say dishwashers spend 95% of their time unemployed).
So, sob story aside. Why should musicians get special treatment? They already get to ride one piece of work for 50 years, if that isn't enough then maybe it's time to put the guitar down and get a real job?
That's not true. For quad / multi-precision it makes sense to do the work on FP words in the FP pipes rather than integer. It's faster and the free normalisation helps things out. There are well-known tricks like Dekker splits to ensure bit-accuracy across multi-precision values.
Even for integer work (like crypto) people are moving towards using FP because it can speed up calculations. Not that FP arithmetic is intrinsically faster, it's just that manufacturers throw area at FP units and so the throughput is higher than integer units. Bernstein's work on Curve255 is worth a look as a good example.
Your reply is completely correct, and expresses your argument well. I agree with you completely. But it is not what you said in your first post.
Further improvement is probably better off invested in image delivery technology, as we're sampling at about the limit of what we can actually see.
I'll just note that improving colour sampling is not a delivery technology. Also the fastest digital cameras do not operate at anything like the spatial or colour resolution that slower cameras operate at. In order to reach the limit of what we can actually see requires that we hit all three targets at once.
Yes, this is not pushing more megapixels into image capture. But that is not what you originally put across.
As SoupIsGoodGood notes above, your conclusion doesn't follow from your arguments. To add to his point: just because we can sample at the spatial resolution of the eye does not imply that we can sample at a temporal limit, or at the limit of colour resolution. Until each of those 50MP captures enough information about the colour and intensity of each dot then image capture still has a long way to go.
No. It's not a typo as a little time on Google News shows. The original source story was printing in the Sun. Online copy here. Of course The Sun is not exactly a reliable new source, but it should do for a xenophobic little shit like you.
Of course American energy consumption is way above European levels. Although this single device could power 800 US homes there is a huge difference in usage. Our electricity in the UK is about 16p per kWh (roughly, it changes depending on tariffs). That's about 32c or 3-5 times what I've heard US posters mention.
For comparison to that average US household, my flat consumes about 150 kWh per month. I'm far from atypical in the UK. Obviously average households are larger than my two-person flat, but 2000 homes doesn't seem that far off. It may even be on the conservative side.
Is that really the point when you talk about popularity? For the site to become large enough for the exposure they give to artists being worth the 15% rake you have to assume that the "market" for CC music is large enough to make that happen. With about 10 music files they are a long way from reaching that goal.
1) Your install is headless 2) You have been using Gentoo for less than 12 months 3) You are still running XFree86 instead of Xorg 4) Your memory is very selective
The very idea that every update goes smoothly without a single dependency block is something that most Gentoo users would laugh at. Given all of the problems with the Xorg update, or the changes in libraries that borked the tree for months last year this is laughable.
Portage is a great piece of software, and I stuck with Gentoo for many years because because of its strengths. But portage is not what lets Gentoo down. The complete lack of QA on the official tree that leads to dependency blocks, updated libraries in the stable tree that break ABI compatability with previous software and the general cavalier attitude to pushing any old crap into the stable release are what kills Gentoo.
But hey, after complaining about Gentoo for years (not even including the pain that was getting a Via media box to work) I put my money where my mouth was and went out to buy a nice stable unix system that can also run a stable version of ports. I bought a mac.
No. You are assuming that an optimal strategy would be deterministic. In fact it will be a mixed (probabilistic) strategy. The random mixing prevents the other side from determining your cards and style of play with high enough odds to beat you.
The problem with Google is that you generally need to know the name of a thing before you can search for it. Be enlightened at the coolness. Yes it is a very good idea, it was big in the 80s. You are right that it will be big again in a few years when there are lots of idle cores sitting around.
Most of these problems (about each folder choice refining the set of further choices) could be solved just by changing the label interface. Currently it sits there fairly constant. If it were changed so that when you select a single label, it just shows the choices of label that intersect with that one then most of your navigation dilemmas sould be solved. Perhaps it would make a good suggestion in their feedback?
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Errr, what keywords do you think governments would like to scan calendars for? I don't think there is much of a market for online calendar services for drug dealers or terrorists:
11pm Pick up 2kg of uncut cocaine
Weds [all-day] Cut the coke
or
Fri 9am Blow myself the fuck up outside the library
??? I mean, I can see your point that this overkill. I'm just suprised that you offhandly show such paranoia :)
Under Security & Practicality you missed a few points:
4. It leaks information. The encrypted version shows when you are busy and free
5. There's no point using a 4096-bit key. Most calendar entries are 60 characters so the key size is overkill given there is probably less than 360 bits of entropy
6. Calendar entries are highly regular, a dictionary attack would be tractable regardless of the key-size because of the limited input space
Just because you don't know how to use doesn't make it immature. I've had to do this: not quite this scenario, but somebody dumped a couple of gigs of pdfs into a common repository that gets checked out into quota'd space. The dumpfile human readable format for svn is a joy, and the tools support filtering repositories according to paths for inclusion and exclusion. Rather than just killing revisions, you can do fine-grained edits over the entire history i.e all revisions intact but one particular file erased from the history.
Out of interest, you said originally that svn wasn't as functional as cvs. What do you think is missing?
No. The parent hit the nail squarely on the end. If they had stolen his passwords and returned the device then they would have had access to his official email without him being any the wiser. Then they could have gathered intelligence on anything he had access to for the foreseeable future.
Stealing the device would just make Downing Street close the account and issue him a fresh one. Intelligence gathering does have to be subtle to be effective.
I see your air race, and I raise you: nutty pilots doing an obstacle course.
Quite possibly one of the most awesome sports in existence.
Have you seen the RedBull Air Race? Unlike this all of the planes are prop-driven rather than jets. As a result (many) of the safety issues are not as bad - and it pulls in huge crowds as a result. The London leg is coming up soon. They erect a giant inflatable course in the Thames and then takes turns racings the obstacle course. If you can catch it on a cable channel where you are then I recommend it. Great fun to watch.
The pilots are somewhat nutty doing 200-300mph a few tens of metres above the ground, and the flying is incredibly skillful (unlike the rocket nascar shit being proposed). When I first saw the adverts for it I assumed it was a cgi hoax to promote the drink. But it has been touring the world for a few years before they got big backing from RedBull.
Most "unique" contributions to society don't let their creator live off of a single piece of work. Architects don't charge recurring royalties for their work, neither do scientists. So as I asked: what makes a musician so special?
You should take into account that music has a huge popular following who are willing to pay money for it. Other creative fields do not.
Totally agree. If they were going to make this so that it didn't suck .... it would be the RedBull air-race. I guess it'll be a whole new generation of entertaining international sport against the crap American copy.
No. Completely wrong. The state of affairs that Stallman was trying to recreate was the academic approach of sharing code to programs. This was not killed off by copyright (which goes back centuries), but by commercial interests.
Killing copyright would kill the GPL. The purpose of the GPL is to ensure that people provide source to their software, so that users have the freedom to modify it according to their needs. In a world without copyright, or the GPL, people could publish executables and withhold the source. For any software that they wanted - because everything would be in the public domain.
You've stretched your analogy a little too far. Builders are not in the business of renting out houses. But landlords are, and they normally buy the property from the builder for a one-off fee. I'm sure there is a more appropriate analogy in there for musicians and record companies.
Now, it is true that builders can receive compensation for as long as they wish. Generally they do this by never finishing the bloody job and stretching it out for as long as they can. Maintenance being more profitable, in general, than construction.
In general, dishwashers get paid well below other professions (and well below what they contracted for). Work is intermittent (A local used to say dishwashers spend 95% of their time unemployed).
So, sob story aside. Why should musicians get special treatment? They already get to ride one piece of work for 50 years, if that isn't enough then maybe it's time to put the guitar down and get a real job?
That's not true. For quad / multi-precision it makes sense to do the work on FP words in the FP pipes rather than integer. It's faster and the free normalisation helps things out. There are well-known tricks like Dekker splits to ensure bit-accuracy across multi-precision values.
Even for integer work (like crypto) people are moving towards using FP because it can speed up calculations. Not that FP arithmetic is intrinsically faster, it's just that manufacturers throw area at FP units and so the throughput is higher than integer units. Bernstein's work on Curve255 is worth a look as a good example.
Your reply is completely correct, and expresses your argument well. I agree with you completely. But it is not what you said in your first post.
I'll just note that improving colour sampling is not a delivery technology. Also the fastest digital cameras do not operate at anything like the spatial or colour resolution that slower cameras operate at. In order to reach the limit of what we can actually see requires that we hit all three targets at once.
Yes, this is not pushing more megapixels into image capture. But that is not what you originally put across.
As SoupIsGoodGood notes above, your conclusion doesn't follow from your arguments. To add to his point: just because we can sample at the spatial resolution of the eye does not imply that we can sample at a temporal limit, or at the limit of colour resolution. Until each of those 50MP captures enough information about the colour and intensity of each dot then image capture still has a long way to go.
No. It's not a typo as a little time on Google News shows. The original source story was printing in the Sun. Online copy here. Of course The Sun is not exactly a reliable new source, but it should do for a xenophobic little shit like you.
Of course American energy consumption is way above European levels. Although this single device could power 800 US homes there is a huge difference in usage. Our electricity in the UK is about 16p per kWh (roughly, it changes depending on tariffs). That's about 32c or 3-5 times what I've heard US posters mention.
For comparison to that average US household, my flat consumes about 150 kWh per month. I'm far from atypical in the UK. Obviously average households are larger than my two-person flat, but 2000 homes doesn't seem that far off. It may even be on the conservative side.
Now I know that you're twisted :)
Sure, sure ... we believe you.
Is that really the point when you talk about popularity? For the site to become large enough for the exposure they give to artists being worth the 15% rake you have to assume that the "market" for CC music is large enough to make that happen. With about 10 music files they are a long way from reaching that goal.
If it becomes popular enough?
Currently:
LegalTorrents - about 70 files
ThePirateBay - about 1.2 million files
How popular do you think they will become while most people continue straight down the street to the all-you-can-eat-for-free next door?
From your comment I can assume that either:
1) Your install is headless
2) You have been using Gentoo for less than 12 months
3) You are still running XFree86 instead of Xorg
4) Your memory is very selective
The very idea that every update goes smoothly without a single dependency block is something that most Gentoo users would laugh at. Given all of the problems with the Xorg update, or the changes in libraries that borked the tree for months last year this is laughable.
Portage is a great piece of software, and I stuck with Gentoo for many years because because of its strengths. But portage is not what lets Gentoo down. The complete lack of QA on the official tree that leads to dependency blocks, updated libraries in the stable tree that break ABI compatability with previous software and the general cavalier attitude to pushing any old crap into the stable release are what kills Gentoo.
But hey, after complaining about Gentoo for years (not even including the pain that was getting a Via media box to work) I put my money where my mouth was and went out to buy a nice stable unix system that can also run a stable version of ports. I bought a mac.
William. Shatner. Sighted.
No. You are assuming that an optimal strategy would be deterministic. In fact it will be a mixed (probabilistic) strategy. The random mixing prevents the other side from determining your cards and style of play with high enough odds to beat you.
The problem with Google is that you generally need to know the name of a thing before you can search for it. Be enlightened at the coolness. Yes it is a very good idea, it was big in the 80s. You are right that it will be big again in a few years when there are lots of idle cores sitting around.
Most of these problems (about each folder choice refining the set of further choices) could be solved just by changing the label interface. Currently it sits there fairly constant. If it were changed so that when you select a single label, it just shows the choices of label that intersect with that one then most of your navigation dilemmas sould be solved. Perhaps it would make a good suggestion in their feedback?