Remember, in an exchange of information, you are vulnerable if you or your correspondent uses vulnerable software. A public key generated by GPG is can still be compromised, and messages a correspondent sends to you (possibly containing your own sensitive information) may be intercepted if they are using one of the vulnerable Windows versions of PGP.
So, while it isn't time to panic, it's important to keep in mind that both ends of the channel need to be secure for the information transmitted through it to be secure. We can't be complacent just because we're using free software.
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Since a number of their other claims seem to conflict with the current state of the product as well (e.g., handwriting recognition doesn't seem to be supported yet), I'd give them the benifit of the doubt. They'll almost certainly support Linux synchronization by the release date.
I wonder whether, if neither brother had talked, the appeal would have been sucessful. If so, this looks like a classic instance of the prisoner's dilemma being acted out in real life.
I expect that they got death because they stole from a state bank. They didn't have much choice, since (almost?) all banks in China are run by the government, but had they instead stolen from an american or other foreign bank, I bet that they'd have gotten off more lightly.
The punishment probably did not have much to do with the fact that it was a computer crime -- rather the Chinese government probably saw robbing from them as close to treason.
In the case of a woman who has a fully developed muscular system and has had ample physical exertion all through the pregnancy, as is common with all more primitive peoples, nature provides all the necessary equipment and power to have a normal and quick delivery. This is not the case, however, with more civilized women who often do not have the opportunity to develop the muscles needed in confinement.
I get quite a kick from the language in this section; it sounds much like a passage from an enlightenment treatise on `primitive peoples.' Just what `confinement' do these people think `civilized women' need to be kept while they're pregnant?
Whatever truth there is in this statement certainly suggests that our most common, supposedly civilized method of giving birth, in which the woman lies on her back, should be reconsidered as unhealthy.
An IBM hard drive research-and-developer spoke last week about their current work. He says their plattens are flat to within 90 angstroms, which means that the head is floating less than the mean free path length of air away from the disk surface. The head-to-disk distance seems to be one of the more important limiting factors of how much better disks can be, and I doubt whether we can expect too much more improvement using the current technology.
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Remember, in an exchange of information, you are vulnerable if you or your correspondent uses vulnerable software. A public key generated by GPG is can still be compromised, and messages a correspondent sends to you (possibly containing your own sensitive information) may be intercepted if they are using one of the vulnerable Windows versions of PGP.
So, while it isn't time to panic, it's important to keep in mind that both ends of the channel need to be secure for the information transmitted through it to be secure. We can't be complacent just because we're using free software.
Peter
Since a number of their other claims seem to conflict with the current state of the product as well (e.g., handwriting recognition doesn't seem to be supported yet), I'd give them the benifit of the doubt. They'll almost certainly support Linux synchronization by the release date.
I wonder whether, if neither brother had talked, the appeal would have been sucessful. If so, this looks like a classic instance of the prisoner's dilemma being acted out in real life.
I expect that they got death because they stole from a state bank. They didn't have much choice, since (almost?) all banks in China are run by the government, but had they instead stolen from an american or other foreign bank, I bet that they'd have gotten off more lightly.
The punishment probably did not have much to do with the fact that it was a computer crime -- rather the Chinese government probably saw robbing from them as close to treason.
See the paintings here.
Rather, Revenants would be processes like `safe_mysqld,' those in charge of keeping a specific process respawned.
:)
Of course, they could decide to resurrect netscape too, if properly motivated.
I get quite a kick from the language in this section; it sounds much like a passage from an enlightenment treatise on `primitive peoples.' Just what `confinement' do these people think `civilized women' need to be kept while they're pregnant?
Whatever truth there is in this statement certainly suggests that our most common, supposedly civilized method of giving birth, in which the woman lies on her back, should be reconsidered as unhealthy.
An IBM hard drive research-and-developer spoke last week about their current work. He says their plattens are flat to within 90 angstroms, which means that the head is floating less than the mean free path length of air away from the disk surface. The head-to-disk distance seems to be one of the more important limiting factors of how much better disks can be, and I doubt whether we can expect too much more improvement using the current technology.