It's our politicians who don't understand "terrorism". We have a "war on terrorism" which is counterproductive because terrorists are not at war with us. We can tell they are not at war with us because if they were, they would pick their targets differently. Terrorists are just media whores who win when we overreact.
Yeah -- flying airplanes into a couple buildings was a tragic event for those affected.
40-50,000 people per year die on the highways. As a result, shall we allow warrantless wiretapping? To we start wars? Do we abandon habeas? It would be really easy to reduce the death rate in all kind of annoying ways. We could shutdown freeways. Mandate all cars have breath test. Require rigorous testing of drivers. Forbid teenage driving.
My point was that terrorists are not "at war" with us -- if they were, they wouldn't pick such useless targets. Our knee jerk response has been ridiculous compared to the actual threat. We have run to the government to build up a police state all around us. Look at any police state ever -- they're all corrupt from the top levels with their bailouts, to the bottom levels with their hands in the luggage or a hand out for a small bribe.
Airplane terrorism really isn't all that effective. In contrast, blow a series of holes in the Colonial Pipeline -- 5500 miles of target -- and the eastern seaboard is out of gas: http://kaznak.web.infoseek.co.jp/big/colonialpipeline.jpg
Realistically, 9/11 affected a small number of people and the stock market. If the terrorists had taken out a significant portion of the energy infrastructure, America would have simply withered. In other words, the "terrorists" are just media junkies -- it's plain they don't actually want to hurt America at all because if they did, their targets would NOT be airplanes.
Anyway, our response to the "attack" was to attack ourselves, our freedoms, and unrelated countries. We chose to do nothing to actually enhance security, but we have managed to spend ridiculous sums of money and create huge annoyances for ourselves.
Only if you used the surplus from the Democrats' favorite flat tax called social security and medicade. Wait -- aren't flat taxes regressive? Funny how if you compare the tax burden in Communist China with that of the US (add in the 15.3% for SS), China looks like us. Here's a nice graph showing Clinton's so-called balanced budgets.
If you make $100k in the US, you'll spend (burn) 37% of your income in taxes and SS. Scroll down for the tax chart. SS is 15.3% of the first 102k or so. Anyway. the government will take your taxes AND the SS and spend it on whatever crap it wants. Then, when all the baby boomers who spent rather than saved the SS surpluses retire, they will tell us younger folks that SS needs to be raised to 30% and that it's fair because they paid into the system. Of course the part they will be neglecting is that they didn't really pay into the system, they paid and then spent on other purposes every extra nickel rather than setting it aside for retirement.
There must be other costs involved than simply digging it up. Total recently indicated that with oil at $90/bbl, their oil sand project provides a 12.5% return. That means converting oil sand into usable product costs $80/bbl.
As I said: "the drive must be in a living system". I figured people would think of a "living system" as one in which the drive is installed and the computer running. I suppose I was wrong.
I think what is most interesting about the cold boot attack is how a system that was thought to be extremely secure, can fall to really smart people. Some really smart person/group in the future may figure out how to recover the old data on a drive despite zeroing or encrypting. Unless the drive is actually destroyed, there is always a chance, no matter how small, that the data will be recovered. Pirates had it right: dead men tell no tales.
The challenge does not seem well designed. First of, the person attempting it has to pay postage both ways, deposit $60 with the organization hosting the challenge and forfeit the deposit if the drive is not returned in the same condition as it was when sent (how are you going to use a scanning tunneling microscope if you don't take it apart), they only get three days, and the reward is a whopping $40.
Although the drive has to be in a living system and not on the shelf, it's worth noting the cold boot attack: http://citp.princeton.edu/memory/
Q. What encryption software is vulnerable to these attacks?
A. We have demonstrated practical attacks against several popular disk encryption systems: BitLocker (a feature of Windows Vista), FileVault (a feature of Mac OS X), dm-crypt (a feature of Linux), and TrueCrypt (a third-party application for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X). Since these problems result from common design limitations of these systems rather than specific bugs, most similar disk encryption applications, including many running on servers, are probably also vulnerable.
If you have your hand up a lot, it is going to get tired. If you only rarely touch things on the screen, why bother with it -- it makes three places for your hands when even two is sometimes inconvenient. A touch screen in a horizontal orientation probably wouldn't be so tiring, but that would take a complete redesign of desks -- a normal desk is simply too high for that purpose. Of course, a lower desk will encourage a forward slouch.
The comment is by Alan Kay at 7:10. And of course, I misspelled "Engelbart". Anyway here's the quote (Sketchpad is from 1962):
"By the way, Sketchpad was the first system in which it was definitely discovered that the light pen is a very bad input device because the blood runs out of your hand in about 20 seconds and leaves it numb. In spite of that it's been reinvented at least 90 times in the last 25 years." Alan Kay, 1987.
In which Douglas Englebart discovered that it was very tiring to use a touch screen display in the 60s. Half a century later, we'll be relearning that.
I'm so impressed with the public services our Government has offered us over the last 8 years. Death, debt, taxes, and bailouts. I look forward to the next 4 of Death, debt, taxes, and bailouts, with an added dash of extra taxes for such misguided concepts as government subsidies for the health insurance industry. If I wasn't an immoral pussy, I'd quit paying taxes. I just don't want to go to jail.
No the taxman is greedy. I have a small business in WA state. We have no state income tax -- Olympia just hides the ridiculous taxation by trying to grind all small businesses into the dirt while giving tax breaks to the gargantuan corps. Worse than Oly though, the city I live in charges property tax on personal property. Every year, I have to pay property tax on my desk, stapler, pens, paper clips, paper, etc. -- though I am thankfully "allowed" to estimate the value of the smaller items. Of course, I already paid close to 9% sales tax when I bought that "personal property" -- nice double dip.
So I say kudos to anyone who avoids taxes and gets away with it. Besides, what will the government do with the money aside from blowing things up or bailing out mega-banks. I'd get more value from my tax dollars if I just stacked them up once a year and torched 'em.
The future bodes poorly anyway. 15-20 years out, the favored flat tax of the Democrats (Social Security/Medicare/aid) will have to go from the current 15.3% to something like 80%. How do you think people will react then? Nobody will pay that much tax -- it will either be rebellion at the tax, default, and/or hyperinflation if our government tries printing its way out of it. Why bother investing today in the sinking ship that is the USA?
That's a pretty black and white perspective. Is it OK to shoot and kill a burglar who is making off with your TV? In many states, yes it is, at least from a legal perspective. Why is it OK to kill someone who takes a $200 TV set without permission, but not OK when someone takes large sums of money from your business without permission?
I'm not saying Nina deserved it, but by all accounts the divorce was messy and both were playing to win, i.e., both did their share of dirt. Despite that, it seems that many are elevating Nina to sainthood merely because she is dead. While being dead is a prerequisite for sainthood, the fact that someone is dead does not make that person a saint.
In other words, in the real low contrast world of gray, we can recognize the possibility that Nina AND Hans were both rather bad people.
First -- why is this marked redundant? This is just some guy's personal thinking on the subject (granted there's a grammatical glitch in the first sentence, but this is Slashdot, not Harper's Review, and who here hasn't posted without proofing?).
Anyway, regarding murder over a flippant remark: This was the last trigger in an acrimonious divorce where both parties used the kids as pawns in their own games. Murders happen in such circumstances all the time because of the buildup of mutual anger over the years -- that's why he was offered manslaughter the first time around. Nobody thinks he'd commit murder over a flippant remark in normal circumstances, it's the emotional trainwreck built up behind that remark which snapped him.
Few of us are immune from going overboard. Most of us don't kill but most of us have probably blown up verbally and regretted it later at least one time in our lifetimes. Sometimes it can go farther. One of my girlfriends once choked me to the point of dizziness (out of anger, nothing kinky going on) over some remark so slight I can't even recall what it was. Fortunately, we split up, she got married and has kids. I truly don't think she is a psycho murderess at heart -- she was just royally pissed off -- we were so wrong in every way. It happens. And I'm not innocent either, I tried to smother her with a pillow in my sleep (I have no memory of this, she told me about it the next day and I believe she was telling the truth -- I've always been a sleep walker/talker). Obviously our relationship could not be described as "healthy". Makes for some good stories though.
I've seen lot's of "Bush" stickers calling him everything from "bush" (female pubic hair) to worse. If you are a warhawk, expect to be called motherfucker, dickhead, bitch, cunt, or any other number of colorful words. Given that Hillary Clinton was a murder supporting scumbucket just like Bush, people should feel free to call either of them anything without being labeled sexist.
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It's our politicians who don't understand "terrorism". We have a "war on terrorism" which is counterproductive because terrorists are not at war with us. We can tell they are not at war with us because if they were, they would pick their targets differently. Terrorists are just media whores who win when we overreact.
Yeah -- flying airplanes into a couple buildings was a tragic event for those affected.
40-50,000 people per year die on the highways. As a result, shall we allow warrantless wiretapping? To we start wars? Do we abandon habeas? It would be really easy to reduce the death rate in all kind of annoying ways. We could shutdown freeways. Mandate all cars have breath test. Require rigorous testing of drivers. Forbid teenage driving.
My point was that terrorists are not "at war" with us -- if they were, they wouldn't pick such useless targets. Our knee jerk response has been ridiculous compared to the actual threat. We have run to the government to build up a police state all around us. Look at any police state ever -- they're all corrupt from the top levels with their bailouts, to the bottom levels with their hands in the luggage or a hand out for a small bribe.
Airplane terrorism really isn't all that effective. In contrast, blow a series of holes in the Colonial Pipeline -- 5500 miles of target -- and the eastern seaboard is out of gas: http://kaznak.web.infoseek.co.jp/big/colonialpipeline.jpg
Realistically, 9/11 affected a small number of people and the stock market. If the terrorists had taken out a significant portion of the energy infrastructure, America would have simply withered. In other words, the "terrorists" are just media junkies -- it's plain they don't actually want to hurt America at all because if they did, their targets would NOT be airplanes.
Anyway, our response to the "attack" was to attack ourselves, our freedoms, and unrelated countries. We chose to do nothing to actually enhance security, but we have managed to spend ridiculous sums of money and create huge annoyances for ourselves.
I can't wait to actually see I.O.U.S.A. -- sure doesn't make Clinton's surpluses look all that impressive: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGgjU-h_xQw
Only if you used the surplus from the Democrats' favorite flat tax called social security and medicade. Wait -- aren't flat taxes regressive? Funny how if you compare the tax burden in Communist China with that of the US (add in the 15.3% for SS), China looks like us. Here's a nice graph showing Clinton's so-called balanced budgets.
If you make $100k in the US, you'll spend (burn) 37% of your income in taxes and SS. Scroll down for the tax chart. SS is 15.3% of the first 102k or so. Anyway. the government will take your taxes AND the SS and spend it on whatever crap it wants. Then, when all the baby boomers who spent rather than saved the SS surpluses retire, they will tell us younger folks that SS needs to be raised to 30% and that it's fair because they paid into the system. Of course the part they will be neglecting is that they didn't really pay into the system, they paid and then spent on other purposes every extra nickel rather than setting it aside for retirement.
There must be other costs involved than simply digging it up. Total recently indicated that with oil at $90/bbl, their oil sand project provides a 12.5% return. That means converting oil sand into usable product costs $80/bbl.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/dc3b9c66-8053-11dd-99a9-000077b07658.html
As I said: "the drive must be in a living system". I figured people would think of a "living system" as one in which the drive is installed and the computer running. I suppose I was wrong.
I think what is most interesting about the cold boot attack is how a system that was thought to be extremely secure, can fall to really smart people. Some really smart person/group in the future may figure out how to recover the old data on a drive despite zeroing or encrypting. Unless the drive is actually destroyed, there is always a chance, no matter how small, that the data will be recovered. Pirates had it right: dead men tell no tales.
The challenge does not seem well designed. First of, the person attempting it has to pay postage both ways, deposit $60 with the organization hosting the challenge and forfeit the deposit if the drive is not returned in the same condition as it was when sent (how are you going to use a scanning tunneling microscope if you don't take it apart), they only get three days, and the reward is a whopping $40.
Don't forget the $20 bump to get white! go that route and it's $40 more.
If you have your hand up a lot, it is going to get tired. If you only rarely touch things on the screen, why bother with it -- it makes three places for your hands when even two is sometimes inconvenient. A touch screen in a horizontal orientation probably wouldn't be so tiring, but that would take a complete redesign of desks -- a normal desk is simply too high for that purpose. Of course, a lower desk will encourage a forward slouch.
The comment is by Alan Kay at 7:10. And of course, I misspelled "Engelbart". Anyway here's the quote (Sketchpad is from 1962):
"By the way, Sketchpad was the first system in which it was definitely discovered that the light pen is a very bad input device because the blood runs out of your hand in about 20 seconds and leaves it numb. In spite of that it's been reinvented at least 90 times in the last 25 years." Alan Kay, 1987.
I think it is this video: http://www.archive.org/details/AlanKeyD1987
In which Douglas Englebart discovered that it was very tiring to use a touch screen display in the 60s. Half a century later, we'll be relearning that.
I'm so impressed with the public services our Government has offered us over the last 8 years. Death, debt, taxes, and bailouts. I look forward to the next 4 of Death, debt, taxes, and bailouts, with an added dash of extra taxes for such misguided concepts as government subsidies for the health insurance industry. If I wasn't an immoral pussy, I'd quit paying taxes. I just don't want to go to jail.
That's awesome -- if you could condense it down to a bumper sticker, I'd buy one!
No the taxman is greedy. I have a small business in WA state. We have no state income tax -- Olympia just hides the ridiculous taxation by trying to grind all small businesses into the dirt while giving tax breaks to the gargantuan corps. Worse than Oly though, the city I live in charges property tax on personal property. Every year, I have to pay property tax on my desk, stapler, pens, paper clips, paper, etc. -- though I am thankfully "allowed" to estimate the value of the smaller items. Of course, I already paid close to 9% sales tax when I bought that "personal property" -- nice double dip.
So I say kudos to anyone who avoids taxes and gets away with it. Besides, what will the government do with the money aside from blowing things up or bailing out mega-banks. I'd get more value from my tax dollars if I just stacked them up once a year and torched 'em.
The future bodes poorly anyway. 15-20 years out, the favored flat tax of the Democrats (Social Security/Medicare/aid) will have to go from the current 15.3% to something like 80%. How do you think people will react then? Nobody will pay that much tax -- it will either be rebellion at the tax, default, and/or hyperinflation if our government tries printing its way out of it. Why bother investing today in the sinking ship that is the USA?
Fox | Henhouse. Our government IS a fraud.
They were in the middle of a divorce.
Great zingers there -- here's another one: "infantile infestation".
That's a pretty black and white perspective. Is it OK to shoot and kill a burglar who is making off with your TV? In many states, yes it is, at least from a legal perspective. Why is it OK to kill someone who takes a $200 TV set without permission, but not OK when someone takes large sums of money from your business without permission?
I'm not saying Nina deserved it, but by all accounts the divorce was messy and both were playing to win, i.e., both did their share of dirt. Despite that, it seems that many are elevating Nina to sainthood merely because she is dead. While being dead is a prerequisite for sainthood, the fact that someone is dead does not make that person a saint.
In other words, in the real low contrast world of gray, we can recognize the possibility that Nina AND Hans were both rather bad people.
Don't get too far into the "EVIL" game. Nina was no angel either.
First -- why is this marked redundant? This is just some guy's personal thinking on the subject (granted there's a grammatical glitch in the first sentence, but this is Slashdot, not Harper's Review, and who here hasn't posted without proofing?).
Anyway, regarding murder over a flippant remark: This was the last trigger in an acrimonious divorce where both parties used the kids as pawns in their own games. Murders happen in such circumstances all the time because of the buildup of mutual anger over the years -- that's why he was offered manslaughter the first time around. Nobody thinks he'd commit murder over a flippant remark in normal circumstances, it's the emotional trainwreck built up behind that remark which snapped him.
Few of us are immune from going overboard. Most of us don't kill but most of us have probably blown up verbally and regretted it later at least one time in our lifetimes. Sometimes it can go farther. One of my girlfriends once choked me to the point of dizziness (out of anger, nothing kinky going on) over some remark so slight I can't even recall what it was. Fortunately, we split up, she got married and has kids. I truly don't think she is a psycho murderess at heart -- she was just royally pissed off -- we were so wrong in every way. It happens. And I'm not innocent either, I tried to smother her with a pillow in my sleep (I have no memory of this, she told me about it the next day and I believe she was telling the truth -- I've always been a sleep walker/talker). Obviously our relationship could not be described as "healthy". Makes for some good stories though.
I've seen lot's of "Bush" stickers calling him everything from "bush" (female pubic hair) to worse. If you are a warhawk, expect to be called motherfucker, dickhead, bitch, cunt, or any other number of colorful words. Given that Hillary Clinton was a murder supporting scumbucket just like Bush, people should feel free to call either of them anything without being labeled sexist.
You're going to get grief on the "broodmare" comment, which is a shame, cause that was a great line. I'd mod you up if I had 'em.
motion.
http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/
feature list:
http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/MotionFeatureList
You could have it trigger an external program to get that "one big button set at the factory" effect merely by walking into the kitchen.