The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists gives the president the right to declare anyone, even an American citizen, a terrorist and have them put in jail indefinitely without trial. The National Defense Authorization Act of FY 2012 would make this explicitly allowed, and has been approved by both the Senate and the House. The US government has not yet abused this on as large a scale as China, but that's likely only a matter of time.
I know you didn't come up with the have/know/are thing.
And the entire point is that something you are and something you have are almost always the same thing. Biometrics are good enough for a few hundred dollars, but as the value of the item being protected increases the risk of acquiring one becomes more and more worth the effort.
Hmm, AnySoft supports text prediction and special characters via long-press. As for touch typing, I can't touch type on a phone keyboard. Even with a hardware keyboard it's too small to fit my hands properly, so I end up hunt & pecking anyway. May as well use a software keyboard that can be a bit easier to find the letters on.
Biometrics are just another "something you have." George has a finger that unlocks his computer with . Sam has a knife. Now Sam has a finger that unlocks the computer formerly owned by George.
The advantages of biometrics are that they are more difficult to lose and tend to be a bit harder to get away with stealing. The disadvantage is that they generally can't be changed and tend to have far worse implications if they are stolen. Biometrics are a good replacement for a username, not for a password.
HA!
On a more serious note, there are some reasons for the bad tuning of most bagpipes people hear.
First is that many pipers people hear are soloists. Also known as the pipers who failed the band audition.
Second is that the pipes use just temperament, not equal temperament, and so won't be in tune with modern instruments. Or with modern electronic tuners. So if you mix the pipes with other instruments you have to tune them differently, and even if you don't you can't use most electronic tuners. The ones you can use are over $200.
Third, bagpipe A is somewhere above Bb, around 460-480hz. You need to buy a special chanter (the bit that plays the melody notes) to play at A=440hz. When playing with another instrument this can easily lead to an "out of tune" sound.
Fourth, the pipe plays in D major, B minor, or A mixolydian. That last one is the weird one, and it's pretty common. If it were A major the G would be G#, but instead it's G-natural. G# would be very discordant with the drones, which play A. This makes the G sound odd, but it's a 7th and isn't used that often. The pipes were originally a pentatonic instrument, music using non-pentatonic modes tends to sound strange.
Finally, you have to blow perfectly steadily and move the tuning slides without looking. It's not that hard to do, but some people mess it up. And if you can't blow steadily enough to tune your pipes, you certainly can't blow steadily enough to play them.
Anysoft keyboard allows different layouts. It's software keyboard only AFAIK, but I don't like moving parts in expensive handheld devices so I don't have a hardware keyboard. It's much easier to hunt & peck on than qwerty.
Cloak: faireware.com. High quality cloaks, hooded robes, etc. Kate's stuff stands up to all sorts of abuse.
Altar: You need a stone block, try your local masonry supply store.
Goat: Goats are pretty easy to get, some varieties are sold as pets. Finding a livestock dealer can be the hardest bit here.
For actually getting a phone to talk to a PC, it's generally not very hard. Root, flash custom ROM if needed to enable tethering, plug in USB cable. Some phones support "wifi hotspot" functionality, at which point you just turn it on, then connect your PC to the phone via wifi. Depending on carrier you may need to pay to tether, rooting may get around this but some carriers try to detect tetherers.
I had a choice: Buy a $200 bagpipe tuner (the cheap chromatic tuners are all equal tempered, and thus don't work for just-tempered instruments like the great highland bagpipe), and a ~$100 GPS and a $100 ipod and a $20 metronome... or buy one android phone, install gStrings, mobile metronome and PowerAmp (under $10 total) and get more total functionality for the same overall price. That's ignoring the phone aspect, obviously. And the camera. And the e-mail. And the text messaging with a full dvorak keyboard. And the mobile web browser...
I have an Android phone (Samsung Vibrant) and I both over and under clock it. SetCPU profiles underclock when battery gets low/temp gets high, overclock a bit when under load, and a lot when plugged in and under load.
This is not at all surprising, and agrees VERY well with theory. Yet another confirmation of the Standard Model. This measurement does decrease the error bars a good bit, so it's important, but not as important as if it were a new fundamental particle or a violation of the SM.
Not just biological.
Take the top quark, discovered at Fermilab in 1995, 22 years after it was theorized. Why did it take so long? Because it's very massive, and thus very unstable. 172.9±1.5 GeV/c2 is enormous for an elementary particle, and takes a very powerful accelerator to create. That is, it takes a bunch of energy.
Energy is not free, even in a post-singularity civilization energy will have a cost. Energy used for a particle accelerator can't be used elsewhere. The LHC shuts down in the winter partly because the generating capacity of france/switzerland would not be enough to heat homes and run the LHC.
And there certainly seem to be fundamental limits on generating capacity. Those pesky laws of thermodynamics get in the way. Modern physics just takes lots of power, so until there's a surplus large enough to drive costs towards 0 it will stay expensive.
Chrome doesn't work for me, since it does not allow sidebar tabs. Opera, on the other hand, does. Still no tree-style tabs, but I can live without that for a while. This announcement just served as a nice reminder to uninstall Firefox.
Consider the main goal of the NSA: To have access to all communications everywhere, and to analyze them for any threats to US power.
From their mission statement: "Collect (including through clandestine means), process, analyze, produce, and disseminate signals intelligence information and data for foreign intelligence and counterintelligence purposes to support national and departmental missions." "This Agency also enables Network Warfare operations to defeat terrorists and their organizations at home and abroad" (Emphasis mine.)
You assume that they do not have backdoors in any of the vulnerable components of your computer, that nowhere in the software, the OS, or the hardware of the processor did the best-funded security agency in the world succeed in creating a backdoor. You assume that this same agency can't break PGP/AES/whatever cipher you have. And you assume they're not interested enough in what you are sending to make their capabilities public by your arrest.
Only the last assumption is reasonable. To assume that not one Intel engineer is an NSA plant, that not one Microsoft programmer hid some code, that not a single implementation weakness or side-channel attack is present in your encryption app is a very big assumption. Far safer to assume the NSA/China/etc know what you're writing, and keep major stuff off of computers.
Wrong. MITM attacks are possible with DNS poisoning. You need both authentication and encryption.
That said, the two should not be one mechanism. Encryption should be separated from authentication, and should be always on. Reducing the number of attackers with the resources to complete an attack is adding security.
That's why the only site I allow ads on is krebsonsecurity.com. Brian Krebs reviews every ad that runs on his site. When some criminals tried to sneak in a 'malvertising' ad he saw it, stopped it (actually the ad network flagged it first) and posted about what had happened.
If it's not too much work for one man to do, then any big site should be able to put in the effort. Anyone who won't gets blocked.
Even the devotion to alchemy. It was the chemistry of his day, and promised the best understanding of chemical interactions available. That it was based on an impossible goal (transmutation of elements via chemical reactions) doesn't mean there was nothing worth studying. Quite a few of the elements were discovered by alchemists, and modern chemistry came from alchemy.
What's the point of a built-in keyboard on a phone with bluetooth anyway? More moving parts, impossible to touch type on, always bulky even when you won't be typing, etc, etc. Get a bluetooth keyboard and be done with it. If you don't care about touch-typing there are bluetooth keyboards about the same size as most phones. eg the Rii mini. If you do, a folding keyboard may be better, such as the Verbatim 97537 or any of the numerous others.
World of Warcraft uses bittorrent to distribute updates.
Pando Media Booster uses bittorrent to distribute updates, and is used by quite a few other games (League of Legends, Lord of the Rings Online, etc, etc).
Linux ISOs are hardly the biggest legitimate use of bittorrent.
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The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists gives the president the right to declare anyone, even an American citizen, a terrorist and have them put in jail indefinitely without trial. The National Defense Authorization Act of FY 2012 would make this explicitly allowed, and has been approved by both the Senate and the House. The US government has not yet abused this on as large a scale as China, but that's likely only a matter of time.
Yet another vote for Linode. Good pricing, great service.
I know you didn't come up with the have/know/are thing.
And the entire point is that something you are and something you have are almost always the same thing. Biometrics are good enough for a few hundred dollars, but as the value of the item being protected increases the risk of acquiring one becomes more and more worth the effort.
Hmm, AnySoft supports text prediction and special characters via long-press. As for touch typing, I can't touch type on a phone keyboard. Even with a hardware keyboard it's too small to fit my hands properly, so I end up hunt & pecking anyway. May as well use a software keyboard that can be a bit easier to find the letters on.
Biometrics are just another "something you have." George has a finger that unlocks his computer with . Sam has a knife. Now Sam has a finger that unlocks the computer formerly owned by George. The advantages of biometrics are that they are more difficult to lose and tend to be a bit harder to get away with stealing. The disadvantage is that they generally can't be changed and tend to have far worse implications if they are stolen. Biometrics are a good replacement for a username, not for a password.
HA!
On a more serious note, there are some reasons for the bad tuning of most bagpipes people hear.
First is that many pipers people hear are soloists. Also known as the pipers who failed the band audition.
Second is that the pipes use just temperament, not equal temperament, and so won't be in tune with modern instruments. Or with modern electronic tuners. So if you mix the pipes with other instruments you have to tune them differently, and even if you don't you can't use most electronic tuners. The ones you can use are over $200.
Third, bagpipe A is somewhere above Bb, around 460-480hz. You need to buy a special chanter (the bit that plays the melody notes) to play at A=440hz. When playing with another instrument this can easily lead to an "out of tune" sound.
Fourth, the pipe plays in D major, B minor, or A mixolydian. That last one is the weird one, and it's pretty common. If it were A major the G would be G#, but instead it's G-natural. G# would be very discordant with the drones, which play A. This makes the G sound odd, but it's a 7th and isn't used that often. The pipes were originally a pentatonic instrument, music using non-pentatonic modes tends to sound strange.
Finally, you have to blow perfectly steadily and move the tuning slides without looking. It's not that hard to do, but some people mess it up. And if you can't blow steadily enough to tune your pipes, you certainly can't blow steadily enough to play them.
Anysoft keyboard allows different layouts. It's software keyboard only AFAIK, but I don't like moving parts in expensive handheld devices so I don't have a hardware keyboard. It's much easier to hunt & peck on than qwerty.
Cloak: faireware.com. High quality cloaks, hooded robes, etc. Kate's stuff stands up to all sorts of abuse.
Altar: You need a stone block, try your local masonry supply store.
Goat: Goats are pretty easy to get, some varieties are sold as pets. Finding a livestock dealer can be the hardest bit here.
For actually getting a phone to talk to a PC, it's generally not very hard. Root, flash custom ROM if needed to enable tethering, plug in USB cable. Some phones support "wifi hotspot" functionality, at which point you just turn it on, then connect your PC to the phone via wifi. Depending on carrier you may need to pay to tether, rooting may get around this but some carriers try to detect tetherers.
I had a choice: Buy a $200 bagpipe tuner (the cheap chromatic tuners are all equal tempered, and thus don't work for just-tempered instruments like the great highland bagpipe), and a ~$100 GPS and a $100 ipod and a $20 metronome... or buy one android phone, install gStrings, mobile metronome and PowerAmp (under $10 total) and get more total functionality for the same overall price. That's ignoring the phone aspect, obviously. And the camera. And the e-mail. And the text messaging with a full dvorak keyboard. And the mobile web browser...
I have an Android phone (Samsung Vibrant) and I both over and under clock it. SetCPU profiles underclock when battery gets low/temp gets high, overclock a bit when under load, and a lot when plugged in and under load.
To a particle physicist, 10^-25 kg is heavy.
This is not at all surprising, and agrees VERY well with theory. Yet another confirmation of the Standard Model. This measurement does decrease the error bars a good bit, so it's important, but not as important as if it were a new fundamental particle or a violation of the SM.
Not just biological.
Take the top quark, discovered at Fermilab in 1995, 22 years after it was theorized. Why did it take so long? Because it's very massive, and thus very unstable. 172.9±1.5 GeV/c2 is enormous for an elementary particle, and takes a very powerful accelerator to create. That is, it takes a bunch of energy.
Energy is not free, even in a post-singularity civilization energy will have a cost. Energy used for a particle accelerator can't be used elsewhere. The LHC shuts down in the winter partly because the generating capacity of france/switzerland would not be enough to heat homes and run the LHC.
And there certainly seem to be fundamental limits on generating capacity. Those pesky laws of thermodynamics get in the way. Modern physics just takes lots of power, so until there's a surplus large enough to drive costs towards 0 it will stay expensive.
MAFIAAFire has a chrome version.
I agree, it's the one thing Opera is missing for me. Happily tabs can at least be put in the sidebar and grouped.
Chrome doesn't work for me, since it does not allow sidebar tabs. Opera, on the other hand, does. Still no tree-style tabs, but I can live without that for a while. This announcement just served as a nice reminder to uninstall Firefox.
Consider the main goal of the NSA: To have access to all communications everywhere, and to analyze them for any threats to US power.
From their mission statement: "Collect (including through clandestine means), process, analyze, produce, and disseminate signals intelligence information and data for foreign intelligence and counterintelligence purposes to support national and departmental missions." "This Agency also enables Network Warfare operations to defeat terrorists and their organizations at home and abroad" (Emphasis mine.)
You assume that they do not have backdoors in any of the vulnerable components of your computer, that nowhere in the software, the OS, or the hardware of the processor did the best-funded security agency in the world succeed in creating a backdoor. You assume that this same agency can't break PGP/AES/whatever cipher you have. And you assume they're not interested enough in what you are sending to make their capabilities public by your arrest.
Only the last assumption is reasonable. To assume that not one Intel engineer is an NSA plant, that not one Microsoft programmer hid some code, that not a single implementation weakness or side-channel attack is present in your encryption app is a very big assumption. Far safer to assume the NSA/China/etc know what you're writing, and keep major stuff off of computers.
Except woad. War paint is a form of cosmetic. Plenty of true Scotsmen wore woad.
Wrong. MITM attacks are possible with DNS poisoning. You need both authentication and encryption.
That said, the two should not be one mechanism. Encryption should be separated from authentication, and should be always on. Reducing the number of attackers with the resources to complete an attack is adding security.
That's why the only site I allow ads on is krebsonsecurity.com. Brian Krebs reviews every ad that runs on his site. When some criminals tried to sneak in a 'malvertising' ad he saw it, stopped it (actually the ad network flagged it first) and posted about what had happened.
If it's not too much work for one man to do, then any big site should be able to put in the effort. Anyone who won't gets blocked.
Even the devotion to alchemy. It was the chemistry of his day, and promised the best understanding of chemical interactions available. That it was based on an impossible goal (transmutation of elements via chemical reactions) doesn't mean there was nothing worth studying. Quite a few of the elements were discovered by alchemists, and modern chemistry came from alchemy.
LBE Privacy guard is similar to PermissionDenied, but no reboot necessary. https://market.android.com/details?id=com.lbe.security.lite
Some of the mini keyboards include a "case" for the phone. They slide out of the external case. I've only seen them for iphones though.
What's the point of a built-in keyboard on a phone with bluetooth anyway? More moving parts, impossible to touch type on, always bulky even when you won't be typing, etc, etc. Get a bluetooth keyboard and be done with it. If you don't care about touch-typing there are bluetooth keyboards about the same size as most phones. eg the Rii mini. If you do, a folding keyboard may be better, such as the Verbatim 97537 or any of the numerous others.
World of Warcraft uses bittorrent to distribute updates.
Pando Media Booster uses bittorrent to distribute updates, and is used by quite a few other games (League of Legends, Lord of the Rings Online, etc, etc).
Linux ISOs are hardly the biggest legitimate use of bittorrent.