These are all current rules for Torah scribes.
Blotting out ink on sheepskin parchment really doesn't work. The Torah scrolls are works of art, having messy blots all over would rather ruin that.
All words in the Torah are written without vowels. Hebrew pretty much never uses vowels, except for teaching children. The "name of god" is also written as Yid Yid and "Hashem" (The Name) in various texts, though the Torah mostly uses Yid Hay Vav Hay.
Because it's open source, and we want to fix it. If we don't know what's bad, we can't submit bug reports and patches. Thus, on this forum, it's more likely a troll than a legitimate complaint.
Mod parent funny. Flamebait? He pretends to be a trolling Xbox gamer, but misspells the words and uses horrible punctuation, thus re-enforcing the stereotype of illiterate Xbox gamers he is speaking against. Such irony is funny.
There's another reason. You can assign a range to correlate to the visible spectrum. So instead of 400-700nm you set violet to red at some other point s in the more useful data. This gives a visualization of the image made in a spectrum we can't naturally see that has more detail than a greyscale image.
Actually, random data is important. Very, very important. Encrypted data should be indistinguishable from random noise. Anyone using TrueCrypt or similar will see a much larger performance decrease than they would on a normal drive, though the SSD may still be faster. It also won't write to random sectors, the wear-leveling algorithm does that.
And since when is 3.50/GB about right? Thats about 3.5x what it would need to be for me to consider it. Normal HDDs have been under $1/GB for quite some time now. It is dropping quickly though.
Actually, a Dyson Sphere would have the same mass as a black hole around an equivalent star, as it encloses the star. Black hole mass = mass of solar system. Sphere mass = Mass of sun + mass of sphere = Mass of solar system.
1) You assume analog is finite. Quantum mechanics says otherwise. You have probably made a false assumption.
2) Not infinite, merely very, very, very large.
Your conclusion is quite probably wrong. QM could be wrong, but that seems unlikely given the amount of evidence for it. That does not truly invalidate your conclusion, there are finite systems which are impossible to model accurately (Godel's incompleteness theorem ensures this) and the brain may be one of these. Thus, the brain may be impossible to model, but not from being infinitely complex.
More the way you think you play. We don't actually know what your brain is doing unconciously in the background. You know some moves are dumb from experience, so you don't move there. But you still had to remember that it was a dumb move. Likewise, the computer still has to look up the score of that move. There are things we do that the computer doesn't and things the computer does that we don't. The trick is finding those things, and this can help work towards that.
Too many steps.
You should have a public/private key pair, and probably a smart card.
1) Sign up for CNN emails. Your browser enters your public key in the background.
2) Your e-mail client downloads CNN's public key, checks the signature, and displays the message as red or green in the inbox. Or sends all unsigned messages from any sender who has signed messages in the past to an "unverified mail" folder (bad name, what's unverified? Everyone knows what spam is. Perhaps unknown sender?) Extra security can be applied to unsigned mail.
But note the important thing: The user doesn't have to do anything more than sign up like they normally would. The e-mail client and web browser should do all the work, behind the scenes, automagically. Also, you don't actually need the user's public key unless you're encrypting, or the user is sending e-mail.
Kerio Personal Firewall (with app behaviour blocking set to paranoid levels), ClamWIN/avg/NOD32/other good antivirus (not norton/mcaffe/etc), and Anti Hook do a good job of securing windows.
iptables, clamav, and maybe a graphical frontend for iptables like KMyFirewall do a good job securing linux... But iptables is built in. And in the Windows case, Antivirus really isn't needed with a good firewall/behavior blocker (Kerio+Anti Hook, for example.)
Any system, when placed behind secure enough walls, can be secure from threats outside the walls. Some systems are more secure against internal threats than others. In Linux, most of what you can easily screw up is your own home directory. In Windows XP, you can screw anything except other user's home directories, and often even them, and in Vista you can't screw much up if UAC is on, but it often gets turned off.
Linux and Vista both have security. Linux just has usable security. Security alone is worthless if the user removes it to do work, it must not interfere with the normal operation of a computer.
Quite. Software-only problems cannot "brick" a device. To truly brick a device that device must be no more useful than a brick, a paperweight. A bricked device requires non-trivial hardware replacement to un-brick, if that's even possible.
To brick you iPhone (one method) open it up, take a soldering iron to it, desolder everything, grind the components up, fix them in glue, and glue them inside. Put it back together. The iPhone is now bricked. Note the presence of a hardware problem, and not a software-only issue.
You read the warning. That puts you in a separate category from 90+% of users. Then you understood it. Now you're in the top 1%. Many UI designers fail to understand that users do not read dialog boxes, warnings, error messages, or anything else. Years of windows "Exception 0xFFEEABA1432534 at 0xFA582446774645 have caused the thingamabob to bignumber2sopbyybasoutb." type errors have made users ignore even clearly written dialog boxes and instructions. Read User Interface Design for Programmers to get a better idea of this and how it matters.
"If my data needs encrypted," well, there's your problem. And I'm not talking about the grammar error, I mean that you think there is a good reason any data transmitted over the internet shouldn't be encrypted. Your data, all data, should be able to be encrypted, and should be encrypted by default.
Users don't read alert boxes. This is a bad idea. A small bar at the top or bottom is better, changing the address bar is best. Say, red background for http, yellow for https self signed, green for https signed by a CA. There, simple system, similar to the built-in anti-phishing, and easy to teach. Red = bad already. Green = good.
You could even have an alert bar, like FF3 does for passwords and blocked popups, explaining the colour. That way if you get the 1-in-a-thousand user who reads alerts they'll know what it all means.
Re:no encryption that YOU didn't write is safe
on
Is Hushmail Still Safe?
·
· Score: 2, Informative
I introduce people to KeePass Password Safe and teach them how to use it to store and generate passwords. It can auto-fill in passwords, stores them in an AES encrypted database, can store attachments (say, your GPG private key,) and supports keyfiles. It's small enough to fit on a USB key, and open source. It has autotype, and that checks the URL. This reduces the risk of typing your password into a phishing site. Because of this program, almost all my passwords are >20 characters of random junk, and I don't know any of them.
Slashdot Mirror
These are all current rules for Torah scribes.
Blotting out ink on sheepskin parchment really doesn't work. The Torah scrolls are works of art, having messy blots all over would rather ruin that.
All words in the Torah are written without vowels. Hebrew pretty much never uses vowels, except for teaching children. The "name of god" is also written as Yid Yid and "Hashem" (The Name) in various texts, though the Torah mostly uses Yid Hay Vav Hay.
You can get all this, but it's a tad expensive and the fanless heatsinks tend to be rather large. Some are external, with heatpipes.
There is an underground movement, called the GNAA. http://www.gnaa.us/ Some of their stuff is funny, most just annoying.
Or global warming has nothing whatsoever to do with the existence of the planet as a whole.
That's the 2-player code.
Up-Up-Down-Down-Left-Right-Left-Right-A-B-(Start) is single player contra.
Because it's open source, and we want to fix it. If we don't know what's bad, we can't submit bug reports and patches. Thus, on this forum, it's more likely a troll than a legitimate complaint.
Only in the U.S.A. In Britain it goes outside, which makes much more sense.
Mod parent funny. Flamebait? He pretends to be a trolling Xbox gamer, but misspells the words and uses horrible punctuation, thus re-enforcing the stereotype of illiterate Xbox gamers he is speaking against. Such irony is funny.
There's another reason. You can assign a range to correlate to the visible spectrum. So instead of 400-700nm you set violet to red at some other point s in the more useful data. This gives a visualization of the image made in a spectrum we can't naturally see that has more detail than a greyscale image.
Actually, random data is important. Very, very important. Encrypted data should be indistinguishable from random noise. Anyone using TrueCrypt or similar will see a much larger performance decrease than they would on a normal drive, though the SSD may still be faster. It also won't write to random sectors, the wear-leveling algorithm does that.
And since when is 3.50/GB about right? Thats about 3.5x what it would need to be for me to consider it. Normal HDDs have been under $1/GB for quite some time now. It is dropping quickly though.
Actually, a Dyson Sphere would have the same mass as a black hole around an equivalent star, as it encloses the star. Black hole mass = mass of solar system. Sphere mass = Mass of sun + mass of sphere = Mass of solar system.
Encryption with GMail isn't hard. FireGPG extension. Or Enigmail+thunderbird. That said, gpg does need to be easier to use.
1) You assume analog is finite. Quantum mechanics says otherwise. You have probably made a false assumption. 2) Not infinite, merely very, very, very large. Your conclusion is quite probably wrong. QM could be wrong, but that seems unlikely given the amount of evidence for it. That does not truly invalidate your conclusion, there are finite systems which are impossible to model accurately (Godel's incompleteness theorem ensures this) and the brain may be one of these. Thus, the brain may be impossible to model, but not from being infinitely complex.
More the way you think you play. We don't actually know what your brain is doing unconciously in the background. You know some moves are dumb from experience, so you don't move there. But you still had to remember that it was a dumb move. Likewise, the computer still has to look up the score of that move. There are things we do that the computer doesn't and things the computer does that we don't. The trick is finding those things, and this can help work towards that.
The constitution is a non-existent law?
Well, it is since Bush got through with it.
8/5/08: Added 'Slashdotted' meme to timeline. 8/6/08: Added 'Digged' meme to timeline. 8/7/08: Added 'Farked' meme to timeline. 8/8/08: Added 'Slashdotted' meme to timeline. 8/9/08: Added 'DNS Poisoned' meme to timeline. Buy V1@GrA Now!
And the only intuitive interface is the nipple... but most babies have to be taught how to nurse.
Too many steps.
You should have a public/private key pair, and probably a smart card.
1) Sign up for CNN emails. Your browser enters your public key in the background.
2) Your e-mail client downloads CNN's public key, checks the signature, and displays the message as red or green in the inbox. Or sends all unsigned messages from any sender who has signed messages in the past to an "unverified mail" folder (bad name, what's unverified? Everyone knows what spam is. Perhaps unknown sender?) Extra security can be applied to unsigned mail.
But note the important thing: The user doesn't have to do anything more than sign up like they normally would. The e-mail client and web browser should do all the work, behind the scenes, automagically. Also, you don't actually need the user's public key unless you're encrypting, or the user is sending e-mail.
Kerio Personal Firewall (with app behaviour blocking set to paranoid levels), ClamWIN/avg/NOD32/other good antivirus (not norton/mcaffe/etc), and Anti Hook do a good job of securing windows. iptables, clamav, and maybe a graphical frontend for iptables like KMyFirewall do a good job securing linux... But iptables is built in. And in the Windows case, Antivirus really isn't needed with a good firewall/behavior blocker (Kerio+Anti Hook, for example.) Any system, when placed behind secure enough walls, can be secure from threats outside the walls. Some systems are more secure against internal threats than others. In Linux, most of what you can easily screw up is your own home directory. In Windows XP, you can screw anything except other user's home directories, and often even them, and in Vista you can't screw much up if UAC is on, but it often gets turned off. Linux and Vista both have security. Linux just has usable security. Security alone is worthless if the user removes it to do work, it must not interfere with the normal operation of a computer.
Quite. Software-only problems cannot "brick" a device. To truly brick a device that device must be no more useful than a brick, a paperweight. A bricked device requires non-trivial hardware replacement to un-brick, if that's even possible.
To brick you iPhone (one method) open it up, take a soldering iron to it, desolder everything, grind the components up, fix them in glue, and glue them inside. Put it back together. The iPhone is now bricked. Note the presence of a hardware problem, and not a software-only issue.
Actually, it's quite a bit smarter than on a cell phone. Play/record media makes much more sense than play media/make phone calls.
You read the warning. That puts you in a separate category from 90+% of users. Then you understood it. Now you're in the top 1%. Many UI designers fail to understand that users do not read dialog boxes, warnings, error messages, or anything else. Years of windows "Exception 0xFFEEABA1432534 at 0xFA582446774645 have caused the thingamabob to bignumber2sopbyybasoutb." type errors have made users ignore even clearly written dialog boxes and instructions. Read User Interface Design for Programmers to get a better idea of this and how it matters.
"If my data needs encrypted," well, there's your problem. And I'm not talking about the grammar error, I mean that you think there is a good reason any data transmitted over the internet shouldn't be encrypted. Your data, all data, should be able to be encrypted, and should be encrypted by default.
Users don't read alert boxes. This is a bad idea. A small bar at the top or bottom is better, changing the address bar is best. Say, red background for http, yellow for https self signed, green for https signed by a CA. There, simple system, similar to the built-in anti-phishing, and easy to teach. Red = bad already. Green = good. You could even have an alert bar, like FF3 does for passwords and blocked popups, explaining the colour. That way if you get the 1-in-a-thousand user who reads alerts they'll know what it all means.
I introduce people to KeePass Password Safe and teach them how to use it to store and generate passwords. It can auto-fill in passwords, stores them in an AES encrypted database, can store attachments (say, your GPG private key,) and supports keyfiles. It's small enough to fit on a USB key, and open source. It has autotype, and that checks the URL. This reduces the risk of typing your password into a phishing site. Because of this program, almost all my passwords are >20 characters of random junk, and I don't know any of them.