That's not exactly how it works, there are two keys one private (bank) and one public (customer). The public key does not need to be a secret since it can't be used to decrypt the message only encrypt it. The "one way" math function is based on the difficulty of factorising large numbers (thus all the interest in large primes). Having a one way function is why PKE is different to other forms of encryption, it means you don't have the problem of distributing a single secret key.
Eg: SSL uses public key encryption and you don't need a "new key on a bit of paper" for each store. Note that SSL only makes the communication secure, you still need the credit card details to buy stuff.
The problem with extremisim is that it rarely makes sense to anyone outside of the closed group.
An example from the far right: Universal health cover is evil, corprate welfare to kill towel-heads is essential.
An example from the religious far right: The government must not intefere with my religion, they are there to enforce it by policing wombs, cesoring sex, banning drugs, ect.
An example from the far left: N. Korea ('nuff said).
An example from the green far left: The government should kill the economy to save the planet.
"What should be stopped is the deliberate taking of an innocent human life [abortion]....I would wholeheartedly support the disbanding of the Department of Education....the damned prescription drug plan, for example, not to mention social security and medicare...I will live under the U. S. Constitution; I will not submit to sharia law"
We all know "the man" owns our body, but he's also got your mind & soul my friend.
"...the inciter doesn't kill, it is the person who physically performs a violent act that is the cause of the violence."
So in other words: Hitler did nothing wrong?
The mind is the only place where it is possible to be "free". Blind devotion to any constitution is like blind devotion to the ten commandments, it's an abdication of thought.
1. Point to an unlocked door and scream loudly.
2. Publicity.
3. Arrest.
4. People falling all over themselves to aquire your now LIGITIMATE services. (ie: Profit!!!).
Oh, and it won't work if you are anonomous, you must be open and "shocked, SHOCKED, I tell you.".
I second that, I used to have my own pool table, only once in several years of play did the boys score a "pants down". Be it scrabble records or the holy grail of "pants down", the sense of acheivement is a buzz.
"I hope that Australia doesnt end up following America down this path."
Too late mate,
lucky Phil is on the job
.
We are being "harmonized" to comply with a certain
Free Trade Agreement
,
here is a
timeline
of copyright changes in Oz, note how busy our law-makers have been over the last few years, with the last two entries succinctly describing the downfall of Kazza.
"Why send someone who hasnt harmed anyone to jail?"
Afghanistan has been a major crossroad for humanity for at least 7,000yrs and probably still contains a lot of archeological surprises. The Taliban destroyed the statues because of ideology, they started by cutting the faces off, then decided to just blew them up instead. There is some speculation that the nose story was actually propoganda.
I can get my head around neglect and theft, partcularly in a dirt poor country, but ideological or mindless destruction is the antithesis of civilization.
I am British but have lived in Australia for 43yrs, we don't have a lot of artifacts from past inhabitants, the native culture and history is (with the exception of cave paintings), entirely verbal. Earlier this year I had my first "European vactation" and visited the British museam, even though I had seen stuff on TV I was still absolutely awe struck by their samplings of mankinds legacy.
Finding out my family name was connected to, Vikings, the norman invasion, a couple of castles, the war of the roses, the murder of Edward II and probably sired Edward III (it wasn't braveheart) was a real buzz.
"By God are you implying that global temperature is a complex system with no single cause for temperature fluctuation?"
Over millions of years certainly, over a couple of hundred years the long term "causes" (orbit, tilt, tectonics, ect) simply drop out of the equation as irrelevant.
How not to attribute climate change, (nice graph). It's also interesting to note that 20th century warming would actually be a slight cooling if human CO2 emissions were removed from the models.
In the case of the environment it's a failure to maintain it. Virtrually every major fishery has either been in steady decline or totally collapsed since the '70s, and most of it has been perfectly legal. Much of our fish now comes from farms that are being supported by the wholesale destruction of "uncommercial" species from the wild, also perfectly legal.
Face it, the commons is a tradgedy for humans. Life support systems like the ocean and atmosphere are ideal areas for government to be involved, we need scientifically based international regulations to ensure (as best we can) that the oceans retain the ability to support us indefinitely, not a handfull of fenced off private ponds for the rich.
"So a supernova of 20 suns equivalent managed to explode and leave behind thousands of sun-like stars? Apparently conservation of mass laws were different back then."
Apparently you had trouble comprehending TFA, assuming you read it in the first place.
"Movement and navigation in a 3D realm is no barrier whatsoever."
Agreed, I'm an old fart and have have taught quite a few other old farts to "appreciate" 3D games. I find it takes an hour or so to learn reasonably fluid motion in a 3D game (and thus start to experience the game), but once learned the skill will transfer to most other 3D games. I know it does because they keep on playing without the need to retrain every time they get a new game.
I think it is well worth the hour or two to learn the interface via practice, in the real 3D world most "noobs" can't even stand up for 10-15 months and many people never achive fluid motion even after a lifetime of practice!
The web is the biggest thing to hit publishing since the printing press took the bussiness away from monks, agreed! So sticking to that benchmark for "NBT", I can only imagine that the NBT would be something like the perfection of "addressable minds". Whatever it is, by his implied benchmark the NBT cretainly isn't alternative 3D interfaces that have gone nowhere except into hollywood movies (eg: you must display every fingerprint on the screen while searching a huge database). Now this is not to say that 3D interfaces are not usefull, it's just that "full immersion" VR suits have been around for a while now and none of it compares to the NBT magnitude of "the web".
In other words, the revolution in interfaces to access our brave new publishing world is over, evolution has reigned supreme since the bubble burst. And for what it's worth, look towards AI, brain implants and GM neurons for the NBT in publishing.
Well said, returning a hypothetical "very large Buddah" to the Taliban would be like shooting the face off the Sphynx with a cannon. Ancient artifacts belong to humanity, period!
"had to take time from *my* job to write up functional specs just so he could do his thing"
Newsflash: it's not your job, it's someone elses job you are being payed to do. A functional spec means that others can understand and use your stuff if you get hit by the proverbial truck. And what is so fucking hard about writing down the instruction set, ports, adresses and so on, a little effort on your part and ANY programmer can write software for your christmas lights or whatever the hell your plugging into the machine. I have been a developer for almost two decades and have at times been involved with custom devices, nobody has ever expected me to understand electronic diagrams much less program from them.
In other news: Just because you understand schematics does not mean you know anything about managing a software project. Your job was so successfull your employer split it in two and all you can do is bitch about it.
A common technique used on prospective cops is designed to see how well the candidate handles argumentative behaviour and/or unreasonable demands from the inteviewer.
Nice sentiments but in so far as elections go a secret ballot that is counted by people who all distrust each other guarentees the fairest outcome. At the risk of repeating myself the simplest example I know is a parent teaching their kids how to share, one cuts the cup-cake the other one gets first choice. This method doesn't extend to every situation ( see king solomon and the divide the baby story ), but in "seen to be fair" elections, distrust amongst the competitors is channeled towards a general trust in the outcome, and don't forget "the government" is composed of humans who deserve our love but must earn the extrodinary trust we give them ( eg: capital punishment ).
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That's not exactly how it works, there are two keys one private (bank) and one public (customer). The public key does not need to be a secret since it can't be used to decrypt the message only encrypt it. The "one way" math function is based on the difficulty of factorising large numbers (thus all the interest in large primes). Having a one way function is why PKE is different to other forms of encryption, it means you don't have the problem of distributing a single secret key.
Eg: SSL uses public key encryption and you don't need a "new key on a bit of paper" for each store. Note that SSL only makes the communication secure, you still need the credit card details to buy stuff.
The problem with extremisim is that it rarely makes sense to anyone outside of the closed group.
An example from the far right: Universal health cover is evil, corprate welfare to kill towel-heads is essential.
An example from the religious far right: The government must not intefere with my religion, they are there to enforce it by policing wombs, cesoring sex, banning drugs, ect.
An example from the far left: N. Korea ('nuff said).
An example from the green far left: The government should kill the economy to save the planet.
"What should be stopped is the deliberate taking of an innocent human life [abortion]....I would wholeheartedly support the disbanding of the Department of Education....the damned prescription drug plan, for example, not to mention social security and medicare...I will live under the U. S. Constitution; I will not submit to sharia law"
We all know "the man" owns our body, but he's also got your mind & soul my friend.
"The true disease of American politics is that too many American's are welded to the public teat."
Replace "American's" with "corporations" and you have a point.
"...the inciter doesn't kill, it is the person who physically performs a violent act that is the cause of the violence."
So in other words: Hitler did nothing wrong?
The mind is the only place where it is possible to be "free". Blind devotion to any constitution is like blind devotion to the ten commandments, it's an abdication of thought.
In the infosec consulting world...
1. Point to an unlocked door and scream loudly.
2. Publicity.
3. Arrest.
4. People falling all over themselves to aquire your now LIGITIMATE services. (ie: Profit!!!).
Oh, and it won't work if you are anonomous, you must be open and "shocked, SHOCKED, I tell you.".
Sounds like a job for game theory.
I second that, I used to have my own pool table, only once in several years of play did the boys score a "pants down". Be it scrabble records or the holy grail of "pants down", the sense of acheivement is a buzz.
"I hope that Australia doesnt end up following America down this path."
Too late mate, lucky Phil is on the job . We are being "harmonized" to comply with a certain Free Trade Agreement , here is a timeline of copyright changes in Oz, note how busy our law-makers have been over the last few years, with the last two entries succinctly describing the downfall of Kazza.
"Why send someone who hasnt harmed anyone to jail?"
A threat to the future of American civilization seems to be a common theme.
Disclaimer: I like Americans, we have the same corporate owners.
Google has already refused so I guess we know where they stand.
Our parliment has started censoring itself, so I'm not sure where they stand. Unfortunately we don't have a bill of rights.
Afghanistan has been a major crossroad for humanity for at least 7,000yrs and probably still contains a lot of archeological surprises. The Taliban destroyed the statues because of ideology, they started by cutting the faces off, then decided to just blew them up instead. There is some speculation that the nose story was actually propoganda. I can get my head around neglect and theft, partcularly in a dirt poor country, but ideological or mindless destruction is the antithesis of civilization.
I am British but have lived in Australia for 43yrs, we don't have a lot of artifacts from past inhabitants, the native culture and history is (with the exception of cave paintings), entirely verbal. Earlier this year I had my first "European vactation" and visited the British museam, even though I had seen stuff on TV I was still absolutely awe struck by their samplings of mankinds legacy.
Finding out my family name was connected to, Vikings, the norman invasion, a couple of castles, the war of the roses, the murder of Edward II and probably sired Edward III (it wasn't braveheart) was a real buzz.
Temprature reconstruction for the last millenium.
Medieval wine in the UK
Just to complete the mythbusting, here is the one aboutthe sun getting hotter.
"So in other words, if it weren't for the industrial revolution there's a remote possibility a large chunk of life on earth might've died off?
Not sure about that, but it is a more than a remote possibility that the industrial revolution has already killed off a large chunk of life.
"By God are you implying that global temperature is a complex system with no single cause for temperature fluctuation?"
Over millions of years certainly, over a couple of hundred years the long term "causes" (orbit, tilt, tectonics, ect) simply drop out of the equation as irrelevant.
How not to attribute climate change, (nice graph). It's also interesting to note that 20th century warming would actually be a slight cooling if human CO2 emissions were removed from the models.
You can run, but can't hide.
"It's a failure to (re)populate the commons..."
In the case of the environment it's a failure to maintain it. Virtrually every major fishery has either been in steady decline or totally collapsed since the '70s, and most of it has been perfectly legal. Much of our fish now comes from farms that are being supported by the wholesale destruction of "uncommercial" species from the wild, also perfectly legal.
Face it, the commons is a tradgedy for humans. Life support systems like the ocean and atmosphere are ideal areas for government to be involved, we need scientifically based international regulations to ensure (as best we can) that the oceans retain the ability to support us indefinitely, not a handfull of fenced off private ponds for the rich.
"So a supernova of 20 suns equivalent managed to explode and leave behind thousands of sun-like stars? Apparently conservation of mass laws were different back then."
Apparently you had trouble comprehending TFA, assuming you read it in the first place.
"Movement and navigation in a 3D realm is no barrier whatsoever."
Agreed, I'm an old fart and have have taught quite a few other old farts to "appreciate" 3D games. I find it takes an hour or so to learn reasonably fluid motion in a 3D game (and thus start to experience the game), but once learned the skill will transfer to most other 3D games. I know it does because they keep on playing without the need to retrain every time they get a new game.
I think it is well worth the hour or two to learn the interface via practice, in the real 3D world most "noobs" can't even stand up for 10-15 months and many people never achive fluid motion even after a lifetime of practice!
The web is the biggest thing to hit publishing since the printing press took the bussiness away from monks, agreed! So sticking to that benchmark for "NBT", I can only imagine that the NBT would be something like the perfection of "addressable minds". Whatever it is, by his implied benchmark the NBT cretainly isn't alternative 3D interfaces that have gone nowhere except into hollywood movies (eg: you must display every fingerprint on the screen while searching a huge database). Now this is not to say that 3D interfaces are not usefull, it's just that "full immersion" VR suits have been around for a while now and none of it compares to the NBT magnitude of "the web".
In other words, the revolution in interfaces to access our brave new publishing world is over, evolution has reigned supreme since the bubble burst. And for what it's worth, look towards AI, brain implants and GM neurons for the NBT in publishing.
Well said, returning a hypothetical "very large Buddah" to the Taliban would be like shooting the face off the Sphynx with a cannon. Ancient artifacts belong to humanity, period!
"You jumped to an incorrect conclusion"
Fair enough, my bad. I just get a bit sick and tired of people who think they don't need to spend time explaining their work to others.
"had to take time from *my* job to write up functional specs just so he could do his thing"
Newsflash: it's not your job, it's someone elses job you are being payed to do. A functional spec means that others can understand and use your stuff if you get hit by the proverbial truck. And what is so fucking hard about writing down the instruction set, ports, adresses and so on, a little effort on your part and ANY programmer can write software for your christmas lights or whatever the hell your plugging into the machine. I have been a developer for almost two decades and have at times been involved with custom devices, nobody has ever expected me to understand electronic diagrams much less program from them.
In other news: Just because you understand schematics does not mean you know anything about managing a software project. Your job was so successfull your employer split it in two and all you can do is bitch about it.
A common technique used on prospective cops is designed to see how well the candidate handles argumentative behaviour and/or unreasonable demands from the inteviewer.
Nice sentiments but in so far as elections go a secret ballot that is counted by people who all distrust each other guarentees the fairest outcome. At the risk of repeating myself the simplest example I know is a parent teaching their kids how to share, one cuts the cup-cake the other one gets first choice. This method doesn't extend to every situation ( see king solomon and the divide the baby story ), but in "seen to be fair" elections, distrust amongst the competitors is channeled towards a general trust in the outcome, and don't forget "the government" is composed of humans who deserve our love but must earn the extrodinary trust we give them ( eg: capital punishment ).
The processes for fair elections are well known, the processes for getting elected are somewhat more obscure.
"No one commented on the story because it is too filthy to be true.
I agree that the first dozen or so pages of OT comments demonstrates either a failure in the mod system or a failure in the political system.
Regardless of who designed it, diebold have too much security experience for me to belive the gapping holes are mearly due to stupendous incompetence.