However, the one person who has suggested that it was a case of ego and not patriotism is Lamo himself and if these allegations about Lamo are correct, then that really casts doubt on the whole idea.
As in, maybe he's assuming that everyone else is just like him?
It wouldn't warn about a man in the middle that has been present since day one. This can be the case in a "great firewall" tyep scenario with a man in the middle between the hosting company and the Internet backbone.
Yes, but anyone with the power to do that can fool a typical CA's validation procedures as well (fooling the CA should actually be easier, since that only requires sustaining the attack for a few days instead of forever).
I don't see an extension for IE, Chrome, Mobile Chrome (nickname for Android browser), Safari, or Mobile Safari (Apple iOS browser). To communicate securely with users of those browsers without MITM vulnerability, it appears I'd still need to buy an SSL certificate.
This is one of the few reasons I'm still using Firefox/Iceweasel (others being: the master password, vertical tabs (treestyle tabbar extension), and adblock plus).
I'm pretty sure there's nothing that would give them the power to do that; you don't need a FCC license to run a website like you do to run a radio/TV transmitter or a phone/cable company.
I've read lots here about net neutrality and all the horrible things it's supposed to prevent, but have any of those horrible things actually, you know, happened?
Comcast has been caught actually dropping certain types of traffic. High-up ISP corporate officers have been publicly claiming that they should have a right to charge the sites that their customers visit.
They did well when everyone used dialup, because as ISP was basically no different from any other company with lots of phones.
I think they also did OK when there were line-sharing regulations, so the phone company was required to rent phone line loops to them at cost. But not as well as in the age of dial-up, since the phone companies could generally get away with providing horrible service, taking weeks to do things that they'd do in a day or two for lines going to their own customers.
Now you have to either lay your own wires (in the face of an incumbent that's been granted a monopoly) or get the government to subsidize your wires (really helps to be big and have a big marketing department). So there's no competition.
The FCC should mandate that the phone company provide DSL to every customer that requests it.
That would be stupid. Requiring that they provide Internet access of at least some minimum speed (1Mbps maybe?) might be reasonable, but mandating a particular technology is not.
And it's not like the current administration has talked about installing kill switches for portions of the Internet.... just to protect the internet right, not to control it...
That's not the "current administration", that's one nutty congresscritter who's been trying to do that for a while now.
The Internet is one of the last few bastions of freedom left in the world...
...and since you only have one or maybe 2 ISPs to choose from, the Evil Corporations can steal that freedom pretty much however they want. Unless the FCC tells them not to, which is what this is.
The law gives the FCC several categories to put things in, and gives them different powers over each category. That ruling said they were trying to use powers from category A on ISPs while ISPs were in category B. So now they're trying to move ISPs into category A.
Yeah, this has exactly as much to do with taking control of the web, as regulating the phone company has to do with taking control of what you can say over the phone.
So it's what used to be called data conversion in the old days (which is last week, apparently)?
Maybe. I'm actually in the Data Conversion department, where we use ETL tools to load one-off data dumps for new customers. I think it's that ETL describes the tools, and then data conversion is a subset of what you do with them (other subsets being things like for example EDI / Electronic Data Interchange).
I'd settle for whats it for? and why i'd want to spend time learning how to use it?
ETL in general tends to mean moving stuff between databases in large companies. Such as when you have lots of things that each run off of their own database, and then have a big "data warehouse" database that everything goes into (usually in a different format than the individual databases, designed for running reports out of instead of day-to-day use). Or when you replace one system with another, or buy another company and want to shut down whatever they were using in favor of your corporate standard system, etc,... and need to move stuff that's in one database in one format, into another database in a different format.
I think it is important to note that Spamhaus is a service that people proactively utilize. They don't force you to use their anti-spam identification system — it's totally opt-in. And now they're being fined what a foreign judge found to be 'one month of additional work on behalf of the customers' to a company they allegedly incorrectly identified as spam. Sad and scary precedent.
I have it on very good authority that eldavojohn kills babies and eats them for breakfast. He also drove his last 5 employers/clients to insanity resulting in their bankruptcy, and in 2 cases suicide. He is a horrible evil person, and you should never associate with him or employ him.
Remember, nobody's forced to listen to me so I should be allowed to say whatever the hell I want.
If you purposefully say something you believe to be untrue, there are generally certain biological responses made throughout your body and that is what the polygraph picks up.
But is not all investment gambling?
The fact that you hope to make a profit in 20 minutes instead of 20 months doesn't really change the gambling aspect.
In the 20 minutes version, the size of the pie hasn't changed so you're very clearly betting against someone else.
In the 20 months version, the size of the pie may have changed a bit due to good/bad company management, industry effects, etc. So this can be more about watching your pie grow, rather than outsmarting other people and taking their pie.
Er, I'm pretty sure religion is an effect rather than a cause here. If you manage to drive someone away from a religion without doing anything about the not-thinking, they'll just end up at some other religion or pseudo-religion.
It is not free software. If you want to promote free software, you also have to make it available to parties or uses you might disagree with. Otherwise it is not free.
Sure, because it's written as something that you can't do rather than extra responsibilities you sometimes have. They'd probably be fine if they rewrote that section to say that any person or animal about to be harmed by use of the software, must first have the opportunity to replace it with their own modified version...
It's also a myth that war boosts an economy. It helps employ people, but it's the equivalent of building millions of cars and then blowing them up. Or taking billions of dollars and burning them. It's non-productive and drains a country of resources/materials/money.
Which keeps people busy and drawing a paycheck. Which by the usual measures is I think considered to be a better economy that one where people are looking for work half the time but still have a better standard of living (even while unemployed) than in the busy-work case.
What are you saying, that only ignorant outsiders can criticize an institution? You think his telling the government to stop funding his customers is "pulling the ladder up after himself"?
Lasers work by stimulated emission, which is a quantum process that makes identical copies of photons. Quantum cryptography relies on qbits not being copyable, so how does this not break it?
The critical detail of stimulated emission is that the emitted photon is identical to the stimulating photon in that it has the same frequency, phase, polarization, and direction of propagation. The two photons, as a result, are totally coherent. It is this property that allows optical amplification to take place.
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However, the one person who has suggested that it was a case of ego and not patriotism is Lamo himself and if these allegations about Lamo are correct, then that really casts doubt on the whole idea.
As in, maybe he's assuming that everyone else is just like him?
out of many gigabytes of accidentally-collected data
Doesn't that sentence fragment strike you as a bit odd? I'd almost call it "inconceivable"...
It wouldn't warn about a man in the middle that has been present since day one. This can be the case in a "great firewall" tyep scenario with a man in the middle between the hosting company and the Internet backbone.
Yes, but anyone with the power to do that can fool a typical CA's validation procedures as well (fooling the CA should actually be easier, since that only requires sustaining the attack for a few days instead of forever).
I don't see an extension for IE, Chrome, Mobile Chrome (nickname for Android browser), Safari, or Mobile Safari (Apple iOS browser). To communicate securely with users of those browsers without MITM vulnerability, it appears I'd still need to buy an SSL certificate.
This is one of the few reasons I'm still using Firefox/Iceweasel (others being: the master password, vertical tabs (treestyle tabbar extension), and adblock plus).
There is also nothing to stop someone from performing a man-in-the-middle attack on a self-signed HTTPS connection
There's an extension that fixes that: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~perspectives/
I'm pretty sure there's nothing that would give them the power to do that; you don't need a FCC license to run a website like you do to run a radio/TV transmitter or a phone/cable company.
I've read lots here about net neutrality and all the horrible things it's supposed to prevent, but have any of those horrible things actually, you know, happened?
Comcast has been caught actually dropping certain types of traffic. High-up ISP corporate officers have been publicly claiming that they should have a right to charge the sites that their customers visit.
They did well when everyone used dialup, because as ISP was basically no different from any other company with lots of phones.
I think they also did OK when there were line-sharing regulations, so the phone company was required to rent phone line loops to them at cost. But not as well as in the age of dial-up, since the phone companies could generally get away with providing horrible service, taking weeks to do things that they'd do in a day or two for lines going to their own customers.
Now you have to either lay your own wires (in the face of an incumbent that's been granted a monopoly) or get the government to subsidize your wires (really helps to be big and have a big marketing department). So there's no competition.
The FCC should mandate that the phone company provide DSL to every customer that requests it.
That would be stupid. Requiring that they provide Internet access of at least some minimum speed (1Mbps maybe?) might be reasonable, but mandating a particular technology is not.
And it's not like the current administration has talked about installing kill switches for portions of the Internet.... just to protect the internet right, not to control it...
That's not the "current administration", that's one nutty congresscritter who's been trying to do that for a while now.
The Internet is one of the last few bastions of freedom left in the world...
...and since you only have one or maybe 2 ISPs to choose from, the Evil Corporations can steal that freedom pretty much however they want. Unless the FCC tells them not to, which is what this is.
The law gives the FCC several categories to put things in, and gives them different powers over each category. That ruling said they were trying to use powers from category A on ISPs while ISPs were in category B. So now they're trying to move ISPs into category A.
Yeah, this has exactly as much to do with taking control of the web, as regulating the phone company has to do with taking control of what you can say over the phone.
So it's what used to be called data conversion in the old days (which is last week, apparently)?
Maybe. I'm actually in the Data Conversion department, where we use ETL tools to load one-off data dumps for new customers. I think it's that ETL describes the tools, and then data conversion is a subset of what you do with them (other subsets being things like for example EDI / Electronic Data Interchange).
I'd settle for whats it for? and why i'd want to spend time learning how to use it?
ETL in general tends to mean moving stuff between databases in large companies. Such as when you have lots of things that each run off of their own database, and then have a big "data warehouse" database that everything goes into (usually in a different format than the individual databases, designed for running reports out of instead of day-to-day use). Or when you replace one system with another, or buy another company and want to shut down whatever they were using in favor of your corporate standard system, etc,... and need to move stuff that's in one database in one format, into another database in a different format.
I think it is important to note that Spamhaus is a service that people proactively utilize. They don't force you to use their anti-spam identification system — it's totally opt-in. And now they're being fined what a foreign judge found to be 'one month of additional work on behalf of the customers' to a company they allegedly incorrectly identified as spam. Sad and scary precedent.
I have it on very good authority that eldavojohn kills babies and eats them for breakfast. He also drove his last 5 employers/clients to insanity resulting in their bankruptcy, and in 2 cases suicide. He is a horrible evil person, and you should never associate with him or employ him.
Remember, nobody's forced to listen to me so I should be allowed to say whatever the hell I want.
No, it wouldn't be a lie detector because the polygraph wouldn't know what the truth was, just how you perceived it when answering.
But that's exactly what a lie is -- when you say something you know/believe to not be true.
If you purposefully say something you believe to be untrue, there are generally certain biological responses made throughout your body and that is what the polygraph picks up.
So, you're saying it's a lie detector.
Polygraphs aren't lie detectors. They are used to assess truthfulness.
So how does that work exactly, assessing if someone is telling the truth without saying whether they're lying?
But is not all investment gambling?
The fact that you hope to make a profit in 20 minutes instead of 20 months doesn't really change the gambling aspect.
In the 20 minutes version, the size of the pie hasn't changed so you're very clearly betting against someone else.
In the 20 months version, the size of the pie may have changed a bit due to good/bad company management, industry effects, etc. So this can be more about watching your pie grow, rather than outsmarting other people and taking their pie.
Er, I'm pretty sure religion is an effect rather than a cause here. If you manage to drive someone away from a religion without doing anything about the not-thinking, they'll just end up at some other religion or pseudo-religion.
It is not free software. If you want to promote free software, you also have to make it available to parties or uses you might disagree with. Otherwise it is not free.
Sure, because it's written as something that you can't do rather than extra responsibilities you sometimes have. They'd probably be fine if they rewrote that section to say that any person or animal about to be harmed by use of the software, must first have the opportunity to replace it with their own modified version...
It's also a myth that war boosts an economy. It helps employ people, but it's the equivalent of building millions of cars and then blowing them up. Or taking billions of dollars and burning them. It's non-productive and drains a country of resources/materials/money.
Which keeps people busy and drawing a paycheck. Which by the usual measures is I think considered to be a better economy that one where people are looking for work half the time but still have a better standard of living (even while unemployed) than in the busy-work case.
What are you saying, that only ignorant outsiders can criticize an institution? You think his telling the government to stop funding his customers is "pulling the ladder up after himself"?
non-zero probability of spontaneous emission
Ok, that makes sense. Thanks.