Well look for the ones from reputable companies that sell themselves on speed.
Like Corsair, OCZ or Patriot sticks. If you do your research on the net first then you'll be ok. It's when you walk into a store and they have a selection af candy coloured novelty thumb drives, that's when you're going to get shafted.
Personally I like the Patriot Xporter XT, I use it as a main disk on my NSLU2 debian box. It's not quite as quick as a normal HDD, but it's not bad. Corsair's voyager range are the defacto standard on fast, high capacity USB sticks right now though.
Seriously, I'm tired of hearing "Lesser Evil", "Throwing your vote away" etc.
At this point it doesn't matter in the slightest which party gets in, things will continue much the same way with minor differences in soundbite.
You can "throw your vote away" because a republican or democrat will get in, and it doesn't matter which. the more people that do this, the more those scared of "wasting their vote" will realise it's not a waste at all, and that all it takes is for more people to realise what's going on.
Authentication and integrity would be preserved, but you're right, unless the hash was encrypted in an RSA way (expensive) then that still fails as they could just rehash not re-rencrypt, we're talking about authenticated plaintext).
Perhaps a way to take most of the load off the server would be to have trusted certificate but use an RSA_NULL_SHA1 ciphersuite where secrecy isn't important but authentication and integrity are.
True, it does up the processing requirements and that could prove costly or even impractical for some high traffic sites. And would increase the bandwidth needed.
But maybe it's a direction we should be heading in when it looks like we are going to have ever-increasing difficulty in trusting that what we're receiving is what the originator actually sent.
Maybe sometime the backbones decide they want a piece of the action, hell, maybe some government decide that company X isn't using any of the infrastructure in MY country to peddle its propaganda and replaces everything that routes through their territory...
"Hi Jim, I just a bought a great new handheld console" "Oh yeah, what did you get" "A Sony Pzzzzzzzzzzzzzz^^^^^T Nintendo DS proudly sponsors this phonecall! Your pal loves Nintendo DS! bzzzzzt *click* so yeah you should totally get one so we can play against each other dude!"
"It's 2008, why aren't most websites just using https by default?"
Because you have to go to a third party and pay them money. That would be the problem. We don't (AFAIK) have a free signer with a widely distributed public certificate at present.
Even harder when the first one on the PS2 was only good for the london representation. As it game it pretty much sucked and I didn't even bother finishing it.
And modern conservatism is good because it takes from those who don't have much and gives to those who are already rich...
You don't have "leftist" politicians in the US, by the way. And your so-called right politicians are also interested in huge government and social restrictions.
There don't appear to be any fiscal conservatives left, on either side of the atlantic.
I wasn't necessarily saying there was anything wrong with it anyway, my point is that t is of no direct benefit - I don't get imortality, some copy does.
Consciousnous will not be split across the two new instances, and if a non-destructive reading has taken place there is no magic that will make your consciousness jump to the computer. You, in meatspace, will still have a continuous existance and you, in meatspace, are not suddenly immortal.
It would be like giving birth perhaps, you spawn off a part of yourself. To me it would feel utterly futile. Where's the benefit to me (by which I mean my internal monlogue, my continuous experience of life), other than in terms of vanity?
A lot of games will give you a long narrative about how important something is, how it must be achieved stealthily, how you need to go in, get something and get out again or spin a complex tail around which you play your mission.
then it finishes and you turn to your buddy and say "so it's 'wade in and kill everything' like last time then?"
OTOH, i like 'wade in and kill everything'. 'wade in and kill everything' is great.
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Oh, so it's about not workoing for brainless, intolerant morons?
I can handle that.
... a bit of research on the internet, before you go out to purchase these things, will save you a lot of time, money and disappointment.
Also, buying a reputable brand (Corsair and OCZ are generally good).
Well look for the ones from reputable companies that sell themselves on speed.
Like Corsair, OCZ or Patriot sticks. If you do your research on the net first then you'll be ok. It's when you walk into a store and they have a selection af candy coloured novelty thumb drives, that's when you're going to get shafted.
Personally I like the Patriot Xporter XT, I use it as a main disk on my NSLU2 debian box. It's not quite as quick as a normal HDD, but it's not bad. Corsair's voyager range are the defacto standard on fast, high capacity USB sticks right now though.
Oooh, cam I run an individual application, from another server running a completely different OS, on my windows desktop with that?
Uh no.
Fuck off.
Heron is probably self injecting, with it's sharp pointed beak.
Seriously, I'm tired of hearing "Lesser Evil", "Throwing your vote away" etc.
At this point it doesn't matter in the slightest which party gets in, things will continue much the same way with minor differences in soundbite.
You can "throw your vote away" because a republican or democrat will get in, and it doesn't matter which. the more people that do this, the more those scared of "wasting their vote" will realise it's not a waste at all, and that all it takes is for more people to realise what's going on.
Not only that, but they usae the next generation up from Cell BE, Cell PowerX8i. Alledgedly this is five times faster.
I live in London and have yet to see anyone with an iPhone.
I work for a big tech company too.
Which market is that?
I also live in a market (UK) in which phones are usually "free". The iPhone hasn't made a dent here, and I haven't even met a geek with one.
Why piss test?
What fucking business is it of yours if I drink at the weekend?
Authentication and integrity would be preserved, but you're right, unless the hash was encrypted in an RSA way (expensive) then that still fails as they could just rehash not re-rencrypt, we're talking about authenticated plaintext).
Yeah, you're right.
Perhaps a way to take most of the load off the server would be to have trusted certificate but use an RSA_NULL_SHA1 ciphersuite where secrecy isn't important but authentication and integrity are.
True, it does up the processing requirements and that could prove costly or even impractical for some high traffic sites. And would increase the bandwidth needed.
But maybe it's a direction we should be heading in when it looks like we are going to have ever-increasing difficulty in trusting that what we're receiving is what the originator actually sent.
Maybe sometime the backbones decide they want a piece of the action, hell, maybe some government decide that company X isn't using any of the infrastructure in MY country to peddle its propaganda and replaces everything that routes through their territory...
I like that idea actually.
A sort of "You probably shouldn't trust me that much, but at least nobody's eavesdropping or screwing with the datastream" setting.
"Hi Jim, I just a bought a great new handheld console"
"Oh yeah, what did you get"
"A Sony Pzzzzzzzzzzzzzz^^^^^T Nintendo DS proudly sponsors this phonecall! Your pal loves Nintendo DS! bzzzzzt *click* so yeah you should totally get one so we can play against each other dude!"
"It's 2008, why aren't most websites just using https by default?"
Because you have to go to a third party and pay them money. That would be the problem. We don't (AFAIK) have a free signer with a widely distributed public certificate at present.
AFAIK, anyway.
I find it incredibly hard to believe that the movement savings are anywhere near that.
Now, I'm not saying it's useless either, and there are efficiency gains to be made, but 15:1? I doubt that.
Even harder when the first one on the PS2 was only good for the london representation. As it game it pretty much sucked and I didn't even bother finishing it.
And modern conservatism is good because it takes from those who don't have much and gives to those who are already rich...
You don't have "leftist" politicians in the US, by the way. And your so-called right politicians are also interested in huge government and social restrictions.
There don't appear to be any fiscal conservatives left, on either side of the atlantic.
Only the suicidal? Please.
Not all of us are that vain or arrogant.
I wasn't necessarily saying there was anything wrong with it anyway, my point is that t is of no direct benefit - I don't get imortality, some copy does.
My thoughts exactly.
I would also never use a transporter!
Sure, the machine one thinks that. I am not the machine one. I am the original and am still subject to death.
it's the flesh one I'm concerned about! And in fact it's the original point, that the copy on the machine is a copy and not a transfer.
>That is, sir, a very hotly debated point :-)
Why?
Consciousnous will not be split across the two new instances, and if a non-destructive reading has taken place there is no magic that will make your consciousness jump to the computer. You, in meatspace, will still have a continuous existance and you, in meatspace, are not suddenly immortal.
It would be like giving birth perhaps, you spawn off a part of yourself. To me it would feel utterly futile. Where's the benefit to me (by which I mean my internal monlogue, my continuous experience of life), other than in terms of vanity?
A lot of games will give you a long narrative about how important something is, how it must be achieved stealthily, how you need to go in, get something and get out again or spin a complex tail around which you play your mission.
then it finishes and you turn to your buddy and say "so it's 'wade in and kill everything' like last time then?"
OTOH, i like 'wade in and kill everything'. 'wade in and kill everything' is great.