Indeed. The problem here isn't encryption, it's trusting commercial CAs that are more than likely providing governments with private keys so these governments can proceed with man-in-the-middle decryption.
But that's easy to prove.
Just produce one example of a fake key signed by a CA.
CAs who've been shown to produce fake keys generally haven't lasted long.
The problem is that the government leans on the server you're talking to and gets your data after it's decrypted.
No amount of encryption can fix that, but the idea that more encryption is not part of the solution is just silly. Obviously it eliminates one means of eavesdropping on your communications.
Some of our clients used to use iPads. Last time I met them, most had switched back to laptops because the iPads were such a pain to use for real work.
Maybe the others in your meeting were busy playing Angry Hamsters, or whatever the latest iPad game fad is?
Why would I let my appliance choose my grocery provider?
Because, based on current tech trends, it will be totally locked down and unable to order from anyone else? Or, at least, it will take a 30% cut of everything you buy.
Ford paid his workers well so they could afford his card.
No, he didn't. He didn't even pay them well so they could afford his cars.
Ford paid them well because he was suffering horribly from employee turnover as they worked for him long enough to learn their job and then moved on to a better-paid job elsewhere. Increasing their wages lead to a dramatic reduction in employee turnover, and increased productivity enough to justify the extra pay.
I've no idea why this urban legend continues to flourish when it's so clearly retarded. If he'd paid them more so they could afford his cars, they were at least as likely to spend the money with a competitor, or spend it on something more useful to them.
We cheer on labor rights in China, but complain about unions in the US. Maybe it's the balance, I don't know. But, it seems hypocritical.
US unions seem to be among the biggest cheerleaders for 'labor rights' in China, presumably becuase they're the ones who expect to benefit from increasing Chinese manufacturing costs.
Just watching Star Wars in HD on a friend's TV gave the soap opera effect. It was very disconcerting to watch the princess witness the destruction of Alderaan with a cheesy feeling to the scene as there was too much detail on some things and too little on others.
You do realise that's the way the movie looks in cinemas, right?
If a drive in a RAID fails, the others are probably close to failure.
Not true. We have drives fail every few months in RAID1, and, so far, we've never had the other drive in the same array fail in less than a year.
Even at consumer level, one of the drives in my home RAID1 failed early last year, I replaced it, and the other drive is still going. Current drives either seem to fail within the first two or three months of use, or run for years.
Similar capacity, less hassle, available right now....
Far more likely to just suddenly not work when you plug them in.
At least with Blu-Ray disks I can probably retrieve most of the data if there's a problem with one part of the disk. All the USB stick failures I've seen have resulted in the USB stick becoming completely unreadable and not even mountable.
Those who criticize Chinese working conditions are either ignorant of economics and history or have an agenda to hold China back.
Well, yes. Many of the people demanding 'better working conditions' in China seem to believe that, if they can increase manufacturing costs in China, manufacturing jobs will magically return to America. In reality, they'll go elsewhere in Asia, and most work that does return to America will be done by machines.
Because unlike every other business on the planet Dubya passed a law that says the USPS has to have the ENTIRE retirement plan, to the very last penny for every single employee, funded for something like 40 years?
And the USPS still lost billions more dollars on top of that last year.
It's a failing business with a broken business model, and nothing will change that. It's not as though postal organisations in other first-world countries aren't suffering too.
Reprinting the same stories as everyone else is cheap. Actually researching and writing your own stories costs money, particularly if you spend more than ten minutes on each one.
I forget where I read it, but I recall NT standing for New Technology.
My, possibly time-addled, memories from the OS/2 days were that the future of the PC was going to be OS/2 NT (OS/2 New Technology), but then Microsoft announced that they were releasing a new OS called Windows NT, which was nothing to do with OS/2 New Technology at all, no sir.
That was my sense as well. Especially for the DEC Alpha version, NT 3.51 seemed quite stable.
Not for me. At the time, I was working for a mixed Linux/NT company and the NT machines would regularly blue-screen just reading email, whereas my Linux machine was only rebooted for hardware upgrades.
I have yet to experience this DLL nightmare you speak of. I've had way more dependency hell on Linux than anything. Say you find a great program that does exactly what you need. Well the author based it off some obscure library that needs a dozen other dependencies
Fortunately, 'apt-get install great-program' always works for me.
I still don't understand how VMS can be compared to NT. They don't even seem remotely similar.
VMS WNT
Just as HAL was one step ahead of IBM, Windows NT is one step behind VMS.
Obama was less likely to engage in this than any of the GOP options were.
The difference is, when Republicans do something like this, the media print stories about how it's bad and should be stopped and Democrats would never do such a thing. When Obama does something like this, the media print stories about how wonderful he is and nothing he does could ever be bad.
Obviously the real problem is with prudes who hope that no one will ever be able to look at porn or enjoy sex again, but I do really wish more people would think of the other side and realize that stripping rights away that our children would otherwise grow into is just not worth it.
You're assuming that's an unintended side-effect, rather than a goal.
The world's governments want to censor the Internet. They don't want anyone talking behind their back in secret. Pr0n is just a convenient excuse to get the censor filter in place so they can expand them in the future.
Oh, sorry, I forgot: this is Slashdot, so in about five minutes there'll be a mob along to inform us that the slippery slope is a logical fallacy, so this could never happen.
I used to work on a Java transaction processing application at a major financial institution that handled more than 1,000,000 transactions a day that consolidated data from Unix, mainframe and Windows systems. The transactions came from batch and online, client-facing applications that had five nines uptime requirements.
I don't know, sounds major to me.
That looks like only 12 transactions per second to me. But then, I guess that's about all Java can handle between garbage collections.
More seriously, we use Java for various server systems with high uptime requirements, but there's usually C++ stuffed in there to handle the performance-critical parts.
A computer language that can't natively handle unsigned bytes without extending them to 16-bit ints is pretty freaking dumb. Lack of unsigned types is one of the biggest annoyances we have with Java.
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Indeed. The problem here isn't encryption, it's trusting commercial CAs that are more than likely providing governments with private keys so these governments can proceed with man-in-the-middle decryption.
But that's easy to prove.
Just produce one example of a fake key signed by a CA.
CAs who've been shown to produce fake keys generally haven't lasted long.
Uh, no.
The problem is that the government leans on the server you're talking to and gets your data after it's decrypted.
No amount of encryption can fix that, but the idea that more encryption is not part of the solution is just silly. Obviously it eliminates one means of eavesdropping on your communications.
Some of our clients used to use iPads. Last time I met them, most had switched back to laptops because the iPads were such a pain to use for real work.
Maybe the others in your meeting were busy playing Angry Hamsters, or whatever the latest iPad game fad is?
As for a smart alarm clock - why does it have to be "smart"?
So, when your employer decides they need you at 7am, not 8am, they can just log in and change your wakeup time.
You didn't think this was intended to benefit _YOU_, did you?
Why would I let my appliance choose my grocery provider?
Because, based on current tech trends, it will be totally locked down and unable to order from anyone else? Or, at least, it will take a 30% cut of everything you buy.
Ford paid his workers well so they could afford his card.
No, he didn't. He didn't even pay them well so they could afford his cars.
Ford paid them well because he was suffering horribly from employee turnover as they worked for him long enough to learn their job and then moved on to a better-paid job elsewhere. Increasing their wages lead to a dramatic reduction in employee turnover, and increased productivity enough to justify the extra pay.
I've no idea why this urban legend continues to flourish when it's so clearly retarded. If he'd paid them more so they could afford his cars, they were at least as likely to spend the money with a competitor, or spend it on something more useful to them.
We cheer on labor rights in China, but complain about unions in the US. Maybe it's the balance, I don't know. But, it seems hypocritical.
US unions seem to be among the biggest cheerleaders for 'labor rights' in China, presumably becuase they're the ones who expect to benefit from increasing Chinese manufacturing costs.
Just watching Star Wars in HD on a friend's TV gave the soap opera effect. It was very disconcerting to watch the princess witness the destruction of Alderaan with a cheesy feeling to the scene as there was too much detail on some things and too little on others.
You do realise that's the way the movie looks in cinemas, right?
If a drive in a RAID fails, the others are probably close to failure.
Not true. We have drives fail every few months in RAID1, and, so far, we've never had the other drive in the same array fail in less than a year.
Even at consumer level, one of the drives in my home RAID1 failed early last year, I replaced it, and the other drive is still going. Current drives either seem to fail within the first two or three months of use, or run for years.
Similar capacity, less hassle, available right now....
Far more likely to just suddenly not work when you plug them in.
At least with Blu-Ray disks I can probably retrieve most of the data if there's a problem with one part of the disk. All the USB stick failures I've seen have resulted in the USB stick becoming completely unreadable and not even mountable.
Only ones you purchase pre-recorded, not ones you write which have a lifetime of 2-5 years.
It's quite remarkable, then, that I can still play DVD-Rs I recorded ten years ago, when their life is only 2-5 years.
Those who criticize Chinese working conditions are either ignorant of economics and history or have an agenda to hold China back.
Well, yes. Many of the people demanding 'better working conditions' in China seem to believe that, if they can increase manufacturing costs in China, manufacturing jobs will magically return to America. In reality, they'll go elsewhere in Asia, and most work that does return to America will be done by machines.
Basically, people who want government to fail set them up to fail. Then they say "look look, big government is failing!"
Yes, but the OP was blaming Republicans, not Democrats.
Because unlike every other business on the planet Dubya passed a law that says the USPS has to have the ENTIRE retirement plan, to the very last penny for every single employee, funded for something like 40 years?
And the USPS still lost billions more dollars on top of that last year.
It's a failing business with a broken business model, and nothing will change that. It's not as though postal organisations in other first-world countries aren't suffering too.
Reprinting the same stories as everyone else is cheap. Actually researching and writing your own stories costs money, particularly if you spend more than ten minutes on each one.
I forget where I read it, but I recall NT standing for New Technology.
My, possibly time-addled, memories from the OS/2 days were that the future of the PC was going to be OS/2 NT (OS/2 New Technology), but then Microsoft announced that they were releasing a new OS called Windows NT, which was nothing to do with OS/2 New Technology at all, no sir.
I think you need to brush up on your English. The letters HAL precede IBM, which means it's one step behind.
I think you need to read more Clarke.
That was my sense as well. Especially for the DEC Alpha version, NT 3.51 seemed quite stable.
Not for me. At the time, I was working for a mixed Linux/NT company and the NT machines would regularly blue-screen just reading email, whereas my Linux machine was only rebooted for hardware upgrades.
I have yet to experience this DLL nightmare you speak of. I've had way more dependency hell on Linux than anything. Say you find a great program that does exactly what you need. Well the author based it off some obscure library that needs a dozen other dependencies
Fortunately, 'apt-get install great-program' always works for me.
I still don't understand how VMS can be compared to NT. They don't even seem remotely similar.
VMS
WNT
Just as HAL was one step ahead of IBM, Windows NT is one step behind VMS.
I guess we can continue to hang onto this 200 year old document and spout it as the clear and true gosepel though.
Indeed. The government should just ignore any part it doesn't like, because it's clearly 'outdated'.
Yeah, but modern CAPTCHAs are so convoluted that computers can solve them more easily than I can.
Obama was less likely to engage in this than any of the GOP options were.
The difference is, when Republicans do something like this, the media print stories about how it's bad and should be stopped and Democrats would never do such a thing. When Obama does something like this, the media print stories about how wonderful he is and nothing he does could ever be bad.
Obviously the real problem is with prudes who hope that no one will ever be able to look at porn or enjoy sex again, but I do really wish more people would think of the other side and realize that stripping rights away that our children would otherwise grow into is just not worth it.
You're assuming that's an unintended side-effect, rather than a goal.
The world's governments want to censor the Internet. They don't want anyone talking behind their back in secret. Pr0n is just a convenient excuse to get the censor filter in place so they can expand them in the future.
Oh, sorry, I forgot: this is Slashdot, so in about five minutes there'll be a mob along to inform us that the slippery slope is a logical fallacy, so this could never happen.
I used to work on a Java transaction processing application at a major financial institution that handled more than 1,000,000 transactions a day that consolidated data from Unix, mainframe and Windows systems. The transactions came from batch and online, client-facing applications that had five nines uptime requirements.
I don't know, sounds major to me.
That looks like only 12 transactions per second to me. But then, I guess that's about all Java can handle between garbage collections.
More seriously, we use Java for various server systems with high uptime requirements, but there's usually C++ stuffed in there to handle the performance-critical parts.
A computer language that can't natively handle unsigned bytes without extending them to 16-bit ints is pretty freaking dumb. Lack of unsigned types is one of the biggest annoyances we have with Java.