It's interesting that you said 'her word against his' instead of 'his word against hers'
Does this express a bias in favor of his point of view; his word against hers, that there was no attempted assault, burglary, or rape?
You read too much into it. Her words came first (she called police) his reply came second (the police questioned him). Everything was chronological. Yet you want to find some political motive there? Would you not also find reasons to complain if the chronological sequence was reversed?
Of course he denies it what is he going to say? "Yes I am a sexual predator"? There was plenty of evidence that something went down. There were bruises on both of their faces. Many of her items (that Gont took) were found in his room even after he denied having them. Polish Law Enforcement WAS contacted but decided not to take any action.
Probably Polish LEOs decided that since she let him in her room in the wee hours of the morning, there is no way to determine what happened from there on. Hence, the case devolves into a she said he said, and if she won't file official charges, and stay there long enough to see it through, they will decline to make an arrest. Its up to her to file formal charges.
That and future winners of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award, which some future President will be forced to give this guy. I'm betting you could run a pretty good election campaign just on that alone, because the demonizing isn't going to well except among the circle jerks in DC.
Selmer Bringsford, chair of the Department. of Cognitive Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, said at a U.S. House forum this week. '
Seems we have plenty of super computers laying about, having only recently been booted from top place in the never ending game of leap-frog in high end machines.
We prefer to use them for weather and spying on our own citizens, rather than making better weapons, especially when we can hide the funds for computer systems in the weapon funding.
Without the disclaimer, the comments here would have an even heavier dose of "you suck, learn how to do your job" abuse. That a non-profit organization might not want to pay for in-house technical staff capable of doing this makes more sense to some people.
Which "some people"?
Those in the non-profit top management getting huge salaries? Its common knowledge that after your government job is gone, you form a non-profit to "give back to the community" while lining your pockets with other people's money.
Non profit does not equate to charity by any sense of the word, but its clear many people drink that koolaid.
But I bet the top execs are making bank big time. That always seems to be the way it is with non-profits. More than comfortable salaries, always with a hand held out palm up.
I agree, but I'd recommend the options in the reverse order you listed them.
The guy was pretty vague about what the Web Host is supposed to be doing and pretty keen to point out the companies "non profit" status (as if that makes a difference).
But it sounds like simple web hosting is all he is looking for. He hints a periods of high demand, which a scale-able VPS service would be good for, but also suggests a thousand concurrent connection seems to be the most they ever see at once.
The problem might be in WHAT they are serving more than what they are serving FROM. If some dodgy database system, or even a mail system that hasn't seen maintenance in years is bogging down the system to the point of stalling http service, then by all means fix that first.
If its simple web pages, there is no way 1000 users would even choke an old 485 based server.
If his current provider can't find the problem, its more than likely its not bandwidth or total data transfer limits kicking in. It might be incompetence by his current provider, but it also sounds like its just as likely a fault with their own software.
My recommendation would to be get the tallent on board, (and stop waving the non-profit flag), and validate your server software first, then, maybe look for more hosting services. Scale-ability isn't always best choice to look into. In many cases, its just throwing more Virtual Iron at the same bag of turd-software. Amplifying broken. doesn't make it less broken.
With Event Data recorders, you don't have to prevent hacking, or erasure. You just have to be able to detect that it occurred. There is no problem letting people read out the contents, or displaying on screen in cars that have screens.
You are correct about the double edged sword issue. If the police and attorneys get to trawl your entire Cams recording (as they certainly will in discovery), some of which can be very long, they will almost certainly be able to find something you did wrong. Since drivers make more than 200 decisions during every mile traveled, it shouldn't be too hard ever for the most careful driver to exhibit some trivial faults. The lawyers can data mine these incidents, 5mph over here, unsignaled lane change there, a lane drift on a totally empty road, and put you in the light of a careless driver, and claim that an attentive and defensive driver might have avoided the accident.
If you look in your car manual for any late model vehicle you will find that what you asked for is already there. Its usually a very small bit of info, 30 seconds or less.
My car's manual says this:
Event Data Recorder (EDR) This vehicle is equipped with an event data recorder (EDR). The main purpose of an EDR is to record, in certain crash or near crash-like situations, such as an air bag deployment or hitting a road obstacle, data that will assist in understanding how a vehicle’s systems performed. The EDR is designed to record data related to vehicle dynamics and safety systems for a short period of time, typically 30 seconds or less.
The EDR in this vehicle is designed to record such data as: How various systems in your vehicle were operating; Whether or not the driver and passenger safety belts were buckled/fastened; How far (if at all) the driver was depressing the accelerator and/or brake pedal; and, How fast the vehicle was traveling. These data can help provide a better understanding of the circumstances in which crashes and injuries occur.
NOTE:EDR data are recorded by your vehicle only if a non-trivial crash situation occurs; no data are recorded by the EDR under normal driving conditions and no personal data (e.g., name, gender, age, and crash location) are recorded. However, other parties, such as law enforcement, could combine the EDR data with the type of personally identifying data routinely acquired during a crash investigation.
To read data recorded by an EDR, special equipment is required, and access to the vehicle or the EDR is needed. In addition to the vehicle manufacturer, other parties, such as law enforcement, that have the special equipment, can read the information if they have access to the vehicle or the EDR.
I see no problem with this type of info, because by the time an airbag deploys its already a matter of public safety and police are usually involved.
Yes there is probably enough info in there to convict you. If you were accelerating at 55mph in a 25mph school zone when you ran over little Billy, you can expect your car to testify against you.
I see no reason this information shouldn't be available to the owner without the need of special equipment, as long as the car was still able to power the recorder and provide readout somehow. I suspect the requirement for special equipment may be technical (how to power the device on enough to read it) and also legal, to prevent people from clearing the EDR after running over little Billy.
But it would be nice to know what is in there. Especially when buying a used car.
Bitcoin and twitter are not central to the prevention of rollbacks. The mere existence of any single key validates all prior keys, therefore once created a new keyvalue prevents roll back of ALL prior values.
Twitter and Bitcoin are merely good public records. They lend no strength to the methodology. You could hack their twitter account and post a bogus key, but said bogus key would be immediately falsifiable based on the key itself.
It documents the fact that there was something recorded (they make a perpetual copy of some digital thing) on a date and time specific. It doesn't really matter to them what it was, or who you are. It merely proves the existence of the digital item on a date in the past
A notary can't notarize a digital version of anything. It only works for paper documents.
When someone steals you software 5 years from now, and you have a Cornell Notarization number for that digital file dated today, you have a third party saying they made a digital copy of that digital file on a specific date and time. If it predates your claim-jumper, you had proof that they did not invent it. That is all it claims to do. It doesn't claim to prove you own it, or where it came from.
Simply that it's existence on the web at some point in time was verified and issued a certificate of existence that can't be back dated or faked.
They are re-using the word "notary", but doing so in a way that could never be mistaken for a Notary Public, because such people can not notarize digital items.
It's not as much that they are a trusted person, but that they are a neutral third party.
This neutrality is often in question. Virtually every Real Estate company in the US has a pet notary public on staff, as do many larger bank branches, and they notarize all sorts of business documents to which their own employer is a party.
At best, these certify that the Notary's numbered seal on a document can be traced to someone who witnessed the signing, and that person' should have a log. But that log can't always be found, and even when it can, all the notary can testify to is that the seal matches the log, and it "looks like" their signature.
I've never googled Pirate Bay on this account. Until now. Yet as soon as I entered the word Pirate the second auto-complete was for thepiratebay.se (which led to a different site altogether).
Some things are forcibly excluded from search results by various laws in various places, so it might not work for me but would work for someone else.
Still, that is the "legally mandated exclusive case", but that wouldn't explain or refute the "crowd sourced inclusive case".
Maybe, but notary seals are far easier to disappear (or fake), and validating one from 100 years ago is virtually impossible. It becomes a matter of blind faith.
This Virtual Notary has the ability to become just as legal as a physical seal, because every subsequent notary issued validates all prior ones. It will have to be mathematically proven to work, but should that happen, and nobody can fake one over time, I could see this being used for a lot of digital document signing.
The problem I see with it is in this line from their FAQ:
You can prove that certain information was published on the web, even if it is deleted later. We'll make a copy of the said content for posterity.
Well, that "make a copy for posterity" is a bit ambitious. Should that get destroyed, you are left with nothing but a big long fuzzy number, that can be proven to be a valid number, but would no longer be attributable to any specific content.
With that service each stamp stands alone. With this service each Notary log value validates itself and all preceding values. If the Stamper service goes off line, its useless. With this service the existence of any later log value validates your log value even if Cornell goes titsup.
Actually, no. Bitcoin is simply one of the methods used to record the notary log chain value into a long lived form. Bitcoin isn't central to this in any way. The methodology is far less compute intensive than the mining methodology in bitcoin. If it weren't it couldn't keep up.
Virtual Notary publishes the hash of the log every time a certificate is issued. They also tweet this value. They could have as well used any other method that leaves a long standing record, even engraving it in metal and handing them out as souvenirs on an hourly basis.
Merely having any given hash validates all prior notary values up to the date it was published. The proof will be in every users hands, as well as community repositories.
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It's interesting that you said 'her word against his' instead of 'his word against hers'
Does this express a bias in favor of his point of view; his word against hers, that there was no attempted assault, burglary, or rape?
You read too much into it.
Her words came first (she called police) his reply came second (the police questioned him). Everything was chronological.
Yet you want to find some political motive there? Would you not also find reasons to complain if the chronological sequence was reversed?
Of course he denies it what is he going to say? "Yes I am a sexual predator"? There was plenty of evidence that something went down. There were bruises on both of their faces. Many of her items (that Gont took) were found in his room even after he denied having them. Polish Law Enforcement WAS contacted but decided not to take any action.
Probably Polish LEOs decided that since she let him in her room in the wee hours of the morning, there is no way to determine what happened from there on.
Hence, the case devolves into a she said he said, and if she won't file official charges, and stay there long enough to see it through, they will decline to make an arrest. Its up to her to file formal charges.
Anything that might sully Obama, the footballers will hate.
Broaden your horizons.
That and future winners of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award, which some future President will be forced to give this guy.
I'm betting you could run a pretty good election campaign just on that alone, because the demonizing isn't going to well except among the circle jerks in DC.
Selmer Bringsford, chair of the Department. of Cognitive Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, said at a U.S. House forum this week. '
Seems we have plenty of super computers laying about, having only recently been booted from top place in the never ending game of leap-frog in high end
machines.
We prefer to use them for weather and spying on our own citizens, rather than making better weapons, especially when we can hide the funds for computer systems in the weapon funding.
Not sure I'm buying the hand wringing act.
Without the disclaimer, the comments here would have an even heavier dose of "you suck, learn how to do your job" abuse. That a non-profit organization might not want to pay for in-house technical staff capable of doing this makes more sense to some people.
Which "some people"?
Those in the non-profit top management getting huge salaries?
Its common knowledge that after your government job is gone, you form a non-profit to "give back to the community" while lining your pockets with other people's money.
Non profit does not equate to charity by any sense of the word, but its clear many people drink that koolaid.
That's the way I read it too.
But I bet the top execs are making bank big time. That always seems to be the way it is with non-profits. More than comfortable salaries, always with a hand held out palm up.
I agree, but I'd recommend the options in the reverse order you listed them.
The guy was pretty vague about what the Web Host is supposed to be doing and pretty keen to point out the companies "non profit" status (as if that makes a difference).
But it sounds like simple web hosting is all he is looking for. He hints a periods of high demand, which a scale-able VPS service would be good for, but also suggests a thousand concurrent connection seems to be the most they ever see at once.
The problem might be in WHAT they are serving more than what they are serving FROM. If some dodgy database system, or even a mail system that hasn't seen maintenance in years is bogging down the system to the point of stalling http service, then by all means fix that first.
If its simple web pages, there is no way 1000 users would even choke an old 485 based server.
If his current provider can't find the problem, its more than likely its not bandwidth or total data transfer limits kicking in. It might be incompetence by his current provider, but it also sounds like its just as likely a fault with their own software.
My recommendation would to be get the tallent on board, (and stop waving the non-profit flag), and validate your server software first, then, maybe look for more hosting services. Scale-ability isn't always best choice to look into. In many cases, its just throwing more Virtual Iron at the same bag of turd-software. Amplifying broken. doesn't make it less broken.
As opposed to other distros who's binaries are compiled from used windows exe files and yesterday's underwear?
He was explaining it wrong, and contradicting his own web page.
With Event Data recorders, you don't have to prevent hacking, or erasure. You just have to be able to detect that it occurred.
There is no problem letting people read out the contents, or displaying on screen in cars that have screens.
You are correct about the double edged sword issue.
If the police and attorneys get to trawl your entire Cams recording (as they certainly will in discovery), some of which can be very long, they will almost certainly be able to find something you did wrong. Since drivers make more than 200 decisions during every mile traveled, it shouldn't be too hard ever for the most careful driver to exhibit some trivial faults. The lawyers can data mine these incidents, 5mph over here, unsignaled lane change there, a lane drift on a totally empty road, and put you in the light of a careless driver, and claim that an attentive and defensive driver might have avoided the accident.
Most EDRs already in US cars only record 30 seconds.
They know when to start (or when to stop, depending on model) the same way they know
when to deploy airbags.
If you look in your car manual for any late model vehicle you will find that what you asked for is already there.
Its usually a very small bit of info, 30 seconds or less.
My car's manual says this:
Event Data Recorder (EDR)
This vehicle is equipped with an event data recorder
(EDR). The main purpose of an EDR is to record, in
certain crash or near crash-like situations, such as an air
bag deployment or hitting a road obstacle, data that will
assist in understanding how a vehicle’s systems performed.
The EDR is designed to record data related to
vehicle dynamics and safety systems for a short period of
time, typically 30 seconds or less.
The EDR in this vehicle
is designed to record such data as:
How various systems in your vehicle were operating;
Whether or not the driver and passenger safety belts
were buckled/fastened;
How far (if at all) the driver was depressing the
accelerator and/or brake pedal; and,
How fast the vehicle was traveling.
These data can help provide a better understanding of
the circumstances in which crashes and injuries occur.
NOTE:EDR data are recorded by your vehicle only if a
non-trivial crash situation occurs; no data are recorded by
the EDR under normal driving conditions and no personal data (e.g., name, gender, age, and crash location)
are recorded. However, other parties, such as law enforcement, could combine the EDR data with the type of
personally identifying data routinely acquired during a
crash investigation.
To read data recorded by an EDR, special equipment is
required, and access to the vehicle or the EDR is needed.
In addition to the vehicle manufacturer, other parties,
such as law enforcement, that have the special equipment, can read the information if they have access to the
vehicle or the EDR.
I see no problem with this type of info, because by the time an airbag deploys its already a matter of public safety and police are usually involved.
Yes there is probably enough info in there to convict you. If you were accelerating at 55mph in a 25mph school zone when you ran over little Billy, you can expect your car to testify against you.
I see no reason this information shouldn't be available to the owner without the need of special equipment, as long as the car was still able to power the recorder and provide readout somehow. I suspect the requirement for special equipment may be technical (how to power the device on enough to read it) and also legal, to prevent people from clearing the EDR after running over little Billy.
But it would be nice to know what is in there. Especially when buying a used car.
Well you said it was Excel, so....
Try a different spread sheet.
Posting as AC you are trying to make it seem like you exist, but in reality, you don't.
Your point 4 is wrong.
Bitcoin and twitter are not central to the prevention of rollbacks. The mere existence of any single key validates all prior keys, therefore
once created a new keyvalue prevents roll back of ALL prior values.
Twitter and Bitcoin are merely good public records. They lend no strength to the methodology.
You could hack their twitter account and post a bogus key, but said bogus key would be immediately falsifiable based on the key itself.
It documents the fact that there was something recorded (they make a perpetual copy of some digital thing) on a date and time specific.
It doesn't really matter to them what it was, or who you are. It merely proves the existence of the digital item on a date in the past
A notary can't notarize a digital version of anything. It only works for paper documents.
When someone steals you software 5 years from now, and you have a Cornell Notarization number for that digital file dated today, you have a third party saying they made a digital copy of that digital file on a specific date and time. If it predates your claim-jumper, you had proof that they did not invent it. That is all it claims to do.
It doesn't claim to prove you own it, or where it came from.
Simply that it's existence on the web at some point in time was verified and issued a certificate of existence that can't be back dated or faked.
They are re-using the word "notary", but doing so in a way that could never be mistaken for a Notary Public, because such people can not notarize digital items.
Bitcoin plays no central part of this, and does not add any trust to the hash.
Each hash validates every prior hash, and bitcoin adds nothing.
It's not as much that they are a trusted person, but that they are a neutral third party.
This neutrality is often in question.
Virtually every Real Estate company in the US has a pet notary public on staff, as do many larger bank branches,
and they notarize all sorts of business documents to which their own employer is a party.
At best, these certify that the Notary's numbered seal on a document can be traced to someone who witnessed
the signing, and that person' should have a log. But that log can't always be found, and even when it can,
all the notary can testify to is that the seal matches the log, and it "looks like" their signature.
I've never googled Pirate Bay on this account. Until now.
Yet as soon as I entered the word Pirate the second auto-complete was for thepiratebay.se (which led to a different site altogether).
Some things are forcibly excluded from search results by various laws in various places, so it might not work for me but would work for someone else.
Still, that is the "legally mandated exclusive case", but that wouldn't explain or refute the "crowd sourced inclusive case".
Bitcoin is not central to Cornell's system. It is just ONE method of making public the current value of the log entry.
Every holder of a Notary value also validates all prior notary values.
Don't get hung up on the bitcoin part. Its not really germane.
Maybe, but notary seals are far easier to disappear (or fake), and validating one from 100 years ago is virtually impossible. It becomes a matter of blind faith.
This Virtual Notary has the ability to become just as legal as a physical seal, because every subsequent notary issued validates all prior ones.
It will have to be mathematically proven to work, but should that happen, and nobody can fake one over time, I could see this being used for a lot of digital document signing.
The problem I see with it is in this line from their FAQ:
You can prove that certain information was published on the web, even if it is deleted later. We'll make a copy of the said content for posterity.
Well, that "make a copy for posterity" is a bit ambitious. Should that get destroyed, you are left with nothing but a big long fuzzy number, that can be proven to be a valid number, but would no longer be attributable to any specific content.
Interesting, but not the same as this service.
With that service each stamp stands alone. With this service each Notary log value validates itself and all preceding values.
If the Stamper service goes off line, its useless. With this service the existence of any later log value validates your log value even if Cornell goes titsup.
Actually, no. Bitcoin is simply one of the methods used to record the notary log chain value into a long lived form. Bitcoin isn't central to this in any way.
The methodology is far less compute intensive than the mining methodology in bitcoin. If it weren't it couldn't keep up.
Virtual Notary publishes the hash of the log every time a certificate is issued. They also tweet this value. They could have as well used any other method that leaves a long standing record, even engraving it in metal and handing them out as souvenirs on an hourly basis.
Merely having any given hash validates all prior notary values up to the date it was published. The proof will be in every users hands, as well as community repositories.
Mine are also quite fond of turning on every faucet in their apartment at the same time and then banging on the pipes.
No doubt they believe the guy shoveling coal into the boiler downstairs has fallen asleep.