I don't think so. If this never gets to court or if he's acquitted, the constitution is fine.
The constitution that allows such an arrest is not by any definition "fine".
You can walk into any house in America and find what they allegedly found. Gasoline, cleaning fluids, flour (yes flour), steel wool scouring pads, and matches, wires for the lamps, cell phones, the list of things that police can designate as bomb making materials is endless.
The only probable solution would be to dedicate specific channels for their use and have rigidly enforced laws in place which forbid usage by consumer devices.
I'm not sure how you rigidly enforce laws in battle field situations. If you could, why not just make a law against the enemy carrying weapons?
There are two key requirements in the Darpa Challenge:
1) High priority radios in the military and civilian sectors must be able to operate regardless of the ambient electromagnetic environment, to avoid disruption of communications and potential loss of life. 2) Response operations, such as disaster relief, further motivate the desire for multiple radio networks to effectively and efficiently share the spectrum without requiring direct coordination or spectrum preplanning.
In the end I suspect that the winning entry will pay little heed to the regulatory frequency allocations, and fall back on the FCC standard of non-interference by instantaneously finding unused frequencies over a wide spectrum and pushing messages through those spaces in small encrypted bursts so short that licensed users of that bandwidth would not even notice it. Alternatively you might be able to embed your transmission within already widely used frequencies for digital television, AM/FM radio, by using the gaps between allocated frequencies.
Why should they read Claude, when what they are asking for is not anything to do with bandwidth or power, but simply competing transmissions, some perhaps hostile? The DARPA Spectrum Challenge places no explicit restrictions on bandwidth, and perhaps only portability restrictions on power. I rather suspect DARPA has already developed radio technologies that would make Mr Shannon's jaw drop.
One thing I cant understand about this whole thing; how is it possible they blanket label everyone on the receiving end of the hellfire missile as 'enemy combatant'
So your theory is they fly these things around and shoot randomly at any thing that moves?
These targets are watched for days and weeks, and people are tracked across great distances. There are eyes and ears on the ground that know who comes an goes. Occasionally the screw up and hit some place where children are present. Doesn't mean there wasn't a legitimate target there. Osama had his wives and kids and grandkids with him too.
Naivety. Cute in children. Tiresome in Juveniles. Just plain stupid in adults.
Someone watches all of those gamed. Every uninteresting baseball inning, every boring back and forth soccer kick, even days long cricket matches. ESPN has thousands of eyes, most of then not paid by them.
They put up a camera or tap into one used for local consumption, look at the score sheet and cherry pick the highlights off their DVR. You could scan your twitter feed to know what sections to watch. You can listen to the crowd at the game and know when to hit rewind.
There is no shortcut magic that ESPN has. They just have lots of eyes.
If you don't have that many eyes, Artificial Intelligence has a much better chance of picking up a remote encampment or a caravan of cars, or even pack mules and foot soldiers in hours of desert streaming by. At least it eliminates the 90% of the video stream that holds nothing of interest.
"In theory there's no difference between theory and reality....in reality it's the other way around"
Seriously, real world code is by definition 'real world' and doesn't live by the theoretical pillars of design. It has to deal with actual deadlines, finite resources and of course office politics.
Exactly. Where the professor can take 6 months to prepare a small simplistic demo application custom tailored to demonstrate his (pet) coding methods and design standards, in the real world you have to get things done, not in 6 months, not in 6 weeks, and seldom in 6 days. You might have 6 hours on a good day.
Does too much of this quick hacks find its way into production? Absolutely. Do bad 2x4s find their way into house construction? Of course.
But corporate world code runs every single day, not twice a semester. Its "good enough". And if it starts to fail it get rewritten, or patched. The truth of the matter is that corporate systems are long lived, and few if any are fully understood by the current staff, because the guy who wrote it moved on 8 years ago. And Yet, it gets the job done day after day, year in and year out, because people watch it and know what to expect.
Do houses fall down because of bad 2x4s? Virtually never. Maybe after years of remodeling, rewiring, re-plumbing, the place will burn down, but there is usually a recent idiot involved, rather than the original builder.
We build things "good enough" in this world. Not Perfect.
I don't think Windows uses Swap for hibernation image storage like Linux does. Windows uses a memory sized file named hiberfil.sys.
But you point is valid, if you are using whole drive encryption, True Crypt or some such, even the hiberfil.sys should be encrypted, since it resides in the file-system, as does swap.
That does not address the fact that the summary states that conductivity does not change as the wire is stretched.
The summary states no such thing. It states that conductivity reduction changes are offset by other changes that reduce resistance. However that offset is limited to a very small range of current and voltage. Mostly it works for voltage and amperage that would be found in signaling, not power transmission.
One can not negate the basic laws of electrical transmission that huge amperage can not be carried on tiny wires.
I saw that post, but the source does not report what you think it does.
It reports rates for rape, which has a sufficiently long sentence that many rapists are rather old when they leave prison. It does not address child molestation at all, except by burying it under a mountain of rape cases.
Many of the more notorious molesters are serial molesters, and are often discovered only later in life, and never do get out of prison, so they never do have a chance of recidivism.
Hibernation is a choice you make every time you shut down your computer. Stop doing that.
Just choose shutdown instead of hibernation. In fact you can disable hibernation all together, and simply use sleep for short trips to the bathroom, and actually shut the damn thing down when not using it. Security conscious people never hibernate a machine.
So, there is no difference between "off" and "hibernating."
The difference is the lack of a resume file. The computer is not hibernating if this file is missing or was never written because the power was switched off without taking the time to hibernate the computer.
I believe the intent is to prevent pedophile pedators from clandestinely communicating with potential underage prey. However, since sex-offender status is applied to more than just pedophiles, I would think that this is overly broad.
Exactly. In many jurisdictions, you become a sex offender simply by peeing in a back alley in the dark after the bars close.
There really needs to be a legal redefinition of the terminology to weed out the pedophiles from the person on the losing side of a he-said/she-said.
But holding it in volatile memory, and entering it once upon boot up is not all that bad. There are a lot of ways this can be done such that the private key never need be stored on the disk in unencrypted form.
Exactly: They aren't breaking encryption, they are simply surfing for keys.
Quote TFA:
So, how does it work? Elcomsoft Forensic Disk Decryptor acquires the necessary decryption keys by analyzing memory dumps and/or hibernation files obtained from the target PC. You’ll thus need to get a memory dump from a running PC (locked or unlocked) with encrypted volumes mounted, via a standard forensic product or via a FireWire attack. Alternatively, decryption keys can also be derived from hibernation files if a target PC is turned off.
Note the basic misunderstanding embedded in that last sentence: Turned off != Hibernated.
While this tool might help you break into a computer you found hibernated, or running while locked, it won't do any good if the power cord is yanked, or the encryption software was intelligently written to only store its key an some volatile memory.
But you could design for that, simply by using the smallest diameter as your critical dimension when selecting wire size.
Of course it also allows for some new circuit elements, those that can measure stretch via voltage drop, which might be very useful in robotics or prosthetics. In short it might not be as much of a detriment as it is an advantage.
To me, having used it exclusively for the last 6+ years, it's never been better.
6+ years puts you into the long suffering crowd, (with me) to whom almost anything approximating stable earns high praise. Somewhere around 4.6 it actually became fully functional again. I can't wait to try RC1. There were many releases where I wouldn't dream of trying an RC?, having been bitten too often.
It has been a long and bumpy road. One more upgrade like 4.0 would probably kill this project completely. Its not totally the KDE Team's fault, there were far too many Distros that jumped on way too early, making 4.0 the default, then claiming they really didn't.
Some of the most obvious additions since KDE4, Activities, are still poorly understood, and under utilized. A very large subset of users ignore them all together, finding old-school multiple Desktops much more satisfactory for their work environment.
That people have multidimensional interests, and skills, a fact that was well understood by the developers of intelligence tests, does not invalidate these tests for their intended purpose.
This "new finding" is nothing more than a rehash of the criticism of lQ tests since the Pleistocene.
But in truth, they were never intended as a single ruler to measure all dimensions of human intelligence, or the ability to learn. And, used as a general guide, they work quite well for their intend purposes .
Apparently the last people on earth laboring under the misconception of the purpose of these tests were the authors of this study.
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I don't think so. If this never gets to court or if he's acquitted, the constitution is fine.
The constitution that allows such an arrest is not by any definition "fine".
You can walk into any house in America and find what they allegedly found. Gasoline, cleaning fluids, flour (yes flour), steel wool scouring pads, and matches, wires for the lamps, cell phones, the list of things that police can designate as bomb making materials is endless.
The only probable solution would be to dedicate specific channels for their use and have rigidly enforced laws in place which forbid usage by consumer devices.
I'm not sure how you rigidly enforce laws in battle field situations. If you could, why not just make a law against the enemy carrying weapons?
There are two key requirements in the Darpa Challenge:
1) High priority radios in the military and civilian sectors must be able to operate regardless of the ambient electromagnetic environment, to avoid disruption of communications and potential loss of life.
2) Response operations, such as disaster relief, further motivate the desire for multiple radio networks to effectively and efficiently share the spectrum without requiring direct coordination or spectrum preplanning.
In the end I suspect that the winning entry will pay little heed to the regulatory frequency allocations, and fall back on the FCC standard of non-interference by instantaneously finding unused frequencies over a wide spectrum and pushing messages through those spaces in small encrypted bursts so short that licensed users of that bandwidth would not even notice it. Alternatively you might be able to embed your transmission within already widely used frequencies for digital television, AM /FM radio, by using the gaps between allocated frequencies.
Why should they read Claude, when what they are asking for is not anything to do with bandwidth or power, but simply competing transmissions, some perhaps hostile? The DARPA Spectrum Challenge places no explicit restrictions on bandwidth, and perhaps only portability restrictions on power. I rather suspect DARPA has already developed radio technologies that would make Mr Shannon's jaw drop.
Gee, it must be a wonderful skill to have a quote from tv show ready for every occasion.
Why? Its in an encrypted partition.
One thing I cant understand about this whole thing; how is it possible they blanket label everyone on the receiving end of the hellfire missile as 'enemy combatant'
So your theory is they fly these things around and shoot randomly at any thing that moves?
These targets are watched for days and weeks, and people are tracked across great distances.
There are eyes and ears on the ground that know who comes an goes. Occasionally the screw up
and hit some place where children are present. Doesn't mean there wasn't a legitimate target there.
Osama had his wives and kids and grandkids with him too.
Naivety. Cute in children. Tiresome in Juveniles. Just plain stupid in adults.
Someone watches all of those gamed. Every uninteresting baseball inning, every boring back and forth soccer kick, even days long cricket matches.
ESPN has thousands of eyes, most of then not paid by them.
They put up a camera or tap into one used for local consumption, look at the score sheet and cherry pick the highlights off their DVR.
You could scan your twitter feed to know what sections to watch. You can listen to the crowd at the game and know when to hit rewind.
There is no shortcut magic that ESPN has. They just have lots of eyes.
If you don't have that many eyes, Artificial Intelligence has a much better chance of picking up a remote encampment or a caravan of cars, or even pack mules and foot soldiers in hours of desert streaming by. At least it eliminates the 90% of the video stream that holds nothing of interest.
There's no way to win this issue without completely destroying these peoples autonomy. Whats worse 100,000 cases of polio or cultural eradication?
You over state the case.
You need not eradicate culture to protect against polio. That is simplistic nonsense.
Summarized as follows:
"In theory there's no difference between theory and reality....in reality it's the other way around"
Seriously, real world code is by definition 'real world' and doesn't live by the theoretical pillars of design. It has to deal with actual deadlines, finite resources and of course office politics.
Exactly.
Where the professor can take 6 months to prepare a small simplistic demo application custom tailored to demonstrate his (pet) coding methods and design standards, in the real world you have to get things done, not in 6 months, not in 6 weeks, and seldom in 6 days. You might have 6 hours on a good day.
Does too much of this quick hacks find its way into production?
Absolutely.
Do bad 2x4s find their way into house construction? Of course.
But corporate world code runs every single day, not twice a semester. Its "good enough".
And if it starts to fail it get rewritten, or patched. The truth of the matter is that corporate
systems are long lived, and few if any are fully understood by the current staff, because the guy who wrote it moved on 8 years ago.
And Yet, it gets the job done day after day, year in and year out, because people watch it and know what to expect.
Do houses fall down because of bad 2x4s? Virtually never. Maybe after years of
remodeling, rewiring, re-plumbing, the place will burn down, but there is usually
a recent idiot involved, rather than the original builder.
We build things "good enough" in this world. Not Perfect.
It's an encrypted file on an encrypted file system.
I don't think Windows uses Swap for hibernation image storage like Linux does. Windows uses a memory sized file named hiberfil.sys.
But you point is valid, if you are using whole drive encryption, True Crypt or some such, even the hiberfil.sys should be encrypted, since it resides in the file-system, as does swap.
That does not address the fact that the summary states that conductivity does not change as the wire is stretched.
The summary states no such thing.
It states that conductivity reduction changes are offset by other changes that reduce resistance.
However that offset is limited to a very small range of current and voltage. Mostly it works for voltage and amperage that would be
found in signaling, not power transmission.
One can not negate the basic laws of electrical transmission that huge amperage can not be carried on tiny wires.
I saw that post, but the source does not report what you think it does.
It reports rates for rape, which has a sufficiently long sentence that many rapists are rather old when they leave prison.
It does not address child molestation at all, except by burying it under a mountain of rape cases.
Many of the more notorious molesters are serial molesters, and are often discovered only later in life, and never do get out of prison, so they never do have a chance of recidivism.
I am not confusing anything, you are.
Hibernation is a choice you make every time you shut down your computer.
Stop doing that.
Just choose shutdown instead of hibernation.
In fact you can disable hibernation all together, and simply use sleep for short trips to the bathroom, and actually shut the damn thing down when not using it.
Security conscious people never hibernate a machine.
Oh, forgot to mention, you could also run a competent operating system....
Nah, that would never work!!
But if you are worried about this, you simply run after awakening from hybernation mode:
POWERCFG -H OFF
POWERCFG -H ON
That turns off hibernation, which deletes hiberfil.sys then enables hibernation which will allow its recreation.
So, there is no difference between "off" and "hibernating."
The difference is the lack of a resume file. The computer is not hibernating if this file is missing or was never written because the power was switched off without taking the time to hibernate the computer.
You seem to take no notice of recidivism rates in the various crimes you throw up as equivalences.
Was it an oversight, or disingenuity?
He certainly worded that somewhat carelessly.
But then he distinguishes between rapists and sex offenders too:
Are rapist prevented from dating and/or getting married and/or having children? Nope, but as a sex offender, they can't play WoW .
so it seems he types faster than he thinks.
I believe the intent is to prevent pedophile pedators from clandestinely communicating with potential underage prey. However, since sex-offender status is applied to more than just pedophiles, I would think that this is overly broad.
Exactly. In many jurisdictions, you become a sex offender simply by peeing in a back alley in the dark after the bars close.
There really needs to be a legal redefinition of the terminology to weed out the pedophiles from the person on the losing side of a he-said/she-said.
But holding it in volatile memory, and entering it once upon boot up is not all that bad. There are a lot of ways this can be done such that the private key never need be stored on the disk in unencrypted form.
Exactly: They aren't breaking encryption, they are simply surfing for keys.
Quote TFA:
So, how does it work? Elcomsoft Forensic Disk Decryptor acquires the necessary decryption keys by analyzing memory dumps and/or hibernation files obtained from the target PC. You’ll thus need to get a memory dump from a running PC (locked or unlocked) with encrypted volumes mounted, via a standard forensic product or via a FireWire attack. Alternatively, decryption keys can also be derived from hibernation files if a target PC is turned off.
Note the basic misunderstanding embedded in that last sentence: Turned off != Hibernated.
While this tool might help you break into a computer you found hibernated, or running while locked, it won't do any good if the power cord is yanked, or the encryption software was intelligently written to only store its key an some volatile memory.
so shouldn't this alter the conductivity of the 'wire'? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_resistance_and_conductance#Relation_to_resistivity_and_conductivity
One would think so.
But you could design for that, simply by using the smallest diameter as your critical dimension when selecting wire size.
Of course it also allows for some new circuit elements, those that can measure stretch via voltage drop, which might be very useful in robotics or prosthetics.
In short it might not be as much of a detriment as it is an advantage.
To me, having used it exclusively for the last 6+ years, it's never been better.
6+ years puts you into the long suffering crowd, (with me) to whom almost anything approximating stable earns high praise.
Somewhere around 4.6 it actually became fully functional again. I can't wait to try RC1. There were many releases where I
wouldn't dream of trying an RC?, having been bitten too often.
It has been a long and bumpy road. One more upgrade like 4.0 would probably kill this project completely. Its not totally the KDE Team's fault,
there were far too many Distros that jumped on way too early, making 4.0 the default, then claiming they really didn't.
Some of the most obvious additions since KDE4, Activities, are still poorly understood, and under utilized. A very large subset of users ignore them all together, finding old-school multiple Desktops much more satisfactory for their work environment.
That people have multidimensional interests, and skills, a fact that was well understood by the developers of intelligence tests, does not invalidate these tests for their intended purpose.
This "new finding" is nothing more than a rehash of the criticism of lQ tests since the Pleistocene.
But in truth, they were never intended as a single ruler to measure all dimensions of human intelligence, or the ability to learn. And, used as a general guide, they work quite well for their intend purposes .
Apparently the last people on earth laboring under the misconception of the purpose of these tests were the authors of this study.