Great, so live in a tent in your back yard for your entire adult life then?
With a window like that, any fool can "correctly predict" just about anything. Beware the stock market crash of 2034, plus or minus 20 years. Don't say you haven't been warned.
I predict hoots of derision heaped upon this story.
DO NOT use any electrical appliance, not even battery operated, it will be burned out!
And so we have another dire prediction.
Current induced is proportional to area, Length of transmission lines, etc. Small transistor radios, cell phones, etc would not have the are to induce enough current to harm them.
While there would be no point in using a battery operated phones and radios (the towers would all be shut down), it would be quite safe to do so. Older ICE engines will continue to operate properly, (The computerized modern ones may be a different thing).
It would be a perfect day for a holiday, just pull the mains breaker before you leave the house.
If they got it with the help of or input from the NSA , and they take it at face value, they are either incompetent, or naive. So guilty, naive, or incompetent. Does it really matter? Goose cooked. Either way.
Exactly. The pause in temperature rise has been written off as merely the effect of solar minimum. Now they would like to erase any effect of solar input. Have the cake and eat it too! Maybe the cake is a lie after all.
When all is said and done, you're looking at the mobile version of a site on an iPad because the days of coding a specific version of a site for a specific device are behind us and it's a massive waste of money and resources.
Exactly so. Anyone selling a device that can't handle the web as it is, and demanding the web the way they want it, is someone you should immediately run away from like your hair is on fire. Web devs should never again bend to that way of thinking.
Do they categorically deny they took 10 million dollars from the NSA to incorporate Dual EC DRBG into BSAFE?
Quote RSA:
Recent press coverage has asserted that RSA entered into a “secret contract” with the NSA to incorporate a known flawed random number generator into its BSAFE encryption libraries. We categorically deny this allegation.
I agree that their statements will probably be proven to be less than forth coming, but clearly they did indeed deny taking 10 mill to put DRBG in BSAFE.
The bottom line is that the world is no longer confident about software written in the US, and will seek alternatives sourced from Europe, Russia, China and elsewhere to regain the security and privacy which they believe they have lost.
And that is sad, because there is no reason to trust Russia or China any more than any one else. Less, in fact. If you have an email account in Russia or China you just naturally assume its fully monitored. By both sides.
What I do trust is open source, regardless of its country of origin. Much of this still comes from the US, Germany, India, etc, and even Russia.
And now we are forewarned. Fool us once, shame on you. Fool us twice, shame on us. What ever comes out of this will be better and stronger, and the entire world has learned a lesson. We will never rely on the laws on the books any more. Our tools are going to be written with the assumption that we are at war. And in a way, we are. And as a result the NSA's excesses will probably be shown to enable more terrorists, drug, and weapon smuggling than they ever prevented.
Secondly, RSA didn't categorically deny anything. Go parse their statement carefully. They've denied a specific scenario with several criteria, that's it.
Recent press coverage has asserted that RSA entered into a “secret contract” with the NSA to incorporate a known flawed random number generator into its BSAFE encryption libraries. We categorically deny this allegation.
They rattle on about with a bunch of marginally relevant stuff, then follow up with:
RSA, as a security company, never divulges details of customer engagements, but we also categorically state that we have never entered into any contract or engaged in any project with the intention of weakening RSA’s products, or introducing potential ‘backdoors’ into our products for anyone’s use.
Two "categoricallys" within the half a page of text, and you missed both of them. So right away, you are wrong. Clearly you didn't bother to read their statement at all.
Can they be innocent in all this. Its not inconceivable, they could have been duped by the NSA. But in that case they are incompetent, so the stigma still attaches.
Oh, but they actually were defensive weapons. You must have not been paying attention. They seemed to have worked, as did the Russian equivalent weapons. No attack on either side by either side.
Snicker up your sleeve all you want at MAD, but it worked through some pretty scary times.
How is an AK-47 any defense against Nuclear weapons?
Invasion was never a contemplated option among US and NATO forces. NATO was always aligned on a defensive basis against a Soviet tank attack, against witch NATO did not expect to prevail without Nuclear response. This was common knowledge, as far back as the 50s and 60s.
Russia, post 1949 was never in danger of invasion by the US. China? maybe.
Many of us are disturbed by the idea of automated facial recognition being coupled with all the video surveillance that's becoming more and more prevalent in public places, to track us wherever we go, and that's bad enough. Now you're telling us that they're taking it to the next level and developing automated video profiling software? Is the world of Minority Report just around the corner?
People "pigeon hole" other people on first glance, and have since the cave dwelling days. This is just doing it by computer, and should come as no surprise to anyone, (even though it will probably be patented by tomorrow morning).
When it's discovered that the NSA was installing apps on phones that collected calls+texts+social media you might then have a point. Please, take a step back and try finding out who owns the phone when all you have is a pile of "this one called that one" data...
Already been done.
Since before 2009, NSA can even figure out who owns burner phones. Its all done thru metadata.
Phone numbers are listed in things like telephone books. NSA (and other intelligence agencies; let's not forget about the rest of them) have been ingesting telephone directories, business cards, public records, FB pages, ad nauseum into massive databases for many years so that a new name/number/address/email etc can be matched to known correlates.
Even metadata consisting only of Cell numbers are available to the NSA because they have access to all the carriers records as well.
You don't get to call some early failed weapon "what would become" any more than you get to call the Sopwith Camel what would become the Spitfire. The AK46 is very different from the AK-47. It was a learning exercise at best, and never put into production on any scale.
The AK-46 (fourty six) was presented for official military trials in 1946, it had been in design since 1945. It was never officially adopted nor manufactured in quantity.
Work on the AK-47 didn't begin till the next year, and it was NOT an instant success, contrary to popular belief. It wasn't till 1949 that the AK-47 was officially accepted by the Soviet Armed Forces, after many years of refinement and field trials.
Some like the M-16 are actually a little underpowered when it comes to larger game.
Larger "Game"? If you mean something you hunt for food, no one would use an m16 for that. The spoil radius could render an entire hind quarter inedible, and the accuracy of the weapon would suggest the hind quarter is what you would probably hit if you were aiming for a heart shot.
I am either religious not terribly spiritual, but one can only hope that a man whose invention was responsible for the deaths of so many millions does not go into a peaceful afterlife.
Hold on here. He was a patriot for his country. He developed an arm that could be produced in mass quantities because that is what his government needed at that time. He didn't set out to arm terrorists, just to make an arm for the foot soldier in the USSR, to be used in horrible field conditions by mostly uneducated soldiers.
That his country decided to cover the earth with the weapon and license it's manufacture world wide was none of his doing. You might as well blame the Wright Brothers for the fire bombing of Berlin.
As he said himself:
"I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists."
"I would prefer to have invented a machine that people could use and that would help farmers with their work – for example a lawnmower."
Funny thing is, we have Ice Core Samples from all over Greenland, in Multiple Different Databases and they have all missed (or misinterpreted) this data for decades. Some of these were 2000 meters deep. In addition there were dye experiments in some areas.
So it is sort of a surprise that we had no hint of this.
Furthermore the existence of the law against slow passing applies only on two lane highways, not on four or more lane freeways. So it is totally not germane to the cruise control issue.
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Great, so live in a tent in your back yard for your entire adult life then?
With a window like that, any fool can "correctly predict" just about anything.
Beware the stock market crash of 2034, plus or minus 20 years. Don't say you haven't been warned.
I predict hoots of derision heaped upon this story.
DO NOT use any electrical appliance, not even battery operated, it will be burned out!
And so we have another dire prediction.
Current induced is proportional to area, Length of transmission lines, etc. Small transistor radios, cell phones, etc would not have the are
to induce enough current to harm them.
While there would be no point in using a battery operated phones and radios (the towers would all be shut down), it would be quite safe to do so.
Older ICE engines will continue to operate properly, (The computerized modern ones may be a different thing).
It would be a perfect day for a holiday, just pull the mains breaker before you leave the house.
If they got it with the help of or input from the NSA , and they take it at face value, they are either incompetent, or naive. So guilty, naive, or incompetent. Does it really matter? Goose cooked. Either way.
Exactly.
The pause in temperature rise has been written off as merely the effect of solar minimum. Now they would like to erase any effect of solar input. Have the cake and eat it too! Maybe the cake is a lie after all.
Oh, maybe when the peers stop denying the sole energy source for the planet has any effect.
When all is said and done, you're looking at the mobile version of a site on an iPad because the days of coding a specific version of a site for a specific device are behind us and it's a massive waste of money and resources.
Exactly so.
Anyone selling a device that can't handle the web as it is, and demanding the web the way they want it, is someone you should immediately run away from like your hair is on fire. Web devs should never again bend to that way of thinking.
Quote You:
Do they categorically deny they took 10 million dollars from the NSA to incorporate Dual EC DRBG into BSAFE?
Quote RSA:
Recent press coverage has asserted that RSA entered into a “secret contract” with the NSA to incorporate a known flawed random number generator into its BSAFE encryption libraries. We categorically deny this allegation.
I agree that their statements will probably be proven to be less than forth coming, but clearly they did indeed deny taking 10 mill to put DRBG in BSAFE.
The bottom line is that the world is no longer confident about software written in the US, and will seek alternatives sourced from Europe, Russia, China and elsewhere to regain the security and privacy which they believe they have lost.
And that is sad, because there is no reason to trust Russia or China any more than any one else. Less, in fact.
If you have an email account in Russia or China you just naturally assume its fully monitored. By both sides.
What I do trust is open source, regardless of its country of origin. Much of this still comes from the US, Germany, India, etc, and even Russia.
And now we are forewarned. Fool us once, shame on you. Fool us twice, shame on us. What ever comes out of this will be better and stronger, and the entire world has learned a lesson. We will never rely on the laws on the books any more. Our tools are going to be written with the assumption that we are at war. And in a way, we are. And as a result the NSA's excesses will probably be shown to enable more terrorists, drug, and weapon smuggling than they ever prevented.
They are hoist by their own petard.
Secondly, RSA didn't categorically deny anything. Go parse their statement carefully. They've denied a specific scenario with several criteria, that's it.
The quote is right there on the RSA's site..
and the first sentence says:
Recent press coverage has asserted that RSA entered into a “secret contract” with the NSA to incorporate a known flawed random number generator into its BSAFE encryption libraries. We categorically deny this allegation.
They rattle on about with a bunch of marginally relevant stuff, then follow up with:
RSA, as a security company, never divulges details of customer engagements, but we also categorically state that we have never entered into any contract or engaged in any project with the intention of weakening RSA’s products, or introducing potential ‘backdoors’ into our products for anyone’s use.
Two "categoricallys" within the half a page of text, and you missed both of them.
So right away, you are wrong. Clearly you didn't bother to read their statement at all.
The word categorically can never apply to a specific scenario.
Can they be innocent in all this. Its not inconceivable, they could have been duped by the NSA. But in that case they are incompetent, so the stigma still attaches.
Nothing developed by Schmeisser even remotely resembles anything in the AK.
Oh, but they actually were defensive weapons. You must have not been paying attention.
They seemed to have worked, as did the Russian equivalent weapons.
No attack on either side by either side.
Snicker up your sleeve all you want at MAD, but it worked through some pretty scary times.
How is an AK-47 any defense against Nuclear weapons?
Invasion was never a contemplated option among US and NATO forces. NATO was always aligned on a defensive basis against a Soviet tank attack, against witch NATO did not expect to prevail without Nuclear response. This was common knowledge, as far back as the 50s and 60s.
Russia, post 1949 was never in danger of invasion by the US. China? maybe.
A pardon removes a conviction.
A conviction defines guilt.
So the pardon removes guilt.
Guilt is not a fact. Guilt is simply a societal pronouncement.
Many of us are disturbed by the idea of automated facial recognition being coupled with all the video surveillance that's becoming more and more prevalent in public places, to track us wherever we go, and that's bad enough. Now you're telling us that they're taking it to the next level and developing automated video profiling software? Is the world of Minority Report just around the corner?
People "pigeon hole" other people on first glance, and have since the cave dwelling days.
This is just doing it by computer, and should come as no surprise to anyone, (even though it will probably be patented by tomorrow morning).
When it's discovered that the NSA was installing apps on phones that collected calls+texts+social media you might then have a point. Please, take a step back and try finding out who owns the phone when all you have is a pile of "this one called that one" data...
Already been done.
Since before 2009, NSA can even figure out who owns burner phones. Its all done thru metadata.
Phone numbers are listed in things like telephone books. NSA (and other intelligence agencies; let's not forget about the rest of them) have been ingesting telephone directories, business cards, public records, FB pages, ad nauseum into massive databases for many years so that a new name/number/address/email etc can be matched to known correlates.
Even metadata consisting only of Cell numbers are available to the NSA because they have access to all the carriers records as well.
Even a "Burner" phone is traceable in the US.
There is no such thing as "metadata", and there hasn't been for a long time.
what would become AK in 1944,
You don't get to call some early failed weapon "what would become" any more than you get to call the Sopwith Camel what would become the Spitfire.
The AK46 is very different from the AK-47. It was a learning exercise at best, and never put into production on any scale.
The AK-46 (fourty six) was presented for official military trials in 1946, it had been in design since 1945. It was never officially adopted nor manufactured in quantity.
Work on the AK-47 didn't begin till the next year, and it was NOT an instant success, contrary to popular belief.
It wasn't till 1949 that the AK-47 was officially accepted by the Soviet Armed Forces, after many years of refinement and field trials.
Your knowledge of weapons is pathetic. Educate yourself.
Some like the M-16 are actually a little underpowered when it comes to larger game.
Larger "Game"?
If you mean something you hunt for food, no one would use an m16 for that. The spoil radius could render an entire hind quarter inedible, and the accuracy of the weapon would suggest the hind quarter is what you would probably hit if you were aiming for a heart shot.
While your point has merit, I have to point out that the
Nazis had been defeated 5 years before that AK-47 was invented.
I am either religious not terribly spiritual, but one can only hope that a man whose invention was responsible for the deaths of so many millions does not go into a peaceful afterlife.
Hold on here. He was a patriot for his country. He developed an arm that could be produced in mass quantities because that is what his government needed at that time. He didn't set out to arm terrorists, just to make an arm for the foot soldier in the USSR, to be used in horrible field conditions by mostly uneducated soldiers.
That his country decided to cover the earth with the weapon and license it's manufacture world wide was none of his doing. You might as well blame the Wright Brothers for the fire bombing of Berlin.
As he said himself:
"I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists."
"I would prefer to have invented a machine that people could use and that would help farmers with their work – for example a lawnmower."
Yeah, that and a multi-thousand dollar boring machine.
Funny thing is, we have Ice Core Samples from all over Greenland, in Multiple Different Databases and they have all missed (or misinterpreted) this data for decades. Some of these were 2000 meters deep. In addition there were dye experiments in some areas.
So it is sort of a surprise that we had no hint of this.
Furthermore the existence of the law against slow passing applies only on two lane highways, not on four or more lane freeways. So it is totally not germane to the cruise control issue.
Or, you could, unplug them when home? Nah, what was I thinking, that's crazy talk.