Damn thats one hell of a party. I don't care what anyone says thats freaking excessive. At our office we're lucky if we get pizza or donuts after a big release.
Of course the NSA are going to claim they can't crack any encryption they've already cracked. It means something new won't come along and blow away all their hard work. Also, they're hoping such statements will cause criminals to choose an encryption that the NSA has cracked.
This is old news actually. But you can't claim its all a made-up conspiracy as there's too much evidence around, including many testimonies and photos of the room itself and equipment. In fact I think its already been through court at least once.
Why? there's already massive numbers of rich charities all dedicated to extending human life. I mean whats the point anyway? It's not like there's any shortage of humans on earth.
I'd feel very sad if we all just chose which things to do based on cost vs. likelyhood of success. Doesn't just the magic of what SETI s doing interest you enough? I don't mind the improbability of finding aliens this way even half as much as the disappointing loss of faith in the human spirit if the SETI project just got rationalised away by some beancounter.
"Our internet investigations team, internet service providers and the police are well aware of encryption technology: it's been around for a long time and is commonplace in other areas of internet crime. It should come as no surprise that if people think they can hide illegal activity they will attempt to.'"
Note his subtly planted associations of the words encryption, investigations, police, crime, illegal activity. Amazing how this guy works. He's a pro.
Clearly because the RIAA can't crack encrypted streams, their only avenue now is to try and form a factually incorrect correlation in the minds of the uneducated masses to deduce something is a criminal activity merely because it is encrpyted.
Its amazing how he manages to get that message over so strongly without ever actually coming out and stating such a ridiculous premise that would undermine his credability and be so easily blasted apart by the informed.
Thanks for the clarification. So does that mean that if you encrypt your email (or even put 'PRIVATE' in the subject line) then it pretty obviously isn't intended to be public, so they still can't read or attempt to decrypt it without a warrant?
Poppycock and balderdash. There's no such thing as a lower death rate. We all die sometime so the death rate is always 100%.
Its surprising how the author(s) and contributors to this article include professors but all seem to understand suprisingly little about logic because it impossibly deduces from the causes of death only that overweight people live longer than skinny people.
The only way you could discover that is to consider the AGE at death against BMI, not CAUSE of death against BMI.
All that can actually be deduced from the stats is that as a group, fatties are more likely to die of the same things, which is already quite intuitive anyway.
This is just more proof of what we already know: that the tighter the beam the more efficient it becomes for point-to-point comms in terms of energy usage and overall loss/noise.
Its also something to think about with respect to SETI. I mean the universe could be swarming with life forms communcating over great distances, and it would make more sense than not that they use tight beams to do this. In which case SETI won't ever pick anything up because nearly all the energy from their comms is only going each other.
I'm English so don't understand the US system. I always thought that the US constitution was the very foundation of US law. So please can someone explain: How is it that the US government can choose to violate the constitution? Isn't the whole point of the constitution that they are obliged to conform to it?
more progress (as in: become available to the customer) of a-la-carte channel packages. This keeps being promised but I haven't seen anything become of it yet. I'm fed up with having to pay for 90 cable channels I never watch just for the 2 or 3 I want to.
>> we crimp and save wherever possible I really hope that was a typo.
>> if there was a cheaper / easier way of doing it, I guarantee you I would be using it.
There is. Really. Its called GNU/Linux and Opensource. Its FREE as in NO LICENCE FEE AT ALL and none of the usage restrictions that Microsoft's EULA is full of. Linux is also been repeatedly proven to be more secure, more stable than Windows. GNU/Linux is also much more global standards-compliant than any Microsoft product so MUCH better for the kids to learn than some vendor-specific technology. I've also seen time and again that Linux-based installations need many less support staff than the same sized installation running Windows so you'd save money there too.
Yes existing MS windows users would have to go through a small learning curve. Good job you're teachers then, and your users are kids, who at that age can learn fast, so you have no real excuse. Actually you'd be surprised how small an effort it is to make the switch, as nearly all Common Linux productivity apps such as Firefox and OpenOffice etc. look so close to their Microsoft counterparts that it's already quite familiar.
I work in the computer industry as a Linux software developer and team lead. The reality I see daily is that technical professionals whose only experience is on Microsoft products are everywhere so are 10 a penny. Those with Linux experience are in much more heavy demand. By telling you that I'm also proactively countering any argument you might have about using Microsoft in order to train the kids for whatever experience will benefit them most in the current workplace.
Please, seriously, for the kids, throw Microsoft out on its ear and don;t look back.
From TFA: "Microsoft required schools to have licences for every PC in a school that might use its software, whether they were actually doing so or running something else."
Unbelievable. As a UK tax-payer, I want the name of every moron in the UK school system that decided to force schools to use Microsoft products even knowing this.
Great! I find Personally Objectionable all the commercials, non-skippable FBI warnings, copyright notices and all the other crap you have to sit through before (or during) a movie on DVD or TV.
There is a great opportunity to create a motherboard that focussses on being very small but powerful. Think physically tiny but pro-gaming-capable desktop, perhaps the size of a book or a small shoebox. But AMD have just created another stupid physically large and midrange performer that does not differentiate itself from any other existing formats in any useful way.
This is just AMD trying to get its label out there by following the herd rather than creating anything innovative or geneuinely useful.
The problem with having only one distro is that it gives Microsoft something coherent to go after. With Linux being so fragmented, they have to go after many different distros to kill the whole thing off. Currently its too big of a problem even for MS.
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Damn thats one hell of a party. I don't care what anyone says thats freaking excessive.
At our office we're lucky if we get pizza or donuts after a big release.
Of course the NSA are going to claim they can't crack any encryption they've already cracked. It means something new won't come along and blow away all their hard work. Also, they're hoping such statements will cause criminals to choose an encryption that the NSA has cracked.
This is old news actually. But you can't claim its all a made-up conspiracy as there's too much evidence around, including many testimonies and photos of the room itself and equipment. In fact I think its already been through court at least once.
part of the reason for the long delay is to allow the CIA and NSA to evaluate all contenders for suitability of being crackable/backdoorable by them.
Why? there's already massive numbers of rich charities all dedicated to extending human life.
I mean whats the point anyway? It's not like there's any shortage of humans on earth.
I'd feel very sad if we all just chose which things to do based on cost vs. likelyhood of success.
Doesn't just the magic of what SETI s doing interest you enough?
I don't mind the improbability of finding aliens this way even half as much as the disappointing loss of faith in the human spirit if the SETI project just got rationalised away by some beancounter.
What VM engine are they actually using? Is it Xen, KVM, or did Red Hat do their own proprietary thing?
"Our internet investigations team, internet service providers and the police are well aware of encryption technology: it's been around for a long time and is commonplace in other areas of internet crime. It should come as no surprise that if people think they can hide illegal activity they will attempt to.'"
Note his subtly planted associations of the words encryption, investigations, police, crime, illegal activity. Amazing how this guy works. He's a pro.
Clearly because the RIAA can't crack encrypted streams, their only avenue now is to try and form a factually incorrect correlation in the minds of the uneducated masses to deduce something is a criminal activity merely because it is encrpyted.
Its amazing how he manages to get that message over so strongly without ever actually coming out and stating such a ridiculous premise that would undermine his credability and be so easily blasted apart by the informed.
Thanks for the clarification.
So does that mean that if you encrypt your email (or even put 'PRIVATE' in the subject line) then it pretty obviously isn't intended to be public, so they still can't read or attempt to decrypt it without a warrant?
Poppycock and balderdash. There's no such thing as a lower death rate. We all die sometime so the death rate is always 100%.
Its surprising how the author(s) and contributors to this article include professors but all seem to understand suprisingly little about logic because it impossibly deduces from the causes of death only that overweight people live longer than skinny people.
The only way you could discover that is to consider the AGE at death against BMI, not CAUSE of death against BMI.
All that can actually be deduced from the stats is that as a group, fatties are more likely to die of the same things, which is already quite intuitive anyway.
This is just more proof of what we already know: that the tighter the beam the more efficient it becomes for point-to-point comms in terms of energy usage and overall loss/noise.
Its also something to think about with respect to SETI. I mean the universe could be swarming with life forms communcating over great distances, and it would make more sense than not that they use tight beams to do this. In which case SETI won't ever pick anything up because nearly all the energy from their comms is only going each other.
I'm English so don't understand the US system. I always thought that the US constitution was the very foundation of US law. So please can someone explain:
How is it that the US government can choose to violate the constitution? Isn't the whole point of the constitution that they are obliged to conform to it?
more progress (as in: become available to the customer) of a-la-carte channel packages.
This keeps being promised but I haven't seen anything become of it yet.
I'm fed up with having to pay for 90 cable channels I never watch just for the 2 or 3 I want to.
>> we crimp and save wherever possible
I really hope that was a typo.
>> if there was a cheaper / easier way of doing it, I guarantee you I would be using it.
There is. Really. Its called GNU/Linux and Opensource. Its FREE as in NO LICENCE FEE AT ALL and none of the usage restrictions that Microsoft's EULA is full of. Linux is also been repeatedly proven to be more secure, more stable than Windows. GNU/Linux is also much more global standards-compliant than any Microsoft product so MUCH better for the kids to learn than some vendor-specific technology. I've also seen time and again that Linux-based installations need many less support staff than the same sized installation running Windows so you'd save money there too.
Yes existing MS windows users would have to go through a small learning curve. Good job you're teachers then, and your users are kids, who at that age can learn fast, so you have no real excuse. Actually you'd be surprised how small an effort it is to make the switch, as nearly all Common Linux productivity apps such as Firefox and OpenOffice etc. look so close to their Microsoft counterparts that it's already quite familiar.
I work in the computer industry as a Linux software developer and team lead. The reality I see daily is that technical professionals whose only experience is on Microsoft products are everywhere so are 10 a penny. Those with Linux experience are in much more heavy demand. By telling you that I'm also proactively countering any argument you might have about using Microsoft in order to train the kids for whatever experience will benefit them most in the current workplace.
Please, seriously, for the kids, throw Microsoft out on its ear and don;t look back.
From TFA: "Microsoft required schools to have licences for every PC in a school that might use its software, whether they were actually doing so or running something else."
Unbelievable. As a UK tax-payer, I want the name of every moron in the UK school system that decided to force schools to use Microsoft products even knowing this.
Great! I find Personally Objectionable all the commercials, non-skippable FBI warnings, copyright notices and all the other crap you have to sit through before (or during) a movie on DVD or TV.
I'm REALLY pleased to see this.
Its a great indicator that the American people are more responsible, intelligent and honest than their leader.
I'm REALLY pleased to see this.
Its a great indicator that the American people are more intelligent, responsible and honest than their leader.
Really? the UK is the most universally-hated nation since the fall of Nazi Germany? wow.
Actually I'm English (but living in the US). Last time I checked the news the UK are still fighting terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan too.
not if you use watercooling with a passive rad.
I'm actually typing this on such a system right now.
There is a great opportunity to create a motherboard that focussses on being very small but powerful. Think physically tiny but pro-gaming-capable desktop, perhaps the size of a book or a small shoebox. But AMD have just created another stupid physically large and midrange performer that does not differentiate itself from any other existing formats in any useful way.
This is just AMD trying to get its label out there by following the herd rather than creating anything innovative or geneuinely useful.
The problem with having only one distro is that it gives Microsoft something coherent to go after.
With Linux being so fragmented, they have to go after many different distros to kill the whole thing off. Currently its too big of a problem even for MS.
Just run photoshop (or whatever) under WINE. easy.
why? it isn't funny and I didn't intend it to be.