Note the previous/. article on the similar topic was about Kepler-22, so I'm thinking this report about Kepler-20 is actually going backwards in time relative to the previous article.
It's not as if you're the only person with your particular name in the whole world
Yeah pretty easy for a guy apparently named "Peter" to say that.
I am quite certain I'm the only guy in the history of humanity with my name, at least according to my genealogical research. I went out with a really hot chick named Evenstar or something like that once when we were about 19, can't be many of her around. Some of my younger co workers have names that are bizarrely intentionally misspelled to make them unique, oh it sure does that, all right. Then there's certain ethnic groups that use names they think are from their theoretical tribal ancestry, there's certainly no one living outside Somalia with that rather unique name..
Now that he has passed, I'm not sure if I should breathe a sigh of relief or if the problems will just get worse. Sometimes a dictator holds together a group that, divided, are even worse than the dictator. What a horrible thing, but that does not make it less true.
Historically the design pattern for all oriental style absolute despotisms (That phrase is a Gibbon-ism, it applies in this case) has been for the despot to kill everyone surrounding the despot with any talent, lest the despot get knifed in the back. After the despot inevitably croaks, the surrounding inferior, unmotivated yes men are usually not quite up to the level required to keep the empire going. The only advantage the NK have, is NK is not multicultural, so tribal warfare like Iraq is unlikely. Those who don't read history are doomed to repeat it, or those who read history seem to almost be able to predict the future, at least to people who don't read history. Once in awhile a strong leader emerges from the shadow of a despot, but historically its pretty rare. Historically you sometimes get a military backed figurehead.
The problem is their goal is ridiculous, complicated, stock price increasing, security theater, consumerism oriented junk.
Why not radical simplification instead of dilbertian complication? Other than it wouldn't make IBM as much money so we're not gonna talk about that.
Walled gardens are simpler, although ickier. I predict more.
Pointless invasive security theater is simpler than tech. Whatever would be extremely intrusive and intimidating and embarrassing so the Americans will love doing their part for the war on terror or civil liberties or whatever.
Death of the mouse and keyboard. Onscreen keypad for all except for the modern equivalent of data entry operators. Lowered productivity has never stopped any other UI innovation / simplification.
Goodbye broadcast TV and its 99 layers of resale and advertisement and complication and retransmission and uplinking and re-compression. Find it on "itunes music store" or the producers website, pay for it, watch it. Expect most advertising money to go into product placement.
Biometrics are a terrible idea. They can't be changed. That means that as soon as somebody lifts your fingerprint off that class, you're 0wn3d.
glass, not class.
I can phrase it simpler. If you can measure a biometric using a hardened scanner for years, for less money, I can replicate it for one time use. And most biometric scan technologies are pretty cheap... Hand geometry scanners, owned. fingerprint scanners, LOL. Iris scanners, owned. "face recognition" owned.
Nearly all biometric devices rely intensely on physical security, once you have access to the device and the wire almost all are subject to playback attacks, some as simple as "open circuit this wire" or "close circuit this wire".
Find someone who stopped posting around the time he croaked. I'm guessing a pretty low UID, since he was pretty old. We now know I was not him, just in case you were wondering. Unless I'm an automated poster. I suppose I could pass a Turing test to prove it, or there's always the old "there's a tortoise, lying on its back in the desert. You're not helping it. Why are you not helping it?"
Oh I know, I haven't seen that "cmdrtaco" guy post in awhile. Are there any references to cmdrtaco having great hair and liking kimchi? That would explain a lot.
Find someone who stopped posting around the time he croaked. I'm guessing a pretty low UID, since he was pretty old. We now know I was not him, just in case you were wondering. Unless I'm an automated poster. I suppose I could pass a Turing test to prove it, or there's always the old "there's a tortoise, lying on its back in the desert. You're not helping it. Why are you not helping it?"
... and a chance to shag those you were too frightened to talk to in your youth (only to find they've aged really really badly!).
Or I suppose you can at least gloat at just how revoltingly wrinkled, fat, stupid and ugly Mary Jane Hotty-Cheerleader - the girl that you blistered your palms and wrote bad poetry hopelessly lusting after at 16yo - turned out to be post-40. Or that she's alone, been divorced twice and struggles in a disgusting job with three horrific teenage brats on crack or in jail. You, who works out five times per week, is gloriously free of encumberments, and makes close to a 6-figure income, would never so much spit in her fatty wrinkled direction now. Ah! Schadenfreude may be a shallow and short lived pleasure but isn't it nice when geeks triumph over cheerleader/jock types with age.
You don't have to wait until you're 40+... I had similar weird experiences as a mere lad of 25 or so. Good job, great pay, going to night school to get even more money, new car, great apartment... I had some weird meetings with former hotties and former football players at insurance offices, supermarket cashiers, read about their jail sentence in the paper, gas station clerks, groundskeepers... if you stay and live where you grew up, you tend to run into people a lot more often than if you jet across the country.
Seems the cultural goal is to hang out with the last group of people you went to school with.
Maybe 50 years ago, for the majority of americans, that was high school.
Currently, for the majority of americans, the last group of people they went to school with would have been dropping out of freshman year of college. And the "reunion-industrial complex" is not offering "freshman year reunions".
The other cultural/social trend is class mixing was cool 20 years ago when I was wasting time in high school. So my gym classes were just whatever random bunch of frosh thru seniors showed up that hour. We were required to take 4 years of English class and the electives were whatever random bunch of juniors or seniors showed up for sci fi class, etc. First and second year chem and physics (and bio, although I never took bio) were just whatever random bunch of sophmore to senior kids who showed up. Art elective was photography, again, whatever freshman thru senior kids felt like signing up... I think the only "all senior" class I ever took in my senior year, was calculus. Sooo one of my best school friends was my physics lab partner, and he was a year older than I am. I met a girlfriend a year younger than me, in english class in my sophomore year. The kids who graduated the year I did, who were a tiny subset of the kids I went to school with? By and large, don't much care. They only made up 1/3 to 1/4 the students in my classes so they only made up 1/3 to 1/4 of my school friends.
What about the kids I hung out with? Well back before the illegal alien invasion (this was decades ago) teenagers could get jobs. And it seems I worked with mostly kids from the school across town. Weirdly enough, after graduating I noticed I dated more girls from the "other school" than from my own school, because I hung out with them at work, leading to after work dates, you get the idea... I was entering the.mil and 4 local schools funneled into one recruitment center and we had monthly get together social club type activities. I was friends with three future marines, an air force wanna be, and a navy dude, none of which graduated with me at my school the same year.
At least WRT "twentieth year reunions" or so, there is just no social point anymore. Thats why they're going away.
Trying to spin a social trend into a "tech story" just looks stupid.
Unlike an online service which you can bruteforce using TOR and try those combinations and there is only single factor authentication.
My bank protects me by having an online portal so slow and clunky that each login attempt takes well over 5 seconds. Its darn near as slow as brute forcing ATM PINs and the password space is much larger.
... And if I had to transfer something cryptographically important, I simply would not use email.
SSH with pre-shared and human verified fingerprint keys into a shared, secured resource and what you do with it once you're in is your business? SCP with pre-shared and human verified fingerprint keys? Yeah, been there, done that. In a "everthings connected to everything, all the time" world, I donno why I'd ever go back to using email between close associates to share files.
Human hand sender to human hand recipient transfer of flash drive containing sensitive data, yeah, been there. If I'd trust them with my physical wallet, I'd trust them with the flash drive.
I have used completely open and unencrypted email as a MIME container for GPG encrypted files, but thats not encrypted email, thats open plain MIME email with attached encrypted file, a completely different concept than encrypting the entire email. I've also used symmetric mcrypt functions in addition to GPG in a multi-person mailing list scenario (if you know the shared group password, you can decrypt this file...)
To some extent its just the death of email. Email is a spam delivery service, and corporate interaction service (amazon order received emails, etc). Socializing is done over HTTP, maybe HTTPS. Secure transfers are not done over email because email is not used anymore.
From having been in the military although not involved in the justice system, there are two reasons why military trials tend toward pointlessness.
1) Dumb people and addicts and nuts more or less can't get in the military. Most civilian trials, from talking to jury members, tend to involve some level of comedy, like how stupid / arrogant / high did the defendant have to be to think he'd not get picked up by the cops. Easy, trivial, to catch. But the smart military crooks (most stories I heard were about fencing stolen military property) were smart enough that it takes such a huge effort that the evidence is beyond overwhelming by the time they're arrested, there's no way Perry Mason could possibly get the guy free. Most military crooks tended to get caught by being too greedy, underlying substance abuse, or "hurrying up" toward the end of their enlistment, at least in the supply related stories I heard.
2) No rich people in.mil. Its widely believed that rich people don't do time in the civilian world, because its true. There's no way an enlisted soldier is going to afford OJ Simpson's lawyer. Also an enlisted soldier can donate a little to the correct political action committees, but not enough to matter. Maybe if his dad was an admiral or a general, maybe...
Or he most certainly did, or at least he set up an automated system to do it, etc.
But, no one can/will publicly admit the truth, that either the automated system to do that can be selectively remotely subverted on command (perhaps a routine investigation into him "fishing expedition" found more than expected?) OR the secret truth that cannot be discussed is that classified data recovery operations can read overwritten data much better than public recovery operations.
Most likely this is one of those "lawyers approach the bench" undocumented moments where both sides were informed that public discussion of these classified projects in this trial will be prosecuted, etc... The less this seemingly important topic is discussed during the trial, the more likely they're covering up some interesting technical means.
Having worked in a Army reserve unit in the early 90s in an IT-like capacity, we were told if we were overrun, the ammo depot's records had to be wiped by thermite, not "writing zeros" or whatever. This is public knowledge, read the public TMs. There is probably a very good reason when going up against "the bad guys" you only trust thermite, and going up against internal investigators and auditors, "trust us, writing zeros is good enough"
How about a home phone? My local HR was freaked out about my temporary lack of a landline, "Are you homeless? In Jail?".
They were freaked out about you not having a landline at home? What year was this? 1995?
Its a big company dilbertian thing. "The form Must be Filled Out Completely". If I submit incomplete paperwork, and she accepts it, it might be her job for not enforcing corporate standards of paperwork completion accuracy, etc. I know that I did not ruin her chances at getting the top scale 2.5% raise by lowering her paperwork accuracy completion metric score, because if she was on the edge of getting higher pay, she would have argued with me endlessly and/or tossed out my paperwork to hide it, so she's probably soundly positioned in the middle of the 2.4% pay raise scale, with no need to care other than keeping up appearances. If they ever decide to get rid of me, Then falsification of corporate records will probably be the charge used, because I provided no home phone number I would have my unemployment claim categorically denied, fired for cause. Kind of like cops love making everything illegal, so they can selectively jail anyone they want because absolutely everyone is guilty of something now a days.
Perhaps in 25 years someone will reorg the dept and redesign the corporate standard record form to not include "home phone number" because its been an obsolete concept for decades, at which time I'm sure the new corporate standard will be mandatory required documentation of your ICQ number or perhaps AOL screen name, all completed forms must include your eleven digit compuserve account number or else you are guilty of a corporate SOX violation or something.
You need to find a new job. If they are only willing to provide you junk (unless you don't actually require computers specifically to do your job), they probably don't value you much more than junk.
Wow I missed this yesterday... Its a megacorp thing. There are at least 12 levels between me and the top multimillion/yr CEO and board members. Therefore I must be provided "status symbols" on my desk that are 12 levels beneath what they have on their desks or else they can't feel superior.
That said, to a multimillion/yr CEO a rack of servers is not a status symbol. So I have whatever I want, heck almost whatever I can dream of, WRT to virtualization quotas, NAS quotas, etc. What I don't have, is a brand new 2011 computer to run putty/ssh on. Its more like 2003, an early 4000 series nvidia card, etc. I do have multiple monitors, which is really nice. And a airgapped linux desktop machine that lives on the production network as opposed to the IT network, because I need access to the production network. My desktop is little more than a ssh client and a web browser for me, so I don't particularly care, and in my job position it simply doesn't matter... Reducing putty ssh latency from 2 microseconds to 0.2 microseconds would have no effect. However I can only imagine the nightmare a peon CAD operator would go thru, since they're several social and salary levels beneath me, therefore they must be using old 386dx-40 to do their job...
Order Preserving Encryption, how is it implemented? The paper page 4, simply lists that it exists and has a pointer to an article somewhere that I have no access.
I'm not understanding how this hides "known plaintext" attacks. Perhaps its not intended to. Like I said, I have no access to the footnoted OPE article. So, lets say you got a medical database of private health care info, where the diagnosis is a column. If you can sort it, all the folks with "aids" sort at the top, right above the "alcoholism" diagnosis, with the "worms, intestinal" and I suppose the "zoophilia" people at the bottom.
I suppose, the solution, is unless there is a business need to sort by diagnosis, you don't use OPE for that column, you use DET or if no need for "group by", then RND.
There's some evidence beyond only mineral composition for the earth's core, mostly from seismic data; the discontinuities observed in seismic wave travel put constraints on what has to be the case at different layers. At least, it's more data than we have about the interior of Jupiter, which afaik is entirely based on mineral composition and modeling.
Some data comes from detailed magnetic field monitoring, makes sense since it seems to be the cause of the earths magnetic field.
Depending on your local court, having gone thru something tangentially related, the government simply doesn't care, its the executor who has to care, and as long as "everyone is happy" then there is no "hold up in probate". There was a stage early in the process where I/we had to file as interested parties and that is probably the stage where you'll have to prove your identify by either submitting paperwork or getting "everyone who knows him" to testify thats who he claims to be. My aunt's birth certificate name does not match her married name, a copy of the marriage certificate took care of that little problem. Moxie and moxie's lawyer will figure it out if necessary.
So my question to Moxie is "How do/did you get food and shelter when you don't/didn't have money?".
Poverty provides an education of its own? I was pretty poor in my starving school years, certainly made be a tougher person. Debatable if it made me any better or worse, but tougher, yeah.
The mistake is, its not worth $100 when it fails. It may have cost $100 new, or a new drive with 10 times the capacity might cost $100, but that ancient drive is certainly not worth $100. The aluminum is worth scrap value, thats about it.
A drive is not worth anything to me after a couple years. My non-bulk media storage machines are all SSD now, and SSD seems to last forever. Want a 4 GB SSD from my mythtv frontend that is about 5 years old? It was worth quite a bit 5 years ago, not so much now. A year or two ago I ripped the one or two year old 1 TB drives out and popped in 2 TB drives for my main file server in the basement. In a year or two I'll rip out the 2 TB drives and put in 4 TB drives. A 5 year warranty provides no value to me after about 2 or at most 3 years. If all rotating hard drives failed at 4 years, I would never know.
They need to reach you instantly, at any hour of the day? Then they need to buy you a cell phone. Maybe you spent the past few nights at your new girlfriend's house, or you had to accompany your spouse to a funeral
I suppose if I told my wife I was at the girlfriend's house, and I told the girlfriend I with with the wife at a funeral, I might finally have the spare time to get some stuff done in the lab without interruption... I think you're on to something here...
So you are basically paying by the minute when your employer calls you. Yes, I know modern cell phone plans sell you blocks of hundreds or thousands of minutes, but the point here is that you are paying to make yourself available to your employer when you are not even at your office/job site. It may be rude to say this, but this is not really a situation that you should be in.
Ah its not so bad because I am in a rather weird/unique situation of not being salaried as my current employer categorically will not go salaried for non-management employees, and being a tightward cheapskate I have the worlds most expensive pay per minute cellphone service, which even at its inflated rate is something like one nineth my hourly hourly rate at time and a half overtime... Work is paying me nine times what I'm paying the phone company for the privilege of talking to me, so I'm all good with that profit rate. When the phone rings with a call from work, I almost feel my wallet getting heavier as I talk... makes me want to speak slower, sometimes. I can see why a salaried guy would be pissed off, but theoretically they are paid more to make up for calls like that, theoretically at least.
Sometimes, at home, without being paid for it, I even read computer books. Weirdly enough, I like Knuth. I know, I'm a sick, sick man, etc etc.
I am very happy not to have to carry two cellphones, and sometimes being always available is an inherent part of the job... which is probably partially why my pay rate is so high to begin with.
Its like arguing that the company should pay for the detergent used to wash my work clothes an extra time if I come in to work on a Saturday, after they cut me a check for overtime around the size of a decent car payment... geeze don't look a gift horse in the mouth, take the money and run.
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Note the previous /. article on the similar topic was about Kepler-22, so I'm thinking this report about Kepler-20 is actually going backwards in time relative to the previous article.
Once again SIMBAD and exoplanet.eu have nothing.
http://exoplanet.eu/star.php?st=Kepler-20
It's not as if you're the only person with your particular name in the whole world
Yeah pretty easy for a guy apparently named "Peter" to say that.
I am quite certain I'm the only guy in the history of humanity with my name, at least according to my genealogical research. I went out with a really hot chick named Evenstar or something like that once when we were about 19, can't be many of her around. Some of my younger co workers have names that are bizarrely intentionally misspelled to make them unique, oh it sure does that, all right. Then there's certain ethnic groups that use names they think are from their theoretical tribal ancestry, there's certainly no one living outside Somalia with that rather unique name..
Now that he has passed, I'm not sure if I should breathe a sigh of relief or if the problems will just get worse. Sometimes a dictator holds together a group that, divided, are even worse than the dictator. What a horrible thing, but that does not make it less true.
Historically the design pattern for all oriental style absolute despotisms (That phrase is a Gibbon-ism, it applies in this case) has been for the despot to kill everyone surrounding the despot with any talent, lest the despot get knifed in the back. After the despot inevitably croaks, the surrounding inferior, unmotivated yes men are usually not quite up to the level required to keep the empire going. The only advantage the NK have, is NK is not multicultural, so tribal warfare like Iraq is unlikely. Those who don't read history are doomed to repeat it, or those who read history seem to almost be able to predict the future, at least to people who don't read history. Once in awhile a strong leader emerges from the shadow of a despot, but historically its pretty rare. Historically you sometimes get a military backed figurehead.
The problem is their goal is ridiculous, complicated, stock price increasing, security theater, consumerism oriented junk.
Why not radical simplification instead of dilbertian complication? Other than it wouldn't make IBM as much money so we're not gonna talk about that.
Walled gardens are simpler, although ickier. I predict more.
Pointless invasive security theater is simpler than tech. Whatever would be extremely intrusive and intimidating and embarrassing so the Americans will love doing their part for the war on terror or civil liberties or whatever.
Death of the mouse and keyboard. Onscreen keypad for all except for the modern equivalent of data entry operators. Lowered productivity has never stopped any other UI innovation / simplification.
Goodbye broadcast TV and its 99 layers of resale and advertisement and complication and retransmission and uplinking and re-compression. Find it on "itunes music store" or the producers website, pay for it, watch it. Expect most advertising money to go into product placement.
Biometrics are a terrible idea. They can't be changed. That means that as soon as somebody lifts your fingerprint off that class, you're 0wn3d.
glass, not class.
I can phrase it simpler. If you can measure a biometric using a hardened scanner for years, for less money, I can replicate it for one time use. And most biometric scan technologies are pretty cheap... Hand geometry scanners, owned. fingerprint scanners, LOL. Iris scanners, owned. "face recognition" owned.
Nearly all biometric devices rely intensely on physical security, once you have access to the device and the wire almost all are subject to playback attacks, some as simple as "open circuit this wire" or "close circuit this wire".
What was his /. nym?
Find someone who stopped posting around the time he croaked. I'm guessing a pretty low UID, since he was pretty old. We now know I was not him, just in case you were wondering. Unless I'm an automated poster. I suppose I could pass a Turing test to prove it, or there's always the old "there's a tortoise, lying on its back in the desert. You're not helping it. Why are you not helping it?"
Oh I know, I haven't seen that "cmdrtaco" guy post in awhile. Are there any references to cmdrtaco having great hair and liking kimchi? That would explain a lot.
What was his /. nym?
Find someone who stopped posting around the time he croaked. I'm guessing a pretty low UID, since he was pretty old. We now know I was not him, just in case you were wondering. Unless I'm an automated poster. I suppose I could pass a Turing test to prove it, or there's always the old "there's a tortoise, lying on its back in the desert. You're not helping it. Why are you not helping it?"
So it's the Walmart of the Internet.
In other words, avoid at all costs?
"Oh, here's a bunch of people who happened to be born around the same time as me, most of whom I don't care about."
In other words, its like being excited about moving into a nursing home. Or a cemetery?
... and a chance to shag those you were too frightened to talk to in your youth (only to find they've aged really really badly!).
Or I suppose you can at least gloat at just how revoltingly wrinkled, fat, stupid and ugly Mary Jane Hotty-Cheerleader - the girl that you blistered your palms and wrote bad poetry hopelessly lusting after at 16yo - turned out to be post-40. Or that she's alone, been divorced twice and struggles in a disgusting job with three horrific teenage brats on crack or in jail. You, who works out five times per week, is gloriously free of encumberments, and makes close to a 6-figure income, would never so much spit in her fatty wrinkled direction now. Ah! Schadenfreude may be a shallow and short lived pleasure but isn't it nice when geeks triumph over cheerleader/jock types with age.
You don't have to wait until you're 40+... I had similar weird experiences as a mere lad of 25 or so. Good job, great pay, going to night school to get even more money, new car, great apartment... I had some weird meetings with former hotties and former football players at insurance offices, supermarket cashiers, read about their jail sentence in the paper, gas station clerks, groundskeepers... if you stay and live where you grew up, you tend to run into people a lot more often than if you jet across the country.
Its a social trend, not a tech trend.
Seems the cultural goal is to hang out with the last group of people you went to school with.
Maybe 50 years ago, for the majority of americans, that was high school.
Currently, for the majority of americans, the last group of people they went to school with would have been dropping out of freshman year of college. And the "reunion-industrial complex" is not offering "freshman year reunions".
The other cultural/social trend is class mixing was cool 20 years ago when I was wasting time in high school. So my gym classes were just whatever random bunch of frosh thru seniors showed up that hour. We were required to take 4 years of English class and the electives were whatever random bunch of juniors or seniors showed up for sci fi class, etc. First and second year chem and physics (and bio, although I never took bio) were just whatever random bunch of sophmore to senior kids who showed up. Art elective was photography, again, whatever freshman thru senior kids felt like signing up... I think the only "all senior" class I ever took in my senior year, was calculus. Sooo one of my best school friends was my physics lab partner, and he was a year older than I am. I met a girlfriend a year younger than me, in english class in my sophomore year. The kids who graduated the year I did, who were a tiny subset of the kids I went to school with? By and large, don't much care. They only made up 1/3 to 1/4 the students in my classes so they only made up 1/3 to 1/4 of my school friends.
What about the kids I hung out with? Well back before the illegal alien invasion (this was decades ago) teenagers could get jobs. And it seems I worked with mostly kids from the school across town. Weirdly enough, after graduating I noticed I dated more girls from the "other school" than from my own school, because I hung out with them at work, leading to after work dates, you get the idea... I was entering the .mil and 4 local schools funneled into one recruitment center and we had monthly get together social club type activities. I was friends with three future marines, an air force wanna be, and a navy dude, none of which graduated with me at my school the same year.
At least WRT "twentieth year reunions" or so, there is just no social point anymore. Thats why they're going away.
Trying to spin a social trend into a "tech story" just looks stupid.
Unlike an online service which you can bruteforce using TOR and try those combinations and there is only single factor authentication.
My bank protects me by having an online portal so slow and clunky that each login attempt takes well over 5 seconds. Its darn near as slow as brute forcing ATM PINs and the password space is much larger.
... And if I had to transfer something cryptographically important, I simply would not use email.
SSH with pre-shared and human verified fingerprint keys into a shared, secured resource and what you do with it once you're in is your business? SCP with pre-shared and human verified fingerprint keys? Yeah, been there, done that. In a "everthings connected to everything, all the time" world, I donno why I'd ever go back to using email between close associates to share files.
Human hand sender to human hand recipient transfer of flash drive containing sensitive data, yeah, been there. If I'd trust them with my physical wallet, I'd trust them with the flash drive.
I have used completely open and unencrypted email as a MIME container for GPG encrypted files, but thats not encrypted email, thats open plain MIME email with attached encrypted file, a completely different concept than encrypting the entire email. I've also used symmetric mcrypt functions in addition to GPG in a multi-person mailing list scenario (if you know the shared group password, you can decrypt this file...)
To some extent its just the death of email. Email is a spam delivery service, and corporate interaction service (amazon order received emails, etc). Socializing is done over HTTP, maybe HTTPS. Secure transfers are not done over email because email is not used anymore.
From having been in the military although not involved in the justice system, there are two reasons why military trials tend toward pointlessness.
1) Dumb people and addicts and nuts more or less can't get in the military. Most civilian trials, from talking to jury members, tend to involve some level of comedy, like how stupid / arrogant / high did the defendant have to be to think he'd not get picked up by the cops. Easy, trivial, to catch. But the smart military crooks (most stories I heard were about fencing stolen military property) were smart enough that it takes such a huge effort that the evidence is beyond overwhelming by the time they're arrested, there's no way Perry Mason could possibly get the guy free. Most military crooks tended to get caught by being too greedy, underlying substance abuse, or "hurrying up" toward the end of their enlistment, at least in the supply related stories I heard.
2) No rich people in .mil. Its widely believed that rich people don't do time in the civilian world, because its true. There's no way an enlisted soldier is going to afford OJ Simpson's lawyer. Also an enlisted soldier can donate a little to the correct political action committees, but not enough to matter. Maybe if his dad was an admiral or a general, maybe...
Or he most certainly did, or at least he set up an automated system to do it, etc.
But, no one can/will publicly admit the truth, that either the automated system to do that can be selectively remotely subverted on command (perhaps a routine investigation into him "fishing expedition" found more than expected?) OR the secret truth that cannot be discussed is that classified data recovery operations can read overwritten data much better than public recovery operations.
Most likely this is one of those "lawyers approach the bench" undocumented moments where both sides were informed that public discussion of these classified projects in this trial will be prosecuted, etc... The less this seemingly important topic is discussed during the trial, the more likely they're covering up some interesting technical means.
Having worked in a Army reserve unit in the early 90s in an IT-like capacity, we were told if we were overrun, the ammo depot's records had to be wiped by thermite, not "writing zeros" or whatever. This is public knowledge, read the public TMs. There is probably a very good reason when going up against "the bad guys" you only trust thermite, and going up against internal investigators and auditors, "trust us, writing zeros is good enough"
How about a home phone? My local HR was freaked out about my temporary lack of a landline, "Are you homeless? In Jail?".
They were freaked out about you not having a landline at home? What year was this? 1995?
Its a big company dilbertian thing. "The form Must be Filled Out Completely". If I submit incomplete paperwork, and she accepts it, it might be her job for not enforcing corporate standards of paperwork completion accuracy, etc. I know that I did not ruin her chances at getting the top scale 2.5% raise by lowering her paperwork accuracy completion metric score, because if she was on the edge of getting higher pay, she would have argued with me endlessly and/or tossed out my paperwork to hide it, so she's probably soundly positioned in the middle of the 2.4% pay raise scale, with no need to care other than keeping up appearances. If they ever decide to get rid of me, Then falsification of corporate records will probably be the charge used, because I provided no home phone number I would have my unemployment claim categorically denied, fired for cause. Kind of like cops love making everything illegal, so they can selectively jail anyone they want because absolutely everyone is guilty of something now a days.
Perhaps in 25 years someone will reorg the dept and redesign the corporate standard record form to not include "home phone number" because its been an obsolete concept for decades, at which time I'm sure the new corporate standard will be mandatory required documentation of your ICQ number or perhaps AOL screen name, all completed forms must include your eleven digit compuserve account number or else you are guilty of a corporate SOX violation or something.
You need to find a new job. If they are only willing to provide you junk (unless you don't actually require computers specifically to do your job), they probably don't value you much more than junk.
Wow I missed this yesterday... Its a megacorp thing. There are at least 12 levels between me and the top multimillion/yr CEO and board members. Therefore I must be provided "status symbols" on my desk that are 12 levels beneath what they have on their desks or else they can't feel superior.
That said, to a multimillion/yr CEO a rack of servers is not a status symbol. So I have whatever I want, heck almost whatever I can dream of, WRT to virtualization quotas, NAS quotas, etc. What I don't have, is a brand new 2011 computer to run putty/ssh on. Its more like 2003, an early 4000 series nvidia card, etc. I do have multiple monitors, which is really nice. And a airgapped linux desktop machine that lives on the production network as opposed to the IT network, because I need access to the production network. My desktop is little more than a ssh client and a web browser for me, so I don't particularly care, and in my job position it simply doesn't matter... Reducing putty ssh latency from 2 microseconds to 0.2 microseconds would have no effect. However I can only imagine the nightmare a peon CAD operator would go thru, since they're several social and salary levels beneath me, therefore they must be using old 386dx-40 to do their job...
Order Preserving Encryption, how is it implemented? The paper page 4, simply lists that it exists and has a pointer to an article somewhere that I have no access.
I'm not understanding how this hides "known plaintext" attacks. Perhaps its not intended to. Like I said, I have no access to the footnoted OPE article. So, lets say you got a medical database of private health care info, where the diagnosis is a column. If you can sort it, all the folks with "aids" sort at the top, right above the "alcoholism" diagnosis, with the "worms, intestinal" and I suppose the "zoophilia" people at the bottom.
I suppose, the solution, is unless there is a business need to sort by diagnosis, you don't use OPE for that column, you use DET or if no need for "group by", then RND.
If you don't see a problem with some individuals having huge amounts of power over other individuals, then you have no imagination.
Or you're hoping to set yourself up as a quisling, like many members of the party I used to be a member of.
There's some evidence beyond only mineral composition for the earth's core, mostly from seismic data; the discontinuities observed in seismic wave travel put constraints on what has to be the case at different layers. At least, it's more data than we have about the interior of Jupiter, which afaik is entirely based on mineral composition and modeling.
Some data comes from detailed magnetic field monitoring, makes sense since it seems to be the cause of the earths magnetic field.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_core#Dynamics
Depending on your local court, having gone thru something tangentially related, the government simply doesn't care, its the executor who has to care, and as long as "everyone is happy" then there is no "hold up in probate". There was a stage early in the process where I/we had to file as interested parties and that is probably the stage where you'll have to prove your identify by either submitting paperwork or getting "everyone who knows him" to testify thats who he claims to be. My aunt's birth certificate name does not match her married name, a copy of the marriage certificate took care of that little problem. Moxie and moxie's lawyer will figure it out if necessary.
So my question to Moxie is "How do/did you get food and shelter when you don't/didn't have money?".
Poverty provides an education of its own? I was pretty poor in my starving school years, certainly made be a tougher person. Debatable if it made me any better or worse, but tougher, yeah.
Really? Maybe they're just names.
LOL If he doesn't feel like being a human billboard for something he's not a fan of, what is the threat to you personally?
Are you also personally offended that I don't go by my given name, emacs?
The mistake is, its not worth $100 when it fails. It may have cost $100 new, or a new drive with 10 times the capacity might cost $100, but that ancient drive is certainly not worth $100. The aluminum is worth scrap value, thats about it.
A drive is not worth anything to me after a couple years. My non-bulk media storage machines are all SSD now, and SSD seems to last forever. Want a 4 GB SSD from my mythtv frontend that is about 5 years old? It was worth quite a bit 5 years ago, not so much now. A year or two ago I ripped the one or two year old 1 TB drives out and popped in 2 TB drives for my main file server in the basement. In a year or two I'll rip out the 2 TB drives and put in 4 TB drives. A 5 year warranty provides no value to me after about 2 or at most 3 years. If all rotating hard drives failed at 4 years, I would never know.
They need to reach you instantly, at any hour of the day? Then they need to buy you a cell phone. Maybe you spent the past few nights at your new girlfriend's house, or you had to accompany your spouse to a funeral
I suppose if I told my wife I was at the girlfriend's house, and I told the girlfriend I with with the wife at a funeral, I might finally have the spare time to get some stuff done in the lab without interruption... I think you're on to something here...
So you are basically paying by the minute when your employer calls you. Yes, I know modern cell phone plans sell you blocks of hundreds or thousands of minutes, but the point here is that you are paying to make yourself available to your employer when you are not even at your office/job site. It may be rude to say this, but this is not really a situation that you should be in.
Ah its not so bad because I am in a rather weird/unique situation of not being salaried as my current employer categorically will not go salaried for non-management employees, and being a tightward cheapskate I have the worlds most expensive pay per minute cellphone service, which even at its inflated rate is something like one nineth my hourly hourly rate at time and a half overtime... Work is paying me nine times what I'm paying the phone company for the privilege of talking to me, so I'm all good with that profit rate. When the phone rings with a call from work, I almost feel my wallet getting heavier as I talk... makes me want to speak slower, sometimes. I can see why a salaried guy would be pissed off, but theoretically they are paid more to make up for calls like that, theoretically at least.
Sometimes, at home, without being paid for it, I even read computer books. Weirdly enough, I like Knuth. I know, I'm a sick, sick man, etc etc.
I am very happy not to have to carry two cellphones, and sometimes being always available is an inherent part of the job... which is probably partially why my pay rate is so high to begin with.
Its like arguing that the company should pay for the detergent used to wash my work clothes an extra time if I come in to work on a Saturday, after they cut me a check for overtime around the size of a decent car payment... geeze don't look a gift horse in the mouth, take the money and run.