If I didn't want people to use tOR for whatever they thought should be anonymous; I'd currently be adjusting my exit policy to not allow everything (but SMTP).
In my mind, that is the point of a free, neutral network. YMMV.
As a programmer for a sonar data processing application (largely focused on bathymetry and wildlife/stock assessment), I'm somewhat concerned by those that spread their misinformed perceptions that it is only useful for naval warfare.
I've seen data from transducers sensitive and powerful enough to distinguish the size and species of a fish at 1500m (I can't remember the actual power level, off-hand) contain human divers at less than 40m. Sure as hell picking up an 80m long steel capsule is going to take less power, and work at longer range; and that if they were in any way affected by the sonar operating in the area, they'd be kicking up a fuss in the media. I'm not saying it doesn't affect dolphins - just that the humans are unlikely to have even noticed.
Also - not sure what this may change in the debate here, just adding some facts; the typical data I see is from a 38kHz pulse. Some are as low as 18 (largely for working in very deep water, for lower attenuation, or to help classify krill/plankton), or as high as 120 or even 200kHz. Some short (tens to hundreds of meters) range transducers operate in the 1 to 1.5 mHz range. Sound speed under water is around 1500m/s - varying with temperature and salinity. Pulse duration varies from sub-millisecond to a few milliseconds.
You're just being silly; you know he didn't mean that anyone should be given more ballots than the next person, but rather that the system of voting be expanded to not force the reduction of a complex political alignment into a single 'X'.
And what exactly is wrong with voting for your least-objectionable candidate? Seems like that is pretty much the whole idea...
Negative voting just reverses the problem demographically; if you are on the side that has one favourable candidate, you'd only be able to decide against one of your unfavourable ones.
Also, it'd be nice if 'you' (ISPs) rewarded more technically minded customers that try to be nice to the network as a whole...
Cache hits (at least) from an opt-in HTTP proxy, downloads from the provider's mirror, and traffic with low-priority ToS flags (which you *do* respect...) shouldn't count against my usage at the full 1:1 rate.
How about prioritizing instead? Why not restrict your top 50% of users for the week/month to the lowest-priority traffic queues.
They almost certainly don't need interactive rates, you won't have to do expensive and/or inaccurate discrimination against protocols (which as mentioned elsewhere may be illegal); and your low overall usage users can still use Web, E-mail, FTP, BitTorrent, etc. without feeling like the bad guy.
Personally, I'd leap at such a plan here (Australia) - as I don't download a lot very often, but when I do, I don't want to pay through the nose or get shaped to 64kbps.
i.e. Connection idle most of the week? That's fine, you can download that ISO or game demo as fast as your line can carry it, by whatever method you choose. Been seeding/leeching 24/7? Also fine, but your latency is going to suck when our other normal users hit YouTube.
Absolutely; anyone truly worried about such attacks against memory contents would re-enter the key upon resume... I'm sure many of us do something like this anyway, in the form of our login password. Personally, I'd rather see that integrated with full-disk encryption.
The issue I was trying to raise is that this proposal makes resuming from suspend more convenient by potentially saving those keystrokes; at the cost of not being able to actually power down the CPU to do so...
There is an underlying problem with this strategy; in that it is that it's targeted at locked laptops... which need to shut down and power off the CPU cache in order to not run out of power in the next 30 minutes.
And to answer another common question here; CPU cache is power-hungry SRAM (a set of transistors per-bit), rather than DRAM (a capacitor per-bit) - so it does lose it's state when unpowered.
Also, as soon as you turn it back on, it'll be overwritten with the BIOS/POST/bootlader/whatever instructions and data... that's what it's there for, and that's its default mode.
Yes, but the benefit of a cold-boot attack is that the data is just there; you don't need to remove the DIMMs and read tiny electrical fields with special machinery; you just read the bytes.
There is no CPU instruction for *any* architecture that will give you the voltage level of a memory cell.
... which only works for as long as you have the cookie it sets; and still leaves the delay of a pointless redirection, and of course the problem of how much information tinyurl.com's operators and affiliates can get from your cookies and headers...
Does this mean that for all that time we spent winging about video cards not running under linux; the real solution was to run linux on the video card?
"Hello, 'airport officer'. I'm an Australian engineer and I'd really love to have an infrared camera on my car to assist when driving in fog, at night, or to see school kids about to run out from behind a bus or SUV."
Slashdot Mirror
If I didn't want people to use tOR for whatever they thought should be anonymous; I'd currently be adjusting my exit policy to not allow everything (but SMTP).
In my mind, that is the point of a free, neutral network. YMMV.
As a programmer for a sonar data processing application (largely focused on bathymetry and wildlife/stock assessment), I'm somewhat concerned by those that spread their misinformed perceptions that it is only useful for naval warfare.
I've seen data from transducers sensitive and powerful enough to distinguish the size and species of a fish at 1500m (I can't remember the actual power level, off-hand) contain human divers at less than 40m. Sure as hell picking up an 80m long steel capsule is going to take less power, and work at longer range; and that if they were in any way affected by the sonar operating in the area, they'd be kicking up a fuss in the media. I'm not saying it doesn't affect dolphins - just that the humans are unlikely to have even noticed.
Also - not sure what this may change in the debate here, just adding some facts; the typical data I see is from a 38kHz pulse. Some are as low as 18 (largely for working in very deep water, for lower attenuation, or to help classify krill/plankton), or as high as 120 or even 200kHz. Some short (tens to hundreds of meters) range transducers operate in the 1 to 1.5 mHz range. Sound speed under water is around 1500m/s - varying with temperature and salinity. Pulse duration varies from sub-millisecond to a few milliseconds.
I only have Vista on a laptop, and I power it all the way down whenever I have to take it somewhere
Well... there's half the issue.
WMD for short, not to be mistaken for the Iraq kind
They don't have Windows Memory Diagnostic in Iraq either?
You're just being silly; you know he didn't mean that anyone should be given more ballots than the next person, but rather that the system of voting be expanded to not force the reduction of a complex political alignment into a single 'X'.
And what exactly is wrong with voting for your least-objectionable candidate? Seems like that is pretty much the whole idea...
Negative voting just reverses the problem demographically; if you are on the side that has one favourable candidate, you'd only be able to decide against one of your unfavourable ones.
Also, it'd be nice if 'you' (ISPs) rewarded more technically minded customers that try to be nice to the network as a whole...
Cache hits (at least) from an opt-in HTTP proxy, downloads from the provider's mirror, and traffic with low-priority ToS flags (which you *do* respect...) shouldn't count against my usage at the full 1:1 rate.
How about prioritizing instead? Why not restrict your top 50% of users for the week/month to the lowest-priority traffic queues.
They almost certainly don't need interactive rates, you won't have to do expensive and/or inaccurate discrimination against protocols (which as mentioned elsewhere may be illegal); and your low overall usage users can still use Web, E-mail, FTP, BitTorrent, etc. without feeling like the bad guy.
Personally, I'd leap at such a plan here (Australia) - as I don't download a lot very often, but when I do, I don't want to pay through the nose or get shaped to 64kbps.
i.e. Connection idle most of the week? That's fine, you can download that ISO or game demo as fast as your line can carry it, by whatever method you choose. Been seeding/leeching 24/7? Also fine, but your latency is going to suck when our other normal users hit YouTube.
Did you *deliberately* top-post on Slashdot? That's an interesting choice...
Why? Compiz already lets me make any window I like (i.e. Firefox or WoW) translucent at the click of a button...
The problem is clearly your inferior, hard-coded window manager.
Many of us are still enjoying the warm weather of summer 2008; so how long have these negotiations been going on?
What standard library?
K&R C? ANSI C? C99?
*shudder*
Non-portable code can be written in any language.
Absolutely; anyone truly worried about such attacks against memory contents would re-enter the key upon resume... I'm sure many of us do something like this anyway, in the form of our login password. Personally, I'd rather see that integrated with full-disk encryption.
The issue I was trying to raise is that this proposal makes resuming from suspend more convenient by potentially saving those keystrokes; at the cost of not being able to actually power down the CPU to do so...
But I also could be completely misreading this.
There is an underlying problem with this strategy; in that it is that it's targeted at locked laptops... which need to shut down and power off the CPU cache in order to not run out of power in the next 30 minutes.
And to answer another common question here; CPU cache is power-hungry SRAM (a set of transistors per-bit), rather than DRAM (a capacitor per-bit) - so it does lose it's state when unpowered.
Also, as soon as you turn it back on, it'll be overwritten with the BIOS/POST/bootlader/whatever instructions and data... that's what it's there for, and that's its default mode.
Yes, but the benefit of a cold-boot attack is that the data is just there; you don't need to remove the DIMMs and read tiny electrical fields with special machinery; you just read the bytes.
There is no CPU instruction for *any* architecture that will give you the voltage level of a memory cell.
... +5 just isn't enough.
... which only works for as long as you have the cookie it sets; and still leaves the delay of a pointless redirection, and of course the problem of how much information tinyurl.com's operators and affiliates can get from your cookies and headers...
(Everyone else here is paranoid; why aren't you?)
This TinyURL redirects to:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&SubCategory=636&N=2013240636
You are technically correct.
The best kind of correct.
Does this mean that for all that time we spent winging about video cards not running under linux; the real solution was to run linux on the video card?
How about:
"Hello, 'airport officer'. I'm an Australian engineer and I'd really love to have an infrared camera on my car to assist when driving in fog, at night, or to see school kids about to run out from behind a bus or SUV."
Where do you live; and what are your nation's policies regarding immigration?
Too lazy - links or it didn't happen.
These are not the hammer.