The nigh-unbreakable systems, where a break might take the age of the universe even for a nation-state, can send less key material than ciphertext. But even the truly unbreakable ones can accumulate key material over a channel with low but consistent throughput and then send ciphertext over a faster, burstier channel.
As long as the VPN service provider complies with local data retention laws (of which there are none, they only apply to ISPs)
The idea would be to treat service providers offering VPN service to the public as Internet service providers, just using the customer's existing Internet connection as the last mile instead of DOCSIS or DSL.
Nonoverlapping substrings of the same one-time pad may be used for different messages. But use of the remainder of a one-time pad does weaken the encryption going forward, as you eventually have to resort to less-than-one-time-pad cryptosystems until such time as more one-time pad material is exchanged.
Where you see "UK constitution" read "Magna Carta". True, much of the Magna Carta has since been amended away in various SLRAs, but the same is true of the U.S. Constitution.
But if you had a reliable secure channel, you wouldn't need any encryption to begin with. You could send the actual data over that secure channel instead.
It appears several cryptosystems are designed to run over two channels: a reliable secure channel with low throughput, and a faster but insecure channel. This way, the parties run key exchange over the former and ciphertext over the latter. This is certainly true of quantum key exchange.
I guess "serverizing" the copylefted library in the manner you describe would have been fine in the specific case I ran into at work. The "aggregate" section of the GPL FAQ provides vague guidance as to when two programs are considered too coupled for an "aggregate" defense.
But I can think of other cases where you can't bundle a copylefted executable in the install package at all, such as porting a game to a game console using a copylefted reimplementation of the engine and assets licensed from the game's copyright owner. Console makers' developer agreements ban copylefted software.
There's zero technical reason why an "undo" function can't be added to almost any software system
I can think of a couple. It's harder to remove elements from some kinds of full-text index, especially a probabilistic index, than it is to add them. And each comment would then need revision history so that moderators can tell to what text each comment was actually replying. Do we want individual revisions to be searchable?
The problem comes when the comment cannot be understood or <quote>d without its subject. Try to read a comment started in the subject line out loud: "When create the most used operating system, score one by duckintheface on November second at 9:17, on the planet you have, criticize Linus can you."
A comment subject should summarize the comment to give the reader an idea of whether to expand a comment whose score is between the "abbreviated" and "full" threshold.
Subject: How popular is your OS?
When create the most used operating system on the planet you have, criticize Linus can you.
Arch and Gentoo are distributions of GNU/Linux. GNU/Linux systems run the GNU userland on the Linux kernel to reproduce the functionality of the UNIX system. GNU/Linux can be distinguished from other operating environments that use Linux, such as Android or embedded Linux.
You make a few good points about a certain DNS-level blocking tool. But in case that paste disappears, let me summarize the points with which I agree here:
You mention two theoretical drawbacks of the hosts file format. One is lack of support for wildcards, such as *.cn or *.ru or *.someadnetwork.com. Another is lack of a way to specify NXDOMAIN, as applications may not treat a 0.0.0.0 result the same. But I don't see how "running a local web server" would make it malfunction, as 0.0.0.0 isn't the same as 127.0.0.1.
In addition, you point out a practical deficiency in the resolver built into popular operating systems by not using an efficient indexing mechanism such as the Bloom filter described in the wiki page you mention. This causes a hostname not found in the file to take longer than one leap second to resolve, forcing a certain popular tool to have to reinvent the DNS wheel by managing its own cache of commonly used hostnames at the top of the file.
As for your other points related to content-level blocking: A system-wide tool is useful to control applications other than your primary web browser. And even if web content blocking tools are faster, another claim is that their developers have "sold out" to the advertising industry by introducing initiatives such as "acceptable ads".
Why are you rebooting your machine so freqently that the time that systemd might save at boot time should even matter so much?
Because other Slashdot users keep recommending laptops whose suspend is broken in Linux. They recommend that instead of suspending, one ought to log out saving his session, shut down, and start the computer again.
Apple TV doesn't provide WebKit or UIWebView on tvOS
In some ways, Nintendo is considered behind the times on Internet policy. Yet it had the web on its TV device eight years ago, when Wii owners could download "Internet Channel powered by Opera" on Wii Shop. So how behind the times is Apple?
Because you haven't explained how hosts is "the worst way".
Hosts is two things: a file format for specifying DNS overrides, and a DNS blacklist tool that runs on the local machine and uses a file in hosts format. A DNS blacklist tool on a router could use hosts format or any other format, but hosts is widely supported by tools. A local DNS blacklist tool is helpful for someone who uses a laptop and wants his blacklist to follow him on any WLAN to which he connects. And there happens to be a blacklist tool built into each major PC operating system that uses the hosts file format.
And if you're running Gaming rig, you're going to want high end current CPU, GPU lots of ram, lots of fans and ventilation, which isn't the same rig as a quiet HTPC.
Then how do Sony and Microsoft succeed at promoting PlayStation and Xbox family devices for both gaming and home theater applications?
Obsolete because the new tech (v.90) is literally 160 times better, pushing practical 48000 bits per second over the same line and providing substantial practical benefits. Old HTPC gear isn't quite as necessarily obsolete, as hardware that used to be able to push 1080p can still push 1080p.
You missed the point of why.
Then for the benefit of other readers, could you explain in more detail the point of why?
The main reason for aligning clocks with the sun is for navigational methods that aren't really used anymore.
You mean like the human biological tendency to be active at certain hours before and after peak outdoor light?
At this point, it makes much more sense to have a fundamental time reference that provides 60 seconds to a minute, period, and if you really want to translate to your local sun-referenced time, make use of translation tables.
Theoretically this "fundamental time reference" is TAI (International Atomic Time, and the leap second history acts as the "translation tables" you describe between TAI and UTC. The problem is that UNIX adopted UTC as the basis for its timestamps.
But the primary function of time today, is not to synchronize activity with the sun. Today, it's to synchronize human activity with other human activity, often across great distances.
It's both. It's to synchronize human activity with other human activity, some of which also happens to be synchronized with the sun over the course of about a week.
The number of broadcast networks who said "the game starts at 7" for a game being played by two teams local to different time-zones!
It refers to the time zone of each terrestrial broadcast station's market, either the city of license or of the nearby major city that it serves. A signal at the permitted transmission power of a radio or TV station license usually doesn't reach far outside the intended time zone. A station licensed in a city in a different time zone would describe the start of the match relative to that city's time zone: "the game starts at 8".
Hey, one network even said "...at 7 ET". There is no such thing as ET. There's EDT, and there's EST. You figure out which one they meant.
Unless the event is near 2 AM Sunday morning on the transition day, it can be easily calculated from whether or not applicable law in the station's market applies DST on the date of the event.
We let "one year" drift enough that it only needs to be corrected once it's off by a whole day. Why not let [86,400] seconds accumulate and have a second leap day every hundred thousand years or so?
Because sunlight levels over a day control more recurring human biological processes, such as alertness, than any natural phenomenon with a year's period.
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The nigh-unbreakable systems, where a break might take the age of the universe even for a nation-state, can send less key material than ciphertext. But even the truly unbreakable ones can accumulate key material over a channel with low but consistent throughput and then send ciphertext over a faster, burstier channel.
As long as the VPN service provider complies with local data retention laws (of which there are none, they only apply to ISPs)
The idea would be to treat service providers offering VPN service to the public as Internet service providers, just using the customer's existing Internet connection as the last mile instead of DOCSIS or DSL.
one time pad
Nonoverlapping substrings of the same one-time pad may be used for different messages. But use of the remainder of a one-time pad does weaken the encryption going forward, as you eventually have to resort to less-than-one-time-pad cryptosystems until such time as more one-time pad material is exchanged.
Where you see "UK constitution" read "Magna Carta". True, much of the Magna Carta has since been amended away in various SLRAs, but the same is true of the U.S. Constitution.
But if you had a reliable secure channel, you wouldn't need any encryption to begin with. You could send the actual data over that secure channel instead.
It appears several cryptosystems are designed to run over two channels: a reliable secure channel with low throughput, and a faster but insecure channel. This way, the parties run key exchange over the former and ciphertext over the latter. This is certainly true of quantum key exchange.
I guess "serverizing" the copylefted library in the manner you describe would have been fine in the specific case I ran into at work. The "aggregate" section of the GPL FAQ provides vague guidance as to when two programs are considered too coupled for an "aggregate" defense.
But I can think of other cases where you can't bundle a copylefted executable in the install package at all, such as porting a game to a game console using a copylefted reimplementation of the engine and assets licensed from the game's copyright owner. Console makers' developer agreements ban copylefted software.
There's zero technical reason why an "undo" function can't be added to almost any software system
I can think of a couple. It's harder to remove elements from some kinds of full-text index, especially a probabilistic index, than it is to add them. And each comment would then need revision history so that moderators can tell to what text each comment was actually replying. Do we want individual revisions to be searchable?
The problem comes when the comment cannot be understood or <quote>d without its subject. Try to read a comment started in the subject line out loud: "When create the most used operating system, score one by duckintheface on November second at 9:17, on the planet you have, criticize Linus can you."
A comment subject should summarize the comment to give the reader an idea of whether to expand a comment whose score is between the "abbreviated" and "full" threshold.
You both will be eaten by Pacman for that pun. *yum yum*
Easier to swallow:
Arch and Gentoo are distributions of GNU/Linux. GNU/Linux systems run the GNU userland on the Linux kernel to reproduce the functionality of the UNIX system. GNU/Linux can be distinguished from other operating environments that use Linux, such as Android or embedded Linux.
Why are you shutting it off? There are suspend and hibernate functions for that.
Because suspend doesn't work in Linux on a lot of laptops (sample), and not everyone has the cash for a comparable MacBook.
You make a few good points about a certain DNS-level blocking tool. But in case that paste disappears, let me summarize the points with which I agree here:
You mention two theoretical drawbacks of the hosts file format. One is lack of support for wildcards, such as *.cn or *.ru or *.someadnetwork.com. Another is lack of a way to specify NXDOMAIN, as applications may not treat a 0.0.0.0 result the same. But I don't see how "running a local web server" would make it malfunction, as 0.0.0.0 isn't the same as 127.0.0.1.
In addition, you point out a practical deficiency in the resolver built into popular operating systems by not using an efficient indexing mechanism such as the Bloom filter described in the wiki page you mention. This causes a hostname not found in the file to take longer than one leap second to resolve, forcing a certain popular tool to have to reinvent the DNS wheel by managing its own cache of commonly used hostnames at the top of the file.
As for your other points related to content-level blocking: A system-wide tool is useful to control applications other than your primary web browser. And even if web content blocking tools are faster, another claim is that their developers have "sold out" to the advertising industry by introducing initiatives such as "acceptable ads".
as an adult we can dress up in costumes and eat candy regardless of what day it is
Except owners of public places will tend to treat a costumed adult differently on Halloween compared to any other day.
Walmart is open 364 days per year, 365 on leap years. It's closed on Christmas.
In the ideal dependency-oriented init, where would you recommending that "service A requires service B" information be provided? In file names?
System boot time is only important if the system is booting frequently.
Such as a laptop that's booted for fifteen minutes between boarding the city bus and transferring to a different bus.
Why are you rebooting your machine so freqently that the time that systemd might save at boot time should even matter so much?
Because other Slashdot users keep recommending laptops whose suspend is broken in Linux. They recommend that instead of suspending, one ought to log out saving his session, shut down, and start the computer again.
Apple TV doesn't provide WebKit or UIWebView on tvOS
In some ways, Nintendo is considered behind the times on Internet policy. Yet it had the web on its TV device eight years ago, when Wii owners could download "Internet Channel powered by Opera" on Wii Shop. So how behind the times is Apple?
if you delete things in the course of a regular business policy, then you don't have to produce them
That depends on the minimum retention period laws in effect in your jurisdiction.
Because you haven't explained how hosts is "the worst way".
Hosts is two things: a file format for specifying DNS overrides, and a DNS blacklist tool that runs on the local machine and uses a file in hosts format. A DNS blacklist tool on a router could use hosts format or any other format, but hosts is widely supported by tools. A local DNS blacklist tool is helpful for someone who uses a laptop and wants his blacklist to follow him on any WLAN to which he connects. And there happens to be a blacklist tool built into each major PC operating system that uses the hosts file format.
And if you're running Gaming rig, you're going to want high end current CPU, GPU lots of ram, lots of fans and ventilation, which isn't the same rig as a quiet HTPC.
Then how do Sony and Microsoft succeed at promoting PlayStation and Xbox family devices for both gaming and home theater applications?
I offered up my 300 baud modem.
Obsolete because the new tech (v.90) is literally 160 times better, pushing practical 48000 bits per second over the same line and providing substantial practical benefits. Old HTPC gear isn't quite as necessarily obsolete, as hardware that used to be able to push 1080p can still push 1080p.
You missed the point of why.
Then for the benefit of other readers, could you explain in more detail the point of why?
The main reason for aligning clocks with the sun is for navigational methods that aren't really used anymore.
You mean like the human biological tendency to be active at certain hours before and after peak outdoor light?
At this point, it makes much more sense to have a fundamental time reference that provides 60 seconds to a minute, period, and if you really want to translate to your local sun-referenced time, make use of translation tables.
Theoretically this "fundamental time reference" is TAI (International Atomic Time, and the leap second history acts as the "translation tables" you describe between TAI and UTC. The problem is that UNIX adopted UTC as the basis for its timestamps.
But the primary function of time today, is not to synchronize activity with the sun. Today, it's to synchronize human activity with other human activity, often across great distances.
It's both. It's to synchronize human activity with other human activity, some of which also happens to be synchronized with the sun over the course of about a week.
The number of broadcast networks who said "the game starts at 7" for a game being played by two teams local to different time-zones!
It refers to the time zone of each terrestrial broadcast station's market, either the city of license or of the nearby major city that it serves. A signal at the permitted transmission power of a radio or TV station license usually doesn't reach far outside the intended time zone. A station licensed in a city in a different time zone would describe the start of the match relative to that city's time zone: "the game starts at 8".
Hey, one network even said "...at 7 ET". There is no such thing as ET. There's EDT, and there's EST. You figure out which one they meant.
Unless the event is near 2 AM Sunday morning on the transition day, it can be easily calculated from whether or not applicable law in the station's market applies DST on the date of the event.
We let "one year" drift enough that it only needs to be corrected once it's off by a whole day. Why not let [86,400] seconds accumulate and have a second leap day every hundred thousand years or so?
Because sunlight levels over a day control more recurring human biological processes, such as alertness, than any natural phenomenon with a year's period.