Have you not heard Goebbels? Repeat a lie enough times and it will become truth. He implied that the repeater knows its a lie, so you can't say that you're only making parody. The more that meme spreads, the more likely people are to be subconsciously used to it if it becomes close to truth. (And NO it's not true right now. We still have quite a few civil liberties.)
You want more civil liberties? Act like you have more than the law technically allows. Run protests without seeking a permit for assembly. Carry small self-defense knives on your person. Stretch fair use as much as you can. Explain to fellow citizens using logic why your action is permissible, and the average policeman won't know that the legislature passed laws more stringent than the community believes appropriate.
On the other hand, if you start repeating your vile phrase, how can even you help believing it? You won't have the guts to stand up to someone and say "Very funny. Fourth amendment. Come back with a warrant and probable cause. Kthxbye." You'll believe that they do have the ability to search you freely.
(USAPATRIOT Act, USASCHMATRIOT Act. They haven't read it either. If you act like you know what you're talking about, they'll be forced to doubt that the law actually gives them these provisions - especially if you're quoting the constitution.)
That doesn't look all that hard (famous last words, but still) if you use recursion. Although my solution wins no points for efficiency, here's the pseudocode.
int solutions = 0 array target =... matrix maze =...
procedure step (int distance, coord position)
if target.length = distance
solutions++
return
next_letter = target[distance + 1]
foreach direction in {N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W, NW}
if maze[position + direction] = next_letter
step(distance + 1, position + direction) end procedure
foreach letter in maze
if target[0] = letter
step(0, location of letter)
step() will never test the same path twice, and recursion will take care of the nastiness of backtracking. As I said, it wins no points for efficiency. There's a lot of space and time overhead.
Yes, Perl code would have a better chance, because there's a part of the competition where you can challenge other people's solutions - and everyone's gonna challenge the other languages before they try to read Perl.
If my device was stolen, I'd be more worried about the immediate disclosure of my password, as it could be used to get my private key and someone could pretend they were me, or get into my home computer over ssh where they'd have access to my entire photo collection and data like my MSN details.
I personally feel the thief would be a lot more likely to sell it on the black market (perhaps after reformatting it so it's easier to fence the phone). I doubt anyone who gets the phone would say "Hey, let me look at what MIDlets he has. Ooh, here's an SSH app. And he's got his password saved. Let me log in and make a private key using his account so I can mess with his computer and scp his personal data later."
Seriously. If you think anyone who knows what a "private key" is will steal your phone, you should be proud to live in an area with such technologically-literate thieves. (Pirates of Silicon Valley, perhaps?)
This means, if it works right you could use your cell phone to make voip calls via your home wifi connection (or your neighbor's). I don't get it... This just makes sense. Why would the phone companies cooperate?
A) So what? WiFi isn't quite as prevalent as EDGE. EDGE can definitely handle VoIP, and the phone providers get some money (usually not quite as much as airtime, but still) for an EDGE subscription. B) The T-Mobile SDA/MDA are quite capable of running Skype. The salesman told me so himself (well, whispered after checking there were no other salesmen in the room). Quality is...acceptable, and if I weren't too pansy to overclock my phone it would work just like desktop Skype. And it'd work over either WiFi or EDGE. (In fact I never bothered with an EDGE subscription since I've got WiFi at home and on campus. T-Mobile still sold the phone to me.)
Um. I know of (friend of a friend) a guy with the personal first name Mehdi, a variant spelling of Mahdi - and he's in high school. So I suppose it could just be another name or something. If you were Ahmadinejad would you use the conventional form of your name in your DNS registration? (Hence the broken last name.)
This article is more or less obvious. A lot of programs for mobile devices aren't designed with security in mind. For some - like the handful of FTP clients listed - the password is insecure anyway, so it doesn't make sense to encrypt it. For many others, like the SSH client on my phone, even if you did encrypt the data, anyone who stole my phone would be able to log in to my account - after all, that's the point of saving the password.
My device is relatively expensive and is a smartphone, so if anyone stole it I'd be far more worried about them receiving the monetary value of my device and unfettered access to my phone account than about my passwords (which I could change from a PC anyway). I have my university account password saved, but I use SSH and encrypted IMAP to access these services so there isn't any significant risk so long as I possess the device.
People who use services like Remote Keyboard that don't ask for a login on the PC should expect that this service is unencrypted and unauthenticated. Similarly, people who use ActiveSync over the network should anticipate that if they haven't just plugged in their device, any password prompt must be spoofed.
I can write a similar article about a "vulnerability" in Facebook: I received 5 e-mails yesterday asking me to confirm account creation. I've had an account for over a year now, so I knew these requests weren't legitimate. Had I clicked on the verification links, I would've surrendered to this attacker my Facebook identity (they'd've had a blank profile under my e-mail address), but I'm smart enough not to. Or perhaps someone can submit an "insecurity" in Firefox, that even with a master password, JavaScript from a plug-in can read my passwords through the DOM once I've accessed a site.
You explained it yourself. Freedom of the press was to prevent against government control. Nobody insured freedom of the press from commercial interests.
Most Dell computers in current use don't even need to be Turing-complete. Quite a few are acting as merely an "Internet appliance". A lot are being used as point-of-sale devices and are basically just a calculator with the paper tape replaced with a database connection. A bunch are used for nothing more than word processing and perhaps the occasional spreadsheet - neither of which really need Turing completeness to function.
So yes, for even the laxest possible definition of "work" for a computer, you can accomplish most of the work we tend to use them for.
Hey guys! Travoltus is a terrorist! It says so on the Internet right here! Can you still fly? Yeah, that's what I thought.
As far as the Niemoeller quote, I'd like to respond with another quote:
(10 points) In his early years he was a submarine captain in World War I, but decades later he became a pacifist, helping to produce the Stuttgart Confession of Guilt and winning the 1967 Lenin Peace Prize.
(5 points) People who like to complain a lot will often justify themselves with his lines, "I didn't speak up for the Jews because I wasn't a Jew... Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me."
They had a massive file on Einstein, who, e.g., belonged to "communist front" organizations like the the American Crusade to End Lynching.
Meh. Einstein still did what he was put on this Earth to do, never got sent to any torture sites, and in fact inspired a major government research program. Just saying "the FBI has a massive file on so-and-so" is just FUD, because unless you're somebody important they'll never bother to use it, and even for imporant people like Einstein they never did.
The moron facing a monopoly market. It's not like you can just go to SourceForge and download a driver for some highly specialized scientific equipment that costs thousands of dollars that no OSS developer knows how to use....
I would find heuristic analysis annoying. I'd get quite annoyed if the program says "fix this buffer overflow" 1000 times because I use "strcpy" somewhere - even though I'm very careful and only use it when I know it can't overflow.
On your own private programs, maybe. On public OSS programs where God-knows-who is patching and forking your code, how do you know someone isn't changing your input strings, or even copy/pasting your code to somewhere where you don't have those guarantees?
If Coverity can't tell that you instituted these checks and balances, neither can Joe Patcher.
If I understand you, the NSA has a 21 million dollar electricity budget, Someone else said that.
the funding to put people through college just for a "few years" of labor down the road, Every summer plus 1.5 times the length of study they paid for. The main reason I didn't take them up is that I'd rather not have all my work kept secret for the first 8 or so years of my career (because I am planning to go straight to grad school).
but an airline ticket would bust the budget and bye bye education program due to a lack of a couple hundred bucks? It's entirely possible that they wouldn't be willing to pay for transportation if they were in a remote mountaintop in Alaska. However, not even counting this program, imagine all the people, facilities, equipment, everything that'd have to be set up in Alaska.
Besides, a) they're out of touch with the world and b) it's difficult to move anything secretly to Alaska without people noticing. If you want to tap the nation's Internet or phone connections, Virginia is the perfect place. Dragging heavy Internet tubing halfway up a mountain would be rather suspicious.
Imagine a world where you could surf the net from work, and see what your wife was doing at home and what your children were learning at school - knowing all that time that your children and your wife can see what you are doing at work.
This is certainly a fascinating thought-experiment: would this lead to a world much freer of corruption and cheating, or much more accepting of it?
(Or would there be a difference, if what we call "corruption" today is accepted in this world?)
It's like doing the same thing on a restroom stall. "For a good time, call 202-555-3988" will probably get passed over as graffiti, but a large block of cryptic-looking numbers looks unusual enough to attract attention.
You're a genius. Don't worry about Craigslist...train the girls to memorize your encrypted numbers. They'll recite them if you ask. And if government officials start calling the girls...instant scandal! They're forced out of office, and they can't tap your conversation any more. (And anyway all they got was a limited amount of cryptotext.)
Because this isn't about being practical. This is about jobs for the families of our elite.
The who what? This is the NSA. Elite mathematicians, maybe. The aristocrats themselves are in DC and the immediate suburbs. Not Fort Meade.
The NSA encouraged me to apply for a scholarship from the NSA contingent on working there for a few years after college. I'm not "elite" by any social, cultural standards (perhaps academic, but definitely not social).
However, they certainly wouldn't have this scholarship program if someone (either the government or the poor students who are looking for scholarships) had to pay for airfare to a mountain in Alaska. There are plenty of reasons for building a facility in a reasonable place, and most of them do not involve nepotism.
Try hard they may, but they have failed to negatively affect the marketshare and mindshare of Open Source products and the philosophy behind it. The day is not far off when Apple and MS are quoted below $1. On that day, the victory will be complete.
Dude. You sound like some weird open-source John Galt. "He stepped to the window and pointed to the skyscrapers of the city. He said that we had to extinguish the lights of the world, and when we would see the lights of New York go out, we would know that our job was done."
Atlas merely shrugged. He didn't toss the world down and stomp on it.
But why not give the public a better pathway into understanding the meaning of this find by showing us the money? Would it really kill them? Maybe we, the public, can appreciate the inherent value of even some obscure, boring-sounding passages?
"Teacher, when will we ever use this? What's the use of knowing ancient Greek?"
And that's why they don't bother to force-feed the "public" to the level of those who study on their own and become scientists.
Oh, as for your original question? Perhaps it takes some time to verify the reading and authorship, and then more time to ensure the translation is accurate. It's not like anyone speaks ancient Greek natively.
Slashdot Mirror
"Somewhere between 12 year old girls and dead people" lies a dark secret.
This Fall.
These lawyers sue second...
First they kill.
TORRENT OF DEATH
From Sony Pictures. Coming to a cartel theater near you.
Shut up. SHUT UP!!!!
Have you not heard Goebbels? Repeat a lie enough times and it will become truth. He implied that the repeater knows its a lie, so you can't say that you're only making parody. The more that meme spreads, the more likely people are to be subconsciously used to it if it becomes close to truth. (And NO it's not true right now. We still have quite a few civil liberties.)
You want more civil liberties? Act like you have more than the law technically allows. Run protests without seeking a permit for assembly. Carry small self-defense knives on your person. Stretch fair use as much as you can. Explain to fellow citizens using logic why your action is permissible, and the average policeman won't know that the legislature passed laws more stringent than the community believes appropriate.
On the other hand, if you start repeating your vile phrase, how can even you help believing it? You won't have the guts to stand up to someone and say "Very funny. Fourth amendment. Come back with a warrant and probable cause. Kthxbye." You'll believe that they do have the ability to search you freely.
(USAPATRIOT Act, USASCHMATRIOT Act. They haven't read it either. If you act like you know what you're talking about, they'll be forced to doubt that the law actually gives them these provisions - especially if you're quoting the constitution.)
That doesn't look all that hard (famous last words, but still) if you use recursion. Although my solution wins no points for efficiency, here's the pseudocode.
... ...
int solutions = 0
array target =
matrix maze =
procedure step (int distance, coord position)
if target.length = distance
solutions++
return
next_letter = target[distance + 1]
foreach direction in {N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W, NW}
if maze[position + direction] = next_letter
step(distance + 1, position + direction)
end procedure
foreach letter in maze
if target[0] = letter
step(0, location of letter)
step() will never test the same path twice, and recursion will take care of the nastiness of backtracking. As I said, it wins no points for efficiency. There's a lot of space and time overhead.
Yes, Perl code would have a better chance, because there's a part of the competition where you can challenge other people's solutions - and everyone's gonna challenge the other languages before they try to read Perl.
Perl is job security through obscurity.
If my device was stolen, I'd be more worried about the immediate disclosure of my password, as it could be used to get my private key and someone could pretend they were me, or get into my home computer over ssh where they'd have access to my entire photo collection and data like my MSN details.
I personally feel the thief would be a lot more likely to sell it on the black market (perhaps after reformatting it so it's easier to fence the phone). I doubt anyone who gets the phone would say "Hey, let me look at what MIDlets he has. Ooh, here's an SSH app. And he's got his password saved. Let me log in and make a private key using his account so I can mess with his computer and scp his personal data later."
Seriously. If you think anyone who knows what a "private key" is will steal your phone, you should be proud to live in an area with such technologically-literate thieves. (Pirates of Silicon Valley, perhaps?)
This means, if it works right you could use your cell phone to make voip calls via your home wifi connection (or your neighbor's). I don't get it... This just makes sense. Why would the phone companies cooperate?
A) So what? WiFi isn't quite as prevalent as EDGE. EDGE can definitely handle VoIP, and the phone providers get some money (usually not quite as much as airtime, but still) for an EDGE subscription.
B) The T-Mobile SDA/MDA are quite capable of running Skype. The salesman told me so himself (well, whispered after checking there were no other salesmen in the room). Quality is...acceptable, and if I weren't too pansy to overclock my phone it would work just like desktop Skype. And it'd work over either WiFi or EDGE. (In fact I never bothered with an EDGE subscription since I've got WiFi at home and on campus. T-Mobile still sold the phone to me.)
Um. I know of (friend of a friend) a guy with the personal first name Mehdi, a variant spelling of Mahdi - and he's in high school. So I suppose it could just be another name or something. If you were Ahmadinejad would you use the conventional form of your name in your DNS registration? (Hence the broken last name.)
Or perhaps it's a family member.
This article is more or less obvious. A lot of programs for mobile devices aren't designed with security in mind. For some - like the handful of FTP clients listed - the password is insecure anyway, so it doesn't make sense to encrypt it. For many others, like the SSH client on my phone, even if you did encrypt the data, anyone who stole my phone would be able to log in to my account - after all, that's the point of saving the password.
My device is relatively expensive and is a smartphone, so if anyone stole it I'd be far more worried about them receiving the monetary value of my device and unfettered access to my phone account than about my passwords (which I could change from a PC anyway). I have my university account password saved, but I use SSH and encrypted IMAP to access these services so there isn't any significant risk so long as I possess the device.
People who use services like Remote Keyboard that don't ask for a login on the PC should expect that this service is unencrypted and unauthenticated. Similarly, people who use ActiveSync over the network should anticipate that if they haven't just plugged in their device, any password prompt must be spoofed.
I can write a similar article about a "vulnerability" in Facebook: I received 5 e-mails yesterday asking me to confirm account creation. I've had an account for over a year now, so I knew these requests weren't legitimate. Had I clicked on the verification links, I would've surrendered to this attacker my Facebook identity (they'd've had a blank profile under my e-mail address), but I'm smart enough not to. Or perhaps someone can submit an "insecurity" in Firefox, that even with a master password, JavaScript from a plug-in can read my passwords through the DOM once I've accessed a site.
You explained it yourself. Freedom of the press was to prevent against government control. Nobody insured freedom of the press from commercial interests.
Most Dell computers in current use don't even need to be Turing-complete. Quite a few are acting as merely an "Internet appliance". A lot are being used as point-of-sale devices and are basically just a calculator with the paper tape replaced with a database connection. A bunch are used for nothing more than word processing and perhaps the occasional spreadsheet - neither of which really need Turing completeness to function.
So yes, for even the laxest possible definition of "work" for a computer, you can accomplish most of the work we tend to use them for.
So Firefox is the only decent web browser? Wow. Seems like Leto II was right. All liberals are really just closet aristocrats.
Can you still fly? Yeah, that's what I thought.
As far as the Niemoeller quote, I'd like to respond with another quote:
-Chris Frankel, this quiz bowl packet
They had a massive file on Einstein, who, e.g., belonged to "communist front" organizations like the the American Crusade to End Lynching.
Meh. Einstein still did what he was put on this Earth to do, never got sent to any torture sites, and in fact inspired a major government research program. Just saying "the FBI has a massive file on so-and-so" is just FUD, because unless you're somebody important they'll never bother to use it, and even for imporant people like Einstein they never did.
The moron facing a monopoly market. It's not like you can just go to SourceForge and download a driver for some highly specialized scientific equipment that costs thousands of dollars that no OSS developer knows how to use....
It's to ask instead, "what can we do to make them understand that trying to kill us doesn't work as a strategy."
I suppose a proof by contradiction is out of the question.
On your own private programs, maybe. On public OSS programs where God-knows-who is patching and forking your code, how do you know someone isn't changing your input strings, or even copy/pasting your code to somewhere where you don't have those guarantees?
If Coverity can't tell that you instituted these checks and balances, neither can Joe Patcher.
Unfortunately for them, governments that base their rule on strong-ARM policies tend not to do well....
If I understand you, the NSA has a 21 million dollar electricity budget,
Someone else said that.
the funding to put people through college just for a "few years" of labor down the road,
Every summer plus 1.5 times the length of study they paid for. The main reason I didn't take them up is that I'd rather not have all my work kept secret for the first 8 or so years of my career (because I am planning to go straight to grad school).
but an airline ticket would bust the budget and bye bye education program due to a lack of a couple hundred bucks?
It's entirely possible that they wouldn't be willing to pay for transportation if they were in a remote mountaintop in Alaska. However, not even counting this program, imagine all the people, facilities, equipment, everything that'd have to be set up in Alaska.
Besides, a) they're out of touch with the world and b) it's difficult to move anything secretly to Alaska without people noticing. If you want to tap the nation's Internet or phone connections, Virginia is the perfect place. Dragging heavy Internet tubing halfway up a mountain would be rather suspicious.
Imagine a world where you could surf the net from work, and see what your wife was doing at home and what your children were learning at school - knowing all that time that your children and your wife can see what you are doing at work.
This is certainly a fascinating thought-experiment: would this lead to a world much freer of corruption and cheating, or much more accepting of it?
(Or would there be a difference, if what we call "corruption" today is accepted in this world?)
Because this isn't about being practical. This is about jobs for the families of our elite.
The who what? This is the NSA. Elite mathematicians, maybe. The aristocrats themselves are in DC and the immediate suburbs. Not Fort Meade.
The NSA encouraged me to apply for a scholarship from the NSA contingent on working there for a few years after college. I'm not "elite" by any social, cultural standards (perhaps academic, but definitely not social).
However, they certainly wouldn't have this scholarship program if someone (either the government or the poor students who are looking for scholarships) had to pay for airfare to a mountain in Alaska. There are plenty of reasons for building a facility in a reasonable place, and most of them do not involve nepotism.
No, no, no, you have it all backwards. Deprogramming is the Boohbahs. We use Barney for desensitizing kids to public schools.
And now I know why V for Vendetta was set in the UK.
Dude. You sound like some weird open-source John Galt. "He stepped to the window and pointed to the skyscrapers of the city. He said that we had to extinguish the lights of the world, and when we would see the lights of New York go out, we would know that our job was done."
Atlas merely shrugged. He didn't toss the world down and stomp on it.
But why not give the public a better pathway into understanding the meaning of this find by showing us the money? Would it really kill them? Maybe we, the public, can appreciate the inherent value of even some obscure, boring-sounding passages?
"Teacher, when will we ever use this? What's the use of knowing ancient Greek?"
And that's why they don't bother to force-feed the "public" to the level of those who study on their own and become scientists.
Oh, as for your original question? Perhaps it takes some time to verify the reading and authorship, and then more time to ensure the translation is accurate. It's not like anyone speaks ancient Greek natively.