You're parsing it in an unintended way. He means to always bring a gun to check in luggage, not that you should opt to check a gun that you always have with you. A subtle, but important distinction.
The Tesla network. She was probably one of Tesla's lab assistants and went out to laugh at the primitive other people with their "moving pictures" while she was busy researching holographic projection and advanced wireless technology. Unfortunately the CIA burned down the lab while she was out and about, and she herself had to destroy the phone prototype before she got caught. Ultimately, she goes on to control the satellite systems of the world using her advanced knowledge of nanotechnology and self-replicating nanobots.
What I don't get is why someone would spend $150 on a calculator when you could get a netbook with a gig of RAM and 180 gigs of drive space with a dual core processor for the price of two of them. Kubuntu comes with a scientific calculator, and it's a free OS you can replace Windows with or install dual-boot.
I just don't know why anyone would buy a calculator, period.
Because in high school they still won't let you use a netbook on tests.
64bit should be FOR ALL though since IIRC you can assign a database index to every atom in the universe from a 64bit index.
Not quite.
2^64 = 1.84 * 10^19
Atoms in the earth approx. = 8.87*10^49
Even IPv6 (128 bits) lacks the ability to address all atoms in the earth by about 11 orders of magnitude. The lower bound estimate for atoms in the observable universe is 3*10^79 which would require just over 256-bits (approx. 6*10^76) to address properly, and since it's a lower bound I think 512-bit addressing would more than likely suffice (approx. 1.2*10^153 addresses) for the observable universe.
In other words, IPv6 will be fine until we start expanding across the galaxy (and develop FTL communications and travel). Then we'll get into planet-wide NATs to stem the bridge until IPv8 can come out with its 512-bit address scheme.
What's really funny is that it's basically a picture of a spacesuit. There's nothing really personally identifiable about that. It would be like if you took a picture of a cardboard box and then later found out someone was inside it at the time and they're suing you for displaying a pictures of "them in a box" - it makes no sense.
On the other hand, if it was a picture of him out in deep space without a spacesuit then I suppose the lawsuit would've been the least of his worries.
The simple solution here is to have the encrypting program brick your laptop after 5 or so failed attempts. The police will probably brick it themselves long before you're asked to give up the key.
I have to appreciate that 20 years ago the same amount of data would have elicited a response more like "8G of data? What on earth are they storing that would require that much?!?"
According to the team's calculations, 300 meters (984 feet) of copper wire, attached to a two-meter-wide (6.6-foot-wide) receiver and a 10-meter (32.8-foot) sail, would generate enough power for 1,000 homes.
So why would we build one sail, which would be a target and fought over by countries and an untold number of businesses when you could run up a bunch of smaller sails?
There wouldn't be any countries left to fight over our one sail after we death ray them with more energy than the earth currently uses.
There's something to be said for your IT staff having the ability to remote wipe and lock any Blackberry handheld owned by your company in case of security breach. Plus, it's a simple matter to poke one hole in your firewall and proxy out your device e-mail stuff through RIM's servers vs. having to deal with everything that Exchange needs to live life as an edge device to allow other types of handhelds access to your e-mail system. Security and convenience of management-wise, RIM is a no brainer for enterprise use.
Better ban talking to people in the car with you as well.
At least on this one the person you are talking to would be in the same situation with you and have the sense to STFU if the conditions were bad for having a conversation (presumably in part because it's their butt at risk too). A person on the other end of the phone has no idea what your road conditions are like.
Ah, but he's a freshwater aquatic creature. I bet saltwater would satisfactorily burn him in a horrendous, tortuous death that his abomination of a character deserves.
ought to immediately be canned, stripped to their underwear, and unceremoniously thrown into the street
You're doing it wrong! If you fire them first, you don't get to coerce them to strip THEMSELVES down to their underwear and throw THEMSELVES into the street in vain attempts to save their jobs, then laugh at them when you tell them they're still fired.
SOund Navigation And Ranging (SONAR) would always be inappropriate from space. RAdio Detection And Ranging (RADAR) would make sense 10 months out of the year for the Pacific Northwest.
Did we learn NOTHING from the Bay of Pigs, Nicaragua, the equipping of the Mujaheddin with weapons, etc... ?
I don't know. While it was pretty hardcore (and *seriously* questionable ethically, morally, and by Geneva Conventions) Operation Phoenix in Vietnam was pretty effective. Brutal, but effective.
On the other hand, most of these legacy systems have pretty good physical security and no physical way to be connected to the internet. So...hacking exploits aren't as likely to find their way in from any kind of automated vector. Employee/insider exploits are equally dangerous for such systems as they would be for any Uber-Mega-Super Secure Lockdown System 4000 - because if you have the passwords to it, you're getting in anyway.
I wouldn't say that. Running along, healthy as a horse then suddenly keeling over at age 80ish seems a pretty good way to go. Lingering deaths pretty much universally suck, but there are ways to die (naturally) that are quick, relatively painless, and don't cause long-term stress and suffering for those that love you.
Because if he wasn't working on this there's no guarantee that his efforts would have been directed towards anything you consider "more productive". Research in the real world is not like research in Civilization V, if you put a stop to one kind of research it doesn't magically increase research in other areas.
If the stenographic data is added after compression it can still be detected. It is likely the encoder that created them left a unique "fingerprint" in the way it encoded the files. Any deviation from this fingerprint between multiple parts of the same file will tell a determined adversary that there is stenographic data hidden in them.
As someone who's written programs to do compression of video/audio/images I will say that any relevant "fingerprint" information is going to be in the headers of compressed media files. If you're overwriting headers trying to hide data then you're doing it wrong. Stomping the low order bits of a compressed stream is very much viable and has a similar effect on an image as it would overwriting the low-order bits of an uncompressed bitmap or AVI - negligible to the eye and practically indistinguishable from random noise.
If you do it right, it is imminently possible to hide files in lossy compressed video/audio/images, as long as you avoid headers and sections of the file defining the highest order bits. This requires knowledge of the format and an understanding of the impact of bits in the compressed stream (to avoid the most visually important ones), but it is very, very doable without leaving a meaningful trace.
To avoid the source being known, you ought to use pictures you've taken yourself. There's no meaningful way to compute PSNR without the source as a reference. MP3's are vulnerable to this kind of analysis because typically one can get the original CD to compare with, or an uncorrupted iTunes file.
As to hiding data in complex file formats, it's reasonably straightforward if you are very familiar with the file format and the mechanics is uses to compress the material. Stomping the ends of an MP3 packet would have less impact overall because headers would be intact and only low order bits would be corrupted leading to minor degradation in sound quality.
I personally wrote a steganography program that hid data in JPEG-2000 files by distributing data to the tail ends of low order packets. Even overwriting half of a high quality file (intelligently) only degraded the PSNR by 10 points or so. It wasn't immediately obvious to the human eye until you started to hit around 3/4 of the original file size.
Well, the Unix trademark is owned by The Open Group. You can't call your OS Unix without going through them. The argument SCO was trying to make was that AT&T sold the original Unix source tree copyrights to Novell (which did happen - Novell paid ~$300 million for it), but that then Novell turned around and sold the copyrights to SCO (which did *not* happen - the deal with SCO was for ~$50 million about 2-3 years after the AT&T deal). Instead, SCO actually bought rights to develop and market their own version of Unix (called Unixware) and access to a number of distribution channels, plus kickbacks for collecting Unix licensing revenues for Novell (SCO got 5% as an administrative fee).
Of course, everything was cool until about 8 years after the original agreement, after the company changed hands about 3 times and new management took over. At which point Darl McBride and company started jumping up and down screaming "WE OWN UNIX!!" and suing/threatening to sue everyone and their mother. The nonsensical litigation dragged on for these past 7 years, with IBM and Novell being the primary players (Novell has judgments in their favor declaring that they do, in fact, own the Unix copyrights - SCO is appealing, naturally).
At this point in our sad, sad story, SCO is in chapter 11 bankruptcy (and has been for over three years) with a trustee now running things. Because the lawyers are pre-paid through all litigation and appeals, it looks good on paper to continue the litigation lottery in hopes of getting some settlement to shut up. Of course, IBM has a point to prove, and the Unix copyrights are worth too much to Novell to suffer an adverse judgment, so SCO will get nothing there.
Anyway, with that backstory told, my point is that the bankruptcy judge hasn't enjoined them from anything, in fact he's approved the terms of the auction. So there is no legal hurdle to prevent them from doing this. Though it is definitely a case of "caveat emptor" because the buyer may end up with a whole lot of nothing when all is said and done.
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You're parsing it in an unintended way. He means to always bring a gun to check in luggage, not that you should opt to check a gun that you always have with you. A subtle, but important distinction.
The Tesla network. She was probably one of Tesla's lab assistants and went out to laugh at the primitive other people with their "moving pictures" while she was busy researching holographic projection and advanced wireless technology. Unfortunately the CIA burned down the lab while she was out and about, and she herself had to destroy the phone prototype before she got caught. Ultimately, she goes on to control the satellite systems of the world using her advanced knowledge of nanotechnology and self-replicating nanobots.
The world is in good hands.
What I don't get is why someone would spend $150 on a calculator when you could get a netbook with a gig of RAM and 180 gigs of drive space with a dual core processor for the price of two of them. Kubuntu comes with a scientific calculator, and it's a free OS you can replace Windows with or install dual-boot.
I just don't know why anyone would buy a calculator, period.
Because in high school they still won't let you use a netbook on tests.
With built-in GPS (with easy law enforcement override if you shut it off)
I'll be impressed when there's a law enforcement override for removing the freaking battery.
64bit should be FOR ALL though since IIRC you can assign a database index to every atom in the universe from a 64bit index.
Not quite.
2^64 = 1.84 * 10^19
Atoms in the earth approx. = 8.87*10^49
Even IPv6 (128 bits) lacks the ability to address all atoms in the earth by about 11 orders of magnitude. The lower bound estimate for atoms in the observable universe is 3*10^79 which would require just over 256-bits (approx. 6*10^76) to address properly, and since it's a lower bound I think 512-bit addressing would more than likely suffice (approx. 1.2*10^153 addresses) for the observable universe.
In other words, IPv6 will be fine until we start expanding across the galaxy (and develop FTL communications and travel). Then we'll get into planet-wide NATs to stem the bridge until IPv8 can come out with its 512-bit address scheme.
And now that you have quoted it, you may want to check under your car for an expensive electronic tracking device...
What's really funny is that it's basically a picture of a spacesuit. There's nothing really personally identifiable about that. It would be like if you took a picture of a cardboard box and then later found out someone was inside it at the time and they're suing you for displaying a pictures of "them in a box" - it makes no sense.
On the other hand, if it was a picture of him out in deep space without a spacesuit then I suppose the lawsuit would've been the least of his worries.
The simple solution here is to have the encrypting program brick your laptop after 5 or so failed attempts. The police will probably brick it themselves long before you're asked to give up the key.
Also... only 8G of data? That's it?
I have to appreciate that 20 years ago the same amount of data would have elicited a response more like "8G of data? What on earth are they storing that would require that much?!?"
This is what got me:
According to the team's calculations, 300 meters (984 feet) of copper wire, attached to a two-meter-wide (6.6-foot-wide) receiver and a 10-meter (32.8-foot) sail, would generate enough power for 1,000 homes.
So why would we build one sail, which would be a target and fought over by countries and an untold number of businesses when you could run up a bunch of smaller sails?
There wouldn't be any countries left to fight over our one sail after we death ray them with more energy than the earth currently uses.
This is more than galaxies: this is about clusters of galaxies. Slightly bigger scale...
But what's a few orders of magnitude between friends?
There's something to be said for your IT staff having the ability to remote wipe and lock any Blackberry handheld owned by your company in case of security breach. Plus, it's a simple matter to poke one hole in your firewall and proxy out your device e-mail stuff through RIM's servers vs. having to deal with everything that Exchange needs to live life as an edge device to allow other types of handhelds access to your e-mail system. Security and convenience of management-wise, RIM is a no brainer for enterprise use.
Better ban talking to people in the car with you as well.
At least on this one the person you are talking to would be in the same situation with you and have the sense to STFU if the conditions were bad for having a conversation (presumably in part because it's their butt at risk too). A person on the other end of the phone has no idea what your road conditions are like.
Ah, but he's a freshwater aquatic creature. I bet saltwater would satisfactorily burn him in a horrendous, tortuous death that his abomination of a character deserves.
ought to immediately be canned, stripped to their underwear, and unceremoniously thrown into the street
You're doing it wrong! If you fire them first, you don't get to coerce them to strip THEMSELVES down to their underwear and throw THEMSELVES into the street in vain attempts to save their jobs, then laugh at them when you tell them they're still fired.
I hate being the slowest sociopath.
SOund Navigation And Ranging (SONAR) would always be inappropriate from space. RAdio Detection And Ranging (RADAR) would make sense 10 months out of the year for the Pacific Northwest.
Did we learn NOTHING from the Bay of Pigs, Nicaragua, the equipping of the Mujaheddin with weapons, etc... ?
I don't know. While it was pretty hardcore (and *seriously* questionable ethically, morally, and by Geneva Conventions) Operation Phoenix in Vietnam was pretty effective. Brutal, but effective.
On the other hand, most of these legacy systems have pretty good physical security and no physical way to be connected to the internet. So...hacking exploits aren't as likely to find their way in from any kind of automated vector. Employee/insider exploits are equally dangerous for such systems as they would be for any Uber-Mega-Super Secure Lockdown System 4000 - because if you have the passwords to it, you're getting in anyway.
There are no good ways to die,
I wouldn't say that. Running along, healthy as a horse then suddenly keeling over at age 80ish seems a pretty good way to go. Lingering deaths pretty much universally suck, but there are ways to die (naturally) that are quick, relatively painless, and don't cause long-term stress and suffering for those that love you.
Because if he wasn't working on this there's no guarantee that his efforts would have been directed towards anything you consider "more productive". Research in the real world is not like research in Civilization V, if you put a stop to one kind of research it doesn't magically increase research in other areas.
If he was stashing it in the LSB's then he was using uncompressed BMP most likely. The first thing JPEG throws out is the LSB's for lossy compression.
If the stenographic data is added after compression it can still be detected. It is likely the encoder that created them left a unique "fingerprint" in the way it encoded the files. Any deviation from this fingerprint between multiple parts of the same file will tell a determined adversary that there is stenographic data hidden in them.
As someone who's written programs to do compression of video/audio/images I will say that any relevant "fingerprint" information is going to be in the headers of compressed media files. If you're overwriting headers trying to hide data then you're doing it wrong. Stomping the low order bits of a compressed stream is very much viable and has a similar effect on an image as it would overwriting the low-order bits of an uncompressed bitmap or AVI - negligible to the eye and practically indistinguishable from random noise.
If you do it right, it is imminently possible to hide files in lossy compressed video/audio/images, as long as you avoid headers and sections of the file defining the highest order bits. This requires knowledge of the format and an understanding of the impact of bits in the compressed stream (to avoid the most visually important ones), but it is very, very doable without leaving a meaningful trace.
To avoid the source being known, you ought to use pictures you've taken yourself. There's no meaningful way to compute PSNR without the source as a reference. MP3's are vulnerable to this kind of analysis because typically one can get the original CD to compare with, or an uncorrupted iTunes file.
As to hiding data in complex file formats, it's reasonably straightforward if you are very familiar with the file format and the mechanics is uses to compress the material. Stomping the ends of an MP3 packet would have less impact overall because headers would be intact and only low order bits would be corrupted leading to minor degradation in sound quality.
I personally wrote a steganography program that hid data in JPEG-2000 files by distributing data to the tail ends of low order packets. Even overwriting half of a high quality file (intelligently) only degraded the PSNR by 10 points or so. It wasn't immediately obvious to the human eye until you started to hit around 3/4 of the original file size.
Presumably, before they land, they would notice that our planet is 75% COVERED BY WATER.
Well, the Unix trademark is owned by The Open Group. You can't call your OS Unix without going through them. The argument SCO was trying to make was that AT&T sold the original Unix source tree copyrights to Novell (which did happen - Novell paid ~$300 million for it), but that then Novell turned around and sold the copyrights to SCO (which did *not* happen - the deal with SCO was for ~$50 million about 2-3 years after the AT&T deal). Instead, SCO actually bought rights to develop and market their own version of Unix (called Unixware) and access to a number of distribution channels, plus kickbacks for collecting Unix licensing revenues for Novell (SCO got 5% as an administrative fee).
Of course, everything was cool until about 8 years after the original agreement, after the company changed hands about 3 times and new management took over. At which point Darl McBride and company started jumping up and down screaming "WE OWN UNIX!!" and suing/threatening to sue everyone and their mother. The nonsensical litigation dragged on for these past 7 years, with IBM and Novell being the primary players (Novell has judgments in their favor declaring that they do, in fact, own the Unix copyrights - SCO is appealing, naturally).
At this point in our sad, sad story, SCO is in chapter 11 bankruptcy (and has been for over three years) with a trustee now running things. Because the lawyers are pre-paid through all litigation and appeals, it looks good on paper to continue the litigation lottery in hopes of getting some settlement to shut up. Of course, IBM has a point to prove, and the Unix copyrights are worth too much to Novell to suffer an adverse judgment, so SCO will get nothing there.
Anyway, with that backstory told, my point is that the bankruptcy judge hasn't enjoined them from anything, in fact he's approved the terms of the auction. So there is no legal hurdle to prevent them from doing this. Though it is definitely a case of "caveat emptor" because the buyer may end up with a whole lot of nothing when all is said and done.