So if they are basically capable of MITM on any HTTPS connection, what if you use a secure site to do health-care related stuff (HIPAA?). What about sexual harassment reporting? Since they can see your banking password and others, what kind of liability have they exposed themselves to?
I wouldn't work at a place that did this, but then again, if I were in IT at a company like this, I wouldn't want to assume the risks of watching all secure traffic.
1. That GPG developers and users have ignored the well-known problem (in security circles) of the Birthday Paradox?
- or - 2. That there are > ~45k GPG users such that this even is more likely than not to occur.;)
Seriously though, a 1 in 65536 chance of a collision doesn't seem acceptable to me.
So much for a congressional focus on improving the unemployment rate. This bill ostensibly encourages companies to exploit existing employees more before hiring new people.
According to this (see the section called "Fuel cycle concerns"), because there is no need to refine the Thorium fuel, which is the stage where the nuclear power companies currently make their money, they would need to change their business model to cope. We all know how much companies like to do that.
So, you combine the politicians' lack of desire to risk being associated with nuclear power, and the entrenched industry's lack of interest in the business model, and it's suddenly easy to explain.
In fact, I would say I learned the most about SSL by Moxie Marlinspike's slides than I learned anywhere else, combined with knowledge accumulated over the years.
Wow, you should Paypal him a donation for helping educate you... oh wait...
To any familiar with this company or this line of research in general:
What are the advantages of the ornithopter design over a traditional helicopter design? Why is DARPA interested?
Yes, I did read the article... and I understand what DARPA is interested in getting out of a small UAV that can hover. What I don't understand is why a normal helicopter design couldn't suit all of these needs better and cheaper.
Regardless of the answer, it's a very cool project. Obviously very worthwhile just from the point-of-view of the scientific and engineering advances.
What kind of processor/vid card did you end up needing for the LITE-ON to work well without skipping?
I'm thinking about going this way and I'm trying to figure out if I'm going to need better hardware. (I have a nice C2D desktop machine, but I don't want to turn it into the HTPC unless I have to.)
This may be the route I take if I find the right place. Unfortunately, there are goons here (in Salt Lake City, UT) worse than Dell. One sleazy outfit called Totally Awesome Computers is at the top of that list.
Surely there must be an online place with reasonably good support that doesn't cripple their products at the whim of the MAFIAA?
I do promote FOSS generally, but most of the people I know just stick with Windows.
However, that's not even a concern here since we're talking about buying a PC, not just the software. Whether it's installing Linux or using some different Windows drivers that skirt around Dell's stupidity, I'm sure I could get around the actual limitations.
But I don't want to give Dell any more money. I would much rather send business to a company that puts their customer before the RIAA thugs.
Good point. However I'd still argue that this is a secondary effect, because that revenue is going to end up being proportional to the direct consumer revenue.
"Anyway, does anyone have suggestions of good places to get pre-built PCs without supporting this kind of anti-consumer behavior?"
I hate to be "that guy" but, maybe Apple? I haven't ever tried on my Mini so I don't know if there is a way to record the mixer output.
I should have mentioned that Apple isn't a viable choice. Not that there's anything wrong with that! It's just that it seems like all of my family are accustomed to PCs (although they call me when things go wrong...)
I hate the idea of giving companies like this any more business, at least until they become very repentant and remember their one and only source of revenue.
That said, I frequently get asked by relatives to recommend a computer they should buy. I've been in the habit of recommending Dell because they seem to be well built and inexpensive. I build all of my own because they are generally gaming machines, but it's just not worth it to build (and support to some degree) a PC for everyone that asks. And besides, I find that it's hard to beat the Dell deals any more unless you're building something special like a high-end gaming box.
Anyway, does anyone have suggestions of good places to get pre-built PCs without supporting this kind of anti-consumer behavior?
Seems to me like most of the point of citizenship is to vote. I'm a bit disgusted with the guy too, but spending public funds to prosecute and incarcerate him? First, it's wasteful and pointless, and second, it's excessive and lacks common sense when there's an obvious solution.
Why don't we just revoke the citizenship of anyone who attempts to sell their vote? Holding them against their will for five years seems excessive and mean, but it makes sense to me to take away the privileges of citizenship from those who disdain them.
LinkedIn asks me if I want to "connect" to certain people that I know for sure my only contact with them has been through mail on my gmail account. LinkedIn *can* mine your gmail account for you if you provide your account info to them, but I certainly never used that feature, so it was a bit alarming to see all of my gmail contacts showing up.
Personally, I don't care if they are not the only ones to do it. They shouldn't be giving out our personal info. I did expect them to use my info to provide context-sensitive ads, but I did not expect them to share my info with other companies without my explicit permission.
Not to mention, if you and I both saw it on sites that ostensibly have no relationship with google, it's possible that anyone that can hook to their Soap API can get your contact list.
Getting to deep tissue may not be a big problem. Aren't most virii found in the bloodstream? If so, and if this works out, couldn't you hook a patient to a dialysis-like machine where the blood leaves the body, is treated, and is readmitted? Then the patient sits around for an hour and bingo, no more AIDS.
Of course, I'm just a computer guy, we'd need an appropriate expert to say whether or not that's practical. And the laser treatment may not pan out anyway, but it sounds very cool.
It seems like if he build a simple lightweight fan cage, he'd probably solve most of the problems with unhappy police or others. It also could save him money and trouble if he ever tips over, cuts a corner too close, hits a bird, etc. I'm sure fiberglass over foam wouldn't hold up too well to a sudden interruption.
That said, it's still pretty cool. I wonder how it compares to normal bicycle drive for efficiency.
Take that, you Canadian pinkos. We will no longer advertise our products to you! When you come crawling back to us begging for mercy (e.g. with more onerous "anti-piracy" legislation), then we will perhaps reconsider!
Seriously though, this reminds me of when I was receiving an unsolicited magazine/catalog in the mail. It kept coming every month for several months. Finally, one of them showed up with a sticker that said "If you don't order something, this may be the last catalog you receive! Don't take that chance!" My wife thought it was so funny she stuck it on the fridge, where it still sits. They weren't kidding though, the catalog really stopped coming.:)
This is the first RIAA-produced album I'm considering breaking my boycott for. First, because it's very good, and secondly, because even if they may get some profit from it, the message to them should be very clear.
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So if they are basically capable of MITM on any HTTPS connection, what if you use a secure site to do health-care related stuff (HIPAA?). What about sexual harassment reporting? Since they can see your banking password and others, what kind of liability have they exposed themselves to?
I wouldn't work at a place that did this, but then again, if I were in IT at a company like this, I wouldn't want to assume the risks of watching all secure traffic.
Wait, how many schoolchildren?
And now we can finally hear what this sounds like!
Which surprises you most?
1. That GPG developers and users have ignored the well-known problem (in security circles) of the Birthday Paradox? ;)
- or -
2. That there are > ~45k GPG users such that this even is more likely than not to occur.
Seriously though, a 1 in 65536 chance of a collision doesn't seem acceptable to me.
So much for a congressional focus on improving the unemployment rate. This bill ostensibly encourages companies to exploit existing employees more before hiring new people.
Well then clearly they have nothing to hide.
I remember the days when SEO didn't work very well with Google.
According to this (see the section called "Fuel cycle concerns"), because there is no need to refine the Thorium fuel, which is the stage where the nuclear power companies currently make their money, they would need to change their business model to cope. We all know how much companies like to do that.
So, you combine the politicians' lack of desire to risk being associated with nuclear power, and the entrenched industry's lack of interest in the business model, and it's suddenly easy to explain.
In fact, I would say I learned the most about SSL by Moxie Marlinspike's slides than I learned anywhere else, combined with knowledge accumulated over the years.
Wow, you should Paypal him a donation for helping educate you... oh wait...
If you don't shoot the bearers of bad news, people will keep bringing it to you.
Awesome. This is a quote I'm going to remember for a long time!
To any familiar with this company or this line of research in general:
What are the advantages of the ornithopter design over a traditional helicopter design? Why is DARPA interested?
Yes, I did read the article... and I understand what DARPA is interested in getting out of a small UAV that can hover. What I don't understand is why a normal helicopter design couldn't suit all of these needs better and cheaper.
Regardless of the answer, it's a very cool project. Obviously very worthwhile just from the point-of-view of the scientific and engineering advances.
Don't worry, I'm sure there is something about it buried in the 20 page license agreement.
Nope, sorry -unlike peanut butter and chocolate, downloads don't mix with bookshelves.
Interestingly, they can both be measured in the same units. (meaning Libraries of Congress, of course.)
What kind of processor/vid card did you end up needing for the LITE-ON to work well without skipping?
I'm thinking about going this way and I'm trying to figure out if I'm going to need better hardware. (I have a nice C2D desktop machine, but I don't want to turn it into the HTPC unless I have to.)
This may be the route I take if I find the right place. Unfortunately, there are goons here (in Salt Lake City, UT) worse than Dell. One sleazy outfit called Totally Awesome Computers is at the top of that list.
Surely there must be an online place with reasonably good support that doesn't cripple their products at the whim of the MAFIAA?
I do promote FOSS generally, but most of the people I know just stick with Windows.
However, that's not even a concern here since we're talking about buying a PC, not just the software. Whether it's installing Linux or using some different Windows drivers that skirt around Dell's stupidity, I'm sure I could get around the actual limitations.
But I don't want to give Dell any more money. I would much rather send business to a company that puts their customer before the RIAA thugs.
"one and only source of revenue."
Other than advertisers and crapware?
Good point. However I'd still argue that this is a secondary effect, because that revenue is going to end up being proportional to the direct consumer revenue.
"Anyway, does anyone have suggestions of good places to get pre-built PCs without supporting this kind of anti-consumer behavior?"
I hate to be "that guy" but, maybe Apple? I haven't ever tried on my Mini so I don't know if there is a way to record the mixer output.
I should have mentioned that Apple isn't a viable choice. Not that there's anything wrong with that! It's just that it seems like all of my family are accustomed to PCs (although they call me when things go wrong...)
I hate the idea of giving companies like this any more business, at least until they become very repentant and remember their one and only source of revenue.
That said, I frequently get asked by relatives to recommend a computer they should buy. I've been in the habit of recommending Dell because they seem to be well built and inexpensive. I build all of my own because they are generally gaming machines, but it's just not worth it to build (and support to some degree) a PC for everyone that asks. And besides, I find that it's hard to beat the Dell deals any more unless you're building something special like a high-end gaming box.
Anyway, does anyone have suggestions of good places to get pre-built PCs without supporting this kind of anti-consumer behavior?
Seems to me like most of the point of citizenship is to vote. I'm a bit disgusted with the guy too, but spending public funds to prosecute and incarcerate him? First, it's wasteful and pointless, and second, it's excessive and lacks common sense when there's an obvious solution.
Why don't we just revoke the citizenship of anyone who attempts to sell their vote? Holding them against their will for five years seems excessive and mean, but it makes sense to me to take away the privileges of citizenship from those who disdain them.
I had the same thing happen.
LinkedIn asks me if I want to "connect" to certain people that I know for sure my only contact with them has been through mail on my gmail account. LinkedIn *can* mine your gmail account for you if you provide your account info to them, but I certainly never used that feature, so it was a bit alarming to see all of my gmail contacts showing up.
Personally, I don't care if they are not the only ones to do it. They shouldn't be giving out our personal info. I did expect them to use my info to provide context-sensitive ads, but I did not expect them to share my info with other companies without my explicit permission.
Not to mention, if you and I both saw it on sites that ostensibly have no relationship with google, it's possible that anyone that can hook to their Soap API can get your contact list.
Getting to deep tissue may not be a big problem. Aren't most virii found in the bloodstream? If so, and if this works out, couldn't you hook a patient to a dialysis-like machine where the blood leaves the body, is treated, and is readmitted? Then the patient sits around for an hour and bingo, no more AIDS.
Of course, I'm just a computer guy, we'd need an appropriate expert to say whether or not that's practical. And the laser treatment may not pan out anyway, but it sounds very cool.
It seems like if he build a simple lightweight fan cage, he'd probably solve most of the problems with unhappy police or others. It also could save him money and trouble if he ever tips over, cuts a corner too close, hits a bird, etc. I'm sure fiberglass over foam wouldn't hold up too well to a sudden interruption.
That said, it's still pretty cool. I wonder how it compares to normal bicycle drive for efficiency.
Take that, you Canadian pinkos. We will no longer advertise our products to you! When you come crawling back to us begging for mercy (e.g. with more onerous "anti-piracy" legislation), then we will perhaps reconsider!
:)
Seriously though, this reminds me of when I was receiving an unsolicited magazine/catalog in the mail. It kept coming every month for several months. Finally, one of them showed up with a sticker that said "If you don't order something, this may be the last catalog you receive! Don't take that chance!" My wife thought it was so funny she stuck it on the fridge, where it still sits. They weren't kidding though, the catalog really stopped coming.
Ah, but is it a PROPER-FINAL release? Or is it just another tired beta leak from a group trying to get a reputation?
What do you think they'll make of this?
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Trent Reznor has put the full album up on the official website for promotional purposes.
http://yearzero.nin.com/
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This is the first RIAA-produced album I'm considering breaking my boycott for. First, because it's very good, and secondly, because even if they may get some profit from it, the message to them should be very clear.