-- Rightscorp ALLEGES copyright infringement (with little or no evidence to back up the assertion) -- Rightscorp notifies ISP, claiming airtight proof, when all they have is some tracker somewhere saying that your IP was part of a swarm at some (unverified) time. -- ISP tells user to knock it off -- User continues infringing (assuming they were, or not) and Rightscorp allegedly identifies it again. -- Rightscorp notifies ISP -- ISP tells Rightscorp to piss off with their unproven assertions with no evidence.
Yes -- it's a total shit-show from whatever angle you look at it. It seems designed to be as cruel and dehumanizing as possible while ensuring the maximum possible recidivism.
In North America our justice systems are not Data Driven, and they never will be -- they are Revenge Driven. If we were to be Data Driven, we would have a system like Norway -- where recidivism is dramatically lower than what we have here.
The only way to make such a thing happen here would be to persuade the prison industrial complex that it would be more profitable that way. Of course they believe the opposite is true -- lower recidivism would mean fewer prisoners, and that means lower profits.
Indeed they are key -- what they mean is that even if you can come up with an algorithm to prove a property for *all* existing programs, it is possible (and in practice usually *trivial*) to construct a program where that algorithm will provably fail. Remember hackers need only find one hole to siphon off your ether.
This system (or any currency for that matter) needs a mechanism for defining, detecting and reversing fraud, and unmasking those perpetrating it. You have to assume it's only a matter of "when", not "if" fraud will take place.
So long as the contract language used by Etherium is Turing-complete, they're pretty much doomed to having this sort of thing repeating. To their credit, they have mechanisms to, through community consensus, block and reverse these thefts. (A good currency design should be tolerant of fraud -- assume it will happen, and have in place mechanisms for detecting and reversing it.)
The value of Etherium will rebound, but the underlying problem is that the contracts are written in a Turing-complete language -- it is impossible to prove with an algorithm (reducible to the halting problem) any non trivial assertions about the behavior of such contracts.
STOP watching/tracking what I'm doing with my computer -- it's creepy as fuck!
(Switched to Mac years ago, not going back to windows and it's "telemetry". Not so sure of Apple either, but at least they claim to not track users and collect data on them -- their business model (currently) is selling shiny toys -- not selling data. And they have been pushing back on surveillance in the courts and their encryption is good. Filevault should be on by default.)
Actually I don't want to see any ads (trailers or otherwise) in anything I've paid for. My time is valuable to me -- it is a very limited commodity that is very difficult to get more of.
This is one of the ways that the pirated product is superior to the legal one.
A super charger is somewhere north of 400 volts at around 400 amps. That's 4x what a typical house service can draw (for the *entire* house) and it still takes an hour.
The amount of energy you transfer in 4 minutes at a gas pump is staggering. If you could charge an electric vehicle that fast, I wouldn't want to be anywhere that charging system. You'd be at around 5kv at 400A. (Or the conductors would be as big as your leg to get the voltage down) If anything goes wrong, Think flesh vaporizing arcing explosions -- not my idea of fun.
Both 16:9 aspect ratio for the display and Windows as an OS are non-starters for me. I want 16:10 (at at least 1920 * 1200) and a unix based OS. Apple satisfies these requirements. Are there any other manufacturers that can?
My 17 inch Macbook Pro just turned 4 years old -- It was one of the last made (2.5Ghz SandyBridge CoreI7). Now upgraded with 16GB of 1600 Mhz DDR3, and 1.5 TB of fast SSD, it's not noticeably slower than a new machine. Motherboard is only 1 year old -- replaced under warranty.
I'm keeping it for as long as possible. If they come out with a new 17" machine, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
The signing keys are almost certainly on secure signing modules. These will not allow the key to leave the module -- they will only sign blobs with it. They can be configured to require n of m access tokens -- passwords, biometrics, & physical tokens. So to sign a new SIF, it would require 3 or 4 employees all entering their passwords, fingerprints and secure tokens (usually USB dongles of some sort) This module itself will be in a very secure room -- behind several locked doors. It will not be connected to any network. The binary blobs to be signed will be brought in on USB keys.
It would be useless to hand over they module without the passwords, tokens and fingerprints of the authorizers.
If I were them I'd be pretty careful about who I hired and what I had them do. I'm pretty sure their security/crypto engineers are long-time employees who have demonstrated their trustworthiness over the years.
I certainly wouldn't put it past the NSA/FBI/CSIS/GCHQ/FSB etc to try to get people on the inside.
This is very true -- at least with Apple (love them or hate them) their users are their customers -- and they act like it (mostly). With Microsoft, as a windows user, you are *not* their customer. Their customer is the manufacturer of the computer, or your employer. With W10 and "windows as a service" you (and any information about you that can be gleaned through your use of a computer -- and that is *alot* of information) are one of their products.
None of these are science. Not one. (By science I mean using the scientific method -- formulating a testable hypothesis and then testing it with experiments. Rinse lather repeat. Of course string theory does not count as "science" either using this definition.)
The latency for HBM and other technologies of its ilk are no better (even slightly worse) than DDR3.
It's no good for large last level caches -- but 8 of those 8 TB stacks would make for a nice 64GB of RAM with 2TB/sec bandwidth. I'd like to see that connected to a good CPU.
WTF are they thinking? Updating thermostat software when temperatures are below freezing? They should immediately institute a policy of holding off updates until temperatures are above freezing unless the bug fix is *so* critical it just cannot wait. Looking at mine, I see the last update was January 13!
Apple's response will be that they have handed over all the keys they have.
Unless China is mandating that devices can't negotiate their own keys without the involvement of Apple. But that would mean banning entire categories of apps.
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Let me fix that for you;
-- Rightscorp ALLEGES copyright infringement (with little or no evidence to back up the assertion)
-- Rightscorp notifies ISP, claiming airtight proof, when all they have is some tracker somewhere saying that your IP was part of a swarm at some (unverified) time.
-- ISP tells user to knock it off
-- User continues infringing (assuming they were, or not) and Rightscorp allegedly identifies it again.
-- Rightscorp notifies ISP
-- ISP tells Rightscorp to piss off with their unproven assertions with no evidence.
I'm Canadian, living in Toronto. Our system is better than the US, but not by much. It's still revenge driven, but not as profit driven.
Yes -- it's a total shit-show from whatever angle you look at it. It seems designed to be as cruel and dehumanizing as possible while ensuring the maximum possible recidivism.
In North America our justice systems are not Data Driven, and they never will be -- they are Revenge Driven. If we were to be Data Driven, we would have a system like Norway -- where recidivism is dramatically lower than what we have here.
The only way to make such a thing happen here would be to persuade the prison industrial complex that it would be more profitable that way. Of course they believe the opposite is true -- lower recidivism would mean fewer prisoners, and that means lower profits.
Indeed they are key -- what they mean is that even if you can come up with an algorithm to prove a property for *all* existing programs, it is possible (and in practice usually *trivial*) to construct a program where that algorithm will provably fail. Remember hackers need only find one hole to siphon off your ether.
This system (or any currency for that matter) needs a mechanism for defining, detecting and reversing fraud, and unmasking those perpetrating it. You have to assume it's only a matter of "when", not "if" fraud will take place.
Computability theory is *fun* :-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Mod parent up.
So long as the contract language used by Etherium is Turing-complete, they're pretty much doomed to having this sort of thing repeating. To their credit, they have mechanisms to, through community consensus, block and reverse these thefts.
(A good currency design should be tolerant of fraud -- assume it will happen, and have in place mechanisms for detecting and reversing it.)
In support, I give you Rice's Theorem;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"there exists no automatic method that decides with generality non-trivial questions on the behavior of computer programs."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"there exists no automatic method that decides with generality non-trivial questions on the behavior of computer programs."
The value of Etherium will rebound, but the underlying problem is that the contracts are written in a Turing-complete language -- it is impossible to prove with an algorithm (reducible to the halting problem) any non trivial assertions about the behavior of such contracts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
STOP watching/tracking what I'm doing with my computer -- it's creepy as fuck!
(Switched to Mac years ago, not going back to windows and it's "telemetry". Not so sure of Apple either, but at least they claim to not track users and collect data on them -- their business model (currently) is selling shiny toys -- not selling data. And they have been pushing back on surveillance in the courts and their encryption is good. Filevault should be on by default.)
Watson is doing exactly that -- laying off all the humans :-)
Actually I don't want to see any ads (trailers or otherwise) in anything I've paid for. My time is valuable to me -- it is a very limited commodity that is very difficult to get more of.
This is one of the ways that the pirated product is superior to the legal one.
A super charger is somewhere north of 400 volts at around 400 amps. That's 4x what a typical house service can draw (for the *entire* house) and it still takes an hour.
The amount of energy you transfer in 4 minutes at a gas pump is staggering. If you could charge an electric vehicle that fast, I wouldn't want to be anywhere that charging system. You'd be at around 5kv at 400A. (Or the conductors would be as big as your leg to get the voltage down) If anything goes wrong, Think flesh vaporizing arcing explosions -- not my idea of fun.
Both 16:9 aspect ratio for the display and Windows as an OS are non-starters for me. I want 16:10 (at at least 1920 * 1200) and a unix based OS. Apple satisfies these requirements. Are there any other manufacturers that can?
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
My 17 inch Macbook Pro just turned 4 years old -- It was one of the last made (2.5Ghz SandyBridge CoreI7). Now upgraded with 16GB of 1600 Mhz DDR3, and 1.5 TB of fast SSD, it's not noticeably slower than a new machine. Motherboard is only 1 year old -- replaced under warranty.
I'm keeping it for as long as possible. If they come out with a new 17" machine, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
If your phone is locked, they need a warrant to search it. (It's open season if it's not locked)
If the asked me to unlock it, my response would be "Not without a warrant" (Unspoken: "And not with one either".)
The signing keys are almost certainly on secure signing modules. These will not allow the key to leave the module -- they will only sign blobs with it. They can be configured to require n of m access tokens -- passwords, biometrics, & physical tokens. So to sign a new SIF, it would require 3 or 4 employees all entering their passwords, fingerprints and secure tokens (usually USB dongles of some sort) This module itself will be in a very secure room -- behind several locked doors. It will not be connected to any network. The binary blobs to be signed will be brought in on USB keys.
It would be useless to hand over they module without the passwords, tokens and fingerprints of the authorizers.
If I were them I'd be pretty careful about who I hired and what I had them do. I'm pretty sure their security/crypto engineers are long-time employees who have demonstrated their trustworthiness over the years.
I certainly wouldn't put it past the NSA/FBI/CSIS/GCHQ/FSB etc to try to get people on the inside.
This is very true -- at least with Apple (love them or hate them) their users are their customers -- and they act like it (mostly). With Microsoft, as a windows user, you are *not* their customer. Their customer is the manufacturer of the computer, or your employer. With W10 and "windows as a service" you (and any information about you that can be gleaned through your use of a computer -- and that is *alot* of information) are one of their products.
What's the over/under on when MS will flag GWX Control Panel as malware and have a "security update" remove it?
My money is on 60 days.
Look at (a partial) list:
Social Science
Political Science
Computer Science
None of these are science. Not one. (By science I mean using the scientific method -- formulating a testable hypothesis and then testing it with experiments. Rinse lather repeat. Of course string theory does not count as "science" either using this definition.)
The latency for HBM and other technologies of its ilk are no better (even slightly worse) than DDR3.
It's no good for large last level caches -- but 8 of those 8 TB stacks would make for a nice 64GB of RAM with 2TB/sec bandwidth. I'd like to see that connected to a good CPU.
WTF are they thinking? Updating thermostat software when temperatures are below freezing? They should immediately institute a policy of holding off updates until temperatures are above freezing unless the bug fix is *so* critical it just cannot wait. Looking at mine, I see the last update was January 13!
Idiots.
Apple's response will be that they have handed over all the keys they have.
Unless China is mandating that devices can't negotiate their own keys without the involvement of Apple. But that would mean banning entire categories of apps.