It won't. Appeal deadline here is 30 days after the final document is handed over to the lawyers (today). Since it's a complex sentence, they've already announced that they'll petition for the extension of the deadline to 50 days on this case.
They must have measured the time it takes since the browser makes the request until you get the full page back... that's why they got such low numbers. So, they ignore things like RTT and TCP Slow Start. We're not talking about sync speed here.
That's the monarchy argument. People are stupid, so they can't have a say in the matter; and since they don't have to manage things, why educate them at all ?
MITM - votes would be cast to multiple destinations, from multiple sources. Vote could consist of a single encrypted packet; what would the MITM do ?
decryption - even if you decrypt as many packets as available, that won't give you the keys to forge a different vote.
SSL lib bugs/design quirks - all known are now fixed
Anyway, I wasn't advocating the specific use of SSL, just private-public key cryptography in general.
The problem with elections is precisely to guarantee that each voter casts a single valid vote, and all votes were legitimately cast by a registered voter. eVoting can EASILY do this, but at a cost that society isn't ready to accept: voter anonymity is lost, since all votes can be traced back to the voter.
eVoting CAN and WILL happen. Massively. We just have to work out the details. One way that would work: - every voter must have its own private key (being done in Portugal/Europe, with the new Citizen Card [I know, you people dislike ID cards]) - voters can then cast a *signed* online vote, and this vote can go to multiple institutions/instances/controllers/sites/etc. Published results should match. - Voting can be done from home, or with the citizen card (that contains the signature) at the local voting place.
Voting could then be extended to government actions that currently skip the peoples' opinion. Eventually we would see the people voting on a daily basis on the projects they want.
Massive corruption of this system is difficult, possibly impossible, just like breaking a site's SSL.
Simple copy/paste from a web site on the 419 scam... Why, is all-caps automatically lower-cased on slashdot? Didn't know that. Maybe the algorithm fails because of the symbols, like "%". Post a bug:)
HAVING CONSULTED WITH MY COLLEAGUES AND BASED ON THE INFORMATION GATHERED FROM THE NIGERIAN CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY, I HAVE THE PRIVILEGE TO REQUEST FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE TO TRANSFER THE SUM OF $47,500,000.00 (FORTY SEVEN MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS) INTO YOUR ACCOUNTS. THE ABOVE SUM RESULTED FROM AN OVER-INVOICED CONTRACT, EXECUTED COMMISSIONED AND PAID FOR ABOUT FIVE YEARS (5) AGO BY A FOREIGN CONTRACTOR. THIS ACTION WAS HOWEVER INTENTIONAL AND SINCE THEN THE FUND HAS BEEN IN A SUSPENSE ACCOUNT AT THE CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA APEX BANK.
WE ARE NOW READY TO TRANSFER THE FUND OVERSEAS AND THAT IS WHERE YOU COME IN. IT IS IMPORTANT TO INFORM YOU THAT AS CIVIL SERVANTS, WE ARE FORBIDDEN TO OPERATE A FOREIGN ACCOUNT; THAT IS WHY WE REQUIRE YOUR ASSISTANCE. THE TOTAL SUM WILL BE SHARED AS FOLLOWS: 70% FOR US, 25% FOR YOU AND 5% FOR LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL EXPENSES INCIDENT TO THE TRANSFER.
THE TRANSFER IS RISK FREE ON BOTH SIDES. I AM AN ACCOUNTANT WITH THE NIGERIAN NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION (NNPC). IF YOU FIND THIS PROPOSAL ACCEPTABLE, WE SHALL REQUIRE THE FOLLOWING DOCUMENTS:
(A) YOUR BANKER'S NAME, TELEPHONE, ACCOUNT AND FAX NUMBERS.
(B) YOUR PRIVATE TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBERS -- FOR CONFIDENTIALITY AND EASY COMMUNICATION.
(C) YOUR LETTER-HEADED PAPER STAMPED AND SIGNED.
ALTERNATIVELY WE WILL FURNISH YOU WITH THE TEXT OF WHAT TO TYPE INTO YOUR LETTER-HEADED PAPER, ALONG WITH A BREAKDOWN EXPLAINING, COMPREHENSIVELY WHAT WE REQUIRE OF YOU. THE BUSINESS WILL TAKE US THIRTY (30) WORKING DAYS TO ACCOMPLISH.
Most occasional programmers don't think about these issues or even, god forbids, check the API's documentation. They just happily use "long a,b,c;" all over the source code. I even bet that version 0.1 of some of those apps used "int a,b,c;"...
I'm kind of tired with reading that this is Twitter's fault. Twitter actually uses 64 bits ID internally. The "problem" is with 3rd party apps that interface with Twitter's API and expect to receive only a signed 32 bit integer.
Consoles have 1 unique hardware platform. A PC game must work on hundreds of different hardware configurations; to do that, we have to have a bunch of APIs (DirectX), but most importantly each different hardware component must have it's own driver that interfaces with that API to allow it to do the real work.
A BIOS OS (for now) just uses very generic "drivers" to access the basic/common hardware functions. We're still a long way off to the point where a common BIOS will allow for gaming.
If you allow the BIOS to be user-updatable with drivers, then it's no longer a Basic Input-Output System, it's really an embedded OS.
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263 lines of code? Really ??? How can you mix lines of code with video scanlines on your head?
Those would have to be some long lines, anyway...
It won't. Appeal deadline here is 30 days after the final document is handed over to the lawyers (today).
Since it's a complex sentence, they've already announced that they'll petition for the extension of the deadline to 50 days on this case.
tough crowd...
A Gnu is a good mount, available on equatorial regions, and it's free!
The OP is actually agreeing with you, dude. Read again.
I agree, this is nothing new. Nirsoft tools are great, I've been using them for ages. Time to make a donation.
They must have measured the time it takes since the browser makes the request until you get the full page back... that's why they got such low numbers. So, they ignore things like RTT and TCP Slow Start. We're not talking about sync speed here.
(No, I didn't RTFA)
What's the real bw available? 2 Gbps?
With 802.11n we get max 90Mbps from the carrier's 300; that's only 30% eficiency. I hope it's better this time.
Damn math, always ruining good jokes.
Actually, I saw it here, where it says 643 minutes. I then pasted the linked url.
Since wikipedia is always right, this surely proves Heisenberg wrong...
This will leave a lot of filipinos unhappy...
That's just nuts!
That's the monarchy argument. People are stupid, so they can't have a say in the matter; and since they don't have to manage things, why educate them at all ?
Have you heard about Direct Democracy ?
You don't.
Have your read about the SSL attack vectors?
MITM - votes would be cast to multiple destinations, from multiple sources. Vote could consist of a single encrypted packet; what would the MITM do ?
decryption - even if you decrypt as many packets as available, that won't give you the keys to forge a different vote.
SSL lib bugs/design quirks - all known are now fixed
Anyway, I wasn't advocating the specific use of SSL, just private-public key cryptography in general.
The problem with elections is precisely to guarantee that each voter casts a single valid vote, and all votes were legitimately cast by a registered voter. eVoting can EASILY do this, but at a cost that society isn't ready to accept: voter anonymity is lost, since all votes can be traced back to the voter.
eVoting CAN and WILL happen. Massively. We just have to work out the details. One way that would work:
- every voter must have its own private key (being done in Portugal/Europe, with the new Citizen Card [I know, you people dislike ID cards])
- voters can then cast a *signed* online vote, and this vote can go to multiple institutions/instances/controllers/sites/etc. Published results should match.
- Voting can be done from home, or with the citizen card (that contains the signature) at the local voting place.
Voting could then be extended to government actions that currently skip the peoples' opinion. Eventually we would see the people voting on a daily basis on the projects they want.
Massive corruption of this system is difficult, possibly impossible, just like breaking a site's SSL.
Simple copy/paste from a web site on the 419 scam... :)
Why, is all-caps automatically lower-cased on slashdot? Didn't know that. Maybe the algorithm fails because of the symbols, like "%". Post a bug
LAGOS, NIGERIA.
ATTENTION: SLASHDOT USER
DEAR SIR,
CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL
HAVING CONSULTED WITH MY COLLEAGUES AND BASED ON THE INFORMATION GATHERED FROM THE NIGERIAN CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY, I HAVE THE PRIVILEGE TO REQUEST FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE TO TRANSFER THE SUM OF $47,500,000.00 (FORTY SEVEN MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS) INTO YOUR ACCOUNTS. THE ABOVE SUM RESULTED FROM AN OVER-INVOICED CONTRACT, EXECUTED COMMISSIONED AND PAID FOR ABOUT FIVE YEARS (5) AGO BY A FOREIGN CONTRACTOR. THIS ACTION WAS HOWEVER INTENTIONAL AND SINCE THEN THE FUND HAS BEEN IN A SUSPENSE ACCOUNT AT THE CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA APEX BANK.
WE ARE NOW READY TO TRANSFER THE FUND OVERSEAS AND THAT IS WHERE YOU COME IN. IT IS IMPORTANT TO INFORM YOU THAT AS CIVIL SERVANTS, WE ARE FORBIDDEN TO OPERATE A FOREIGN ACCOUNT; THAT IS WHY WE REQUIRE YOUR ASSISTANCE. THE TOTAL SUM WILL BE SHARED AS FOLLOWS: 70% FOR US, 25% FOR YOU AND 5% FOR LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL EXPENSES INCIDENT TO THE TRANSFER.
THE TRANSFER IS RISK FREE ON BOTH SIDES. I AM AN ACCOUNTANT WITH THE NIGERIAN NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION (NNPC). IF YOU FIND THIS PROPOSAL ACCEPTABLE, WE SHALL REQUIRE THE FOLLOWING DOCUMENTS:
(A) YOUR BANKER'S NAME, TELEPHONE, ACCOUNT AND FAX NUMBERS.
(B) YOUR PRIVATE TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBERS -- FOR CONFIDENTIALITY AND EASY COMMUNICATION.
(C) YOUR LETTER-HEADED PAPER STAMPED AND SIGNED.
ALTERNATIVELY WE WILL FURNISH YOU WITH THE TEXT OF WHAT TO TYPE INTO YOUR LETTER-HEADED PAPER, ALONG WITH A BREAKDOWN EXPLAINING, COMPREHENSIVELY WHAT WE REQUIRE OF YOU. THE BUSINESS WILL TAKE US THIRTY (30) WORKING DAYS TO ACCOMPLISH.
PLEASE REPLY URGENTLY.
BEST REGARDS
Most occasional programmers don't think about these issues or even, god forbids, check the API's documentation. They just happily use "long a,b,c;" all over the source code. I even bet that version 0.1 of some of those apps used "int a,b,c;" ...
I'm kind of tired with reading that this is Twitter's fault. Twitter actually uses 64 bits ID internally. The "problem" is with 3rd party apps that interface with Twitter's API and expect to receive only a signed 32 bit integer.
http://twitter.com/twitterapi/status/2048659057
Disclaimer: I've never used twitter.
Oops, this was supposed to be a parent-post, not a reply...
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Uh... greetings from Portugal...
Consoles have 1 unique hardware platform.
A PC game must work on hundreds of different hardware configurations; to do that, we have to have a bunch of APIs (DirectX), but most importantly each different hardware component must have it's own driver that interfaces with that API to allow it to do the real work.
A BIOS OS (for now) just uses very generic "drivers" to access the basic/common hardware functions. We're still a long way off to the point where a common BIOS will allow for gaming.
If you allow the BIOS to be user-updatable with drivers, then it's no longer a Basic Input-Output System, it's really an embedded OS.
EFI might work, with plugins/drivers, though.
Why not just store the BIOS on the hard disk? That way it has plenty of space to grow and can be updated easily!
Oh wait...
Right... please divide sqrt(2) over Pi, with 4 decimals, in your head. Quickly please, I haven't got all day.
Imagine Google, Facebook and Twitter 10 years from now.