As explained in the last mail, it appears the attackers didn't realize what they broke into. We had already been slowly migrating Tor services off of moria (it runs too many services for too many different projects), so we took this opportunity to speed up that plan. A friendly anonymous sponsor has provided a pile of new servers, and git and svn are now up in their new locations.
Mmmm, yes, free.
And you will never, in a million years, detect the compromised hardware in those machines.
The only way for tor (or wikileaks or other dangerous-to-the-authorities service) to buy hardware, is anonymously. If someone wants to donate servers, have them sell the servers and give you the cash.
In that case, would it be possible to build something that disassembles atmospheric carbon dioxide, and build pencil lead and release oxygen in the process?
Of course, then you get into the problem of the energy stored in chemical bonds, and the energy required to overcome that. I have no idea if/how that applies to nanoscale robots, since they're mechanically working on individual atoms, rather than a bulk chemical reaction.
What do you mean "then you get into the problem..."? That IS the problem!
In a less snarky tone: we have many methods of separating the carbon from the oxygen. The difficulty is in first producing the energy needed to run the separation method -- because so many of our energy sources operate by combining carbon with oxygen.
Now that oil is getting expensive we'll see nuclear rebound. The envirowackos overestimated their own influence against nuclear, fancying their opinions to somehow override the almighty dollar. It has always (and only) been cheap oil keeping nuclear power generation at bay.
Personally I have stopped browsing without NoScript enabled. I sincerely hope that the functionality it provides is adapted as a base feature in future browsers. Javascript is simply too dangerous to be trusted by default. Sites need to earn that trust, IMHO.
It is in Opera. Opera has built-in site prefs that include java, javascript, plugins, 1st and 3rd party cookies, send referer, right-clicks, etc. These can be configured per site, per domain, and both. Then you turn all that crap off browser-wide, so that your site prefs become a whitelist.
Opera is so far ahead of its time.
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Yeah, and I want to be called "His Majesty Lord BigWang," but it ain't happening.
I wonder if this accounts for networks locked down to MAC addresses. I've never encountered an "open" wifi that was truly open (in UK), despite a lot of them appearing to be open, I just wonder how thoroughly they checked.
Interesting question. I wonder how difficult it is to sniff the traffic, discover a permitted MAC address, and then simply spoof that MAC address in order to utilize the network.
Even if the aforementioned was somehow impossible, I still would use WPA2 simply to prevent sniffing.
Y2k issues were known in the 80's. Had IT been allowed to respond in a timely manner, it would have cost much less, been checked more thoroughly and finished earlier. Instead they waited until the last possible moment and poured much more money into it, hiring as many developers as possible to put in a rushed hackjob and then firing them when the hack worked instead of retaining them to vet, verify and implement permanent solutions where needed.
You forget TVM. Money spent fifteen years later is waaaaaaay cheaper than money spent today.
Plus, by waiting until the last minute, no labor was wasted in pre-fixing systems that would already be obsoleted by 1999. Guess what, lots of systems that were in use in 1980 were no longer in use in 1999 and so early Y2K fixes would've been a waste of time.
This issue is a result of the failure to react apropriately to y2k. The rushed temporary get-it-done-yesterday hacks are starting to fail.
Oh pipe down, it's nothing of the sort; these cards are not that old. They just skimped a bit on QA.
WTF? Are you actually SERIOUS? Plutonium isn't exactly available at Wal-Mart. Nuclear weapons are inherently difficult weapons to create, and to even dream of doing to you need to the fissile material, which is even harder to obtain.
How anyone modded this up is beyond me.
WTF? Are you actually SERIOUS? CPU silicon isn't exactly available at Wal-Mart. IPODs are inherently difficult appliances to create, and to even dream of doing to you need to the microlithography equipment, which is even harder to obtain.
No it doesn't. The theory of Communism proposes that humans will work for the betterment of their fellow tribe members. This works in small tribes where everyone knows each other (families and 'communes'), but was known in advance to fail for larger groups. The theory is bunk because it utterly fails to understand the fact that personal economic incentives are the primary driver of human behavior.
As was Marx's derivation of the value of the worker. He completely missed the fact that the value-add comes from the synergistic arrangement (arranged by the entrepreneur) of worker, raw materials, and the means of production.
Do you think that we can actually make air travel (and any other kind of travel, for that matter) truly secure?"
Nope. "Truly secure" means defended infinitely well from all risks, which implies infinite cost. The minority of us adults who are mentally adult understand that everything is a cost/benefit tradeoff and nothing justifies the effort to render it "truly secure".
To be sure, an individual's own life is worth very very much to him, and he is free to spend his money on protection, but that's not the context of this discussion. The context of this discussion is how much wealth should the tribe expend protecting its assets (including its members, none of whom are infinitely valuable).
I thought the same thing, but Wikileaks is currently down. They say they will be back when they've "gotten enough donations". what b/s
Wrong, they said they've suspended operations until January 6th, in order to poke us for donations. The actual quote is "To concentrate on raising the funds necessary to keep us alive into 2010, we have very reluctantly suspended all other operations, until Jan 6.".
You may repent for your assholery by donating $10 to wikileaks right now. I just now donated $10 to cover your sins in case you also count free-riding among your glittering social skills.
[It amazes me] that you can get more jail time for moving [$]440,000 from one DB column to another than for trying to have someone killed.
From the point of view of the tribe, it makes sense. A random individual's expected total lifetime contribution is about a million dollars (give or take depending on education level etc. etc.). Those individuals place a higher value upon their own lives, of course, and has been measured at about six million dollars by statistically analyzing the higher salaries demanded for riskier jobs... but again, their value to the tribe is less than their value to themselves.
So, as far as the chief is concerned, killing one tribe member is a loss of about a million, whereas transferring $440 million from useful investments into dead-end consumption is vastly more damaging.
This is the First step. Next as soon as we see an item, our brain will be bombarded with price list from different web stores and we will know where to buy it cheap. Think of a Java code, it will be in your brain along with some not so disruptive ads.
Thanks it is Google who are working on it.
Yep yep. There's a dark side, though. This will completely change the game regarding the (currently) presumed anonymity of photographs. Today it is impossible to take somebody's photo and then search for all matching photos on the internet, and so people do not much mind having their photos taken. Photo search will turn that on its head -- and the internet has a lonnnnnnng memory...
(And then we'll have "automatic aging" algorithms that can find photos of them while they were back in college partying.)
You definitely shouldn't act counter to your nature. However some human endeavors - war, sports, CEOs making 1000 times more money than your coworkers without doing 1000 times the work - are more suited to those with aggressive approach to life. Just like some others - raising/educating children, judges and juries in court - are more suited to those who value fairness and compassion. [...]
Good post. Just one side comment: Whenever anyone talks about 'compassion' or 'mercy' in a courtroom setting, it means they are about to do something unjust.
Never mind the multitude of corporations responsible for the manufacturing of your computer... Or the ones running your network connection... Nope, don't need corporations at all. Build everything with my own two hands from scratch!
We need division of labor in order to have a decent quality of life. We do not, however, need incorporation to confer the benefits of personhood (e.g. free speech, bankruptcy) without the responsibilities of personhood (e.g. criminal culpability).
That you so completely failed to miss this obvious point, suggests that you are either dishonest or a fool.
I don't find intellectual property so much immoral as it holds back progress. Even the father of the Free Market Adam Smith didn't like patents. He called them a necessary evil. That may of been true in his tyme but I don't believe is still true.
If something is evil, and yet your moral code accepts it as necessary, then your moral code is broken. It's one or the other but never both. (Or you can declare life itself to be evil, provided you can supply a suitable point of view from which to make this declaration.)
I'm curious to know which category you would file patents in. Adam Smith dodged the question but you are still alive and so you can answer it. Tell us.
Actually, scratch that. My family came to the states from Germany in the 1930s and laid down roots in the Northeast. So they had nothing to do with slavery, Jim Crow or the lack of female voting rights. So, I'm actually being punished for the crimes of dead people just because I have roughly the same melanin levels that they did.
Indeed.
I will gladly make reparations for slavery -- be it direct payments to the slaves' descendents, or preferential hiring policies, or AA policies at universities, or "race norming" of test scores, whatever. I'll pony it all up with a smile.
Provided, of course, that I then get to own a slave.
I could go on, but I have a feeling that it still wouldn't convince you. Global Warming is not a myth. True, the Earth does go through cycles. I don't dispute that. However, the rate of climate change is far faster than previous cyclic rates. The rate now versus that of the pre-industrial age is much, much faster. The global ecology cannot adapt fast enough to the change. What used to take thousands of years now takes hundreds, and increasingly, decades.
It doesn't matter if we burn the wood for something useful, the trees dies and rots, or the tree is burned in a forest fire: at some point the carbon is coming back out of that tree.
There is one way to permanently sequester the carbon:
Turn the tree into paper, use the paper, refuse to recycle the paper, and then bury the paper in a NON-sanitary (i.e.: non-aerobic) landfill.
[...header information omitted...] Subject: Re: ATTENTION. Invitation to influence Kyoto. Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 11:52:09 -0700 (MST)
Dear Eleven,
I was very disturbed by your recent letter, and your attempt to get others to endorse it. Not only do I disagree with the content of this letter, but I also believe that you have severely distorted the IPCC "view" when you say that "the latest IPCC assessment makes a convincing economic case for immediate control of emissions." In contrast to the one-sided opinion expressed in your letter, IPCC WGIII SAR and TP3 review the literature and the issues in a balanced way presenting arguments in support of both "immediate control" and the spectrum of more cost-effective options. It is not IPCC's role to make "convincing cases" for any particular policy option; nor does it. However, most IPCC readers would draw the conclusion that the balance of economic evidence favors the emissions trajectories given in the WRE paper. This is contrary to your statement.
This is a complex issue, and your misrepresentation of it does you a dis-service. To someone like me, who knows the science, it is apparent that you are presenting a personal view, not an informed, balanced scientific assessment. What is unfortunate is that this will not be apparent to the vast majority of scientists you have contacted. In issues like this, scientists have an added responsibility to keep their personal views separate from the science, and to make it clear to others when they diverge from the objectivity they (hopefully) adhere to in their scientific research. I think you have failed to do this.
The elderly are doing the same thing to workers right now through Social Security and Medicare.
We're promised future product (retirement money and health care) if we make payments up front. And it's unlikely the state will be able to deliver since they've already spent the money.
It is impractical to 'save' wealth on the scale necessary for Social Security or Medicare.
Certainly you can save money, but money is not wealth, and so when you spend those green pieces of paper later, the current workers must then cough up the wealth via inflation.
The Social Security program does not go through those motions because they would accomplish nothing. A stack of money sitting in a warehouse does not produce any wealth; green pieces of paper themselves do not generate wheat or oil or gold or land. So money comes in the front door of the Social Security office and then out the back door, faciliting a quick flow of wealth from worker to retiree.
Or is it that the radius of earth's orbit is so large that the centripetal acceleration is actually quite small at any given moment.
I calculated this once. You weigh about 1% less at the equator than you do at the poles, due to centripetal acceleration. You can already sense acceleration due to gravity at both locations, but a 1% difference is so small, you would only notice it if you teleported from the equator to the pole in an instant.
The sixth sense is accelleration. Sensory data is provided by the semicircular canals and is interpreted as sensations, therefore it deserves the title of 'sense'. Proprioception may also qualify, even though it is a derived/calculated sense.
I give this example to my children to teach the important fact that most every person and most every textbook on Earth can be clearly and demonstrably wrong about something obvious.
Sibling poster is fairly accurate. John Gault is an idiotic caricature created by someone with zero understanding of economics or human nature.
I was going to reply with something along the lines of "You could not have read _Atlas Shrugged_ if you are willing to make that statement publicly -- or if you did read it, it was with a passion to NOT understand it."...
...but then you misspelled his name ('Galt'), and so I knew you were talking out of your ass. May the next life you lead be a slightly less dishonest one.
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Mmmm, yes, free.
And you will never, in a million years, detect the compromised hardware in those machines.
The only way for tor (or wikileaks or other dangerous-to-the-authorities service) to buy hardware, is anonymously. If someone wants to donate servers, have them sell the servers and give you the cash.
What do you mean "then you get into the problem..."? That IS the problem!
In a less snarky tone: we have many methods of separating the carbon from the oxygen. The difficulty is in first producing the energy needed to run the separation method -- because so many of our energy sources operate by combining carbon with oxygen.
Now that oil is getting expensive we'll see nuclear rebound. The envirowackos overestimated their own influence against nuclear, fancying their opinions to somehow override the almighty dollar. It has always (and only) been cheap oil keeping nuclear power generation at bay.
It is in Opera. Opera has built-in site prefs that include java, javascript, plugins, 1st and 3rd party cookies, send referer, right-clicks, etc. These can be configured per site, per domain, and both. Then you turn all that crap off browser-wide, so that your site prefs become a whitelist.
Opera is so far ahead of its time.
*plonk*
Interesting question. I wonder how difficult it is to sniff the traffic, discover a permitted MAC address, and then simply spoof that MAC address in order to utilize the network.
Even if the aforementioned was somehow impossible, I still would use WPA2 simply to prevent sniffing.
You forget TVM. Money spent fifteen years later is waaaaaaay cheaper than money spent today.
Plus, by waiting until the last minute, no labor was wasted in pre-fixing systems that would already be obsoleted by 1999. Guess what, lots of systems that were in use in 1980 were no longer in use in 1999 and so early Y2K fixes would've been a waste of time.
Oh pipe down, it's nothing of the sort; these cards are not that old. They just skimped a bit on QA.
WTF? Are you actually SERIOUS? CPU silicon isn't exactly available at Wal-Mart. IPODs are inherently difficult appliances to create, and to even dream of doing to you need to the microlithography equipment, which is even harder to obtain.
How anyone modded this up is beyond me.
No it doesn't. The theory of Communism proposes that humans will work for the betterment of their fellow tribe members. This works in small tribes where everyone knows each other (families and 'communes'), but was known in advance to fail for larger groups. The theory is bunk because it utterly fails to understand the fact that personal economic incentives are the primary driver of human behavior.
As was Marx's derivation of the value of the worker. He completely missed the fact that the value-add comes from the synergistic arrangement (arranged by the entrepreneur) of worker, raw materials, and the means of production.
Oh great, we're starting ANOTHER arms race. As if SEO isn't bad enough already, now we'll have NEO.
Nope. "Truly secure" means defended infinitely well from all risks, which implies infinite cost. The minority of us adults who are mentally adult understand that everything is a cost/benefit tradeoff and nothing justifies the effort to render it "truly secure".
To be sure, an individual's own life is worth very very much to him, and he is free to spend his money on protection, but that's not the context of this discussion. The context of this discussion is how much wealth should the tribe expend protecting its assets (including its members, none of whom are infinitely valuable).
Wrong, they said they've suspended operations until January 6th, in order to poke us for donations. The actual quote is "To concentrate on raising the funds necessary to keep us alive into 2010, we have very reluctantly suspended all other operations, until Jan 6.".
You may repent for your assholery by donating $10 to wikileaks right now. I just now donated $10 to cover your sins in case you also count free-riding among your glittering social skills.
From the point of view of the tribe, it makes sense. A random individual's expected total lifetime contribution is about a million dollars (give or take depending on education level etc. etc.). Those individuals place a higher value upon their own lives, of course, and has been measured at about six million dollars by statistically analyzing the higher salaries demanded for riskier jobs... but again, their value to the tribe is less than their value to themselves.
So, as far as the chief is concerned, killing one tribe member is a loss of about a million, whereas transferring $440 million from useful investments into dead-end consumption is vastly more damaging.
So I gather it's time to upgrade our biometric identification to the new "colonic map" technology?
Yep yep. There's a dark side, though. This will completely change the game regarding the (currently) presumed anonymity of photographs. Today it is impossible to take somebody's photo and then search for all matching photos on the internet, and so people do not much mind having their photos taken. Photo search will turn that on its head -- and the internet has a lonnnnnnng memory...
(And then we'll have "automatic aging" algorithms that can find photos of them while they were back in college partying.)
Good post. Just one side comment: Whenever anyone talks about 'compassion' or 'mercy' in a courtroom setting, it means they are about to do something unjust.
We need division of labor in order to have a decent quality of life. We do not, however, need incorporation to confer the benefits of personhood (e.g. free speech, bankruptcy) without the responsibilities of personhood (e.g. criminal culpability).
That you so completely failed to miss this obvious point, suggests that you are either dishonest or a fool.
If something is evil, and yet your moral code accepts it as necessary, then your moral code is broken. It's one or the other but never both. (Or you can declare life itself to be evil, provided you can supply a suitable point of view from which to make this declaration.)
I'm curious to know which category you would file patents in. Adam Smith dodged the question but you are still alive and so you can answer it. Tell us.
Indeed.
I will gladly make reparations for slavery -- be it direct payments to the slaves' descendents, or preferential hiring policies, or AA policies at universities, or "race norming" of test scores, whatever. I'll pony it all up with a smile.
Provided, of course, that I then get to own a slave.
Liar.
There is one way to permanently sequester the carbon:
Turn the tree into paper, use the paper, refuse to recycle the paper, and then bury the paper in a NON-sanitary (i.e.: non-aerobic) landfill.
[...header information omitted...]
Subject: Re: ATTENTION. Invitation to influence Kyoto.
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 11:52:09 -0700 (MST)
Dear Eleven,
I was very disturbed by your recent letter, and your attempt to get
others to endorse it. Not only do I disagree with the content of
this letter, but I also believe that you have severely distorted the
IPCC "view" when you say that "the latest IPCC assessment makes a
convincing economic case for immediate control of emissions." In contrast
to the one-sided opinion expressed in your letter, IPCC WGIII SAR and TP3
review the literature and the issues in a balanced way presenting
arguments in support of both "immediate control" and the spectrum of more
cost-effective options. It is not IPCC's role to make "convincing cases"
for any particular policy option; nor does it. However, most IPCC readers
would draw the conclusion that the balance of economic evidence favors the
emissions trajectories given in the WRE paper. This is contrary to your
statement.
This is a complex issue, and your misrepresentation of it does you a
dis-service. To someone like me, who knows the science, it is
apparent that you are presenting a personal view, not an informed,
balanced scientific assessment. What is unfortunate is that this will not
be apparent to the vast majority of scientists you have contacted. In
issues like this, scientists have an added responsibility to keep their
personal views separate from the science, and to make it clear to others
when they diverge from the objectivity they (hopefully) adhere to in their
scientific research. I think you have failed to do this.
[...]
It is impractical to 'save' wealth on the scale necessary for Social Security or Medicare.
Certainly you can save money, but money is not wealth, and so when you spend those green pieces of paper later, the current workers must then cough up the wealth via inflation.
The Social Security program does not go through those motions because they would accomplish nothing. A stack of money sitting in a warehouse does not produce any wealth; green pieces of paper themselves do not generate wheat or oil or gold or land. So money comes in the front door of the Social Security office and then out the back door, faciliting a quick flow of wealth from worker to retiree.
I calculated this once. You weigh about 1% less at the equator than you do at the poles, due to centripetal acceleration. You can already sense acceleration due to gravity at both locations, but a 1% difference is so small, you would only notice it if you teleported from the equator to the pole in an instant.
The sixth sense is accelleration. Sensory data is provided by the semicircular canals and is interpreted as sensations, therefore it deserves the title of 'sense'. Proprioception may also qualify, even though it is a derived/calculated sense.
I give this example to my children to teach the important fact that most every person and most every textbook on Earth can be clearly and demonstrably wrong about something obvious.
I was going to reply with something along the lines of "You could not have read _Atlas Shrugged_ if you are willing to make that statement publicly -- or if you did read it, it was with a passion to NOT understand it."...
...but then you misspelled his name ('Galt'), and so I knew you were talking out of your ass. May the next life you lead be a slightly less dishonest one.
(Oh, and *plonk*)