I have noticed that news-reaction stock market swings are more responsive to the general public's perception of a news item than they are to the opinions of technical people who may, or may not, have a better grasp of the future business implications of a piece of news.
In other words, betting opposite of the sentiment you read on/. is likely to bring you better than average returns.
But, it does protect against acid, and with rising CO2 levels, the oceans are becoming more acidic... should we set up humanitarian shark tooth flouridation stations? We can make swimming robots that look and act like cleaner fish...
First thing I thought when I read the title was, damn, that sucks.
I mean, sharks are constantly breaking off their teeth and growing new ones, I'd want my teeth to be considerably stronger than a shark's.
Then, I realized that the comparison is just as bogus as so many other sensational headline "studies" because of the difference in tooth shape, any "comparison of strength" is going to be completely arbitrary. Is it a straight comparison of enamel hardness? Break-off strength from the root? Mean time (years or % of lifetime) between failure in ordinary daily use? How long one can go without brushing before decay sets in? Which species of shark? Which sub-culture of human?
Sorry, I know this is just announced, but wouldn't it be more newsworthy (and useful) to ignore this for now and report it in November when it is an actionable news item?
My college took out the card punching stations the semester before I took Fortran, though they still had the vacuum drum reader and used it occasionally. And, of course, the CRT terminals were inputting card format - first six characters for line number, 78 characters per line max.
The fossilized prof told stories of entering assembly op codes, in octal, with rotary dial interfaces.
Now, get off my... um, I forget, but get off it, NOW!
I'm sure it is (more than 5c to break a 56 bit key), and a whole hell of a lot more to develop the algorithm to do the breaking. It will get cheaper in the future, but $0.05 is likely still decades away.
How much does it cost you to break a 56 bit key? 5 cents worth of computer time? Probably a lot more, but even if it's only 5 cents, that's about a million times more than it costs Google (and every other indexing agent out there) to read, store and catalog your data.
If you need "real" privacy, there's plenty of apps for that. If you need them for free, your choices become more limited.
I fail to see how any of this is a problem for MZ, or even out of character for him... he effectively (intentionally or not) suckered the market for much more money up front than Facebook is turning out to be worth. If FB were "priced right" at IPO, it might "perform better" but I don't see how that has any positive benefits for the pre-IPO shareholders.
TLDR: Not a problem for Zuckerberg, just a problem for anyone who bought FB shares.
Yeah, I've worked "salaried - exempt" what have you jobs since 1990, no time clock, no overtime, no hour tracking.
Every single one of them tracked my days worked, sick days, vacation days, etc. with the same time tracking software used on hourly employees - only difference is that the "exempt" employees always get 80 hours, regardless of what's actually worked.
I even worked at a place that "didn't track" vacation time for higher level managers - some managers took two month long vacations every year with additional days in between - which was acceptable by policy. They still tracked days worked.
What do you use to track days/hours worked? Isn't vacation accounting built into that system? If it's not, you're going to be running parallel non-communicating software which gives you multiple opportunities for the databases to get out of sync with reality, and each other.
I have, more than once, ordered something cheap that turned out to be good, then ordered a 2nd or 3rd copy, only to have the later ones (branded the same) be.... different.
Latest case in point: $90 7" tablets - first one: 4.5 hour battery life, second one: 2.0 hour battery life.
a completely secure computer system with NO USERS since that is the only way that you could possibly make a system secure
I think that users on BOTH ENDS have to care about security (and know enough to do something about it) if a link is going to be secure, otherwise somebody is always going to get sloppy.
With hand coding, I can do anything. With WYSIWYG, you tend to do the more tedious stuff more often because the tools make it easy.
With hand coding, I can always go back and modify something later. With WYSIWYG, the HTML it generates is generally so obfuscated that you need to use a tool to maintain it, and often you are effectively locked into a tool because many tools confuse each other with constructs that only they understand for editing.
Slashdot Mirror
Moral of the story: If you do not control end-to-end encryption yourself, it is not secure.
This ^ period.
I have noticed that news-reaction stock market swings are more responsive to the general public's perception of a news item than they are to the opinions of technical people who may, or may not, have a better grasp of the future business implications of a piece of news.
In other words, betting opposite of the sentiment you read on /. is likely to bring you better than average returns.
Encryption is crackable
True, encryption _CAN_ be cracked, by hook or by crook
Are you talking about this form of cracking? Because, with a sufficiently long secret key, it is proven impossible to break.
I like using long period PRNGs to make an effective one-time pad. How you initialize the PRNG is your key.
Implants suck, don't go there unless you have to.
But, it does protect against acid, and with rising CO2 levels, the oceans are becoming more acidic... should we set up humanitarian shark tooth flouridation stations? We can make swimming robots that look and act like cleaner fish...
First thing I thought when I read the title was, damn, that sucks.
I mean, sharks are constantly breaking off their teeth and growing new ones, I'd want my teeth to be considerably stronger than a shark's.
Then, I realized that the comparison is just as bogus as so many other sensational headline "studies" because of the difference in tooth shape, any "comparison of strength" is going to be completely arbitrary. Is it a straight comparison of enamel hardness? Break-off strength from the root? Mean time (years or % of lifetime) between failure in ordinary daily use? How long one can go without brushing before decay sets in? Which species of shark? Which sub-culture of human?
Now, get off my lawn!
Sure, but who's to say if the damaged DNA reconstruction will get the growth hormone cycle exactly right?
Sorry, I know this is just announced, but wouldn't it be more newsworthy (and useful) to ignore this for now and report it in November when it is an actionable news item?
Real programmers kept their code on punch cards.
Or toggle patterns written on a napkin.
FTFY
My college took out the card punching stations the semester before I took Fortran, though they still had the vacuum drum reader and used it occasionally. And, of course, the CRT terminals were inputting card format - first six characters for line number, 78 characters per line max.
The fossilized prof told stories of entering assembly op codes, in octal, with rotary dial interfaces.
Now, get off my... um, I forget, but get off it, NOW!
I'm sure it is (more than 5c to break a 56 bit key), and a whole hell of a lot more to develop the algorithm to do the breaking. It will get cheaper in the future, but $0.05 is likely still decades away.
I'm sure it is, and that is one of dozens of valid choices for encryption.
How much does it cost you to break a 56 bit key? 5 cents worth of computer time? Probably a lot more, but even if it's only 5 cents, that's about a million times more than it costs Google (and every other indexing agent out there) to read, store and catalog your data.
If you need "real" privacy, there's plenty of apps for that. If you need them for free, your choices become more limited.
I underuse them both (FB LI) - going on once every 2 years or so, it seems.
Does that mean I'm mostly psychopathic and only really "safe for society" when I'm out of work and have time for social internet sites?
Not saying they should, just saying that they almost definitely won't.
If you want to reach 95%+ of the /. reading audience, yes. Those three sentences had several three+ syllable words.
And, what, if anything, are they going to do about this "problem?"
I really don't see Zuckerberg, the Banks, the SEC, or anybody else giving FB shareholders any money.
There are always lawsuits in any big IPO.
I fail to see how any of this is a problem for MZ, or even out of character for him... he effectively (intentionally or not) suckered the market for much more money up front than Facebook is turning out to be worth. If FB were "priced right" at IPO, it might "perform better" but I don't see how that has any positive benefits for the pre-IPO shareholders.
TLDR: Not a problem for Zuckerberg, just a problem for anyone who bought FB shares.
Thermite?
http://youtu.be/4PKB5nnHGAk
Yeah, I've worked "salaried - exempt" what have you jobs since 1990, no time clock, no overtime, no hour tracking.
Every single one of them tracked my days worked, sick days, vacation days, etc. with the same time tracking software used on hourly employees - only difference is that the "exempt" employees always get 80 hours, regardless of what's actually worked.
I even worked at a place that "didn't track" vacation time for higher level managers - some managers took two month long vacations every year with additional days in between - which was acceptable by policy. They still tracked days worked.
Or, hide the text in the photo using steganography (see sig link)
What do you use to track days/hours worked? Isn't vacation accounting built into that system? If it's not, you're going to be running parallel non-communicating software which gives you multiple opportunities for the databases to get out of sync with reality, and each other.
I have, more than once, ordered something cheap that turned out to be good, then ordered a 2nd or 3rd copy, only to have the later ones (branded the same) be.... different.
Latest case in point: $90 7" tablets - first one: 4.5 hour battery life, second one: 2.0 hour battery life.
Bell Helicopter had a similar safety plan for their birds: make 'em heavy enough that they won't get off the ground, that way they'll never crash.
a completely secure computer system with NO USERS since that is the only way that you could possibly make a system secure
I think that users on BOTH ENDS have to care about security (and know enough to do something about it) if a link is going to be secure, otherwise somebody is always going to get sloppy.
With hand coding, I can do anything. With WYSIWYG, you tend to do the more tedious stuff more often because the tools make it easy.
With hand coding, I can always go back and modify something later. With WYSIWYG, the HTML it generates is generally so obfuscated that you need to use a tool to maintain it, and often you are effectively locked into a tool because many tools confuse each other with constructs that only they understand for editing.