Put another way: we've got another 10 years or so.
The 3D models are getting easier and easier to build, they can be captured from photography.
So, when Syria blows up again in 2025, you use some stock footage from 2012, compile it up, and blend it into a recent cityscape render of wherever you want the injured little girl and her family to appear.
Saves a trip around the world, and safer than putting a professional in a war zone.
"The company doesnâ(TM)t reveal how it works, but they appear to be flooding clients with fake information, masquerading as legitimate peers."
All it would take is for a client to verify to data in the chunk (probably by it's MD5 or SHA), and if it's busted then try and download it again from the same peer. If it fails the second time then just ban the peer.
But I imagine they already do this, don't they?
I never looked deep into BitTorrent protocol - I did examine Gnutella/Limewire, and you might be surprised just how horridly lame and insecure that protocol was. BitTorrent is the next generation after Gnutella, I assume it's better, but I doubt it's the last word in P2P.
The value of P2P is in the user pool, the protocol can be tincans on strings and it is still an impressive and valuable resource.
Pirate Pay is aiming to piss in the user pool, forcing the issue of trust... I assume that will be addressed now.
Some thoughts from, oh, maybe 10-15 years ago on the subject.
And the pilots cost less than the flight crew, and the flight crew costs less than the maintenance base, and the maintenance base costs less than the logistics supply chain...
$55B is just airframe production + R&D, the real expense is in deployment.
I wonder how easy it would be to turn a B52 into a UAV? I mean, they can still send Slim Pickens along to get the bombs un-stuck, but otherwise unmanned.
... If this encryption is used well and the keys safeguarded effectively, it is unbreakable until a breakthrough in methods or technology comes about - quantum computing holds the promise to break some forms of strong encryption, if it ever matures.
If you capture the computer on which the files are composed (using commercial software), and the encryption is performed, and it is running a regular consumer OS, are the keys/pass phrases really secure against an opponent with unlimited resources?
Step one: Compose / Examine encrypted document. Step two: Delete unencrypted files. Step three: wipe free space on hard drive when not using PCs (I believe some commercial software does this automatically) Step four: Deny access to the key - keep it on a USB drive that gets thermite-ed into oblivion while being invaded, or similar.
Optional: Step five: Keep backup key at remote site incase of accidental thermite ignition.
Unspoken: Step zero: care enough about your organization to protect it after your death.
So why bother encrypting? If anyone ever gets his hands on those sticks, Ozzi certainly had worse worries than whether his latest hate speech could be read without breaking a tough cipher first.
Oh, I don't know, did any of his files identify other people in his organization, their whereabouts, future plans, common methods of operation? A really good cipher doesn't just take time to break, it takes access to the key. Without the key, strong crypto is really unbreakable, unless you have more computing cycles than there are quarks in the known universe.
How could anyone tell that there are no encrypted files?
The usual first mistake is a sticky note with the password on it.
Common mistake number two is a big icon on the quicklaunch bar labeled "SuperSecretCryptoAccess."
You think I kid?
...In 2005... law enforcement agents raided the home of one of the alleged spies. There, they found a set of password-protected disks and a piece of paper, marked with “alt,” “control,” “e,” and a string of 27 characters. When they used that as a password, the G-Men found a program that allowed the spies “to encrypt data, and then clandestinely to embed the data in images on publicly available websites.”
And odds are the NSA and other intelligence agencies would brute force and eventually crack any encryption regardless. At best, all the encryption would do is buy time for AQ to bug out/scrap plans/accelerate operations.
There are two kinds of encryption, one will keep your kid sister out of your files unless she does a little research on the internet and spends a few hours running a breaker program.
The other kind of encryption, "hard encryption" will keep present technology, on average, busy until well after the heat death of the universe before getting lucky enough to brute force guess the key. If this encryption is used well and the keys safeguarded effectively, it is unbreakable until a breakthrough in methods or technology comes about - quantum computing holds the promise to break some forms of strong encryption, if it ever matures.
Hulu free has been sucking for months now. Can't deliver even a half decent video stream at any resolution. Meanwhile, Netflix watch it now, on the exact same hardware/network/etc., looks and sounds great. Can't say I'm inspired to pony up for a Hulu subscription when they change their service terms faster than the subscription period runs out.
Last cable service I had was in 1993... can't say I've missed it. If Hulu cuts me off, there's plenty of TV to watch on Netflix.
Dunno, an air burst explosion would almost always be preferable to an explosion directly on the ground. You'd have to have a pretty serious misfire situation to make things worse. There's also the deterrent factor, just having the visible defense will disenchant some who might think of piloting a small aircraft into the games.
And... it creates loads of jobs just making the missiles, installing them, maintaining them, covering them in the press....
Of course, if it convinces the terrorists to switch from a lightweight high-profile flying assault to a simple Oklahoma City style ground delivered Big Bomb, that could be a turn for the worse...
Hey, it's London, bombs go off all the time anyway, or at least they did 20 years ago when I used to travel there.
Tax doesn't just come from corporations. If you have an empty town, you have no tax income. If a big corporation is considering moving into your town, you could tax it, or you could cut it a sweetheart deal, even pay it, to locate there. Even if the corporation costs you money and infrastructure, its employees are taxable, as are the goods and services they buy, and the local businesses that supply the company, etc. etc.
Is it right? Is it "fair"? Both are open to debate, but one thing is not, it is the way business is done in America.
I'd like to see the "Buffet Rule" get some traction and start taxing the big players at an effective equal rate to the little guys, but when you propose that, the big guys get all pouty faced and threaten to take their toys across the street to the next jurisdiction that will treat them better. Effectively, the little guys are at a bargaining disadvantage because they have no cohesive organization with which to stand up for themselves, if 100 little guys move out, 100 more will just move in and take the sucky deal that drove the others out.
Maybe, in a few decades, we will finally get enough transparency into these things that Democracy starts to work and the little guys start to turn things to their favor.... it sounds good - but every time I meet somebody who makes $100K/year voting for tax breaks for people making $300K/year and up, I lose hope.
Sounds like a loophole in the California tax code... not really Nevada's problem, is it?
I'm all for closing loopholes, but, in this case, the loophole may be there intentionally, and instead it's California that's reaping the indirect benefits, instead of Nevada. It may not seem fair to the mom and pop businesses who have to pay their taxes while the big guys get away with using the tax code as it is written, but it's reality.
California is well aware of how much tax they are / are not getting from their resident corporations... if they wanted the loophole closed, they would have done it long ago.
I never graduated from college, but I taught myself PHP and 15 years later, I'm earning in excess of $150,000 in an income-tax-free state, with a very low cost of living.
Yeah, I lived in Houston for awhile too... enjoy your cancer.
This is why states and municipalities are free to choose their own taxation rates, all the way down to zero. And, those states that choose not to tax Microsoft, Apple, and others reap indirect benefits from having big business conducted in their state.
Meanwhile, Texas is sticking it to Amazon for the cash - their prerogative, and apparently the costs don't outweigh the benefits for Amazon in that case.
I'm looking for a packaged camera and driver solution... several will likely exist within the next year, I derive no joy from rolling my own - in this aspect, I'm looking to be a user instead of a developer.
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Put another way: we've got another 10 years or so.
The 3D models are getting easier and easier to build, they can be captured from photography.
So, when Syria blows up again in 2025, you use some stock footage from 2012, compile it up, and blend it into a recent cityscape render of wherever you want the injured little girl and her family to appear.
Saves a trip around the world, and safer than putting a professional in a war zone.
"The company doesnâ(TM)t reveal how it works, but they appear to be flooding clients with fake information, masquerading as legitimate peers."
All it would take is for a client to verify to data in the chunk (probably by it's MD5 or SHA), and if it's busted then try and download it again from the same peer. If it fails the second time then just ban the peer.
But I imagine they already do this, don't they?
I never looked deep into BitTorrent protocol - I did examine Gnutella/Limewire, and you might be surprised just how horridly lame and insecure that protocol was. BitTorrent is the next generation after Gnutella, I assume it's better, but I doubt it's the last word in P2P.
The value of P2P is in the user pool, the protocol can be tincans on strings and it is still an impressive and valuable resource.
Pirate Pay is aiming to piss in the user pool, forcing the issue of trust... I assume that will be addressed now.
Some thoughts from, oh, maybe 10-15 years ago on the subject.
And the pilots cost less than the flight crew, and the flight crew costs less than the maintenance base, and the maintenance base costs less than the logistics supply chain...
$55B is just airframe production + R&D, the real expense is in deployment.
Just like the B52...
I wonder how easy it would be to turn a B52 into a UAV? I mean, they can still send Slim Pickens along to get the bombs un-stuck, but otherwise unmanned.
tfa is about people getting recommendations from complete strangers.
Be nice, there are lots of facebook users who don't actually have any real friends...
Using eclipse for C++ is madness, for Java it's great.
This I know, unfortunately, it's the only tool worth mentioning for Nios development, and Java on Nios is double madness, so....
Mature language and environment, vast number of open source third party libraries, runs literally anywhere. (Well... except iOS ...)
Wow, that's just masochistic. Well, at least the Eclipse/Nios C++ environment I run is.
That's so high level I got a nose bleed, so hip you must have trouble seeing over your own pelvis.
Seriously, if I wanted Scratch for Adults, I'd look at Powerpoint / Keynote / Open Office Presentation or whatever they call it.
Free, cross platform, and awesome:
http://qt-project.org/
Pathological disregard for others makes a more ruthless and efficient leader, isn't that what shareholders want?
... If this encryption is used well and the keys safeguarded effectively, it is unbreakable until a breakthrough in methods or technology comes about - quantum computing holds the promise to break some forms of strong encryption, if it ever matures.
If you capture the computer on which the files are composed (using commercial software), and the encryption is performed, and it is running a regular consumer OS, are the keys/pass phrases really secure against an opponent with unlimited resources?
Step one: Compose / Examine encrypted document.
Step two: Delete unencrypted files.
Step three: wipe free space on hard drive when not using PCs (I believe some commercial software does this automatically)
Step four: Deny access to the key - keep it on a USB drive that gets thermite-ed into oblivion while being invaded, or similar.
Optional:
Step five: Keep backup key at remote site incase of accidental thermite ignition.
Unspoken:
Step zero: care enough about your organization to protect it after your death.
So why bother encrypting? If anyone ever gets his hands on those sticks, Ozzi certainly had worse worries than whether his latest hate speech could be read without breaking a tough cipher first.
Oh, I don't know, did any of his files identify other people in his organization, their whereabouts, future plans, common methods of operation? A really good cipher doesn't just take time to break, it takes access to the key. Without the key, strong crypto is really unbreakable, unless you have more computing cycles than there are quarks in the known universe.
How could anyone tell that there are no encrypted files?
The usual first mistake is a sticky note with the password on it.
Common mistake number two is a big icon on the quicklaunch bar labeled "SuperSecretCryptoAccess."
You think I kid?
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/06/alleged-spies-hid-secret-messages-on-public-websites/
Of course Osama bin Laden doesn't care -- he's dead.
What I think this shows is that OBL didn't care what happened to his cause after his inevitable (from old age, if nothing else) death.
And odds are the NSA and other intelligence agencies would brute force and eventually crack any encryption regardless. At best, all the encryption would do is buy time for AQ to bug out/scrap plans/accelerate operations.
There are two kinds of encryption, one will keep your kid sister out of your files unless she does a little research on the internet and spends a few hours running a breaker program.
The other kind of encryption, "hard encryption" will keep present technology, on average, busy until well after the heat death of the universe before getting lucky enough to brute force guess the key. If this encryption is used well and the keys safeguarded effectively, it is unbreakable until a breakthrough in methods or technology comes about - quantum computing holds the promise to break some forms of strong encryption, if it ever matures.
My rack could "swing out" from the wall to get at the backside, I had it mounted on the side wall of a closet.
Seems like they should perfect the shark deployment before going on to other things...
Hulu free has been sucking for months now. Can't deliver even a half decent video stream at any resolution. Meanwhile, Netflix watch it now, on the exact same hardware/network/etc., looks and sounds great. Can't say I'm inspired to pony up for a Hulu subscription when they change their service terms faster than the subscription period runs out.
Last cable service I had was in 1993... can't say I've missed it. If Hulu cuts me off, there's plenty of TV to watch on Netflix.
Dunno, an air burst explosion would almost always be preferable to an explosion directly on the ground. You'd have to have a pretty serious misfire situation to make things worse. There's also the deterrent factor, just having the visible defense will disenchant some who might think of piloting a small aircraft into the games.
And... it creates loads of jobs just making the missiles, installing them, maintaining them, covering them in the press....
Of course, if it convinces the terrorists to switch from a lightweight high-profile flying assault to a simple Oklahoma City style ground delivered Big Bomb, that could be a turn for the worse...
Hey, it's London, bombs go off all the time anyway, or at least they did 20 years ago when I used to travel there.
Tax doesn't just come from corporations. If you have an empty town, you have no tax income. If a big corporation is considering moving into your town, you could tax it, or you could cut it a sweetheart deal, even pay it, to locate there. Even if the corporation costs you money and infrastructure, its employees are taxable, as are the goods and services they buy, and the local businesses that supply the company, etc. etc.
Is it right? Is it "fair"? Both are open to debate, but one thing is not, it is the way business is done in America.
I'd like to see the "Buffet Rule" get some traction and start taxing the big players at an effective equal rate to the little guys, but when you propose that, the big guys get all pouty faced and threaten to take their toys across the street to the next jurisdiction that will treat them better. Effectively, the little guys are at a bargaining disadvantage because they have no cohesive organization with which to stand up for themselves, if 100 little guys move out, 100 more will just move in and take the sucky deal that drove the others out.
Maybe, in a few decades, we will finally get enough transparency into these things that Democracy starts to work and the little guys start to turn things to their favor.... it sounds good - but every time I meet somebody who makes $100K/year voting for tax breaks for people making $300K/year and up, I lose hope.
Sounds like a loophole in the California tax code... not really Nevada's problem, is it?
I'm all for closing loopholes, but, in this case, the loophole may be there intentionally, and instead it's California that's reaping the indirect benefits, instead of Nevada. It may not seem fair to the mom and pop businesses who have to pay their taxes while the big guys get away with using the tax code as it is written, but it's reality.
California is well aware of how much tax they are / are not getting from their resident corporations... if they wanted the loophole closed, they would have done it long ago.
I never graduated from college, but I taught myself PHP and 15 years later, I'm earning in excess of $150,000 in an income-tax-free state, with a very low cost of living.
Yeah, I lived in Houston for awhile too... enjoy your cancer.
This is why states and municipalities are free to choose their own taxation rates, all the way down to zero. And, those states that choose not to tax Microsoft, Apple, and others reap indirect benefits from having big business conducted in their state.
Meanwhile, Texas is sticking it to Amazon for the cash - their prerogative, and apparently the costs don't outweigh the benefits for Amazon in that case.
Cool, thanks for the summary. I've seen a couple of things on the RPi forums in the past, but nothing definitive.
I'm looking for a packaged camera and driver solution... several will likely exist within the next year, I derive no joy from rolling my own - in this aspect, I'm looking to be a user instead of a developer.