So, I'm no scientist, nor do I play one on TV, but, I recall Carl Sagan saying many years ago that a black hole bends both space, and time.
So if the black hole only lasts a couple of minutes, and the time is bent, then how long does the minute last?
If it makes time move more quickly, then I'm moving my cube to the LHC.
I thought McCain was eloquent, conciliatory, and most importantly classy in his concession. The man showed a depth of character that I recalled from the 2000 elections, and that unfortunately had not really been displayed through this campaign season.
Makes me wonder, if he had displayed the same insight and eloquence prior to last night, could he have won? (Disregarding Palin, party-line, and the other albatross he hung around his neck, of course.)
Micro$oft's deprecation of.tif is a prime example. Sure it creates security vulnerabilities, but when you have millions of.tif documents, do you spend more money converting it, or do you retain a couple of old platforms around that can read them?
Let's see, so 99.9% uptime... Hours in a year: 8760 99.9% of hours in year: 8751.24
Hours in a year that Google has lost in this incident: >27 or 99.691780821917808219178082191781%. Lets round to 99.692% (I'm feeling charitable.)
Wait, we just said 99.9% uptime. Really we meant 99.9% uptime every ten years. So, 99.9% of 87,600 hours allows us 87.6 hours out of service. No problem boys, we've got two weeks to get this thing working!
Have you ever been in a large company meeting of a company that equips the majority of its employees with cingular blackberries? When the blackberry starts receiving a message, the sound system goes nuts.
The RF interference from these things, coupled with the antenna created by minimally shielded wiring creates a pattern of noise that is quite distinct. Imagine, if that were a relatively unshielded wiring harness containing the wiring for a fly-by-wire control on the aircraft's wing.
Joe gets his email, and the plane drops two thousand feet.
Amen. Unsecure coding practices from banks (credit card providers, etc.) are the leading issue in browser security, IMO. If a security fix (like disable displaying different domains in multiple frames) breaks banking, then the setting gets turned off. Its part of FISMA and FDCC but no one can actually implement it, because too many app developers want to let you look at a couple of different sites at one time, rather than screen scraping and redisplaying to save on overhead.
My particular vision of Hell would definitely include a giant 70's disco, AND goth poetry. Being forced to wear a leisure suit and platform shoes for ten minutes would be dramatic punishment, much less for eternity...
I think the appropriate argument that allows scientific fact and the bible to peacefully coexist can be summed up as follows, assuming that the bible is divinely inspired:
1) God created the heavens and earth, light, the solar system, all of creation in seven days.
2) God is outside of his creation.
3) A day is an arbitrary amount of time based upon the length of time it takes aplanet to rotate once around its axis.
4) If God was outside of creation, (in heaven?) then a day was the length of time it took heaven to rotate around itself.
Therefore, since a day is a subjective measurement, based upon the perspective of the observer. And, since we assume that God "wrote" the bible through his instruments on earth, and the bible is therefore based upon God's perspective, then we must ask the question how long is a day in heaven?
Since heaven is eternal, and eternal is synonymous with infinite, then a heavenly day must be very long indeed.
So, you know that the same guy is probably reading and sniffing your packets as you write this post to/., right?
It amazes me that IT-aware people cannot seem to understand that the minute inconvenience that occurs by little things like centralizing services, adding passwords, and generally making an IT department that does IT, allow "your department" to focus on little things like doing business, and making the company money.
Instead, the IT-aware people inevitiably complain that its security, and security impedes business. The problem is that people like you build crappy little tools to do a job, and then bitch about the power tools that would be built if your manager had the balls to get rid of your now obsolete position and pay to roll out secured enterprise class tools for the same thing.
Good luck, remember security is useless unless the company makes money; and free because you built it doesn't save time, or money when it can't be supported because you got hit by a bus.
Nope, that's why you get GPG, and encrypt your stuff before you store it on the intertubes. Use a good encryption algorithm, and the FTP to you hearts content, because its encrypted before you sent the file.
Just store your keys somewhere special. My favorite forensics story begins with the guy who encrypted his private key to "keep it safe."
Agreed. It looks and feels to me like the CG stuff that is being pushed as "Direct to DVD" "Keep the kids entertained in the car, buy a $5 movie" animagarbage, like "Peter Cottontail: the movie".
However, my 3 year old loves the clone wars, and Lego Star Wars has made him into a total fan-boy. So, we'll go see it. He's 3. Easy to please. I will enjoy watching him enjoy it.
I remember going to see the first one with my Dad at age 5, we walked out of the theatre, then went right back in and saw it again. Greatest movie, ever. Now, its sort of humdrum, and it doesn't keep my kid's attention. The newer stuff is flashier, and does a better job of keeping the child's attention. Unfortunately it sacrifices the mystic appeal that made me hope, dream and wonder as a child.
Heat is the waste product. That's why your car has a radiator. To dissipate the waste heat. Expansion is the goal. What he's saying is that the expansion can occur without as much waste product. Whether its true or not, a lower combustion temperature would improve vehicle performance, if the expansion of the gas were similar.
Lets assume heat + some chemical process + pressure are required to create the miracle crude. Now let's dissect how real crude was created millions of years ago... Hmmm, also, heat + some chemical process + pressure. Strange, but it seems that the concept holds true with the natural method. What if there is a more efficient product from the artificial method that burns slightly more cleanly. Well, that would be like, what's the word? Refinement.
Lets see, there are various qualities of crude oil. Light, sweet, brent, etc. The most pure make the most efficient fuel types. The least pure are used to pave roads. All require a level of refinement. Is it possible that he has created a high purity crude that after refinement makes a more efficient gasoline?
I'm not qualified to analyze the process, nor do I know what his process is. But I am going to suspend disbelief and wait until it is disproven before I scream BS. But I know someone with the ability to do the analysis should try to disprove it.
Great detail, but if we're trying to avoid dark and cynical a series where everybody dies, is horribly raped, is a victim of incest, or is otherwise somehow destroyed horribly with no glimmer of hope may be a trifle out of scope for the recommendation list.
I literally grew up with Garion. Read the first one at 10, and every year or so after that another one. Definitely a good read, and the character grows with the child.
Raymond Feist and the Magician: Apprentice and Master books are great, after that it went downhill a little, but also good for pre-teens.
Both are fantasy, but great for younger readers.
On the sci-fi front, while not classic, or even that good now that I look back on them, Alan Dean Foster's Flinx books were fun when I was ten. Start with For Love of Mother Not, and go from there.
Lastly, don't forget the non sci-fi / fantasy, Encyclopedia Brown was my perennial favorite. Child Sherlock Holmes. Very good reads for kids.
Anybody else get nervous when words like implanted chip, and demonize get placed in the same sentence? Call it my early childhood christian education coming out, but this is one of the few topics in modern security and computing that makes me feel all icky, like I'm witnessing a Revelations like epiphany in action.
I think the bigger problem is that we all choose to live and work in places where we can make money. Those places tend to cause the only affordable housing to places with crack-whore-ridden polluted woody ravines.
As a parent of two awesome (and very young) children, I don't trust my townhome community enough to let them out to play. So I take them to my parent's house, or to my wife's parent's house, where they can get out, chase cattle, and play with dogs and cats in a large yard next to a farm yard. We put them on a tractor and let them ride (with adults driving of course), and we give them the opportunity to run and enjoy the surroundings. Then we load them back into the car, drive them back to our box near the crack-whore woods, where they can sit inside and play quietly.
So why are we moving to these places? Because that's where the jobs are, and that's where the money is. After all corporations would rather send IT jobs to India than to send them to places like Allendale, SC, or Lynchburg, VA, or even heaven forbid, Charleston, IL.
I say its time to inshore, rather than offshore. The benefits to society would be tremendous, safer places for our kids to grow up, de-urbanization, improved infrastructure in traditionally technologically depressed areas, less concentrated emissions, and reduced "brain-drain" from small towns all over. The benefits to the companies would be tremendous due to lower wages for employees, reduced taxes and tax incentives for moving into to underserved areas, and enhanced performance from workers who are able to be at work on-tiome rather than fighting traffic. Finally, the benefit to families would be incredible, with more time to spend at home with your children, more time and safer areas to take them to play baseball, or go fishing, and better school systems as a whole (though Allendale, SC is not a good benchmark for this particular metric).
Imagine that.
Sounds like Robert Heinlein.
"Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something."
RAH, Time Enough For Love
I always that laziness promotes efficiency, but only when coupled with the fear of having to physically work hard, otherwise we would all be manual laborers working an 8 hour shift five days a week, and drinking beer the rest of the time.
Unfortunately the fifth amendment doesn't really apply to a passphrase required to decrypt files discovered during execution of a search warrant. Failure to provide the passphrase upon court order can (and has many times) result in a defendant being jailed for contempt of court.
I'm not saying its right, I'm saying get a good lawyer if you decide to engage in unscrupulous activity and encrypt the contents of your email.
Encrypt away, they'll subpoena the email, you're right. Then they'll subpoena the passphrase. If you don't comply with the subpoena for the passphrase, they'll obtain a search warrant, and find where you wrote it down, admit it, its in a card in your wallet, or in some pass store software, isn't it? Then they'll use good old fashioned forensics to decrypt the shadow cache and drag a list of passwords on your server out in the open.
And finally, if that doesn't work, they'll throw you in jail for contempt of court until such time as you do remember your passphrase.
Don't underestimate the power of the government to discover secrets, they've been in the business for years.
What concerns me more is this enforced compliance with a subpoena for a crime that might have been committed, but for which they have to conduct a search to determine if evidence exists that a crime was committed. This thing stinks to high heaven of unconstitutional and illegal search and seizure. Where are the lawyers screaming habeas corpus?
To bad that M$ will do the market research and say, "well, that means we can drop a virtually irrelevant market segment, and concentrate more time and money in our legal department to get case law made more favorable to our market design in other more populated and wealthy countries."
I mean come on. Does anyone believe that Bill Gates is going to changes policy because of Norway?
Remember, your employer is the man in the middle if they wanted to do a man in the middle attack. At least one company is promoting a product to be able to intercept and decrypt https packets by acting as a proxy for encryption keys. Your encoded ssl traffic is not even secure.
The book is an excellent comentary on political philosophy. The movie sucked in a way that I typically associate with blackholes, vaccuum cleaners and lovers with buckteeth and braces.
Verhoeven has managed to destroy more great science fiction literature by making his (ahem) films, than have all of the bible-belt bookburners.
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So, I guess this means no more secondhand PC games.
So, I'm no scientist, nor do I play one on TV, but, I recall Carl Sagan saying many years ago that a black hole bends both space, and time. So if the black hole only lasts a couple of minutes, and the time is bent, then how long does the minute last? If it makes time move more quickly, then I'm moving my cube to the LHC.
Holy $h#t! You have got to be f#%*ing kidding me.
No seriously, I can only say that, because if I change the characters to letters I might get nailed for an ex-post facto violation of the law, later.
NIST SP800-114 provides a great guideline for teleworkers and remote access. Definitely a must read for providing a resource to your employees. http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-114/SP800-114.pdf
I thought McCain was eloquent, conciliatory, and most importantly classy in his concession. The man showed a depth of character that I recalled from the 2000 elections, and that unfortunately had not really been displayed through this campaign season. Makes me wonder, if he had displayed the same insight and eloquence prior to last night, could he have won? (Disregarding Palin, party-line, and the other albatross he hung around his neck, of course.)
Micro$oft's deprecation of .tif is a prime example. Sure it creates security vulnerabilities, but when you have millions of .tif documents, do you spend more money converting it, or do you retain a couple of old platforms around that can read them?
Let's see, so 99.9% uptime...
Hours in a year: 8760
99.9% of hours in year: 8751.24
Hours in a year that Google has lost in this incident: >27 or 99.691780821917808219178082191781%. Lets round to 99.692% (I'm feeling charitable.)
Wait, we just said 99.9% uptime. Really we meant 99.9% uptime every ten years.
So, 99.9% of 87,600 hours allows us 87.6 hours out of service. No problem boys, we've got two weeks to get this thing working!
Have you ever been in a large company meeting of a company that equips the majority of its employees with cingular blackberries? When the blackberry starts receiving a message, the sound system goes nuts.
The RF interference from these things, coupled with the antenna created by minimally shielded wiring creates a pattern of noise that is quite distinct. Imagine, if that were a relatively unshielded wiring harness containing the wiring for a fly-by-wire control on the aircraft's wing.
Joe gets his email, and the plane drops two thousand feet.
I'm just saying.
Amen. Unsecure coding practices from banks (credit card providers, etc.) are the leading issue in browser security, IMO. If a security fix (like disable displaying different domains in multiple frames) breaks banking, then the setting gets turned off. Its part of FISMA and FDCC but no one can actually implement it, because too many app developers want to let you look at a couple of different sites at one time, rather than screen scraping and redisplaying to save on overhead.
My particular vision of Hell would definitely include a giant 70's disco, AND goth poetry. Being forced to wear a leisure suit and platform shoes for ten minutes would be dramatic punishment, much less for eternity...
I think the appropriate argument that allows scientific fact and the bible to peacefully coexist can be summed up as follows, assuming that the bible is divinely inspired:
1) God created the heavens and earth, light, the solar system, all of creation in seven days.
2) God is outside of his creation.
3) A day is an arbitrary amount of time based upon the length of time it takes aplanet to rotate once around its axis.
4) If God was outside of creation, (in heaven?) then a day was the length of time it took heaven to rotate around itself.
Therefore, since a day is a subjective measurement, based upon the perspective of the observer. And, since we assume that God "wrote" the bible through his instruments on earth, and the bible is therefore based upon God's perspective, then we must ask the question how long is a day in heaven?
Since heaven is eternal, and eternal is synonymous with infinite, then a heavenly day must be very long indeed.
So, you know that the same guy is probably reading and sniffing your packets as you write this post to /., right?
It amazes me that IT-aware people cannot seem to understand that the minute inconvenience that occurs by little things like centralizing services, adding passwords, and generally making an IT department that does IT, allow "your department" to focus on little things like doing business, and making the company money.
Instead, the IT-aware people inevitiably complain that its security, and security impedes business. The problem is that people like you build crappy little tools to do a job, and then bitch about the power tools that would be built if your manager had the balls to get rid of your now obsolete position and pay to roll out secured enterprise class tools for the same thing.
Good luck, remember security is useless unless the company makes money; and free because you built it doesn't save time, or money when it can't be supported because you got hit by a bus.
Just store your keys somewhere special. My favorite forensics story begins with the guy who encrypted his private key to "keep it safe."
He didn't store a copy first.
However, my 3 year old loves the clone wars, and Lego Star Wars has made him into a total fan-boy. So, we'll go see it. He's 3. Easy to please. I will enjoy watching him enjoy it.
I remember going to see the first one with my Dad at age 5, we walked out of the theatre, then went right back in and saw it again. Greatest movie, ever. Now, its sort of humdrum, and it doesn't keep my kid's attention. The newer stuff is flashier, and does a better job of keeping the child's attention. Unfortunately it sacrifices the mystic appeal that made me hope, dream and wonder as a child.
Heat is the waste product. That's why your car has a radiator. To dissipate the waste heat. Expansion is the goal. What he's saying is that the expansion can occur without as much waste product. Whether its true or not, a lower combustion temperature would improve vehicle performance, if the expansion of the gas were similar. Lets assume heat + some chemical process + pressure are required to create the miracle crude. Now let's dissect how real crude was created millions of years ago... Hmmm, also, heat + some chemical process + pressure. Strange, but it seems that the concept holds true with the natural method. What if there is a more efficient product from the artificial method that burns slightly more cleanly. Well, that would be like, what's the word? Refinement. Lets see, there are various qualities of crude oil. Light, sweet, brent, etc. The most pure make the most efficient fuel types. The least pure are used to pave roads. All require a level of refinement. Is it possible that he has created a high purity crude that after refinement makes a more efficient gasoline? I'm not qualified to analyze the process, nor do I know what his process is. But I am going to suspend disbelief and wait until it is disproven before I scream BS. But I know someone with the ability to do the analysis should try to disprove it.
Great detail, but if we're trying to avoid dark and cynical a series where everybody dies, is horribly raped, is a victim of incest, or is otherwise somehow destroyed horribly with no glimmer of hope may be a trifle out of scope for the recommendation list.
I literally grew up with Garion. Read the first one at 10, and every year or so after that another one. Definitely a good read, and the character grows with the child. Raymond Feist and the Magician: Apprentice and Master books are great, after that it went downhill a little, but also good for pre-teens. Both are fantasy, but great for younger readers. On the sci-fi front, while not classic, or even that good now that I look back on them, Alan Dean Foster's Flinx books were fun when I was ten. Start with For Love of Mother Not, and go from there. Lastly, don't forget the non sci-fi / fantasy, Encyclopedia Brown was my perennial favorite. Child Sherlock Holmes. Very good reads for kids.
Anybody else get nervous when words like implanted chip, and demonize get placed in the same sentence? Call it my early childhood christian education coming out, but this is one of the few topics in modern security and computing that makes me feel all icky, like I'm witnessing a Revelations like epiphany in action.
I think the bigger problem is that we all choose to live and work in places where we can make money. Those places tend to cause the only affordable housing to places with crack-whore-ridden polluted woody ravines. As a parent of two awesome (and very young) children, I don't trust my townhome community enough to let them out to play. So I take them to my parent's house, or to my wife's parent's house, where they can get out, chase cattle, and play with dogs and cats in a large yard next to a farm yard. We put them on a tractor and let them ride (with adults driving of course), and we give them the opportunity to run and enjoy the surroundings. Then we load them back into the car, drive them back to our box near the crack-whore woods, where they can sit inside and play quietly. So why are we moving to these places? Because that's where the jobs are, and that's where the money is. After all corporations would rather send IT jobs to India than to send them to places like Allendale, SC, or Lynchburg, VA, or even heaven forbid, Charleston, IL. I say its time to inshore, rather than offshore. The benefits to society would be tremendous, safer places for our kids to grow up, de-urbanization, improved infrastructure in traditionally technologically depressed areas, less concentrated emissions, and reduced "brain-drain" from small towns all over. The benefits to the companies would be tremendous due to lower wages for employees, reduced taxes and tax incentives for moving into to underserved areas, and enhanced performance from workers who are able to be at work on-tiome rather than fighting traffic. Finally, the benefit to families would be incredible, with more time to spend at home with your children, more time and safer areas to take them to play baseball, or go fishing, and better school systems as a whole (though Allendale, SC is not a good benchmark for this particular metric). Imagine that.
Sounds like Robert Heinlein. "Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something." RAH, Time Enough For Love I always that laziness promotes efficiency, but only when coupled with the fear of having to physically work hard, otherwise we would all be manual laborers working an 8 hour shift five days a week, and drinking beer the rest of the time.
Unfortunately the fifth amendment doesn't really apply to a passphrase required to decrypt files discovered during execution of a search warrant. Failure to provide the passphrase upon court order can (and has many times) result in a defendant being jailed for contempt of court. I'm not saying its right, I'm saying get a good lawyer if you decide to engage in unscrupulous activity and encrypt the contents of your email.
Encrypt away, they'll subpoena the email, you're right. Then they'll subpoena the passphrase. If you don't comply with the subpoena for the passphrase, they'll obtain a search warrant, and find where you wrote it down, admit it, its in a card in your wallet, or in some pass store software, isn't it? Then they'll use good old fashioned forensics to decrypt the shadow cache and drag a list of passwords on your server out in the open.
And finally, if that doesn't work, they'll throw you in jail for contempt of court until such time as you do remember your passphrase.
Don't underestimate the power of the government to discover secrets, they've been in the business for years.
What concerns me more is this enforced compliance with a subpoena for a crime that might have been committed, but for which they have to conduct a search to determine if evidence exists that a crime was committed. This thing stinks to high heaven of unconstitutional and illegal search and seizure. Where are the lawyers screaming habeas corpus?
To bad that M$ will do the market research and say, "well, that means we can drop a virtually irrelevant market segment, and concentrate more time and money in our legal department to get case law made more favorable to our market design in other more populated and wealthy countries." I mean come on. Does anyone believe that Bill Gates is going to changes policy because of Norway?
Remember, your employer is the man in the middle if they wanted to do a man in the middle attack. At least one company is promoting a product to be able to intercept and decrypt https packets by acting as a proxy for encryption keys. Your encoded ssl traffic is not even secure.
The book is an excellent comentary on political philosophy. The movie sucked in a way that I typically associate with blackholes, vaccuum cleaners and lovers with buckteeth and braces.
Verhoeven has managed to destroy more great science fiction literature by making his (ahem) films, than have all of the bible-belt bookburners.