Perelman is right to refuse the medal. Why he, the mathemetician, who will forever be the part of human history, who solved one of the main problems of science, accept a medal from some king? And go for it in a remote country?
I live in Ukraine. I've been in the USA. An I can confirm that you are right. Probably our societies learned from one another.
In Ukraine the government got the "bloody noze" in 90s from people for poking it into private lives of population.
Now we have got another exteme - the government is afraid to control any aspects of the society life, so we slide into some sort of anarchy. And I can tell that there is some truth in the saying that "anarchy is the mother of order".
But recently the government powers begin to rise again. The problem is that bueraucrats look out for number one, and by doing it make problems for everybody else.
Still this Secure Web Chat is the only chat that I trust, as I can view the JavaScript source code, I can view the data which leaves my computer in the POST variable with, for example, the Firefox extension Tamper Data.
Actually the strong encryption is done with the JavaScript until the form is submitted. And decryption is done after the data arrived to the browser.
I plan to add some more features, such as starting a new chat, etc.
It is true, it is symmetrical only. It means that the password should be agreed before, during a personal meeting. In some cases it is OK.
However it disturbs me to chat with, say, google chat, when data flies over the Internet unencrypted. And knowing that GPG is supported by the German government causes also some doubts.
I developed the secure chat, which uses the JavaScript implementation of David Wheeler & Roger Needham's Block TEA (Tiny Encryption Algorithm) by Chris Veness.
The message is encrypted by the TEA algorithm, before being sent to server at the browser. The password remains only in the browser window.
The TEA is the strong encryption. Besides the source code of the Secure Chat can be viewed easily. And the data sent and received can be checked easily.
I use GIMP for ages for complicated work. I processed thousands of images with it.
I tried photoshop, but I do not like it. Maybe because I do not like Adobe in general, especially its PDF format and especially when it is placed on the web. PDF freezes my browser (and computer) and I have to loose my time on this stupidity.
--They don't do simple data analysis with Access, they are constructing huge databases with sophisticated relational links, referential integrity checks, and creating applications in Access.--
"Huge databases with Access". Oh gosh! This sounds like an evil joke to me. Access is the intentionally crippled database. If you wish a bit less crippled database, pay more for a bit crippled MsSQL some limited edition, an so on until you reach MsSQL enterprise edition, which would cost a fortune.
As for GIMP, it is the masterpiece of software. I have got Photoshop, but it is the Adobe. Have you ever tried to open an Adobe PDF file in browser? The GIMP compares to Photshop about the same as HTML webpage with the PDF page opened in browser.
The art made in GIMP has its flavor, its poetry. GIMP rocks. If you say that Photoshop is better than GIMP, than you did not use GIMP seriously.
They sold us the product, which is about to fall apart next morning. And what Microsoft does in this situation? Nothing. Silence.
They have the mechanism of automatic update. They shall not sleep this night, instead taking care of the customers. Or give us some advises. At least try it.
But they do not care. They've got their monopoly an do not care. We have to pay salaries to 2500 people, and we have to worry that this childish OS crumbles under our feet. This is an insane situation.
In aviation the US system prevails. The altitude of the flight is still measured in medieval feet, something like 33600. In normal scientific metric system it is 9600 meters.
As my professor said: "It is the shame to enter 21-st century with the Imperial System of Measurement". Still we did.
I blame the US archaic technological system of doing things. This is the reason of these endless vulnerabilities.
It is impossible to work like this. I think the UN has to create the International Body and come out with the Open Source Secure OS, based on the understandable scientific System of Measurements. The humankind shall not be the hostage of an undereducated Bill or whomever. We shall aspire to the modern secure computing.
For some reason in tiny Western Europe with 600 million population there is not so many skyscrapers as in, say, New York alone. But the USA has got the much larger area.
Another way to go, - neither up, nor down, under ground; it is - inside. Limit the area of a house or an apartment. Sometimes a rich freak occupies 10,000 square meters house, heats it in winter and air-conditions in summer, just for 1 - 2 persons...
Why would one want to build such a high building in the first place? It is susceptible to an easy destruction; it requires huge amounts of energy for elevators, lifting water, etc.
All this is marketing. Trying to sell the city and its businesses. Vanity. Capitalism.
Can it cause the earthquake? Of course it can. Not only the building itself, but all those trucks with steel and concrete going forth and back, hammering, etc.
Simone de Beauvoir wrote: "If you live long enough, you'll see every victory turn into a defeat". We see now how the victorious capitalism begins to "eat itself", destructing the planet itself.
Crash of "communism" was spectacular - revolts, civil wars. The crash of the capitalism will be catastrophic to a much larger scale - the collapse of the Nature, the failure of Earth.
New Deal in 30-s in the USA had also elements of Socialism.
Western civilization practices unfair trade with the help of military pressure and puppet regimes. That's what keeps 3-rd world in poverty.
Now when Hugo Chavez and some other leaders started to insist on the fair price of oil and other their products we see what started to happen to them.
I do not speak of isolated incidents as Aral sea. I mean the wasteful economy in general. The "success" of the US economy is based on the pain and devastation of billions in the 3rd world.
"..US economy is more efficient than the Soviet..." - it is not over yet. Soviet system evolves, the US system is frozen.
The US system brought ecologically disastrous economy, which can not exist without wars for resources.
Do not put capsule on the side of the rocket where things can fall on it from above. Gosh. This is so wrong.
I think they did it just because to make it in non-Russian way. Just that it has different profile from Russian style rocket of historic 1957 and 1961.
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Thanks for pointing to my mistake. I am sorry for being ignorant and sarcastic. Will punish myself accordingly.
The sponge should be definitely dry and then only 10 seconds in micro oven are enough.
I am surprised that the CNN personnel is so ignorant to not know this. They suggest the method which requires times more energy for sterilization.
No surprise that those guys need so much energy from abroad being that ignorant.
Why to beam out voluntarily any info about ourselves? How do we know that those extraterrestrials will not use this info against us?
I would suggest that we listen more carefully instead to the outside world and try to understand what is out there.
For example, the modern military body-armor. It is still possible to hurt a soldier into the neck or leg.
I mean the state (or states) should attack the culprits back and bring them to justice for the harm they invoke.
Perelman is right to refuse the medal. Why he, the mathemetician, who will forever be the part of human history, who solved one of the main problems of science, accept a medal from some king? And go for it in a remote country?
In Ukraine the government got the "bloody noze" in 90s from people for poking it into private lives of population.
Now we have got another exteme - the government is afraid to control any aspects of the society life, so we slide into some sort of anarchy. And I can tell that there is some truth in the saying that "anarchy is the mother of order".
But recently the government powers begin to rise again. The problem is that bueraucrats look out for number one, and by doing it make problems for everybody else.
Oh my, what else I should know.
Actually the strong encryption is done with the JavaScript until the form is submitted. And decryption is done after the data arrived to the browser.
I plan to add some more features, such as starting a new chat, etc.
It is true, it is symmetrical only. It means that the password should be agreed before, during a personal meeting. In some cases it is OK.
However it disturbs me to chat with, say, google chat, when data flies over the Internet unencrypted. And knowing that GPG is supported by the German government causes also some doubts.
The message is encrypted by the TEA algorithm, before being sent to server at the browser. The password remains only in the browser window.
The TEA is the strong encryption. Besides the source code of the Secure Chat can be viewed easily. And the data sent and received can be checked easily.
You can check it here:
http://www.enetplanet.com/schat/
Participants should have the agreed password prior to using the Secure Chat.
They still print papers?
I tried photoshop, but I do not like it. Maybe because I do not like Adobe in general, especially its PDF format and especially when it is placed on the web. PDF freezes my browser (and computer) and I have to loose my time on this stupidity.
Updates are often and free. With every version it keeps improving. It is made by artists for artists.
"Huge databases with Access". Oh gosh! This sounds like an evil joke to me. Access is the intentionally crippled database. If you wish a bit less crippled database, pay more for a bit crippled MsSQL some limited edition, an so on until you reach MsSQL enterprise edition, which would cost a fortune.
As for GIMP, it is the masterpiece of software. I have got Photoshop, but it is the Adobe. Have you ever tried to open an Adobe PDF file in browser? The GIMP compares to Photshop about the same as HTML webpage with the PDF page opened in browser.
The art made in GIMP has its flavor, its poetry. GIMP rocks. If you say that Photoshop is better than GIMP, than you did not use GIMP seriously.
They have the mechanism of automatic update. They shall not sleep this night, instead taking care of the customers. Or give us some advises. At least try it.
But they do not care. They've got their monopoly an do not care. We have to pay salaries to 2500 people, and we have to worry that this childish OS crumbles under our feet. This is an insane situation.
In aviation the US system prevails. The altitude of the flight is still measured in medieval feet, something like 33600. In normal scientific metric system it is 9600 meters.
As my professor said: "It is the shame to enter 21-st century with the Imperial System of Measurement". Still we did.
I blame the US archaic technological system of doing things. This is the reason of these endless vulnerabilities.
It is impossible to work like this. I think the UN has to create the International Body and come out with the Open Source Secure OS, based on the understandable scientific System of Measurements. The humankind shall not be the hostage of an undereducated Bill or whomever. We shall aspire to the modern secure computing.
It makes sense to me.
thanks for the laugh...
Another way to go, - neither up, nor down, under ground; it is - inside. Limit the area of a house or an apartment. Sometimes a rich freak occupies 10,000 square meters house, heats it in winter and air-conditions in summer, just for 1 - 2 persons...
So, you think - no sense to play it safe. Indeed why bother - global warming, putting the planet out of balance, - little things...
Why would one want to build such a high building in the first place? It is susceptible to an easy destruction; it requires huge amounts of energy for elevators, lifting water, etc. All this is marketing. Trying to sell the city and its businesses. Vanity. Capitalism. Can it cause the earthquake? Of course it can. Not only the building itself, but all those trucks with steel and concrete going forth and back, hammering, etc. Simone de Beauvoir wrote: "If you live long enough, you'll see every victory turn into a defeat". We see now how the victorious capitalism begins to "eat itself", destructing the planet itself. Crash of "communism" was spectacular - revolts, civil wars. The crash of the capitalism will be catastrophic to a much larger scale - the collapse of the Nature, the failure of Earth.
New Deal in 30-s in the USA had also elements of Socialism. Western civilization practices unfair trade with the help of military pressure and puppet regimes. That's what keeps 3-rd world in poverty. Now when Hugo Chavez and some other leaders started to insist on the fair price of oil and other their products we see what started to happen to them.
I do not speak of isolated incidents as Aral sea. I mean the wasteful economy in general. The "success" of the US economy is based on the pain and devastation of billions in the 3rd world.
"..US economy is more efficient than the Soviet..." - it is not over yet. Soviet system evolves, the US system is frozen. The US system brought ecologically disastrous economy, which can not exist without wars for resources.
Do not put capsule on the side of the rocket where things can fall on it from above. Gosh. This is so wrong. I think they did it just because to make it in non-Russian way. Just that it has different profile from Russian style rocket of historic 1957 and 1961.
It just adds to chaos, which we try to overcome.