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  1. Re:quantum computers=master keys on Putin Gives Federal Security Agents Two Weeks To Produce 'Encryption Keys' For The Internet (gawker.com) · · Score: 1

    Not really. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... for an introduction.

  2. Re:Might as well order them to produce cold fusion on Putin Gives Federal Security Agents Two Weeks To Produce 'Encryption Keys' For The Internet (gawker.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, they just have to go with anti-Kerckhoff encryption. The security of encryption may only depend on the obscurity of the algorithm, not on the secrecy of the key.

  3. Re:Monolithic no longer Works on Microsoft Is Laying Off 1,850 to Streamline Its Smartphone Business (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The last remnants of BKL were removed with kernel version 2.6.39, 5 or 6 years ago.

  4. Re:Ad blocking to fit under your cap on Forbes Asks Readers To Disable Adblock, Serves Up Malvertising (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    When you discover that the first several results from a search on a search engine "break", good luck letting sites "keep the pieces" while keeping some sense that search engines are still useful. Imagine performing some random web search, but you discover that the first five results on the page that look relevant are broken due to your ad blocking policy. But you don't know they're actually broken until you've already spent time viewing them. Your back button is going to get a lot of workout, and you'll spend a lot of time looking at broken pages.

    For 5 pages this takes 5 or 10 seconds. Not a lot of time compared to the damage done by a compromised computer. It's like everything else in live. You can cry about all the time it takes to put on a condom or you can not get AIDS. Your choice.

  5. Re:Now let's talk about on Russian Presence Near Undersea Cables Concerns US (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The first nation to call themselves a democracy was a fascist hellhole in which up to 80% of the population lived in slavery. A republic, res publica, on the other hand was literally an organisation that dealt with all public things as opposed to all private things, that the individual people dealt with. Basically the opposite of the US System now. The US Republic only deals in secrets, whereas no aspect of any person's live is private anymore. LOL words.

  6. Re:Faith is not separated from the real world on Lawrence Krauss On the Pope's Encyclical: Not Even Close? · · Score: 0

    Unless you have such a vague notion of faith as to make it effectively meaningless it HAS to intrude on the material plane.

    Well, let's test this scientific theory of yours by asking for examples... Please, list such "intrusions"...

    Is there any religion without an origin story like "turtles all the way" or "god did it in 6 days" or similar bullshit?

  7. Re:Faith is not separated from the real world on Lawrence Krauss On the Pope's Encyclical: Not Even Close? · · Score: 1

    Since when is "dictating behavior" the domain of science?

    You have to wash your hand between performing an autopsy and delivering a baby. You have to heat a chicken to 75 Celsius before eating it. You have to wear a safety belt while driving a car. You may not dump chemical waste into drinking water supply. I'm sure you're able to find millions of other examples.

  8. Re:truly an inspiration. on Woman Behind Pakistan's First Hackathon, Sabeen Mahmud, Shot Dead · · Score: 1

    It is just as silly and repugnant to use today's moral standards to judge people who lived in far different times

    When they are discussed as moral role models for people today they absolutely need to be judged by today's standard. And by these standards he was just another child molesting mass murder.

  9. Re:Cautionary Tale? on Chinese Scientists Claim To Have Genetically Modified Human Embryos · · Score: 1

    The phenotype is just some physical or chemical reaction. Of course it can be turned of. It's not magic.

  10. Re:Cautionary Tale? on Chinese Scientists Claim To Have Genetically Modified Human Embryos · · Score: 1

    Silly. You don't get to buy the genetic upgrades; but you can license them. If you fail to pay your monthly subscription fee the enhancements will get turned off.

  11. Re:"Fruit of poisonous tree" does not apply on Silk Road Investigators Charged With Stealing Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    If somebody likes to steal it is reasonable to suspect that he creates situation in which he can easily steal. The two investigators proofed that stealing is what they do, so all results of their "investigation" should be taken with a large grain of salt. Your example is spot on.

  12. Re:How about energy conservation? on Quantum Equation Suggests Universe Had No Beginning · · Score: 1

    Conservation of energy - the assumption that energy cannot be either destroyed or created - is a fundamental axiom in physics, which goes against the idea that there was a point in time before which the universe didn't exist, but after, it did

    Emi Noether showed in the first half of the last century that conservation of energy is equivalent to time invariance ("shift symmetry of time"). At the beginning of time, i. e. the beginning of the universe, there was no time invariance; time was just being "created". Hence no conservation of energy.

  13. Re:I've got this on An Argument For Not Taking Down Horrific Videos · · Score: 1

    Should NBC be able to air detailed plans to create a nuclear weapon? If you answer 'yes' to this, then I have to write you off as a crazy ideologue.

    Isn't the real question: Should NBC be banned from airing detailed plans to create a nuclear weapon? If you think they should be banned: Who else should be banned from doing so? Universities? Why? Why not?

    If you answer 'no', then you have to admit that there are limits to freedom of expression and it is just a matter of finding a consensus position.

    I think they should not. There are far better ways to learn how to build a nuclear weapon than a television series; most of it is engineering and the only way to learn that is by actually designing and building stuff. Watching other people do it just doesn't cut it. A television program is therefore not required.

    I'm actually not sure if there should be limits to freedom of speech. Maybe it would be better to allow all speech (even the "shouting fire in a theatre"). Hard to tell. Do you have any data to support either side of the discussion or will you only contribute some random insults?

  14. Re:Uh... Yeah? on Court Allowed NSA To Spy On All But 4 Countries · · Score: 1

    I'd argue it was very good, that only thousands of lives were lost, instead of the millions if spycraft had failed.

    John Stockwell, former CIA Station Chief in Angola in 1976, working for then Director of the CIA, George Bush estimated in 1987, 27 years ago, that over 6 million people have died in CIA covert actions. See http://www.informationclearing.... What do you think? Have they doubled their number by now?

  15. Re:Peer review on Momentous Big Bang Findings Questioned · · Score: 1

    clouded my judgement of Galileo.

    Poor wording, i wanted to say that I took for granted that he was "right" without ever checking it.

  16. Re:Peer review on Momentous Big Bang Findings Questioned · · Score: 1

    Interesting. Thanks for all your replies. I guess my disgust for the behavior of the catholic church, all the "heresy" and imprisonment stuff, clouded my judgement of Galileo. Looks like he actually was wrong on most everything.

  17. Re:Peer review on Momentous Big Bang Findings Questioned · · Score: 1

    As another poster said, his ideas lead to the necessity of only one high tide at noon, and we know that isn't true

    Both sides had no explanation for tides. This is not a difference in the quality of the theories, no predictive or explanatory power on either side.

    His idea of the motion of the planets still relied on epicycles to explain why they appeared to move forward then backwards then forwards again throughout the year because he was stuck on perfectly circular orbits.

    Again: Both theories are wrong; Galileo's is arguably closer to the truth.

    Geocentricism certainly wasn't right, but its predictive power was better than Galileo's ideas.

    Galileo's observed that Venus exhibited a full set of phases in clear violation of Ptolemy's geocentric model. His discovery of a couple of Jupiter's moons proofed that not all heavenly bodies orbit the earth. These are some examples for Galileo's theory being superior to geocentrism. Can you name a concrete example, where the church's geocentric model actually did better than Galileo's ideas?

    There's nothing 'wrong' or unscientific about disagreeing with Galileo, because Galileo was wrong.

    I agree. But to reject it because it is "foolish and absurd in philosophy, and formally heretical since it explicitly contradicts in many places the sense of Holy Scripture." is wrong an unscientific. Again: I'm not arguing that Galileo was right. With todays knowledge it is easy to see how wrong he was.

  18. Re:Peer review on Momentous Big Bang Findings Questioned · · Score: 1

    But, as science, his astronomical theories were way off the mark, and he was going around asserting them to be true without question, all the while by insulting some of the most powerful people on the planet.

    I think it's not fair to measure him against what we know today. You have to compare his model against the scientific believe and knowledge of his time. That is what science is all about: finding a model that is less wrong than the model you had before. Are you arguing that the geocentric model is less wrong than what Galileo proposed? Which is closer to the truth? I understand that Galileo's model is more wrong than the geocentric model we use today but that seems irrelevant to the case.

  19. Re:it's all over on Heartbleed OpenSSL Vulnerability: A Technical Remediation · · Score: 2

    It will be indistinguishable from today's cable TV.

  20. Re:Hacker??!! on Blogger Fined €3,000 for 'Publicizing' Files Found Through Google Search · · Score: 2

    He sent a "GET /some_document.html HTTP/1.1" request to a web server run by the French National Agency for Food Safety. The web server, acting per procurationem for the agency, sent him the "secret" document. If I ask you, "Can you give me $10?" and you give me $10 dollars, you can't run around and claim that I stole $10 from you.

  21. Re:Even I can't crack these... on Researchers Dare AI Experts To Crack New GOTCHA Password Scheme · · Score: 1

    So it's basically like having two passwords instead of one?

  22. Re:We the people on Full Details of My Attempted Entrapment For Teaching Polygraph Countermeasures · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The Sanford Prison Experiment is a poster child for what was wrong with scientific psychology in most of the last century. Philip Zimbardo, knowingly or unknowingly, designed and implemented the experiment in such a way that he got exactly the results he wanted. The wiki lists some of the deficiencies:

    Zimbardo found it impossible to keep traditional scientific controls in place. He was unable to remain a neutral observer, since he influenced the direction of the experiment as the prison's superintendent. Conclusions and observations drawn by the experimenters were largely subjective and anecdotal, and the experiment would be difficult for other researchers to reproduce.

    Also look at how ethics committees changed their guidelines as a response to that experiment.

  23. Re:NSA's fucking job on President of Brazil Lashes Out At NSA Espionage Programs In Speech To UN · · Score: 2

    No. Governments are not supposed to commit millions of criminal acts in allied countries. And no, not every country does that.

  24. Re:Couldn't have happened to nicer people... on Biggest Headache For Game Developers: Abusive Fans · · Score: 1

    Vitriol falling on regular folks is direct result of these regular folks attention-seeking diva behavior that is so prevalent in the gaming industry.

    Sure, their skirts were clearly to short. They wanted it.

    For example, you don't see "regular folk" speaking for Microsoft,

    No, regular folk - what an imbecilic weasel word - at Microsoft don't do that.

  25. Re:great point. regulate currency traders or not? on New York's Financial Regulator Subpoenas Bitcoin Companies · · Score: 1

    The only reason this is illegal is because the spoofer is entering a quote he doesn't intend to trade - it's not bona fide.

    What's funny here is that this is a (illegal) strategy to try to get *another algorithm* to make a mistake and to profit from it

    So it's fraud by quoting without intent to trade.

    In addition, anyone could implement these (illegal) strategies.

    No, for one, my latency is far to high.

    I agree that the second link is very weak but it still shows quoting without intent to trade, which we both agree on is illegal. You are far more knowledgable in this stuff than I am an I actually learned a couple of things from your replies. Thanks for that. But I also think that my initial assessment of the situation is - if not spot on - not to far of.