Agree. Coded in Scala. A large language -- makes C++ look tame, by comparison. Which in turn makes many 3rd party libs harder to read. Java 8 (look at Streams) offers many similar features in a smaller language that's easier to communicate. Learn Scala? Of course. But don't dive into its depths. We must all budget our time.
Here's a good wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... summarizing the known approaches. Interestingly, most symmetric encryption schemes seem to be secure (you just need to increase the key size apparently): it's the public/private schemes that are in trouble.
Objective-C is not classic. That leaves you C++, a rather large language. Large in the sense that there are a lot of rules to learn (with good, practical reasons). But you don't need to know the whole language in order to be productive. And it's fun!
As for the relatively recent evidence of dark matter showing its imprint in the CMB, well, again, doesn't this support my thesis that this is a rapidly evolving field? Cosmology textbooks have a short shelf life. Thirty years ago, for example, one of the big questions was whether the universe was open or closed. Now that we know it's open, and in fact expanding at an accelerating rate, we find that wasn't quite the right question. My physics textbooks, by contrast, are still readable. If a science gets dated quickly, then isn't that reason to think it's speculative?
I'm a bit skeptical of such cosmological estimates. If there is more dark matter in the universe than ordinary matter (by a factor of 4:1 they say), wouldn't you expect it to somehow figure in the "calculations" going back to the big bang? I saw no mention of it in the article. In fact, come to think of it, you seldom hear much about that big elephant dark matter in the room in the first minutes after the bing bag.
Love reading about cosmology, but I think readers should be warned this is a very speculative field of study. Ideas and models in vogue today will likely not be in a few decades. I'm reminded of my physics professor of many years ago who claimed "Cosmology is as mature as botany was before Darwin."
Agreed. Even if this privacy thing does become an issue, it's can probably be technically addressed. For example, if the only information is in the collision of watermarks, and if those watermarks are not steganographic, then the client app downloading the file could be made to modify the watermark. That way downloaded files will look like ripped files.
Pew! And I was worried about kilobots turning on us. It's them yottabots we should be worried about. Oh, wait a minute.. I think they've so throughly won we call their collective reality.
For you and I further down the food chain, it'll probably be a while. For researchers, though, it's arguably already useful. FTA:
Generally people who want to experiment with large swarms have had to be content with computer simulations, which is fine, but at some point you have to try things out in the real world (or as close as you can get in a lab), and Kilobots can make that happen... at $14 each, a thousand robots is actually an achievable number with a modest grant, which is something that probably has not been possible before.
True, 'though I imagine there will always be at least 'individuated asymmetric transparency': some people will be much better at 'managing' their transparency than others.
What part of paying with a credit card in a store doesn't reveal your identity, location, and time of purchase?
No part of it. Apologies for being vague. I was trying to say that though in both transaction types, credit card and NFC, your personal information is revealed, in the case of Google's NFC implementation, this personal information will likely be fed into a live, real time "adworks" infrastructure that cross-correlates this information with information unrelated to the transaction (GPS location, connecting other dots). I don't imagine the credit card companies are anywhere close to such an infrastructure: their business models are not anchored around selling your personal information, so they have less incentive to build such a personal information capturing pipeline.
The scary thing about this, I think, is that companies like Google and Facebook will only get better at capturing, slicing and dicing this personal information as time goes on: their business models depend on it. And as the tools of their trade become ever more powerful, they will end up in wrong hands. But I digress..
Or is it enabled when you tap a button while holding it up to the terminal device?
Sure, it's better if you have to tap that button. But you still give up a lot of privacy through this payment method. Every time you pay this way you advertise your identity, your location, and the time of your purchase.
This personal information leakage is a lot different than that the type that can be gleaned from say ordinary credit card transactions. It'll no doubt be captured in a way that makes connecting the dots easier, faster and more real time.
I'd use this technology if it implemented something like digital cash. Until, then, I'll be holding up checkout stand traffic--like the guy in that commercial..
Right. The video didn't explain how this cryptography works. I'm no expert in this area, but I imagine this might work something like this.
Suppose one can devise a crypto scheme in which you need all of the ballots to compute the sum of the choices cast (uncast ballots get a special null value). So to boil it down to the simplest possible example, if there are only 2 choices a and b, and only 2 ballots cast, then sum routine allows us to compute which of the following 3 outcomes occurred: (2, 0), (1, 1), or (0, 2). For the middle outcome (1, 1), we cannot tell which ballot cast which vote..
I can see holes in the strategy I describe, but I bet these cryptographers have devised something cleverer that stands up to the kinds of attack discussed here.
That would be a fundamental flaw, but I doubt it's like you describe it. I don't think you'd be able count the individual ballots yourself: you'd only be able to verify that the declared aggregate count is indeed correct.
A quick look at the map shows a language bias of Farsi in the population. Iranians are some of the most prolific producers of web content in that region of the world. And virtually all of that is in Farsi. I don't know the details of how routing algorithms work, but if a majority of users in these regions browse Iranian web sites wouldn't that skew the routing tables towards routers in Iran?
Your summary seems quite accurate. Still, I have a sneaky suspicion some well-cultivated humor was lost in translation. FTFT:
Especially media from Switzerland as the Berner Zeitung and the Solothurn heated up the debate with witty headlines like On The Plane away from the window and Again trouble with the penguin again on a regular basis.
I was rolling on the floor for all the wrong reasons..
Googled around for more information on this Caffeine architecture. The best I could come up was a paper on BigTable, purported to be the basis of Caffeine in news articles.
filling their pockets, you gotta admire the chutzpah of the people who would actually get away with charging that sort of money
Apparently this same chutzpah caused the story to break in the first place. FTA:
Capita, a London based outsourcing company state on their website: To date we’ve invested £48.4m in a combination of staff training, network upgrades, server replacements, hardware and software – and we continue to drive efficiency through innovation.
Troll? Oh, common. An attempt at humor, even a sardonic one, does not make a troll.
Looking over how the moralizing comments in this discussion have been moderated up, it seems Tocqueville's observation in Democracy In America sadly rings as true today as when he first penned them.
There are certain populations in Europe whose unbelief is only equaled by their ignorance and their debasement, while in America one of the freest and most enlightened nations in the world fulfills all the outward duties of religion with fervor.
By such mod standards, I guess, that quotation too is a troll.
I think the question should be "Why doesn't everyone set their Facebook settings as friends-only?"
The problem according to this article is that if your friend makes their friends list public while you have kept yours private, your friendship is still public. And as you friend more and more friends, the odds that you have such a friend (one who spills the beans) increases.
Similar thoughts here. And we're clearly not alone. Here's how a friend puts it in his blog:
.. do we give up anything when we switch to this 3D medium? I wonder. Quite a lot, I imagine. For the traditional motion picture is less of a technology than it is of a language, an art form, cultivated over generations. Much of that language is a play on the medium's limitations. The composition of the picture, think of golden ratios, for example, is only realized against the bounds defined by the edges of the screen. Moreover, as our minds have become more introspective, more self-reflective, we have developed a more self-aware narrative, the camera behind the camera, the eye that sees the eye that's seeing. A meta language that describes itself and sees its reflection. A way of thought that cherishes its ability to step back and see itself--in a sense, an ability to step out of an immersing experience, the opposite of immersion. (It's this cultivated mental ability that makes the sports bar possible.).. [more here]
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Agree. Coded in Scala. A large language -- makes C++ look tame, by comparison. Which in turn makes many 3rd party libs harder to read. Java 8 (look at Streams) offers many similar features in a smaller language that's easier to communicate. Learn Scala? Of course. But don't dive into its depths. We must all budget our time.
Here's a good wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... summarizing the known approaches. Interestingly, most symmetric encryption schemes seem to be secure (you just need to increase the key size apparently): it's the public/private schemes that are in trouble.
He doesn't. Which is why he opines on unknowns when no one else will.
Objective-C is not classic. That leaves you C++, a rather large language. Large in the sense that there are a lot of rules to learn (with good, practical reasons). But you don't need to know the whole language in order to be productive. And it's fun!
Who died and made this article God?
Nobody. We're discussing the article here.
As for the relatively recent evidence of dark matter showing its imprint in the CMB, well, again, doesn't this support my thesis that this is a rapidly evolving field? Cosmology textbooks have a short shelf life. Thirty years ago, for example, one of the big questions was whether the universe was open or closed. Now that we know it's open, and in fact expanding at an accelerating rate, we find that wasn't quite the right question. My physics textbooks, by contrast, are still readable. If a science gets dated quickly, then isn't that reason to think it's speculative?
I'm a bit skeptical of such cosmological estimates. If there is more dark matter in the universe than ordinary matter (by a factor of 4:1 they say), wouldn't you expect it to somehow figure in the "calculations" going back to the big bang? I saw no mention of it in the article. In fact, come to think of it, you seldom hear much about that big elephant dark matter in the room in the first minutes after the bing bag.
Love reading about cosmology, but I think readers should be warned this is a very speculative field of study. Ideas and models in vogue today will likely not be in a few decades. I'm reminded of my physics professor of many years ago who claimed "Cosmology is as mature as botany was before Darwin."
Agreed. Even if this privacy thing does become an issue, it's can probably be technically addressed. For example, if the only information is in the collision of watermarks, and if those watermarks are not steganographic, then the client app downloading the file could be made to modify the watermark. That way downloaded files will look like ripped files.
Pew! And I was worried about kilobots turning on us. It's them yottabots we should be worried about. Oh, wait a minute.. I think they've so throughly won we call their collective reality.
For you and I further down the food chain, it'll probably be a while. For researchers, though, it's arguably already useful. FTA:
Generally people who want to experiment with large swarms have had to be content with computer simulations, which is fine, but at some point you have to try things out in the real world (or as close as you can get in a lab), and Kilobots can make that happen. .. at $14 each, a thousand robots is actually an achievable number with a modest grant, which is something that probably has not been possible before.
True, 'though I imagine there will always be at least 'individuated asymmetric transparency': some people will be much better at 'managing' their transparency than others.
We can have the benefits of the placebo effect without rip-offs and mumbo-jumbo.
How? It's the very fact that the people are deceived that empowers placebo. You MUST have believed deception to make placebo work in any fashion.
Not quite. The current wisdom is that You Can Have the Placebo Effect, Even If You Know It's a Placebo.
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Remind me again, why is this story in the idle section?
What part of paying with a credit card in a store doesn't reveal your identity, location, and time of purchase?
No part of it. Apologies for being vague. I was trying to say that though in both transaction types, credit card and NFC, your personal information is revealed, in the case of Google's NFC implementation, this personal information will likely be fed into a live, real time "adworks" infrastructure that cross-correlates this information with information unrelated to the transaction (GPS location, connecting other dots). I don't imagine the credit card companies are anywhere close to such an infrastructure: their business models are not anchored around selling your personal information, so they have less incentive to build such a personal information capturing pipeline.
The scary thing about this, I think, is that companies like Google and Facebook will only get better at capturing, slicing and dicing this personal information as time goes on: their business models depend on it. And as the tools of their trade become ever more powerful, they will end up in wrong hands. But I digress..
Or is it enabled when you tap a button while holding it up to the terminal device?
Sure, it's better if you have to tap that button. But you still give up a lot of privacy through this payment method. Every time you pay this way you advertise your identity, your location, and the time of your purchase.
This personal information leakage is a lot different than that the type that can be gleaned from say ordinary credit card transactions. It'll no doubt be captured in a way that makes connecting the dots easier, faster and more real time.
I'd use this technology if it implemented something like digital cash. Until, then, I'll be holding up checkout stand traffic--like the guy in that commercial..
...are looking forward eagerly to this.
More like ...looking enviously at Google.
I found it clever and funny too.
Tip to moderators: funny is already both interesting and insightful. That's how humor works.
Right. The video didn't explain how this cryptography works. I'm no expert in this area, but I imagine this might work something like this.
Suppose one can devise a crypto scheme in which you need all of the ballots to compute the sum of the choices cast (uncast ballots get a special null value). So to boil it down to the simplest possible example, if there are only 2 choices a and b, and only 2 ballots cast, then sum routine allows us to compute which of the following 3 outcomes occurred: (2, 0), (1, 1), or (0, 2). For the middle outcome (1, 1), we cannot tell which ballot cast which vote..
I can see holes in the strategy I describe, but I bet these cryptographers have devised something cleverer that stands up to the kinds of attack discussed here.
That would be a fundamental flaw, but I doubt it's like you describe it. I don't think you'd be able count the individual ballots yourself: you'd only be able to verify that the declared aggregate count is indeed correct.
Why have one when you can have two for twice the price?
A quick look at the map shows a language bias of Farsi in the population. Iranians are some of the most prolific producers of web content in that region of the world. And virtually all of that is in Farsi. I don't know the details of how routing algorithms work, but if a majority of users in these regions browse Iranian web sites wouldn't that skew the routing tables towards routers in Iran?
Please correct me if I got my facts wrong.
Your summary seems quite accurate. Still, I have a sneaky suspicion some well-cultivated humor was lost in translation. FTFT:
Especially media from Switzerland as the Berner Zeitung and the Solothurn heated up the debate with witty headlines like On The Plane away from the window and Again trouble with the penguin again on a regular basis.
I was rolling on the floor for all the wrong reasons..
Googled around for more information on this Caffeine architecture. The best I could come up was a paper on BigTable, purported to be the basis of Caffeine in news articles.
filling their pockets, you gotta admire the chutzpah of the people who would actually get away with charging that sort of money
Apparently this same chutzpah caused the story to break in the first place. FTA:
Capita, a London based outsourcing company state on their website: To date we’ve invested £48.4m in a combination of staff training, network upgrades, server replacements, hardware and software – and we continue to drive efficiency through innovation.
Troll? Oh, common. An attempt at humor, even a sardonic one, does not make a troll.
Looking over how the moralizing comments in this discussion have been moderated up, it seems Tocqueville's observation in Democracy In America sadly rings as true today as when he first penned them.
There are certain populations in Europe whose unbelief is only equaled by their ignorance and their debasement, while in America one of the freest and most enlightened nations in the world fulfills all the outward duties of religion with fervor.
By such mod standards, I guess, that quotation too is a troll.
Who DOESNT set their facebook as friends-only?
I think the question should be "Why doesn't everyone set their Facebook settings as friends-only?"
The problem according to this article is that if your friend makes their friends list public while you have kept yours private, your friendship is still public. And as you friend more and more friends, the odds that you have such a friend (one who spills the beans) increases.
-- Related: On Facebook Friends' Privacy Settings Matter Much
Similar thoughts here. And we're clearly not alone. Here's how a friend puts it in his blog:
.. do we give up anything when we switch to this 3D medium? I wonder. Quite a lot, I imagine. For the traditional motion picture is less of a technology than it is of a language, an art form, cultivated over generations. Much of that language is a play on the medium's limitations. The composition of the picture, think of golden ratios, for example, is only realized against the bounds defined by the edges of the screen. Moreover, as our minds have become more introspective, more self-reflective, we have developed a more self-aware narrative, the camera behind the camera, the eye that sees the eye that's seeing. A meta language that describes itself and sees its reflection. A way of thought that cherishes its ability to step back and see itself--in a sense, an ability to step out of an immersing experience, the opposite of immersion. (It's this cultivated mental ability that makes the sports bar possible.).. [more here]