Suspects? I can accept that network operators would provide location data for such people, which is why included the court order part in my comment.
Guess what - if they can provide it for specific dates of interest related to suspects in a case, then they're keeping it. And since they don't know who might be called as a suspect / witness, then they're keeping it on everyone. I was on a jury for a murder trial last year: the suspect, her erstwhile boyfriend, the decedent, and a host of others had their cell phone records pulled and presented as evidence.
complete car noob here, what do the magnets do in the pan that is beneficial?
It collects small metallic fragments from the transmission - likewise, some folks will put magnets in their oil pan to collect small iron fragments from the engine.
Of course, if it's non-magnetic (a la aluminum), it doesn't do as much good.
Only because one side of the battle never bothered to fight. Nobody was forced to go to social networking websites and post their life story, anyone could encrypt their email and IM conversations, and ad blocking software is widely available. Large amounts of the information that these companies are aggregating could have been made far more difficult to obtain if the majority of computer users could have been bothered.
Sadly, the Internet has become more of an adversarial game than a way to unite people.
I know this sounds weird, but one of the first "geeky" comics character I was blown away by was Dilton Doiley, part of Archie's crew, in the Strange Science editions.
It was short, it was funny, and he was a geek who got the girl. All these other guys are great, but they had supernatural powers or wealth, or other things going for them. Dilton just... conducted home experiments! Of course, he had his own lab, but still, as a regular kid, you could aspire to be him.
The other character I remember from childhood, of course, was Tom Swift. Amazingly inspirational -- although, not a lot of comics of him out there (I've seen a few, but not many).
Wow - somebody else who knows of Tom Swift.
Which series did you like more, the original, or the one with Tom Jr?
Science is demonstrable, repeatable and self-correcting. Most
importantly: Science Delivers. Not understanding the intricacies
doesn't make it "faith".
Faith is an idea with no evidence to back it up no matter how adept the 'experts'. Even
more important, the 'experts' often don't agree on even the basics. Witness
all the various religions and factions thereof.
Sad how off your understanding f the word "faith" is. The Bible's definition: "Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen." {Heb 11:1, NASB}
Dictionary.com's rendering #1, #4, #6, #7: "confidence or trust in a person or thing: faith in another's ability." "belief in anything, as a code of ethics, standards of merit, etc.: to be of the same faith with someone concerning honesty." "the obligation of loyalty or fidelity to a person, promise, engagement, etc.: Failure to appear would be breaking faith." "the observance of this obligation; fidelity to one's promise, oath, allegiance, etc.: He was the only one who proved his faith during our recent troubles."
Yeah, not a very good idea. If I leave my wallet at home and replace it with my phone, that means I have to load all my credit card info, my drivers license, my various id's, my voter registration, and my BestBuy reward zone card, which was just compromised anyhow.
What ever could go wrong?
Who carries their voter registration around with them? Everywhere I've lived, you only need something on Election Day, and it's generally just a driver license.
This is a more or less verbatim repeat of what I said to someone else, but it merits repeating here because your post addresses my response's topic head-on: the fundamental problem with that approach is that RSA and AES both include an element of random variation in the encrypted text. In other words, given a plaintext password and a public key, you can't assume that the encrypted output you get THIS time will be identical to the encrypted output you'll get NEXT time (or from a different implementation of the encryption algorithm). The encrypted output will decrypt with the private key just fine, but basically this means you can't treat the encrypted output like a reversible hash that just happens to take a lot longer to compute.
From what I remember from my research into this specific issue a few months ago, it's technically possible to write an implementation of RSA's encryption algorithm that introduces exactly zero bytes of random salt into the encrypted output, but I wasn't able to make it work using Bouncycastle, and got the impression that you can't do it with Microsoft's implementations or any other commonly-used implementation for Java, either.
AFAIK, there's no way at all to encrypt using AES without random entropy. It's an inherent part of the algorithm. In RSA's case, it's technically possible because it was tacked on as an afterthought, and things encrypted using the original algorithm end up looking like something encrypted using the new algorithm with zero bytes of random salt.
I'm not sure about other asymmetric algorithms. I remember hearing a lot about Elgamal back when I was in college, but ever since RSA's patent issues went away and AES became officially blessed by the US federal government, pretty much everything besides RSA and AES seem to have fallen by the wayside.
Really, they bury unshielded copper wires in the ground of someone's backyard now....sounds more like someone dropped the ball with installations and then want to pin it on some elderly lady. If an elderly lady has enough force to cut through a thick shielded trunk of a wire
with a shovel, then guess what, it definitely wasn't installed or built right, but then again, they do not have a lot of money there, and probably cut corners everywhere.
How thick does a fiber line have to be? I've cut through, or nearly cut through, lines before that were pretty thick with just a shovel. Plus, if she were to hack at it to get through the insulation, it could easily give way. Nothing says she did it in one stroke.
"Yet, if I cut the phone line near my parents place, they'll still have Internet access (satellite). Indeed, I suspect they would still have phone access, because the cable would need to be cut on either side of their house to completely kill it."
you suspect wrong. The phone company does not run redundant lines to your home. They abandon stuff in place, but never EVER run redundant lines unless you paid for that added feature at a severely jacked up price.
Depends on where you cut the phone line - is it between the pole and the house, or between two poles?
Unless my knowledge of geography is really bad, and the border between Armenia and Georgia is only about 2mm wide, having a single country that you can run Internet connections from is still no excuse for having only one uplink. At the very least, there should be two, a few miles apart, connected to the country's network at different points.
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except, of course, wagnerrp half an hour before you :)
Nobody could have been expected to predict that phones would actually become usable for any amount of data use.
Really? I'm *sure* LOADS of people have been expecting/predicting this for years on end - even before 3G
Most people over the age of 5 don't pick up innocent looking rocks in the parking lot.
ummm... yeah we do
Because "a bit over three leagues" would be more accurate (league)
Except those same drugs from the same companies cost far less and still produce huge profits for the pharma companies. Fancy that.
The produce "huge profits" because those who are in non-subsidized countries (ie, the US), actually pay for it
And what is deerly missing is
Not even a Key Deer would fit in one of these
students from private schools had more caching up to do because all this stuff had been done for them at high school.
Yeah, but the public schoolers had more cashing up to do.
This. Anyone who's ever been at a LAN party knows that a geek doesn't need some fancy pants perfume to smell like a geek.
if you're putting it on your pants, you're doing it wrong
Suspects? I can accept that network operators would provide location data for such people, which is why included the court order part in my comment.
Guess what - if they can provide it for specific dates of interest related to suspects in a case, then they're keeping it. And since they don't know who might be called as a suspect / witness, then they're keeping it on everyone. I was on a jury for a murder trial last year: the suspect, her erstwhile boyfriend, the decedent, and a host of others had their cell phone records pulled and presented as evidence.
most people don't even recycle their aluminum soda cans.
We do in states that have deposits, and and areas where not recycling gets you fined.
Just remember, though, Keep It Dry. Very little will ruin your day quite like molten iron being spattered into your delicate flesh by a steam flash..
Jeb? Is that you? I *knew* your nick sounded familiar.
complete car noob here, what do the magnets do in the pan that is beneficial?
It collects small metallic fragments from the transmission - likewise, some folks will put magnets in their oil pan to collect small iron fragments from the engine.
Of course, if it's non-magnetic (a la aluminum), it doesn't do as much good.
The battle for online privacy was lost long ago.
Only because one side of the battle never bothered to fight. Nobody was forced to go to social networking websites and post their life story, anyone could encrypt their email and IM conversations, and ad blocking software is widely available. Large amounts of the information that these companies are aggregating could have been made far more difficult to obtain if the majority of computer users could have been bothered. Sadly, the Internet has become more of an adversarial game than a way to unite people.
forced to use social tools? no.
encryption available? yes
understood by anyone in the general public? nope
Chinese whispers - storage style. Impressively cunning non the less.
Well, more conning than cunning.
It's a "one-demon bag". :)
You mean a one-daemon bag
...I connect to the internet with a 15 km fibre optic cable.
In the middle of the LHC Token Ring, eh?
I know this sounds weird, but one of the first "geeky" comics character I was blown away by was Dilton Doiley, part of Archie's crew, in the Strange Science editions.
It was short, it was funny, and he was a geek who got the girl. All these other guys are great, but they had supernatural powers or wealth, or other things going for them. Dilton just... conducted home experiments! Of course, he had his own lab, but still, as a regular kid, you could aspire to be him.
The other character I remember from childhood, of course, was Tom Swift. Amazingly inspirational -- although, not a lot of comics of him out there (I've seen a few, but not many).
Wow - somebody else who knows of Tom Swift.
Which series did you like more, the original, or the one with Tom Jr?
Repelletrons FTW!
Science is demonstrable, repeatable and self-correcting. Most importantly: Science Delivers. Not understanding the intricacies doesn't make it "faith". Faith is an idea with no evidence to back it up no matter how adept the 'experts'. Even more important, the 'experts' often don't agree on even the basics. Witness all the various religions and factions thereof.
Sad how off your understanding f the word "faith" is. The Bible's definition: "Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen." {Heb 11:1, NASB}
Dictionary.com's rendering #1, #4, #6, #7: "confidence or trust in a person or thing: faith in another's ability." "belief in anything, as a code of ethics, standards of merit, etc.: to be of the same faith with someone concerning honesty." "the obligation of loyalty or fidelity to a person, promise, engagement, etc.: Failure to appear would be breaking faith." "the observance of this obligation; fidelity to one's promise, oath, allegiance, etc.: He was the only one who proved his faith during our recent troubles."
Yeah, not a very good idea. If I leave my wallet at home and replace it with my phone, that means I have to load all my credit card info, my drivers license, my various id's, my voter registration, and my BestBuy reward zone card, which was just compromised anyhow.
What ever could go wrong?
Who carries their voter registration around with them? Everywhere I've lived, you only need something on Election Day, and it's generally just a driver license.
This is a more or less verbatim repeat of what I said to someone else, but it merits repeating here because your post addresses my response's topic head-on: the fundamental problem with that approach is that RSA and AES both include an element of random variation in the encrypted text. In other words, given a plaintext password and a public key, you can't assume that the encrypted output you get THIS time will be identical to the encrypted output you'll get NEXT time (or from a different implementation of the encryption algorithm). The encrypted output will decrypt with the private key just fine, but basically this means you can't treat the encrypted output like a reversible hash that just happens to take a lot longer to compute.
From what I remember from my research into this specific issue a few months ago, it's technically possible to write an implementation of RSA's encryption algorithm that introduces exactly zero bytes of random salt into the encrypted output, but I wasn't able to make it work using Bouncycastle, and got the impression that you can't do it with Microsoft's implementations or any other commonly-used implementation for Java, either.
AFAIK, there's no way at all to encrypt using AES without random entropy. It's an inherent part of the algorithm. In RSA's case, it's technically possible because it was tacked on as an afterthought, and things encrypted using the original algorithm end up looking like something encrypted using the new algorithm with zero bytes of random salt.
I'm not sure about other asymmetric algorithms. I remember hearing a lot about Elgamal back when I was in college, but ever since RSA's patent issues went away and AES became officially blessed by the US federal government, pretty much everything besides RSA and AES seem to have fallen by the wayside.
AES is a symmetric-key algorithm, unlike RSA.
and everybodys got hd sets now, they cost less than a wii.
Where are you finding HD sets for under $200?
Really, they bury unshielded copper wires in the ground of someone's backyard now....sounds more like someone dropped the ball with installations and then want to pin it on some elderly lady. If an elderly lady has enough force to cut through a thick shielded trunk of a wire with a shovel, then guess what, it definitely wasn't installed or built right, but then again, they do not have a lot of money there, and probably cut corners everywhere.
How thick does a fiber line have to be? I've cut through, or nearly cut through, lines before that were pretty thick with just a shovel. Plus, if she were to hack at it to get through the insulation, it could easily give way. Nothing says she did it in one stroke.
I say pay her room and board, and free internet, until she dies.
At her age, she probably gets a pension from the government.
However, if you consider that the Armenian per-capita GDP is about one tenth of that of the USA, that must be a pretty small pension.
It's also a much cheaper place to live ... so it evens out
"Yet, if I cut the phone line near my parents place, they'll still have Internet access (satellite). Indeed, I suspect they would still have phone access, because the cable would need to be cut on either side of their house to completely kill it."
you suspect wrong. The phone company does not run redundant lines to your home. They abandon stuff in place, but never EVER run redundant lines unless you paid for that added feature at a severely jacked up price.
Depends on where you cut the phone line - is it between the pole and the house, or between two poles?
Unless my knowledge of geography is really bad, and the border between Armenia and Georgia is only about 2mm wide, having a single country that you can run Internet connections from is still no excuse for having only one uplink. At the very least, there should be two, a few miles apart, connected to the country's network at different points.
It's really bad: map from wikipedia
telecommunication cables are cut all the time, both by people and accidents.
Do you mean intentionally and accidentally?