Otherwise, you are perfectly correct. Many cryptographers, including Bruce Schneier, believe that quantum cryptography is a solution to the wrong problem. Nowadays, most probably, the least secure part of your communication system isn't in your key distribution scheme, but is somewhere else --- like in social engineering, or the computer systems which deal with the decrypted cleartext. I disagree with Bruce on this, no matter how much I respect him. Once we have a reliable crypto scheme, people will stop looking at the technology when there's a failure, and start looking at the real issues. And I'm pessimist enough to believe that nothing else, no amount of education, training or awareness, will make them do that.
Yeah sure, an organization that makes thousands of standards is going to burn down over one mishandled one. Absolutely, yes. That's pretty normal, in fact. Drive to work every day of the year, nothing happens. Drive over a little kid one day, and you're going to be "burnt down" over one mishandled drive.
Like a 0-day, the event revealed a fundamental flaw in the ISO process, and demonstrated a remote exploit. And like a 0-day, the question naturally arises if this was the first exploit, or only the first publicly known one. Like a 0-day, you can not safely assume that the flaw has not been exploited before, without anyone realizing.
since we now know that much of what appears to be synthetic really isn't, We do?
No, we don't. We heard and that's an important difference. I doubt there are any statistics or reliable numbers on this. So for the moment, I will go with some synthetic pictures aren't, and call everyone who claims more to prove it.
And that's the point. You make a claim, you prove it. That's the way things should work, but often they don't, especially when children or terrorists are involved.
It's damned hard to figure out which is which, and in the mean time, people get exploited. A few years back, when we were still living in a free society, it was considered perfectly normal that the prosecution had to prove their case, even if it was hard. Even if it was "damned hard".
Obviously, to the users it didn't mean that. Not even after you pointed it out explicitly.
I know your problem, I have the same in many places. A workaround that I've found that works fairly well is to "mark for deletion" and then do the actual delete in a nightly cleanup run. That allows users to change their mind for a short time (most of them realize within a few seconds that they didn't mean it) while preserving the function of delete as actually freeing up the tablespace.
Just an idea, don't know if it applies in your case. But I'm on a personal quest to convince other techies to consider user feedback as advise instead of proof that users are dumb.
The crime isn't important - the fear it generates it. Politics are driven by fear, more specifically by the formula "look how dangerous the world is - elect us so you're at least a little bit safe". The different parties only play on different areas of fear - right-wing usually on fears of crime, foreigners, etc. and left-wing on fear of unemployment, illness, poverty, etc.
So everyone who's posted a comment detailing how computer-generated images hurt nobody is missing the point entirely. Nobody cares who is being hurt or not. It doesn't matter. "Abused child" is merely a meme that is being exploited by power-greedy politicians. Since our emotions do not differentiate between "real" and "computer-generated", they are triggered by both, and since fear is an emotion, politicians don't see why they should make a difference, either.
Hitler was quite openly intent upon conquering most of three continents, and was part of a functional alliance that was directly attacking the US. He was at the head of an enormously powerful and aggressive military force, and represented a huge threat to both the world in general and the United States in particular. There's another part to that story, however.
The 3rd Reich did not really have active plans to attack or conquer the USA. It did, however, intend to establish a european superpower (itself).
Entering WW2 predictably turned large parts of Europe into an economic wasteland, with a decade or two until recovery. This allowed the US to emerge as an economic superpower on the world stage. After the great depression, that was very likely on someone's agenda.
Compare economic numbers before and after the war.
No, I don't say that was the only reason, probably just one of many. But if you don't figure in human lives at more than their economic worth, then WW2 had a pretty good return-on-investment for the USA, and a pretty shitty one for everyone else.
This seems to be closer to the truth. I might say: "Religion has been used as an excuse for waging war with the rest of the world since it was invented." True, but incomplete.
Religion is such an excellent excuse for war, and provides so many reasons of killing others, while at the same time giving you a hundred ways to get rid of your guilt, from confession to "it was His will" that it should count as a lot more than just a convenience.
Yes, religion has been used as an excuse for a lot of wars that would very likely have happened without it. However, in addition to that, it has also started a lot of wars that would not have occurred if it weren't for religion.
Which of course means that you can bring in your two-component liquid explosive (if such a thing would even exist) in by two different people, and let airport security do the mixing (if that were possible at room temperature without lab equipment).
But hey, airport security is 90% theatre and 10% real security, and has been as long as I can remember.
but personally Rationalization is a great thing. I'm sure Gates doesn't think of himself as evil, and doesn't have trouble sleeping at night. Just like most murderers, rapists and pedophiles don't, because their mind makes it ok for them.
I'm sure Gates also considers his first billion a high point. And his 5th, his 10th, his 20th and finally his 50th. Also, 50% market share, 80% market share, 90% market share.
Come on people! Anyone here really believes these guys are driven by anything besides greed, for both money and power? The corporate culture of microsoft, its predatory and evil business practice, didn't spring up with Gates fighting it every step of the way. These guys made microsoft what it is, and all its greed and evil is but a reflection of their personalities.
Their high points are very likely related to what's important to them. No surprise not much they could state on record came up.
I want to see a touchscreen "panel" or "keyboard" or "control pad" - not this. Google for "TouchStream" - they created a multitouch keyboard five or six years ago, if I remember correctly. I own one, great technology especially for that time. They went bancrupt because it was too early (and the stuff was too expensive for a mass market). Make a guess who bought them up?
To quote Apple: "Redmond, start your photocopiers".
Also, bets are already on as to whether this will be cut before the final release. You know, like WinFS and everything else that would've made Vista interesting.
What's the current definition then? Google is your friend, I already gave you the pointer: WHO. Hint: The "H" doesn't stand for "hyperspace".
No, I pulled it directly out of a dictionary. I even referenced one that is freeley availible to all. Perhaps you should stop messing with my use of the definition and attack websters or something. It seems that a lot of company are convinced your wrong too. Are you a physician or a librarian? Your reliance on a dictionary definition for a complicated process is frightening. Sure, I can pull out the definition of "firewall" from a dictionary, too. But I wouldn't configure one based on that, nor argue about the merits of firewall vs. IDS based only on their respective dictionary definitions. That's a lot too simple.
When you remove nicotine from the body, you end up lacking these hormonal chemicals that interact with the hypothalamic-pituitary axis and effect the endocrine system. You aren't just missing Nicotine. This is very similar to heroine addiction in what makes it a disease too. My argument was never that nicotin isn't addictive, or that withdrawl symptoms weren't real or were only mental.
My argument was that your definition of disease is so broad that it stops to be useful. By your definition not eating enough, not sleeping enough and a hundred other conditions of the human body would be diseases. Disabilities would be a disease, too (body is lacking something, e.g. a leg, and not functioning normally, i.e. can't walk).
evidently, you weren't boored enough to remotely look anything up. No, I don't turn to dictionary.com or wikipedia.org for wisdom, only for reference.
Yeah, so it downloads some Ajax library twice, or even ten times, or a hundred. So what? The ads on your typical webpage are ten times as much in size and bandwidth.
Thanks, but I prefer that my site works even if some other site I have nothing to do with is unreachable today. Granted, Google being unreachable is unlikely, but think about offline copies, internal applications, and all the other perfectly normal things that this approach suddenly turns into special cases.
Windows 7 will be a further evolution of Vista, and will lose the rumored MinWin kernel. Look, they're cutting features already. Just like Vista was an incomplete version of Longhorn, W7 will be another failure.
Ever since the VMS guys left, there hasn't been any forward development in windos. They still have the big dreams ("database filesystem!") but they lack the ability to turn them into reality. When W7 arrives, everyone will be disappointed. You can quote me on that.
What security people don't understand is that good security can be very, very, VERY expensive. Maybe. But the point here wasn't about good security it was about minimum security.
Good security can be expensive. But adequate security is fairly cheap. "password == username" and "blank password" are essentially equal to "no password". Having any password at all, even if it's weak from the POV of a security expert (say, a word from the dictionary) is still a whole lot better than having no password. And it's not very expensive. A billion people in millions of companies manage to remember their login password from monday through friday, and sometimes even over the weekend. I'm sure with just a little training, TJX managers would be able to do that, too.
Sometimes, you have to decide between job security and the nagging of that part of your brain that stores ethics and the I-can-still-look-at-myself-in-the-mirror-in-the-morning part. You know, the one you you need a genetic disposition against in order to be a successful manager in many companies.
Yes, I think that. Mostly because I work at the local telecom company.:-)
The people in our company who handle this data are very aware of what they're handling, and in addition to their contract had to sign numerous papers saying they'll never break those laws, not even under a direct order from a superior. We have not one but two departments handling regulation and compliance.
That is why this is such a big scandal in Germany right now: Pulling this stunt off means that there is massive corruption at all levels within T-Com.
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Like a 0-day, the event revealed a fundamental flaw in the ISO process, and demonstrated a remote exploit. And like a 0-day, the question naturally arises if this was the first exploit, or only the first publicly known one. Like a 0-day, you can not safely assume that the flaw has not been exploited before, without anyone realizing.
No, we don't. We heard and that's an important difference. I doubt there are any statistics or reliable numbers on this. So for the moment, I will go with some synthetic pictures aren't, and call everyone who claims more to prove it.
And that's the point. You make a claim, you prove it. That's the way things should work, but often they don't, especially when children or terrorists are involved.
That's a frightening quote.
So it's legal to fuck her, but if you take a picture of it with your mobile phone, you go behind bars for 20 years.
Only politicians and lawyers can come up with that kind of thinking.
Obviously, to the users it didn't mean that. Not even after you pointed it out explicitly.
I know your problem, I have the same in many places. A workaround that I've found that works fairly well is to "mark for deletion" and then do the actual delete in a nightly cleanup run. That allows users to change their mind for a short time (most of them realize within a few seconds that they didn't mean it) while preserving the function of delete as actually freeing up the tablespace.
Just an idea, don't know if it applies in your case. But I'm on a personal quest to convince other techies to consider user feedback as advise instead of proof that users are dumb.
The crime isn't important - the fear it generates it. Politics are driven by fear, more specifically by the formula "look how dangerous the world is - elect us so you're at least a little bit safe". The different parties only play on different areas of fear - right-wing usually on fears of crime, foreigners, etc. and left-wing on fear of unemployment, illness, poverty, etc.
So everyone who's posted a comment detailing how computer-generated images hurt nobody is missing the point entirely. Nobody cares who is being hurt or not. It doesn't matter. "Abused child" is merely a meme that is being exploited by power-greedy politicians. Since our emotions do not differentiate between "real" and "computer-generated", they are triggered by both, and since fear is an emotion, politicians don't see why they should make a difference, either.
Logic doesn't apply here. Psychology does.
The 3rd Reich did not really have active plans to attack or conquer the USA. It did, however, intend to establish a european superpower (itself).
Entering WW2 predictably turned large parts of Europe into an economic wasteland, with a decade or two until recovery. This allowed the US to emerge as an economic superpower on the world stage. After the great depression, that was very likely on someone's agenda.
Compare economic numbers before and after the war.
No, I don't say that was the only reason, probably just one of many. But if you don't figure in human lives at more than their economic worth, then WW2 had a pretty good return-on-investment for the USA, and a pretty shitty one for everyone else.
Religion is such an excellent excuse for war, and provides so many reasons of killing others, while at the same time giving you a hundred ways to get rid of your guilt, from confession to "it was His will" that it should count as a lot more than just a convenience.
Yes, religion has been used as an excuse for a lot of wars that would very likely have happened without it. However, in addition to that, it has also started a lot of wars that would not have occurred if it weren't for religion.
And you didn't add an undo function because?
Which of course means that you can bring in your two-component liquid explosive (if such a thing would even exist) in by two different people, and let airport security do the mixing (if that were possible at room temperature without lab equipment).
But hey, airport security is 90% theatre and 10% real security, and has been as long as I can remember.
I'm sure Gates also considers his first billion a high point. And his 5th, his 10th, his 20th and finally his 50th. Also, 50% market share, 80% market share, 90% market share.
Come on people! Anyone here really believes these guys are driven by anything besides greed, for both money and power? The corporate culture of microsoft, its predatory and evil business practice, didn't spring up with Gates fighting it every step of the way. These guys made microsoft what it is, and all its greed and evil is but a reflection of their personalities.
Their high points are very likely related to what's important to them. No surprise not much they could state on record came up.
Now he has to send his crew back to the drawing board for windows 7. There's new features to copy and then fuck up.
That's right, Apple.
To quote Apple: "Redmond, start your photocopiers".
Also, bets are already on as to whether this will be cut before the final release. You know, like WinFS and everything else that would've made Vista interesting.
My argument was that your definition of disease is so broad that it stops to be useful. By your definition not eating enough, not sleeping enough and a hundred other conditions of the human body would be diseases. Disabilities would be a disease, too (body is lacking something, e.g. a leg, and not functioning normally, i.e. can't walk). evidently, you weren't boored enough to remotely look anything up. No, I don't turn to dictionary.com or wikipedia.org for wisdom, only for reference.
Wrong place to put that argument. :-)
GP said: "there ought to be a law". I said: "there already is, dumbo". Your argument misses the point.
Yeah, so it downloads some Ajax library twice, or even ten times, or a hundred. So what? The ads on your typical webpage are ten times as much in size and bandwidth.
Thanks, but I prefer that my site works even if some other site I have nothing to do with is unreachable today. Granted, Google being unreachable is unlikely, but think about offline copies, internal applications, and all the other perfectly normal things that this approach suddenly turns into special cases.
Ever since the VMS guys left, there hasn't been any forward development in windos. They still have the big dreams ("database filesystem!") but they lack the ability to turn them into reality. When W7 arrives, everyone will be disappointed. You can quote me on that.
Good security can be expensive. But adequate security is fairly cheap. "password == username" and "blank password" are essentially equal to "no password". Having any password at all, even if it's weak from the POV of a security expert (say, a word from the dictionary) is still a whole lot better than having no password. And it's not very expensive. A billion people in millions of companies manage to remember their login password from monday through friday, and sometimes even over the weekend. I'm sure with just a little training, TJX managers would be able to do that, too.
Neither of that, I'm sure.
Sometimes, you have to decide between job security and the nagging of that part of your brain that stores ethics and the I-can-still-look-at-myself-in-the-mirror-in-the-morning part. You know, the one you you need a genetic disposition against in order to be a successful manager in many companies.
Yes, I think that. Mostly because I work at the local telecom company. :-)
The people in our company who handle this data are very aware of what they're handling, and in addition to their contract had to sign numerous papers saying they'll never break those laws, not even under a direct order from a superior. We have not one but two departments handling regulation and compliance.
That is why this is such a big scandal in Germany right now: Pulling this stunt off means that there is massive corruption at all levels within T-Com.