No matter how many security keys they have, they'll all be travelling over the same connection and all of them will be vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack. Anything you do with one computer online can be captured with another computer.
Not necessarily - if you have the bank's public key fingerprint then you're safe from man-in-the-middle attacks, as long as you can trust your own computer. The problem is that people can't do encryption in their heads, and they can't trust their PCs to do it for them. Perhaps the solution is a PDA-like device that you only use for internet banking, which comes preinstalled with your bank's public key, performs the necessary encryption functions, and won't let you install spyware? Or at the very least a secure channel in the OS so that banking software can request input that no other program can intercept... anyone want to write an X11 "private events" extension?
Large bits don't scale - the zeroes grow quadratically, because they're round, but the ones only grow linearly, so as the size of the bits tends to infinity the entropy drops to zero. I hardly call that secure.
You could carry your private keys on a separate USB token - like a smart card it performs the crypto operations internally, so the computer never learns the key.
Stop bellyaching. It's a long journey from the first the germ of an idea to publishing a tract on the subject, digesting the feedback, ruminating on the implications, eliminating any remaining doubts and finally putting your theory to the acid test. Not everyone has the stomach for it.
How many wasted pages of memory are there for so called guard pages?
AFAIK guard pages don't waste any physical memory - a guard page is a virtual memory page with no corresponding entry in the page table, so a page fault occurs when the guard page is accessed.
ICANN controls the root servers, so ICANN controls.in. If ICANN decides to list 127.0.0.1 as the root server for.in, most of the world's DNS servers will automatically follow suit - including those in India.
Second (and much more shakily), I think that in most jurisdictions it IS legal to reclaim stolen property provided you don't break any other laws in the meantime.
That may or may not be true for stealing, but I'm curious to know how it would work for copying (unless by "break any other laws" you mean the second law of thermodynamics).;-)
Without political and civil rights, what will stop the people at the top from keeping all the "consumer comfort" for themselves? If China adopts market capitalism then most Chinese people will work in Nike sweatshops instead of government sweatshops, but they still won't have the means to improve their situation, ie political power. (And please don't say they'll have power when wages go up, because no rational corporation is going to pay its workers more than the minimum demanded by law.)
It's a little-known fact that Schrödinger's famous thought experiment concerning a cat was actually carried out, using grad students (they're cheaper than cats). He locked them in a tiny box where they were either awarded funding, or not, but he didn't know which until he opened the box three years later and they were all dead. The experiment is regularly repeated in science departments around the world.
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I take the opposite view - I started the app because I want to use it, so give it focus! Otherwise it would be pointless to use hotkeys for starting apps, because you'd have to pick up the mouse just to give them focus.
I'm not claiming that my gibberish generator has any level of competence - in fact it doesn't consider word order at all - I was just poking fun at some of the claims made by a company I used to work for.
I want to echo the double-standard mentioned elsewhere in that some people defend infringing on copyrighted materials via P2P but get upset when the copyright of the GPL is violated. Just something to think about, that's all.
It's a fair point, but maybe those people are more concerned with that spirit than the letter of the law. The intent of the GPL is to protect contributions to the commons, while the intent of filesharing lawsuits is to prevent contributions to the commons. It's ironic that the same mechanism - copyright law - is used to achieve both goals, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it's hypocritical to support one use of the mechanism while opposing the other.
I trained my gibberish generator, er, statistical linguistic analysis tool Sprong on the text of this discussion and here's what it came out with:
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In the natural language processing business they call this "the same level of understanding as a two-year-old child".;-)
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Hmm, like sterilizing disabled people?
Not necessarily - if you have the bank's public key fingerprint then you're safe from man-in-the-middle attacks, as long as you can trust your own computer. The problem is that people can't do encryption in their heads, and they can't trust their PCs to do it for them. Perhaps the solution is a PDA-like device that you only use for internet banking, which comes preinstalled with your bank's public key, performs the necessary encryption functions, and won't let you install spyware? Or at the very least a secure channel in the OS so that banking software can request input that no other program can intercept... anyone want to write an X11 "private events" extension?
Large bits don't scale - the zeroes grow quadratically, because they're round, but the ones only grow linearly, so as the size of the bits tends to infinity the entropy drops to zero. I hardly call that secure.
Thanks for the link - is there a PAM module for these things?
So your benchmark of social maturity is... IRCops?
(You'll also need to bring some foil to protect the monitor against Tempest attacks... and some loud music to prevent eavesdroppers from recording your keystrokes... and some tape to cover all the LEDs...)
Stop bellyaching. It's a long journey from the first the germ of an idea to publishing a tract on the subject, digesting the feedback, ruminating on the implications, eliminating any remaining doubts and finally putting your theory to the acid test. Not everyone has the stomach for it.
AFAIK guard pages don't waste any physical memory - a guard page is a virtual memory page with no corresponding entry in the page table, so a page fault occurs when the guard page is accessed.
ICANN controls the root servers, so ICANN controls .in. If ICANN decides to list 127.0.0.1 as the root server for .in, most of the world's DNS servers will automatically follow suit - including those in India.
That may or may not be true for stealing, but I'm curious to know how it would work for copying (unless by "break any other laws" you mean the second law of thermodynamics). ;-)
Without political and civil rights, what will stop the people at the top from keeping all the "consumer comfort" for themselves? If China adopts market capitalism then most Chinese people will work in Nike sweatshops instead of government sweatshops, but they still won't have the means to improve their situation, ie political power. (And please don't say they'll have power when wages go up, because no rational corporation is going to pay its workers more than the minimum demanded by law.)
It's the BSD of Linux.
It's a little-known fact that Schrödinger's famous thought experiment concerning a cat was actually carried out, using grad students (they're cheaper than cats). He locked them in a tiny box where they were either awarded funding, or not, but he didn't know which until he opened the box three years later and they were all dead. The experiment is regularly repeated in science departments around the world.
I agree - Scientific American does a better job of presenting the same stories without dumbing them down.
Check out AntNet and MUTE.
(JetiAnts and AntsP2P are offshoots of MUTE as far as I can tell.)
I take the opposite view - I started the app because I want to use it, so give it focus! Otherwise it would be pointless to use hotkeys for starting apps, because you'd have to pick up the mouse just to give them focus.
The new pellets could also bring about a renaissance for giant hydrogen-filled airships, or as they will now be known, beanbags.
Ctrl-A is the poor man's CSS ;-)
I'm not claiming that my gibberish generator has any level of competence - in fact it doesn't consider word order at all - I was just poking fun at some of the claims made by a company I used to work for.
if (drand48() < 0.1) putchar (',');
It's a fair point, but maybe those people are more concerned with that spirit than the letter of the law. The intent of the GPL is to protect contributions to the commons, while the intent of filesharing lawsuits is to prevent contributions to the commons. It's ironic that the same mechanism - copyright law - is used to achieve both goals, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it's hypocritical to support one use of the mechanism while opposing the other.
on http www computer and the speaking and on it human into some or examplete altern as so it are of a going is not a google of a finding on in learning as and pare to so the learning inten it computern learning is pare alter relation in the formation http www east are a simplete the first score senter and produce into shold the what human does the alter and of language language what have i was score net the cal to alter relation in the which intern a probable cal algorite the programmar from language to the the the which is it the programmar do with and as the to beneath you was befor a mean does structive befor altern as score a from language working the pare alter the working in the a from language stand a man the for from a
In the natural language processing business they call this "the same level of understanding as a two-year-old child". ;-)
This is nonsense but I'm going to need a cup of coffee before I can explain why.
Are you sure we're talking about the same ape? Big round thing, wears sweat pants, watches CSI?
Surely a clustered population is preferable? Meeting no lions is better than meeting one lion, and meeting ten lions is no worse. ;-)