"6 Comma's; one butchered, unreadable sentance, and the entire article's like that"
You seriously couldn't read it? I mean, it might have been sloppy, but unreadable? With all the mistakes you made in your own post?
"6 Comma's [...] What happened to the days writers used things such as paragraphs, periods, and semicolons, and grammar? Oh wait, I know what happened; Some dipshit decided to try to introduce"...
"*Not strictly true for some kinds of light sources"
Depending on exactly what you mean by "infinite gradient of spectrum", it's not true for any kinds of light sources, as photons only exist at discrete frequencies, the spectrum will be stepped into a finite number of colours... but yes the number's still big and this isn't sticking to the "let's keep this simple" thing either:-p
On widely used software, yeah, it'd be quicker/cheaper to fix the software. But for all the one-offs out there, running individual shops/businesses/etc, it costs less to pay one company to design/build a faster processor, than it does to pay hundreds of thousands of software developers to be able to improve the hundreds of thousands of pieces of software out there.
I'm not in disagreement at all with regards to right vs wrong, should be allowed vs shouldn't be. I was just disagreeing with the person disagreeing with the terminology (or something:-p)
"The phrase "domestic wiretap" is exactly what they were doing here"
Is a domestic flight not one that has both end-points in the US? If only one end-point is in the US, it's not considered a domestic flight, right?
I think this is the view taken on domestic phone calls; both end-points of the call are within the US. If one isn't, then it's an internation, not domestic call. As the wiretap's on the call, it's therefore an international wiretap.
It's down to common terminology and usage of language, what one term implies over another.
To lift you far enough away from the earths magnetic core which would otherwise skew the results due to the third law of earth-magneto-skewerige... quickly, look over there, behind you!
Um, well actually, with the right starting conditions set and a decent genetic programming algorithm, it's already possible for a computer to produce something better than its creators could do manually. So, whilst not being able to parse the question in natural english, once translated by a human, this really isn't so far fetched at all.
"see if he has any inclings towards being a comedian?"
Oh that's all we need, a SCAA (Standup Commedians Association of Arseholes), that go around stopping people from "stealing jokes from comedians and depriving them of earning a living". No longer will it be legal to share a joke amongst friends that you heard on tv last night. Young children will be sued for forwarding emails with jokes on to their friends.
Yeah that's the great thing about CISC assembly... you write your code, feel great because it does actually work, then you can go learn a few more instructions, use them to make your code smaller and faster, and feel great about yourself AGAIN!
You don't have a clue. Most people who take drugs/don't/ get horribly sick, and most of the one's that do/don't/ do it under the pretext that they can just get a doc to fix them back up again, if anything, they're somewhat naive of the damage that can be cause.
And while we're on that, let me point out that most of the damage caused by illegal drugs are caused because the drugs aren't clean or of consistant strength. People will cut drugs with absolutely anything to sell their 0.7g as 1.0g so they can make their 40% profit (or so they can have the rest themselves). Some people will put a heavier drug into a milder drug, like lsd into mdma, because they think it's cool, leaving some poor sod who's used to taking 5 pills a night because there's so little mdma in them, taking an enormous amount of acid for the first time in their life, not realising it, and not having a clue what's going on.
Then there're some people who will just do it maliciously.
Can you imagine if a brewery tried to pull stunts like that? Or a pharmaceuticals company? Deliberate product contamination? Each purchase you but having different amounts of different chemicals in, irrespective of what you thought you were buying? Dude, people would be dropping like flies all around you, except that they wouldn't get away with it, and so it doesn't happen.
What all this means? That problem is not/what/ is illegal, but the/fact/ that it's illegal, that causes the vast majority of the problems.
And finally, for everyone who says "make it legal and everyone will do it"... no... people don't choose whether to do drugs or not based on the legality of it, but whether they actually do or don't want to do them. There are plenty of people out there who just don't want to do drugs, as there are people who don't want to do the whole getting drunk thing either, despite the fact that it's perfectly legal to get drunk.
People decide their own morals. The law just punishes those who's conflict with it's.
"...$1100 for a fine is ridiculous. Getting busted for possession of a single valium which was given to me(and I was stupid enough to get caught with)? Priceless. Spending 36 hours in county until the jail staff which just underwent a shift change and doesn't know you are in the jail(after you have already made bail)? Priceless. Coming to the understanding that..."
Yeah I'm err, head of marketing for MasterCard and erm... I don't think we wanna be using you for our adverts anymore. Soz.
"suggestions for a system that will remain secure when there's a keylogger on the client's system"
Two things spring to mind. 1) involve the mouse. 2) insert decoy keys, eg, instead of "Enter 2nd, 4th and last digits of your PIN", it could have "Press 1 random number, then the 2nd digit of your PIN, then 3 random numbers, then the 4th" etc. Unless this keylogger has screen capture too, you could even tell them exactly what to type, eg: "37*218*0*644" (substitute * for 3rd, 4th, and 6th digits).
Yes, I know, this would likely confuse the *hell* out of anyone who couldn't keep a keylogger off their machine.
Struggling to think of simpler ways... maybe a random lookup? "Find the 2nd, 4th and 5th numbers of your PIN on the above table, and type in the letters next to them"?
"And since this is in the datacenter, you can train your people not to pee on the red wire"
We have dedicated and colocated server in various datacenters, so I have a fair amount of experience with them, and so I need to ask you... PLEASE give me an example! An example of a datacenter staffed with people who can be trained not to pee on a red wire, because if they can be trained to do that... hell they might even be able to reboot the right machine from time to time!
Yeah I thought that - how can they determine the delay the keyboard added over the delay the user added? But then thinking about it, quite easily, using rounding.
First you have to pick your unit of time (eg, a 100th of a second). Idealy you want it large enough so it's not lost in processing time inconsistancies, but short enough so the user doesn't detect it. Then you split your data into 1's and 0's (kinda already done in a computer). If you want to send a 1, you delay the packet until the nearest even 100th of a second, and if you want to send a 0, you delay the packet until the nearest odd 100th of a second. Throw in a few start/stop/parity bits so you can tell which is meant to be the odd vs even 100th of a second on the keyboard when you read it, and you're done.
There are many ways you could improve on this techneque, but I didn't RTFA and I'm too tired to put more thought into it, but this should get ppl started:-p
Hey I never said that microsoft where gonna be able to do this, or that you would be able to do this with the MS operating system, this is strictly theory/design behind the TPM model.
Well no, if you want to lock down a bunch of pc's, you sign yourself, require code that's been signed by yourself, and perform the required audits on the code yourself.
But this is a stepping stone anyway; on a full TPM machine, unsigned code wouldn't be able to exploit holes in signed code, as the two would have a greater degree of seperation.
Well with anything you can turn it off... you can boot windows (apparently) without the signed code checks enabled, but it's detectable (in my example, running 'mount' would display the noexec has been removed, or for windows checking for the boot options that disable signed code checks in windows). But this allows you to run the code anyway, and show no trace (because the system still reports that you can't run the code).
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"6 Comma's; one butchered, unreadable sentance, and the entire article's like that"
You seriously couldn't read it? I mean, it might have been sloppy, but unreadable? With all the mistakes you made in your own post?
"6 Comma's [...] What happened to the days writers used things such as paragraphs, periods, and semicolons, and grammar? Oh wait, I know what happened; Some dipshit decided to try to introduce"...
"*Not strictly true for some kinds of light sources"
:-p
Depending on exactly what you mean by "infinite gradient of spectrum", it's not true for any kinds of light sources, as photons only exist at discrete frequencies, the spectrum will be stepped into a finite number of colours... but yes the number's still big and this isn't sticking to the "let's keep this simple" thing either
On widely used software, yeah, it'd be quicker/cheaper to fix the software. But for all the one-offs out there, running individual shops/businesses/etc, it costs less to pay one company to design/build a faster processor, than it does to pay hundreds of thousands of software developers to be able to improve the hundreds of thousands of pieces of software out there.
Comes down to numbers.
"Okay what do you call it when a US person is wiretapped without a warrant?"
Another nail in the coffin of their[/your?] dying constitution?
I'm not in disagreement at all with regards to right vs wrong, should be allowed vs shouldn't be. I was just disagreeing with the person disagreeing with the terminology (or something :-p)
"The phrase "domestic wiretap" is exactly what they were doing here"
Is a domestic flight not one that has both end-points in the US? If only one end-point is in the US, it's not considered a domestic flight, right?
I think this is the view taken on domestic phone calls; both end-points of the call are within the US. If one isn't, then it's an internation, not domestic call. As the wiretap's on the call, it's therefore an international wiretap.
It's down to common terminology and usage of language, what one term implies over another.
To lift you far enough away from the earths magnetic core which would otherwise skew the results due to the third law of earth-magneto-skewerige... quickly, look over there, behind you!
"Some plants take years to mature, and a nice, flat, moss-free lawn can take a lifetime"
And on top of that, the result would be "a garden somebody else made", which has a very different feel to "our garden that we made".
"everybody's downloading Pirates of the Caribbean II"
:-p
oo is that out now? On DVD (or a screener), I hate those cinema cam jobs... hmm what was my shortcut key for shareaza again?
Um, well actually, with the right starting conditions set and a decent genetic programming algorithm, it's already possible for a computer to produce something better than its creators could do manually. So, whilst not being able to parse the question in natural english, once translated by a human, this really isn't so far fetched at all.
Actually, nobody's ever been able to hack into my microsoft mouse.
;-)
Ha, that told you!
"see if he has any inclings towards being a comedian?"
Oh that's all we need, a SCAA (Standup Commedians Association of Arseholes), that go around stopping people from "stealing jokes from comedians and depriving them of earning a living". No longer will it be legal to share a joke amongst friends that you heard on tv last night. Young children will be sued for forwarding emails with jokes on to their friends.
ugh.
Stack computers, are basically like rack computers, except you can't pull out the one at the bottom.
Yeah that's the great thing about CISC assembly... you write your code, feel great because it does actually work, then you can go learn a few more instructions, use them to make your code smaller and faster, and feel great about yourself AGAIN!
You don't have a clue. Most people who take drugs /don't/ get horribly sick, and most of the one's that do /don't/ do it under the pretext that they can just get a doc to fix them back up again, if anything, they're somewhat naive of the damage that can be cause.
/what/ is illegal, but the /fact/ that it's illegal, that causes the vast majority of the problems.
And while we're on that, let me point out that most of the damage caused by illegal drugs are caused because the drugs aren't clean or of consistant strength. People will cut drugs with absolutely anything to sell their 0.7g as 1.0g so they can make their 40% profit (or so they can have the rest themselves). Some people will put a heavier drug into a milder drug, like lsd into mdma, because they think it's cool, leaving some poor sod who's used to taking 5 pills a night because there's so little mdma in them, taking an enormous amount of acid for the first time in their life, not realising it, and not having a clue what's going on.
Then there're some people who will just do it maliciously.
Can you imagine if a brewery tried to pull stunts like that? Or a pharmaceuticals company? Deliberate product contamination? Each purchase you but having different amounts of different chemicals in, irrespective of what you thought you were buying? Dude, people would be dropping like flies all around you, except that they wouldn't get away with it, and so it doesn't happen.
What all this means? That problem is not
And finally, for everyone who says "make it legal and everyone will do it"... no... people don't choose whether to do drugs or not based on the legality of it, but whether they actually do or don't want to do them. There are plenty of people out there who just don't want to do drugs, as there are people who don't want to do the whole getting drunk thing either, despite the fact that it's perfectly legal to get drunk.
People decide their own morals. The law just punishes those who's conflict with it's.
"...$1100 for a fine is ridiculous. Getting busted for possession of a single valium which was given to me(and I was stupid enough to get caught with)? Priceless. Spending 36 hours in county until the jail staff which just underwent a shift change and doesn't know you are in the jail(after you have already made bail)? Priceless. Coming to the understanding that..."
Yeah I'm err, head of marketing for MasterCard and erm... I don't think we wanna be using you for our adverts anymore. Soz.
I think it's ironic that they're called "controlled" substances, when they specifically are controlled by the government just about the least.
"HSBC already does 2"
...asks you to enter random decoy keys between the real keys?
"suggestions for a system that will remain secure when there's a keylogger on the client's system"
Two things spring to mind.
1) involve the mouse.
2) insert decoy keys, eg, instead of "Enter 2nd, 4th and last digits of your PIN", it could have "Press 1 random number, then the 2nd digit of your PIN, then 3 random numbers, then the 4th" etc. Unless this keylogger has screen capture too, you could even tell them exactly what to type, eg: "37*218*0*644" (substitute * for 3rd, 4th, and 6th digits).
Yes, I know, this would likely confuse the *hell* out of anyone who couldn't keep a keylogger off their machine.
Struggling to think of simpler ways... maybe a random lookup? "Find the 2nd, 4th and 5th numbers of your PIN on the above table, and type in the letters next to them"?
Nah you know what NASA folks are like with forgetting to convert things... it's actually sitting in a box on betamax, nobody wants to admit it.
"And since this is in the datacenter, you can train your people not to pee on the red wire"
We have dedicated and colocated server in various datacenters, so I have a fair amount of experience with them, and so I need to ask you... PLEASE give me an example! An example of a datacenter staffed with people who can be trained not to pee on a red wire, because if they can be trained to do that... hell they might even be able to reboot the right machine from time to time!
Yeah I thought that - how can they determine the delay the keyboard added over the delay the user added? But then thinking about it, quite easily, using rounding.
:-p
First you have to pick your unit of time (eg, a 100th of a second). Idealy you want it large enough so it's not lost in processing time inconsistancies, but short enough so the user doesn't detect it. Then you split your data into 1's and 0's (kinda already done in a computer). If you want to send a 1, you delay the packet until the nearest even 100th of a second, and if you want to send a 0, you delay the packet until the nearest odd 100th of a second. Throw in a few start/stop/parity bits so you can tell which is meant to be the odd vs even 100th of a second on the keyboard when you read it, and you're done.
There are many ways you could improve on this techneque, but I didn't RTFA and I'm too tired to put more thought into it, but this should get ppl started
Hey I never said that microsoft where gonna be able to do this, or that you would be able to do this with the MS operating system, this is strictly theory/design behind the TPM model.
Well no, if you want to lock down a bunch of pc's, you sign yourself, require code that's been signed by yourself, and perform the required audits on the code yourself.
But this is a stepping stone anyway; on a full TPM machine, unsigned code wouldn't be able to exploit holes in signed code, as the two would have a greater degree of seperation.
Well with anything you can turn it off... you can boot windows (apparently) without the signed code checks enabled, but it's detectable (in my example, running 'mount' would display the noexec has been removed, or for windows checking for the boot options that disable signed code checks in windows). But this allows you to run the code anyway, and show no trace (because the system still reports that you can't run the code).