It's funny because from ciphertext of random noise, you can always generate a one-time pad which will generate any plaintext you want. Repeat as necessary for each candidate.
1. Use a deniable encryption scheme to encode a document which has multiple plaintexts, each describing your intent to rig the election in favour of a different candidate.
2. Send the encrypted multiple-plaintext document to the news media.
3. After the election, send along the appropriate key.
4. Singlehandedly psycho-disenfranchise the electorate without ever doing anything illegal. Good job, you anti-democracy terrorist, you!
1. Each person in the company is entitled to a $100 "security bonus", payable at the end of the year.
2. If you break into somebody else's account without getting caught (and prove it), you get an additional $100 security bonus. It would be nice if the bounty was larger than the loss of the victim, but that would promote collusion.
3. If your account is compromised, you lose all security bonuses for the year.
One of the coolest things I ever saw was a tape recorder that starts recording 30 seconds before you press "record". Simple concept -- just continuously record to a 30-second buffer.
So if it's truly disk/network that's at a premium, why not start logging just before you need it? Log at level "EVERYTHING" up into a circular buffer, and only dump to disk or network when there's an error?
So you really don't get the "gradual erosion" problem?
What if there's only one grocery store in town and they refuse to let you eat unless you reveal the contents of your bag, pockets, wallet, hard drive? Is it a constructive violation of your privacy *then*?
True, but it *is* how ssh works. Computationally expensive private/public key crypto is used to exchange a *shared* key. Computationally cheap shared-key crypto is used to encrypt all subsequent traffic.
That's funny, something similar happened to me. Last year I left my phone on accidentally through an entire flight and didn't die.
It was a non-precision approach using a navaid called a VOR. On the final leg of the approach, the airport was nowhere to be seen, and cross-checking the VOR against the non-IFR loran indicated that we were more than three miles off course. Fortunately, it was a practice approach. In hard instrument conditions 3 miles off course at 1000 feet above ground, we would probably have been flying through cumulus granitus. That's pilot lingo for "attempting to fly through rocks."
If you're *ever* sitting beside me and you leave your cellphone on during an approach, I will give you papercuts on your tongue with my instrument ticket.
I recently tried and failed to add a touchscreen to my media server. The stumbling block was finding a way to have a simultaneous xservers (Ubuntu Breezy x.org 6.8) running on different video cards. No matter what I do, only one will be active at a time (one per virtual console), and I'm forced to switch between them with the Alt-Fkeys.
A little searching found the ancient Backstreet Ruby project, but there doesn't seem to be a way to do it with a modern kernel and xserver.
And maybe people shouldn't publish things on the PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE INTERNET if they want to maintain perfect private control over who reads it and how.
Actually, it's your driving I'm concerned about. People with attitudes like yours shouldn't be allowed out of doors, let alone put in control of machinery.
My point is not that OS X lacks shortcuts, but rather that the very act of using the Windows gui teaches you the shortcuts. You basically cannot *help* but learn the shortcuts for the actions you do frequently. On OS X, you must
Know where to look,
Figure out which ones are frequent enough to memorize, and
use them enough to commit them to memory.
BTW, I challenge you to try to navigate through a typical software installation process on OS X without using the mouse. I never did find a way to move the focus between dialog buttons with the keyboard.
Windows had this figured out for a long time. Nearly everything that you did with the mouse, would *tell* you how to do it with the keyboard. Menus had underlines and accelerator keys. Buttons had tooltips.
I've recently made the switch to OS X, and this is one of the few aspects of Windows that I miss.
Really the extensions are what make the application. Firefox itself isn't really much more than a platform. I really wish someone would create an application bundle with a collection of most of the frequently-used plugins.
It is one of my pet peeves that I must remember to download a dozen extensions on every new install.
Yes and no. The pilot-in-command is allowed to take any action necessary to ensure the safe outcome of the flight, including disregarding instructions from ATC, or failing to obtain a clearance when other tasks take priority.
If nobody on board is capable of interpreting and acknowledging a low cabin-pressure alarm and overriding the auto-descent... then the autopilot's implicit declaration of an emergency is surely valid.
If a descent to 10,000 feet *might* cause a loss of separation, and failure to do so *will* result in a fuel-starvation crash, then dude, WTF not?
You are good luck, two only not sold out in time for your pleasant surprise. You are please to wire the $2000 immediately to my account at First Latvian Bank, wire number is 12174-39233.
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I think this is a joke, but I'm not sure.
It's funny because from ciphertext of random noise, you can always generate a one-time pad which will generate any plaintext you want. Repeat as necessary for each candidate.
C'mon everybody, laugh!
1. Use a deniable encryption scheme to encode a document which has multiple plaintexts, each describing your intent to rig the election in favour of a different candidate.
2. Send the encrypted multiple-plaintext document to the news media.
3. After the election, send along the appropriate key.
4. Singlehandedly psycho-disenfranchise the electorate without ever doing anything illegal. Good job, you anti-democracy terrorist, you!
1. Each person in the company is entitled to a $100 "security bonus", payable at the end of the year.
2. If you break into somebody else's account without getting caught (and prove it), you get an additional $100 security bonus. It would be nice if the bounty was larger than the loss of the victim, but that would promote collusion.
3. If your account is compromised, you lose all security bonuses for the year.
One of the coolest things I ever saw was a tape recorder that starts recording 30 seconds before you press "record". Simple concept -- just continuously record to a 30-second buffer.
So if it's truly disk/network that's at a premium, why not start logging just before you need it? Log at level "EVERYTHING" up into a circular buffer, and only dump to disk or network when there's an error?
Kudos. You have written the only sensible post thus far.
Ha! I was nearly terminated from a client site for this exact dodge. Should've gone, too. It was only a sign of how much worse things would get.
I call dismal.
Or were you merely attempting to express that Apple holds a monopoly on iPhones?
So you really don't get the "gradual erosion" problem?
What if there's only one grocery store in town and they refuse to let you eat unless you reveal the contents of your bag, pockets, wallet, hard drive? Is it a constructive violation of your privacy *then*?
How do I support it?
Maybe not, but you can rest assured that somewhere in my head I'll be running DOS to play Full Throttle just one more time.
True, but it *is* how ssh works. Computationally expensive private/public key crypto is used to exchange a *shared* key. Computationally cheap shared-key crypto is used to encrypt all subsequent traffic.
One checksum digit would eliminate *every* one-digit-wrong misdialed number. Why why why don't phone numbers have checksum digits?
That's funny, something similar happened to me. Last year I left my phone on accidentally through an entire flight and didn't die.
It was a non-precision approach using a navaid called a VOR. On the final leg of the approach, the airport was nowhere to be seen, and cross-checking the VOR against the non-IFR loran indicated that we were more than three miles off course. Fortunately, it was a practice approach. In hard instrument conditions 3 miles off course at 1000 feet above ground, we would probably have been flying through cumulus granitus. That's pilot lingo for "attempting to fly through rocks."
If you're *ever* sitting beside me and you leave your cellphone on during an approach, I will give you papercuts on your tongue with my instrument ticket.
I recently tried and failed to add a touchscreen to my media server. The stumbling block was finding a way to have a simultaneous xservers (Ubuntu Breezy x.org 6.8) running on different video cards. No matter what I do, only one will be active at a time (one per virtual console), and I'm forced to switch between them with the Alt-Fkeys.
A little searching found the ancient Backstreet Ruby project, but there doesn't seem to be a way to do it with a modern kernel and xserver.
Anyone managed to accomplish this recently?
And maybe people shouldn't publish things on the PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE INTERNET if they want to maintain perfect private control over who reads it and how.
Actually, it's your driving I'm concerned about. People with attitudes like yours shouldn't be allowed out of doors, let alone put in control of machinery.
For me, a professional and small-business owner, the tax burden is slightly less than it would be if I were incorporated in Pennsylvania.
And I don't pay *nearly* enough for gasoline to account for all the externalized costs of burning it.
BTW, I challenge you to try to navigate through a typical software installation process on OS X without using the mouse. I never did find a way to move the focus between dialog buttons with the keyboard.
Windows had this figured out for a long time. Nearly everything that you did with the mouse, would *tell* you how to do it with the keyboard. Menus had underlines and accelerator keys. Buttons had tooltips.
I've recently made the switch to OS X, and this is one of the few aspects of Windows that I miss.
Shouldn't that be wormae?
Really the extensions are what make the application. Firefox itself isn't really much more than a platform. I really wish someone would create an application bundle with a collection of most of the frequently-used plugins.
It is one of my pet peeves that I must remember to download a dozen extensions on every new install.
This is the only sane thing I've read in the entire thread. In fact, I think I'll go out for a walk.
Sorry, out of mod points. +9 [insightful] though.
Yes and no. The pilot-in-command is allowed to take any action necessary to ensure the safe outcome of the flight, including disregarding instructions from ATC, or failing to obtain a clearance when other tasks take priority.
If nobody on board is capable of interpreting and acknowledging a low cabin-pressure alarm and overriding the auto-descent... then the autopilot's implicit declaration of an emergency is surely valid.
If a descent to 10,000 feet *might* cause a loss of separation, and failure to do so *will* result in a fuel-starvation crash, then dude, WTF not?
You are good luck, two only not sold out in time for your pleasant surprise. You are please to wire the $2000 immediately to my account at First Latvian Bank, wire number is 12174-39233.
Pleasant business to you also.