8) Now enter the command: "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" "http://info.prevx.com/download.asp?GRAB=BLACKSCREENFIX"
...which starts the download of an executable file. Now, I have no idea who that guy (owner of prevx.com) is, and maybe he has nothing but good intentions, but I have this personal rule never to execute files downloaded from some random blog reassuring me they are going to "fix" my computer.
Disclaimer: I am not from North America, and I also think that the USA has some serious racial issues. That being said, explain to me how comparing Bush to a monkey is not dehumanizing him?
Likening Bush to a monkey is not insulting him because he is white, and so is not racist.
Well that is a preposterous statement. I'm of the opinion that comparing any human being to a monkey is an insult to that person's mental capabilities. Whether or not it is also racist is a separate dimension of the insult, but fundamentally calling anyone a monkey is an insult. I might be wrong, but I think that those who called Bush a monkey were not using that word to make a factual statement about his biological makeup...
But then again, I come from South America, so I was never taught that "monkey" is a particularly racist insult (our monkeys are not all black, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Lion_Tamarin).
It doesn't matter if you've got the best encryption on the planet, if I can gain physical access, YOU'RE FUCKED.
Shows how little you know. If I have the best encryption algorithm on the planet, and my data is encrypted, I can give you all of it (data and encryption algorithm). No amount of physical access to that encrypted data will get you closer to the plain text than knowing the key used for encryption. That is the whole point of encryption. The best you can do is crypto-analysis of the algorithms based on their mathematical formulas, and not on any particular set of data. I suggest you read more about attack models before spouting that kind of non-sense.
Heck, the whole idea of SSL/TLS is that you can have a secure, authenticated, private conversation over a completely unsecure, unauthenticated, compromised channel. Yes, you read it right: using SSL I can give you complete, 100% control of the communication channel. This will not give you any insight about the content of the conversation. The best you can do is deny service - which is, in fact, a physical security issue.
Another evidence of your ignorance about security: make a computer system completely secure from a physical point of view, so that no one can get physical access to it. If that system does not have also a strong layer of software security, your physical security is worth nothing. The botnets with millions of zombies PCs are an example of that. Or do you really think that whoever controls those botnets went from home to home to install the botnet software? I'm pretty sure that most of those PCs were safely locked in their owners' homes.
That is to say that I do acknowledge the need for physical security, but again, the whole thread was not about physical security, it was about software security. Which leads me back to my previous answer (which you quite conveniently ignored) that your rant is at best offtopic, if not just trolling. The unrestrained use of caps confirms that suspicion.
So there you go. My point was that indiechild was wrong to claim that security by obscurity was the same as hiding your personal info, since the definition of the term is about algorithms and not data. Then you came along and tried to shoehorn physical security in the conversation, for reasons unknown. I tried to tell you that in the scope of this conversation, physical security is irrelevant. And now you go even further out of topic, on some rant about how encryption cannot withstand scrutiny from physical access. In this post I showed that software security can resist some types of physical access attacks and that physical security is nothing without software security.
Ugh, just by reading your post again makes me cringe. What are "physical security protocols" anyways? I have heard about physical security policies, physical security mechanisms, but protocols? Is this when one spy says: "The polar bear collects spare change" and the other one answers "The cheese stands alone"? Seriously, for someone who is trying to criticize someone else's knowledge about a specific field, you should pay more attention to the terminology of the field.
By the way, those were rhetorical questions. I really do not need to read more half-baked, I-learned-it-from-teh-interwebs, non-sense about security.
One of these days someone might come around to explain to you the idea of conversation context. This whole thread is about software security. The OP mentioned security by obscurity, which is a concept usually used in the context of software security. Why would you bring a completely unrelated context to the thread?
Heck, if we wanted to be picky about it, we could say that your post is almost offtopic...
Security through obscurity is not about relying on secrecy of data, but about relying on secrecy of the algorithm or implementation. Those two things are different.
If you do not make the distinction between data/information secrecy and design/algorithm/protocol/implementation secrecy, then you do not understand what security is.
> nor to the millions of Christians who regard Constantinian Christianity as no Christianity at all.
Ahh, the good old "No True Scotsman" fallacy. Why then do you even bother to defend "them" at all?
> Religion was a post-hoc rationalization...Witch burnings...were quite rare if not unheard of prior to that time...Anti-semitism was not a Christian invention...
Which all leads to the OP's point that Christianity was either a motivator, catalyst or used as a justification for those acts. You are really making his point for him here.
> the Christian church has been a progressive force for women when you compare it to the times, not a repressive one
By having as one of the central tenants that a woman is only perfect as long she is immaculate? While having no such restriction on men? By condoning rape as long as you compensate her father for the financial loss? (Deuteronomy 22:28-29)
> it reads more like a tired list of he-said-she-said from someone who got everything he knows about religion and history from infidels.org... So kindly exercise some discretion and actually learn something before you start flapping your gums and slandering things you know nothing about.
Since after investigating your claims for about 15 minutes, I managed to find 5 issues with, I'm gonna go and say perhaps you should take some of this advice yourself.
You are confusing login and authentication. The SSL protocol has provisions for certificate authentication (both server and client) way before any cypher key exchange is done. That is why you see a warning for unknown server certificates before you are allowed to type your login information.
There is no such thing as "nobody else can read the transmission" if you don't have authentication.
How can you tell apart the proper destination and everybody else if you did not authenticate them? The very reason self-signed certificates are deemed dangerous by Firefox and others is that anyone can impersonate anyone else. In the end, you would certainly have an encrypted link to your destination, it is just that the destination could very likely not be who you think it is... and if the information is not important enough for you to bother about not letting it leak to a man in the middle, then why bother with encryption at all?
I was always curious about long term effects. Non-ionizing radiation is proven to cause various illnesses. For example, some schools were built on cheap property in close proximity to large power transmission lines. That caused an unusually high rate of leukemia in the students. Prolonged exposure (living or going to school) at 200 meters raised the chance of getting leukemia by 70%. 200 meters to 500 meters raised it by 20%. Obviously, no research was done with Tesla's unfinished work. And for those asking for citations, search Google for "power lines leukemia".
3. The initial study was flawed. Wertheimer and Leeper did not actually measure magnetic fields from power lines. Instead, they classified the homes according to their wiring code. The wiring code was then used as a surrogate for the powerline magnetic field, which was unmeasured and unknown. This is a flaw in the study. Later studies actually measured the magnetic fields from power lines and found no consistent relationship between measured magnetic field and incidence of cancer [13]. It is important to realize that there are important possible confounding factors in such epidemiologic studies. For example, one possible confounding factor is an income effect. Living right under electric power lines is not a desired residence, and often is a low-income housing location. People living near power lines tend to be poorer than the control group, and there is a strong and well-known epidemiological relationship between poverty and cancer. Gurney and others showed that the homes with the presumably higher-current wiring code tended to be lower income [14]. Thus the original Wertheimer-Leeper study was biased. In addition, it was based on a relatively few cases, and the statistics were consequently rather poor.
In summary: non-ionizing radiation has not been proven to cause various illnesses.
Reality, by definition, is "dirty". We have dust, we have imperfections in every surface, no matter how carefully machined. Houses are never truly square, roads are never perfectly level, and points in a corner are always rounded. Always.
Computers, by definition, are "clean". Squares are always truly square, roads are as perfectly level as they were designed to be, and corners are always razor sharp, no matter how much you "zoom in".
The problem with modern graphics systems is they are computed to extreme levels of precision. If they incorporated a sort of fundamental randomness, if they were intrinsically uncertain, they just might be able to really approximate reality, which is messy, ugly, and imperfect.
You seem to be confusing texture irregularity with material consistency. A house wall is not perfectly "razor sharp", but no matter how many times you look at it, they do not suffer from "randomness" or are in any way "uncertain". At least not if you are not looking at a sub-atomic level.
Also, the bandwidth would not be that high, if you take into account that human eyes have very little resolution, and thus an extreme amount of detail at a distance would be pretty much irrelevant.
When I was in Rome, a fellow I met told me that, in Italy in general but Rome in particular, you should NEVER look while crossing the street. If the drivers see you looking, they'll know you've seen them and they won't stop. He said you should just step out into traffic without the slightest hint that you might have noticed them. Only then will they stop.
... which goes completely against my experience. I was in Rome the second week of last december, and the best way of making a driver stop was to make direct eye contact until they saw you, sustain it, and cross the street. And keep a serious face.
My guess is that then they understand that not only you are aware of them, but that if you survive, you will possibly be able to identify them.
It goes without saying that I would only do that on pedestrian crossings.
Quick quote: Senior CPS reviewing lawyer Stephen O'Doherty said the two officers who fired the fatal shots could not be prosecuted for murder or any related offences because they had "genuinely believed" he was a suicide bomber.
I have to give it to you, I did not see that the MacBooks were recently upgraded. However, the point I was trying to make is that the Acer is (well, was) technically the *exact* same machine as the standard MacBook. For 700 euros less.
If you think about it, both machines are still pretty much the same thing, the MacBook just comes now with a better processor.
Actually, one could argue that the Acer is even a better machine overall, since it comes with all the goodies (DVD-DL, modem, S-Video output, card reader) that Apple is kind enough to charge you extra to get.
If you still think that the operating system and its bundled applications are worth 700 euros more, then by all means, be my guest!
BTW, just by saying that Acer is a third rate manufacturer shows, in the best case, your ignorance of the quality of their products, or at worst case that you are an Apple fanboy or Slashdot troll.
P.S.: The Saturn website indeed does not shows this offer. However, if you go to the shop at Europaplatz in Karlsruhe, you'll be able to buy one just as I did.
Just FYI, one of the new Acer 5672 lwmi can be bought today for 1399 euros in any Saturn shop in Germany. To make it a short post:
- Contras:
- Only a X1400 vs X1600 for the MacBook
- Max video res: 1280x800 vs 1400x900
- No embedded bluetooth in the standard model (available as optional, though)
- No keyboard light
- No Apple remote control
- 2.95kg vs 2.5kg
- Pros:
- 1GB RAM vs 512MB
- DVD-DL, 'nuff said
- S-Video out, no extra cables needed
- 4 USB2 ports
- 56K Modem
- ExpressCard/34 *and* PCMCIA Type 2
- 5-in-1 Card Reader (MS/MS-Pro/MMC/SD/xD)
Absolutely every single other characteristic is the same as the 1.67GHz MacBook. Even the integrated webcam.
Also, just as a side comment, the battery-life on this thing is 3.5h for web browsing and email. My guess is that you can push it to 4h if you turn the wlan adapter off.
Did I mention that you can buy it *today*? Please tell me if this list of differences is worth 700 euros to you.
The amount of data they give seems very comprehensive, including time you'll spend walking to the bus or subway, and the amount of money it would cost compared to driving.
This site http://www.efa-bw.de/nvbw/en_index.htm offers pretty much the same thing (just without the Google UI, but the maps can be downloaded as PDFs) since before 2002. An that one includes also local, regional and long distance trains.
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I don't know. For me an objective debate usually involves facts, since opinions are (by definition) subjective.
Disclaimer: I am not from North America, and I also think that the USA has some serious racial issues. That being said, explain to me how comparing Bush to a monkey is not dehumanizing him?
Likening Bush to a monkey is not insulting him because he is white, and so is not racist.
Well that is a preposterous statement. I'm of the opinion that comparing any human being to a monkey is an insult to that person's mental capabilities. Whether or not it is also racist is a separate dimension of the insult, but fundamentally calling anyone a monkey is an insult. I might be wrong, but I think that those who called Bush a monkey were not using that word to make a factual statement about his biological makeup...
But then again, I come from South America, so I was never taught that "monkey" is a particularly racist insult (our monkeys are not all black, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Lion_Tamarin).
Btw, Google fail in Switzerland: http://images.google.ch/images?q=Michelle%20Obama - first result.
It doesn't matter if you've got the best encryption on the planet, if I can gain physical access, YOU'RE FUCKED.
Shows how little you know. If I have the best encryption algorithm on the planet, and my data is encrypted, I can give you all of it (data and encryption algorithm). No amount of physical access to that encrypted data will get you closer to the plain text than knowing the key used for encryption. That is the whole point of encryption. The best you can do is crypto-analysis of the algorithms based on their mathematical formulas, and not on any particular set of data. I suggest you read more about attack models before spouting that kind of non-sense.
Heck, the whole idea of SSL/TLS is that you can have a secure, authenticated, private conversation over a completely unsecure, unauthenticated, compromised channel. Yes, you read it right: using SSL I can give you complete, 100% control of the communication channel. This will not give you any insight about the content of the conversation. The best you can do is deny service - which is, in fact, a physical security issue.
Another evidence of your ignorance about security: make a computer system completely secure from a physical point of view, so that no one can get physical access to it. If that system does not have also a strong layer of software security, your physical security is worth nothing. The botnets with millions of zombies PCs are an example of that. Or do you really think that whoever controls those botnets went from home to home to install the botnet software? I'm pretty sure that most of those PCs were safely locked in their owners' homes.
That is to say that I do acknowledge the need for physical security, but again, the whole thread was not about physical security, it was about software security. Which leads me back to my previous answer (which you quite conveniently ignored) that your rant is at best offtopic, if not just trolling. The unrestrained use of caps confirms that suspicion.
So there you go. My point was that indiechild was wrong to claim that security by obscurity was the same as hiding your personal info, since the definition of the term is about algorithms and not data. Then you came along and tried to shoehorn physical security in the conversation, for reasons unknown. I tried to tell you that in the scope of this conversation, physical security is irrelevant. And now you go even further out of topic, on some rant about how encryption cannot withstand scrutiny from physical access. In this post I showed that software security can resist some types of physical access attacks and that physical security is nothing without software security.
Ugh, just by reading your post again makes me cringe. What are "physical security protocols" anyways? I have heard about physical security policies, physical security mechanisms, but protocols? Is this when one spy says: "The polar bear collects spare change" and the other one answers "The cheese stands alone"? Seriously, for someone who is trying to criticize someone else's knowledge about a specific field, you should pay more attention to the terminology of the field.
By the way, those were rhetorical questions. I really do not need to read more half-baked, I-learned-it-from-teh-interwebs, non-sense about security.
Have a nice day.
One of these days someone might come around to explain to you the idea of conversation context. This whole thread is about software security. The OP mentioned security by obscurity, which is a concept usually used in the context of software security. Why would you bring a completely unrelated context to the thread?
Heck, if we wanted to be picky about it, we could say that your post is almost offtopic...
Security through obscurity is not about relying on secrecy of data, but about relying on secrecy of the algorithm or implementation. Those two things are different.
If you do not make the distinction between data/information secrecy and design/algorithm/protocol/implementation secrecy, then you do not understand what security is.
> Burning of scientists at the stake? Uhmmm... I'm trying to think of an example. Do you have one? I really can't think of one.
One. Google. Query. Away: http://www.google.ch/search?q=Burning%20of%20scientists%20at%20the%20stake
First result: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giordano_Bruno and now you know.
> Galileo got in trouble as much for being a jerk about it as for what he taught.
Citation needed. What I have found about Galileo is this: "Most historians agree Galileo did not act out of malice and felt blindsided by the reaction to his book." There are *five* references to other scholars confirming this point of view in there.
> nor to the millions of Christians who regard Constantinian Christianity as no Christianity at all.
Ahh, the good old "No True Scotsman" fallacy. Why then do you even bother to defend "them" at all?
> Religion was a post-hoc rationalization...Witch burnings...were quite rare if not unheard of prior to that time...Anti-semitism was not a Christian invention...
Which all leads to the OP's point that Christianity was either a motivator, catalyst or used as a justification for those acts. You are really making his point for him here.
> the Christian church has been a progressive force for women when you compare it to the times, not a repressive one
By having as one of the central tenants that a woman is only perfect as long she is immaculate? While having no such restriction on men? By condoning rape as long as you compensate her father for the financial loss? (Deuteronomy 22:28-29)
> it reads more like a tired list of he-said-she-said from someone who got everything he knows about religion and history from infidels.org ... So kindly exercise some discretion and actually learn something before you start flapping your gums and slandering things you know nothing about.
Since after investigating your claims for about 15 minutes, I managed to find 5 issues with, I'm gonna go and say perhaps you should take some of this advice yourself.
You are confusing login and authentication. The SSL protocol has provisions for certificate authentication (both server and client) way before any cypher key exchange is done. That is why you see a warning for unknown server certificates before you are allowed to type your login information.
Four words for you: man in the middle.
There is no such thing as "nobody else can read the transmission" if you don't have authentication.
How can you tell apart the proper destination and everybody else if you did not authenticate them? The very reason self-signed certificates are deemed dangerous by Firefox and others is that anyone can impersonate anyone else. In the end, you would certainly have an encrypted link to your destination, it is just that the destination could very likely not be who you think it is... and if the information is not important enough for you to bother about not letting it leak to a man in the middle, then why bother with encryption at all?
I was always curious about long term effects. Non-ionizing radiation is proven to cause various illnesses. For example, some schools were built on cheap property in close proximity to large power transmission lines. That caused an unusually high rate of leukemia in the students. Prolonged exposure (living or going to school) at 200 meters raised the chance of getting leukemia by 70%. 200 meters to 500 meters raised it by 20%. Obviously, no research was done with Tesla's unfinished work. And for those asking for citations, search Google for "power lines leukemia" .
I did. Fourth result: http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/emf.html From the link:
3. The initial study was flawed. Wertheimer and Leeper did not actually measure magnetic fields from power lines. Instead, they classified the homes according to their wiring code. The wiring code was then used as a surrogate for the powerline magnetic field, which was unmeasured and unknown. This is a flaw in the study. Later studies actually measured the magnetic fields from power lines and found no consistent relationship between measured magnetic field and incidence of cancer [13]. It is important to realize that there are important possible confounding factors in such epidemiologic studies. For example, one possible confounding factor is an income effect. Living right under electric power lines is not a desired residence, and often is a low-income housing location. People living near power lines tend to be poorer than the control group, and there is a strong and well-known epidemiological relationship between poverty and cancer. Gurney and others showed that the homes with the presumably higher-current wiring code tended to be lower income [14]. Thus the original Wertheimer-Leeper study was biased. In addition, it was based on a relatively few cases, and the statistics were consequently rather poor.
In summary: non-ionizing radiation has not been proven to cause various illnesses.
Amazon/Kindle should stick to their guns and let the end user decide to turn on the TTS engine or not.
Then the authors who complained to the Guild would stick to their guns and withdraw some works from Kindle entirely. Would you want such an outcome?
Actually, yes. Let them face the "real" lost revenue, instead of "imaginary" lost revenue (from TTS) to bash some sense in their skulls.
Reality, by definition, is "dirty". We have dust, we have imperfections in every surface, no matter how carefully machined. Houses are never truly square, roads are never perfectly level, and points in a corner are always rounded. Always.
Computers, by definition, are "clean". Squares are always truly square, roads are as perfectly level as they were designed to be, and corners are always razor sharp, no matter how much you "zoom in".
The problem with modern graphics systems is they are computed to extreme levels of precision. If they incorporated a sort of fundamental randomness, if they were intrinsically uncertain, they just might be able to really approximate reality, which is messy, ugly, and imperfect.
You seem to be confusing texture irregularity with material consistency. A house wall is not perfectly "razor sharp", but no matter how many times you look at it, they do not suffer from "randomness" or are in any way "uncertain". At least not if you are not looking at a sub-atomic level. Also, the bandwidth would not be that high, if you take into account that human eyes have very little resolution, and thus an extreme amount of detail at a distance would be pretty much irrelevant.
My guess is that then they understand that not only you are aware of them, but that if you survive, you will possibly be able to identify them.
It goes without saying that I would only do that on pedestrian crossings.
Pssst, check http://thepiratebay.org/browse/202 - not that I use it or anything, I was told by a friend, you know.
Where are the mod points when you need them? Please someone do some justice and mod the parent up.
Meanwhile, if you want to know more about how this "suing the police" is complete bullshit, read here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/5186050.stm
Quick quote:
Senior CPS reviewing lawyer Stephen O'Doherty said the two officers who fired the fatal shots could not be prosecuted for murder or any related offences because they had "genuinely believed" he was a suicide bomber.
No evidence, just "genuine belief".
Here it is: http://transform.to/~werekatt/cartoon/dog/dog20.JP G
Do not confuse "means" with "motivation".
I have to give it to you, I did not see that the MacBooks were recently upgraded. However, the point I was trying to make is that the Acer is (well, was) technically the *exact* same machine as the standard MacBook. For 700 euros less.
If you think about it, both machines are still pretty much the same thing, the MacBook just comes now with a better processor.
Actually, one could argue that the Acer is even a better machine overall, since it comes with all the goodies (DVD-DL, modem, S-Video output, card reader) that Apple is kind enough to charge you extra to get.
If you still think that the operating system and its bundled applications are worth 700 euros more, then by all means, be my guest!
BTW, just by saying that Acer is a third rate manufacturer shows, in the best case, your ignorance of the quality of their products, or at worst case that you are an Apple fanboy or Slashdot troll.
P.S.: The Saturn website indeed does not shows this offer. However, if you go to the shop at Europaplatz in Karlsruhe, you'll be able to buy one just as I did.
Just FYI, one of the new Acer 5672 lwmi can be bought today for 1399 euros in any Saturn shop in Germany. To make it a short post:
- Contras:
- Only a X1400 vs X1600 for the MacBook
- Max video res: 1280x800 vs 1400x900
- No embedded bluetooth in the standard model (available as optional, though)
- No keyboard light
- No Apple remote control
- 2.95kg vs 2.5kg
- Pros:
- 1GB RAM vs 512MB
- DVD-DL, 'nuff said
- S-Video out, no extra cables needed
- 4 USB2 ports
- 56K Modem
- ExpressCard/34 *and* PCMCIA Type 2
- 5-in-1 Card Reader (MS/MS-Pro/MMC/SD/xD)
Absolutely every single other characteristic is the same as the 1.67GHz MacBook. Even the integrated webcam.
Also, just as a side comment, the battery-life on this thing is 3.5h for web browsing and email. My guess is that you can push it to 4h if you turn the wlan adapter off.
Did I mention that you can buy it *today*? Please tell me if this list of differences is worth 700 euros to you.
This site http://www.efa-bw.de/nvbw/en_index.htm offers pretty much the same thing (just without the Google UI, but the maps can be downloaded as PDFs) since before 2002. An that one includes also local, regional and long distance trains.
Who can port the driver or make bufixes? In a year? Or two?
So you are saying that the driver model for X is not stable enough to last more than a couple of years?
If not, perhaps the problem is that they should first consolidate a good driver model, and then argue about free drivers.
Flame Apple and Microsoft all you want, but their driver models remain the same for several years...
Depends... did you go to school in Dover, Pennsylvania ?
Ask and you shall receive:
.Net and Java.
http://www.google.com/search?q=SHA512
On the first page there are SHA-512 implementations for PHP,
BTW, there are 256, 384 and 512 variations.
Pedophiles everywhere must be excited about this.
Work for the government, get paid, and get to watch naked kids all day long...
There is relly no need to encrypt your files, after all.
I'm just waiting to see how long it will be before someone start posting those pictures.