I am still on Opera 12.x because the one glaring thing the beta Vivaldi is missing is bookmarks than can be accessed easily. Having to click open the bookmark-sidebar, selecting the link and then having to click the sidebar close again is just not acceptable. Other than that, Vivaldi was fine in beta and I will be moving to it as soon as the bookmarks work well.
Indeed. Ignoring reality does not make it go away. There are statistical differences between the genders. Equal opportunity means everybody gets the same chances, but what they make of them is up to the individual. We have that. Women can get into any position in society and in any such position there are examples of women doing just as well as men that are good at it and women doing just as abysmally bad as men that are not good at it.
Now, asking for equality to be enforced, that is just plain stupid. It means placing people into positions they do not want and that cannot fill well. As long as women statistically decide a bit differently than men, enforcing equality oppresses both men and women and is a totalitarian and hence entirely unacceptable idea.
That is the thing all scientifically sound studies find, same in Europe. Women doing the same jobs under the same conditions are paid the same. One thing is, many women work part time and that pays less in many jobs (no idea why, but it seems to be the case). If you just compare men working part time and women working part time in the same job, the difference vanishes. Same if you only compare full-time workers.
What the 3rd-wave feminists ("screw equality, we want supremacy") are trying to do here is the "Big Lie" tactic: Repeat it often enough and even if completely untrue you will find more and more people that believe it.
Women, on average, do earn less money, that is a fact. Women are paid the same or slightly more for the same work though. Also a fact. Several several recent studies found that, go look them up. If women seek employment conditions that pay less, than that is not any discrimination, it is them using their freedoms in a different way than men. Again, on average. And there is certainly nothing here that needs fixing if they earn the same for the same work. Which they do.
As to Ebay, it is not possible to identify the gender of a seller, unless they advertise it. Hence maybe the problem is again that this is not the same thing being sold or that making it about gender and not the product decreases the profit?
Actually, the swim is not necessary, if you are careful not to swallow anything. Rowing is a pretty bad idea though, as it will be impossible to avoid swallowing and worse, aspirate water-spray in the air. The proposed measures are a completely ineffective show, except for the vaccinations.
I was actually commenting on the water supply, on the rowing I agree.
We will see. Typically, when somebody tries to call what they suspect is a bluff (as the FBI is doing), they will not escalate to crazy levels. On the other hand, Apple has staked a rather large amount of their reputation on this, so I think they will out-escalate the FBI on this. And they can. I believe the mere threat of moving their business overseas and stopping to sell anything i* in the US would have a lot of political power scramble to their defense. And the FBI is very mush subject to political power.
Indeed. They _are_ aiding the government already. The problem is that the court order compels them to do so _successfully_ in the face of a non-standard and potentially very difficult problem, and that is not compatible with fundamental legal principles. The word "reasonable" is the key here, and if Apple did the engineering right, nothing they may (or may not) be able to do passes that test.
If anything, this idiocy will just make very sure Apple will design future generations of their devices so that they really cannot break into them in any realistic way, no matter what.
And the corporation can simply take its business elsewhere. Than said judge would be responsible for an economic catastrophe. Hence that is not going to happen.
I would also say that the people in question were killed by the police represents a pretty maximal failure to "cover their tracks". But politicians do not deal in truth or honor. They deal in manipulation, lies and power.
This is not about that single phone. Remember there is no "covering of tracks" involved here, the perps are dead. This is about abrading civil liberties and more power to the police. Just as is done in any budding police-state. The ultimate outcome is always the same: Full fascism, leading to a slow and terminal decline.
Never. For these people a human lifetime is not enough to actually see reality and truth. And when they die we may raise a glass to then only good thing they ever did in their life (leaving it), but the next generation of the same type will already be well underway and I suspect that even the most stupid and vicious fuckups get reincarnated to mistreat their fellow human beings once more.
There are about 6.4 million people living in Rio. They know what they can and cannot do safely. Copy that and you are done. Hint: Washing your hands before eating and not drinking unboiled tap-water pretty much covers it.
They cannot do that. For one thing, it would be illegal. For another, they cannot practically do this: Apple could put a "reasonable" number of engineers on the problem permanently (say 5) and that would be it. Expect a solution in 20 years when it has become irrelevant. And seriously, if they really could do that, Apple would just leave the US, with tremendous negative political fallout for the FBI.
No. This is a battle of whits and the FBI has been traditionally short of those. They cannot win this fight unless Apple caves. Apple has no reason to do so that I can see, but a lot of reasons to _not_ do so.
While your efforts to attempt to confuse the issue are admirable, they do not change that you really have no clue what you are talking about. Maybe read a book some time before styling yourself as an expert? Or is that too much to ask for you? And yes, I have given up explaining things, as you are clearly not listening.
And sure, a unicorn may spontaneously materialize on your lawn, according to quantum mechanics. Or pouring a mug of coffee over a sheet with a longer one-time pad encrypted message may mark it in such a way that the plaintext can be read from the coffee-stains. Only these things do not happen in reality. Your point is technically correct, but entirely stupid because it is irrelevant. It sounds like something somebody that cannot admit to being wrong would say.
But you prove nicely that my sig is right on the mark. Care do dig yourself even deeper?
One-time pads are _very_ easily broken if the implementation has flaws. Seriously. The "perfect security" only hold for a perfect implementation of all steps involved. Yes, a perfectly implemented one-time-pad cannot be brute-forced, but that is the only assurance you get and said implementation is extremely high in effort compared to other crypto. Incidentally, AES-256 implemented reasonably well (high entropy key) cannot be brute-forced either.
While the attack-vectors for modern crypto and one-time-pads are different, a real-world one-time pad is not unbreakable at all.
A sufficiently competent "bad guy" could already do that. The whole thing is a trade-off. Apple apologized for being too restrictive, possibly without any real security benefit.
Variability does not indicate the technology is immature. It just says that manufacturers are juggling for better trade-offs between cost and reliability and there are new designs (that are based on older ones) regularly. Well, sure, no computer tech is strictly mature, not even, say, Cherry switches. If you really go for it, not even paper is mature, despite the Human race having been making it for about 2000 years. So with a very strict definition of maturity, HDDs are certainly not mature, but it does not make much sense to use that definition.
But my point was that SSDs have surprising failure modes and causes of failure, while HDDs basically do not have them these days. Again, mostly. A Helium-filled drive will have some novel failure-modes linked to loss of Helium, for example.
Traditional HDDs are a mature technology. The maximum reliability they have at consumer-prices is not likely to get any better than it is now. Their reliability varies between models and over time, but basically it is something like 1...10% failure (if treated well) per year. SSDs will hopefully get much better numbers eventually, CPU-like reliability would be nice.
Well, if you have verified backups (I fully agree on that, and just a trial-read of the backup is not enough, you need a compare), and then no recovery plan, you can still pay somebody with a clue a lot of money to do it for you;-)
External disks are fine, but make that in an independent location. A locker at work, in the gym, etc. is fine (you should decidedly encrypt any sensitive backup). Of course, you can have on-site backups for convenience as well, but for everything you really do not want to lose, you should store a copy off-site.
You cannot trust an one-time-pad unless you invest high effort. You must protect it perfectly before and after using it. You must never store or transmit it in any electronic form. You must hand-deliver it by an absolutely trusted courier. That is why it is almost never used. But, sure, most budding crypto-nerds like to make these these demented claims until they find out some actual facts.
And here is an actual fact for you: Keyed right, even the historic Enigma is unbreakable for message sizes of 4000 characters (of bits, do not remember the exact number form the proof we were shown for that in Crypo 101).
You really should look up the Dunning-Kruger effect. You are completely clueless how clueless you are.
You are full of shit. Seriously. Incidentally, your book-thing is a "Rebecca"-cipher or a book-cipher and it can and has been broken without knowing the book, only the message sent.
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I am still on Opera 12.x because the one glaring thing the beta Vivaldi is missing is bookmarks than can be accessed easily. Having to click open the bookmark-sidebar, selecting the link and then having to click the sidebar close again is just not acceptable. Other than that, Vivaldi was fine in beta and I will be moving to it as soon as the bookmarks work well.
Indeed. Ignoring reality does not make it go away. There are statistical differences between the genders. Equal opportunity means everybody gets the same chances, but what they make of them is up to the individual. We have that. Women can get into any position in society and in any such position there are examples of women doing just as well as men that are good at it and women doing just as abysmally bad as men that are not good at it.
Now, asking for equality to be enforced, that is just plain stupid. It means placing people into positions they do not want and that cannot fill well. As long as women statistically decide a bit differently than men, enforcing equality oppresses both men and women and is a totalitarian and hence entirely unacceptable idea.
That is the thing all scientifically sound studies find, same in Europe. Women doing the same jobs under the same conditions are paid the same. One thing is, many women work part time and that pays less in many jobs (no idea why, but it seems to be the case). If you just compare men working part time and women working part time in the same job, the difference vanishes. Same if you only compare full-time workers.
What the 3rd-wave feminists ("screw equality, we want supremacy") are trying to do here is the "Big Lie" tactic: Repeat it often enough and even if completely untrue you will find more and more people that believe it.
Women, on average, do earn less money, that is a fact. Women are paid the same or slightly more for the same work though. Also a fact. Several several recent studies found that, go look them up. If women seek employment conditions that pay less, than that is not any discrimination, it is them using their freedoms in a different way than men. Again, on average. And there is certainly nothing here that needs fixing if they earn the same for the same work. Which they do.
As to Ebay, it is not possible to identify the gender of a seller, unless they advertise it. Hence maybe the problem is again that this is not the same thing being sold or that making it about gender and not the product decreases the profit?
Not really. If that were true, the human race would be extinct. Quantity does matter with this type of infection risk.
Actually, the swim is not necessary, if you are careful not to swallow anything. Rowing is a pretty bad idea though, as it will be impossible to avoid swallowing and worse, aspirate water-spray in the air. The proposed measures are a completely ineffective show, except for the vaccinations.
I was actually commenting on the water supply, on the rowing I agree.
We will see. Typically, when somebody tries to call what they suspect is a bluff (as the FBI is doing), they will not escalate to crazy levels. On the other hand, Apple has staked a rather large amount of their reputation on this, so I think they will out-escalate the FBI on this. And they can. I believe the mere threat of moving their business overseas and stopping to sell anything i* in the US would have a lot of political power scramble to their defense. And the FBI is very mush subject to political power.
Indeed. They _are_ aiding the government already. The problem is that the court order compels them to do so _successfully_ in the face of a non-standard and potentially very difficult problem, and that is not compatible with fundamental legal principles. The word "reasonable" is the key here, and if Apple did the engineering right, nothing they may (or may not) be able to do passes that test.
If anything, this idiocy will just make very sure Apple will design future generations of their devices so that they really cannot break into them in any realistic way, no matter what.
And the corporation can simply take its business elsewhere. Than said judge would be responsible for an economic catastrophe. Hence that is not going to happen.
I would also say that the people in question were killed by the police represents a pretty maximal failure to "cover their tracks". But politicians do not deal in truth or honor. They deal in manipulation, lies and power.
This is not about that single phone. Remember there is no "covering of tracks" involved here, the perps are dead. This is about abrading civil liberties and more power to the police. Just as is done in any budding police-state. The ultimate outcome is always the same: Full fascism, leading to a slow and terminal decline.
Never. For these people a human lifetime is not enough to actually see reality and truth. And when they die we may raise a glass to then only good thing they ever did in their life (leaving it), but the next generation of the same type will already be well underway and I suspect that even the most stupid and vicious fuckups get reincarnated to mistreat their fellow human beings once more.
There are about 6.4 million people living in Rio. They know what they can and cannot do safely. Copy that and you are done. Hint: Washing your hands before eating and not drinking unboiled tap-water pretty much covers it.
They cannot do that. For one thing, it would be illegal. For another, they cannot practically do this: Apple could put a "reasonable" number of engineers on the problem permanently (say 5) and that would be it. Expect a solution in 20 years when it has become irrelevant. And seriously, if they really could do that, Apple would just leave the US, with tremendous negative political fallout for the FBI.
No. This is a battle of whits and the FBI has been traditionally short of those. They cannot win this fight unless Apple caves. Apple has no reason to do so that I can see, but a lot of reasons to _not_ do so.
While your efforts to attempt to confuse the issue are admirable, they do not change that you really have no clue what you are talking about. Maybe read a book some time before styling yourself as an expert? Or is that too much to ask for you? And yes, I have given up explaining things, as you are clearly not listening.
You are of course welcome to act as stupidly as you chose to. Just do not expect others to tell you what you do is smart.
And sure, a unicorn may spontaneously materialize on your lawn, according to quantum mechanics. Or pouring a mug of coffee over a sheet with a longer one-time pad encrypted message may mark it in such a way that the plaintext can be read from the coffee-stains. Only these things do not happen in reality. Your point is technically correct, but entirely stupid because it is irrelevant. It sounds like something somebody that cannot admit to being wrong would say.
But you prove nicely that my sig is right on the mark. Care do dig yourself even deeper?
One-time pads are _very_ easily broken if the implementation has flaws. Seriously. The "perfect security" only hold for a perfect implementation of all steps involved. Yes, a perfectly implemented one-time-pad cannot be brute-forced, but that is the only assurance you get and said implementation is extremely high in effort compared to other crypto. Incidentally, AES-256 implemented reasonably well (high entropy key) cannot be brute-forced either.
While the attack-vectors for modern crypto and one-time-pads are different, a real-world one-time pad is not unbreakable at all.
Also: Read my sig. You qualify.
Indeed. Passive snooping on analog sensors is not that hard.
A sufficiently competent "bad guy" could already do that. The whole thing is a trade-off. Apple apologized for being too restrictive, possibly without any real security benefit.
Variability does not indicate the technology is immature. It just says that manufacturers are juggling for better trade-offs between cost and reliability and there are new designs (that are based on older ones) regularly. Well, sure, no computer tech is strictly mature, not even, say, Cherry switches. If you really go for it, not even paper is mature, despite the Human race having been making it for about 2000 years. So with a very strict definition of maturity, HDDs are certainly not mature, but it does not make much sense to use that definition.
But my point was that SSDs have surprising failure modes and causes of failure, while HDDs basically do not have them these days. Again, mostly. A Helium-filled drive will have some novel failure-modes linked to loss of Helium, for example.
Traditional HDDs are a mature technology. The maximum reliability they have at consumer-prices is not likely to get any better than it is now. Their reliability varies between models and over time, but basically it is something like 1...10% failure (if treated well) per year. SSDs will hopefully get much better numbers eventually, CPU-like reliability would be nice.
Well, if you have verified backups (I fully agree on that, and just a trial-read of the backup is not enough, you need a compare), and then no recovery plan, you can still pay somebody with a clue a lot of money to do it for you ;-)
External disks are fine, but make that in an independent location. A locker at work, in the gym, etc. is fine (you should decidedly encrypt any sensitive backup). Of course, you can have on-site backups for convenience as well, but for everything you really do not want to lose, you should store a copy off-site.
You cannot trust an one-time-pad unless you invest high effort. You must protect it perfectly before and after using it. You must never store or transmit it in any electronic form. You must hand-deliver it by an absolutely trusted courier. That is why it is almost never used. But, sure, most budding crypto-nerds like to make these these demented claims until they find out some actual facts.
And here is an actual fact for you: Keyed right, even the historic Enigma is unbreakable for message sizes of 4000 characters (of bits, do not remember the exact number form the proof we were shown for that in Crypo 101).
You really should look up the Dunning-Kruger effect. You are completely clueless how clueless you are.
You are full of shit. Seriously. Incidentally, your book-thing is a "Rebecca"-cipher or a book-cipher and it can and has been broken without knowing the book, only the message sent.