Ok, this thing looks cool and I totally wanna try it out, but there's no way in hell I'm downloading an executable from DARPAs website and running it on my PC. I suspect what they are really testing has absolutely nothing to do with submarines.
They'd have been much better served providing a decent high-resolution scan of the notes, rather than the crappy images that actually got linked everywhere - 1200x1200 dpi minimum.
If they were concerned about bandwidth, they could have distributed the images via bittorrent....
It is a privacy issue. Many people aren't aware that they are leaking location data, and more aren't aware of the wider implications. And while there are certainly utilities to read a JPEGs exif geodata and access the other services his utility talks to, I don't think there a single tool that does all of it. And this is meant to be user-friendly: dedicated individuals could steal Facebook (etc.) sessions forever, but it took a program like Firesheep to get some public awareness. That's what this is about.
So this isn't a privacy issue but a public awareness issue? Or is it a public awareness issue about a privacy issue? I'm pretty sure it's an issue, and I don't think it is a privacy issue about a public awareness issue. I'm so confused.
Yes, this is the sort of thing a doctor would normally do, but many people go to different doctors for different conditions, and don't always keep their primary care physician up-to-date.
If the company you work for is anything like mine, this won't work anyway. We switch insurance providers almost yearly. The current provider is only going to have a year's worth of data at most..
If this "personal disk drive in the cloud" is just marketoid bullshit keyword stuffing to describe a system that allows you to download stuff you have licensed from the internet then it is just another online music store. If they are actually streaming the music you licensed to you then it will have the same flaws as all other streaming music services like shoutcast and pandora - your music will be interrupted by lag and/or be riddled with obtrusive advertisements, and probably will only be accessable on approved players. However there is a 3rd prospect, that being Amazon Cloud Drive is a bit of both.
In any case, it is not very interesting if you ask me.
Or, since it is free (up to 5 GB) and you can upload your current music, you could just try it. I'm listening to the SuckerPunch soundtrack right now and so far it my experience has been a 4th prospect: that it will have neither of the issues you describe.
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding the post... it sounds to me like OO techniques are only going to be taught in elective courses from now on. If that's the case, I think CMU is missing the fact that the majority of development work in the "real world" is done on already-existing platforms. Parallel/cloud computing and modular design may be the "next big thing", but what happens when the student gets their first job working with an application built with Java or.NET? Maybe in their ivory tower they can say "OO is dead" but in the real world, OO is very real.
This is a CS program we are talking about. Much like economics, in these disciplines the real world is often considered a special case.
I actually bought that exact chair as mentioned in the article, with the additional $200 chrome upgrade, about 4 years ago, it was awesome for the first few years, and then I had a huge problem with lower back pain. I went to the doc, tried stretching, muscle relaxers, massages, sleeping differently, it turns out it was the chair, after switching to a $39 Ikea chair http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/70133761 my back pain finally went away after a few weeks and has been awesome since. I tried switching back to the Aeron a year ago for a month, but my back started hurting again soon after. The point of my story is just because a chair is expensive or has many adjustments does not mean its the best for you, and you may very well find a very comfortable chair for a lot less.
If it will help, I'll give you the $39 for the Aeron so you won't be tempted any more.
HARRISBURG, Pa. - Police say a man tried to open an account before robbing a central Pennsylvania bank, but only after he'd already handed over two forms of identification.
Harrisburg police say 35-year-old Daniel Rahynes walked into a bank on Sunday and told tellers he was interested in opening an account. After he gave bank employees his information, he declared that he was actually there to rob the bank.
At least my pricing is locked in for 2 more years until AT&T forces me to pay more.
You're kidding, right? You did read the clause in the contract that says your mobile provider can change the terms of the contract at any time and that your only recourse is to terminate your service? The only party locked in by that contract is you.
Of course there is not such a thing as perfect security...
I guess that depends on what your definition of perfect security includes. I consider OTPs to be perfect security. Without the key it is simply not possible, even with brute force, to determine the correct cleartext from any given ciphertext. Every possible cleartext with the same length is equally likely.
The freedom to record all that is around me or said to me is basic. The freedom to know where I have been and be able to offer a proof as to where I am is also basic. Imagine that a crime takes place and the criminal looks a lot like you and also drives a white Toyota. Instead of being half way to a conviction in the legal system you have proof of where you were when the crime went down. Also imagine the cops being able to do a sweeping search and being able to find witnesses and criminals who were within the same area at the time of the crime.
Now imagine that I am your employer and want to be sure you aren't going anywhere or doing anything that might cast bad light on the company. You agreed not to do something like that in your employment contract, right?
Now imagine that I am your health insurance provider. From your records I see that you have a very sedentary lifestyle and we are going to have to raise your premiums. We also noticed that you seem to be located at fast food locations an awful lot of the time during lunch. That isn't good for your health care costs. In fact, if you average more than 1.2 visits per week we are going to have to cancel your policy.
Imagine that I am your auto insurance provider. You seem to park your car on the street more than in the garage, so we are just going to tweak those premiums a bit. Oh and by the way, you tend to speed a bit and push the yellow lights a bit too much. Another bump in your premiums.
Imagine that I am your local police department's parking enforcement. Here are this month's fines for parking violations that were discovered by our new data mining program.
If the data is out there, someone will get it and use it, almost certainly to your detriment.
No, there is in fact no reason why she should know better. In fact, it's up to the designers of the technology to consider users like her and make their services easier to use and more suited to the needs of users that don't understand how it works. Apple understands this concept.
You do not.
Speaking of people who still don't get concepts...
You keep referring to this 15 year old as if she is facebook's customer. She's not. She's the product, or at least all of the personal information that she is willing to voluntarily disclose about herself and those around her is. The ability to post pictures, status updates, etc. are the mechanisms that Facebook uses to extract the information from its user like a machine to separate the wheat from the chaff. Always keep that in mind when considering Facebook's motives about doing something or offering something. Ask youself "How will facebook profit from this?".
Forgive my ignorance, but how is this possible? Does this mean that the drives understand NTFS and are actually zeroing out data on the drive when the OS simply deletes the entry from the FAT table? How can the SSD second guess what the OS is doing? I thought that SSD's use the same interface as regular HD's and should behave the same.
That, my good man, is exactly what it means. The SSD understands the NTFS file system that has been placed upon it and can determine when a block is no longer referenced by any file chain. At that point it can erase the block so that it can be written to at a later point in time without incurring the penalties.
If I understand the authors correctly, this "garbage collection" takes some time to kick in though. The interesting thing they found was that with some, if you did a quick format which basically just clears the file system metadata, garbage collection occurred much faster than that. Since this happens at the firmware layer in the SSD, the only requirement is power to the drive. Quite an interesting result actually.
Next problem on his list: He is working on Einstein's Tonsorial Problem
Really? There is a more generalized version of this problem that extends into higher dimensions. I figured he would have been working on extending the solution into dimensions >= 3. Maybe it's only tenured academics that milk such things for all they're worth.
When driving a big heavy thing that can easily kill people.. if you don't have the decency to pay attention, then when you do kill someone the penalty should be much steeper than a fine and/or slap on the wrist.
Agreed. Could we start by punishing people who drive under the influence? Right now copyright infringers get worse punishments.
Consider giving Whisper Systems "TextSecure" and "RedPhone" applications a try. I have had good luck with them. I don't know if they have been ported to S60 yet.
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(that said, ill have a look once the fire brigade leaves - sounds cool!)
Don't forget to bring your facebook login. No, I'm not kidding. Fail.
Ok, this thing looks cool and I totally wanna try it out, but there's no way in hell I'm downloading an executable from DARPAs website and running it on my PC. I suspect what they are really testing has absolutely nothing to do with submarines.
So run it in a VM if you're concerned about it.
How much for just the sub?
According to Bergmanâ(TM)s calculations, it must have cost at least $5 million to construct.
They'd have been much better served providing a decent high-resolution scan of the notes, rather than the crappy images that actually got linked everywhere - 1200x1200 dpi minimum.
If they were concerned about bandwidth, they could have distributed the images via bittorrent....
It is a privacy issue. Many people aren't aware that they are leaking location data, and more aren't aware of the wider implications. And while there are certainly utilities to read a JPEGs exif geodata and access the other services his utility talks to, I don't think there a single tool that does all of it. And this is meant to be user-friendly: dedicated individuals could steal Facebook (etc.) sessions forever, but it took a program like Firesheep to get some public awareness. That's what this is about.
So this isn't a privacy issue but a public awareness issue? Or is it a public awareness issue about a privacy issue? I'm pretty sure it's an issue, and I don't think it is a privacy issue about a public awareness issue. I'm so confused.
Yes, this is the sort of thing a doctor would normally do, but many people go to different doctors for different conditions, and don't always keep their primary care physician up-to-date.
If the company you work for is anything like mine, this won't work anyway. We switch insurance providers almost yearly. The current provider is only going to have a year's worth of data at most..
If this "personal disk drive in the cloud" is just marketoid bullshit keyword stuffing to describe a system that allows you to download stuff you have licensed from the internet then it is just another online music store. If they are actually streaming the music you licensed to you then it will have the same flaws as all other streaming music services like shoutcast and pandora - your music will be interrupted by lag and/or be riddled with obtrusive advertisements, and probably will only be accessable on approved players. However there is a 3rd prospect, that being Amazon Cloud Drive is a bit of both. In any case, it is not very interesting if you ask me.
Or, since it is free (up to 5 GB) and you can upload your current music, you could just try it. I'm listening to the SuckerPunch soundtrack right now and so far it my experience has been a 4th prospect: that it will have neither of the issues you describe.
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding the post... it sounds to me like OO techniques are only going to be taught in elective courses from now on. If that's the case, I think CMU is missing the fact that the majority of development work in the "real world" is done on already-existing platforms. Parallel/cloud computing and modular design may be the "next big thing", but what happens when the student gets their first job working with an application built with Java or .NET? Maybe in their ivory tower they can say "OO is dead" but in the real world, OO is very real.
This is a CS program we are talking about. Much like economics, in these disciplines the real world is often considered a special case.
I actually bought that exact chair as mentioned in the article, with the additional $200 chrome upgrade, about 4 years ago, it was awesome for the first few years, and then I had a huge problem with lower back pain. I went to the doc, tried stretching, muscle relaxers, massages, sleeping differently, it turns out it was the chair, after switching to a $39 Ikea chair http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/70133761 my back pain finally went away after a few weeks and has been awesome since. I tried switching back to the Aeron a year ago for a month, but my back started hurting again soon after. The point of my story is just because a chair is expensive or has many adjustments does not mean its the best for you, and you may very well find a very comfortable chair for a lot less.
If it will help, I'll give you the $39 for the Aeron so you won't be tempted any more.
HARRISBURG, Pa. - Police say a man tried to open an account before robbing a central Pennsylvania bank, but only after he'd already handed over two forms of identification.
Harrisburg police say 35-year-old Daniel Rahynes walked into a bank on Sunday and told tellers he was interested in opening an account. After he gave bank employees his information, he declared that he was actually there to rob the bank.
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Stick to giving eachother AIDS, fags.
Why don't you run on back to 4chan before your Mom finds out you're using the computer again.
At least my pricing is locked in for 2 more years until AT&T forces me to pay more.
You're kidding, right? You did read the clause in the contract that says your mobile provider can change the terms of the contract at any time and that your only recourse is to terminate your service? The only party locked in by that contract is you.
If you hack the router and gain access, but stop there and only use it for connecting, you are not breaking the law they have.
If I understand the article correctly, we should probably qualify this statement to read:
If you hack the router and gain access, but stop there and only use it for connecting, you are not breaking the criminal law they have.
Of course there is not such a thing as perfect security...
I guess that depends on what your definition of perfect security includes. I consider OTPs to be perfect security. Without the key it is simply not possible, even with brute force, to determine the correct cleartext from any given ciphertext. Every possible cleartext with the same length is equally likely.
The freedom to record all that is around me or said to me is basic. The freedom to know where I have been and be able to offer a proof as to where I am is also basic. Imagine that a crime takes place and the criminal looks a lot like you and also drives a white Toyota. Instead of being half way to a conviction in the legal system you have proof of where you were when the crime went down. Also imagine the cops being able to do a sweeping search and being able to find witnesses and criminals who were within the same area at the time of the crime.
Now imagine that I am your employer and want to be sure you aren't going anywhere or doing anything that might cast bad light on the company. You agreed not to do something like that in your employment contract, right?
Now imagine that I am your health insurance provider. From your records I see that you have a very sedentary lifestyle and we are going to have to raise your premiums. We also noticed that you seem to be located at fast food locations an awful lot of the time during lunch. That isn't good for your health care costs. In fact, if you average more than 1.2 visits per week we are going to have to cancel your policy.
Imagine that I am your auto insurance provider. You seem to park your car on the street more than in the garage, so we are just going to tweak those premiums a bit. Oh and by the way, you tend to speed a bit and push the yellow lights a bit too much. Another bump in your premiums.
Imagine that I am your local police department's parking enforcement. Here are this month's fines for parking violations that were discovered by our new data mining program.
If the data is out there, someone will get it and use it, almost certainly to your detriment.
There's that word "representative" again. I don't think it means what the founding fathers thought that it meant, at least not any more.
No, there is in fact no reason why she should know better. In fact, it's up to the designers of the technology to consider users like her and make their services easier to use and more suited to the needs of users that don't understand how it works. Apple understands this concept. You do not.
Speaking of people who still don't get concepts...
You keep referring to this 15 year old as if she is facebook's customer. She's not. She's the product, or at least all of the personal information that she is willing to voluntarily disclose about herself and those around her is. The ability to post pictures, status updates, etc. are the mechanisms that Facebook uses to extract the information from its user like a machine to separate the wheat from the chaff. Always keep that in mind when considering Facebook's motives about doing something or offering something. Ask youself "How will facebook profit from this?".
Forgive my ignorance, but how is this possible? Does this mean that the drives understand NTFS and are actually zeroing out data on the drive when the OS simply deletes the entry from the FAT table? How can the SSD second guess what the OS is doing? I thought that SSD's use the same interface as regular HD's and should behave the same.
That, my good man, is exactly what it means. The SSD understands the NTFS file system that has been placed upon it and can determine when a block is no longer referenced by any file chain. At that point it can erase the block so that it can be written to at a later point in time without incurring the penalties. If I understand the authors correctly, this "garbage collection" takes some time to kick in though. The interesting thing they found was that with some, if you did a quick format which basically just clears the file system metadata, garbage collection occurred much faster than that. Since this happens at the firmware layer in the SSD, the only requirement is power to the drive. Quite an interesting result actually.
What Would You Do With Open.org?
I would put it in a blendtec with some ice, a banana and some yogurt and make a smoothie.
Let's isolate the N.
N = P/P
if p == 0 then fail
Next problem on his list :
He is working on Einstein's Tonsorial Problem
Really? There is a more generalized version of this problem that extends into higher dimensions. I figured he would have been working on extending the solution into dimensions >= 3. Maybe it's only tenured academics that milk such things for all they're worth.
The only appropriate response should of course be to refer them to the reply given in Arkell v. Pressdram.
The requested URL /publications/drafts/ fips180-4/Draft-FIPS180-4_Feb2011.pdf was not found on this server.
Please see owlstead's post which contains a good link to the document.
When driving a big heavy thing that can easily kill people.. if you don't have the decency to pay attention, then when you do kill someone the penalty should be much steeper than a fine and/or slap on the wrist.
Agreed. Could we start by punishing people who drive under the influence? Right now copyright infringers get worse punishments.
Consider giving Whisper Systems "TextSecure" and "RedPhone" applications a try. I have had good luck with them. I don't know if they have been ported to S60 yet.