It is always possible to pass legislation; some seem to pass it like they pass wind. Whether it is going to have any effect, let alone the intended effect, is always the big question.
Were you referring to the passing of the law, the wind, or both?
I have a hard time with this. I am operating a web site which provides information to identified users. I have a self-signed certificate which correctly identifies itself as belonging to my site. What is wrong with this?
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Now someone please explain why I'm wrong.
As a user, how do I tell that the self-signed cert that I received for your site came from you and not from a MITM between you and I? It is a trivial task to set up a rogue "free wifi!" AP that proxies all connections.
So if the local law enforcement organization in your municipality were to do thesame sort of thing, what would be the repercussions where you live? Obviously we have heard from the US, but what about other countries?
Whenever I go somewhere leave my Droid on the desk at work, I put a little poo on the screen. Best. Defense. Ever. against someone taking it and trying to figure out my pass swipe pattern.
You may well laugh, but there is a product on the market that is a hidden jewelry stash container disguised as a slightly stained pair of dirty old tightie whities.
FTFA:
"A rescue crew from the Alaska Air National Guard and the United States Coast Guard arrived on the scene more than 12 hours after the crash, hampered by rain, high winds and heavy fog in an area of mountains and lakes north of Bristol Bay. "
Really this is the problem with the whole privacy thing that has caused so much issue in the past. The problem isn't that the company collects the data, it is that they then sell it to third parties to make a profit.
One important thing to keep in mind is that the users of these sites are not the customer, they (or at least the data that they generate) are the merchandise.
phone call from the owners of the fan site to the marketing people, followed by a phone call between the marketing people and the lawyers, would result in a free license, an amicable settlement arrangement, Discovery getting a bunch of free advertising, the fans being happy to have a good fan site, and everyone winning.
Or you could just call the marketing department and ask them to hold for the legal department, hit transfer, call the legal department and hit transfer again. They can work it out between themselves!
Re:Failed because it was stupid
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Why Wave Failed
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I'd have used Wave a lot more if we'd had one inside our intranet firewall.
And that, in a nutshell, was why it was blacklisted at our office before anyone could even find out what it did. No one wanted internal discussions/chats/emails happening outside of our intranet and our control.
You may be surprised to see that this is not an isolated incident.
No, I would be surprised to see that it was in this day and age. Departments have become so desperate for officers that they'll hire anyone who doesn't have a felony record and can pass a drug test 2 out of 3 times. What surprises me most is that the officer didn't just go ahead and shoot the motorcyclist.
Can't someone in marketing break into a board meeting and explain to these cretins that the more versatile a product is, it is usually more attractive to a wider segment of the potential customer base, which tends to result in more sales.
Perhaps it's because the people in marketing understand more about their customers than you do?
"So Johnson, your proposal is that we relax all of our restrictions on modifying our calculators so that we can sell an additional 10,000 units. In exchange we lose the sale of 2 million units because they no longer meet the criteria for use on standardized tests? Good thinking Johnson. Maybe we should move you into IT."
Re:Partially tech, partially price
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You may be partially on to something. Many items are "too cheap to fix" now. If your TV breaks, you don't see which tube blew. If the lawnmower stops running, there's not much that's replaceable (save the entire engine). If your car or washing machine stops running, there's a good chance that fixing it would require diagnostic equipment exceeding the value of the item - you take it to get repaired or you replace it.
While I agree with your premise, I disagree with your conclusion. While a greater number of components were accessible and could be theoretically fixed by the end user, I suspect that in reality it didn't happen. Your average person didn't open their TV to see what tube burned out. If the washing machine quit working, they didn't go at it with a schematic and a multimeter. They called someone to come fix it. The same thing happens today except that in many cases it's easier/cheaper to replace something rather than fix it.
Classic example, who here below the age of 50 has every seen or even played with a 'real' chemistry set.
My children (14 and 10). Just because you can't buy the whole thing in a kit doesn't mean you can't put together experiments and have fun. In fact, without having a bunch of numbered bottles and step by step instructions, thinking becomes even more important to the process.
Creativity is declining because parents are washing their hands of the responsibility to shape the minds of their own kids. You don't get an inquisitive, creative mind at school - you arrive at school with one.
As a child of the 70s I can assure you that this is not a new phenomenon.
Individuals are the authors of our own destiny. (...)
Am I wrong?
Yes (and no). Unfortunately this view incorporates the false dichotomy that an individual's destiny is completely within his or her control. Reality is somewhat different. Yes, in an ideal world everyone has access to the same educational and occupational opportunities as everyone else and they can make as much or as little of their life as they choose. That's the theory anyway. In practice, that isn't the world we live in today. Everyone doesn't have the same opportunities or background. There is no level playing field and we don't all start out equal.
I think you're saying here that the referenced attack on AES-256 reduces the complexity from 2^256 to 2^110.5, but that's not true. Because of the birthday paradox, for a 256-bit key space you start at 2^128, and then more refined attacks reduce it from there.
I may have misunderstood, but I thought the birthday paradox only applied when you were searching for collisions (any collision) within a space but not when you were searching for a collision with a particular value. In terms of the birthday paradox, it applies when the question is "What are the odds that any two people have a matching birthday?", but it does not apply when the question is "What are the odds that someone else has the same birthday as mine?".
By getting a $600 smartphone for $200 with a multiyear contract, we lock ourselves to vendor and can't leave them when they cut service
I have found this is incorrect. If your provider changes the terms of your service agreement, you have the option of discontinuing service instead. To change the terms, they are basically terminating your current agreement and starting a new one. If you chose to leave, you should not have to pay an early termination charge because the provider chose to terminate the agreement.
I'm sitting next to a Brother ink jet printer right now. I really prefer lasers, but in this case I wanted a large format multi-function machine. My Brother will both print and scan up to 11x17" (equivalent to A3) and it cost me less than $200, shipped to my front door. It shipped with full, high-capacity ink cartridges, not HP's half cartridges. And while it does include some software it's pretty lightweight, and is basically used to handle features like networked scanning and a monitor program to let you know when the ink is low. Both are optional. And yes, Brother explicitly offers drivers for Linux.The print quality is what it is -- could be better, could be a lot worse -- and the build quality seems fairly plasticky, but that seems par for the course with today's printers. Overall my only complaint was that the price was so low it wasn't even a significant tax write-off.
I had a brother multifunction inkjet for a while. It worked well right up until the time when it ran out of one of the ink colors. At that point it started demanding a new ink cartridge and refused to do anything else. Fax? Nope. Scan? Nope. It was locked up until you replaced the ink cartridge. It was after midnight and I just wanted to fax out a contract. I did go to the office supply store the next day, but I replaced the printer instead.
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Interesting. I wonder if this extends to elliptic curves as well?
Were you referring to the passing of the law, the wind, or both?
As a user, how do I tell that the self-signed cert that I received for your site came from you and not from a MITM between you and I? It is a trivial task to set up a rogue "free wifi!" AP that proxies all connections.
So if the local law enforcement organization in your municipality were to do thesame sort of thing, what would be the repercussions where you live? Obviously we have heard from the US, but what about other countries?
You may well laugh, but there is a product on the market that is a hidden jewelry stash container disguised as a slightly stained pair of dirty old tightie whities.
No, there can be only one.
FTFA:
"A rescue crew from the Alaska Air National Guard and the United States Coast Guard arrived on the scene more than 12 hours after the crash, hampered by rain, high winds and heavy fog in an area of mountains and lakes north of Bristol Bay. "
One important thing to keep in mind is that the users of these sites are not the customer, they (or at least the data that they generate) are the merchandise.
Here you go.
Or you could just call the marketing department and ask them to hold for the legal department, hit transfer, call the legal department and hit transfer again. They can work it out between themselves!
And that, in a nutshell, was why it was blacklisted at our office before anyone could even find out what it did. No one wanted internal discussions/chats/emails happening outside of our intranet and our control.
That reminds me that I need to pay my bill from Privacy.io for my VPN connection.
Short answer? When no one else is willing to buy it from you.
No, I would be surprised to see that it was in this day and age. Departments have become so desperate for officers that they'll hire anyone who doesn't have a felony record and can pass a drug test 2 out of 3 times. What surprises me most is that the officer didn't just go ahead and shoot the motorcyclist.
Please close the door and wash your hands afterwards when partaking in these activities. Thanks.
Perhaps it's because the people in marketing understand more about their customers than you do?
"So Johnson, your proposal is that we relax all of our restrictions on modifying our calculators so that we can sell an additional 10,000 units. In exchange we lose the sale of 2 million units because they no longer meet the criteria for use on standardized tests? Good thinking Johnson. Maybe we should move you into IT."
While I agree with your premise, I disagree with your conclusion. While a greater number of components were accessible and could be theoretically fixed by the end user, I suspect that in reality it didn't happen. Your average person didn't open their TV to see what tube burned out. If the washing machine quit working, they didn't go at it with a schematic and a multimeter. They called someone to come fix it. The same thing happens today except that in many cases it's easier/cheaper to replace something rather than fix it.
My children (14 and 10). Just because you can't buy the whole thing in a kit doesn't mean you can't put together experiments and have fun. In fact, without having a bunch of numbered bottles and step by step instructions, thinking becomes even more important to the process.
As a child of the 70s I can assure you that this is not a new phenomenon.
Yes (and no). Unfortunately this view incorporates the false dichotomy that an individual's destiny is completely within his or her control. Reality is somewhat different. Yes, in an ideal world everyone has access to the same educational and occupational opportunities as everyone else and they can make as much or as little of their life as they choose. That's the theory anyway. In practice, that isn't the world we live in today. Everyone doesn't have the same opportunities or background. There is no level playing field and we don't all start out equal.
I may have misunderstood, but I thought the birthday paradox only applied when you were searching for collisions (any collision) within a space but not when you were searching for a collision with a particular value. In terms of the birthday paradox, it applies when the question is "What are the odds that any two people have a matching birthday?", but it does not apply when the question is "What are the odds that someone else has the same birthday as mine?".
Apparently you don't know Jack.
Sounds like the Catholic church to me.
I have found this is incorrect. If your provider changes the terms of your service agreement, you have the option of discontinuing service instead. To change the terms, they are basically terminating your current agreement and starting a new one. If you chose to leave, you should not have to pay an early termination charge because the provider chose to terminate the agreement.
I had a brother multifunction inkjet for a while. It worked well right up until the time when it ran out of one of the ink colors. At that point it started demanding a new ink cartridge and refused to do anything else. Fax? Nope. Scan? Nope. It was locked up until you replaced the ink cartridge. It was after midnight and I just wanted to fax out a contract. I did go to the office supply store the next day, but I replaced the printer instead.
My kingdom for some mod points today. Bravo Sir!