What we really want though is not "one number", but "one use numbers", the same as Gishpuppy email addresses. That way you can leave your number with the girl in the bar, and when she decides that you were some annoying nerd and gets her brother to write it up in the men's loo you can just cancel it.
I would really not want to have one number misused that would also give my email address, skype, google chat and website to everyone!
On the internet are going back to the "Welsh" system of naming people. In Wales there were a lot of isolated villages with only a few surnames, so people would be referred to by their occupation or a ditinguishing feature, like "Dai Station" or "Dai baker". There are people I know on the internet as "John the Buddhist", "Ausy Mark" and so on.
Not only do we have directories but they all have personalised names!
You really ought to commit to coming back in time and giving yourself a time machine now when you invent it. This will obviously save the problem of designing one, you will have a design from the future - which will of course have come from the one passed back to you.
Type "Judaism is", "Hinduism is", or "Christianity is" into google, and an autocomlpete will give the option of "... is false". Now try the same with Islam.... in fact try to get any negative sounding suggestion. You'll find it has been cenostrd as "non PC", or maybe google staff got some death threats or something like that.
Never mind, when I get my idea for a warp drive going it should be simple. I just have to come up with an antigravity device, a tractor beam and a zero-point energy device to power it and sourcing neutronium will be easy.
Alternatively CERN probably have a few containers of that, right next to their antimatter containers. Give them a call and they'll probably pop over in their scramjet spaceplane and let you have a few tonnes.
Surly this is just a formality. If there have not been updates for two years they are pretty-much dead projects anyway. Conversely if you have been running on an old system for two years without problems then its likely to be pretty stable, so you can just stick with it on the understanding that there will be no fixes or enhancements.
The problem is that a Diesel engine is very heavy and expensive. Most hybrids are made for short trips so it would be a great waste of resources to carry around a heavy engine. Hybrid gasoline engines have a somewhat different cycle (Atkinson cycle) than normal gasoline engines (traditional Otto cycle) and thus are more economical. Add the weight savings compared to the heavier Diesel engines (especially with a particle filter) and you'll see why there are no Diesel hybrid cars - it just isn't worth it. Lorries, trains and ships are made for very long range and there a Diesel hybrid is much more practical, especially in the case of ships and trains where the Diesel engine is often only connected to the generator so it can be in its most efficient revolution speed the whole time and (because of the constant speed) have a very long life.
I expect that as diesel engines become smaller and have lower emissions (like the 1.3 litre Fiat engine) and fuel prices increase the equation will change and we will see diesel hybrids.
Maybe this would work for child pornography, but you can bet that the police will want to copy your hard drive and look for evidence. Do you really want to take this risk?
If you read what I said you will see I wrote "if you cannot secure it properly", which I though would be enough for people to see I am talking about people who are not engaging in illegal activity themselves.
Now, you say "beyond a reasonable doubt" - that applies only to criminal cases. Illegal downloading of copyright material is generally a civil issue where the standards are much lower - they go on "a preponderance of evidence".
Good luck!
That's why I said "illegal content" and not "content which you don't have the legal right to download". You are right civil cases have a lower bar (though tne "open access" defense might still work"), but you would still be in less trouble than if you downloaded illegal content.
Someone told me that unless you are sure that you can secure your Wifi you are best off leaving it open. If someone downloads illegal content because you haven't secured it proplerly (used WEP or a compromised key) a court will here "secure wifi" and you will probably be screwed. If you say it was completely open then it will be very hard for a court to show "beyond reasonable doubt" that it was you.
I remember the first time I went to a swimming pool in France. Separate changing areas - no cubicles but some of the older pools in the UK are like that. Then a door opened between the men's and the women's changing rooms and a woman comes through mopping the floor. The French guys just carried on while I grabbed my towel quick.
I mean, who in the year 2000 could have predicted that a one day the important digit would roll over from 0, 1, 2,... 9, and back to 0 again? Especially when you are so busy eating cheese and contemplating surrender.
I wish more mail clients would issue a warning when SPF returns SOFTFAIL. So many people use the ~all just in case they ever want another machine to send emails and forget to update their DNS that a warning would be nice. Of course more people should bite the bullet and use -all
SPF records, domain keys, etc, can help but can also be more trouble than they're worth some times and don't really prove much of anything anyway, and even those could be forged if you REALLY wanted to by doing a DNS cache poisoning or something.
I think that this illustrates that they are not more trouble than they are worth. Forging a "from" header is trivial, some email clients just let yo enter the "from address". DNS cache poisoning is not. For most people setting up an SPF record is a "one off" operation and with online testing tools and online wizards is not that difficult.
I know one or two people who are the exception to this. They seem to live for their work and revolve their lives around it much more than most. They are very highly valued but they are not always promoted first or given the best opportunities. They also seem to be the types with little to do when not at work.
I worked with someone like that. If he ever stopped for a chat it would be about the pros and cons of using a linked list or a circular buffer in various circumstances or something like that. I found out later that when he went home he programmed open source projects.
He was the ideal programmer, accurate and highly productive. He needed careful management however because he was only a programmer. A manager once asked him to discuss requirements with a user and both came away angry, the programmer because the user "was being ambiguous" and the user because the programmer "wasn't listening".
In reality I caught her more than once just staring out of the window, not really studying. For her that was part of "studying" but in reality it isn't.
I was taking second level "window studies" as a subsid to my sociology degree you insensitive clod.
This innocent person has posted pictures of children and some recognisable locations. All it takes is for some pedo pervert to fantasise over the pictures and track them down.
Hey, I would just like to see encryption techniques switch over to one of the methods that have been mathematically proven unbreakable instead of continuing to rely on the primes method which still has that Riemann hypothesis staring at it.
There are no techniques that have been mathematically proven unbreakable (one time pad excepted). You are thinking of quantum encryption, which requires hardware.
For pedants, yes quantum physics is a mathematical construct, but they are relying on actual physical particles conforming to these rules - which is still under debate. Quantum uncertainty in our universe could be part of a deterministic system in higher dimensions.
Slashdot Mirror
I like moving and losing a few "friends" who aren't really my friend. I suspect a few of them are happy when I relocate as well.
Is that you Osama?
What we really want though is not "one number", but "one use numbers", the same as Gishpuppy email addresses. That way you can leave your number with the girl in the bar, and when she decides that you were some annoying nerd and gets her brother to write it up in the men's loo you can just cancel it.
I would really not want to have one number misused that would also give my email address, skype, google chat and website to everyone!
On the internet are going back to the "Welsh" system of naming people. In Wales there were a lot of isolated villages with only a few surnames, so people would be referred to by their occupation or a ditinguishing feature, like "Dai Station" or "Dai baker". There are people I know on the internet as "John the Buddhist", "Ausy Mark" and so on.
Not only do we have directories but they all have personalised names!
Judging by the number of companies paying them they're not without merit - why should Apple be exempt?
What's the matter are you homophobic or something?
I think there are but this is such a complex topic that I don't understand what is and what is not possible.
Just sit them next to the Muslim students
You really ought to commit to coming back in time and giving yourself a time machine now when you invent it. This will obviously save the problem of designing one, you will have a design from the future - which will of course have come from the one passed back to you.
Type "Judaism is", "Hinduism is", or "Christianity is" into google, and an autocomlpete will give the option of "... is false". Now try the same with Islam .... in fact try to get any negative sounding suggestion. You'll find it has been cenostrd as "non PC", or maybe google staff got some death threats or something like that.
Alternatively CERN probably have a few containers of that, right next to their antimatter containers. Give them a call and they'll probably pop over in their scramjet spaceplane and let you have a few tonnes.
Surly this is just a formality. If there have not been updates for two years they are pretty-much dead projects anyway. Conversely if you have been running on an old system for two years without problems then its likely to be pretty stable, so you can just stick with it on the understanding that there will be no fixes or enhancements.
The problem is that a Diesel engine is very heavy and expensive. Most hybrids are made for short trips so it would be a great waste of resources to carry around a heavy engine. Hybrid gasoline engines have a somewhat different cycle (Atkinson cycle) than normal gasoline engines (traditional Otto cycle) and thus are more economical. Add the weight savings compared to the heavier Diesel engines (especially with a particle filter) and you'll see why there are no Diesel hybrid cars - it just isn't worth it. Lorries, trains and ships are made for very long range and there a Diesel hybrid is much more practical, especially in the case of ships and trains where the Diesel engine is often only connected to the generator so it can be in its most efficient revolution speed the whole time and (because of the constant speed) have a very long life.
I expect that as diesel engines become smaller and have lower emissions (like the 1.3 litre Fiat engine) and fuel prices increase the equation will change and we will see diesel hybrids.
Has this theory been tested in court?
Maybe this would work for child pornography, but you can bet that the police will want to copy your hard drive and look for evidence. Do you really want to take this risk?
If you read what I said you will see I wrote "if you cannot secure it properly", which I though would be enough for people to see I am talking about people who are not engaging in illegal activity themselves.
Now, you say "beyond a reasonable doubt" - that applies only to criminal cases. Illegal downloading of copyright material is generally a civil issue where the standards are much lower - they go on "a preponderance of evidence".
Good luck!
That's why I said "illegal content" and not "content which you don't have the legal right to download". You are right civil cases have a lower bar (though tne "open access" defense might still work"), but you would still be in less trouble than if you downloaded illegal content.
Someone told me that unless you are sure that you can secure your Wifi you are best off leaving it open. If someone downloads illegal content because you haven't secured it proplerly (used WEP or a compromised key) a court will here "secure wifi" and you will probably be screwed. If you say it was completely open then it will be very hard for a court to show "beyond reasonable doubt" that it was you.
I remember the first time I went to a swimming pool in France. Separate changing areas - no cubicles but some of the older pools in the UK are like that. Then a door opened between the men's and the women's changing rooms and a woman comes through mopping the floor. The French guys just carried on while I grabbed my towel quick.
Get the Queen to run the scanners. She is above the law (or ta least can pardon herself from anything)
I mean, who in the year 2000 could have predicted that a one day the important digit would roll over from 0, 1, 2, ... 9, and back to 0 again? Especially when you are so busy eating cheese and contemplating surrender.
I wish more mail clients would issue a warning when SPF returns SOFTFAIL. So many people use the ~all just in case they ever want another machine to send emails and forget to update their DNS that a warning would be nice. Of course more people should bite the bullet and use -all
SPF records, domain keys, etc, can help but can also be more trouble than they're worth some times and don't really prove much of anything anyway, and even those could be forged if you REALLY wanted to by doing a DNS cache poisoning or something.
I think that this illustrates that they are not more trouble than they are worth. Forging a "from" header is trivial, some email clients just let yo enter the "from address". DNS cache poisoning is not. For most people setting up an SPF record is a "one off" operation and with online testing tools and online wizards is not that difficult.
I know one or two people who are the exception to this. They seem to live for their work and revolve their lives around it much more than most. They are very highly valued but they are not always promoted first or given the best opportunities. They also seem to be the types with little to do when not at work.
I worked with someone like that. If he ever stopped for a chat it would be about the pros and cons of using a linked list or a circular buffer in various circumstances or something like that. I found out later that when he went home he programmed open source projects. He was the ideal programmer, accurate and highly productive. He needed careful management however because he was only a programmer. A manager once asked him to discuss requirements with a user and both came away angry, the programmer because the user "was being ambiguous" and the user because the programmer "wasn't listening".
In reality I caught her more than once just staring out of the window, not really studying. For her that was part of "studying" but in reality it isn't.
I was taking second level "window studies" as a subsid to my sociology degree you insensitive clod.
Well for a known offender it would be a safer activity... I'm not saying its likely but it could happen
This innocent person has posted pictures of children and some recognisable locations. All it takes is for some pedo pervert to fantasise over the pictures and track them down.
How many people will get their brand new frame home, plug it in and find that it displays a "preloaded" goatse
Forgive my ignorance .. i assume he is the shadow minister for fascism then?
Hey, I would just like to see encryption techniques switch over to one of the methods that have been mathematically proven unbreakable instead of continuing to rely on the primes method which still has that Riemann hypothesis staring at it.
There are no techniques that have been mathematically proven unbreakable (one time pad excepted). You are thinking of quantum encryption, which requires hardware.
For pedants, yes quantum physics is a mathematical construct, but they are relying on actual physical particles conforming to these rules - which is still under debate. Quantum uncertainty in our universe could be part of a deterministic system in higher dimensions.