Sun, despite their excellent engineering reputation, never figured out how to make money off Java. Lots of other companies did but Sun didn't.
That pretty much sums up Sun in a nutshell. Brilliant engineers, but couldn't make money if their life depended on it.
web browsers routinely patch exploits in their core rendering or JavaScript engines, and that's HTML5
Ever since the NSA scandal broke, I've been suspecting that the complexity of HTML5 was an attempt to keep browsers insecure.
we should understand these stories as "sandboxing malicious code is incredibly hard".
Implementing a "write once, work anywhere" language is hard. Hell, implementing a write once, work once language is hard enough. To have it not just work anywhere, but work well everywhere, is an engineering nightmare.
Yes, I hear we do cause unimaginable terror when we travel to Great Britain. They're particularly afraid of our arrogance, short- and narrow-sightedness, free spirit, loud and overall obnoxious social behavior. Even hooligans shy away when you pronounce yourself a proud American.
Or, as the British might say it, our taste in tea is perfectly horrid.
All analogies are flawed in some way. They're analogies. They're not the actual thing. If the rubber sheet's characteristics match that of spacetime exactly, it probably is spacetime.
But even if it's not exact, I think it's still a useful way to illustrate to the general relativity-illiterate (yours truly being among them) what the theory is all about, and why it's significant. General relativistic effects are not something that can be demonstrated (easily) in the classroom. Putting a marble on a rubber sheet is.
We don't really need a self-sufficient human base. Just one where we can indefinitely store all the collective knowledge of the human race. Then all we'd need is a way of collecting solar power such that people a hundred thousand years from now (assuming humans manage to survive an extinction-level event) would be able to get to the stored knowledge.
The storage medium doesn't necessarily have to electronic either, but I can imagine that any maintenance, security, and (temporary) life support system should be run off the sun's energy.
We should be doing these things on Mars and eventually the outer planets too. Crash a ship containing all our knowledge into Pluto kinda thing.
Quite frankly, the internet was a U.S. creation. Thus the keys to the internet always lay in the hands of the U.S. If there was anyone capable of containing the internet, it would be the U.S. That was not supposed to be. Things were not supposed to be this way.
What we understood up to two, three years ago was that the U.S. was a bastion of freedom and free speech, and thus the internet would be free from such censorship and threats of censorship. What we realize now, today, is that the internet run by the U.S. is no better than any one-party institutionalized, nationalized communications infrastructure. It's subject to the same levels of power abuse that any other nation-state would exert upon the infrastructure it owns.
People are just now realizing that there needs to be an international solution, one that transcends the bounds of any individual nation-state, one that cannot be owned and thus compromised by any single party. It's all a matter of if certain other privacy- and hence freedom-loving countries can get their act together to put such a system into place.
Chances are though, every country wants this power, if not over their own people, then over other countries. Thus such a thing could never possibly come about. If it's not stopped at a technological level, it'd be stopped at a physical (cable-laying) level.
Now add Occam's Razor into the mix: the simpler explanation is probably the more accurate one.
In this case, we know RSA employs a ton of security and math experts, because their business is security. To make the claim that all these supposed experts overlooked this weakness (and to make matters worse, it's Microsoft's research division who ultimately found and reported it--the same Microsoft already in bed with the NSA), and not only approved it but also endorsed it to the point where it became the default, that seems to be the more complex explanation.
The simpler explanation is somebody from the NSA told RSA to put it in as the default, without expert review, without question, for an easy $10M. That way, they can deny any knowledge of the algorithm being weak. See no evil, hear no evil kinda thing.
I'm almost certain the $10M payment by some shell NSA company is in the RSA books. Hell, it might even show up in the quarterly filings, maybe under some non-taxable, special income.
Your logic is wrong (as well as your use of e.g., which means "for example"). The only thing you've concluded is that physics != math. By your own words, math can describe any universe. In that case, only one math describes ours. We haven't quite worked out what that math is, but that's why all these competing physics theories exist.
There are no competing math theories, because mathematics isn't trying to describe reality.
Sorry, you're wrong. Your view on this is far too superficial. Governments may rise and fall. The Chinese culture, that which defines every individual in China, including its current leaders, has remained.
It doesn't mean the culture hasn't changed since the fall of the Qing. But cultural changes are slow, and only the parts that benefit remain (or the culture fails as a whole). There are cultural elements kept in pristine form from 3000 years ago during the Spring and Autumn period.
What? What does the pledge of allegiance have to do with anything?
I pledge allegiance to... the Republic for which it stands... with liberty and justice for all.
What's wrong with pledging to liberty and justice for all? That, after all, is what this Republic stands for. Or at least, that was the intention.
Personally, I find the defense of Andrew Jackson as a "strong president" in grade school much more jarring. He was the first guy who wiped his ass with the constitution. He should've been hung.
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You can only mine about 10 blocks back. And then you need to go find a new cave.
strains with a high THC/other canabinoids ratio would cause tests subjects to score higher on at least one standard test questionnaire for psychosis
Standardized testing for psychosis? Would that be the PSAT?
Sun, despite their excellent engineering reputation, never figured out how to make money off Java. Lots of other companies did but Sun didn't.
That pretty much sums up Sun in a nutshell. Brilliant engineers, but couldn't make money if their life depended on it.
web browsers routinely patch exploits in their core rendering or JavaScript engines, and that's HTML5
Ever since the NSA scandal broke, I've been suspecting that the complexity of HTML5 was an attempt to keep browsers insecure.
we should understand these stories as "sandboxing malicious code is incredibly hard".
Implementing a "write once, work anywhere" language is hard. Hell, implementing a write once, work once language is hard enough. To have it not just work anywhere, but work well everywhere, is an engineering nightmare.
On the other hand, the Russians and Chinese can penetrate virtually risk-free.
It's only a matter of time before Window Managers and Windows itself catches up.
Did you hear? Windows ditched window management two years ago. That whole multiple window thing? So 2011.
Yes, I hear we do cause unimaginable terror when we travel to Great Britain. They're particularly afraid of our arrogance, short- and narrow-sightedness, free spirit, loud and overall obnoxious social behavior. Even hooligans shy away when you pronounce yourself a proud American.
Or, as the British might say it, our taste in tea is perfectly horrid.
Next time I'm only renting to brown dwarfs.
That's a direct violation of the Fair Housing Act, Section 804(a).
All analogies are flawed in some way. They're analogies. They're not the actual thing. If the rubber sheet's characteristics match that of spacetime exactly, it probably is spacetime.
But even if it's not exact, I think it's still a useful way to illustrate to the general relativity-illiterate (yours truly being among them) what the theory is all about, and why it's significant. General relativistic effects are not something that can be demonstrated (easily) in the classroom. Putting a marble on a rubber sheet is.
I loved the job of running around with a hard disk for reimaging machines... but that has been replaced by PXE booting.
Now we run around with hard disks when we want to avoid the NSA.
Hell, your local sneaker net can probably offer higher bandwidth than the fastest fiber connection. Huge latency though.
We don't really need a self-sufficient human base. Just one where we can indefinitely store all the collective knowledge of the human race. Then all we'd need is a way of collecting solar power such that people a hundred thousand years from now (assuming humans manage to survive an extinction-level event) would be able to get to the stored knowledge.
The storage medium doesn't necessarily have to electronic either, but I can imagine that any maintenance, security, and (temporary) life support system should be run off the sun's energy.
We should be doing these things on Mars and eventually the outer planets too. Crash a ship containing all our knowledge into Pluto kinda thing.
But what about Waldo?
I pick things up and take them away.
Coast Guard's military through and through. They're not rent-a-soldiers.
When the People are enemies of the State, the State itself becomes the Enemy of the People.
Hyperbole won't get you anywhere.
Quite frankly, the internet was a U.S. creation. Thus the keys to the internet always lay in the hands of the U.S. If there was anyone capable of containing the internet, it would be the U.S. That was not supposed to be. Things were not supposed to be this way.
What we understood up to two, three years ago was that the U.S. was a bastion of freedom and free speech, and thus the internet would be free from such censorship and threats of censorship. What we realize now, today, is that the internet run by the U.S. is no better than any one-party institutionalized, nationalized communications infrastructure. It's subject to the same levels of power abuse that any other nation-state would exert upon the infrastructure it owns.
People are just now realizing that there needs to be an international solution, one that transcends the bounds of any individual nation-state, one that cannot be owned and thus compromised by any single party. It's all a matter of if certain other privacy- and hence freedom-loving countries can get their act together to put such a system into place.
Chances are though, every country wants this power, if not over their own people, then over other countries. Thus such a thing could never possibly come about. If it's not stopped at a technological level, it'd be stopped at a physical (cable-laying) level.
Yuck, old people!
Your UID is lower than GP's.
Nice. Somebody probably sabotaged the implementation.
Or nobody tested it to anywhere near the rigor the other algorithms are tested. But that's just saying the same thing in a different way.
Win8's problems are not quite the same as Vista's problems. Time is not going to fix Win8's problems.
Nothing a good faraday cage won't solve. Metallic wallpaper. The only signal that'd escape would be through the LAN.
Probably a good reason not to have sex with them either!
I imagine banging your PC would cause certain irreparable harm to your nether regions.
Now add Occam's Razor into the mix: the simpler explanation is probably the more accurate one.
In this case, we know RSA employs a ton of security and math experts, because their business is security. To make the claim that all these supposed experts overlooked this weakness (and to make matters worse, it's Microsoft's research division who ultimately found and reported it--the same Microsoft already in bed with the NSA), and not only approved it but also endorsed it to the point where it became the default, that seems to be the more complex explanation.
The simpler explanation is somebody from the NSA told RSA to put it in as the default, without expert review, without question, for an easy $10M. That way, they can deny any knowledge of the algorithm being weak. See no evil, hear no evil kinda thing.
I'm almost certain the $10M payment by some shell NSA company is in the RSA books. Hell, it might even show up in the quarterly filings, maybe under some non-taxable, special income.
Because there's no competition? Where're the European competitors to RSA?
This is why Physics, e.g. "science" > Math.
Your logic is wrong (as well as your use of e.g., which means "for example"). The only thing you've concluded is that physics != math. By your own words, math can describe any universe. In that case, only one math describes ours. We haven't quite worked out what that math is, but that's why all these competing physics theories exist.
There are no competing math theories, because mathematics isn't trying to describe reality.
Sorry, you're wrong. Your view on this is far too superficial. Governments may rise and fall. The Chinese culture, that which defines every individual in China, including its current leaders, has remained.
It doesn't mean the culture hasn't changed since the fall of the Qing. But cultural changes are slow, and only the parts that benefit remain (or the culture fails as a whole). There are cultural elements kept in pristine form from 3000 years ago during the Spring and Autumn period.
Only the Jews have a longer cultural history.
What? What does the pledge of allegiance have to do with anything?
I pledge allegiance to ... the Republic for which it stands ... with liberty and justice for all.
What's wrong with pledging to liberty and justice for all? That, after all, is what this Republic stands for. Or at least, that was the intention.
Personally, I find the defense of Andrew Jackson as a "strong president" in grade school much more jarring. He was the first guy who wiped his ass with the constitution. He should've been hung.