The straightforward reading, however, is that it is forbidden to use proxy services. You're also not allowed to run them, but that's specified separately.
No that's not a straightforward reading at all.
Lets drop the 'or run' to simplify it slightly and read that:
You're right: if you change what it says by deleting some of the words, then it says something different.
In the next sentence, it says in particular what you're not allowed to use or run, including proxy services.
Use or run: It's not merely that you're not allowed to run proxy services: you're not allowed to use them, either.
If that's stupid-- well, how about that.
As I said: the interpretation of this text could be ambiguous. You could do the lawyer thing and claim to interpret it the way you say. But the clear straightforward text is: proxies are listed on the list of things you are specifically not allowed to use or run.
Huh? It is a violation to RUN a proxy. Not USE a proxy.
Here is the text of what's forbidden, from TFA. Note the bold face on the word use (bold is from the original):
use or run dedicated, stand-alone equipment or servers from the Premises that provide network content or any other services to anyone outside of your Premises local area network (“PremisesLAN”), also commonly referred to as public services or servers. Examples of prohibited equipment and servers include, but are not limited to, email, web hosting, file sharing, and proxy services and servers;
Agreed, the interpretation of this text could be ambiguous. The straightforward reading, however, is that it is forbidden to use proxy services. You're also not allowed to run them, but that's specified separately.
But it wasn't. They asked about her membership in groups advocating overthrow of the US government, not about whether she knew or wrote letters to people in prison.
The report is pretty clear. In her original interview, she denies involvement:
During that session, Barr answered “no” when asked if she had ever been a member of an organization “dedicated to the use of violence” to overthrow the U.S. government or to prevent others from exercising their constitutional rights.
Then, they actually checked what they told the interviewers. Despite being a self-described "worker bee," she had been involved with a groups actively dedicated to the use of violence to overthrow the government.
Nope. Actually read the article, instead of just skimming. The two groups that she was involved with in the 1980s were not "dedicated to the use of violence to overthrow the U.S. government." That was a different group, which OPM said "had ties" to the organizations she'd belonged to. She wasn't a member of the third group, or, as far as I can tell, the OPM doesn't claim she was.
I don't know what "had ties" means. But, was she a member of a group dedicated to the use of violence to overthrow the government: apparently not.
Meh. Information is basically tied to entropy. You can reduce entropy (which is to say, you can order information); it just takes energy to do so (and in the process releasing waste heat).
So, basically, this says nothing more useful than "Life requires a source of free energy, and a way to reject waste heat."
I find it a bit hard to believe that a guy who is able to get one of the largest black-market enterprises running on a server/farm connected to an anonymous/decentralized network isn't smart enough to *not* give it a public IP and/or put the equivalent to a home internet router in front of it.
People make mistakes all the time. Even smart people.
You've never made a mistake? Never missed a bug? Never misconfigured a system? Ever?
Do a hundred things right, and one thing wrong, and just guess which one will get caught.
What I find cool about this asteroid is that it's in a 1.5 year orbit. That means it's in a 3:2 resonance with Earth. So it'll come by again if you miss it this time, every 3 years.
Normally you'd expect asteroids that makes this close an approach to Earth to have a bit of a change in orbital parameters after the flyby, but that 3:2 orbital ratio is unlikely to be a coincidence-- it looks like a resonant orbit, in which the Earth's gravitational perturbation has already modified the orbit until it reached that stable resonance.
The small-body page allows you to propagate the orbit into the future, if you're interested. (Not a good tool to use if you're calculating missions, though-- you'll want a more accurate simulator! The V_infinity is a bit large for a rendezvous, though.)
I am reminded of Asimov's story "The Mayors," in Foundation (first published in Astounding Science-Fiction, June 1942, in which an "ultrawave relay" disables the warship that the Foundation sold to the Anacreonian navy when the Anacreons try to use it against them.
If you read the article, the interceptors hack into the baseband processor (that's not the phone OS-- it's the system that controls the radio system in the phone), and switch the connection "from 4G down to 2G, a much older protocol that is easier to de-crypt in real-time. But the standard smart phones didn’t even show they’d experienced the same attack."
So you may think you're using encryption, and stop whining. But although your phone says you are encrypted, you have been switched to a breakable encryption, which is to say, no encryption at all.
Men and Women are not the same. Men tend to spread out wider both dumber and smarter then the mean aka they have larger standard deviation then women in both intelligence and sanity level.
This is a hypothesis. You are stating it as a fact.
The evidence for this hypothesis is, at the moment, quite weak.
Evidence for this hypothesis would be best found by examining a society in which males and females are given identical treatment, and not given different social cues childhood or raised to different expectations. I'm not sure where you find that society.
What happens if you get sick or injured? Can you imagine pink eye with retinal scanners?
Yes, this is the serious problem-- just as serious as the problem of people fooling the password-alternative is the problem of the false negatives: getting locked out.
Notice that most of these weren't fingerprint scanners or retinal scanners-- they were stuff like gait monitors, or even more bizarre stuff, like listening to your heartbeat. So, if you twist your ankle--or even buy a new pair of shoes-- you're out of luck. Taking pseudoephedrine for a cold? Ooops, your heartrate is different. You're locked out.
--instead of using these instead of password, however, what about if you use alternate ID as a second check. It doesn't lock you out, but it does trigger a watchdog alert that pays attention to what you're doing.
You can change a password, you can't change your retina print. What do you do when your account is compromised? Get new eyes?
Yes, we've all seen dozens of those science fiction stories where they steal people's eyes, or cut off their fingers, or take swabs of their DNA.
If a civilisation could create a Dyson sphere, don't you think they'd have some use for all the wasted energy "radiating in infrared"?
If they can get usable energy out of waste heat, they have a means of getting around the second law of thermodynamics. It's hard to guess what a technology with that much sophistication can do, but if they can do that, they don't need to surround a star with a shell to harvest energy.
well, if Dyson spheres are anywhere near the size of the solar system, they would radiate in the infrared. Longer infrared the larger they are.
You could imagine a Dyson sphere that is vastly larger than a solar system -- like, a hundred AU across, or so--that would radiate waste heat in millimeter wave, or even something vastly larger than that that would radiate in microwave.
But, of course, that doesn't solve the problem-- they would be shine like beacons to radio telescopes.
If a new buyer comes into the market - a buyer with lots of money, then all that happens is that the price goes up. It's simple economics
Well, yes, but that's exactly what was desired: You want the price to go up, so that it's more valuable to disclose the bug than it is for some thief exploit it.
If the price becomes high enough, new exploiters will enter the market and start discovering exploits
Exactly. You mine out the easy-to-find exploits until they are depleted, and start in on the harder-to-find bugs, so that you get to the point where amateur hackers simply aren't sophisticated enough to find them.
... After all, we haven't seen a government agency buying up all the drugs, in order to stop them being supplied to the population
Well, of course you can always manufacture more drugs; you don't "find" them. They don't get harder to make as the market increases.
If the objection here is "software companies will start deliberately introducing vulnerabilities, so that they can make money by selling the vulnerabilities to the government"-- yes, that might be an objection.
That your comment got modded 5:informative is hilarious. How about you RTFM and not phrase your comment in the form of questions? This was NASA. If NASA believed any of those alternate explanations you cited, do you think they'd be stupid enough to damage their reputations by presenting this absent those prominent criticisms?
Just as a minor correction, this was one lab group, at one NASA center. It was not "NASA" collectively.
NASA is not a monolithic entity. Other scientists at other parts of NASA have expressed some amount of skepticism about the conclusion that the experimental results quoted are best explained as the thruster producing anomalous thrust. We all want to see these results carefully replicated.
It would be better if these results had been reported as "here's a preliminary anomalous result that needs to be verified," instead of "OMG, a space drive!"... but they weren't.
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Exactly.
Different people want different things.
This is not news.
Well, it's a shot in the dark.
But, take a stab at it.
You can interpret it that way. That's not the only way to interpret it.
The straightforward reading, however, is that it is forbidden to use proxy services. You're also not allowed to run them, but that's specified separately.
No that's not a straightforward reading at all.
Lets drop the 'or run' to simplify it slightly and read that:
You're right: if you change what it says by deleting some of the words, then it says something different.
In the next sentence, it says in particular what you're not allowed to use or run, including proxy services.
Use or run: It's not merely that you're not allowed to run proxy services: you're not allowed to use them, either.
If that's stupid-- well, how about that.
As I said: the interpretation of this text could be ambiguous. You could do the lawyer thing and claim to interpret it the way you say. But the clear straightforward text is: proxies are listed on the list of things you are specifically not allowed to use or run.
Huh? It is a violation to RUN a proxy. Not USE a proxy.
Here is the text of what's forbidden, from TFA. Note the bold face on the word use (bold is from the original):
Agreed, the interpretation of this text could be ambiguous. The straightforward reading, however, is that it is forbidden to use proxy services. You're also not allowed to run them, but that's specified separately.
Ah, Comcast.
http://www.businessinsider.com...
http://www.businessinsider.com...
Then TOR will be wrapped by a VPN service, and Comcast will be fscked.
Didn't you read the article? VPN is against Comcast's terms of service-- it's a proxy.
And if that had been what they'd asked, fine.
But it wasn't. They asked about her membership in groups advocating overthrow of the US government, not about whether she knew or wrote letters to people in prison.
The report is pretty clear. In her original interview, she denies involvement:
Then, they actually checked what they told the interviewers. Despite being a self-described "worker bee," she had been involved with a groups actively dedicated to the use of violence to overthrow the government.
Nope. Actually read the article, instead of just skimming. The two groups that she was involved with in the 1980s were not "dedicated to the use of violence to overthrow the U.S. government." That was a different group, which OPM said "had ties" to the organizations she'd belonged to. She wasn't a member of the third group, or, as far as I can tell, the OPM doesn't claim she was.
I don't know what "had ties" means. But, was she a member of a group dedicated to the use of violence to overthrow the government: apparently not.
"Valerie Barr was a tenured professor of computer science at Union College in Schenectady,"
is.
No, it puts quantitative limits on what is to be expected.
Delta G = Delta H - T Delta S
where S = k ln (omega)
Any other quesitons?
Meh. Information is basically tied to entropy. You can reduce entropy (which is to say, you can order information); it just takes energy to do so (and in the process releasing waste heat).
So, basically, this says nothing more useful than "Life requires a source of free energy, and a way to reject waste heat."
Sure, but we knew that already.
I find it a bit hard to believe that a guy who is able to get one of the largest black-market enterprises running on a server/farm connected to an anonymous/decentralized network isn't smart enough to *not* give it a public IP and/or put the equivalent to a home internet router in front of it.
People make mistakes all the time. Even smart people.
You've never made a mistake? Never missed a bug? Never misconfigured a system? Ever?
Do a hundred things right, and one thing wrong, and just guess which one will get caught.
it would still be decelerated to a safe velocity before hit hit the gorund and would just bounce.
Bounce?? This was calculated using Kermit's space program?
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.c...
What I find cool about this asteroid is that it's in a 1.5 year orbit. That means it's in a 3:2 resonance with Earth. So it'll come by again if you miss it this time, every 3 years.
Normally you'd expect asteroids that makes this close an approach to Earth to have a bit of a change in orbital parameters after the flyby, but that 3:2 orbital ratio is unlikely to be a coincidence-- it looks like a resonant orbit, in which the Earth's gravitational perturbation has already modified the orbit until it reached that stable resonance.
The small-body page allows you to propagate the orbit into the future, if you're interested. (Not a good tool to use if you're calculating missions, though-- you'll want a more accurate simulator! The V_infinity is a bit large for a rendezvous, though.)
I am reminded of Asimov's story "The Mayors," in Foundation (first published in Astounding Science-Fiction, June 1942, in which an "ultrawave relay" disables the warship that the Foundation sold to the Anacreonian navy when the Anacreons try to use it against them.
Learn to use encryption and quit your whining.
If you read the article, the interceptors hack into the baseband processor (that's not the phone OS-- it's the system that controls the radio system in the phone), and switch the connection "from 4G down to 2G, a much older protocol that is easier to de-crypt in real-time. But the standard smart phones didn’t even show they’d experienced the same attack."
So you may think you're using encryption, and stop whining. But although your phone says you are encrypted, you have been switched to a breakable encryption, which is to say, no encryption at all.
Men and Women are not the same. Men tend to spread out wider both dumber and smarter then the mean aka they have larger standard deviation then women in both intelligence and sanity level.
This is a hypothesis. You are stating it as a fact.
The evidence for this hypothesis is, at the moment, quite weak.
Evidence for this hypothesis would be best found by examining a society in which males and females are given identical treatment, and not given different social cues childhood or raised to different expectations. I'm not sure where you find that society.
What happens if you get sick or injured? Can you imagine pink eye with retinal scanners?
Yes, this is the serious problem-- just as serious as the problem of people fooling the password-alternative is the problem of the false negatives: getting locked out.
Notice that most of these weren't fingerprint scanners or retinal scanners-- they were stuff like gait monitors, or even more bizarre stuff, like listening to your heartbeat. So, if you twist your ankle--or even buy a new pair of shoes-- you're out of luck. Taking pseudoephedrine for a cold? Ooops, your heartrate is different. You're locked out.
--instead of using these instead of password, however, what about if you use alternate ID as a second check. It doesn't lock you out, but it does trigger a watchdog alert that pays attention to what you're doing.
You can change a password, you can't change your retina print. What do you do when your account is compromised? Get new eyes?
Yes, we've all seen dozens of those science fiction stories where they steal people's eyes, or cut off their fingers, or take swabs of their DNA.
If a civilisation could create a Dyson sphere, don't you think they'd have some use for all the wasted energy "radiating in infrared"?
If they can get usable energy out of waste heat, they have a means of getting around the second law of thermodynamics. It's hard to guess what a technology with that much sophistication can do, but if they can do that, they don't need to surround a star with a shell to harvest energy.
Well, I didn't say it was a good idea.
well, if Dyson spheres are anywhere near the size of the solar system, they would radiate in the infrared. Longer infrared the larger they are.
You could imagine a Dyson sphere that is vastly larger than a solar system -- like, a hundred AU across, or so--that would radiate waste heat in millimeter wave, or even something vastly larger than that that would radiate in microwave.
But, of course, that doesn't solve the problem-- they would be shine like beacons to radio telescopes.
If a new buyer comes into the market - a buyer with lots of money, then all that happens is that the price goes up. It's simple economics
Well, yes, but that's exactly what was desired:
You want the price to go up, so that it's more valuable to disclose the bug than it is for some thief exploit it.
If the price becomes high enough, new exploiters will enter the market and start discovering exploits
Exactly. You mine out the easy-to-find exploits until they are depleted, and start in on the harder-to-find bugs, so that you get to the point where amateur hackers simply aren't sophisticated enough to find them.
... After all, we haven't seen a government agency buying up all the drugs, in order to stop them being supplied to the population
Well, of course you can always manufacture more drugs; you don't "find" them. They don't get harder to make as the market increases.
If the objection here is "software companies will start deliberately introducing vulnerabilities, so that they can make money by selling the vulnerabilities to the government"-- yes, that might be an objection.
That your comment got modded 5:informative is hilarious. How about you RTFM and not phrase your comment in the form of questions? This was NASA. If NASA believed any of those alternate explanations you cited, do you think they'd be stupid enough to damage their reputations by presenting this absent those prominent criticisms?
Just as a minor correction, this was one lab group, at one NASA center. It was not "NASA" collectively.
NASA is not a monolithic entity. Other scientists at other parts of NASA have expressed some amount of skepticism about the conclusion that the experimental results quoted are best explained as the thruster producing anomalous thrust. We all want to see these results carefully replicated.
It would be better if these results had been reported as "here's a preliminary anomalous result that needs to be verified," instead of "OMG, a space drive!"... but they weren't.