ExxonMobil also has a huge vested interest in refuting any false role that burning oil has in accelerating climate change.
The disagreement can only be on whether the premise, that fossil fuels are in fact accelerating climate change, is correct. If no, shame on the majority fo scientists that have been convinced in error.
And the raw data is not at all convincing to me any more. Feel free to continue to toe the party line and claim it is not so, but a cursory examination of the media shows that several climate change groups both admit to and defend manipulating the data to prove their points.
We hear that metadata (not encrypted at all) is critical to discerning the intentions of terrorists and such worldwide. So we excuse the NSA and others for a 'gather all' system, despite knowing that people like me who rarely travel more than 60 miles from home are no threat. None. My yearly pilgrimage back 'home' is so predictable it is either innocuous or an 'Americkans' level implant, and we have no defense against decade-level strategies. None.
I assume France also collects this metadata. Seems like it isn't being credited with much usefulness in this case.
So the metadata isn't, after all, very useful.
Now we are told that encryption needs to be broken so that they can collect the massively more data that gives conversations to them, so they can search keywords and link individuals based not on association, but intent. Which is entirely understandable, and could indeed alert them to plots.
And breaking encryption would also risk my personal financial data, expose entirely unrelated data, and leave me at risk of criminal use and government abuse, which are both the same thing. Government abuse must be recognized as criminal activity.
Assange and Manning must be seen as heroes for exposing the breadth and depth of surveillance, worldwide, and alerting us to the loss of freedoms and privacy that could leave us totally at the mercy of state and global actors.
BUT - we need to be able to make our best efforts, such as they are, in anti-terrorism. How, if encryption is truly unbreakable?
- Focus on real, known, provable threats. Profiling of likely suspects are just plainly necessary. If the common factors are religion and national origin, then we must use these factors, not because we are racist or bigoted, but because we are realists and honest.
- Focus surveillance on those real threats. Domestic phone calls are not the most important data. International calls are critical. Look at those groups that can be shown to be supportive of terrorism. Monitor them first.
- Prevention. In the U.S., visa overstays are inexcusable. This is a simple problem with a simple solution - save that it must become a priority, and our current Administration is not merely uninterested, it is antithetical to controlling immigration and alien visitations. The no-fly list is a failure because it is poor quality data poorly maintained, resulting in diffusing our efforts and failing to prevent a single terrorist thereat, not one, that we can know about, and somehow missing several successful attempts. Even the simplistic exercise of searching carry-on baggage in U.S. airports fails spectacularly. Incompetence that cannot be left unchecked if we intend to actually prevent attacks. We are lucky, not good.
The seed process is deceptively simple. I enter (now) 24 characters, the client the first pad, I send the hash generated to my recipient, exchange encrypted messages, and we stay in sync via hash exchanges embedded in the encrypted messages. Simplistic explanation.
The most vulnerable part of this is the initial exchange. If I don't pay a little attention, I could accidentally accept a response from the intended recipient, but my first message to them would fail, bad pad. Then retry the exchange. It worked when I last used it.
Government (U.S. government, to be clear) has not always had the ability to intercept any of my communications;
- Walking in a field, writing notes to a companion, who eats the note after reading it. I reciprocate. We shield these notes from being viewed overhead.
- One-time pads, sufficiently complex, are virtually unbreakable. I still have a working OTP email client, and can distribute it to a correspondent securely (in person) to establish an email method that will deny even state - level decryption. The publisher advises me I need to expand the recommended seed from 8 bytes to 24 bytes to be reasonably secure. Done.
I'm pretty certain there are other methods, including current iPhone encryption, apparently...
While the court system in this case is working as intended, I'll bet that the Federal government has already issued a FISA request, and we are unaware of it. Working as intended. But I do not believe FISA courts should operate entirely in the dark. I just don't know how to handle these requests.
Knowing that a former Secretary of State operated their own email server in a manner that a fairly knowledgeable system administrator would recognize as vulnerable to the known capabilities of state-sponsored attempts to compromise it and extract the contents, it's almost disingenuous for the government to claim security is both essential and working at the highest levels, when they knew or should have known that a Cabinet officer was subverting that security. They just were. Reasonable people and those skilled in the art cannot avoid coming to that conclusion baaed on the publicly known evidence.
Our government isn't very good at protecting our rights, nor at its own operations. Good enough reason to limit our government to essential activities only.
And I pray Apple actually tries to break their own encryption and fails. Security shouldn't be reserved to the few. In a nominally free society we will not have perfect security, but we will have, hopefully, more freedom than not.
Hydrolocking occurs when an engine ingests water, which is not as compressible as the fuel/air mixture. The moving parts encounter the resistance and something breaks.
I wonder what happens if a valve actuator fails, and valves don'/t open when expected? No bent valves, but lots of stress on parts beyond expected, unless things get beefed up - and weight is the enemy. And this might happen intermittently for a period, maybe a few seconds. Most likely the software needs to detect this and shut the engine down before it slams parts too many times.
It's just another failure mode, but an interesting one. At least as likely as timing belt failure, and somewhat less catastrophic... Maybe.
ps - Wankel engines need better engineering. That's all.
The math in the summary ($300million savings, equal to 6.5 million homes) seems to indicate the average home's yearly electrical cost is less than $50 .
Putting an LS1 in a Granada isn't going to do anyone any good.
But a 351? Heck yeah. And the Granada is a classic, just not of the genre you would ordinarily associate with pride of ownership. Congrats on keeping it running, tho. I can't fathom why, but I covet a '65 Nova, not even the SS necessary...
When trade restrictions are finally fully lifted, either crated small blocks will be sent in bulk, or these cars will be shipped here to be fully restored.
"warmer than the global average of 1951-1980 (the benchmark NASA uses to measure warming trends)"
This is the most recent example of the failed credibility that demands I question the premise. What, the data from 1981-1990 isn't useful? Why not? Why not to 2000? Do the numbers somehow not fit the expectations? Give me a reason.
Cherry-picking the data in drug research is being shown to have caused a few drugs to be released with either no efficacy or, worse, serious side effects that render them dangerous...
Just give us the data. No, wait, we can find the data.Just not from you.
"Um, because a fundamental tenet of the Swedish legal system is that questioning of the suspect occurs in Sweden. Not in a Swedish embassy. In Sweden itself. This is not exactly unusual. In fact, I'd be astonished if you can name a single country that would be content to conduct questioning of a suspect in a serious crime overseas."
This is an interesting concept. The US maintains a military base on the Island of Cuba (Guantanamo, you know) that is claimed as US territory. Questioning captives there is probably happening daily, and beyond the control of Cuba etc, as this is proclaimed to be US territory. Sweden claims its embassy as territory, and could very well claim a hotel room or interview room at some other embassy as sovereign territory for the purposes and duration of questioning Mr. Assange, but chose not to.
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ExxonMobil also has a huge vested interest in refuting any false role that burning oil has in accelerating climate change.
The disagreement can only be on whether the premise, that fossil fuels are in fact accelerating climate change, is correct. If no, shame on the majority fo scientists that have been convinced in error.
And the raw data is not at all convincing to me any more. Feel free to continue to toe the party line and claim it is not so, but a cursory examination of the media shows that several climate change groups both admit to and defend manipulating the data to prove their points.
Not all the heretics are burned. Sheesh.
Didn't happen to mine either, update installed 2/12...
Another story of a few outliers.
Only to those who persist in finding exceptions, rather than focus on the problem.
We hear that metadata (not encrypted at all) is critical to discerning the intentions of terrorists and such worldwide. So we excuse the NSA and others for a 'gather all' system, despite knowing that people like me who rarely travel more than 60 miles from home are no threat. None. My yearly pilgrimage back 'home' is so predictable it is either innocuous or an 'Americkans' level implant, and we have no defense against decade-level strategies. None.
I assume France also collects this metadata. Seems like it isn't being credited with much usefulness in this case.
So the metadata isn't, after all, very useful.
Now we are told that encryption needs to be broken so that they can collect the massively more data that gives conversations to them, so they can search keywords and link individuals based not on association, but intent. Which is entirely understandable, and could indeed alert them to plots.
And breaking encryption would also risk my personal financial data, expose entirely unrelated data, and leave me at risk of criminal use and government abuse, which are both the same thing. Government abuse must be recognized as criminal activity.
Assange and Manning must be seen as heroes for exposing the breadth and depth of surveillance, worldwide, and alerting us to the loss of freedoms and privacy that could leave us totally at the mercy of state and global actors.
BUT - we need to be able to make our best efforts, such as they are, in anti-terrorism. How, if encryption is truly unbreakable?
- Focus on real, known, provable threats. Profiling of likely suspects are just plainly necessary. If the common factors are religion and national origin, then we must use these factors, not because we are racist or bigoted, but because we are realists and honest.
- Focus surveillance on those real threats. Domestic phone calls are not the most important data. International calls are critical. Look at those groups that can be shown to be supportive of terrorism. Monitor them first.
- Prevention. In the U.S., visa overstays are inexcusable. This is a simple problem with a simple solution - save that it must become a priority, and our current Administration is not merely uninterested, it is antithetical to controlling immigration and alien visitations. The no-fly list is a failure because it is poor quality data poorly maintained, resulting in diffusing our efforts and failing to prevent a single terrorist thereat, not one, that we can know about, and somehow missing several successful attempts. Even the simplistic exercise of searching carry-on baggage in U.S. airports fails spectacularly. Incompetence that cannot be left unchecked if we intend to actually prevent attacks. We are lucky, not good.
But I rant. Without real change, we will suffer.
The exceptions that prove the rule.
P-OTP.
From a while ago.
The seed process is deceptively simple. I enter (now) 24 characters, the client the first pad, I send the hash generated to my recipient, exchange encrypted messages, and we stay in sync via hash exchanges embedded in the encrypted messages. Simplistic explanation.
The most vulnerable part of this is the initial exchange. If I don't pay a little attention, I could accidentally accept a response from the intended recipient, but my first message to them would fail, bad pad. Then retry the exchange. It worked when I last used it.
Don't they have to force the installation? It's not like they can open the phone and accept a download...
Government (U.S. government, to be clear) has not always had the ability to intercept any of my communications;
- Walking in a field, writing notes to a companion, who eats the note after reading it. I reciprocate. We shield these notes from being viewed overhead.
- One-time pads, sufficiently complex, are virtually unbreakable. I still have a working OTP email client, and can distribute it to a correspondent securely (in person) to establish an email method that will deny even state - level decryption. The publisher advises me I need to expand the recommended seed from 8 bytes to 24 bytes to be reasonably secure. Done.
I'm pretty certain there are other methods, including current iPhone encryption, apparently...
While the court system in this case is working as intended, I'll bet that the Federal government has already issued a FISA request, and we are unaware of it. Working as intended. But I do not believe FISA courts should operate entirely in the dark. I just don't know how to handle these requests.
Knowing that a former Secretary of State operated their own email server in a manner that a fairly knowledgeable system administrator would recognize as vulnerable to the known capabilities of state-sponsored attempts to compromise it and extract the contents, it's almost disingenuous for the government to claim security is both essential and working at the highest levels, when they knew or should have known that a Cabinet officer was subverting that security. They just were. Reasonable people and those skilled in the art cannot avoid coming to that conclusion baaed on the publicly known evidence.
Our government isn't very good at protecting our rights, nor at its own operations. Good enough reason to limit our government to essential activities only.
And I pray Apple actually tries to break their own encryption and fails. Security shouldn't be reserved to the few. In a nominally free society we will not have perfect security, but we will have, hopefully, more freedom than not.
Or a vulnerability.
Same effect, more precise terminology.
But they didn't choose 1980-2010.
There is a reason. It isn't certain the reason is to use a random period.
It's not about being more reliable.
It's about being more flexible. Maybe faster.
Bound to be a way to make the circuit fail closed.
Hydrolocking occurs when an engine ingests water, which is not as compressible as the fuel/air mixture. The moving parts encounter the resistance and something breaks.
I wonder what happens if a valve actuator fails, and valves don'/t open when expected? No bent valves, but lots of stress on parts beyond expected, unless things get beefed up - and weight is the enemy. And this might happen intermittently for a period, maybe a few seconds. Most likely the software needs to detect this and shut the engine down before it slams parts too many times.
It's just another failure mode, but an interesting one. At least as likely as timing belt failure, and somewhat less catastrophic... Maybe.
ps - Wankel engines need better engineering. That's all.
I've read variations of this story for 30+ years:
- 3D CAD program used to make a model of an object in software.
- 'Virtual Reality' tool used to permit engineers to visualize this model creatively.
- Improved objects...
Seriously, none of this is new, just perhaps slightly more affordable for now. Cheaper next year.
44kWh/month.
About 1.5kWh/day.
No hot water.
No appliances.
Lighting for me takes about 105W/day.
Refrigeration, about 3kWh/day.
Laundry about 4kWj/week.
Did I mention I live in the desert?
I could, if I chop wood.
It's the government that is the waste, legislating for a negative benefit.
The broken window fallacy made real.
The math in the summary ($300million savings, equal to 6.5 million homes) seems to indicate the average home's yearly electrical cost is less than $50 .
I can has one of these?
Putting an LS1 in a Granada isn't going to do anyone any good.
But a 351? Heck yeah. And the Granada is a classic, just not of the genre you would ordinarily associate with pride of ownership. Congrats on keeping it running, tho. I can't fathom why, but I covet a '65 Nova, not even the SS necessary...
When trade restrictions are finally fully lifted, either crated small blocks will be sent in bulk, or these cars will be shipped here to be fully restored.
Either way, profit!
"warmer than the global average of 1951-1980 (the benchmark NASA uses to measure warming trends)"
This is the most recent example of the failed credibility that demands I question the premise. What, the data from 1981-1990 isn't useful? Why not? Why not to 2000? Do the numbers somehow not fit the expectations? Give me a reason.
Cherry-picking the data in drug research is being shown to have caused a few drugs to be released with either no efficacy or, worse, serious side effects that render them dangerous...
Just give us the data. No, wait, we can find the data.Just not from you.
"Um, because a fundamental tenet of the Swedish legal system is that questioning of the suspect occurs in Sweden. Not in a Swedish embassy. In Sweden itself.
This is not exactly unusual. In fact, I'd be astonished if you can name a single country that would be content to conduct questioning of a suspect in a serious crime overseas."
This is an interesting concept. The US maintains a military base on the Island of Cuba (Guantanamo, you know) that is claimed as US territory. Questioning captives there is probably happening daily, and beyond the control of Cuba etc, as this is proclaimed to be US territory. Sweden claims its embassy as territory, and could very well claim a hotel room or interview room at some other embassy as sovereign territory for the purposes and duration of questioning Mr. Assange, but chose not to.
Plainly to try and lure him into into the open.
The U.S. wants him bad. Any means.
Actually, no. That's the point of my note...
We don't get much airtime.