gaim-encryption uses long lived keys for both authenticating and message encryption. This means all of your past conversations can be unencrypted if your key is compromised at any time, and someone has access to an encrypted record of your conversation.
OTR uses a long lived key for authentication, but it uses a key generation/exchange scheme for message encryption. There is no way that a compromise of your fingerprint key can lead to compromise of your conversations. THe keys for encrypting the conversation are discarded after the conversation, they arent left lying around on the computer so that a laptop thief can later acquire and break into them.
OTR is the scheme to use if you have are having vital conversations that must be kept secret. Gaim-encryption is fine for preventing casual eavesdropping, but a determined attacker could read your conversations, especially if physical access to the computer is a possibility. Given that both plugins function similarly and are about the same complexity to the user, why use the weaker one?
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gaim-encryption is flawed in that it is a weak encryption scheme. Off The Record is a far superior gaim plugin providing a much stronger encrytion, authentication, deniability, and secrecy into the future. Read how it compartes to gaim-encryption on their website. Their whitepaper is really good introduction to what can make encryption strong vs what can make it weak, definitely worth a read for anyone new to crypto.
And besides all that, open source != secure. That is a really bad assumption to make.
If Intels new chips live up to the hype, it will help to restore INTC's hurting stock. It will also help to correct AMDs overvalued stock. A year ago the correct move was to buy AMD, soon I think the correct move will be to buy INTC.
What kind of new chips does AMD have up its sleeves to compete with the new Core architecture?
Long hair makes a great social filter. With long hair I find that all of the people I do not want to interact with avoid me. All of the people I would like to interact with are more forthcoming (think girls). Professionally I havent felt hindered at all by it, and I work for a very large enterprise software company.
Hmm, then again, I am always passed up for recruiting at career fairs, ohhh what a shame that is.
I find this story to be double relevant to my specialty which is software QA. If there is one good way to make sure management never wants to move you around, it is to do a good job at QA. It is so hard to find people who want to do QA and understand how computers work, can do scripting and basic programming, and uncover truly insightful bugs, that when they do find one, your stuck, and I mean bad.
I got into the QA position mostly as an entry point. I didnt have alot of formal programming experience, but I managed to impress the company I interviewed with and they hired me. 4 years later, they love me, I have helped improve the quality of the system, caught terrible bugs before production, implemented automated testing with code I had to write, and generally kicked alot of ass.
So, I express a desire to explore other avenues in the company such as programming. I get the run around, and they placate me with 5 hour assignments, and then something needs testing, and who is gonna test it, well, I am.
And add to all that, I make less after 4 successful years than our extry level mostly inexperienced programmers.
Wake up managers, a QA engineer is a valuable valuable employee, and you should NOT ignore them, or you will be stuck trying to replace them, and finding it quite difficult.
My Bro's laptop has a hard drive die, so I replace and put ubuntu on with automatix, walk him through it, load him up with all the software he thought he might like initially, and away I go. The next day he tries to start it up and do some web browsing, gets stuck, and hasnt touched it since, despite my chiding.
Non-computer people simply dont want to change. They are too used to windows and any change is percieved as too much hassle for not enough benefit.
Heck, I even warmed him up with FireFox on his desktop windows machine before doing the switch, he uses firefox, but he just isnt interested in "learning" linux, despite me telling him repetadly there is practically nothing to learn.
I get 2-3 applications a day for credit cards. This is no joke, every single day for the last month I have gotten an app from Capitol One, sometimes two in the same day.... FROM THE SAME COMPANY.
SO, because these companies choose to hopelessly send me application after appilcation, I am automatically obligated to shred them?? I dont even have reasonable access to a shredder..... but there is a nice fire pit in my backyard.
Well, what would you expect from a company that makes at least 50% of it's revenue from Click fraud. Refer to Googles recent settlement (gee slashdot, why wasnt this one on the front page?) foxnews.com/story/0,2933,187284,00.html
What would you expect from a company with practically no revenue growth prospects?
What would expect froma company whose IPO was nothing more than a 2.2 billion + pump-n-dump scam?
What would expect from a company whose insiders have made billions off the sale of the stock WITHOUT EXPENSING IT?!?! Eric Schmidt recently sold about 100 million in stock in one day (Feb 22).
What would you expect from a company whose has refused to comply with the new FASB rules requiring expensing of stock options?
Google makes a great search engine and some other great products, but realize that none of that justifies a stock price of over $100 / share.
He wins a free trip to Bermuda, Bahama, and a pretty mama!
Seriously, calling a town in Indiana Kokomo reminds me of the story of how Greenland came to be called Greenland when it is most certainly not a green land.
Sorry, I re-read my post and it is flaming sounding, I apologize. I was a wee-bit grumpy before I had my coffee. I wish you luck researching the market and shuffling that gravy around. I have done work with technical analysis myself and I know how hard it can be. I gather from your posts that you regard technical analisys as a tool and not an end-all solution and I would certainly agree with that.
Well, no, I did mean economy, and not market. I also was reffering to algorithmns to MEASURE and qauantify the economy, not predict economic trends. Economists have a very hard time measuring very basic hard economic quantifiers like GDP (ever heard of the black market?), total cash flow and the like. They also have a hard time measuring more subjective quantifiers like poverty rate and consumer satisfaction. Maybe you missed your economics class the day the professor explained this, but economics is a science that involves every aspect of all life (not just human). Stock prices are but a small facet of the "economy".
Your post is full assertions and assumptions that are not relevant to what I was talking about, but lets just address a few of the worst:
We could have all the information in the world and all the computing power to analyze it and we would still not be able to predict the market because it is driven by psychology, not by data.
Wrong. The market is driven by two forces, supply and demand. Psychology has an impact on only one of those forces (demand), and the impact of that is alot less than you assert (unless, of course your talking about the hottest/latest tech stock bubble). The fact is that demand is more a function os basic life needs (food, shelter, etc) than it is related to psychology. People need shit, despite the fact that you think they are sheep.
Even if there were somehow a program that could predict the market then it would immediately nullify itself and become useless.
You might want to do some more research about the supposed impossibility of stock market predicition algorithmns. Many index funds are managed on a mostly automated basis by guess what, computer algorithmns. These funds have made good returns for their shareholders. Maybe the funds are not doubling value every month as clearly you dream of, but they are holding to the averages, and that is alot better than many mutual funds that are managed by very smart people.
Our local record store just closed down, what a great shop it was too. Now this Amazon shop is coming, somehow I don't think it will exude the same charm that I got from our local shop. Hmm, I guess I should bought more records there and spent less time flirting with the cute girls behind the counter, darn.
But on another note, I wonder much kicking and screaming the record company execs did as they were being dragged by collars into this by the many smarter people around them?
You can really save money driving this thing. With it's 62 mile hydrogen range and its lease price of $3577 per month I figure I could hire a chauffeur with the money I save. Sign me up.
Computers should be able to give a much more unbiased assessment of the economy than any person ever could. People are essentially incapable of interpreting economic data in a straightforward way, political agendas always seem to work their way into economists opinions about the economy. By using algorithms to do the analysis (and allowing market forces to refine those algorithms), we should be able to get a much better understanding of the REAL economy.
Holy crap, the army is giving away a video game to simulate a modern style of warfare. Of course what they dont tell you is that you are in fact controlling a robo-cybo-soldier in the real war on "terror", a la Enders Game. Is anyone else not completely freaked out by just how Enders game this is?
1024x768 is THE standard, and it will be for some time. If you want your app to be usable to average joes, it better fit inside 1024x768. I found out the hard way when a customer called to ask why our app wouldnt fit inside their screen, I had an instant revelation that with those new shiny monitors we had bought everyone had developed on 1600x1200 and not even bothered to test on 1024x768. What a HUGE mistake that was...
Nevermind that 1024x768 is very high resolution for a mobile device with a small screen.
The only thing a digital watermark could be useful for is authenticating a media file as an unaltered official release. It will never be useful for combating privacy except for only the dumbest users who do not cleanse the media files. Cleansing image files is trivial assumming you have access to free hardware/software (I guess thats the kicker). Cleansing music files is not much harder, and one can always simply re-record the music too, thats one avenue of DRM circumvention that will NEVER go away.
Please, stop wasting funding researching things that are blatantly obvious. The rest of us knew this already and we dont consider ourselves lucky that you were able to scientifically prove this.
This reminds me of the graduate psychology experiment I was a subject for. They ended up proving that the majority of people in the downtown area on a friday night are drunk. Way-to-go guys!!
When you feel like doing something difficult and/or actually contributing to society I have a computer system for you to optomize, thanks.
To all who are taking issue with the term "global warming"... do you live in the northern hemisphere? If yes, who buys your groceries because clearly you havent been outside in several years!!0
I live in Virginia, it is February, and yesterday I was sweating outside in a tshirt.
I dont see how anyone can deny Global warming... its fucking hot outside! Have we already forgotten what winter used to feel like?
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gaim-encryption uses long lived keys for both authenticating and message encryption. This means all of your past conversations can be unencrypted if your key is compromised at any time, and someone has access to an encrypted record of your conversation.
OTR uses a long lived key for authentication, but it uses a key generation/exchange scheme for message encryption. There is no way that a compromise of your fingerprint key can lead to compromise of your conversations. THe keys for encrypting the conversation are discarded after the conversation, they arent left lying around on the computer so that a laptop thief can later acquire and break into them.
OTR is the scheme to use if you have are having vital conversations that must be kept secret. Gaim-encryption is fine for preventing casual eavesdropping, but a determined attacker could read your conversations, especially if physical access to the computer is a possibility. Given that both plugins function similarly and are about the same complexity to the user, why use the weaker one?
gaim-encryption is flawed in that it is a weak encryption scheme. Off The Record is a far superior gaim plugin providing a much stronger encrytion, authentication, deniability, and secrecy into the future. Read how it compartes to gaim-encryption on their website. Their whitepaper is really good introduction to what can make encryption strong vs what can make it weak, definitely worth a read for anyone new to crypto. And besides all that, open source != secure. That is a really bad assumption to make.
If Intels new chips live up to the hype, it will help to restore INTC's hurting stock. It will also help to correct AMDs overvalued stock. A year ago the correct move was to buy AMD, soon I think the correct move will be to buy INTC.
What kind of new chips does AMD have up its sleeves to compete with the new Core architecture?
Long hair makes a great social filter. With long hair I find that all of the people I do not want to interact with avoid me. All of the people I would like to interact with are more forthcoming (think girls). Professionally I havent felt hindered at all by it, and I work for a very large enterprise software company.
Hmm, then again, I am always passed up for recruiting at career fairs, ohhh what a shame that is.
I find this story to be double relevant to my specialty which is software QA. If there is one good way to make sure management never wants to move you around, it is to do a good job at QA. It is so hard to find people who want to do QA and understand how computers work, can do scripting and basic programming, and uncover truly insightful bugs, that when they do find one, your stuck, and I mean bad.
I got into the QA position mostly as an entry point. I didnt have alot of formal programming experience, but I managed to impress the company I interviewed with and they hired me. 4 years later, they love me, I have helped improve the quality of the system, caught terrible bugs before production, implemented automated testing with code I had to write, and generally kicked alot of ass.
So, I express a desire to explore other avenues in the company such as programming. I get the run around, and they placate me with 5 hour assignments, and then something needs testing, and who is gonna test it, well, I am.
And add to all that, I make less after 4 successful years than our extry level mostly inexperienced programmers.
Wake up managers, a QA engineer is a valuable valuable employee, and you should NOT ignore them, or you will be stuck trying to replace them, and finding it quite difficult.
My Bro's laptop has a hard drive die, so I replace and put ubuntu on with automatix, walk him through it, load him up with all the software he thought he might like initially, and away I go. The next day he tries to start it up and do some web browsing, gets stuck, and hasnt touched it since, despite my chiding. Non-computer people simply dont want to change. They are too used to windows and any change is percieved as too much hassle for not enough benefit. Heck, I even warmed him up with FireFox on his desktop windows machine before doing the switch, he uses firefox, but he just isnt interested in "learning" linux, despite me telling him repetadly there is practically nothing to learn.
I get 2-3 applications a day for credit cards. This is no joke, every single day for the last month I have gotten an app from Capitol One, sometimes two in the same day.... FROM THE SAME COMPANY. SO, because these companies choose to hopelessly send me application after appilcation, I am automatically obligated to shred them?? I dont even have reasonable access to a shredder..... but there is a nice fire pit in my backyard.
Well, what would you expect from a company that makes at least 50% of it's revenue from Click fraud. Refer to Googles recent settlement (gee slashdot, why wasnt this one on the front page?) foxnews.com/story/0,2933,187284,00.html
What would you expect from a company with practically no revenue growth prospects?
What would expect froma company whose IPO was nothing more than a 2.2 billion + pump-n-dump scam?
What would expect from a company whose insiders have made billions off the sale of the stock WITHOUT EXPENSING IT?!?! Eric Schmidt recently sold about 100 million in stock in one day (Feb 22).
What would you expect from a company whose has refused to comply with the new FASB rules requiring expensing of stock options?
Google makes a great search engine and some other great products, but realize that none of that justifies a stock price of over $100 / share.
If your pride can handle it, read this blog: http://www.fuckedgoogle.com/
Do some research on Click Fraud, and realize how google really makes its $.
He wins a free trip to Bermuda, Bahama, and a pretty mama! Seriously, calling a town in Indiana Kokomo reminds me of the story of how Greenland came to be called Greenland when it is most certainly not a green land.
Hmmm, interesting. I think you are right because clearly the USA is the only politically corrupt country in the world.
Lets face the facts, corruption is a human problem, not an American one.
Sorry, I re-read my post and it is flaming sounding, I apologize. I was a wee-bit grumpy before I had my coffee. I wish you luck researching the market and shuffling that gravy around. I have done work with technical analysis myself and I know how hard it can be. I gather from your posts that you regard technical analisys as a tool and not an end-all solution and I would certainly agree with that.
Your post is full assertions and assumptions that are not relevant to what I was talking about, but lets just address a few of the worst:
Wrong. The market is driven by two forces, supply and demand. Psychology has an impact on only one of those forces (demand), and the impact of that is alot less than you assert (unless, of course your talking about the hottest/latest tech stock bubble). The fact is that demand is more a function os basic life needs (food, shelter, etc) than it is related to psychology. People need shit, despite the fact that you think they are sheep.
You might want to do some more research about the supposed impossibility of stock market predicition algorithmns. Many index funds are managed on a mostly automated basis by guess what, computer algorithmns. These funds have made good returns for their shareholders. Maybe the funds are not doubling value every month as clearly you dream of, but they are holding to the averages, and that is alot better than many mutual funds that are managed by very smart people.
Our local record store just closed down, what a great shop it was too. Now this Amazon shop is coming, somehow I don't think it will exude the same charm that I got from our local shop. Hmm, I guess I should bought more records there and spent less time flirting with the cute girls behind the counter, darn.
But on another note, I wonder much kicking and screaming the record company execs did as they were being dragged by collars into this by the many smarter people around them?
You can really save money driving this thing. With it's 62 mile hydrogen range and its lease price of $3577 per month I figure I could hire a chauffeur with the money I save. Sign me up.
Computers should be able to give a much more unbiased assessment of the economy than any person ever could. People are essentially incapable of interpreting economic data in a straightforward way, political agendas always seem to work their way into economists opinions about the economy. By using algorithms to do the analysis (and allowing market forces to refine those algorithms), we should be able to get a much better understanding of the REAL economy.
This is a good thing for mankind.
Holy crap, the army is giving away a video game to simulate a modern style of warfare. Of course what they dont tell you is that you are in fact controlling a robo-cybo-soldier in the real war on "terror", a la Enders Game. Is anyone else not completely freaked out by just how Enders game this is?
1024x768 is THE standard, and it will be for some time. If you want your app to be usable to average joes, it better fit inside 1024x768. I found out the hard way when a customer called to ask why our app wouldnt fit inside their screen, I had an instant revelation that with those new shiny monitors we had bought everyone had developed on 1600x1200 and not even bothered to test on 1024x768. What a HUGE mistake that was... Nevermind that 1024x768 is very high resolution for a mobile device with a small screen.
The only thing a digital watermark could be useful for is authenticating a media file as an unaltered official release. It will never be useful for combating privacy except for only the dumbest users who do not cleanse the media files. Cleansing image files is trivial assumming you have access to free hardware/software (I guess thats the kicker). Cleansing music files is not much harder, and one can always simply re-record the music too, thats one avenue of DRM circumvention that will NEVER go away.
Please, stop wasting funding researching things that are blatantly obvious. The rest of us knew this already and we dont consider ourselves lucky that you were able to scientifically prove this. This reminds me of the graduate psychology experiment I was a subject for. They ended up proving that the majority of people in the downtown area on a friday night are drunk. Way-to-go guys!! When you feel like doing something difficult and/or actually contributing to society I have a computer system for you to optomize, thanks.
To all who are taking issue with the term "global warming"... do you live in the northern hemisphere? If yes, who buys your groceries because clearly you havent been outside in several years!!0 I live in Virginia, it is February, and yesterday I was sweating outside in a tshirt. I dont see how anyone can deny Global warming... its fucking hot outside! Have we already forgotten what winter used to feel like?