"There is no security model that protects against a scenario where the intended recipient is the attacker" or something?
Plausible deniability has at least been achieved with OTR, but for DRM this concept remains as valid as ever.
Unless computer chips come sealed in tamper-proof self-destructive foam, and opening a computer case or building circuit boards without authorization is declared a felony. I suppose that could work... for a while.
The Magician of the Ivory Tower brought his latest invention for the master programmer to examine. The magician wheeled a large black box into the master's office while the master waited in silence.
"This is an integrated, distributed, general-purpose workstation," began the magician, "ergonomically designed with a proprietary operating system, sixth generation languages, and multiple state of the art user interfaces. It took my assistants several hundred man years to construct. Is it not amazing?"
The master raised his eyebrows slightly. "It is indeed amazing," he said.
"Corporate Headquarters has commanded," continued the magician, "that everyone use this workstation as a platform for new programs. Do you agree to this?"
"Certainly," replied the master, "I will have it transported to the data center immediately!" And the magician returned to his tower, well pleased.
Several days later, a novice wandered into the office of the master programmer and said, ``I cannot find the listing for my new program. Do you know where it might be?''
"Yes," replied the master, "the listings are stacked on the platform in the data center."
Well, that's one reason why those passwords aren't sent in clear. Breaking into someone's email account to get access to a forum/blog/website account is relatively easy - preventing them from catching on is hard to impossible.
Another security feature is to force you to leave your account unused for a week, to make sure the account is really not accessible. Few sites actually use it, unfortunately (Gmail does) - it's a substantial convenience trade-off, and people always value convenience above security.
"You have sent an email to Emily. 6 people like this. 3 people have left a comment:"
"Frank has sent/received 26/20 emails to/from your friend Tom, 20/23 with your friend Megan, 15/12 with your friend John. Your social graph proximity is therefore 45.1. Click here to add Frank to your friend list and read his emails."
A new home computer sells for roughly $800 here - used, it's worth less than half that before the year is out, because the tech becomes obsolete so fast. Factor in the stolen-goods, no-questions-asked discount, and a thief would have a hard time getting more than $100 for it.
<alice> Bob? <alice> Hey Bob! <bob> Oh, hey <bob> Sorry, was sucking a cock <bob> Oh, I mean, I was afk <alice>... <bob> The keys are right next to each other!
Noone's foolish enough to leave their name at the scene of a robbery, surely?
Seriously?
Your faith in the intelligence of humanity, particularly the segment of it that steals, is astounding. Look up the story of the bank robber who wrote his threatening note on the back of his account statement, or the (I think) convenience store robber who left his wallet on the counter.
There is an ELEVATED risk of the Department of Homeland Security being morons. A constant state of vigilance is advised to guard against erosion of civil liberties and constitutional rights.
Yeah. I often get combinations like "WORD vjfkjsmxs" or worse, "WORD [illegible smudge]".
I tend to simply put a dash for the smudge. They're not using that word to verify, after all, they just want to know what it says. So I tell them, "nothing". Likely, they'll get a lot of different results for it, and if the scoring algorithm is good it will eventually determine the word is illegible (or at least show it to a moderator of some kind).
No she couldn't, because you don't look at a dashboard all the time. It's a polling, query-based information source. The touch sense is passive, and the sensor becomes a background awareness.
With sufficient resolution (and after a lot of training) the sense of direction might be able to reach the same level as the balance organ in the ear.
Then that phenomenon seems not specific to internal maps, and rather generally applicable to communication. Men tend to formulate the thought in abstract semantics, and women express it the way they think it.
I'm male and navigate by landmarks the second or third time I go anywhere. It's just more effective to memorize bridges and buildings than street signs.
That's internal, though. I do have trouble making sense of directions when I haven't seen the landmarks before.
"Make a left by the tall building and drive till you see the convenience store."
"Which street is that? Does it go north or east?"
"Just make a left, it's the tallest building around."
"What's more important, the data or the jazz? Sure, sure, 'Information should be free' and all that --but anyone can set information free. The jazz is in how you do it, what you do it to, and in almost getting caught without getting caught. The data is 1's and 0's. Life is the jazz."
Because it's normal for rodents to eat everything, even paper. And because cheese is a very strong-smelling food, so the mice probably find it before anything else.
Also, without humans the rats and mice who live in cities would have a hard time, since they're adapted to living off our scraps.
Fuck, who cares about some stupid Flash and desktop performance? When will I finally be able to install Linux on my 8192-core computer, that's what *I* want to know.:P
This rocks, though. My laptop stutters when I have Pidgin, Firefox and Thunderbird running at the same time; I hope that I will see a much smoother X performance with this next version.
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Jumping in and blithering about how this disproves global warming.
Guys, we have had climate cycles and ice ages here on Earth as well. They're normal. Global warming is not the same thing.
"There is no security model that protects against a scenario where the intended recipient is the attacker" or something?
Plausible deniability has at least been achieved with OTR, but for DRM this concept remains as valid as ever.
Unless computer chips come sealed in tamper-proof self-destructive foam, and opening a computer case or building circuit boards without authorization is declared a felony. I suppose that could work... for a while.
The Magician of the Ivory Tower brought his latest invention for the master programmer to examine. The magician wheeled a large black box into the master's office while the master waited in silence.
"This is an integrated, distributed, general-purpose workstation," began the magician, "ergonomically designed with a proprietary operating system, sixth generation languages, and multiple state of the art user interfaces. It took my assistants several hundred man years to construct. Is it not amazing?"
The master raised his eyebrows slightly. "It is indeed amazing," he said.
"Corporate Headquarters has commanded," continued the magician, "that everyone use this workstation as a platform for new programs. Do you agree to this?"
"Certainly," replied the master, "I will have it transported to the data center immediately!" And the magician returned to his tower, well pleased.
Several days later, a novice wandered into the office of the master programmer and said, ``I cannot find the listing for my new program. Do you know where it might be?''
"Yes," replied the master, "the listings are stacked on the platform in the data center."
-- The Tao of Programming
Well, that's one reason why those passwords aren't sent in clear. Breaking into someone's email account to get access to a forum/blog/website account is relatively easy - preventing them from catching on is hard to impossible.
Another security feature is to force you to leave your account unused for a week, to make sure the account is really not accessible. Few sites actually use it, unfortunately (Gmail does) - it's a substantial convenience trade-off, and people always value convenience above security.
"You have sent an email to Emily. 6 people like this. 3 people have left a comment:"
"Frank has sent/received 26/20 emails to/from your friend Tom, 20/23 with your friend Megan, 15/12 with your friend John. Your social graph proximity is therefore 45.1. Click here to add Frank to your friend list and read his emails."
People would love it! :P
A new home computer sells for roughly $800 here - used, it's worth less than half that before the year is out, because the tech becomes obsolete so fast. Factor in the stolen-goods, no-questions-asked discount, and a thief would have a hard time getting more than $100 for it.
Then it'd point up towards the Northeast, and look even more phallic. The Boner or America!
Probably not a great idea.
<alice> Bob? ...
<alice> Hey Bob!
<bob> Oh, hey
<bob> Sorry, was sucking a cock
<bob> Oh, I mean, I was afk
<alice>
<bob> The keys are right next to each other!
Seriously?
Your faith in the intelligence of humanity, particularly the segment of it that steals, is astounding. Look up the story of the bank robber who wrote his threatening note on the back of his account statement, or the (I think) convenience store robber who left his wallet on the counter.
People are stupid enough. :P
There is an ELEVATED risk of the Department of Homeland Security being morons. A constant state of vigilance is advised to guard against erosion of civil liberties and constitutional rights.
Yeah. I often get combinations like "WORD vjfkjsmxs" or worse, "WORD [illegible smudge]".
I tend to simply put a dash for the smudge. They're not using that word to verify, after all, they just want to know what it says. So I tell them, "nothing". Likely, they'll get a lot of different results for it, and if the scoring algorithm is good it will eventually determine the word is illegible (or at least show it to a moderator of some kind).
Well, if that's the only problem why doesn't he just plant some non-organic garlic instead?
On a clear day.
No she couldn't, because you don't look at a dashboard all the time. It's a polling, query-based information source. The touch sense is passive, and the sensor becomes a background awareness.
With sufficient resolution (and after a lot of training) the sense of direction might be able to reach the same level as the balance organ in the ear.
Then that phenomenon seems not specific to internal maps, and rather generally applicable to communication. Men tend to formulate the thought in abstract semantics, and women express it the way they think it.
I'm male and navigate by landmarks the second or third time I go anywhere. It's just more effective to memorize bridges and buildings than street signs.
That's internal, though. I do have trouble making sense of directions when I haven't seen the landmarks before.
"Make a left by the tall building and drive till you see the convenience store."
"Which street is that? Does it go north or east?"
"Just make a left, it's the tallest building around."
"FFS!"
Perhaps the highway has a non-Euclidean geometry? We have those around here, too. :P
You're sitting in front of a computer-brain interface. :P
"But will they run Linux?"
Yes, but since they're not trains I'm afraid they'll have trouble running Ruby on Rails.
(Ouch.)
Now they just need a colony pod and they're set!
"What's more important, the data or the jazz? Sure, sure, 'Information should be free' and all that --but anyone can set information free. The jazz is in how you do it, what you do it to, and in almost getting caught without getting caught.
The data is 1's and 0's. Life is the jazz."
-- Datatech Sinder Roze,
"Infobop"
Because it's normal for rodents to eat everything, even paper. And because cheese is a very strong-smelling food, so the mice probably find it before anything else.
Also, without humans the rats and mice who live in cities would have a hard time, since they're adapted to living off our scraps.
Or how do the bacteria survive in this environment?
(I for one welcome our radioactive, mutated metal-disassembling bacteria overlords!)
Where the postal carriage was pitted against the semaphore tower.
And the semaphore company had /exactly/ the same "shoddy/overpriced" rep.
Why compare Chrome's development channel with Firefox stable?
Particularly as Firefox 3.6alpha has improved performance, so it actually makes a difference which version you test.
Fuck, who cares about some stupid Flash and desktop performance? When will I finally be able to install Linux on my 8192-core computer, that's what *I* want to know. :P
This rocks, though. My laptop stutters when I have Pidgin, Firefox and Thunderbird running at the same time; I hope that I will see a much smoother X performance with this next version.