Can you really call Mepis a major distro and keep a straight face though? I personally know several people that use either fedora, debian, ubuntu, gentoo, opensuse, or even arch. I don't think I've ever met or heard of a single Mepis user though.
Really, because I'm pretty sure his argument was a fairly good one, and I don't see how you comment did anything to counter:
The purpose of the sensors is to keep tabs to see whether you behaved well with the phone. It's a secret device (to most people) that can only be used against you to Apple's advantage. It demonstrates a lack of trust and good faith on the part of Apple.
Making a weak counterpoint is not excusable, no matter how weak you think the original point was.
If a single student out of the hundreds left their laptop open and running just a single day out of however many days the laptops were in use while changing their clothing, then we have a child pornography issue. That is hardly an absurd conclusion to jump to.
I should have specified: 256 bit symmetric key cipher keys cannot be brute forced.
You can brute force a public key cipher key of much larger size because given the public key, the private key is mathematically deducable. In the real world nobody uses less than a 1024 bit RSA key, though those are only expected to be good for a handful of more years. 2048 and 4096 are not going to fall anytime soon, though quantum computing will obsolete RSA entirely.
Common misconceptions. It is indeed possible to have perfect cryptography (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad), encryption time does not scale with encryption strength as you might expect, and modern ciphers with reasonably long keys are very fast, and are not expected to be broken anytime in the near future. Brute forcing a 256bit key is impossible in this universe with the laws of physics as we know them, and DES has been around for over 30 years now with no major breakthroughs. Using AES-256 you could probably encrypt several dozen books in a handful of minutes and reasonably expect it to remain secure until a significant cryptoanalysis of AES occured, something that it seems is not likely to happen.
If software in general were like cryptography, we would be in much better shape...
If you are 60 years old, had haved worked in 20 different shops, then you have averaged something like one new shop every 2 years. Perhaps it's not my place to say it, but there might be something else wrong here...
Are you saying the the Opium Wars an argument for government involvement in enterprise? The East India Trading company is practically the freaking poster child of why mixing business with politicians is going to end badly. You are more cold-hearted than me...
Ok, that makes much more sense with the rest of your comment...
I still can't say I agree with your message though, privacy is possible, and it is a respectable enough goal, but people who are unwilling to make sacrifices like the OP will never get it, for obvious reasons.
This obviously sucks for the people involved, but I can't help but feel this is actually superb news. Maybe this will finaly drive home that the ability to jailbreak your devices does not excuse manufactures for making locked-down closed devices. Far too often I've heard arguments of the form: "[DEVICES] are not locked down, because you can jailbreak them if you want to."
Gold also doesn't corrode, making it quite useful in some applications. Gold would not become worthless if we had lots of it, any more than iron or silicon are worthless.
Now diamonds, they would become rather worthless if they didn't have an (artificial) rarity. Diamonds in industry are generally manafactured anyways.
If you go through the official bug reporting channels and file the bug with a projects bug tracking system, after confirming that it is not a duplicate, it is generally quite easy to file bug reports for open source projects, generally with absolutely no hassle whatsoever. I've done it many times.
When you are 'reporting a bug' by getting on slashdot and enumerating the reasons that you prefer photoshop to the gimp, that is the sort of scenario in which open source projects don't take you seriously.
Solving it is worthless if they can't convince anybody to actually use the fix. I'm complaining about their complete inability to get people to upgrade, so we don't have to make workarounds for a nearly decade old operating system anymore.
In the vast majority of cases paper comes from trees from tree farms that have existed for generations. Why? Because land is not cheap. It's more economical to reuse land and plant new trees then it is to cut down old forests and plant new trees. The tail of the disappearing forest is a modern myth.
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Can you really call Mepis a major distro and keep a straight face though? I personally know several people that use either fedora, debian, ubuntu, gentoo, opensuse, or even arch. I don't think I've ever met or heard of a single Mepis user though.
With crap this obscure and complicated Windows will never be ready for the desktop.
Really, because I'm pretty sure his argument was a fairly good one, and I don't see how you comment did anything to counter:
Making a weak counterpoint is not excusable, no matter how weak you think the original point was.
Wow, that is a pretty convincing argument you've got there.
If a single student out of the hundreds left their laptop open and running just a single day out of however many days the laptops were in use while changing their clothing, then we have a child pornography issue. That is hardly an absurd conclusion to jump to.
I should have specified: 256 bit symmetric key cipher keys cannot be brute forced.
You can brute force a public key cipher key of much larger size because given the public key, the private key is mathematically deducable. In the real world nobody uses less than a 1024 bit RSA key, though those are only expected to be good for a handful of more years. 2048 and 4096 are not going to fall anytime soon, though quantum computing will obsolete RSA entirely.
If it's too small for you maybe you should try, I don't know, increasing it's size?
Not exactly rocket science dude.
Common misconceptions. It is indeed possible to have perfect cryptography (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad), encryption time does not scale with encryption strength as you might expect, and modern ciphers with reasonably long keys are very fast, and are not expected to be broken anytime in the near future. Brute forcing a 256bit key is impossible in this universe with the laws of physics as we know them, and DES has been around for over 30 years now with no major breakthroughs. Using AES-256 you could probably encrypt several dozen books in a handful of minutes and reasonably expect it to remain secure until a significant cryptoanalysis of AES occured, something that it seems is not likely to happen.
If software in general were like cryptography, we would be in much better shape...
Sure sounds good. Need a light?
If you are 60 years old, had haved worked in 20 different shops, then you have averaged something like one new shop every 2 years. Perhaps it's not my place to say it, but there might be something else wrong here...
Says the homosexual hating mormon. You have no right to call other people bigots when your group is the biggest group of bigots in the room.
I say we let Texas invade Utah, then let them both secede.
Whoa whoa whoa...
Are you saying the the Opium Wars an argument for government involvement in enterprise? The East India Trading company is practically the freaking poster child of why mixing business with politicians is going to end badly. You are more cold-hearted than me...
If something is economically sound, it need not the support of politicians.
Ok, that makes much more sense with the rest of your comment...
I still can't say I agree with your message though, privacy is possible, and it is a respectable enough goal, but people who are unwilling to make sacrifices like the OP will never get it, for obvious reasons.
This obviously sucks for the people involved, but I can't help but feel this is actually superb news. Maybe this will finaly drive home that the ability to jailbreak your devices does not excuse manufactures for making locked-down closed devices. Far too often I've heard arguments of the form: "[DEVICES] are not locked down, because you can jailbreak them if you want to."
Gold also doesn't corrode, making it quite useful in some applications. Gold would not become worthless if we had lots of it, any more than iron or silicon are worthless.
Now diamonds, they would become rather worthless if they didn't have an (artificial) rarity. Diamonds in industry are generally manafactured anyways.
Speak for yourself, not all geeks share your defeatism.
If you go through the official bug reporting channels and file the bug with a projects bug tracking system, after confirming that it is not a duplicate, it is generally quite easy to file bug reports for open source projects, generally with absolutely no hassle whatsoever. I've done it many times.
When you are 'reporting a bug' by getting on slashdot and enumerating the reasons that you prefer photoshop to the gimp, that is the sort of scenario in which open source projects don't take you seriously.
Not that I disagree with your message, but with such convoluted logic I could probably arrive at cat == dog.
Solving it is worthless if they can't convince anybody to actually use the fix. I'm complaining about their complete inability to get people to upgrade, so we don't have to make workarounds for a nearly decade old operating system anymore.
I'm asserting that for all intents and purposes, Microsoft has not solved this problem. If they had then the drives wouldn't need to fake 512 sectors.
Whose fault is it that the majority of Windows users are still using Windows XP?
Nobody's but Microsofts. Microsoft is the reason this shit situation exists.
What is your definition of exact? If you are too exact then suddenly we no longer know the momentum of the monument, and it will fly away!
In the vast majority of cases paper comes from trees from tree farms that have existed for generations. Why? Because land is not cheap. It's more economical to reuse land and plant new trees then it is to cut down old forests and plant new trees. The tail of the disappearing forest is a modern myth.