How does the practicality of getting legal pictures of the device have anything to do with it? If someone that isn't NDA'd gets a picture of a car, it's fair game. If someone who isn't NDA'd gets a picture of this tablet thing, then it's fair game. Legal action against the contest organizers just because it will be hard or impossible to actually collect on the prize is stupid, and missing the point.
Disagreeing with a post and pulling quotes from wikipedia does not automatically warrent an Insightful or Informative mod. The post must also actually be insightful or informative.
There are many levels of "system" when you are talking about cryptography. When talking about cryptography, saying "an encryption system" generally would not make people think of an application, but more likely the combination of ciphers involved, the key management, what mode the ciphers are in, etc. "Firefox" wouldn't really be called "an encryption system".
Let me clarify this: "that they are censoring" is still a very bad thing in my point of view, and probably a human rights issue. "what they are censoring" definetly makes it a human rights issue.
The comment I was responding to was critical of the "censoring == human rights issue", so I was reminding them that "what is being censored" is important to consider also.
You've never met a gentoo user have you? They compile kernels everywhere. You'll be having a conversation with one only to realize that he's currently compiling a kernel. It's like their drug or something.
I get furious with the DMCA, especially when it is abused for censorship purposes. I also have some very serious issues with the US government and what it is/has been doing. I have two short points to make though:
1) Actions taken by the US government do not excuse actions taken by the Chinese government. 2) You either have an incredibly warped sense of scale, or you are not very familar with the Chinese censorship program.
The GP accuses you of commiting a fallacy of scale, and I must say I agree.
Sure you can logically draw comparisons between the DMCA and chinese censorship laws, it's not particularly hard or imaginative. The problem is when you compare the two on equal grounds. One involves gross violations of basic human rights, the other involves less Brittany Spears remixes on youtube.
Don't get me wrong, I have strong moral issues with the US patent and copyright laws. But I have far greater issues with human rights violations, regardless of who commits them. Not all atrocities are created equal.
But trying to force the same kind of thinking you have to other people, especially to people in other cultures, just sickens me.
Call me crazy, but I don't excuse the things the Chinese government does just because they convinced their population that they should. If thinking that basic human rights are universal makes me an imperialistic American dog, then I am a proud imperialistic American dog.
Well according to this article, it seems the vast majority of your peers cannot even be irked to do that much. Blaming users for not knowing how to use software they were never given in the first place takes a special kind of jackass.
Also, password expire times are idiotic that probably do more to reduce password security than increase it.
This certainly is not the case. In fact, I don't know of any that do. Off the top of my head, AES, DES, RSA, RC4, and Blowfish do not, and those are the big guys. In fact, I would be very hesitant to trust any cipher that did do compression, as good ciphers should do one thing and one thing only, and if the security of the cipher relies on compression being applied beforehand, then there are some pretty serious issues with it.
Now, programs that implement cryptographic ciphers might apply compression before encryption, but these two functions are quite seperate from each other.
The reason you need to apply compression before encryption, incase anyone was wondering, is because both encryption and compression raise the entropy of a chunk of data. Compression algorithms work rather poorly on data with high entropy, but cryptographic ciphers don't care.
No no no, this was a bad idea entirely. Now if he does find someone, he won't be able to tell her "you're the only one", he just proved there are 25 other women he would like to be with!
200m is good enough for a lot of things. Including a few small things like general navigation.
Sailors used to use the stars, are you telling me that 200m is too inaccurate to get you back to port safetly? Hell, sailors used to do all of those things without GPS, as a backup system LORAN-C is great.
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How does the practicality of getting legal pictures of the device have anything to do with it? If someone that isn't NDA'd gets a picture of a car, it's fair game. If someone who isn't NDA'd gets a picture of this tablet thing, then it's fair game. Legal action against the contest organizers just because it will be hard or impossible to actually collect on the prize is stupid, and missing the point.
I completely agree. Personally I'm getting sick of all of these apple tablet articles that seem to get posted at least once every 5 hours.
Um yes... its good looking.
See what I did there? "good looking" is subjective and when you act like it's not you come off as a jackass.
Out of a cannon.
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Disagreeing with a post and pulling quotes from wikipedia does not automatically warrent an Insightful or Informative mod. The post must also actually be insightful or informative.
So because you found a single company stupid enough to use such terribly obsolete pieces of software, I have to change how I test my product?
This is what is wrong with web development, in a nutshell.
Seriously.
Why should whales get dibs on the whole ocean.
Can I sue you for putting a curse on me? I am firmly convinced that you are a witch.
Even if that is not actually the case, I mentally suffered while thinking so.
There are many levels of "system" when you are talking about cryptography. When talking about cryptography, saying "an encryption system" generally would not make people think of an application, but more likely the combination of ciphers involved, the key management, what mode the ciphers are in, etc. "Firefox" wouldn't really be called "an encryption system".
Let me clarify this: "that they are censoring" is still a very bad thing in my point of view, and probably a human rights issue. "what they are censoring" definetly makes it a human rights issue.
The comment I was responding to was critical of the "censoring == human rights issue", so I was reminding them that "what is being censored" is important to consider also.
You've never met a gentoo user have you? They compile kernels everywhere. You'll be having a conversation with one only to realize that he's currently compiling a kernel. It's like their drug or something.
Who the hell is modding everything -1 Troll? There are way more than 5 posts unjustly modded so it's not just some single jackass.
Tempting... so tempting.
I get furious with the DMCA, especially when it is abused for censorship purposes. I also have some very serious issues with the US government and what it is/has been doing. I have two short points to make though:
1) Actions taken by the US government do not excuse actions taken by the Chinese government.
2) You either have an incredibly warped sense of scale, or you are not very familar with the Chinese censorship program.
It is not "that they are censoring", it is "what they are censoring" that gets human rights violations involved.
If google censored websites about Gitmo for the US government, I would be equally inflamed.
The GP accuses you of commiting a fallacy of scale, and I must say I agree.
Sure you can logically draw comparisons between the DMCA and chinese censorship laws, it's not particularly hard or imaginative. The problem is when you compare the two on equal grounds. One involves gross violations of basic human rights, the other involves less Brittany Spears remixes on youtube.
Don't get me wrong, I have strong moral issues with the US patent and copyright laws. But I have far greater issues with human rights violations, regardless of who commits them. Not all atrocities are created equal.
Call me crazy, but I don't excuse the things the Chinese government does just because they convinced their population that they should. If thinking that basic human rights are universal makes me an imperialistic American dog, then I am a proud imperialistic American dog.
Sometimes, avoiding a question provides are all the answer you need.
If he can make that work without being incredibly rich, more power to him ;)
Well according to this article, it seems the vast majority of your peers cannot even be irked to do that much. Blaming users for not knowing how to use software they were never given in the first place takes a special kind of jackass.
Also, password expire times are idiotic that probably do more to reduce password security than increase it.
This certainly is not the case. In fact, I don't know of any that do. Off the top of my head, AES, DES, RSA, RC4, and Blowfish do not, and those are the big guys. In fact, I would be very hesitant to trust any cipher that did do compression, as good ciphers should do one thing and one thing only, and if the security of the cipher relies on compression being applied beforehand, then there are some pretty serious issues with it.
Now, programs that implement cryptographic ciphers might apply compression before encryption, but these two functions are quite seperate from each other.
The reason you need to apply compression before encryption, incase anyone was wondering, is because both encryption and compression raise the entropy of a chunk of data. Compression algorithms work rather poorly on data with high entropy, but cryptographic ciphers don't care.
No no no, this was a bad idea entirely. Now if he does find someone, he won't be able to tell her "you're the only one", he just proved there are 25 other women he would like to be with!
That is why you always apply compression before encryption. Not exactly rocket science.
I also get 5% of the reliability of a T1 line I guess?
I wish...
Whenever I see those used, it's generally with files that are already compressed anyways. Seems like it's just adding overhead and complication.
200m is good enough for a lot of things. Including a few small things like general navigation.
Sailors used to use the stars, are you telling me that 200m is too inaccurate to get you back to port safetly? Hell, sailors used to do all of those things without GPS, as a backup system LORAN-C is great.