Also, let's not forget that of the over 1000 patents Tesla has been awarded, most of them... roughly 75%... are still classified secret. This is quite the nursery for conspiracy.
The amount of crackpottery surrounding Tesla is roughly 75% of his actual accomplishments.
I would ask for a credible citation but I know the drill "classified" "secret"... HAARP is watching U.
Production of O3 that protects us from UV. I think that is a big one.
What an idiot and asshole you are. Pretending to be somebody that knows something of science. You remind me of another troll (flyinwhitey, ifwm and a few other logins that that idiot had).
This is not correct. O3 in the stratosphere is produced by UV-B splitting oxygen.
O3 produced by lightning never gets anywhere near the stratosphere. Mostly stuck on the surface where exposure can be harmful to humans.
Last time I checked we are ALL clueless idiots. Disparging others is like a bunch of retards arguing over who is the smarter retard.
I have it on good authority the chinese shall soon be seeking to propogate an order 66 TLV throughout BGP after which control of the minds of the entire worlds population are instantly placed under direct control of the chinese empire.
TSMC has been secretly injecting mind control antennas in a secret metal layer of every chip they've stamped over the last decade just waiting for the command... Huawei, ZTE and Lenovo are just the tip of the iceburg. We are already doomed..their antennas are in every recent device with a processor on the planet. All of the tools that can be used to detect them were the first to have been compromised.
Most secure sites we normally depend on require you to establish an account. Rather than sending our passwords in the "clear" over SSL as everyone is foolishly doing today couldn't part of this problem be solved using trust previously established between you and the site in the form of mutually authenticated credentials?
The best case example would be an online banking site first requiring you to physically come into the office with proper ID. There would no longer be any need for this bank to need to trust or use any third party.
TLS-SRP RFCs have already been written, SSL stacks used by all popular browsers already patched with support... obviously this does not fully eliminate the need for trusted third parties.
"How can two government agencies be so at odds at whatâ(TM)s going on here? Did the fusion center screw up, or is the fusion center being thrown under the bus?â commented Joe Weiss, the security expert who discovered the initial Fusion Center report and reported on it. âoeThereâ(TM)s a lot of black and white stuff in that report. Either there is or there isnâ(TM)t a Russian IP address in there. Itâ(TM)s hard to miss that."
One explanation could be their ras computer was one of millions which happened to be part of a random botnet army.
Someone looking into what had happened incorrectly linked their problem to discovery of the botnet. Not unlike blaiming the compiler, cosmic rays, the rain...etc..it was a knee jerk by someone lacking intelligence to follow thru with a proper investigation.
The "apparently" reference in regards to hacked vendors password lists also red flagged in my mind that the morons managing the system were just pulling magic unicorns outta their asses and had no clue what was going on.
Whenever there are fillers with unrelated incidents (hacker confessions) which seek to establish a trend in the readers mind that is a good time to make sure the trusty ole BS meter is still working.
And I'm serious. While not as versatile towards own-hosted solutions as the old Windows Mobiles, it's still light years beyond Android and iOS. You can easily use your own Exchange server to sync and share your contacts, calendar and other stuff, which gives you true privacy. It also doesn't leak data to Google like Android does, it doesn't have the malware problem that Android has and the phone itself is a full smart phone with an great UI (Windows Mobile somewhat started lacking in this in recent years).
I disagree with this assessment for the following reasons.
1. There is no way to prevent the phone from being polled via SMS to get realtime current phones location. MS has the *capability* to track every WP7 phone at any time and there is no way for the user to prevent it.
2. There is no way to opt out of send my location to Microsoft if I want to use the GPS. If I want to use mapping application locally and NOT have my position sent to a Microsoft server I'm SOL there is no way to do that.
3. There is no reasonable way to even sync a database of local contacts from a PC to WP7. You have to use their *cloud* service which means all of your contacts are sent to a Microsoft server. Unacceptable. Installing exchange is obviously not an option for the average user.
The WP7 platform is perhaps the most sane in terms of security and platform development however it is just as crappy as the rest of them in terms of privacy.
All of the major smartphone OS vendors want everything you do to be connected even when there is no reason for it. They all see value in pushing their connected shit on you.
The half life of Plutonium-238 is 87.7 years, its got two computers and some redundancy in wheels and comm.
Assuming everything is in working order upon landing how long can it last? The NASA material says it has a two year mission. Does anyone know what NASA's guess is? Could it still be doing useful work in 20 years time?
Yeah, all SCADA systems should use ssh-quality authentication, but in the meantime we have millions of units deployed that need to be secured.
I don't want brown turds floating in my water cause the "leap of faith" failed coupled with lack of crypto binding between session and user credentials.
Hey, maybe I should market the pfSense firewalls I sell as SCADA secure access controllers...:P
This, on the other hand, is not true. Plenty of things have no physical reality: like abstract concepts. There is no physical quantity of "good" or "evil", for example. There's not even a physical quantity of "red" (not counting the unrelated color charge from QED). There are physical properties that make things red, but "redness" is not by itself physical.
One class of things that is not physically real is probability distributions. They describe information we possess about a real quantities, but the distribution itself is not real. They're common in statistical mechanics as well.
I agree it is an uninteresting tautology just like TFA which was actually my point when I said this question itself is pointless and not worth thinking about in the same way untestable hidden variable theories are not worth thinking about.
The rest of this boils down to word games . I assert concepts are not things. Dillusions of man, redness, distributions...etc are all concepts and not things. Therefore they are not real things.
The wave function provides universal consistancy, OTP sources for quantum cryptography and qbits. The process exists in objective reality independent of human attempts to describe it.
What good does it do to discriminate whether a human concept which predicts reality is a reflection of reality? There are less confusing ways to refine theories to be useful to us than playing word games in spaces that are ultimatly untestable and threfore pointless to occupy.
You're a total moron who obviously doesn't know the first thing about philosophy.
What has philosophy brought us? Formal and symbolic logic, science, mathematics... just for starters!
Fuck, look at you talking about Plato and Descartes like they're the be-all end-all of philosophical thought! (Fuck again, you don't even understand them! How sad is that?)
Why does every idiot think they know everything about philosophy? It's a complex discipline that extraordinarily rigorous and is heavy on the math. It's not a loose collection of empty pontifications -- that's slashdot.
What is with all these people running around spewing facts others figured out long before they were even born, modding down statements they don't agree with and flaunting their neon encrusted everyone but myself is an idiot sign?
What does calling other people idiots or otherwise disparaging them say about yourself?
Everything is physically real. Stored Information is physically real. Concluding something is physically real says nothing useful about what it is or its properties.
I would rather write on a real piece of paper than scribble notes on a computer emulating pieces of paper.
I would rather use a laptop with a real keyboard than scribble notes on real or virtual pieces of paper. Hint hint you can easily touch type without having to look at a computer screen.
Also think of the lecturer... Most are annoyed by armies of glowing displays in their field of view. Laptop displays are oriented in such a way this is not a problem.
Tablets are ususally the wrong tool for the job if you intend to be productive.
This is the entire business plan of these new TLDs. My company currently pays around $20k/year to pay for domains (and local presences in countries where that is required) that we never use, just to protect ourselves.
What we really need is a free (or extremely cheap) option to block domains from being registered if there is a valid trademark. Of course, this would eliminate the profit motive of introducing new TLDs, so it would stop happening.
This is something that needs legislation to solve.
This is a nonstarter. In US trademarks are domain and location specific. There is really no global grant to use a name. Add to that every country has their own trademark regimes.
Allowing lawyers to play with domains on an international basis is a waste of everyones time and money.
I would rather have a battery catch fire than a CNG fuel tank explode. There have been craters left where those vechicle used to be.
Electric vechicles are like SSD's. They cost more, have less range, limited (write) recharge cycles and reliability issues are still being worked through as the technology is new.
Even as I reject and poke fun of the technology in its current state...there is no denying it is the future.
How long till we see a Zeta member strung up from a bridge with a note pinned to him warning of more to come for attacking others?
Sorry but the only ways you can put these dogs down is to either get the governments involved (Both US and Mexican) or to become a bigger monster than they are, beat them at their own game, and have them be scared to admit any affiliation with them or any Drug Cartel to the point they can no longer operate.
The unemployment line works too. Take away the demand and cartels melt away all by themselves.
It used to be every time I ran firefox it would download and install a security fix.
Now every time I run firefox it installs whole new versions.
Seriously settle down guys or at least reweight your versioning system so it seems less scary. Your frightening a lot of people who assume you have all gone batshit.
Linux is the best for routing packets but my desktop experience has always ended in disaster including lockups, x-server crashes, kernel panics, weird artifacts, crappy software which only superfically looks like office..and no choices beyond what software is packaged with the thing.
The lack of proper font processing burns my eyes. Antialiasing is crap. Printing is a joke.
Apple is irrelevent because I build my own gear the way that I want it and OSX will not run on it.
In my opinion the article is trolling. It makes a presupposition there is some universal need or desire to switch from what your currently using. Operating systems are *commodities*. Use what works and ignore the trolls and fanboys.
There is no credible evidence anyone has the faintest idea how to build a scalable QC.
Noone can currently credibly approach the question of whether it is possible such a computer could exist.
If the question is how can one develop a strategy to deal with an unknowable future. One half answer is crypto agility however this will not protect prior communications.
A better ancient solution is to exchange a few gigs of quality thermal noise with your pals. Enough OTP for years of text and voice conversations. No quantum computer, genius or three letter agency EVER stands any hope of breaking that.
Obviously preventing a TLA from breaking you and your pals is a much harder problem to solve than keeping your secrets safe on an unfriendly wire.
It looks like the initial deployments will only support recent Windows and recent OS X releases. Let me know when they take the blinders off their tech support people so that Linux folks can set their OpenWRT gateways and Linux servers up with IPv6.
I must not be getting all of my memos. Since when do we call our ISPs for help configuring our Linux systems?
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Also, let's not forget that of the over 1000 patents Tesla has been awarded, most of them... roughly 75%... are still classified secret. This is quite the nursery for conspiracy.
The amount of crackpottery surrounding Tesla is roughly 75% of his actual accomplishments.
I would ask for a credible citation but I know the drill "classified" "secret" ... HAARP is watching U.
Well, lets see:
Production of O3 that protects us from UV. I think that is a big one.
What an idiot and asshole you are. Pretending to be somebody that knows something of science. You remind me of another troll (flyinwhitey, ifwm and a few other logins that that idiot had).
This is not correct. O3 in the stratosphere is produced by UV-B splitting oxygen.
O3 produced by lightning never gets anywhere near the stratosphere. Mostly stuck on the surface where exposure can be harmful to humans.
Last time I checked we are ALL clueless idiots. Disparging others is like a bunch of retards arguing over who is the smarter retard.
I don't understand what they hope to figure out beyond what we've all known for a hundred years.
If you don't want to be zapped make sure your not charged or the best path to ground and you have nothing to worry about.
I have it on good authority the chinese shall soon be seeking to propogate an order 66 TLV throughout BGP after which control of the minds of the entire worlds population are instantly placed under direct control of the chinese empire.
TSMC has been secretly injecting mind control antennas in a secret metal layer of every chip they've stamped over the last decade just waiting for the command... Huawei, ZTE and Lenovo are just the tip of the iceburg. We are already doomed..their antennas are in every recent device with a processor on the planet. All of the tools that can be used to detect them were the first to have been compromised.
Most secure sites we normally depend on require you to establish an account. Rather than sending our passwords in the "clear" over SSL as everyone is foolishly doing today couldn't part of this problem be solved using trust previously established between you and the site in the form of mutually authenticated credentials?
The best case example would be an online banking site first requiring you to physically come into the office with proper ID. There would no longer be any need for this bank to need to trust or use any third party.
TLS-SRP RFCs have already been written, SSL stacks used by all popular browsers already patched with support... obviously this does not fully eliminate the need for trusted third parties.
"How can two government agencies be so at odds at whatâ(TM)s going on here? Did the fusion center screw up, or is the fusion center being thrown under the bus?â commented Joe Weiss, the security expert who discovered the initial Fusion Center report and reported on it. âoeThereâ(TM)s a lot of black and white stuff in that report. Either there is or there isnâ(TM)t a Russian IP address in there. Itâ(TM)s hard to miss that."
One explanation could be their ras computer was one of millions which happened to be part of a random botnet army.
Someone looking into what had happened incorrectly linked their problem to discovery of the botnet. Not unlike blaiming the compiler, cosmic rays, the rain...etc..it was a knee jerk by someone lacking intelligence to follow thru with a proper investigation.
The "apparently" reference in regards to hacked vendors password lists also red flagged in my mind that the morons managing the system were just pulling magic unicorns outta their asses and had no clue what was going on.
Whenever there are fillers with unrelated incidents (hacker confessions) which seek to establish a trend in the readers mind that is a good time to make sure the trusty ole BS meter is still working.
And I'm serious. While not as versatile towards own-hosted solutions as the old Windows Mobiles, it's still light years beyond Android and iOS. You can easily use your own Exchange server to sync and share your contacts, calendar and other stuff, which gives you true privacy. It also doesn't leak data to Google like Android does, it doesn't have the malware problem that Android has and the phone itself is a full smart phone with an great UI (Windows Mobile somewhat started lacking in this in recent years).
I disagree with this assessment for the following reasons.
1. There is no way to prevent the phone from being polled via SMS to get realtime current phones location. MS has the *capability* to track every WP7 phone at any time and there is no way for the user to prevent it.
2. There is no way to opt out of send my location to Microsoft if I want to use the GPS. If I want to use mapping application locally and NOT have my position sent to a Microsoft server I'm SOL there is no way to do that.
3. There is no reasonable way to even sync a database of local contacts from a PC to WP7. You have to use their *cloud* service which means all of your contacts are sent to a Microsoft server. Unacceptable. Installing exchange is obviously not an option for the average user.
The WP7 platform is perhaps the most sane in terms of security and platform development however it is just as crappy as the rest of them in terms of privacy.
All of the major smartphone OS vendors want everything you do to be connected even when there is no reason for it. They all see value in pushing their connected shit on you.
The half life of Plutonium-238 is 87.7 years, its got two computers and some redundancy in wheels and comm.
Assuming everything is in working order upon landing how long can it last? The NASA material says it has a two year mission. Does anyone know what NASA's guess is? Could it still be doing useful work in 20 years time?
Yeah, all SCADA systems should use ssh-quality authentication, but in the meantime we have millions of units deployed that need to be secured.
I don't want brown turds floating in my water cause the "leap of faith" failed coupled with lack of crypto binding between session and user credentials.
Hey, maybe I should market the pfSense firewalls I sell as SCADA secure access controllers... :P
Maybe you shouldn't.
Use biometrics instead of a password.
Your system unlocks via your foreign friend's iris, which you get via his smartphone's camera
Horrible advice. Most biometric scanners have lower entropy than a good password.
Proving yourself or people you know/like are tied to a device is also legally a brain dead move.
Everything is physically real.
This, on the other hand, is not true. Plenty of things have no physical reality: like abstract concepts. There is no physical quantity of "good" or "evil", for example. There's not even a physical quantity of "red" (not counting the unrelated color charge from QED). There are physical properties that make things red, but "redness" is not by itself physical.
One class of things that is not physically real is probability distributions. They describe information we possess about a real quantities, but the distribution itself is not real. They're common in statistical mechanics as well.
I agree it is an uninteresting tautology just like TFA which was actually my point when I said this question itself is pointless and not worth thinking about in the same way untestable hidden variable theories are not worth thinking about.
The rest of this boils down to word games . I assert concepts are not things. Dillusions of man, redness, distributions...etc are all concepts and not things. Therefore they are not real things.
The wave function provides universal consistancy, OTP sources for quantum cryptography and qbits. The process exists in objective reality independent of human attempts to describe it.
What good does it do to discriminate whether a human concept which predicts reality is a reflection of reality? There are less confusing ways to refine theories to be useful to us than playing word games in spaces that are ultimatly untestable and threfore pointless to occupy.
You're a total moron who obviously doesn't know the first thing about philosophy.
What has philosophy brought us? Formal and symbolic logic, science, mathematics ... just for starters!
Fuck, look at you talking about Plato and Descartes like they're the be-all end-all of philosophical thought! (Fuck again, you don't even understand them! How sad is that?)
Why does every idiot think they know everything about philosophy? It's a complex discipline that extraordinarily rigorous and is heavy on the math. It's not a loose collection of empty pontifications -- that's slashdot.
What is with all these people running around spewing facts others figured out long before they were even born, modding down statements they don't agree with and flaunting their neon encrusted everyone but myself is an idiot sign?
What does calling other people idiots or otherwise disparaging them say about yourself?
Everything is physically real. Stored Information is physically real. Concluding something is physically real says nothing useful about what it is or its properties.
To quote spock "Nothing unreal exists"
I would rather write on a real piece of paper than scribble notes on a computer emulating pieces of paper.
I would rather use a laptop with a real keyboard than scribble notes on real or virtual pieces of paper. Hint hint you can easily touch type without having to look at a computer screen.
Also think of the lecturer... Most are annoyed by armies of glowing displays in their field of view. Laptop displays are oriented in such a way this is not a problem.
Tablets are ususally the wrong tool for the job if you intend to be productive.
Start on page 25 and answer the questions in reverse order.
For reasons that cannot be fully explained you may end up with a much higher score using this method.
This is the entire business plan of these new TLDs. My company currently pays around $20k/year to pay for domains (and local presences in countries where that is required) that we never use, just to protect ourselves.
What we really need is a free (or extremely cheap) option to block domains from being registered if there is a valid trademark. Of course, this would eliminate the profit motive of introducing new TLDs, so it would stop happening.
This is something that needs legislation to solve.
This is a nonstarter. In US trademarks are domain and location specific. There is really no global grant to use a name. Add to that every country has their own trademark regimes.
Allowing lawyers to play with domains on an international basis is a waste of everyones time and money.
We need more women and less guys of all races.
Most software houses are sword fests and that just sucks.
What sucks worse CNNs shallow report identifies an effect without ever trying to understand or identify the underlying cause.
I would rather have a battery catch fire than a CNG fuel tank explode. There have been craters left where those vechicle used to be.
Electric vechicles are like SSD's. They cost more, have less range, limited (write) recharge cycles and reliability issues are still being worked through as the technology is new.
Even as I reject and poke fun of the technology in its current state...there is no denying it is the future.
How long till we see a Zeta member strung up from a bridge with a note pinned to him warning of more to come for attacking others?
Sorry but the only ways you can put these dogs down is to either get the governments involved (Both US and Mexican) or to become a bigger monster than they are, beat them at their own game, and have them be scared to admit any affiliation with them or any Drug Cartel to the point they can no longer operate.
The unemployment line works too. Take away the demand and cartels melt away all by themselves.
I say we take off and nuke the entire country from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
The drug trade shifts back to columbia.
It used to be every time I ran firefox it would download and install a security fix.
Now every time I run firefox it installs whole new versions.
Seriously settle down guys or at least reweight your versioning system so it seems less scary. Your frightening a lot of people who assume you have all gone batshit.
The onboard intel nic on my intel motherboard randomly disappears with ASPM enabled due I think to a hardware issue.
For me it is pcie_aspm=off or all hell breaks loose.
Linux is the best for routing packets but my desktop experience has always ended in disaster including lockups, x-server crashes, kernel panics, weird artifacts, crappy software which only superfically looks like office..and no choices beyond what software is packaged with the thing.
The lack of proper font processing burns my eyes. Antialiasing is crap. Printing is a joke.
Apple is irrelevent because I build my own gear the way that I want it and OSX will not run on it.
In my opinion the article is trolling. It makes a presupposition there is some universal need or desire to switch from what your currently using. Operating systems are *commodities*. Use what works and ignore the trolls and fanboys.
There is no credible evidence anyone has the faintest idea how to build a scalable QC.
Noone can currently credibly approach the question of whether it is possible such a computer could exist.
If the question is how can one develop a strategy to deal with an unknowable future. One half answer is crypto agility however this will not protect prior communications.
A better ancient solution is to exchange a few gigs of quality thermal noise with your pals. Enough OTP for years of text and voice conversations. No quantum computer, genius or three letter agency EVER stands any hope of breaking that.
Obviously preventing a TLA from breaking you and your pals is a much harder problem to solve than keeping your secrets safe on an unfriendly wire.
It looks like the initial deployments will only support recent Windows and recent OS X releases. Let me know when they take the blinders off their tech support people so that Linux folks can set their OpenWRT gateways and Linux servers up with IPv6.
I must not be getting all of my memos. Since when do we call our ISPs for help configuring our Linux systems?