Imagine if you will, instantly losing all privacy rights toward any private actor. Your doctor... your lawyer... your accountant... all 3 credit bureaus... it goes on.
Even if they rule in favor of Verizon but state that this applies to telecommunications companies only, you'll still have serious problems talking with your doctor / lawyer / accountant. If they are bound by law not to disclose your information and telephone conversations do not provide "an expectation of privacy", then they cannot communicate with you by phone at all. Every time you need to talk to them, you'll have to meet face-to-face.
"You want to know the results of your strep test? Make an appointment for a week from Tuesday."
If I knew people who were working in any capacity where secrecy matters, I would want them to send these back for analysis.
Now you've fallen into the trap. The "coin" has delivered information about the internal workings of your counter-espionage analysis lab to the Canadians!
There are only 2 possibilities here. You either do nothing more than open a browser on your Macs or you are just plain flat out lying. I'm leaning toward the lie thing.
I will admit that I do not run a lot of apps on my iMac (I use it mainly for testing), but the XServe I am responsible for has never (to my knowledge) suffered a kernel panic in the last year and a half and it serves the all the school district's web pages, 24 / 7, with little downtime.
What typical Mac zealot style, blame the user for not working around Apple's shortcomings. Yet these same people will nail any other company to the cross, always with Apple though all sins are forgiven.
Wow! I've never been called a Mac zealot before. I've never owned one personally; I just use them some of the time at work. My statement was not meant to defend Apple. I think anyone who does "a significant amount of work" without saving is being foolish.
And, for the record, I've been caught being foolish too.
I was in line at the grocery store behind an astronaut (Jan Davis), but I'm in Huntsville, AL (another non-average location).
OK, I forgot Huntsville. But the point is, commercial pilots are a bit more evenly distributed throughout the world. I'm sure there are more near me, about an hour's drive north of Chicago's O'Hare Airport, than there are in the middle of Kansas, several hours from a major airport. And I'd the number of astronauts in all of the EU is fewer than the number in Houston.
But this is America, so all of that logic flies out the window and in the newly ajar window the "political pundits" come in and confuse everyone into thinking that each side did equally well.
Unless you get your punditry from The Daily Show. Then they convince you that each side was equally stupid.
[Wimpering] Prepair ship! [Calms down] Colonel Sandurz: Prepare ship, for Ludicrous speed. Fasten all seat belts.
If you're going to steal a joke, you need to make sure to replace all references to the original. Find / Replace works great for this.
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Interesting parallel, but a bit misleading. Certainly the novelty has worn off of orbital spaceflight in a similar way to the novelty of transoceanic flights in the early 20th century, but some major distinctions remain:
Commercial viation has reached a much greater level of safety than spaceflight.
The number of commercial pilots is great enough that you probably have met one even if you didn't know it (a neighbor or a friend of a friend). The number of astronauts (and where they tend to live) means that you are unlikely to randomly encounter one if you don't live in south Texas or east Florida.
Although you may not be able to name someone who has flown themselves across the Atlantic, you probably can name someone who has gone on a trans-Atlantic flight. (Not all astronauts are pilots.)
All those things combine to make commercial aviation much more "routine" to the public than spaceflight.
The CPU can reach temperatures up to 75 degrees without the fan activating (then it usually freezes).
Hmmm... my XServe (dual G4's) reports a temperature of 120 at the "Processor Module" and it runs just fine. Maybe your American iBook can't understand those crazy Canadian measurements.
If you stare at that button for a while you will realize that the circle-and-vertical-line symbol looks a bit like a hand that is flipping you a bird. This realization becomes especially irritating right after you have just lost a significant amount of work or to a kernel panic or a crashed window manager.
This begs two questions...
Why do you experience "kernel panics" and "window manager crashes" so frequently when I've never experienced any on the Macs that I run (an old iMac (white G3) running 10.3.9 and an XServe (G4) running OS X Server 10.3.9)?
If you experience so many problems, why do you do "a significant amount of work" without saving?
Interesting. There is no information on pricing, but I would think that emitting / detecting single photons would be difficult (and, therefore, expensive).
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She can split hairs all she likes about how that vote wasn't really a vote for going to war (it was - Bush was stridently clear about his intentions),
If the vote wasn't for going to war, then voting for a budget with a timetable attached isn't really a vote to end the war. You can't have it both ways.
You really can't talk about state-government legislation experience as something which will provide much of a litmus for what sort of executive Obama will be.
I don't know if it is or is not a good test, but I don't see how Hillary's additional four years in the US Senate (plus her time as first lady) are so much more significant than his seven years in the state senate. State senate experience is experience. The question is "7 years in the state senate = ??? years in the US Senate". I don't see why you might think that legislative experience is fundamentally different at the federal level versus the state level.
Prescription sunglasses make me happy, plus in a pinch you can wear them indoors or at night.
In a pinch? Why not all the time?
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Do you realize that all of your statements could be refuted or turned 180 degrees?
Except with Obama, there isn't much of a voting record to look at.
7 years in the state senate + 4 years in the US Senate = 11 years of voting record by November 2008
He's basically a stuffed shirt with barely any political experience, and no executive experience whatsoever.
After all, she's a second-term US Senator who also has 8 years experience of telling the President what to do.
Hillary will have a total of 8 years experience in an elected position by November 2008, and none of it is executive. You may feel that "telling the President what to do" counts as experience, but many others don't. And it's not like he listened too well!
It makes him very attractive in the early running because he doesn't have a lot of bad past decisions to run away from the way any experienced politician would.
I could say the same of Hillary.
I'm not saying I'll vote for Obama, but I don't think you can may an argument for either of them based on amount of and type of experience.
If the page has already gained popularity as the de facto Obama MySpace page, that could be very damaging.
You talk as if MySpace = "The Internet". I realize that "the clueless majority" believe Web+Email = "The Internet", but when did the non-MySpace part of the web become irrelevant?
I, for one, still think that the official web site for the campaign should have a URL like www.BarackObama2008.org rather than www.myspace.com/barackobama. I wouldn't expect a MySpace page to be official any more than I'd expect a Wikipedia article to be official.
Educated guess. I can also guess that you work with computers, like scifi, and are male. I'm probably wrong about at most 1 of those 4 things.
You're not wrong at all. Although I do have to point out that while I "like sci-fi" as an adult, I'm am certainly not as passionate about it as I was when I was younger. Lately I've been reading Tom Clancy more often.
Broken glasses are nontrivial for me. I couldn't make it to the eyeglass store without glasses. Luckily I have several spares on this planet, no duplication necessary.
Are you sure you're not my long lost twin? The problem I've had is that when the dog destroyed my good glasses, I had to wear the headache-inducing old glasses for a couple weeks while the "glasses in an hour place" ordered me new ones! (But I got even with the dog... I sent him to Oklahoma!)
If the behavior of this model is deterministic, my duplicate self will drop his glasses at the same moment. If it is not deterministic and I do obtain intact glasses from my duplicate self, then I have altered the parameters of the model, and it will diverge (to an unknown degree) from "the real world".
Which leaves me with two questions:
If you could build this model of the whole earth, wouldn't it be trivial to build several models of those glasses (for backup purposes)?
Another source of truly random numbers is atmospheric noise. (e.g. thunderstorms) You could predict this easily by constructing a 1:1 scale model of the earth and atmosphere with each atom corresponding to the original, but this would only work in a deterministic universe. If there is truly chaotic behavior your model would diverge from the original.
If you could construct a model that allowed you to predict atmospheric phenomenon with any degree of accuracy, it would have much greater significance than just breaking one-time pads. You could save countless lives if you knew when and where tornados and hurricanes would strike.
Unfortunately, I doubt anyone will be able to do this any time soon.
Interesting... but can you prove that the data is truly random? The fact that it follows no known pattern is probably good enough, but I don't think you can be sure that someone hasn't discovered a pattern to it (or won't discover a pattern in the future).
Well, they were unbreakable until I perfected my "monkey-typewriter" algorithm (see previous post).
But in all seriousness, I think you're right... By "sense data", I'm assuming you mean the set of "plausible plaintexts"? The more important question is, how to you get "perfect random data"? It's not as easy as one would think.
Only one-time pads are unbreakable, and using one-time pads makes key exchange *much* less secure.
No encryption scheme is unbreakable. Given enough resources, you can decrypt anything.
That being said, with a properly-created and properly-secured one-time pad, a bunch of monkeys with typewriters would probably recreate the message before you got it decrypted.
Hmmm... I'd better patent my codebreaking algorithm before someone steals it!
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Even if they rule in favor of Verizon but state that this applies to telecommunications companies only, you'll still have serious problems talking with your doctor / lawyer / accountant. If they are bound by law not to disclose your information and telephone conversations do not provide "an expectation of privacy", then they cannot communicate with you by phone at all. Every time you need to talk to them, you'll have to meet face-to-face.
"You want to know the results of your strep test? Make an appointment for a week from Tuesday."
Now you've fallen into the trap. The "coin" has delivered information about the internal workings of your counter-espionage analysis lab to the Canadians!
I will admit that I do not run a lot of apps on my iMac (I use it mainly for testing), but the XServe I am responsible for has never (to my knowledge) suffered a kernel panic in the last year and a half and it serves the all the school district's web pages, 24 / 7, with little downtime.
Wow! I've never been called a Mac zealot before. I've never owned one personally; I just use them some of the time at work. My statement was not meant to defend Apple. I think anyone who does "a significant amount of work" without saving is being foolish.
And, for the record, I've been caught being foolish too.
OK, I forgot Huntsville. But the point is, commercial pilots are a bit more evenly distributed throughout the world. I'm sure there are more near me, about an hour's drive north of Chicago's O'Hare Airport, than there are in the middle of Kansas, several hours from a major airport. And I'd the number of astronauts in all of the EU is fewer than the number in Houston.
Unless you get your punditry from The Daily Show. Then they convince you that each side was equally stupid.
If that is the answer to "Life, the Universe, and Everything", then ALL the answers should be 42.
Give me a couple minutes and I'll write the code for you search engine.
If you're going to steal a joke, you need to make sure to replace all references to the original. Find / Replace works great for this.
All those things combine to make commercial aviation much more "routine" to the public than spaceflight.
Hmmm... my XServe (dual G4's) reports a temperature of 120 at the "Processor Module" and it runs just fine. Maybe your American iBook can't understand those crazy Canadian measurements.
Interesting. There is no information on pricing, but I would think that emitting / detecting single photons would be difficult (and, therefore, expensive).
If the vote wasn't for going to war, then voting for a budget with a timetable attached isn't really a vote to end the war. You can't have it both ways.
I don't know if it is or is not a good test, but I don't see how Hillary's additional four years in the US Senate (plus her time as first lady) are so much more significant than his seven years in the state senate. State senate experience is experience. The question is "7 years in the state senate = ??? years in the US Senate". I don't see why you might think that legislative experience is fundamentally different at the federal level versus the state level.
That was supposed to be a joke. But your explanation proves some interesting insights into your personality.
I'm with you up to here.
OK, now I think you're a psycho.
In a pinch? Why not all the time?
Do you realize that all of your statements could be refuted or turned 180 degrees?
7 years in the state senate + 4 years in the US Senate = 11 years of voting record by November 2008
Hillary will have a total of 8 years experience in an elected position by November 2008, and none of it is executive. You may feel that "telling the President what to do" counts as experience, but many others don't. And it's not like he listened too well!
I could say the same of Hillary.
I'm not saying I'll vote for Obama, but I don't think you can may an argument for either of them based on amount of and type of experience.
You talk as if MySpace = "The Internet". I realize that "the clueless majority" believe Web+Email = "The Internet", but when did the non-MySpace part of the web become irrelevant?
I, for one, still think that the official web site for the campaign should have a URL like www.BarackObama2008.org rather than www.myspace.com/barackobama. I wouldn't expect a MySpace page to be official any more than I'd expect a Wikipedia article to be official.
You're not wrong at all. Although I do have to point out that while I "like sci-fi" as an adult, I'm am certainly not as passionate about it as I was when I was younger. Lately I've been reading Tom Clancy more often.
Are you sure you're not my long lost twin? The problem I've had is that when the dog destroyed my good glasses, I had to wear the headache-inducing old glasses for a couple weeks while the "glasses in an hour place" ordered me new ones! (But I got even with the dog... I sent him to Oklahoma!)
If the behavior of this model is deterministic, my duplicate self will drop his glasses at the same moment. If it is not deterministic and I do obtain intact glasses from my duplicate self, then I have altered the parameters of the model, and it will diverge (to an unknown degree) from "the real world".
Which leaves me with two questions:If you could construct a model that allowed you to predict atmospheric phenomenon with any degree of accuracy, it would have much greater significance than just breaking one-time pads. You could save countless lives if you knew when and where tornados and hurricanes would strike.
Unfortunately, I doubt anyone will be able to do this any time soon.
Interesting... but can you prove that the data is truly random? The fact that it follows no known pattern is probably good enough, but I don't think you can be sure that someone hasn't discovered a pattern to it (or won't discover a pattern in the future).
Well, they were unbreakable until I perfected my "monkey-typewriter" algorithm (see previous post).
But in all seriousness, I think you're right... By "sense data", I'm assuming you mean the set of "plausible plaintexts"? The more important question is, how to you get "perfect random data"? It's not as easy as one would think.
No encryption scheme is unbreakable. Given enough resources, you can decrypt anything.
That being said, with a properly-created and properly-secured one-time pad, a bunch of monkeys with typewriters would probably recreate the message before you got it decrypted.
Hmmm... I'd better patent my codebreaking algorithm before someone steals it!
An iPod as a flight data recorder? Haven't I heard that somewhere before?
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