Comment Android is a derivation of Linux (Score 1) 1
Although probably correct on a marketing and perceptual level, technically speaking the game is in fact going to be published for Linux, since Android is a derivation of Linux.
Although probably correct on a marketing and perceptual level, technically speaking the game is in fact going to be published for Linux, since Android is a derivation of Linux.
Actually, both are equally correct in Dutch.
4DWM for the win
Texas also gave us Double Duh Bush. One of the least enlightened beings on this planet, as well as the one who put us in the international mess we're currently in.
"If you're not with us, you're against us."
Great way to sway everyone to your side - or theirs for that matter.
On topic: the problem between science and religion is not that they are mutually exclusive, but rather that science requires actual proof, whereas religion requires merely faith. One cannot prove the existence of god either way.
Even so, it seems silly to me to require the teaching of pseudoscience in school, merely to placate a couple of religious fanatics. I thought it was us who invented the polde model, but the Americans seem to have taken it to an entire new level.
Assange can't be charged with treason in the USA, because he is not an American citizen.
Whatever the encryption is, you can bet your bottom dollar bill that the NSA is at least two decades ahead of it.
That's what it is. And it's time somebody stood up to these assholes and told them so.
You might as well try to tell the Sun not to set tonight.
Ginger?
For in his mind, he dreams himself your master.
That's a whole different story. See the remark later in my post.
Note that I said 'pretty much secure', not '100% secure'. Also, it seems logical to me that when you are so conscious about security, you would not necessarily trust a wifi network that is not secured with at least some sort of key.
Again, every encryption scheme can ultimately be broken. It is just a matter of computing power and patience.
I would not be surprised to see that the NSA - or any other nation's intelligence service - can devise ways to make you think (and take it for a fact) they are whoever they tell you they are.
As for certificates and CAs: certificates, keys and CAs are about building trust. Between the service provider on one end for example, and its customers on the other. The Certificate Authority asserts that the service provider is who it claims to be, and another Certificate Authority (or maybe even the same - the root CA is in many cases one of a very select few) asserts that about the customer(s). There is a bond of trust between the two parties that enables them to communicate freely, but in a (more or less) private manner.
If you want, you can be your own root CA, as long as you are your only service provider or can convince others you are trustworthy enough that they believe you are who you say you are. They, as the consumers of your public key, have to be trustworthy enough to you that you believe they are who they say they are and that you entrust them with your public key. By the way, while in theory that should provide an excellent basis for secure communications, in practice it turns out to be a rather awkward weakness. People are gullible. But more about that later.
Self-signed certificates are just that. Nothing more, nothing less. You are your own Certificate Authority. If it's just communications between the email server you host at your end of the internet and your smartphone, the connection between those two endpoints is pretty much secure and unless your suffering from severe paranoia, you obviously trust yourself. But then again, with email, you would worry less about other people accessing your emails in their central data store or intercepting them during your (secured) IMAP session than you would about the fact that SMTP is still, pretty much, plain text. Provided your own SMTP host is entrusted similarly to your IMAP host, with a self-signed key and secured through, e.g. SSL and some sort of authentication barrier, the emails you sent are secure until they reach your SMTP host. Everything beyond that is up to the next SMTP host in the chain.
No IP connection - even encrypted ones - is ever one hundred percent secure. It is a safe bet that someone with enough computing power (e.g. the NSA in any case) will always be able to crack whatever (published) encryption scheme you apply to your communications. Moreover, the weakest link in any so-called secure connection is always the user. He or she can be sloppy with regard to the choice of his or her passwords, or have noted them onto a post-it glued to his or her TFT screen, etc. He or she could also be the victim of a phishing event or of social engineering ("Hello? Am I speaking to this-and-this-person? Yes? My name is so-and-so and I've recently joined your company. Would you please be so kind as to reset my password? I seem to have forgotten it. Ah yes, thank you! Have a nice day!"). Did I mention that people are gullible?
To sum up: the concept of certificates and certificate authorities as a basis to build up trusts is in theory a very strong one. However, its strength is also its weakness. It can be subverted to its own antithesis: anyone convincing enough can abuse his position within the chain of trust to his own ends if he, she or it is clever enough.
Miscarriages of justice such as this one are a direct result of the fundamentally flawed system of jury trial and of flawed legislation.
Jurors are laymen and as such not suited for something as complicated as a criminal case and they are by definition susceptible to suggestion. A civil or criminal case brought before the court should always be handled by one ore more judges, people who are trained to be objective and to weigh the evidence, not by laymen.
Relieving yourself (as in 'number one' and 'number two') is also a very personal thing. It is nobody's business but your own.
Wrong.
The police are NOT avove the law. If anything, they are kept under even closer scrutiny than ordinary citizens.
"I am, therefore I am." -- Akira