If you know what the stack frame of the software you're targeting looks like, you don't even have to try every n-bit string in the whole memory dump, you can just go straight to whatever memory offset the key's always stored at. It's not like TrueCrypt just puts the key at a random spot in the middle of some other program's RAM page.
Many of the "language processing" problems the OP describes are actually "cognition" problems. If Google is serious about algorithmically translating from "academic jargon to local slang", then they're looking at writing an AI which can in some sense understand what is being said.
I guess it's a good thing Kurzweil's on board.
Cool story, athlete.
I was expecting anything which is properly referred to as a "crack" which is what TFS called it.
A known-key attack is not a "crack", it's just a "decrypt."
I think this absolution would be symbolic and not-actually-doing-anything enough, given that the person in question is dead.
If pardons were issued for the Holocaust, it would not be issued on behalf of any individual German nor of the "current generation of Germans", it would be issued on behalf of the German government or the state itself, which is an institution that outlives individual people. Why should any individual German imagine that *Germany* apologizing incriminates them?
Or if they "pardoned" or "absolved" him/her of being a Jew, as in "you're not guilty of that crime after all". That's also a bit off.
There's no better home broadband router these days than pfSense on a Soekris.
So wait, are you suggesting that we fire enough bullets at the assailant that the transferred momentum would... accelerate him out of the room?
That's a bizarre self-defense strategy.
Relevant: http://what-if.xkcd.com/21/
It does not take a genius to see that madmen are incentivized to rampage where they can expect no return fire.
Or perhaps the people most likely to go postal are disproportionately likely to be at or near schools, and have a lot of their hopes and fears invested in the things which go on at schools? This guy's mom worked there.
How many of these school shooters were had no personal connection to the school in question, and so could have been just as well expected to shoot up a mall or a movie theatre if not for the "gun free zone" thing? Any of them? I think your impromptu psychoanalysis has a few gaps in it.
but if they were armed, do you think as many would have died in this incident?
The shooter apparently had body armor, so likely yes.
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> It's not complicated
I cannot find a single person with actual qualifications in the field of economics who agrees with this assessment. The only people who insist that it's all simple enough for laypeople to address in 1 paragraph, are laypeople. Dunning-Kruger is everywhere when federal budgets are discussed.
What about systems with onscreen keyboards, such as those with touchscreens or accessibility features? If your keyboard is onscreen, then cursor location polling is basically the same as keylogging.
the same people who think that the way to get out of a fiscal cliff that is caused by massive debt, is to take on more debt
Almost as dumb as the people who think a complicated economic problem which is being worked on by many very smart people with many postgraduate degrees, can be dismissed with a pithy one-liner and some informal layperson reasoning on Slashdot. Tell me, when global warming comes up, do you involuntarily regurgitate that old "maybe it's caused by the SUN, duh" chestnut too?
To address your specific objection; the lawmakers don't need to be smart here, it suffices that the people advocating for their own rights in court (e.g. owners of GPL-licensed intellectual property) be smart.
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
