Posts by Andrew C
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The promoters of both festivals have had rude shocks this year.
Which may also end up being a double whammy if it puts people off early purchasing tickets for next year's event if they fear acts might withdraw.
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Speaker: Gender quotas (and helping…, in reply to David Hood,
So, your objection is that
Just to be clear - I don't have any objection to the policy whatsoever. And even if I did I usually defer to the sentiment that Craig just detailed: it's their game, so it's their rules.
But I didn't see Paddy's statement as being that incorrect. If you take the party list as it is now and apply the new policy, you will see a shifting of positions. I don't think calling those demotions is that misleading. Stephen later argued that men were in the higher positions unfairly so maybe its not a demotion but more of a levelling of the playing field. And he makes a good point, but as above, I don't think it is misleading to classify this as a demotion.
To claim Paddy is wrong by recasting of this across a change in PV, or saying that a decrease wasn't a decrease and was in fact just, err, attrition, just seems to muddy things.
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Surely the "maths" given by Rachael is pretty blimmin self serving. The only reason for the increase in men is the fact the PV has been pumped up for the example.
It would seem to me that, all things being equal, if you change the ratio then you CHANGE THE RATIO. If one side increases the other side has to decrease. You cannot fancy pants the maths to get around this.
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Hard News: Mega Strange, in reply to Dylan Reeve,
The link from Fisher later in that twitter dialog was interesting too
https://twitter.com/DFisherJourno/status/393480379518038016/photo/1
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OnPoint: The Big Guns: Truecrypt and Tails, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Flash cookies allow online advertising networks to covertly and uniquely track your internet use.
Yeah, and as they are not "normal" cookies you cannot flush them like you do others. You can get rid of them, but its not an easy or intuitive thing to do.
A big issue for Adobe is the massive number of security flaws it contains which can be (and are) exploited to allow baddies to get into your computer. Adobe software is constantly being updated to fix security glitches. It's probably the case that it has the same number of flaws as other things out on the net, however it's market penetration has meant it was heavily targeted.
But who needs cookies for tracking your internet travels, when you can simply figure out who's visiting by their fingerprint (audio version here)
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OnPoint: The Big Guns: Truecrypt and Tails, in reply to Keith Ng,
it should be impossible to prove whether there is a hidden volume within it or not, because free space on any TrueCrypt volume is always filled with random data when the volume is created
And this addresses Duane's concern from one of the opening comments. The outer truecrypt volume is viewed by the OS as one big file, so the innards of it (which contain the hidden volume) it would never be used for spare sectors.
If you have access you can read the crypto keys out of memory
True. But if someone has managed to get something like that into your system already you can consider yourself hosed, it's game over. Truecrypt etc are still useful for the situations where that hasn't happened, which I would hope would be the normal situation (?).
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Hard News: On Telly, Telly Off, in reply to Paul Campbell,
if you have a good terrestrial signal you should use that rather than Sky satellite – the terrestrial steams are higher quality than the satellite ones
Do you mean HD, or just a better all round signal quality?
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I’m not sure how many CRT sets are still out there
We have them. And each time they break down I pop onto trademe and pick another one up for under 10 bucks. Why? Young kids. Fists, balls, bats, you name it - they all end up in contact with that screen at some stage. Our options were to buy LCD and hang it on the wall which is not really in great line of site for little people, or stick with CRT.
and I’ve actually never experienced rainfade on a terrestrial signal.
Lucky you. With bunny ears we had a dreadful time with the Kordia stream. Drove us crazy.
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OnPoint: Ich bin ein Cyberpunk, in reply to Moz,
Also, I wish TrueCrypt gave some indication of how much random seed is enough… if I watch a half hour TV episode while jiggling the mouse is that much better than a 30 second scribble? How much? Does it matter? Who knows?
No, it itsn't greatly better Moz. It doesn't take much initial randomness to escalate into massive entropy after they start cycling the hashes.
For anyone interested, Steve Gibson from GRC has a couple of podcast episodes on what Truecrypt is/does which are fairly accessible to the non propeller head types. Below are links to the transcripts. At the top of each transcript it also shows the web address to the podcast mp3's if you would prefer to listen - generally his podcasts are around 1hr long.
https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-041.htm
https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-133.pdfHis "Security Now" podcast series is a great introduction into overviewing cryptography and internet security in general, amongst other things.
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OnPoint: Ich bin ein Cyberpunk, in reply to Keith Ng,
General comment: Baby steps, folks. Tor, Truecrypt, everything else will come.
I like how Truecrypt pads out empty space with random noise. If you create a Truecrypt partition and fill it with your sooper dooper secritz, you can then include this partition inside/within another Truecrypt partition. This way if you are ever somehow forced to reveal your Truecrypt password then you can do the decryption on the outer layer and there is no way of knowing that you have an inner layer - it just looks like the regular and expected random padding made by the top layer.
Not that I do this, but I just thought it was kinda cool. These guys have thought stuff through.