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How Long?
The 25 year period following 1990 was characterized by rapid advances in the field of information technology. It was very much like the early days of the railroad.
Every few years a new locomotive was build which was bigger, better and stronger than its predecessors. Only computers developed much faster. Every few months a new computer hit the market that was smaller, stronger and faster. And with it came bigger hard drives, more memory and more powerful new software.
Information that was almost unobtainable previously, is now available with a few mouse clicks, admittedly not always accurate, but available.
How long before odors and tastes too will be digitized? Imagine watching the Grand Prix on TV, getting the smell of burned tires and exhaust fumes in your nostrils.
How long will it be before knowledge will be downloaded directly from the human brain to be saved on a storage device for later use. Think of the advantages if such knowledge (and even experience) could be uploaded to another brain. Need to learn a new language? No problem, just slip in another disc. Schools will become an outdated concept overnight. No longer will an Einstein’s knowledge perish with the brain.
But this is not limited to humans only. What if your new puppy could be uploaded with a complete set of doggie manners? Think of the brand new practice of slavery if baboons could be uploaded with the knowledge to perform useful tasks.
A bit far fetched you may think but maybe not so, considering that as recent as fifty years ago, the marvels that we now accept as the norm in computers were deemed to be impossible.
Something is only impossible until somebody figures out a way how to do it.
May you all have a marvelous day.
Every few years a new locomotive was build which was bigger, better and stronger than its predecessors. Only computers developed much faster. Every few months a new computer hit the market that was smaller, stronger and faster. And with it came bigger hard drives, more memory and more powerful new software.
Information that was almost unobtainable previously, is now available with a few mouse clicks, admittedly not always accurate, but available.
How long before odors and tastes too will be digitized? Imagine watching the Grand Prix on TV, getting the smell of burned tires and exhaust fumes in your nostrils.
How long will it be before knowledge will be downloaded directly from the human brain to be saved on a storage device for later use. Think of the advantages if such knowledge (and even experience) could be uploaded to another brain. Need to learn a new language? No problem, just slip in another disc. Schools will become an outdated concept overnight. No longer will an Einstein’s knowledge perish with the brain.
But this is not limited to humans only. What if your new puppy could be uploaded with a complete set of doggie manners? Think of the brand new practice of slavery if baboons could be uploaded with the knowledge to perform useful tasks.
A bit far fetched you may think but maybe not so, considering that as recent as fifty years ago, the marvels that we now accept as the norm in computers were deemed to be impossible.
Something is only impossible until somebody figures out a way how to do it.
May you all have a marvelous day.
Smart Phones
I recently replaced my Nokia Express Music with a Sony Xperia. I liked the Nokia; it served me well but it was grossly behind times.
Mastering the Android system took a day or two and at one stage it had me so consumed that I though I would not bother about my laptop anymore. It opened a new world to me and I spent hours installing new apps and reading books on-line. I loved the way you can restore it to factory setting and start all over again. Wonderful, I thought… until I tried to do some serious browsing. That was when I lost half my interest in it.
When I logged on to CS, the other half went. Sorry, I got too used to the bigger screen and a proper keyboard. I tried to comment on somebody’s blog and half way I gave it up for a bad job. My fingers are too dumb for the small keys on the screen and what I did not misspell, the auto-correct function messed up; in stead of just leaving the good words while correcting my mistakes! Back to my faithful old laptop.
I know a lot of people here use their mobiles on CS and they are probably pretty happy with it, but I did not make it; though I still enjoy reading ebooks with it. Maybe I should have gotten a tablet instead but they are too large and clumsy. After all, I just wanted a new phone; one that can slip into my shirt or jacket’s pocket.
Not that I’m unhappy with the phone. On the contrary, I like it very much. I even use the calendar; something I have never used before. I have Whatsapp going and I’m thinking about installing Skype, even though I don’t like apps like that. Too many people troubling me. I don’t have the patience to sit and text all day.
I have a problem though. I cannot get any memory card to work in it. I checked on the web and it seems to be a general issue with the Xperia. If somebody here got a memory card to work in it, please let me know what make it is.
Have a great day, will ya!
Mastering the Android system took a day or two and at one stage it had me so consumed that I though I would not bother about my laptop anymore. It opened a new world to me and I spent hours installing new apps and reading books on-line. I loved the way you can restore it to factory setting and start all over again. Wonderful, I thought… until I tried to do some serious browsing. That was when I lost half my interest in it.
When I logged on to CS, the other half went. Sorry, I got too used to the bigger screen and a proper keyboard. I tried to comment on somebody’s blog and half way I gave it up for a bad job. My fingers are too dumb for the small keys on the screen and what I did not misspell, the auto-correct function messed up; in stead of just leaving the good words while correcting my mistakes! Back to my faithful old laptop.
I know a lot of people here use their mobiles on CS and they are probably pretty happy with it, but I did not make it; though I still enjoy reading ebooks with it. Maybe I should have gotten a tablet instead but they are too large and clumsy. After all, I just wanted a new phone; one that can slip into my shirt or jacket’s pocket.
Not that I’m unhappy with the phone. On the contrary, I like it very much. I even use the calendar; something I have never used before. I have Whatsapp going and I’m thinking about installing Skype, even though I don’t like apps like that. Too many people troubling me. I don’t have the patience to sit and text all day.
I have a problem though. I cannot get any memory card to work in it. I checked on the web and it seems to be a general issue with the Xperia. If somebody here got a memory card to work in it, please let me know what make it is.
Have a great day, will ya!
Come on CS. Get your act together!
Yep, they're at it again. The automatic sign out! Wasted half an hour posting a poem this afternoon (or rather trying to) and upon reaching the preview stage received the dreaded message "the page you requested requires you to be logged in"! Half an hours work right down the gurgler!
The fact is I WAS logged in, had been for over an hour Played a game of mah jong and a couple of games of sudoku as well as checking forum and blog posts. Also sent a mail so I must have been logged in or I couldn't have sent it! ...Surely I can't be the only one experiencing this phenomena? Frustrating to say the least....
The fact is I WAS logged in, had been for over an hour Played a game of mah jong and a couple of games of sudoku as well as checking forum and blog posts. Also sent a mail so I must have been logged in or I couldn't have sent it! ...Surely I can't be the only one experiencing this phenomena? Frustrating to say the least....
Let there be light
This morning the light bulb at the entrance to my apt was out of service. I decided to modernize and instead of a plain incandescent bulb, I bought a LED type one. The former would cost me around a hundred yen which is around a dollar. In the name of modernization, I paid around 1,500 yen.
Not sure if I'm going to save on electricity or it would last longer than 2 yrs. But I like the brightness it gives to the entrance. Anew kind of brightness for the coming New Year. A prosperous New Year to everyone!! Another advanced greetings!!
Not sure if I'm going to save on electricity or it would last longer than 2 yrs. But I like the brightness it gives to the entrance. Anew kind of brightness for the coming New Year. A prosperous New Year to everyone!! Another advanced greetings!! 
LOVELY CHAT
yes ! this chat is between me and my heart.
he says there is no love in this world.
but i said that you are also in this world ! ! !
and it means you also have no love inside you.
So he gone some upset with me.
What to do now ?
he says there is no love in this world.
but i said that you are also in this world ! ! !
and it means you also have no love inside you.
So he gone some upset with me.
What to do now ?
online today!
Mingle2.com
Anybody know about a dating site call Mingle2.com? Two weeks ago I sign with that site and now I can't delete my account. The site is full of scammers and spammers.
Western Digital's hard drive encryption is useless
Totally useless
Rookie errors make it child's play to decrypt data
The encryption systems used in Western Digital's portable hard drives are pretty pointless, according to new research. It appears anyone getting hold of the vulnerable devices can easily decrypt them.
WD's My Passport boxes automatically encrypt data as it is written to disk and decrypt the data as it is read back to the computer. The devices use 256-bit AES encryption, and can be password-protected: giving the correct password enables the data to be successfully accessed.
Now, a trio of infosec folks – Gunnar Alendal, Christian Kison and "modg" – have tried out six models in the WD My Passport family, and found blunders in the software designs.
For example, on some models, the drive's encryption key can be trivially brute-forced, which is bad news if someone steals the drive: decrypting it is child's play. And the firmware on some devices can be easily altered, allowing an attacker to silently compromise the drive and its file systems.
"We developed several different attacks to recover user data from these password-protected and fully encrypted external hard disks," the trio's paper [slides PDF] states.
"In addition to this, other security threats are discovered, such as easy modification of firmware and on-board software that is executed on the user's PC, facilitating evil maid and badUSB attack scenarios, logging user credentials, and spreading of malicious code."
My Passport models using a JMicron JMS538S micro-controller have a pseudorandom number generator that is not cryptographically secure, and merely cycles through a sequence of 255 32-bit values. This generator is used to create the data encryption key, and the drive firmware leaks enough information about the state of the random number generator for this key to be recreated, we're told.
"An attacker can regenerate any DEK [data encryption key] generated from this vulnerable setup with a worst-case complexity of close to 240," the paper states.
"Once the DEK [data encryption key] is recovered, an attacker can read and decrypt any raw disk sector, revealing decrypted user data. Note that this attack does not need, nor reveals, the user password."
Drive models using a JMicron JMS569 controller – which is present in newer My Passport products – can be forcibly unlocked using commercial forensic tools that access the unencrypted system area of the drive, we're told.
Drives using a Symwave 6316 controller store their encryption keys on the disk, encrypted with a known hardcoded AES-256 key stored in the firmware, so recovery of the data is trivial.
It must be stressed that the flaws are in WD's software running on these microcontrollers, rather than the chips themselves.
Source:
Rookie errors make it child's play to decrypt data
The encryption systems used in Western Digital's portable hard drives are pretty pointless, according to new research. It appears anyone getting hold of the vulnerable devices can easily decrypt them.
WD's My Passport boxes automatically encrypt data as it is written to disk and decrypt the data as it is read back to the computer. The devices use 256-bit AES encryption, and can be password-protected: giving the correct password enables the data to be successfully accessed.
Now, a trio of infosec folks – Gunnar Alendal, Christian Kison and "modg" – have tried out six models in the WD My Passport family, and found blunders in the software designs.
For example, on some models, the drive's encryption key can be trivially brute-forced, which is bad news if someone steals the drive: decrypting it is child's play. And the firmware on some devices can be easily altered, allowing an attacker to silently compromise the drive and its file systems.
"We developed several different attacks to recover user data from these password-protected and fully encrypted external hard disks," the trio's paper [slides PDF] states.
"In addition to this, other security threats are discovered, such as easy modification of firmware and on-board software that is executed on the user's PC, facilitating evil maid and badUSB attack scenarios, logging user credentials, and spreading of malicious code."
My Passport models using a JMicron JMS538S micro-controller have a pseudorandom number generator that is not cryptographically secure, and merely cycles through a sequence of 255 32-bit values. This generator is used to create the data encryption key, and the drive firmware leaks enough information about the state of the random number generator for this key to be recreated, we're told.
"An attacker can regenerate any DEK [data encryption key] generated from this vulnerable setup with a worst-case complexity of close to 240," the paper states.
"Once the DEK [data encryption key] is recovered, an attacker can read and decrypt any raw disk sector, revealing decrypted user data. Note that this attack does not need, nor reveals, the user password."
Drive models using a JMicron JMS569 controller – which is present in newer My Passport products – can be forcibly unlocked using commercial forensic tools that access the unencrypted system area of the drive, we're told.
Drives using a Symwave 6316 controller store their encryption keys on the disk, encrypted with a known hardcoded AES-256 key stored in the firmware, so recovery of the data is trivial.
It must be stressed that the flaws are in WD's software running on these microcontrollers, rather than the chips themselves.
Source:
online today!
I closed my Plentyoffish Acoount
I recently closed my Plentyoffish account. I notice the other day when I was on that site; my computer warm me about potential virus on that site. Has this ever happen to any of you out there?
3D printers
are a great bit of technology, For the past few years I have been seen some very creative fun uses for what I considered to be toys.
I was however amazed to see this article,
I personally think it to be one of the best uses to date seen to promote their use for anything other than toys.
A tribute to the ingenuity and spirit of Humanity
What was the last thing that you seen if ever, That made you proud to be part of the race.
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Have a great day My friends
I was however amazed to see this article,
I personally think it to be one of the best uses to date seen to promote their use for anything other than toys.
A tribute to the ingenuity and spirit of Humanity
What was the last thing that you seen if ever, That made you proud to be part of the race.
?Have a great day My friends
Drinkable Water From Toilet To Tap.
Windhoek, the capital city of Namibia, is one of the few cities in Africa where you can safely drink tap water.
Though some residents still find it hard to swallow, they have been drinking the own waste since 1968. More than 25% of the water supply in Windhoek is reclaimed from municipal sewage water. In the 46 years since its inception, there had not been a single incident of bad water. The city is inhabited by 322,500 people.
Namibia is one of the driest countries in the world. The average annual rainfall is around 370mm, while the average evaporation rate is 3400mm. The nearest perennial river is 700km from the city. With its growing population, the capital faced the choice of population control or looking at alternative water sources.
While it seems not yet possible to extract edible proteins from sewage, water is a reality. Australia is looking into it and so is California. It is an expensive process, but expensive water is better than no water at all.
You have a great day out there!
Though some residents still find it hard to swallow, they have been drinking the own waste since 1968. More than 25% of the water supply in Windhoek is reclaimed from municipal sewage water. In the 46 years since its inception, there had not been a single incident of bad water. The city is inhabited by 322,500 people.
Namibia is one of the driest countries in the world. The average annual rainfall is around 370mm, while the average evaporation rate is 3400mm. The nearest perennial river is 700km from the city. With its growing population, the capital faced the choice of population control or looking at alternative water sources.
While it seems not yet possible to extract edible proteins from sewage, water is a reality. Australia is looking into it and so is California. It is an expensive process, but expensive water is better than no water at all.
You have a great day out there!
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