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Putting the paper through translation, there are a lot of untested assumptions in the paper.
It appears to be an attempt to conduct some sort of quantum Linear Cryptanalysis in the style of Kasia Nyberg. It may have had some success on a small block size, but it will not really scale up to full size ciphers.
It's an interesting idea and presents the first real quantum cryptanalysis that isn't simply factoring large integers.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
How is Section 702 even remotely constitutional?
This conversation is long overdue. I was happy when I saw an article in the February 2018 of National Geographic which tracked the increase of video surveillance, particularly in London.
One of the good points brought up was that it happened very organically, and there was no policy debate or other discussion about the proliferation of private and public cameras. Then London found itself the most surveilled city in the world - although I am sure that many others have caught up.
This should cause a wider policy discussion and will hopefully end up with an appropriate way to use cameras and surveillance in general.
Absolutely agree with you 100%. My father had a degenerative disease and was in a lot of pain. He was prescribed fentanyl for ease of administration (tablet under the tongue). There was little chance of him forming a habit because he was one of these ultra-stoic people, and only took it when most other people would have been delirious with pain. The doses were not high, but did provide relief.
There are a lot of problems in which is it intractable to have an optimal solution, but sub-optimal solutions are very tractable. A good example of this is the Travelling Salesman Problem - which is known to be NP-Complete. However, if one accepts that we can accept a solution which is less than or equal to twice the optimal solution, this problem becomes tractable.
Although there may be an algorithm that will solve the cube in 20 moves, the one which solves it in 40 may be quicker from a computational point of view.
We no longer have august institutions failing to control the development of language, such as L'Académie française, we have multinationals. One advantage that multinationals have (apart from lots of money) is trademarks.
Also must refer to Orwell and Whorf about language controlling thoughts... so the Chocolate Factory should just google off...
Before mouthing off at a woman who is an historical figure, perhaps you would consider actually finding some evidence before traducing her.
If one reads the transcript of the trial, one would not find her to be unstable, disliked, misanthropic... For example, La Hire, who fought with her, held her in the highest regard. He himself was a professional soldier with a distinguished career. Many of the other commanders also held her in high regard - which is evidenced by the re-trial that happened some years later, away from the malign influence of the University of Paris and the English crown.
The use of regions is a way of dividing markets to get the most out of them. For example, if the local content market is small, such as Australia, it will lack the economies of scale to reduce the per unit cost. Thus, a large content provider can import content into this region and increase the profit margin on each unit by charging a similar price to locally produced content.
This is why DVD and Bluray regions were established.
But also content providers are loath to release content to countries which do not have acceptable legal structures or enforcement. You would not want to release content into a country if you knew that it would be immediately copied and distributed cheaply and you would get very little out of it. This is why some content is unavailable.
These restrictions are also a way of putting pressure onto foreign countries to conform to US (ie Hollywood) copyright structures.
So content owners benefit.
Since they named one "Clancy" and the other "Banjo", one might have been foolish enough to think that Wintonensis was a reference to the West Australian novelist Tim Winton. But this would require:
1. these guy actually reading novels, and
2. look beyond Queensland.
Silly me. Winton is a place in Qld...
Clearly the adolescents who put the videos up intended to offend. In a civil society, no one really supports behaviour which is intended to be offensive: and only adolescents really indulge in this pointless offensiveness.
There is entire range of offensive behaviour which is considered to be criminal and perpetrators are prosecuted accordingly. Poofter bashing is one such example.
Perhaps, El Reg readers should extend the courtesy they demand be shown for themselves to other people and accept that there are minimum standards for behaviour in civil society. Just because some adolescent, or someone who has never grown beyond that, finds that hard, consider some people might think that they deserve to be beaten to a pulp, but refrain from doing so because they realise this is inappropriate behaviour.
There has been published work looking at algebraic attacks against A5.1 (the GSM cipher for most people). Look at: http://www.springerlink.com/content/eu97gk8786h7tj25/ and obtain this paper for full details.
Essentially, A5.1 and other similar ciphers are immune to algebraic attacks because the irregular clocking introduces many non-linear terms, and the order of the terms grows very quickly.
There was work published 2-3 years ago on this also: so this is not really new.
Trespass law "is insufficient to negate Google's privileged and trivial entry upon Plaintiff's property." Come again?
Google has a privileged entry? Who do they believe they are? The Borings did pay to have their privacy, which Google completely disregarded. What right does Google have to photograph and publish everything.
As for the Restatement of Torts go: how is someone sneaking up on me and photographing me and publishing said photography part of "the ordinary incidents of the community life of which he is a part"?
Just because all the Googlers are exhibitionists does not mean a) the rest of the world is, and b) that we want to participate.
I seem to also recall that the penalty for trespass was hanging -- later to be substituted for being sent to Bondi Beach.
To be strictly correct, in 1066 Normandy was held suzerain to the King of France, but it was not part of the Royal Demesne. This gave it is significant freedom, but it was not independent from the King of France - they still had to pay fees to the king.
The Dukes of Normandy, in so far as they were Dukes of Normandy, were suzerain to the King of France. However, as Kings of England they were sovereign.
In the fourteenth century, the Angevins, in particular Philip the Thief (IV), extended the Royal Demesne to Gascony, Burgundy, Champagne and the South. The Kings of England were attempting to do the same to their domains.
As a final note, the Tudors always designated themselves as "the King of England and Fraunce".
Although Monsieur Guilmette is correct is pointing out that NT4 had C2 certification, it came with small print. It excluded hosts with network connectivity and a few other things (I seem to recall a problem with the default bootloader). With the small print, it made the certification pretty worthless.
The greatest problem occurs between the design and implementation. Almost all security issues and faults occur due to poor implementation.
So while not ignoring the need for good design and proving the security of the design, the implementation needs to be controlled also - not using C would be good start.
This appears to be progress. This time they have caught an Australian from Adelaide in the US, possibly breaking the law. They even had the courtesy to charge her this time.
It is just certain that even if she were set up, there is no way that the Australian Government will do anything about it.
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