As someone who has taught mathematics for over half a century I can find no parallel to this and am a loss to find similar foolishness. It seems vaguely analogous to our flailing attempt(s) to control the pandemic, without consulting Mother Nature, as wildly far-fetched as that may be.
We seek an unbreakable asynchronous method to hide a quantity, but then want to be able, only in the most strident of circumstances, to break that very method? And, of course, it should only be unbreakable by 'good' people with 'good' intentions?
Any student of mine who came to me with that objective, challenge, or call it whatever the hell you wish, would not pass my class.
Would I love to see some of these characters sent away to Leavenworth. I think I'd actually vote for anyone who exhibited the fortitude to go after these crooks.
Of course we need it. It's in the constitution - the 28th amendment. That's the encrypted one, the one encrypted by B. Franklin. Here's the actual text:
My name is Pyth A. Goras. I have discovered that the squares of the two legs of a right triangle are equal to the square of the third side. I am requesting the U.S. patent office issue me a patent.
Now I'm going to sue everyone who constructs right triangles: Lego, architects, artists, contractors...
The real problem here is truly a lack of mathematical understanding by not just politicians, but people in charge of major security agencies. An analogy here might be:
Is 2+2 ALWAYS equal to 4? Can't we just have it equal to 4.1 when we need it to? But we have smart people; why can't they make it equal to 4.1, or maybe 4.05? We pay them a lot. They're really smart. Why can't they do this for us? Why must they be unpatriotic? We know they can do this, so why must they be so stubborn?
This comes from a serious lack of mathematical education that goes way, way back to elementary and middle school.
You cannot cure this without fundamental changes in our educational system.
Why would anybody buy HP anything? IMHO: they've become a second rate printer-ink vendor. I once owned a really nice HP oscilloscope, but that was 50 years ago, when they made great electronic equipment. Now, I wouldn't buy anything with an HP name on it.
The last time I know of that morons tried to legislate math. Had they been successful, it would not have ended well. Certainly not for bicycle or ball bearing manufacturers.
Got a problem with these redlight moneymakers? Take a ride on the Mass. Pike. Everything is now cashless, EZ Pass and license plate readers. Here's what that means when no one is around to take your cash:
1) Passage through the tolls is time stamped. 2) Passage from one to the other is calculated. 3) Your average speed s recorded. 4) In the future ( a year?, 2?) when you get your bill in the mail you'll get your s-p-e-e-d-i-n-g surcharge with it. 5) No more option of avoiding the electronic monitor.
Yes. It is an Orwellian trap. Would be whistleblowers come forward and are awarded a scenic jail term under the Espionage Act - but only after being told they just didn't qualify under the conditions.
This is just like the old days when they banned Fannie Hill and Henry Miller's works. Every kid managed to somehow get a copy and trade it. That was 60 years ago. No internet, no globalization, just pure motivation.
Don't these people ever realize that censorship - of anything - just never works. It just makes people more curious than ever.
People who don't give encryption a second thought will then give it a third and a fourth. They'll probably use it for the thrill.
Why does everyone believe it WAS hacked? Because someone said so? Could it have been mere face-saving? Or the realization that actually doing so WOULD make everyone less safe but not knowing how to admit that? I'm a bit skeptical. Actually, a lot.
My name is Pythagoras J. A squared + B squared = C squared is my discovery and I use it to verify that an angle is a right angle [90 degrees]. I'm going to patent the process, because it IS a process, and for the next 17 (?) years if you want to make right angles so that buildings stand straight up ... well you CANT unless you pay me. So there! I own the patent. Mine, Mine, Mine.
What would Darwin have said about a species that allows themselves to be ruled by this absurdity?
Brought to you by the folks who jailed Gandhi because he was an extremist (he differed in opinions), who jailed and tortured peaceful dissidents throughout the ages and who still accept a poorly behaved monarchy as a rightful and proper adornment of their society? Wait until they use the latest face recognition software on the cameras ubiquitous in London to determine who on the street is and is not extreme. Off to the tower?
What we're seeing now is nothing more than the inevitable outcome of 'Brave new World' meets Capitalism. The most profitable creations now are not the steel mills of Carnegie, but the ones and zeros of a Jobs or a Gates. It is only natural that those ones and zeros, formerly not considered worth anything should now assume the status of property. Screwed up? Yes. But predictable. The fact that ones and zeros are little more than knowledge translates to knowledge becoming 'owned property.' Here's where Huxley's classes meet Orwell's 'Big Brother.'
Easy translation: The car you once owned and tuned up now becomes rented by you and illegal to tune up. The corporation owns the car and the process. With less people going to jail for Marijuana, we'll fill the jails with car-modders.
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As someone who has taught mathematics for over half a century I can find no parallel to this and am a loss to find similar foolishness. It seems vaguely analogous to our flailing attempt(s) to control the pandemic, without consulting Mother Nature, as wildly far-fetched as that may be.
We seek an unbreakable asynchronous method to hide a quantity, but then want to be able, only in the most strident of circumstances, to break that very method? And, of course, it should only be unbreakable by 'good' people with 'good' intentions?
Any student of mine who came to me with that objective, challenge, or call it whatever the hell you wish, would not pass my class.
Perhaps I should retire?
Jail, Jail, Jail
Would I love to see some of these characters sent away to Leavenworth. I think I'd actually vote for anyone who exhibited the fortitude to go after these crooks.
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A few things seem to me to be appropos:
1) As an educator, I feel I can no longer write student recommendations for admission to this college(?) should I be asked to do so.
2) Is there a method by which I can help fund exhibition of this work?
3) Is there a reproduction of this work for sale? I'm sure I can't afford the original, but I'd love to have a copy.
We ABSOLUTELY need encryption
Of course we need it. It's in the constitution - the 28th amendment. That's the encrypted one, the one encrypted by B. Franklin. Here's the actual text:
832ndouhcu9ay7hri23ndih8dhq3ouindiph80qwj3dij3idjw80h79eucneakmipscuheijqwixjuwhcuaicjaidjwqij d931dj9-2jdiwJCIAHCUEABUDNWidjiwqjd8q3jd92j9e38ry732yr8jdiwjipwnciadncipdmncidajcieajf8ehf8qjd9qjwdi cajcipmaicmeijviewjf8whf8qjd9-j3q9ei0=ie0lml934837536823j2ihnjlnjl3nrejnbuosh79chuoasnduqed8031jskNJ OUDHUWHDWIQJDIPWQHDUQWND
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Now I'm going to sue everyone who constructs right triangles: Lego, architects, artists, contractors...
All right triangles are MINE! MINE! MINE!
Idiocy rules!
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Problematic at its core.
Is 2+2 ALWAYS equal to 4? Can't we just have it equal to 4.1 when we need it to? But we have smart people; why can't they make it equal to 4.1, or maybe 4.05? We pay them a lot. They're really smart. Why can't they do this for us? Why must they be unpatriotic? We know they can do this, so why must they be so stubborn?
This comes from a serious lack of mathematical education that goes way, way back to elementary and middle school.
You cannot cure this without fundamental changes in our educational system.
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Let's get historical and REAL
Indiana + pi + 1897.
The last time I know of that morons tried to legislate math.
Had they been successful, it would not have ended well.
Certainly not for bicycle or ball bearing manufacturers.
Y'aint seen nuttin yet
1) Passage through the tolls is time stamped.
2) Passage from one to the other is calculated.
3) Your average speed s recorded.
4) In the future ( a year?, 2?) when you get your bill in the mail you'll get your s-p-e-e-d-i-n-g surcharge with it.
5) No more option of avoiding the electronic monitor.
'Cut Da Cord - RECIPE'
1. Start out paying $250+ per month for 5-set top boxes and all the premium channels.
2. Purchase 30 foot antenna mast and top quality HD antenna and install (cost
Re:
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Just like the old days
Don't these people ever realize that censorship - of anything - just never works. It just makes people more curious than ever.
People who don't give encryption a second thought will then give it a third and a fourth. They'll probably use it for the thrill.
naive?
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evolution = code+proteins+electricity+errors
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Google "Romania + Typewriters"
without the quotes of course....
Then go read something from Santayana
What is wrong with us?
What would Darwin have said about a species that allows themselves to be ruled by this absurdity?
Why the surprise?
Re: This really shouldn't be that difficult
Easy translation: The car you once owned and tuned up now becomes rented by you and illegal to tune up. The corporation owns the car and the process. With less people going to jail for Marijuana, we'll fill the jails with car-modders.
Don't laugh. The stage is being set.
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