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Comment on Vigilante privacy audits by Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 06:48:00 +0000

Vigilance as opposed to vigilante.
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Comment on Why everything you know about the Metric System is wrong and what it means for Identity Systems by G.G. Heitmann

G.G. Heitmann — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 22:38:41 +0000

I would love if the scientists used metric (and maybe spoke Esperanto?) but I would like to keep the English units for the reasons you describe and more. It’s not that hard to know both English and metric. I don’t see why what Americans currently do is bad….

I was born an American, but now live in New Zealand (which, btw, is a great place) and the Metric system really annoys me. Sure, it’s great to do math with, but most of the time, when you’re measuring something, you’re not doing it so you can do calculations on it, and metric units aren’t as useful as English units, because English units were invented by real people hoping to convey real-world information. The metric system… defining length as a portion of the length of a meridian? Could there be a method less based on human experience? When I was walking from the North Pole to the Equator last year, this is about how far I had gotten when I thought, “gee, I’m one ten-millionth of the way there!”

Problem 1: Because units are not human-based, you have to memorize more reference points or abandon units altogether. For example, a person might say they’re 190 cm tall. It takes a lot of units the width of your finger to get to the height of a person. The same person is 6 foot 3. 6 foot 3 is immediately recognizable as three inches more than tall. If you know someone 6 foot 3 in the US, and you describe them to a friend, you probably say “he’s 6 foot 3.” If you describe your tall friend to a friend in New Zealand, you say, “he’s really tall… I mean, he doesn’t hit his head on door frames or anything, but he’s taller than most people we know.”

Problem 2: Sometimes you can be stuck with too much or not enough precision. My office has a digital thermostat. When it’s set to 23 degrees, most folks complain that it is too warm. When it’s set to 22, we’re chilly. Thanks, Celcius. You may think it’s neato that 0 freezes and 100 boils, but really, you just condensed the range of reasonable temperatures for a human to be in from 20-100 to -7-38. 50C onwards is useless to people just living life.

Problem 3: Precision has become a mystery. People here talk in millimeters – sometimes it’s appropriate, sometimes it’s not – you can never tell. The way I was taught to describe a measurement was that the smallest part of that measurement defined the precision, for example, something four feet long is longer than 3.5 feet and shorter than 4.5 feet. Something that is 4 feet, no inches is within a half inch of being 4 feet exactly. Or if you mix in decimals, like many Americans do, something that is 4.00 feet long, is really, really close to being 4 feet exactly. Here, people are always saying things like, “It’s 1200 mm long” when they don’t mean anything nearly that precise. They might mean something like it’s 1.2 meters long, but for some reason, they express it in mm. This happens with milliliters and grams too, though maybe not as much (or as noticeably). I know this is a usage thing, and not strictly the fault of the metric system, but I think separating the units from a human-scaled derivation may have broken the sense of which units are appropriate for which job.

Problem 4: People think 100km/hour is fast because it’s got 3 digits. 100 miles/hour is fast.

Comment on Why everything you know about the Metric System is wrong and what it means for Identity Systems by Exactly how big is a kg? | Identity Blogger

Exactly how big is a kg? | Identity Blogger — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 11:56:37 +0000

[...] Originally the metric system was supposed to be defined in terms of “natural laws” that the common man could measure for himself. The kg was originally defined as a cubic decimeter of water under certain conditions. This is probably what you were taught in school, one of many metric misconceptions (see why everything you know about the metric system is wrong). [...]

Comment on Did you get DC source code for Christmas? by Dwayne Tucker

Dwayne Tucker — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 06:56:58 +0000

It is very likely that you already have a running Samba3 domain on your network. The question is, how do you migrate that domain and all of its users and machines over to a new Samba 4 based domain without having to move every user profile and machine to the new domain? The answer is the samba-tool domain classicupgrade function.

Comment on Graph API for Windows Azure Active Directory by Nik

Nik — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 20:28:34 +0000

Jeff, very good point about very little attention being paid to this. As the world starts to move to the cloud, this ability is going to become quite useful. For internal non-cloud based environments though, other things, especially security, tend to be more important, at least for now. (For eg, I've been researching Active Directory Privilege Escalation and it seems an equally unknown area as well.) Thanks also for the link to the presentation - good stuff!

Comment on SPML and DSML search filters not so hard by Specs, Patterns, and Provisioning | Identity Blogger

Specs, Patterns, and Provisioning | Identity Blogger — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 01:13:40 +0000

[...] to support search filters of arbitrary complexity. I have never considered it that hard and have posted sample code to demonstrate [...]

Comment on Pulling LDAP by Marcus Uy

Marcus Uy — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 06:07:18 +0000

Cool point! My company (and my project) have actually implemented this. Our product uses simpleSAMLphp with our flagship web-portal software to create a slick user and services portal.

One of our configuration options is to use an Active Directory domain as an authentication source instead of our default database back-end. The net result is a SAML-ActiveDirectory bridge.

For the purposes of discussion, this means that I can use Google Apps, with the existing user names and passwords already provisioned in my Windows Domain without exposing my passwords to Google.

I’ve always been a little horrified of the sync-based design they offered by default.

Comment on SPML and DSML search filters not so hard by Vladimir Dumchikov

Vladimir Dumchikov — Mon, 30 May 2011 14:43:07 +0000

Hi,
Nice post, one thing that might be helpful for those who are writing an SPML client. Softerra SPML library can be used for such a case. In fact it is a .NET equivalent of java open SPML.

Comment on SPML and DSML search filters not so hard by Prakash

Prakash — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 20:49:30 +0000

Thanks for posting this. How do i query all users through searchrequest?
example PSP: Sun IdM

Thanks

Comment on Why everything you know about the Metric System is wrong and what it means for Identity Systems by beneficii

beneficii — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 18:27:37 +0000

“Ah, breathe in the Orwellian goodness of that statement. The Metric System is so superior to other forms of measurement it has been mandated on the people by the force of law. All for their own good of course. ”

It’s not Orwellian at all. It has for centuries been recognized that fixing the standard of weights and measures is a legitimate power of government. It’s even in the U.S. Constitution, “The Congress shall have Power…[t]o…fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;…” (Article I, Section 8). It seems that some of the Founders–Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and George Washington especially–wanted us to adopt a proto-metric system, and they expected that Congress would show leadership in its adoption. Here is a good source on that here:

http://metricationmatters.com/docs/USAMetricSystemHistory.pdf