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Yes, you can. Bruce Schneier did it. So did author Tim Ferriss. So did journalist Jim Harper.

Just because you show your ID three times doesn't mean others can't get away with not showing their IDs. http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/06/71115

Absolutely agreed, but once in a rare while that's kind of a good thing.

Just imagine a beowulf cluster of those...

That couldn't possibly be the reason I chose that particular quote as my signature, could it?

The FISA says that US persons may not be wiretapped without a warrant, even though others may be.

The indiscriminate tapping was witnesed by Mark Klein, the AT&T tech who they had install the network lines into the tapping room. But it's hard to prove what is being suppressed, including all evidence and witnesses, by fraudulent "national security" and "executive privilege" claims that are just covering up criminals, and endangering the national security, not protecting it.

The verdict of a Federal judge that Bush's wiretapping broke the law many times makes it impeachable.

The problem with finding a lawyer to challenge it is precisely the Republican activism to give telcos retroactive immunity - amnesty - to preempt legal cases citing those violations.

Oh, and talking about the ACLU (and it's fictional "deep pockets") as if its the boogeyman is really sleazy. Republican sleazy.

You Republicans aren't content with ruining the country with 7-14 years of this kind of Nixonian tyranny. You're still trying to make the rubble bounce, even after everything has left you but your trusty keyboards.

Sorry, but no.

Straight from the horse's mouth:
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/biztech/gatesivu.htm
http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/1997/01/1484

And part of the reason it's misattributed:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15180#fn*

He *implied* that 640k was a fair amount "for the time being" but that it would need to be significantly increased as technology proved more demanding. He never implied that "no-one will ever need more than 640k".

Excuse me, but have you read up on the things McCain has been saying over the last 10 years? When a man says one thing or takes a hard stance on something, then turns around later and says or does the complete opposite, and this on a regular basis, how can that be honorable or good? I undeerstand that people change their minds and morals, but McCain's record is full of these switches in position. I would call that a shill. If he stood by his principals instead of wanging them around in every direction in order to get power, I agree that he would probably be a good candidate. I give you two links, the first of which has already been posted, and the second I submit with a grain of salt, as it appears to be a fairly liberal site but it does lay out some of McCain's flip-flopping. As in all endeavors I hope all readers will think for themselves before embracing any of this. http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/06/mccain-id-spy-o.html http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/9111.html I once respected McCain for his campaign finance reform legislation, but over the last couple years my respect has dwindled to nothing after reading about him in the news and comparing him to what he used to say and do. He's just another politician, and my hope (however small) is that whoever runs against him will be a little more than just your average politician.

The Republicans will only vote for an R, unless their own candidate is so bad that they have to stay home. McCain may or may not be be that bad, but it remains to be seen.

I'm a Republican and I will not vote for McCain. I haven't decided who I would vote for otherwise but because he'd spy on Americans secretly too and because he voted to illegally permit a retroactive law to proceed there is no way I can support him for President.

Obama is full of shit just like an other politician and because Hillary again proved, with her inaction re: retroactive immunity for telecoms (she didn't even vote), that she's a fence riding cunt trying to pander to everyone -- I cannot vote for her either. This is going to be a very difficult decision for me.

I threw everything out the damn window that made me a Republican 8 years ago and until I see a positive change in that party I'm not going back. The Republicans dug the hole they are in. They have to dig themselves out now, and McCain is not the answer. He's already digging that hole deeper.

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/06/mccain-id-spy-o.html

http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2008/05/securitymatters_0529

17100 lawsuits as of December 2005.

If nearly 20000 people had been wrongly accused and bullied into settleing, every lawyer in the country would be trying to cash in with a giant class action lawsuit.

So if these guys are guilty, I'm wondering where is the proof and was it validated? Or do we simply take the **IA's word on this?

Settling means no proof is necessary and and we don't take anybody's word for it. It means the defendant would rather agree to the terms set by the person filing the lawsuit rather than go to trial.

Also, here's "proof" that at least some of the defendants are found guilty if they don't settle.

Besides that, I don't really see the point. What does this solve that just encrypting sensitive data wouldn't?
A lot. Remember when W. told OBL that we were listening in on their sat phones? Well, between that incident and the time that reagan gave up info about the KAL incident told a lot about our intel world (the 2 should have been swung, or gone on a hunting trip with cheney, for those actions of being traitors; it took several years for pilots to talk again and a number of interesting channels were shutdown in 2003). One of the things about the terrorists is that they are not just romantics. They are extremely bright (PhD's and MD all over). OBL went underground and pushed for hiding info. Of course, the issue is what package to look at. Well, when a small portion are encrypted, then it is trivial to find. of course that brings up the issue of whether the NSA can decrypt it? So, AQ has figured out that answer and needed another way to communicate. So they switched up to steg. Why? Because now, we have to hunt for these, figure out which packets to reassemble, which ORDER to assemble them, and then decrypt. That is DAMN difficult.

but our companies don't tend to engage in stealing the intellectual properties of others

"a leading trade group, said that U.S. intelligence officials have told him that the PLA in 2003 gained access to a network that controlled electric power systems serving the northeastern United States"

No, what really happened was the grid was overloaded and the SQL virus was playing havoc with connectivity, then a tree fell over and tripped out a line, which spread in a domino effect all the way to Canada. A similar virus tripped out the control system in a Nuclear power plant.

http://www.nationaljournal.com/njmagazine/cs_20080531_6948.php

"During the hour before the Aug. 14 blackout, engineers in the control center of an Ohio utility struggled to figure out why transmission lines were failing and complained that a computer failure was making it difficult to determine what was going on, transcripts of telephone communications released Wednesday show"

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2003/09/60285

"Software failure cited in August blackout investigation .. A malfunctioning alarm system may have played a big role in the outage Dan Verton Nov 20 2003"

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/gen-comm/info-notices/2003/in200314.pdf

http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/recovery/story/0,10801,87400,00.html

If you don't want to go there, the short version is that the data for hacking into the power systems is pretty darn weak.

Since we can't beat up Iran anymore, we have to have somebody to hate.

All this does is point out that the recent trend of building supercomputers out of inexpensive general purpose CPUs may not be a good idea for all applications.

And... a screwdriver is not always a prybar. A tool's a tool - they have preferred usage but if your requirement is specific and you're creative enough, you can do some fine work outside of the tool's intended purpose. Like this guy. Kudos to him.

Perhaps some more creative people finding this information will now discover if their specific requirements can be met by this interesting configuration. That will save them large quantities of cash or possibly enable some facility that was not previously available because supercomputers cost a grip-o-cash.

Of course for general purpose supercomputing you would want to use modified PS3s.

but because everyone was checking their bags and the only things brought on as carry-on were purses and briefcases. Now we are back to a family of fours luggage for a week long vacation in the overhead taking up all the space.

http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/05/turner-shuts-do.html

A Wired blog article says "several sources" have confirmed everyone not in charge of running the game services will be laid off. It doesn't sound like they're just making that up, nothing in the forum post mentions mid-june as a turning point of any kind, for example.

Depending on how you feel about the Open Handset Alliance it looks like Android has moved well past the vapor stage video here.

Apparently not so well.

Here they are, massive kick ass gimungous multinational software company, and the best they can do to demo graphics is FUCKING PAINT????

Damn. I bet they'll demo how good it is with games using PONG or something. MS is so hopelessly messed up. I don't care about the touchy feely stuff. I wanted WinFS. I wanted a real system level database so I could do Interesting Things. Instead, it was ripped out, and I was given VISTA. Now, I'm being shown how I can use my screen as a napkin for my greasy cheezypoof fingers as I scrawl kindergarten like drawings in PAINT.

don't they THINK about this crap before they foist it off on the world and call it "innovation"?

RS

You don't care for bacteria? They care about you.

"Most of the cells in your body are not your own, nor are they even human. They are bacterial. From the invisible strands of fungi waiting to sprout between our toes, to the kilogram of bacterial matter in our guts, we are best viewed as walking "superorganisms," highly complex conglomerations of human cells, bacteria, fungi and viruses...."

http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/news/2004/10/65252

Well, if we were putting together an engine or a rifle, I'd choose McCain. I don't think he's stupid, I just don't think he knows computers.

And I'm not basing this on them or their surrogates, I'm basing this on what I've read from their tech plans. McCain's plan is "do nothing" except for giving the telecoms amnesty for warrantless wiretapping. We've been falling behind in broadband for at least the last 8 years. Al Gore did not invent the internet, but he did a hell of a lot to keep us near the top of the pack, most of which we're only appreciating now.

Obama has a lengthy plan involving things like patent reform, net neutrality and open access. He has, by far, the best internet campaign yet that is out-organizing even established political machines like the Clinton campaign on every level.

So I can't even begin to compare the two, because it's absolutely, unambiguously clear that Obama is doing better with respect to technology than McCain. McCain has Steve Ballmer and Carly Fiorina as advisors, for crying out loud. He got the PHBs and lobbyists instead of the actual techies! And that's not all

Is "Obama is a lawyer!" the only crack you can give in reply? Well, NYCL is a lawyer, too. SOME of them actually fight the good fight, you know...

Here, you can read his stance on the issues directly. I disagree on some points, but Obama is still head & shoulders above the rest.

There's also this story.

It's embarrassing to see McCain suddenly pretend to be an environmentalist, then ducking all the actual, technical questions.

It would be nice if he were actually against telecom amnesty, but McCain is for it, he just wants some "radical transparency" (the Microsoft gimmick?) to let us know exactly how they're spying on us.

The Register was right in 2003 to be "skeptical" of the merits of any fair use analysis that asserts that space-shifting or format-shifting is a noninfringing use. ... This is particularly the case in today's market, where inexpensive legitimate digital copies of most types of works are readily available, and increasingly can be obtained through online download services. Where a market is functioning to serve the demand otherwise being fulfilled by unauthorized copying, the likelihood that the unauthorized copying is fair use is diminished.

and

Similarly, creating a back-up copy of a music CD is not a non-infringing use.

Digital watermarks are one possibility. Not that I support such systems, but they're probably on the way.

Quote: I'm an anarcho-capitalist, and a huge supporter of property rights, both physical and intellectual. For an Ancap intellecutal property rights should be highly suspicious, as you can easily read in "Machinery of freedom" from David Freedman. There is a very very easy and incredibly cheap way to protect your "intellectual property": keep it for you and don't disclose it! All the beneficiaries of "intellectual property" need the state to protect their "property" and the taxpayers money for the incredibly high cost of defending their "intellectual property". The rolling stones make Millions when they tour the world. Do they really need taxpayers money to make sure nobody sells bootlegs from they CDs? There are few ways in this world how you can become filthy rich. Most of them are: * "intellectual property" (Rock bands, Software companies like Microsoft) * work with FIAT money like Banks (government issued paper money) * Real estate (shortage of land by government regulations. You can't just start building a house where space is available) All this areas where disproportionate amount of money can be earned are highly government regulated and resources are artificially limited, money and wealth gets distributed from the bottom to the top. I wish this would become true: http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/news/2008/05/seasteading?currentPage=all

But if there's been a comparable success by a band that hasn't already gained its cultural capital and name-recognition through the evils of copyright and corporate promotion, I'd like to know about it.

Jonathan Coulton?

Actually, they can and they do.

So now that some scientist worked his ass off, farmers that don't want or buy their GM product are no longer allowed to save and replant seed exactly the same way they've done for all of human history?

That scientist's work is based on the intellectual property of the farmers. Have you ever seen natural maize? It's not all the same color like that corn you by at your grocery. Just because they aren't in the lab splitting genes doesn't mean their crops aren't GM'ed already.

Need a more recent example? When the US Govt started dropping Roundup in Central and South America to wipe out cocaine crops, guess what happened? Farmers bred roundup ready coke faster than Monsanto's scientists could have in the lab.

All Monsanto has done is step into an open source project and close it. Monsanto is the one trying to change the rules. Fuck Monsanto and fuck their scientists. Farmers will do just fine without them.

Jeffrey Gerard Levy was actually the first person convicted of felony copyright infringement without profit motive under the 1997 NET Act. The University of Oregon threw him to the wolves when he was 22 years old. He was given two years probation.

Others have already pointed out that criminal copyright infringement in the US is far older than Bill Clinton, but that does not excuse him for the 1997 NET Act. Before that act, imprisonment for sharing without profit motive was not an option. I'd say America has enough prisoners already. America claims 5% of the world's population, but 25% of the the world's imprisoned population.

How exactly was he "right in the middle of it?"

He was a science writer at MIT. Pons and Fleischmann's work was at the U of Utah.

Dr. Mallove also worked at MIT where he uncovered serious manipulation of data on the cold fusion experiments there in 1989. This led him to resign his position at MIT over 10 years ago and begin researching the truth behind cold fusion and other new energy discoveries, and eventually led to his publishing the first issue of Infinite Energy in 1995. See interview for further details from his perspective.

http://www.wanttoknow.info/eugenemallove

Sorry, but if I have to choose between literally hundreds of mainstream scientists who are unable to reproduce Pons and Fleishmann's work, and this guy, I know who I'm gonna believe.

There are plenty who (are) get(ting) interesting results as well:

By 1991, 92 groups of researchers from 10 different countries had reported excess heat, tritium, neutrons or other nuclear effects.[73] Over 3,000 cold fusion papers have been published including about 1,000 in peer-reviewed journals (see indices in further reading, below). In March 1995, Dr. Edmund Storms compiled a list of 21 published papers reporting excess heat and articles have been published in peer reviewed journals such as Naturwissenschaften, European Physical Journal A, European Physical Journal C, Journal of Solid State Phenomena, Physical Review A, Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, and Journal of Fusion Energy (see indices in further reading, below).

The generation of excess heat has been reported by (among others):

* Michael McKubre, director of the Energy Research Center at SRI International,
* Giuliano Preparata (ENEA (Italy))
* Richard A. Oriani (University of Minnesota, in December 1990),
* Robert A. Huggins (at Stanford University in March 1990),
* Yoshiaki Arata (Osaka University, Japan),
* T. Mizuno (Hokkaido University, Japan),
* T. Ohmori (Japan),

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion#Experimental_reports

"Despite a backdrop of meager funding and career-killing derision from mainstream scientists and engineers, cold fusion is anything but a dead field of research. Presenters at the MIT event estimated that 3,000 published studies from scientists around the world have contributed to the growing canon of evidence suggesting that small but promising amounts of energy can be generated using the infamous tabletop apparatus."

"MIT's Peter Hagelstein, on the other hand, said "cold fusion" reactions have yielded surplus energy from as far back as the initial experiments in 1989. Verification of these controversial results is not the problem -- many labs around the world have reproduced parts of the results many times. "

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/08/cold_fusion?currentPage=all#

Navy Discovers Cold Fusion (again):
http://www.zpenergy.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2292

"Last March, scientists at the annual conference of the august American Physical Society heard presentations on cold fusion. Next month, the Second International Conference on Future Energy will be held in Washington, D.C.

I just started on a "neurotropics regimen" and one of the things I'm taking is modalert (cheap provigil) I've been taking that and other standard stuff (ginko, B-complex, amino's, dhea, C, etc..) for about 5 days @100MG/day.

It's pushed that "post lunch drowsy need a nap" feeling back to about 7pm, and by then I'm up and around (not behind the desk)so there's no worries. My focus is better during the day. Haven't gotten any headaches but most people use 200mg a day from what I read. I've also noticed that I'm in a better overall mood. (of course with me tired=grumpy so...)

I get roughly 5-6 hours of sleep a night and have had no issues at all. I did notice the "You know you're tired, but you don't think/act like you're tired" thing and yeah it's really odd. But I found that if you add a Monster Coffee in the morning it REALLY boosts the whole effect and the "ghost tiredness" is lessened a lot.

Wired had an Article on "smart drugs" and they did a reader survey.

I just started on a "neurotropics regimen" and one of the things I'm taking is modalert (cheap provigil) I've been taking that and other standard stuff (ginko, B-complex, amino's, dhea, C, etc..) for about 5 days @100MG/day.

It's pushed that "post lunch drowsy need a nap" feeling back to about 7pm, and by then I'm up and around (not behind the desk)so there's no worries. My focus is better during the day. Haven't gotten any headaches but most people use 200mg a day from what I read. I've also noticed that I'm in a better overall mood. (of course with me tired=grumpy so...)

I get roughly 5-6 hours of sleep a night and have had no issues at all. I did notice the "You know you're tired, but you don't think/act like you're tired" thing and yeah it's really odd. But I found that if you add a Monster Coffee in the morning it REALLY boosts the whole effect and the "ghost tiredness" is lessened a lot.

Wired had an Article on "smart drugs" and they did a reader survey.

People don't go after Linux desktops because they are much harder to break into. What about all those nix servers out there. Linux isn't 'immune' but when properly configured you don't get infected by 'malware' merely by clicking on an URL or opening an email attachment.

Bank: N.H. Hannaford Customers' Cards Compromised

International Hackers Indicted for Sniffing Credit Cards from Dave & Buster's"

Windows sure has the most market share in getting your CreditCard stolen .. :)

From what I understand, cloned beef is now in the food supply, so they may have advanced their techniques since the show you saw was produced.

First episode, mid-2007:

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/TV_Episode.aspx?episode=1

Cloned meat in food supply, early-2008 (Wired says it already is, NPR says it is approved):

http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/15-11/ff_clonedmeat
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18137332

Farmer states that progeny of clones are in food supply on this page:

http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/15-11/ff_clonedmeat?currentPage=4

From what I understand, cloned beef is now in the food supply, so they may have advanced their techniques since the show you saw was produced.

First episode, mid-2007:

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/TV_Episode.aspx?episode=1

Cloned meat in food supply, early-2008 (Wired says it already is, NPR says it is approved):

http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/15-11/ff_clonedmeat
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18137332

Farmer states that progeny of clones are in food supply on this page:

http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/15-11/ff_clonedmeat?currentPage=4

Let's hope that this company has greater success than earlier ones...

(Yeah, I know that the wired article says "Dead cats", but Genetic Savings & Clone was also a dog cloning company)

Not a bad idea, until you see how it works.

You're not getting a discount. You're getting a rebate. So you're still paying the full price, it's just that you'll get some money back at some point in the future--60 days, to be precise.

China Mieville Doesn't Believe in Floating Libertarian Utopias

"Government is an industry with a really high barrier to entry," he said. "You basically need to win an election or a revolution to try a new one. That's a ridiculous barrier to entry. And it's got enormous customer lock-in." -- Wired

If one of these were built, and if i had my own billions, there'd be wrath upon ANYone trying to declare my abode non-sovereign. There has come the time when nations need to be reigned in to SOME point, and where a passport acts ONLY as proof of citizenship, not as a means to deny re-entry to one's place of birth, and not as a means to prevent one from exiting (provided no real or tangible crimes have been committed. Of course, there's nothing to stop nations from fabricating crimes or committing outright character assassination or incarceration or murder against people who decry onerous expectations of citizens. I was born here, at The Presidio, served 4 years in the USN and I damned well shall retain my right to call a spade a spade and fools fools and not have my citizenship stripped just because of that.

I'm a citizen of Earth and a legal resident of where ever I work and pay my taxes. So long as I'm not killing, maiming, stealing, or destroying physical property no nation should deny me (or others) free (but crime-free) travel. After all, consider that in 200 years or so or when/if we achieve space travel (as in Trek), what value will fiefdom-like "state" borders have?

http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/news/2008/05/seasteading?currentPage=all

Some real/some tongue-in-cheek micronations:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_micronations

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Another interesting case:
http://www.sealandgov.org/history.html

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According to this http://blog.wired.com/games/2007/08/wii-the-greenes.html/, the Wii uses 17 watts of energy, compared to the PS3's 171 watts and the 360 Elite's 194 watts.

Doesn't this make th Wii the greenest? OK, so it may not be the easiest to recycle, but it's an order of magnitude better on power consumption!

Why does face-recognition software read to me as submission of mankind
to machine?

One should really wonder WHO is demanding this computer based
face-recognition as any normal human being doesn't need such a pony
show.

Why has it become normal practice to store all of our phone and email
data inside insane huge database networks? Again for a normal human
being there's no added value in this, except for less obvious reasons.

For many it has become evident that our average President, Prime
Minister and Bundes Kanzler have become puppet rulers only. Given the
rapid increasing impact and importance of these new computer based
technologies, a real research of WHO our hidden and unknown rulers are,
is not only forum discussion material for conspiracy theory freaks, but
has today become a vital real world issue and valid question.

As Democratic elections have descended into a headstock cupboard game
only, post-election policies in recent years became independent of
which party had won. Most of the time the "New" post-election policies
only subdue the rights and prosperity of mankind.

If one accepts such considerations as real world facts, its not far
fetched to conclude that the hidden and unknown rulers are not human
but most probable are computer based machines, hybrids or even cyborgs.
An interesting essay on this was already written in the year 2000 :

"Why the future doesn't need us"
  by Bill Joy, Wired, April 2000
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy_pr.html

The networks probably offered Tivo some money to honor the flag

"Offering money", copyright industry style:
If you do what we tell you to do, we'll let you keep your earnings. Consider it a gift from us to you.

If you don't do what we tell you to do, we will drag you through through endless litigation costing you a million dollars a month(*). If doesn't matter if our cases are bogus or not, we'll run you into bankruptcy. Period. "Hardware maker Sonicblue has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection... The company has been fighting a lawsuit by the entertainment industry over technology in its ReplayTV device that lets people skip commercials.

(*) $1 million per month = $3 million per three months = "Litigation costs, for one, have had a crippling effect on companies like Sonicblue, which spends $3 million a quarter fighting lawsuits, according to Greg Ballard, CEO of Sonicblue, which manufactures ReplayTV. Twenty-eight media companies are suing Ballard's company."

I hope the media industry never "offers me money". I don't think I could afford it.

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