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How has the rise of the web affected your life?

well, an unnecessary abstraction layer in internetworked computing conjured out of thin air by Euro academics for essentially marketing purposes...that hasn't really done jack sh*t for me

now..."the internet"...that's pretty much changed every aspect of my life in some way or another...

December 9th 1968...**that's** the internet's birthday!

Exactly. Though we don't know if he had coordinated with the hospital about flying near the landing zone,

His court filing is online (and linked from elsewhere in the thread) - it makes clear that he did in fact coordinate with them. http://www.wired.com/images_bl...

Many of them are already industry lawyers to begin with.

http://www.wired.com/threatlev...

Crashing the Wiretapper's Ball ( 06.01.06)
http://www.wired.com/science/d... shows some of the thinking at the time.
EU & FBI launch global telecommunications surveillance system (Statewatch bulletin, January-February 1997, vol 7 no 1)
http://www.statewatch.org/eufb... The idea was for the US gov to make sure all new emerging digital devices from a phone (POTS) replacement to ISP card at an exchange to consumer level/quality text encryption was US wiretap friendly i.e. as e.g. an old POTS was to tracking all calls logs and voice recordable.
US telco industry and multinationals at the time faced the costly US only privilege for having to retool (expensive tested software, encryption and new hardware) just for the US market and would be at a disadvantage if costs grew.
The stigma of a US brand been US wiretap friendly may not have sold well if other countries could claim that a lower price competing product was more secure.
Over time the US gov fixed the issue with international law enforcement treaties, gov letters setting global telco products to be of a standard that US law enforcement liked (cost and encryption).
Most telco products where going to be compliant to US standards - and be US wiretap friendly with costs passed on - no US firms or bands where going to be left with huge costs.

I remember him saying that it was the hardware that would be free...

Well yeah. I said it would be slow. But GP wanted standardized, so until the US switches to 240 outlets as a standard... well. And 240 is hardly impossible in the US. Most homes use 240 for a few appliances already.

According to the ,Tesla calculator, it would take just over 2 full days (52 hours) for the absolute worst case scenario : completely drained batteries, 120V 12A power, single onboard charger. Of course, that's obviously not tenable, but on flip side, if you commute 50 miles round-tip every day, a house plug can fill 'er up in about 8 hours.

I guess it all depends on the definition of "standard." GP wanted a standardized Tesla charging solution. If you consider 240 standard, then we're already there. A full charge (300 miles) takes a little over 9 hours on a standard 240 plug. Certainly fast enough to let the car operate at maximum on a daily basis. Road trip options are still somewhat limited, but not impossible

Why The Future Doesn't Need Us.

by Bill Joy (then Chief Scientist at Sun Microsystems) from the April 2000 issue of Wired magazine:
http://www.wired.com/wired/arc...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...

In reply to your subject: did you know about the hippo farming plan? Apparently it was a big deal like a hundred years ago when we had a "meat problem" in the united states.

Random link: http://www.wired.com/wiredscie...

Remember about the recent hacks on Mat Honan? Made possible in part by our friend auto-wiping. Ever seen Tom Scott's video on what would happen if someone hacked into Google and shut off password checking? Note the part where everyone's Android phones get wiped. This is the government saying that's a good idea and needs to be required by law.

-Nathan2055

No, but it can, and often is, misintepreted. See: http://www.wired.com/wiredscie...

http://www.wired.com/wiredscie...

I suppose that dead salmon should get credits for social science classes in such case...

Which is false.

It's really too bad that you don't know what the fuck you are talking about, but chose to claim that I was wrong rather than asking for clarification. You aren't expected to know everything, and you can make mistakes, but if you don't know what someone is talking about then shut the fuck up until you do. Thanks.

The US did have a case on tracking patron records from a library. The National Security Letter aspect was taken to court and then dropped once in open court.
Some details at:
Librarians' NSL Challenge
https://www.aclu.org/national-...
Federal Judge Finds National Security Letters Unconstitutional, Bans Them (03.15.13)
http://www.wired.com/threatlev...

What if they are required by the NSA (along with the "don't disclose that we are asking this") to give them your passwords? Giving the control to an US company could go very wrong. Even Hushmail that promised to have all your information encrypted gave it to the feds... and they are Canadians.

http://www.wired.com/wiredente...

And Google Fiber is already having positive effects on their cable competition:

http://consumerist.com/2013/01...

http://www.pcworld.com/article...

Spoken like a paid government blogger.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroo...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11...

Its ok, its the same reason the puppets on the potomac do what they are told.

you guys are just getting a little obvious now.

Well there is a secret patriot act, and the NARUS system is public knowledge due to the Room 641a debacle.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroo...

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

And Narus partners had some major funding from InQtel who is the CIA...LOLz...obvious much ???

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

This all makes sense if you brush up on your kissinger quotes.

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

Alot of ppl don't realize this has been going on for a long while even to the
point of puppeteering the media.

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

Orwell,Quigley, and Huxley were prophets...

Don't need to be. Stuxnet got into Iran's offline nuclear program computers on a USB stick. The trick is making a really hellaciously virulent bit of malicious software, something that can become a global-level nuisance, and in time it'll find its way onto the target machines.

http://www.wired.com/threatlev...

Keep in mind that this isn't an application that needs great service. Your data rates do not have to be Netflix via high-speed broadband in every County. They just have to be quicker then driving the car to a dealership and waiting for the service tech to get around to setting shit up. For example, if you simply include an ethernet jack on the dashboard you've got a much better system then the one Toyota's using.

According to Wired:
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2...
The Tesla can either use it's own 3G connection, or use your home WiFi.

At the end you basically get the Church report.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
Jimmy Carter’s forgotten history lesson
http://www.salon.com/2013/07/1...
"....President Carter attempted to clean up the CIA, firing almost 20 percent of its employees...."
The good news in 2014 is more people using the web, in the wider press now understand more about aspects of crypto and the reality of the "keys" over time too:
"Judges Poised to Hand U.S. Spies the Keys to the Internet" (02.03.14)
http://www.wired.com/threatlev...
Welcome to digital East Germany :)

Party games tend to be limited to the Nintendo platforms. If you want them, go there. Most people are happy without them.

I was thinking of this in part from a developer's perspective. Nintendo hasn't been kind to startup developers (source 1; source 2).

By "paywalled", I meant pay-to-win, or free-to-start-playing-but-pay-through-the-nose-if-you-want-to-play-for-more-than-ten-minutes.

Would that include any PC game with a demo that can be completed in ten minutes?

As far as the old article is concerned, the problem was that the Lottery commission, in order to maintain sales, interfered with the actual randomization. Every pack of 1,000 tickets sent to a store has so many $2, $5, and $20 winners. A clerk at the store paying attention would open a new pack of a thousand tickets and keep track of the winners. If there were fewer than expected, then it actually made sense to buy the last 150 tickets of the pack (using friends and accomplices)

Nope. While this may be another way to hack some lottery tickets, this is not what happened in the GP's link scenario. You can read more of the details about the statistician who publicized the problem here.

Basically, on the tickets in question, there were a lot of exposed numbers on the tickets that were visible before you bought the ticket. There were a few hidden numbers that you scratched off after you bought the ticket and tried to match to the ones that were already visible.

The problem was that in order to make a certain number of winners at various levels per batch, they used an algorithm that unintentionally created recognizable patterns in the exposed numbers. (In other words, creating "wins" in pseudo-randomness required the algorithm to leave clues in visible numbers.) Thus, by looking at the exposed numbers before buying the ticket, someone would have a high likelihood of guessing which tickets were winners.

So true. But DNA security is more that an issue of privacy. In the near future, understanding the human genome will make possible developing bioweapons targeted at individuals (with collateral damage) as well as bioweapons that could probably kill all humans exposed to the pathogen (like Ebola). We have, up to now, been protected by the obscurity and complexity of the issue. With advanced computers, vast data collection, and improved scientific understanding, creating individual and global bioweapons will become college-level biochemistry. Maybe not this decade, but probably within several decades (my guesstimate). In that sense, the movie GATTACA was a utopian fantasy, because people did not live in fear of apocalypse every day given everyone's DNA was known precisely and used for identification.

For current trends, consider recent US government activities (but other countries might do it too):
"U.S. Chases Foreign Leaders' DNA, WikiLeaks Shows"
http://www.wired.com/dangerroo...
"State Department representatives didn't immediately respond to questions about why diplomats need to acquire DNA and other biometric data on foreigners, what State does with any biometric information it gets, or how long the department retains it."

And also:
http://www.theatlantic.com/mag...
"The U.S. government is surreptitiously collecting the DNA of world leaders, and is reportedly protecting that of Barack Obama. Decoded, these genetic blueprints could provide compromising information. In the not-too-distant future, they may provide something more as well--the basis for the creation of personalized bioweapons that could take down a president and leave no trace. "

Unlike private encryption keys for a computer system, or a lock and key for your front door, you can't easily change your DNA if someone else gets a sample of it (like from a used drinking glass). In fact, so far, you can't significantly change your DNA at all. And the fact is, probably almost every citizen in the Western world already has taken some kind of medical test where potentially, if archived, their specific DNA would be available. So, we are probably already all compromised..

So, sadly, this trend towards increased genetic understanding may eventually mean the end of human day-to-day living as we know it in the near future (if not actual life). Individually targeted weapons are actually a lesser worry. Imagine a vast plague launched by some genetic-script kiddy showing off how "1eet" they are. Imagine a flu season where just everyone who gets it dies a few weeks after seemingly getting well -- and where everyone gets it. Or imagine perhaps 10 bad flu seasons in a row year after year, each with 30% mortality like the black plague.

Remember, unlike computer viruses, you can't right now just issue a patch for human DNA. And even if you could, the patch itself might be deadly. So avoidance may be the only option if the virus has been specifically designed to target some newly discovered human weakness in all human DNA.

Of course, we face similar risks in theory with nanotechnology, and groups like the Foresight Institute have discussed them. But, nanotechnology in the form of sophisticated mobile nanobots is still theoretical. Biotechnology and disease is a reality of our every day lives.

Preventing this risk of a 100% fatal designer plague would probably mean changing large aspects of how we live. This might include living in air-tight Biosphere-II-like structures and/or space habitats. Could it be that human tribalism and sparring at borders had evolutionary adaptive value to keep tribes mostly isolated to prevent disease transmission? Perhaps things might even go so far as never being in the physical presence of another human being and never receiving a physical object including food from outside your enclosure (

Worse than that. The one putting backdoors in Huawei networking gear is the NSA itself.

The link from the other guy was not in a reply to your outrageous lies, so here it goes:
http://www.wired.com/wiredente...

Living in a surveillance state like china or the US is one thing. Denying it and accusing only the other country of being a fascistic surveillance state is ridiculous.

http://www.wired.com/wiredente...

Marked by a senseless, disorienting, often menacing complexity.
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Kafkaesque

Usage: At one point, Judge Alsup dismissed the case. A federal appeals court reinstated it in 2012, more than a year after Alsup tossed it. A month before Ibrahim’s trial, the judge said he learned the Kafkaesque truth. “I feel that I have been had by the government,” he said in a November pretrial conference. http://www.wired.com/threatlev...

"there is no hard line for life beginning. (And indeed, life ending..."
Yes, there is: when the brain dies, you become dead. That's it. No brain activity - no life.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscie...

Wrong. Here's one:

http://www.wfaa.com/news/local...

Sure, his helicopter didn't crash, but either this was 1 accident, or it was worse than an accident, it was deliberate assault, which doesn't help the case.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroo...

Four more people hospitalized and blinded. This one is extra-crazy since it's military "friendlies".

Note also that non-laser light sources have been a problem in the past.

These were two of the first three results for "laser dazzle accidents" (no quotes) -- the other was an allegation that the car accident that lead to Princess Di's death may have been caused by intentional laser dazzle which I don't have the time of patience to follow up on right now.

Maybe it got rolled into the secret patriot act....

http://www.wired.com/dangerroo...

Amazed the man hasn't had his Mercedes explode like Michael Hastings,
oh wait he doesn't own a Mercedes he will be fine. (/sarcasm)

According to Wired: 2004.

Consider that I wanted to buy a game for my wife, but that game was no longer offered for sale because original company went out of business and was sold. Under the no-resale model, I'm SOL.

Under a no-resale model there's incentive for whoever ends up with the rights to the game(since it's a complete package it's difficult to seperate out the IP to make the game unsellable) to market it. Also, a company that owns a number of still selling games is a bit like an author with a dozen older books sending in revenue - it might not make him rich, but it's enough that he can survive a few flops.

Another point is that, as I mentioned, there are positive benefits. I never said that there wouldn't be negatives. Whether the net effect is positive or negative for the end consumer depends on their consumption style. Whether it's a net positive or net negative depends on how you rate everything.

I found a related study(or maybe just the same study and I'm remembering a different spin). It's here

slashdot ate my link?

Study

Please....

This is a few months ago, but they've been circling the drain for a while.

Nice cameltoe on the portly Mark Karpeles (MtGox's owner)... :)

http://www.wired.com/wiredente...

#2 is wrong. They did something much easier and cheaper. They just stole a valid key and signed it. No super computer needed.

Shame, I'd actually like to discuss this topic. But, then I'd be jeopardizing every future discussion.

Javascript dancing baloney and giant pretty pictures belong on USA Today, not Slashdot.

The meat of Slashdot, the substance that draws viewers here instead of the alternatives, is the comments. Lose those comments and you will lose the eyeballs. Lose the eyeballs and you will lose the ad revenue.

Alternatively, you can accept that you made a mistake, keep Slashdot classic, and keep the steady flow of cash. Make the right business decision, here, Dice. Don't kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.

Alternative alternative: Dice; make us an offer. If you really have written this thing off, give us your stats so we can crunch the numbers and tell us your price. It should be pretty clear that the path you're on will not be lucrative, so show your lowest and best offer. There's some pretty affluent folks here, and this place is important to us. If the workers at Harley Davidson could do it, surely it is possible for us to do the same.

No legitimate discussion until Slashdot classic is restored. Sacrifice a few days of discussion now to save all the days in the future. The Spirit of Mohdri Dragon Lives! (feel free to get drunk and naked while posting)

Javascript dancing baloney and giant pretty pictures belong on USA Today, not Slashdot.

The meat of Slashdot, the substance that draws viewers here instead of the alternatives, is the comments. Lose those comments and you will lose the eyeballs. Lose the eyeballs and you will lose the ad revenue.

Alternatively, you can accept that you made a mistake, keep Slashdot classic, and keep the steady flow of cash. Make the right business decision, here, Dice. Don't kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.

No legitimate discussion until Slashdot classic is restored. Sacrifice a few days of discussion now to save all the days in the future. The Spirit of Mohdri Dragon Lives! (feel free to get drunk and naked while posting)

I *LOVE* Slashdot. That's why I have spent so much time creating comments that I hope add value to the discourse, and put so much effort into my otherwise tenuous self-restraint regarding flaming. I come here to read comments, and to add value to the comment trees. I am happy for Dice to make a profit selling ads on the content our community creates by playing host.

That is a really good trade for all of us, Dice. Don't screw it up.

As for my personal #1 gripe: Don't require Javascript to read comments. OpenStreetMaps is content that begs to be browsed dynamically. Reading a comment tree is an almost entirely static endeavor. Keeping Javascript disabled on most sites is something I'm guessing a large portion of the audience here does. And remember: The audience creates the content. Lose one, you lose the other.

The Spirit of Mohdri Dragon Lives!

I've got to say I regard you as a tinfoil-hatter;

You do that.

your comments border on the nonsensical, especially the part where you justify six murder attempts by glibly assuming that the victims must have all tried to (evilly!) blackmail the guy who set up this crime network.

That's what newspaper says, actually. And I'm not "justifying" anything, just pointing out that this particular criminal enterprise doesn't seem to have resulted in any harm to anyone who didn't actively participate.

Ulbricht doesn't seem to be a nice person, but he also was not exactly a mafioso setting up territory. In your words, he's "not a guy who did things we should be concerned about" because, frankly, I care absolutely nothing if people get high, as long as they don't bother me about it. And like I said, the crazy junkie looking for the next hit couldn't use Silk Road.

And your breathless account of how the Silk Road model promises to take violent crime out of the illicit drug trade is just absurd.

Yet you fail to refute any part of it. You specifically fail to refute the assertion that removing thugs fighting over street corners and replacing them with postal orders lessens violence.

"Outdated business models" is code for "I don't like paying for things, but want them anyway"

No, it's code for "your attempts to make money are futile, since the assumptions they're based on have been made obsolete by technological innovations or changing social or economic conditions".

It can revolutionize teaching if done the right way. You need structure and a learning environment where the students have freedom to pursue as well.

Bare in mind this citation above was in Mexico where there is a ton less presure on teachers to follow through circulumn to ensure test scores. Teaching today folks is very different than when we went to school thanks to No Child Left Behind. Teachers are handed a list of +90 topics to go over in 3 months! So the time to experiment which has proven test results can not happen as the only goal is to raise test scores based on all +90 topics in a very short window to teach it.

But it is possible and technology can help garner research, display data visually (nice aid for students learning graphing), and can apply math and science principles to projects like Lego mindstorm make learning it easier.

"So you are turning off and removing the battery from your Cell Phone? No?"

Pretty soon, that won't matter either, with MIT developing wireless radios that rely on nothing other than power from the wireless signals floating all around us. That's why I use a Faraday Bag to put my devices in when I am not actively using them.

"And you are worried about your CAR?"

There, FTFY.

It's still my car. If I want my car's exact speed, location, route and destination being sent to anonymous, random strangers sharing the public roadway with me, I'll be the one who authorizes that data being sent outbound, thank you very much.

"They ALREADY can track you, even with out a warrant. It's called a stakeout and tailing somebody. They can watch you in public, any time they wish, no warrant required."

The major difference here, is that we can track them as well, and they aren't allowed to continue to track you, follow you onto private property without a warrant. They're also not allowed to illegally attach GPS devices to your vehicle, but they're doing that anyway too.

See the problem here?

"So you are turning off and removing the battery from your Cell Phone? No?"

Pretty soon, that won't matter either, with MIT developing wireless radios that rely on nothing other than power from the wireless signals floating all around us. That's why I use a Faraday Bag to put my devices in when I am not actively using them.

"And you are worried about your CAR?"

There, FTFY.

It's still my car. If I want my car's exact speed, location, route and destination being sent to anonymous, random strangers sharing the public roadway with me, I'll be the one who authorizes that data being sent outbound, thank you very much.

"They ALREADY can track you, even with out a warrant. It's called a stakeout and tailing somebody. They can watch you in public, any time they wish, no warrant required."

The major difference here, is that we can track them as well, and they aren't allowed to continue to track you, follow you onto private property without a warrant. They're also not allowed to illegally attach GPS devices to your vehicle, but they're doing that anyway too.

See the problem here?

"Finally, we get to the issue of government spying. Since every vehicle is transmitting its location, doesn't this mean that the government could track everybody, or gather other information about them? This is actually very unlikely. The development of V2V tech has been fairly hands-off on the government's part. Their primary contribution has been to lay down certain standards and requirements for the tech, and then let the commercial companies implement it."

Don't be ridiculous.

Within a hour of this being made a requirement, there will be installations on bridges, public roadways, intersections that will be capturing, gathering, storing, aggregating and mapping every single vehicle movement within city and rural limits.

Guaranteed!

This is an over-bearing, invasive government's wet dream. To know where everyone is at any one time, at all times, day or night? Absolutely this will be abused. They're already doing it now without our consent using our phones and surreptitiously installed GPS devices in our vehicles.

If you think for a nano-second that this is truly being developed to reduce the number of traffic accidents, you're being quite naive. You may be working on the technology, but that doesn't mean you understand the full implications of how it's targeted for use, or how it will ultimately be used when it becomes a reality.

There is absolutely no way this isn't going to get abused at the highest levels of Government.

"Finally, we get to the issue of government spying. Since every vehicle is transmitting its location, doesn't this mean that the government could track everybody, or gather other information about them? This is actually very unlikely. The development of V2V tech has been fairly hands-off on the government's part. Their primary contribution has been to lay down certain standards and requirements for the tech, and then let the commercial companies implement it."

Don't be ridiculous.

Within a hour of this being made a requirement, there will be installations on bridges, public roadways, intersections that will be capturing, gathering, storing, aggregating and mapping every single vehicle movement within city and rural limits.

Guaranteed!

This is an over-bearing, invasive government's wet dream. To know where everyone is at any one time, at all times, day or night? Absolutely this will be abused. They're already doing it now without our consent using our phones and surreptitiously installed GPS devices in our vehicles.

If you think for a nano-second that this is truly being developed to reduce the number of traffic accidents, you're being quite naive. You may be working on the technology, but that doesn't mean you understand the full implications of how it's targeted for use, or how it will ultimately be used when it becomes a reality.

There is absolutely no way this isn't going to get abused at the highest levels of Government.

Wow, parent god modded to -1 ...

http://cryptome.org/2014/01/nsa-codenames.htm

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/catalog-reveals-nsa-has-back-doors-for-numerous-devices-a-940994.html

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/12/nsa-hacking-catalogue/

There is no such thing as perfect security, and everyone knows it

This is why the notion "It is OKAY if we have all these backdoors and all this data collection, the only quantum computer, etc, as long as it is controlled by strong security controls, laws, regulations, oversight" is absurd.

" there is no privacy threat in collecting massive amounts of information — if access to that information is rigidly controlled and minimalized."

...

The NSA feels that if people knew about these controls, they’d be OK with the collection. This argument reminded me of something I learned from my approved NSA source in the 1990s. The official who concocted the Clipper Chip scheme had a vision where private citizens could use encryption. But the NSA, though its built-in backdoor chip, would be able to access the information when it needed to. The official called his vision “Nirvana.” The NSA is still envisioning Nirvana ...

Back in 1989, Alfred Herrhausen, a banker, was assasinated with a fairly complex bomb.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...
http://www.wired.com/dangerroo...

Herrhausen fell victim to a sophisticated roadside bomb shortly after leaving his home in Bad Homburg on 30 November 1989. He was being chauffeured to work in his armoured Mercedes-Benz, with bodyguards in both a lead vehicle and another following behind. The bomb had been hidden in a saddle bag on a bicycle next to the road that the assassins knew Herrhausen would be traveling in his three-car convoy. In the bag was a 7 kg bomb that was detonated when Herrhausen's car interrupted a beam of infrared light as it passed the bicycle. The bomb targeted the most vulnerable area of Herrhausen's car â" the door where he was sitting â" and required split-second timing to overcome the car's special armour plating. The bomb utilized a Misznay-Schardin mechanism. A copper plate, placed between the explosive and the target, was deformed and projected by the force of the explosion. It is unlikely that this improvised explosive device had the precise engineering required to form the liner into a more effective slug or "carrot" shape (as in a shaped charge or an EFP)[citation needed] but in any case, the detonation resulted in a mass of copper being projected toward the car at a speed of nearly two kilometers per second, effectively penetrating the armoured Mercedes. Herrhausen's legs were severed and he bled to death.

Does anyone think that police codes will remain secret on these?

Soon, cars will be going through the wrong side of towns, they will look expensive and the people well dress, and suddenly the cars will turn off, and the people get car jacked middrive.

when are the criminals [washingtonpost.com] at the NSA going to be brought to justice?

The Supreme Court already weighed in on this issue - no crime was committed by the NSA. Snowden on the other hand is known to have committed several crimes.

I do find it odd that someone would actually break the law (at the very minimum, identity theft and extortion) in such a contrived chain of events... Just to gain control of something they won't even realistically get to use (can you imagine trying to use @N for the next few months through the massive volume of hate-tweets it will get?)

I don't, because it's happened before. I haven't reread the article to see if this states it, but I recall hearing that the reason the hacker did all this to Mat Honan was because he decided he wanted his @mat twitter handle.