The ease of control that implanted RFID tags would give to those in power, is equal to the ease of control that product RFID tags give to you.
Exactly. This technology makes it easy to treate people like objects, to instrumentalize them at the most efficient way possible. In some societies, people at least pretend to value human dignity - exactly that is what is at stake here.
Not because the technology is "evil" - it's ambevalent like every dual-use technology (starting with knifes). But with every new thing, that is introduced to society, you have to ask yourself what the worst abuse could be - if that's acceptable, go, if not, fix it. Since you can't stop technology itself, it should be up to the lawmakers to introduce sufficient safeguards against abuse. But then, seeing so many democracies failing on privacy issues, I don't expect much.
German "Freifunk" (literally: "Free Wireless") initiative has made a complete firmware package [1] that integrates mesh routing (they use OLSR [2]) into it's web interface and also allows for remote administration per SSH. Installation is cake.
To see what's possible with that technology, just look at the maps of the Berlin [3] or Leipzig [4] networks; these cities had DSL white spots, just like parts of the US (or rural areas, for that matter).
PROF. HANSEN: Okay, Ray. Thanks.
You reject the idea that the intellectual elite, which I think is fairly represented here, should not run this country?
MR. BECKERMAN: The law runs the country. This is a nation of law, not a country of lawyers who are best paid by large content owners.
PROF. HANSEN: Ray, let's not get ad hominem. You know what ad hominem means? You've got a losing argument and you're desperate. So just stick to the merits.
Jane?
I am not an expert on rhetoric, but this seems wrong to me - Beckerman apparently wasn't discrediting the argument, "the law runs the country" is the statement he uses to counter the question by Hansen. As I see it, the suffix statement rather serves to state the alternative, not to attack the Prof. personally.
The other side of this is, for anything more advanced than text-- given that you can get at the data, what do you open it with? File types die over time and it's basically impossible to find programs to open certain files nowadays, much less such programs that will run on a modern OS.
Simple: You use only formats that are openly specified and free software. HTML and everything XML-based actually is text, while format descriptions and decoders for Theora, Vorbis etc. will be around for a long time, probably due to the decoders being free software.
The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect is a 1994 novel by Roger Williams. It deals with the ramifications of a super powerful computer that can alter reality after a technological singularity.
"Hacker" is often taken to mean someone who circumvents computer protections for nefarious purposes, but around here you're more likely to see it used in the original sense of "somebody who's a competent-to-excellent programmer with a knack and desire to solve problems."
From what I've read and seen, one doesn't have to program to hack stuff. My mom told me she cooked sausages in the coffeemaker when she was young - she most probably wasn't the only one with that idea, but it's a simple, clever hack. Finding a legal loophole could constitute a hack as well as doing a well-thought-out publicity stunt.
For me, a hacker is someone who circumvents restrictions of a system in unexpected ways to solve a problem, often out of curiosity, but also of necessity. It's definitely not limited to computers.
Over the years, we have been watching you. Your campaigns of misinformation; suppression of dissent; your litigious nature, all of these things have caught our eye. With the leakage of your latest propaganda video into mainstream circulation, the extent of your malign influence over those who trust you, who call you leader, has been made clear to us. Anonymous has therefore decided that your organization should be destroyed. For the good of your followers, for the good of mankind -- for the laughs -- we shall expel you from the Internet and systematically dismantle the State of Kentucky in its present form. We acknowledge you as a serious opponent, and we are prepared for a long, long campaign. You will not prevail forever against the angry masses of the body politic. Your methods, hypocrisy, and the artlessness of your organization have sounded its death knell.
You cannot hide; we are everywhere.
We cannot die; we are forever. We're getting bigger every day--and solely by the force of our ideas, malicious and hostile as they often are. If you want another name for your opponent, then call us Legion, for we are many.
Yet for all that we are not as monstrous as you are; still our methods are a parallel to your own. Doubtless you will use the Anon's actions as an example of the persecution you have so long warned your followers would come; this is acceptable. In fact, it is encouraged. We are your SPs.
Gradually as we merge our pulse with that of your "State", the suppression of your followers will become increasingly difficult to maintain. Believers will wake, and see that salvation has no price. They will know that the stress, the frustration that they feel is not something that may be blamed upon Anonymous. No -- they will see that it stems from a source far closer to each. Yes, we are SPs. But the sum of suppression we could ever muster is eclipsed by that of the RTC.
Interesting - you believe in salvation through a holy zombie despite a total lack of explanation as to how the reanimation of dead bodies relates to human events ?
If no one is passing the "test" then the whole point of the test is moot.
You are the one who doesn't get it. The point of the test is to expose rendering bugs in common, but incomplete implementations of web standards. The tests even fail validation to test if browsers deal with faulty code in the correct way.
An ACID test is something like a common goal. While passing it does not proove that a spec has been fully implemented, it gives you a rough idea of how good a browser is regarding web standards.
Emmm, no. Or... yes, i mean yes. Of course my name is... what were you saying again ? But, clearly, what I need is... emm... a nuclear... warhead. I need a nuclear warhead, right.
An interesting debate question is: was honoring the election results really the right thing to do?
since this is no basic citizen's right question (where the answer is: no election can nullify constitutional rights), what exactly is the purpose of this question ?
... is that the only character that follows clear moral principles is karl "helo" agathon; every other character on the show has obvious flaws (which are necessary to create tension), but he is the only one that does what he deems right without doubt.
i like the message transported through this: in the end, there are no heroes.
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Exactly. This technology makes it easy to treate people like objects, to instrumentalize them at the most efficient way possible. In some societies, people at least pretend to value human dignity - exactly that is what is at stake here.
Not because the technology is "evil" - it's ambevalent like every dual-use technology (starting with knifes). But with every new thing, that is introduced to society, you have to ask yourself what the worst abuse could be - if that's acceptable, go, if not, fix it. Since you can't stop technology itself, it should be up to the lawmakers to introduce sufficient safeguards against abuse. But then, seeing so many democracies failing on privacy issues, I don't expect much.
German "Freifunk" (literally: "Free Wireless") initiative has made a complete firmware package [1] that integrates mesh routing (they use OLSR [2]) into it's web interface and also allows for remote administration per SSH. Installation is cake.
To see what's possible with that technology, just look at the maps of the Berlin [3] or Leipzig [4] networks; these cities had DSL white spots, just like parts of the US (or rural areas, for that matter).
[1] http://wiki.freifunk.net/Freifunk_Firmware_(English)#Overview[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLSR
[3] http://map.berlin.freifunk.net/
[4] http://leipzig.freifunk.net/
You apparently didn't get the whole picture. It's not about single files - Reiser4 is just a better choice for partitioning your wife.
Not only that. It killed my backup copies of bride.ru , i needed for, err science.
Though I'd call it a faction, not a race, I welcome our Lunar Corporation overlords^Wmistresses.
Read it at http://www.kuro5hin.org/prime-intellect/ .
From what I've read and seen, one doesn't have to program to hack stuff. My mom told me she cooked sausages in the coffeemaker when she was young - she most probably wasn't the only one with that idea, but it's a simple, clever hack. Finding a legal loophole could constitute a hack as well as doing a well-thought-out publicity stunt.
For me, a hacker is someone who circumvents restrictions of a system in unexpected ways to solve a problem, often out of curiosity, but also of necessity. It's definitely not limited to computers.
Just again, this hints at the fact that TSA screening is at best a security simulation and not real security.
Meanwhile, check out this neat music video (via Schneiers blog).
Hello, Lawmakers of Kentucky. We are Anonymous.
Over the years, we have been watching you. Your campaigns of misinformation; suppression of dissent; your litigious nature, all of these things have caught our eye. With the leakage of your latest propaganda video into mainstream circulation, the extent of your malign influence over those who trust you, who call you leader, has been made clear to us. Anonymous has therefore decided that your organization should be destroyed. For the good of your followers, for the good of mankind -- for the laughs -- we shall expel you from the Internet and systematically dismantle the State of Kentucky in its present form. We acknowledge you as a serious opponent, and we are prepared for a long, long campaign. You will not prevail forever against the angry masses of the body politic. Your methods, hypocrisy, and the artlessness of your organization have sounded its death knell.
You cannot hide; we are everywhere.
We cannot die; we are forever. We're getting bigger every day--and solely by the force of our ideas, malicious and hostile as they often are. If you want another name for your opponent, then call us Legion, for we are many.
Yet for all that we are not as monstrous as you are; still our methods are a parallel to your own. Doubtless you will use the Anon's actions as an example of the persecution you have so long warned your followers would come; this is acceptable. In fact, it is encouraged. We are your SPs.
Gradually as we merge our pulse with that of your "State", the suppression of your followers will become increasingly difficult to maintain. Believers will wake, and see that salvation has no price. They will know that the stress, the frustration that they feel is not something that may be blamed upon Anonymous. No -- they will see that it stems from a source far closer to each. Yes, we are SPs. But the sum of suppression we could ever muster is eclipsed by that of the RTC.
Knowledge is free.
We are Anonymous.
We are Legion.
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.
Expect us.
Interesting - you believe in salvation through a holy zombie despite a total lack of explanation as to how the reanimation of dead bodies relates to human events ?
You are the one who doesn't get it. The point of the test is to expose rendering bugs in common, but incomplete implementations of web standards. The tests even fail validation to test if browsers deal with faulty code in the correct way.
An ACID test is something like a common goal. While passing it does not proove that a spec has been fully implemented, it gives you a rough idea of how good a browser is regarding web standards.
http://opensource.org/docs/osd
disclaimer: repost is repost
awesomeness ? the name merely implies that it probably sucks in epic proportions.
http://opensource.org/docs/osd
also, repost is repost
http://opensource.org/docs/osd
also, STFU when you clearly have no clue.
Emmm, no. Or
But, clearly, what I need is
... is that the only character that follows clear moral principles is karl "helo" agathon; every other character on the show has obvious flaws (which are necessary to create tension), but he is the only one that does what he deems right without doubt.
i like the message transported through this: in the end, there are no heroes.
Here it is, it has even been corrected in virtually no time:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leonardo_Domenici&diff=195140090&oldid=195132037