Yup, exactly. I'd be very surprised if there was a way to set it up so it was 100% guaranteed to be independent of military equipment (it's going to have to share the same satellite link for example), and unless there's a military networking specialist on/. who's happy to talk openly and publicly about their systems...?
The only people who should be setting this up are the people who admin the rest of the networking equipment on board.
I might even forgive them that if they were doing it with a secure, stable, efficient OS that could run on very old hardware and was backward compatible.
Yeah, because they'll fall for that six times in a row...
(I know, I know, and I'll even cite the number of UK politicians who's phones containing state secrets were hacked because they left the voicemail password set as 0000.)
And yes, I agree with the above poster who believes that eventually stopping people pirating stuff will kill the internet, oh yes indeed, none of it will be any use if you can't download Buffy for free. If the ISPs start hammering people simply because of a Gb torrent which turns out to be a linux ISO then there's a problem, but if they can legitimately show piracy was going on then fair enough. Six strikes is easily enough to give people the hint. If they don't like it they're free to rent their own backbone connection.
(Sorry to everyone else, we're completely off-topic here)
So if the military side with the government they'll be swamped in a asymmetric campaign against "the terrorists". If there are enough "terrorists" and/or enough "terrorist sympathisers" who refuse to pay taxes then the army will be defeated by withdrawing their funding. If there aren't enough then there will be something on a spectrum from "local uprisings" to full blown civil war. You've essentially got the same situation as Syria is currently in.
Surely the ultimate weapon a US citizen can carry is the combined might of the US military. Maybe what's needed is to give the public the legal power to veto offensive military orders.
Oh, absolutely, but if you're going to legislate to protect the people from a rogue government I just think there's better ways to do it than giving the public peashooters. As somebody on here says in their sig, "Soap box, ballot box, ammo box, in that order" - except I can't help but think the last one is pretty futile if the military are sworn to follow the government no matter what.
With reference to point 3, do Americans honestly believe that an armed overthrow of the government is possible? Let's presume the US government does actually overstep the boundaries by (for example) instructing the military to open fire on a peaceful protest and there's a mass uprising - you'd have the military in an odd situation where they have to decide whether they work for the people or the government, if it's the latter then you have millions of people with pistols and rifles facing A-10s and tanks.
If the military side with a rogue US government then the right to bear arms becomes nothing more than guerilla warfare (rendering the "right" moot). Surely the "right to bear arms" clause isn't as important as having a military which is sworn to defend the people, not the government?
Americans tend to forget they are foreign to the majority of the world. From a UK perspective the "local laws" of the US appear very different, a country that executes their citizens, prosecutes people who cross the road without state help and allows people to carry firearms with minimal checks. Yes, I'm sure that the UK has some equally strange laws when seen from the outside, but my point is that US law isn't "international law", but far from it. The closest any one country comes to that is Scottish law (different to UK law), and even that varies wildly. I'd assume that Google follows the local law of whichever country it's operating in at the time (which may or may not include other legal codes, eg European legislation in EU countries), so we'll probably see wild variations in how they respond.
[offtopic] "XYZ-Plumbing" is almost perfectly wrong - if you read the Yellow Pages (UK business directory) you'll find most plumbers are called something like ".......AAAAAAA............111AAA......A.A.A.A.A.AAAA....1111111...11.A1AA1A1...Plumbing" - seriously, it's that silly, it's the result of a long running arms race to get to the front of the listings.
Facebook is useful in this regard, it's a centralised repository of all the crap that I really can't be bothered by. The only downside is the fact that other (useful) sites slow themselves down by linking to their scripts left right and center.
You're looking for Diaspora. The idea is that it's a social network just like any other, except you can download the codebase and set up your own version on your own server, then you have complete control of what is/isn't available.
Firstly, I'm Scottish and fiercely proud of Nessie. You've really got to wonder at this though, basing educational policy on a myth that we've egged up a bit for the tourists is a stunningly stupid thing to do. This isn't a evolution/creation argument at all, that's coincidental, it's a question of why people who believe in a national practical joke (and us Scots have lots of them) are allowed to look after children.
Exactly - I worked for an Apple reseller and I would never tell people they "couldn't get viruses", I told them we'd had all the demonstration models running with no security beyond the router's bog standard firewall for three years and never had a problem, that you were very unlikely to have problems, then give them a quick spiel on still having to be aware of phishing scams and the like. Would social engineering be any more effective on the average Apple user because of complacency? Very possibly.
Any *nix system is going to be very resistant to malware, but to say 100% immune is asking for a visit from Mr Murphy and Miss Irony at the very least.
So all scientific data should be private just in case it's wrong and they get sued? Great idea, you should work for one of the big journal publishers, they'd love you.
No, a steady hand and a magnetized needle is programming, anything else is just scripting. The point is that PHP introduces logic, loops and conditions and the like, to an environment the OP is already familiar with.
Really? What actually happened was that the manager agreed with me, contacted the legal department, and they agreed that it was badly thought out. The company reworded the contract to prevent IP theft (the original intention) whilst freeing up the employees from a slightly silly clause anyway. It's very funny to hear everybody lambasting the company, I actually really enjoyed working for them and found them to be an encouraging, friendly and creative employer. Yeah, there was a daft clause in the contract, so I got something done about it by pointing out the ridiculous to them, it's a more effective solution than bitching on about the rights I have because I'm so special.
Using an iPad rather than a bog standard computer is just going to slow the research down. I can't think of a single piece of technology in an iPad that would be particularly useful, and I'm sure the Iranians are annoyed that this one-time-only attempt to get hold of an iPad (and by doing so rule the world) has been thwarted.
Yup. I do most of my work in PHP (only a step up from HTML/CSS, so a useful one for the OP) and it's all done using gedit with a couple of custom plugins. I've tried various IDEs but they seem amazingly bloated for my needs.
My previous employer included something along the lines of "any program or invention written while in our employ belongs to the company, whether or not it relates to the business".
Simple solution, point out that this includes ownership of any malware I might write.
Absolutely agree. Expecting software to do the job is the equivalent of only allowing the children out of the house with a chaperone. There's bad stuff on the internet, they WILL find it at some point, the trick is to make sure they're prepared when they do. By all means use program X to filter stuff, but you need to be aware that this will not, with 100% certainty, protect them entirely, it's just a backup to what you, as a parent, teach them.
So what about CMU's NELL, a system trying to learn English by reading the web? It regularly tweets "I think [X] is a [example of Y]", and once tweeted "I think Sarah-Marie Johnson is a criminal". Now, there is a Sarah-Marie Johnson who has been convicted of murder, but NELL does make mistakes, what if it calls somebody a criminal when they're not? Can they sue for libel, and if so who? The programmers didn't explicitly program NELL to say that, and making mistakes is an integral part of almost any experiment. Is the only winning move not to play? (More in an old blog post of mine here.
Yup, I'm in the UK. I've worked for at least one retailer who would happily accept a signature. And you wouldn't believe the number of students I served who didn't even sign their cards, meaning they're not valid and we can't accept them. The best system I've seen is the US habit of writing "see photo ID" instead of signing it, but I believe this leads to an invalid card in the UK.
This is an additional system which allows you to pay small amounts (typically less than $20) without having to insert the card into a machine. This is required because customers and retailers are spending several seconds per transaction inserting cards and typing PINs, which is clearly unacceptable and there is no alternative for small purchases, such as small fixed value tokens in paper or metal form.
I'm not at all surprised it's been cracked, the obvious application is to set up a merchant account with an offshore company and then walk through a crowded place (bar, sporting event) stealing a few dollars from those standing around you. A few hours work should net a decent living and most people won't question a $5 charge in a bar. This has been obvious since the system was introduced.
Chip 'n PIN is easy to defeat anyway, steal the card, put a few volts through the chip to fry it, then it will automatically fall back on the signature, which is handily represented on the card so you can learn to copy it in an hour or so. It's almost as if the bank companies can make money from their customer's accounts being insecure.
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Yup, exactly. I'd be very surprised if there was a way to set it up so it was 100% guaranteed to be independent of military equipment (it's going to have to share the same satellite link for example), and unless there's a military networking specialist on /. who's happy to talk openly and publicly about their systems...?
The only people who should be setting this up are the people who admin the rest of the networking equipment on board.
I might even forgive them that if they were doing it with a secure, stable, efficient OS that could run on very old hardware and was backward compatible.
Yeah, because they'll fall for that six times in a row...
(I know, I know, and I'll even cite the number of UK politicians who's phones containing state secrets were hacked because they left the voicemail password set as 0000.)
And yes, I agree with the above poster who believes that eventually stopping people pirating stuff will kill the internet, oh yes indeed, none of it will be any use if you can't download Buffy for free. If the ISPs start hammering people simply because of a Gb torrent which turns out to be a linux ISO then there's a problem, but if they can legitimately show piracy was going on then fair enough. Six strikes is easily enough to give people the hint. If they don't like it they're free to rent their own backbone connection.
(Sorry to everyone else, we're completely off-topic here)
So if the military side with the government they'll be swamped in a asymmetric campaign against "the terrorists". If there are enough "terrorists" and/or enough "terrorist sympathisers" who refuse to pay taxes then the army will be defeated by withdrawing their funding. If there aren't enough then there will be something on a spectrum from "local uprisings" to full blown civil war. You've essentially got the same situation as Syria is currently in.
Surely the ultimate weapon a US citizen can carry is the combined might of the US military. Maybe what's needed is to give the public the legal power to veto offensive military orders.
Oh, absolutely, but if you're going to legislate to protect the people from a rogue government I just think there's better ways to do it than giving the public peashooters. As somebody on here says in their sig, "Soap box, ballot box, ammo box, in that order" - except I can't help but think the last one is pretty futile if the military are sworn to follow the government no matter what.
With reference to point 3, do Americans honestly believe that an armed overthrow of the government is possible? Let's presume the US government does actually overstep the boundaries by (for example) instructing the military to open fire on a peaceful protest and there's a mass uprising - you'd have the military in an odd situation where they have to decide whether they work for the people or the government, if it's the latter then you have millions of people with pistols and rifles facing A-10s and tanks.
If the military side with a rogue US government then the right to bear arms becomes nothing more than guerilla warfare (rendering the "right" moot). Surely the "right to bear arms" clause isn't as important as having a military which is sworn to defend the people, not the government?
Americans tend to forget they are foreign to the majority of the world. From a UK perspective the "local laws" of the US appear very different, a country that executes their citizens, prosecutes people who cross the road without state help and allows people to carry firearms with minimal checks. Yes, I'm sure that the UK has some equally strange laws when seen from the outside, but my point is that US law isn't "international law", but far from it. The closest any one country comes to that is Scottish law (different to UK law), and even that varies wildly. I'd assume that Google follows the local law of whichever country it's operating in at the time (which may or may not include other legal codes, eg European legislation in EU countries), so we'll probably see wild variations in how they respond.
[offtopic] "XYZ-Plumbing" is almost perfectly wrong - if you read the Yellow Pages (UK business directory) you'll find most plumbers are called something like ".......AAAAAAA............111AAA......A.A.A.A.A.AAAA....1111111...11.A1AA1A1...Plumbing" - seriously, it's that silly, it's the result of a long running arms race to get to the front of the listings.
Facebook is useful in this regard, it's a centralised repository of all the crap that I really can't be bothered by. The only downside is the fact that other (useful) sites slow themselves down by linking to their scripts left right and center.
You're looking for Diaspora. The idea is that it's a social network just like any other, except you can download the codebase and set up your own version on your own server, then you have complete control of what is/isn't available.
Firstly, I'm Scottish and fiercely proud of Nessie. You've really got to wonder at this though, basing educational policy on a myth that we've egged up a bit for the tourists is a stunningly stupid thing to do. This isn't a evolution/creation argument at all, that's coincidental, it's a question of why people who believe in a national practical joke (and us Scots have lots of them) are allowed to look after children.
Exactly - I worked for an Apple reseller and I would never tell people they "couldn't get viruses", I told them we'd had all the demonstration models running with no security beyond the router's bog standard firewall for three years and never had a problem, that you were very unlikely to have problems, then give them a quick spiel on still having to be aware of phishing scams and the like. Would social engineering be any more effective on the average Apple user because of complacency? Very possibly.
Any *nix system is going to be very resistant to malware, but to say 100% immune is asking for a visit from Mr Murphy and Miss Irony at the very least.
So all scientific data should be private just in case it's wrong and they get sued? Great idea, you should work for one of the big journal publishers, they'd love you.
No, a steady hand and a magnetized needle is programming, anything else is just scripting. The point is that PHP introduces logic, loops and conditions and the like, to an environment the OP is already familiar with.
Really? What actually happened was that the manager agreed with me, contacted the legal department, and they agreed that it was badly thought out. The company reworded the contract to prevent IP theft (the original intention) whilst freeing up the employees from a slightly silly clause anyway. It's very funny to hear everybody lambasting the company, I actually really enjoyed working for them and found them to be an encouraging, friendly and creative employer. Yeah, there was a daft clause in the contract, so I got something done about it by pointing out the ridiculous to them, it's a more effective solution than bitching on about the rights I have because I'm so special.
Looks like the "terrorists" are winning, via the government.
Using an iPad rather than a bog standard computer is just going to slow the research down. I can't think of a single piece of technology in an iPad that would be particularly useful, and I'm sure the Iranians are annoyed that this one-time-only attempt to get hold of an iPad (and by doing so rule the world) has been thwarted.
Yup. I do most of my work in PHP (only a step up from HTML/CSS, so a useful one for the OP) and it's all done using gedit with a couple of custom plugins. I've tried various IDEs but they seem amazingly bloated for my needs.
My previous employer included something along the lines of "any program or invention written while in our employ belongs to the company, whether or not it relates to the business".
Simple solution, point out that this includes ownership of any malware I might write.
Interesting point - personally I'd say a theft isn't involved, just a fraud when they withdraw money.xkcd
Absolutely agree. Expecting software to do the job is the equivalent of only allowing the children out of the house with a chaperone. There's bad stuff on the internet, they WILL find it at some point, the trick is to make sure they're prepared when they do. By all means use program X to filter stuff, but you need to be aware that this will not, with 100% certainty, protect them entirely, it's just a backup to what you, as a parent, teach them.
So what about CMU's NELL, a system trying to learn English by reading the web? It regularly tweets "I think [X] is a [example of Y]", and once tweeted "I think Sarah-Marie Johnson is a criminal". Now, there is a Sarah-Marie Johnson who has been convicted of murder, but NELL does make mistakes, what if it calls somebody a criminal when they're not? Can they sue for libel, and if so who? The programmers didn't explicitly program NELL to say that, and making mistakes is an integral part of almost any experiment. Is the only winning move not to play? (More in an old blog post of mine here.
Yup, I'm in the UK. I've worked for at least one retailer who would happily accept a signature. And you wouldn't believe the number of students I served who didn't even sign their cards, meaning they're not valid and we can't accept them. The best system I've seen is the US habit of writing "see photo ID" instead of signing it, but I believe this leads to an invalid card in the UK.
This is an additional system which allows you to pay small amounts (typically less than $20) without having to insert the card into a machine. This is required because customers and retailers are spending several seconds per transaction inserting cards and typing PINs, which is clearly unacceptable and there is no alternative for small purchases, such as small fixed value tokens in paper or metal form.
I'm not at all surprised it's been cracked, the obvious application is to set up a merchant account with an offshore company and then walk through a crowded place (bar, sporting event) stealing a few dollars from those standing around you. A few hours work should net a decent living and most people won't question a $5 charge in a bar. This has been obvious since the system was introduced.
Chip 'n PIN is easy to defeat anyway, steal the card, put a few volts through the chip to fry it, then it will automatically fall back on the signature, which is handily represented on the card so you can learn to copy it in an hour or so. It's almost as if the bank companies can make money from their customer's accounts being insecure.