Everyone here complains that they should just fix it.... perhaps in an effort to make it available to more users/devices (since it IS geared towards cell and smart phones) they did not encrypt it or make users go through a crazy registration/validation process. There are some phones that might not support the security (lack of processing power?)and there are users that would not jump through all the hoops.
We seem to forget that most slashdotters are willing to forgo convenience for security, but most sheeple (general public) are not, thats part of why we see so many instances of "secure" information being sent through "unsecure" channels. Its too much of an inconvenience to the end users to encrypt.
Just a guess, but I bet the average/. IQ is about 125, while the average public IQ is about 95.
Perhaps its the gravitational pull of Nibiru, Stichen's 12th Planet (or planet X). Nibiru is supposed to be in a goofy orbit that gets close to earth every 3600 years, it is due back around 2012, and is supposed to be currently visible from the south pole as a reddish dot that is visible in the day time. The pull from this planet would not have much effect on items moving perpendicular to its approach, but the pull would definitely affect items moving towards it. If Stichen was right about Nibiru, we'll see an increase in its effect on orbital items.
I don't personally subscribe to theories about Nibiru, but my roommate does and I am willing to discuss almost anything.
I wish I had not spent my mod points this morning, this one is not "troll"
Its perfectly true, having woked at a hospital myself, I can often smell when someone has illnesses and you would be amazed at how many nurses can tell you what a person probably has just by the smell of the room. I've discussed this with many a pretty nurse in the cafeteria. (morbid, I know... it came with the job)
FTA:
The only way to make it work is to mandate the filters or have ISPs mandate that users install them to get on the Internet. The consumer backlash from such a plan would be like the force of a thousand supernovas, and it's hard to visualize this happening.
Actually, it's not hard to visualize this happening. Most people connect with what, one of four major ISPs in the US, and there are usually no more than three competing ISPs, except in big cities? That's only four companies, each headed by a relatively few number of individuals whose motives are driven by shareholder (not necessarily customer) demands. If the MAFIAA writes a solid-gold check to Comcast, Qwest, Verizon, and Time-Warner, you can bet that find ways to impose an end-user filter on your PC as a requirement to connect, and with a limited number of broadband ISPs in the area, you can bet that people will suck it up and deal with it.
Easy way around that, make a dedicated PC your firewall/gateway, run their silly program and share the internet connection. The end decryption of the content would occur after the "protection program". It makes the program as useless as running it on a router.
scenario 2- 99% of the users here on slashdot work on cracking it, like the rest of the stupid DRM we have encountered.
1. Find the first instance of this practice.
2. Issue the instigater a patent and supply him with the listings of several patent trolls,
3. Let them litigate the typo-squatters out of existance.
4. Relax!!
Just a simple question or 2 for the readers and conspiracy theorists:
Does this show a need for a better infrastructure?
Who profits from increasing the infrastructure?
Perhaps the cables have not been damaged due to political reasons, but capitalist ones instead. The timing is simply convenient. In my opinion, allowing potential politics to obscure the truth would be right inline with the MO of big corporations, expecially thone in communications and oil.
Well, besides the special polarized glasses to protect yourself from the sleeper rayguns (which really exist, but require a backpack) or the catchy theme-song; no not really.
(hey not bad for it having been at least 20 years since I saw it last, on nipple-less network TV no less.)
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/. IQ is about 125, while the average public IQ is about 95.
Everyone here complains that they should just fix it....
perhaps in an effort to make it available to more users/devices (since it IS geared towards cell and smart phones) they did not encrypt it or make users go through a crazy registration/validation process. There are some phones that might not support the security (lack of processing power?)and there are users that would not jump through all the hoops.
We seem to forget that most slashdotters are willing to forgo convenience for security, but most sheeple (general public) are not, thats part of why we see so many instances of "secure" information being sent through "unsecure" channels. Its too much of an inconvenience to the end users to encrypt.
Just a guess, but I bet the average
Perhaps its the gravitational pull of Nibiru, Stichen's 12th Planet (or planet X). Nibiru is supposed to be in a goofy orbit that gets close to earth every 3600 years, it is due back around 2012, and is supposed to be currently visible from the south pole as a reddish dot that is visible in the day time. The pull from this planet would not have much effect on items moving perpendicular to its approach, but the pull would definitely affect items moving towards it. If Stichen was right about Nibiru, we'll see an increase in its effect on orbital items.
I don't personally subscribe to theories about Nibiru, but my roommate does and I am willing to discuss almost anything.
Good luck guessing that one if she forgets it, by my estimation, it should be b0r4i2t3t nor b0r4i3t0t
I wish I had not spent my mod points this morning, this one is not "troll"
Its perfectly true, having woked at a hospital myself, I can often smell when someone has illnesses and you would be amazed at how many nurses can tell you what a person probably has just by the smell of the room. I've discussed this with many a pretty nurse in the cafeteria. (morbid, I know... it came with the job)
Now to find a way of this rock onto one of those.
Didn't we develope Hyper Velocity Missiles back in the early 80s? No payload, they killed by traveling at mach8. I wanted one as a kid.
FTA: The only way to make it work is to mandate the filters or have ISPs mandate that users install them to get on the Internet. The consumer backlash from such a plan would be like the force of a thousand supernovas, and it's hard to visualize this happening. Actually, it's not hard to visualize this happening. Most people connect with what, one of four major ISPs in the US, and there are usually no more than three competing ISPs, except in big cities? That's only four companies, each headed by a relatively few number of individuals whose motives are driven by shareholder (not necessarily customer) demands. If the MAFIAA writes a solid-gold check to Comcast, Qwest, Verizon, and Time-Warner, you can bet that find ways to impose an end-user filter on your PC as a requirement to connect, and with a limited number of broadband ISPs in the area, you can bet that people will suck it up and deal with it. Easy way around that, make a dedicated PC your firewall/gateway, run their silly program and share the internet connection. The end decryption of the content would occur after the "protection program". It makes the program as useless as running it on a router. scenario 2- 99% of the users here on slashdot work on cracking it, like the rest of the stupid DRM we have encountered.
1. Find the first instance of this practice. 2. Issue the instigater a patent and supply him with the listings of several patent trolls, 3. Let them litigate the typo-squatters out of existance. 4. Relax!!
Just a simple question or 2 for the readers and conspiracy theorists: Does this show a need for a better infrastructure? Who profits from increasing the infrastructure? Perhaps the cables have not been damaged due to political reasons, but capitalist ones instead. The timing is simply convenient. In my opinion, allowing potential politics to obscure the truth would be right inline with the MO of big corporations, expecially thone in communications and oil.
Anyone else hearing Zelda music?
Well, besides the special polarized glasses to protect yourself from the sleeper rayguns (which really exist, but require a backpack) or the catchy theme-song; no not really. (hey not bad for it having been at least 20 years since I saw it last, on nipple-less network TV no less.)