All I can ask is this - If all this information gathering is worthwhile in protecting out country, how did they completely miss the chance Snowden would turn?
Whenever someone uses the "nothing to hide" line (and unfortunately I work with some) I ask: "When you go to the bathroom at home, do you close the door? Even if you're the only one home? What are you hiding?"
I can't, even though I am single. My cat stands at the closed door and has hissy fits.
See Rolling Code for why you are under the wrong impression. There might be a recent vulnerability, but for the vast extent of their history these kinds of systems have been safe against amateur tactics like simple radio tricks, and if there is a "Backdoor" code it has been a pretty well guarded secret.
I have wondered how the rolling code stays in sync if you ever press your key fob while out of range. The code would increment to the next one and the car would still be expecting a different one. I haven't found an answer to how this works in a quick Google search, do you or anyone here know how that is handled?
Pretty simple. Only increment the counter if the fob gets an "unlock successful" pingback from the car.
I have now worked with Windows 8 now since last october, and it is working just fine for me. I have had no problem getting around the new interface.
You must be the target audience then. The rest of the planet, or most of us anyway, are not.
Including those of us that bought an upgrade (did so for my netbook) and still can not get it to install (get bupkus for error messages of any use and the tech support is less useful).
Well, for an enslaved, abused, maltreated animal, I was sure fooled when he came dashing out of my bedroom where he was sleeping on my bed (he NEVER misses sleeping with me), promptly hopped up on my chest and started purring and massaging my stomach.
I am SO ASHAMED that I figured the only way to confront my cruelty to my little buddy was to purge my evil in a public forum so everyone can see what a horrid savage slave master I am.
Even more edge-case-y is the recent domestication of foxes: it took only a couple of generations of captive breeding for them to develop dog-like personalities, and in some cases foxes manifest dog-like personalities without any breeding at all. Little or no subjugation is occurring; the fox gets a free ride through life and the human gets a companion. Preventing this would be no different from refusing to let indigenous peoples assimilate into mainstream culture.
So, let me get this right. You could possibly be saying an animal might NOT want to be free and struggle for life against nature, red in tooth and claw?
I find the idea that any of nature's perfect creature might want an easy ride reprehensible and imcomprehensible. They all long for conflict and bloodshed for that is NATURE'S WAY!
(And we will neglect the fact that my cat, despite his stray background patently refuses to go outside...)
That's where things get really weird. The absolutism of PETA's true ideology doesn't seem to acknowledge animal intelligence or socialization; without a doubt the majority of non-stray dogs are better off emotionally and developmentally because of their owners. (For cats it's a little less certain, since they usually resist socialization with humans and are allowed to live outdoors, although my cat, like yours, has an extremely social personality.) Without question, we've improved these animals' lives.
I think the reasoning behind this little paradox, though, is aptly captured in how I phrased it originally: we have sinned by domesticating them. They've been bred into shapes and sizes desirable to us, instead of being allowed to pursue their evolution and development naturally. This is, without a doubt, the most childish misuse of conservationism, as animals influence the evolution of others around them all the time—should we blame ants for domesticating aphids? Are we on the hook for playing host to human-specific parasites?
More recently, a slightly different perspective on environmentalism has become in vogue: rather than completely insisting "we must leave the planet alone," it's now also popular to say "if we abuse the planet too much we'll die, even if we don't kill everything," which is a somewhat more pragmatic (and permissive) mindset. So not only is PETA crazy, they're out of date.
The odd thing about the domestication/breeding issue in my case is that my little buddy is a mongrel with a strong Maine Coon component (despite his relatively tiny size) which seems especially funny in this sense, as Maine Coons as far as anyone can tell came from bobcats interbreeding with domesticated cats.
Man, if you met my cat, I would challenge you to prove he is abused, neglected, unloved, and unhappy (unless I mop with PineSol). He tends to be a cheerful, happy-go-lucky ball of yellow-furred love for everybody, be they human or animal. He's my little buddy (little to the tune of 7.6 pounds at 4.5 years of age (age estimated - see below)) and people often remark on seeing the two of us together how much we seem to love each other. And I know, as bad as things might get in my life, there is one being out there wanting good things for me.
Of course, he was a multi-breed rescue cat, so if PETA had had their way, I wouldn't have my closest friend.
Plus, you know, I am an animal too, technically, so am I not ethically entitled to this particular, rumbling source of joy?
And, unlike Rabbinic Judaism, the Bible was never subjected to informational hygeine. The Rabbinic Jewish faith always, as far as I know, put a great deal of emphasis on exact copies of their written works as a core belief.
How many editions of the Bible are there? A bit of research shows potentially more than 50.
I am sure not EVERY one is the exact and literal word of God. And that's before we get into the interpretative nature of translation.
...actually, the ToS specifically says in section 4.3:
Restrictions on Use. The Service is a consumer grade service and is not designed for or intended to be used for any commercial purpose. You may not resell, re-provision or rent the Service, (either for a fee or without charge) or allow third parties to use the Service via wired, wireless or other means. For example, you may not provide Internet access to third parties through a wired or wireless connection or use the Service to facilitate public Internet access (such as through a Wi-Fi hotspot), use it for high volume purposes, or engage in similar activities that constitute such use (commercial or non-commercial). If you subscribe to a Broadband Service, you may connect multiple computers/devices within a single home to your modem and/or router to access the Service, but only through a single Verizon-issued IP address. You also may not exceed the bandwidth usage limitations that Verizon may establish from time to time for the Service, or use the Service to host any type of server. Violation of this section may result in bandwidth restrictions on your Service or suspension or termination of your Service.
I wonder how this would work with a Fon Linus plan.
How does "Closing products always involves tough choices, but we do think very hard about each decision and its implications for our users. Streamlining our services enables us to focus on creating beautiful technology that will improve people’s lives" qualify as an explanation?
That's just a employee shilling the company line.
Especially when the same response showed up more than once word for word from different people.
Yep. PubMatic is on my wall of shame (cookies to block), accumulated one at a time, usually after some JavaScript figured out how to disable ffox's "block third party cookies" settings:
And it triggered a Web Of Trust warning to boot. Lovely people, apparently.
Lets say that you are a nurse. Part of your job is to move (one by one) all patients from the hospital database into dead or cured folders, depending on which flag they have on the database.
a) You don't know anything about programming, so you spend an hour every day doing this task.
b) You know a little about programming and you ask from yourself: I wonder could the computer do this task for me.
Depends. Am I a hot nurse?
If so, I go flirt like a big dog with someone in IT to write the script for me.
A lot of "All you can eat" buffets have a time limit. One I know of in my local city has a limit of 1h45m. Otherwise you could, quite literally, sit there all day drinking tap water and eating chinese food all day for the price of a couple of Happy Meals.
Thank Ghod I never ran into one of those when I was younger. We used to track down the good, dirt cheap buffets and camp as a group for hours.
Although I did used to date a woman who's enormous brother once got asked to leave a Wendy's (back in the buffet days) because he ate too much.
So they should raise their prices then?! Or maybe put down some more pipes?
If an ISP has a problem with its customers using bandwidth, they really have three options:
1) Raise prices per/MB; 2) Get more bandwidth; 3) Get rid of customers who use a lot of bandwidth. It seems that many ISPs want to do only 1 and 3, where the logical thing is to do 2 (because bandwidth usage will only increase in the future, and and ISP that can provide it, will have an edge of those that can't).
But, but, building infrastructure costs MONEY!
Losing high bandwidth users or raising rates makes the balance sheet look good and makes the shareholders happy and doesn't cost us any real money!
What? Are you a communist or one of those hacktivists or Pirate Bay people or something?
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All I can ask is this - If all this information gathering is worthwhile in protecting out country, how did they completely miss the chance Snowden would turn?
Whenever someone uses the "nothing to hide" line (and unfortunately I work with some) I ask: "When you go to the bathroom at home, do you close the door? Even if you're the only one home? What are you hiding?"
I can't, even though I am single. My cat stands at the closed door and has hissy fits.
Well, been using this for a good long while and it seems to work a treat where HTTPS is supported.
I do believe some sort of movement to embrace HTTPS as a mandatory option by everyone is overdue and the time is ripe for it to strike.
And, as I was reminded the other day, one advantage of GUIs over CLI is typos are a lot harder to make (as I sadly reminded myself the other day).
See Rolling Code for why you are under the wrong impression. There might be a recent vulnerability, but for the vast extent of their history these kinds of systems have been safe against amateur tactics like simple radio tricks, and if there is a "Backdoor" code it has been a pretty well guarded secret.
I have wondered how the rolling code stays in sync if you ever press your key fob while out of range. The code would increment to the next one and the car would still be expecting a different one. I haven't found an answer to how this works in a quick Google search, do you or anyone here know how that is handled?
Pretty simple. Only increment the counter if the fob gets an "unlock successful" pingback from the car.
I have now worked with Windows 8 now since last october, and it is working just fine for me. I have had no problem getting around the new interface.
You must be the target audience then. The rest of the planet, or most of us anyway, are not.
Including those of us that bought an upgrade (did so for my netbook) and still can not get it to install (get bupkus for error messages of any use and the tech support is less useful).
The start menu was a fantastic advance over progman. Though pre-emptive mutitasking was the real big winner.
My kingdom for some mod points.
If only I still had some enriched, weapons-grade mod points in stock for you.
Well, for an enslaved, abused, maltreated animal, I was sure fooled when he came dashing out of my bedroom where he was sleeping on my bed (he NEVER misses sleeping with me), promptly hopped up on my chest and started purring and massaging my stomach.
I am SO ASHAMED that I figured the only way to confront my cruelty to my little buddy was to purge my evil in a public forum so everyone can see what a horrid savage slave master I am.
Even more edge-case-y is the recent domestication of foxes: it took only a couple of generations of captive breeding for them to develop dog-like personalities, and in some cases foxes manifest dog-like personalities without any breeding at all. Little or no subjugation is occurring; the fox gets a free ride through life and the human gets a companion. Preventing this would be no different from refusing to let indigenous peoples assimilate into mainstream culture.
So, let me get this right. You could possibly be saying an animal might NOT want to be free and struggle for life against nature, red in tooth and claw?
I find the idea that any of nature's perfect creature might want an easy ride reprehensible and imcomprehensible. They all long for conflict and bloodshed for that is NATURE'S WAY!
(And we will neglect the fact that my cat, despite his stray background patently refuses to go outside...)
That's where things get really weird. The absolutism of PETA's true ideology doesn't seem to acknowledge animal intelligence or socialization; without a doubt the majority of non-stray dogs are better off emotionally and developmentally because of their owners. (For cats it's a little less certain, since they usually resist socialization with humans and are allowed to live outdoors, although my cat, like yours, has an extremely social personality.) Without question, we've improved these animals' lives.
I think the reasoning behind this little paradox, though, is aptly captured in how I phrased it originally: we have sinned by domesticating them. They've been bred into shapes and sizes desirable to us, instead of being allowed to pursue their evolution and development naturally. This is, without a doubt, the most childish misuse of conservationism, as animals influence the evolution of others around them all the time—should we blame ants for domesticating aphids? Are we on the hook for playing host to human-specific parasites?
More recently, a slightly different perspective on environmentalism has become in vogue: rather than completely insisting "we must leave the planet alone," it's now also popular to say "if we abuse the planet too much we'll die, even if we don't kill everything," which is a somewhat more pragmatic (and permissive) mindset. So not only is PETA crazy, they're out of date.
The odd thing about the domestication/breeding issue in my case is that my little buddy is a mongrel with a strong Maine Coon component (despite his relatively tiny size) which seems especially funny in this sense, as Maine Coons as far as anyone can tell came from bobcats interbreeding with domesticated cats.
Man, if you met my cat, I would challenge you to prove he is abused, neglected, unloved, and unhappy (unless I mop with PineSol). He tends to be a cheerful, happy-go-lucky ball of yellow-furred love for everybody, be they human or animal. He's my little buddy (little to the tune of 7.6 pounds at 4.5 years of age (age estimated - see below)) and people often remark on seeing the two of us together how much we seem to love each other. And I know, as bad as things might get in my life, there is one being out there wanting good things for me.
Of course, he was a multi-breed rescue cat, so if PETA had had their way, I wouldn't have my closest friend.
Plus, you know, I am an animal too, technically, so am I not ethically entitled to this particular, rumbling source of joy?
And, unlike Rabbinic Judaism, the Bible was never subjected to informational hygeine. The Rabbinic Jewish faith always, as far as I know, put a great deal of emphasis on exact copies of their written works as a core belief.
How many editions of the Bible are there? A bit of research shows potentially more than 50.
I am sure not EVERY one is the exact and literal word of God. And that's before we get into the interpretative nature of translation.
...actually, the ToS specifically says in section 4.3:
I wonder how this would work with a Fon Linus plan.
Sucks since I don't have a data plan... But an (very short) explanation is here http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/websearch/yKG7BGro7QQ/ntAXQWWKj70J
How does "Closing products always involves tough choices, but we do think very hard about each decision and its implications for our users. Streamlining our services enables us to focus on creating beautiful technology that will improve people’s lives" qualify as an explanation?
That's just a employee shilling the company line.
Especially when the same response showed up more than once word for word from different people.
Yep. PubMatic is on my wall of shame (cookies to block), accumulated one at a time, usually after some JavaScript figured out how to disable ffox's "block third party cookies" settings:
And it triggered a Web Of Trust warning to boot. Lovely people, apparently.
Lets say that you are a nurse. Part of your job is to move (one by one) all patients from the hospital database into dead or cured folders, depending on which flag they have on the database. a) You don't know anything about programming, so you spend an hour every day doing this task. b) You know a little about programming and you ask from yourself: I wonder could the computer do this task for me.
Depends. Am I a hot nurse?
If so, I go flirt like a big dog with someone in IT to write the script for me.
wendymeat. Just saying.
BTW, you are being neither lite, smooth, nor oaky right now.
C'mon kids and play nice, or we will have to dispense times outs in your own VLANs.
But then you need a recycler to throw the printed bitcoins in after you "spent" them.
Someone hurry and patent "a zip gun, but from a computer!" It's an entirely new idea.
Be sure to include specifications about the roundness of any edges.
Yeah, but leave that slide to unlock safety crap out of the patent please...
A lot of "All you can eat" buffets have a time limit. One I know of in my local city has a limit of 1h45m. Otherwise you could, quite literally, sit there all day drinking tap water and eating chinese food all day for the price of a couple of Happy Meals.
Thank Ghod I never ran into one of those when I was younger. We used to track down the good, dirt cheap buffets and camp as a group for hours.
Although I did used to date a woman who's enormous brother once got asked to leave a Wendy's (back in the buffet days) because he ate too much.
So they should raise their prices then?! Or maybe put down some more pipes? If an ISP has a problem with its customers using bandwidth, they really have three options: 1) Raise prices per/MB; 2) Get more bandwidth; 3) Get rid of customers who use a lot of bandwidth. It seems that many ISPs want to do only 1 and 3, where the logical thing is to do 2 (because bandwidth usage will only increase in the future, and and ISP that can provide it, will have an edge of those that can't).
But, but, building infrastructure costs MONEY!
Losing high bandwidth users or raising rates makes the balance sheet look good and makes the shareholders happy and doesn't cost us any real money!
What? Are you a communist or one of those hacktivists or Pirate Bay people or something?
And, since we are talking fiction, Spycraft: The Great Game also had an assassination with an ice bullet.