Privacy International [http://www.privacyinternational.org/] ranks Greece highest among the nations they have examined in terms of the protection it provides for privacy.
A similar example nethack, where in Wizard mode you can overflow the integer representing a pile of gold with an appropriate wish. This leads to quotes like "choked on 0 pieces of gold".
If a chemical is developed to cause fear, you can bet that every other nation with the capability will quickly develop an antidote, either a substance to block the receptors keyed to this pheromone, a temporary chemical block to the olfactory epithelium, or something I've not considered. Regardless, a soldiers' ability to smell can be shut down without significantly impacting their ability to fight. Insurgents, while they may be forced to use cruder and more dangerous methods, will likely be able to do the same. This chemical is only likely to be effective at dispersing gatherings (much as tear-gas is currently used) or in the context of torture, as another poster noted.
"Our commercial customers wouldn't like it too much if we aired the number of defects found in their code," said Maxwell, when asked about the results from scans on 400 product lines of the firm's private customers. So yes, they are scanning proprietary software as well, and they find roughly the same number of security vulnerabilities.
The important point here is that proprietary software manufacturers aren't telling you how many security flaws they had. I bet it's more than 1 per 1000 lines, that is an incredibly excellent figure for the first time a scanner like coverity is run. Actually, the first line of the article reads "Open source code, much like its commercial counterpart, tends to contain one security exposure for every 1,000 lines of code, according to a program launched by the Department of Homeland Security to review and tighten up open source code's security."
I started out writing to argue that you were unreasonable. However, I checked the figures. An AIM-9 has a radius of at most about 20km. A 767 can go, what, 1000km/h at full power at 35,000ft cruise altitude? A F-15 can go 2,655km/h at similar altitude. That 20km distance can be covered in 43 seconds. Even 200km possible with an AIM-54 can be covered in about 7'15''. (Yes, this will all tip in favor of the passenger jet at low altitude. I'm not sure of its maximum speed at 10,000ft, so I'm working with the figures I have). So if the hijacking could be committed close to the target, then yes, it could probably be pulled off. On the other hand, I must wonder how effective this system would be against air-to-air missiles? First of all, the field of view may be lacking when attacked from any angle, and secondly they may be larger and carry equipment to make them more resistant to jamming. Hm.
How many people might write a little better by using a new, more advanced, more creative-friendly writing tool? I personally find it easiest to find a "grove" while writing when using pencil and paper. It seems most effective for formal essays and less so for creative writing. When writing formal essays, something I have no enthusiasm for, it seems more natural to stop typing a keyboard than moving a pencil. YMMV
Not quite. Wikipedia lists approximately 120 Zeppelins; a quick read suggests that most were destroyed or damaged on the ground. Many were decommissioned as well. The US rigid airships seem to have faired less well, with four of the ZR-1 through ZR-5 ships crashing. Three of these were destroyed in storms; one other was destroyed during high-speed tests to simulate rough weather.
I expect to see Antiguan schools with pirated copies of Windows, Office, and Photoshop on as many computers as possible. Maybe the government will start passing out free Enterprise software to businesses to boost the economy. I'm sure they can do better than to pass out free music.
300 years from now archaeologists will look back and see a sudden stop to music, documents, and film. This is what is at stake, our cultural place in history. What fraction of ancient manuscripts do you think have been preserved? Sure, most of our media may be lost, but as long as human society flourishes as it has done for the past thousands of years, something will be preserved. Citizen Kane? Climate records? Zork? Lenna? As long as there is any interest in them at all (and with 6*10^9+ people on earth, nearly everything will have some interest), these things will likely be preserved simply through duplication and thus redundancy. It would take far more than the loss of, say, 90% of the centuries films to destroy our cultural place in history.
I'm afraid I've not got any follow-up on this, but in 2005 a man was arrested for molesting a child after a safe containing photographs of the crime was stolen from his house. Can anyone find if he was convicted?
Because it restricts what information someone (this is probably targeted at corporate entities, but individuals as well) can distribute. There is no magic line between information which serves the general good and information which is detrimental to the general good, just as there is no magic line between sedition and patriotism.
The article isn't clear on whether or not the prohibition applies to foreign sites tht carry information about Thai kids.
From TFA, "Local website operators will be given a one-month deadline to ensure the privacy of people under the age of 18 on the internet or face legal action."
The letters and emails might have been reported by people who were more easily frightened by email than letters, i.e. the readers would report any threatening email but only very threatening letters. The authors assume that the media makes no difference in which communications are reported.
From the abstract: "[letters and emails] were randomly selected from the United States Capitol Police investigative case files and compared." [Emphasis mine]
>People will start encrypting their connections... Now, queue stenography. TCP/Noise in images, audio
>and video clips
No they wont. Most people don't have the technical savvy to do so, and most people won't be willing to slow down their connection during day-to-day internet use.
Close Combat II is decently pretty, has near infinite replayability, and can be edited with Gimp, notepad, and a few other tools. Even better, if it takes over my dreams, I'll be able to lead the natives on a campaign of world conquest, instead of just stacking odd looking colored rocks over and over and over.
Limited copyright is a good idea, but setting a length of time for *all* copyrighted material is not reasonable. Some material is meant to be around far, far longer than 7 years. Lets say one company writes software for its new plane; that software could easily still be in use much longer than 7 years. Books are another example; by a 7 (or even 10) year standard,/Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone/ would now be in the public domain. On the other hand, it doesn't make any sense for Sundog(1984) to be still under copyright 70+ years from now, when people will be hard pressed to tell you what the Apple ][ was.
I don't think much spam is aimed at kids any more. Most of the spam I get (after ordinary spam filtering) is either for 1) Viagra, or 2) penny stocks. Neither subject is likely to interest kids much. I don't think the point was to stop spam from being aimed at kids, but to stop kids from seeing spam targeted at adults (particularly porn).
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Privacy International [http://www.privacyinternational.org/] ranks Greece highest among the nations they have examined in terms of the protection it provides for privacy.
A similar example nethack, where in Wizard mode you can overflow the integer representing a pile of gold with an appropriate wish. This leads to quotes like "choked on 0 pieces of gold".
If a chemical is developed to cause fear, you can bet that every other nation with the capability will quickly develop an antidote, either a substance to block the receptors keyed to this pheromone, a temporary chemical block to the olfactory epithelium, or something I've not considered. Regardless, a soldiers' ability to smell can be shut down without significantly impacting their ability to fight. Insurgents, while they may be forced to use cruder and more dangerous methods, will likely be able to do the same. This chemical is only likely to be effective at dispersing gatherings (much as tear-gas is currently used) or in the context of torture, as another poster noted.
I started out writing to argue that you were unreasonable. However, I checked the figures.
An AIM-9 has a radius of at most about 20km. A 767 can go, what, 1000km/h at full power at 35,000ft cruise altitude? A F-15 can go 2,655km/h at similar altitude. That 20km distance can be covered in 43 seconds. Even 200km possible with an AIM-54 can be covered in about 7'15''. (Yes, this will all tip in favor of the passenger jet at low altitude. I'm not sure of its maximum speed at 10,000ft, so I'm working with the figures I have). So if the hijacking could be committed close to the target, then yes, it could probably be pulled off.
On the other hand, I must wonder how effective this system would be against air-to-air missiles? First of all, the field of view may be lacking when attacked from any angle, and secondly they may be larger and carry equipment to make them more resistant to jamming. Hm.
Not quite. Wikipedia lists approximately 120 Zeppelins; a quick read suggests that most were destroyed or damaged on the ground. Many were decommissioned as well. The US rigid airships seem to have faired less well, with four of the ZR-1 through ZR-5 ships crashing. Three of these were destroyed in storms; one other was destroyed during high-speed tests to simulate rough weather.
I expect to see Antiguan schools with pirated copies of Windows, Office, and Photoshop on as many computers as possible. Maybe the government will start passing out free Enterprise software to businesses to boost the economy. I'm sure they can do better than to pass out free music.
You forgot the Faraday cage for your keyboard cable.
I'm afraid I've not got any follow-up on this, but in 2005 a man was arrested for molesting a child after a safe containing photographs of the crime was stolen from his house. Can anyone find if he was convicted?
http://blogs.kansascity.com/crime_scene/files/risking_a_life_term_to_protect_a_child.pdf" [pdf]
Who would have guessed that tens of thousands of people trying to use a website all at once would cause it to slow down?
Because it restricts what information someone (this is probably targeted at corporate entities, but individuals as well) can distribute. There is no magic line between information which serves the general good and information which is detrimental to the general good, just as there is no magic line between sedition and patriotism.
That's like what Bernoulli and Boyle studied, right?
The letters and emails might have been reported by people who were more easily frightened by email than letters, i.e. the readers would report any threatening email but only very threatening letters. The authors assume that the media makes no difference in which communications are reported.
From the abstract: "[letters and emails] were randomly selected from the United States Capitol Police investigative case files and compared." [Emphasis mine]
>People will start encrypting their connections... Now, queue stenography. TCP/Noise in images, audio >and video clips No they wont. Most people don't have the technical savvy to do so, and most people won't be willing to slow down their connection during day-to-day internet use.
Freeware games are here to stay.
Close Combat II is decently pretty, has near infinite replayability, and can be edited with Gimp, notepad, and a few other tools. Even better, if it takes over my dreams, I'll be able to lead the natives on a campaign of world conquest, instead of just stacking odd looking colored rocks over and over and over.
Limited copyright is a good idea, but setting a length of time for *all* copyrighted material is not reasonable. Some material is meant to be around far, far longer than 7 years. Lets say one company writes software for its new plane; that software could easily still be in use much longer than 7 years. Books are another example; by a 7 (or even 10) year standard, /Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone/ would now be in the public domain. On the other hand, it doesn't make any sense for Sundog(1984) to be still under copyright 70+ years from now, when people will be hard pressed to tell you what the Apple ][ was.