Go to the airport. See how close to a plane you can get (with ticket in hand) before someone demands to see your papers (and x-ray your bags and scan your body/pat you down). Crack a bomb joke and see how that goes for you. When they fondle your junk, be sure to tell them you expect a happy ending.
You may or may not have big trouble if you try to video record cops. Let us know when you get out.
We have a secret court that has decided to continue permitting a spy agency to spy on citizens in their homes in spite of an explicit expiration date on the law.
We have the highest incarceration rate in the world. Most of the people in prison were coerced into waiving their right to a trial.
Actually, sendmail is more cohesive. Their error was making the config language a bizarre form of pattern matching amounting to a Turing complete (but bizarre) language.
IOS is LITERALLY bits and pieces bolted together with dabs of glue logic. Different parts have a different mask syntax because they were once separate pieces of software.
I still own the fridge. I may be barred by law from venting the refrigerant to the atmosphere but that law is entirely separate from the question of ownership. As long as I properly recover the refrigerant, I am free to modify it. It's not the manufacturer's choice at all.
Same for the car, it's between me and the law, the manufacturer gets no say.
As for the car electronics, once again, no say for the manufacturer. If the state has a safety concern, it may insist that I get a SAFETY certification IF the car will be driven on public roads. If I have modified the car such that it cannot pass a safety inspection, I may have additional restrictions when I sell it (at least full disclosure of it's usability on public roads).
On the other hand, if one were to modify a phone's baseband in such a way that has it working on the wrong frequencies, or configured in order to make a mess of the cell tower, does the "it's my phone" argument still hold?
Yes, in a rational world it is very definitely still your phone. But if you jam the tower or transmit outside the frequencies you are permitted, you may be criminally and civilly liable.
Sure, but the transaction of renting the phone didn't look at all like a purchase either. It looked like a rental and if the phone failed, AT&T would fix or replace it unless it was very clearly abused. Because it was rented, there was no such thing as "out of warranty".
So to modify the statement, "if I just rented it, better send a replacement when it fails".
Of course, then the courts decide that the practice wasn't legal and forced them to allow anything meeting their published technical specs to be plugged in.
This! I find it impossible to believe that the same industry that released movies on VHS (knowing it could be copied) to collect on that long tail would have refused to ever release on DVD. If they had, surely whoever bought their catalog in the fire sale would gave released them.
Note how when CSS was cracked once and for all, they didn't stop releasing on DVD even after Bluray came out.
And what';s the deal with cars! Someone should patent the steering wheel, brake on the left, gas to the right. Let someone reverse the pedals and provide a tiller bar for steering. Someone can use steering levers. Won't that be FUN!!!??
The problem is that IOS is a sort of cargo cult system held together with bailing wire and marketed as some sort of cohesive system. Much of it seems to have been acquired from outside, hacked down to a core functionality and them bolted on.
I presume they don't just re-write the parsing because it's all cut/pasted rather than well factored.
As the AC said, there's a difference between minimum storage temperature and minimum operational temperature (both of which are above the equilibrium temperature of space.
Let's be more realistic here. People shouldn't be stupid and fly drones at the airport, sure. But they are vastly more likely to cause property damage than death if a collision actually happens.
The last thing we need is 'officials' wetting their pants over yet another 'dire threat' and overreacting again.
The drone's radio control has a limited range and well known frequency range. It should be possible to track the idiots down, fine them, and remind them that if they actually have a collision the damages will well exceed their annual income.
Speaking of actual collisions, there haven't been any anywhere.
That's why a meaningful system must be one where only the device owner has the ABILITY to decrypt it. No number of NSLs can overcome the actual inability to decrypt the data. That may also include a requirement to be unable to push updates silently.
Beyond that, it makes the machine tamper evident. This is especially important with servers. Sure, you absolutely can get root without the password if you are physically present, but you can't do so without tripping the monitor system.
We may be reading past each other. I agree that the various reflected laser light will be harmful to human beings. The rail is sufficiently polished to reflect strongly yet sufficiently uneven that the reflected light will have a significant chance of hitting an unfortunate someone. Unlike a regular strong light that would scatter to the point of being harmless.
Honestly, memorizing vs put it in your wallet is about equally secure. People instinctively guard their wallet. If someone is willing to rob you to get your password from your wallet they are probably willing to just slap you around until you tell them your password. The guy with the launch codes will probably resist heroically but a typical office worker will not and should not.
It's better to give up the password and call IT to get it changed ASAP.
In other words, the rails will not diffuse the light sufficiently to render the reflected beam safe, just sufficiently to make incidental contact inevitable.
The rail will be well polished due to trains running over it. Because laser beams are coherent and well columnated to begin with, they will not likely diffuse nearly enough to make incidental exposure safe for humans.
They have been busted for individual instances of Hollywood accounting. What exposing the books would do is give a lot of people and the IRS slam-dunk cases in court.
They'd have to pay out a lot of extra royalties and taxes.
Not really no true Scotsman since I'm not attempting to invalidate a counter-example, but yes, very few candidates in any party these days seem to hold to the party's supposed values. I suppose it seems more glaring in the Libertarian case since so many Libertarians evangelize like idealists.
And there we have it. All those bazillions of taxpayer dollars wasted listening in on Aunt Tilly's scintillating description of the quilting bee and they totally missed the biggest ever hacking of a corporate system by a hostile foreign power.
Their faces would be beet red if they weren't so shameless.
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Go to the airport. See how close to a plane you can get (with ticket in hand) before someone demands to see your papers (and x-ray your bags and scan your body/pat you down). Crack a bomb joke and see how that goes for you. When they fondle your junk, be sure to tell them you expect a happy ending.
You may or may not have big trouble if you try to video record cops. Let us know when you get out.
We have a secret court that has decided to continue permitting a spy agency to spy on citizens in their homes in spite of an explicit expiration date on the law.
We have the highest incarceration rate in the world. Most of the people in prison were coerced into waiving their right to a trial.
The executive cannot change the start date of a law, but it can choose to be incredibly slack in enforcing it for a while.
Neither the courts nor the executive can just make up a new law from nothing. That includes continuing a law that no longer exists.
And adblock is just me declining to make the requests they were hoping I would make.
Actually, sendmail is more cohesive. Their error was making the config language a bizarre form of pattern matching amounting to a Turing complete (but bizarre) language.
IOS is LITERALLY bits and pieces bolted together with dabs of glue logic. Different parts have a different mask syntax because they were once separate pieces of software.
I still own the fridge. I may be barred by law from venting the refrigerant to the atmosphere but that law is entirely separate from the question of ownership. As long as I properly recover the refrigerant, I am free to modify it. It's not the manufacturer's choice at all.
Same for the car, it's between me and the law, the manufacturer gets no say.
As for the car electronics, once again, no say for the manufacturer. If the state has a safety concern, it may insist that I get a SAFETY certification IF the car will be driven on public roads. If I have modified the car such that it cannot pass a safety inspection, I may have additional restrictions when I sell it (at least full disclosure of it's usability on public roads).
On the other hand, if one were to modify a phone's baseband in such a way that has it working on the wrong frequencies, or configured in order to make a mess of the cell tower, does the "it's my phone" argument still hold?
Yes, in a rational world it is very definitely still your phone. But if you jam the tower or transmit outside the frequencies you are permitted, you may be criminally and civilly liable.
Sure, but the transaction of renting the phone didn't look at all like a purchase either. It looked like a rental and if the phone failed, AT&T would fix or replace it unless it was very clearly abused. Because it was rented, there was no such thing as "out of warranty".
So to modify the statement, "if I just rented it, better send a replacement when it fails".
Of course, then the courts decide that the practice wasn't legal and forced them to allow anything meeting their published technical specs to be plugged in.
This! I find it impossible to believe that the same industry that released movies on VHS (knowing it could be copied) to collect on that long tail would have refused to ever release on DVD. If they had, surely whoever bought their catalog in the fire sale would gave released them.
Note how when CSS was cracked once and for all, they didn't stop releasing on DVD even after Bluray came out.
That's exactly why I want the data to go to MY server at home. I do not EVER want the data to go to the manufacturer's server.
And what';s the deal with cars! Someone should patent the steering wheel, brake on the left, gas to the right. Let someone reverse the pedals and provide a tiller bar for steering. Someone can use steering levers. Won't that be FUN!!!??
The problem is that IOS is a sort of cargo cult system held together with bailing wire and marketed as some sort of cohesive system. Much of it seems to have been acquired from outside, hacked down to a core functionality and them bolted on.
I presume they don't just re-write the parsing because it's all cut/pasted rather than well factored.
As the AC said, there's a difference between minimum storage temperature and minimum operational temperature (both of which are above the equilibrium temperature of space.
Let's be more realistic here. People shouldn't be stupid and fly drones at the airport, sure. But they are vastly more likely to cause property damage than death if a collision actually happens.
The last thing we need is 'officials' wetting their pants over yet another 'dire threat' and overreacting again.
The drone's radio control has a limited range and well known frequency range. It should be possible to track the idiots down, fine them, and remind them that if they actually have a collision the damages will well exceed their annual income.
Speaking of actual collisions, there haven't been any anywhere.
That's why a meaningful system must be one where only the device owner has the ABILITY to decrypt it. No number of NSLs can overcome the actual inability to decrypt the data. That may also include a requirement to be unable to push updates silently.
Beyond that, it makes the machine tamper evident. This is especially important with servers. Sure, you absolutely can get root without the password if you are physically present, but you can't do so without tripping the monitor system.
I presume the rest was a matter of taking time to get components up to their minimum operating temperature and booting. That would include the radio.
We may be reading past each other. I agree that the various reflected laser light will be harmful to human beings. The rail is sufficiently polished to reflect strongly yet sufficiently uneven that the reflected light will have a significant chance of hitting an unfortunate someone. Unlike a regular strong light that would scatter to the point of being harmless.
Honestly, memorizing vs put it in your wallet is about equally secure. People instinctively guard their wallet. If someone is willing to rob you to get your password from your wallet they are probably willing to just slap you around until you tell them your password. The guy with the launch codes will probably resist heroically but a typical office worker will not and should not.
It's better to give up the password and call IT to get it changed ASAP.
In other words, the rails will not diffuse the light sufficiently to render the reflected beam safe, just sufficiently to make incidental contact inevitable.
The rail will be well polished due to trains running over it. Because laser beams are coherent and well columnated to begin with, they will not likely diffuse nearly enough to make incidental exposure safe for humans.
They have been busted for individual instances of Hollywood accounting. What exposing the books would do is give a lot of people and the IRS slam-dunk cases in court.
They'd have to pay out a lot of extra royalties and taxes.
Not really no true Scotsman since I'm not attempting to invalidate a counter-example, but yes, very few candidates in any party these days seem to hold to the party's supposed values. I suppose it seems more glaring in the Libertarian case since so many Libertarians evangelize like idealists.
And there we have it. All those bazillions of taxpayer dollars wasted listening in on Aunt Tilly's scintillating description of the quilting bee and they totally missed the biggest ever hacking of a corporate system by a hostile foreign power.
Their faces would be beet red if they weren't so shameless.
The real risk to Sony Pictures is having the real books behind the Hollywood accounting revealed.