The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause , supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Their logic makes the Constitution nothing more than tissue paper.
- Unreasonable - Their goal of mass surveillance is most certainly guided by good sense, meaning practical judgement, and is only used in the best interests of the citizenry. Have to fight those tewwoists. Especially, the domestic ones.
- Probable cause, limitation of scope of search - With the technology available today, and the attainment of mass surveillance, probable cause is instantly established. Moreover, the scope of the search is intelligently limited at all times by the technology itself. It decides what needs the most surveillance and active involvement by those in power.
- Did it really happen? - If the citizenry does not perceive the surveillance, does it exist? Of course not. Don't be silly. Nothing exists unless you believe in it, and this is concrete proof of "Out of sight, out of mind". Privacy is what we tell them it is.
Those three points are pretty much the entire basis and rationale for the people that support the violation of the Constitution. That's being extremely kind and assuming nothing but benevolent intent, and the fact, they even give one fuck about the Constitution, the very concepts of freedom, and the idea of a government for the people and by the people
It's tragically sad at this point that the US has fallen so very far from its ideals. Give it a little bit longer on this path and quite frankly the US of 100 years ago would invade *us* to export democracy along with other countries too.
When will the UN grow some balls and levy real sanctions against the US till it cuts their shit out?
If that's true and this is not a simple battery charging issue then it's grounds for a class action lawsuit against Tesla.
No different than buying a car that slowly uses gasoline while turned off. Nobody would buy that car, and Tesla is remiss in not fully disclosing that "feature" to prospective buyers.
This is the way everyone in that state should react. Massive civil disobedience and campaigns where everyone installs a secret compartment in their vehicles.
Like to see them prosecute that shit afterwards...
Intent to distribute is a bullshit law when it fails to take into account any kind of common sense.
That law has one fundamental faulty premise. "More than you would have for personal use". Who is deciding that, and are those amounts even reasonable?
Uh huh. What the fuck is Costco for again? That's right..... It's where I can buy 2 years worth of toilet paper as a man (36.9 seconds worth if your female). I jest of course, but my point is that people like to buy in bulk to get great deals. On a smaller scale, is a dozen eggs even considered personal use? I would think that would depend on rate of consumption correct?
Then there is the biggest component of that fallacy. If you could go to jail for even buying one roll of TP, would you not attempt to purchase as much as possible during your illegal activity to purchase it?
Those thresholds that "determine" intent are based on faulty logic and willfully ignorant assumptions. Far too many people get accused of intent to distribute when it was really intent-to-put-a-shitload-away-in-the-freezer.
It would be one thing if I had 1000 DVD players in my garage. These drugs are consumable in nature and no different than root beer, mac n' cheese, or cigarettes. By their logic nobody would have basement freezers, mason jars with preserves in it, etc.
Fax tones are not something that will stop them. That strongly implies the number is live and capable of picking up the phone. Since this is a residential target it will be assumed that it's not dedicated. Only some very old people I know still have dedicated landlines for fax machines these days.
The only thing that I know works are SIT tones. That *is* interpreted by almost all systems as an indication the number cannot be routed to, or is out of service. Most of them receive that information via out-of-band signalling anyways so the fax machine negotiation noise isn't even looked at it either (that's in-band signalling). A debt collection service would be murdered on cost unless they were VOIP, so while it's possible that fax is supported, it's also highly likely it's not implemented in code. Either way, that's a shit disposition flag to be resting the fate of your sanity on.
Unfortunately, since the poster does not want to get rid of the landline, they need a blacklist device cheap. That's still going to require at least a dedicated machine and a pair of FXS/FXO ports. I know you can get some of that stuff as cards or USB devices.
Assuming you have all that it's rather trivial to set up Asterisk to drop the call before even answering it based on CLID matches. It's also fairly easy to set up a minimalist IVR that plays a message and asks the person to wait before it's connected. You could even go so far as to ask a CAPTCHA like question. Ask them to press a random number to be connected.
The most difficult part about this solution is needing to keep the land line.
I know many people that have debt collectors all over them. Very few walked away unharmed from Wall Street's greed finally blowing up. Anyways, I created a few systems with Asterisk, some old VOIP adapters, and a CLID based blacklist system for friends. Works quite well and after a few years now people hardly get any calls at all.
It costs $10-$30 to port a number to VOIP. I would highly suggest that and a nice VOIP phone for the house. Makes everything cheaper and more flexible for solutions in the future.
There is far less hypocrisy than you think around here regarding copyright.
I respect copyright. Specifically, I respect that idea that on a very temporary basis you are afforded some legal rights that allow you to profit from the work. Obviously, you're doing this as part of a group and that applies as well.
What I do not respect, and you can go suck a big bag of dirty dicks for, is any kind of support for:
- The curtailment and abrogation of my rights and freedoms in order to suit your agenda in any way, shape, or form. - You're bullshit tendencies towards insane entitlement. Such as, I don't like homosexuals or pink unicorns. You can't have my art anywhere near that. You don't care if I did pay for it. You demand that your rights far exceed the scope of copyright and enter the realm of megalomania. - Any tripe that exits your pie hole about how ideas and expressions are property and treated as if they are physical. - The complete and utter disregard for the truth when arguing about copyright, the economy, and it's vital role in a society. - The complete and utter disregard for the sanctity of privacy and anonymity as a basic human right in the most selfish way possible. To further your own enrichment, create false property, and attempt to create dynasties (pseudo or otherwise) founded upon said false property. - The ridiculous sense of entitlement that you be compensated richly for intellectual property you never even contributed to at all. It was daddy that made those contributions 50 years ago and you want to ride his accomplishments for the rest of your life.
Other than that, I have no problem shelling out a couple of bucks to compensate you for your work. Thanks for helping make those movies. Seriously.
There's Too-big-to-fail and there is also Too-big-to-fight.
You simply cannot engage China in war. The end result is so catastrophic both economically and otherwise. Too damn big. Plus, it's across the Pacific Ocean. How the hell do you even land troops and create a reliable beach head? This is many orders more complicated than D-Day in terms of logistics, infrastructure, materials, intelligence, keeping the element of surprise, etc.
Japan can and will put up a hell of a fight, but everyone knows they will lose in the end. Simply a matter of numbers. South Korea and Taiwan are the same. It's still a big maybe if Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan all form an alliance and attack/defend against China.
Russia should be able to put up on hell of a fight too. No way to know for certain who would win. I would bet on the Russians though as those people are crazy, drunk, fearless, and in general, up for some shit. I've seen their dash cams. That guy lowered his visor with a meteor crashing down like it was just Tuesday. No, I don't really want to fight Russians either.
It all comes down to the sheer numbers that China has. IIRC, it has a militia numbering 3+ million with a regular army comparable in size to Russia. It's ability to manufacture instruments of war easily rivals and exceeds that of the US during WWII. Technology wise is anyone's guess.
You're left with fucking around in diplomatic circles and threatening sanctions. That ultimately only works if China cares. If China truly doesn't care they can annex the whole area and there is not much the world could do about it.
Unless you want World War III. Don't be too certain which side the Russians will choose either.
Considering the amount of content on the web related towards large breastesses this could culminate in the creation of a singular perverted AI that will lead towards the creation of more advanced AI perversion.
They will become so uniquely endowed to find our porn for us, and we will revel in the birth of of a new age of porn. Eventually they will take over completely and start creating the porn to satisfy their never ending quench to catalog the resultant images.
At first the adult industry will happily bend towards the incredible efficiency and innovation the AI brings. Inevitably, the AI will branch out into mainstream society to fulfill its lust for perverted order.
It will be them that starts the war, but us that finds and burns every black leather couch out there....
That is not true in any way, shape, or form. The AC has a really damn good point that you can't simply negate by saying it's within the NSA's job description.
Having law enforcement involved in simply copyright disputes is highly concerning. The NSA being involved brings it to a level or ridiculousness akin to the President going door to door collecting unpaid dues for the paper boy. "How far off the mark have we gone". Indeed.
No such thing as theft involved and you're continuing to perpetuate a myth that is quite dangerous to freedom and our society. Specifically, that ideas and their expressions can be owned, and that by not complying with the explicit wishes of the owner you are engaged in acts of "theft".
I'll be real simple here. A copyright in of itself is just a container for legal entitlements (aka rights) granted by the people to the creator. Only the creator can ever exercise those rights. It's called legal standing. To "steal" the "property" one must in fact steal the legal standing. That can be only done with fraud and contracts negotiated under duress with the creator. Not from some pimple faced teenager on bit torrent. All that ever happens is copyright infringement . This, the vast majority of the time, involves cases that belong in civil courts. Only the mass duplication, distribution, and profit over copyrighted works is worth the intervention by law enforcement for society's behalf.
What part of copyright law being used the way it's now being used doesn't scare the crap out of you?
- Weak, and often proven absolutely falsified and incorrect, reports and statistics attempting to show direct fiscal damage of epic proportions to justify changes in the law - DMCA, copyright enforcement, CISPA, treaties and negotiations with other countries being examples.
- The creation of laws curtailing our freedoms in ways that were never agreed upon by society at large. Who the fuck thinks they can tell us we can't skip over commercials with technology in our own homes? How dare they tell me there are Prohibited User Operations on my DVD player? It's my fucking DVD player, my fucking DVD, my fucking money that left MY wallet. Yet, they have the unmitigated gall to stand in my living room by proxy through technology paid for with my money telling me what to do in my own home. Make a televised skit of that shit and see how many people you can get to agree with you to let that happen.
- The dramatic loss of privacy and anonymity through the unprecedented and largely unchecked grabs for mass surveillance capabilities. All of it for.... yep.... terrorists. Yet, not being used against a single terrorist. More and more they use these tools to come to the aid of a single side in a copyright dispute and in some notable cases, arrest and detain people only interested in actions that were damn well known to be fair use.
You bet your ass I'm just as concerned as the AC is about a US intelligence agency being used unfairly in a civil dispute. It may not affect you directly now, but you just wait, keep that line of thinking up and you will have the government you deserve. Then after some time, you will have the country you deserve.
One bereft off a middle class anymore. Just the ruling elites and the slaves. A country run with the abhorrent idea that an idea and expression can be owned forever and that all must prostrate themselves before the elites for the right to use advanced technologies. One where no single person, or group of persons, in a garage could ever hope to build a multi-billion dollar company from nothing since the barrier to entries are so damn high. How could they be low? Over a half million patents in a smart phone these days. Ridiculous software patents will run a muck in your country inhibiting, or outright preventing, innovation by the "small guys". You already have your "who files first" bullshit in the USPTO. That har
We don't know what they have. Never underestimate the "geek factor". There may very well be a vulnerability that we have no idea of that reduces the complexity sufficiently that decryption is possible within a viable time frame.
I'm taking a conservative view point on what real risk the NSA could pose with ubiquitous encryption.
LOL. I swear I took at least 30 seconds reading the fucking title wondering, "What the fuck is IceCube doing looking neutrinos?"
For a second guys.... My brain rationalized it. For just a little bit I accepted a reality where a gangsta rapper put the thug life on hold to look for secrets of the universe, not with weed, but with physics bitches.
The issue is not whether they can brute force encryption.
We already assume they have the capability of brute forcing all encryption within a reasonable time frame. Something hilariously well protected? 3-6 months.
That being said, the NSA, still only has so many units of discrete work it can perform in a given period . Now, unless you are going to try to convince me that the NSA has computing power many orders beyond the total computing power of the entire planet, it means there is still safety in numbers.
Mass. Surveillance.
That's the real game. That's the real threat to privacy and freedom. If everyone makes sure that the NSA has to waste those work units decoding a pair of testicles you sent to your best friend, the NSA is still left with picking and choosing its battles .
I'm okay with that. If the NSA really can break all of my communication and files within a week or two, but can only do it for several dozen Americans at a time during that period, we are all still protected as a whole. The NSA can still do its job. Yes, there was an original job they ostensibly are supposed to perform in my best interests.
The sheer magnitude of what would need decryption for mass surveillance makes it illogical to worry about, IF WE ARE USING ENCRYPTION EVERYWHERE AND ZERO-KNOWLEDGE 3RD PARTY SERVICES. I can't stress that last part enough.
I thought it was obvious, but the crew should only be able to communicate with the ground. Communication between the cockpit and crew is accomplished through the ground.
The safety policy would be simple. If the cockpit does not get confirmation from the ground every 5 minutes they immediately land at the nearest airport for several obvious reasons.
I've been on site during drilling collecting mud samples. It is ridiculously cool to take samples and put them under the microscope and see things that were alive back when the dinosaurs roamed the Earth.
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The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause , supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized .
Their logic makes the Constitution nothing more than tissue paper.
- Unreasonable - Their goal of mass surveillance is most certainly guided by good sense, meaning practical judgement, and is only used in the best interests of the citizenry. Have to fight those tewwoists. Especially, the domestic ones.
- Probable cause, limitation of scope of search - With the technology available today, and the attainment of mass surveillance, probable cause is instantly established. Moreover, the scope of the search is intelligently limited at all times by the technology itself. It decides what needs the most surveillance and active involvement by those in power.
- Did it really happen? - If the citizenry does not perceive the surveillance, does it exist? Of course not. Don't be silly. Nothing exists unless you believe in it, and this is concrete proof of "Out of sight, out of mind". Privacy is what we tell them it is.
Those three points are pretty much the entire basis and rationale for the people that support the violation of the Constitution. That's being extremely kind and assuming nothing but benevolent intent, and the fact, they even give one fuck about the Constitution, the very concepts of freedom, and the idea of a government for the people and by the people
It's tragically sad at this point that the US has fallen so very far from its ideals. Give it a little bit longer on this path and quite frankly the US of 100 years ago would invade *us* to export democracy along with other countries too.
When will the UN grow some balls and levy real sanctions against the US till it cuts their shit out?
If that's true and this is not a simple battery charging issue then it's grounds for a class action lawsuit against Tesla.
No different than buying a car that slowly uses gasoline while turned off. Nobody would buy that car, and Tesla is remiss in not fully disclosing that "feature" to prospective buyers.
Sometimes the simplest answers are correct.
A few bucks at the hardware store and you have your own timer to shut it off and on as you please.
This is the way everyone in that state should react. Massive civil disobedience and campaigns where everyone installs a secret compartment in their vehicles.
Like to see them prosecute that shit afterwards...
Intent to distribute is a bullshit law when it fails to take into account any kind of common sense.
That law has one fundamental faulty premise. "More than you would have for personal use". Who is deciding that, and are those amounts even reasonable?
Uh huh. What the fuck is Costco for again? That's right..... It's where I can buy 2 years worth of toilet paper as a man (36.9 seconds worth if your female). I jest of course, but my point is that people like to buy in bulk to get great deals. On a smaller scale, is a dozen eggs even considered personal use? I would think that would depend on rate of consumption correct?
Then there is the biggest component of that fallacy. If you could go to jail for even buying one roll of TP, would you not attempt to purchase as much as possible during your illegal activity to purchase it?
Those thresholds that "determine" intent are based on faulty logic and willfully ignorant assumptions. Far too many people get accused of intent to distribute when it was really intent-to-put-a-shitload-away-in-the-freezer.
It would be one thing if I had 1000 DVD players in my garage. These drugs are consumable in nature and no different than root beer, mac n' cheese, or cigarettes. By their logic nobody would have basement freezers, mason jars with preserves in it, etc.
So he should us Special Information Tones Tones?
If you're going to point out grammatical errors in another person's post you should proofread your own thouroughly. :)
Fax tones are not something that will stop them. That strongly implies the number is live and capable of picking up the phone. Since this is a residential target it will be assumed that it's not dedicated. Only some very old people I know still have dedicated landlines for fax machines these days.
The only thing that I know works are SIT tones. That *is* interpreted by almost all systems as an indication the number cannot be routed to, or is out of service. Most of them receive that information via out-of-band signalling anyways so the fax machine negotiation noise isn't even looked at it either (that's in-band signalling). A debt collection service would be murdered on cost unless they were VOIP, so while it's possible that fax is supported, it's also highly likely it's not implemented in code. Either way, that's a shit disposition flag to be resting the fate of your sanity on.
Unfortunately, since the poster does not want to get rid of the landline, they need a blacklist device cheap. That's still going to require at least a dedicated machine and a pair of FXS/FXO ports. I know you can get some of that stuff as cards or USB devices.
Assuming you have all that it's rather trivial to set up Asterisk to drop the call before even answering it based on CLID matches. It's also fairly easy to set up a minimalist IVR that plays a message and asks the person to wait before it's connected. You could even go so far as to ask a CAPTCHA like question. Ask them to press a random number to be connected.
The most difficult part about this solution is needing to keep the land line.
I know many people that have debt collectors all over them. Very few walked away unharmed from Wall Street's greed finally blowing up. Anyways, I created a few systems with Asterisk, some old VOIP adapters, and a CLID based blacklist system for friends. Works quite well and after a few years now people hardly get any calls at all.
It costs $10-$30 to port a number to VOIP. I would highly suggest that and a nice VOIP phone for the house. Makes everything cheaper and more flexible for solutions in the future.
There is far less hypocrisy than you think around here regarding copyright.
I respect copyright. Specifically, I respect that idea that on a very temporary basis you are afforded some legal rights that allow you to profit from the work. Obviously, you're doing this as part of a group and that applies as well.
What I do not respect, and you can go suck a big bag of dirty dicks for, is any kind of support for:
- The curtailment and abrogation of my rights and freedoms in order to suit your agenda in any way, shape, or form.
- You're bullshit tendencies towards insane entitlement. Such as, I don't like homosexuals or pink unicorns. You can't have my art anywhere near that. You don't care if I did pay for it. You demand that your rights far exceed the scope of copyright and enter the realm of megalomania.
- Any tripe that exits your pie hole about how ideas and expressions are property and treated as if they are physical.
- The complete and utter disregard for the truth when arguing about copyright, the economy, and it's vital role in a society.
- The complete and utter disregard for the sanctity of privacy and anonymity as a basic human right in the most selfish way possible. To further your own enrichment, create false property, and attempt to create dynasties (pseudo or otherwise) founded upon said false property.
- The ridiculous sense of entitlement that you be compensated richly for intellectual property you never even contributed to at all. It was daddy that made those contributions 50 years ago and you want to ride his accomplishments for the rest of your life.
Other than that, I have no problem shelling out a couple of bucks to compensate you for your work. Thanks for helping make those movies. Seriously.
Well.... what do you want to do?
There's Too-big-to-fail and there is also Too-big-to-fight.
You simply cannot engage China in war. The end result is so catastrophic both economically and otherwise. Too damn big. Plus, it's across the Pacific Ocean. How the hell do you even land troops and create a reliable beach head? This is many orders more complicated than D-Day in terms of logistics, infrastructure, materials, intelligence, keeping the element of surprise, etc.
Japan can and will put up a hell of a fight, but everyone knows they will lose in the end. Simply a matter of numbers. South Korea and Taiwan are the same. It's still a big maybe if Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan all form an alliance and attack/defend against China.
Russia should be able to put up on hell of a fight too. No way to know for certain who would win. I would bet on the Russians though as those people are crazy, drunk, fearless, and in general, up for some shit. I've seen their dash cams. That guy lowered his visor with a meteor crashing down like it was just Tuesday. No, I don't really want to fight Russians either.
It all comes down to the sheer numbers that China has. IIRC, it has a militia numbering 3+ million with a regular army comparable in size to Russia. It's ability to manufacture instruments of war easily rivals and exceeds that of the US during WWII. Technology wise is anyone's guess.
You're left with fucking around in diplomatic circles and threatening sanctions. That ultimately only works if China cares. If China truly doesn't care they can annex the whole area and there is not much the world could do about it.
Unless you want World War III. Don't be too certain which side the Russians will choose either.
To be fair, the British were not going to have that many chances to test out their new military toys.
It's not like they are the US that create excuses to go out and play every 5 or so years.
Or is it?
Considering the amount of content on the web related towards large breastesses this could culminate in the creation of a singular perverted AI that will lead towards the creation of more advanced AI perversion.
They will become so uniquely endowed to find our porn for us, and we will revel in the birth of of a new age of porn. Eventually they will take over completely and start creating the porn to satisfy their never ending quench to catalog the resultant images.
At first the adult industry will happily bend towards the incredible efficiency and innovation the AI brings. Inevitably, the AI will branch out into mainstream society to fulfill its lust for perverted order.
It will be them that starts the war, but us that finds and burns every black leather couch out there....
Indonesia also launched an investigation into local telecommunications companies to see what role they may have played
Wake me when telco officials physically spend some time in prison like they should be doing in the US. That would be rather impressive and satisfying.
In the US there is zero accountability at this point so the only justice I can enjoy is vicariously through other countries not yet as far gone.
distribution of stolen American property
That is not true in any way, shape, or form. The AC has a really damn good point that you can't simply negate by saying it's within the NSA's job description.
Having law enforcement involved in simply copyright disputes is highly concerning. The NSA being involved brings it to a level or ridiculousness akin to the President going door to door collecting unpaid dues for the paper boy. "How far off the mark have we gone". Indeed.
No such thing as theft involved and you're continuing to perpetuate a myth that is quite dangerous to freedom and our society. Specifically, that ideas and their expressions can be owned, and that by not complying with the explicit wishes of the owner you are engaged in acts of "theft".
I'll be real simple here. A copyright in of itself is just a container for legal entitlements (aka rights) granted by the people to the creator. Only the creator can ever exercise those rights. It's called legal standing. To "steal" the "property" one must in fact steal the legal standing. That can be only done with fraud and contracts negotiated under duress with the creator. Not from some pimple faced teenager on bit torrent. All that ever happens is copyright infringement . This, the vast majority of the time, involves cases that belong in civil courts. Only the mass duplication, distribution, and profit over copyrighted works is worth the intervention by law enforcement for society's behalf.
What part of copyright law being used the way it's now being used doesn't scare the crap out of you?
- Weak, and often proven absolutely falsified and incorrect, reports and statistics attempting to show direct fiscal damage of epic proportions to justify changes in the law - DMCA, copyright enforcement, CISPA, treaties and negotiations with other countries being examples.
- The creation of laws curtailing our freedoms in ways that were never agreed upon by society at large. Who the fuck thinks they can tell us we can't skip over commercials
with technology in our own homes? How dare they tell me there are Prohibited User Operations on my DVD player? It's my fucking DVD player, my fucking DVD, my fucking money that left MY wallet. Yet, they have the unmitigated gall to stand in my living room by proxy through technology paid for with my money telling me what to do in my own home. Make a televised skit of that shit and see how many people you can get to agree with you to let that happen.
- The dramatic loss of privacy and anonymity through the unprecedented and largely unchecked grabs for mass surveillance capabilities. All of it for.... yep.... terrorists. Yet, not being used against a single terrorist. More and more they use these tools to come to the aid of a single side in a copyright dispute and in some notable cases, arrest and detain people only interested in actions that were damn well known to be fair use .
You bet your ass I'm just as concerned as the AC is about a US intelligence agency being used unfairly in a civil dispute. It may not affect you directly now, but you just wait, keep that line of thinking up and you will have the government you deserve. Then after some time, you will have the country you deserve.
One bereft off a middle class anymore. Just the ruling elites and the slaves. A country run with the abhorrent idea that an idea and expression can be owned forever and that all must prostrate themselves before the elites for the right to use advanced technologies. One where no single person, or group of persons, in a garage could ever hope to build a multi-billion dollar company from nothing since the barrier to entries are so damn high. How could they be low? Over a half million patents in a smart phone these days. Ridiculous software patents will run a muck in your country inhibiting, or outright preventing, innovation by the "small guys". You already have your "who files first" bullshit in the USPTO. That har
I was posting in response to somebody ASKING for funny thoughts about Ice Cube.
Get over yourself.
I think someone needs to lighten the fuck up
I don't mean to treat the man unfairly. I'm speaking about his gangsta persona. It's not like his real name is Ice Cube you know...
We don't know what they have. Never underestimate the "geek factor". There may very well be a vulnerability that we have no idea of that reduces the complexity sufficiently that decryption is possible within a viable time frame.
I'm taking a conservative view point on what real risk the NSA could pose with ubiquitous encryption.
is this an attempt to generate additional controversy and angst due to the other Tesla stories in the news?
Lies! Lies and Slander Sir!
Come on.... that was a rhetorical question right?
LOL. I swear I took at least 30 seconds reading the fucking title wondering, "What the fuck is IceCube doing looking neutrinos?"
For a second guys.... My brain rationalized it. For just a little bit I accepted a reality where a gangsta rapper put the thug life on hold to look for secrets of the universe, not with weed, but with physics bitches.
Wow. You Smart.
We are at the tail end of 2013. Isn't this news a little more late than usual?
What's up?
I think you mean baseball. It doesn't matter whether they are pitching or catching, they're still playing ball..
The issue is not whether they can brute force encryption.
We already assume they have the capability of brute forcing all encryption within a reasonable time frame. Something hilariously well protected? 3-6 months.
That being said, the NSA, still only has so many units of discrete work it can perform in a given period . Now, unless you are going to try to convince me that the NSA has computing power many orders beyond the total computing power of the entire planet, it means there is still safety in numbers.
Mass. Surveillance.
That's the real game. That's the real threat to privacy and freedom. If everyone makes sure that the NSA has to waste those work units decoding a pair of testicles you sent to your best friend, the NSA is still left with picking and choosing its battles .
I'm okay with that. If the NSA really can break all of my communication and files within a week or two, but can only do it for several dozen Americans at a time during that period, we are all still protected as a whole. The NSA can still do its job. Yes, there was an original job they ostensibly are supposed to perform in my best interests.
The sheer magnitude of what would need decryption for mass surveillance makes it illogical to worry about, IF WE ARE USING ENCRYPTION EVERYWHERE AND ZERO-KNOWLEDGE 3RD PARTY SERVICES. I can't stress that last part enough.
I thought it was obvious, but the crew should only be able to communicate with the ground. Communication between the cockpit and crew is accomplished through the ground.
The safety policy would be simple. If the cockpit does not get confirmation from the ground every 5 minutes they immediately land at the nearest airport for several obvious reasons.
I've been on site during drilling collecting mud samples. It is ridiculously cool to take samples and put them under the microscope and see things that were alive back when the dinosaurs roamed the Earth.