Of course you don't need DRM. You don't produce content with value.
Producers of content with value want DRM.
Bullshit. I make a living writing free software. We agree on a set a price for the work, I do the work, they pay me once, and I work more to make more money. Everyone gets the code since bits are in infinite supply and Economics 101 says they should have zero price regardless of cost to create. It's my ability to configure the bits that's scarce, I market that.
There's a new way to create content now. Bigger and bigger businesses are taking advantage of the free market research and funding systems in crowd funding. I've done a bit of "crowd source" funded open source work too, helped out a non profit in the process. So, You want to make some content? What are you going to do eh? You gonna work for free and try to leverage artificial scarcity to recoup the losses little by little in a copyright futures market that has a horrendous churn rate? Or, are you going to do the smart thing and seek out funding first, make sure you have cash to produce the content with? If you do the smart thing then you're going to be looking at investors and publishers who want a HUGE cut of the profits afterwards, and you've got no guarantee it'll be a success... Or, you can go with a hive of investors that ask for nothing in return and since you're selling directly to your customers up front, you're sure of success.
It's the same money either way, one way just cuts out the middle man. Now, some folk are giving away the output of their work afterwards (since society already paid for it to be created). That means your competition's product's "price" is Free. Next time you'll ask for more up front and charge less for the output, and the market forces will make it free as well.
Look, this is THE VERY FIRST generation growing up with an online digital distribution system. Shit is changing, and it's changing fast. DRM is dead. Evolve or become extinct.
Well, as both a consumer and programmer I will NOT have any encrypted code or codex coursing through my system. The bullshit DRM'ed content and corresponding proprietary code is not worth the risk of losing control of the system that I do my banking on.
If the browser makers bow and include such features the must NOT be installed by default and be optional plugins that are installed after installation. If not, then I will simply remove from the sources any DRM that finds its way into any of the open source browsers I use. I will then compile and make available the binaries and sources without said defective by design non-features (providing a stampede of GNUs doesn't beat me to it).
Even if "mainstream" consumers do not flock at first to the more open non-proprietary systems, this DRM will still fracture the web along a line dividing the herd from those who would be heard decrying this move as invasive. It's not uncommon for an upstart to take the lead in the browser wars. In a post Snowden world, built in DRM'd browsers don't stand a chance. The mud will be slung, because it's fun to do so. How can you prove that the DRM module doesn't have a backdoor? If it's open source, then it will be subverted in seconds.
Incorrect. Without a writing system, how else would you claim copyright to a work but by stenciling your hand? Perhaps men were more Public Domain doers for good and women were more Proprietary owners of things. Women still have the dominant purchasing power vs men...
Men were hunting while the females were gathering... Genetics made it so.
Have they thought that perhaps men were simply less narcissistic, and just like on Youtube where women more commonly display their faces in their videos than men, the women stenciled their hands more frequently than the men... You know, because it's the painting not the damn hand that matters -- It's the content not the face presenting it that matters... yet they show their faces, even if it means obscuring a part of the content.
There's something deeply evolutionary to that: Women primarily value social standing of mates. Males primarily value youth and fertility / beauty -- visually identifiable things. As the peacock displays its plumage for the peahen, so to do the female humans instinctively put on displays for their prospective mates, while the guys try to "impress the girls" with what they have, can do, or provide.
"Look at this cave painting I made, I'm a good artist." "Yeah, well look at how sexy my hand is, you like being touched by it."
The study proves nothing, IMO. Look to the neurology we've inherited from our ancestors, there you will find the same ratios you can use to surmise which sex favored/favors certain behaviors now and in the past.
Well, I agree UTF-8 is good for storing and rendering (and it supports the full Unicode range [and then some], Unilke 32 bit chars), however, unless you are normalizing your composed characters (decompositions) then Unicode isn't very good for comparisons or sorting, and neither is any encoding of Unicode, such as: UTF-8.
The problem is that normalized (decomposed) compositions can take up a lot more memory than the composed character, esp. in UTF-8 (which favors the western characters). Since memory (and bandwidth) is no longer as much of a concern UTF-8 is fine, but we should not store compose characters except for internal representations... However, I've yet to find an implementation that properly handles the normalization features of Unicode 3.0 as well as over-long forms -- both can be leveraged as exploit vectors: the former by improper sorts and duplicate displays despite different representations, and the latter to bypass input validation.
Furthermore, at the lexical level Unicode is poorly supported, for identifier names, etc. See also the above exploits and more, then occurring at the source level. I've a toy compilable language in the works that handles these issues and more, for which I've had to implement my own Unicode processing functions. It's remarkable how poorly nearly all languages fail when I start applying my unit tests to them...
I'm of the opinion Earth needs a single official language, but I'm disheartened that it will be English -- The least machine comprehensible of them all. Oh well, there's always next big bang.
LOVEINT is a thing. NSA lied to congress. They were doing this without approval prior to the Patriot Act. The statistics are lies unless significant evidence to the contrary is provided, the less extraordinary claim shall prevail, according to the Razor of Occam: They are deceptive liars and their words should not be believed.
5 years is just long enough to check my interest in political parties. We have a secret ballot for a reason. The spying must end, where is the hard, peer reviewed evidence that such surveillance is more valuable than our constitutionally guaranteed freedoms? Fire the traitors, they are not Americans.
In every dictionary of English, the explanation of the political term 'useful idiot' should use Snowden as the primary example. Anyone who knows ANYTHING about the recent history of whistle-blowing and leaking KNOWS The Guardian was created to destroy honest, non co-opted groups that were attempting to give public access to 'secret' information. Snowden was chosen because of his hacker personality. The group overseeing the real control of The Guardian and Snowden was led by British Intelligence, under another of Tony Blair's war-mongering projects.
The British have a long history of using these intelligence methods... such as electing cowardly drunks.
Snowden was the stooge used to excuse the circumstances for strife at home after war in the Middle East- especially Iraq and Afghanistan. Not one of his so-called 'leaks' harmed Ireland or the UK- what an amazing coincidence. Snowden's ego (and high intelligence) made him the ideal dupe.
On the other hand, Assange is the real deal- except even in his case he is a dupe telling us powerful truths, but truths that your masters decided had better come into the open at this time- for fear that an uncontrolled release of the truth later could have a very nasty, uncontrollable backlash. Assange was allowed to gather and inform us of a FRACTION of the extent of abuses by the warmongers of the West in an inoculation (you inject a little bit of the real 'poison' to allow the body to become immune to further 'poison' in the future).
Now when informed people tell their SHEEPLE::Baa-aa-aa:: friends about the extent of government evil, their friends yawn, shrug their shoulders and say "heard it all before, and what can anyone do about it?".
The monsters that rule you spend tens of billions of each on psychological warfare against YOU. You, on the other hand, have exactly one person's collections of resources to fight back- not exactly an even contest. So when YOU try to figure out the real truth behind Assange and Snowden, if there is ANY SHEEPLE::Baa-aa-aa:: instinct in you, you will fail. In truth, even if you consider yourself cynical, you still believe the 'push' information the mainstream media feeds you. You WILL be distracted by the treason charges against Snowden, for instance, thus limiting your ability to see the bigger picture- that Snowden is an identical play to so many used by the British during WW2.
Reminds me of the pro-gov slanted news and media in Russia, China, Syria, etc.
Just mix in some non-factual shit, call it "artistic license", and you can paint whichever real events however you want in the minds of fools -- The largest voting demographic...
I would only point out that humans lack a fundamental understanding of entropy. Given all of the output state required over a timeframe in a locality, such can be reversed... Encryption, or more specifically, Decryption proves this mathematically. If one bit is gone, then the reconstruction can not occur. Further, the world lines do not diverge. They are all merely a single world line which are superpositions of themselves, not completely unlike a hologram. The quantum theory is wrong. It's right there in the name. "Quanta" No. That doesn't exist. The universe does not have units of data, you just have shitty tools with which to measure it. TFA demonstrates this fact quite nicely. A superposition collapsing in "slow motion", No. It is simply that the super positions are abstract representation, like the bits on a magnetic hard drive which are never fully ones or zeros. As ECC has shown the way to ensure a drive's bits remain valid, so to will multisampling and checksums be utilized in "quantum" computing.
The problem with arguing semantics in a field which is wrong is that you're wrong either way. The next theory you invent will be wrong as well. You will discover with ever more precise tools that your working theories are invalid at the minute degree. If you do not believe me, then you are ignorant of the history your existence would feed forward unto you.
Given the above considerations, whatever the experiment detected is most certainly not collapse.
On the contrary: It is a collapse... of the Copenhagen interpretation itself. One that has been happening since such interpretation was given; Almost, as the researchers say, in slow motion...
Note, I'm a US citizen, but my statements hold true for citizens of all free nations. In fact, it is becoming clear through Snowden's leaks that our governments are all one and the same, collaborating between themselves to spy on all of us (and themselves). When you say UK, or Australia, or Germany, or France, or Canada, etc. I hear Nation of Earth's People. Since it's been shown that one nation can spy on the whole planet now, it is the whole planet that must end the surveillance, globally. If not by coercing our governments to allow us privacy, or by technological means if necessary.
I put my faith in the state to protect me as much as possible from these terrorists,
I agree with you except for this point. Note: The armed forces have no obligation to protect citizens. They are sworn to protect the flag and the constitution. Congress ruled that police have no obligation to preemptively protect the citizens also. It is your duty to protect yourself and your loved ones. Now, considering it's NOT the government's job to protect us from terrorists... What the fuck are we bending over backwards and letting them do all this pre-emptive spying bullshit for? We don't need that shit, every one of us knows what's going on around us. The proper response to a terrorist threat is a decentralized, aware and armed everyman.
Look, I'm a scientist. If they want a bunch of powers to spy on everything and say it's because that will help them fight terrorists, then I want a damn control group where there is no spying to see if it actually fucking works or if they're just blowing smoke up all our asses while becoming an amalgamation of KGB / Stasi / Nazis.
As you said, the terrorist threats are nothing to be afraid of. You're hundreds of times more likely to kill yourself. 6 times more people commit suicide every year than died on 9/11. Think about what would happen if a terrorist invasion force reached American soil and were running rampant in the streets killing civilians: With or Without the police or armed forces, the citizens themselves would put down the threat. There are far more of us than there are of them. Hell, we thwarted the terrorists plans with our own bare hands by crashing the plane once we figured out what the endgame was. Since the middle of the 9/11 attacks such an attack could never be effective again; Why? Because the people know about it.
Listen: As soon as the citizens knew what the threat was they ended it. This is why, as a citizen and as a scientist, I can not stand for this secret spying bullshit. If they say it's protecting us from terrorists, yet can't give us the details then I call bullshit. Also, we have to factor in the cost of the system and all of our privacy vs the costs of life due to terrorists that's far less than even bathtubs, as you say. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. We are the land of the brave, so let's stop being afraid of bathing (seriously, some of us nerds fucking stink).
They have trotted out a few cases with nonspecific details as proof of the systems protecting us, yet provide no evidence that the it was the spying infrastructure that helped catch the criminals -- some would even call some of their antics entrapment as they recruit unstable folks into playing a part in a supposed terrorist attack, then jail them. Stop manufacturing the threats, and they go away. Hell, we've got kids sneaking into wheel wells of airplanes and even flying as stowaways... So, for all the pat-downs and scans and expenses we've not protected SHIT. Those kids could have been bomb wearing terrorists. The citizens stopped the underwear bomber. We have no evidence that any of the protections are protective.
There is no such thing as a terrorist threat. It's hundreds of times less of a threat than the flu. We accept the risk of the flu existing and don't have concentration camps for flu carriers, so I think I can protect myself against some ineffective and moronic terrorists. Life's a bit risky: I still drive cars, even though they are more of a clear and present danger to my life than terrorists.
Even if the threat were real: Our freedom to use our technology and have privacy as more of our lives take place online is far more important than the loss of a few lives. We have secret ballots for a reason. Now you can't even use Tor to make sure no one knows who you're thinking of voting for... This attack against US citizens privacy and the constitution is the very real threat that must be ended. The army has sworn to uphold the constitution. The secret court ruled the NSA's actions unconstitutional. The army should be storming the NSA server rooms and shutting them down until we have a vote to (dis)continue it; Voting to either accept or reject amending Stasi like powers to the constitution...
Interesting. In my garage are machines that will never connect to standard networking hardware. I call this my "security hole", where I can actually compute securely.
We are all fallible human beings running this shit after all. No amount of clean, "safe", cheap power should be worth the risk of generating pollution lasting tens of thousands of years.
Think of the big picture: Pollution or not, Humans WILL become extinct unless they achieve extraplanetary footholds of life.
What better motivator to fund space agencies than, "Oh fuck! The whole planet is screwed!"
No no, an "Expert System" isn't really good AI. What you want is an expert system with a bunch of weights hooked up in a feed forward network. Seems like they want 2 outputs: Shady or not, and Purposeful or not. Get a few million of those n.nets hooked up, axons all randomized. Now, to train it, all you need to do is have folks be going about their business normally, some being shady, some being told to do shady stuff but not doing it on purpose. The ones that output the correct responses you digitize and serialize their axon weights into a binary genome, and breed: Copy a run of bits from mom's or dad's genomes into the kid and swap randomly between them, but not so often you get a no solid chunks; Also, introduce a random bit flip every once in a while. Instantiate a new batch of n.nets by deserializing the child genomes and repeat the process until the accuracy is above some threshold. Now, we shouldn't use back-propagation here because that presumes we know what combinations of behaviors are the red-flags. If you have a known training set to converge upon, then it can be subverted. Instead use a decide by committee approach with static "grandfathered in" neural nets competing with evolving lineages so it can adapt to new threats. It's also pretty easy to add new inputs to the system, just zero the axon strengths for the new input neurons' connections, and keep on trucking.
Of course, this is the army, so we're talking lowest bidder.... A guy like Snowden gets access and since MS whined about not winning bids because "it's not POSIX, waah", I'm sure there's a bunch of compromisable systems they can subvert to mask or deletes his logs / inputs and no bells and whistles go off. So, it'll keep the honest folks honest and the worried folks sated, and the crackers cracking. It's the difference between a motion detector, and a motion detector with duct-tape on the sensor.
Truly, in the Age of Information it's the hackers who shall inherit the earth. Let me put it another way: Black markets exist for exploit vectors for every known OS. Game over, you humans couldn't write secure code to save your lives!
Herd mentality is the most predictable of all human responses. But, rest assured, this will be the sixth time we have re-invented PostScript, and we have become exceedingly efficient at cocking it up.
The answer is languages that aren't retarding. Seriously. The only reason make is required is because you let implementation details leak into the damn language.
Protip: If you need another tool to build a project other than the compiler, then you're doing it wrong. Additionally, if your intermediate "object code" isn't cross platform and your debug symbols can't be removed without recompiling, then you've also done it very wrong.
I'm ready to replace make too. I'm ready to replace the whole damn OS stack, in fact. They've all done things the stupid way. Programs can't even negotiate a simple data exchange without a programmer in the middle being the damn translator and providing a shell script. Don't get me wrong, I like the 70's, but come the fuck on people, this shit is dumb.
It's not the user's fault this shit is so complex; It doesn't have to be this way, that's just the way it was designed.
I just won another round of conspiracy theory bingo. It's like the regular bingo that grandma likes, with a lot more "Ha! I knew it!"s just for grandpa.
But it's hardly a wacky assertion that it could have been the NSA. It also could have been me, but I'm not telling.;-)
You've identified yourself as a threat to National Security. For us to analyze your dedication to your country, you must now become an intern for the NSA.
Please report to the #6 concent-- Er...Internment camp for further instructions. Transportation will be provided via flashy car at your option.
If your crime doesn't pay, you're thinking small scale.
Don't put a gun to someone's head and demand money, if you're big enough you can hold ALL the guns and compel EVERYONE to give you money. Just call it a Tax.
What's odd is that those directories shouldn't be public in the first place. You're supposed to remove them (or block them) once the install is done and before you turn the forum live.
So, what you're saying is: While you're doing the install the server is hosting PHP, and the admin pages make the board is vulnerable, you should limit it to your IP address at least -- And you have to do this outside of the software, there's no Install_IP = [your IP] config to set prior to uploading this executable code.
Additionally, when the setup is done it doesn't just delete those damn files? Think about it. You JUST installed the software. Deleting those files has no downside. If you need to re-install, you can! You must already have the ability to start from scratch.
I wonder if the v stands for vulnerable? If they're this lax about THE PRIMARY exploit vector of initial credential creation, you can just imagine how they are on all other aspects. Of course I blame PHP -- That language itself breeds security vulnerabilities. Hell, PHP has exploits in itself. C/C++ will let you shoot yourself in the foot if you're not careful, and create vulns, but at least it doesn't come with a giant pool of exploits built in.
I'm tired of digging around in the guts of these insecure and inefficient PHP based abominations to apply security patches atop dipshit mistakes, or break the whole system on upgrade because I've applied a different "skin" (since they don't actually use a proper templating system, and treat PHP as if it is one). I don't use vBulletin currently, but it was on my radar. I've been thinking of migrating to a different Forum (read: BBS), but I've been rather disappointed with the current CMS/Forum offerings.
The biggest issue is with general purpose software like this is that when you design software with everyone in mind, you've designed it for no one in particular.
I almost think I should just go old school and write one myself in C. I did that in Perl once forever-ago, but didn't have time to keep its features up to date with other offerings (it's not hard, just time consuming). Now I know exactly what I want in a forum, and nothing available gives it to me. The features overlap with a project I'm working on, so it may be time to scratch my own itch yet again.
In other words: Don't pay for crap software if you care about security... If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself. The economy is down, employ a few coders for FFS.
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Of course you don't need DRM. You don't produce content with value.
Producers of content with value want DRM.
Bullshit. I make a living writing free software. We agree on a set a price for the work, I do the work, they pay me once, and I work more to make more money. Everyone gets the code since bits are in infinite supply and Economics 101 says they should have zero price regardless of cost to create. It's my ability to configure the bits that's scarce, I market that.
There's a new way to create content now. Bigger and bigger businesses are taking advantage of the free market research and funding systems in crowd funding. I've done a bit of "crowd source" funded open source work too, helped out a non profit in the process. So, You want to make some content? What are you going to do eh? You gonna work for free and try to leverage artificial scarcity to recoup the losses little by little in a copyright futures market that has a horrendous churn rate? Or, are you going to do the smart thing and seek out funding first, make sure you have cash to produce the content with? If you do the smart thing then you're going to be looking at investors and publishers who want a HUGE cut of the profits afterwards, and you've got no guarantee it'll be a success... Or, you can go with a hive of investors that ask for nothing in return and since you're selling directly to your customers up front, you're sure of success.
It's the same money either way, one way just cuts out the middle man. Now, some folk are giving away the output of their work afterwards (since society already paid for it to be created). That means your competition's product's "price" is Free. Next time you'll ask for more up front and charge less for the output, and the market forces will make it free as well.
Look, this is THE VERY FIRST generation growing up with an online digital distribution system. Shit is changing, and it's changing fast. DRM is dead. Evolve or become extinct.
Well, as both a consumer and programmer I will NOT have any encrypted code or codex coursing through my system. The bullshit DRM'ed content and corresponding proprietary code is not worth the risk of losing control of the system that I do my banking on.
If the browser makers bow and include such features the must NOT be installed by default and be optional plugins that are installed after installation. If not, then I will simply remove from the sources any DRM that finds its way into any of the open source browsers I use. I will then compile and make available the binaries and sources without said defective by design non-features (providing a stampede of GNUs doesn't beat me to it).
Even if "mainstream" consumers do not flock at first to the more open non-proprietary systems, this DRM will still fracture the web along a line dividing the herd from those who would be heard decrying this move as invasive. It's not uncommon for an upstart to take the lead in the browser wars. In a post Snowden world, built in DRM'd browsers don't stand a chance. The mud will be slung, because it's fun to do so. How can you prove that the DRM module doesn't have a backdoor? If it's open source, then it will be subverted in seconds.
The W3C missed the memo: DRM is dead.
I think they're onto something.
6. Installation
a. Linux:
Follow add the software repository from the following
list then install the package named "my-software"
b. Windows:
Install Linux, then see step 6a.
I should probably just distribute it on a Debian LiveCD...
Incorrect. Without a writing system, how else would you claim copyright to a work but by stenciling your hand? Perhaps men were more Public Domain doers for good and women were more Proprietary owners of things. Women still have the dominant purchasing power vs men...
Men were hunting while the females were gathering... Genetics made it so.
Have they considered the null hypothesis?
Have they thought that perhaps men were simply less narcissistic, and just like on Youtube where women more commonly display their faces in their videos than men, the women stenciled their hands more frequently than the men... You know, because it's the painting not the damn hand that matters -- It's the content not the face presenting it that matters... yet they show their faces, even if it means obscuring a part of the content.
There's something deeply evolutionary to that: Women primarily value social standing of mates. Males primarily value youth and fertility / beauty -- visually identifiable things. As the peacock displays its plumage for the peahen, so to do the female humans instinctively put on displays for their prospective mates, while the guys try to "impress the girls" with what they have, can do, or provide.
"Look at this cave painting I made, I'm a good artist." "Yeah, well look at how sexy my hand is, you like being touched by it."
The study proves nothing, IMO. Look to the neurology we've inherited from our ancestors, there you will find the same ratios you can use to surmise which sex favored/favors certain behaviors now and in the past.
Well, I agree UTF-8 is good for storing and rendering (and it supports the full Unicode range [and then some], Unilke 32 bit chars), however, unless you are normalizing your composed characters (decompositions) then Unicode isn't very good for comparisons or sorting, and neither is any encoding of Unicode, such as: UTF-8.
The problem is that normalized (decomposed) compositions can take up a lot more memory than the composed character, esp. in UTF-8 (which favors the western characters). Since memory (and bandwidth) is no longer as much of a concern UTF-8 is fine, but we should not store compose characters except for internal representations... However, I've yet to find an implementation that properly handles the normalization features of Unicode 3.0 as well as over-long forms -- both can be leveraged as exploit vectors: the former by improper sorts and duplicate displays despite different representations, and the latter to bypass input validation.
Furthermore, at the lexical level Unicode is poorly supported, for identifier names, etc. See also the above exploits and more, then occurring at the source level. I've a toy compilable language in the works that handles these issues and more, for which I've had to implement my own Unicode processing functions. It's remarkable how poorly nearly all languages fail when I start applying my unit tests to them...
I'm of the opinion Earth needs a single official language, but I'm disheartened that it will be English -- The least machine comprehensible of them all. Oh well, there's always next big bang.
LOVEINT is a thing. NSA lied to congress. They were doing this without approval prior to the Patriot Act. The statistics are lies unless significant evidence to the contrary is provided, the less extraordinary claim shall prevail, according to the Razor of Occam: They are deceptive liars and their words should not be believed.
5 years is just long enough to check my interest in political parties. We have a secret ballot for a reason. The spying must end, where is the hard, peer reviewed evidence that such surveillance is more valuable than our constitutionally guaranteed freedoms? Fire the traitors, they are not Americans.
s/Assagne/Snowden/
s/Wikileaks/The Guardian/
In every dictionary of English, the explanation of the political term 'useful idiot' should use Snowden as the primary example. Anyone who knows ANYTHING about the recent history of whistle-blowing and leaking KNOWS The Guardian was created to destroy honest, non co-opted groups that were attempting to give public access to 'secret' information. Snowden was chosen because of his hacker personality. The group overseeing the real control of The Guardian and Snowden was led by British Intelligence, under another of Tony Blair's war-mongering projects.
The British have a long history of using these intelligence methods ... such as electing cowardly drunks.
Snowden was the stooge used to excuse the circumstances for strife at home after war in the Middle East- especially Iraq and Afghanistan. Not one of his so-called 'leaks' harmed Ire land or the UK- what an amazing coincidence. Snowden's ego (and high intelligence) made him the ideal dupe.
On the other hand, Assange is the real deal- except even in his case he is a dupe telling us powerful truths, but truths that your masters decided had better come into the open at this time- for fear that an uncontrolled release of the truth later could have a very nasty, uncontrollable backlash. Assange was allowed to gather and inform us of a FRACTION of the extent of abuses by the warmongers of the West in an inoculation (you inject a little bit of the real 'poison' to allow the body to become immune to further 'poison' in the future).
Now when informed people tell their SHEEPLE ::Baa-aa-aa:: friends about the extent of government evil, their friends yawn, shrug their shoulders and say "heard it all before, and what can anyone do about it?".
The monsters that rule you spend tens of billions of each on psychological warfare against YOU. You, on the other hand, have exactly one person's collections of resources to fight back- not exactly an even contest. So when YOU try to figure out the real truth behind Assange and Snowden, if there is ANY SHEEPLE ::Baa-aa-aa:: instinct in you, you will fail. In truth, even if you consider yourself cynical, you still believe the 'push' information the mainstream media feeds you. You WILL be distracted by the treason charges against Snowden, for instance, thus limiting your ability to see the bigger picture- that Snowden is an identical play to so many used by the British during WW2.
Clearly, the conspiracy knows no bounds...
Maybe I missed it during the movie but the speech where Assange/Cumberbach says "they are afraid of you" that is in the trailers is not in the movie.
Probably didn't test well against government audiences...
Reminds me of the pro-gov slanted news and media in Russia, China, Syria, etc.
Just mix in some non-factual shit, call it "artistic license", and you can paint whichever real events however you want in the minds of fools -- The largest voting demographic...
I would only point out that humans lack a fundamental understanding of entropy. Given all of the output state required over a timeframe in a locality, such can be reversed... Encryption, or more specifically, Decryption proves this mathematically. If one bit is gone, then the reconstruction can not occur. Further, the world lines do not diverge. They are all merely a single world line which are superpositions of themselves, not completely unlike a hologram. The quantum theory is wrong. It's right there in the name. "Quanta" No. That doesn't exist. The universe does not have units of data, you just have shitty tools with which to measure it. TFA demonstrates this fact quite nicely. A superposition collapsing in "slow motion", No. It is simply that the super positions are abstract representation, like the bits on a magnetic hard drive which are never fully ones or zeros. As ECC has shown the way to ensure a drive's bits remain valid, so to will multisampling and checksums be utilized in "quantum" computing.
The problem with arguing semantics in a field which is wrong is that you're wrong either way. The next theory you invent will be wrong as well. You will discover with ever more precise tools that your working theories are invalid at the minute degree. If you do not believe me, then you are ignorant of the history your existence would feed forward unto you.
Given the above considerations, whatever the experiment detected is most certainly not collapse.
On the contrary: It is a collapse... of the Copenhagen interpretation itself. One that has been happening since such interpretation was given; Almost, as the researchers say, in slow motion...
Note, I'm a US citizen, but my statements hold true for citizens of all free nations. In fact, it is becoming clear through Snowden's leaks that our governments are all one and the same, collaborating between themselves to spy on all of us (and themselves). When you say UK, or Australia, or Germany, or France, or Canada, etc. I hear Nation of Earth's People. Since it's been shown that one nation can spy on the whole planet now, it is the whole planet that must end the surveillance, globally. If not by coercing our governments to allow us privacy, or by technological means if necessary.
We need the Right to Bear Technology.
I put my faith in the state to protect me as much as possible from these terrorists,
I agree with you except for this point. Note: The armed forces have no obligation to protect citizens. They are sworn to protect the flag and the constitution. Congress ruled that police have no obligation to preemptively protect the citizens also. It is your duty to protect yourself and your loved ones. Now, considering it's NOT the government's job to protect us from terrorists... What the fuck are we bending over backwards and letting them do all this pre-emptive spying bullshit for? We don't need that shit, every one of us knows what's going on around us. The proper response to a terrorist threat is a decentralized, aware and armed everyman.
Look, I'm a scientist. If they want a bunch of powers to spy on everything and say it's because that will help them fight terrorists, then I want a damn control group where there is no spying to see if it actually fucking works or if they're just blowing smoke up all our asses while becoming an amalgamation of KGB / Stasi / Nazis.
As you said, the terrorist threats are nothing to be afraid of. You're hundreds of times more likely to kill yourself. 6 times more people commit suicide every year than died on 9/11. Think about what would happen if a terrorist invasion force reached American soil and were running rampant in the streets killing civilians: With or Without the police or armed forces, the citizens themselves would put down the threat. There are far more of us than there are of them. Hell, we thwarted the terrorists plans with our own bare hands by crashing the plane once we figured out what the endgame was. Since the middle of the 9/11 attacks such an attack could never be effective again; Why? Because the people know about it.
Listen: As soon as the citizens knew what the threat was they ended it. This is why, as a citizen and as a scientist, I can not stand for this secret spying bullshit. If they say it's protecting us from terrorists, yet can't give us the details then I call bullshit. Also, we have to factor in the cost of the system and all of our privacy vs the costs of life due to terrorists that's far less than even bathtubs, as you say. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. We are the land of the brave, so let's stop being afraid of bathing (seriously, some of us nerds fucking stink).
They have trotted out a few cases with nonspecific details as proof of the systems protecting us, yet provide no evidence that the it was the spying infrastructure that helped catch the criminals -- some would even call some of their antics entrapment as they recruit unstable folks into playing a part in a supposed terrorist attack, then jail them. Stop manufacturing the threats, and they go away. Hell, we've got kids sneaking into wheel wells of airplanes and even flying as stowaways... So, for all the pat-downs and scans and expenses we've not protected SHIT. Those kids could have been bomb wearing terrorists. The citizens stopped the underwear bomber. We have no evidence that any of the protections are protective.
There is no such thing as a terrorist threat. It's hundreds of times less of a threat than the flu. We accept the risk of the flu existing and don't have concentration camps for flu carriers, so I think I can protect myself against some ineffective and moronic terrorists. Life's a bit risky: I still drive cars, even though they are more of a clear and present danger to my life than terrorists.
Even if the threat were real: Our freedom to use our technology and have privacy as more of our lives take place online is far more important than the loss of a few lives. We have secret ballots for a reason. Now you can't even use Tor to make sure no one knows who you're thinking of voting for... This attack against US citizens privacy and the constitution is the very real threat that must be ended. The army has sworn to uphold the constitution. The secret court ruled the NSA's actions unconstitutional. The army should be storming the NSA server rooms and shutting them down until we have a vote to (dis)continue it; Voting to either accept or reject amending Stasi like powers to the constitution...
Interesting. In my garage are machines that will never connect to standard networking hardware. I call this my "security hole", where I can actually compute securely.
This is what happens when you take the GNU out of Linux.
So... Basically, the damn NBC peacock is trying to fuck us all?!
We are all fallible human beings running this shit after all. No amount of clean, "safe", cheap power should be worth the risk of generating pollution lasting tens of thousands of years.
Think of the big picture: Pollution or not, Humans WILL become extinct unless they achieve extraplanetary footholds of life.
What better motivator to fund space agencies than, "Oh fuck! The whole planet is screwed!"
No no, an "Expert System" isn't really good AI. What you want is an expert system with a bunch of weights hooked up in a feed forward network. Seems like they want 2 outputs: Shady or not, and Purposeful or not. Get a few million of those n.nets hooked up, axons all randomized. Now, to train it, all you need to do is have folks be going about their business normally, some being shady, some being told to do shady stuff but not doing it on purpose. The ones that output the correct responses you digitize and serialize their axon weights into a binary genome, and breed: Copy a run of bits from mom's or dad's genomes into the kid and swap randomly between them, but not so often you get a no solid chunks; Also, introduce a random bit flip every once in a while. Instantiate a new batch of n.nets by deserializing the child genomes and repeat the process until the accuracy is above some threshold. Now, we shouldn't use back-propagation here because that presumes we know what combinations of behaviors are the red-flags. If you have a known training set to converge upon, then it can be subverted. Instead use a decide by committee approach with static "grandfathered in" neural nets competing with evolving lineages so it can adapt to new threats. It's also pretty easy to add new inputs to the system, just zero the axon strengths for the new input neurons' connections, and keep on trucking.
Of course, this is the army, so we're talking lowest bidder.... A guy like Snowden gets access and since MS whined about not winning bids because "it's not POSIX, waah", I'm sure there's a bunch of compromisable systems they can subvert to mask or deletes his logs / inputs and no bells and whistles go off. So, it'll keep the honest folks honest and the worried folks sated, and the crackers cracking. It's the difference between a motion detector, and a motion detector with duct-tape on the sensor.
Truly, in the Age of Information it's the hackers who shall inherit the earth. Let me put it another way: Black markets exist for exploit vectors for every known OS. Game over, you humans couldn't write secure code to save your lives!
Herd mentality is the most predictable of all human responses. But, rest assured, this will be the sixth time we have re-invented PostScript, and we have become exceedingly efficient at cocking it up.
The answer is languages that aren't retarding. Seriously. The only reason make is required is because you let implementation details leak into the damn language.
Protip: If you need another tool to build a project other than the compiler, then you're doing it wrong. Additionally, if your intermediate "object code" isn't cross platform and your debug symbols can't be removed without recompiling, then you've also done it very wrong.
I'm ready to replace make too. I'm ready to replace the whole damn OS stack, in fact. They've all done things the stupid way. Programs can't even negotiate a simple data exchange without a programmer in the middle being the damn translator and providing a shell script. Don't get me wrong, I like the 70's, but come the fuck on people, this shit is dumb.
It's not the user's fault this shit is so complex; It doesn't have to be this way, that's just the way it was designed.
BINGO!
Thank you!
I just won another round of conspiracy theory bingo. It's like the regular bingo that grandma likes, with a lot more "Ha! I knew it!"s just for grandpa.
But it's hardly a wacky assertion that it could have been the NSA. It also could have been me, but I'm not telling. ;-)
You've identified yourself as a threat to National Security. For us to analyze your dedication to your country, you must now become an intern for the NSA.
Please report to the #6 concent-- Er... Internment camp for further instructions. Transportation will be provided via flashy car at your option.
Crime doesn't pay, but the hours are great!
If your crime doesn't pay, you're thinking small scale.
Don't put a gun to someone's head and demand money, if you're big enough you can hold ALL the guns and compel EVERYONE to give you money. Just call it a Tax.
What's odd is that those directories shouldn't be public in the first place. You're supposed to remove them (or block them) once the install is done and before you turn the forum live.
So, what you're saying is: While you're doing the install the server is hosting PHP, and the admin pages make the board is vulnerable, you should limit it to your IP address at least -- And you have to do this outside of the software, there's no Install_IP = [your IP] config to set prior to uploading this executable code.
Additionally, when the setup is done it doesn't just delete those damn files? Think about it. You JUST installed the software. Deleting those files has no downside. If you need to re-install, you can! You must already have the ability to start from scratch.
I wonder if the v stands for vulnerable? If they're this lax about THE PRIMARY exploit vector of initial credential creation, you can just imagine how they are on all other aspects. Of course I blame PHP -- That language itself breeds security vulnerabilities. Hell, PHP has exploits in itself. C/C++ will let you shoot yourself in the foot if you're not careful, and create vulns, but at least it doesn't come with a giant pool of exploits built in.
I'm tired of digging around in the guts of these insecure and inefficient PHP based abominations to apply security patches atop dipshit mistakes, or break the whole system on upgrade because I've applied a different "skin" (since they don't actually use a proper templating system, and treat PHP as if it is one). I don't use vBulletin currently, but it was on my radar. I've been thinking of migrating to a different Forum (read: BBS), but I've been rather disappointed with the current CMS/Forum offerings.
The biggest issue is with general purpose software like this is that when you design software with everyone in mind, you've designed it for no one in particular.
I almost think I should just go old school and write one myself in C. I did that in Perl once forever-ago, but didn't have time to keep its features up to date with other offerings (it's not hard, just time consuming). Now I know exactly what I want in a forum, and nothing available gives it to me. The features overlap with a project I'm working on, so it may be time to scratch my own itch yet again.
In other words: Don't pay for crap software if you care about security... If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself. The economy is down, employ a few coders for FFS.