Isn't picking and choosing which parts of the constitution to support the reason we dislike the NSA so much in the first place?
No, it's the opposite. Picking and choosing which parts of the constitution to ignore is the reason the NSA is disliked. Additionally: I have limited resources as an individual, so I put my limited time and money into advocating the things I think are important. If many do so, then all bases are covered. Requiring me to "support" all views equally would spread me so thin as to be ineffective at any advocacy.
Note that even though I do not rally in support of the 2nd amendment, I do not ignore it and think it is important. I think the 2nd needs to be reformed to become "The right to bear technology" such that our freedoms extend to 3D printers and all other technology including encryption systems (which are nearly considered munitions anyway). That means a new amendment... That new amendment would expand the 2nd, it's the one I would support.
Perhaps with such a right to bear technology uncorrupted would have prevented the government from removing mandatory encryption from IPv6... Thus PRISM would be moot, making less likely the need to exercise our 2nd amendment rights to uphold the constitution.
Just imagine all those ISPs who are distributing the CP. That's why they'll pull their nodes too, eh? Because the Internet has become the largest CP network on the planet, even bigger than Tor. Protip: The large networks are the largest networks for everything, not just CP.
I get your concern. In the current climate I wouldn't do that either. Even Freenet is a bit iffy, eh? Funny thing is, there could be a cross site scripting hack on any web page creating a 1px IFRAME that points to CP images... Skiddies do it just for fun, or to protest that their GF's sexting pics are illegal. I clean up that sort of thing about 3 times a year. You closed your Tor node, and didn't escape the Internet, you could have CP all up in your browser cache right now -- You wouldn't even see it. Better be using whole drive encryption because when your history deletes itself it doesn't necessarily mean the bits are gone....
This is why strings of 1's and 0's shouldn't be illegal. You visit such a compromised site regularly and build a pattern of CP visiting in the PRISM and/or FBI or at least your ISP's databases. We don't notify users that the XSS exploit had CP in it when we tell you to change your password, sometimes we don't even reset PWs if it's clearly only a XSS vuln. Good luck explaining your CP browsing habits with or without running a Tor node. At least the node would have given you some plausible deniability... Welcome to the Police State.
You know, with all these options in the "about:config", it would be a great feature to have some of this in the preferences instead of their trend to actually remove options from the users or make them difficult to find.
THIS. I use Dvorak. V is next to W. Paste is Ctr+V. Close Tab is Ctrl+W. There used to be ways to change the shortcut key... Now there's not. Thank Fuck I know how to run user scripts and disable the default action for any Ctrl+W key presses. Escape used to halt.GIF animations too... Now it's the "Stop Loading" key, because they removed the stop button. Grr.
The app assumes acceleration due to gravity is a constant... And the winner is?The International Space Station!
So, just take it to micro gravity, tie a string on it and spin it "up". You can do the same here on Earth, but it could be trickier since they can check for a wobble due to Earth's pull.
Anyone using a widespread bulletin board software will know that despite hard Caiaphas, spammer accounts are registered like crazy.
I include a small set of questions and answers relative to the interests of those who would visit the board. E.g., for Slashdot:
Complete the following sentence:
[randomly select from sentences]
"TFA" is an acronym meaning "The _______ Article". (7 letters)
Another alias for "Anonymous Coward" is "________ Dweller". (8 letters)
--etc--
Prior to instituting this simple questionnaire there are usually hundreds of spammers a day. Afterwards? None.
This is actually trivial to solve, indeed I don't even use the session token as a seed for creating new mappings between the numeric question ID, and the answers. So, a diligent spammer could simply collect all the questions then add the responses to the bot... Only THEN would I escalate to the code I've already written that does the randomized mappings, after first swapping in a new set of questions / answers.
But why?! Why wouldn't I use the MORE secure way right away? Because I'm not a fool. It has to be worth their time to enter an authentication war with me. Let them waste time writing a bot solver first, then immediately have their work become useless. In fact, this has already happened a few times. It's even rarer for spammers to then continue escalation -- they could just migrate to one of the other boards that is not so hostile, and upon which pre-made automated solvers still work. In fact, I have found good success Starting with only a single question. Replace the selection function:
sub random(){ return 4; } # Return truly random number, selected by fair dice roll.
Then I can simply revert to the randomized set of questions to escalate the spammer's coding and deployment cost. Thus, gaining yet another defense at little cost.
Any heterogeneous environment has what's called a "Single Point of Failure". This is why sex exists. Combinatorials are a simple way to get some randomness without all kinds of unexpected outcomes that rampant mutations in an asexual production would first attempt. Bacteria can use other methods because they've abstracted reproduction from defense: transformation, conjugation, etc. So, the uniform use of SSL, is stupid to put it mildly. It could have been like a bacteria, standardized and abstracted extensible protocol for defensive encryption... It's not though, it's a dumb for including a heterogeneous set of transforms dictated by AES standard. I mean, virtual machines exist; You're using one to decode font glyphs, and Unicode BIDI right now, but not for extensible encryption? How daft. Pervasive use of a brand of Captcha is equally retarding.
How foolish you humans are to not even learn the most basic of Life's Lessons. Diversity is a defense. When you use science to analyze natural selection's method of Trial and Error, Observation of results and Preservation of favorable outcomes... I bet you don't even make the correlation that Nature invented Science billions of years before you rediscovered it... I bet you don't even realize that's a universal truth inherent to any self improving cybernetic system, from DNA life compilers to C compilers. Ugh. Humans: Can't live with 'em; Can't teach 'em to survive.
This is why I've always said: Never help police, ever. They are either fools or evil, since they have no strong checks against confirmation bias. When they "like you" for a crime it appears common practice to discover they were correct... "Parallel Construction" being a legal way to establish probable cause means they are blatantly evil, and should be put down as murderers. They have turned from the path of science and embraced strongly the confirmation bias.
I have never understood Japanese robot innovations or the hype around them. What they are doing so superficial and useless. They intently focus on the mechanics of robotic movement and facial design while either ignoring or paying superficial lip service to the Artificial Intelligence aspect.
The Japanese are wiser than you. They know that cuteness and likability are largely visual in nature. Perhaps if the city your grandparents lived in were obliterated with an atom bomb for helping with a Holocaust then you would be more sensitive to what happens when sentient beings can be easily marginalized.
Now, since you may have gained a bit more understanding... Would you rather do likability testing on self aware robots? Or, would you rather the "uncanny valley" not be an easy excuse for genocide? Admit to how primitive of a race you are. Then you will understand more about the actions of those around you, especially the wise.
Yes. When they say that there's "no easy way to fix" something, they mean it would require that one of the coders writing web browsers not be fucking idiots. However, history has proved this impossible.
You take a highly intelligent creature, put it in captivity and then get in its enclosure. What the heck do you think is going to happen?
Hmmm...
a 27-year-old man who stayed after the park closed and evaded security to enter the orca tank was found dead and nude, draped over Tilikum's back with his genitals bitten off.
What would suck is if cats could communicate not just vocally, but also via cat posture semaphore in web video and imagery, and had developed a symbiotic virus that infects humans to enslave them to better communicate with each other.
It's called a "Threat Narrative". It's why there were no WMDs. There never was even suspicion of WMDs. There was only the need for a Threat Narrative to convince the people to let the armed forces off it's chain.
Vietnam? Threat Narrative. McCarthyism? Threat Narrative.... The Holocaust? Threat Narrative.
Require Evidence before belief -- That's rational. Always disbelieve the Threat Narrative. Don't Fall For It, not even once.
Hmm... You wouldn't necessarily have to implement a patent encumbered FAT-32 file system either. UEFI is supposed to work with FAT-16 and FAT-24, but I've only found FAT-32 to be even remotely reliably supported.
The El Torito CD Boot standard solves the 540 byte boot-strap loader limit, and utilizes a file format that could just as easily be used on magnetic boot media. It's also in wide use. UEFI is the most round-about proprietary solution for a problem I've ever seen. It's like dropping everything to forge a hammer just to force a nail in place instead of just using the screws and drill in your hands.
Since I have nothing to hide, YOU have no reason to look!
Unfortunately the theory states the opposite: You'll do less that needs hiding since you don't know when they're looking, and they don't have to look as much just convince you they could be...
The Panopticon is a type of institutional building designed by English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in the late 18th century. The concept of the design is to allow a watchman to observe (-opticon) all (pan-) inmates of an institution without their being able to tell whether they are being watched or not.
[...]
Bentham himself described the Panopticon as “a new mode of obtaining power of mind over mind, in a quantity hitherto without example.”
I don't know about him, but part of the reason I dislike xkcd so much isn't just because I dislike the comic..., but because people just bring it up so damn often. I mean, yeah, if you have a different sense of humor, that's fine... but for a good two or three years I couldn't even just ignore it because it got brought up EVERYWHERE.
Yep. It sucks. Even something you only mildly dislike becomes severely irritating when unable to escape it. I call this the Inescapable Pururin Effect If you like XKCD, and do not understand others revulsion to it, then every time you want to bring up XKCD play this while doing so. That's what it's like.
[What it must have been like w]hen the oceans were being conquered with ships set to explore and no guarantee of returning.
But we'll be killed!
Nonsense. Simmons, what do you suppose the edge of the world looks like? Uh, a great cliff... Oh, in the ocean, right. So, a giant waterfall off the edge?
Precisely. All the water pouring from the ocean for hundreds of years... Then why isn't the ocean dry? ...Rain! Rain must be filling it back up.
Obviously. Now, by what mechanism would water reach into the sky to first fall? Ah... uhm... A bucket? No...
Fool, think! What moves water in the air?! Oh, Wind!
Truly, it does. What moves ships upon the water? Sails! ... Wind!
Indeed. So, there is nothing to fear, you see?
With a firm mast and steady sail, if the edge be reached then just like rain we shall follow our jibs into the skies!
If you're lucky we may even wave good day to St. Peter, or meet the maker Himself!
So, we'll be Dead?!
Quite. Now fetch me an sturdy umbrella just in case. Columbus has volunteered to go first.
Why are critical systems on the 'net?
They functioned perfectly 30 years ago without the internet...
CAPTCHA = 'yourself'
Because these systems were not actually functioning perfectly 30 years ago. They are systems that are a bit newer than that, hence they didn't exist 30 years ago, thus they have the capability to be connected to the 'net. Networks reduced the cost of maintenance...
Look, just because the reasons aren't good reasons, doesn't mean they aren't reasons. I'm not disagreeing with you. You're the one asking "why?" In truth, I can't really tell you "why?" That's a religious question, and I'm a basement dweller who doesn't even believe in "sun" or "water". I can only tell you what, and how. Who knows why anyone puts dummy water plant systems on the 'net. To catch hackers? Maybe. If I had to guess it would be to further the conspiracy that "baths" exist. I'm unconvinced, these systems weren't actually connected to a "water" plant. HA, Nice try! Debunked the water myth right in the title, the only part that anyone cares about. My initial research does point to a final answer as to "why", but studies indicate I'll need to construct a massive supercomputer and let it think deeply until you've forgotten the question and mistranslated this very event sufficiently, probably erroneously labeling me a virgin, as translators are wont to do. It will need to be optical based, so I'll need a giant prism and lots of fiber optic cable, but such a taboo undertaking can only occur underground; Hence only Nasty Stinking Assholes like me can be trusted to do it. Don't worry, all of this will sound much more prophetic in 7.5 million years, everything does. Even acid trips seem like revelations given just a few thousand. Hmm, for good measure...
Future anthropologists: Beware the sharknado! Global weirding is a bitch!
Is that where we are now? Living in fear of learning more, because those who think they're holding the power, are looking at everything we do?
Yes, indeed.
The Panopticon is a type of institutional building designed by English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in the late 18th century. The concept of the design is to allow a watchman to observe (-opticon) all (pan-) inmates of an institution without their being able to tell whether they are being watched or not.
[...]
Bentham himself described the Panopticon as “a new mode of obtaining power of mind over mind, in a quantity hitherto without example.” Elsewhere, he described the Panopticon prison as “a mill for grinding rogues honest”.
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Isn't picking and choosing which parts of the constitution to support the reason we dislike the NSA so much in the first place?
No, it's the opposite. Picking and choosing which parts of the constitution to ignore is the reason the NSA is disliked. Additionally: I have limited resources as an individual, so I put my limited time and money into advocating the things I think are important. If many do so, then all bases are covered. Requiring me to "support" all views equally would spread me so thin as to be ineffective at any advocacy.
Note that even though I do not rally in support of the 2nd amendment, I do not ignore it and think it is important. I think the 2nd needs to be reformed to become "The right to bear technology" such that our freedoms extend to 3D printers and all other technology including encryption systems (which are nearly considered munitions anyway). That means a new amendment... That new amendment would expand the 2nd, it's the one I would support.
Perhaps with such a right to bear technology uncorrupted would have prevented the government from removing mandatory encryption from IPv6... Thus PRISM would be moot, making less likely the need to exercise our 2nd amendment rights to uphold the constitution.
The point is: You've got it all wrong, mate.
Hey, break DNS, why not break HTTP too?
Just imagine all those ISPs who are distributing the CP. That's why they'll pull their nodes too, eh? Because the Internet has become the largest CP network on the planet, even bigger than Tor. Protip: The large networks are the largest networks for everything, not just CP.
I get your concern. In the current climate I wouldn't do that either. Even Freenet is a bit iffy, eh? Funny thing is, there could be a cross site scripting hack on any web page creating a 1px IFRAME that points to CP images... Skiddies do it just for fun, or to protest that their GF's sexting pics are illegal. I clean up that sort of thing about 3 times a year. You closed your Tor node, and didn't escape the Internet, you could have CP all up in your browser cache right now -- You wouldn't even see it. Better be using whole drive encryption because when your history deletes itself it doesn't necessarily mean the bits are gone....
This is why strings of 1's and 0's shouldn't be illegal. You visit such a compromised site regularly and build a pattern of CP visiting in the PRISM and/or FBI or at least your ISP's databases. We don't notify users that the XSS exploit had CP in it when we tell you to change your password, sometimes we don't even reset PWs if it's clearly only a XSS vuln. Good luck explaining your CP browsing habits with or without running a Tor node. At least the node would have given you some plausible deniability... Welcome to the Police State.
You know, with all these options in the "about:config", it would be a great feature to have some of this in the preferences instead of their trend to actually remove options from the users or make them difficult to find.
THIS. I use Dvorak. V is next to W. Paste is Ctr+V. Close Tab is Ctrl+W. There used to be ways to change the shortcut key... Now there's not. Thank Fuck I know how to run user scripts and disable the default action for any Ctrl+W key presses. Escape used to halt .GIF animations too... Now it's the "Stop Loading" key, because they removed the stop button. Grr.
The app assumes acceleration due to gravity is a constant...
And the winner is? The International Space Station!
So, just take it to micro gravity, tie a string on it and spin it "up". You can do the same here on Earth, but it could be trickier since they can check for a wobble due to Earth's pull.
What you are being told is not the truth in this case because it clearly doesn't make sense at face value.
I agree. Further, to see how such trumped up charges are even possible you need only understand a bit about Sweeden,
Anyone using a widespread bulletin board software will know that despite hard Caiaphas, spammer accounts are registered like crazy.
I include a small set of questions and answers relative to the interests of those who would visit the board. E.g., for Slashdot:
Complete the following sentence:
[randomly select from sentences]
"TFA" is an acronym meaning "The _______ Article". (7 letters)
Another alias for "Anonymous Coward" is "________ Dweller". (8 letters)
--etc--
Prior to instituting this simple questionnaire there are usually hundreds of spammers a day. Afterwards? None.
This is actually trivial to solve, indeed I don't even use the session token as a seed for creating new mappings between the numeric question ID, and the answers. So, a diligent spammer could simply collect all the questions then add the responses to the bot... Only THEN would I escalate to the code I've already written that does the randomized mappings, after first swapping in a new set of questions / answers.
But why?! Why wouldn't I use the MORE secure way right away? Because I'm not a fool. It has to be worth their time to enter an authentication war with me. Let them waste time writing a bot solver first, then immediately have their work become useless. In fact, this has already happened a few times. It's even rarer for spammers to then continue escalation -- they could just migrate to one of the other boards that is not so hostile, and upon which pre-made automated solvers still work. In fact, I have found good success Starting with only a single question. Replace the selection function:
sub random(){ return 4; } # Return truly random number, selected by fair dice roll.
Then I can simply revert to the randomized set of questions to escalate the spammer's coding and deployment cost. Thus, gaining yet another defense at little cost.
Any heterogeneous environment has what's called a "Single Point of Failure". This is why sex exists. Combinatorials are a simple way to get some randomness without all kinds of unexpected outcomes that rampant mutations in an asexual production would first attempt. Bacteria can use other methods because they've abstracted reproduction from defense: transformation, conjugation, etc. So, the uniform use of SSL, is stupid to put it mildly. It could have been like a bacteria, standardized and abstracted extensible protocol for defensive encryption... It's not though, it's a dumb for including a heterogeneous set of transforms dictated by AES standard. I mean, virtual machines exist; You're using one to decode font glyphs, and Unicode BIDI right now, but not for extensible encryption? How daft. Pervasive use of a brand of Captcha is equally retarding.
How foolish you humans are to not even learn the most basic of Life's Lessons. Diversity is a defense. When you use science to analyze natural selection's method of Trial and Error, Observation of results and Preservation of favorable outcomes... I bet you don't even make the correlation that Nature invented Science billions of years before you rediscovered it... I bet you don't even realize that's a universal truth inherent to any self improving cybernetic system, from DNA life compilers to C compilers. Ugh. Humans: Can't live with 'em; Can't teach 'em to survive.
This is why I've always said: Never help police, ever. They are either fools or evil, since they have no strong checks against confirmation bias. When they "like you" for a crime it appears common practice to discover they were correct... "Parallel Construction" being a legal way to establish probable cause means they are blatantly evil, and should be put down as murderers. They have turned from the path of science and embraced strongly the confirmation bias.
I have never understood Japanese robot innovations or the hype around them. What they are doing so superficial and useless. They intently focus on the mechanics of robotic movement and facial design while either ignoring or paying superficial lip service to the Artificial Intelligence aspect.
The Japanese are wiser than you. They know that cuteness and likability are largely visual in nature. Perhaps if the city your grandparents lived in were obliterated with an atom bomb for helping with a Holocaust then you would be more sensitive to what happens when sentient beings can be easily marginalized.
Now, since you may have gained a bit more understanding... Would you rather do likability testing on self aware robots? Or, would you rather the "uncanny valley" not be an easy excuse for genocide? Admit to how primitive of a race you are. Then you will understand more about the actions of those around you, especially the wise.
This explains so much about politics.
Homicidal . . . I don't think that word means what you think it means.
So, then... Patricide isn't when a father is killed? Ah, then it must be when he flushed my goldfish.
Yes. When they say that there's "no easy way to fix" something, they mean it would require that one of the coders writing web browsers not be fucking idiots. However, history has proved this impossible.
Fuck with the timing.
Huh? What do you mean, "that would require today's programmers to at least know OF Assembler"...
But... How would learning ASM.js help?
You take a highly intelligent creature, put it in captivity and then get in its enclosure. What the heck do you think is going to happen?
Hmmm...
A gobble gone wrong? Worst blow-hole job ever?
What would suck is if cats could communicate not just vocally, but also via cat posture semaphore in web video and imagery, and had developed a symbiotic virus that infects humans to enslave them to better communicate with each other.
I'm glad that could never happen.
It's called a "Threat Narrative". It's why there were no WMDs. There never was even suspicion of WMDs. There was only the need for a Threat Narrative to convince the people to let the armed forces off it's chain.
Vietnam? Threat Narrative. McCarthyism? Threat Narrative.... The Holocaust? Threat Narrative.
Require Evidence before belief -- That's rational. Always disbelieve the Threat Narrative.
Don't Fall For It, not even once.
Wizards First Rule: People are stupid. They will believe anything they fear to be true.
s/540/446/
446 = 512 - 2 - 64
512 sector.
2 for 0xAA 0x55 boot magic number
64 for partition table.
Hmm... You wouldn't necessarily have to implement a patent encumbered FAT-32 file system either. UEFI is supposed to work with FAT-16 and FAT-24, but I've only found FAT-32 to be even remotely reliably supported.
The El Torito CD Boot standard solves the 540 byte boot-strap loader limit, and utilizes a file format that could just as easily be used on magnetic boot media. It's also in wide use. UEFI is the most round-about proprietary solution for a problem I've ever seen. It's like dropping everything to forge a hammer just to force a nail in place instead of just using the screws and drill in your hands.
Since I have nothing to hide, YOU have no reason to look!
Unfortunately the theory states the opposite: You'll do less that needs hiding since you don't know when they're looking, and they don't have to look as much just convince you they could be...
Welcome to the Panopticon.
Emphasis mine... Emboldening, the NSA's.
I don't know about him, but part of the reason I dislike xkcd so much isn't just because I dislike the comic ..., but because people just bring it up so damn often. I mean, yeah, if you have a different sense of humor, that's fine ... but for a good two or three years I couldn't even just ignore it because it got brought up EVERYWHERE.
Yep. It sucks. Even something you only mildly dislike becomes severely irritating when unable to escape it. I call this the Inescapable Pururin Effect If you like XKCD, and do not understand others revulsion to it, then every time you want to bring up XKCD play this while doing so. That's what it's like.
[What it must have been like w]hen the oceans were being conquered with ships set to explore and no guarantee of returning.
But we'll be killed!
Nonsense. Simmons, what do you suppose the edge of the world looks like?
Uh, a great cliff... Oh, in the ocean, right. So, a giant waterfall off the edge?
Precisely. All the water pouring from the ocean for hundreds of years... Then why isn't the ocean dry?
...Rain! Rain must be filling it back up.
Obviously. Now, by what mechanism would water reach into the sky to first fall?
Ah... uhm... A bucket? No...
Fool, think! What moves water in the air?!
Oh, Wind!
Truly, it does. What moves ships upon the water?
...
Sails!
Wind!
Indeed. So, there is nothing to fear, you see?
With a firm mast and steady sail, if the edge be reached then just like rain we shall follow our jibs into the skies!
If you're lucky we may even wave good day to St. Peter, or meet the maker Himself!
So, we'll be Dead?!
Quite. Now fetch me an sturdy umbrella just in case. Columbus has volunteered to go first.
Why are critical systems on the 'net? They functioned perfectly 30 years ago without the internet...
CAPTCHA = 'yourself'
Because these systems were not actually functioning perfectly 30 years ago. They are systems that are a bit newer than that, hence they didn't exist 30 years ago, thus they have the capability to be connected to the 'net. Networks reduced the cost of maintenance...
Look, just because the reasons aren't good reasons, doesn't mean they aren't reasons. I'm not disagreeing with you. You're the one asking "why?" In truth, I can't really tell you "why?" That's a religious question, and I'm a basement dweller who doesn't even believe in "sun" or "water". I can only tell you what, and how. Who knows why anyone puts dummy water plant systems on the 'net. To catch hackers? Maybe. If I had to guess it would be to further the conspiracy that "baths" exist. I'm unconvinced, these systems weren't actually connected to a "water" plant. HA, Nice try! Debunked the water myth right in the title, the only part that anyone cares about. My initial research does point to a final answer as to "why", but studies indicate I'll need to construct a massive supercomputer and let it think deeply until you've forgotten the question and mistranslated this very event sufficiently, probably erroneously labeling me a virgin, as translators are wont to do. It will need to be optical based, so I'll need a giant prism and lots of fiber optic cable, but such a taboo undertaking can only occur underground; Hence only Nasty Stinking Assholes like me can be trusted to do it. Don't worry, all of this will sound much more prophetic in 7.5 million years, everything does. Even acid trips seem like revelations given just a few thousand. Hmm, for good measure...
Future anthropologists: Beware the sharknado! Global weirding is a bitch!
Is that where we are now? Living in fear of learning more, because those who think they're holding the power, are looking at everything we do?
Yes, indeed.
Welcome to the Panopticon.
When questioned about the copy machine incident I replied, "It is a basic Human Right to have a fully functioning reproductive system."