There is nothing ridiculous about paying lots of money for a watch if you have enough of it.
However, I was under the impression that most luxury watches are mechanical (as opposed to quartz) and not watches either, but rather chronometers. They are much less precise than any quartz watch and it very hard to make them water proof. People buy them because they are engineering marvels and will last for generations if they are overhauled regularly by a watchmaker certified for the brand. I wonder whether there is any overlap between this group of buyers and potential smartwatch customers at all.
On the other hand, if you look around you'll find that there are collectors for just about everything, so why not luxury smartwatches.
There are plenty of laws prohibiting GCHQ from hacking third parties, e.g. they are in direct violation of European and German law (both civil and criminal law). That's why ISPs have sued them.
The problem is just that it's damned hard to prove it, since GCHQ is somewhat sneaky and backed up by a corrupt and fascist government.
He's right about most of the things he says, and that's also the reason why there are so many haters.
If you look closely at the opponents of the free software movement you'll find out that most of them have no good arguments at all (except lame ad hominem attempts). Or they use weak fake arguments they do not believe in themselves, because they are (i) working for a large company dealing with proprietary software, or (ii) are disgruntled independent developers who really really would like to use some GNU libraries but at the same time refuse to respect to the licence.
I think it would be a good idea to have helicopters flying above the whole city the whole, constantly covering every square inch and monitoring the behavior of the citizens. They should be painted black, and in order to keep noise levels at a minimum, it might be a good idea to make them special stealth helicopters who are hard to hear.
But we shouldn't stop there. LAPD should use portable brain scanners to question citizens randomly in some sort of improvised lie detector and loyalty tests. Another useful idea would be to implant RFID chips under the skin that allow LAPD to track the movements of all citizens in realtime. That could e.g. be done during vaccination campaigns. It would be very useful for tracking supects via helicopter.
Oh, and death squads would be cool.
Just some ideas in order to fight the spread of burglary and petty theft.
Nothing is special about it, except that it's ugly. For the same money or even less you could get easily an Arturia Minilab or a Korg Microkey or one of the dozens of other, better options.
What's even more sad is that he has most definitely not "personally overseen the sending out of several thousand emails". At best, he has sent some memo around that said something like this: "Send out emails now! That's an order! Yours sincerely, your boss. P.S.: Fuck you!"
I'd ask the other round, why do they not have access to Facebook?
Is there any reason besides assholery to not let them use social media? Is the goal of the US prison system to guarantee that inmates become 100% sociopaths with no friends or acquaintances except for criminals?
That's irrelevant for many people anyway, including me, it's a matter of psychology. I wouldn't even pay $2 a month or $24 a year. Call it irrational or however else you like, but one-time costs != running costs for me no matter what the end result is. I do not lease things.
But what's wrong with branching time? You go back, kill your grandfather and end up on a timeline on which you will never be born.On the original timeline you have disappeared.
Bugging individual suspects is not ethically worse than pervasive mass surveillance of the population as a whole. The former may or may not be unethical, depending on the circumstances, the latter is always immoral and dangerous to democracy.
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There is nothing ridiculous about paying lots of money for a watch if you have enough of it.
However, I was under the impression that most luxury watches are mechanical (as opposed to quartz) and not watches either, but rather chronometers. They are much less precise than any quartz watch and it very hard to make them water proof. People buy them because they are engineering marvels and will last for generations if they are overhauled regularly by a watchmaker certified for the brand. I wonder whether there is any overlap between this group of buyers and potential smartwatch customers at all.
On the other hand, if you look around you'll find that there are collectors for just about everything, so why not luxury smartwatches.
There are plenty of laws prohibiting GCHQ from hacking third parties, e.g. they are in direct violation of European and German law (both civil and criminal law). That's why ISPs have sued them.
The problem is just that it's damned hard to prove it, since GCHQ is somewhat sneaky and backed up by a corrupt and fascist government.
High-end thinkpad or alienware laptop for 3000$. Excellent graphics card is a must. It would be impossible to do physics research on anything else ;-)
He's right about most of the things he says, and that's also the reason why there are so many haters.
If you look closely at the opponents of the free software movement you'll find out that most of them have no good arguments at all (except lame ad hominem attempts). Or they use weak fake arguments they do not believe in themselves, because they are (i) working for a large company dealing with proprietary software, or (ii) are disgruntled independent developers who really really would like to use some GNU libraries but at the same time refuse to respect to the licence.
I think it would be a good idea to have helicopters flying above the whole city the whole, constantly covering every square inch and monitoring the behavior of the citizens. They should be painted black, and in order to keep noise levels at a minimum, it might be a good idea to make them special stealth helicopters who are hard to hear.
But we shouldn't stop there. LAPD should use portable brain scanners to question citizens randomly in some sort of improvised lie detector and loyalty tests. Another useful idea would be to implant RFID chips under the skin that allow LAPD to track the movements of all citizens in realtime. That could e.g. be done during vaccination campaigns. It would be very useful for tracking supects via helicopter.
Oh, and death squads would be cool.
Just some ideas in order to fight the spread of burglary and petty theft.
Is there already some personal backup software for GNU/Linux that encrypts all data and can use this as storage?
I'm looking for large offline storage but strong client-side encryption is a must.
Possibly, but for 25£ they are too expensive anyway.
Nothing is special about it, except that it's ugly. For the same money or even less you could get easily an Arturia Minilab or a Korg Microkey or one of the dozens of other, better options.
Or the black people who were infected with syphilis and intentionally left untreated as part of a long-term goverment study.
I want my symbolic AI back...
Exactly this, what else would a security company say to the public, "We suck at security and all our keys where stolen"?
I agree, and I think that people who harrass others online or make inappropriate 'troll' posts should be sentenced to death.
What's even more sad is that he has most definitely not "personally overseen the sending out of several thousand emails". At best, he has sent some memo around that said something like this: "Send out emails now! That's an order! Yours sincerely, your boss. P.S.: Fuck you!"
I'd go a little farther and suggest that AdBlock Edge is the most useful plugin. I highly recommend it.
Then again, I'm a doctor of philosophy and I agree with the original poster.
The crackers are going to love breaking this in 1, 2, 3 ...
I'd ask the other round, why do they not have access to Facebook?
Is there any reason besides assholery to not let them use social media? Is the goal of the US prison system to guarantee that inmates become 100% sociopaths with no friends or acquaintances except for criminals?
Putin is a poison murderer and responsible for the death of many women and children. So yes, that qualifies him as an asshole.
Things change, and when software changes it typically gets more complex.
That's the principal flaw of modern software development. Instead of fixing bugs features are piled up.
That's irrelevant for many people anyway, including me, it's a matter of psychology. I wouldn't even pay $2 a month or $24 a year. Call it irrational or however else you like, but one-time costs != running costs for me no matter what the end result is. I do not lease things.
But what's wrong with branching time? You go back, kill your grandfather and end up on a timeline on which you will never be born.On the original timeline you have disappeared.
Sounds no less plausible.
Bugging individual suspects is not ethically worse than pervasive mass surveillance of the population as a whole. The former may or may not be unethical, depending on the circumstances, the latter is always immoral and dangerous to democracy.
and taking quite some bullshit. Oh well, news at 11.
In most countries (though not the US) you have to ask for permission before photographing them.
Okay, next time I see you having a dinner, I'll point a huge directed microphone at you to capture everything you say. You fucking dumbass moron.
If you're in public, you do have an expectation of privacy as well, though of course not as much as at home.