DRM means I get to watch Netflix, so I'm all for DRM in HTML5. If it's not embraced in some way by the standard, it will happen anyway, and be platform specific and even more annoying.
THEN LET IT BE. The HTML standard shouldn't suffer because of your lack of willpower.
True, it could be quite easy to get someone framed. Create a flash drive with an empty encrypted partition*, drop it in enemy's pocket, pick up a pay phone anonymously,** wait for enemy to enter low-surveillance public area** and call the cops and say "I just saw two guys browsing child porn on a laptop, one of them was [common outfit, average description] and the other was [enemy's description and clothes] and he took a flash drive that was plugged into the laptop and gave the other guy money! The guy with the flash drive is still in [low surveillance public area], hurry!"
*Without getting your goddamn fingerprints and DNA all over it, and bought with cash, ideally from a vending machine
Go for it! I have many drives with encryption that's illegal in some countries, whole partitions just sitting there plain as day.
There's a decent chance your hidden partition wouldn't be found, and if it is you just act like you know nothing about it. It's a regular empty FAT partition.
So the important thing to take away from this is that if law enforcement questions you at all about an encrypted drive, you don't just deny them the key, you remain silent about it.
Amazon has always had a major boner for DRM, you need to install some shitty DRM-ridden client app for any digital goods you buy from them. At least they haven't gone fully-curated and tried to get everyone on Amazon hardware...yet.
I think you completely missed the point. What if they can't save the lump sum needed to buy the robot, or don't have stable enough income to buy it on a loan/credit?
True they could be trapped in the same dilemma that keeps poor people on pre-paid cell plans, rented property and credit card debt. Could save money through a large one-time expense, can't save enough money for large one-time expense, stuck making smaller continuous payments (hiring human noodle-shavers) that are more expensive in the long run...
You're playing with words. Yes your dishwasher is a washing robot, and this is also a noodle-making appliance. Doesn't change anything except what you call it.
Higher skill and/or lower importance...and in a world where we have people getting paid to grind in video games, how much room is there for lower importance?
I hope I'm wrong and in the near future there will be jobs of triviality that we can't comprehend right now...I really do.
Man, so much negative stuff. I know if I had an extra 50 hours free per week I'd be doing some kind of inventing or another, and getting back to proofreading books for a certain Slashdotter.
Would people really be so lazy/bored and feel a loss of meaning? To me working always made my life feel more boring and less meaningful...
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Are you fucking serious? Right in the face of the spread of curated computing and UEFI "secure" boot you're going to say this?
DRM means I get to watch Netflix, so I'm all for DRM in HTML5. If it's not embraced in some way by the standard, it will happen anyway, and be platform specific and even more annoying.
THEN LET IT BE. The HTML standard shouldn't suffer because of your lack of willpower.
I knew it was a terrible idea before it was cool. B-)
(No, seriously, like back when Bush was president).
Look and design - Blank magstripe cards are the same shape and size, the face design can be printed:
http://pvc.idcardgroup.com/productdetails.aspx?item=800059-106-01
Raised lettering - using a set of letter stamps intended for metalwork.
The credit card industry is staffed by morons that wouldn't know security from their own asshole. Really, it's that simple.
I'm pretty sure I proposed "cardsnarfing" many years ago, trying to find the post now...
True, it could be quite easy to get someone framed. Create a flash drive with an empty encrypted partition*, drop it in enemy's pocket, pick up a pay phone anonymously,** wait for enemy to enter low-surveillance public area** and call the cops and say "I just saw two guys browsing child porn on a laptop, one of them was [common outfit, average description] and the other was [enemy's description and clothes] and he took a flash drive that was plugged into the laptop and gave the other guy money! The guy with the flash drive is still in [low surveillance public area], hurry!"
*Without getting your goddamn fingerprints and DNA all over it, and bought with cash, ideally from a vending machine
**is VERY hard to do and will get harder
Sad truth, and I think the first (non-techie) old farts who will understand encryption probably haven't been born yet :-(
Go for it! I have many drives with encryption that's illegal in some countries, whole partitions just sitting there plain as day.
There's a decent chance your hidden partition wouldn't be found, and if it is you just act like you know nothing about it. It's a regular empty FAT partition.
So the important thing to take away from this is that if law enforcement questions you at all about an encrypted drive, you don't just deny them the key, you remain silent about it.
It's a synonym for Generation Y.
No source for burying with corpses inside, but the wreckage was buried:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenzhou_train_collision#Reaction
There are only two jobs where having been in prison for a crime can look good on your CV, gangster rapper and information security consultant.
LulzSec never claimed to be decentralized. They were a private group that split off from Anonymous, to perform operations that required secrecy.
You call that a disaster? If this continues I'll start the yub-yub dance!
True, could it be the IRL equivalent of the MtGox DDoS,buy,wait,sell,repeat trick?
Amazon has always had a major boner for DRM, you need to install some shitty DRM-ridden client app for any digital goods you buy from them. At least they haven't gone fully-curated and tried to get everyone on Amazon hardware...yet.
I think you completely missed the point. What if they can't save the lump sum needed to buy the robot, or don't have stable enough income to buy it on a loan/credit?
I'm here to save the day!
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3677477&cid=43526261
True they could be trapped in the same dilemma that keeps poor people on pre-paid cell plans, rented property and credit card debt. Could save money through a large one-time expense, can't save enough money for large one-time expense, stuck making smaller continuous payments (hiring human noodle-shavers) that are more expensive in the long run...
Next, the Chinese outsource everyone else with robots, then the robots outsource the Chinese with robots, then...???
You're playing with words. Yes your dishwasher is a washing robot, and this is also a noodle-making appliance. Doesn't change anything except what you call it.
Higher skill and/or lower importance...and in a world where we have people getting paid to grind in video games, how much room is there for lower importance?
I hope I'm wrong and in the near future there will be jobs of triviality that we can't comprehend right now...I really do.
I keep expecting some kind of robot/cyborg boy hero to show up and start fighting those things.
Man, so much negative stuff. I know if I had an extra 50 hours free per week I'd be doing some kind of inventing or another, and getting back to proofreading books for a certain Slashdotter.
Would people really be so lazy/bored and feel a loss of meaning? To me working always made my life feel more boring and less meaningful...