This mindset is the problem. You're allowing changes in technology to erode your privacy by making tracking easier and more common. If there were cop cars tailing every single vehicle and reporting their movements to a central database would you be OK with that? If not, why is it OK to do the same thing with cameras?
The worst part is that by the time most Americans wake up, first they will be called hippies and minimized in the media, and then the technology used by the police state will be too advanced for any meaningful change to occur. We will simply all end up being labelled as terrorists or have criminal records for showing up at an anti-whatever rally.
No need for police intervention, soon the corporate world will be effectively more powerful for this sort of thing. Show up at a protest with your phone turned on (oops! Not like the network would be online over a protest anyways), get tagged as anti-establishment/anti-authoritarian in a private tracking system like Trapwire, become as hard to hire as an ex-con, and the cops will keep a closer eye on you as well.
I'll admit, maybe once or twice a month I'll plug it into charge and it doesn't register, but I think it might be a software problem, it only seems to happen with the AC charger.
What about people who provide the service of producing a physical item? Will they be unfairly burdened vs. doctors and lawyers, or will you be able to evade ths tax by providing the service of item assembly instead of selling a finished item?
We've never had any such problem with any of the Blackberries in my office, and I've been unplugging and plugging in my N900 about twice a day for the last 2+ years, no problems.
Stupidity in summary corrected on first post, well done.
Want to protect drives from an EMP just in case? Get a cash box or any other solid metal box that closes tightly, line the inside with non-conductive material, insert drives, enjoy.
You're doing something seriously wrong. The microUSB connectors for my N900 are at least 2 years old and still going strong, and it works on the first attempt to plug in pretty much every time.
No way the US or Israel would strike at the jugular of the world's economy, it doesn't make sense. I'd guess Iran (make some countries drop the embargo), "wreck their shit" anarchists (this is a great way to wreck shit) or eco-terrorists (reduce CO2 emissions and give the world a taste of what will happen when the oil runs out).
Also Apple, if you could sue over "Locking devices down to only run approved apps", "Mechanisms to prevent modders from replacing your firmware with their own on their own devices" and similar actions, hey, I might even start to like you again!
Yeah they can sue Nintendo, Sony and MS for copying them over this and I won't bat an eye.
Hush, don't you know that the slight functionality advantage of these stupid-ass proprietary connectors makes it totally worth it vs. having to plug in a second cable sometimes? Plus so many accessories on the market use the Apple connector that hasn't changed in yea...oh wait...
What I find funniest is that he goes on with a lot of this tinfoil hat stuff (TEMPEST attacks on home networks? Infecting airgapped computers using satellites? Really?) and then blindly trusts corporations to not put malware or backdoors in their firmware for the governments (which if there's any firmware nastiness going on right now, is the most likely vector). His firmware hashing idea is a good one but this guy's paranoia is just all over the place.
Beaming anything back to earth would face the same transmission problems that space-based solar arrays would...and we haven't built one of those even though they could deliver much more reliable power.
He slipped up a single number by a factor of one? For Joe Biden that's a very good day. And you didn't even bring up the part where he gave BJs to his Hollywood masters later in the day. You're just terrible at trolling.
I've moved many times and I think that sometimes you just get a lemon. Most give little to no trouble, maybe needing some new part once every few years. Some are constant trouble and never really work properly.
Oh yeah waterless toilets were an idea that was asking for it. I'm amazed at the amount of unbridled optimism it took to see the idea through to deployment though, if only it could be applied to better ideas...
The easiest gains are to be had in gray water flushing + better high-efficiency designs.
Damn right. A lot of the big-name dating sites already try to filter out depressed men and employers would LOVE to be able to filter out potential employees with undiagnosed depression (yay capitalism!)
It'll need to be armed up like a WW2 bomber to defend itself from all angles from manually guided/ballistic weapons that won't fall for flares or chaff.
Slashdot Mirror
This mindset is the problem. You're allowing changes in technology to erode your privacy by making tracking easier and more common. If there were cop cars tailing every single vehicle and reporting their movements to a central database would you be OK with that? If not, why is it OK to do the same thing with cameras?
Been tried, doesn't work. I think Mythbusters even tested this exact idea in an episode. Good cameras have IR filters you know.
The worst part is that by the time most Americans wake up, first they will be called hippies and minimized in the media, and then the technology used by the police state will be too advanced for any meaningful change to occur. We will simply all end up being labelled as terrorists or have criminal records for showing up at an anti-whatever rally.
No need for police intervention, soon the corporate world will be effectively more powerful for this sort of thing. Show up at a protest with your phone turned on (oops! Not like the network would be online over a protest anyways), get tagged as anti-establishment/anti-authoritarian in a private tracking system like Trapwire, become as hard to hire as an ex-con, and the cops will keep a closer eye on you as well.
Haha yep that's how the law sees it...
I'll admit, maybe once or twice a month I'll plug it into charge and it doesn't register, but I think it might be a software problem, it only seems to happen with the AC charger.
What about people who provide the service of producing a physical item? Will they be unfairly burdened vs. doctors and lawyers, or will you be able to evade ths tax by providing the service of item assembly instead of selling a finished item?
We've never had any such problem with any of the Blackberries in my office, and I've been unplugging and plugging in my N900 about twice a day for the last 2+ years, no problems.
And I thought it was bad when you had obsolete tech stuck in your computer case...
Stupidity in summary corrected on first post, well done.
Want to protect drives from an EMP just in case? Get a cash box or any other solid metal box that closes tightly, line the inside with non-conductive material, insert drives, enjoy.
You're doing something seriously wrong. The microUSB connectors for my N900 are at least 2 years old and still going strong, and it works on the first attempt to plug in pretty much every time.
No way the US or Israel would strike at the jugular of the world's economy, it doesn't make sense. I'd guess Iran (make some countries drop the embargo), "wreck their shit" anarchists (this is a great way to wreck shit) or eco-terrorists (reduce CO2 emissions and give the world a taste of what will happen when the oil runs out).
Fact of life? They see it as a series of religious holidays to be celebrated.
Also Apple, if you could sue over "Locking devices down to only run approved apps", "Mechanisms to prevent modders from replacing your firmware with their own on their own devices" and similar actions, hey, I might even start to like you again!
Yeah they can sue Nintendo, Sony and MS for copying them over this and I won't bat an eye.
Hush, don't you know that the slight functionality advantage of these stupid-ass proprietary connectors makes it totally worth it vs. having to plug in a second cable sometimes? Plus so many accessories on the market use the Apple connector that hasn't changed in yea...oh wait...
Huh, mod parent up...any cryptographers in here who can give a second opinion?
What I find funniest is that he goes on with a lot of this tinfoil hat stuff (TEMPEST attacks on home networks? Infecting airgapped computers using satellites? Really?) and then blindly trusts corporations to not put malware or backdoors in their firmware for the governments (which if there's any firmware nastiness going on right now, is the most likely vector). His firmware hashing idea is a good one but this guy's paranoia is just all over the place.
Beaming anything back to earth would face the same transmission problems that space-based solar arrays would...and we haven't built one of those even though they could deliver much more reliable power.
He slipped up a single number by a factor of one? For Joe Biden that's a very good day. And you didn't even bring up the part where he gave BJs to his Hollywood masters later in the day. You're just terrible at trolling.
Constant?
I've moved many times and I think that sometimes you just get a lemon. Most give little to no trouble, maybe needing some new part once every few years. Some are constant trouble and never really work properly.
You can only drop 3 logs at a time.
Oh yeah waterless toilets were an idea that was asking for it. I'm amazed at the amount of unbridled optimism it took to see the idea through to deployment though, if only it could be applied to better ideas...
The easiest gains are to be had in gray water flushing + better high-efficiency designs.
No, you've been trolled.
Damn right. A lot of the big-name dating sites already try to filter out depressed men and employers would LOVE to be able to filter out potential employees with undiagnosed depression (yay capitalism!)
Hey, it's still relevant. Keep following the news on Ballmer and Shuttleworth.
It'll need to be armed up like a WW2 bomber to defend itself from all angles from manually guided/ballistic weapons that won't fall for flares or chaff.