lol, because no democrats signed the farm bill right? Isn't that supposed to be the most bipartisan pork barrel in American politics? If you think the democrats give any more of a rats ass about the environment than the republicans do you're a damned fool. They tell you what you want to hear, and then do whatever their corporate sponsors paid them to do. Nothing's going to change if you keep voting for either of the 2 parties in power. Nothing.
Can we just ban tracking phones? Who care what does it... Wait... let me rephrase that... can we just ban "tracking"? My commercial or government entities? Free people should not be tracked by anyone.
That's the point, the bins were offering up a fake WAP in order to get the devices MAC address when they tried to connect. If you have Wifi off, then this wouldn't happen. But most carriers default their phones to auto-connect to open WIFI to save themselves bandwidth.
The chances of that happening are VERY small. And would only be detrimental if both connected to the same WAP at the same time. Even then it would just lock up and drop the connection most likely. I do change the mac address on my wireless devices every couple of weeks, but not for every connection attempt... but if there were software that did it for me I'd definitely take advantage of that.
Well, that really depends on how you view innovation. Keep in mind that time economic growth and innovation were at a fairly steady rate of about 2% for tens of thousands of years... the first big change we had was Fire and the wheel... then we were stagnant for a very very long time. Then with the industrial age and scientific method things shot forward again. We seem to be in the middle (or perhaps near the end) of an age of great discovery. People tend to see innovation as a constant upward slope, or even a parabolic arch. It may not be so. We might get stuck, yet again, in a centuries long stalemate and not discover the next big breakthrough for a very long time. I'm not saying that's the case, but we can't just assume our understanding of the universe will increase exponentially forever.
And they'll use that tax money for the next war instead. Don't be stupid. The last thing we need is more taxes. Our government uses the money we give it to do horrible things. It's like donating to an evil charity, don't do it.
The "nations" healthcare costs are none of Bloombergs fucking business. I don't need him babysitting me. Soft-drink companies are losing more and more money every quarter due to people making informed decisions about their diet. We do not need the government deciding for us. We're perfectly capable of doing it on our own. Where we need the government is to enforce transparency so capitalism can do the work for us. Clear, standardized nutrition labels is what the government should be focused on. Once we have clear info not hyped by advertising reps (see "0% Cholesterol!" or "All Natural") then we can make our own informed decisions about our lives.
Especially when these journals have subscriptions in the hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars per year. I used to pay for Nature, but even with the student discount it was insane how much they charged.
To an extent I agree with you... But it may have one very important consequence that Obama didn't intend. Snowden now has a glaring example of how his revelations caused changes in policy and government. Making it rather obvious that what he was doing was "whistle blowing" something there are protections for in law. Now, that doesn't mean the administration doesn't have zillions of lawyers that will find a way to put the guy in jail forever if they catch him but I think this change has at least taken the death penalty off the table. This is good news for Snowden.
No I think the way lavabit stored the keys was faulty. They were stored on their own servers and unlocked by the users password when they logged in. So the NSA couldn't crack your email unless they watched you log in, then they would have your password. I suspect the NSA ordered them to allow the NSA to do this very thing and the owners realized that the only way to prevent them from gaining access was to shut down the service so no-one could log-in and give the NSA access to their accounts. Someone in the Lavabit thread suggested that they should have had a client side app that generated keys for you, then there would have been no-way for anyone to crack it unless your local machine was key-logged.
One minor flaw with your theory... in the country they are deployed in they stone women to death for this sort of behavior. Add to that the political ramifications and it's just not something that should be going on. I have a better idea, LEAVE IRAQ. I kinda thought this president promised us that?
I've been to africa. Internets not going to do them a damn bit of good. Most don't even have toilets. I watched a man die in front of my eyes because he fell a short distance out of a tree and there were no doctors within several hundred kilometers. These people didn't even have lightbulbs in most cases... 40% of the continet doesn't even have basic litteracy in their own native language and to get any use out of the internet they're going to have to speak English, French, spanish, etc... There are over 3000 languages in africa, most of which don't even have character sets available for any computer much less websites written in them. The idea that "The internet" is going to help Africa in any way what-so-ever only makes sense if you've never been there.
They need: Clean water Toilets/Sanitation birth control Basic Edgucation (litteracy) The West and China to stop funding warlords in exchange for mineral rights.
The recent attempts to make lead ammunition appear as an environmental hazard are clearly a part of the anti-gun lobby but the pro-gun lobby pretending that lead is completely safe is a bit off the mark as well. Lead ammunition is not an environmental hazard when looked at per individual. 1. Lead is safe to handle 2. Lead shot remains in the very top layers of soil after fired. It does not break up and does not dissolve into the ground water. 3. Lead fired into an animal does not contaminate the meat and even if it did the bullet is usually in the vital organs, a part of the animal that's removed within minutes of it being shot. Even if it does end up in the muscle of the animal, that is thrown away. The ballistic shock ruins the meat.
Shooting ranges and military training sites are of some concern however. Large amounts of lead can build up in the backstops and surrounding areas. 1. Most ranges recycle their lead and brass. They even design backstops to help facilitate this now. 2. The military has already begun converting to "Green ammunition" because many of their exercises require live fire outside of a range and cleanup gets expensive when it involves an entire forest. 3. I think it would be perfectly acceptable to put into law what most ranges are already doing. i.e. Lead recycling, backstops designed not to let lead into the environment, insurance to cover any cleanup should there be contamination, etc... I suspect a shooting ranges insurance rates are already pretty high and the added expense would be negligible.
Nuclear tipped torpedoes and cruise missiles are nearly unstoppable. They could easily take out a carrier group in 1 shot. I agree with the AC that China isn't as interested in perceived power as the US is.
As far as Russia being a failed super power... ask any of our astronauts how they are getting to work these days and you might have a change of heart.
I once had a business owner tell me he wouldn't hire a man with long hair. I said "that's illegal!" he replied "So?" Being young and naive I called a lawyer... who laughed at me and told me I needed a better reason to be a minority, judges don't like long hairs either.
Most of these products already featured encryption. Unfortunately the companies in question were more than helpful when it came to letting the NSA breach that encryption.
If the mob ran the security alarm company, do you really think those alarms would do you much good against the mob? That's the exact position we're in now.
It's, but whats' worse is hiding the source of the info from the courts. It's indefensible, and completely unconstitutional. Watch for thousands of requests from defense attorneys to come rolling in now. A lot of people just got their get out of jail free cards.
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lol, because no democrats signed the farm bill right? Isn't that supposed to be the most bipartisan pork barrel in American politics? If you think the democrats give any more of a rats ass about the environment than the republicans do you're a damned fool. They tell you what you want to hear, and then do whatever their corporate sponsors paid them to do. Nothing's going to change if you keep voting for either of the 2 parties in power. Nothing.
Can we just ban tracking phones? Who care what does it...
Wait... let me rephrase that... can we just ban "tracking"? My commercial or government entities?
Free people should not be tracked by anyone.
Auto-connecting to open wifi is an option that's set to on by default by most carriers.
That's the point, the bins were offering up a fake WAP in order to get the devices MAC address when they tried to connect. If you have Wifi off, then this wouldn't happen. But most carriers default their phones to auto-connect to open WIFI to save themselves bandwidth.
The chances of that happening are VERY small. And would only be detrimental if both connected to the same WAP at the same time. Even then it would just lock up and drop the connection most likely. I do change the mac address on my wireless devices every couple of weeks, but not for every connection attempt... but if there were software that did it for me I'd definitely take advantage of that.
Well, that really depends on how you view innovation. Keep in mind that time economic growth and innovation were at a fairly steady rate of about 2% for tens of thousands of years... the first big change we had was Fire and the wheel... then we were stagnant for a very very long time. Then with the industrial age and scientific method things shot forward again. We seem to be in the middle (or perhaps near the end) of an age of great discovery. People tend to see innovation as a constant upward slope, or even a parabolic arch. It may not be so. We might get stuck, yet again, in a centuries long stalemate and not discover the next big breakthrough for a very long time. I'm not saying that's the case, but we can't just assume our understanding of the universe will increase exponentially forever.
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And they'll use that tax money for the next war instead. Don't be stupid. The last thing we need is more taxes. Our government uses the money we give it to do horrible things. It's like donating to an evil charity, don't do it.
The "nations" healthcare costs are none of Bloombergs fucking business. I don't need him babysitting me. Soft-drink companies are losing more and more money every quarter due to people making informed decisions about their diet. We do not need the government deciding for us. We're perfectly capable of doing it on our own. Where we need the government is to enforce transparency so capitalism can do the work for us. Clear, standardized nutrition labels is what the government should be focused on. Once we have clear info not hyped by advertising reps (see "0% Cholesterol!" or "All Natural") then we can make our own informed decisions about our lives.
Especially when these journals have subscriptions in the hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars per year. I used to pay for Nature, but even with the student discount it was insane how much they charged.
You worry? It's a fact. Every president since Lincoln first allowed the tapping of telegraph wires (yes he really did) has knowingly permitted this.
To an extent I agree with you... But it may have one very important consequence that Obama didn't intend. Snowden now has a glaring example of how his revelations caused changes in policy and government. Making it rather obvious that what he was doing was "whistle blowing" something there are protections for in law. Now, that doesn't mean the administration doesn't have zillions of lawyers that will find a way to put the guy in jail forever if they catch him but I think this change has at least taken the death penalty off the table. This is good news for Snowden.
No I think the way lavabit stored the keys was faulty. They were stored on their own servers and unlocked by the users password when they logged in. So the NSA couldn't crack your email unless they watched you log in, then they would have your password. I suspect the NSA ordered them to allow the NSA to do this very thing and the owners realized that the only way to prevent them from gaining access was to shut down the service so no-one could log-in and give the NSA access to their accounts. Someone in the Lavabit thread suggested that they should have had a client side app that generated keys for you, then there would have been no-way for anyone to crack it unless your local machine was key-logged.
Bullshit. Everyone in the world will get this vaccine eventually. It will be part of your standard immunizations as a child.
One minor flaw with your theory... in the country they are deployed in they stone women to death for this sort of behavior. Add to that the political ramifications and it's just not something that should be going on. I have a better idea, LEAVE IRAQ. I kinda thought this president promised us that?
They've already found the problem: Doing buisness with the Austrailian Government.
I've been to africa. Internets not going to do them a damn bit of good. Most don't even have toilets. I watched a man die in front of my eyes because he fell a short distance out of a tree and there were no doctors within several hundred kilometers. These people didn't even have lightbulbs in most cases... 40% of the continet doesn't even have basic litteracy in their own native language and to get any use out of the internet they're going to have to speak English, French, spanish, etc... There are over 3000 languages in africa, most of which don't even have character sets available for any computer much less websites written in them. The idea that "The internet" is going to help Africa in any way what-so-ever only makes sense if you've never been there.
They need:
Clean water
Toilets/Sanitation
birth control
Basic Edgucation (litteracy)
The West and China to stop funding warlords in exchange for mineral rights.
Lets look at this in an honest way...
The recent attempts to make lead ammunition appear as an environmental hazard are clearly a part of the anti-gun lobby but the pro-gun lobby pretending that lead is completely safe is a bit off the mark as well.
Lead ammunition is not an environmental hazard when looked at per individual.
1. Lead is safe to handle
2. Lead shot remains in the very top layers of soil after fired. It does not break up and does not dissolve into the ground water.
3. Lead fired into an animal does not contaminate the meat and even if it did the bullet is usually in the vital organs, a part of the animal that's removed within minutes of it being shot. Even if it does end up in the muscle of the animal, that is thrown away. The ballistic shock ruins the meat.
Shooting ranges and military training sites are of some concern however. Large amounts of lead can build up in the backstops and surrounding areas.
1. Most ranges recycle their lead and brass. They even design backstops to help facilitate this now.
2. The military has already begun converting to "Green ammunition" because many of their exercises require live fire outside of a range and cleanup gets expensive when it involves an entire forest.
3. I think it would be perfectly acceptable to put into law what most ranges are already doing. i.e. Lead recycling, backstops designed not to let lead into the environment, insurance to cover any cleanup should there be contamination, etc... I suspect a shooting ranges insurance rates are already pretty high and the added expense would be negligible.
Nuclear tipped torpedoes and cruise missiles are nearly unstoppable. They could easily take out a carrier group in 1 shot. I agree with the AC that China isn't as interested in perceived power as the US is.
As far as Russia being a failed super power... ask any of our astronauts how they are getting to work these days and you might have a change of heart.
You mean a tablet? Cause those are all over the place.
For you and I, for you and I , for you and I.
They're trying to build a prison,
For you and me,
Oh baby, you and me.
I'm the only one that caught the reference?
Good taste man.
I once had a business owner tell me he wouldn't hire a man with long hair. I said "that's illegal!" he replied "So?" Being young and naive I called a lawyer... who laughed at me and told me I needed a better reason to be a minority, judges don't like long hairs either.
Most of these products already featured encryption. Unfortunately the companies in question were more than helpful when it came to letting the NSA breach that encryption.
If the mob ran the security alarm company, do you really think those alarms would do you much good against the mob? That's the exact position we're in now.
Einstein would disagree with you.
It's, but whats' worse is hiding the source of the info from the courts. It's indefensible, and completely unconstitutional. Watch for thousands of requests from defense attorneys to come rolling in now. A lot of people just got their get out of jail free cards.