It is clear by now that we will not have the possibility for independent space colonization anytime soon. Seasteading is the best bet for those of us who feel that the status quo of society is not good enough.
Lists of crappy jobs are a dime a dozen. By submitting a link to a site that spreads a story out between a bunch of pages, you are only encouraging them by steering ad revenue their way.
Or was that your plan?
Even ignoring the patent issues, I thought that the current problem is that viruses use encrypted payloads and redundant code to make sure they cannot be easily matched with known malware while retaining the same function. I don't see how this microsoft scheme, even if workable, will change the status quo.
I am comforted by that fact. I've been designing a sort of reconstruction of WWI Vernam cipher (one-time-pads) using 555-timers and photo-resistors. I had just about decided on 3*5 cards with holes punched in to indicate an eight-bit message, key, or cipher when I came upon this thread while thinking of Jacquard and Hollerith (1880's punched chard system for U.S. census). It seemed fortuitous and a clear sign to continue with the tried and true methods.
Although datamining by organizations acting against freedom represents a huge threat, it seems to be the case that bureaucracy counteracts the efficient implementation of ideas, whether good or evil. Even the jerks who want to reduce us all to unthinking data-points under constant surveillance and targeted marketing are thwarted by the tendency of management to be counterproductive, regardless of the aim. Look at the attempts to upgrade the IT infrastructure of the IRS, FBI, etc. Even such a simple thing ends up years over schedule and billions of dollars over the original budget before being scrapped. Look at the contract awarded to Boeing for those giant surveillance towers to guard the southern border of the US. They totally screwed up and had to admit defeat, over budget and years after it was supposed to be rolled out.
They try to do bad things on a large scale, but they're just too stupid.
Here is the URL of March 2007 " A Review of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Use of National Security Letters" published by the Office of the Inspector General. Note section IV, "Improper or Illegal Use of National Security Letter Authorities."
http://cryptome.org/fbi-nsl/fbi-nsl.htm
A link to the pdf is available there as well.
I am all for the legitimate, open, and personal use of RFID tags, but the limited stickiness of post-it notes does not fit with the long-term usefulness of the app. It would make more sense for personal RFID tags to be in the form of fobs with magnets or velcro.
Only use electricity for what makes sense. For heating water, think about concentrated solar or methane. This focus on the grid overemphasizes unreasonable centralization of alternative energy that can be made on the homestead and power the needs of a family.
It sounds like they haven't learned from Facebook. I thought the whole problem is that Facebook had an opt-out rather than opt-in system. This supposed improvement is also an opt-out system.
From the title I was hoping that the Smithsonian had obtained a fleet of UAVs and would have them constantly flying over various parts of the world streaming video and remote-sensing data to public monitors in the museum in real time.
There has not been the "appearance of objectivity of military analysts" for about a hundred years (I would say earlier, but I think it's not so clear-cut to extend the concepts of mass media and propaganda much before WWI).
These days you can actually get the news from the horse's mouth. Things like Afghanistan and Iraq clips from liveleak.com and declassified and leaked information on cryptome.org and wikileaks.org, among many others, means we don't have to depend on massaged information from obviously biased sources. Who has depended on the usual television network sources for reliable war information for the last several decades anyway?
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Illicit does not necessarily mean self-destructive. It is a matter of law, not health.
This is obviously BS. Clearly aliens are to blame. Or perhaps the clones of Tesla using the HAARP array to send a destructive beam back in time.
IT folks should realize that they've been bureaucratically set up to take the fall for these sorts of things. CYA, obviously.
It is clear by now that we will not have the possibility for independent space colonization anytime soon. Seasteading is the best bet for those of us who feel that the status quo of society is not good enough.
Lists of crappy jobs are a dime a dozen. By submitting a link to a site that spreads a story out between a bunch of pages, you are only encouraging them by steering ad revenue their way. Or was that your plan?
Even ignoring the patent issues, I thought that the current problem is that viruses use encrypted payloads and redundant code to make sure they cannot be easily matched with known malware while retaining the same function. I don't see how this microsoft scheme, even if workable, will change the status quo.
How about quantum entanglement? That seems to take care of the speed of light problem.
I am comforted by that fact. I've been designing a sort of reconstruction of WWI Vernam cipher (one-time-pads) using 555-timers and photo-resistors. I had just about decided on 3*5 cards with holes punched in to indicate an eight-bit message, key, or cipher when I came upon this thread while thinking of Jacquard and Hollerith (1880's punched chard system for U.S. census). It seemed fortuitous and a clear sign to continue with the tried and true methods.
I wonder if there are any Jacquard looms still running.
Although datamining by organizations acting against freedom represents a huge threat, it seems to be the case that bureaucracy counteracts the efficient implementation of ideas, whether good or evil. Even the jerks who want to reduce us all to unthinking data-points under constant surveillance and targeted marketing are thwarted by the tendency of management to be counterproductive, regardless of the aim. Look at the attempts to upgrade the IT infrastructure of the IRS, FBI, etc. Even such a simple thing ends up years over schedule and billions of dollars over the original budget before being scrapped. Look at the contract awarded to Boeing for those giant surveillance towers to guard the southern border of the US. They totally screwed up and had to admit defeat, over budget and years after it was supposed to be rolled out. They try to do bad things on a large scale, but they're just too stupid.
Here is the URL of March 2007 " A Review of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Use of National Security Letters" published by the Office of the Inspector General. Note section IV, "Improper or Illegal Use of National Security Letter Authorities." http://cryptome.org/fbi-nsl/fbi-nsl.htm A link to the pdf is available there as well.
Why is Turkey at the top? I had not heard before that Turkey is a haven for unpatched machines. Maybe mainly a local or Kurdish crimeserver?
I am all for the legitimate, open, and personal use of RFID tags, but the limited stickiness of post-it notes does not fit with the long-term usefulness of the app. It would make more sense for personal RFID tags to be in the form of fobs with magnets or velcro.
Only use electricity for what makes sense. For heating water, think about concentrated solar or methane. This focus on the grid overemphasizes unreasonable centralization of alternative energy that can be made on the homestead and power the needs of a family.
It sounds like they haven't learned from Facebook. I thought the whole problem is that Facebook had an opt-out rather than opt-in system. This supposed improvement is also an opt-out system.
They should have just filled out a Karnaugh map and done the overlapping square trick. That gets rid of some glitches.
From the title I was hoping that the Smithsonian had obtained a fleet of UAVs and would have them constantly flying over various parts of the world streaming video and remote-sensing data to public monitors in the museum in real time.
Nice troll yourself. Have you never heard of sin taxes?
To a certain extent, I can understand the twisted reason behind denatured alcohol (alcohol is a sin, must poison sin), but denatured sugar? Crazy.
So a $10,000 still is considered a breakthrough? And what sad material is "inedible sugar?"
I read that as resterilization. Thought it seemed a little too meta.
There has not been the "appearance of objectivity of military analysts" for about a hundred years (I would say earlier, but I think it's not so clear-cut to extend the concepts of mass media and propaganda much before WWI). These days you can actually get the news from the horse's mouth. Things like Afghanistan and Iraq clips from liveleak.com and declassified and leaked information on cryptome.org and wikileaks.org, among many others, means we don't have to depend on massaged information from obviously biased sources. Who has depended on the usual television network sources for reliable war information for the last several decades anyway?
Check out Orbital Debris Quarterly News at http://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/newsletter/newsletter.html They have back issues in pdf
http://bbs.sina.com.cn/zt/w/08/attackcnn/index.shtml The banner at the top says: "Rise up! Resist the demonization of the Tibet incident! Chinese netizens, open fire on CNN and other western media!"
All governments and almost all organized groups of people are "protection rackets."