I fully agree. But while "a reasonable military, much weaker and defense oriented than the current one" is reasonable, "no militar power whatsoever" isn't.
but it is true. If you look at how much money the world collectively spends on trying to kill each other, we could instead SUPPORT each other many times over.
This is one of those "I know this will never happen, but this is how it should happen" kind of thoughts.
Ohh, that kind of thoughts... Then why stop at the military?
If we were all kind and caring, there'd be no need for money or property, people would just work because it's necessary for teh common good of the society. We'd work as much as reasonably possible, while being happy. Then, the results of all that work would be distributed among the people, in a optimal way.
And, as to feed the entire population would only need the work of a minority, the rest could center on science, to investigate how to propagate the human collective to the stars.
In flying unicorns, genetically engineered for such purpose.
Look at the totality of facebook and tell me, honestly, how many people on there are practicing reasonable time management and how many are using the site to pass useful knowledge as opposed to wasting time?
It's gotten to the point where kids (in particular) aren't even coming up for air sometimes.
There was plenty of air in my room, I had enough with a handful of friends and those who chose to run around kicking a ball, were intellectually on level with my pet turtle. But thanks for your concern.
There is, in my view, a need for trustable information without it being controlled by a government or an entity with simular interests.
And who is this apolitical news controller?
Or are you saying there's a need for anarchic trustable news provider. Who is going to promote the creation of the anarchic trustable news provider? What are the assurances that it ever continues to be, in fact, anarchic and trustable?
You simply implement the exact same procedures for dealing with a ballot box that had been tampered with. I do not see what the difficulty is here
1 - They don't have to let you spend some time alone with the box as part of the voting process. 2 - It's harder to tamper with the box in a way that makes it impossible to detect until after the elections are over.
Our project team includes three Centaurs, design was managed by the Minotaur and the UI was put together by a herd of Unicorns. Debugging was handled by a 500 year old wise Chinese dragon.
We tried that and it didn't work. The minotaur's design was too convoluted, the UI was pink and invisible, and after receiving hundreds of bug notices we discovered that the dragon had spent months farming gold.
And how to you suggest to apply that system on an election environment? If the checksum doesn't match, you remove all votes from the voters who used that particular machine? You repeat the elections until no machine was tampered with?
Yes, sounds about right.
Nice system. So once my party governs I can simply block any further election to ever finish, just by touching a single machine.
seals and stickers, and trusted people that inspect the seals before and after make it a lot harder than low tech solutions - like getting the printer to print a few million extra voting forms.
Are you suggesting that the machine can't be hacked as long as they use seals and stickers? That it's impossible to devise a way of touching a machine's hardware as long as it's protected by seals and stickers?
Or maybe you're saying that that method of tampering with the machine, that we don't even know of, will be more complex to implement than replacing the paper votes inside a closed box with new ones.
Operators of the machines have to let inspectors validate the checksums on demand, and if it doesn't match then your gaming license gets revoked and the place closes down.
And how to you suggest to apply that system on an election environment? If the checksum doesn't match, you remove all votes from the voters who used that particular machine? You repeat the elections until no machine was tampered with?
How about you post an article when someone can walk into a polling place, hack a machine, and walk out without take a screwdriver or some large, obvious device to a voting machine?
So the possibility of bypassing democracy isn't worrying, as long as you put a full body scanner in front of each voting cabin?
Or you could limit the time that can be spent voting, and pray nobody finds a faster hacking method.
1...2...3... BAM! You're out. Vote faster next time.
The secret sauce actually fingerprints video frames in a way that is invariant against most common alterations
Finally, a post that actually informed me of something, with a decent link.
OTOH, the system seems too fragile to resist any simple attack directed towards it. So if this ever gets enough attention, several tools will be created to specifically destroy the blueprint.
When I use offline is to take the games on the laptop on work trips. I do it in case the hotel's connection is down, or something. So it seems to be the opposite situation of what you describe.
Anyway, the having to reset the offline state, having to reenter the password, etc, really seems more like one of those new Windows system folder protection idiocies.
I don't really manage steam so much, but I think the connection related problems you describe may be corrected by just blocking steam on your firewall whenever you aren't on a reliable connection.
Spyware with keyloggers that steals logins of all kinds, usually. Hell, they'll even rob WoW characters of equipment these days, not to mention webmail accounts and (obviously) online bank accounts.
That was exactly my thought.
What I can't imagine is even thinking about my steam games after someone has emptied my bank account.
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I fully agree. But while "a reasonable military, much weaker and defense oriented than the current one" is reasonable, "no militar power whatsoever" isn't.
This has to be the most idiotic story I've read in years. Someone clearly isn't in touch with reality here.
You must be from Dashspot.
Here in Slashdot we've got far more idiotic stories this week alone.
If the two effects are the same, why is the cause important?
As always, because different causes may mean different futures.
i.e.: The two effects are currently the same.
but it is true. If you look at how much money the world collectively spends on trying to kill each other, we could instead SUPPORT each other many times over.
This is one of those "I know this will never happen, but this is how it should happen" kind of thoughts.
Ohh, that kind of thoughts... Then why stop at the military?
If we were all kind and caring, there'd be no need for money or property, people would just work because it's necessary for teh common good of the society. We'd work as much as reasonably possible, while being happy. Then, the results of all that work would be distributed among the people, in a optimal way.
And, as to feed the entire population would only need the work of a minority, the rest could center on science, to investigate how to propagate the human collective to the stars.
In flying unicorns, genetically engineered for such purpose.
Take all that money that we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world
Having no military power makes about as much sense as having enough to obliterate the entire planet.
Is there still some people who believe nations live in peace because people are naturally kind and caring?
public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.
Because it didn't turn out to be relevant?
That you know of. Maybe a sufficiently advanced scientific-technological elite's control of public policy is indistinguishable from no control at all.
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I can't decide between commenting on your preference for bananas or laughing at your disregard on news about gravity.
Is he a Jehovah's Witness?
As an agent of the WPP I can't answer that, but let's just say Jehovah did some pretty nasty things and he may not have been as careful as he thinks.
I mean, looking at the title, what exactly did you think you'd find in this article?
A new BSG spin-off?
Look at the totality of facebook and tell me, honestly, how many people on there are practicing reasonable time management and how many are using the site to pass useful knowledge as opposed to wasting time?
It depends on your definition of "wasted time".
It's gotten to the point where kids (in particular) aren't even coming up for air sometimes.
There was plenty of air in my room, I had enough with a handful of friends and those who chose to run around kicking a ball, were intellectually on level with my pet turtle. But thanks for your concern.
There is, in my view, a need for trustable information without it being controlled by a government or an entity with simular interests.
And who is this apolitical news controller?
Or are you saying there's a need for anarchic trustable news provider. Who is going to promote the creation of the anarchic trustable news provider? What are the assurances that it ever continues to be, in fact, anarchic and trustable?
You simply implement the exact same procedures for dealing with a ballot box that had been tampered with. I do not see what the difficulty is here
1 - They don't have to let you spend some time alone with the box as part of the voting process.
2 - It's harder to tamper with the box in a way that makes it impossible to detect until after the elections are over.
Our project team includes three Centaurs, design was managed by the Minotaur and the UI was put together by a herd of Unicorns. Debugging was handled by a 500 year old wise Chinese dragon.
We tried that and it didn't work. The minotaur's design was too convoluted, the UI was pink and invisible, and after receiving hundreds of bug notices we discovered that the dragon had spent months farming gold.
And how to you suggest to apply that system on an election environment? If the checksum doesn't match, you remove all votes from the voters who used that particular machine? You repeat the elections until no machine was tampered with?
Yes, sounds about right.
Nice system. So once my party governs I can simply block any further election to ever finish, just by touching a single machine.
seals and stickers, and trusted people that inspect the seals before and after make it a lot harder than low tech solutions - like getting the printer to print a few million extra voting forms.
Are you suggesting that the machine can't be hacked as long as they use seals and stickers? That it's impossible to devise a way of touching a machine's hardware as long as it's protected by seals and stickers?
Or maybe you're saying that that method of tampering with the machine, that we don't even know of, will be more complex to implement than replacing the paper votes inside a closed box with new ones.
Operators of the machines have to let inspectors validate the checksums on demand, and if it doesn't match then your gaming license gets revoked and the place closes down.
And how to you suggest to apply that system on an election environment? If the checksum doesn't match, you remove all votes from the voters who used that particular machine? You repeat the elections until no machine was tampered with?
How about you post an article when someone can walk into a polling place, hack a machine, and walk out without take a screwdriver or some large, obvious device to a voting machine?
So the possibility of bypassing democracy isn't worrying, as long as you put a full body scanner in front of each voting cabin?
Or you could limit the time that can be spent voting, and pray nobody finds a faster hacking method.
1...2...3... BAM! You're out. Vote faster next time.
Any security professional, IT or otherwise, who ever says "impossible to break" in any of its forms, should be directly fired.
No discussion. No explanations. You blabber idiocies about your supposed area of expertise, you're fired.
"waive" is what you do with your rights. "wave" is what you do with your "comically under-sized wang". Any questions?
As an additional reference, some of us have personal circumstances that make the most apropiate verb to be "hoist".
nightclub restrictions
Sorry, offtopic, but nightclub restrictions?!?
it's hard to work out if your joking, ignorant or stupid
Not true. There's a lot of stupid ignorants joking while they work out in my gym.
The secret sauce actually fingerprints video frames in a way that is invariant against most common alterations
Finally, a post that actually informed me of something, with a decent link.
OTOH, the system seems too fragile to resist any simple attack directed towards it. So if this ever gets enough attention, several tools will be created to specifically destroy the blueprint.
When I use offline is to take the games on the laptop on work trips. I do it in case the hotel's connection is down, or something. So it seems to be the opposite situation of what you describe.
Anyway, the having to reset the offline state, having to reenter the password, etc, really seems more like one of those new Windows system folder protection idiocies.
I don't really manage steam so much, but I think the connection related problems you describe may be corrected by just blocking steam on your firewall whenever you aren't on a reliable connection.
Spyware with keyloggers that steals logins of all kinds, usually. Hell, they'll even rob WoW characters of equipment these days, not to mention webmail accounts and (obviously) online bank accounts.
That was exactly my thought.
What I can't imagine is even thinking about my steam games after someone has emptied my bank account.