Hey now, don't assume. For all we know he could be the son of the guy who coded the windows file transfer estimation timer and it's a genetic condition. d=
He should get kicked out of school, sure, because the school doesn't want to be affiliated with someone who does that shit.
What? No! That's fucking idiotic.
Look, we're taught over and over again (in America, at least) that a major part of freedom of speech is also accepting the stuff you don't want to hear. That's why people might hate the Neo-Nazis marching in a parade, but they'll let them march nevertheless.
He should not have been thrown out of school for this. What he says might be extremely disagreeable, but of all places a university should be the kind of goddamned place you can say that kind of offensive shit!
Christ, Britain's legal system is more fucked in the head than ours! That's a hell of an accomplishment.
1) Create standard formatting rules for a bill. X page size, maximum X words per page, etc. (To prevent any of that squeezing of the margins etc.)
2) For every X measurement (say every page) a bill is long, that is one day that it cannot be voted on. So a 3 page bill cannot be voted on until 3 days later.
3) Only one bill can be in the queue at a time for each house.
4) On the leadup to a bill being put in the queue for debate, it can (as usual) be amended, changed, debated, etc. Once that bill is "locked in" and put up for vote, it sits around and cannot be change. A bill being entered into the queue has to be voted on, so it prevents politicians from creating a thousand page bill or something to abuse their power.
5) Failure of a bill to pass will render any and all provisions in it unable to be placed in a subsequent bill for a period of at least one year.
My system would generally encourage people to think about bills and make them as concise as possible. It'd rein in a lot of corruption, too. Add in some potential for citizen commentary during that period and you've got a real winner.
Sad that it doesn't look terribly likely to happen. Maybe I'll get lucky and a Slashdotter will get in Congress or the House.
Oh, and if you can find any flaws with my little plan, please share 'em. I enjoy thinking things through.
If Red Hat had a sense of humor, they would make a new promotional video using a certain ABBA song.
~funky bass line~ [Morgan Freeman]: In 2001 Bill Gates said Linux won't be in the commercial market in [touch of sarcasm] "any significant way". [ABBA]: Money money money mooooooooooneeeeeeeeeeey~ [Morgan Freeman]: I don't know about you... [ABBA]: Mooooooooneeeeeeyy! Money money money moooonnneeeeeeeeey~ [Morgan Freeman]: But I'd call 1 billion dollars of revenue pretty signficant. [ABBA]: Mooooooooooooneyy! [Morgan Freeman]: Make the smart choice. Make the significant choice. Red Hat.
That's the problem. Counterfeit rivets and nutplates throw a monkey wrench in a product's expected lifecycle. Shitty rivets crack out. They corrode.
Do you honestly think counterfeit or sub-par stuff would come up in America?
If the penalty weren't a laugh and a handshake because someone in China fucked up it'd be a non-issue. If your business lost a government contract as a result, you could bet your life on those nuts and bolts.
This is pretty difficult because, in the end, nobody can keep all the parts in stock.
No, that's horseshit.
Look, for all the money we spend on defense we can afford to have secure warehouses of all the stuff we need.
Look at the A-10 Thunderbolt. That airframe is a precise weapon of destruction. It has served faithfully for years and it's tough as all hell. The A-10 is a marvel of engineering in every way.
It's also impossible to build new ones. Why? Because the supply chain doesn't exist anymore. The plans are gone. It'd be like trying to build a brand new shuttle - it just isn't feasible. You'd have to reverse-engineer an existing one.
This is, frankly, idiotic. It's rare to have created a machine so perfect. The A-10 is going to be in service at least through to 2028. That's a testament to its staying power, and it's sad that we're not going to see any new ones created.
The one thing we really shouldn't outsource is this kind of stuff. Making it in our own country wouldn't make it invulnerable from bad stuff being put in during the manufacturing process but it would greatly, greatly reduce the chances of anything bad happening.
I honestly think any particular sort of innovation in this sense on their part can be overwritten nevertheless with a little ingenuity and persistence (which crackers seem to have in spades).
Honestly, the worst firewalls in the world are in places like Iran and China. People in those countries manage to circumvent them just fine, and so will we if it comes down to it.
Moreover (and hilariously enough), a lot of the same people who crack games are the ones keeping old ones alive. At least, people with the same mindset... you need to be a bit of a nutter to come up with stuff like WINE and DOSbox.
We will always have our old games whether the publishers like it or not.
Well, you could remotely manage things that are technically illegal in your home country.
The server company's web logs could show that you never downloaded anything. You could move stuff from place to place (automatically, even), or just spread it around in general.
At some point, you have to get that data, and that data will have to cross into your own location, which would make you in possession of the data and liable for possessing it.
What about a situation wherein you move data from Server A in Germany to Server B in Switzerland? It never crosses your computer, all you do is send the command.
It's about as good as PR as any. They coded an OS with more holes than a termite-infested house, lied about making a brand-spanking new one from scratch (Vista), and loads of other fuckups that generally make Windows a security nightmare. So this kinda stuff makes them look tough on Internets crime, when really the best way to solve it would be to make their OS, browser, etc. a hell of a lot safer.
I dunno, aren't there lots of stuff being made nowadays that's open-source hardware? Sure maybe not something you can pick up in Best Buy, but I am pretty sure there are things like the Arduino with all the specs available. Unless you want to get pedantic about not having the blueprints for the chips in such a device that's about as open source as hardware can get.
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Hey now, don't assume. For all we know he could be the son of the guy who coded the windows file transfer estimation timer and it's a genetic condition. d=
He should get kicked out of school, sure, because the school doesn't want to be affiliated with someone who does that shit.
What? No! That's fucking idiotic.
Look, we're taught over and over again (in America, at least) that a major part of freedom of speech is also accepting the stuff you don't want to hear. That's why people might hate the Neo-Nazis marching in a parade, but they'll let them march nevertheless.
He should not have been thrown out of school for this. What he says might be extremely disagreeable, but of all places a university should be the kind of goddamned place you can say that kind of offensive shit!
Christ, Britain's legal system is more fucked in the head than ours! That's a hell of an accomplishment.
My "if I could change the world" fix is this:
1) Create standard formatting rules for a bill. X page size, maximum X words per page, etc. (To prevent any of that squeezing of the margins etc.)
2) For every X measurement (say every page) a bill is long, that is one day that it cannot be voted on. So a 3 page bill cannot be voted on until 3 days later.
3) Only one bill can be in the queue at a time for each house.
4) On the leadup to a bill being put in the queue for debate, it can (as usual) be amended, changed, debated, etc. Once that bill is "locked in" and put up for vote, it sits around and cannot be change. A bill being entered into the queue has to be voted on, so it prevents politicians from creating a thousand page bill or something to abuse their power.
5) Failure of a bill to pass will render any and all provisions in it unable to be placed in a subsequent bill for a period of at least one year.
My system would generally encourage people to think about bills and make them as concise as possible. It'd rein in a lot of corruption, too. Add in some potential for citizen commentary during that period and you've got a real winner.
Sad that it doesn't look terribly likely to happen. Maybe I'll get lucky and a Slashdotter will get in Congress or the House.
Oh, and if you can find any flaws with my little plan, please share 'em. I enjoy thinking things through.
How do you test the system for these things? Tens of thousands of hours of real-world driving
=Smidge=
I really hope that Google had some fun with the driverless car on real roads. There's one or two pranks you could potentially pull off. :3
If Red Hat had a sense of humor, they would make a new promotional video using a certain ABBA song.
~funky bass line~
[Morgan Freeman]: In 2001 Bill Gates said Linux won't be in the commercial market in [touch of sarcasm] "any significant way".
[ABBA]: Money money money mooooooooooneeeeeeeeeeey~
[Morgan Freeman]: I don't know about you...
[ABBA]: Mooooooooneeeeeeyy! Money money money moooonnneeeeeeeeey~
[Morgan Freeman]: But I'd call 1 billion dollars of revenue pretty signficant.
[ABBA]: Mooooooooooooneyy!
[Morgan Freeman]: Make the smart choice. Make the significant choice. Red Hat.
Oh, I'm sure there will be a new firmware to enable such behavior soon enough.
the patent will also be invalidated there (well, IANAL but it's common sense).
Yeah, do you honestly believe common sense factors in anywhere when it comes to this kind of blatant patent garbage?
That's the problem. Counterfeit rivets and nutplates throw a monkey wrench in a product's expected lifecycle. Shitty rivets crack out. They corrode.
Do you honestly think counterfeit or sub-par stuff would come up in America?
If the penalty weren't a laugh and a handshake because someone in China fucked up it'd be a non-issue. If your business lost a government contract as a result, you could bet your life on those nuts and bolts.
This is pretty difficult because, in the end, nobody can keep all the parts in stock.
No, that's horseshit.
Look, for all the money we spend on defense we can afford to have secure warehouses of all the stuff we need.
Look at the A-10 Thunderbolt. That airframe is a precise weapon of destruction. It has served faithfully for years and it's tough as all hell. The A-10 is a marvel of engineering in every way.
It's also impossible to build new ones. Why? Because the supply chain doesn't exist anymore. The plans are gone. It'd be like trying to build a brand new shuttle - it just isn't feasible. You'd have to reverse-engineer an existing one.
This is, frankly, idiotic. It's rare to have created a machine so perfect. The A-10 is going to be in service at least through to 2028. That's a testament to its staying power, and it's sad that we're not going to see any new ones created.
The one thing we really shouldn't outsource is this kind of stuff. Making it in our own country wouldn't make it invulnerable from bad stuff being put in during the manufacturing process but it would greatly, greatly reduce the chances of anything bad happening.
It's finally here but I can't wait until the fourcorder!
I'd just wait for the fourScorder myself. The fivecorder probably won't be out until the year after anyway.
A punishment of any kind can't serve as a warning to would-be criminals if it's carried out in a way that nobody knows or cares about.
Because of all those public executions that happened around the world stopped crime dead cold, right?
I honestly think any particular sort of innovation in this sense on their part can be overwritten nevertheless with a little ingenuity and persistence (which crackers seem to have in spades).
Yes, but that's not the point. It's about older games.
The PS2 is cracked through and through. When the PS4 is coming out, the PS3 will have stablized. They're not exactly releasing new firmwares for it.
Honestly, the worst firewalls in the world are in places like Iran and China. People in those countries manage to circumvent them just fine, and so will we if it comes down to it.
And if not, there's always sneakernet.
Yes we will.
What DRM has there been that hasn't been cracked?
Moreover (and hilariously enough), a lot of the same people who crack games are the ones keeping old ones alive. At least, people with the same mindset... you need to be a bit of a nutter to come up with stuff like WINE and DOSbox.
We will always have our old games whether the publishers like it or not.
You're taking him too literally. The idea is that Sealand would pay another entity, like say Sea Launch, to put the satellites up.
Correct.
Well, you could remotely manage things that are technically illegal in your home country.
The server company's web logs could show that you never downloaded anything. You could move stuff from place to place (automatically, even), or just spread it around in general.
Sealand could launch its own satellite and bypass all of that stuff.
Last time they were seen in action was the Falkland Islands
Technically this is correct.
No one sees the SAS coming.
At some point, you have to get that data, and that data will have to cross into your own location, which would make you in possession of the data and liable for possessing it.
What about a situation wherein you move data from Server A in Germany to Server B in Switzerland? It never crosses your computer, all you do is send the command.
Isn't one of the nice things about Android all about how you can muck around it?
Why not make a secure version of Android like SE Linux?
It's about as good as PR as any. They coded an OS with more holes than a termite-infested house, lied about making a brand-spanking new one from scratch (Vista), and loads of other fuckups that generally make Windows a security nightmare. So this kinda stuff makes them look tough on Internets crime, when really the best way to solve it would be to make their OS, browser, etc. a hell of a lot safer.
I dunno, aren't there lots of stuff being made nowadays that's open-source hardware? Sure maybe not something you can pick up in Best Buy, but I am pretty sure there are things like the Arduino with all the specs available. Unless you want to get pedantic about not having the blueprints for the chips in such a device that's about as open source as hardware can get.
I'm especially fond of Penn & Teller because they put a good spin on it beyond "I'm wearing a glittery shirt and eyeliner, and that is mysterious."
Like, for instance, their flag-burning routine. Not only do they do the trick, but they get a good point across, too. One of my favorite bits.