You forgot step 1.5 : Login with your username and password that can be easily traced to the traffic, regardless of which physical device you were connected to.
How does it make any sense for Comcast to charge your for extra bandwidth that somebody used on their public WiFi network, not logged in as you? This may be a terrible idea, but not for that reason. Comcast is just using existing equipment to do something other than sit idle. This doesn't seem that nefarious to me. (I'm sure they'll try to prove me wrong later, but for now anyway).
Comcast will be just as liable as they are now. This is not Comcast giving people access to your private network. For this to be even technologically feasible, it's going to have to be configured so that every router broadcasts the same SSID. That means it's going to be a separate virtual network from your home network. So some random guy is not going to be able to log onto your shared folders and print to your printer. If somebody downloads porn, it's going to show that it was some user (with a username and login) that logged into the public Comcast network, and happened to do it from your router. (But more than usual, see my.sig)
That's not true at all, and is a bad analogy. You own your house. If the bank has a mortgage, then they have a lien on the house. If they want to take possession of it, they have to go through a foreclosure proceeding. They can't just walk into your living room and start watching TV. Your house is real property, which has lots of strong protections. Comcast, on the other hand, does own the router that they lease to you, which is a chattel and therefore subject to a different set of rights. No, they can't walk in and just take it (that would violate your real property rights). But they do own the network, and if their contract with you is written in a way that permits them to reconfigure a leased router to grant somebody else access to their network over wireless signals that you're leaking out into the air anyway, then yeah, they can do that.
You act like it's some crazy notion that people in government would covertly collect information on private citizens for purposes of blackmail to "keep them in line"---not because those citizens are breaking any law, but because certain officials deem them to be dangerous to their own personal agendas and power structure. Have you ever heard of a guy named J. Edgar Hoover? Perhaps you should look into that.
Exactly the opposite. They designed their system to comply with the law (delete the data). Now the EFF wants them to do something different (retain the data so they can peruse it). If you've ever worked a a big system you would know that a major requirements change like that cannot be implemented quickly or easily.
What I find most interesting here is the outrage we keep seeing on/. when a story is posted about search warrants that are too broad. But now the EFF has essentially requested a search warrant for everything the NSA has.
No, that's not true. The duty of preservation in a civil lawsuit is entirely different from a search warrant in a criminal investigation. And no, they didn't design the system to comply with the law. If they'd done that, they wouldn't allegedly have so much information that it can't be stored. They should be performing targeted searches related to actual criminal cases and threats to national security, not wholesale data mining on every man, woman, and child in the United States, regardless of how soon they delete it.
he PROBLEM is that they simply collect too much data
Precisely. If they were doing what a legitimate government agency should be doing---targeted investigation of crimes and threats to national security---there wouldn't be a problem.
You guys are thinking too much into this. Any third party you entrust your secret to (bank authorities, lawyers, software etc) is a potential point of breach.
Just keep your information in hard copy (papers, journals etc), put it in a box, lock it up and bury it. Entrust the secret and key to a son/daughter with strict instructions it is not to be opened until you pass away, with the warning that the secrets revealed may destroy the family.
The less people know about it, the more secure it is.
I'd rather trust family who have an interest in protecting your secrets rather than some stranger or worse, impersonal unthinking code. And having a living, thinking secret keeper who can respond to challenges and situations you may not even forsee is far more effective.
I'm going to do this, and all that will be in the capsule will be a note saying, "You have been pwned! Dad has trolled you one final time."
"(2) the permission to destroy the originals (you'll always find a few volunteers)"
why?
So, the send a copy of me, so what? It's Geekoid2. It's not going to come back and claim my social security benefits.
Of course; if we can build people, we would build more optimized people and not copies. Skin color, hair growth, strength, spectrum off vision would all be customized to the unique properties of that planet.
So your proposal is that we build a genetically-engineered race of super men? And then send them off into space in deep freeze so they can return some day and conquer us? What ever will we call the ship? I think S.S. Botany Bay is already taken, but let me check up on that.
Its so frustrating to hear people on the news talk about how a doctor wouldn't treat them because he didn't take "obamacare".
What that guy probably means is that he bought a policy on the Obamacare exchange, and his doctor wouldn't see him because he doesn't accept that policy.
Chuck Hagel's fantasy of decommissioning the A-10 is proof positive that the idiot has no business being anywhere near the DoD. The dude is former infantry. He ought to be the first one standing up to stand up and defend the Warthog.
If you're deployed for six months and you like to read you've brought your own e-reader loaded with books you want to read with you.
Unless you're not allowed to, in which case, this device is the difference between living in Hell for six months and living in relative contentedness for six months.
I actually thought the same thing, but according to the article, these aren't full of manuals. They've got 300 popular books and literary classics. It's a lightweight, standardized, secure library for sailors who are bored and want to read. While this would be a terrible consumer device, I think it makes sense for the use case. If you're deployed on a ship for six months, having 300 books to choose from is a lot better than having zero books to choose from.
Or you could just read Crichton's Congo. Belligerent monkeys? Check. Belligerent monkeys are (spoiler) descended from human-trained belligerent monkeys? Check. Lasers? Check. Bad film adaptation with funny riffing by film critic? Check.
The other good reason I thought of* is the fact that old, analog electronics are more likely to survive the EMP from a nuclear blast than modern, solid-state stuff. To wit, if a well-placed air-burst nuke drops EM radiation across the continental US, my 2009 pickup will be effectively dead, but my 1967 Mustang, with it's points-type ignition and lack of electronics, will fire and run like always.
* of course, this only applies if the systems in use at the missile silos are analog.
Electronics used in missile and launch-critical systems are required to be radiation hardened. That's part of why they are so expensive. These are not basic, off-the-shelf transistors. They are subjected to rigorous radiation tests to verify that they can survive certain attack scenarios. They also have to conform to a specific long-term reliability profile, since they sit doing nothing for decades at a time. Parts selection and qualification is an entire separate branch of engineering for nuclear weapons. (The system designers draw a circuit, and then the parts guys tell them what parts they can put in there.) They are also heavily shielded. EMP survivability is not a matter of serendipity for these systems.
You got lucky. Being consistently precise requires strength.
Yeah, I know I got lucky. But that's the point. I can't "get lucky" and win a javelin throw. You don't "get lucky" and throw an 85 mph fast ball. There's a reason that people can play golf at a professional level as septuagenarians. It's just not the most physically demanding of sports.
Golf has a high level of skill but you don't have to be very strong or fast.
While putting does not require much strength, doesn't driving (i.e. long distance shots) require a lot of upper body strength equivalent to olympic sports like javelin and discus throw?
I don't golf much, but in my experience, no. It just requires leverage and precision. When I was at a big law firm, I would sometimes play in "scramble" golf tournaments, where bad golfers (like me) teamed up with good golfers (3 or 4 to a team), and you took everybody's best shot. In one of these tournaments, I won the overall prize for best drive (this was against a number of lawyers who golf a lot). I do not have any special upper body strength, and certainly no skill. I just happened, that one time, to strike the ball just right so it flew straight, and flew a long way. And it was a one-off thing. Most of the rest of my drives didn't even go the right way. I doubt you will ever see a noob accidentally make a one-off farthest discus or javelin throw.
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You forgot step 1.5 : Login with your username and password that can be easily traced to the traffic, regardless of which physical device you were connected to.
How does it make any sense for Comcast to charge your for extra bandwidth that somebody used on their public WiFi network, not logged in as you? This may be a terrible idea, but not for that reason. Comcast is just using existing equipment to do something other than sit idle. This doesn't seem that nefarious to me. (I'm sure they'll try to prove me wrong later, but for now anyway).
Comcast will be just as liable as they are now. This is not Comcast giving people access to your private network. For this to be even technologically feasible, it's going to have to be configured so that every router broadcasts the same SSID. That means it's going to be a separate virtual network from your home network. So some random guy is not going to be able to log onto your shared folders and print to your printer. If somebody downloads porn, it's going to show that it was some user (with a username and login) that logged into the public Comcast network, and happened to do it from your router. (But more than usual, see my .sig)
That's not true at all, and is a bad analogy. You own your house. If the bank has a mortgage, then they have a lien on the house. If they want to take possession of it, they have to go through a foreclosure proceeding. They can't just walk into your living room and start watching TV. Your house is real property, which has lots of strong protections. Comcast, on the other hand, does own the router that they lease to you, which is a chattel and therefore subject to a different set of rights. No, they can't walk in and just take it (that would violate your real property rights). But they do own the network, and if their contract with you is written in a way that permits them to reconfigure a leased router to grant somebody else access to their network over wireless signals that you're leaking out into the air anyway, then yeah, they can do that.
You act like it's some crazy notion that people in government would covertly collect information on private citizens for purposes of blackmail to "keep them in line"---not because those citizens are breaking any law, but because certain officials deem them to be dangerous to their own personal agendas and power structure. Have you ever heard of a guy named J. Edgar Hoover? Perhaps you should look into that.
Exactly the opposite. They designed their system to comply with the law (delete the data). Now the EFF wants them to do something different (retain the data so they can peruse it). If you've ever worked a a big system you would know that a major requirements change like that cannot be implemented quickly or easily.
What I find most interesting here is the outrage we keep seeing on /. when a story is posted about search warrants that are too broad. But now the EFF has essentially requested a search warrant for everything the NSA has.
No, that's not true. The duty of preservation in a civil lawsuit is entirely different from a search warrant in a criminal investigation. And no, they didn't design the system to comply with the law. If they'd done that, they wouldn't allegedly have so much information that it can't be stored. They should be performing targeted searches related to actual criminal cases and threats to national security, not wholesale data mining on every man, woman, and child in the United States, regardless of how soon they delete it.
he PROBLEM is that they simply collect too much data
Precisely. If they were doing what a legitimate government agency should be doing---targeted investigation of crimes and threats to national security---there wouldn't be a problem.
You guys are thinking too much into this. Any third party you entrust your secret to (bank authorities, lawyers, software etc) is a potential point of breach.
Just keep your information in hard copy (papers, journals etc), put it in a box, lock it up and bury it. Entrust the secret and key to a son/daughter with strict instructions it is not to be opened until you pass away, with the warning that the secrets revealed may destroy the family.
The less people know about it, the more secure it is.
I'd rather trust family who have an interest in protecting your secrets rather than some stranger or worse, impersonal unthinking code. And having a living, thinking secret keeper who can respond to challenges and situations you may not even forsee is far more effective.
I'm going to do this, and all that will be in the capsule will be a note saying, "You have been pwned! Dad has trolled you one final time."
"(2) the permission to destroy the originals (you'll always find a few volunteers)" why? So, the send a copy of me, so what? It's Geekoid2. It's not going to come back and claim my social security benefits.
Of course; if we can build people, we would build more optimized people and not copies. Skin color, hair growth, strength, spectrum off vision would all be customized to the unique properties of that planet.
So your proposal is that we build a genetically-engineered race of super men? And then send them off into space in deep freeze so they can return some day and conquer us? What ever will we call the ship? I think S.S. Botany Bay is already taken, but let me check up on that.
Holy Christopher Columbus! Was it bring your favourite programming language to work month?
Don't worry. The Obama administration has issued an executive order instructing the new vendor to port the system entirely to INTERCAL.
Its so frustrating to hear people on the news talk about how a doctor wouldn't treat them because he didn't take "obamacare".
What that guy probably means is that he bought a policy on the Obamacare exchange, and his doctor wouldn't see him because he doesn't accept that policy.
Chuck Hagel's fantasy of decommissioning the A-10 is proof positive that the idiot has no business being anywhere near the DoD. The dude is former infantry. He ought to be the first one standing up to stand up and defend the Warthog.
Great, where are your measurements, Corny?
36, 24, 36.
Those are fairly disturbing for somebody named "Jeremiah."
What will happen is upheaval, famine and, yes, war. Same way that humans always handle situations with limited resources.
As opposed to the last 100 years of utopia and global cooperation we have enjoyed.
If you're deployed for six months and you like to read you've brought your own e-reader loaded with books you want to read with you.
Unless you're not allowed to, in which case, this device is the difference between living in Hell for six months and living in relative contentedness for six months.
I actually thought the same thing, but according to the article, these aren't full of manuals. They've got 300 popular books and literary classics. It's a lightweight, standardized, secure library for sailors who are bored and want to read. While this would be a terrible consumer device, I think it makes sense for the use case. If you're deployed on a ship for six months, having 300 books to choose from is a lot better than having zero books to choose from.
Or you could just read Crichton's Congo. Belligerent monkeys? Check. Belligerent monkeys are (spoiler) descended from human-trained belligerent monkeys? Check. Lasers? Check. Bad film adaptation with funny riffing by film critic? Check.
Judges, on average, make quite a bit less than private practice attorneys.
The other good reason I thought of* is the fact that old, analog electronics are more likely to survive the EMP from a nuclear blast than modern, solid-state stuff. To wit, if a well-placed air-burst nuke drops EM radiation across the continental US, my 2009 pickup will be effectively dead, but my 1967 Mustang, with it's points-type ignition and lack of electronics, will fire and run like always.
* of course, this only applies if the systems in use at the missile silos are analog.
Electronics used in missile and launch-critical systems are required to be radiation hardened. That's part of why they are so expensive. These are not basic, off-the-shelf transistors. They are subjected to rigorous radiation tests to verify that they can survive certain attack scenarios. They also have to conform to a specific long-term reliability profile, since they sit doing nothing for decades at a time. Parts selection and qualification is an entire separate branch of engineering for nuclear weapons. (The system designers draw a circuit, and then the parts guys tell them what parts they can put in there.) They are also heavily shielded. EMP survivability is not a matter of serendipity for these systems.
once past the physical security
Good luck with that. And please give St. Peter my regards.
So what happens to the rabbits then?
We'll have to nuke them from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
With golf, you get to drink even when you lose!
Especially when you're golfing with lawyers, and it's on the firm's tab.
You got lucky. Being consistently precise requires strength.
Yeah, I know I got lucky. But that's the point. I can't "get lucky" and win a javelin throw. You don't "get lucky" and throw an 85 mph fast ball. There's a reason that people can play golf at a professional level as septuagenarians. It's just not the most physically demanding of sports.
Wow, something even more boring and pointless than golf, I forgot all about fishing...
Except with fishing, at least you get to eat when you win.
While putting does not require much strength, doesn't driving (i.e. long distance shots) require a lot of upper body strength equivalent to olympic sports like javelin and discus throw?
I don't golf much, but in my experience, no. It just requires leverage and precision. When I was at a big law firm, I would sometimes play in "scramble" golf tournaments, where bad golfers (like me) teamed up with good golfers (3 or 4 to a team), and you took everybody's best shot. In one of these tournaments, I won the overall prize for best drive (this was against a number of lawyers who golf a lot). I do not have any special upper body strength, and certainly no skill. I just happened, that one time, to strike the ball just right so it flew straight, and flew a long way. And it was a one-off thing. Most of the rest of my drives didn't even go the right way. I doubt you will ever see a noob accidentally make a one-off farthest discus or javelin throw.