The issue is ownership. To block illegal copyrighted material you must know if the distributor (web site) is legally allowed to serve the material. Given that we can't reliably determine the owner of half the copyrighted material on the web, this could be a problem.
The NSA spends all its time looking for ways to spy on us. That accumulated man-hours is far greater than what we are dedicating to the counter-attack. If we start spending our time looking for ways to protect our privacy (to counter their efforts) then our accumulated man-hours will be far greater, and we will push them back. This method does not require a united counter attack, only that many of us work at the problem.
We do have such people in domestic economy, hence the wall street collapse. The total collapse of the reputation of the USA just takes longer to hit the ground is all.
Why would you want a second NSA? The problem is the USA has so many intelligence organizations, all competing with each other. So to get more funding they have to do more and worse spying and snooping. You want 1 external spying agency (CIA), one internal spying agency (FBI), and that's it. Any more than that and you have them playing games and fighting each other instead of doing their job.
Frozen ground is only waterproof if there are no holes. Frost heaves tend to break up the ground and make holes. The ideal solution is to make new containment ponds and move the radioactive stuff to that.
Some people wonder why the universe isn't filled with aliens, given the number of planets and the age of the universe. It appears that it's because there simply isn't any good reason for leaving your planet until your star explodes.
Exactly how many visits are you expecting bill gates to make to mars? The number of people who can afford to visit mars is too small to justify the cost.
Helium 3 is far too rare to use as a fuel. You want plain old hydrogen for fusion. Even with the disposal costs for all the radioactive residue it's still much cheaper (profitable) than helium 3.
People keep saying that private corporations can always do things cheaper than government. But every single time government tries to compete with private enterprise they get yelled at for unfair competition. Like health care, where Americans spend x2 as much on health care as Canadians do, yet get consistently worse care. Or community wifi, cheaper and higher bandwidth.
There is no business case for anything above orbit. The international space station has no scientific value yet sucks up all of NASA's budget. The privatized cooks on a military base cost the same, but give worse food/service.
Alcohol kills more people than all other drugs combined. If we are OK with the worst drug in existence being legally available, then why are we worried about the rest?
Corporations only fight the government when they get paid to do so. This is just another way for corporations to monetize their assets, by selling access to the government.
here are a few problems: The NSA can now install software on your phone, world wide. If you don't pay Google a monthly fee all your apps and data gets lost in the cloud. They can read all your data, remotely, and give you targeted adds. You can only buy apps from them, unless they let you. Always on the network DRM.
First thing to do is a peer reviewed study to determine if there is a correlation between speed and accidents. At present it's all just speculation. I would prefer if expensive laws were based on science instead of hand waving nonsense.
A customized software update to your web browser should suffice. A NSA letter will get your ISP to re-route your updater to their site, and they are in.
I believe standard practice is for police to back up your hard drive before they start forensic stuff. So you give them a wipe password, then they go for the real one.
To break Tor they need to monitor all traffic in and out. Basic traffic analysis will then tell you who is sending to who. As the output of Tor is unencrypted it is therefore easy to know what you are sending to who. But doing this requires intercepting ALL traffic in and out, not just some of it that happens to pass through a given compromised node. There are a lot of nodes.
How about Software Machine Patents? Treat the program as a machine, and let you patent it. Of course you must include full source code in the patent application in order to let others duplicate your work. And clearly short time periods are called for, 5 to 10 years max. Copyright is useless for software as any cross compiler can render it so different that it doesn't match yet still does the same thing.
Given that western countries built the whole system, and given how willing they are to install government monitors we should assume the system was set up originally for the purpose of spying. The cable breaks are probably just accidents- or organized crime looking for stuff to sell.
Allowing the general public to see the video without a warrant means people can spy on you (using the government cameras) and therefore invade your privacy. If a police officer questions you about something, it would end up on the internet even if the accusation was provably false. Also it means criminals can map out where the cops go (or don't go) in order to find gaps for criminal activity.
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The issue is ownership. To block illegal copyrighted material you must know if the distributor (web site) is legally allowed to serve the material. Given that we can't reliably determine the owner of half the copyrighted material on the web, this could be a problem.
The NSA spends all its time looking for ways to spy on us. That accumulated man-hours is far greater than what we are dedicating to the counter-attack. If we start spending our time looking for ways to protect our privacy (to counter their efforts) then our accumulated man-hours will be far greater, and we will push them back. This method does not require a united counter attack, only that many of us work at the problem.
Then the NSA should be split into Offensive and Defensive, with separate chain of command.
We do have such people in domestic economy, hence the wall street collapse. The total collapse of the reputation of the USA just takes longer to hit the ground is all.
Why would you want a second NSA? The problem is the USA has so many intelligence organizations, all competing with each other. So to get more funding they have to do more and worse spying and snooping. You want 1 external spying agency (CIA), one internal spying agency (FBI), and that's it. Any more than that and you have them playing games and fighting each other instead of doing their job.
Frozen ground is only waterproof if there are no holes. Frost heaves tend to break up the ground and make holes. The ideal solution is to make new containment ponds and move the radioactive stuff to that.
Some people wonder why the universe isn't filled with aliens, given the number of planets and the age of the universe. It appears that it's because there simply isn't any good reason for leaving your planet until your star explodes.
Exactly how many visits are you expecting bill gates to make to mars? The number of people who can afford to visit mars is too small to justify the cost.
Helium 3 is far too rare to use as a fuel. You want plain old hydrogen for fusion. Even with the disposal costs for all the radioactive residue it's still much cheaper (profitable) than helium 3.
People keep saying that private corporations can always do things cheaper than government. But every single time government tries to compete with private enterprise they get yelled at for unfair competition. Like health care, where Americans spend x2 as much on health care as Canadians do, yet get consistently worse care. Or community wifi, cheaper and higher bandwidth. There is no business case for anything above orbit. The international space station has no scientific value yet sucks up all of NASA's budget. The privatized cooks on a military base cost the same, but give worse food/service.
Alcohol kills more people than all other drugs combined. If we are OK with the worst drug in existence being legally available, then why are we worried about the rest?
Corporations only fight the government when they get paid to do so. This is just another way for corporations to monetize their assets, by selling access to the government.
Warrants come from a judge, not the executive branch of the US government. A NSA letter is not a warrant.
The NSA is now doing a purge to eliminate any potential whistle-blowers from their ranks. The "Terrorist" part is just the public excuse.
here are a few problems: The NSA can now install software on your phone, world wide. If you don't pay Google a monthly fee all your apps and data gets lost in the cloud. They can read all your data, remotely, and give you targeted adds. You can only buy apps from them, unless they let you. Always on the network DRM.
First thing to do is a peer reviewed study to determine if there is a correlation between speed and accidents. At present it's all just speculation. I would prefer if expensive laws were based on science instead of hand waving nonsense.
A customized software update to your web browser should suffice. A NSA letter will get your ISP to re-route your updater to their site, and they are in.
I believe standard practice is for police to back up your hard drive before they start forensic stuff. So you give them a wipe password, then they go for the real one.
They don't need to backdoor the kernel, they can install stuff in the hardware your os runs on to do the same job.
To break Tor they need to monitor all traffic in and out. Basic traffic analysis will then tell you who is sending to who. As the output of Tor is unencrypted it is therefore easy to know what you are sending to who. But doing this requires intercepting ALL traffic in and out, not just some of it that happens to pass through a given compromised node. There are a lot of nodes.
How about Software Machine Patents? Treat the program as a machine, and let you patent it. Of course you must include full source code in the patent application in order to let others duplicate your work. And clearly short time periods are called for, 5 to 10 years max. Copyright is useless for software as any cross compiler can render it so different that it doesn't match yet still does the same thing.
Given that western countries built the whole system, and given how willing they are to install government monitors we should assume the system was set up originally for the purpose of spying. The cable breaks are probably just accidents- or organized crime looking for stuff to sell.
Not in a mass casualty situation. When you don't have the manpower to help everyone you triage and help those who you could save first.
They are not talking about YOUR privacy, but theirs. They want to work (in a public place) in private.
Allowing the general public to see the video without a warrant means people can spy on you (using the government cameras) and therefore invade your privacy. If a police officer questions you about something, it would end up on the internet even if the accusation was provably false. Also it means criminals can map out where the cops go (or don't go) in order to find gaps for criminal activity.