Let every country run their own DNS server for national traffic. Eliminate.com and make any attempt to use it redirect (nationally) to.com.us or whatever country you're in. If that's not the one you wanted then you can use.com.other-nation instead.
Interesting. The further the US moves to communism the lower the standard of living. The more capitalistic China becomes the higher the standard of living.
The most important aspect of an election is voter trust in the system. People only go along with democracy/voting as long as they think it represents the will of the people. If you think it's rigged then you'll assume most of the people are against it so you may as well join/lead the majority in a rebellion. If you trust the system then you will assume that most people support it so you'll believe an armed rebellion would fail so you'll work on lobbying the people instead.
The problem is with online voting itself. A fundamental requirement of secure communications is physical control of the end points. If you make phone calls in a public place it doesn't matter if you use a NSA designed phone it's not secure. If people can vote from home you can't ensure they vote anonymously. You can't prevent vote selling. You can't prevent intimidation. All the cryptographic security in the world won't change that.
Giving out a pass-phrase and voter card would allow you to sell your vote (they vote for you). I can't see any way to allow remote voting without vote selling, vote theft, and intimidation. I suggest you present ID at the voting place to receive your paper ballot instead.
You could achieve high level security on an otherwise standard iphone by inserting an inline encryption engine before the radio/modem and having it handle the security. Proper sand-boxing of apps and only allowing apps that passed a security audit will round out the requirements.
These phones wouldn't have saved him. The calls still use the public network so are still traceable, and all the phones need access to the same key server.
Knowing that MR x is a terrorist, you can assume anyone he calls might be a terrorist so you investigate them. And knowing where the key server is means you can get the codes to read the call.
I agree. And as an added bonus you reduce the opportunities for other countries to steal your countries business secrets. And before you get worried about your government not catching terrorists, realize that the key servers would be kept safely in your country (accessible by warrant). Google could score big by including this in their next version (only usable with other android phones of course).
You ignore IP when climbing up to the top, then enforce it to hold your position. Every single world power follows that route. Given that Monsanto (USA) owns most of the GE grains it makes perfect sense for China to block the competition while they develop their own.
GE crops have LOWER yields than traditional ones. http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/exposed-the-great-gm-crops-myth-812179.html
If we switch to GE grains en mass it will lead to food shortages and higher food prices, like we're starting to see now. A second point: raising more foods always ends up with more humans, leading to starvation. The only limit on human population is food, so growing more just delays the trouble.
Right. We'll just have teenagers buzzing rooftops at 300. On the bright side, living in the basement of your parents home will be a safety feature to brag about to girls.
If they make the camera wireless (to save money) then the government can watch us (from the car ahead). Wireless would be much easier than tying this into ONStar.
Your constitution is an interesting read. If there is no supremacy law then it looks like treaties that aren't backed by constitutionally backed federal powers (under the authority of the usa) can be overridden by the states. Does anyone who actually studies this stuff agree?
You don't need wires, point to point by directional radio waves is easily done now. Every home router could have several nodes to nearby routers, with a peer to peer control structure. Short of driving around in vans (at massive cost) looking for transmitters (and sending in the goons) this isn't something the government could stop. Control of communications is THE issue of this century, it's the most important challenge facing us. We will win, eventually. It's just a matter of time and cost (money/lives).
The fundamental basis of democracy is giving EVERYONE a voice. If you start excluding people you don't like it doesn't work. And that means we have to listen to Iran, Syria, and all the other "despotic" countries. Unless all you want is a stage to dictate to others, then you can limit the audience to your friends.
How long will it take to get consensus on censorship? Political deadlock is your friend. Yes the people behind the scenes will get bribed, but it will be patchwork censorship, with plenty of gaps for us to wiggle through instead of a single overbearing overlord. Also the UN doesn't have any men with guns so they can be ignored.
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Let every country run their own DNS server for national traffic. Eliminate .com and make any attempt to use it redirect (nationally) to .com.us or whatever country you're in. If that's not the one you wanted then you can use .com.other-nation instead.
In the USA a business is a person, and this is killing business, so it IS killing people.
Most of the cost of a sample return mission is the launcher to get the rocks back into space. Compared to that a basic rover is cheap.
Interesting. The further the US moves to communism the lower the standard of living. The more capitalistic China becomes the higher the standard of living.
The most important aspect of an election is voter trust in the system. People only go along with democracy/voting as long as they think it represents the will of the people. If you think it's rigged then you'll assume most of the people are against it so you may as well join/lead the majority in a rebellion. If you trust the system then you will assume that most people support it so you'll believe an armed rebellion would fail so you'll work on lobbying the people instead.
The problem is with online voting itself. A fundamental requirement of secure communications is physical control of the end points. If you make phone calls in a public place it doesn't matter if you use a NSA designed phone it's not secure. If people can vote from home you can't ensure they vote anonymously. You can't prevent vote selling. You can't prevent intimidation. All the cryptographic security in the world won't change that.
Giving out a pass-phrase and voter card would allow you to sell your vote (they vote for you). I can't see any way to allow remote voting without vote selling, vote theft, and intimidation. I suggest you present ID at the voting place to receive your paper ballot instead.
Former president Richard Nixon felt that way. So he tried to rig a federal election to ensure that the "Wrong" people didn't get in.
Soap box, ballot box, ammo box. The American public is at the ballot box stage. You have been warned.
We really need to make use of this ourselves. Add a line to some "must pass" bill shrinking copyright to 7 years only with no extensions.
I was not aware that the US constitution granted congress the power to do that. I guess I'll have to re-read it.
You could achieve high level security on an otherwise standard iphone by inserting an inline encryption engine before the radio/modem and having it handle the security. Proper sand-boxing of apps and only allowing apps that passed a security audit will round out the requirements.
These phones wouldn't have saved him. The calls still use the public network so are still traceable, and all the phones need access to the same key server. Knowing that MR x is a terrorist, you can assume anyone he calls might be a terrorist so you investigate them. And knowing where the key server is means you can get the codes to read the call.
I agree. And as an added bonus you reduce the opportunities for other countries to steal your countries business secrets. And before you get worried about your government not catching terrorists, realize that the key servers would be kept safely in your country (accessible by warrant). Google could score big by including this in their next version (only usable with other android phones of course).
You ignore IP when climbing up to the top, then enforce it to hold your position. Every single world power follows that route. Given that Monsanto (USA) owns most of the GE grains it makes perfect sense for China to block the competition while they develop their own.
GE crops have LOWER yields than traditional ones. http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/exposed-the-great-gm-crops-myth-812179.html If we switch to GE grains en mass it will lead to food shortages and higher food prices, like we're starting to see now. A second point: raising more foods always ends up with more humans, leading to starvation. The only limit on human population is food, so growing more just delays the trouble.
Right. We'll just have teenagers buzzing rooftops at 300. On the bright side, living in the basement of your parents home will be a safety feature to brag about to girls.
When your government works for commission you tend to get a lot of odd jobs. I guess the companies that make cameras and in car TV's needed some cash.
If they make the camera wireless (to save money) then the government can watch us (from the car ahead). Wireless would be much easier than tying this into ONStar.
If ANY node can take control then we can shut down the whole network from a single node. Everything you need to know is available on any single node.
Automatic copyright was added later, retroactively. At that time you had to register.
Your constitution is an interesting read. If there is no supremacy law then it looks like treaties that aren't backed by constitutionally backed federal powers (under the authority of the usa) can be overridden by the states. Does anyone who actually studies this stuff agree?
You don't need wires, point to point by directional radio waves is easily done now. Every home router could have several nodes to nearby routers, with a peer to peer control structure. Short of driving around in vans (at massive cost) looking for transmitters (and sending in the goons) this isn't something the government could stop. Control of communications is THE issue of this century, it's the most important challenge facing us. We will win, eventually. It's just a matter of time and cost (money/lives).
The fundamental basis of democracy is giving EVERYONE a voice. If you start excluding people you don't like it doesn't work. And that means we have to listen to Iran, Syria, and all the other "despotic" countries. Unless all you want is a stage to dictate to others, then you can limit the audience to your friends.
How long will it take to get consensus on censorship? Political deadlock is your friend. Yes the people behind the scenes will get bribed, but it will be patchwork censorship, with plenty of gaps for us to wiggle through instead of a single overbearing overlord. Also the UN doesn't have any men with guns so they can be ignored.