Crackers are just the beginning of the danger. Imagine a government with the power to shut off any phone (any portable data transfer device?) at any time using the T word as an excuse and not having to even justify it for several months. The laws that allow the latter are already in place, enacted, and only awaiting the ability.
This is one of the most dangerous laws imaginable.
Wikipedia has this to say:
Since neutral kaons carry strangeness, they cannot be their own antiparticles.
Which, to me, may as well me an incantation to be mumbled over three skulls and a chicken.
What real-world thing can be made with this knowledge?
Obviously you run into problems if you want any soldier to be able to destroy the hardware at any time creating a tradeoff but authentication is a very well studied topic. A hashed passphrase will suffice as long as you trust your data stores and if you don't trust your data stores it's probably better not to put the hardware out there anyway.
Indeed, and if Dice can't see past the next three months they may see that as desirable. Discussion boards like Slashdot need their contributors WAY more then the contributors need them. Remember what happened when Digg ignored their users?
If Dice wants Slashdot for its large number of techies the dumbest thing they can do is to drive away said techies.
I don't know the physics of it, could someone tell me whether it would be both feasible and helpful to combine various lasers of differing bandwidths into one beam?
It's a super special secret. Optical tracking! how does it work? Who knows? Why does it change the channel every time I take a bite? Why does it already work as well as five year old technology? HOW DID THEY DOOO THAT?
This is going to end up a complete mess. Either no one will use them in which case they won't make much difference, only evil people will use them, in which case the US government will shut them down, or a lot of people will use them, in which case the US government will subvert them.
$50 is a lot more to a lot of people than you think. If you have a secure job or a lot of money it may seem like surrendering your privacy for nothing important. But for some people that means a chance to eat more than beans and rice this month, a phone card that could land them a job, or a 5 month overdue oil change.
December 24, 2013
U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon was found dead yesterday in a severe car accident. The 54 year old highly regarded judge was under a lot of stress and drinking was reportedly involved. Mourning on this Christmas Eve are his late wife and child.
This video has a very high claim/evidence ratio. All I can see is a man with two electrodes in his mouth. Nothing about how it works. I'm going to file this in "speculative fiction"
responding to your sig:
It's foolish to say who is "richest" in the world without comparing cost of living. It's foolish to assume anyone who thinks in terms like "the 1%" hates said 1%.
Sour grapes.
However many or few people used the site this is a real betrayal and it's necessary for pirates and torrenters to find way to become even more robust against this kind of activity.
We're already playing a vigorous game of whack-a-mole but what I think is needed is a series of third party web-sites to filter and mix comment and posted torrents from various IPs to various different user names. Torrent sites could have an API that allows such filtering.
For example Joe Anypirate would use torrentfilter.net to send a torrent to thepiratebay.sx. thepiratebay.sx would have only torrentfilter.net as the source of the file information. torrentfilter would automatically assign a random user name for data to forward to thepiratebay.sx. A pirates-only proxy.
These third party sites wouldn't host torrents providing a level of abstraction and safety from laws targeting torrent sites.
Neither of the linked articles provided any information about what the device is and how it works. Given their descriptions it could be anything from an extra transport level encryption layer to, as someone mentioned, a tinfoil hat. This is a bad article and the editors should feel bad.
I'm sorry to inform you that the Tor network is absolutely riddled with US government-owned computers sharing packet information. If you want privacy you'll have to migrate to Freenet.
Throughout history and especially in today's world anyone able to pay extra can get more privacy and anyone sufficiently poor has none. This is simply a continuation of that trend.
The poorer you are the more forms you have to fill out with personal information to get what you need and the less likely those forms are to be jealously guarded. On the extreme end you have people filling out dozens of forms daily dealing with hospitals, charity organizations, food banks, and government assistance organizations just to survive.
In this case if you're rich enough you can choose an insurance company that won't log every mile you travel.
At the other extreme you have people with private airplanes they board with the surrounding areas screened for photographers; houses surrounded by tall walls and guards; every form filled out by someone else and when possible with inaccurate personal information; cars with dark tint on the back windows; and personal physicians bound to secrecy with highly restrictive privacy agreements.
If, without warning, software stops me halfway through to demand money (i.e. partway through the game or music) I'll pirate it every time out of spite. That's a giant "fuck you" to the consumer.
These scurvy snoops be too interested in things that don't concern them. Must I hide not only me mac, computer name, browser type, and personal information but local network addresses as well? I'm really tired o' puttin' up new curtains. Me treasure maps will be well hid no matter how I have to do it but I'm wanting to put me wooden leg up some CEO asses.
You didn't catch my point. Whatever the real causes of the shadow economy any government action will be directed at gaining further power and better controlling the plebeians.
You can bet any scare words in any news article are aimed toward that goal.
If you can look at the result of decades of bad decision-making and corruption, global economic trends, transportation improvements, industrial revolutions in other countries, and industrial competition and blame the result on "unions" you're either a shill, an idiot, or entirely and willfully ignorant.
This is a really bad idea. If I need to rush someone to the hospital it doesn't matter if I have two beers in me or if I just woke up. And I don't want my car telling me I'm too sleepy to drive -- and there would be no real difference between "just waking up" and "sleepy" anyway.
Let's treating me like I'm all grown up and can make my own damn decisions about when to drive okay?
Customers who use the internet in more sophisticated ways, for example to cut their TV cable and stream; to use bittorrent; to game, and so forth will not benefit from this pricing plan.
We're left with less informed and poorer customers as the target demographic. The problem here is that most people and especially those in the target demographic don't realize how many bits that javascript game is transferring. They don't realize Mom's facebook page links to 3 gigs of pictures. This will inevitably result in a large percentage of their customers going far over the cap and getting hit with an unpayable bill.
I would like to think this company will simply cut off internet service at cap but a much, much more likely scenario is debt collectors harassing poor people for anything they can get.
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But I will never EVER willingly buy a car that reports back everywhere it is.
I don't know, can they shoot down beta?
Crackers are just the beginning of the danger. Imagine a government with the power to shut off any phone (any portable data transfer device?) at any time using the T word as an excuse and not having to even justify it for several months. The laws that allow the latter are already in place, enacted, and only awaiting the ability.
This is one of the most dangerous laws imaginable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaon#CP_violation_in_neutral_meson_oscillations
Wikipedia has this to say: Since neutral kaons carry strangeness, they cannot be their own antiparticles. Which, to me, may as well me an incantation to be mumbled over three skulls and a chicken. What real-world thing can be made with this knowledge?
Obviously you run into problems if you want any soldier to be able to destroy the hardware at any time creating a tradeoff but authentication is a very well studied topic. A hashed passphrase will suffice as long as you trust your data stores and if you don't trust your data stores it's probably better not to put the hardware out there anyway.
Indeed, and if Dice can't see past the next three months they may see that as desirable. Discussion boards like Slashdot need their contributors WAY more then the contributors need them. Remember what happened when Digg ignored their users? If Dice wants Slashdot for its large number of techies the dumbest thing they can do is to drive away said techies.
I don't know the physics of it, could someone tell me whether it would be both feasible and helpful to combine various lasers of differing bandwidths into one beam?
It's a super special secret. Optical tracking! how does it work? Who knows? Why does it change the channel every time I take a bite? Why does it already work as well as five year old technology? HOW DID THEY DOOO THAT?
Get this trash off the front page.
This is going to end up a complete mess. Either no one will use them in which case they won't make much difference, only evil people will use them, in which case the US government will shut them down, or a lot of people will use them, in which case the US government will subvert them.
$50 is a lot more to a lot of people than you think. If you have a secure job or a lot of money it may seem like surrendering your privacy for nothing important. But for some people that means a chance to eat more than beans and rice this month, a phone card that could land them a job, or a 5 month overdue oil change.
Perspective is important.
December 24, 2013 U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon was found dead yesterday in a severe car accident. The 54 year old highly regarded judge was under a lot of stress and drinking was reportedly involved. Mourning on this Christmas Eve are his late wife and child.
This video has a very high claim/evidence ratio. All I can see is a man with two electrodes in his mouth. Nothing about how it works. I'm going to file this in "speculative fiction"
responding to your sig: It's foolish to say who is "richest" in the world without comparing cost of living. It's foolish to assume anyone who thinks in terms like "the 1%" hates said 1%.
Sour grapes. However many or few people used the site this is a real betrayal and it's necessary for pirates and torrenters to find way to become even more robust against this kind of activity. We're already playing a vigorous game of whack-a-mole but what I think is needed is a series of third party web-sites to filter and mix comment and posted torrents from various IPs to various different user names. Torrent sites could have an API that allows such filtering. For example Joe Anypirate would use torrentfilter.net to send a torrent to thepiratebay.sx. thepiratebay.sx would have only torrentfilter.net as the source of the file information. torrentfilter would automatically assign a random user name for data to forward to thepiratebay.sx. A pirates-only proxy. These third party sites wouldn't host torrents providing a level of abstraction and safety from laws targeting torrent sites.
Neither of the linked articles provided any information about what the device is and how it works. Given their descriptions it could be anything from an extra transport level encryption layer to, as someone mentioned, a tinfoil hat. This is a bad article and the editors should feel bad.
I'm sorry to inform you that the Tor network is absolutely riddled with US government-owned computers sharing packet information. If you want privacy you'll have to migrate to Freenet.
Throughout history and especially in today's world anyone able to pay extra can get more privacy and anyone sufficiently poor has none. This is simply a continuation of that trend. The poorer you are the more forms you have to fill out with personal information to get what you need and the less likely those forms are to be jealously guarded. On the extreme end you have people filling out dozens of forms daily dealing with hospitals, charity organizations, food banks, and government assistance organizations just to survive. In this case if you're rich enough you can choose an insurance company that won't log every mile you travel. At the other extreme you have people with private airplanes they board with the surrounding areas screened for photographers; houses surrounded by tall walls and guards; every form filled out by someone else and when possible with inaccurate personal information; cars with dark tint on the back windows; and personal physicians bound to secrecy with highly restrictive privacy agreements.
If, without warning, software stops me halfway through to demand money (i.e. partway through the game or music) I'll pirate it every time out of spite. That's a giant "fuck you" to the consumer.
These scurvy snoops be too interested in things that don't concern them. Must I hide not only me mac, computer name, browser type, and personal information but local network addresses as well? I'm really tired o' puttin' up new curtains. Me treasure maps will be well hid no matter how I have to do it but I'm wanting to put me wooden leg up some CEO asses.
You didn't catch my point. Whatever the real causes of the shadow economy any government action will be directed at gaining further power and better controlling the plebeians.
You can bet any scare words in any news article are aimed toward that goal.
"Shadow", that sounds really scary. I don't like scary things like shadows and terrorists.
Let's give the government a lot of power to regulate cash flow so they can protect us.
If you can look at the result of decades of bad decision-making and corruption, global economic trends, transportation improvements, industrial revolutions in other countries, and industrial competition and blame the result on "unions" you're either a shill, an idiot, or entirely and willfully ignorant.
$250 for the privilege of beta testing the game? seriously? This guy majorly overvalues a lot of the rewards.
This is a really bad idea. If I need to rush someone to the hospital it doesn't matter if I have two beers in me or if I just woke up. And I don't want my car telling me I'm too sleepy to drive -- and there would be no real difference between "just waking up" and "sleepy" anyway. Let's treating me like I'm all grown up and can make my own damn decisions about when to drive okay?
Customers who use the internet in more sophisticated ways, for example to cut their TV cable and stream; to use bittorrent; to game, and so forth will not benefit from this pricing plan.
We're left with less informed and poorer customers as the target demographic. The problem here is that most people and especially those in the target demographic don't realize how many bits that javascript game is transferring. They don't realize Mom's facebook page links to 3 gigs of pictures. This will inevitably result in a large percentage of their customers going far over the cap and getting hit with an unpayable bill.
I would like to think this company will simply cut off internet service at cap but a much, much more likely scenario is debt collectors harassing poor people for anything they can get.
This is evil from start to finish.