Our own government doesn't obey the law, why should we? This is standard Pisoner's Dilemna. Once the other side defects, you must too. Continue to cooperate and you lose. Badly.
Wow that article is like reading an Onion parody. To be clear, the article states websites were blocked on advisory by the "Anti Terrorism Squad." Allow me to cut and paste the entire quote because it is so stunning everyone should see it.
"These [sites] are all providing very dangerous kind of cut and paste services..You can take code, cut it, paste it, remove it, delete it," said one government official who requested anonymity.
My experience with Rosegarden is that it SIGSEGV's a lot. To be fair to the Rosegarden devs, the times that I actually debugged the issue I found bugs in the underlying QT library, so I can't "blame" Rosegarden.
Still, it has to be said that I spent much more time debugging than producing music in Linux. in order to get any actual work done, I have to dual-boot and use Cubase. I say that regrettably as that is the only reason that I keep a Windows partition around and I would love to have a robust set of audio tools on Linux.
If you haven't already, check out guitarix, too. It lets you simulate different amps and effects. It seems to work well and it's a lot of fun to play with.
Did they test with dumb regular users who don't understand or don't know better, or did they test people who actually know what those security warnings mean and the real consequences of ignoring them?
Hold on, TFA says they note a decrease in visual processing. Perhaps the decrease in visual processing is because the user is using another part of their brain to process the new information, and to appropriately decide what the best response is.
They also note an "overall" decrease after repeated exposures to the same message, but that's what we do; we learn from experience. That's a feature, not a bug.
In the end, it would make no difference. Nothing will until the majority of the people actually care and desire to not be spied on.
I don't know how you came to that conclusion but everyone I've talked to definitely have strong opinions on the matter. Not one of them thought that government spying on it's citizens is a good idea.
Just because you don't see people protesting in the streets it doesn't mean they don't care. I think you'll see how much this issue matters to people in the next presidential election.
There's a cheaper solution. I believe it's called a "trucker's chain."
But this thing has the advantage of alerting all thieves in your vicinity that you have money to burn on fancy electronics, the precise location of your wallet, and whether it's in your possesion or you've just lost it.
I dont see a problem with changing "choke hold" to "arm bar" is that is what the police call the move that was done.
I see a problem with it, but I just looked at the article and it appears the changes have been reverted to say choke hold once again. Hopefully further edits to the article will come under close scrutiny now.
But he broke into a Harvard networking closet (that's physical trespass),
You mean he walked in. The door is always open. Hell, there were homeless people living in there at one point. Besides, this is a college campus we are talking about. MIT is an open campus.
and rewired a router (that's computer trespass)
That's an unfounded allegation, and "computer trespass" is not recognized in Massachusetts. Really, look it up.
in order to download the journal articles that he otherwise did not have access to (or at least not at the speed with which he downloaded them
The journal articles are freely available for downloading by anyone for any reason.
The tragedy is that his life ended before he got a fair trial as none of the allegations against him had any real merit
Schneier straight-out says that ubiquitous surveillance and data minding [sic] are not suited for finding dedicated criminals or terrorists. The US is wasting billions on these programs and not getting the security they have been promised.
Combing through mass surveillance data to identify potential terrorists is like looking for a needle in a haystack, where the government has created both the needle and the haystack.
That's market making. Create a problem, then sell the solution.
If it makes you feel any better about this issue appearing on a tech site, it's part of what makes computer vision hard. Colors change under different lighting conditions so how an algorithm treats color information when identifying an object or analyzing a scene is an interesting problem.
Yeah but they have enough manpower to try to figure out every possible type of encryption scheme.
Huh? Everyone has access to open source encryption algorithms. That is a strength, not a weakness. Strong encryption algorithms rely on the fact that everyone has equal knowledge of the algorithm employed. It is the encryption key that is secret, not the algorithm.
That's the beauty of it. Evey mathemetician the world over can know what the problem is, but they cannot solve it in any reasonable time frame without the key. That's the whole point.
Now don't fault him on asking. The issue comes down to if we as a society are brave enough to say we value our freedom more than our security.
I do fault him for asking. By using strong encryption you are essentially saying "I hereby restrict access to this data to authorized users only." The problem Mr. Rogers has is that he lacks the authority to demand access to protected data. This is especially true for warrantless activities, things get much more interesting if he gets a federal warrant. I'd much rather have that discussion take place in a courtroom where everything is out in the open and both sides can argue their legal positions in front of a judge. That's the part he wants to skip and I want to see preserved.
If you can have access to a distribution made possible only through hours and hours of hard work at the cost of feeling guilty for a second as you type "0$"...
I don't understand why anyone would feel guilty about not paying for something that is free. If someone gives you a gift do you feel guilty for not paying them for it? I don't.
By forcing users to enter $0 when they download, don't they make the users implicitly commit to a statement that the software is worthless?
No, only that it is costless. That's why it is called free software. It's worth a lot, otherwise you wouldn't bother to obtain it. It costs nothing. That's the beauty of FOSS.
I care. It adds fuel to the anti-vaxxers, climate change deniers and similar nut-jobs when they can cite contradictory scientific studies as a reason not to trust scientists. So it's kind of a big deal.
Also it's Michael Palin, not Pollen, to everyone with the possible exception of Eric the Half-a-Bee.
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Different levels of Hell, at least according to Dante, but I suspect we're pretty much in agreement :)
If you lack morals to the extent you would consider working for the NSA you'll find it much more lucrative to sell your soul to Wall Street instead.
Our own government doesn't obey the law, why should we? This is standard Pisoner's Dilemna. Once the other side defects, you must too. Continue to cooperate and you lose. Badly.
They could either do that or spend 8 million dollars to build a full scale replica of the White House. To each his own.
Wow that article is like reading an Onion parody. To be clear, the article states websites were blocked on advisory by the "Anti Terrorism Squad." Allow me to cut and paste the entire quote because it is so stunning everyone should see it.
"These [sites] are all providing very dangerous kind of cut and paste services..You can take code, cut it, paste it, remove it, delete it," said one government official who requested anonymity.
That just blows my mind.
My experience with Rosegarden is that it SIGSEGV's a lot. To be fair to the Rosegarden devs, the times that I actually debugged the issue I found bugs in the underlying QT library, so I can't "blame" Rosegarden.
Still, it has to be said that I spent much more time debugging than producing music in Linux. in order to get any actual work done, I have to dual-boot and use Cubase. I say that regrettably as that is the only reason that I keep a Windows partition around and I would love to have a robust set of audio tools on Linux.
If you haven't already, check out guitarix, too. It lets you simulate different amps and effects. It seems to work well and it's a lot of fun to play with.
Did they test with dumb regular users who don't understand or don't know better, or did they test people who actually know what those security warnings mean and the real consequences of ignoring them?
Hold on, TFA says they note a decrease in visual processing. Perhaps the decrease in visual processing is because the user is using another part of their brain to process the new information, and to appropriately decide what the best response is.
They also note an "overall" decrease after repeated exposures to the same message, but that's what we do; we learn from experience. That's a feature, not a bug.
So if facebook allowed nudity that is past the FCC standard, then it would go downhill fast.
Heaven forbid we might find nudity on the internet.
They required a mobile number.
If I needed a phone to access my email, I think I'd rather use the phone to make a damn phone call and skip the email.
Double negatives are totally awesome, and there's no reason to think they're bad.
No one doesn't think double negatives are not unbad. No trouble won't occur unless you don't unthink what they don't mean to not say
In the end, it would make no difference. Nothing will until the majority of the people actually care and desire to not be spied on.
I don't know how you came to that conclusion but everyone I've talked to definitely have strong opinions on the matter. Not one of them thought that government spying on it's citizens is a good idea.
Just because you don't see people protesting in the streets it doesn't mean they don't care. I think you'll see how much this issue matters to people in the next presidential election.
There's a cheaper solution. I believe it's called a "trucker's chain."
But this thing has the advantage of alerting all thieves in your vicinity that you have money to burn on fancy electronics, the precise location of your wallet, and whether it's in your possesion or you've just lost it.
I dont see a problem with changing "choke hold" to "arm bar" is that is what the police call the move that was done.
I see a problem with it, but I just looked at the article and it appears the changes have been reverted to say choke hold once again. Hopefully further edits to the article will come under close scrutiny now.
But he broke into a Harvard networking closet (that's physical trespass),
You mean he walked in. The door is always open. Hell, there were homeless people living in there at one point. Besides, this is a college campus we are talking about. MIT is an open campus.
and rewired a router (that's computer trespass)
That's an unfounded allegation, and "computer trespass" is not recognized in Massachusetts. Really, look it up.
in order to download the journal articles that he otherwise did not have access to (or at least not at the speed with which he downloaded them
The journal articles are freely available for downloading by anyone for any reason.
The tragedy is that his life ended before he got a fair trial as none of the allegations against him had any real merit
Well, that was mildly entertaining, and not the craziest thing I've read on the internet. Comes close, though :)
Schneier straight-out says that ubiquitous surveillance and data minding [sic] are not suited for finding dedicated criminals or terrorists. The US is wasting billions on these programs and not getting the security they have been promised.
Combing through mass surveillance data to identify potential terrorists is like looking for a needle in a haystack, where the government has created both the needle and the haystack.
That's market making. Create a problem, then sell the solution.
Such bullshit, imo - you don't think they knew of the possibilities? the mil plans for all sorts of things, don't rule this out.
At the time they said we'd be greeted warmly as liberators by the Iraqi populace. Bush is not a smart man.
If it makes you feel any better about this issue appearing on a tech site, it's part of what makes computer vision hard. Colors change under different lighting conditions so how an algorithm treats color information when identifying an object or analyzing a scene is an interesting problem.
The page is still there, but all the links send you to a blank page with the text "File not found."
Yeah but they have enough manpower to try to figure out every possible type of encryption scheme.
Huh? Everyone has access to open source encryption algorithms. That is a strength, not a weakness. Strong encryption algorithms rely on the fact that everyone has equal knowledge of the algorithm employed. It is the encryption key that is secret, not the algorithm.
That's the beauty of it. Evey mathemetician the world over can know what the problem is, but they cannot solve it in any reasonable time frame without the key. That's the whole point.
Now don't fault him on asking. The issue comes down to if we as a society are brave enough to say we value our freedom more than our security.
I do fault him for asking. By using strong encryption you are essentially saying "I hereby restrict access to this data to authorized users only." The problem Mr. Rogers has is that he lacks the authority to demand access to protected data. This is especially true for warrantless activities, things get much more interesting if he gets a federal warrant. I'd much rather have that discussion take place in a courtroom where everything is out in the open and both sides can argue their legal positions in front of a judge. That's the part he wants to skip and I want to see preserved.
If you can have access to a distribution made possible only through hours and hours of hard work at the cost of feeling guilty for a second as you type "0$"...
I don't understand why anyone would feel guilty about not paying for something that is free. If someone gives you a gift do you feel guilty for not paying them for it? I don't.
By forcing users to enter $0 when they download, don't they make the users implicitly commit to a statement that the software is worthless?
No, only that it is costless. That's why it is called free software. It's worth a lot, otherwise you wouldn't bother to obtain it. It costs nothing. That's the beauty of FOSS.
I care. It adds fuel to the anti-vaxxers, climate change deniers and similar nut-jobs when they can cite contradictory scientific studies as a reason not to trust scientists. So it's kind of a big deal.
Also it's Michael Palin, not Pollen, to everyone with the possible exception of Eric the Half-a-Bee.