The term was Orwellian, which constitutes a few things..
"Orwellian" is an adjective describing the situation, idea, or societal condition that George Orwell identified as being destructive to the welfare of a free and open society. It denotes an attitude and a brutal policy of draconian control by propaganda, surveillance, misinformation, denial of truth, and manipulation of the past, including the "unperson" – a person whose past existence is expunged from the public record and memory, practised by modern repressive governments. Often, this includes the circumstances depicted in his novels, particularly 1984.
While I don't think our founding fathers understood the concept of an "unperson" or manipulating the past, they did understand how Colonial rule worked which by all accounts came close to being Orwellian.
Fuck Disney and their Fucking retarded media, overpriced theme parks and targeted marketing to kids. It's time that this company be dismantled and sent to the bottom of the submarine ride.
Baltimore represents the best of urban decay. Sure there's new developments, the Harbor etc. but most of Baltimore resembles Detroit. If you take the plight of people living in that squalor and add a few professional malcontents and any reason, you can have a riot. Unfortunately Baltimore's leadership also failed, miserably. The Mayor should resign because from all news accounts and her public statements she didn't sufficiently protect the neighborhoods and businesses becoming trashed in the name of "racial justice."
This is another attempt at a Cable Company attempting to dictate the pricing that a content provider demands. Recently Verizon got rid of the Weather Channel. I for one applaud it because unlike a weather service, it's become a drama pump for all Comcast/NBC shit that the wouldn't put on the other channels. Especially during the evenings where instead of getting weather information you're getting "digging for rocks on mountains with pick axes" or "weather disasters that happened decades ago." Bah!
I think this is a double-ended play by VZ, one to squeeze the content providers and two to squeeze the consumers at some future point because they channels you had now are just going to cost you more because we "unbundled it for you" just like electricity providers unbundled the power generating services from the wires into your home. Yeah, that never works out well.
I just have to wonder why we're all amazed as jobs get moved overseas with all the posturing, extortion and lawsuits that go on against companies. I mean if Google did it, then shame on them but if I had Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton doing their shakedown dance along with age, sex and X discrimination suits, it's no wonder that more jobs are being pushed overseas. On one side I praise businesses that are keeping jobs here and also saying "more power to you" in the face of all this litigation and extortion. Businesses, you shouldn't discriminate, ever. As soon as you learn this then you won't be getting taken to the cleaners either by plaintiffs or your own legal defense team or both.
The metadata collection of mail, or specifically knowing senders, receivers and dates of communication etc. has long been known as a law enforcement tool. The contents of private correspondence has been protected not only by the fourth amendment but also affirmed in 1878 ex parte Jackson:
a distinction is to be made between different kinds of mail matter -- between what is intended to be kept free from inspection, such as letters, and sealed packages subject to letter postage, and what is open to inspection, such as newspapers, magazines, pamphlets, and other printed matter purposely left in a condition to be examined. Letters and sealed packages of this kind in the mail are as fully guarded from examination and inspection, except as to their outward form and weight, as if they were retained by the parties forwarding them in their own domiciles. The constitutional guaranty of the right of the people to be secure in their papers against unreasonable searches and seizures extends to their papers, thus closed against inspection, wherever they may be. Whilst in the mail, they can only be opened and examined under like warrant, issued upon similar oath or affirmation, particularly describing the thing to be seized, as is required when papers are subjected to search in one's own household. No law of Congress can place in the hands of officials connected with the postal service any authority to invade the secrecy of letters and such sealed packages in the mail; and all regulations adopted as to mail matter of this kind must be in subordination to the great principle embodied in the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution.
Of course based on reasonable suspicion law enforcement could always obtain warrants or with the help of postal inspectors focus in on one group or hierarchy of mail delivery to focus in on collecting this metadata. The protection for criminals conducting illegal activities was that there was so much mail that it would be hard to filter through it unless suspicious activity was observed. The FBI under Hoover however took it a bit further and intercepted mail and examined it without warrants under the guise of "counter intelligence." The Church Committee found:
Too many people have been spied upon by too many Government agencies and too much information has been illegally collected. The Government has often undertaken the secret surveillance of citizens on the basis of their political beliefs, even when those beliefs posed no threat of violence or illegal acts on behalf of a hostile foreign power. The Government, operating primarily through secret and biased informants, but also using other intrusive techniques such as wiretaps, microphone "bugs", surreptitious mail opening, and break-ins, has swept in vast amounts of information about the personal lives, views, and associations of American citizens. Investigations of groups deemed potentially dangerous—and even of groups suspected of associating with potentially dangerous organizations—have continued for decades, despite the fact that those groups did not engage in unlawful activity.
So, the NSA and it's surreptitious activities are nothing new to the Feds.
With the advent of OCR technology now you could sort the mail faster, 1000s of times faster than before but the side benefit was that huge amounts of metadata could be easily collected and it didn't require warrants or suspicions. Since sending letters requires another party, the Third Party Doctrine and in 1967 the Supreme Court in Katz v. US established a test to determine if when a person could assume that their communications were private:
1) "The Government's activities in electronically listening to and recording the petitioner's words violated the privacy upon which he justifiably relied while using the telephone booth and thus constituted
You install a Facebook app on your phone, it knows your number and broadcasts it to people who are also using the facebook app. There's a laundry list of apps that do this already.
This also brings up more reason to have disposable phone numbers.
Then you probably shouldn't have chosen LISP then to indoctrinated AI students then, should you? Note: Stuart's and Norvig's AI book are one of the defacto references, I have read it cover to cover and anybody in CS should read it even if they aren't planning on working in AI.
agreed but again, where does this get labelled as "insurgency" rather than "patriotism." The ninnies in DC see wound up constituents as the former rather than the latter. Ref: IRS E-mails.
The problem is American Revolution 2.0 will be viewed as a terrorist attack in today's political and cultural environment. It would be better if state governments took the lead to reign in the political issues at the Federal level. I'm not saying that States don't have their own corruption problems but their leverage would be more substantial than that of the general population rather than a bunch of crackpots flying gyrocopters onto the capital mall.
No it won't business deals fail all of the time. Remember the Sprint/T-Mobile merger? It failed. Previously AT&T's attempt at buying T-Mobile also failed and Deutsche Telekom received a hefty premium for AT&T dropping the deal.
As per the original acquisition agreement, Deutsche Telekom will receive $3 billion in cash as well as access to $1 billion worth of AT&T-held wireless spectrum.
So there may or may not have been a penalty associated with this deal not going through, the article doesn't discuss this.
UDP is significantly more lightweight than TCP, but in return, it features far fewer error correction services than TCP.... That's why UDP is great for gaming services.
Stateful vs. Stateless, Connection Oriented vs Connectionless. These are all at the core of TCP/IP and specifically TCP vs. UDP and the reliability contract that each protocol provides. It's not that "one's better than the other at error correction."
“Legislators say, `Look, New York is a center of world commerce. Businesses have to be here. It doesn’t matter how high we tax them.’ I hear that a lot. But when you apply that same logic to upstate, the impact is devastating.”
and that's why the Startup-NY is a failure. despite tax incentives employees have to live somewhere and they would be taxed disproportionately vs. the company then when the incentives expire the company gets slapped. That's not a startup friendly environment, not by a long shot.
This is how Wipro got started, by building PDP-11 clones because of export bans. The Soviets also got around export restrictions as well. It's never helped prohibit a adversary from getting what they want even when they have to build it themselves and at great cost.
Maybe I don't understand what your trying to say but there is no point at all in encrypting without trust. If your saying you would rather use a local CA for internal business or family use this is an excellent idea.
Trust is at an arms length, so locally administered CAs make sense for these purposes. Trust works when all parties are trustworthy and it breaks down when you trust that deadbeat cousin Lin who still owes you money for that pizza from 5 years ago. At that point you should be able to prune cousin Lin from your XMAS card list. You can't however because then you're immediate family won't allow it. Apple not removing the Chinese CA for example.
This isn't ever going to happen unless trust anchors are deterministically derivable from DNS names implying little to no choice in your selection of a trust anchor.
Names is all that you can use because it is all people are willing to accept. Nobody is willing to go to google.com and manually enter or have to confirm use of the proper registry nor does relying on some coordinating structure do anything other than recreate the same problems in a different form.
Well DNS is one mechanism but there can be others. I do think that the hierarchy of CA trust needs to be thrown out and it needs to give local control to who you trust and why. that means more responsibility from users but at least you can have some level of control.
I agree that the surveillance issue is bad but it's much worse when the DEA creates false evidence trails to hide the surveillance links to their own programs and that of the NSA. This puts the basic principles of justice out the window when you have DEA agents lying on the witness stand about how they obtained their information. A judge could ostensibly throw out convictions or exclude evidence based on those facts, sanctioning prosecutors for knowingly allowing this to happen at trial. It's fucking stupid to expose the nation to this kind of risk.
I agree with the trust issue on certs however encrypting doesn't mean that I have to use a trust based model if it's for personal uses or for close proximity use, such as within a family or business environment. The issues are much larger in terms of protecting data whether it's stored or in transit across insecure networks. As a start I'd like to see the CA system revamped or replaced with multiple trust authorities, not just one chain and have meaningful teeth to eliminate trust associations with authorities who violate trust which seems to be more rampant and obvious as of late.
Slashdot Mirror
The term was Orwellian, which constitutes a few things..
"Orwellian" is an adjective describing the situation, idea, or societal condition that George Orwell identified as being destructive to the welfare of a free and open society. It denotes an attitude and a brutal policy of draconian control by propaganda, surveillance, misinformation, denial of truth, and manipulation of the past, including the "unperson" – a person whose past existence is expunged from the public record and memory, practised by modern repressive governments. Often, this includes the circumstances depicted in his novels, particularly 1984.
While I don't think our founding fathers understood the concept of an "unperson" or manipulating the past, they did understand how Colonial rule worked which by all accounts came close to being Orwellian.
I'm reminded of a political quote of late "How's that Hopey Changey thing workin' out for ya?"
Fuck Disney and their Fucking retarded media, overpriced theme parks and targeted marketing to kids. It's time that this company be dismantled and sent to the bottom of the submarine ride.
Baltimore represents the best of urban decay. Sure there's new developments, the Harbor etc. but most of Baltimore resembles Detroit. If you take the plight of people living in that squalor and add a few professional malcontents and any reason, you can have a riot. Unfortunately Baltimore's leadership also failed, miserably. The Mayor should resign because from all news accounts and her public statements she didn't sufficiently protect the neighborhoods and businesses becoming trashed in the name of "racial justice."
This is another attempt at a Cable Company attempting to dictate the pricing that a content provider demands. Recently Verizon got rid of the Weather Channel. I for one applaud it because unlike a weather service, it's become a drama pump for all Comcast/NBC shit that the wouldn't put on the other channels. Especially during the evenings where instead of getting weather information you're getting "digging for rocks on mountains with pick axes" or "weather disasters that happened decades ago." Bah!
I think this is a double-ended play by VZ, one to squeeze the content providers and two to squeeze the consumers at some future point because they channels you had now are just going to cost you more because we "unbundled it for you" just like electricity providers unbundled the power generating services from the wires into your home. Yeah, that never works out well.
I just have to wonder why we're all amazed as jobs get moved overseas with all the posturing, extortion and lawsuits that go on against companies. I mean if Google did it, then shame on them but if I had Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton doing their shakedown dance along with age, sex and X discrimination suits, it's no wonder that more jobs are being pushed overseas. On one side I praise businesses that are keeping jobs here and also saying "more power to you" in the face of all this litigation and extortion. Businesses, you shouldn't discriminate, ever. As soon as you learn this then you won't be getting taken to the cleaners either by plaintiffs or your own legal defense team or both.
The metadata collection of mail, or specifically knowing senders, receivers and dates of communication etc. has long been known as a law enforcement tool. The contents of private correspondence has been protected not only by the fourth amendment but also affirmed in 1878 ex parte Jackson:
a distinction is to be made between different kinds of mail matter -- between what is intended to be kept free from inspection, such as letters, and sealed packages subject to letter postage, and what is open to inspection, such as newspapers, magazines, pamphlets, and other printed matter purposely left in a condition to be examined. Letters and sealed packages of this kind in the mail are as fully guarded from examination and inspection, except as to their outward form and weight, as if they were retained by the parties forwarding them in their own domiciles. The constitutional guaranty of the right of the people to be secure in their papers against unreasonable searches and seizures extends to their papers, thus closed against inspection, wherever they may be. Whilst in the mail, they can only be opened and examined under like warrant, issued upon similar oath or affirmation, particularly describing the thing to be seized, as is required when papers are subjected to search in one's own household. No law of Congress can place in the hands of officials connected with the postal service any authority to invade the secrecy of letters and such sealed packages in the mail; and all regulations adopted as to mail matter of this kind must be in subordination to the great principle embodied in the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution.
Of course based on reasonable suspicion law enforcement could always obtain warrants or with the help of postal inspectors focus in on one group or hierarchy of mail delivery to focus in on collecting this metadata. The protection for criminals conducting illegal activities was that there was so much mail that it would be hard to filter through it unless suspicious activity was observed. The FBI under Hoover however took it a bit further and intercepted mail and examined it without warrants under the guise of "counter intelligence." The Church Committee found:
Too many people have been spied upon by too many Government agencies and too much information has been illegally collected. The Government has often undertaken the secret surveillance of citizens on the basis of their political beliefs, even when those beliefs posed no threat of violence or illegal acts on behalf of a hostile foreign power. The Government, operating primarily through secret and biased informants, but also using other intrusive techniques such as wiretaps, microphone "bugs", surreptitious mail opening, and break-ins, has swept in vast amounts of information about the personal lives, views, and associations of American citizens. Investigations of groups deemed potentially dangerous—and even of groups suspected of associating with potentially dangerous organizations—have continued for decades, despite the fact that those groups did not engage in unlawful activity.
So, the NSA and it's surreptitious activities are nothing new to the Feds.
With the advent of OCR technology now you could sort the mail faster, 1000s of times faster than before but the side benefit was that huge amounts of metadata could be easily collected and it didn't require warrants or suspicions. Since sending letters requires another party, the Third Party Doctrine and in 1967 the Supreme Court in Katz v. US established a test to determine if when a person could assume that their communications were private:
1) "The Government's activities in electronically listening to and recording the petitioner's words violated the privacy upon which he justifiably relied while using the telephone booth and thus constituted
You install a Facebook app on your phone, it knows your number and broadcasts it to people who are also using the facebook app. There's a laundry list of apps that do this already.
This also brings up more reason to have disposable phone numbers.
6-3 With Scalia in the Majority. Alito and Kennedy's stance was surprising. This is however a good ruling for those wishing to curtail police powers.
Who slipped reason juice in the SCOTUS water cooler this week?
Scalia and Thomas need to drink more.
"Our AI systems must do what we want them to do."
Then you probably shouldn't have chosen LISP then to indoctrinated AI students then, should you? Note: Stuart's and Norvig's AI book are one of the defacto references, I have read it cover to cover and anybody in CS should read it even if they aren't planning on working in AI.
agreed but again, where does this get labelled as "insurgency" rather than "patriotism." The ninnies in DC see wound up constituents as the former rather than the latter. Ref: IRS E-mails.
The problem is American Revolution 2.0 will be viewed as a terrorist attack in today's political and cultural environment. It would be better if state governments took the lead to reign in the political issues at the Federal level. I'm not saying that States don't have their own corruption problems but their leverage would be more substantial than that of the general population rather than a bunch of crackpots flying gyrocopters onto the capital mall.
That's all part of the allure. my classics don't get driven as daily drivers because if they did all the head turners in traffic would crash.
No it won't business deals fail all of the time. Remember the Sprint/T-Mobile merger? It failed. Previously AT&T's attempt at buying T-Mobile also failed and Deutsche Telekom received a hefty premium for AT&T dropping the deal.
As per the original acquisition agreement, Deutsche Telekom will receive $3 billion in cash as well as access to $1 billion worth of AT&T-held wireless spectrum.
So there may or may not have been a penalty associated with this deal not going through, the article doesn't discuss this.
From the summary:
UDP is significantly more lightweight than TCP, but in return, it features far fewer error correction services than TCP. ... That's why UDP is great for gaming services.
Stateful vs. Stateless, Connection Oriented vs Connectionless. These are all at the core of TCP/IP and specifically TCP vs. UDP and the reliability contract that each protocol provides. It's not that "one's better than the other at error correction."
about coordinated attacks leveraging onboard wifi.
I just prepaid for Kangaroo Hero 5!?!? Now what am I going to do?
“Legislators say, `Look, New York is a center of world commerce. Businesses have to be here. It doesn’t matter how high we tax them.’ I hear that a lot. But when you apply that same logic to upstate, the impact is devastating.”
and that's why the Startup-NY is a failure. despite tax incentives employees have to live somewhere and they would be taxed disproportionately vs. the company then when the incentives expire the company gets slapped. That's not a startup friendly environment, not by a long shot.
well the problem is that grandma could be doing banking in China if a rogue CA issues a certificate that masques fraudulent activities.
This is how Wipro got started, by building PDP-11 clones because of export bans. The Soviets also got around export restrictions as well. It's never helped prohibit a adversary from getting what they want even when they have to build it themselves and at great cost.
Maybe I don't understand what your trying to say but there is no point at all in encrypting without trust. If your saying you would rather use a local CA for internal business or family use this is an excellent idea.
Trust is at an arms length, so locally administered CAs make sense for these purposes. Trust works when all parties are trustworthy and it breaks down when you trust that deadbeat cousin Lin who still owes you money for that pizza from 5 years ago. At that point you should be able to prune cousin Lin from your XMAS card list. You can't however because then you're immediate family won't allow it. Apple not removing the Chinese CA for example.
This isn't ever going to happen unless trust anchors are deterministically derivable from DNS names implying little to no choice in your selection of a trust anchor.
Names is all that you can use because it is all people are willing to accept. Nobody is willing to go to google.com and manually enter or have to confirm use of the proper registry nor does relying on some coordinating structure do anything other than recreate the same problems in a different form.
Well DNS is one mechanism but there can be others. I do think that the hierarchy of CA trust needs to be thrown out and it needs to give local control to who you trust and why. that means more responsibility from users but at least you can have some level of control.
I agree that the surveillance issue is bad but it's much worse when the DEA creates false evidence trails to hide the surveillance links to their own programs and that of the NSA. This puts the basic principles of justice out the window when you have DEA agents lying on the witness stand about how they obtained their information. A judge could ostensibly throw out convictions or exclude evidence based on those facts, sanctioning prosecutors for knowingly allowing this to happen at trial. It's fucking stupid to expose the nation to this kind of risk.
I agree with the trust issue on certs however encrypting doesn't mean that I have to use a trust based model if it's for personal uses or for close proximity use, such as within a family or business environment. The issues are much larger in terms of protecting data whether it's stored or in transit across insecure networks. As a start I'd like to see the CA system revamped or replaced with multiple trust authorities, not just one chain and have meaningful teeth to eliminate trust associations with authorities who violate trust which seems to be more rampant and obvious as of late.
there's nothing prohibiting that now.