Alas that changed things only for the worse. If the price of your daily bread is measured in the same unit as this data noise, the data noise becomes worth something and your daily bread loses value. Still, the money does not originate there. It is mainly a pump to get money flow upwards. The money of today originates in banks doing creative bookkeeping. The central banks only rubber-stamp it for extra usury.
As long as money can only be generated by banks committing creative bookkeeping for usury ("interest"), nothing can be afforded at all. But when the government itself can issue money, it should be perfectly feasible. Even then, I would suggest that most of the money is generated in exchange for effort for society, simply for the fact that taxes are hardly needed then anymore. The taxes then only serve to maintain financial balance and to stop inflation.
But it is a good thing when society itself (represented by its government) can decide what they want to afford and not have it told by financial institutions, like it is now. We could still have great health care, but we gave it all away to an insurance company.
Yes, the crooks were caught because everyone is seen as a crook and therefore monitored. The fact that bank robberies have diminished is the smallest difference with the past. In the past, the police was meant to protect civilians, not to stalk them. They did not visit your house if you used your freedom of expression. And the banks were at least not openly robbing the taxpayer. A lot has changed.
The next step is for consumers to insist on well-defined and sufficiently-lengthy support and update policies as a condition of purchase
That would be nice if a user had anything to say about the stuff he would buy. You can demand every reasonable thing in the world, but "then don't buy it" is the only answer you will ever get.
Not buying a phone might give you a good feeling for living up to your principles, but it will not result in a phone with reasonable support.
Companies just never learn. Internet Explorer 6 was introduced with "features that will make developers smile". Microsoft probably really believed it. All the developers were not smiling at all, but all malicious hackers are probably still laughing.
It's nice to see a modern, developed nation that actually believes in freedom.
I sincerely wished that were true. This is the very same government, hell, even the same minister, that gave the police the right to hack into any computer they are interested in. They probably know enough ways to break into their subjects' systems that they are not harmed by encryption anyway.
I'm sure lots of people want a 'work around', but what they want isn't always possible.
It is probably not what she meant, but off course there is a workaround for encryption. I am talking off course about good old detective work, infiltration and what we expect our national security services to actually do. If you know beforehand what is about to be encrypted, you have the perfect workaround. If you only know after the message has been sent, you are probably already too late.
Well, yes and no. It is true that most apple trees are grafted, but there should be something to graft with to begin with. So there have been edible apples and the best were used to graft with. But these are "lucky shots". Most apples are smaller and edible (they seem to have been on the diet in prehistoric times). But without people experimenting with ungrafted trees, there would not be the variety of apples we know now. A lot of countries and provinces had their own native variety, so growing from seed must have been more common in the old days than it is now.
In fact, most present-day apple trees do not start with a wild apple. I have a few in my garden that came from seeds, but usually standardized apple trees are multiplied asexually, so the grafted trees start with a predictable root system (which determines the growth and therefore the size of the tree).
Solar power is just nuclear power done in a very inefficient way.
On the contrary. It is nuclear power without most of the risks involved and even without having to mine dangerous materials. In fact, life on this planet has evolved to be able to live with it and cannot do without it. So from an environmental perspective, it is "danger in the cloud", all risk are at the "server" (the sun) where you don't want to be anyway, and all benefits are at the "client" (the rest of the solar system). Like most of things in nature, it is abundant, and as long as you do not fight the abundancy itself, you can use it your whole life. Nature isn't "efficient" in the sense that every process runs for the benefit of one sentient entity, but it is efficient in that lots of entities can live of the left-overs in a sustainable way.
I mean, you could grow three or more trees out of just one apple, but that does not mean that an apple tree is not efficient. The tree produces enough apples to ensure the existence of new grown apple trees and the apples also attract animals who donate manure, etc. So far apple trees have even tricked humans in helping their species to survive.
My first thought was a kind of "degrading man in the middle" attack. Alter the requests so that non-secure certificates are negotiated, then tune in to the less secure communication while the browsers show that the connection is secure. You'd still need a lot of computing power to crack the SHA-1 encrypted stream, but for criminals, either government or otherwise, that is not a huge problem.
For the same reason that an arbitrary number in a bank's computer is thought of as "money". As soon as people start to believe in it, it is worth something.
Micro and small digital companies will get an exemption, the deal says.
Yet another reason for the big players to hide behind 2000-in-one-building post-box companies. And still our government thinks there is nothing wrong with that.
Correct. I learned my lessons the hard way with the Seiko Message Watch. Not nearly as expensive those days, and for modern days probably lasted quite long. But still it turned into something less useful over just a few years (it could still tell the time so it was not completely useless).
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Never do customer support unless the user can log in to their account.
Well, there's your problem. Most of the times I don't want to log in into an account, because:
And if I want to abuse the system on purpose, I can always pretend to be a computer-illiterate old granny.
Alas that changed things only for the worse. If the price of your daily bread is measured in the same unit as this data noise, the data noise becomes worth something and your daily bread loses value. Still, the money does not originate there. It is mainly a pump to get money flow upwards. The money of today originates in banks doing creative bookkeeping. The central banks only rubber-stamp it for extra usury.
As long as money can only be generated by banks committing creative bookkeeping for usury ("interest"), nothing can be afforded at all. But when the government itself can issue money, it should be perfectly feasible. Even then, I would suggest that most of the money is generated in exchange for effort for society, simply for the fact that taxes are hardly needed then anymore. The taxes then only serve to maintain financial balance and to stop inflation.
But it is a good thing when society itself (represented by its government) can decide what they want to afford and not have it told by financial institutions, like it is now. We could still have great health care, but we gave it all away to an insurance company.
People call it a "bail-out".
Yes, the crooks were caught because everyone is seen as a crook and therefore monitored. The fact that bank robberies have diminished is the smallest difference with the past. In the past, the police was meant to protect civilians, not to stalk them. They did not visit your house if you used your freedom of expression. And the banks were at least not openly robbing the taxpayer. A lot has changed.
The next step is for consumers to insist on well-defined and sufficiently-lengthy support and update policies as a condition of purchase
That would be nice if a user had anything to say about the stuff he would buy. You can demand every reasonable thing in the world, but "then don't buy it" is the only answer you will ever get.
Not buying a phone might give you a good feeling for living up to your principles, but it will not result in a phone with reasonable support.
My ancient pocket dino (a Nokia N900) has had this feature for ages. And yes, it runs Linux.
But I sincerely hope their clients have given up on Netflix by that time as well.
He's trying the high fat diet, I suppose.
Companies just never learn. Internet Explorer 6 was introduced with "features that will make developers smile". Microsoft probably really believed it. All the developers were not smiling at all, but all malicious hackers are probably still laughing.
He was a bit shaken by the power outage. But not stirred.
Well, "IoT" just got added: "Indication of Trouble"
Given that I rarely use tech to shop, the best way to enhance my shopping experience is to keep everything shopping-related away from me.
It's nice to see a modern, developed nation that actually believes in freedom.
I sincerely wished that were true. This is the very same government, hell, even the same minister, that gave the police the right to hack into any computer they are interested in. They probably know enough ways to break into their subjects' systems that they are not harmed by encryption anyway.
Too bad 101 (Switching Protocols) is already in use.
101 OK, And Big Brother Is Watching You Would have been a nice one as well.
And? Is he right?
Nope. I took the liberty to modernize a quote from the Nac Mac Feegles (invented by Terry Pratchett).
I'm sure lots of people want a 'work around', but what they want isn't always possible.
It is probably not what she meant, but off course there is a workaround for encryption. I am talking off course about good old detective work, infiltration and what we expect our national security services to actually do. If you know beforehand what is about to be encrypted, you have the perfect workaround. If you only know after the message has been sent, you are probably already too late.
Well, yes and no. It is true that most apple trees are grafted, but there should be something to graft with to begin with. So there have been edible apples and the best were used to graft with. But these are "lucky shots". Most apples are smaller and edible (they seem to have been on the diet in prehistoric times). But without people experimenting with ungrafted trees, there would not be the variety of apples we know now. A lot of countries and provinces had their own native variety, so growing from seed must have been more common in the old days than it is now.
In fact, most present-day apple trees do not start with a wild apple. I have a few in my garden that came from seeds, but usually standardized apple trees are multiplied asexually, so the grafted trees start with a predictable root system (which determines the growth and therefore the size of the tree).
Solar power is just nuclear power done in a very inefficient way.
On the contrary. It is nuclear power without most of the risks involved and even without having to mine dangerous materials. In fact, life on this planet has evolved to be able to live with it and cannot do without it. So from an environmental perspective, it is "danger in the cloud", all risk are at the "server" (the sun) where you don't want to be anyway, and all benefits are at the "client" (the rest of the solar system). Like most of things in nature, it is abundant, and as long as you do not fight the abundancy itself, you can use it your whole life. Nature isn't "efficient" in the sense that every process runs for the benefit of one sentient entity, but it is efficient in that lots of entities can live of the left-overs in a sustainable way.
I mean, you could grow three or more trees out of just one apple, but that does not mean that an apple tree is not efficient. The tree produces enough apples to ensure the existence of new grown apple trees and the apples also attract animals who donate manure, etc. So far apple trees have even tricked humans in helping their species to survive.
My first thought was a kind of "degrading man in the middle" attack. Alter the requests so that non-secure certificates are negotiated, then tune in to the less secure communication while the browsers show that the connection is secure. You'd still need a lot of computing power to crack the SHA-1 encrypted stream, but for criminals, either government or otherwise, that is not a huge problem.
For the same reason that an arbitrary number in a bank's computer is thought of as "money". As soon as people start to believe in it, it is worth something.
Micro and small digital companies will get an exemption, the deal says.
Yet another reason for the big players to hide behind 2000-in-one-building post-box companies. And still our government thinks there is nothing wrong with that.
Correct. I learned my lessons the hard way with the Seiko Message Watch. Not nearly as expensive those days, and for modern days probably lasted quite long. But still it turned into something less useful over just a few years (it could still tell the time so it was not completely useless).
"We have stressed that cyber security needs to be based on mutual respect."
Call me a pragmatist, or just call me a web programmer, but for me security is based on a healthy distrust.