There's a lot of DNA conditions that are straight up "You wont live to 50 and there's nothing you can do to make it better" type things. Frankly for a young person, its better to just not know and go and live a healthy and normal life until the bloody thing reveals itself, than living a life in misery under a death sentence.
Living in ignorance isn't living a lie, knowing the truth and going on like its not real , however is.
Frankly, I'd take the ignorance.
Yes, but in those cases you still have the question of whether you're willing to pass those conditions on to (possible) children. It's bad enough that you have some horrible crippling ailment, are you going to needlessly inflict it on some innocent through willful ignorance?
7 billion people on Earth. Say 10% are on the phone at any given time.
Say 1/8 MB/min with whatever cell phone codec? 128kbps mp3 is around a meg a minute, right? And cell phone codecs are compressed all to hell.
Additionally the speech is likely to be pre-processed from audio to text for storage. Final data could be as low as tens of bytes a second. One estimate was that the entire telephone speech data of the US could be stored for as little as $30 million a year in hardware costs. For the NSA that's petty cash.
Perhaps large corporations contributing to public funds goes some tiny way to compensate for their tax avoidance schemes, that helped make the local and federal governments short of cash in the first place.
I don't think the cops should be using these things at all.
What I think should happen is they get a warrant from a judge, then bring in an independent expert to do the trace, such as someone from the FCC or a security officer from the telco.
Much less chance of "fishing expeditions" and misuse by the cops.
I have a better question. Why does Kickstarter store IDs or passwords AT ALL. Why do they not mandate federation.
They have Facebook login, but no Google or OpenID login. Why? And if I am using Facebook login then why do I STILL need to create a stupid Kickstarter.com password, I should be able to ONLY use Facebook.
Why should we have a system with a single point of failure, when it makes it much harder for intruders if they have to break into every site and account separately?
Also, fuck Google, Facebook etc. They already have more than enough information about me.
I'm curious what the actual "expansion ratio" is. I.e., if you want to encrypt N bytes in a cover-message of M bytes, how many bytes do you actually need to store/transmit?
From TFA:
"Even with Cohen’s clever hashing trick, the cover text for a secret message must be much larger than that message itself. Cohen suggests a file five hundred times as large as the secret message to encode communications without raising suspicions."
In Australia they just have a list of stolen phones distributed to the carriers, and they block the phone from network access based on the phone's IMEI.
Yes but that would make logical sense.
There's a couple drawbacks to that solution, to be honest, but they are far more minor than the obvious problems with the kill-switch approach. For one, phones can still be sold out of country (although I suspect that's a VERY small market for stolen phones). For another, many phones currently don't have a built-in ID, it's contained on a removable chip so a thief could just swap it out or remove it entirely. So if anything, maybe we should mandate a non-removable unique ID for each phone, a government registry of phones which have been reported lost/stolen, and a law mandating carriers NOT allow listed phones to be activated.
BTW, I understand the theft of mobile phones in Australia dropped dramatically after this system was introduced, so while there may be ways around the law, they are probably beyond the capabilities of your average street thug.
In Australia they just have a list of stolen phones distributed to the carriers, and they block the phone from network access based on the phone's IMEI.
I don't have any problem with nuclear weapons - they're a fact of life now. I just want ours to be the best.. and if anyone launches, it needs to be understood, completely, your entire right to exist as a nation. There can be no other peace.
Reality, sometimes, is grim stuff.
And mine shafts. We need to have the best mine shafts!
In Australia they have developed an inoculation against some of the most active methanogenic gut bacteria found in sheep. From memory it reduced the sheep's' generation of methane by about 30% and allowed an extra 1.5% to 2% of their feed to go toward actually producing meat.
What I want to know is why did Australia NAME the country and the individual surveillance targets, then put that in a document given to a foreign country, which had their name and organization written all over it? Haven't they heard of code names?
They could have referred to target1, target 2 etc in the country of Elbonia on paper and made it clear in conversation who was being referred to. Even if the intended targets could have been easily guessed, it would have provided some level of deniability.
"After a probe that included an investigation into Joseph’s travel and shopping patterns – parsed from over 2,000 tweets - lawyers from the White House counsel’s office confronted Joseph and ordered him to leave the executive complex, according to two sources familiar with the situation."
There's your tax dollars at work. Money well spent, I'd say./sarcasm.
"The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.", as Damon Runyon said.
If you've got a 55% chance of Alzheimer's, you'd be foolish not to make at least some adjustments to your life, but a young kid doesn't need to know those facts just now. You can leave it until she's a young adult to tell her.
One thing she might do when she decides to have kids is use embryo selection to weed out the bad genes, so her children aren't burdened with the same worry.
Teens were emotionally damaged by bullying, or morally damaged by porn or violence, or whatever conclusions TFA is trying to draw from this statistic, long before the Internet.
Yeah, I'm sure that eight year-olds had easy access to horse porn long before the internet came along.
"This isn’t the first time that ReedPop has had trouble with oversharing at this year’s New York Comic Con.
Last month, it came to light (via WIRED contributor Rachel Edidin) that ReedPop had the shared personal contact information provided by journalists during their press registration — including home phone numbers and addresses — with exhibitors at the show.
Wow, giving out your home phone numbers (if you were stupid enough to supply them) — are ReedPop a bunch of pricks or what?
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There's a lot of DNA conditions that are straight up "You wont live to 50 and there's nothing you can do to make it better" type things. Frankly for a young person, its better to just not know and go and live a healthy and normal life until the bloody thing reveals itself, than living a life in misery under a death sentence.
Living in ignorance isn't living a lie, knowing the truth and going on like its not real , however is.
Frankly, I'd take the ignorance.
Yes, but in those cases you still have the question of whether you're willing to pass those conditions on to (possible) children. It's bad enough that you have some horrible crippling ailment, are you going to needlessly inflict it on some innocent through willful ignorance?
7 billion people on Earth. Say 10% are on the phone at any given time. Say 1/8 MB/min with whatever cell phone codec? 128kbps mp3 is around a meg a minute, right? And cell phone codecs are compressed all to hell.
7 billion * 10% * 1/8 * 60 min * 24 hours * 30 days = 3.78 trillion megabytes = 3,520 petabytes.
And that's just storage to keep on hand. Not to mention the bandwidth required to stream 117 petabytes/day to the servers.
"Sir, if we could just have you look at this little blue light right here, we'll explain everything..."
This reference for a GSM codec states bit rates of 1.6KB/s down to 0.59KB/s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...
Additionally the speech is likely to be pre-processed from audio to text for storage. Final data could be as low as tens of bytes a second. One estimate was that the entire telephone speech data of the US could be stored for as little as $30 million a year in hardware costs. For the NSA that's petty cash.
Perhaps large corporations contributing to public funds goes some tiny way to compensate for their tax avoidance schemes, that helped make the local and federal governments short of cash in the first place.
I don't think the cops should be using these things at all.
What I think should happen is they get a warrant from a judge, then bring in an independent expert to do the trace, such as someone from the FCC or a security officer from the telco.
Much less chance of "fishing expeditions" and misuse by the cops.
I have a better question. Why does Kickstarter store IDs or passwords AT ALL. Why do they not mandate federation.
They have Facebook login, but no Google or OpenID login. Why? And if I am using Facebook login then why do I STILL need to create a stupid Kickstarter.com password, I should be able to ONLY use Facebook.
Why should we have a system with a single point of failure, when it makes it much harder for intruders if they have to break into every site and account separately?
Also, fuck Google, Facebook etc. They already have more than enough information about me.
If the shit was not "Waste" before it was scooped up and moved to another spot, then it's still not "Waste".
"Dredge waste" is more commonly called "sand". It is not exactly toxic industrial sludge that they are dumping.
Sometimes dredge waste is called "silt" or even "mud".
Oh well, the Great Barrier reef will be dead in a few decades anyway from rising sea temperatures, some no real harm done.
I'm curious what the actual "expansion ratio" is. I.e., if you want to encrypt N bytes in a cover-message of M bytes, how many bytes do you actually need to store/transmit?
From TFA:
"Even with Cohen’s clever hashing trick, the cover text for a secret message must be much larger than that message itself. Cohen suggests a file five hundred times as large as the secret message to encode communications without raising suspicions."
... is doomed to repeat it.
Does anyone else get the impression that we're on the downside of civilization?
It's hard to learn from history when the records of it have been shredded.
Those morons at Popular Science have geo-blocked the link, so the only way I can read it in Australia is via a proxy
Should be "At the local range I go to", anyway you know when it's a cop shooting, they always exceed the 1 second rule and are general asshats.
Sorry, but what's the one second rule?
As to the tweets, it might be better if his accompanying photo didn't show him smiling as he offed all these people.
Seriously if Krebs could track the idiot down why is there no outrage or any police effort to nab the guy!!
Um, possibly because he's in the Ukraine and paying the local cops a shedload of money to look the other way, and no-one expects any different.
Americans don't have that key on our keyboards.
http://copypastecharacter.com/
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Maybe these folks can make spare auto parts for cars? I'd love to roll with a MG, Model F with all the parts working.
Was there ever a version of an MG in which all the parts were working?
In Australia they just have a list of stolen phones distributed to the carriers, and they block the phone from network access based on the phone's IMEI.
Yes but that would make logical sense. There's a couple drawbacks to that solution, to be honest, but they are far more minor than the obvious problems with the kill-switch approach. For one, phones can still be sold out of country (although I suspect that's a VERY small market for stolen phones). For another, many phones currently don't have a built-in ID, it's contained on a removable chip so a thief could just swap it out or remove it entirely. So if anything, maybe we should mandate a non-removable unique ID for each phone, a government registry of phones which have been reported lost/stolen, and a law mandating carriers NOT allow listed phones to be activated.
BTW, I understand the theft of mobile phones in Australia dropped dramatically after this system was introduced, so while there may be ways around the law, they are probably beyond the capabilities of your average street thug.
In Australia they just have a list of stolen phones distributed to the carriers, and they block the phone from network access based on the phone's IMEI.
I run grid computing using the BOINC and World Community Grid, so my four cores are running flat out all the time.
Would this be enough to blind any software that was trying to listen to the noise your CPU makes? Sort of a CPU white noise generator?
Wiping all your cookies and history in your browser might help a bit, but probably not if you're using Chrome or logged into Google.
Also, the Startpage search engine claims to use Google, but anonymously.
I don't have any problem with nuclear weapons - they're a fact of life now. I just want ours to be the best.. and if anyone launches, it needs to be understood, completely, your entire right to exist as a nation. There can be no other peace.
Reality, sometimes, is grim stuff.
And mine shafts. We need to have the best mine shafts!
The comment was done as humor, but the cow's diet is a large variable in the equation. Some farmers are feeding their cows a diet that reduces the generation of methane. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/05/us/05cows.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
And yes, it's the belching.
In Australia they have developed an inoculation against some of the most active methanogenic gut bacteria found in sheep. From memory it reduced the sheep's' generation of methane by about 30% and allowed an extra 1.5% to 2% of their feed to go toward actually producing meat.
What I want to know is why did Australia NAME the country and the individual surveillance targets, then put that in a document given to a foreign country, which had their name and organization written all over it? Haven't they heard of code names?
They could have referred to target1, target 2 etc in the country of Elbonia on paper and made it clear in conversation who was being referred to. Even if the intended targets could have been easily guessed, it would have provided some level of deniability.
Never put it in writing.
"After a probe that included an investigation into Joseph’s travel and shopping patterns – parsed from over 2,000 tweets - lawyers from the White House counsel’s office confronted Joseph and ordered him to leave the executive complex, according to two sources familiar with the situation."
There's your tax dollars at work. Money well spent, I'd say. /sarcasm.
"The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.", as Damon Runyon said.
If you've got a 55% chance of Alzheimer's, you'd be foolish not to make at least some adjustments to your life, but a young kid doesn't need to know those facts just now. You can leave it until she's a young adult to tell her.
One thing she might do when she decides to have kids is use embryo selection to weed out the bad genes, so her children aren't burdened with the same worry.
Teens were emotionally damaged by bullying, or morally damaged by porn or violence, or whatever conclusions TFA is trying to draw from this statistic, long before the Internet.
Yeah, I'm sure that eight year-olds had easy access to horse porn long before the internet came along.
"This isn’t the first time that ReedPop has had trouble with oversharing at this year’s New York Comic Con.
Last month, it came to light (via WIRED contributor Rachel Edidin) that ReedPop had the shared personal contact information provided by journalists during their press registration — including home phone numbers and addresses — with exhibitors at the show.
Wow, giving out your home phone numbers (if you were stupid enough to supply them) — are ReedPop a bunch of pricks or what?