OK I'll give it a shot explaining it to you. If you known to be using truecrypt, there is not as much plausible deniability - they know you're using crypto, so they can (like the Judge in this story) order you to decrypt stuff that might be a truecrypt container (e.g. any large file with seemingly random streams of bytes in it - no headers). And if the stuff you do decrypt turns out not convincing enough, they can ask you to decrypt a hidden container (since the feature is known). You can certainly deny the existence of a hidden container, but it's not as plausible as per my proposal.
In contrast if my proposal was implemented a popular operating system would by default have crypto installed AND an encrypted container created. Everyone using that OS would have one of these whether or not they use it (and whether or not they also go for full disk encryption). So you have a lot more plausible deniability. You could claim you don't know anything about it and unless you've been sloppy in other ways they'd have a hard time figuring out whether you used it or not.
And if you make full disk encryption easy with a mere checkbox you might still retain plausible deniability about that built in container file- since many people might reasonably click the encrypt full disk checkbox and still be happy to decrypt the whole disk for the authorities while being completely unaware about the container file.
The default container file might not fit all your porn, but it will fit many other stuff that's more important e.g. secret info of members in your organization etc. Some countries have governments that imprison people for stupid reasons, so sometimes even if you're legit you might as well not make it easy for them to round all of you up.
If all 100 people in your organization had truecrypt somewhere and a large container file in their PCs, they might get "extra attention", worse if only 10 people had that while the other 90 didn't. Whereas if my proposal was done, and all 100 people in your organization had ubuntu installed. They just might all be "normal " folk using free software to save costs. It is less likely that the authorities would detain all 100 people or even torture them.
Optimists will say they'll find jobs elsewhere. But when the Chinese workers took the US workers jobs, very many US workers did not get jobs elsewhere.
I have a bunch of socks from the 1990s that are still usable though a bit threadbare. And I have socks that are 1 or 2 years old that have lost their elasticity. They are all the same brand, probably made in different places but I don't think it really matters where it's made. All the companies probably figured they'd make more money if they gradually stopped making socks (and other stuff) that lasted 20 years... I guess I'm one of those weird people who doesn't lose their socks on a regular basis.
The other thing is I see very cheap jeans on the market but they are really ugly. One might think it's because fashion and tastes change, but the nicer looking ones exist and they are more expensive.
Thing is the chinese etc can copy the nicer looking ones just as well as they copy the ugly ones. So I think they are just doing most of this on purpose - differentiation etc.
It's not so easy to transfer BILLIONS of dollars if those banks and their friends didn't help. There's blood on the hands of those who laundered the money for the drug lords. But only the small fry are going to jail.
With all those billions of dollars and thousands of smart people why couldn't Microsoft have actually helped us with something like this: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/29001/
They're not very good for plausible deniability since once you have truecrypt they can accuse you of using crypto. Secondly there are some limitations to using truecrypt hidden volumes- e.g. you can't really use the decoy volume much in conventional manners (and using it in an unconventional manner may cause people to suspect you are using a hidden volume).
They'll just add attempting to tamper with evidence to your list of charges. Then they'll ask you to try again with a copy of the original they already made.
In which case a possible long term solution is immediate full quarantine on detection or suspicion of infection.
Then the virus would have to evolve to either: a) stop producing such noticeable symptoms (e.g. the infected won't feel as sick) or b) replicate on some other species as a reservoir (but if it stops reproducing effectively in our species, it may completely move to the other species).
Quarantine will work quite well for most infectious diseases. The problem is in many countries people are not discouraged enough from working when they are sick and infectious.
Tesla method - when you leave in the morning the charged battery is in your car. A few hours later you stop at a diner and charge your car.
Better Place method would be like booking flights. It's just too complicated for the little additional benefit it gives - you need lots of stuff to work together well. In practice half the time you are probably end up sitting in a diner waiting. And you're going to pay more.
To me a better thing to try than swapping batteries would be hydrocarbon fuel cells. Use nuclear/solar/biofuel tech to make synthetic hydrocarbons. Synthetic hydrocarbons to fuel cells to electrical watts. You can also burn the synthetic hydrocarbons as jet fuel- it's going to be hard for battery tech and electric motors to give you fuel efficient 900kph planes, or even supersonic (for military use).
How's it viable? How are you going to make it safe? 1) to charge a 60kWh battery pack from zero within in one hour you need to supply more than 60 kilowatts. If it's 30 minutes you need 120 kilowatts.
A 60 kilowatt wireless beam looks like a weapon.
2) If you're driving down the highway at 100kph you need to supply an additional 15 kilowatts (assuming the car needs 15kW just to travel at that speed).
And quite often the antibiotics used in farm animals aren't considered safe for humans. See also: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130513095030.htm I also wonder about how the concentrations of arsenic vary throughout the chicken - e.g. if you make pate from the chicken livers do you get a higher or lower dose? I suspect significantly higher. Some people may also be allergic to the antibiotics or other stuff used and not actually allergic to the meat/vegetable itself.
I prefer using shoes. The "barefoot is superior" bunch are silly- just because you run with shoes doesn't mean you have to run the wrong style.
As for the long distance running adaptation, my hypothesis is we might have evolved that not mainly because of persistent hunting but because of war. There's not really much selection pressure for persistent hunting if you are a social animal (like humans and apes) you can hunt very successfully in groups - lions, hyenas, wolves, dogs, apes etc do it.
In contrast war could have produced rather significant selection pressures. In human-human wars, the predator and prey are the same species- whatever big advantage you have is likely to be in the next generation of survivors. Being able to run away from dozens of persistent enemies till you find a hiding place or till the sun sets keeps your genes alive. In contrast being able to sprint at 80kph for a minute when the enemy can also sprint at 80kph for a minute doesn't help much with your survival when there are many enemies. Being able to run long distances to attack an enemy or carry messages is also helpful.
I think we should start with replicas of a paramecium or an amoeba or a white blood cell to 99.99%.
Not a simplified model. An actual replica that behaves in a near identical fashion to the real thing (e.g. if you make a hole in its membrane, you can watch it repair itself etc). If we can't even do that yet why talk about replicating a human brain?
Once we can do single cells, try creatures with tens then hundreds, thousands of neurons and so on.
It may also turn out that some single celled creatures aren't that stupid- and they're as smart as a worm, if not smarter, and it's just that it's impractical to have a single neuron controlling the whole worm - no redundancy, no convenient interfaces.
Given the many advances of medical technology I'm sure that waterboarding is far from the worst.
You could probably hook stuff up and play a person like an instrument without killing them.
On a related note, if there really were hard to kill creatures like vampires, werewolves or those "highlander" bunch, they would certainly not want to ever get caught by a sadist.
People back then said use.local or.localhost. But: 1) AFAIK these weren't even officially reserved either!.local was only reserved as of Feb 2013. 2).local etc would be more for "machine usage" - existing stuff already use these things in certain ways (Apple's Bonjour)..local might be filled by with hostnames, whereas.here might be filled with more human oriented stuff (e.g. jukebox.here, airconditioner.here, whats.here, whos.here).
Neither the IETF nor ICANN showed much interest. But I believe ".here" has a better reason to exist than.amazon. Especially if wearable computers take off - it could make it easier to refer to stuff ".here" in your current location and "plane of existence" (e.g. SSID).
After seeing the direction ICANN was taking, I realized that they were more about progressing their bank accounts than the Internet.
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truecrypt they can accuse you of using crypto
What does that even mean? lol
OK I'll give it a shot explaining it to you. If you known to be using truecrypt, there is not as much plausible deniability - they know you're using crypto, so they can (like the Judge in this story) order you to decrypt stuff that might be a truecrypt container (e.g. any large file with seemingly random streams of bytes in it - no headers). And if the stuff you do decrypt turns out not convincing enough, they can ask you to decrypt a hidden container (since the feature is known). You can certainly deny the existence of a hidden container, but it's not as plausible as per my proposal.
In contrast if my proposal was implemented a popular operating system would by default have crypto installed AND an encrypted container created. Everyone using that OS would have one of these whether or not they use it (and whether or not they also go for full disk encryption). So you have a lot more plausible deniability. You could claim you don't know anything about it and unless you've been sloppy in other ways they'd have a hard time figuring out whether you used it or not.
And if you make full disk encryption easy with a mere checkbox you might still retain plausible deniability about that built in container file- since many people might reasonably click the encrypt full disk checkbox and still be happy to decrypt the whole disk for the authorities while being completely unaware about the container file.
The default container file might not fit all your porn, but it will fit many other stuff that's more important e.g. secret info of members in your organization etc. Some countries have governments that imprison people for stupid reasons, so sometimes even if you're legit you might as well not make it easy for them to round all of you up.
If all 100 people in your organization had truecrypt somewhere and a large container file in their PCs, they might get "extra attention", worse if only 10 people had that while the other 90 didn't. Whereas if my proposal was done, and all 100 people in your organization had ubuntu installed. They just might all be "normal " folk using free software to save costs. It is less likely that the authorities would detain all 100 people or even torture them.
But if you make it in Mexico does that mean you can put "Made in America" stickers on your product? :)
Foxconn's long term plan is to replace many of the Chinese workers with robots:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2013/02/22/as-china-changes-infamous-foxconn-goes-robotic/
Optimists will say they'll find jobs elsewhere. But when the Chinese workers took the US workers jobs, very many US workers did not get jobs elsewhere.
Note that this guy managed to be "best developer" even when outsourcing his work to China for one fifth his salary:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/how-a-model-employee-got-away-with-outsourcing-his-software-job-to-china/article7409256/
Probably have to give him some credit for identifying and managing quality outsourcing talent.
But you should be worried if you're an expensive worker with a job that's easily outsourced and you are merely above average, or even mediocre.
I have a bunch of socks from the 1990s that are still usable though a bit threadbare. And I have socks that are 1 or 2 years old that have lost their elasticity. They are all the same brand, probably made in different places but I don't think it really matters where it's made. All the companies probably figured they'd make more money if they gradually stopped making socks (and other stuff) that lasted 20 years... I guess I'm one of those weird people who doesn't lose their socks on a regular basis.
The other thing is I see very cheap jeans on the market but they are really ugly. One might think it's because fashion and tastes change, but the nicer looking ones exist and they are more expensive.
Thing is the chinese etc can copy the nicer looking ones just as well as they copy the ugly ones. So I think they are just doing most of this on purpose - differentiation etc.
If there was someone physically compromising my systems and installing keyloggers, secure boot isn't going to help that much.
Hardware keyloggers, cameras, and even microphones[1] will all bypass secure boot.
They could even replace the innards of my mouse or keyboard with what's inside this: http://pentest.netragard.com/2011/06/24/netragards-hacker-interface-device-hid/
[1] http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/09/14_key.shtml
https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/acoustic-snooping-typed-information/
http://it.slashdot.org/story/05/09/13/1644259/keyboard-sound-aids-password-cracking
But how do those funds get to those folks? Courtesy of Wachovia, Bank of America, HSBC etc.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-06-29/banks-financing-mexico-s-drug-cartels-admitted-in-wells-fargo-s-u-s-deal.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/may/23/hsbc-court-threat-money-laundering-charges
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-31/money-laundering-banks-still-get-a-pass-from-u-s-.html
It's not so easy to transfer BILLIONS of dollars if those banks and their friends didn't help. There's blood on the hands of those who laundered the money for the drug lords. But only the small fry are going to jail.
So what is the war about really?
With all those billions of dollars and thousands of smart people why couldn't Microsoft have actually helped us with something like this:
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/29001/
Or this:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/156693
Instead they come up with Metro...
They're not very good for plausible deniability since once you have truecrypt they can accuse you of using crypto. Secondly there are some limitations to using truecrypt hidden volumes- e.g. you can't really use the decoy volume much in conventional manners (and using it in an unconventional manner may cause people to suspect you are using a hidden volume).
If you really want plausible deniability you need "everyone" to have crypto and encrypted volumes whether they are using it or not: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/148440
They'll just add attempting to tamper with evidence to your list of charges. Then they'll ask you to try again with a copy of the original they already made.
How would it force the virus to a MAD situation? If the virus kills the host too fast it will not spread as well.
Don't anthropomorphize viruses and use that to predict their behaviour. Viruses don't think the way humans do.
Your cells won't work anymore either.
The DNA/RNA is often used to make proteins. Different code = different or no protein.
See: http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/dna/transcribe/
In which case a possible long term solution is immediate full quarantine on detection or suspicion of infection.
Then the virus would have to evolve to either:
a) stop producing such noticeable symptoms (e.g. the infected won't feel as sick)
or
b) replicate on some other species as a reservoir (but if it stops reproducing effectively in our species, it may completely move to the other species).
Quarantine will work quite well for most infectious diseases. The problem is in many countries people are not discouraged enough from working when they are sick and infectious.
You may also need to get a license to have kids - no unauthorized reproduction and all that ;).
A worm or two might help: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/11/15/parasitic-worm-eggs-ease-intestinal-ills-by-changing-gut-macrobiota/
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/44092.php
But stool transplants might still be preferable...
Tesla method - when you leave in the morning the charged battery is in your car. A few hours later you stop at a diner and charge your car.
Better Place method would be like booking flights. It's just too complicated for the little additional benefit it gives - you need lots of stuff to work together well. In practice half the time you are probably end up sitting in a diner waiting. And you're going to pay more.
To me a better thing to try than swapping batteries would be hydrocarbon fuel cells.
Use nuclear/solar/biofuel tech to make synthetic hydrocarbons. Synthetic hydrocarbons to fuel cells to electrical watts.
You can also burn the synthetic hydrocarbons as jet fuel- it's going to be hard for battery tech and electric motors to give you fuel efficient 900kph planes, or even supersonic (for military use).
How's it viable? How are you going to make it safe?
1) to charge a 60kWh battery pack from zero within in one hour you need to supply more than 60 kilowatts. If it's 30 minutes you need 120 kilowatts.
A 60 kilowatt wireless beam looks like a weapon.
2) If you're driving down the highway at 100kph you need to supply an additional 15 kilowatts (assuming the car needs 15kW just to travel at that speed).
And quite often the antibiotics used in farm animals aren't considered safe for humans.
See also: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130513095030.htm
I also wonder about how the concentrations of arsenic vary throughout the chicken - e.g. if you make pate from the chicken livers do you get a higher or lower dose? I suspect significantly higher.
Some people may also be allergic to the antibiotics or other stuff used and not actually allergic to the meat/vegetable itself.
But what if the AI bunch one day succeed in creating a Strong AI on a conventional computer?
Would different Strong AIs on the same hardware still be considered the same computer?
How about these aimbots:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Dome
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalanx_CIWS
I prefer using shoes. The "barefoot is superior" bunch are silly- just because you run with shoes doesn't mean you have to run the wrong style.
As for the long distance running adaptation, my hypothesis is we might have evolved that not mainly because of persistent hunting but because of war. There's not really much selection pressure for persistent hunting if you are a social animal (like humans and apes) you can hunt very successfully in groups - lions, hyenas, wolves, dogs, apes etc do it.
In contrast war could have produced rather significant selection pressures. In human-human wars, the predator and prey are the same species- whatever big advantage you have is likely to be in the next generation of survivors. Being able to run away from dozens of persistent enemies till you find a hiding place or till the sun sets keeps your genes alive. In contrast being able to sprint at 80kph for a minute when the enemy can also sprint at 80kph for a minute doesn't help much with your survival when there are many enemies. Being able to run long distances to attack an enemy or carry messages is also helpful.
I think we should start with replicas of a paramecium or an amoeba or a white blood cell to 99.99%.
Not a simplified model. An actual replica that behaves in a near identical fashion to the real thing (e.g. if you make a hole in its membrane, you can watch it repair itself etc). If we can't even do that yet why talk about replicating a human brain?
Once we can do single cells, try creatures with tens then hundreds, thousands of neurons and so on.
It may also turn out that some single celled creatures aren't that stupid- and they're as smart as a worm, if not smarter, and it's just that it's impractical to have a single neuron controlling the whole worm - no redundancy, no convenient interfaces.
Given the many advances of medical technology I'm sure that waterboarding is far from the worst.
You could probably hook stuff up and play a person like an instrument without killing them.
On a related note, if there really were hard to kill creatures like vampires, werewolves or those "highlander" bunch, they would certainly not want to ever get caught by a sadist.
Following best architectural design practices doesn't mean your final building will be more secure.
In contrast more than a decade ago I proposed a .here TLD (something like RFC1918 IPv4 addresses but for TLDs) to both the IETF: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-yeoh-tldhere-01 and the ICANN.
People back then said use .local or .localhost. But: .local was only reserved as of Feb 2013. .local etc would be more for "machine usage" - existing stuff already use these things in certain ways (Apple's Bonjour). .local might be filled by with hostnames, whereas .here might be filled with more human oriented stuff (e.g. jukebox.here, airconditioner.here, whats.here, whos.here).
1) AFAIK these weren't even officially reserved either!
2)
Neither the IETF nor ICANN showed much interest. But I believe ".here" has a better reason to exist than .amazon. Especially if wearable computers take off - it could make it easier to refer to stuff ".here" in your current location and "plane of existence" (e.g. SSID).
After seeing the direction ICANN was taking, I realized that they were more about progressing their bank accounts than the Internet.
10MW seems very small though. How many such power plants can you fit in 1 square km and still produce more than 9MW in power each?
Coal and nuke plants are in hundreds of megawatts or even gigawatts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(power)#megawatt_.28106_watts.29