"It's quite different, there's a contract when you're a member of the club."
My parents are members of a private club.
While I was a child I enjoyed the benefits of a member without paying the membership fees. I did not sign any contract.
When I grew up, I decided I didn't want to be a member, so I left and now I don't get to enjoy the benefits (except occasionally as an invited guest).
Assuming that you have grown up and are now an adult, you can now decide for yourself whether you want to be a member or not (read on for legitimacy of monopoly/government).
What if the USA was really rich from say oil money, and Government was paid for by oil money and there are no taxes. Would that be fine then? I believe there are some countries like that. Or is your real objection to Government itself?
Club USA has monopoly over its territory because 100-300 million "members" living there say it has. As long as it has some form of democracy I will assume there is some legitimacy to its claims. That being said, the low voter turnout and the diebolded elections do lower the legitimacy level.
When enough people say they prefer to be ruled over by a particular entity, then if you wish to continue to live amongst those people you have to respect that. That pretty girl you enjoyed looking at might have voted for the "wrong party", and because of her evilness you have to pay that evil tax and endure that evil government, as long as you still want the opportunity to admire her beauty in person.
That's the "price" you pay for living with other people.
Some believe such a fee (Gov, taxes) is evil, and people should not have to accept it.
To me it is more true that the "fee" reflects the evilness and flawness of people in general. If everyone were good and had good enough information, then there would be no need for such a "fee". We'd not need Government or taxes, and still be able to scale societies to City levels (rather than being stuck at Village levels).
So I admit taxes and Government are evil but only in the same way the whole world is evil (and it is).
Even if all that is evil, I still don't see tax as theft. I have agreed to remain amongst a people that have agreed on a Government that demands such a tax. I can always leave.
If a Government demands taxes from poor people who cannot afford to even "leave the club", if so then that Government is rather evil. Mine doesn't - in fact poor people get subsidies, and prices of basic necessities are controlled. The ones who pay tax can afford to leave.
"Individual riflemen are unimportant in modern warfare"
"Nothing's changed then to make a rifle-armed mob any more effective"
Terrain helps a lot. Your tanks and trucks will not have a good time of it.
If you have decent snipers scattered about Alps with their supplies, none of the enemy grunts would want to be promoted after the officers keep getting their heads blown away.
And I bet even if your tanks get past the first chokepoint, by then the Swiss gov would have issued people rocket launchers.
You can nuke or carpet bomb them, but given the Swiss say "we're neutral, don't mess with us and we might actually help you stash your loot", most countries with a clue will skip them.
You keep saying taxes are theft. I say people who don't pay taxes (though required to) but enjoy the benefits of being in a country (which requires them to be taxed), they are the thieves.
It is a bit like being member of a club, and saying the membership fee is theft. If you use any of the club facilities without paying the fees, then who is doing the stealing? Even if you just sit in the club premises to talk to your member friends, you are benefiting from the past membership fees and the legacy of it all (club rules created by the committee, infrastructure, contracts with 3rd party suppliers). Even the fact that it's harder for outsiders to wander in and hassle you is a benefit.
Is it wrong for the club to charge for membership fees? I think not - especially when the club rules allow it, and the founding members, most of the past members and present members have agreed that membership fees are ok. If you don't think you're getting a good deal from the fee (your club is badly run), then you should take it up with the committee, and/or maybe try to get the rest of the members to vote them out. Or leave.
If you really object to taxes, you have some options: 1) Try to get your country to abolish them, but IMO going about saying it's stealing is a lie. 2) Leave your country and join a different country - like Andorra or wherever they don't have taxes.
There really are choices - not all countries tax "everything" or "everyone". And some countries have practically no government and thus no taxes (don't be surprised if those have no law and order either).
There are many people in my country who don't get taxed (especially the aboriginal people living in the jungles). Even so they can still benefit from taxes - the courts, police and hospitals are still available to them, and even some basic commodities are subsidized.
If you don't like my reasoning, here's someone else's take on it: http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-taxestheft.htm
I think he meant what a reasonable person would understand about "simultaneous". You, however are free to split hairs down to quantum physics or further if you want.
'usual response to this will be "why does my battery run out all the time? And what the hell are these two bars?"'
I think my proposal of additional bars is about as simple as it gets to solving the problem for "why does the battery run out so fast". If you can think of a better solution do post it.
IMO there's a limit of what you can do. Users that don't understand something as simple as a "power consumption" or "CPU" meter should get a more limited phone or phone mode, or live with the battery running out faster.
The top stuff is for the more expert users to use to help the joe user;).
I find it acceptable because I see no better alternative.
If you know of an alternative which doesn't end up becoming a Dictatorship or degenerating to chaos, then sure, I'm all ears.
Say you don't pay taxes. Who pays for the police force, and the courts? Who pays for the legislators making the laws? Go by "tips"? Advertising? Or Microsoft/Hollywood/Sony pays for it? I don't see viable alternatives.
In fact I think it is best if the government, cops etc can only get money from taxes and not from 3rd parties directly, so as not to be more easily influenced by those 3rd parties.
If a multitasking O/S is not totally incompetent it will have some idea on how much CPU is being used, and which app needs CPU (doesn't need to be exact for this purpose). Otherwise it would not be able to schedule CPU usage.
Have a background app that wakes up once in a while (30 secs?) to read off "total CPU usage", and "foreground app CPU usage". If total CPU usage is high, the time it schedules between wake ups might be shortened ( 5 secs?). Using a bit more CPU when CPU usage is high is not a deal breaker for PDAs and Phones.
Low res monochrome display = two bars, one for total and one for foreground. Colour display (or high res monochrome) = foreground CPU bar overlayed on top of total CPU bar.
Joe user can then switch apps till he finds the offending app and kill it.
One could also create a "Top application" for Joe user to run.
You are benefiting from the Government because it maintains the rule of law, the currency (ok laugh) and lots of other things.
If you became weak somehow and anybody tried to steal your bartered goods, you still have _some_ recourse: the police and the courts.
The Government also is in charge of maintaining its monopoly over violence - so normal citizens don't go around in mobs dealing out extrajudiciary punishments for real or imagined crimes.
I have no objections to paying for a good government, and I think it is ridiculous to want no government - since it just means you'll have a Dictatorship - the leader of the most powerful mob will end up ruling.
You can see for yourself what happens in countries where there is a really bad government, or effectively no government.
You may have a crappy government now, but while ordinary people still have the vote (if they don't allow diebolded or rigged elections) they are choosing that crappy government. If enough people voted for independent candidates even if they didn't win enough power the resulting Government would start to pay attention. Yes the first past the post system sucks, but it's unlikely to be changed soon.
Meanwhile believe me it is still better to have the citizens elect one "thief, mass murderer" to rule over them, far better than to have many random ones spring up more easily. If the elected Thief steals too much, go elect a different one.
Now if you have the Thief start saying he doesn't want to steal/kill/play by the rules (Constitution etc), then citizens better do something ASAP before it all starts to fall apart. Like get a new Thief willing to.
Correcting myself: not all US citizens have a vote - convicted felons lose their rights to vote, usually permanently in practice.
While the 14th amendment allows for denying the right to vote "for participation in rebellion, or other crime"
If you don't allow people to vote what say do they have in government, other than rebellion? Perhaps if someone participated in a rebellion you _temporarily_ remove their rights to vote while they are serving their time (because if they're still "hot" and their favoured candidates don't win they'll think of all sorts of conspiracies). But I think in the next round of elections even if they are still in jail they could be given the right to vote, as part of their "reintegration" to society.
"don't mind working for a publicly-traded company, as long as their stated commitment to their people is a commitment to all of their people."
That's more likely to happen if it's a Cooperative.
Even if Cooperatives do as well or even better than Companies (thinking long term is typically better than "let's sack everyone and boost profits for next quarter"), there is currently not as much incentive for people to start up cooperatives - it typically takes a lot of effort and risk to be the "first boss" and get everyone else etc. Companies are started instead so that the person starting them can get the lions share (I have no objections to that).
Perhaps existing cooperatives could create funds to be used to help get more cooperatives started (a bit like what "venture capitalists" are doing).
Mark 12:13-17 Later they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to Jesus to catch him in his words. They came to him and said, "Teacher, we know you are a man of integrity. You aren't swayed by men, because you pay no attention to who they are; but you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not? Should we pay or shouldn't we?"
But Jesus knew their hypocrisy. "Why are you trying to trap me?" he asked. "Bring me a denarius and let me look at it." They brought the coin, and he asked them, "Whose portrait is this? And whose inscription?" "Caesar's," they replied.
Then Jesus said to them, "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's."
And they were amazed at him.
-- Anyway, as long as you keep their currency, they can inflate it and tax you whether you like it or not.
Whenever the US Gov "prints" more US Dollars it "taxes" all nations holding US Dollars (billions or more) for trade or other reasons (automatically making them poorer and the US Gov richer - who if not corrupt trickles down the wealth to the US people[1]). So the USA gets it easy as long as lots of countries keep using the USD for trade.
[1] Pouring the newly printed money into Iraq (Halliburton etc) instead is naturally not such a good idea.
What are _you_ smoking? And no I don't want any of it.
How has having the network being owned by a Corporation stopped comms being illegally spied on by the US Gov?
If you have a crap Gov, it'll spy on citizens whether it owns the network or a Corporation owns the network. Heck it'll MAKE IT LEGAL TO DO SO IF IT WANTS. The fact that the present Gov doesn't even give a damn and tries to make it retroactively legal shows the amount of CONTEMPT it has for the citizens, their intelligence, and the laws of the country.
The last I checked US citizens had this thing called a vote. If they don't care very much about your mentioned concerns, the Gov will continue doing it. If they do care enough then the Gov might stop doing it.
But it appears most are clueless. The Sheep are busy deciding which Wolf should eat them for the next term, and it sure seems that some would rather have the Wolves' good friend the Fox to own the networks, because they are afraid of the Wolves owning the networks.
Brilliant. No wonder Bush won two terms.
I live in a different country and wouldn't care so much but for the fact that the USA is the most powerful country in the world ( military spending is almost as much as the rest of the world combined), and has no qualms on starting wars unilaterally, doesn't care about the UN, what the rest of the world thinks, or what the US Constitution says. Add Diebolded elections, lots of really stupid voters, and it sure doesn't look good.
Sounds great to me. I hope you are right:). Then my stuff will just run faster.
Aside: I have noticed that many versions of grep have become extremely slow after they introduced the i18n stuff, so much so that even perl is faster in many common cases.
Currently it seems like you're paying a lot more to make the CEOs of Big Med/Bio Corps rich. And you can't even vote them out. You can only do that if you own enough shares (by that time you'd probably be part of the problem).
The Police aren't privatized and are funded by taxes. They provide services to the poor ( everyone even illegal immigrants), etc that taxpayers pay for.
For a rich country to choose not treat people just because they cannot afford basic treatment seems to be very uncivilized.
Universal healthcare is a good idea, BUT there should be max limits of how much the State is willing to pay for per person, because as technology improves I believe there will be more and more super expensive ways of treating people, and facts are even the richest countries won't be able to afford to give everyone the most expensive treatments.
If they need the top of the line treatment, and can't afford it, and nobody else steps up (charity, private money etc), well too bad so sad.
I argue that you can reduce a lot of misery just by providing the cheap stuff. And some things a Government just does better than private companies, basic healthcare is one of those things.
In a democracy if the Gov is not doing such a good job and keeps getting voted in, the voters and people are to blame.
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Could you keep all three cars if you could break into all of them?
Would the people taking part be considering the "blackmarket price" of a car breaking kit for the other cars?
Personally I think Apples, Windows, Linux, they're all about the same security - not very good. Maybe Vista's browser is better now if it's really sandboxed properly.
I don't like it but I might think it's tolerable if: 1) The fee charged is low (doesn't affect cost of internet access that much) , and can be different on a per country basis. 2) It allows ISPs to cache the content without being sued - this means ISPs can start having "Super Peers" for seeding P2P stuff in their networks.
The ISP can then throttle P2P connections that go to other ISPs, except those for their Super Peers, and prioritize inter-isp traffic to their Super Peers, and Super Peer traffic to their customers.
This would be a lot more bandwidth efficient. And the P2P users could get their torrent downloads faster or at the same speed without affecting the other users as much.
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"It's quite different, there's a contract when you're a member of the club."
My parents are members of a private club.
While I was a child I enjoyed the benefits of a member without paying the membership fees. I did not sign any contract.
When I grew up, I decided I didn't want to be a member, so I left and now I don't get to enjoy the benefits (except occasionally as an invited guest).
Assuming that you have grown up and are now an adult, you can now decide for yourself whether you want to be a member or not (read on for legitimacy of monopoly/government).
What if the USA was really rich from say oil money, and Government was paid for by oil money and there are no taxes. Would that be fine then? I believe there are some countries like that. Or is your real objection to Government itself?
Club USA has monopoly over its territory because 100-300 million "members" living there say it has. As long as it has some form of democracy I will assume there is some legitimacy to its claims. That being said, the low voter turnout and the diebolded elections do lower the legitimacy level.
When enough people say they prefer to be ruled over by a particular entity, then if you wish to continue to live amongst those people you have to respect that. That pretty girl you enjoyed looking at might have voted for the "wrong party", and because of her evilness you have to pay that evil tax and endure that evil government, as long as you still want the opportunity to admire her beauty in person.
That's the "price" you pay for living with other people.
Some believe such a fee (Gov, taxes) is evil, and people should not have to accept it.
To me it is more true that the "fee" reflects the evilness and flawness of people in general. If everyone were good and had good enough information, then there would be no need for such a "fee". We'd not need Government or taxes, and still be able to scale societies to City levels (rather than being stuck at Village levels).
So I admit taxes and Government are evil but only in the same way the whole world is evil (and it is).
Even if all that is evil, I still don't see tax as theft. I have agreed to remain amongst a people that have agreed on a Government that demands such a tax. I can always leave.
If a Government demands taxes from poor people who cannot afford to even "leave the club", if so then that Government is rather evil. Mine doesn't - in fact poor people get subsidies, and prices of basic necessities are controlled. The ones who pay tax can afford to leave.
"Individual riflemen are unimportant in modern warfare"
"Nothing's changed then to make a rifle-armed mob any more effective"
Terrain helps a lot. Your tanks and trucks will not have a good time of it.
If you have decent snipers scattered about Alps with their supplies, none of the enemy grunts would want to be promoted after the officers keep getting their heads blown away.
And I bet even if your tanks get past the first chokepoint, by then the Swiss gov would have issued people rocket launchers.
You can nuke or carpet bomb them, but given the Swiss say "we're neutral, don't mess with us and we might actually help you stash your loot", most countries with a clue will skip them.
You keep saying taxes are theft. I say people who don't pay taxes (though required to) but enjoy the benefits of being in a country (which requires them to be taxed), they are the thieves.
It is a bit like being member of a club, and saying the membership fee is theft. If you use any of the club facilities without paying the fees, then who is doing the stealing? Even if you just sit in the club premises to talk to your member friends, you are benefiting from the past membership fees and the legacy of it all (club rules created by the committee, infrastructure, contracts with 3rd party suppliers). Even the fact that it's harder for outsiders to wander in and hassle you is a benefit.
Is it wrong for the club to charge for membership fees? I think not - especially when the club rules allow it, and the founding members, most of the past members and present members have agreed that membership fees are ok. If you don't think you're getting a good deal from the fee (your club is badly run), then you should take it up with the committee, and/or maybe try to get the rest of the members to vote them out. Or leave.
If you really object to taxes, you have some options:
1) Try to get your country to abolish them, but IMO going about saying it's stealing is a lie.
2) Leave your country and join a different country - like Andorra or wherever they don't have taxes.
There really are choices - not all countries tax "everything" or "everyone". And some countries have practically no government and thus no taxes (don't be surprised if those have no law and order either).
There are many people in my country who don't get taxed (especially the aboriginal people living in the jungles). Even so they can still benefit from taxes - the courts, police and hospitals are still available to them, and even some basic commodities are subsidized.
If you don't like my reasoning, here's someone else's take on it: http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-taxestheft.htm
Oh really? At the rate he's going I think he might be CIO of a multinational company soon.
I think he meant what a reasonable person would understand about "simultaneous". You, however are free to split hairs down to quantum physics or further if you want.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMD
'usual response to this will be "why does my battery run out all the time? And what the hell are these two bars?"'
;).
I think my proposal of additional bars is about as simple as it gets to solving the problem for "why does the battery run out so fast". If you can think of a better solution do post it.
IMO there's a limit of what you can do. Users that don't understand something as simple as a "power consumption" or "CPU" meter should get a more limited phone or phone mode, or live with the battery running out faster.
The top stuff is for the more expert users to use to help the joe user
I find it acceptable because I see no better alternative.
If you know of an alternative which doesn't end up becoming a Dictatorship or degenerating to chaos, then sure, I'm all ears.
Say you don't pay taxes. Who pays for the police force, and the courts? Who pays for the legislators making the laws? Go by "tips"? Advertising? Or Microsoft/Hollywood/Sony pays for it? I don't see viable alternatives.
In fact I think it is best if the government, cops etc can only get money from taxes and not from 3rd parties directly, so as not to be more easily influenced by those 3rd parties.
"How would you react if a company started charging you (at gunpoint) for unrequested services."
I would report them to the police, and possibly take it up with the courts.
If a multitasking O/S is not totally incompetent it will have some idea on how much CPU is being used, and which app needs CPU (doesn't need to be exact for this purpose). Otherwise it would not be able to schedule CPU usage.
Have a background app that wakes up once in a while (30 secs?) to read off "total CPU usage", and "foreground app CPU usage". If total CPU usage is high, the time it schedules between wake ups might be shortened ( 5 secs?). Using a bit more CPU when CPU usage is high is not a deal breaker for PDAs and Phones.
Low res monochrome display = two bars, one for total and one for foreground.
Colour display (or high res monochrome) = foreground CPU bar overlayed on top of total CPU bar.
Joe user can then switch apps till he finds the offending app and kill it.
One could also create a "Top application" for Joe user to run.
You're missing the forest for the trees.
You are benefiting from the Government because it maintains the rule of law, the currency (ok laugh) and lots of other things.
If you became weak somehow and anybody tried to steal your bartered goods, you still have _some_ recourse: the police and the courts.
The Government also is in charge of maintaining its monopoly over violence - so normal citizens don't go around in mobs dealing out extrajudiciary punishments for real or imagined crimes.
I have no objections to paying for a good government, and I think it is ridiculous to want no government - since it just means you'll have a Dictatorship - the leader of the most powerful mob will end up ruling.
You can see for yourself what happens in countries where there is a really bad government, or effectively no government.
You may have a crappy government now, but while ordinary people still have the vote (if they don't allow diebolded or rigged elections) they are choosing that crappy government. If enough people voted for independent candidates even if they didn't win enough power the resulting Government would start to pay attention. Yes the first past the post system sucks, but it's unlikely to be changed soon.
Meanwhile believe me it is still better to have the citizens elect one "thief, mass murderer" to rule over them, far better than to have many random ones spring up more easily. If the elected Thief steals too much, go elect a different one.
Now if you have the Thief start saying he doesn't want to steal/kill/play by the rules (Constitution etc), then citizens better do something ASAP before it all starts to fall apart. Like get a new Thief willing to.
Correcting myself: not all US citizens have a vote - convicted felons lose their rights to vote, usually permanently in practice.
While the 14th amendment allows for denying the right to vote "for participation in rebellion, or other crime"
If you don't allow people to vote what say do they have in government, other than rebellion? Perhaps if someone participated in a rebellion you _temporarily_ remove their rights to vote while they are serving their time (because if they're still "hot" and their favoured candidates don't win they'll think of all sorts of conspiracies). But I think in the next round of elections even if they are still in jail they could be given the right to vote, as part of their "reintegration" to society.
"don't mind working for a publicly-traded company, as long as their stated commitment to their people is a commitment to all of their people."
That's more likely to happen if it's a Cooperative.
Even if Cooperatives do as well or even better than Companies (thinking long term is typically better than "let's sack everyone and boost profits for next quarter"), there is currently not as much incentive for people to start up cooperatives - it typically takes a lot of effort and risk to be the "first boss" and get everyone else etc. Companies are started instead so that the person starting them can get the lions share (I have no objections to that).
Perhaps existing cooperatives could create funds to be used to help get more cooperatives started (a bit like what "venture capitalists" are doing).
No it's not. Who makes the currency you use?
Mark 12:13-17
Later they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to Jesus to catch him in his words. They came to him and said, "Teacher, we know you are a man of integrity. You aren't swayed by men, because you pay no attention to who they are; but you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not? Should we pay or shouldn't we?"
But Jesus knew their hypocrisy. "Why are you trying to trap me?" he asked. "Bring me a denarius and let me look at it." They brought the coin, and he asked them, "Whose portrait is this? And whose inscription?"
"Caesar's," they replied.
Then Jesus said to them, "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's."
And they were amazed at him.
--
Anyway, as long as you keep their currency, they can inflate it and tax you whether you like it or not.
Whenever the US Gov "prints" more US Dollars it "taxes" all nations holding US Dollars (billions or more) for trade or other reasons (automatically making them poorer and the US Gov richer - who if not corrupt trickles down the wealth to the US people[1]). So the USA gets it easy as long as lots of countries keep using the USD for trade.
[1] Pouring the newly printed money into Iraq (Halliburton etc) instead is naturally not such a good idea.
What are _you_ smoking? And no I don't want any of it.
How has having the network being owned by a Corporation stopped comms being illegally spied on by the US Gov?
If you have a crap Gov, it'll spy on citizens whether it owns the network or a Corporation owns the network. Heck it'll MAKE IT LEGAL TO DO SO IF IT WANTS. The fact that the present Gov doesn't even give a damn and tries to make it retroactively legal shows the amount of CONTEMPT it has for the citizens, their intelligence, and the laws of the country.
The last I checked US citizens had this thing called a vote. If they don't care very much about your mentioned concerns, the Gov will continue doing it. If they do care enough then the Gov might stop doing it.
But it appears most are clueless. The Sheep are busy deciding which Wolf should eat them for the next term, and it sure seems that some would rather have the Wolves' good friend the Fox to own the networks, because they are afraid of the Wolves owning the networks.
Brilliant. No wonder Bush won two terms.
I live in a different country and wouldn't care so much but for the fact that the USA is the most powerful country in the world ( military spending is almost as much as the rest of the world combined), and has no qualms on starting wars unilaterally, doesn't care about the UN, what the rest of the world thinks, or what the US Constitution says. Add Diebolded elections, lots of really stupid voters, and it sure doesn't look good.
Sounds great to me. I hope you are right :). Then my stuff will just run faster.
Aside: I have noticed that many versions of grep have become extremely slow after they introduced the i18n stuff, so much so that even perl is faster in many common cases.
Switching to the C locale restores performance.
Something like a small "battery meter" pic found in many phones is so much admin overhead?
Without such a meter I think it'll be bigger admin overhead to figure out why your battery is draining fast.
Taxation is not the same as stealing.
Currently it seems like you're paying a lot more to make the CEOs of Big Med/Bio Corps rich. And you can't even vote them out. You can only do that if you own enough shares (by that time you'd probably be part of the problem).
The Police aren't privatized and are funded by taxes. They provide services to the poor ( everyone even illegal immigrants), etc that taxpayers pay for.
For a rich country to choose not treat people just because they cannot afford basic treatment seems to be very uncivilized.
Universal healthcare is a good idea, BUT there should be max limits of how much the State is willing to pay for per person, because as technology improves I believe there will be more and more super expensive ways of treating people, and facts are even the richest countries won't be able to afford to give everyone the most expensive treatments.
If they need the top of the line treatment, and can't afford it, and nobody else steps up (charity, private money etc), well too bad so sad.
I argue that you can reduce a lot of misery just by providing the cheap stuff. And some things a Government just does better than private companies, basic healthcare is one of those things.
In a democracy if the Gov is not doing such a good job and keeps getting voted in, the voters and people are to blame.
There are already battery meters.
Having something wake up once in a while to update the meter display shouldn't use much extra power.
Yep, a CPU meter and/or a power usage meter would be good.
Hey this is Slashdot, so it won't just apply to me. :)
OK found out.
Rules:
Quick Overview:
* Limit one laptop per contestant.
* You can't use the same vulnerability to claim more than one box, if it is a cross-platform issue.
* Thirty minute attack slots given to contestants at each box.
* Attack slots will be scheduled at the contest start by the methods selected by the judges.
* Attacks are done via crossover cable. (attacker controls default route)
* RF attacks are done offsite by special arrangement...
* No physical access to the machines.
* Major web browsers (IE, Safari, Konqueror, Firefox), widely used and deployed plugin frameworks (AIR, Silverlight), IM clients (MSN, Adium, Skype, Pigdin, AOL, Yahoo), Mail readers (Outlook, Mail.app, Thunderbird, kmail) are all in scope.
"Divorced From Reality" implies they've known Reality before.
How about "-1 Virgin who's never known Reality".
Could you keep all three cars if you could break into all of them?
;).
Would the people taking part be considering the "blackmarket price" of a car breaking kit for the other cars?
Personally I think Apples, Windows, Linux, they're all about the same security - not very good. Maybe Vista's browser is better now if it's really sandboxed properly.
Not that I'd want to use Vista
I don't like it but I might think it's tolerable if:
1) The fee charged is low (doesn't affect cost of internet access that much) , and can be different on a per country basis.
2) It allows ISPs to cache the content without being sued - this means ISPs can start having "Super Peers" for seeding P2P stuff in their networks.
The ISP can then throttle P2P connections that go to other ISPs, except those for their Super Peers, and prioritize inter-isp traffic to their Super Peers, and Super Peer traffic to their customers.
This would be a lot more bandwidth efficient. And the P2P users could get their torrent downloads faster or at the same speed without affecting the other users as much.
The following source claims your "Abraham Lincoln" quote is a fake:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/08/AR2007060802470.html