Wow think of the amount of passwords and stuff someone naughty could capture.
Sad WiFi doesn't have the equivalent of something like https/ssl yet, despite https being out before the abysmal crap called WEP.
https = anonymous client (cert optional), encrypted connection to server (with cert that can potentially be checked). Easy for user to use.
Currently I don't see an easy way to do the same thing with WiFi. I could set up something and ask users to enter the same username and password (not using WEP of course - since that's broken - same password = all users can see each others stuff), but it still involves too much from the user given current OSes and technology.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, I'd really like to know. How would I provide easy and secure WiFi access to anonymous users using Windows, Macs etc?
I read the fine article as saying USD850/month since it's on CNN and likely to use USD as the monetary unit.
USD850/month is not that bad in my country (Malaysia, in the capital city, USD850 = about 500 to 1000 lunches or 8-9 months rental of a single room). Are things so much more expensive in Belem?
As for 400 vs 40, and Caetano Veloso vs tecnobrega, that sounds like saying "Ask yourself who is able to carve out a comfortable living, Bill Gates or some programmer in India". Answer: Bill Gates and Mr Veloso of course. So what are you really trying to say? Maybe I don't understand.
If you don't name a concept it can be harder to recall it months later. If you don't have a standard name for a concept it can be harder for someone to know what you are talking about, when you're talking about it.
Whether it's in medicine or math, it helps to have specific terms for specific things that experts in the field use often.
Sales/marketing/BS jargon is also useful I suppose, but it's used for rather different reasons. Proactively leverage synergies and all that...
That's the only big technical thing I see that the shuttle can do that the other alternatives can't.
Grab "big" stuff and bring it down without it burning up.
However, if I made spy sats I'd make sure I could blow them up. It doesn't take very much explosive to make it too dangerous to grab with the shuttle. I bet shuttles are more expensive than spy sats, and it's more expensive to have the spy sat not blow up and be captured;).
So I suppose it'll only be useful if you were grabbing your own sats, or trying to get a number of people down at once from a space station.
"If the officer asks you if it's okay to search your car, then you say no"
I'd rather be able to say "Why?" or "No." and not be wrestled to the ground etc. And I'd rather him be able to search a car if he gives good justification for it AND the citizen decides, ok sounds reasonable to me. Someone should come up with better "SOPs" for citizen-police interaction than the existing antagonistic ones, better ones that are hopefully more "failsafe" (and still legal) in practice.
"It's also a big problem when the general public is accorded the same respect by law enforcement that it generally extends to the criminal element."
I don't think the public should be fine with cops treating criminals badly, i.e. worse than necessary. See principle 6) "Police use physical force to the extent necessary to secure observance of the law or to restore order only when the exercise of persuasion, advice, and warning is found to be insufficient".
Excessive force seems too common nowadays, which reduces the respect and cooperation from the public.
I believe there is much wisdom in those principles, and that they are by no means out of date. Ideas like training cops to behave more like soldiers are dangerous. Having soldiers do policing (e.g. in Iraq) is also silly as soldiers are not police. Things improved a lot when some bright spark came up with the concept that soldiers != police. One should not revert to the bad old days.
"Please don't cop out and say they are not christians if they kill people (or lie, or have affairs, etc.)."
People can and will always find reasons to kill others. Whether if it's due to the "forcible overthrow" as Marx suggested, or "God told me to" or "For the Country/Fatherland/Motherland/Money", or "he disrespected me".
BUT I'd be very interested to see how muslims justify to OTHER muslims their killing of unbelievers etc based on the verses of the Koran/Quran and the Hadith and the rebuttals. After all I doubt _those_ group of muslims are going to be convinced by unbelievers (as per 3:73), so it's best that other muslims sort things out with them ASAP.
As for Christians - most certainly Christians will still be Christians even if they kill people. They're just not doing a good job of following Jesus and his commandments. Turn the other cheek etc. It's a pretty hard to use: "Love the Lord your God", "Do unto others as you'd have them do to you", "love one another as I (Jesus) have loved you", "the Lord's prayer", "go spread the good news (God loves you etc) to all of creation" to justify killing doctors running abortion clinics. So if someone says they're following Jesus and makes it a habit of killing people then it should make you wonder who he really is following. I believe if you follow Jesus, there should be a higher chance of you dying in the line of service than of you killing people (given his example;) ).
For Judaism it's not so simple. But from what I gather, most of the world is safe because Judaism isn't really an expansionist religion: it's basically "we agree to the contract as God's chosen people, we will kill all these Canaanites from the promised land - people, their animals, everything! We will follow the 600+ laws given, as per the laws we are to kill those of _us_ who don't follow certain laws". Note that even if the boundaries of the promised land might not be so clear it does not appear to stretch very far beyond what was and is claimed by Jews past and present. And most of the killing would be within the group (maintaining the "purity" of the group, not killing of non-Jews). Thus an Atheist or Hindu living in USA or India should be pretty safe from a Jew strictly following the religion by the book. Whereas a "by the book" Jew living in Israel, or a Jew living with Jews elsewhere would presumably be not as safe from fellow "by the book" Jews...
"but the fact remains that no cop out there will always apply the law in a totally objective, impartial manner."
I don't think the public expect perfection from cops (who are supposed to be "members of the public" as well). BUT it does start to fall apart when the public see that most cops don't even want to try to do so.
The general population should NOT be entrusted to ride herd on the police force - the police force should not be directly controlled or regulated by the public. They should however be able to influence who becomes the head of the police force.
The head of the police force then sets the tone and culture for the entire force. With principles similar to the Peelian principles the British Police force got a high degree of respectability in the UK and worldwide. However it seems that things have started changing in recent times...
It is a big problem when you have a police force filled with cops who get the respect one gives to potentially dangerous animals, instead of "real" respect.
I would still rather have a cop who does let his beliefs influence his actions especially when his beliefs are in the right things:). Then I know he won't shoot me just because someone changed the frigging law/procedure. I'm rather afraid of the "I was just following orders" or "everyone is doing it anyway" people. While cops are to be members of the public, it would be preferable that the selection process be significantly better than random;).
I had decent food from Air France years ago. Then I found it interesting/strange that they seemed to have so many different suppliers for juices - a different container/package was given for each meal (looking at the recent photos seems like they do that with the bottled/packaged water as well:) ). During meal time they go about with extra bread for people who want more (other airlines I believe you have to request for an extra bun).
I've found food in Thai, SIA and MAS to be OK as well, but I think MAS is slipping a bit. Had some weird looking (and tasting) carrots in a recent meal (economy class). Maybe they nuked them a bit too much and the carrots mutated. Somehow a few became _partially_ pale/translucent (no it wasn't a radish). And food tasted so-so.
As for the baggage stuff, I'm fine with airlines or other companies charging extra for extras, as long as I know they aren't actually ripping me off (whether for the extra or for the nonextras). So to me it's not whether you pay extra or not, it's a matter of "is it a ripoff or not?".
Example: if you go for a "no frills" flight and it's actually more expensive than a "with frills" (or only 1 buck cheaper) then you're probably being cheated.
The story seems a tad hysterical. There's no way they can get everyone's baggage last. They can lose everyone's baggage though.;).
Anyway, if you don't like it, complain and vote with your wallet. After all if airlines could get away with charging heavier passengers ( passenger weight + luggage weight) more they probably would.
"Thiefs are too stupid to use advanced technology...."
Well if a thief could steganographically encode my car/pc/etc and send it to someone via the internet then maybe I'd care. Then again if the thief did it without me or anyone else (except the recipient;) ) noticing even after he did it, then I wouldn't care at all.
In contrast stuff like insider trading is probably very hard to crack if the participants aren't stupid or ignorant. They don't even need to use steganography.
Nowadays there are zillions of ways to exchange information secretly and easily.
The problem is the police have broken a lot of those principles (which are still relevant to that day), and thus have lost significant trust of the population. They are no longer perceived as "members of the public paid to police" but rather as members of a different often antagonistic group.
This seems the case in the country I'm in ( a small mostly insignificant corrupt 3rd world developing country ).
"With strong steganography, the correct key is necessary to recover the message or to even prove that the message exists."
Not if you leave the lower noise original "carrier" (photo/sound file) around and a copy of steganographic software that isn't installed by default.
People might find the software and the original and then ask you some questions. In the UK or similar countries they might then start asking you for your keys, which you are required by law to hand over.
Same thing goes for the usual crypto software.
A possible solution is: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/148440
Sure that'll make it convenient for criminals. But it'll make it convenient for non-criminals too.
The last I checked, there are numerous cases of people being considered criminals in one country but considered decent or even exemplary people in another. In some cases the person doesn't change but the government/laws change and suddenly the person is now a criminal.
Sometimes such a person is indeed an evil person, but if he is evil enough there is usually plenty of other evidence or ways to get him (the Tax Dept comes to mind;) ).
And if an evil person somehow keeps his evil actions and thoughts to the limits of his mind and mind prosthetic and behaves in a reasonably decent manner otherwise, then who are we to judge or cast the first stone?
In my experience you CAN'T on these sites. Google doesn't cache them for some reason. Sorry no good link at the moment - but when looking up medical stuff I see this all the time. I just did a search for: diabetes neuroreceptors, while the search results aren't exactly what I described they're similar (content in search results differing from content on page, claims to be pdf but actually a "give me money" page).
I actually thought Google had some sort of rule where sites that show google one thing and users another get banned. If this is true, such sites should get banned too.
After install, I think you run yast and add an update/source.
I'm guessing but they might put the metadata here:/var/lib/zypp/db/sources
But not sure if it's a good idea to muck around with it, you are supposed to use yast to adjust/setup your sources thingy- and yes it takes ages, just like most things you do with yast.
Anyway I reported a bug that yast uses too much memory (it can use more than 100MB in some situations, which could lead to major unpleasantness...), and is too slow etc.
Might be switching to kubuntu for future linux installs. Yast is really terrible. I did run into some probs with kubuntu tho somehow the gui software/package manager thingy didn't start up for me till after a few tries. I'm lucky like that;).
I use suse at work and have been plenty of kernel updates. AFAIK, you don't get to patch one module and modprobe it for suse. Don't know how it is for ubuntu/kubuntu (which appears to be a better distro than suse if just because yast is so slow it almost makes windows update look good).
But just today I had an annoying battle with windows xp on a laptop - a recent windows update FORCES you to reboot, even if you say "Not now, later", it keeps popping the frigging dialog box with a countdown which will eventually reboot the machine, which is _unacceptable_ esp if you're doing stuff that takes a while (disk defrag), install etc.
Imagine if you do a long automated install, go for lunch, come back and find out it's rebooted halfway through the install.
I'm sticking to Win2K at home for games and other windows stuff. The only software I've had problems getting to work on W2K is Windows Live Messenger, wow what a surprise;).
AFAIK most Linux distros require a reboot after a kernel update in order for the kernel fixes to take effect. And believe me there are plenty of kernel bugs found on a regular basis.
Sad to say much of computing hasn't advanced past 40 years ago.
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Wow think of the amount of passwords and stuff someone naughty could capture.
Sad WiFi doesn't have the equivalent of something like https/ssl yet, despite https being out before the abysmal crap called WEP.
https = anonymous client (cert optional), encrypted connection to server (with cert that can potentially be checked). Easy for user to use.
Currently I don't see an easy way to do the same thing with WiFi. I could set up something and ask users to enter the same username and password (not using WEP of course - since that's broken - same password = all users can see each others stuff), but it still involves too much from the user given current OSes and technology.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, I'd really like to know. How would I provide easy and secure WiFi access to anonymous users using Windows, Macs etc?
I read the fine article as saying USD850/month since it's on CNN and likely to use USD as the monetary unit.
USD850/month is not that bad in my country (Malaysia, in the capital city, USD850 = about 500 to 1000 lunches or 8-9 months rental of a single room). Are things so much more expensive in Belem?
As for 400 vs 40, and Caetano Veloso vs tecnobrega, that sounds like saying "Ask yourself who is able to carve out a comfortable living, Bill Gates or some programmer in India". Answer: Bill Gates and Mr Veloso of course. So what are you really trying to say? Maybe I don't understand.
A lot of technical jargon is actually useful.
If you don't name a concept it can be harder to recall it months later.
If you don't have a standard name for a concept it can be harder for someone to know what you are talking about, when you're talking about it.
Whether it's in medicine or math, it helps to have specific terms for specific things that experts in the field use often.
Sales/marketing/BS jargon is also useful I suppose, but it's used for rather different reasons. Proactively leverage synergies and all that...
You can for most biometrics. It might be a bit more painful though.
That's the only big technical thing I see that the shuttle can do that the other alternatives can't.
;).
Grab "big" stuff and bring it down without it burning up.
However, if I made spy sats I'd make sure I could blow them up. It doesn't take very much explosive to make it too dangerous to grab with the shuttle. I bet shuttles are more expensive than spy sats, and it's more expensive to have the spy sat not blow up and be captured
So I suppose it'll only be useful if you were grabbing your own sats, or trying to get a number of people down at once from a space station.
"If the officer asks you if it's okay to search your car, then you say no"
I'd rather be able to say "Why?" or "No." and not be wrestled to the ground etc. And I'd rather him be able to search a car if he gives good justification for it AND the citizen decides, ok sounds reasonable to me. Someone should come up with better "SOPs" for citizen-police interaction than the existing antagonistic ones, better ones that are hopefully more "failsafe" (and still legal) in practice.
"It's also a big problem when the general public is accorded the same respect by law enforcement that it generally extends to the criminal element."
I don't think the public should be fine with cops treating criminals badly, i.e. worse than necessary. See principle 6) "Police use physical force to the extent necessary to secure observance of the law or to restore order only when the exercise of persuasion, advice, and warning is found to be insufficient".
Excessive force seems too common nowadays, which reduces the respect and cooperation from the public.
I believe there is much wisdom in those principles, and that they are by no means out of date. Ideas like training cops to behave more like soldiers are dangerous. Having soldiers do policing (e.g. in Iraq) is also silly as soldiers are not police. Things improved a lot when some bright spark came up with the concept that soldiers != police. One should not revert to the bad old days.
"Please don't cop out and say they are not christians if they kill people (or lie, or have affairs, etc.)."
;) ).
People can and will always find reasons to kill others. Whether if it's due to the "forcible overthrow" as Marx suggested, or "God told me to" or "For the Country/Fatherland/Motherland/Money", or "he disrespected me".
BUT I'd be very interested to see how muslims justify to OTHER muslims their killing of unbelievers etc based on the verses of the Koran/Quran and the Hadith and the rebuttals. After all I doubt _those_ group of muslims are going to be convinced by unbelievers (as per 3:73), so it's best that other muslims sort things out with them ASAP.
As for Christians - most certainly Christians will still be Christians even if they kill people. They're just not doing a good job of following Jesus and his commandments. Turn the other cheek etc. It's a pretty hard to use: "Love the Lord your God", "Do unto others as you'd have them do to you", "love one another as I (Jesus) have loved you", "the Lord's prayer", "go spread the good news (God loves you etc) to all of creation" to justify killing doctors running abortion clinics. So if someone says they're following Jesus and makes it a habit of killing people then it should make you wonder who he really is following. I believe if you follow Jesus, there should be a higher chance of you dying in the line of service than of you killing people (given his example
For Judaism it's not so simple. But from what I gather, most of the world is safe because Judaism isn't really an expansionist religion: it's basically "we agree to the contract as God's chosen people, we will kill all these Canaanites from the promised land - people, their animals, everything! We will follow the 600+ laws given, as per the laws we are to kill those of _us_ who don't follow certain laws". Note that even if the boundaries of the promised land might not be so clear it does not appear to stretch very far beyond what was and is claimed by Jews past and present. And most of the killing would be within the group (maintaining the "purity" of the group, not killing of non-Jews). Thus an Atheist or Hindu living in USA or India should be pretty safe from a Jew strictly following the religion by the book. Whereas a "by the book" Jew living in Israel, or a Jew living with Jews elsewhere would presumably be not as safe from fellow "by the book" Jews...
"but the fact remains that no cop out there will always apply the law in a totally objective, impartial manner."
:). Then I know he won't shoot me just because someone changed the frigging law/procedure. I'm rather afraid of the "I was just following orders" or "everyone is doing it anyway" people. While cops are to be members of the public, it would be preferable that the selection process be significantly better than random ;).
I don't think the public expect perfection from cops (who are supposed to be "members of the public" as well). BUT it does start to fall apart when the public see that most cops don't even want to try to do so.
The general population should NOT be entrusted to ride herd on the police force - the police force should not be directly controlled or regulated by the public. They should however be able to influence who becomes the head of the police force.
The head of the police force then sets the tone and culture for the entire force. With principles similar to the Peelian principles the British Police force got a high degree of respectability in the UK and worldwide. However it seems that things have started changing in recent times...
It is a big problem when you have a police force filled with cops who get the respect one gives to potentially dangerous animals, instead of "real" respect.
I would still rather have a cop who does let his beliefs influence his actions especially when his beliefs are in the right things
I think it'll help if people could see what they were missing out on :).
:) ). During meal time they go about with extra bread for people who want more (other airlines I believe you have to request for an extra bun).
;).
More here: http://airlinemeals.net/indexMeals.html
( ANA = All Nippon Airways. )
I had decent food from Air France years ago. Then I found it interesting/strange that they seemed to have so many different suppliers for juices - a different container/package was given for each meal (looking at the recent photos seems like they do that with the bottled/packaged water as well
I've found food in Thai, SIA and MAS to be OK as well, but I think MAS is slipping a bit. Had some weird looking (and tasting) carrots in a recent meal (economy class). Maybe they nuked them a bit too much and the carrots mutated. Somehow a few became _partially_ pale/translucent (no it wasn't a radish). And food tasted so-so.
As for the baggage stuff, I'm fine with airlines or other companies charging extra for extras, as long as I know they aren't actually ripping me off (whether for the extra or for the nonextras). So to me it's not whether you pay extra or not, it's a matter of "is it a ripoff or not?".
Example: if you go for a "no frills" flight and it's actually more expensive than a "with frills" (or only 1 buck cheaper) then you're probably being cheated.
The story seems a tad hysterical. There's no way they can get everyone's baggage last. They can lose everyone's baggage though.
Anyway, if you don't like it, complain and vote with your wallet. After all if airlines could get away with charging heavier passengers ( passenger weight + luggage weight) more they probably would.
"Thiefs are too stupid to use advanced technology...."
;) ) noticing even after he did it, then I wouldn't care at all.
Well if a thief could steganographically encode my car/pc/etc and send it to someone via the internet then maybe I'd care. Then again if the thief did it without me or anyone else (except the recipient
In contrast stuff like insider trading is probably very hard to crack if the participants aren't stupid or ignorant. They don't even need to use steganography.
Nowadays there are zillions of ways to exchange information secretly and easily.
The problem is not that police are making such searches or people are agreeing to it.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_Principles
( http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peelian_Principles&oldid=117906399 )
The problem is the police have broken a lot of those principles (which are still relevant to that day), and thus have lost significant trust of the population. They are no longer perceived as "members of the public paid to police" but rather as members of a different often antagonistic group.
This seems the case in the country I'm in ( a small mostly insignificant corrupt 3rd world developing country ).
"With strong steganography, the correct key is necessary to recover the message or to even prove that the message exists."
;) ).
Not if you leave the lower noise original "carrier" (photo/sound file) around and a copy of steganographic software that isn't installed by default.
People might find the software and the original and then ask you some questions. In the UK or similar countries they might then start asking you for your keys, which you are required by law to hand over.
Same thing goes for the usual crypto software.
A possible solution is:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/148440
Sure that'll make it convenient for criminals. But it'll make it convenient for non-criminals too.
The last I checked, there are numerous cases of people being considered criminals in one country but considered decent or even exemplary people in another. In some cases the person doesn't change but the government/laws change and suddenly the person is now a criminal.
Sometimes such a person is indeed an evil person, but if he is evil enough there is usually plenty of other evidence or ways to get him (the Tax Dept comes to mind
And if an evil person somehow keeps his evil actions and thoughts to the limits of his mind and mind prosthetic and behaves in a reasonably decent manner otherwise, then who are we to judge or cast the first stone?
And a fair number of singers/violinists don't stick to the twelve notes of the chromatic scale either ;).
"African Defense".
;).
From news reports it seems soldiers in Africa tend to kill their own people more than anything else
"There is no battle that day."
It's the next day the humans should worry about.
Isn't that a real complaint letter?
Well he got paid nearly twice as much in 2006 from 2005, so either someone must like what he's doing and/or he's ripping off the company badly...
That's what it's for.
;).
Predictable
And if your parents brought you up well, you would have been encouraged to share the good things you have with your friends.
In my experience you CAN'T on these sites. Google doesn't cache them for some reason. Sorry no good link at the moment - but when looking up medical stuff I see this all the time. I just did a search for: diabetes neuroreceptors, while the search results aren't exactly what I described they're similar (content in search results differing from content on page, claims to be pdf but actually a "give me money" page).
I actually thought Google had some sort of rule where sites that show google one thing and users another get banned. If this is true, such sites should get banned too.
After install, I think you run yast and add an update/source.
/var/lib/zypp/db/sources
;).
I'm guessing but they might put the metadata here:
But not sure if it's a good idea to muck around with it, you are supposed to use yast to adjust/setup your sources thingy- and yes it takes ages, just like most things you do with yast.
Anyway I reported a bug that yast uses too much memory (it can use more than 100MB in some situations, which could lead to major unpleasantness...), and is too slow etc.
Might be switching to kubuntu for future linux installs. Yast is really terrible. I did run into some probs with kubuntu tho somehow the gui software/package manager thingy didn't start up for me till after a few tries. I'm lucky like that
I use suse at work and have been plenty of kernel updates. AFAIK, you don't get to patch one module and modprobe it for suse. Don't know how it is for ubuntu/kubuntu (which appears to be a better distro than suse if just because yast is so slow it almost makes windows update look good).
;).
But just today I had an annoying battle with windows xp on a laptop - a recent windows update FORCES you to reboot, even if you say "Not now, later", it keeps popping the frigging dialog box with a countdown which will eventually reboot the machine, which is _unacceptable_ esp if you're doing stuff that takes a while (disk defrag), install etc.
Imagine if you do a long automated install, go for lunch, come back and find out it's rebooted halfway through the install.
I'm sticking to Win2K at home for games and other windows stuff. The only software I've had problems getting to work on W2K is Windows Live Messenger, wow what a surprise
AFAIK most Linux distros require a reboot after a kernel update in order for the kernel fixes to take effect. And believe me there are plenty of kernel bugs found on a regular basis.
Sad to say much of computing hasn't advanced past 40 years ago.
I wonder if he gets a speech trainer to help him _keep_ his accent.
After all just imagine what would happen if he loses his accent. Imagine an Arnie movie with Arnie speaking in English but without his accent.
Not if you play against Chinook and Chinook is told not to tell you that "you lose in 20 moves" ;)