If you believe that the nature of the country has fundamentally changed such that the rules in the Constitution no longer are sufficient, that is exactly why it included an amendment process.
If, instead of simply ignoring the rules, amendments were passed, the boundaries would be better defined and more subject to the control of the people. Right now there are no boundaries, and the result is that Congress basically does all kinds of crazy stuff that regular citizens don't want.
Firstly, we're talking about criminal law. Secondly, you have no expectation of privacy in a concert hall filled with other patrons (expectation of privacy is a usual component of these laws). In the last case if the person on the other end of the line made a notification at the beginning of the call that it would be recorded, they likely did not intend to record someone who had not been notified and consented, so mens rea does not exist.
Some problems are inherently easy to make parallel, some can be easily made parallel up to a certain point but not further (such as separating discrete tasks), while others are extremely difficult to parallelize at all. Parallel is not a panacea, and no 'paradigm shift' will change that.
Of course, there is nothing wrong with making sure that possible avenues of parallelization are taken advantage of where they exist, but that is hardly everywhere.
I think someone mentioned that all the configuration was held in volatile memory, so if they did that they would have to spend a ton of time redoing everything.
Then again, they could always use the old 'cold ram' trick to recover it, though that would be pretty difficult if the ram in question was part of an embedded type system and surface-mounted.
By what method of encoding? You can also always invent an algorithm which will transform certain data to certain other data. As long as your 'message' is sufficiently short, the algorithm wouldn't have to be 'implausibly' complex, but that's another subjective judgement.
You have no evidence either for or against the existence of such a Deist-style God, and yet you argue as though anyone who does not believe the same as you is a total moron. How are you any different than the people you are arguing against?
The Old Testament focuses on the history of the Jewish people. That just so happens to also be the lineage of Jesus Christ. Either way, the point is still valid: the Old Testament is focused on the Jewish people, and does not chronicle all events in history...just those in the history of the Jewish people.
It sure is interesting how criminal penalties have expanded over time. Back in the day, felonies were only violent crimes where death or irreparable injury could be a result. Armed robbery, murder, rape, etc.
In the last 100 years or so, though, there has been a creep wherein suddenly a huge number of malum prohibitum laws have been made felonies and given penalties equivalent to the 'true' felonies. So now we have a system where rapists and murders get lesser penalties than people who never hurt or threatened anyone. It's ridiculous, really. I'm sure this country's founders would have some choice words to say about this situation.
It's not the US that's the police state in this one particular way.
I'm certainly not going to argue that the federal government isn't heavyhanded from time to time with civil rights. However, on a day to day basis our lives are still affected much more by state criminal law than federal criminal law. Corruption and suppression of basic rights at the state and local level does a lot more damage than, say, the war on terror. It's just not discussed as much because it doesn't make for as good sensationalist headlines.
10-402. Interception of communications generally; divulging contents of communications; violations of subtitle.
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(4) (i) It is lawful under this subtitle for a law enforcement officer in the course of the officer's regular duty to intercept an oral communication if:
1. The law enforcement officer initially lawfully detained a vehicle during a criminal investigation or for a traffic violation;
2. The law enforcement officer is a party to the oral communication;
3. The law enforcement officer has been identified as a law enforcement officer to the other parties to the oral communication prior to any interception;
4. The law enforcement officer informs all other parties to the communication of the interception at the beginning of the communication; and
5. The oral interception is being made as part of a video tape recording.
(ii) If all of the requirements of subparagraph (i) of this paragraph are met, an interception is lawful even if a person becomes a party to the communication following:
1. The identification required under subparagraph (i)3 of this paragraph; or
2. The informing of the parties required under subparagraph (i)4 of this paragraph.
So apparently, they are supposed to tell you you are being recorded by the dashcam.
You're right, in part. Multiplayer with people you know is way more fun than with random people online. And, even then, online play is best when you get to know some of those 'random' people and play with the same ones over time. Otherwise, you will always be plagued by idiots and jerks. For some reason, the internet appears to contain a nearly infinite supply of people who do nothing but try to ruin everyone else's fun.
At the bottom there's no way for the courts to fix the DMCA, since it's likely within Congress's powers to enact...
Should not the discussion of technological device and software design, and how to break certain ones, be protected free speech and thus this provision be invalid under the 1st amendment?
...lack of Verizon support. In a lot of places, at least here on the east coast, Verizon is the only carrier with near-universal coverage. It doesn't matter how cool a phone is if it drops calls all the time and has crappy data speeds.
It's only insecure if you pick a ridiculously stupid password. My bank, I believe, locks out the account after 10 failed attempts. Good luck guessing my password in 10 attempts.
What, you expect someone to do a dictionary attack using all possible algorithms that someone could easily remember to transform a phrase? That would clearly be infeasible.
The algorithm itself is part of the secret. Though it alone does not provide enough entropy for a safe password, it does add significantly to the entropy of the chosen phrase.
Honestly, looking at their plot of extinction rates overlain with the 27Ma frequency (their Figure 2), I'm not all that impressed with the correspondence. Some major extinctions are 180 degrees out of phase (e.g., the Late Devonian extinction at ~372Ma and the Early Carboniferous extinction at ~326Ma) and some extinctions are doubled (e.g., the two towards the end of the Permian near 250Ma).
I doubt anyone is claiming that, whatever this hypothetical 27m killer is, it is the only historical cause of mass extinctions. For all we know, the ones that happen at other times are due to completely unrelated causes.
If nothing else, non-naturally occurring radioactive isotopes in the atmosphere will provide evidence of a species capable of building nuclear weapons for a few million years. By the same logic, we know by isotope measurements taken prior to the first nuclear tests that no other species on this planet performed an aboveground nuclear detonation in the last few million years.
That is a great idea, because it would both be effective and also relatively cheap. The issue would really be the complexity of the process for setting a new number.
Instead, how about just letting customers order 'add on' cards with a lower limit, that deducts from the main card? Making and sending out cards is insanely cheap compared to distributing card-writing devices.
A lot of merchants have insurance to cover such losses, so really nobody loses anything at all. Which is why nobody is motivated to fix it at all. Nobody loses and a few ordinary people get some extra spending money by lifting card numbers.
Insurance does not reduce the cost, it merely makes it predictable. If better theft-prevention measures were put in place, the bank would end up paying lower insurance premiums. There is nothing magic about insurance.
no, the ATM display shows what the card reader looks like.
all skimmers I know of either just sit over the card reader with a cam pointed at the keypad or area two-part job over card reader + keypad.
So in order to circumvent this the crook would have to install a fake display, too. at that point it'd probably be easier to just put up a whole fake ATM...
More likely if the thieves were worried about the image, they could just make up an official looking sticker or something to slap on the machine that says something like, "the reader on this machine has been upgraded for your safety, please ensure that the reader device looks like this:" with a picture of the compromised device.
This is a locally encrypted file...they don't need to crack the AES key, they just need to brute force the password. Because it is highly unlikely that the password characters are uniformly distributed (more likely a few special characters only), a large distributed attack should be able to 'crack' it with much less difficulty than reversing the AES itself.
It is not crazy to think that the NSA could have this capability.
Perhaps the universe is really full of these things all over the place and we just can't see them? It would seem to be a pretty plausible explanation for the 'missing mass' problem.
How boring would it be if 'dark matter' just turned out to be a bunch of ordinary, super thin gas clouds?
They want you to think ink costs a lot to produce, but it's actually that they are selling the printer as a loss-leader with the idea that the cost will be made up for in ink sales.
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If you believe that the nature of the country has fundamentally changed such that the rules in the Constitution no longer are sufficient, that is exactly why it included an amendment process.
If, instead of simply ignoring the rules, amendments were passed, the boundaries would be better defined and more subject to the control of the people. Right now there are no boundaries, and the result is that Congress basically does all kinds of crazy stuff that regular citizens don't want.
Firstly, we're talking about criminal law. Secondly, you have no expectation of privacy in a concert hall filled with other patrons (expectation of privacy is a usual component of these laws). In the last case if the person on the other end of the line made a notification at the beginning of the call that it would be recorded, they likely did not intend to record someone who had not been notified and consented, so mens rea does not exist.
Some problems are inherently easy to make parallel, some can be easily made parallel up to a certain point but not further (such as separating discrete tasks), while others are extremely difficult to parallelize at all. Parallel is not a panacea, and no 'paradigm shift' will change that.
Of course, there is nothing wrong with making sure that possible avenues of parallelization are taken advantage of where they exist, but that is hardly everywhere.
I think someone mentioned that all the configuration was held in volatile memory, so if they did that they would have to spend a ton of time redoing everything.
Then again, they could always use the old 'cold ram' trick to recover it, though that would be pretty difficult if the ram in question was part of an embedded type system and surface-mounted.
By what method of encoding? You can also always invent an algorithm which will transform certain data to certain other data. As long as your 'message' is sufficiently short, the algorithm wouldn't have to be 'implausibly' complex, but that's another subjective judgement.
You have no evidence either for or against the existence of such a Deist-style God, and yet you argue as though anyone who does not believe the same as you is a total moron. How are you any different than the people you are arguing against?
The Old Testament focuses on the history of the Jewish people. That just so happens to also be the lineage of Jesus Christ. Either way, the point is still valid: the Old Testament is focused on the Jewish people, and does not chronicle all events in history...just those in the history of the Jewish people.
It sure is interesting how criminal penalties have expanded over time. Back in the day, felonies were only violent crimes where death or irreparable injury could be a result. Armed robbery, murder, rape, etc.
In the last 100 years or so, though, there has been a creep wherein suddenly a huge number of malum prohibitum laws have been made felonies and given penalties equivalent to the 'true' felonies. So now we have a system where rapists and murders get lesser penalties than people who never hurt or threatened anyone. It's ridiculous, really. I'm sure this country's founders would have some choice words to say about this situation.
It's not the US that's the police state in this one particular way.
I'm certainly not going to argue that the federal government isn't heavyhanded from time to time with civil rights. However, on a day to day basis our lives are still affected much more by state criminal law than federal criminal law. Corruption and suppression of basic rights at the state and local level does a lot more damage than, say, the war on terror. It's just not discussed as much because it doesn't make for as good sensationalist headlines.
From TFC (the freaking code):
10-402. Interception of communications generally; divulging contents of communications; violations of subtitle.
...
(4) (i) It is lawful under this subtitle for a law enforcement officer in the course of the officer's regular duty to intercept an oral communication if:
1. The law enforcement officer initially lawfully detained a vehicle during a criminal investigation or for a traffic violation;
2. The law enforcement officer is a party to the oral communication;
3. The law enforcement officer has been identified as a law enforcement officer to the other parties to the oral communication prior to any interception;
4. The law enforcement officer informs all other parties to the communication of the interception at the beginning of the communication; and
5. The oral interception is being made as part of a video tape recording.
(ii) If all of the requirements of subparagraph (i) of this paragraph are met, an interception is lawful even if a person becomes a party to the communication following:
1. The identification required under subparagraph (i)3 of this paragraph; or
2. The informing of the parties required under subparagraph (i)4 of this paragraph.
So apparently, they are supposed to tell you you are being recorded by the dashcam.
It's not the US that's the police state, it's Maryland in particular. Along with a small handful of other states too of course, such as New Jersey.
You're right, in part. Multiplayer with people you know is way more fun than with random people online. And, even then, online play is best when you get to know some of those 'random' people and play with the same ones over time. Otherwise, you will always be plagued by idiots and jerks. For some reason, the internet appears to contain a nearly infinite supply of people who do nothing but try to ruin everyone else's fun.
At the bottom there's no way for the courts to fix the DMCA, since it's likely within Congress's powers to enact...
Should not the discussion of technological device and software design, and how to break certain ones, be protected free speech and thus this provision be invalid under the 1st amendment?
...lack of Verizon support. In a lot of places, at least here on the east coast, Verizon is the only carrier with near-universal coverage. It doesn't matter how cool a phone is if it drops calls all the time and has crappy data speeds.
It's only insecure if you pick a ridiculously stupid password. My bank, I believe, locks out the account after 10 failed attempts. Good luck guessing my password in 10 attempts.
What, you expect someone to do a dictionary attack using all possible algorithms that someone could easily remember to transform a phrase? That would clearly be infeasible.
The algorithm itself is part of the secret. Though it alone does not provide enough entropy for a safe password, it does add significantly to the entropy of the chosen phrase.
Honestly, looking at their plot of extinction rates overlain with the 27Ma frequency (their Figure 2), I'm not all that impressed with the correspondence. Some major extinctions are 180 degrees out of phase (e.g., the Late Devonian extinction at ~372Ma and the Early Carboniferous extinction at ~326Ma) and some extinctions are doubled (e.g., the two towards the end of the Permian near 250Ma).
I doubt anyone is claiming that, whatever this hypothetical 27m killer is, it is the only historical cause of mass extinctions. For all we know, the ones that happen at other times are due to completely unrelated causes.
The interest on that is going to kill you...
If nothing else, non-naturally occurring radioactive isotopes in the atmosphere will provide evidence of a species capable of building nuclear weapons for a few million years. By the same logic, we know by isotope measurements taken prior to the first nuclear tests that no other species on this planet performed an aboveground nuclear detonation in the last few million years.
That is a great idea, because it would both be effective and also relatively cheap. The issue would really be the complexity of the process for setting a new number.
Instead, how about just letting customers order 'add on' cards with a lower limit, that deducts from the main card? Making and sending out cards is insanely cheap compared to distributing card-writing devices.
A lot of merchants have insurance to cover such losses, so really nobody loses anything at all. Which is why nobody is motivated to fix it at all. Nobody loses and a few ordinary people get some extra spending money by lifting card numbers.
Insurance does not reduce the cost, it merely makes it predictable. If better theft-prevention measures were put in place, the bank would end up paying lower insurance premiums. There is nothing magic about insurance.
no, the ATM display shows what the card reader looks like. all skimmers I know of either just sit over the card reader with a cam pointed at the keypad or area two-part job over card reader + keypad. So in order to circumvent this the crook would have to install a fake display, too. at that point it'd probably be easier to just put up a whole fake ATM...
More likely if the thieves were worried about the image, they could just make up an official looking sticker or something to slap on the machine that says something like, "the reader on this machine has been upgraded for your safety, please ensure that the reader device looks like this:" with a picture of the compromised device.
This is a locally encrypted file...they don't need to crack the AES key, they just need to brute force the password. Because it is highly unlikely that the password characters are uniformly distributed (more likely a few special characters only), a large distributed attack should be able to 'crack' it with much less difficulty than reversing the AES itself.
It is not crazy to think that the NSA could have this capability.
Perhaps the universe is really full of these things all over the place and we just can't see them? It would seem to be a pretty plausible explanation for the 'missing mass' problem.
How boring would it be if 'dark matter' just turned out to be a bunch of ordinary, super thin gas clouds?
They want you to think ink costs a lot to produce, but it's actually that they are selling the printer as a loss-leader with the idea that the cost will be made up for in ink sales.