If you search on 'Intel C4 noise' you will find a widespread problem with motherboards having a Core Duo or newer processor. It is related to the C4 energy saving state of the processor.
The FTF system would create additional incentive for corporations to spy on people and to surreptitiously farm them for ideas. Those that have the resources for spying on a large scale (hint: the same entities that have legal departments) would consolidate their power.
Woody Allen's Sleeper was an early-1970s flick about a guy who wakes up 200 years in the future, and lo, there are video/Internet bathroom mirrors (to great comic effect).:p
trip to the police station and released a couple minutes later with either a sternly worded warning
Only if they feel like it. Its not uncommon for protesters to be jailed for a day or more with no access to a toilet. And that's after being kettled-in with barbed wire for hours.
You should look up the 2008 Republican National Convention protests. Even members of the press had their badges ripped off by police before being manhandled and abducted.
The anti-pipeline protesters are currently being held for far longer than "a couple minutes".
How else can a gov't jail 1% of its adult population at any given moment? Any government with a "war-on-something" at home is in the business of nullifying civil rights and should be considered at least an honorary member of the totalitarian club.
The main difference here in the USA which helps keep the 'freedom' charade going is that we have a great deal of material and cultural excess to indulge (and to drown out discussion of serious issues). Once that abundance dries up, even conversations such as this one will meet with repressive tactics.
So am I... This one change could make the web twice as safe for most users (and I'm tired of explaining to them which part of the URL is the domain name).
The old Mac OS had about 10% market share in the 1990s, and OS X now has 10% market share. But there was was far more malware for the old Mac OS "back in the day". The false equivalency suggesting that differences in system architecture do not matter has worn very thin: Windows adherents ought to stop wearing it like it was a fig leaf.
Its not trivially easy to throttle since there are too many IPs and they are always shifting and it gives you anon bittorrent/emule (or anything else people decide to write for it as its designed to enable anon P2P unlike Tor).
Many slaves throughout history have been well-treated in the material sense. Ignoramus.
I'd say your response shows how people will refuse to grapple with repression in the midst of relative abundance. The cop-out also implies that people who protest are ungrateful for what they have been given.
Corporations also don't enforce the laws (theoretically anyway) so they don't have the leverage the government does over your freedoms either.
Pardon me, but who do you think runs the government in this country?? Wall St. corporations write the laws and send them to politicians who are absolutely beholden to their approval and largesse.
I think you have it backwards. The cultures most steeped in fear of their fellow citizens are the ones least likely to share resources through entitlement programs (what nany-statism refers to) or through any other means. They have less confidence in collective solutions to problems just as they have less confidence that strangers will treat their loved ones with due respect.
the supposed effects of Nanny-statism. It's the American culture of personal fear and litigiousness that produces some of the most severe anti-social effects on society. Keep the kids indoors hopped-up on gory, fear-mongering crap coming out of the TV.
pclminion is right... Though I would add it has been accompanied by material plenty/abundance. This has made it seem "too nice" to be a police state. Now that the abundance is subsiding its becoming more recognizable to people who rely on Hollywood imagery to define the conditions that we live in.
Frankly, I don't entirely understand why the world hasn't started using SSL Client Certificates,
Because software designers don't have the gumption to make keys and certificates first-class tangible objects within OS and app software, thus leaving them in a sort of no-man's land that even most technicians are ignorant of except the ones that become crypto geeks.
I read what lexsird said about electricity, although I don't think the situation is quite that dramatic because we're not facing regular blackouts yet.
The problem is over-concentrated power and wealth. This stems from an over-concentration of actual power (electricity, oil, etc.) especially in unaccountable hands (private corps with little or no competition). Look at what the then newly-deregulated utilities got away with in California a decade ago... that was like the shot that started the surge toward what Naomi Klein calls Disaster Capitalism.
The best long-term solution I can see is to become very efficient and to promote diffuse power generation (like rooftop solar) as far and wide as is possible... I mean, try to get it into everything much like ICs over the past few decades. In this case the 'everything' is anything that looks or behaves like real estate. We need a power revolution to go along with the computing revolution.
Changing the nature of power in this way is like revolutionizing access to land and water (the two other areas that have to be looked after)... The wider culture should rectify itself.
In the short term, we have to apply this thinking to the media landscape otherwise they will (at best) engage in crazy-making on the above issues while robber-barons continue taking over.
Are you referring to the international "respect" of fabricating lies to invade another country? And not just with Iraq. How about instituting an international network of torture, and an official policy to kill anyone labeled a "combatant" from anywhere on Earth outside a war zone and without a trial?
And that's just for starters.
I think it is your nebulous and cheesy 'big picture' that is lacking in perspective. When Americans have gotten to the point where the resources per capita is just approaching what the EU has now, it will become abundantly clear even to you that all that 'freedom' and "respect" was little more than the freedom of the average westerner to distract themselves with inconsequential or wasteful bullsh!t that kept them out of the way of the kleptocrats.
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If you search on 'Intel C4 noise' you will find a widespread problem with motherboards having a Core Duo or newer processor. It is related to the C4 energy saving state of the processor.
The FTF system would create additional incentive for corporations to spy on people and to surreptitiously farm them for ideas. Those that have the resources for spying on a large scale (hint: the same entities that have legal departments) would consolidate their power.
Woody Allen's Sleeper was an early-1970s flick about a guy who wakes up 200 years in the future, and lo, there are video/Internet bathroom mirrors (to great comic effect). :p
Privacy is just something to gossip about.
I2P provides the anonymity layer for the filesystem.
trip to the police station and released a couple minutes later with either a sternly worded warning
Only if they feel like it. Its not uncommon for protesters to be jailed for a day or more with no access to a toilet. And that's after being kettled-in with barbed wire for hours.
You should look up the 2008 Republican National Convention protests. Even members of the press had their badges ripped off by police before being manhandled and abducted.
The anti-pipeline protesters are currently being held for far longer than "a couple minutes".
How else can a gov't jail 1% of its adult population at any given moment? Any government with a "war-on-something" at home is in the business of nullifying civil rights and should be considered at least an honorary member of the totalitarian club.
The main difference here in the USA which helps keep the 'freedom' charade going is that we have a great deal of material and cultural excess to indulge (and to drown out discussion of serious issues). Once that abundance dries up, even conversations such as this one will meet with repressive tactics.
You are thinking of firewire.
So am I... This one change could make the web twice as safe for most users (and I'm tired of explaining to them which part of the URL is the domain name).
is for people to connect within an anonymizing darknet like I2P. Tor with .onion-only connections would also work, but it is more easily attacked.
That is a very dumb suggestion as the RIAA/MPAA can get your subscriber info from the hosting provider (else the host risks being shut down).
The old Mac OS had about 10% market share in the 1990s, and OS X now has 10% market share. But there was was far more malware for the old Mac OS "back in the day". The false equivalency suggesting that differences in system architecture do not matter has worn very thin: Windows adherents ought to stop wearing it like it was a fig leaf.
Its not trivially easy to throttle since there are too many IPs and they are always shifting and it gives you anon bittorrent/emule (or anything else people decide to write for it as its designed to enable anon P2P unlike Tor).
Many slaves throughout history have been well-treated in the material sense. Ignoramus.
I'd say your response shows how people will refuse to grapple with repression in the midst of relative abundance. The cop-out also implies that people who protest are ungrateful for what they have been given.
Corporations also don't enforce the laws (theoretically anyway) so they don't have the leverage the government does over your freedoms either.
Pardon me, but who do you think runs the government in this country?? Wall St. corporations write the laws and send them to politicians who are absolutely beholden to their approval and largesse.
Just to be certain, this was a joke, right?
It's no joke.
I think I'll be avoiding this version of kernels for some time...
I think you have it backwards. The cultures most steeped in fear of their fellow citizens are the ones least likely to share resources through entitlement programs (what nany-statism refers to) or through any other means. They have less confidence in collective solutions to problems just as they have less confidence that strangers will treat their loved ones with due respect.
the supposed effects of Nanny-statism. It's the American culture of personal fear and litigiousness that produces some of the most severe anti-social effects on society. Keep the kids indoors hopped-up on gory, fear-mongering crap coming out of the TV.
pclminion is right... Though I would add it has been accompanied by material plenty/abundance. This has made it seem "too nice" to be a police state. Now that the abundance is subsiding its becoming more recognizable to people who rely on Hollywood imagery to define the conditions that we live in.
http://www.archive.org/details/AdamCurtis_TheCenturyOfTheSelf
Frankly, I don't entirely understand why the world hasn't started using SSL Client Certificates,
Because software designers don't have the gumption to make keys and certificates first-class tangible objects within OS and app software, thus leaving them in a sort of no-man's land that even most technicians are ignorant of except the ones that become crypto geeks.
permitting an MO that doesn't bring the burdens of illegality.
I think that makes it a FOSS issue.
I read what lexsird said about electricity, although I don't think the situation is quite that dramatic because we're not facing regular blackouts yet.
The problem is over-concentrated power and wealth. This stems from an over-concentration of actual power (electricity, oil, etc.) especially in unaccountable hands (private corps with little or no competition). Look at what the then newly-deregulated utilities got away with in California a decade ago... that was like the shot that started the surge toward what Naomi Klein calls Disaster Capitalism.
The best long-term solution I can see is to become very efficient and to promote diffuse power generation (like rooftop solar) as far and wide as is possible... I mean, try to get it into everything much like ICs over the past few decades. In this case the 'everything' is anything that looks or behaves like real estate. We need a power revolution to go along with the computing revolution.
Changing the nature of power in this way is like revolutionizing access to land and water (the two other areas that have to be looked after)... The wider culture should rectify itself.
In the short term, we have to apply this thinking to the media landscape otherwise they will (at best) engage in crazy-making on the above issues while robber-barons continue taking over.
Are you referring to the international "respect" of fabricating lies to invade another country? And not just with Iraq. How about instituting an international network of torture, and an official policy to kill anyone labeled a "combatant" from anywhere on Earth outside a war zone and without a trial?
And that's just for starters.
I think it is your nebulous and cheesy 'big picture' that is lacking in perspective. When Americans have gotten to the point where the resources per capita is just approaching what the EU has now, it will become abundantly clear even to you that all that 'freedom' and "respect" was little more than the freedom of the average westerner to distract themselves with inconsequential or wasteful bullsh!t that kept them out of the way of the kleptocrats.