This isn't vigilantism, this is simple defacement and theft. Vigilantism is motivated by a desire for justice, and a perceived indifference or selective enforcement of laws. They haven't stated what crimes NVidia should be held accountable for; which means there probably aren't any. Some examples of what 'proper' vigilantism might be motivated by would be illegal dumping of toxic waste, mistreatment of their workforce, manipulation of stock prices, colluding with other manufacturers to fix the prices of key information commodities, or excerting monopoly powers over a market.
Where they "accidentally" released a virus to kill all the rabbits. Just saying that they hav a mixed history with such things.
It's a giant slab of land that's largely unpopulated, and every now and then some stupid mother fucker introduces an invasive species... Like rabbits. Keep it in context. That's no different than what they're doing in the United States to control mosquito populations.
Yeah, well, I'm still waiting for my T-rex I can ride through rush hour traffic. Life might find a way, but it's sometimes helluva slow at doing it. Evolution doesn't operate on a fixed timescale... it stagnates sometimes, and other times leaps forward in epic fashion.
Nope. They're wrong. So are you. The vaccines protect against specific strains of virus. If another viral agent comes along and incorporates either, or both, strains into its genetic makeup and produces a viable virus, it is now transmissible whether the host is immunized or not. Immunization may have provided the raw materials, but the product, once manufactured, no longer requires them.
So if you forego immunization, you're vulnerable to all the strains the immunizations would have protected you against, as well as the new strain. So the anti-vaxxer is not only reducing herd immunity to the strains we can protect against, but also still just as vulnerable to the new virus. The only people who should be opting out of vaccines are those whose vaccination is counter-indicated due to a bona fide medical condition. If you aren't one of those people, and you refuse vaccination, your ass should be deported or jailed, as you pose a clear and present threat to public health -- you're in the same category to me as drunk drivers.
No. Cross-species viruses are rare... Viruses co-opt cells to produce more viruses by injecting their own viral code into the DNA/RNA of the host cell. As a rule, those genetic sequences aren't "cross platform" any more than binary code on a computer is. Cross-species bacterial infection is far more common, as bacterium contains all the materials required to reproduce... it only requires a hospitable environment.
Are aussie chickens exported? (If you order chicken at an Outback steakhouse do you get a bird grown in the USA?
Chickens are raised in almost every country, and exported between them routinely. So yes, it's possible that the chicken you're eating in the USA was raised in Australia. Or the UK. Or China. The real question is, why the hell are you ordering chicken at a steakhouse? I mean, I'm a girl and even I order the steaks there. I'm not gonna go there and order a fucking caesar salad, it'd be blasphemous.
Either you're going to eventually launch it, or not. It will never be 'consumer friendly' since it's a blatantly anti-consumer move intended to whore out to an unrepentantly anti-consumer organization.
Just wait until they've done this to about two dozen decent programmers... they'll invent some new crypto protocol that makes bittorrent look like the redheaded stepchild of piracy... "You can't stop the signal, Mel." -- Mr. Universe
To date, all attempts to create a sealed and self-sustaining biome have failed; Maintaining the air quality over long periods of time is presently an unsolved problem. At present, there's no way for your settlement to completely untether from Earth: You will need regular shipments of supplies, if only to maintain the air quality. Supplies which can only be replenished through industrial processes available here.
This may well be: I reckon is only a matter of how much they'd contribute to their electoral funding.
My point is that we act like we own the world. America, fuck yeah! But the truth is, other people own us. They've got us by the balls, and anytime they want, they just have to squeeze and it's the end of the line for us. We can't manufacture most of the goods and services we depend on. The only thing we have in abundance is fresh water, farmable land, and a lot of nuclear missiles. Everything else is decaying. It's been outsourced. There's a few hundred thousand in this country that are rich, and the rest of us are, or soon will be, dirt poor. We're dependant on the 3rd world to provide everything, they're starting to realize they have everything. It's just a matter of time until they can (and will) take the lead and do away with our exploitations.
Intellectual property is the (failed) attempt to delay this fate of ours... but they saw through it. They're ignoring it. And although we can destroy the world a hundred times over with our military... they are still saying no. And rather than using this antebellum moment to prepare, to maybe even reverse our fate... we're letting those select few rich people ride headlong into our own destruction. And we put them on the cover of Fortune magazine and call them heroes even as they destroy it all.
Years from now, America will be nothing but a lighthouse, telling other countries where not to sail if they want to avoid a ruinous fate.
Can't wait until China starts sending diplomats into our country to enforce their intellectual property laws. I'm sure our esteemed legislator from Texas will be overjoyed to cooperate with Chinese business interests acting within his state.
No woman for this guy. I guess they want the finer things in life!
You need to get out of the basement more. Women don't want the finer things in life. They want the finer people in life. Most women I know who married a rich guy feel they married beneath them. They went through relationship after relationship, meeting asshole after asshole, and finally they decided that if they couldn't have someone who was intelligent, kind, humorous, and compassionate, they'd settle for getting knocked up by some rich guy... at least their kids will be provided for, and there's some chance of being loved in return then.
This guy is willing to take a year out of his life to experiment with art, to answer a question about existance and meaning. This is a guy who is confident enough in who he is and has a solid grasp of what he wants out of life. Unless he's a 4 bagger, odds are good someone will take him home... idealists tend to be compassionate and considerate, and will likely treat his woman with respect and kindness. Now all he needs is a job, a car that doesn't have the death rattle, and some living space... he'll have trouble keeping the girls away.
I really don't want to know is how one programs in toilet paper. Worse, visions of managers telling me I have to eat more taco bell because my... production... is too low. Oh, the puns, the humanity. -_-
More seriously, it would be more accurate to say that he is trying to live a lifestyle in which only products that are part of the public domain or the mechanisms by which it operates must be made available for inspection, and any changes documented and also similarly made available, without cost. Considering how I have even found 'patent pending' stamped on spoons and forks (really, I mean... really?)... I don't imagine he'll be able to survive the year. At least not without a lot of rationalizing and hair pulling.
But while the experiment will probably ultimately fail, it will at least show beyond any doubt how deeply corporations have penetrated into every faucet of daily living. It is simply not possible to live in modern society without giving the devil his due.
What's with the term "Big Pharma"? Is there some sort of mom-and-pop pharmaceutical company that is the alternative to Glaxo-Smith-Kline? Aren't they all big? Isn't there just "Pharma"?
There are a lot of researchers who don't work for those companies. Trying to do things like develop a cure for cancer, HIV, diabetes... things Big Pharma won't do because the cocktails of medications to treat the aforementioned diseases bring in a lot of money. And that money would go away if there was a way to cure those people, instead of just treat them. I can show you stacks of internal memos and documentation showing that the major pharmaceutical companies purposefully stall and delay research into cures, and there have been several cases where they've sued to prevent universities and private researchers from pursuing testing of certain chemical compounds because they infringed on a patent -- after research showed dramatic and sustained improvements in a patient's health that reduced or eliminated their dependancy on already-existing drugs.
It's called Big Pharma because they're not about making sick people better, they're about making money off of sick people -- as long as they stay sick, Big Pharma stays profitable. None of this nonsense about making lightbulbs that last a hundred years... we all know what happened to the company that solved the problem too well.
Why are there too many patents in the USA? because the country is owned by lawyers?
It's not that we have too many patents. It's that patents are used to lock out competitors, inhibit free trade, and are used offensively to protect and expand business. Patents are not used to advance the state of the art, or to make available for public inspection true advances in science, technology, or methodology... they're used solely as weapons of mass distraction.
And it has utterly destroyed our ability to compete globally. There is no more innovation in this country -- building a product now has to be done overseas, not because it's cheaper as much as because it's necessary: Basing your operations domestically means that if your competitor wins in a patent suit, your entire business could go tits up -- you can't export something that's in violation of a patent. This way, you can continue to sell your product in other marketplaces while going through our endless appeals process. Your manufacturing process can't be threatened if its based in a country that doesn't have a corrupted patent system.
I do not find many people that disagree with the idea of patents: Namely, that you publish how something works, and then for a limited period of time, you are allowed exclusive rights to sell that something. Then everyone is allowed to do it. When the patent system was first invented (pre-industrial era), new inventions came out every few years. The steam engine, which became the locomotive, which became the combustion engine, which became the car, etc. Technological progress from decade to decade wasn't that fast. Ford created the assembly line, and 14 years later, it was still a novel concept. Today, much of the equipment and processes we had a decade ago isn't worth much more than scrap. 10 years is a very long time. But patents still have the same timeframe; 7 to 14 years. 14 years ago, broadband internet was a luxury item only the rich and a few people lucky enough to be in the right neighborhoods could get... Today, it's just assumed you'll have access to it, and at a reasonable price.
The patent system needs to take into account the industry in which the patent's primary use is: Metallurgy, for example... not exactly a fast-moving industry. Software design... very fast moving industry. It's stupid that the time limits are the same for a new computer algorithm, or a new metal deposition technique.
The other part of this is the originality of the invention; A hundred years ago, every invention was novel, because few people had the resources to research, prototype, develop, and market something new. Today, there are hacker spaces in most metropolitan areas. Anyone with an idea for a new idea, process, or concept, can plunk down a few thousand and develop a new invention. A lot of it isn't even original; it's repurposing technology designed for a different use. And that's where the patent system fails miserably -- today, they take a patent for encoding binary data over copper wires (original idea), and when it expires, they submit a new patent for encoding data over the internet. Same tech. Same concept. Slightly different application. New patent. BZZZZT! No. No new patent should be given. Only truly original, game-changing technology, something that advances the state of the art, should be awarded a patent. Otherwise, it's just re-engineering... anyone with a basic grasp of the concepts could do it.
Fix those two problems, fix most of what's wrong with the patent system today. Most.
In America, there has to be a winner to celebrate, everyone else is a failure.
If you're under the age of 25, everyone is a winner. We wouldn't want to give people the impression that life is hard. Or that sometimes the only way to achieve something is with teamwork. Or even that the effort yields its own rewards. Fuck that noise -- I want everything now, with a large fry, and if anyone has a problem with that, I'll mount an uzi on my mobility scooter and rain bullets upon your shitty country while drinking beer and shouting "AAAAAMERICA, FUCK YEA!"
IIRC, crypto algorithms that use keys that large qualify as munitions and are subject to ITAR export regulations. Which means a lot of people with legal licenses will be (legally, anyway) prevented from making use of any Windows feature which requires a key length of 1024 bits or more.
This also begs the question of why they allowed shorter keys to begin with... o_o
Florida just closed down it's only state hospital specializing in tuberculosis cases on July 2nd. Bad timing.
Timing had nothing to do with it. It was politics. That's the problem with cutting back on social programs: They stabilize the quality of life for the general population. Take them away, and they're now subject to the random, chaotic, and violent twists of unbridled capitalism. And combine poor economic conditions with an outbreak of plague... and if you don't have any social support programs, well... grab a mirror so you can properly bend over and kiss your ass goodbye.
It's the same thing with unemployment insurance and food stamps, and other forms of economic assistance; During times of economic prosperity, these services go largely unused, so they can stockpile funding for periods of economic downturn, and in so doing, moderate the highs and lows inherent in a capitalist system. What's even stupider about this: All the social programs, health care, welfare, unemployment insurance... all of it, would be amply funded without costing a single taxpayer dollar if during those aforementioned periods of economic prosperity, the unused funding for those programs was diverted into investments. Spain has a robust social security program; Every person in the country is guaranteed social security. You know how much they pay into the system for that? Nothing. Nodda.
Short term thinking, people. It'll fuck you every time.
TB was pretty much a solved problem in the 1st world. Then we decided we couldn't force people into quarantine to ensure they got proper treatment and to prevent the spread of such a readily transmissible disease. And then AIDS pitched in to help brew up especially virilent strains in immune compromised patients with no self control. Add in the general problem if drug resistence and we have a major epidemic waiting to happen. Who knows where it will go nuts, but sooner or later... BAM!
You've correctly identified the problem, but not the cause. In this country, the poor do not receive medical treatment. This historically leads to plague. It happened in Rome. It happened in London. And now it's happening here. And ObamaCare won't solve a damn thing: It only succeeds in criminalizing being poor. Now, if you don't carry the health insurance you couldn't afford before ObamaCare, you'll be fined. And when you can't pay the fine, because you can't afford that either, you'll go to jail. Where you'll then receive no medical treatment, get sick, and while walls and bars may stop people, they don't stop plague.
So you see, ObamaCare might seem like a modern thing, but it's really a very ancient thing -- and it's also a bad implimentation of said ancient thing. You take care of your sick and your poor. Period. You don't do that, and everybody dies. America won't be destroyed by terrorists, or some nation-state going nuclear, or a military invasion. It's going to die because we all get sick and perish because we failed to learn the lesson that the world has been teaching humanity for the past 20,000 years:
Either you keep the population healthy, or you die. All. Of. You. It really is just that simple.
There's no need to decipher content. The time it was sent and the total size of the content is likely sufficient to identify the downloaded data when the host is forensically analyzed. The point here isn't to crack the network; The point is to say that "it is more probable than not that if the source had a 8.6GB file... and it was transferred to the destination, then if you find an 8.6GB file with a last modified timestamp corresponding to the last packet sent between the two, that this content is what was passed between the two."
You don't have to crack the encryption; it's enough if you can just say that a certain amount of data was exchanged between two nodes. The timing of each piece of data as it moves through the network would allow you to reconstruct this. Although Freenet does provide strong protection against certain types of traffic analysis -- you can't decrypt the content exchanged between the nodes, but you can identify which communications belong with which 'color' for lack of a better term. And if you forensically analyze the nodes, or compromise a certain percentage of them, then you can identify who is requesting what. It's not like bittorrent, you are correct -- there's no hashes and such being passed in plaintext. But complex differential analysis of the IP headers and forensic analysis of a subset of the nodes can be sufficient to say 'it's more likely than not that this content was what is actually being requested by the suspect node'.
You don't have to be certain to get a search warrant. You just need to say it's more likely than not.
Do the crazy cat ladies have cats because they are crazy, or are they crazy because they have cats?
The parasite also causes decreased sexual inhibition. Translation: It makes women sluttier. No corresponding effect was found in men. Of course, this effect isn't as widely documented for obvious political reasons...
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1-what crime?
Making profit.
2-Who died and made them the long arm of the law?
Nobody died and they aren't the law.
This isn't vigilantism, this is simple defacement and theft. Vigilantism is motivated by a desire for justice, and a perceived indifference or selective enforcement of laws. They haven't stated what crimes NVidia should be held accountable for; which means there probably aren't any. Some examples of what 'proper' vigilantism might be motivated by would be illegal dumping of toxic waste, mistreatment of their workforce, manipulation of stock prices, colluding with other manufacturers to fix the prices of key information commodities, or excerting monopoly powers over a market.
Where they "accidentally" released a virus to kill all the rabbits. Just saying that they hav a mixed history with such things.
It's a giant slab of land that's largely unpopulated, and every now and then some stupid mother fucker introduces an invasive species... Like rabbits. Keep it in context. That's no different than what they're doing in the United States to control mosquito populations.
Don't cross the strains! You get a Megazord of a virus.
No, you get one of the ingredients for smores.
Yeah, well, I'm still waiting for my T-rex I can ride through rush hour traffic. Life might find a way, but it's sometimes helluva slow at doing it. Evolution doesn't operate on a fixed timescale... it stagnates sometimes, and other times leaps forward in epic fashion.
The problem is, they are not wrong.
Nope. They're wrong. So are you. The vaccines protect against specific strains of virus. If another viral agent comes along and incorporates either, or both, strains into its genetic makeup and produces a viable virus, it is now transmissible whether the host is immunized or not. Immunization may have provided the raw materials, but the product, once manufactured, no longer requires them.
So if you forego immunization, you're vulnerable to all the strains the immunizations would have protected you against, as well as the new strain. So the anti-vaxxer is not only reducing herd immunity to the strains we can protect against, but also still just as vulnerable to the new virus. The only people who should be opting out of vaccines are those whose vaccination is counter-indicated due to a bona fide medical condition. If you aren't one of those people, and you refuse vaccination, your ass should be deported or jailed, as you pose a clear and present threat to public health -- you're in the same category to me as drunk drivers.
Can you catch it if you eat a chicken?
No. Cross-species viruses are rare... Viruses co-opt cells to produce more viruses by injecting their own viral code into the DNA/RNA of the host cell. As a rule, those genetic sequences aren't "cross platform" any more than binary code on a computer is. Cross-species bacterial infection is far more common, as bacterium contains all the materials required to reproduce... it only requires a hospitable environment.
Are aussie chickens exported? (If you order chicken at an Outback steakhouse do you get a bird grown in the USA?
Chickens are raised in almost every country, and exported between them routinely. So yes, it's possible that the chicken you're eating in the USA was raised in Australia. Or the UK. Or China. The real question is, why the hell are you ordering chicken at a steakhouse? I mean, I'm a girl and even I order the steaks there. I'm not gonna go there and order a fucking caesar salad, it'd be blasphemous.
In other words, control freaks who can't stand traveling at the speed limit will be able to
...Modchip the car to manually select the operating speed of the vehicle. FTFY.
Either you're going to eventually launch it, or not. It will never be 'consumer friendly' since it's a blatantly anti-consumer move intended to whore out to an unrepentantly anti-consumer organization.
Just wait until they've done this to about two dozen decent programmers... they'll invent some new crypto protocol that makes bittorrent look like the redheaded stepchild of piracy... "You can't stop the signal, Mel." -- Mr. Universe
To date, all attempts to create a sealed and self-sustaining biome have failed; Maintaining the air quality over long periods of time is presently an unsolved problem. At present, there's no way for your settlement to completely untether from Earth: You will need regular shipments of supplies, if only to maintain the air quality. Supplies which can only be replenished through industrial processes available here.
How do you plan on addressing this major problem?
never used Adobe Premiere?
He said toilet paper, not sodomy with six feet of iron wrought fencing and no lube.
This may well be: I reckon is only a matter of how much they'd contribute to their electoral funding.
My point is that we act like we own the world. America, fuck yeah! But the truth is, other people own us. They've got us by the balls, and anytime they want, they just have to squeeze and it's the end of the line for us. We can't manufacture most of the goods and services we depend on. The only thing we have in abundance is fresh water, farmable land, and a lot of nuclear missiles. Everything else is decaying. It's been outsourced. There's a few hundred thousand in this country that are rich, and the rest of us are, or soon will be, dirt poor. We're dependant on the 3rd world to provide everything, they're starting to realize they have everything. It's just a matter of time until they can (and will) take the lead and do away with our exploitations.
Intellectual property is the (failed) attempt to delay this fate of ours... but they saw through it. They're ignoring it. And although we can destroy the world a hundred times over with our military... they are still saying no. And rather than using this antebellum moment to prepare, to maybe even reverse our fate... we're letting those select few rich people ride headlong into our own destruction. And we put them on the cover of Fortune magazine and call them heroes even as they destroy it all.
Years from now, America will be nothing but a lighthouse, telling other countries where not to sail if they want to avoid a ruinous fate.
Can't wait until China starts sending diplomats into our country to enforce their intellectual property laws. I'm sure our esteemed legislator from Texas will be overjoyed to cooperate with Chinese business interests acting within his state.
No woman for this guy. I guess they want the finer things in life!
You need to get out of the basement more. Women don't want the finer things in life. They want the finer people in life. Most women I know who married a rich guy feel they married beneath them. They went through relationship after relationship, meeting asshole after asshole, and finally they decided that if they couldn't have someone who was intelligent, kind, humorous, and compassionate, they'd settle for getting knocked up by some rich guy... at least their kids will be provided for, and there's some chance of being loved in return then.
This guy is willing to take a year out of his life to experiment with art, to answer a question about existance and meaning. This is a guy who is confident enough in who he is and has a solid grasp of what he wants out of life. Unless he's a 4 bagger, odds are good someone will take him home... idealists tend to be compassionate and considerate, and will likely treat his woman with respect and kindness. Now all he needs is a job, a car that doesn't have the death rattle, and some living space... he'll have trouble keeping the girls away.
You do realize that "Open Source Women" are the one with the pretty old professional skill set???
Perhaps, but men are the retards that keep paying for a free product.
I really don't want to know is how one programs in toilet paper. Worse, visions of managers telling me I have to eat more taco bell because my... production... is too low. Oh, the puns, the humanity. -_-
More seriously, it would be more accurate to say that he is trying to live a lifestyle in which only products that are part of the public domain or the mechanisms by which it operates must be made available for inspection, and any changes documented and also similarly made available, without cost. Considering how I have even found 'patent pending' stamped on spoons and forks (really, I mean... really?)... I don't imagine he'll be able to survive the year. At least not without a lot of rationalizing and hair pulling.
But while the experiment will probably ultimately fail, it will at least show beyond any doubt how deeply corporations have penetrated into every faucet of daily living. It is simply not possible to live in modern society without giving the devil his due.
What's with the term "Big Pharma"? Is there some sort of mom-and-pop pharmaceutical company that is the alternative to Glaxo-Smith-Kline? Aren't they all big? Isn't there just "Pharma"?
There are a lot of researchers who don't work for those companies. Trying to do things like develop a cure for cancer, HIV, diabetes... things Big Pharma won't do because the cocktails of medications to treat the aforementioned diseases bring in a lot of money. And that money would go away if there was a way to cure those people, instead of just treat them. I can show you stacks of internal memos and documentation showing that the major pharmaceutical companies purposefully stall and delay research into cures, and there have been several cases where they've sued to prevent universities and private researchers from pursuing testing of certain chemical compounds because they infringed on a patent -- after research showed dramatic and sustained improvements in a patient's health that reduced or eliminated their dependancy on already-existing drugs.
It's called Big Pharma because they're not about making sick people better, they're about making money off of sick people -- as long as they stay sick, Big Pharma stays profitable. None of this nonsense about making lightbulbs that last a hundred years... we all know what happened to the company that solved the problem too well.
Why are there too many patents in the USA? because the country is owned by lawyers?
It's not that we have too many patents. It's that patents are used to lock out competitors, inhibit free trade, and are used offensively to protect and expand business. Patents are not used to advance the state of the art, or to make available for public inspection true advances in science, technology, or methodology... they're used solely as weapons of mass distraction.
And it has utterly destroyed our ability to compete globally. There is no more innovation in this country -- building a product now has to be done overseas, not because it's cheaper as much as because it's necessary: Basing your operations domestically means that if your competitor wins in a patent suit, your entire business could go tits up -- you can't export something that's in violation of a patent. This way, you can continue to sell your product in other marketplaces while going through our endless appeals process. Your manufacturing process can't be threatened if its based in a country that doesn't have a corrupted patent system.
I do not find many people that disagree with the idea of patents: Namely, that you publish how something works, and then for a limited period of time, you are allowed exclusive rights to sell that something. Then everyone is allowed to do it. When the patent system was first invented (pre-industrial era), new inventions came out every few years. The steam engine, which became the locomotive, which became the combustion engine, which became the car, etc. Technological progress from decade to decade wasn't that fast. Ford created the assembly line, and 14 years later, it was still a novel concept. Today, much of the equipment and processes we had a decade ago isn't worth much more than scrap. 10 years is a very long time. But patents still have the same timeframe; 7 to 14 years. 14 years ago, broadband internet was a luxury item only the rich and a few people lucky enough to be in the right neighborhoods could get... Today, it's just assumed you'll have access to it, and at a reasonable price.
The patent system needs to take into account the industry in which the patent's primary use is: Metallurgy, for example... not exactly a fast-moving industry. Software design... very fast moving industry. It's stupid that the time limits are the same for a new computer algorithm, or a new metal deposition technique.
The other part of this is the originality of the invention; A hundred years ago, every invention was novel, because few people had the resources to research, prototype, develop, and market something new. Today, there are hacker spaces in most metropolitan areas. Anyone with an idea for a new idea, process, or concept, can plunk down a few thousand and develop a new invention. A lot of it isn't even original; it's repurposing technology designed for a different use. And that's where the patent system fails miserably -- today, they take a patent for encoding binary data over copper wires (original idea), and when it expires, they submit a new patent for encoding data over the internet. Same tech. Same concept. Slightly different application. New patent. BZZZZT! No. No new patent should be given. Only truly original, game-changing technology, something that advances the state of the art, should be awarded a patent. Otherwise, it's just re-engineering... anyone with a basic grasp of the concepts could do it.
Fix those two problems, fix most of what's wrong with the patent system today. Most.
In America, there has to be a winner to celebrate, everyone else is a failure.
If you're under the age of 25, everyone is a winner. We wouldn't want to give people the impression that life is hard. Or that sometimes the only way to achieve something is with teamwork. Or even that the effort yields its own rewards. Fuck that noise -- I want everything now, with a large fry, and if anyone has a problem with that, I'll mount an uzi on my mobility scooter and rain bullets upon your shitty country while drinking beer and shouting "AAAAAMERICA, FUCK YEA!"
IIRC, crypto algorithms that use keys that large qualify as munitions and are subject to ITAR export regulations. Which means a lot of people with legal licenses will be (legally, anyway) prevented from making use of any Windows feature which requires a key length of 1024 bits or more.
This also begs the question of why they allowed shorter keys to begin with... o_o
Spain also has 24% unemployment and is desperately trying to stave off financial collapse. This is the model you want us to follow?
My house is painted muave, and the war on Iraq cost us trillions. Therefore, we should ban the color purple.
Florida just closed down it's only state hospital specializing in tuberculosis cases on July 2nd. Bad timing.
Timing had nothing to do with it. It was politics. That's the problem with cutting back on social programs: They stabilize the quality of life for the general population. Take them away, and they're now subject to the random, chaotic, and violent twists of unbridled capitalism. And combine poor economic conditions with an outbreak of plague... and if you don't have any social support programs, well... grab a mirror so you can properly bend over and kiss your ass goodbye.
It's the same thing with unemployment insurance and food stamps, and other forms of economic assistance; During times of economic prosperity, these services go largely unused, so they can stockpile funding for periods of economic downturn, and in so doing, moderate the highs and lows inherent in a capitalist system. What's even stupider about this: All the social programs, health care, welfare, unemployment insurance... all of it, would be amply funded without costing a single taxpayer dollar if during those aforementioned periods of economic prosperity, the unused funding for those programs was diverted into investments. Spain has a robust social security program; Every person in the country is guaranteed social security. You know how much they pay into the system for that? Nothing. Nodda.
Short term thinking, people. It'll fuck you every time.
TB was pretty much a solved problem in the 1st world. Then we decided we couldn't force people into quarantine to ensure they got proper treatment and to prevent the spread of such a readily transmissible disease. And then AIDS pitched in to help brew up especially virilent strains in immune compromised patients with no self control. Add in the general problem if drug resistence and we have a major epidemic waiting to happen. Who knows where it will go nuts, but sooner or later... BAM!
You've correctly identified the problem, but not the cause. In this country, the poor do not receive medical treatment. This historically leads to plague. It happened in Rome. It happened in London. And now it's happening here. And ObamaCare won't solve a damn thing: It only succeeds in criminalizing being poor. Now, if you don't carry the health insurance you couldn't afford before ObamaCare, you'll be fined. And when you can't pay the fine, because you can't afford that either, you'll go to jail. Where you'll then receive no medical treatment, get sick, and while walls and bars may stop people, they don't stop plague.
So you see, ObamaCare might seem like a modern thing, but it's really a very ancient thing -- and it's also a bad implimentation of said ancient thing. You take care of your sick and your poor. Period. You don't do that, and everybody dies. America won't be destroyed by terrorists, or some nation-state going nuclear, or a military invasion. It's going to die because we all get sick and perish because we failed to learn the lesson that the world has been teaching humanity for the past 20,000 years:
Either you keep the population healthy, or you die. All. Of. You. It really is just that simple.
There's no need to decipher content. The time it was sent and the total size of the content is likely sufficient to identify the downloaded data when the host is forensically analyzed. The point here isn't to crack the network; The point is to say that "it is more probable than not that if the source had a 8.6GB file... and it was transferred to the destination, then if you find an 8.6GB file with a last modified timestamp corresponding to the last packet sent between the two, that this content is what was passed between the two."
You don't have to crack the encryption; it's enough if you can just say that a certain amount of data was exchanged between two nodes. The timing of each piece of data as it moves through the network would allow you to reconstruct this. Although Freenet does provide strong protection against certain types of traffic analysis -- you can't decrypt the content exchanged between the nodes, but you can identify which communications belong with which 'color' for lack of a better term. And if you forensically analyze the nodes, or compromise a certain percentage of them, then you can identify who is requesting what. It's not like bittorrent, you are correct -- there's no hashes and such being passed in plaintext. But complex differential analysis of the IP headers and forensic analysis of a subset of the nodes can be sufficient to say 'it's more likely than not that this content was what is actually being requested by the suspect node'.
You don't have to be certain to get a search warrant. You just need to say it's more likely than not.
Do the crazy cat ladies have cats because they are crazy, or are they crazy because they have cats?
The parasite also causes decreased sexual inhibition. Translation: It makes women sluttier. No corresponding effect was found in men. Of course, this effect isn't as widely documented for obvious political reasons...