What China and Iran don't understand is that they may be able to completely cut their citizens off from the outside world of the Internet, but they're not going to stop dissent or people from organizing protests. The Internet has only been around for mere decades; people have been around orders of magnitude longer, and if enough people in a geographical region are unhappy with the way things are, they'll find a way to get together, share ideas and information, and perhaps overthrow their government if if comes to that.
I still have a CRT TV, and won't be upgrading it until it dies. TiVo takes care of downconverting HD content for it. I have little incentive to upgrade, especially with money so tight. 3D? Who needs it. I've been to 3D movies, they're OK, but I wouldn't pay extra to see them. Finally: I don't think I'm alone, far from it in fact.
I agree with you, and it's worse than you think: The government and corporations are now actively dumbing down the public, because an informed, educated populace is a dangerous (to their agenda) populace. Of course it's the absolute worst thing you can do in the long run, because nations will fall because of it, but these people (if I may use the word loosely here) don't care about the long term, they only care about NOW, their profit, and their private parts being serviced regularly. If, after they're dead, the whole world falls to pieces, why should they care? They had tons of cash, and all the power and sex they could want, and fuck everyone and everything else.
I agree with you. Make life inconvenient for the sheep, to show them that everything is NOT OK.
..but it's a childish idea that completely ignores the realities that it'd either get fucked up when too many people got involved with it, or it'd be used to commit crimes, or it'd be assumed to be used to commit crimes, so one government or the other would confiscate control of it.
We need to stop indulging in fantasies and accept the reality: We need to save the Internet we have, keep the asshole corporations and the asshole dictators of the world from destroying it. If everyone stopped using the Internet there would be no Internet; the power to shape what the Internet will become is in the hands of the people who use it, not the asshole corporations and dictators of the world. Stand up for it.
Nope, you did misread it: It says that nobody can access any website that isn't hosted in Belarus, and you can't host your Belarus-based company's website outside of Belarus. Furthermore, they're going to censor Belarus websites as they see fit. So, no Google, no Facebook, no Amazon, no anything that isn't wholly contained within Belarus. They may as well cut all physical connections with the rest of the internet.
You're missing the point. In corporate-run America, you will own nothing, but you will pay for the privilege of using whatever item we're talking about.
If you live in that country you may as well just stop using the internet completely then, since it's effectively not the internet anymore, just an extremely small walled garden. Anyone want to take bets on exactly how many weeks this continues before they rescind it? A move like this couldn't be good for any country's economy.
Better watch out. Your camera manufacturer may change the EULA on the software your camera runs, claiming copyright on all photographs taken with the camera that you are granted license to use (you didn't really think that you OWN the camera, did you? No no silly boy, you merely bought a license to use it! All you base are belong to us!), therefore anything you post online is an infringement on THEIR copyright. Don't worry, I'm sure they'll let you off with a warning -- and a royalty fee for every photo you post on your website. Oh, and you website hosting company may change their EULA to claim copyright on all content they're hosting -- merely to protect YOU, of course -- so don't go thinking you own any of that, either. As if you ever did: The EULA on the software you used to create your site? Same deal: they change the EULA, and viola! Nothing you create with it is really yours, you just have a limited license to it, revokable more or less any time they decide you did, and unless you have a zillion dollars to pay a lawyer to fight it, you're screwed. And so on, and so on. Welcome to the world of SOPA: You own NOTHING.
Dumb idea. What they're planning, assuming they go through with it, is much better: affect everyone, because that's what SOPA will do. I'd be happy if they blacked out for a full week, really drive the point home to everyone.
Wow, I'm just so taken by surprise by this! I would never have guessed in a million years that something like this could have happened! Oh, and look at this! The GMO corn may well be causing organ failures in mammals that eat it! How could that have possibly happened?
Fuck them if they tried. Start paying for all your groceries with cash instead of using a debit or credit card. Eat your lunch at work in your car, where they can't audit what you're eating. This is by far the stupidest idea I've ever heard of, it's not practical and not enforceable and it's about as un-American as anything can get. George Orwell, if he could, would rise from the dead just to tell us "I told you so, but you didn't listen!". NO ONE will go along with this.
What make you think that YOU are any better or more entitled than anyone else to determine what someone should or should not be eating?
I am an endurance athlete; I race bikes. If I ate 33% across the board of fat, carbs, and protein, I would fail on the bike from a lack of energy from carbs. I have to eat closer to 25%/50%/25% in the off-season and 15%/60%/25% during race season to stay healthy and be successful.
This is a STUPID idea. In the end, you CANNOT force people to eat what they don't want to eat, and and CANNOT force people to NOT eat things they want to eat. This is the stupidest idea I've ever heard of, even stupider than the "alternative calendar" story from yesterday. Want people to stop being fat-as-fatass? How about we outlaw HFCS for starters, then get after the fast-food industry for providing cheap, shitty food in huge quantities that is designed to be addictive in the first place, encouraging people to stuff their faces and become morbidly obese? How about we teach people how to cook instead of making processed foods cheap and attractive?
How about we work on things like world peace, world hunger, world energy shortages, global climate change, global pollution, worldwide human rights, etc. before we start "fixing" something that really isn't broken in the first place? For that matter, how about we work on abolishing daylight savings time entirely as a stupid idea that just screws with people's natural sleep patterns? Seriously, I think some people come up with this shit just because they're attention whores.
Why mod this person down? Are any of you actually refuting the well-know fact that China has been activey hacking U.S. sites for years now? Isn't it about time for this shit to stop? Or are you all a bunch of communist sympathizers?
Never mind whether or not you really need a smartphone (although I think most people do NOT need one), I want to know how you get cellphone service for $4 per month?
theoretically this technology could allow a grocer to put a picture on the store package of the pig you are eating
Considering how disconnected the average person is from where their food comes from, I think putting a face on the meat you're buying would turn many people's stomachs -- and maybe turn them off eating meat. Oh well, more bacon for the rest of us!
If your UAV is flying under a tree, you've got much worse problems than whether or not your onboard navigation is being fed bullshit GPS signals or not.:p
My point is there should be a way for military GPS receivers to detect whether they're being fed bogus satellite signals, and it's something that should be able to be done in the receiver's firmware.
I'm more tempted to believe that they don't want to understand anything that won't help them get (re-)elected, and they don't understand the internet enough to realize how important it is.
One way that immediately comes to mind, would be to have the GPS receiver detect jamming/spoofing attempts by tracking satellite S/N ratio. If it suddenly goes up, or goes higher than a predetermined threshold, then you've got fake GPS data incoming. In other words, you use the fact that GPS satellite signals are so weak to begin with, and therefore harder to spoof in that regard.
I concur. On the one hand, "Nice hack!" if this is true, but on the other hand how could something allegedly so full of classified tech not have more backup systems or plans just for such an eventuality? At the very worst, if it's decided it's totally and irrevocably lost, self-destruct to protect it's secrets? I don't think this is the end of the story.
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Don't want to be tracked? Turn off your cellphone when you enter areas using this tracking technology.
What China and Iran don't understand is that they may be able to completely cut their citizens off from the outside world of the Internet, but they're not going to stop dissent or people from organizing protests. The Internet has only been around for mere decades; people have been around orders of magnitude longer, and if enough people in a geographical region are unhappy with the way things are, they'll find a way to get together, share ideas and information, and perhaps overthrow their government if if comes to that.
I still have a CRT TV, and won't be upgrading it until it dies. TiVo takes care of downconverting HD content for it. I have little incentive to upgrade, especially with money so tight. 3D? Who needs it. I've been to 3D movies, they're OK, but I wouldn't pay extra to see them. Finally: I don't think I'm alone, far from it in fact.
Perhaps Diebold should take the same approach to vote-tabulating machines.
Sure thing. Then scumbag politicians need only hack one computer to steal an election, rather than having to hack a whole bunch of separate computers.
You can't stop the signal, Mal. Everything goes somewhere, and I go everywhere.
I agree with you, and it's worse than you think: The government and corporations are now actively dumbing down the public, because an informed, educated populace is a dangerous (to their agenda) populace. Of course it's the absolute worst thing you can do in the long run, because nations will fall because of it, but these people (if I may use the word loosely here) don't care about the long term, they only care about NOW, their profit, and their private parts being serviced regularly. If, after they're dead, the whole world falls to pieces, why should they care? They had tons of cash, and all the power and sex they could want, and fuck everyone and everything else.
I agree with you. Make life inconvenient for the sheep, to show them that everything is NOT OK.
..but it's a childish idea that completely ignores the realities that it'd either get fucked up when too many people got involved with it, or it'd be used to commit crimes, or it'd be assumed to be used to commit crimes, so one government or the other would confiscate control of it.
We need to stop indulging in fantasies and accept the reality: We need to save the Internet we have, keep the asshole corporations and the asshole dictators of the world from destroying it. If everyone stopped using the Internet there would be no Internet; the power to shape what the Internet will become is in the hands of the people who use it, not the asshole corporations and dictators of the world. Stand up for it.
Nope, you did misread it: It says that nobody can access any website that isn't hosted in Belarus, and you can't host your Belarus-based company's website outside of Belarus. Furthermore, they're going to censor Belarus websites as they see fit. So, no Google, no Facebook, no Amazon, no anything that isn't wholly contained within Belarus. They may as well cut all physical connections with the rest of the internet.
You're missing the point. In corporate-run America, you will own nothing, but you will pay for the privilege of using whatever item we're talking about.
If you live in that country you may as well just stop using the internet completely then, since it's effectively not the internet anymore, just an extremely small walled garden. Anyone want to take bets on exactly how many weeks this continues before they rescind it? A move like this couldn't be good for any country's economy.
Better watch out. Your camera manufacturer may change the EULA on the software your camera runs, claiming copyright on all photographs taken with the camera that you are granted license to use (you didn't really think that you OWN the camera, did you? No no silly boy, you merely bought a license to use it! All you base are belong to us!), therefore anything you post online is an infringement on THEIR copyright. Don't worry, I'm sure they'll let you off with a warning -- and a royalty fee for every photo you post on your website. Oh, and you website hosting company may change their EULA to claim copyright on all content they're hosting -- merely to protect YOU, of course -- so don't go thinking you own any of that, either. As if you ever did: The EULA on the software you used to create your site? Same deal: they change the EULA, and viola! Nothing you create with it is really yours, you just have a limited license to it, revokable more or less any time they decide you did, and unless you have a zillion dollars to pay a lawyer to fight it, you're screwed. And so on, and so on. Welcome to the world of SOPA: You own NOTHING.
Dumb idea. What they're planning, assuming they go through with it, is much better: affect everyone, because that's what SOPA will do. I'd be happy if they blacked out for a full week, really drive the point home to everyone.
Wow, I'm just so taken by surprise by this! I would never have guessed in a million years that something like this could have happened! Oh, and look at this! The GMO corn may well be causing organ failures in mammals that eat it! How could that have possibly happened?
Monsanto == Umbrella Corporation
Fuck them if they tried. Start paying for all your groceries with cash instead of using a debit or credit card. Eat your lunch at work in your car, where they can't audit what you're eating. This is by far the stupidest idea I've ever heard of, it's not practical and not enforceable and it's about as un-American as anything can get. George Orwell, if he could, would rise from the dead just to tell us "I told you so, but you didn't listen!". NO ONE will go along with this.
What make you think that YOU are any better or more entitled than anyone else to determine what someone should or should not be eating?
I am an endurance athlete; I race bikes. If I ate 33% across the board of fat, carbs, and protein, I would fail on the bike from a lack of energy from carbs. I have to eat closer to 25%/50%/25% in the off-season and 15%/60%/25% during race season to stay healthy and be successful.
This is a STUPID idea. In the end, you CANNOT force people to eat what they don't want to eat, and and CANNOT force people to NOT eat things they want to eat. This is the stupidest idea I've ever heard of, even stupider than the "alternative calendar" story from yesterday. Want people to stop being fat-as-fatass? How about we outlaw HFCS for starters, then get after the fast-food industry for providing cheap, shitty food in huge quantities that is designed to be addictive in the first place, encouraging people to stuff their faces and become morbidly obese? How about we teach people how to cook instead of making processed foods cheap and attractive?
How about we work on things like world peace, world hunger, world energy shortages, global climate change, global pollution, worldwide human rights, etc. before we start "fixing" something that really isn't broken in the first place? For that matter, how about we work on abolishing daylight savings time entirely as a stupid idea that just screws with people's natural sleep patterns? Seriously, I think some people come up with this shit just because they're attention whores.
Why mod this person down? Are any of you actually refuting the well-know fact that China has been activey hacking U.S. sites for years now? Isn't it about time for this shit to stop? Or are you all a bunch of communist sympathizers?
Never mind whether or not you really need a smartphone (although I think most people do NOT need one), I want to know how you get cellphone service for $4 per month?
Fish and other seafood don't really have a "face"; they may as well be aliens to this world. Mammals, on the other hand, do have an identifiable face.
theoretically this technology could allow a grocer to put a picture on the store package of the pig you are eating
Considering how disconnected the average person is from where their food comes from, I think putting a face on the meat you're buying would turn many people's stomachs -- and maybe turn them off eating meat. Oh well, more bacon for the rest of us!
..walk under a tree
If your UAV is flying under a tree, you've got much worse problems than whether or not your onboard navigation is being fed bullshit GPS signals or not. :p
My point is there should be a way for military GPS receivers to detect whether they're being fed bogus satellite signals, and it's something that should be able to be done in the receiver's firmware.
I'm more tempted to believe that they don't want to understand anything that won't help them get (re-)elected, and they don't understand the internet enough to realize how important it is.
One way that immediately comes to mind, would be to have the GPS receiver detect jamming/spoofing attempts by tracking satellite S/N ratio. If it suddenly goes up, or goes higher than a predetermined threshold, then you've got fake GPS data incoming. In other words, you use the fact that GPS satellite signals are so weak to begin with, and therefore harder to spoof in that regard.
I concur. On the one hand, "Nice hack!" if this is true, but on the other hand how could something allegedly so full of classified tech not have more backup systems or plans just for such an eventuality? At the very worst, if it's decided it's totally and irrevocably lost, self-destruct to protect it's secrets? I don't think this is the end of the story.