Great, yea give the guy who just wanted his stapler the power to fuck with anyone. Lets see here, I have the logs, I have the access, I don't like you. Uploading child porn. Where would you find child porn? Fuck it, pay an artist 5 bucks, or draw it yourself. Stick figures should do it, just label it, "The pictured stick figures are minors." Dial the hotline. Too easy to destroy someone this way, but much like terrorism it's hard to even talk about it in a public setting reasonably. Politicians? Forget it, they can't stop jailing people who smoke pot to not look soft on crime. Moral of the story, don't fuck with Sys Admins.
X-Files, CIA version:
-The truth is out there!
-Where? Over here? *booom*
-The truth was over there...
*special intervention*
-The truth is I was wrong about everything. Profit
Well yea, where does action start from? Starts as a priming wave pattern in the brain. Why stop a man from punching you, when you can make him believe he shouldn't? Things are a lot easier to control at the neural electricity stage before they turn into undesirable expressions, contractions of vocal sorts, and collection of ATPs exploding in a certain pattern. Ya know, think before you act.
Hey uh, can I get a few millions to investigate existence of wizards? Wait, Big Foot, I've heard a lot about this mythical creature and we need lots of money. For science. No? Okay, so what if the enemy found wizards or the Big Foot first? They could have an army of wizards riding Big Feet. Imagine Chubacca, now imagine Chewey carrying Gandalf running at you. We got the funding? Wonderful, today is a big day for national security and science!
There is no consistent logic it would seem. It's a bit like a cop going undercover to become a pimp or a drug dealer and their handlers hoping they don't actually stay pimps or drug dealers. Which happens, but hey part of the job. I think it makes the world a better place.
So uhm, that's a weird job.
-How was work honey?
-Oh we were hosting child porn today.
-... Why?
-So that we catch anyone looking at it.
-That makes sense.
I think it came from the psychology of having a sense that all of the surveillence capabilities would probably be frowned upon if it ever went public. The next choice was likely C'thulu, but they went with the squid swallowing Earth instead. I remember seeing this on the Daily Show and going, "So the government can now measure individual methane contribution to global warming." Data is beautiful.
Surely you're not suggesting government ever hires any bad apples into positions of considerable power. Edward Snowden just went, yea, I want to be a dick for no good reason whatsoever, there are no abuses here going undiscovered. This is why we have the whistleblower implemented into law, it's a function of the nature of balance. Rubio is fear mongering. Mooslems! Turrists! Lemme read your diary!
Because here in the US, the gumment hacks you! It's really a culture thing, hackers are akin to lawyers for computers who find loopholes. Some exploit said loopholes, others simply point out the loopholes saying, "Hey! Your data is showing." So the outlook is one of attitude, if you cause damage with your hacks, big bag hacker will Hulk smash. If you're nice, you better remain nice, you little rascal you! Seems to be the system here. It's sort of working in a David vs. Goliath kind of way, which is the best we can expect.
Why care about security? Surely nobody is going to hack your car, or your refrigirator. Why not hook everything to the Internet? Your pace maker, your Parkinsons brain implant, should all be online and accessable at all times.
Never look pasta religion's influence. Getting saucy about the legal authority of the Spaghetti Monster is rather cheesy, it's a legitimate religion after all. And uh, ramen to that.
You are correct. Turns out using physics was the way to go:P What sucks is a lot was built on the idea that it would take a powerful processor a long time to guess the magic number starting from scratch. We got no way to securely initiate a connection across the globe. It just isn't looking possible. We might be able to send entangled pairs across a zero kelvin corridor, but as far as I know the technology doesn't exist. Heat keeps vibrating those pairs out of sync, if we don't entangle, someone else could still intercept a polarized photon by entangling it in transit themselves which won't effect the measurement of the arriving photon. Also don't worry about the NSA so much, they'll get in one way or the other, that's kind of why they don't exist, but you'll need them in a national emergency. Also they seem to have stopped getting involved in public matters (sticking to foreign spying and helping everyone not blow up). I haven't heard anything recently about the parallel construction from various agencies, and erasing court documents. I think the Dark Knight is off having a bat burger.
This is true. But more importantly, why would you need that information? Unless it's for educational purposes, I don't see why the average person would need to process that information. Maybe you can sell your database to law enforcement? But then everbody would do it, and it would quickly become cheap. Like the value of your data to Facebook.
Honestly it depends on how you look at it. You can make a bomb out of items in Walmart. If I started to argue that because you can do that, we shouldn't produce those items, it would be a moot point. Conversely if I started to argue we should all make bombs because it's inevitable, that too would be a moot point. The point is, don't mix those things to make a bomb, more simply, don't be a dick. This includes putting me on a watchlist because I just said, "I can make a bomb" and start watching me, trying to get me to do it. That is what the Constitution was trying to avoid in respecting people's privacy. You can make the case that anyone is potentially dangerous and we should just start treating each other like adults and realize that processing power is cheap and sensor technology has become high quality and also cheap. Source code for decent data processing is free, yet you need not slap the label, "Bad guy detector" on your setup because you will find in fear what you are looking for if you're paranoid enough.
Serenity is important. You can't force good code out of people, nor can you trick them into it. If you enjoy understanding how logic works, what is it, and how it relates to the Universe you're going to be a good programmer. I personally believe this has a little to do with being in awe of the way existence works. If you're not curious about what lies within the infinity of space, you're not going to want to dive deep into the 1s and 0s. So there does seem to be a mindset of looking past yourself involved. Only in that serenity one can make sense of the symmetry of logic, and see the essentials of what makes things tick, then write it down. This of course is a very subjective view so it's safe to say that's how I feel about it.
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Great, yea give the guy who just wanted his stapler the power to fuck with anyone. Lets see here, I have the logs, I have the access, I don't like you. Uploading child porn. Where would you find child porn? Fuck it, pay an artist 5 bucks, or draw it yourself. Stick figures should do it, just label it, "The pictured stick figures are minors." Dial the hotline. Too easy to destroy someone this way, but much like terrorism it's hard to even talk about it in a public setting reasonably. Politicians? Forget it, they can't stop jailing people who smoke pot to not look soft on crime. Moral of the story, don't fuck with Sys Admins.
X-Files, CIA version:
-The truth is out there!
-Where? Over here? *booom*
-The truth was over there...
*special intervention*
-The truth is I was wrong about everything.
Profit
Well yea, where does action start from? Starts as a priming wave pattern in the brain. Why stop a man from punching you, when you can make him believe he shouldn't? Things are a lot easier to control at the neural electricity stage before they turn into undesirable expressions, contractions of vocal sorts, and collection of ATPs exploding in a certain pattern. Ya know, think before you act.
This is true, and it's not cheap either.
Public, yes.
Hey uh, can I get a few millions to investigate existence of wizards? Wait, Big Foot, I've heard a lot about this mythical creature and we need lots of money. For science. No? Okay, so what if the enemy found wizards or the Big Foot first? They could have an army of wizards riding Big Feet. Imagine Chubacca, now imagine Chewey carrying Gandalf running at you. We got the funding? Wonderful, today is a big day for national security and science!
Down here in the South we got chicken farms, corn farms, data farms. It's all agriculture over here.
There is no consistent logic it would seem. It's a bit like a cop going undercover to become a pimp or a drug dealer and their handlers hoping they don't actually stay pimps or drug dealers. Which happens, but hey part of the job. I think it makes the world a better place.
So uhm, that's a weird job.
-How was work honey?
-Oh we were hosting child porn today.
-... Why?
-So that we catch anyone looking at it.
-That makes sense.
I think it came from the psychology of having a sense that all of the surveillence capabilities would probably be frowned upon if it ever went public. The next choice was likely C'thulu, but they went with the squid swallowing Earth instead. I remember seeing this on the Daily Show and going, "So the government can now measure individual methane contribution to global warming." Data is beautiful.
I wanna be a perfect number! 2^74,207,281 - 1, you're so fucking special. Hahaha! That ol' monk got more credit than he deserved didn't he?
See, the remakes for Duke Nuke'm will always be terrible.
Talk about getting a bang for the buck, make sure that HD doesn't heat up too much.
I think is "the Internet of Things" for rubbernecking.
Surely you're not suggesting government ever hires any bad apples into positions of considerable power. Edward Snowden just went, yea, I want to be a dick for no good reason whatsoever, there are no abuses here going undiscovered. This is why we have the whistleblower implemented into law, it's a function of the nature of balance. Rubio is fear mongering. Mooslems! Turrists! Lemme read your diary!
Because here in the US, the gumment hacks you! It's really a culture thing, hackers are akin to lawyers for computers who find loopholes. Some exploit said loopholes, others simply point out the loopholes saying, "Hey! Your data is showing." So the outlook is one of attitude, if you cause damage with your hacks, big bag hacker will Hulk smash. If you're nice, you better remain nice, you little rascal you! Seems to be the system here. It's sort of working in a David vs. Goliath kind of way, which is the best we can expect.
Hey! Watch those micro-aggressions!
Why care about security? Surely nobody is going to hack your car, or your refrigirator. Why not hook everything to the Internet? Your pace maker, your Parkinsons brain implant, should all be online and accessable at all times.
Never look pasta religion's influence. Getting saucy about the legal authority of the Spaghetti Monster is rather cheesy, it's a legitimate religion after all. And uh, ramen to that.
You are correct. Turns out using physics was the way to go :P What sucks is a lot was built on the idea that it would take a powerful processor a long time to guess the magic number starting from scratch. We got no way to securely initiate a connection across the globe. It just isn't looking possible. We might be able to send entangled pairs across a zero kelvin corridor, but as far as I know the technology doesn't exist. Heat keeps vibrating those pairs out of sync, if we don't entangle, someone else could still intercept a polarized photon by entangling it in transit themselves which won't effect the measurement of the arriving photon. Also don't worry about the NSA so much, they'll get in one way or the other, that's kind of why they don't exist, but you'll need them in a national emergency. Also they seem to have stopped getting involved in public matters (sticking to foreign spying and helping everyone not blow up). I haven't heard anything recently about the parallel construction from various agencies, and erasing court documents. I think the Dark Knight is off having a bat burger.
Straight up fear mongering. Be suspicious of thy neighbor for he may worship Satan. So many idiots. Why are we doing this to our selves?
This is true. But more importantly, why would you need that information? Unless it's for educational purposes, I don't see why the average person would need to process that information. Maybe you can sell your database to law enforcement? But then everbody would do it, and it would quickly become cheap. Like the value of your data to Facebook.
You know, we went through this globally with Russia already. You know where it lead to? Blowing up the moon.
Honestly it depends on how you look at it. You can make a bomb out of items in Walmart. If I started to argue that because you can do that, we shouldn't produce those items, it would be a moot point. Conversely if I started to argue we should all make bombs because it's inevitable, that too would be a moot point. The point is, don't mix those things to make a bomb, more simply, don't be a dick. This includes putting me on a watchlist because I just said, "I can make a bomb" and start watching me, trying to get me to do it. That is what the Constitution was trying to avoid in respecting people's privacy. You can make the case that anyone is potentially dangerous and we should just start treating each other like adults and realize that processing power is cheap and sensor technology has become high quality and also cheap. Source code for decent data processing is free, yet you need not slap the label, "Bad guy detector" on your setup because you will find in fear what you are looking for if you're paranoid enough.
Serenity is important. You can't force good code out of people, nor can you trick them into it. If you enjoy understanding how logic works, what is it, and how it relates to the Universe you're going to be a good programmer. I personally believe this has a little to do with being in awe of the way existence works. If you're not curious about what lies within the infinity of space, you're not going to want to dive deep into the 1s and 0s. So there does seem to be a mindset of looking past yourself involved. Only in that serenity one can make sense of the symmetry of logic, and see the essentials of what makes things tick, then write it down. This of course is a very subjective view so it's safe to say that's how I feel about it.