I would postulate that taking from the rich, skimming off the top to government's cut, and giving what's left over to the poor doesn't make anyone richer, including the poor. At best, it is a Zero sum. For the Poor do not create wealth with their cut,
I guess I just don't understand how in your world it's not true that 30 > 20.
If you mean to say we shouldn't take from the rich and give to the poor (because the rich will utilize the money more efficiently? is that what you're saying?), that's a different argument. But you shouldn't make trivially falsifiable absolute statements:)
Java has pointers, too; it just doesn't let you mess around with them as much and calls them something different. It's like saying a language doesn't have GOTO...maybe technically accurate, but once it gets compiled basically all logic is jumps when you go down far enough.
Heck, there's even java.lang.NullPointerException.
I think of "get X's blessing" as usually an informal process where they say "go ahead, just don't pull any funny business or we'll have to consider imposing official restrictions."
He's saying, store the user's data as a pre-encrypted big blob in the cloud. The cloud doesn't need to know how to decrypt it; the user does that locally on their own end, which reduces security to "if they have physical access to your system (your PC) you're screwed."
Then the NSA or whoever can get their hands on the blob itself, but they'd still have to try to crack it without the keys, since those are on your local PC and never transmitted anywhere. Then you're basically talking about trying to crack TrueCrypt (user passphrase used to guard the asymmetric key, which encrypts the symmetric key you use to actually do the en/decryption).
Of course, if you want to actually *do* anything with the data in the cloud modifying it in-place, you can't. You'd have to do a binary diff and figure out which chunks of the TC container to upload (or if the whole thing changes, just reupload the whole freakin' thing).
But this is conversations we've had around here before.
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Criticizing a person on a language that is not their native one, I think we can all agree is being a bit of a jerk.
This is America, where we only speak two languages: English, and Bad English ;)
So let's just never correct anyone and watch as our civilization slowly and steadily degrades.
It's not a delusion; it's 3rd-grade math.
I would postulate that taking from the rich, skimming off the top to government's cut, and giving what's left over to the poor doesn't make anyone richer, including the poor. At best, it is a Zero sum. For the Poor do not create wealth with their cut,
I guess I just don't understand how in your world it's not true that 30 > 20.
If you mean to say we shouldn't take from the rich and give to the poor (because the rich will utilize the money more efficiently? is that what you're saying?), that's a different argument. But you shouldn't make trivially falsifiable absolute statements :)
Second, the government already has a long standing ability to search and seizure through proper channels.
Exactly. These legal battles are trying to redefine "proper channels" to be "whenever we damn well feel like it."
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Besides the terrible idea that the govt + Apple can unlock it without my permission, they can also prevent me from being able to unlock it myself.
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Why is that a problem?
If the government is forced to just hire Apple to do the work like a normal company, wouldn't Apple have the option of declining the job?
Not sure whether freedom of association would seem to apply.
Git isn't an acronym either.
Java has pointers, too; it just doesn't let you mess around with them as much and calls them something different. It's like saying a language doesn't have GOTO...maybe technically accurate, but once it gets compiled basically all logic is jumps when you go down far enough.
Heck, there's even java.lang.NullPointerException.
I'd pay $9.3 Billion to kill Oracle.
FTFY
You can't implement an API without copying it.
I think of "get X's blessing" as usually an informal process where they say "go ahead, just don't pull any funny business or we'll have to consider imposing official restrictions."
Maybe that impression is wrong.
By definition, taking from the rich and giving to the poor makes more people richer.
100 50 20 20 20 10 10
50 50 30 30 30 20 20
One less rich; five more rich. So 4 net more rich.
"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true." -James Branch Cabell
He's saying, store the user's data as a pre-encrypted big blob in the cloud. The cloud doesn't need to know how to decrypt it; the user does that locally on their own end, which reduces security to "if they have physical access to your system (your PC) you're screwed."
Then the NSA or whoever can get their hands on the blob itself, but they'd still have to try to crack it without the keys, since those are on your local PC and never transmitted anywhere. Then you're basically talking about trying to crack TrueCrypt (user passphrase used to guard the asymmetric key, which encrypts the symmetric key you use to actually do the en/decryption).
Of course, if you want to actually *do* anything with the data in the cloud modifying it in-place, you can't. You'd have to do a binary diff and figure out which chunks of the TC container to upload (or if the whole thing changes, just reupload the whole freakin' thing).
But this is conversations we've had around here before.
So discoverable. Hold the secret key!
Windows 8 does this exact same thing to hide how to reboot in safe mode from you.
And there's the "hold Shift to add 'open a command window here' to the context menu" thing going back to at least 7, too. What the hell?
It turns out I was simply wrong but rather than admit it, "nobody actually needs this feature."
Class act, bro.
Shocking news at 11!!
A long time ago I tested one specific piece of software on Linux and it sucked so I'm never going back.
Thanks for the story bro
Partisanism is also a human failing
Sanders isn't really a Democrat. He's just shooting for the Democrat ticket this time because trying it as a third party doesn't work.
Yes.
Except they're not handing it over to anybody except the government.
And then any modifications the government makes, nobody else sees either.
So no, not really like open source at all.
People value security and safety over privacy every single time.
This very comment section refutes your claim.
Hey, McAfee volunteered to do it. He sounds like the perfect guy for the job ;)