I believe this whole outcry is quite stupid. It has quite a "simple" technical solution. 1. Crowdsource the position and coordinates of "legal" cell tower antennas. It's not hard, they are visible . If it is possible to have "OpenStreetMap" I do not see why it cannot have a layer called "OpenCellSites". Just like Waze 2. Write an App, or include it in the firmware that keeps the cellphone from answering siren calls from any antenna not in the list. Stingray is not a problem if you simply do not answer its call.
I know #2 maybe difficult if it is in the firmware inside radio module. If that is the case then I foresee an industry of open source radio modules with a "veto" signal that tells the cellphone when it is hearing a "better" antenna and asks for permission to change. It it does not receive permission, it is forbidden to switch.
It means that they no longer need to index and associate your use across platforms because they have already developed the capability to link you personally across all their different platforms through Super Cookies, Data Mining, etc. Google+ is now irrelevant and a good bone to throw to the privacy minding minions who will celebrate it as if it accomplished anything.
The employees like it, the customers like it, and nobody who didn't voluntarily put themselves in this situation is affected by it
Let me laugh at this assertion. The employees will continue to like it until it bites them in the ass. There is a reason why the whole employee rights framework was created, and that is to protect employees from predator companies. Those companies are Privatizing profits, but Socializing their expenses. If an Uber driver, for example, gets in a crash, it is the driver's own insurance that has to bail it out, or the Public Health services. Uber is let go scot free even though the driver lost his health while performing Uber's business. Uber and similar companies just see you like a toy, now they need you, now the don't and f*ck you.It is raw predatory capitalism at its worse.
The NSA should be split in three, similar to what they did to MaBell. One part would be pure R&D The Second part should be Apps to help their spying and data collection for foreign purposes (What they usually do today) The Third part should be Apps to defend the country from someone else using apps similar to those used by the Second Part against USA.
The Second and Third part should have a real Chinesse wall, never talking, never knowing what each one is doing. It is the only way we could trust again whatever help the Third Part provides to cryptographic standards and stuff like SELINUX. Likewise, the Third Part should work in the open in a as transparent way as possible.
Guess what, even if you are not using gmail, chances ae people that you communicate with regularly ARE using e-mail, therefore, some of your email still passes through google's servers.
The purpose of a patent is not to "reward inventors for their work". The purpose of patents is "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts". The do this by creating time-limited monopolies. If you create a new widget-building-machine, people who make widgets the old fashioned way are not affected. They can continue to do so, although at a disadvantage (less efficient, more costly, whatever). If you patent an abstract mathematical idea, like division, or sum, no one else can use that until the patent expires, hurting "the Progress of Science"
I want a mechanical switch to physically disconect any Camera / Microphone from the computer/TV/media box. I do not trust any software setting that just says that they are off. The computer can be lying. At least with a switch, where I can open up the box and verify that the switch really disconnect things, I can be sure that those sensors are off.
if someone invented a perfect method of DRM that only stopped freeloading little jerks watching movies without paying for them but did not effect me (as a paying customer) at all I would be all for it.
Your problem is that it is impossible to do what you want. There isn't a magic bullet DRM that only stops freeloading jerks without affecting paying users. Besides, DRM isn't there to protect copyrights. DRM is to give content providers leverage against browser makers. Nowadays content providers have zero leverage against browser makers (Safari, Mozilla, Chrome, Microsoft). If they cut a deal with Safari, Mozilla doesn't need to respect that. But if they make it part of HTML, then ALLL browsers have to follow it up in general, or people wil not use them because the browsers will be incompatible. If DRM is implemented, then we will watch the rise of the rogue browser that pays lip service to the DRM, the same way that some gray market DVDs pay lip service to the region coding on the DVDs.
Let's introduce a fee for each transaction and part of the fee goes to the company whose stock is changing hands. After all, if the company did not have any stock, the person seling it would not be making any money. By making its stock available, the company is allowing the stockholder to profit, therefore the company should be able to profit as well. The fee would add to the company capital.
Look at it like a pipe providing your house with water. Following your example, When they tell you speeds of 25 Megabits per second, They are telling you the CAPACITY of the pipe to transfer data, in other words, how wide the pipe is. It is like 25galon per minute vs 5 galon per minute. The wider the pipe, they faster they can transfer water to your house. On the other hand, when they tell you 5GB per month, they are not talking of CAPACITY but VOLUME. That is how many GB total.
Think of it like filling a lawn pool. The pool can hold up to 5GB of data. And you can fill it up with a hose that can transfer 25MB per second. You can use a larger or a smaller hose, but once your pool is filled up with the 5GB of data, it is filled up, you have to wait for next month (another empty pool). The telco is trying to profit two ways: by selling you a larger hose and by selling you a larger pool. It used to be that they would only sell you a larger hose and you could fill up any pool-size you wanted to. Now they are limiting your pool size too.
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Why not send a probe with fuel to refuel it?
That's why the executive have discretionary funds. They can help and cover that 72 hour gap
Systemd is a Cancer
Just saying
Personally, I would worry. These hacks sound more like school homework than anything else. Just learning how to hack better stuff.
is a Windows is force updating your operating system. Brakes 1.0 is not compatible with the new update.
I believe this whole outcry is quite stupid. It has quite a "simple" technical solution.
1. Crowdsource the position and coordinates of "legal" cell tower antennas. It's not hard, they are visible . If it is possible to have "OpenStreetMap" I do not see why it cannot have a layer called "OpenCellSites". Just like Waze
2. Write an App, or include it in the firmware that keeps the cellphone from answering siren calls from any antenna not in the list.
Stingray is not a problem if you simply do not answer its call.
I know #2 maybe difficult if it is in the firmware inside radio module. If that is the case then I foresee an industry of open source radio modules with a "veto" signal that tells the cellphone when it is hearing a "better" antenna and asks for permission to change. It it does not receive permission, it is forbidden to switch.
Just My Idea.
And this is bad because???
Sorry, people accused of CP do not have constitutional rights
It means that they no longer need to index and associate your use across platforms because they have already developed the capability to link you personally across all their different platforms through Super Cookies, Data Mining, etc. Google+ is now irrelevant and a good bone to throw to the privacy minding minions who will celebrate it as if it accomplished anything.
JP
The employees like it, the customers like it, and nobody who didn't voluntarily put themselves in this situation is affected by it
Let me laugh at this assertion. The employees will continue to like it until it bites them in the ass. There is a reason why the whole employee rights framework was created, and that is to protect employees from predator companies. Those companies are Privatizing profits, but Socializing their expenses. If an Uber driver, for example, gets in a crash, it is the driver's own insurance that has to bail it out, or the Public Health services. Uber is let go scot free even though the driver lost his health while performing Uber's business. Uber and similar companies just see you like a toy, now they need you, now the don't and f*ck you.It is raw predatory capitalism at its worse.
I agree. SMS has worked when my Data is not working
The NSA should be split in three, similar to what they did to MaBell.
One part would be pure R&D
The Second part should be Apps to help their spying and data collection for foreign purposes (What they usually do today)
The Third part should be Apps to defend the country from someone else using apps similar to those used by the Second Part against USA.
The Second and Third part should have a real Chinesse wall, never talking, never knowing what each one is doing.
It is the only way we could trust again whatever help the Third Part provides to cryptographic standards and stuff like SELINUX. Likewise, the Third Part should work in the open in a as transparent way as possible.
JP
Guess what, even if you are not using gmail, chances ae people that you communicate with regularly ARE using e-mail, therefore, some of your email still passes through google's servers.
Cheer up!
The night is dark and full of terrors..
The purpose of a patent is not to "reward inventors for their work". The purpose of patents is "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts". The do this by creating time-limited monopolies. If you create a new widget-building-machine, people who make widgets the old fashioned way are not affected. They can continue to do so, although at a disadvantage (less efficient, more costly, whatever). If you patent an abstract mathematical idea, like division, or sum, no one else can use that until the patent expires, hurting "the Progress of Science"
JP
Finally, we have what we need to build an Space Elevator!
I want a mechanical switch to physically disconect any Camera / Microphone from the computer/TV/media box. I do not trust any software setting that just says that they are off. The computer can be lying. At least with a switch, where I can open up the box and verify that the switch really disconnect things, I can be sure that those sensors are off.
Idiot. The backup can be distributed
if someone invented a perfect method of DRM that only stopped freeloading little jerks watching movies without paying for them but did not effect me (as a paying customer) at all I would be all for it.
Your problem is that it is impossible to do what you want. There isn't a magic bullet DRM that only stops freeloading jerks without affecting paying users.
Besides, DRM isn't there to protect copyrights. DRM is to give content providers leverage against browser makers. Nowadays content providers have zero leverage against browser makers (Safari, Mozilla, Chrome, Microsoft). If they cut a deal with Safari, Mozilla doesn't need to respect that.
But if they make it part of HTML, then ALLL browsers have to follow it up in general, or people wil not use them because the browsers will be incompatible. If DRM is implemented, then we will watch the rise of the rogue browser that pays lip service to the DRM, the same way that some gray market DVDs pay lip service to the region coding on the DVDs.
Let's take a page from the RIAA book.
Let's introduce a fee for each transaction and part of the fee goes to the company whose stock is changing hands.
After all, if the company did not have any stock, the person seling it would not be making any money. By making its stock available, the company is allowing the stockholder to profit, therefore the company should be able to profit as well.
The fee would add to the company capital.
Moron, You are measuring two different things.
Look at it like a pipe providing your house with water.
Following your example, When they tell you speeds of 25 Megabits per second, They are telling you the CAPACITY of the pipe to transfer data, in other words, how wide the pipe is. It is like 25galon per minute vs 5 galon per minute. The wider the pipe, they faster they can transfer water to your house. On the other hand, when they tell you 5GB per month, they are not talking of CAPACITY but VOLUME. That is how many GB total.
Think of it like filling a lawn pool. The pool can hold up to 5GB of data. And you can fill it up with a hose that can transfer 25MB per second. You can use a larger or a smaller hose, but once your pool is filled up with the 5GB of data, it is filled up, you have to wait for next month (another empty pool).
The telco is trying to profit two ways: by selling you a larger hose and by selling you a larger pool. It used to be that they would only sell you a larger hose and you could fill up any pool-size you wanted to. Now they are limiting your pool size too.
I know, it sucks.
JP
Now we need nano Sharks
It looks ugly, it does not look like a seafaring vessel, but I may be mistaken. Ugly lines
This makes me glad that I learned Algebra in high school. At last I can apply it!