Yeah well, if government prioritized education then this statement wouldn't make sense. But see, what government doesn't want are educated people. They want to continue to justify their actions by being able to say "Look at those poor unwashed masses... I am doing what's best for them."
Politicians are completely onboard with the circus of misdirection and grandstanding.
This has been the case with me all my life. Voting days are ALWAYS weekdays and held during WORKING hours....
The only people who can vote under this set up are people who have vacation/sick leave... Which most working people don't have.
I believe that there are laws requiring employers to allow time off for voting... but those are not enforced whatsoever in my experience. Good luck fighting that one being a working poor person...
What if we force the creation of a public/private key pair with a ridiculous key length as a prerequisite for voting online? Perhaps, attach it to the state ID/driver's license which you would need to go to the DMV to get (only the public key would be embedded in the card and the private key would be send certified mail to you on a flash drive with instructions to keep it safe).
Obviously, all communications encrypted with this key would be readable by you and the government.
If you see more than one vote show up from a single key, you throw out all the votes for that key and notify the user that they need to do it the old fashioned way.
Yes, you could DoS the voters... but you would need to harvest a lot of user's private keys.
Linux users, for example, sometimes keep SSH private keys or GPG keys in their home directory. Those now become vulnerable to Windows tools that are poorly secured and allow filesystem access to well defined home directory locations
How is this different from any other secure file you might have on your computer? If the malware has file system access and permission to read the files that you have access to, then it has access to the files....
I have private keys in the form of PuTTY.ppk files on my Windows box. I also have private keys in the form of id_rsa on my Linux boxen. Those files exist in places that I have access to... so would malware, if it got installed.
I am trying to understand why this is somehow more of a security risk (other than from increased attack surface).
I am affected the same as anyone else when I see the condensation on the outside of a glass of yummy looking liquid, my mouth waters. I am affected at a low level by most advertising. That is not bad, that is just being human.
However, I also couldn't really care less about name brands. I am interested in quality and usability and several other factors when making buying decisions. The only problem is that it is nearly impossible to do enough research ahead of time so it sometimes comes down to a "which packaging looks better" type of decision.
I also fall prey to impulse buying sometimes, especially when grocery shopping.
So, yeah, advertising is a huge and pervasive thing. I personally believe that everyone is affected by it to some degree. But I may be wrong.
Sometimes I will get an emoji "suggestion" after I type a word... what use is that? So that I can say the same word twice? By the time I type the word, I don't need the shortcut of the emoji any more.
Also, to sort through the list of available emojis is just dumb. I can type what I want to say much faster.
You would be surprised at how convoluted the VoIP reseller world is.
We buy minutes from 5 carriers who themselves use upstream carriers who also use upstream carriers. All of the routing is based off of cost tables (called rate decks) to get the best value. The rate decks change often enough that different carriers are used to make a call to the same number, just depending on when the call is made. Add in to that load balancing and failover (it is extremely common for a call to fail for any number of reasons and for it to be failed over to a different carrier in a cascade fashion, all while the user just hears the ringing) and it may be very difficult indeed to trace the path a particular call took. The further out in the future you go, the harder it is to trace.
Each carrier along the way will keep records for billing purposes, of course, but, as far as I know, there is no regulatory requirement to keep these records.
They are emojis.... it doesn't matter what the picture is... they are all used in a playful manner...
Who has a serious conversation in emojis? I would say it is impossible unless both people are already in the same phase of life and/or are good friends.
Do people really use emoji's instead of words and expect to be clearly understood?
I would think that the intent of emoji's (like the name sort of implies) is to convey emotional content and not literal content.
If you are typing "Come over this weekend, bring (pistol emoji) and we will have fun" then you are doing it wrong. You have left a key part of your instructions open to interpretation.
I have done network setups for several schools, churches and other non-profits. Whenever I would run across MACs it would usually be to replace them for something easier to maintain like a Windows AD setup.
In the couple of cases where MACs were not replaced, the customer would have a "MAC guy" that would do all of that work and I would not touch that stuff other than to route it's IP traffic and/or hand out it's address.
I always got the impression that the MAC portion of the network was strictly off limits due to the fact that the person (or persons) supporting it were so rarely available.
The difference is that MS always lays out a clear support horizon. If anything MS is the opposite of Google in that regard. MS tends to support things long after they should.
It is one of the reasons that I think MS will usurp the number one cloud slot within a few years.
The very thing that makes AWS nice is also the thing that will hurt it when dealing with small and medium sized businesses. It is too complicated and has too many moving parts.
Another thing that MS has going for it is their focus on business intelligence. That is going to be a huge differentiator as more business learn the power of BI.
[...] if Europe takes the risks we still get the cure for cancer - just not the profits from it.
Yeah...
We would be benefiting from the very thing that we banned for ethical reasons.... The ban on gene editing should be tied to a ban on science, treatments and medicine derived from banned work as well. Otherwise, what's the point?
I am, by the way, completely for unrestricted research into all aspects of science so long as no humans or animals are harmed.
Superman is effectively invincible... even his supposed weakness is not really a weakness... He can lift an ENTIRE ISLAND made of the stuff into outer space if he just digs deep enough... pfft, what chance does a mere mortal have?
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Yeah well, if government prioritized education then this statement wouldn't make sense. But see, what government doesn't want are educated people. They want to continue to justify their actions by being able to say "Look at those poor unwashed masses... I am doing what's best for them."
Politicians are completely onboard with the circus of misdirection and grandstanding.
This has been the case with me all my life. Voting days are ALWAYS weekdays and held during WORKING hours....
The only people who can vote under this set up are people who have vacation/sick leave... Which most working people don't have.
I believe that there are laws requiring employers to allow time off for voting... but those are not enforced whatsoever in my experience. Good luck fighting that one being a working poor person...
What if we force the creation of a public/private key pair with a ridiculous key length as a prerequisite for voting online? Perhaps, attach it to the state ID/driver's license which you would need to go to the DMV to get (only the public key would be embedded in the card and the private key would be send certified mail to you on a flash drive with instructions to keep it safe).
Obviously, all communications encrypted with this key would be readable by you and the government.
If you see more than one vote show up from a single key, you throw out all the votes for that key and notify the user that they need to do it the old fashioned way.
Yes, you could DoS the voters... but you would need to harvest a lot of user's private keys.
Linux users, for example, sometimes keep SSH private keys or GPG keys in their home directory. Those now become vulnerable to Windows tools that are poorly secured and allow filesystem access to well defined home directory locations
How is this different from any other secure file you might have on your computer? If the malware has file system access and permission to read the files that you have access to, then it has access to the files....
I have private keys in the form of PuTTY .ppk files on my Windows box. I also have private keys in the form of id_rsa on my Linux boxen. Those files exist in places that I have access to... so would malware, if it got installed.
I am trying to understand why this is somehow more of a security risk (other than from increased attack surface).
Minnesota seems like a good place to house them....
I go back and forth on this one.
I am affected the same as anyone else when I see the condensation on the outside of a glass of yummy looking liquid, my mouth waters. I am affected at a low level by most advertising. That is not bad, that is just being human.
However, I also couldn't really care less about name brands. I am interested in quality and usability and several other factors when making buying decisions. The only problem is that it is nearly impossible to do enough research ahead of time so it sometimes comes down to a "which packaging looks better" type of decision.
I also fall prey to impulse buying sometimes, especially when grocery shopping.
So, yeah, advertising is a huge and pervasive thing. I personally believe that everyone is affected by it to some degree. But I may be wrong.
Garr'dock!
Don't worry. I am sure we will get there as soon as we have direct brain-to-brain communications. Words are just so damned inefficient.
They are sort of a hassle to use as well.
Sometimes I will get an emoji "suggestion" after I type a word... what use is that? So that I can say the same word twice? By the time I type the word, I don't need the shortcut of the emoji any more.
Also, to sort through the list of available emojis is just dumb. I can type what I want to say much faster.
You would be surprised at how convoluted the VoIP reseller world is.
We buy minutes from 5 carriers who themselves use upstream carriers who also use upstream carriers. All of the routing is based off of cost tables (called rate decks) to get the best value. The rate decks change often enough that different carriers are used to make a call to the same number, just depending on when the call is made. Add in to that load balancing and failover (it is extremely common for a call to fail for any number of reasons and for it to be failed over to a different carrier in a cascade fashion, all while the user just hears the ringing) and it may be very difficult indeed to trace the path a particular call took. The further out in the future you go, the harder it is to trace.
Each carrier along the way will keep records for billing purposes, of course, but, as far as I know, there is no regulatory requirement to keep these records.
They are emojis.... it doesn't matter what the picture is... they are all used in a playful manner...
Who has a serious conversation in emojis? I would say it is impossible unless both people are already in the same phase of life and/or are good friends.
Do people really use emoji's instead of words and expect to be clearly understood?
I would think that the intent of emoji's (like the name sort of implies) is to convey emotional content and not literal content.
If you are typing "Come over this weekend, bring (pistol emoji) and we will have fun" then you are doing it wrong. You have left a key part of your instructions open to interpretation.
and not a core feature of the browser...
This does not sound like something I would want. Browsers do too much caching already, imo. It makes it hard to troubleshoot issues as it is.
I am having trouble coming up with a scenario where I would want to see an old version of a page rather than the current page.
What they are saying is: "You also look terrible on the inside... fatty."
I guess it is a good time to be in the credit monitoring business...
Plus, Apple is technically incorporated over seas so it just adds to the Ferrari analogy.
This rings true to me.
I have done network setups for several schools, churches and other non-profits. Whenever I would run across MACs it would usually be to replace them for something easier to maintain like a Windows AD setup.
In the couple of cases where MACs were not replaced, the customer would have a "MAC guy" that would do all of that work and I would not touch that stuff other than to route it's IP traffic and/or hand out it's address.
I always got the impression that the MAC portion of the network was strictly off limits due to the fact that the person (or persons) supporting it were so rarely available.
The difference is that MS always lays out a clear support horizon. If anything MS is the opposite of Google in that regard. MS tends to support things long after they should.
This is a huge problem with AWS...
It is one of the reasons that I think MS will usurp the number one cloud slot within a few years.
The very thing that makes AWS nice is also the thing that will hurt it when dealing with small and medium sized businesses. It is too complicated and has too many moving parts.
Another thing that MS has going for it is their focus on business intelligence. That is going to be a huge differentiator as more business learn the power of BI.
[...] if Europe takes the risks we still get the cure for cancer - just not the profits from it.
Yeah...
We would be benefiting from the very thing that we banned for ethical reasons.... The ban on gene editing should be tied to a ban on science, treatments and medicine derived from banned work as well. Otherwise, what's the point?
I am, by the way, completely for unrestricted research into all aspects of science so long as no humans or animals are harmed.
I would think cost.
It would seem to me that a rail on either side of a road way would be a lot cheaper than building a whole elevated deck.
Well yes you are indeed technically correct./quote.
The best kind of correct.
Good one.
Reminds me of a guy I went to school with many years ago.
He was a rabid Apple fanboi. This was before iPhones and iPods.
He would often say "We may be only 1% of the market, but we're the top 1%"
He would also claim that he could hack anyone in under a minute... of course, he never would agree to prove it.
I ran in to him years later when he was working the sales floor of a local computer retailer.
Huge companies do it because it is not illegal. So why should it be illegal for us?
Never saw it, but the concept is horrible...
Superman is effectively invincible... even his supposed weakness is not really a weakness... He can lift an ENTIRE ISLAND made of the stuff into outer space if he just digs deep enough... pfft, what chance does a mere mortal have?