Really, any increase in key-length or change in algorithm ought to be done to save us from the issues that could arise from things like quantum computers, super computer bot nets, or further into the future quantum computer bot nets. I mean we don't have those things yet, but we can kinda see them coming, and ought to be thinking long and hard about how to break that issue permanently.
They aren't allowed. The recipe writing patents squash the creativity in the kitchen and prevent chefs from coming up with anything new if it may have been done before.
I have a drivers licence and a passport. Both of which made me have my taken picture under strict conditions, no smiling, no hair over face, etc. Their excuse: facial recognition. They aren't even hiding it, it is why you have to have your picture taken like a mug shot.
Also part of the problem is that they didn't give two fucks about Leinad177 prior to the embarrassing incident, but can gather all that information after the fact, along with facebook and linkedin histories, possibly emails from Hotmail/GMail, search histories, tracking cookies, etc. To find something historical that they can give two fucks about to create a case about after the fact. If I can search through your entire life history with digital search tools that can quickly track you via images in cameras from years ago, POS transactions from years ago, mobile positions from years ago (tracking you and your car), I'm sure I could find something you did that looks suspicious... They notice that his cell phone records passed nearby to a terrorist cell holdout 6 years ago and put a brown paper bag in a garbage can(McDs?). Later someone(maybe a bum?) searches the garbage and takes various items and walks off camera. Maybe you're a terrorist, and didn't even know it... Trip to gitmo without charges, under suspicion of terrorism? Or maybe he is 50something and has Type II Diabetes and regularly purchases small quantities of marijuana for its blood sugar stabilizing effects, anti-inflammatory effects and as a vasodilator. Despite having a doctors prescription, it is illegal, and they find out via the cameras about his early use(he started having it delivered privately 7 years ago) and start to harass him about thereby deprive him of his life improving medication. The problem is not just that they can get the information, it is that they do get the information, and store it for years(indefinitely?), just in case they want to go after you for something in the future. This is like wiretapping, putting cameras in everyone's homes and tracking devices on every person, logging everything everyone does just in case one day they slip up and become a "person of interest".
I can just picture how well this law will work for free internet providers in public parks, town centers, shopping centers, coffee shops, internet cafes, libraries, etc. Then imagine getting back at your enemies by hacking their WEP keys... We can thank Jack the ripper as we crack their WPA2 network.... I wonder how secure the wireless is at the court house...
I like this idea way more then hiding the QR code with fancy optics. Make it so that anyone with a smartphone app can check the bill via a QR code that can be duplicated but not forged(some hash would probably do). Link check locations with failed verifications and find distribution points of forged bills. At least that way they can crowd source enforcement, and drive up cost of distribution of the fake bills.
their IPO certainly was a bigger mistake than using HTML5 in iOS.
I don't know... I think their biggest mistake was timeline. I guess I'm a privacy nut for not wanting to so easily share my entire history with everyone who is considered a "friend"(past, present or future) on facebook. I know it has put a damper on a lot of my friends and what they post. I for one have relegated it to a means to monitor those who post photos with me so I can untag myself or request it get taken down.
Well isn't that the problem? *If* you have a lunar stationary space elevator and the cord were to snap, where would the counter weight go? And how big would it be? Would it be pointed towards earth? Would it head off into deep space? Would it burn up? Would it be too small to worry about? Would it destroy a building? Cause a tidal wave? What?
I find it interesting how democracy, a selection of one of two similarly leaning people by a minority of the populous, is considered so superior to a group of smart people trying, no matter how misguidedly, to educate people about how broken the system is.
Hehe, we do this. The world becomes cleaner. We forget we ever did it. The tectonics or other global shift (or war) move the CO2 into a warmer area, and BANG years of the worlds accumulated CO2 is released at almost the same time into the atmosphere. "Overnight" the protection the people had been enjoying from the sun is gone, the air is barely breathable, and hundreds of species go extinct due to the sudden change in environment.
Now could you imagine if someone had already done this, and we are currently experiencing the release...
I think the two modest proposals could be merged into another modest proposal. We could eat the babies, saving the world from over population. Maybe even to the point of reducing the population. The children could arguably have a lower CO2 footprint then traditional protein sources, as well as the CO2 they would never use in the form of cars, planes, food production, etc. It also helps keep the carbon in our food chain. If there is insufficient demand for delicious baby meat to meet the CO2 reduction quotas we could send the surplus to the antarctic to "freeze the carbon." Then in case we find ourselves with a food shortage we could take them out of deepfreeze for our gastronomical delight. Anybody what to help me with the math of how many babies we would need to consume or freeze to save our planet?
Yeah, patents are really important for innovation, they should enforce it to its logical extents and then we can calmly regress to the dark ages, as our political masters, the IP lobbyists, insist. It will be better for everyone.
I've had exactly the same idea:D Don't need the actual guns... Just a system of 5 or 6 laser pointers that hone in on the center of a heat source(programmed to avoid known sources) and a loud commanding voice letting the intruder know "This is a heartless, automatic shooting machine, and we have a lock on you. Leave. NOW" And maybe a system that imitates ricochet and let them know that those were warning shots:)
Right.... A big guy with a huge ass gun, and a gang of pals with insane looks in their eyes come by and tell you to bend over. "It's an agreement between parties. The scary guys didn't shoot you. You could choose not to participate." Fully consensual I'm sure.
See above for my clarification on the "thought crime" statement. It is a crime that harms no-one, and really should not be enforced outside of your own closed minded borders. Now to be honest, I think you are trivializing how easy it would be to actually stop infringement. You think that marginalizing people or even the practice would in any way even put a dent in the rate of copying? See the UK for an answer. There is nothing I, or anyone could say that would make it stop. Just not possible. In my opinion all discussions on it are moot. The only thing left is how/if we go after people in other countries for doing something that is impossible to stop.
Here we go: child rape === copyright ?????? WHAT? And though I used a term that originated in the book 1984, I was using it in a broader sense, somewhat whimsical sense. I meant it meaning that it is a crime that actually hurts no-one. Unlike your child rape cases. Copyright is broken, and businesses and artists that don't realize that are bound to fail. Sorry, welcome to the interconnected, wild-west capitalist society that is developing. It cannot be shut down, and those that try will fail in their attempts.
"In most cases, the servers storing the apps sold by these alternative online markets were being hosted in other countries, and our international law enforcement partners assisted in obtaining or seizing evidence stored on these servers."
Besides, it shouldn't be law. In my opinion the law is immoral.
Does this not make you scared: "In most cases, the servers storing the apps sold by these alternative online markets were being hosted in other countries, and our international law enforcement partners assisted in obtaining or seizing evidence stored on these servers." I really hate the extent to which the US is exerting its thought crime laws in other sovereign nations. I guess not so sovereign any more.
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I like my manual door locks, as there's a certain amount of skill required to pick one that a skr1pt k1dd13 can't download off of the Internet to use.
Wait till 3D printers are ubiquitous, then yes, a skr1pt k1dd13 could download a 'hack' off of the Internet to unlock your manual doors.
Luckily you could update your door mechanisms with the latest open-source module, print it off along with a few new keys and be on your way...
or at least same day. It is only the banks and large institutions that screw you over with fees and time.
And that is the problem.
That and KYC regulations that make it difficult for people who aren't near their bank to access these services.
Really, any increase in key-length or change in algorithm ought to be done to save us from the issues that could arise from things like quantum computers, super computer bot nets, or further into the future quantum computer bot nets. I mean we don't have those things yet, but we can kinda see them coming, and ought to be thinking long and hard about how to break that issue permanently.
They aren't allowed. The recipe writing patents squash the creativity in the kitchen and prevent chefs from coming up with anything new if it may have been done before.
I have a drivers licence and a passport. Both of which made me have my taken picture under strict conditions, no smiling, no hair over face, etc. Their excuse: facial recognition. They aren't even hiding it, it is why you have to have your picture taken like a mug shot.
Also part of the problem is that they didn't give two fucks about Leinad177 prior to the embarrassing incident, but can gather all that information after the fact, along with facebook and linkedin histories, possibly emails from Hotmail/GMail, search histories, tracking cookies, etc. To find something historical that they can give two fucks about to create a case about after the fact. If I can search through your entire life history with digital search tools that can quickly track you via images in cameras from years ago, POS transactions from years ago, mobile positions from years ago (tracking you and your car), I'm sure I could find something you did that looks suspicious... They notice that his cell phone records passed nearby to a terrorist cell holdout 6 years ago and put a brown paper bag in a garbage can(McDs?). Later someone(maybe a bum?) searches the garbage and takes various items and walks off camera. Maybe you're a terrorist, and didn't even know it... Trip to gitmo without charges, under suspicion of terrorism?
Or maybe he is 50something and has Type II Diabetes and regularly purchases small quantities of marijuana for its blood sugar stabilizing effects, anti-inflammatory effects and as a vasodilator. Despite having a doctors prescription, it is illegal, and they find out via the cameras about his early use(he started having it delivered privately 7 years ago) and start to harass him about thereby deprive him of his life improving medication.
The problem is not just that they can get the information, it is that they do get the information, and store it for years(indefinitely?), just in case they want to go after you for something in the future. This is like wiretapping, putting cameras in everyone's homes and tracking devices on every person, logging everything everyone does just in case one day they slip up and become a "person of interest".
I can just picture how well this law will work for free internet providers in public parks, town centers, shopping centers, coffee shops, internet cafes, libraries, etc. Then imagine getting back at your enemies by hacking their WEP keys... We can thank Jack the ripper as we crack their WPA2 network....
I wonder how secure the wireless is at the court house...
I like this idea way more then hiding the QR code with fancy optics. Make it so that anyone with a smartphone app can check the bill via a QR code that can be duplicated but not forged(some hash would probably do). Link check locations with failed verifications and find distribution points of forged bills. At least that way they can crowd source enforcement, and drive up cost of distribution of the fake bills.
their IPO certainly was a bigger mistake than using HTML5 in iOS.
I don't know... I think their biggest mistake was timeline. I guess I'm a privacy nut for not wanting to so easily share my entire history with everyone who is considered a "friend"(past, present or future) on facebook. I know it has put a damper on a lot of my friends and what they post. I for one have relegated it to a means to monitor those who post photos with me so I can untag myself or request it get taken down.
Well isn't that the problem? *If* you have a lunar stationary space elevator and the cord were to snap, where would the counter weight go? And how big would it be?
Would it be pointed towards earth? Would it head off into deep space? Would it burn up? Would it be too small to worry about? Would it destroy a building? Cause a tidal wave? What?
People who have bad security practices on their computers, still have bad security practices on their computers.
or
People with one infection on their computers, are more likely to have another.
I think you missed the fact that I was being facetious, as I do often.
I find it interesting how democracy, a selection of one of two similarly leaning people by a minority of the populous, is considered so superior to a group of smart people trying, no matter how misguidedly, to educate people about how broken the system is.
Someone's going to write another book that fundamentalists will take as proof that science is wrong. o_O
Hehe, we do this. The world becomes cleaner. We forget we ever did it. The tectonics or other global shift (or war) move the CO2 into a warmer area, and BANG years of the worlds accumulated CO2 is released at almost the same time into the atmosphere. "Overnight" the protection the people had been enjoying from the sun is gone, the air is barely breathable, and hundreds of species go extinct due to the sudden change in environment.
Now could you imagine if someone had already done this, and we are currently experiencing the release...
I think the two modest proposals could be merged into another modest proposal.
We could eat the babies, saving the world from over population. Maybe even to the point of reducing the population.
The children could arguably have a lower CO2 footprint then traditional protein sources, as well as the CO2 they would never use in the form of cars, planes, food production, etc.
It also helps keep the carbon in our food chain.
If there is insufficient demand for delicious baby meat to meet the CO2 reduction quotas we could send the surplus to the antarctic to "freeze the carbon." Then in case we find ourselves with a food shortage we could take them out of deepfreeze for our gastronomical delight.
Anybody what to help me with the math of how many babies we would need to consume or freeze to save our planet?
Yeah, patents are really important for innovation, they should enforce it to its logical extents and then we can calmly regress to the dark ages, as our political masters, the IP lobbyists, insist. It will be better for everyone.
I've had exactly the same idea :D Don't need the actual guns... Just a system of 5 or 6 laser pointers that hone in on the center of a heat source(programmed to avoid known sources) and a loud commanding voice letting the intruder know "This is a heartless, automatic shooting machine, and we have a lock on you. Leave. NOW" And maybe a system that imitates ricochet and let them know that those were warning shots :)
Right.... A big guy with a huge ass gun, and a gang of pals with insane looks in their eyes come by and tell you to bend over. "It's an agreement between parties. The scary guys didn't shoot you. You could choose not to participate."
Fully consensual I'm sure.
I'm not the one going around calling people names neener :P
See above for my clarification on the "thought crime" statement. It is a crime that harms no-one, and really should not be enforced outside of your own closed minded borders.
Now to be honest, I think you are trivializing how easy it would be to actually stop infringement. You think that marginalizing people or even the practice would in any way even put a dent in the rate of copying? See the UK for an answer.
There is nothing I, or anyone could say that would make it stop. Just not possible. In my opinion all discussions on it are moot. The only thing left is how/if we go after people in other countries for doing something that is impossible to stop.
Here we go: child rape === copyright ?????? WHAT?
And though I used a term that originated in the book 1984, I was using it in a broader sense, somewhat whimsical sense. I meant it meaning that it is a crime that actually hurts no-one. Unlike your child rape cases.
Copyright is broken, and businesses and artists that don't realize that are bound to fail. Sorry, welcome to the interconnected, wild-west capitalist society that is developing. It cannot be shut down, and those that try will fail in their attempts.
"In most cases, the servers storing the apps sold by these alternative online markets were being hosted in other countries, and our international law enforcement partners assisted in obtaining or seizing evidence stored on these servers."
Besides, it shouldn't be law. In my opinion the law is immoral.
Does this not make you scared: "In most cases, the servers storing the apps sold by these alternative online markets were being hosted in other countries, and our international law enforcement partners assisted in obtaining or seizing evidence stored on these servers."
I really hate the extent to which the US is exerting its thought crime laws in other sovereign nations. I guess not so sovereign any more.
15 new sites popup, android torrent programs get a boost, and alternate piracy sites get a lot more publicity for free.
Good one guys, thank you for making your country's government live up to the phrase "land of the free."