Wait a minute. First of all, it's not just any government that can subpoena things. It only comes through a court process. Secondly, subpoenas work both ways: both the prosecution and defense can subpoena to the same extent. Thirdly, equal access to evidence by both the prosecution and the defense is guaranteed, and most judges can put you in a lot of hot water if you're interfering with access to evidence. Another misunderstanding here is that of self-incrimination. Self incrimination is about what you voluntarily do or what you're compelled to do. Handing over evidence that was subpoenaed is, as far as I know, has long history of not being considered self-incriminatory. Just because there is evidence that can be used against you, doesn't mean your right to not-self-incriminate is being broken. IANAL, but a black box is just like skid marks on the road. You'd be considered quite silly if you tried to argue that skid marks are self-incriminating. They are out there for everyone to see. Same with a black box. You crash, your car automatically can become evidence, and it can be used as such, just as skid marks on the road, etc. Just because it's a digital data recorder and it's mentioned on slashdot doesn't make it special.
I think you're taking things a wee bit too far. Cars can have black boxes, that's IMHO good. If, during a legal proceeding, someone subpoenas said black box, that's usually perfectly within the bounds of the legal process in the U.S. Unless the court seals the records (rare for traffic cases), everything that came up and got admitted into the record is a public record. It's not any different than subpoenaing human witnesses of the accident.
I don't quite understand the outrage. In the U.S. at least, all run-ins with the law -- anything that involves the court, no matter what side of the case you're on, are a matter of public record. Anyone who ever got a ticket of any sort, or brought a court case, or was sued, can be looked up in public records. Same goes for professional licenses. So, the reality is that a lot of people are listed in publicly accessible, on-line records, and you can usually look them up from your browser. Say Pennsylvania. Look up a common name, like Smith + common first names, as a starting point, you can then figure out various sequences of numbers (docket numbers, etc) and easily explore pretty much the entire database. The records include address, date of birth, etc. In Europe people are quite uptight about those things, but I don't quite get the reason. Anything related to the process of the law, professional licensing and public contracts, at least, should be a matter of public record, that's the only way to keep the system honest. I think that all vehicle registration data should also be public, too. It's silly to keep it hidden if the crash/accident records are already public here.
Well, mine were both outpatient procedures, and pre- and post-op was in a shared ward. Nurses were nice enough, no complaints there, and the anesthesiologist was a rather charming lady in fact. I'd come in about an hour before the surgery and they'd do the usual questionnaires, premedicate, etc. Post-op it was mainly waiting for the anesthesia to wear off enough so that I could go back to the car. It was maybe 6 hours turnaround from the time I left the home to the time I was back, that includes a 50 minute total commute time. It was done laparoscopically both times, so there are no scars to speak of (not that I care), and the surgeon was one of the local "rock stars", a very capable guy. Another surgeon friend talked him into doing his part for free the 2nd time, so it was one less bill to worry about. Health-wise I'm in the same group as you;)
You failed to grasp what a GPU-based attack is. Hint: networking is only involved to connect your compute nodes. You could put the whole thing on the Curiosity rover on Mars and it'd perform just as well (assuming proper radiation shielding etc.). You only need to get the final result. The service you're trying to break into is not involved anywhere in the process once you've got the value of the one-way function you need to compute the argument for.
Yeah, because all challenges in life must be physical. And obviously everyone leading a mostly sedentary life is a 400lb whale. I don't regularly exercise, but I'm not overweight, and I have no problem hiking in the mountains once a year, carrying 40-50lb on my back. Yes, the first few days I curse myself under my breath, but that passes, and I don't do it for any challenge, just to enjoy the view and the sweat. It's not about high carb diet, it's about not eating the fucking too much.
I suggest every weekend you sit down, choose a particular idea from science or arts that you didn't "crack" yet, and get down to it. Tell me it's no challenge, ha ha. My self esteem is just fine, or, rather, I don't pay much attention to it and it's not on my list to things to worry about. It doesn't bother me.
The major problem I have with your view is that you, supposedly, "know better". This attitude is what I detest. The know-it-better's essentially tell other people how to lead their lives, what to do with their bodies, etc. You basically presuppose that it's almost never rational to end a life. I'd like to have whatever you're having, since you're, apparently, delusional. The concept of free will includes and ends at the choice to end one's life. Who the fuck are you to tell anyone that they should be stripped of that freedom? In my personal opinion, suicide watches/prevention in jails are barbaric.
Very informative, thanks! The recommendations, then, are quite sane:
1. If you're obsessive about chewing gum, don't have amalgam fillings. 2. If you smoke (breathing through the mouth!), don't have amalgam fillings. 3. Don't excessively breathe through the mouth if you have many amalgam fillings.
I'll keep that in mind. I have 2 or 3 amalgam fillings. Not much of a gum chewer, I don't smoke, and if I breathe through the mouth while sleeping, my wife wakes me up (somehow that wakes up first). I guess I'm out of trouble. I like amalgams, they have some compliance and seem to better hold their seal up over time when top surface fillings are considered. For side-surface fillings, it's probably more of a stretch and I do have one side filling and have asked for epoxy solely due to mechanics of the situation. I didn't even consider the mercury.
Your post is one of the reasons why I can't give up slashdot:)
How the heck do you know your dad is coming down with flu like clockwork after getting the flu vaccine? That'd be a rather big discovery if that were true. Talk to some immunology profs...
Newborns are the most robust things out there, at least mechanically speaking. Most adults would never make it alive through an upsized ride through the birth canal. Same goes for falls, and various other things. I'm not entirely sure that a normal newborn is in any way "at its most critical stage".
Newsflash: doctors sometimes are stupid. I say it as someone who is personally responsible for my wife staying alive because some doctor(s) were stupid. Guess what: this has got nothing to do with vaccines. You're arguing that perhaps the vaccine adverse effect reporting does not magically work around stupidity of the doctors. You have a point, although it may be like complaining about UV in sunlight and expecting the solution to be a modification done to the sun...
Adverse allergic reactions to vaccines, including reactions that impact lung function, are nothing new. Consider yourself lucky in a way. They are pretty rare. It's a little, IMHO, price to pay, given the benefits. If you're so risk averse, I'm sure you don't drive in a car!
You don't get any mercury exposure from silver-mercury amalgam fillings. The fact that there are mercury atoms somewhere in your body doesn't automatically translate into bio-available mercury.
Doubly so an idiot for not understanding that emotions don't usually lead to rational decisions. Going on an anti-vax crusade due to having an autistic kid is equivalent to going on a rape spree because you just couldn't hold it anymore.
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Wait a minute. First of all, it's not just any government that can subpoena things. It only comes through a court process. Secondly, subpoenas work both ways: both the prosecution and defense can subpoena to the same extent. Thirdly, equal access to evidence by both the prosecution and the defense is guaranteed, and most judges can put you in a lot of hot water if you're interfering with access to evidence. Another misunderstanding here is that of self-incrimination. Self incrimination is about what you voluntarily do or what you're compelled to do. Handing over evidence that was subpoenaed is, as far as I know, has long history of not being considered self-incriminatory. Just because there is evidence that can be used against you, doesn't mean your right to not-self-incriminate is being broken. IANAL, but a black box is just like skid marks on the road. You'd be considered quite silly if you tried to argue that skid marks are self-incriminating. They are out there for everyone to see. Same with a black box. You crash, your car automatically can become evidence, and it can be used as such, just as skid marks on the road, etc. Just because it's a digital data recorder and it's mentioned on slashdot doesn't make it special.
I think you're taking things a wee bit too far. Cars can have black boxes, that's IMHO good. If, during a legal proceeding, someone subpoenas said black box, that's usually perfectly within the bounds of the legal process in the U.S. Unless the court seals the records (rare for traffic cases), everything that came up and got admitted into the record is a public record. It's not any different than subpoenaing human witnesses of the accident.
I don't quite understand the outrage. In the U.S. at least, all run-ins with the law -- anything that involves the court, no matter what side of the case you're on, are a matter of public record. Anyone who ever got a ticket of any sort, or brought a court case, or was sued, can be looked up in public records. Same goes for professional licenses. So, the reality is that a lot of people are listed in publicly accessible, on-line records, and you can usually look them up from your browser. Say Pennsylvania. Look up a common name, like Smith + common first names, as a starting point, you can then figure out various sequences of numbers (docket numbers, etc) and easily explore pretty much the entire database. The records include address, date of birth, etc. In Europe people are quite uptight about those things, but I don't quite get the reason. Anything related to the process of the law, professional licensing and public contracts, at least, should be a matter of public record, that's the only way to keep the system honest. I think that all vehicle registration data should also be public, too. It's silly to keep it hidden if the crash/accident records are already public here.
Well, mine were both outpatient procedures, and pre- and post-op was in a shared ward. Nurses were nice enough, no complaints there, and the anesthesiologist was a rather charming lady in fact. I'd come in about an hour before the surgery and they'd do the usual questionnaires, premedicate, etc. Post-op it was mainly waiting for the anesthesia to wear off enough so that I could go back to the car. It was maybe 6 hours turnaround from the time I left the home to the time I was back, that includes a 50 minute total commute time. It was done laparoscopically both times, so there are no scars to speak of (not that I care), and the surgeon was one of the local "rock stars", a very capable guy. Another surgeon friend talked him into doing his part for free the 2nd time, so it was one less bill to worry about. Health-wise I'm in the same group as you ;)
That may well be a reasonable thing to expect. Write to your legislators!
When they reverse the password from a hash value, they may well figure this out, too :)
You failed to grasp what a GPU-based attack is. Hint: networking is only involved to connect your compute nodes. You could put the whole thing on the Curiosity rover on Mars and it'd perform just as well (assuming proper radiation shielding etc.). You only need to get the final result. The service you're trying to break into is not involved anywhere in the process once you've got the value of the one-way function you need to compute the argument for.
That's hilarious :) vlm, you've made my day. Thanks!
Yeah, because all challenges in life must be physical. And obviously everyone leading a mostly sedentary life is a 400lb whale. I don't regularly exercise, but I'm not overweight, and I have no problem hiking in the mountains once a year, carrying 40-50lb on my back. Yes, the first few days I curse myself under my breath, but that passes, and I don't do it for any challenge, just to enjoy the view and the sweat. It's not about high carb diet, it's about not eating the fucking too much.
I suggest every weekend you sit down, choose a particular idea from science or arts that you didn't "crack" yet, and get down to it. Tell me it's no challenge, ha ha. My self esteem is just fine, or, rather, I don't pay much attention to it and it's not on my list to things to worry about. It doesn't bother me.
The major problem I have with your view is that you, supposedly, "know better". This attitude is what I detest. The know-it-better's essentially tell other people how to lead their lives, what to do with their bodies, etc. You basically presuppose that it's almost never rational to end a life. I'd like to have whatever you're having, since you're, apparently, delusional. The concept of free will includes and ends at the choice to end one's life. Who the fuck are you to tell anyone that they should be stripped of that freedom? In my personal opinion, suicide watches/prevention in jails are barbaric.
I agree with the sentiment, but what you meant was explaining the experimental method. Science is a wee bit broader term than that.
Very informative, thanks! The recommendations, then, are quite sane:
1. If you're obsessive about chewing gum, don't have amalgam fillings.
2. If you smoke (breathing through the mouth!), don't have amalgam fillings.
3. Don't excessively breathe through the mouth if you have many amalgam fillings.
I'll keep that in mind. I have 2 or 3 amalgam fillings. Not much of a gum chewer, I don't smoke, and if I breathe through the mouth while sleeping, my wife wakes me up (somehow that wakes up first). I guess I'm out of trouble. I like amalgams, they have some compliance and seem to better hold their seal up over time when top surface fillings are considered. For side-surface fillings, it's probably more of a stretch and I do have one side filling and have asked for epoxy solely due to mechanics of the situation. I didn't even consider the mercury.
Your post is one of the reasons why I can't give up slashdot :)
Hmm. Perhaps it's that bad, then. Consider me the lucky one, then :)
How the heck do you know your dad is coming down with flu like clockwork after getting the flu vaccine? That'd be a rather big discovery if that were true. Talk to some immunology profs...
Mr. Cruise, is that you?
And you have solid proof the two are related. Care to point to any references?
Newborns are the most robust things out there, at least mechanically speaking. Most adults would never make it alive through an upsized ride through the birth canal. Same goes for falls, and various other things. I'm not entirely sure that a normal newborn is in any way "at its most critical stage".
Newsflash: doctors sometimes are stupid. I say it as someone who is personally responsible for my wife staying alive because some doctor(s) were stupid. Guess what: this has got nothing to do with vaccines. You're arguing that perhaps the vaccine adverse effect reporting does not magically work around stupidity of the doctors. You have a point, although it may be like complaining about UV in sunlight and expecting the solution to be a modification done to the sun...
Adverse allergic reactions to vaccines, including reactions that impact lung function, are nothing new. Consider yourself lucky in a way. They are pretty rare. It's a little, IMHO, price to pay, given the benefits. If you're so risk averse, I'm sure you don't drive in a car!
You don't get any mercury exposure from silver-mercury amalgam fillings. The fact that there are mercury atoms somewhere in your body doesn't automatically translate into bio-available mercury.
That doesn't make the message any less valid, though.
Political positions usually negatively select fair, intelligent decision makers who are not driven by ideology and dogma.
Doubly so an idiot for not understanding that emotions don't usually lead to rational decisions. Going on an anti-vax crusade due to having an autistic kid is equivalent to going on a rape spree because you just couldn't hold it anymore.
What's flamebait about that?! Pretty much spot-on, if you ask me.
I've had it as a kid, and I don't recall it being much worse than, say, the flu I've had at least once in my life.