In my days those "fixers" were known as Fairlight and Razor 1911 among others. They were seen as living gods and provided thousands of "fixed" games. None of them got rich on it but did it for fun and fame. The readme files even encouraged you to buy the games they ripped if you liked them.
Razor1911 are still around and they are still awesome, they still probably aren't rich either. Fairlight pretty much WERE razor as I understand it.
Nope, for the longest period of time marriage was a practical or political arrangement, it was a way to ensure the continuation of your linage. It had more to do with the political aspects of medieval life than it had to do with the religious aspects of it.
It served as a handy way to not only ensure children but also cement political alliances and inheritance.
The church's role in the whole deal was simply that it was the only organization that could perform the marriages, which is how the church maintained its base of power in medieval Europe. In many cases the medieval catholic church was a political organization more than a religious one.
o_O Already exists in Europe: It's called the Data Retention Directive. This exists now. Today. And it requires very much less than "all the resources of the human race". In fact, it merely requires an extra 1U unit here and there at the border routers for major ISPs, and sometimes an extra fiber link to duplicate traffic.
I am European, not sure you are.
Anyway as I understand it the DRD does not require ISPs to store the actual data, just the header information, so it only stores information about who is talking to who and not what they are talking about. At least that is my understanding. They do the same for cellphones, call-logs have to be stored for a long time, same for SMS.
You aren't understanding how the Internet works. If you had taps on all nodes at the same time and the data was encrypted end to end, then you would still be able to "see" who sent what when. You are assuming that "the network" is a cloud. It isn't. "cloud" doesn't exist.
Are you retarded? Every router, switch, etc., has port mirroring capability. Most of those pass through telecommunications equipment. That telecommunications equipment has taps built into it. That's what most of the internet is built on. They can tap it. They do tap it. They're building a nationwide infrastructure to capture all the IP header data at each point where it enters a telecommunications network. YES, THEY CAN DO THIS. THEY ALREADY HAVE DONE THIS. THEY DO THIS ALL THE TIME. Am I getting through your neanderthal skullmeats?
In this example, 'they' is the NSA, NSA has zero interest in Tor/l2p/Freenet. The amount of data taken in by the NSA is already massive as it is and they can barely process all of it, this is a known problem for them and has been somewhat widely publicized. Right now, the NSA being an intelligence outfit focuses mostly on gathering intelligence related to foreign relationships (they have a long and proud history of eavesdropping on embassies and diplomats) and the hunting of terrorists. So yes, assuming they had reason to believe that a terrorist was using TOR/Freenet/l2p then yeah they would start looking at those, but ultimately they would still have to first isolate the darknet packages from all the other packages they grab and then do their correlation study, so any data gathered would be after-the-fact at which point anyone with any sort of skill would have moved on and be using a different entry point next time.
The NSA is scary, yes, but they are just terrible at getting real-time data out of network traffic like this. Telecommunications on the other hand, that's a different story, that they're quite good at.
Also probably spying on China, I am assuming they've gotten decent at that too.
Encrypt all you want. Traffic analysis still screws you every time. The network tries to keep latencies low, so it forwards whatever it receives onto the next hop as soon as it gets it. If you're monitoring the source and the destination, then when it gets decrypted at the destination, you can correlate that with the traversal time through the 'black box' of Tor, Freenet, or whatever... and viola, you know who sent it, when, and what it was.
This is a known problem. It's discussed at length on EFF's website. If your connections are made in bulk, at regular intervals, instead of interactively, then it's a lot harder to do traffic analysis if all the other nodes exhibit the same behavior. But as long as you're trying to be anonymous by simply using a series of proxies that are set to store-and-forward... you're still screwed.
TOR (and the rest of the darknets, I guess, I haven't tried them) really isn't intended for secure communication, it is intended for anonymous communication. In your example both destination and source of the messages are known which means that any hope of anonymity was lost from the start.
If you want secure communication then you need a extra encryption like a public key based algorithm or something like that.
More reason to limit copyright lifetimes to sane values (like say a decade or two) rather than their current ridiculous lengths.
You realize that source code does not magically become available just because the copyright on it expires, right?
I mean just because a hypothetical company looses their hypothetical copyrights on their hypothetical software does not guarantee that they will release their hypothetical source code.
One of the many reasons I don't own a cell phone is so I don't have to worry about being tracked or listened to. 99.9% of the conversations I have on the phone are at work and only have to do with work. I know I'm not the only one holding out on buying a cell phone, for whatever reason.
So, we'll have GPS in every car... Mandated... Once we accept the need, because of emergency, we'll soon be forced to deal with the realities of being tracked where ever our vehicle goes. It takes 30 minutes to get to work by car. I smoke a pack of cigarettes a day. A bicycle is a little out of the question... I guess I'll just have to start rebuilding cars that predate the mandate and are excluded. Cash for clunkers seemed like such a great idea at the time...
Also, how do they plan to offset the expense of paying more medics to be on call, the increase in the number of ambulances needed, the number of cops that have to show up to the scene of an accident that might have happened on public property, where they can't even do anything if nobody was injured... We're already having a hard enough time paying our public servants to deal with the shit they already have to deal with.
And who gets the contract to supply all these devices? Will they be manufactured in China with compromised chips like we're seeing with so many of our current electronics?
You guys are already being video taped everywhere you go, and now your car will have GPS... How easy it will be for investigators to consider anybody to be a suspect that was in the general area a crime occurred? It sounds like it would be good for police because they could narrow the suspects down to just a select few to begin with, but do you want to possibly be harassed by the police for something that didn't involve you in any way? We already have plenty of people who are being found innocent of crimes they supposedly committed 15 or 20 years ago.
I say fuck your tracking. As many citizens as possible should remove their bullshit mandated tracking devices and refuse to pay inspection taxes until they retract this law. A government run with no money. Too bad I didn't think of it first...
Dude, you're just one lost marble from moving into the woods to work on your manifesto aren't you?
What I am saying is you're sounding kinda crazy and I think you might wanna consider finding some help.
Therefore every car has GPS. Therefore tracking every car, including yours, is trivial. The motive only appears to be altruistic.
I don't get why this is problematic at all, I mean you are likely to appear on any number of traffic cams at different points during the day anyway, and if you have a cellphone your location is also logged.
The problem is, as it as always been, the huge amounts of data generated by large scale tracking like this makes it impossible to do anything with it in real-time unless you know specifically what to look for, and even if you do know it might not be that easy.
And trust me on this, nobody at the NSA, CIA or even FBI care about you. Hell even Google and Facebook are indifferent towards you and they make money off you.
Hunter/Gatherer life styles are harmful to levels of other species which has a knock on effect on the environment. We need to genetically engineer a predator that preys on humans and introduce it into the food chain.
Why genetically engineer it? Lots of stuff already eat humans if they can get away with it. Oh also humans are the natural predator of humans.
No, this system is designed to the resolve "single vehicle incidents", where typically a single male (irresponsible) driver at night loses control of the vehicle at excessive speed and gets knocked unconscious in the accident after hitting a tree.
While it is true that a fast response can save a lot of lives in these situations, I am not sure why I should have to pay for these idiots on the road. Even worse, risk compensation could mean that they drive even more aggressively, thus increasing the risk to sensible drivers on the road. It is certainly a double edged sword.
I am assuming that by 'risk compensation' you are referring to that phenomenon where as cars become safer and safer people become more reckless drivers. Well I don't think that'll apply in the case of this eCall thing, since it doesn't actually make you safer in the event of a crash. It just makes it so the emergency services know about it earlier.
No, I said I'm not perfect. If you didn't get that concept, maybe you need to go back to sku sku sku school, where they seem to have failed to teach our current sheep herd the most basic principles needed to get by in life, but some how managed to pass them through grade after grade until they got out into the real world. Woe is the general tax payer who actually has to pay for them and theirs...
Do you have any idea what it's like to listen to somebody read out loud and struggle to make it through a few paragraphs in a story because they can't fucking read? Did you know these same people are driving on our streets, unable to read or comprehend the guidelines motorists need to know? Oh wait, we're all winners, nobody is behind the curve...
Yes! Absolutely this technology could save my life! Do I want it in my vehicle? NO! Not until the day I decide I want it. At that time I can call On Star, provided by Government Motors.
I don't have to cost the government, YOU and other taxpayers, a dime! I don't have insurance. Why? I'm not married and I don't have any children. Who would benefit? Well insurance companies for one, and now if I still don't buy insurance I get fined / taxed (however you see it) thanks to Obamacare. Yep, I decide not to be a burden to society while I pay for those that do. Funny how what I worked for doesn't benefit me, but takes care of somebody else.
Fuck that!
Changing the topic a little aren't you? Annoyed that you got a little bit owned?
I'm sick of you lazy fucktards who cannot be bothered to spend 10 seconds on Google.
You were the one who made the claim, burden of proof lies with you.
Your argument is the equivalent of a physicist saying: "Through rigorous study I have determined that 90% of the universe is in fact a hologram." and when asked to show his work he says "Do the math yourself you lazy cunt. I'm sick of you lazy fucktards who cannot be bothered to do the math yourselves."
I don't know anything about OnStar. But as far as I can eCall doesn't actually allow you to talk to anyone, so there wont be a mic in the car. If I understand it correctly then what this eCall system does is record your position and in case the system detects a crash of some sort it sends off a notice to the emergency services saying " crashed at "
because people should be able to keep the property they've earned? socialism just ensures that we all live in squalor. Just look at the ex-soviet state lifestyle.. look, I'm no bill gates fan, but the socialist rhetoric spewing forth lately scares me... you don't have a right to another's property without his permission.
Hey, I am a socialist. I don't want your stuff and I kinda like capitalism.
Or something else entirely. Look at our own communications, which are rapidly switching to all-digital. Unless you know how the digital is encoded/modulated/carried, all you're going to hear is random noise. And who says aliens use anything like we do?
I postulate that a technical civilization would only stick with radio for approximately 100-200 years before moving to something better -- and something that we probably don't even know how to listen to. When measured against just the age of our local group, that's very narrow odds.
Be better to spend the money actually GOING to the stars than just listening to them, in my opinion.:)
As I understand it one of the big markers that they look for is repetition, so ideally you want a signal of some kind that sends out the same stream of date repeatedly. I can't think of an earthly analogue right off the top of my head, perhaps like an alien commercial or something.
You don't know how plugins work with modern browsers. Please stop pretending that you do.
Without the JS redirect, there is no avenue for infection. Period. NoScript will stop this, properly configured. Period. Because of the nature of the kit, most antivirus products WILL NOT protect you from the threat. Period.
Yes this particular exploit (and any other JS based exploits, probably). Guy you are replying to said that while NoScript might protect you from JS based exploits, it does not protect you from exploits that targets elements not affected by NoScript or exploits aimed at NoScript itself.
The internet is a dangerous place, sometimes bad stuff slips through the cracks. There isn't a silver bullet solution that will keep you 100% safe 100% of the time.
Slashdot Mirror
Sure why not.
Also you forgot to add profanity and the words "first-u post-u."
Yes. And now we know that the UK gov't is going to provide filters in an attempt to mitigate that stuff.
(and we narrowly avoided our desire to crash into the transmitter, Nickelback was playing).
Dude, you just admitted to considering terroristic acts, DHS is on the way.
In my days those "fixers" were known as Fairlight and Razor 1911 among others. They were seen as living gods and provided thousands of "fixed" games. None of them got rich on it but did it for fun and fame. The readme files even encouraged you to buy the games they ripped if you liked them.
Razor1911 are still around and they are still awesome, they still probably aren't rich either.
Fairlight pretty much WERE razor as I understand it.
Taxes aren't theft homie.
The concept of marriage is religious.
Nope, for the longest period of time marriage was a practical or political arrangement, it was a way to ensure the continuation of your linage. It had more to do with the political aspects of medieval life than it had to do with the religious aspects of it.
It served as a handy way to not only ensure children but also cement political alliances and inheritance.
The church's role in the whole deal was simply that it was the only organization that could perform the marriages, which is how the church maintained its base of power in medieval Europe. In many cases the medieval catholic church was a political organization more than a religious one.
o_O Already exists in Europe: It's called the Data Retention Directive. This exists now. Today. And it requires very much less than "all the resources of the human race". In fact, it merely requires an extra 1U unit here and there at the border routers for major ISPs, and sometimes an extra fiber link to duplicate traffic.
I am European, not sure you are.
Anyway as I understand it the DRD does not require ISPs to store the actual data, just the header information, so it only stores information about who is talking to who and not what they are talking about.
At least that is my understanding.
They do the same for cellphones, call-logs have to be stored for a long time, same for SMS.
You aren't understanding how the Internet works. If you had taps on all nodes at the same time and the data was encrypted end to end, then you would still be able to "see" who sent what when. You are assuming that "the network" is a cloud. It isn't. "cloud" doesn't exist.
Are you retarded? Every router, switch, etc., has port mirroring capability. Most of those pass through telecommunications equipment. That telecommunications equipment has taps built into it. That's what most of the internet is built on. They can tap it. They do tap it. They're building a nationwide infrastructure to capture all the IP header data at each point where it enters a telecommunications network. YES, THEY CAN DO THIS. THEY ALREADY HAVE DONE THIS. THEY DO THIS ALL THE TIME. Am I getting through your neanderthal skullmeats?
In this example, 'they' is the NSA, NSA has zero interest in Tor/l2p/Freenet. The amount of data taken in by the NSA is already massive as it is and they can barely process all of it, this is a known problem for them and has been somewhat widely publicized.
Right now, the NSA being an intelligence outfit focuses mostly on gathering intelligence related to foreign relationships (they have a long and proud history of eavesdropping on embassies and diplomats) and the hunting of terrorists. So yes, assuming they had reason to believe that a terrorist was using TOR/Freenet/l2p then yeah they would start looking at those, but ultimately they would still have to first isolate the darknet packages from all the other packages they grab and then do their correlation study, so any data gathered would be after-the-fact at which point anyone with any sort of skill would have moved on and be using a different entry point next time.
The NSA is scary, yes, but they are just terrible at getting real-time data out of network traffic like this. Telecommunications on the other hand, that's a different story, that they're quite good at.
Also probably spying on China, I am assuming they've gotten decent at that too.
Try tracking us there.
Encrypt all you want. Traffic analysis still screws you every time. The network tries to keep latencies low, so it forwards whatever it receives onto the next hop as soon as it gets it. If you're monitoring the source and the destination, then when it gets decrypted at the destination, you can correlate that with the traversal time through the 'black box' of Tor, Freenet, or whatever... and viola, you know who sent it, when, and what it was.
This is a known problem. It's discussed at length on EFF's website. If your connections are made in bulk, at regular intervals, instead of interactively, then it's a lot harder to do traffic analysis if all the other nodes exhibit the same behavior. But as long as you're trying to be anonymous by simply using a series of proxies that are set to store-and-forward... you're still screwed.
TOR (and the rest of the darknets, I guess, I haven't tried them) really isn't intended for secure communication, it is intended for anonymous communication. In your example both destination and source of the messages are known which means that any hope of anonymity was lost from the start.
If you want secure communication then you need a extra encryption like a public key based algorithm or something like that.
You are one of them aren't you?
That is a space pilot multiplayer first person style shooter. A bit like a flight simulator.
Also gave me so much motion sickness back in the day.
Fun game though.
More reason to limit copyright lifetimes to sane values (like say a decade or two) rather than their current ridiculous lengths.
You realize that source code does not magically become available just because the copyright on it expires, right?
I mean just because a hypothetical company looses their hypothetical copyrights on their hypothetical software does not guarantee that they will release their hypothetical source code.
If OSX is Uranium on the periodic table, .
So if I install OS X enough times on my computer it'll achieve super-criticality? Does it also mean that OS X is technically illegal under the NPT?
Sure, why not. Or just the same message sent over and over again like the neutrino letter from the stars as seen in His Master's Voice
One of the many reasons I don't own a cell phone is so I don't have to worry about being tracked or listened to. 99.9% of the conversations I have on the phone are at work and only have to do with work. I know I'm not the only one holding out on buying a cell phone, for whatever reason.
So, we'll have GPS in every car... Mandated... Once we accept the need, because of emergency, we'll soon be forced to deal with the realities of being tracked where ever our vehicle goes. It takes 30 minutes to get to work by car. I smoke a pack of cigarettes a day. A bicycle is a little out of the question... I guess I'll just have to start rebuilding cars that predate the mandate and are excluded. Cash for clunkers seemed like such a great idea at the time...
Also, how do they plan to offset the expense of paying more medics to be on call, the increase in the number of ambulances needed, the number of cops that have to show up to the scene of an accident that might have happened on public property, where they can't even do anything if nobody was injured... We're already having a hard enough time paying our public servants to deal with the shit they already have to deal with.
And who gets the contract to supply all these devices? Will they be manufactured in China with compromised chips like we're seeing with so many of our current electronics?
You guys are already being video taped everywhere you go, and now your car will have GPS... How easy it will be for investigators to consider anybody to be a suspect that was in the general area a crime occurred? It sounds like it would be good for police because they could narrow the suspects down to just a select few to begin with, but do you want to possibly be harassed by the police for something that didn't involve you in any way? We already have plenty of people who are being found innocent of crimes they supposedly committed 15 or 20 years ago.
I say fuck your tracking. As many citizens as possible should remove their bullshit mandated tracking devices and refuse to pay inspection taxes until they retract this law. A government run with no money. Too bad I didn't think of it first...
Dude, you're just one lost marble from moving into the woods to work on your manifesto aren't you?
What I am saying is you're sounding kinda crazy and I think you might wanna consider finding some help.
Enabling mass tracking and surveillance of the citizenry is like handing a loaded gun to someone you know will use it.
Mass tracking and surveillance was enabled as soon as we invented CCTV and cellphones.
Therefore every car has GPS. Therefore tracking every car, including yours, is trivial. The motive only appears to be altruistic.
I don't get why this is problematic at all, I mean you are likely to appear on any number of traffic cams at different points during the day anyway, and if you have a cellphone your location is also logged.
The problem is, as it as always been, the huge amounts of data generated by large scale tracking like this makes it impossible to do anything with it in real-time unless you know specifically what to look for, and even if you do know it might not be that easy.
And trust me on this, nobody at the NSA, CIA or even FBI care about you. Hell even Google and Facebook are indifferent towards you and they make money off you.
Hunter/Gatherer life styles are harmful to levels of other species which has a knock on effect on the environment. We need to genetically engineer a predator that preys on humans and introduce it into the food chain.
Why genetically engineer it? Lots of stuff already eat humans if they can get away with it. Oh also humans are the natural predator of humans.
No, this system is designed to the resolve "single vehicle incidents", where typically a single male (irresponsible) driver at night loses control of the vehicle at excessive speed and gets knocked unconscious in the accident after hitting a tree.
While it is true that a fast response can save a lot of lives in these situations, I am not sure why I should have to pay for these idiots on the road. Even worse, risk compensation could mean that they drive even more aggressively, thus increasing the risk to sensible drivers on the road. It is certainly a double edged sword.
I am assuming that by 'risk compensation' you are referring to that phenomenon where as cars become safer and safer people become more reckless drivers. Well I don't think that'll apply in the case of this eCall thing, since it doesn't actually make you safer in the event of a crash. It just makes it so the emergency services know about it earlier.
No, I said I'm not perfect. If you didn't get that concept, maybe you need to go back to sku sku sku school, where they seem to have failed to teach our current sheep herd the most basic principles needed to get by in life, but some how managed to pass them through grade after grade until they got out into the real world. Woe is the general tax payer who actually has to pay for them and theirs...
Do you have any idea what it's like to listen to somebody read out loud and struggle to make it through a few paragraphs in a story because they can't fucking read? Did you know these same people are driving on our streets, unable to read or comprehend the guidelines motorists need to know? Oh wait, we're all winners, nobody is behind the curve...
Yes! Absolutely this technology could save my life! Do I want it in my vehicle? NO! Not until the day I decide I want it. At that time I can call On Star, provided by Government Motors.
I don't have to cost the government, YOU and other taxpayers, a dime! I don't have insurance. Why? I'm not married and I don't have any children. Who would benefit? Well insurance companies for one, and now if I still don't buy insurance I get fined / taxed (however you see it) thanks to Obamacare. Yep, I decide not to be a burden to society while I pay for those that do. Funny how what I worked for doesn't benefit me, but takes care of somebody else.
Fuck that!
Changing the topic a little aren't you? Annoyed that you got a little bit owned?
"citation needed."
Look it up yourself you lazy cunt.
I'm sick of you lazy fucktards who cannot be bothered to spend 10 seconds on Google.
You were the one who made the claim, burden of proof lies with you.
Your argument is the equivalent of a physicist saying: "Through rigorous study I have determined that 90% of the universe is in fact a hologram." and when asked to show his work he says "Do the math yourself you lazy cunt. I'm sick of you lazy fucktards who cannot be bothered to do the math yourselves."
I don't know anything about OnStar. But as far as I can eCall doesn't actually allow you to talk to anyone, so there wont be a mic in the car.
If I understand it correctly then what this eCall system does is record your position and in case the system detects a crash of some sort it sends off a notice to the emergency services saying " crashed at "
because people should be able to keep the property they've earned? socialism just ensures that we all live in squalor. Just look at the ex-soviet state lifestyle.. look, I'm no bill gates fan, but the socialist rhetoric spewing forth lately scares me... you don't have a right to another's property without his permission.
Hey, I am a socialist. I don't want your stuff and I kinda like capitalism.
> gigahertz and terahertz frequencies
Or something else entirely. Look at our own communications, which are rapidly switching to all-digital. Unless you know how the digital is encoded/modulated/carried, all you're going to hear is random noise. And who says aliens use anything like we do?
I postulate that a technical civilization would only stick with radio for approximately 100-200 years before moving to something better -- and something that we probably don't even know how to listen to. When measured against just the age of our local group, that's very narrow odds.
Be better to spend the money actually GOING to the stars than just listening to them, in my opinion. :)
As I understand it one of the big markers that they look for is repetition, so ideally you want a signal of some kind that sends out the same stream of date repeatedly. I can't think of an earthly analogue right off the top of my head, perhaps like an alien commercial or something.
You don't know how plugins work with modern browsers. Please stop pretending that you do.
Without the JS redirect, there is no avenue for infection. Period. NoScript will stop this, properly configured. Period. Because of the nature of the kit, most antivirus products WILL NOT protect you from the threat. Period.
Yes this particular exploit (and any other JS based exploits, probably). Guy you are replying to said that while NoScript might protect you from JS based exploits, it does not protect you from exploits that targets elements not affected by NoScript or exploits aimed at NoScript itself.
The internet is a dangerous place, sometimes bad stuff slips through the cracks. There isn't a silver bullet solution that will keep you 100% safe 100% of the time.