For a start, just convince every site to use SSL. It's possible to MITM SSL, but not on a large scale without detection. All the ISPs would be able to log is DNS lookups and IP addresses, which is still bad but not nearly as bad as being able to see individual pages accessed. Then you can start looking into possible ways to make DNS harder to monitor somehow.
Requiring the government to use fiddly correlation analysis to get a partial idea of your activities is still a lot better than the current situation, where they need issue one sternly-worded letter in order to retrieve everything including content and history.
Retroshare can give you encrypted IM, mail and forums shared only with your retroshare contacts. It's a big of a headache on dynamic IPs though - it expects all nodes to be mostly-stationary. An observer could work out who your contacts are, but that's all they are getting - metadata only, no content. Also does file transfer and share-browsing.
Would bitcoin make it easier, though? Considering that 'accounts' can be created at will, even for just a single transaction in and out, it's going to take a great deal of effort for a forensic accountant to pierce the trail together. Effort justified to go after organised crime, but not the petty criminal who just wants to do some gambling on an offshore casino. Potentially with bitcoin the police would need to call in a forensic accountant to spend days going through pages of transactions in order to figure out things that right now can be done with a simple subpoena for the records of one account.
Part of the idea behind bitcoin is that regulations would be difficult to enforce. Not impossible, because if you're buying Stuff with bitcoins than you still need a delivery address. But difficult. If I want to, say, hide my illicit income, or shuffle funds off to a country under embargo, or donate to an organisation no bank is willing to do business with, or hide a big pile of wealth while declaring bankruptcy, or do some online gambling in violation of a law forbidding such businesses, or pay someone under-the-table to avoid taxes, then it's very difficult to detect - providing a few precautions are taken with disposable addresses and wallets.
Yes. I've written a program that achieves a similar saving for PNGs and other lossless formats by making them very slightly lossy (It actually works by slightly adjusting the boundary between quantization bands, so no pixel ever changes value by more than a tiny, definable amount). What happens to it? No-one wants something like that, so it joins all my other dabbling in obscurity.
There was a poll a while ago - a couple put up a blog about their unplanned pregnancy, with a poll asking people if they should abort it while they detailed the process of preparing for a baby. It's an interesting case study because it was easy to watch the swing: It started off with a majority voting to keep the baby, until 4chan got wind and flooded the site - then it went to upwards of 90% in favor of abortion. Then news spread and it was reported on many anti-abortion blogs and news services, which resulted in a flood of traffic from those sources that overwhelmed even 4chan's numbers and pushed it back in favor of keeping.
In the end it turned out to be (as many suspected) a hoax - the couple never had any intention of abortion regardless of the poll, they were just doing it as a political stunt to draw attention to the issue of abortion. It still demonstrates that the outcome of an online poll really depends upon the readership, and can be swayed easily if the poll is linked to from a popular site.
While the article talks about spaceplanes a lot more, it also states that the facility will be capable of satellite launches. If it ever actually gets built, which seems dubious with Scotland's current political situation.
But it's being pushed by Scottish politicians. I still think it's politics, but for the other side: It's a way for Scotland to demonstrate the have high-tech capabilities too, and are more than just an outpost of England.
Secret missions possibly. The UK government might want a domestic launch site, rather than have to entrust France with all their secret missions.
Or it might be, as many speculate, pure politics: This isn't coming from down London, this is being pushed by Scottish politicians. A big, expensive, high-tech project like that could do much to showcase Scotland as an economic success, stressing both to their own citizens and the rest of the world that they don't need the rest of the UK. There's a strong emphesis on the article on spaceplanes, a form of commercial aeronautics still in the development stage - having one of the first useable facilities would be a great prestige.
It's of a lot of use if you're aiming to leave earth orbit though, for interplanetary probes. A site this far north is really good for polar orbits and that's about it. Even the ISS isn't that heavily inclined - you could get there from Scotland, but it'd use more fuel than a launch from further south. That's why the ISS is supplied from Guiana Space Center: It's in Europe*, so politically suitable, while still being close to the equator.
*It's in Europe the same way Hawaii is in the USA. It may be geographically remote, but legally and politically it's still France.
Only at low amplitudes, for waves in water. At higher amplitudes non-linear effects become significent. The same applies to sound, and electromagnetic radiation in any medium other than vacuum. You don't see it much because the required amplitudes for that to happen in air are at the retina-scorching level.
Vader could have killed Luke many times. He just insisted on trying to take him alive. His first big mistake was in hiring an incompetent engineer for the first death star who doesn't understand the concept of 'single point of failure' and managed to design a supercapital ship that could be destroyed by a single shot in just the right place. His second mistake was in relying on his huge team of elite soldiers to repel an attack consisting of two men, a pampered royal, a service droid and a translater. A fine plan, except that those two men were protected by plot-powered blaster-deflectors.
Republicans tent to regard education as a system for making democrats. They attribute this to a massive conspiracy among teachers and unions to indoctrinate children.
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For a start, just convince every site to use SSL. It's possible to MITM SSL, but not on a large scale without detection. All the ISPs would be able to log is DNS lookups and IP addresses, which is still bad but not nearly as bad as being able to see individual pages accessed. Then you can start looking into possible ways to make DNS harder to monitor somehow.
Probably not, but he at least know it and instead calls upon those of greater ability in that area to rally to his cause.
Requiring the government to use fiddly correlation analysis to get a partial idea of your activities is still a lot better than the current situation, where they need issue one sternly-worded letter in order to retrieve everything including content and history.
I'm waiting for them to do an episode on laws and sausages.
Retroshare can give you encrypted IM, mail and forums shared only with your retroshare contacts. It's a big of a headache on dynamic IPs though - it expects all nodes to be mostly-stationary. An observer could work out who your contacts are, but that's all they are getting - metadata only, no content. Also does file transfer and share-browsing.
End-to-end encrypted communications can.
Would bitcoin make it easier, though? Considering that 'accounts' can be created at will, even for just a single transaction in and out, it's going to take a great deal of effort for a forensic accountant to pierce the trail together. Effort justified to go after organised crime, but not the petty criminal who just wants to do some gambling on an offshore casino. Potentially with bitcoin the police would need to call in a forensic accountant to spend days going through pages of transactions in order to figure out things that right now can be done with a simple subpoena for the records of one account.
Countries tend to get annoyed if you send blimps over their territory. You can get away with sats though.
Part of the idea behind bitcoin is that regulations would be difficult to enforce. Not impossible, because if you're buying Stuff with bitcoins than you still need a delivery address. But difficult. If I want to, say, hide my illicit income, or shuffle funds off to a country under embargo, or donate to an organisation no bank is willing to do business with, or hide a big pile of wealth while declaring bankruptcy, or do some online gambling in violation of a law forbidding such businesses, or pay someone under-the-table to avoid taxes, then it's very difficult to detect - providing a few precautions are taken with disposable addresses and wallets.
Silicon valley doesn't care about longer copyrights - their industry hasn't existed long enough to benefit. That's more a music/movie industry thing.
I'm just a hobbyist tinkerer, I have no qualifications between a not-very-good engineering diploma and no idea how to go about something like that.
No, but it works through different means: My thing + imageoptim > either alone.
Did you see any crops on the surface? It might be a humidifier for an indoor farming area.
Loki, proto-furry.
Yes. I've written a program that achieves a similar saving for PNGs and other lossless formats by making them very slightly lossy (It actually works by slightly adjusting the boundary between quantization bands, so no pixel ever changes value by more than a tiny, definable amount). What happens to it? No-one wants something like that, so it joins all my other dabbling in obscurity.
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There was a poll a while ago - a couple put up a blog about their unplanned pregnancy, with a poll asking people if they should abort it while they detailed the process of preparing for a baby. It's an interesting case study because it was easy to watch the swing: It started off with a majority voting to keep the baby, until 4chan got wind and flooded the site - then it went to upwards of 90% in favor of abortion. Then news spread and it was reported on many anti-abortion blogs and news services, which resulted in a flood of traffic from those sources that overwhelmed even 4chan's numbers and pushed it back in favor of keeping.
In the end it turned out to be (as many suspected) a hoax - the couple never had any intention of abortion regardless of the poll, they were just doing it as a political stunt to draw attention to the issue of abortion. It still demonstrates that the outcome of an online poll really depends upon the readership, and can be swayed easily if the poll is linked to from a popular site.
While the article talks about spaceplanes a lot more, it also states that the facility will be capable of satellite launches. If it ever actually gets built, which seems dubious with Scotland's current political situation.
But it's being pushed by Scottish politicians. I still think it's politics, but for the other side: It's a way for Scotland to demonstrate the have high-tech capabilities too, and are more than just an outpost of England.
Secret missions possibly. The UK government might want a domestic launch site, rather than have to entrust France with all their secret missions.
Or it might be, as many speculate, pure politics: This isn't coming from down London, this is being pushed by Scottish politicians. A big, expensive, high-tech project like that could do much to showcase Scotland as an economic success, stressing both to their own citizens and the rest of the world that they don't need the rest of the UK. There's a strong emphesis on the article on spaceplanes, a form of commercial aeronautics still in the development stage - having one of the first useable facilities would be a great prestige.
It's of a lot of use if you're aiming to leave earth orbit though, for interplanetary probes. A site this far north is really good for polar orbits and that's about it. Even the ISS isn't that heavily inclined - you could get there from Scotland, but it'd use more fuel than a launch from further south. That's why the ISS is supplied from Guiana Space Center: It's in Europe*, so politically suitable, while still being close to the equator.
*It's in Europe the same way Hawaii is in the USA. It may be geographically remote, but legally and politically it's still France.
Only at low amplitudes, for waves in water. At higher amplitudes non-linear effects become significent. The same applies to sound, and electromagnetic radiation in any medium other than vacuum. You don't see it much because the required amplitudes for that to happen in air are at the retina-scorching level.
Also the Daily Wail.
Vader could have killed Luke many times. He just insisted on trying to take him alive. His first big mistake was in hiring an incompetent engineer for the first death star who doesn't understand the concept of 'single point of failure' and managed to design a supercapital ship that could be destroyed by a single shot in just the right place. His second mistake was in relying on his huge team of elite soldiers to repel an attack consisting of two men, a pampered royal, a service droid and a translater. A fine plan, except that those two men were protected by plot-powered blaster-deflectors.
Republicans tent to regard education as a system for making democrats. They attribute this to a massive conspiracy among teachers and unions to indoctrinate children.