"Vote for this bill and we'll give you money." - illegal. "We donate to politicians that support us. So if you vote for this bill, you'll get a contribution next election cycle. If you vote against it, we'll donate to your rival." - Perfectly legal.
It's still effectively bribery, but it's a 'polite' form that stays on the right side of the law.
One solution would be to place a cap on the donations that one company of individual could make, but then you'd soon see dodgy accounting being used to work around it - things like companies giving a few thousand employees 'bonuses' on the implicit understanding they must donate to a certain candidate, or creating lots of semi-independent front companies who can each make the maximum donation.
It's possible to use a lot less than that. Pirates generally fit a 720p movie in 4.4GB, or a 1080p in 8GB. Quality isn't quite blu-ray, but it's not far off.
Multitasking: Swap. Notice that most applications on smartphones cease to execute when not actually on screen? The OS puts them onto flash to free up precious RAM. Not much RAM in a phone.
HD Video recording: But now it doesn't need to compress it so much. Quality can improve.
Gaming: Er, not so much. Faster level load times, but that's about it.
Browsing: Now they are mostly making things up. I suppose it could speed up cache access, but that's hardly a bottleneck.
They are becoming just IT literate enough to be a problem.
Any idiot can set up their own department server now. But that idiot won't know how to configure firewall rules, stop unneeded services or make sure patches are up-to-date.
Any idiot can move their data around on USB sticks and dropbox - and this will greatly increase productivity, as they subvert the frustrating demands of IT to keep all confidential data within the office and start catching-up at home and on the commute too. Until someone loses the stick or has their laptop stolen, leaving half your customer database floating around the street somewhere.
These are car thieves we're dealing with. Even if they are knowledgeable enough, they wouldn't want to hang around too long with the bonnet up in case the owner returns. If your car is too hard to steal, they'll just move on to someone else's.
We use scratch where I work. It's supposed to be to teach rudimentary programming.
In practice students soon realised that the scratch.mit.edu site includes a library of games made by other people, and will happily spend their lessons playing on those.
This is for the immobiliser, not the door locks, so you don't need to dabble in the delicate electronics of the engine control or fiddley RF line. Just put your relay in the cable that powers the solonoid coil for the starter (Do cars still use those, or have they gone solid-state now? Same idea) or power line to the ignition.
How do they fix this? They can put a new firmware in cars easily enough, but the many already on the road have no auto-update capability, and the typical driver isn't even aware their car has firmware. Assuming it's something that can be updated - I wouldn't be surprised if this is handled by a chip that needs to be physically replaced by a garage.
It's not just IT. Site Services are constantly addressing the same problems - blinds torn apart, chair legs or wheels broken, that sort of thing. Most often the doors - we have traffic control doors that lock (electromagnets) on a timer, part of an elaborate dance that ensures there is no deadly crush of students during lesson change. Students hate this though, and routinely throw themselves at the doors trying to force them open, or smash the locking device, or tear the draft-block strips from the doors so they wedge and prevent the door closing fully, or swing from the door until it comes loose from the hinges.
Ah, the creepy one. Not their fault. Just difficult timing, happening to open at the same time as the FurAffinity anti-creepy policy change and so getting hit by the exodus of the rejected.
Can't MITM without installing a certificate on the client.
If SSL isn't filtered, then it'll result in lots of dodgy porn sites using it to catch the new and lucrative 'dont want the wife to know, so can't take the filter off' segment. In an untended consequence it would penalise the sites that actually make efforts to keep children from seeing by cooperating with filter operators, and instead drive customers to the less reputatable sites that actively aid in evading filters.
If SSL is filtered, it'd have to be by IP. Which is ugly, as it risks blocking legitimate sites as well.
Most likely solution, I imagine, would be to dodge that problem and just block at DNS. Trivial to circumvent, but a whole lot easier to implment, and it'll at least stop the technologically ignorant.
I just grabbed one of the first hits on google. Alex Jones may be unreliable, but the story was reported by a lot of sites - including Associated Press.
Can't MITM HTTPS without adding a certificate to the client's trust list. Presumably, if a site is found to be hosting child porn on HTTPS the ISP will simply blacklist the IP entirely, even if that might mean disrupting some legitimate sites that share the server.
I'm with Vodaphone. I had a similar issue. There is an art site (furaffinity.net) which I use as something of a social hub for messaging, discussion, journals and so on. This site also happens to allow adult artwork, providing it is tagged - you have to have an account and tick the 'show adult content' button to see it, same policy as deviantart. It was blocked as a porn site.
So I tried to have the block removed. Simple enough: You make a payment via credit card to verify age on their website. So I did. Or tried. AFter a few attempts I concluded the site was broken, as it just gave me a useless 'payment denied' error. So I gave the a few days to fix it, tried again, no change.
I did eventually work out the problem: As they are verifying age, they need the payment to be made via *credit* card. But I don't have that - I have a *debit* card. Very close, but not quite the same thing, and debit cards are available to under-eighteens. Thus, no proof of age. I solved the problem by borrowing a credit card from someone else and using that to make the payment.
The technical staff will also have unfiltered access. Not officially, because they are smart enough to know that some day they will have to justify their unfiltered access to a board of directors who can't understand why a forum discussion about the latest exploits and countermeasures would be classified as 'hacking.' No, they'll have unfiltered access because they put the exception in the firewall policy that lets them SSH to their home server and tunnel out.
With conspiracy theorists you must remember that, occasionally, they are actually right.
A year ago it would have looked like paranoid rambling if someone claimed the US government was secretly tracking every phone call and email, and could intercept any communication they wanted at will without any warrant or accountability. Turned out, the conspiracy theorists were spot on. They just didn't realise the British and French governments were helping.
The idea of announcing something very unpopular on a day when an event of great media coverage is certainly established. That trick has been used many times before. I don't know if it was deliberate in this case, but it's certainly possible - there is no evidence the filter speech was scheduled more than one day in advance, and Cameron must have read the opinion polls and know his filtering is actually quite unpopular.
The idea that the filter could be subject to 'scope creep' is also quite plausible too. After all, there are many things that various parties would like to see censored, for entirely well-intentioned reasons. Once the filtering is in place, it would be quite easy to pass a new regulation requiring blocks also be applied to sites giving instruction on suicide techniques, for example. Again, it would be justified as 'protecting children.' It should also be remembered that even if the current government is to be trusted, there is no assurance it will still be in power in ten or twenty years - Hitler came to power democratically via his political skill, and it could happen again in any country, so even a well-intentioned and well-administered filter could potentially be abused for political oppression in the more distant future. Note that China, known for their extensive political filtering operations, justify their 'golden shield' by claiming its first purpose is to protect public morality against the dangerous influences of pornography.
Be fair to him: It was a political marriage, and he did manage to postpone the sex - she was six or seven when they married. By the standards of the time, eleven wasn't shockingly young - people didn't live as a long, so there was a lot of pressure to start breeding as soon and as many as possible.
He'd be a pedophile by the standards of our time, and we'd lock him up for at least a few decades. But by t his own culture, this was really nothing exceptional. Political marriage to children was a common practice, and girls/women were generally considered ready for breeding at their first period - the point at which they were known to be fertile.
It is true that in many Islamic countries, Aisha and the 'if Mohammed did it' argument are used to justify very low age of consent laws. Egypt was discussing a proposed law that would have reduced the age of consent for both sex and marriage for girls to 9 (or 11, it wasn't decided) in line with Aisha, until recent events left their legislative processes on hold.
I'm already teaching several friends how to use it. Got a little network set up now. There is porn.
Well, not photographic porn. We're just not into that. It's all explicit artwork and comics.
Between this and the NSA/GCHQ/everyone-else revelations, I'm expecting Retroshare and similar things to grow in popularity a great deal. It's like WASTE, but less buggy.
The DHS enforces patent and trademark law. The official justification is that patents are vital to US economic prosperity, prosperity is part of national security, therefore patent infringement is a threat to national security.
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Forward bribery vs backwards bribery:
"Vote for this bill and we'll give you money." - illegal.
"We donate to politicians that support us. So if you vote for this bill, you'll get a contribution next election cycle. If you vote against it, we'll donate to your rival." - Perfectly legal.
It's still effectively bribery, but it's a 'polite' form that stays on the right side of the law.
One solution would be to place a cap on the donations that one company of individual could make, but then you'd soon see dodgy accounting being used to work around it - things like companies giving a few thousand employees 'bonuses' on the implicit understanding they must donate to a certain candidate, or creating lots of semi-independent front companies who can each make the maximum donation.
The new HEVC codec looks very promising. If that lives up to the hype it should be quite enough to render the difference imperceptible.
It's possible to use a lot less than that. Pirates generally fit a 720p movie in 4.4GB, or a 1080p in 8GB. Quality isn't quite blu-ray, but it's not far off.
The site doesn't actually say what a Jolla *is*. Some sort of compact tablet?
Multitasking: Swap. Notice that most applications on smartphones cease to execute when not actually on screen? The OS puts them onto flash to free up precious RAM. Not much RAM in a phone.
HD Video recording: But now it doesn't need to compress it so much. Quality can improve.
Gaming: Er, not so much. Faster level load times, but that's about it.
Browsing: Now they are mostly making things up. I suppose it could speed up cache access, but that's hardly a bottleneck.
They are becoming just IT literate enough to be a problem.
Any idiot can set up their own department server now. But that idiot won't know how to configure firewall rules, stop unneeded services or make sure patches are up-to-date.
Any idiot can move their data around on USB sticks and dropbox - and this will greatly increase productivity, as they subvert the frustrating demands of IT to keep all confidential data within the office and start catching-up at home and on the commute too. Until someone loses the stick or has their laptop stolen, leaving half your customer database floating around the street somewhere.
These are car thieves we're dealing with. Even if they are knowledgeable enough, they wouldn't want to hang around too long with the bonnet up in case the owner returns. If your car is too hard to steal, they'll just move on to someone else's.
We use scratch where I work. It's supposed to be to teach rudimentary programming.
In practice students soon realised that the scratch.mit.edu site includes a library of games made by other people, and will happily spend their lessons playing on those.
This is for the immobiliser, not the door locks, so you don't need to dabble in the delicate electronics of the engine control or fiddley RF line. Just put your relay in the cable that powers the solonoid coil for the starter (Do cars still use those, or have they gone solid-state now? Same idea) or power line to the ignition.
How do they fix this? They can put a new firmware in cars easily enough, but the many already on the road have no auto-update capability, and the typical driver isn't even aware their car has firmware. Assuming it's something that can be updated - I wouldn't be surprised if this is handled by a chip that needs to be physically replaced by a garage.
My commitment to free speech requires I tolerate such things. I just wish they'd keep nice and quiet in their ghettos, rather than embrassing us all..
It's not just IT. Site Services are constantly addressing the same problems - blinds torn apart, chair legs or wheels broken, that sort of thing. Most often the doors - we have traffic control doors that lock (electromagnets) on a timer, part of an elaborate dance that ensures there is no deadly crush of students during lesson change. Students hate this though, and routinely throw themselves at the doors trying to force them open, or smash the locking device, or tear the draft-block strips from the doors so they wedge and prevent the door closing fully, or swing from the door until it comes loose from the hinges.
Ah, the creepy one. Not their fault. Just difficult timing, happening to open at the same time as the FurAffinity anti-creepy policy change and so getting hit by the exodus of the rejected.
Can't MITM without installing a certificate on the client.
If SSL isn't filtered, then it'll result in lots of dodgy porn sites using it to catch the new and lucrative 'dont want the wife to know, so can't take the filter off' segment. In an untended consequence it would penalise the sites that actually make efforts to keep children from seeing by cooperating with filter operators, and instead drive customers to the less reputatable sites that actively aid in evading filters.
If SSL is filtered, it'd have to be by IP. Which is ugly, as it risks blocking legitimate sites as well.
Most likely solution, I imagine, would be to dodge that problem and just block at DNS. Trivial to circumvent, but a whole lot easier to implment, and it'll at least stop the technologically ignorant.
I just grabbed one of the first hits on google. Alex Jones may be unreliable, but the story was reported by a lot of sites - including Associated Press.
Can't MITM HTTPS without adding a certificate to the client's trust list. Presumably, if a site is found to be hosting child porn on HTTPS the ISP will simply blacklist the IP entirely, even if that might mean disrupting some legitimate sites that share the server.
I'm with Vodaphone. I had a similar issue. There is an art site (furaffinity.net) which I use as something of a social hub for messaging, discussion, journals and so on. This site also happens to allow adult artwork, providing it is tagged - you have to have an account and tick the 'show adult content' button to see it, same policy as deviantart. It was blocked as a porn site.
So I tried to have the block removed. Simple enough: You make a payment via credit card to verify age on their website. So I did. Or tried. AFter a few attempts I concluded the site was broken, as it just gave me a useless 'payment denied' error. So I gave the a few days to fix it, tried again, no change.
I did eventually work out the problem: As they are verifying age, they need the payment to be made via *credit* card. But I don't have that - I have a *debit* card. Very close, but not quite the same thing, and debit cards are available to under-eighteens. Thus, no proof of age. I solved the problem by borrowing a credit card from someone else and using that to make the payment.
I think the confusion is deliberate. I've heard politicians use both terms to mean both things.
The technical staff will also have unfiltered access. Not officially, because they are smart enough to know that some day they will have to justify their unfiltered access to a board of directors who can't understand why a forum discussion about the latest exploits and countermeasures would be classified as 'hacking.' No, they'll have unfiltered access because they put the exception in the firewall policy that lets them SSH to their home server and tunnel out.
With conspiracy theorists you must remember that, occasionally, they are actually right.
A year ago it would have looked like paranoid rambling if someone claimed the US government was secretly tracking every phone call and email, and could intercept any communication they wanted at will without any warrant or accountability. Turned out, the conspiracy theorists were spot on. They just didn't realise the British and French governments were helping.
The idea of announcing something very unpopular on a day when an event of great media coverage is certainly established. That trick has been used many times before. I don't know if it was deliberate in this case, but it's certainly possible - there is no evidence the filter speech was scheduled more than one day in advance, and Cameron must have read the opinion polls and know his filtering is actually quite unpopular.
The idea that the filter could be subject to 'scope creep' is also quite plausible too. After all, there are many things that various parties would like to see censored, for entirely well-intentioned reasons. Once the filtering is in place, it would be quite easy to pass a new regulation requiring blocks also be applied to sites giving instruction on suicide techniques, for example. Again, it would be justified as 'protecting children.' It should also be remembered that even if the current government is to be trusted, there is no assurance it will still be in power in ten or twenty years - Hitler came to power democratically via his political skill, and it could happen again in any country, so even a well-intentioned and well-administered filter could potentially be abused for political oppression in the more distant future. Note that China, known for their extensive political filtering operations, justify their 'golden shield' by claiming its first purpose is to protect public morality against the dangerous influences of pornography.
Be fair to him: It was a political marriage, and he did manage to postpone the sex - she was six or seven when they married. By the standards of the time, eleven wasn't shockingly young - people didn't live as a long, so there was a lot of pressure to start breeding as soon and as many as possible.
He'd be a pedophile by the standards of our time, and we'd lock him up for at least a few decades. But by t his own culture, this was really nothing exceptional. Political marriage to children was a common practice, and girls/women were generally considered ready for breeding at their first period - the point at which they were known to be fertile.
It is true that in many Islamic countries, Aisha and the 'if Mohammed did it' argument are used to justify very low age of consent laws. Egypt was discussing a proposed law that would have reduced the age of consent for both sex and marriage for girls to 9 (or 11, it wasn't decided) in line with Aisha, until recent events left their legislative processes on hold.
I'm already teaching several friends how to use it. Got a little network set up now. There is porn.
Well, not photographic porn. We're just not into that. It's all explicit artwork and comics.
Between this and the NSA/GCHQ/everyone-else revelations, I'm expecting Retroshare and similar things to grow in popularity a great deal. It's like WASTE, but less buggy.
About 2004: http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/october2004/291004toystore.htm
The DHS enforces patent and trademark law. The official justification is that patents are vital to US economic prosperity, prosperity is part of national security, therefore patent infringement is a threat to national security.
That's what the 'extremist' in 'extremist and terrorist content' means.
I'd argue that Facebook is many times more dangerous to children than pornography.