Where are you? Because it's illegal in the US, all of Europe and Australia. Not yet Canada - an effort was made to ban circumvention there in Bill C-60, C-61 and C-32. Each failed and was reintroduced next session, thus the new numbers. Sooner or later one will get through. C-32 almost passed, only failing on a procedural issue.
Because you are licensed to play that music. The license is non-transferable. It dies when you do. For your family to listen to the collection after you die is legally no different than if they'd grabbed it all off of a p2p network.
And a study by Google Trends shows that the US states with the most searches for 'pornography' are Utah. Arkansas and Texas. Not exactly the most liberal in the union. I do with Google had an option to show rankings per-capita though, so allow for differing populations.
Sounds like the type of thing they'd do, but let me just check that on the official site.... Or I would, if I could find it. If they've actually published the thing anywhere, I can't find it. I can find lots of news sites giving highlights, but nothing complete. I can only find the 2012 platform for the Texas state republican party. Which is itsself a rather scarey read.
I think we've reached the point where it would be difficult to make a an extreme parody of the platform that couldn't be mistaken for the real thing. For example, I could describe say "that the practice of homosexuality tears at the fabric of society and contributes to the breakdown of the family unit. Homosexual behavior is contrary to the fundamental, unchanging truths that have been ordained by God, recognized by our country’s founders, and shared by the majority of Texans." Except that I just copy-pasted that paragraph unedited from the Texas republican 2012 platform. I imagine the national platform will be in many ways similar.
A nice ideal, but it runs into economic issues. All that infrastructure is expensive. Fiber to bury and routers to power. Administering it needs highly skilled workers who need paying. There are really only two options for public-access networking over a large geographic area: Private commercial interests or a tax-funded government department. Profit or power. The only way this is going to change would be the introduction of some form of revolutionary new networking technology.
But government is involved in marriage. It has been since the days when common law ruled. Marriage affects taxation, shared finances, inheritence, child custody, immigration, all manner of things. All of which require the government recognise marriages in some way, which in turn unavoidably means the government must have some standard for what constitutes a legal marriage and what does not.
If that scenario, the victim is screwd no matter how securely the bios is protected. Any attacker good enough to hack firmware should be quite capable of exploiting the hardware itsself. Time-delay system-killers, a hacked network card that starts sending duplicate packets to any IP that gives it a key string of bytes, a keylogger that stores the passwords entered when installing the OS for later retrieval (Possibly via hacked network card). It can all be done, because things like that have long been done to games consoles to make modchips.
No, it's a standards group. That means every company has two goals in mind:
1. Make it a good, workable, effective standard which solves all deficiencies of the previous standard in the most practical and optimal manner.
2. Maximise their own business benefit from the new standard.
Goal two usually means things like ensuring the standard can only be implimented using patents they hold. In this case, Microsoft's goal two plans included finding some way to obstruct linux, which is a looming threat to them on the desktop: Something simmering for years as a minor annoyance, but threatening to grow explosively any moment.
It's just a more profitable model. Apple taught the industry that. Magins on hardware are painfully thin, but if you strictly control the hardware you can use it to promote all manner of far-more-profitable things. Like app stores.
It doesn't need to be a hardware switch. It can be a simple non-writeable flag, the hardware designed such that once set it can never be un-set short of a power cycle. All the BIOS/EFI need do is set the flag prior to booting the OS. If you want to update the firmware, you'd need to do it through the setup screen, which runs before the OS. You'd still need physical access (Or at least a network KVM device) which is the only real way to ensure security for something this low level, but that seems to be a small price to pay. This isn't something that needs to be done to servers routinely, it's a once-every-few-years thing at most, and it doesn't even need them taken out the rack or opened up.
Secure boot works using a cryptographic signing system: The board will only boot code signed by one of the Powers That Be - an organisation big enough for motherboard vendors to bother including the public key for, like Microsoft. This places smaller, niche players at a serious disadvantage. Which is probably the idea. An alternative non-market-distorting approach would be fingerprinting: The BIOS/EFI hashes the MBR (plus however many additional sectors the MBR specifies in an agreed-upon location). If the result doesn't match a stored fingerprint, it can generate a warning and refuse to boot until the user either restores from a matching backup or else selects the 'I intentionally changed the OS' button - in which case the newly-computed hash replaces the stored one.
If Secure Boot were really about security, that is how it would work. But it isn't. It's about creating a barrier in the market which can only be overcome with a pile of cash or good business connections, something that poses only the slightest inconvenience to Microsoft but a major difficulty to linux.
"Plus people want all this stuff and want new laws to save puppies and orphans and transgendered left-handed bicyclists, but don't really want to pay for any of it
I think you just described every country ever. I'm sure if you went through the cruniform tablets dug up from Babylon you'd eventually find a letter complaining that there aren't enough guards on the street and the taxes are too high.
To be fair, he knows that if he cooperates he may very well actually get lenient treatment. Perhaps even more time off his sentence. Assange, on the other hand, believes (perhaps correctly) that some people high-up in the US government are out for his head. He isn't going to gain anything by cooperating, because nothing he says could convince his enemies to go easy on him. So his only hope is to run.
It's easy for someone to feel tough on the internet. Even a script kiddie - and given Lulzsec's record, they must have had at least a couple of people of real skill to pull it off - becomes powerful there. They can take down small websites on a whim, hack emails with a little effort, impersonate, cause chaos, and all seemingly untraceable. They may read of arrests, but never expect it to happen to them. They don't act tough: They really do feel like masters of their domain. And they are. You can't beat the hackers on the internet, even the script kiddies. You can only slow them down.
Then one day the police come a-knocking. The hacker is still master of the internet, but the arena has changed: All his formidable skills aren't going to save him now: The police know they can't beat him at his game, so they changed the game. And for the first time, the hacker feels scared he could lose. That's when the tough guy breaks down, and he'll sell out anyone for even a slim hope of making it all go away.
I've argued with one person who was outraged that a prison was paying for air-conditioning. In Texas. You're right: The need for prisons gives people a chance to express their sadistic desire for collective vengence, but dress it up with talk of 'justice' and 'deterrence' to make themselves seem noble.
Not really. It's too soft for engineering with. Copper is more conductive. No really special useful properties. In terms of what you can do with it, anything you can use gold for you could do with lead as well. The only use for gold is in very small quantities for some niche things like semiconductor hookup wires (Is it even still used for that) and reflector foil, and decorative. It's valuable because it's so rare, and thus decorative use became a status symbol millenia ago. It's like a brand-name clothing line: If it wasn't expensive, no-one would want it.
Just what I was thinking, except with a little space between barrels so the warping of one wouldn't affect the others. A throwaway non-reloadable six-shooter. Or more likely four-shooter, as you're still going to need thick plastic.
Curiously, if you go to conservative forums, you find people complaining that liberals will tear apart republicans for saying awkward things but democrats are never held accountable for what they say. It seems both sides are blind to the flaws of their own people.
3D printing would actually make the rifling very easy. Trivial, even. Making the barrel durable, though, is not. With a really tough plastic I can imagine getting a few shots off, but the gun won't last long. If all you want is something to shoot muggers with, that will be enough. If it's printable, you can produce replacement barrels easily.
Or you could design a multi-barrel zip-gun. Four barrels, four bullets. Four shots, and the gun is destroyed. Or you could design it to use something commonly available as a barrel, like a particular size of standardised plumbing pipe.
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Where are you? Because it's illegal in the US, all of Europe and Australia. Not yet Canada - an effort was made to ban circumvention there in Bill C-60, C-61 and C-32. Each failed and was reintroduced next session, thus the new numbers. Sooner or later one will get through. C-32 almost passed, only failing on a procedural issue.
Because you are licensed to play that music. The license is non-transferable. It dies when you do. For your family to listen to the collection after you die is legally no different than if they'd grabbed it all off of a p2p network.
And a study by Google Trends shows that the US states with the most searches for 'pornography' are Utah. Arkansas and Texas. Not exactly the most liberal in the union. I do with Google had an option to show rankings per-capita though, so allow for differing populations.
http://www.google.com/trends/?q=pornography&geo=usa&sa=N
Sounds like the type of thing they'd do, but let me just check that on the official site.... Or I would, if I could find it. If they've actually published the thing anywhere, I can't find it. I can find lots of news sites giving highlights, but nothing complete. I can only find the 2012 platform for the Texas state republican party. Which is itsself a rather scarey read.
I think we've reached the point where it would be difficult to make a an extreme parody of the platform that couldn't be mistaken for the real thing. For example, I could describe say "that the practice of homosexuality tears at the fabric of society and contributes to the breakdown of the family unit. Homosexual behavior is contrary to the fundamental, unchanging truths that have been ordained by God, recognized by our country’s founders, and shared by the majority of Texans." Except that I just copy-pasted that paragraph unedited from the Texas republican 2012 platform. I imagine the national platform will be in many ways similar.
A nice ideal, but it runs into economic issues. All that infrastructure is expensive. Fiber to bury and routers to power. Administering it needs highly skilled workers who need paying. There are really only two options for public-access networking over a large geographic area: Private commercial interests or a tax-funded government department. Profit or power. The only way this is going to change would be the introduction of some form of revolutionary new networking technology.
But government is involved in marriage. It has been since the days when common law ruled. Marriage affects taxation, shared finances, inheritence, child custody, immigration, all manner of things. All of which require the government recognise marriages in some way, which in turn unavoidably means the government must have some standard for what constitutes a legal marriage and what does not.
If possible, you want a gun that isn't prone to shoot searing hot gas jets back into the face of the user.
Or just use the papeclip-sized hole method.
If that scenario, the victim is screwd no matter how securely the bios is protected. Any attacker good enough to hack firmware should be quite capable of exploiting the hardware itsself. Time-delay system-killers, a hacked network card that starts sending duplicate packets to any IP that gives it a key string of bytes, a keylogger that stores the passwords entered when installing the OS for later retrieval (Possibly via hacked network card). It can all be done, because things like that have long been done to games consoles to make modchips.
No, it's a standards group. That means every company has two goals in mind:
1. Make it a good, workable, effective standard which solves all deficiencies of the previous standard in the most practical and optimal manner.
2. Maximise their own business benefit from the new standard.
Goal two usually means things like ensuring the standard can only be implimented using patents they hold. In this case, Microsoft's goal two plans included finding some way to obstruct linux, which is a looming threat to them on the desktop: Something simmering for years as a minor annoyance, but threatening to grow explosively any moment.
It's just a more profitable model. Apple taught the industry that. Magins on hardware are painfully thin, but if you strictly control the hardware you can use it to promote all manner of far-more-profitable things. Like app stores.
It doesn't need to be a hardware switch. It can be a simple non-writeable flag, the hardware designed such that once set it can never be un-set short of a power cycle. All the BIOS/EFI need do is set the flag prior to booting the OS. If you want to update the firmware, you'd need to do it through the setup screen, which runs before the OS. You'd still need physical access (Or at least a network KVM device) which is the only real way to ensure security for something this low level, but that seems to be a small price to pay. This isn't something that needs to be done to servers routinely, it's a once-every-few-years thing at most, and it doesn't even need them taken out the rack or opened up.
Secure boot works using a cryptographic signing system: The board will only boot code signed by one of the Powers That Be - an organisation big enough for motherboard vendors to bother including the public key for, like Microsoft. This places smaller, niche players at a serious disadvantage. Which is probably the idea. An alternative non-market-distorting approach would be fingerprinting: The BIOS/EFI hashes the MBR (plus however many additional sectors the MBR specifies in an agreed-upon location). If the result doesn't match a stored fingerprint, it can generate a warning and refuse to boot until the user either restores from a matching backup or else selects the 'I intentionally changed the OS' button - in which case the newly-computed hash replaces the stored one.
If Secure Boot were really about security, that is how it would work. But it isn't. It's about creating a barrier in the market which can only be overcome with a pile of cash or good business connections, something that poses only the slightest inconvenience to Microsoft but a major difficulty to linux.
"Plus people want all this stuff and want new laws to save puppies and orphans and transgendered left-handed bicyclists, but don't really want to pay for any of it
I think you just described every country ever. I'm sure if you went through the cruniform tablets dug up from Babylon you'd eventually find a letter complaining that there aren't enough guards on the street and the taxes are too high.
To be fair, he knows that if he cooperates he may very well actually get lenient treatment. Perhaps even more time off his sentence. Assange, on the other hand, believes (perhaps correctly) that some people high-up in the US government are out for his head. He isn't going to gain anything by cooperating, because nothing he says could convince his enemies to go easy on him. So his only hope is to run.
It's easy for someone to feel tough on the internet. Even a script kiddie - and given Lulzsec's record, they must have had at least a couple of people of real skill to pull it off - becomes powerful there. They can take down small websites on a whim, hack emails with a little effort, impersonate, cause chaos, and all seemingly untraceable. They may read of arrests, but never expect it to happen to them. They don't act tough: They really do feel like masters of their domain. And they are. You can't beat the hackers on the internet, even the script kiddies. You can only slow them down.
Then one day the police come a-knocking. The hacker is still master of the internet, but the arena has changed: All his formidable skills aren't going to save him now: The police know they can't beat him at his game, so they changed the game. And for the first time, the hacker feels scared he could lose. That's when the tough guy breaks down, and he'll sell out anyone for even a slim hope of making it all go away.
I've argued with one person who was outraged that a prison was paying for air-conditioning. In Texas. You're right: The need for prisons gives people a chance to express their sadistic desire for collective vengence, but dress it up with talk of 'justice' and 'deterrence' to make themselves seem noble.
Not really. It's too soft for engineering with. Copper is more conductive. No really special useful properties. In terms of what you can do with it, anything you can use gold for you could do with lead as well. The only use for gold is in very small quantities for some niche things like semiconductor hookup wires (Is it even still used for that) and reflector foil, and decorative. It's valuable because it's so rare, and thus decorative use became a status symbol millenia ago. It's like a brand-name clothing line: If it wasn't expensive, no-one would want it.
Tekkit mod certainly is CPU limited. Heavily so. To the point you can bring down a server by building too many buildcraft pipes.
It doesn't have to withstand a bunch of bullets. It needs to withstand one bullet, for long enough for said bullet to leave.
Just what I was thinking, except with a little space between barrels so the warping of one wouldn't affect the others. A throwaway non-reloadable six-shooter. Or more likely four-shooter, as you're still going to need thick plastic.
Curiously, if you go to conservative forums, you find people complaining that liberals will tear apart republicans for saying awkward things but democrats are never held accountable for what they say. It seems both sides are blind to the flaws of their own people.
3D printing would actually make the rifling very easy. Trivial, even. Making the barrel durable, though, is not. With a really tough plastic I can imagine getting a few shots off, but the gun won't last long. If all you want is something to shoot muggers with, that will be enough. If it's printable, you can produce replacement barrels easily.
Lead-ball is fine if you're happy with a muzzle-loader one-shot. Modern bullets with the charge and projectile in one tidy case are trickier.
Or you could design a multi-barrel zip-gun. Four barrels, four bullets. Four shots, and the gun is destroyed. Or you could design it to use something commonly available as a barrel, like a particular size of standardised plumbing pipe.