Also, being a big company gives some clout when dealing with vendors. When Joe User goes to the printer manufacturer and says 'my printer doesn't work with linux' he'll get a form letter saying the company does not support that operating system. When a company goes and says 'This printer doesn't work with linux. By the way, we have fifty printers and replace them every three years. If not with yours, then someone else's' then the manufacturer is going to see that more of a valid business case.
If it goes out via the network, you can use network-based measures to stop it - firewalls, logging. A good policy is to block all outgoing connections except those to required services (update servers, etc) and your own web-proxy and email-proxy, both of which log everything. The users can still steal data, but not without you knowing who did it.
Nothing to stop them using their phone to take a picture of the screen though.
Windows security has gotten better. In the 9x days, it was laughable. In XP, it became merely pathetic. With seven, it could be promoted as far as 'poor.' But the problem remains: Windows is made to be all things to all people, and specifically for non-technical users. Ease of use comes at the expense of security, and means the users stay dumb.
The non-technical user is a creature of habbit. I've seen them in a confused panic after Windows so much as takes an icon off the start menu quick-shortcuts, and when the ribbon came to office you'd thing the world was ending. If the save dialog looks a little different, or a menu item isn't where it used to be, they can't work.
It's several different holidays rolled into one, due to the tendency of religions to steal from each other. The rabbit and eggs are old pagan fertility symbols, and the name itsself is a corrupted name of a pagan goddess. Christians incorporated them - it's not clear if they simply co-opted an existing festival, or if they came up with their own at around the same date and over time the two merged together.
Could be done. Something like tapping your hands together twice in succession to enable the controls, and have them revert to locked after ten seconds of no commands. But even then, it's got issues of viewing angles and placement that will mean it's impractical for many. My family TV, for example, would need a FOV of somewhere around a hundred degrees in order to cover all three of the sitting places - and one of those is often used while lying down.
It's also very annoying when Americans and Brits are trying to work together in an MMORPG, from my EVE experience. There are timezone problems. Every time my American friends were scheduling an evening op, I was unable to attend due to it being about three in the morning my zone. The times I was able to play, they were all at work.
US, Canada. Same thing, really. Both are countries with huge amounts of traffic. In theory you could search for keys phrases, but unless it's something very obscure you'd find it impossible to sort through the results. You can't even hunt for people transfering a specific file, because each packet only has a small piece and the lengths and offsets are unpredictable.
I have no doubt that all internet traffic in and out of the US is monitored, but the sheer volume of it makes any form of real-time processing impossible. The only thing the government can do - and I mean technologically, not legally - is specify individual hosts to sift from the multi-terabit stream and pay attention to. They won't be running a fishing trip for pirates. It'll be more along the line of 'This is Joe. Joe's brother's roommate's father has been talking with a known agent of the Taliban. We need to secretly intercept all of Joe's emails, forum posts and IM conversations in case he mentions something his brother told him his room mate told him his father told him that might hint at a possible terrorist attack."
It's supposed to be electing individuals in the US too. Doesn't mean it works out that way. I have pondered before some form of politics that bans parties altogether, but concluded it would just result in 'unofficial' parties appearing - groups of politicians of similar stance who just happen to share campaigns, offices, staff and money and who support each other's efforts at advancement, but remain seperate on paper.
It is true that a VPN can be intercepted by a MITM attack unless keys are first exchanged via a secure channel. But that does not mean it's an easy thing to pull off - the hardware requirements mean it's prohibitative to go trawling with this method. You can't just statelessly intercept all traffic and search it for interesting data like bittorrent requests. Intercepting VPNs is something that a law enforcement agency could do, but they arn't going to do without a good reason to go to the expense - eg, if they were investigating someone suspected of terrorism, large-scale fraud or distribution of child pornography. It isn't something they'd do just to trawl for P2P users. Also, if they did intercept all traffic or even a substantial part, then it wouldn't be difficult to detect - all the operators would need to do is establish some connections and compare the keys at each end. So any interception effort against non-specific targets would risk detection.
Put briefly: Yes, they can. But no, they won't. Pirates just arn't that important.
That explains a lot. Actually I do remember that at least one scene pre-grid was in 3D, and at least some scenes on the grid wern't, so I suspect it's not that simple.
It''s been done, for military purposes. I don't know if they are still used anywhere, but before RADAR became readily available and reliable these were used to determine the distance to targets for shelling or to determine the altitude of planes so anti-aircraft fire could be aimed accordingly.
Here's are some pics: http://www.militariarg.com/optical-and-orientation-instruments.html
I saw that in 3D. I got about fifteen minutes in before I noticed, and could barely see it at all after that. I had to keep taking off my glasses to see if it really was in 3D or not.
It also compares well to Fern Gully or Dances with Wolves. All got the same basic story and message that is hammered into your face. Though it doesn't have Robin Williams trying to rap, which means it's not the worst of the 'going native' series.
And from my own experience, a sudden severe headache the moment you leave the darkened cinema after the movie. On the upside, it only lasts around twenty seconds.
This is only a problem if you believe that breeding is a fundamental right. I do not.
Free speech? Good idea. Freedom of religion? Good idea. Freedom of movement? Good idea. Free press? Good idea. A few obvious limitations of course, to prevent one person's use of their freedom from infringing upon the freedom of another, but in general good ideas. Freedom to pop out another human even if you are using known flawed genetic material, do not have the money to properly raise it or have a history of violence or mental illness? Not such a good idea.
Look at it more like this: There are laws for adoption. Certain conditions which disqualify someone. Some criminal offences, mental illness, things which have been deemed by those elected to write laws to render a person unfit to be a perent. So we already recognise, in law, and with very little contriversy, that some people just are not fit to raise children. And yet if they can manage to get knocked up themselves - which is not a difficult task - they somehow have a right to go ahead anyway? That just doesn't make sense. If you can't meet some minimum standard of parenting, you shouldn't be entrusted with that type of responsibility.
Offer them free sterilisation, remind them of the great expense and hardship that may result if they do breed naturally, and keep reminding them that adoption is always an option. And if that fails, bribery. Take the knife, take the cash. Such schemes did exist before the Nazis put eugenics into disrepute. They wern't ideally targetted, due to the lack of scientific knowledge of genetics or testing, but if modernised the fundamental idea may be sound.
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Also, being a big company gives some clout when dealing with vendors. When Joe User goes to the printer manufacturer and says 'my printer doesn't work with linux' he'll get a form letter saying the company does not support that operating system. When a company goes and says 'This printer doesn't work with linux. By the way, we have fifty printers and replace them every three years. If not with yours, then someone else's' then the manufacturer is going to see that more of a valid business case.
If it goes out via the network, you can use network-based measures to stop it - firewalls, logging. A good policy is to block all outgoing connections except those to required services (update servers, etc) and your own web-proxy and email-proxy, both of which log everything. The users can still steal data, but not without you knowing who did it.
Nothing to stop them using their phone to take a picture of the screen though.
Windows security has gotten better. In the 9x days, it was laughable. In XP, it became merely pathetic. With seven, it could be promoted as far as 'poor.' But the problem remains: Windows is made to be all things to all people, and specifically for non-technical users. Ease of use comes at the expense of security, and means the users stay dumb.
The non-technical user is a creature of habbit. I've seen them in a confused panic after Windows so much as takes an icon off the start menu quick-shortcuts, and when the ribbon came to office you'd thing the world was ending. If the save dialog looks a little different, or a menu item isn't where it used to be, they can't work.
I imagine every treckie would make the power-on command "On screen."
It's several different holidays rolled into one, due to the tendency of religions to steal from each other. The rabbit and eggs are old pagan fertility symbols, and the name itsself is a corrupted name of a pagan goddess. Christians incorporated them - it's not clear if they simply co-opted an existing festival, or if they came up with their own at around the same date and over time the two merged together.
Could be done. Something like tapping your hands together twice in succession to enable the controls, and have them revert to locked after ten seconds of no commands. But even then, it's got issues of viewing angles and placement that will mean it's impractical for many. My family TV, for example, would need a FOV of somewhere around a hundred degrees in order to cover all three of the sitting places - and one of those is often used while lying down.
It's also very annoying when Americans and Brits are trying to work together in an MMORPG, from my EVE experience. There are timezone problems. Every time my American friends were scheduling an evening op, I was unable to attend due to it being about three in the morning my zone. The times I was able to play, they were all at work.
Then they should get their own solar panels.
US, Canada. Same thing, really. Both are countries with huge amounts of traffic. In theory you could search for keys phrases, but unless it's something very obscure you'd find it impossible to sort through the results. You can't even hunt for people transfering a specific file, because each packet only has a small piece and the lengths and offsets are unpredictable.
I have no doubt that all internet traffic in and out of the US is monitored, but the sheer volume of it makes any form of real-time processing impossible. The only thing the government can do - and I mean technologically, not legally - is specify individual hosts to sift from the multi-terabit stream and pay attention to. They won't be running a fishing trip for pirates. It'll be more along the line of 'This is Joe. Joe's brother's roommate's father has been talking with a known agent of the Taliban. We need to secretly intercept all of Joe's emails, forum posts and IM conversations in case he mentions something his brother told him his room mate told him his father told him that might hint at a possible terrorist attack."
It's supposed to be electing individuals in the US too. Doesn't mean it works out that way. I have pondered before some form of politics that bans parties altogether, but concluded it would just result in 'unofficial' parties appearing - groups of politicians of similar stance who just happen to share campaigns, offices, staff and money and who support each other's efforts at advancement, but remain seperate on paper.
It is true that a VPN can be intercepted by a MITM attack unless keys are first exchanged via a secure channel. But that does not mean it's an easy thing to pull off - the hardware requirements mean it's prohibitative to go trawling with this method. You can't just statelessly intercept all traffic and search it for interesting data like bittorrent requests. Intercepting VPNs is something that a law enforcement agency could do, but they arn't going to do without a good reason to go to the expense - eg, if they were investigating someone suspected of terrorism, large-scale fraud or distribution of child pornography. It isn't something they'd do just to trawl for P2P users. Also, if they did intercept all traffic or even a substantial part, then it wouldn't be difficult to detect - all the operators would need to do is establish some connections and compare the keys at each end. So any interception effort against non-specific targets would risk detection.
Put briefly: Yes, they can. But no, they won't. Pirates just arn't that important.
That explains a lot. Actually I do remember that at least one scene pre-grid was in 3D, and at least some scenes on the grid wern't, so I suspect it's not that simple.
It''s been done, for military purposes. I don't know if they are still used anywhere, but before RADAR became readily available and reliable these were used to determine the distance to targets for shelling or to determine the altitude of planes so anti-aircraft fire could be aimed accordingly.
Here's are some pics:
http://www.militariarg.com/optical-and-orientation-instruments.html
Slashdot says you are allowed to enjoy the effects, providing you then complain about the story.
I saw that in 3D. I got about fifteen minutes in before I noticed, and could barely see it at all after that. I had to keep taking off my glasses to see if it really was in 3D or not.
It also compares well to Fern Gully or Dances with Wolves. All got the same basic story and message that is hammered into your face. Though it doesn't have Robin Williams trying to rap, which means it's not the worst of the 'going native' series.
And from my own experience, a sudden severe headache the moment you leave the darkened cinema after the movie. On the upside, it only lasts around twenty seconds.
Other mythological types have not been so lucky. Witness the total emasculation of vampires in a certain recent series of novels, for example.
$17 for 5ml... pricey. Though still not nearly as expensive as printer ink.
This is only a problem if you believe that breeding is a fundamental right. I do not.
Free speech? Good idea. Freedom of religion? Good idea. Freedom of movement? Good idea. Free press? Good idea. A few obvious limitations of course, to prevent one person's use of their freedom from infringing upon the freedom of another, but in general good ideas. Freedom to pop out another human even if you are using known flawed genetic material, do not have the money to properly raise it or have a history of violence or mental illness? Not such a good idea.
Look at it more like this: There are laws for adoption. Certain conditions which disqualify someone. Some criminal offences, mental illness, things which have been deemed by those elected to write laws to render a person unfit to be a perent. So we already recognise, in law, and with very little contriversy, that some people just are not fit to raise children. And yet if they can manage to get knocked up themselves - which is not a difficult task - they somehow have a right to go ahead anyway? That just doesn't make sense. If you can't meet some minimum standard of parenting, you shouldn't be entrusted with that type of responsibility.
And that is what legally binding documents are for.
Insert marshmallow.
Offer them free sterilisation, remind them of the great expense and hardship that may result if they do breed naturally, and keep reminding them that adoption is always an option. And if that fails, bribery. Take the knife, take the cash. Such schemes did exist before the Nazis put eugenics into disrepute. They wern't ideally targetted, due to the lack of scientific knowledge of genetics or testing, but if modernised the fundamental idea may be sound.