I agree, most surveillance laws are passed with the idea that its expensive to investigate a single person, so we give them "extra" power as the means to abuse that power are really expensive / not worth it.
now we rapidly moved into the digital age, surveillance is very cheep, so the laws need to change to prevent abuse.
OH, and lets not forget "cyber bulling" is now an offense. And what you think is a funny retort could be considered cyber bulling if taken out of context, just saying "it was for the lulz" isn't going to help.
just saying "i didn't mean any of my statements on face book, they are all in jest" won't help you in court if someone decides to use something you've said against you. in my country people have been jailed for trolling a tribute page, even if it was just "for the lulz" there can still be significant repercussions.
He sure was eager to hand American secrets over to the Russians, Chinese, Iranians, etc.
and lets not forget the American public too... heaven forbit they get any access to the "secret gubberment information", we don't want them making informed decisions.
do you think the politicians fear china or the American people more? which one has the ability to strip them of their power?
also, Assange has no allegiance to the USA, he isn't a us citizen. any other non American news organization in the world who wasn't corrupt would have done exactly the same thing.
I've got nothing to hide on the assumption i have freedom from association. i don't want my boss interviewed by the police " we are investigating mywhitewolf in relation to a drug cartel" just because a friend of mine on facebook may be a drug dealer who i talk to a lot on un-related matters.
Absolutely beautiful. all you need to know is right here.
You are a member of the pirate party in the uk
your political affiliation is available to the whole world, forever. Its the perfect example of people assuming that they manage their own privacy.
I'm not concerned about what i post on the internet, i'm more concerned about what other people post about me, including the companies that have my personal information.
If your friends are good friends they won't tell the police much about you if they get approached, they can speak to a lawyer and inform the person they are being investigated.
really, because the amount of information available about me on facebook seems pretty inconsistent with what i've put on there. I don't recall giving facebook my mobile number yet they somehow have it, and all those pictures i've been tagged in that i don't recall uploading.
the problem isn't the information you put on it, the problem is the information your friends put on it about you. sort of nullifies the opt out option.
I don't think it's entirely unreasonable to be concerned about such, I'm personally more concerned about what others post about me than what i post. Things like "really enjoying my time out of the country with @mywhitewolf" scare the crap out of me. I'm not an idiot, but my friends on the other hand...
while we are at it, why not burn down houses that have been broken into? you know, because the back door was left open...
Your government isn't to touch any of my shit regardless of its reason. what if i run as a part of a botnet for a good reason? I'd like some plausible deny ability just in case my government slandering blog gets re-associated to my IP address.
Regardless of who you attempt to hold accountable, when the payouts are coming from the company the employees will always lose to some degree. yet people get fired all the time for things that aren't their fault because its in "the best interest of the company", we can't protect a dodgy company because it will cause some sort of unemployment. would we not send a father of 3 to jail for fraud just because his family survive of his ill gotten gains? why make that exception for a company?
yeah, a global crime network in the same sense that piracy is run by a global crime network. There are anonymizing services on the net for laundering money, and there isn't any need for boots on the ground, although the hack to get into the development environment on the PS3 was built by a larger group of players, this attack could have been pulled off by a single person.
so instead i should have just pointed out that the cost of moving 10 million people to an off-planet location and support them for 100 years isn't relevant to the cost/return profile of building a manned space station?
I calculated the cost to be $1,020,000,000,000,000 dollars at current market rates.
wonder how much it would have cost to have 10 million computers as powerful as the (then) leading super computer with 100 years worth of hardware support would cost in 1970? so how little relevence that has to ANYTHING!?!
40 years ago a supercomputer could process 100MFlops for $100,000. I believe i can get something 10x faster as a phone now days for 1/200 of the price. this isn't to prove that you can return money, (obviously cause the technology / limitations are different), but to not invest in manned space flight now is like not asking the cute receptionist out because she will probably say no. no one says you have to ask her out, but to criticize others for expending the energy is just poor form.
Put it this way, Image is as important for China as it was for America, China Needs to appear much more confident then its biggest rivals (America), it needs to assert itself as a world power, what better way to show your prowess by doing something that the Americans can no longer do?
The cost of moving more than a trivial number of people to some desolate, unsustainable off-planet outpost will never be overcome.
oh, pack your bags then boys, no point spending money on this "not being reliant solely on the earth" expedition, the cost will never be overcome, certainly not overcome with continued research and investment into the field... no no no, the future is robots and private enterprise, because they are cheaper and the government is broke and apparently space is about making money and no other country is wise to do things that lose value for possible long term, possibly non monetary gains.
Unfortunately, as your statement suggests that America isn't the be all and end all, you shall get moderated "troll".
i don't think many Americans can even comprehend whats happening to their country. when china becomes the authority i just hope their international policy is a lot "friendlier" than the American one.
Not so, the world is bigger than the PSN network, and using a password has is more secure as it doesn't give away any information about your password that could be used against you in a direct attack.
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I agree, most surveillance laws are passed with the idea that its expensive to investigate a single person, so we give them "extra" power as the means to abuse that power are really expensive / not worth it.
now we rapidly moved into the digital age, surveillance is very cheep, so the laws need to change to prevent abuse.
OH, and lets not forget "cyber bulling" is now an offense. And what you think is a funny retort could be considered cyber bulling if taken out of context, just saying "it was for the lulz" isn't going to help.
just saying "i didn't mean any of my statements on face book, they are all in jest" won't help you in court if someone decides to use something you've said against you. in my country people have been jailed for trolling a tribute page, even if it was just "for the lulz" there can still be significant repercussions.
I think you're talking about manning, not Assange.
I'd say releasing hundred thousands of pages of secret war logs and government communication is hardly a small achievement by any measure.
He sure was eager to hand American secrets over to the Russians, Chinese, Iranians, etc.
and lets not forget the American public too... heaven forbit they get any access to the "secret gubberment information", we don't want them making informed decisions.
do you think the politicians fear china or the American people more? which one has the ability to strip them of their power?
also, Assange has no allegiance to the USA, he isn't a us citizen. any other non American news organization in the world who wasn't corrupt would have done exactly the same thing.
I've got nothing to hide on the assumption i have freedom from association. i don't want my boss interviewed by the police " we are investigating mywhitewolf in relation to a drug cartel" just because a friend of mine on facebook may be a drug dealer who i talk to a lot on un-related matters.
You are a member of the pirate party in the uk
your political affiliation is available to the whole world, forever. Its the perfect example of people assuming that they manage their own privacy.
I'm not concerned about what i post on the internet, i'm more concerned about what other people post about me, including the companies that have my personal information.
This won't help you in court.
If your friends are good friends they won't tell the police much about you if they get approached, they can speak to a lawyer and inform the person they are being investigated.
really, because the amount of information available about me on facebook seems pretty inconsistent with what i've put on there. I don't recall giving facebook my mobile number yet they somehow have it, and all those pictures i've been tagged in that i don't recall uploading.
the problem isn't the information you put on it, the problem is the information your friends put on it about you. sort of nullifies the opt out option.
he also didn't leak the information, he just published it, along with a whole host of other media outlets.
I don't think it's entirely unreasonable to be concerned about such, I'm personally more concerned about what others post about me than what i post. Things like "really enjoying my time out of the country with @mywhitewolf" scare the crap out of me. I'm not an idiot, but my friends on the other hand...
while we are at it, why not burn down houses that have been broken into? you know, because the back door was left open...
Your government isn't to touch any of my shit regardless of its reason. what if i run as a part of a botnet for a good reason? I'd like some plausible deny ability just in case my government slandering blog gets re-associated to my IP address.
Regardless of who you attempt to hold accountable, when the payouts are coming from the company the employees will always lose to some degree. yet people get fired all the time for things that aren't their fault because its in "the best interest of the company", we can't protect a dodgy company because it will cause some sort of unemployment. would we not send a father of 3 to jail for fraud just because his family survive of his ill gotten gains? why make that exception for a company?
yeah, a global crime network in the same sense that piracy is run by a global crime network. There are anonymizing services on the net for laundering money, and there isn't any need for boots on the ground, although the hack to get into the development environment on the PS3 was built by a larger group of players, this attack could have been pulled off by a single person.
so instead i should have just pointed out that the cost of moving 10 million people to an off-planet location and support them for 100 years isn't relevant to the cost/return profile of building a manned space station?
I calculated the cost to be $1,020,000,000,000,000 dollars at current market rates.
wonder how much it would have cost to have 10 million computers as powerful as the (then) leading super computer with 100 years worth of hardware support would cost in 1970? so how little relevence that has to ANYTHING!?!
40 years ago a supercomputer could process 100MFlops for $100,000. I believe i can get something 10x faster as a phone now days for 1/200 of the price. this isn't to prove that you can return money, (obviously cause the technology / limitations are different), but to not invest in manned space flight now is like not asking the cute receptionist out because she will probably say no. no one says you have to ask her out, but to criticize others for expending the energy is just poor form.
much more impressive is a private company has started making plans on putting a man on Mars within 10-20 years (SpaceX). I
no, what is much more impressive is that I have started making plans to go to Jupiter in the next 10 years, beat that Space X.
plans are rubbish, especially by elected officials or companies trying to turn a profit, they will say whatever they want you to believe.
I got an email from sony while reading this slashdot, so a statement has only just been released to the consumers.
Put it this way, Image is as important for China as it was for America, China Needs to appear much more confident then its biggest rivals (America), it needs to assert itself as a world power, what better way to show your prowess by doing something that the Americans can no longer do?
The cost of moving more than a trivial number of people to some desolate, unsustainable off-planet outpost will never be overcome.
oh, pack your bags then boys, no point spending money on this "not being reliant solely on the earth" expedition, the cost will never be overcome, certainly not overcome with continued research and investment into the field... no no no, the future is robots and private enterprise, because they are cheaper and the government is broke and apparently space is about making money and no other country is wise to do things that lose value for possible long term, possibly non monetary gains.
don't forget the shear quantity of labor available, that's a pretty big advantage too.
Unfortunately, as your statement suggests that America isn't the be all and end all, you shall get moderated "troll".
i don't think many Americans can even comprehend whats happening to their country. when china becomes the authority i just hope their international policy is a lot "friendlier" than the American one.
Anyone else remember the days when you would just buy a console and expect it to, you know, work?
after enthusiastic blowing on the cartridge, yes...
Not so, the world is bigger than the PSN network, and using a password has is more secure as it doesn't give away any information about your password that could be used against you in a direct attack.