Yes, but funding doesn't always help you in the legal process. What we need is smarter people who can read betwen the lines and check out what is really being said. Why don't people realise that lack of intelligence is what the problem is actually about>
Lets see.. I was just at an INS office the other day getting my manditory fingerprints of all prints on both hands as part of moving to the US. And that was along with a full description of me as well as a photo.
nobody would want to live in a country that was like that
You should check out the requirements for legal immigration to the US.. they are really fun:-)
Even though your server may be out of the US jurisdiction, how are you going to communicate to it without using infrastructure that is located *in* the US?
I would bet that just passing data through any US based server would negate any protection you think you have by locating you server outside of the US.
While I agree that online predators should be punished, can you answer this simple question:
Why are the children at risk online in an unsupervised environment?
You wouldn't leave your kids alone with free access to guns or alcohol. You wouldn't leave your kids alone a room with a dangerous animal. You wouldn't drop your kids off in the middle of a sex trade region.
Any of the above would get you in trouble with the law, but putting a kid online in an unsupervised environment is tantamount to putting them in a room with the predator. People need to realise this and take responsibility for their *own* actions before running off to the gov'mint to solve their problems.
TFA makes it seem like GE has just started blocking IM and external email systems. But in the GE division where I have been contracting it has been like that for at least the last 5 years.
And I can understand why. By only allowing communications through official chanels, the companies can better protect themselves by doing such things as applying corporate wide virus checking on emails. It also provides a log as to what communications occurred when. Though I do admit that flash drives and take home laptops can easily bypass any of these measures.
One downside to this is that the corporate policies also block VPN accesses, so I can not get to my offices servers while at the GE location.
One amusing anecdote relating to this is that where I work there is an analog phone line kept for the times when you really need to dial up a system. One lunch time I was using it to send some private email and also to chat with some friends (MSN messenger I think). When I was done I just picked my laptop up and walked back to my desk and plugged into the corporate lan without powering down. I was surprised when 20 minutes later one of my friends initiated a chat session with me. After the shock of chatting from my desk wore off, I realised that the chat program used two separate protocols/ports: 1 for logging into the chat system, and another for the actual chatting. The corporate IT people had only blocked one system and not the other, perhaps in the belief that that was all that was necessary. Combined with the chat system not timing out during the walk back to my desk, I had effectively bypassed their strong security.
I see things like this at the gym where people are reading books/magazines while using the treadmill. I watch them get so involved in their reading that their workout suffers. Yet I am sure they think that they are having a worthwhile workout.
There is an old chinese saying about living life that sums up a good way to live it:
Basically people are considering how to design protocols such that they will survive communications over networks with very large delays, for example between here and Mars. TCP/IP won't cut it as it depends on interacting in real time.
Both light and radio waves will get from here to Mars in the same time, and it is only the sensitivity and selectivity of the receivers that will differentiate them. From reading this article I would say that the choice of transmission protocol used is more important in the overall comms.
when I was reading the "speech" I could hear it as the words of John Howard. Whoever wrote it did a great job in mimicking Howard's speech writers. It seemed spot on to me.
On the other hand, for the Aussies reading this.. my visions of John Howard were formed in the 80's from the radio comedy How green was my cactus where his character was "Little Johnny Howard". I'll never be able to shake that caricature of him:-)
This was the day before the public website unveiling and link to the story in The Age.
I love how the name of the posted story is so close to mine. Which is realy an assumption that only I can make the connection that the story started to "unfold" and that origami is "folded paper".
IBM disclaims rumors around one complete-transferred to Linux sound reports over the LinuxForum in Denmark on Groklaw and Neoseeker a IBM coworker in a lecture explained there, IBM wants to use in the future Linux on the host computers. Contracts with Microsoft were already quit, which coming Windows version Vista will not be used at IBM. Announcement In a statement opposite heise open got IBM straight the role of open SOURCE often commodity and open standard in the enterprise. One began to change the PC jobs over to IBM Workplace Client which is based on the open SOURCE projects Eclipse and OpenOffice.org and both runs on Windows and on Linux. Also one supports the platform-independent open SOURCE Browser Firefox, and some employees would already use Linux on their PCS. However Microsoft Office on many jobs plays and also at most customers a large role, so that one does not plan to do without it. As open formats for data exchange set IBM on pdf and rtf, the open document format is not yet ripe for the general employment. Windows Vista is evaluated at present, a decision is not yet pleases. IBM co-operates closely with Microsoft and also in the future Windows solutions will offer. The rumor, the Ms Office contract with Microsoft ran out in the past year, did not want not to commentate one (odi/c't)
I agree that Google has a huge mindshare right now, and that MS will be pushing shit uphill in order to compete (assuming that this announcement is not or vapourware or misleading). My point was that the GP had forgotten (or not known about) previous paradigm shifts in peoples search habits. It has happened before and it *can* happen again. But that does not mean it will happen in the same way/timeframe.
I can't remember who this quote was attributed to, but the universal truth is:
I have never been a big fan of Radio Shack, (especially of their individually packaged resisitors). But since having moved to the US I have seen no other shops that actually sell electornic parts. So my question is: Where do you people buy electornic parts from?
I used to enjoy wandering around an electronics shop just checking things out. Heck, even a Radio Spares catalog is better than nothing, even if they were also overpriced. But I don't know who the best players are in the US.
Damn I am pissed.. I had a hell of a time getting my wife to come with me the first time. She'll never come with me a second time. Looks like its going to be a solo trip.
I'm not saying that a phone couldn't be built.. and you point out that they are built.. but also are being cracked (which is what I was mainly alluding to happening in an arms race)
The more general point I was trying to make (and badly) was that if the authorities are interested in you, then they will bring to bare on you as many resources as matches their interest. And that any small, portable device will never be a match for a much larger, more powerful device.
Hiding your voice as another type of data stream will only work as long as they haven't yet taken an interest in you. Once they realise that it is you that they should be looking at, then I am sure all manner of data that you generate or receive will come under a very detailed inspection. Other people would call this "security by obscurity", which will minimise the risk of getting randomly caught. The whole game changes if you have been pointed out as an interesting person from some other source.
I am sure there have been much smarter people than me looking at both sides of this fence both in encrypting and decrypting data. without being too speculative, I am sure that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station is one solution to this problem.
1. Build encryptor for phones to hide nefarious deeds 2. Authorities take interest in you 3. Authorities tap your phone and find out that they can't decode your speech data 4. Authorities go ".. Hmmm.. I wonder what he is hiding?" and throws mainframe full of cracking software at the problem.
At this point you are effectively putting head to head two computer systems:
1) The *hand held* device that you built to encode and decode speach in *real time* in order to hide what you are saying.
2) A multi room mega computer owned by the Authorities with a sole purpose of cracking coded data.
Wanna take bets as to which system will win in a test of wills???
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Um .. just to let you know .. it wasn't a US court.
Yes, but funding doesn't always help you in the legal process. What we need is smarter people who can read betwen the lines and check out what is really being said. Why don't people realise that lack of intelligence is what the problem is actually about>
What about in the USA where the per capita rate of incarceration is the highest in the world, what sort of ID should the Americans be carrying????
Its simple really .. if you don't load the new "Genuine Advantage" tester, you don't get access to any software updates.
This adds another subtle way to force you to change by keeping your computer in a vulnerable state when future exploits are plugged.
Lets see .. I was just at an INS office the other day getting my manditory fingerprints of all prints on both hands as part of moving to the US. And that was along with a full description of me as well as a photo.
.. they are really fun :-)
nobody would want to live in a country that was like that
You should check out the requirements for legal immigration to the US
Even though your server may be out of the US jurisdiction, how are you going to communicate to it without using infrastructure that is located *in* the US?
I would bet that just passing data through any US based server would negate any protection you think you have by locating you server outside of the US.
While I agree that online predators should be punished, can you answer this simple question:
Why are the children at risk online in an unsupervised environment?
You wouldn't leave your kids alone with free access to guns or alcohol.
You wouldn't leave your kids alone a room with a dangerous animal.
You wouldn't drop your kids off in the middle of a sex trade region.
Any of the above would get you in trouble with the law, but putting a kid online in an unsupervised environment is tantamount to putting them in a room with the predator. People need to realise this and take responsibility for their *own* actions before running off to the gov'mint to solve their problems.
TFA makes it seem like GE has just started blocking IM and external email systems. But in the GE division where I have been contracting it has been like that for at least the last 5 years.
And I can understand why. By only allowing communications through official chanels, the companies can better protect themselves by doing such things as applying corporate wide virus checking on emails. It also provides a log as to what communications occurred when. Though I do admit that flash drives and take home laptops can easily bypass any of these measures.
One downside to this is that the corporate policies also block VPN accesses, so I can not get to my offices servers while at the GE location.
One amusing anecdote relating to this is that where I work there is an analog phone line kept for the times when you really need to dial up a system. One lunch time I was using it to send some private email and also to chat with some friends (MSN messenger I think). When I was done I just picked my laptop up and walked back to my desk and plugged into the corporate lan without powering down. I was surprised when 20 minutes later one of my friends initiated a chat session with me. After the shock of chatting from my desk wore off, I realised that the chat program used two separate protocols/ports: 1 for logging into the chat system, and another for the actual chatting. The corporate IT people had only blocked one system and not the other, perhaps in the belief that that was all that was necessary. Combined with the chat system not timing out during the walk back to my desk, I had effectively bypassed their strong security.
They seem to be popping up in Australia all the time. Maybe they are too sophisticated for the American market?
First hover car seen in Perth, Australia
Second hover car spotted in Perth Australia"
I see things like this at the gym where people are reading books/magazines while using the treadmill. I watch them get so involved in their reading that their workout suffers. Yet I am sure they think that they are having a worthwhile workout.
There is an old chinese saying about living life that sums up a good way to live it:
Sleep when tired, eat when hungry.
I'm surprised that nobody picked up on this article in Wired on Delay Tolerant networks.
Basically people are considering how to design protocols such that they will survive communications over networks with very large delays, for example between here and Mars. TCP/IP won't cut it as it depends on interacting in real time.
Both light and radio waves will get from here to Mars in the same time, and it is only the sensitivity and selectivity of the receivers that will differentiate them. From reading this article I would say that the choice of transmission protocol used is more important in the overall comms.
when I was reading the "speech" I could hear it as the words of John Howard. Whoever wrote it did a great job in mimicking Howard's speech writers. It seemed spot on to me.
.. my visions of John Howard were formed in the 80's from the radio comedy How green was my cactus where his character was "Little Johnny Howard". I'll never be able to shake that caricature of him :-)
.. it sucks not to have free speech.
On the other hand, for the Aussies reading this
But yeah
I'll admit that at the time there were no details of the device, but I had:
2006-03-02 04:58:46 Origami unfolds (Hardware,Microsoft) (rejected)
This was the day before the public website unveiling and link to the story in The Age.
I love how the name of the posted story is so close to mine. Which is realy an assumption that only I can make the connection that the story started to "unfold" and that origami is "folded paper".
IBM disclaims rumors around one complete-transferred to Linux sound reports over the LinuxForum in Denmark on Groklaw and Neoseeker a IBM coworker in a lecture explained there, IBM wants to use in the future Linux on the host computers. Contracts with Microsoft were already quit, which coming Windows version Vista will not be used at IBM. Announcement In a statement opposite heise open got IBM straight the role of open SOURCE often commodity and open standard in the enterprise. One began to change the PC jobs over to IBM Workplace Client which is based on the open SOURCE projects Eclipse and OpenOffice.org and both runs on Windows and on Linux. Also one supports the platform-independent open SOURCE Browser Firefox, and some employees would already use Linux on their PCS. However Microsoft Office on many jobs plays and also at most customers a large role, so that one does not plan to do without it. As open formats for data exchange set IBM on pdf and rtf, the open document format is not yet ripe for the general employment. Windows Vista is evaluated at present, a decision is not yet pleases. IBM co-operates closely with Microsoft and also in the future Windows solutions will offer. The rumor, the Ms Office contract with Microsoft ran out in the past year, did not want not to commentate one (odi/c't)
The USAF DynaSoar concept was considered and canned by 1963. So what else is new?
Employ me to look after them on site :-)
I agree that Google has a huge mindshare right now, and that MS will be pushing shit uphill in order to compete (assuming that this announcement is not or vapourware or misleading). My point was that the GP had forgotten (or not known about) previous paradigm shifts in peoples search habits. It has happened before and it *can* happen again. But that does not mean it will happen in the same way/timeframe.
I can't remember who this quote was attributed to, but the universal truth is:
"And this too shall come to pass".
AltaVista ?
"However - and this is big - how can Microsoft change the habits and behavior of many millions of users?"
AltaVista used to be *the* search engine a long time ago. So you could go back a few years and ask the same question about Google.
I have never been a big fan of Radio Shack, (especially of their individually packaged resisitors). But since having moved to the US I have seen no other shops that actually sell electornic parts. So my question is: Where do you people buy electornic parts from?
I used to enjoy wandering around an electronics shop just checking things out. Heck, even a Radio Spares catalog is better than nothing, even if they were also overpriced. But I don't know who the best players are in the US.
As per the other post .. The entire wing was roped off when I saw it. The closest you could get was about 80m. But that was a while ago
Damn I am pissed .. I had a hell of a time getting my wife to come with me the first time. She'll never come with me a second time. Looks like its going to be a solo trip.
A shuttle in the smithsonian .. at the Dulles airport location . Not that you can get very close to it though :-(
r ise
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Enterp
The evil Kanagroo consipracy has already been documented:
http://www.snopes.com/humor/nonsense/kangaroo.htm
What more can you say?
I'm not saying that a phone couldn't be built .. and you point out that they are built .. but also are being cracked (which is what I was mainly alluding to happening in an arms race)
The more general point I was trying to make (and badly) was that if the authorities are interested in you, then they will bring to bare on you as many resources as matches their interest. And that any small, portable device will never be a match for a much larger, more powerful device.
Hiding your voice as another type of data stream will only work as long as they haven't yet taken an interest in you. Once they realise that it is you that they should be looking at, then I am sure all manner of data that you generate or receive will come under a very detailed inspection. Other people would call this "security by obscurity", which will minimise the risk of getting randomly caught. The whole game changes if you have been pointed out as an interesting person from some other source.
I am sure there have been much smarter people than me looking at both sides of this fence both in encrypting and decrypting data. without being too speculative, I am sure that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station is one solution to this problem.
One slight problem I can think of :-)
.. Hmmm .. I wonder what he is hiding?" and throws mainframe full of cracking software at the problem.
1. Build encryptor for phones to hide nefarious deeds
2. Authorities take interest in you
3. Authorities tap your phone and find out that they can't decode your speech data
4. Authorities go "
At this point you are effectively putting head to head two computer systems:
1) The *hand held* device that you built to encode and decode speach in *real time* in order to hide what you are saying.
2) A multi room mega computer owned by the Authorities with a sole purpose of cracking coded data.
Wanna take bets as to which system will win in a test of wills???