So what if criminals use encryption? Criminals will always meet in secret (remotely or in person) and discuss issues privately. 'Back in the day' criminals didn't discuss sensitive matters over the phone in case it was bugged, the same thing will happen with any unsecured communication channel.
Eliminate or compromise encryption and the same thing will happen, either they won't use that channel of communication or they will use code phrases (pad cypher).
Regardless the cops will have to do what the cops are supposed to do, investigate. Not just sit on their ass and surveil.
The choice is between helping Apple secure the phones of millions of Americans against phone-thieves, identity-thieves, virus, mal-ware and ransom-ware writers or continuing to leave their citizens vulnerable to the above so that the government can spy on it's own people.
All security is inconvenient. If it's convenient it's not secure. It's really convenient to leave your front door open so that you can just walk in, it's not very secure.
Security is a trade off, you balance your convenience with your security at whatever point you feel comfortable. Does the convenience of using just a fingerprint to access your phone justify the level of security it offers? If so then use it. If not, don't. You don't get to complain that your convenient security didn't turn out to be very secure.
Yes, it's happening on the home page. I'm using IE (v11). The home page is automatically refreshing. I'm not aware if the other pages are automatically refreshing or not.
If you got rid of auto-refreshing, why is my system still auto-refreshing? Note: The URL doesn't change to include/autorefresh anymore, the page just auto-refreshes.
The problem is it's not just this phone. It's the 12 others they have on stand by, it's the 175 NY has lined up and ready to go -- for starters. The other problem is there is no guarantee breaking into this phone (and enabling the government to break into any other iphone) is going to save even one life. Is it worth compromising the phone's security (and enabling all kinds of fraud) on the off-chance that some information it contains may help the government prevent a death?
This couple purposely and specifically destroyed their phones and computers before going on their rampage. Do you really thing they left incriminating evidence on the guys's work phone?
Ask yourself, what is the price of freedom? If you want to live in a world where your every move isn't monitored and recorded by untrustworthy people who seek to capitalize on every little weakness you may have, perhaps the risk of a death here or there is an acceptable price. The question boils down to, would you rather live as a slave or risk death living as a freeman?
So you can't survive with me blocking your annoying, intrusive, malware laden advertising? Tough. If you can't compete, then die. It's free enterprise, bitch!
The study has not shown what the submission or the study says it shows. What it shows is that when separated into two groups, women who self identify as women and those who don't, the two groups have their submissions pulled at different rates.
There is nothing in the study to show that the two groups are comparable in their ability to code. Another way to look at the numbers in the study would be to say that women who self identify as women are not as good at coding as those who don't. Both statements are equally invalid, the study doesn't show either.
When the car in unable to determine a safe route to travel and stops, if it is in an area that stopping is a ticketable offense the driver can simply take control and drive and avoid getting a ticket.
How likely do you think it is that an autonomous car will have difficulty on a stretch of road where stopping is not allowed (e.g. a bridge or tunnel) where it's not actually unsafe to continue? You won't get a ticket for stopping on a bridge because there is a traffic jam in front of you, for example. Or if you stop because of white-out conditions, for another example. If you get a flat tire on a bridge the car will know you're on a bridge where stopping is not allowed and will drive off the bridge ruining your wheel.
It's simple, if the car runs into a situation it doesn't know how to handle it will come to a stop. At that time the human operator can take control. The car won't just hand off control without warning, in fact the car won't hand off control at all -- the human would have to take control.
The floor should at least be contoured, with hills and valleys. That brings up one of the problems with this type of competition, as long as the arena is fixed, the arena will determine what kind of specific robot is the best.
I'd like to see various arenas and each bot has to battle in each arena, say each level of a elimination competition is in a different arena and the specific arenas vary by episode.
Some examples: 1. Flat metal floor 1a. Flat metal floor with fixed obstacles. 1a. Flat metal floor with moving obstacles. 2. Undulating metal floor. 2a. Undulating metal floor with fixed obstacles. 2b. Undulating metal floor with moving obstacles. 3. Packed earthen floor. 3a. Packed earthen floor with fixed obstacles. 3b. Packed earthen floor with moving obstacles. 4. Undulating metal and packed earth floor combination with fixed obstacles. 4a. Undulating metal and packed earth floor combination with fixed obstacles. 4b. Undulating metal and packed earth floor combination with moving obstacles.
When you're not browsing run a script that will surf random web sites for you, go to bbc.co.uk and you'll find hundreds of links, follow them, find more links, follow them, etc. Occasionally pull a word from a web page and do a google search, then follow a bunch of the search results, and follow links on them, etc. Build in a random timer function so it looks like a human surfing. The idea is to make the haystack bigger so the needle is harder to find.
Then do all of the surfing you don't wan them to know about from a WiFi hotspot with a spoofed (random) IP address using a virtualized OS incidence that is scrubbed afterwards.
I've been thinking about why the Google cars are involved in more (minor) accidents than non-google cars. Based on no actual knowledge or facts I think the reason may be that the google cars are driving too well. The google car has much better situational awareness than a human driver and will therefore brake in order to avoid potential situations that no human driver would even be aware of. This unexpected braking is surprising the human drivers and they are running into the back of the google cars.
The solution would be to lower the threshold of when the google cars should brake to avoid potential situations -- in other words drive more like a person, i.e. more dangerously.
That or just expect the humans to adjust their driving to accommodate the safer google cars as they get used to them being on the road.
Or, since the cars can keep a complete record of what's going on around them, how about they actually BE police cars and hand out tickets for tailgating and other infractions they "see".
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Cash: No transaction fees.
Electronic payment: Transaction Fees
Now you know why the banks are interested in pushing electronic payments.
Cash: Anonymous transactions
Electronic Payment: All transactions recorded.
Now you know why government is interested in pushing electronic payments
All fiat currencies are virtual, a dollar bill is just an identifier to connect you with your actual currency.
And once my fingerprints are compromised, then what?
The only way to have complete safety against "terrorists" is to allow the government to have total control over our lives.
The question of how do we have complete safety from our government is left as an exercise for the reader.
So what if criminals use encryption? Criminals will always meet in secret (remotely or in person) and discuss issues privately. 'Back in the day' criminals didn't discuss sensitive matters over the phone in case it was bugged, the same thing will happen with any unsecured communication channel.
Eliminate or compromise encryption and the same thing will happen, either they won't use that channel of communication or they will use code phrases (pad cypher).
Regardless the cops will have to do what the cops are supposed to do, investigate. Not just sit on their ass and surveil.
The choice is between helping Apple secure the phones of millions of Americans against phone-thieves, identity-thieves, virus, mal-ware and ransom-ware writers or continuing to leave their citizens vulnerable to the above so that the government can spy on it's own people.
I know what choice I think they should make.
AT&T is a prime example of the real Taker Class (tm).
It should also teach us a valuable lesson about allowing your children unmonitored access to the internet...
All security is inconvenient. If it's convenient it's not secure. It's really convenient to leave your front door open so that you can just walk in, it's not very secure.
Security is a trade off, you balance your convenience with your security at whatever point you feel comfortable. Does the convenience of using just a fingerprint to access your phone justify the level of security it offers? If so then use it. If not, don't. You don't get to complain that your convenient security didn't turn out to be very secure.
Yes, it's happening on the home page. I'm using IE (v11). The home page is automatically refreshing. I'm not aware if the other pages are automatically refreshing or not.
If you got rid of auto-refreshing, why is my system still auto-refreshing? Note: The URL doesn't change to include /autorefresh anymore, the page just auto-refreshes.
You want to make it a standard?
Don't encumber it with patents.
The problem is it's not just this phone. It's the 12 others they have on stand by, it's the 175 NY has lined up and ready to go -- for starters. The other problem is there is no guarantee breaking into this phone (and enabling the government to break into any other iphone) is going to save even one life. Is it worth compromising the phone's security (and enabling all kinds of fraud) on the off-chance that some information it contains may help the government prevent a death?
This couple purposely and specifically destroyed their phones and computers before going on their rampage. Do you really thing they left incriminating evidence on the guys's work phone?
Ask yourself, what is the price of freedom? If you want to live in a world where your every move isn't monitored and recorded by untrustworthy people who seek to capitalize on every little weakness you may have, perhaps the risk of a death here or there is an acceptable price. The question boils down to, would you rather live as a slave or risk death living as a freeman?
So you can't survive with me blocking your annoying, intrusive, malware laden advertising? Tough. If you can't compete, then die. It's free enterprise, bitch!
The study has not shown what the submission or the study says it shows. What it shows is that when separated into two groups, women who self identify as women and those who don't, the two groups have their submissions pulled at different rates.
There is nothing in the study to show that the two groups are comparable in their ability to code. Another way to look at the numbers in the study would be to say that women who self identify as women are not as good at coding as those who don't. Both statements are equally invalid, the study doesn't show either.
When the car in unable to determine a safe route to travel and stops, if it is in an area that stopping is a ticketable offense the driver can simply take control and drive and avoid getting a ticket.
How likely do you think it is that an autonomous car will have difficulty on a stretch of road where stopping is not allowed (e.g. a bridge or tunnel) where it's not actually unsafe to continue? You won't get a ticket for stopping on a bridge because there is a traffic jam in front of you, for example. Or if you stop because of white-out conditions, for another example. If you get a flat tire on a bridge the car will know you're on a bridge where stopping is not allowed and will drive off the bridge ruining your wheel.
You're arguing a situation that won't happen.
It's simple, if the car runs into a situation it doesn't know how to handle it will come to a stop. At that time the human operator can take control. The car won't just hand off control without warning, in fact the car won't hand off control at all -- the human would have to take control.
The floor should at least be contoured, with hills and valleys. That brings up one of the problems with this type of competition, as long as the arena is fixed, the arena will determine what kind of specific robot is the best.
I'd like to see various arenas and each bot has to battle in each arena, say each level of a elimination competition is in a different arena and the specific arenas vary by episode.
Some examples:
1. Flat metal floor
1a. Flat metal floor with fixed obstacles.
1a. Flat metal floor with moving obstacles.
2. Undulating metal floor.
2a. Undulating metal floor with fixed obstacles.
2b. Undulating metal floor with moving obstacles.
3. Packed earthen floor.
3a. Packed earthen floor with fixed obstacles.
3b. Packed earthen floor with moving obstacles.
4. Undulating metal and packed earth floor combination with fixed obstacles.
4a. Undulating metal and packed earth floor combination with fixed obstacles.
4b. Undulating metal and packed earth floor combination with moving obstacles.
When you're not browsing run a script that will surf random web sites for you, go to bbc.co.uk and you'll find hundreds of links, follow them, find more links, follow them, etc. Occasionally pull a word from a web page and do a google search, then follow a bunch of the search results, and follow links on them, etc. Build in a random timer function so it looks like a human surfing. The idea is to make the haystack bigger so the needle is harder to find.
Then do all of the surfing you don't wan them to know about from a WiFi hotspot with a spoofed (random) IP address using a virtualized OS incidence that is scrubbed afterwards.
If they can make Clean Coal, why can't they make Clean Diesel?
Email is not secure! Email has been around for several decades, how long is it going to take for people to learn this?
I've been thinking about why the Google cars are involved in more (minor) accidents than non-google cars. Based on no actual knowledge or facts I think the reason may be that the google cars are driving too well. The google car has much better situational awareness than a human driver and will therefore brake in order to avoid potential situations that no human driver would even be aware of. This unexpected braking is surprising the human drivers and they are running into the back of the google cars.
The solution would be to lower the threshold of when the google cars should brake to avoid potential situations -- in other words drive more like a person, i.e. more dangerously.
That or just expect the humans to adjust their driving to accommodate the safer google cars as they get used to them being on the road.
Or, since the cars can keep a complete record of what's going on around them, how about they actually BE police cars and hand out tickets for tailgating and other infractions they "see".
Why in the world would we require autonomous cars to answer hypothetical questions on morality?
What could go wrong with a system that records everyone of your votes?
Secret ballots are so last century...