And if your solution to clean things up makes the first world poor or even less wealthy... get ready for all the people that care and send you money or are willing to buy expensive stuff to do things the green way... for all that to dry up.
Solutions to the problem must be economically neutral. There are ways to do it. Most of them involve the government giving tax breaks proportionate to the upgrade cost or finding other technologies that are actually able to fill the void at an affordable cost.
There is a tendency for many to try to impose very expensive solutions that ultimately are unsustainable.
My god... read my fucking posts please. I am talking about keeping the keys client side. Which means if you do a man in the middle attack they get nothing but encrypted garbage.
cite an instance of them torturing/water boarding a citizen just going about his business in the US without a warrant?
And no... sitting on a fat guy until he suffocates does not count. Police have been doing that for.... ever. We're talking about information security. They don't extort passwords out of people without warrant. It doesn't happen.
You missed everything I said about keeping the keys and decryption engine private... didn't you? Read that again and then comment please... you'll sound less stupid.
Not really, if you want to give another company access to your data, are you intending to give them total access to ALL your data or specific access to specific files?
If only specific files, then simply decrypt those and host them separately with either a key you are willing to share or no key at all.
This is not rocket science.
As to individuals sharing with other individuals... same thing. Decrypt, host separately... done.
If you want to sell people an appliance they don't need.... sure. You could host something like this on pretty much anything. Grab a raspberry pi for whatever they're selling for now... or one of their more powerful competitors that are about the same price... and that is all you need. Or simply host the files on a file server that is already resident on your network. Pretty much any office network is going to have a file server of some description. Any of them can handle this operation. The work of bringing them into memory and running the decryption will be done client side by the thin client/terminal server anyway.
I've never thought of widescreen as such... I've always thought of it as "short screen"... I wish I could get proper aspect monitors but they're almost impossible to find these days especially on laptops.
Not at all. I can think of several types of encryption that are not decipherable in any reasonable amount of time or with any reasonable amount of computing power. Even accounting for moore's law there are some very strong encryption methods that render the data so hard to decrypt that it is worthless to anyone without the key.
I even know of at least one that is literally impossible to decrypt. Like... you would need to be literally god and able to bend reality around your finger to break it.
Look, you don't need to make it unbreakable in most cases. You just need to make it so hard that they'll never bother.
I can think of a few that are easily that hard and will be that hard for generations. And if I wanted to make something that no one could break even with a billion years of trying... I could do that as well.
Look at the statue in front of the NSA. It contains 4 ciphers. The first 3 have been broken. The last one has not... by anyone. Type unbreakable codes or ciphers into google and see what comes up. There are lots of examples of codes that have never been broken. And that is the extreme response. I don't even need to do that. I just need to make it hard enough.
Yep, they'd go to work on unicorns and eat nothing but raspberry cupcakes which sprout magically from raspberry cupcake trees... because it is a fantasy world that doesn't exist.
Reality check.
Fuck up the economy = no one cares about the environment.
Deal with it. If you want to fix the environment, the first thing you have to keep in mind is that the economy is a third rail of that issue. You fucking touch it and it will arc to your hipster ass and crisp you so badly that at the slightest breeze nothing will be left but a little ask in the wind.
Grasp this.
Environmental advocacy as you understand it exists only in the first world. Endanger the economy and the advocacy has about the same chance of surviving as an octopus in the Sahara.
You have per client access rules and passively encrypt everything. What is more, the encryption keys can be held on office thin clients that transparently download the decryption engine and keys from an onsite server which likewise can serve both to remote users as part of their login script.
Non-technical people won't even know it is happening. Technical people will of course. If you want to keep things just a bit more secure, you can have remote clients RDP into a Terminal server that retains the keys and engine in the office such that neither ever leave the office.
None of this is complicated. I could set all this up myself fairly quickly. You can even double encrypt things if you want. Why tell dropbox you're even using your own encryption? No reason to do that. Just upload encrypted files and have them encrypt them again. It is all data.
Put a warning on his lectures saying "has been cited for online sexual harassment"... then anyone that wants to see his lectures anyway can... and those that are afraid he's going to cyber rape them can avoid the situation.
Good thing geeks are responsible for building the entire information backbone.
Look, decoding things client side isn't expensive. It isn't a big deal. All you have to do is retrain a copy of the decryption engine and key client side. Which means if you're running a large company network that hosts all company files on data centers in the "cloud" then all the IT guy has to do is maintain ONE tiny server client side that serves those two things to the clients. Which they download as part of their login script... etc etc etc.
It isn't hard. And when that is in place... assuming the NSA has total control over the data center that is the cloud... what exactly do they have? Jack and shit.
They can't practically stop people from using any kind of encryption. Once the encryption procredure is handled entirely client side, how would you even know if the data was encrypted to spec unless you tried to decrypt it? And that's an awkward thing to admit to people that are assuming your service doesn't even try to do that.
Really, the whole NSA mission against general data has a big expiration date hanging on it. The cloud concept is obviously dead in the water in the long term unless the encryption keys and engine is kept client side. And are the terrorists of the future really going to be sending their terrorist plots over email and conventional cell phone calls? I can think of hundreds of ways to send information of an extremely criminal and national security relevant nature... completely anonymously... forever.
The only reason they're getting anything now is because our enemies are computer illiterate. That is like relying on your enemy being literally illiterate... forever. It isn't going to happen.
The whole thing is a giant waste of time and money. IF they had half a clue, they'd do their best to convince everyone that they're not actually going to wire tap everyone secretly. I know they say that all the time but they're not very convincing at it are they? Exactly. To be convincing, they need to be subtle. Which means the giant data centers and big laws flowing through congress are the opposite of what they should be doing IF they had a clue.
But they quite clearly don't have a clue so they're just going to spend billions of tax payer dollars to accomplish jack shit. As usual.
... mandatory. Seriously, what is the NSA going to do when the consequences of their arrogance propagate fully through our information culture? Eventually, everything of consequence is going to be held on private servers using private encryption keys that no one has access to but the users. The actual servers that push the information around are going to be shuffling around black boxes.
The idiots enviromental activists don't seem to grasp that caring about the environment is directly proportional to wealth. Look at poor countries and tell me how many of them give a dam about the environment? Exactly.
So going on a crusade against the evil capitalist corporations that actually keep us from being that dirt poor... accomplishes what? Ironically it makes us all pollute more because we stop caring about the environment as we start having issues feeding ourselves.
Rule ONE of EFFECTIVE environmental activsism: DO NOT make the host society poorer in the process. Violations of this rule will result in instant proportional decreases in everyone caring about the environment. Anyone that doesn't already grasp this clearly doesn't pay any of their own bills. Which makes everything clear since most environmental activists tend to be teenagers or trust fund kids.
This is not to say that I don't care about the environment or don't think we should do something to protect it. HOWEVER, if you fuck up the economy in the process get ready for everyone to start giving you just as much attention on the issues as the Chinese government. That is, at best you'll be humored/patronized while the people actually making real choices will quietly and systematically ignore everything you've said.
That stuff requires logistics. How far can an M1A1 go without logistical support? Not very far.
Absent some sort of social order all the heavy equipment will be grounded very quickly.
And as to what social order we ultimately have, an armed population will dramatically improve the odds that the new order respects individual rights if only because failing to do that leads to getting shot in the face by people.
What is more, all these weapons require humans on the other end. You're suggesting that our soldiers are going to roll tanks over people and slaughter them in huge numbers. It is very unlikely given a break down of order that our own soldiers and their unit commanders will comply with those orders.
What you might have is large numbers of people intimidated into complying. Our soldiers could be ordered to point weapons at people and yell at them. Actually firing and filling mass graves are less likely.
If our population is armed then we will not as easily be intimidated.
I regret to inform you that you're arguing against history, basic human psychology, and math. You've got pretty much literally nothing going for your argument besides a general distrust of your peers to take their civic responsibilities seriously. And given that position, you are quite clearly not a believer in republics or democratic rule... but are rather a believer in oligarchic or autocratic rule.
A believer in democracy which is what I am is not going to see eye to eye with an autocrat which is what you are.
I am not a peasant. I am a citizen. I am not chattel to be ordered about by bureaucrats with guns. Which is all a police offers is in the first place. Its the lady that sits behind the counter at the DMV... with a gun and some extra training. That person is not above me. The law is above us both. They don't get to break the law unless I get to break it too.
You presume that the republic will endure forever.
Consider this, citizen... all things end. When they do... what will you want then? Look at the people of Ukraine for an example... there are many. When push comes to shove, if you don't have something that can force troops to respect you... then when it all comes crashing down you might find you have no rights at all.
If you don't think you need a gun, then you don't know what it means to be a citizen.
As a citizen, I am a unit of my civilization. I am its laws, its philosophy, its will, and its power. I lend some of my power to the state so it can serve me. It is not above me. It rather exists to service my needs. I stand if anything below the law which stand above any singular entity but which can be changed through the due process of the citizenry.
Just as I have a right to think and say what I please. I also have a right to be dangerous. I don't have a right to trespass against you. I do not have a right violate YOUR rights. However, be being dangerous is not a violation of your rights unless I abuse my power to harm you.
Defanging the citizenry leads to the end of the citizenry themselves. We take one more step towards being peasants. So many Americans are nothing more then that. Utterly ignorant of their civic duties, the nature of our society, or the incumbent responsibilities that come with our rights.
That I accept I cannot have military grade weaponry is itself a huge concession. Suggesting that police have more access to weaponry then their citizen peers is utterly unacceptable.
This extends to those stupid trigger locks they keep trying to push down our throats. If the police are willing to use those buggy encumbrances then so be it. Short of that, never.
The difference is that fracking does improve the national security of eastern european countries by reducing their energy dependency on Russia.
That is just a fact. And all things being equal, were I Romanian, Polish, or Ukrainian... I would be very pro fracking if only because it would reduce Putin's leverage on my people.
That of course isn't enough. Each of these countries needs to be able to hold off a Russian invasion for long enough to get allied assistance. And what is more, each of these countries needs to make sure it has defense treaties that obligate assistance. Absent that, their long term survival as countries does not look good until the next Russian collapse.
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And if your solution to clean things up makes the first world poor or even less wealthy... get ready for all the people that care and send you money or are willing to buy expensive stuff to do things the green way... for all that to dry up.
Solutions to the problem must be economically neutral. There are ways to do it. Most of them involve the government giving tax breaks proportionate to the upgrade cost or finding other technologies that are actually able to fill the void at an affordable cost.
There is a tendency for many to try to impose very expensive solutions that ultimately are unsustainable.
utter bs that you ultimately validated as being 100 percent correct.
BS apparently means inconvenient truths you have a hard time with... that isn't what bs stands for by the way.
It means Bullshit Shit. It implies that the subject under discussion is untrue. Which is the opposite of what I was saying. So... *yawn*.
My god... read my fucking posts please. I am talking about keeping the keys client side. Which means if you do a man in the middle attack they get nothing but encrypted garbage.
cite an instance of them torturing/water boarding a citizen just going about his business in the US without a warrant?
And no... sitting on a fat guy until he suffocates does not count. Police have been doing that for.... ever. We're talking about information security. They don't extort passwords out of people without warrant. It doesn't happen.
You missed everything I said about keeping the keys and decryption engine private... didn't you? Read that again and then comment please... you'll sound less stupid.
Yes and company security is designed by neck beards. So... corporate security will at least have that.
As to personal security... To a certain extent, this is every douchbag for himself. So... fuck em'.
Except for they won't because the whole financial system would instantly collapse.
come on... think a few moves ahead.
Not really, if you want to give another company access to your data, are you intending to give them total access to ALL your data or specific access to specific files?
If only specific files, then simply decrypt those and host them separately with either a key you are willing to share or no key at all.
This is not rocket science.
As to individuals sharing with other individuals... same thing. Decrypt, host separately... done.
If you want to sell people an appliance they don't need.... sure. You could host something like this on pretty much anything. Grab a raspberry pi for whatever they're selling for now... or one of their more powerful competitors that are about the same price... and that is all you need. Or simply host the files on a file server that is already resident on your network. Pretty much any office network is going to have a file server of some description. Any of them can handle this operation. The work of bringing them into memory and running the decryption will be done client side by the thin client/terminal server anyway.
I've never thought of widescreen as such... I've always thought of it as "short screen"... I wish I could get proper aspect monitors but they're almost impossible to find these days especially on laptops.
Sure, but they're not going to beat me with a wrench without a warrant.
Not at all. I can think of several types of encryption that are not decipherable in any reasonable amount of time or with any reasonable amount of computing power. Even accounting for moore's law there are some very strong encryption methods that render the data so hard to decrypt that it is worthless to anyone without the key.
I even know of at least one that is literally impossible to decrypt. Like... you would need to be literally god and able to bend reality around your finger to break it.
Look, you don't need to make it unbreakable in most cases. You just need to make it so hard that they'll never bother.
I can think of a few that are easily that hard and will be that hard for generations. And if I wanted to make something that no one could break even with a billion years of trying... I could do that as well.
Look at the statue in front of the NSA. It contains 4 ciphers. The first 3 have been broken. The last one has not... by anyone. Type unbreakable codes or ciphers into google and see what comes up. There are lots of examples of codes that have never been broken. And that is the extreme response. I don't even need to do that. I just need to make it hard enough.
Yep, they'd go to work on unicorns and eat nothing but raspberry cupcakes which sprout magically from raspberry cupcake trees... because it is a fantasy world that doesn't exist.
Reality check.
Fuck up the economy = no one cares about the environment.
Deal with it. If you want to fix the environment, the first thing you have to keep in mind is that the economy is a third rail of that issue. You fucking touch it and it will arc to your hipster ass and crisp you so badly that at the slightest breeze nothing will be left but a little ask in the wind.
Grasp this.
Environmental advocacy as you understand it exists only in the first world. Endanger the economy and the advocacy has about the same chance of surviving as an octopus in the Sahara.
You completely missed the point. Good work.
You fuck up the economy = no one gives a shit about the environment.
Do you logic?
You're assuming it is either/or.
You have per client access rules and passively encrypt everything. What is more, the encryption keys can be held on office thin clients that transparently download the decryption engine and keys from an onsite server which likewise can serve both to remote users as part of their login script.
Non-technical people won't even know it is happening. Technical people will of course. If you want to keep things just a bit more secure, you can have remote clients RDP into a Terminal server that retains the keys and engine in the office such that neither ever leave the office.
None of this is complicated. I could set all this up myself fairly quickly. You can even double encrypt things if you want. Why tell dropbox you're even using your own encryption? No reason to do that. Just upload encrypted files and have them encrypt them again. It is all data.
Never going to happen. The banks at the very least wouldn't allow it.
Put a warning on his lectures saying "has been cited for online sexual harassment"... then anyone that wants to see his lectures anyway can... and those that are afraid he's going to cyber rape them can avoid the situation.
Good thing geeks are responsible for building the entire information backbone.
Look, decoding things client side isn't expensive. It isn't a big deal. All you have to do is retrain a copy of the decryption engine and key client side. Which means if you're running a large company network that hosts all company files on data centers in the "cloud" then all the IT guy has to do is maintain ONE tiny server client side that serves those two things to the clients. Which they download as part of their login script... etc etc etc.
It isn't hard. And when that is in place... assuming the NSA has total control over the data center that is the cloud... what exactly do they have? Jack and shit.
No one with a clue believes that anymore.
They can't practically stop people from using any kind of encryption. Once the encryption procredure is handled entirely client side, how would you even know if the data was encrypted to spec unless you tried to decrypt it? And that's an awkward thing to admit to people that are assuming your service doesn't even try to do that.
Really, the whole NSA mission against general data has a big expiration date hanging on it. The cloud concept is obviously dead in the water in the long term unless the encryption keys and engine is kept client side. And are the terrorists of the future really going to be sending their terrorist plots over email and conventional cell phone calls? I can think of hundreds of ways to send information of an extremely criminal and national security relevant nature... completely anonymously... forever.
The only reason they're getting anything now is because our enemies are computer illiterate. That is like relying on your enemy being literally illiterate... forever. It isn't going to happen.
The whole thing is a giant waste of time and money. IF they had half a clue, they'd do their best to convince everyone that they're not actually going to wire tap everyone secretly. I know they say that all the time but they're not very convincing at it are they? Exactly. To be convincing, they need to be subtle. Which means the giant data centers and big laws flowing through congress are the opposite of what they should be doing IF they had a clue.
But they quite clearly don't have a clue so they're just going to spend billions of tax payer dollars to accomplish jack shit. As usual.
... mandatory. Seriously, what is the NSA going to do when the consequences of their arrogance propagate fully through our information culture? Eventually, everything of consequence is going to be held on private servers using private encryption keys that no one has access to but the users. The actual servers that push the information around are going to be shuffling around black boxes.
The idiots enviromental activists don't seem to grasp that caring about the environment is directly proportional to wealth. Look at poor countries and tell me how many of them give a dam about the environment? Exactly.
So going on a crusade against the evil capitalist corporations that actually keep us from being that dirt poor... accomplishes what? Ironically it makes us all pollute more because we stop caring about the environment as we start having issues feeding ourselves.
Rule ONE of EFFECTIVE environmental activsism:
DO NOT make the host society poorer in the process. Violations of this rule will result in instant proportional decreases in everyone caring about the environment. Anyone that doesn't already grasp this clearly doesn't pay any of their own bills. Which makes everything clear since most environmental activists tend to be teenagers or trust fund kids.
This is not to say that I don't care about the environment or don't think we should do something to protect it. HOWEVER, if you fuck up the economy in the process get ready for everyone to start giving you just as much attention on the issues as the Chinese government. That is, at best you'll be humored/patronized while the people actually making real choices will quietly and systematically ignore everything you've said.
No it won't. You're not thinking it through.
That stuff requires logistics. How far can an M1A1 go without logistical support? Not very far.
Absent some sort of social order all the heavy equipment will be grounded very quickly.
And as to what social order we ultimately have, an armed population will dramatically improve the odds that the new order respects individual rights if only because failing to do that leads to getting shot in the face by people.
What is more, all these weapons require humans on the other end. You're suggesting that our soldiers are going to roll tanks over people and slaughter them in huge numbers. It is very unlikely given a break down of order that our own soldiers and their unit commanders will comply with those orders.
What you might have is large numbers of people intimidated into complying. Our soldiers could be ordered to point weapons at people and yell at them. Actually firing and filling mass graves are less likely.
If our population is armed then we will not as easily be intimidated.
I regret to inform you that you're arguing against history, basic human psychology, and math. You've got pretty much literally nothing going for your argument besides a general distrust of your peers to take their civic responsibilities seriously. And given that position, you are quite clearly not a believer in republics or democratic rule... but are rather a believer in oligarchic or autocratic rule.
A believer in democracy which is what I am is not going to see eye to eye with an autocrat which is what you are.
I am not a peasant. I am a citizen. I am not chattel to be ordered about by bureaucrats with guns. Which is all a police offers is in the first place. Its the lady that sits behind the counter at the DMV... with a gun and some extra training. That person is not above me. The law is above us both. They don't get to break the law unless I get to break it too.
You presume that the republic will endure forever.
Consider this, citizen... all things end. When they do... what will you want then? Look at the people of Ukraine for an example... there are many. When push comes to shove, if you don't have something that can force troops to respect you... then when it all comes crashing down you might find you have no rights at all.
If you don't think you need a gun, then you don't know what it means to be a citizen.
As a citizen, I am a unit of my civilization. I am its laws, its philosophy, its will, and its power. I lend some of my power to the state so it can serve me. It is not above me. It rather exists to service my needs. I stand if anything below the law which stand above any singular entity but which can be changed through the due process of the citizenry.
Just as I have a right to think and say what I please. I also have a right to be dangerous. I don't have a right to trespass against you. I do not have a right violate YOUR rights. However, be being dangerous is not a violation of your rights unless I abuse my power to harm you.
Defanging the citizenry leads to the end of the citizenry themselves. We take one more step towards being peasants. So many Americans are nothing more then that. Utterly ignorant of their civic duties, the nature of our society, or the incumbent responsibilities that come with our rights.
That I accept I cannot have military grade weaponry is itself a huge concession. Suggesting that police have more access to weaponry then their citizen peers is utterly unacceptable.
This extends to those stupid trigger locks they keep trying to push down our throats. If the police are willing to use those buggy encumbrances then so be it. Short of that, never.
The difference is that fracking does improve the national security of eastern european countries by reducing their energy dependency on Russia.
That is just a fact. And all things being equal, were I Romanian, Polish, or Ukrainian... I would be very pro fracking if only because it would reduce Putin's leverage on my people.
That of course isn't enough. Each of these countries needs to be able to hold off a Russian invasion for long enough to get allied assistance. And what is more, each of these countries needs to make sure it has defense treaties that obligate assistance. Absent that, their long term survival as countries does not look good until the next Russian collapse.