Swap parties - exchange your DNA for someone else at random, everyone pays for one DNA analysis and exchanges the analysis with their random swap partner.
Just to fuck up these companies who want to own us.
First, design a "Go Away!" transmitter. These could be deployed in security areas, wildfire areas, and where ever they are needed. Might use normal WiFi bands with a digital code.
Second, require that all drones be equipped with a receiver for these "Go Away!" transmitters. Reception of such a signal would cause the drone to reverse course and fly away until the signal was no longer received.
Third, attack drones that take down the ones who don't 'go away'.
I for one would buy popcorn to see some drone wars:-)
I don't see H's server choice as a security argument. The "regular" office server, the one she should have been using, was not designed for classified info either and there's no evidence it had better general security than her "home" server.
There are plenty of other reasons to criticize her actions, but "security" is not one of them.
I suppose one could argue she was more likely to mix up personal and work email, but that can happen regardless. One can mistype the destination on any device or email service. Such an argument is splitting hairs on what kind of typo is most likely, which is probably personality specific such as to make it highly speculative. The kinds of mistakes I make often have a different pattern than those of others. It's one of the reasons I welcome wide feedback on any of my draft UI designs.
It's her own security she was concerned about.
I have wondered how many of those 'personal' emails she had scraped off the system before handing it in would have showed conflict of interest with regard to Clinton financial dealings that mixed just a bit with being in very high positions of US government.
If companies are willing to consider such 'alternatives' then it's only to cut the training budget, or meet already signed obligations for training / education without having to pay anything.
On top of that it's idiotic to give credit for passive activities that you could as easily be simultaneously watching a ballgame or sleeping.
My point is that all states are guilty of what you are stating. All of them - including the US, and in no small measure.
How many Jews were killed before America got dragged into the second world war...not to protect the Jews from being slaughtered but because we ourselves had been attacked?
For fucked up hypocrisy, let's see what disgusting regimes the US has supported in the not too distant past: Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Equatorial Guinea Augusto Pinochet, Chile Idriss Déby, Chad Manuel Noriega, Panama Islam Karimov, Uzbekistan King Abdullah, Saudi Arabia Francisco Franko, Spain Mobutu Sese Seko, Zair
How many authoritative, abusive regimes are currently supported by the US? I'm not going to list them but here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Hard to have any sympathy for the situation. If you sign up for an currency that is designed to be outside of the world governments, don't come crying to the government that dumb ass idea blew up in your face.
If it were just that the bitcoins crashed and became worth nothing, that's one thing. Theft is another.
If you steal baseball cards that the market says are worth 100,000 - that's the amount that you're going to be tagged for.
Hi - I moved to France awhile ago and, other than missing my friends and family in the US (I only get over about once a year), I don't regret it at all.
biometric technology originally fascinated and excited me. After spending 2 months hacking the fitbit flex and fitbit one im all but broken. the system uses asymmetric cryptography to ensure you never have independent access to the data it collects. the transmission protocol it uses is simple, ANT in most cases, but the private key to decrypt my footsteps and data lies solely on their servers. One would think that without independent evaluation of the data its gleaning, most major pharmaceuticals and insurance companies would be wary but that doesnt appear to be the case. like breathalizers and OBD/ECM monitors from car insurance companies, no one seems interested in their accuracy.
my last 3 jobs have offered these fitbits. the first one, an option, subsidized the device. The next two jobs basically ordered it for me and stated that if i wanted a discount on my health insurance, id better strap in. the privacy policy for fitbit outright states theyre going to sell your data to other companies, like it or not. So why do people put up with this? does anyone know of an open-source and accurate alternative for the fitbit?
Buy a small dog that runs around a lot and strap it on with his collar.
Not just medical insurance companies. But that will come when wearing of these devices are made mandatory, probably an argument along the lines of "well only terrorists *wouldn't* wear them". Then following an accident anywhere (on the road, place of work, whatever) the insurance company will be able to analyse the data about your physical state prior to the incident to find a reason why they won't pay.
Wearing such devices wouldn't ever be mandated, you say? Sure they will, bribe... I mean lobby, enough politicians and it will happen.
People wouldn't willingly concede even more freedoms to wear these things, you say? Yeah... right.
Don't even have to take it that far. Just offer a 'discount' on insurance premiums for those wearing (aka raise the rates of those not wearing).
If you read the fine print it's open to everyone, including white males. They are just making a specific effort to attract people from the groups mentioned, probably because experience tells them that most applicants will be white and male and they want more representative levels of diversity.
If it were going to be fair and equal there would be no such statement in the first place.
Luxembourg! First, nobody is interested in spying on them. They have a Navy of half a ship (shared with Belgium) and also one of the US Awacs planes is flying under their flag, that's about their air force. They also have 2 old cannons to fire for state celebrations. They have 100% cellphone coverage, 100% DSL coverage and in about 3 years also 100% glass fiber coverage.
And if Paypal ever blocks your account, you can _walk_ to their office with a big stick and demand explanations.
Disclaimer: I'm from Luxembourg.:-)
One of the biggest (monetarily speaking) offshore havens in the world and you honestly think no one is interested?
I have no doubt that the NSA (etc) have been monitoring your top level communications the same as they have for the rest of Europe (etc).
The French state is notorious for extreme hypocrisy. If the French State decides that violating it's rules will protect it from future terror attacks the rules will be violated.
And this is different from other states how, exactly?
All states violate their own rules when they think they can get away with it.
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Only works against passwords and only in certain cases.
Does not work against pin codes or swipes.
So, who is ultimately responsible for this? The people.
If representation were one vote per person you would be correct.
The system in place, however, is not truly democratic and will not easily be fixed without revolution, which seems unlikely.
Swap parties - exchange your DNA for someone else at random, everyone pays for one DNA analysis and exchanges the analysis with their random swap partner.
Just to fuck up these companies who want to own us.
The first person at each machine at the next election will take some time, because he will be asked to update to Windows 10 first.
And if MacAfee is on there just forget about it.
How about a two-part solution?
First, design a "Go Away!" transmitter. These could be deployed in security areas, wildfire areas, and where ever they are needed. Might use normal WiFi bands with a digital code.
Second, require that all drones be equipped with a receiver for these "Go Away!" transmitters. Reception of such a signal would cause the drone to reverse course and fly away until the signal was no longer received.
Third, attack drones that take down the ones who don't 'go away'.
I for one would buy popcorn to see some drone wars :-)
I don't see H's server choice as a security argument. The "regular" office server, the one she should have been using, was not designed for classified info either and there's no evidence it had better general security than her "home" server.
There are plenty of other reasons to criticize her actions, but "security" is not one of them.
I suppose one could argue she was more likely to mix up personal and work email, but that can happen regardless. One can mistype the destination on any device or email service. Such an argument is splitting hairs on what kind of typo is most likely, which is probably personality specific such as to make it highly speculative. The kinds of mistakes I make often have a different pattern than those of others. It's one of the reasons I welcome wide feedback on any of my draft UI designs.
It's her own security she was concerned about.
I have wondered how many of those 'personal' emails she had scraped off the system before handing it in would have showed conflict of interest with regard to Clinton financial dealings that mixed just a bit with being in very high positions of US government.
If companies are willing to consider such 'alternatives' then it's only to cut the training budget, or meet already signed obligations for training / education without having to pay anything.
On top of that it's idiotic to give credit for passive activities that you could as easily be simultaneously watching a ballgame or sleeping.
Brian Krebs has been doing this for awhile now.
http://krebsonsecurity.com/
Someone's just taking it to the next level - not a bad idea at all IMHO.
The vast majority of users are never satisfied with any amount of bandwidth for long.
Give them 10 today and they'll be complaining that they don't have 100 as soon as they see someone else that does.
And the fallout from one of these exploding in the air would be...?
My point is that all states are guilty of what you are stating. All of them - including the US, and in no small measure.
How many Jews were killed before America got dragged into the second world war...not to protect the Jews from being slaughtered but because we ourselves had been attacked?
For fucked up hypocrisy, let's see what disgusting regimes the US has supported in the not too distant past:
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Equatorial Guinea
Augusto Pinochet, Chile
Idriss Déby, Chad
Manuel Noriega, Panama
Islam Karimov, Uzbekistan
King Abdullah, Saudi Arabia
Francisco Franko, Spain
Mobutu Sese Seko, Zair
How many authoritative, abusive regimes are currently supported by the US? I'm not going to list them but here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
So, you know, glass houses and all that.
Hard to have any sympathy for the situation. If you sign up for an currency that is designed to be outside of the world governments, don't come crying to the government that dumb ass idea blew up in your face.
If it were just that the bitcoins crashed and became worth nothing, that's one thing. Theft is another.
If you steal baseball cards that the market says are worth 100,000 - that's the amount that you're going to be tagged for.
THANK GOD!
Hi - I moved to France awhile ago and, other than missing my friends and family in the US (I only get over about once a year), I don't regret it at all.
biometric technology originally fascinated and excited me. After spending 2 months hacking the fitbit flex and fitbit one im all but broken. the system uses asymmetric cryptography to ensure you never have independent access to the data it collects. the transmission protocol it uses is simple, ANT in most cases, but the private key to decrypt my footsteps and data lies solely on their servers. One would think that without independent evaluation of the data its gleaning, most major pharmaceuticals and insurance companies would be wary but that doesnt appear to be the case. like breathalizers and OBD/ECM monitors from car insurance companies, no one seems interested in their accuracy.
my last 3 jobs have offered these fitbits. the first one, an option, subsidized the device. The next two jobs basically ordered it for me and stated that if i wanted a discount on my health insurance, id better strap in. the privacy policy for fitbit outright states theyre going to sell your data to other companies, like it or not. So why do people put up with this? does anyone know of an open-source and accurate alternative for the fitbit?
Buy a small dog that runs around a lot and strap it on with his collar.
Not just medical insurance companies. But that will come when wearing of these devices are made mandatory, probably an argument along the lines of "well only terrorists *wouldn't* wear them". Then following an accident anywhere (on the road, place of work, whatever) the insurance company will be able to analyse the data about your physical state prior to the incident to find a reason why they won't pay.
Wearing such devices wouldn't ever be mandated, you say? Sure they will, bribe... I mean lobby, enough politicians and it will happen.
People wouldn't willingly concede even more freedoms to wear these things, you say? Yeah... right.
Don't even have to take it that far. Just offer a 'discount' on insurance premiums for those wearing (aka raise the rates of those not wearing).
"I have no doubt that the NSA (etc) have been monitoring your top level communications the same as they have for the rest of Europe (etc)."
Not according to Wikileaks.
Absence of confirmation is not confirmation.
"Luxembourg demands clarification on NSA allegations"
http://www.wort.lu/en/politics...
"NSA spying | Luxembourg threatens military action against America"
http://worldnewsdailyreport.co...
Also didn't your PM have to quit over a spying scandal just a short two years ago?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...
If you read the fine print it's open to everyone, including white males. They are just making a specific effort to attract people from the groups mentioned, probably because experience tells them that most applicants will be white and male and they want more representative levels of diversity.
If it were going to be fair and equal there would be no such statement in the first place.
"As far as I am concerned, that is how high end printers should work."
Why only high end printers?
You think people who bought low end printers should be screwed over?
I know because I've used it underwater multiple times without the slightest ill effect. This is warranty semantics, nothing more or less.
Warranty semantics are important if you're trying to get service under warranty.
Flatland...they can't perceive more than a slice of your system so the whole thing will stay very secure.
Luxembourg! First, nobody is interested in spying on them. They have a Navy of half a ship (shared with Belgium) and also one of the US Awacs planes is flying under their flag, that's about their air force.
They also have 2 old cannons to fire for state celebrations.
They have 100% cellphone coverage, 100% DSL coverage and in about 3 years also 100% glass fiber coverage.
And if Paypal ever blocks your account, you can _walk_ to their office with a big stick and demand explanations.
Disclaimer: I'm from Luxembourg. :-)
One of the biggest (monetarily speaking) offshore havens in the world and you honestly think no one is interested?
I have no doubt that the NSA (etc) have been monitoring your top level communications the same as they have for the rest of Europe (etc).
The French state is notorious for extreme hypocrisy. If the French State decides that violating it's rules will protect it from future terror attacks the rules will be violated.
And this is different from other states how, exactly?
All states violate their own rules when they think they can get away with it.
Wrong: Somalia. When there is no functioning government there is no chance of government surveillance.
Wrong. You'll just be spied on by every other government.
Perhaps you misread what I wrote? We are losing full time positions and replacing them with part time positions which are counted like they are equal.
Perhaps I did indeed! Thanks for the clarification (and bonus points for not being aggressive about it like most people on this site seem to do)