Many of the problems have been embedded in their corporate culture from Day 1. It's gonna take a long time to train *everybody* to think first about how some new whizzy feature might work against the security of the system as a whole, especially in a place where (apparently) whizzy features are the medium of exchange, and the more you can coin the richer you are.
"who knows - but a biometric just doesn't bother them. It would however bother piles of citizen's groups, if the government were to start fingerprinting non criminals."
"Start"? When I went to work for the USPS I had to give a complete set of prints as part of accepting the job. Dunno what they do with the cards -- I assumed they just filed it at NCIC with no adverse notations, but maybe the Postal Inspectors have their own prints repository.
This sure sounds to me like a project crying out for international cooperation. Besides, didn't the U.S. sign on to treaties making extraterrestrial bodies the common property of all nations, or something like that?
(I suppose it only applies to *uninhabited* bodies. The giant purple eating machines of Venox VII need not be alarmed; we come in peace and, after getting a look at you, will be happy to leave with celerity.)
"And there's even more money comming for the first couple to concieve and give birth in space!"
Wasn't that a movie, with Jerry Lewis? US and USSR, uh, teams were on the moon concurrently and somehow the idea developed as an insane extension of the "space race".
Having a child with autism, I've been through similar quandaries. There are dozens of therapies out there, some promising, some odd, some downright wacky, and for every single one of them you'll find people who say it's the only way that works and others who say they flushed thousands of bucks and got nothing. Ya gotta Just Keep Trying Stuff until you find what helps best, because different people respond differently to the same therapy. Sometimes you can see that some people are more promising candidates for a given therapy, and that your child is one of the less likely candidates, and then you shove that therapy down the list and give priority to something that seems a better match.
On medication: we've tried a lot, and sometimes we gave up one that "worked" but in the wrong way. If a given med. seems to be doing harm, there's probably another one that won't do that.
On the "disease model": well, a broken leg is not a disease but it does represent a disability, and although you probably won't die from a simple break you might find that you live better for having had it tended.
Education ought to be about equipping our children with tools they can use to manage themselves and their environment. One tool that comes naturally to most of us is the ability to decide what's important and stick to it. We sometimes call it self-discipline. A person who chooses to "let himself go" is perfectly okay with me (in the right circumstances), but one who *cannot* choose not to let go, when it's important, is disabled and might appreciate being given help in getting command of this faculty.
Yeah, some schools are more like robot-factories, but even the good ones require the *ability* to conform when it's appropriate. My kids can be as unconventional as they wish, when it doesn't cost them more than they ought to pay, but I want them to have the power to choose the behaviors that best get them what they want out of life, and sometimes they need help.
Anyway it sounds like Neural Feedback Training could work in some folks with ADHD. Whether it works *well*, and what else it does, and whether it's worth the money, are questions that I think will only be answered by experience.
Duuh, a little thinking suggests that grads have something to do with the notion of e.g. a "40% grade". That would be at an angle of 40 grads to horizontal (about 36 degrees) I guess.
Other people's ISPs are not obliged to deliver anything I send them -- unless they want happy customers. Besides, examining the body of a message puts the ISP in a whole 'nother legal realm than if they simply deliver opaque messages as the envelope directs, and they may not want to go there.
I've probably received more of those than I know about, because I always make a quick first pass through my inbox to trash all of the messages that come from total strangers yet have Subject: lines written as if to a close friend. (Along with the fake 147kB "delivery failure" messages and the like.) I haven't thought of a good automated way to detect those yet, but the good old manual method is not too burdensome and I can't recall when last I actually *read* something that turned out to be UCE without being pretty sure in advance that that was what it was. (Sometimes I like to get my jollies by seeing what these losers are up to.)
Ah, another filter I need to get around to building: delete *all* punctuation and rescan from the top of the rule set. Or maybe just rip it all out before even starting to filter.
You have indeed seen it before. In _Endgame Enigma_ the Good Guys communicate by injecting intentionally corrupt packets into a comm. link run by the Bad Guys. The Bad Guys' gear tosses the bad packets and asks for a retransmit; the Good Guys accept them and extract the perfectly good content.
I do hope that someone at NSA is sifting through all that junk that the rest of us just throw out....
Indeed I've played with the idea of building a filter that gives thumbs-down to any message whose Subject: contains more than two consecutive words not listed in the dictionary.
Of course the misconfigured ones that send out "Subject: %RANDOMWORD(10) blah blah blah" are just too easy to be any fun!
"This system is like the Post Office implementing a system of Return Address stamps, which you buy from a private company...."
Or you install OpenStamp and TinyStamper for free, and make your own.
(I've actually toyed with the idea of a voluntary cryptographic signature that could be printed onto envelopes to unforgeably verify a paper-mail sender's identity (assuming his private key hasn't been stolen, natch).)
"Honestly, are there still people out there who just add.com and type things into their URL bar expecting to see what they want?"
Yeah, me. I've developed a feel for the likelihood of any particular subject being easy to find. (Works well for Toyota, not so well for Andy's Grill.)
For the ones I think will be harder, I tend to use (are you sitting down?) 'whois'. Remember whois?
With all the communication and positioning problems Mars probes have had, maybe we should first send a set of permanent navigational and communication satellites.
Am I totally uncool for thinking it strange that all the English linear measurements are translated to metric, but the angular measurements are given only in degrees and not translated to radians?:-)
Um, why would McD continue paying for the storage taken up by your biometric data after you leave? They count and measure *everything*, and whatever is unproductive is eliminated.
Now, if you said we should have laws to *compel* the destruction of personal information when it is no longer needed, I would agree. We need a common definition of what information is reasonable for an employer, vendor/service provider, govt. agency, etc. to have about someone and when its retention becomes unreasonable (and actionable).
Hear, hear. I don't have a problem with the Mayor knowing I was standing at 10th and Meridian at 11:46. I do have a problem if he or his minions disclose the information inappropriately, through action or inaction, and as a result I am damaged in some way. The solution is not to remove the camera, but to ensure that I can recoup my loss (if it's that sort of loss) and punish the negligent or malicious individual.
Note: individual. Squeezing a monetary award out of some agency which will just roll it into their next budget request is not satisfactory. I want to be able to get the *person* who hurt me removed from the system so he can't hurt me (or others) in this way again. "Misuse my identity: go to jail."
Well-meaning knife manufacturers can enable murderers, so do we ban knives? No, we catch and punish murderers. We should also catch and punish people who maliciously abuse identification technology, and we should reassign or retrain people who fail to understand its proper use.
Tattooed barcodes -- is that some sort of Dark Angel reference?
Indeed, how's the hand scanner different (for the worker) from swipe cards or the good old paper time card (aside from higher rates of failure-to-recognize and a greater chance of getting someone else's cold off a palm scanner than off a stripe reader that you never touch)?
If the violators didn't stop distributing their product after the judge ordered them to, damages will not be their problem; the problem will be a citation for contempt of court. IIRC around here if they persisted in their defiance after that, the judge could have them jailed until they change their attitude.
I don't know what judges can do in Denmark but there's probably something analogous for the KISS people to worry about.
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Many of the problems have been embedded in their corporate culture from Day 1. It's gonna take a long time to train *everybody* to think first about how some new whizzy feature might work against the security of the system as a whole, especially in a place where (apparently) whizzy features are the medium of exchange, and the more you can coin the richer you are.
"who knows - but a biometric just doesn't bother them. It would however bother piles of citizen's groups, if the government were to start fingerprinting non criminals."
"Start"? When I went to work for the USPS I had to give a complete set of prints as part of accepting the job. Dunno what they do with the cards -- I assumed they just filed it at NCIC with no adverse notations, but maybe the Postal Inspectors have their own prints repository.
OMG, what if the Taliban got ahold of our dangerous strategic postmarking technology. The mind boggles.
Oh, yeah, forgot all about _Moonraker_.
This sure sounds to me like a project crying out for international cooperation. Besides, didn't the U.S. sign on to treaties making extraterrestrial bodies the common property of all nations, or something like that?
(I suppose it only applies to *uninhabited* bodies. The giant purple eating machines of Venox VII need not be alarmed; we come in peace and, after getting a look at you, will be happy to leave with celerity.)
"And there's even more money comming for the first couple to concieve and give birth in space!"
Wasn't that a movie, with Jerry Lewis? US and USSR, uh, teams were on the moon concurrently and somehow the idea developed as an insane extension of the "space race".
Having a child with autism, I've been through similar quandaries. There are dozens of therapies out there, some promising, some odd, some downright wacky, and for every single one of them you'll find people who say it's the only way that works and others who say they flushed thousands of bucks and got nothing. Ya gotta Just Keep Trying Stuff until you find what helps best, because different people respond differently to the same therapy. Sometimes you can see that some people are more promising candidates for a given therapy, and that your child is one of the less likely candidates, and then you shove that therapy down the list and give priority to something that seems a better match.
On medication: we've tried a lot, and sometimes we gave up one that "worked" but in the wrong way. If a given med. seems to be doing harm, there's probably another one that won't do that.
On the "disease model": well, a broken leg is not a disease but it does represent a disability, and although you probably won't die from a simple break you might find that you live better for having had it tended.
Education ought to be about equipping our children with tools they can use to manage themselves and their environment. One tool that comes naturally to most of us is the ability to decide what's important and stick to it. We sometimes call it self-discipline. A person who chooses to "let himself go" is perfectly okay with me (in the right circumstances), but one who *cannot* choose not to let go, when it's important, is disabled and might appreciate being given help in getting command of this faculty.
Yeah, some schools are more like robot-factories, but even the good ones require the *ability* to conform when it's appropriate. My kids can be as unconventional as they wish, when it doesn't cost them more than they ought to pay, but I want them to have the power to choose the behaviors that best get them what they want out of life, and sometimes they need help.
Anyway it sounds like Neural Feedback Training could work in some folks with ADHD. Whether it works *well*, and what else it does, and whether it's worth the money, are questions that I think will only be answered by experience.
Duuh, a little thinking suggests that grads have something to do with the notion of e.g. a "40% grade". That would be at an angle of 40 grads to horizontal (about 36 degrees) I guess.
Other people's ISPs are not obliged to deliver anything I send them -- unless they want happy customers. Besides, examining the body of a message puts the ISP in a whole 'nother legal realm than if they simply deliver opaque messages as the envelope directs, and they may not want to go there.
90 degrees = 100 grads. Sorta like the percentage of a quadrant. Don't ask me where they are used, it ain't anywhere around here!
I've probably received more of those than I know about, because I always make a quick first pass through my inbox to trash all of the messages that come from total strangers yet have Subject: lines written as if to a close friend. (Along with the fake 147kB "delivery failure" messages and the like.) I haven't thought of a good automated way to detect those yet, but the good old manual method is not too burdensome and I can't recall when last I actually *read* something that turned out to be UCE without being pretty sure in advance that that was what it was. (Sometimes I like to get my jollies by seeing what these losers are up to.)
Ah, another filter I need to get around to building: delete *all* punctuation and rescan from the top of the rule set. Or maybe just rip it all out before even starting to filter.
You have indeed seen it before. In _Endgame Enigma_ the Good Guys communicate by injecting intentionally corrupt packets into a comm. link run by the Bad Guys. The Bad Guys' gear tosses the bad packets and asks for a retransmit; the Good Guys accept them and extract the perfectly good content.
I do hope that someone at NSA is sifting through all that junk that the rest of us just throw out....
Indeed I've played with the idea of building a filter that gives thumbs-down to any message whose Subject: contains more than two consecutive words not listed in the dictionary.
Of course the misconfigured ones that send out "Subject: %RANDOMWORD(10) blah blah blah" are just too easy to be any fun!
How exactly is this better than SMTP STARTTLS, which is already standardized and widely available?
"This system is like the Post Office implementing a system of Return Address stamps, which you buy from a private company...."
Or you install OpenStamp and TinyStamper for free, and make your own.
(I've actually toyed with the idea of a voluntary cryptographic signature that could be printed onto envelopes to unforgeably verify a paper-mail sender's identity (assuming his private key hasn't been stolen, natch).)
"Honestly, are there still people out there who just add .com and type things into their URL bar expecting to see what they want?"
Yeah, me. I've developed a feel for the likelihood of any particular subject being easy to find. (Works well for Toyota, not so well for Andy's Grill.)
For the ones I think will be harder, I tend to use (are you sitting down?) 'whois'. Remember whois?
With all the communication and positioning problems Mars probes have had, maybe we should first send a set of permanent navigational and communication satellites.
Am I totally uncool for thinking it strange that all the English linear measurements are translated to metric, but the angular measurements are given only in degrees and not translated to radians? :-)
Um, why would McD continue paying for the storage taken up by your biometric data after you leave? They count and measure *everything*, and whatever is unproductive is eliminated.
Now, if you said we should have laws to *compel* the destruction of personal information when it is no longer needed, I would agree. We need a common definition of what information is reasonable for an employer, vendor/service provider, govt. agency, etc. to have about someone and when its retention becomes unreasonable (and actionable).
"Then perhaps police officers should not be permitted to patrol the streets."
Goodness, yes. They might accidentally look at somebody.
I think someone completely rewrote the definition of "privacy" when we weren't looking.
"It is called "public" for a reason."
Hear, hear. I don't have a problem with the Mayor knowing I was standing at 10th and Meridian at 11:46. I do have a problem if he or his minions disclose the information inappropriately, through action or inaction, and as a result I am damaged in some way. The solution is not to remove the camera, but to ensure that I can recoup my loss (if it's that sort of loss) and punish the negligent or malicious individual.
Note: individual. Squeezing a monetary award out of some agency which will just roll it into their next budget request is not satisfactory. I want to be able to get the *person* who hurt me removed from the system so he can't hurt me (or others) in this way again. "Misuse my identity: go to jail."
Well-meaning knife manufacturers can enable murderers, so do we ban knives? No, we catch and punish murderers. We should also catch and punish people who maliciously abuse identification technology, and we should reassign or retrain people who fail to understand its proper use.
Tattooed barcodes -- is that some sort of Dark Angel reference?
Indeed, how's the hand scanner different (for the worker) from swipe cards or the good old paper time card (aside from higher rates of failure-to-recognize and a greater chance of getting someone else's cold off a palm scanner than off a stripe reader that you never touch)?
If the violators didn't stop distributing their product after the judge ordered them to, damages will not be their problem; the problem will be a citation for contempt of court. IIRC around here if they persisted in their defiance after that, the judge could have them jailed until they change their attitude.
I don't know what judges can do in Denmark but there's probably something analogous for the KISS people to worry about.