- Porn sites decide to move to SSL/TLS. - 16 year old "children" keep watching porn. - Politicians "denounce" that people are circumventing the system, and Jesus is unhappy. - Crypto gets the blame! Child molesters are using cryptography to expose our kids to porn! - Crypto is evil! Let's ban crypto, or "control" it better.
Skype was an amazing thing back in 2003, when we didn't have a lot of options. Today, modern browsers come with video conferencing embedded (WebRTC), so you can start a chat with anyone, on any platform, by creating a simple "conference" in talky.io and giving the link using any IM program to the person you want to talk to. Why even bother with skype in 2016?
Well yes, I gave up OpenWRT and DD-WRT a while ago. It's not that I don't like those projects -- I've used them extensively and respect their authors. The problem is that they're plagued by bugs that never get fixed and compatibility issues with all sorts of devices. For instance, just try to find the "right" version of DD-WRT to download to your wireless router and you'll see what I'm talking about.
What we need now is an open *hardware* platform, running Linux, with a quality radio and Wireless drivers. I'd go completely crazy for a Linux powered beast like this doing AC1900 or something like that. I'd definitely pay *more* for this platform.
My point exactly when I discuss this issue locally. Some people from San Francisco have this notion that they have a "god given right" to live there, no matter what. Even worse: They want to live where they want, paying whatever *they* feel is a good price! And when the city wants to build more living units to lower prices, they're the first ones to scream, saying it will "destroy the spirit of the city".
I have a Citibank/American Airlines card that has this option. The interface to create the virtual card number is somewhat crappy (flash) but it works. This is probably available on other citibank cards as well.
I cannot understand why would someone spend 36 hours hacking something they *PAID* money for, and should work out of the box.
Sorry guys, kudos for your intellectual powers for doing so, but I just don't think it's right to put any effort into a company or product that is deliberately designed to take my freedom of choice away from me. In the end, we may be rewarding a bad deed.
(...) Yes my wonderful lover. Our 30 year relationship, cheating on my husband has been great. He doesn't even realize that my child is really yours. While this is worst case scenario - man it would definitly be throwing salt on the wound
Well, you may even discover your real father is rich...:)
I notice you don't have your email address listed. Is there a reason for that?
Believe it or not, my primary reason is to prevent spam...
One thing is to hide an email that, theoretically will never be revealed and is known to absolutely anyone but me (and a trusted party, in this case, slashdot). This is not obscurity, but rather, impossibility. It is theoretically impossible for you, or anyone else (in principle) to find out the address.
In the case mentioned, at least one other party knows about the details of the deeds the documents are trying to hide, and it may be pointless to try to hide this information.
So, for instance, you may be trying to hide the fact that the US had a deal with someone who's an enemy of a current ally, but in this case, *that* person knows that and can certainly use it against you.
The government often has very legitimate reasons for keeping documents under wraps. For instance if Yoko Ono were passing information from North Korea with the knowledge of the local government China may not look favorably upon it and it could cause more than a little tension.
Good 'n old Security by Obscurity, aka "National Security". It leaves us all with that warm feeling that nothing is going to happen. Unfortunately, it rarely works, as malfeasants usually have other means of gaining access to the information.
It does, however, protect infantile and incompetent politicians from equally infantile voters.
Supernova: Possibly one of the worst Sci-Fi movies I've ever seen. The whole plot is meaningless and it ends up being a cheap "monster" movie. The movie is so bad that the "opening credits" appear at the end.
Dreamcatcher: This one goes to the "WTF?" category. Another cheap alien movie, with no plot and lots of loose ends. It's clear that well-paid actors alone won't take you anywhere.
Battlefield Earth: A Sci-Fi movie directed and produced by John Travolta. Need I say more?
The Hulk: Crappy special effects in a crappy movie. And to think that I liked the original series when I was a child...
I'm already bracing for impact about "I Robot" starring "Will Smith". Oh dear...
Anyone who takes a look at the PDF will see there's little room for confusion between the can and the example explosives. The explosives, packed with explosive charge, contain material throughout the can, but the GPS Cokes are hollow. Actually I'm disappointed, you win the contest and you don't even get to drink a coke? sheesh.
This one always bit me. Imagine this situation: It's 3am, you're at the office in the middle of a huge upgrade. You dig your pockets looking for change. You find a few coins but you're way too short to buy your coke. You go back to the parking lot in the middle of the night. You dig a few more coins from your coin holder. Still 20 cents away from a coke... You start removing your car seats and find a dime. Cool! Now only 10 cents to go! You go back to the cafeteria but there's not a single soul around. You start looking desperately to the floor but no dimes are around. Eventually, you decide to look under the vending machine and find a glint of promise. You fetch some computer paper and retrieve your precious dime.
The glory of consumerism! To need something and to have the willingness and the money to purchase it! You insert each and every coin into the machine, with the rewarding 'clank' after each coin. You dutifully select the coke button and another 'clank' welcomes the can hitting the bottom of the dispenser. You grab the can, but, hey, there's something not right here! It's too light! It's one of those DARN GPS COKES! OK! You got a gazillion dollars, a private jet and a booby check coming to get you but...
What's to keep some other spy agency/group from disguising a coke can that looks just like the innocent 'outgoing call only + gps' with a 'bi-directional + gps + other nasty goodies' can?
Hmm, perhaps the fact that "The Coca-Cola Company" makes money by selling consumer products, and by doing anything against the US govt/society/MO they would be just hurting themselves?
I think all this is just something that was not envisoned when the original rule of no cell-phone/GPS was created. Cell phones probably weighed a few pounds and looked more like a tennis shoe back then. With the rapid advancement of micro-eletronics and integrated personal communication devices, a lot of similar issues are bound to come to surface in the coming years.
Barney and Betty's kid? How about a reality check. Consider the following from one of the articles (...)
If I'm not completely mistaken, the cartoon made some references to the fact that BamBam was, in fact, adopted. Perhaps the article is talking about his real parents.:)
The problem is that cell phone speakers follow our brain's "I am requesting your attention" almost exactly. So we're sitting here uncomfortably having someone grab our attention every two seconds or so. It's extremely disruptive when you're trying to think about something else. The only real fix is to start ignoring people that *are* trying to get our attention, which isn't great either.
I can see, my friend, that you're not a married man...
It's all about votes and giving the taxpayer a false sense of security. Think about this: Only 2% (yes, TWO PERCENT) of the incoming containers are inspected... Sounds scary? Yes, it is...
Slashdot comes with the questions. Slashdot comes with the answers. Just look a few articles down. They're using NASA's technology to hear unspoken words. You jus had to scroll a few articles down to get the answer.
Slashdot Mirror
If this law passes, I can see it already:
- Porn sites decide to move to SSL/TLS.
- 16 year old "children" keep watching porn.
- Politicians "denounce" that people are circumventing the system, and Jesus is unhappy.
- Crypto gets the blame! Child molesters are using cryptography to expose our kids to porn!
- Crypto is evil! Let's ban crypto, or "control" it better.
Skype was an amazing thing back in 2003, when we didn't have a lot of options. Today, modern browsers come with video conferencing embedded (WebRTC), so you can start a chat with anyone, on any platform, by creating a simple "conference" in talky.io and giving the link using any IM program to the person you want to talk to. Why even bother with skype in 2016?
Well yes, I gave up OpenWRT and DD-WRT a while ago. It's not that I don't like those projects -- I've used them extensively and respect their authors. The problem is that they're plagued by bugs that never get fixed and compatibility issues with all sorts of devices. For instance, just try to find the "right" version of DD-WRT to download to your wireless router and you'll see what I'm talking about.
What we need now is an open *hardware* platform, running Linux, with a quality radio and Wireless drivers. I'd go completely crazy for a Linux powered beast like this doing AC1900 or something like that. I'd definitely pay *more* for this platform.
And screw all the TP-assholes and NET-assholes.
My point exactly when I discuss this issue locally. Some people from San Francisco have this notion that they have a "god given right" to live there, no matter what. Even worse: They want to live where they want, paying whatever *they* feel is a good price! And when the city wants to build more living units to lower prices, they're the first ones to scream, saying it will "destroy the spirit of the city".
I have a Citibank/American Airlines card that has this option. The interface to create the virtual card number is somewhat crappy (flash) but it works. This is probably available on other citibank cards as well.
I cannot understand why would someone spend 36 hours hacking something they *PAID* money for, and should work out of the box.
Sorry guys, kudos for your intellectual powers for doing so, but I just don't think it's right to put any effort into a company or product that is deliberately designed to take my freedom of choice away from me. In the end, we may be rewarding a bad deed.
-- Lob
And this is *exactly* what happened here in South Florida. At the exact time, some clouds appeared to the east, where the moon should be.
The universe has an incredibly sick sense of humor...
(...) Yes my wonderful lover. Our 30 year relationship, cheating on my husband has been great. He doesn't even realize that my child is really yours. While this is worst case scenario - man it would definitly be throwing salt on the wound
:)
Well, you may even discover your real father is rich...
I AM NOT A CROOK!
(I'm just making a withdrawal)
I notice you don't have your email address listed. Is there a reason for that?
Believe it or not, my primary reason is to prevent spam...
One thing is to hide an email that, theoretically will never be revealed and is known to absolutely anyone but me (and a trusted party, in this case, slashdot). This is not obscurity, but rather, impossibility. It is theoretically impossible for you, or anyone else (in principle) to find out the address.
In the case mentioned, at least one other party knows about the details of the deeds the documents are trying to hide, and it may be pointless to try to hide this information.
So, for instance, you may be trying to hide the fact that the US had a deal with someone who's an enemy of a current ally, but in this case, *that* person knows that and can certainly use it against you.
The government often has very legitimate reasons for keeping documents under wraps. For instance if Yoko Ono were passing information from North Korea with the knowledge of the local government China may not look favorably upon it and it could cause more than a little tension.
Good 'n old Security by Obscurity, aka "National Security". It leaves us all with that warm feeling that nothing is going to happen. Unfortunately, it rarely works, as malfeasants usually have other means of gaining access to the information.
It does, however, protect infantile and incompetent politicians from equally infantile voters.
Yes, you're right.
And considering that the ship was last seen around Jupiter, you can definitely count on some serious shipping costs for this...
No!
It would never stop the sharks with the fricking "LASER" on their heads...
Supernova: Possibly one of the worst Sci-Fi movies I've ever seen. The whole plot is meaningless and it ends up being a cheap "monster" movie. The movie is so bad that the "opening credits" appear at the end.
Dreamcatcher: This one goes to the "WTF?" category. Another cheap alien movie, with no plot and lots of loose ends. It's clear that well-paid actors alone won't take you anywhere.
Battlefield Earth: A Sci-Fi movie directed and produced by John Travolta. Need I say more?
The Hulk: Crappy special effects in a crappy movie. And to think that I liked the original series when I was a child...
I'm already bracing for impact about "I Robot" starring "Will Smith". Oh dear...
Anyone who takes a look at the PDF will see there's little room for confusion between the can and the example explosives. The explosives, packed with explosive charge, contain material throughout the can, but the GPS Cokes are hollow. Actually I'm disappointed, you win the contest and you don't even get to drink a coke? sheesh.
This one always bit me. Imagine this situation: It's 3am, you're at the office in the middle of a huge upgrade. You dig your pockets looking for change. You find a few coins but you're way too short to buy your coke. You go back to the parking lot in the middle of the night. You dig a few more coins from your coin holder. Still 20 cents away from a coke... You start removing your car seats and find a dime. Cool! Now only 10 cents to go! You go back to the cafeteria but there's not a single soul around. You start looking desperately to the floor but no dimes are around. Eventually, you decide to look under the vending machine and find a glint of promise. You fetch some computer paper and retrieve your precious dime.
The glory of consumerism! To need something and to have the willingness and the money to purchase it! You insert each and every coin into the machine, with the rewarding 'clank' after each coin. You dutifully select the coke button and another 'clank' welcomes the can hitting the bottom of the dispenser. You grab the can, but, hey, there's something not right here! It's too light! It's one of those DARN GPS COKES! OK! You got a gazillion dollars, a private jet and a booby check coming to get you but...
Are they bringing a coke with them?
What's to keep some other spy agency/group from disguising a coke can that looks just like the innocent 'outgoing call only + gps' with a 'bi-directional + gps + other nasty goodies' can?
Hmm, perhaps the fact that "The Coca-Cola Company" makes money by selling consumer products, and by doing anything against the US govt/society/MO they would be just hurting themselves?
I think all this is just something that was not envisoned when the original rule of no cell-phone/GPS was created. Cell phones probably weighed a few pounds and looked more like a tennis shoe back then. With the rapid advancement of micro-eletronics and integrated personal communication devices, a lot of similar issues are bound to come to surface in the coming years.
Barney and Betty's kid? How about a reality check. Consider the following from one of the articles (...)
:)
If I'm not completely mistaken, the cartoon made some references to the fact that BamBam was, in fact, adopted. Perhaps the article is talking about his real parents.
Would you have the balls to attack a woman with the arms to row across the Atlantic? I wouldn't...
The virtual presence system including the LLuna2 client is designed to protect the privacy and prohibit any indecent use(...)
And what's the point of meeting people on the web if indecent use is prohibited? Oh my, the boredom of it all...
Oops,
:)
This is the right URL. Sorry about that...
Like the Camera phone itself, this is a solution to a problem I never knew existed.
Sometimes, we got to admit, they Have their use...
The problem is that cell phone speakers follow our brain's "I am requesting your attention" almost exactly. So we're sitting here uncomfortably having someone grab our attention every two seconds or so. It's extremely disruptive when you're trying to think about something else. The only real fix is to start ignoring people that *are* trying to get our attention, which isn't great either.
I can see, my friend, that you're not a married man...
It's all about votes and giving the taxpayer a false sense of security. Think about this: Only 2% (yes, TWO PERCENT) of the incoming containers are inspected... Sounds scary? Yes, it is...
I would buy the Porsche and put a vanity tag saying:
"SPAMSUX"
Just for the irony...
Of course, I can't afford to pay for the vanity tag, so I think this will only be a dream...
Slashdot comes with the questions. Slashdot comes with the answers. Just look a few articles down. They're using NASA's technology to hear unspoken words. You jus had to scroll a few articles down to get the answer.