Just imagine if this got into Richard Stallman's hands; he could easily arm every single American with a single script, or maybe even a command. Sudo lpr –P GunPrinter –#/america/everyone/Guns ? PS: He only uses sudo because he's too lazy to modify the bits himself.
In theory, and perhaps in current practice too, this technology can be used to create dossiers on people's traveling habits. Of course, with a little creativity, it could be used for more than that. If you asked me, I'd tell you with confidence that this technology is intrusive and being abused. And you've really got to be careful what toys you give to the same thugs who support the world's largest prison population, as well as trade crime (or prison income) on the stock market. Yeah, crime is a very big industry in the US, and that is nothing to be proud of.
In Florida, we have no-fault insurance. To drive, you are legally compelled to have insurance. When you drop your insurance, your license is automatically suspended. I know drivers must be responsible by some means, but I find it interesting, this collusion/symbiosis between the mafia, or "insurance" companies and law-enforcement. You'd be very surprised to learn how many people are in jail for driving on suspended licenses, automatically suspended, sometimes for late payments. I cannot help but to find it odd that we must pay a corporation protection money for what we might do. It isn't like when we die, our remaining family receives a rebate for what never did, but payed for anyway. That's just one aspect of this crap-technology that is related and bothers the hell out of me. There's a lot more.
So then, I hope you are only advocating the use of these chips exclusively in antibiotics, no? I might be able to remain civil if that's the case, but otherwise, you're mad. I'm just so sure that every Doctor who's ever prescribed Prozac or Ritalin to a child chose the perfect, ideal dose! Your methods should work great with pain-killers too. Yeah. Well, I sincerely hope you get a prescription for a strong laxative someday, someday when fascism has finally overtaken America and meds are no longer optional.
If I remember correctly, he also developed Google-Sharing, a firefox extension to garble the data google collects on its users. Basically, all users with the extension share their tracks, which are fed to google to help confuse it. Futile, perhaps, but a great idea and an important concept no doubt. I dig the guy too.
Do a search for "Beardyman"; I think you'll find it quite refreshing and inspiring, even if it's a bit unusual. Here, I'll give you a start, where he does Aphex Twin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55l1PZZgUOA -- If you have time, or interest, I highly recommend watching/listening-to the many hours of other Beardyman pieces. I am a vicious musical cynic and damn-near freaked out when I first discovered this fellow's work. There are also a lot of other worthy genres surfacing and mutating; like glitch, and even some dubstep. Don't despair -- there is hope.
ooops! Sorry about the bad url; I intended to refer to this one for Richard Cheese: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzFX44P7SO0 -- I can't imagine anyone else ever repairing such a tremendous feat of auditory effluent into something so close to actual music. When that song (doncha) first came out, I lost some part of my respect for anything between two human ears, but Cheese has redeemed it. The Bjork part is brilliant!
Dude, thanks for this! It explains so much. It's amazing how so many terrible songs can be woven together to make something tolerable. But the best pop-reparations I've found so far, I must attribute to Richard Cheese. You might enjoy my personal favorite: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwOE0aP-LAk
I have long equated most pop-music with baby music, or heavy nursery rhymes. But when I saw this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Uee_mcxvrw I began to consider that - albeit possibly pathological - something has infected pop.
I am quite liking Mate and can say it's a helluva lot better than Gnome3; it's basically Gnome2, which is why I'm using it. Maybe the Gnome3 crowd would have been more successful in North Korea, or some Japanese underground fetish club, with Unity wiggling about on stage. If Gnome3 had a voice, it would sound like an angry high-pitched Arnold Schwarzenegger. Anyway, suicide is almost always depressing to witness, but in this case, I wish them expedience and success.
Amdocs,...seems like the perfect company for Microsoft to be involved with to compliment everyone's paranoia about Skype. They (Amdocs) have an interesting history and have access to a lot of information, and perhaps other things: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SBWJ8jaFrg (part 2 of 2). But I guess this is a little off topic.
Oh dear, I forgot to add this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc8i7C659FU&NR=1&feature=endscreen -- Finspy, man-in-middle (Skype) attack promo video. I am not sure why, but I always chuckle when I watch it. Under the guise of "terror", which by my perspective could be just about anything lately, this stuff might get deployed more often than gets reported. I figure if it's it's in the category of terrorism/domestic-extremism, it is likely exempt from transparency.
Aside from not padding its encrypted packets, thus leaking data via phonemes, etc., MS will certainly be complying with the "law" to furthest of their abilities -- and then some, I suspect. MySpace was known to essentially gift-wrap user data and send it to law-enforcement, probably with chocolates too. Although it's not an entirely unreasonable question, I think paranoia can be liberally applied to the question of Skype's security.
One thing that really peeves me about Skype is their assignment of a generic number which my contacts sometimes receive. If a contact attempts to return my call, an audio recording essentially indicts the user with a ridiculous legal disclaimer, blabbing about illegal activity and so on. A little vid I made describes it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9ie_0aY1DM4 -- I would love an alternative to Skype, but such would require a serious amount of funding.
It is also odd that the NSA offered so much money to get into Skype, all whilst it was leaking. Perhaps I am missing something.
To date, most if not all remotely warfare-like "cyber" actions have been performed by government, or with their support. Generally, when civilians wage hostile actions, they are much smaller and considered in the category of crime. When the military wages hostile actions, it is usually bigger and considered warfare. So their whole "Cyber War" is pretty much an inevitable course of military nature, a self-imposed -- or at least accelerated -- state of affairs, as they rarely, if ever, fail to weaponize anything with "good" potential. It would brighten my day, however, if their talking heads and those that listen to them could begin intelligently distinguishing the vast difference between cyberwar and cybercrime, hence using the DHS to issue DMCA takedowns for torrenting popstar trash.
But they really shouldn't be given too much credit; they are certainly guilty of hyperbole and grubbing viciously for more money and power and control. When we build sky-scrapers, we try to our best and do so methodically. They contain great potential energy and are very pervasive. Is there a Construction-War? Certainly we could try this with IT? And call me naive, but would it hurt us beyond repair to bring some manufacturing back to America? Big Gub's credibility will only grow if our hardware and skillsets continue to be imported from high-risk sources - at least without uncanny oversight.
Depending on virtual things, I suppose, does have its risks. But so does depending on overly ambitious criminals in government. If they've clearly illustrated one thing about war, it's that they have a far greater interest in it than the rest of the world, and especially many sensible Americans.
"Khan is rubbish once you need greater than high school level knowledge."
Considering the current state of America, rubbish seems a fine aspiration; at least we'd be sitting on something.
Having gone through more than a few Khan lectures for python, I recently signed up for a Udemy course which I purchased with a coupon for $8 - a great deal. In comparison, they are not infinitely far apart, though Udemy does come out ahead so far and includes literature, etc. I have no complaints about either, but could probably offer a few suggestions to both sources, and I am actually beneath your rubbish criteria, at least with python. I guess I'll see.
Brings the question whether the lights should have been immediately turned on after gunfire was heard and/or if that would've made the situation more or less dangerous. I'd think that after a fire/emergency-door/exit was opened, it shouldn't by default have been very dark. But you do make a fair point. Of course, though, with any further speculation, I think I can predict the general destination of this conversation. And while valid and interesting from multiple points of view, probably best to resign now on my part. I guess I'll only say that I'd prefer to see security placed more in the hands of citizens and not so exclusively into the single indifferent fist of authority, which I predict, is where we are all headed.
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Just imagine if this got into Richard Stallman's hands; he could easily arm every single American with a single script, or maybe even a command. Sudo lpr –P GunPrinter –# /america/everyone/Guns ?
PS: He only uses sudo because he's too lazy to modify the bits himself.
See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVlOFOiCP7Q&feature=related Sarasota police have been using VeriPlate for years. I think VeriPlate may have changed it's name, but here's a link to one distributor of this technology: http://www.ndi-rs.com/NDI/NDI-ANPR-ALPR-Mobile-Systems/16/systems/ The potential for abuse is definite.
In theory, and perhaps in current practice too, this technology can be used to create dossiers on people's traveling habits. Of course, with a little creativity, it could be used for more than that. If you asked me, I'd tell you with confidence that this technology is intrusive and being abused. And you've really got to be careful what toys you give to the same thugs who support the world's largest prison population, as well as trade crime (or prison income) on the stock market. Yeah, crime is a very big industry in the US, and that is nothing to be proud of.
In Florida, we have no-fault insurance. To drive, you are legally compelled to have insurance. When you drop your insurance, your license is automatically suspended. I know drivers must be responsible by some means, but I find it interesting, this collusion/symbiosis between the mafia, or "insurance" companies and law-enforcement. You'd be very surprised to learn how many people are in jail for driving on suspended licenses, automatically suspended, sometimes for late payments. I cannot help but to find it odd that we must pay a corporation protection money for what we might do. It isn't like when we die, our remaining family receives a rebate for what never did, but payed for anyway. That's just one aspect of this crap-technology that is related and bothers the hell out of me. There's a lot more.
So then, I hope you are only advocating the use of these chips exclusively in antibiotics, no? I might be able to remain civil if that's the case, but otherwise, you're mad. I'm just so sure that every Doctor who's ever prescribed Prozac or Ritalin to a child chose the perfect, ideal dose! Your methods should work great with pain-killers too. Yeah. Well, I sincerely hope you get a prescription for a strong laxative someday, someday when fascism has finally overtaken America and meds are no longer optional.
Wonder what the odds are on a hole in one: http://www.universetoday.com/71067/tumbling-boulders-leave-trails-on-the-moon/
If I remember correctly, he also developed Google-Sharing, a firefox extension to garble the data google collects on its users. Basically, all users with the extension share their tracks, which are fed to google to help confuse it. Futile, perhaps, but a great idea and an important concept no doubt. I dig the guy too.
Do a search for "Beardyman"; I think you'll find it quite refreshing and inspiring, even if it's a bit unusual. Here, I'll give you a start, where he does Aphex Twin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55l1PZZgUOA -- If you have time, or interest, I highly recommend watching/listening-to the many hours of other Beardyman pieces. I am a vicious musical cynic and damn-near freaked out when I first discovered this fellow's work. There are also a lot of other worthy genres surfacing and mutating; like glitch, and even some dubstep. Don't despair -- there is hope.
"sitar"
Now if you really want to escape the monotony of 4, classical Indian music will provide the way. Ragas and tablas!
ooops! Sorry about the bad url; I intended to refer to this one for Richard Cheese: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzFX44P7SO0 -- I can't imagine anyone else ever repairing such a tremendous feat of auditory effluent into something so close to actual music. When that song (doncha) first came out, I lost some part of my respect for anything between two human ears, but Cheese has redeemed it. The Bjork part is brilliant!
Dude, thanks for this! It explains so much. It's amazing how so many terrible songs can be woven together to make something tolerable. But the best pop-reparations I've found so far, I must attribute to Richard Cheese. You might enjoy my personal favorite: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwOE0aP-LAk
I have long equated most pop-music with baby music, or heavy nursery rhymes. But when I saw this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Uee_mcxvrw
I began to consider that - albeit possibly pathological - something has infected pop.
How do you know how much accuracy it takes to shoot a non-existent airborne terrorist from the sky with a roof-top missile? Mars is cool, but considering the extensive array of excellent pubs to choose from, playing with missiles in London is hard to beat. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/11/london-rooftop-missiles-olympics_n_1664653.html
I am quite liking Mate and can say it's a helluva lot better than Gnome3; it's basically Gnome2, which is why I'm using it. Maybe the Gnome3 crowd would have been more successful in North Korea, or some Japanese underground fetish club, with Unity wiggling about on stage. If Gnome3 had a voice, it would sound like an angry high-pitched Arnold Schwarzenegger. Anyway, suicide is almost always depressing to witness, but in this case, I wish them expedience and success.
Amdocs, ...seems like the perfect company for Microsoft to be involved with to compliment everyone's paranoia about Skype. They (Amdocs) have an interesting history and have access to a lot of information, and perhaps other things: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SBWJ8jaFrg (part 2 of 2). But I guess this is a little off topic.
Oh dear, I forgot to add this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc8i7C659FU&NR=1&feature=endscreen -- Finspy, man-in-middle (Skype) attack promo video. I am not sure why, but I always chuckle when I watch it. Under the guise of "terror", which by my perspective could be just about anything lately, this stuff might get deployed more often than gets reported. I figure if it's it's in the category of terrorism/domestic-extremism, it is likely exempt from transparency.
Aside from not padding its encrypted packets, thus leaking data via phonemes, etc., MS will certainly be complying with the "law" to furthest of their abilities -- and then some, I suspect. MySpace was known to essentially gift-wrap user data and send it to law-enforcement, probably with chocolates too. Although it's not an entirely unreasonable question, I think paranoia can be liberally applied to the question of Skype's security.
One thing that really peeves me about Skype is their assignment of a generic number which my contacts sometimes receive. If a contact attempts to return my call, an audio recording essentially indicts the user with a ridiculous legal disclaimer, blabbing about illegal activity and so on. A little vid I made describes it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9ie_0aY1DM4 -- I would love an alternative to Skype, but such would require a serious amount of funding.
It is also odd that the NSA offered so much money to get into Skype, all whilst it was leaking. Perhaps I am missing something.
It's only a series of tubes! But if credit is really due, it must have been either the chicken or the egg.
To date, most if not all remotely warfare-like "cyber" actions have been performed by government, or with their support. Generally, when civilians wage hostile actions, they are much smaller and considered in the category of crime. When the military wages hostile actions, it is usually bigger and considered warfare. So their whole "Cyber War" is pretty much an inevitable course of military nature, a self-imposed -- or at least accelerated -- state of affairs, as they rarely, if ever, fail to weaponize anything with "good" potential. It would brighten my day, however, if their talking heads and those that listen to them could begin intelligently distinguishing the vast difference between cyberwar and cybercrime, hence using the DHS to issue DMCA takedowns for torrenting popstar trash.
But they really shouldn't be given too much credit; they are certainly guilty of hyperbole and grubbing viciously for more money and power and control. When we build sky-scrapers, we try to our best and do so methodically. They contain great potential energy and are very pervasive. Is there a Construction-War? Certainly we could try this with IT? And call me naive, but would it hurt us beyond repair to bring some manufacturing back to America? Big Gub's credibility will only grow if our hardware and skillsets continue to be imported from high-risk sources - at least without uncanny oversight.
Depending on virtual things, I suppose, does have its risks. But so does depending on overly ambitious criminals in government. If they've clearly illustrated one thing about war, it's that they have a far greater interest in it than the rest of the world, and especially many sensible Americans.
"Khan is rubbish once you need greater than high school level knowledge."
Considering the current state of America, rubbish seems a fine aspiration; at least we'd be sitting on something.
Having gone through more than a few Khan lectures for python, I recently signed up for a Udemy course which I purchased with a coupon for $8 - a great deal. In comparison, they are not infinitely far apart, though Udemy does come out ahead so far and includes literature, etc. I have no complaints about either, but could probably offer a few suggestions to both sources, and I am actually beneath your rubbish criteria, at least with python. I guess I'll see.
Brings the question whether the lights should have been immediately turned on after gunfire was heard and/or if that would've made the situation more or less dangerous. I'd think that after a fire/emergency-door/exit was opened, it shouldn't by default have been very dark. But you do make a fair point. Of course, though, with any further speculation, I think I can predict the general destination of this conversation. And while valid and interesting from multiple points of view, probably best to resign now on my part. I guess I'll only say that I'd prefer to see security placed more in the hands of citizens and not so exclusively into the single indifferent fist of authority, which I predict, is where we are all headed.
Where was this guy? http://boingboing.net/2012/07/19/elderly-gentleman-shoots-armed.html -- That link there shows a video of an elderly man thwarting an armed robbery in an internet cafe. No guarantees, but it sure could've made a difference at the theater.