Iceland has had its fair share of political upheaval post 2008. Fantastic country though -- I highly recommend a visit.
These are a very stoic people. They live on a volcanic island that is essentially trying every day to kill them off. In Iceland you can actually see the effect that the environment has on a population. They have some of the most dangerous roads I have ever seen in the world and absolutely no guard rails or for that matter not even much in the way of signs. You can hike out to the West cost of the island (which is the Westernmost point of Europe) and look down to the sea -- which is more than half a kilometer straight down. No railing. No signs. Not even a small rope. Just a nice grassy pleasant stroll until you just walk off the edge and plunge to your death. It's completely fantastic there.
They take this same stoic (you fuck up, you pay the price) view of their politicians and their banks.
In my case, yes I'd have grabbed my hunting rifle. But I wouldn't have walked into NASA offices with it. You don't believe me that it's going to blow up from the cold, fine. Bang. Now it's going to blow up from that hole that I just shot into it.
That would have been a helluva good hunting rifle. You can't get within 3 miles of a shuttle launch unless you're emergency response and even then you are a full mile away. Also if you think that sabotage is a good strategy when you disagree with something then I'm happy you don't work for me.
Bob did all the right things (like leaving his hunting rifle at home). It was other people who failed to follow protocol that didn't. He is a hero because he did was he was supposed to. You don't get to be a hero by taking matters into your own hands and pretending you are in a Hollywood action movie.
“I can tell you from the Department of Justice perspective, if that drive is encrypted, you’re done,” Ovie Carroll, director of the cyber-crime lab at the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section in the Department of Justice, said during his keynote address at the DFRWS computer forensics conference in Washington, D.C., last Monday. “When conducting criminal investigations, if you pull the power on a drive that is whole-disk encrypted you have lost any chance of recovering that data.”
I would suspect that they have this feature (as you say) to re-image phones that have been traded in or repaired without first being unlocked and wiped. I do not know this first-hand, but I couldn't imagine carrying on the business they are in without it.
I don't have first hand experience with it, but if you are an aspiring OpenWRT hacker then you might want to look into WRTNode. Using third party proprietary hardware is always fraught with peril anyway.
'The All Writs Act is a United States federal statute, codified at 28 U.S.C. 1651, which authorizes the United States federal courts to "issue all writs necessary or appropriate in aid of their respective jurisdictions and agreeable to the usages and principles of law.'
"On October 31, 2014, the act was used by the U.S. Attorney's Office in New York to compel an unnamed smartphone manufacturer to bypass the lock screen of a smartphone allegedly involved in a credit card fraud."
Looks like there is a precedent. Mind you Apple has lots of money for lawyers to make sure this doesn't happen.
Bad Astronomy talks about the odds of getting killed by one as 1:700,000. But this includes extinction events, etc. You are more likely to die by meteorite than terrorist apparently.
I couldn't find any odds of getting hit by one, never mind two falling in the same area within the space of a couple of weeks, but I think it would be much lower than getting hit by lightning (1:960,000). About 500 meteorites hit the earth each year. There are 138 million lightning strikes per year. So, not accounting for population density, I would estimate that your odds of getting hit by a meteorite is 1:265,000,000,000 (1 in 265 billion).
If you need money to operate the site, try asking for it from readers. That way you can reduce or eliminate advertising useless junk that nobody wants
I completely agree (fellow greybeard). I would prefer a [donate] button rather than a subscription though so I can choose when and how much to contribute. I will also second your suggestion to allow editing until moderation or reply.
Thank you. Seeing you respond to this in the affirmative just made my day. This is the only thing that keeps me from reading (and participating in) slashdot more.
The problem is that for many there is a complete lack of a social safety net and adequate programs to help them get to where they need to to become productive members of society. We need good social programs and the legalization and legislation of recreational drugs. If you do the latter first you'll have the money for the former.
Of course this requires us to get our collective heads out of our asses, so it probably won't happen. Blaming Internet technologies is not seeing the big picture.
This is called Information Lifecycle Management and has been common practice for many decades now. Yes decades. I worked on Panasonic jukebox WORM (Write Once Read Many) ILM systems (both hardware and software) in the 90s. The real news here is not that Facebook is using ILM, but the new BlueRay technology being used.
Quirks and Quarks did a podcast very recently about this technology and its application on a particular strain of MD. This work was done (by Dr. Ronald Cohn from the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto) on living cells however, not live mammals. The podcast does go into a high level and easily understood description of how the technology works. Fascinating stuff.
If everyone opted out (like you and I do) every single time, consequences to travel plans be damned, the scanners would be optional within a week and gone in a year. But they won't. Because people will always trade convenience and perceived safety for liberty. So it is important that people like the OP pick up the fight on a legal ground, doing the work that us sheeple should be doing for ourselves.
Also, while you may be able to opt out in the USA and Canada, you cannot in other countries (like GB). This is apropos of nothing, but I thought it worth mentioning.
It is not the way in which they are solving the problem that is at issue (although the HBR thinks so), it is the problem they are trying to solve that is. It doesn't matter what they do because the method they are using is as unlikely to achieve success any more than the efforts from 1956 to date.
They're wasting their money. Perhaps if they spent their billion on thinking about AI in a completely different way there would be something to talk about.
I'm planning to use my kit to prolong my life... Oh wait. No. I could use it to FINALLY BE ABLE TO DIE!
In 1272 I hung myself in a barn. It was 1348 before the damn barn fell down and I was able to walk away. Do you know what it is like to hang in a barn for 70+ years? Not fun. I'm ready for all this new-fangled gene editing technology!
Instead of being frightened we should instead establish some reasonable policies and then go all-in on the human genome editing side. We're going to need it. Either our bodies are going to need to be both longer lived and much less prone to radiation, or we are never going to get our species out of this solar system (or even off this planet).
We are not suited for space travel. Either we make ourselves suited or we wait until we randomly evolve some traits that will help us. If we wait, we may go extinct before it happens.
Life is just natures way of keeping meat fresh after all...
Or, you know, you could spend that money helping out children who already exist and who could really use some support. Why do humans feel the need to 'own' everything, even other life forms that have free will of their own?
Give it a few years, it won't work, it will have cost too much, and will be found to have massive security holes which can't be fixed without spending huge sums of money.
Well, you're probably pretty close. This is what happened in Toronto.
I did this. They called. They have a *lot* of lawyers (that's all they have), and they absolutely don't want people passing themselves off as structural engineers without the right certs (and memberships). My explanation resembled the parent of this thread and they were not amused.
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Iceland has had its fair share of political upheaval post 2008. Fantastic country though -- I highly recommend a visit.
These are a very stoic people. They live on a volcanic island that is essentially trying every day to kill them off. In Iceland you can actually see the effect that the environment has on a population. They have some of the most dangerous roads I have ever seen in the world and absolutely no guard rails or for that matter not even much in the way of signs. You can hike out to the West cost of the island (which is the Westernmost point of Europe) and look down to the sea -- which is more than half a kilometer straight down. No railing. No signs. Not even a small rope. Just a nice grassy pleasant stroll until you just walk off the edge and plunge to your death. It's completely fantastic there.
They take this same stoic (you fuck up, you pay the price) view of their politicians and their banks.
In my case, yes I'd have grabbed my hunting rifle. But I wouldn't have walked into NASA offices with it. You don't believe me that it's going to blow up from the cold, fine. Bang. Now it's going to blow up from that hole that I just shot into it.
That would have been a helluva good hunting rifle. You can't get within 3 miles of a shuttle launch unless you're emergency response and even then you are a full mile away. Also if you think that sabotage is a good strategy when you disagree with something then I'm happy you don't work for me.
Bob did all the right things (like leaving his hunting rifle at home). It was other people who failed to follow protocol that didn't. He is a hero because he did was he was supposed to. You don't get to be a hero by taking matters into your own hands and pretending you are in a Hollywood action movie.
Oh dear god, please build Mechs! You'll need them when giant creatures emerge from a rift in space-time in the Pacific...
“I can tell you from the Department of Justice perspective, if that drive is encrypted, you’re done,” Ovie Carroll, director of the cyber-crime lab at the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section in the Department of Justice, said during his keynote address at the DFRWS computer forensics conference in Washington, D.C., last Monday. “When conducting criminal investigations, if you pull the power on a drive that is whole-disk encrypted you have lost any chance of recovering that data.”
From: The iPhone Has Passed a Key Security Threshold
I'm sure a politician knows more about crypto than MIT or the DoJ.
I would suspect that they have this feature (as you say) to re-image phones that have been traded in or repaired without first being unlocked and wiped. I do not know this first-hand, but I couldn't imagine carrying on the business they are in without it.
I don't have first hand experience with it, but if you are an aspiring OpenWRT hacker then you might want to look into WRTNode. Using third party proprietary hardware is always fraught with peril anyway.
'The All Writs Act is a United States federal statute, codified at 28 U.S.C. 1651, which authorizes the United States federal courts to "issue all writs necessary or appropriate in aid of their respective jurisdictions and agreeable to the usages and principles of law.'
"On October 31, 2014, the act was used by the U.S. Attorney's Office in New York to compel an unnamed smartphone manufacturer to bypass the lock screen of a smartphone allegedly involved in a credit card fraud."
Looks like there is a precedent. Mind you Apple has lots of money for lawyers to make sure this doesn't happen.
Bad Astronomy talks about the odds of getting killed by one as 1:700,000. But this includes extinction events, etc. You are more likely to die by meteorite than terrorist apparently.
I couldn't find any odds of getting hit by one, never mind two falling in the same area within the space of a couple of weeks, but I think it would be much lower than getting hit by lightning (1:960,000). About 500 meteorites hit the earth each year. There are 138 million lightning strikes per year. So, not accounting for population density, I would estimate that your odds of getting hit by a meteorite is 1:265,000,000,000 (1 in 265 billion).
Roughly.
If you need money to operate the site, try asking for it from readers. That way you can reduce or eliminate advertising useless junk that nobody wants
I completely agree (fellow greybeard). I would prefer a [donate] button rather than a subscription though so I can choose when and how much to contribute. I will also second your suggestion to allow editing until moderation or reply.
Thank you. Seeing you respond to this in the affirmative just made my day. This is the only thing that keeps me from reading (and participating in) slashdot more.
The problem is that for many there is a complete lack of a social safety net and adequate programs to help them get to where they need to to become productive members of society. We need good social programs and the legalization and legislation of recreational drugs. If you do the latter first you'll have the money for the former.
Of course this requires us to get our collective heads out of our asses, so it probably won't happen. Blaming Internet technologies is not seeing the big picture.
North Korea Destroys all of Asia
This is called Information Lifecycle Management and has been common practice for many decades now. Yes decades. I worked on Panasonic jukebox WORM (Write Once Read Many) ILM systems (both hardware and software) in the 90s. The real news here is not that Facebook is using ILM, but the new BlueRay technology being used.
Quirks and Quarks did a podcast very recently about this technology and its application on a particular strain of MD. This work was done (by Dr. Ronald Cohn from the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto) on living cells however, not live mammals. The podcast does go into a high level and easily understood description of how the technology works. Fascinating stuff.
If everyone opted out (like you and I do) every single time, consequences to travel plans be damned, the scanners would be optional within a week and gone in a year. But they won't. Because people will always trade convenience and perceived safety for liberty. So it is important that people like the OP pick up the fight on a legal ground, doing the work that us sheeple should be doing for ourselves.
Also, while you may be able to opt out in the USA and Canada, you cannot in other countries (like GB). This is apropos of nothing, but I thought it worth mentioning.
It is not the way in which they are solving the problem that is at issue (although the HBR thinks so), it is the problem they are trying to solve that is. It doesn't matter what they do because the method they are using is as unlikely to achieve success any more than the efforts from 1956 to date.
They're wasting their money. Perhaps if they spent their billion on thinking about AI in a completely different way there would be something to talk about.
Right. My first language was ancient Greek though.
I'm planning to use my kit to prolong my life... Oh wait. No. I could use it to FINALLY BE ABLE TO DIE!
In 1272 I hung myself in a barn. It was 1348 before the damn barn fell down and I was able to walk away. Do you know what it is like to hang in a barn for 70+ years? Not fun. I'm ready for all this new-fangled gene editing technology!
If sterility is not a side effect this planet is going to have some really serious issues to contend with.
Instead of being frightened we should instead establish some reasonable policies and then go all-in on the human genome editing side. We're going to need it. Either our bodies are going to need to be both longer lived and much less prone to radiation, or we are never going to get our species out of this solar system (or even off this planet).
We are not suited for space travel. Either we make ourselves suited or we wait until we randomly evolve some traits that will help us. If we wait, we may go extinct before it happens.
Life is just natures way of keeping meat fresh after all...
Or, you know, you could spend that money helping out children who already exist and who could really use some support. Why do humans feel the need to 'own' everything, even other life forms that have free will of their own?
Weird. Works for me. Here's the link:
http://www.metronews.ca/news/t...
Give it a few years, it won't work, it will have cost too much, and will be found to have massive security holes which can't be fixed without spending huge sums of money.
Well, you're probably pretty close. This is what happened in Toronto.
I did this. They called. They have a *lot* of lawyers (that's all they have), and they absolutely don't want people passing themselves off as structural engineers without the right certs (and memberships). My explanation resembled the parent of this thread and they were not amused.
I had to change my company name.
It's not like nerds created the standard or implemented it in software and hardware...