"And when the NSA pinpoints the ransomware operator, what are they supposed to do?"
Hire local talent to do the "wet work" in some manner that will dissuade anyone else in the area from getting into the ransomware business. By handling it this way, the agency need reveal nothing about its intel techniques.
In my state, tickets for any kind of public event, from a fair to the Super Bowl, can be traded freely after purchase by individuals or brokers. It's a great convenience if you have bought tickets to a game or concert and your lans change, so everyone here loves the system. But in states where the event operator and sports lobby is strong, ticket resale is kept illegal by calling it "scalping." This sounds awful, so people tacitly accept the inconvenience of resale being banned.
In the same way, the name Dark Net evokes fear. It's dark, so it has to be a sketchy neighborhood even though the poll question specifically cites some beneficial uses for it.
Now if we called it the Internet Safe Space instead, we would think of the drug traders and child molesters as interlopers on a peoples' space, rather than thinking of whistleblowers hiding in the corners of Gangster Town.
I have already theorized that if online surveillance were really as all-powerful as paranoids think it is, the NSA would have no trouble pinpointing ransomware operators and having them picturesquely snuffed out.
Reason two: wouldn't a cyberspy agency with real power be able to use the Internet to scramble ISIS communications with fake chatter, misdirected operational orders, and sites filled with doctrinal errors designed to turn wealthy Muslims against ISIS?
Part of the problem is the bull-headed shitty tactics by government officials in the first place. We shouldn't have to fear being locked up in jail over taking a movie back late and forgetting to pay the $5 late fee. We'd be a lot less ready to give into the scams if there was less of this shit in the first place.
This actually happened, and just last week, in NC. The really surprising part of the story is that after fourteen years a video place is still in business to press charges: http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/25/...
"The problem is that half the people are denying the science, so we can't even start a proper discussion about any proposal"
That other half of the 'deniers' are the ones who won't let us implement any low-carbon solution, even going so far as "Ivanpah kills birds!" No, Ivanpah is making bird species more intelligent by selecting out the individuals who blunder around in foodless desert wasteland.
Looks as though the public firestorm caused the FBI to back down on its main request, which was to force Apple to give them a way of breaking into whatever other iPhones they would in the future want to, starting with a specified list of 12 devices that had been seized in drug cases.
The ISS is our best way of gaining experience with daily life in microgravity: cooking, cleaning bathrooms, responding to leaks and breakdowns, maintaining health over periods of a year or more. There is no other way of being sure about how such things will work when we take longer voyages. The latest finding, which was totally unanticipated, is that microgravity affects the rate at which certain bacteria grow. This will be a problem in some cases and a solution in others.
iPhones will wash out and be unreadable in direct sunlight. No problem. People just look at me funny while I intone "Call Mother?" or "Navigate to Joseph Blow!"
When you take the train from Barcelona into France, there is an extended stop at the old Spanish border village of Portbou. For half an hour track engineers will scurry back and forth from one car to the other, rattling and banging away to change each whelset from the Spanish 5 ft 6 inch gauge to the international standard gauge to the train can proceed into France.There must have been a worldwide standards tussle between the 5' 6" and 4' 8.5" gauge at one time. Spain and San Francisco lost.
"That might buy you a couple of thyristors. Not enough to make a difference."
If personnel are that cheap compared to hardware, go ahead and fire the redundant drivers. Then hire a cop for each car. A safer BART is a BART that taxpayers will ride.
Both are complex technologies which need a detailed regime of control for safe operation. We fly knowing that about once a year we lose a plane load of people, 200-300 at a time, at least once somewhere in the world. Aviation has been around long enough that we know the chance of our next flight being this year's fatal one will be vanishingly small. Nuclear power should be subject to the same calculus, but with one 'crash' of 51 dead in its entire history.
The difference between the two is pure politics. If you insist on our eliminating carbon, you're going to have to accept changing our baseload over from fossil to nuclear.
The name Mackenzie would be normally rendered in Japanese as three sounds, Ma Ken Ji. Normally these would be phonetic kana characters, and I have never heard of a Jaoanese database (I used to implement these) which didn't support kana. But if you rule out kana names, a foreigner can still choose kanji, or Chinese, characters to represent his name.
Slashdot Mirror
"They had an intricate wood-cut logo, not much money or manpower, and their first computer only sold about 175 units"
And if you can find one of these units, they are still the most expensive product that Apple has ever sold
Because I totally want my Romaine and arugula to be grown under fluorescent store lights.
This OS will combine the broad-based commercial software support of Linux with the legendary security of Windows.
"And when the NSA pinpoints the ransomware operator, what are they supposed to do?"
Hire local talent to do the "wet work" in some manner that will dissuade anyone else in the area from getting into the ransomware business. By handling it this way, the agency need reveal nothing about its intel techniques.
In my state, tickets for any kind of public event, from a fair to the Super Bowl, can be traded freely after purchase by individuals or brokers. It's a great convenience if you have bought tickets to a game or concert and your lans change, so everyone here loves the system. But in states where the event operator and sports lobby is strong, ticket resale is kept illegal by calling it "scalping." This sounds awful, so people tacitly accept the inconvenience of resale being banned.
In the same way, the name Dark Net evokes fear. It's dark, so it has to be a sketchy neighborhood even though the poll question specifically cites some beneficial uses for it.
Now if we called it the Internet Safe Space instead, we would think of the drug traders and child molesters as interlopers on a peoples' space, rather than thinking of whistleblowers hiding in the corners of Gangster Town.
The Seventh Seal
Because one day I might absent-mindedly answer it.
Curiously, this story was not posted by mdsolar.
I have already theorized that if online surveillance were really as all-powerful as paranoids think it is, the NSA would have no trouble pinpointing ransomware operators and having them picturesquely snuffed out.
Reason two: wouldn't a cyberspy agency with real power be able to use the Internet to scramble ISIS communications with fake chatter, misdirected operational orders, and sites filled with doctrinal errors designed to turn wealthy Muslims against ISIS?
Part of the problem is the bull-headed shitty tactics by government officials in the first place. We shouldn't have to fear being locked up in jail over taking a movie back late and forgetting to pay the $5 late fee. We'd be a lot less ready to give into the scams if there was less of this shit in the first place.
This actually happened, and just last week, in NC. The really surprising part of the story is that after fourteen years a video place is still in business to press charges:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/25/...
If one of those crazy shooters went into some of these call centers and took care of the problem.
Tempting idea, but no crazy shooter is going to get through on a nineteen-hour Air India flight with a suitcase full of guns.
"On my land line? Not so easily. On my cell phone I actually do have an app which blocks stuff like that."
On your cell, no app needed for that: if it rings and a number comes up instead of a contact name, it's not in your whitelist.
"The problem is that half the people are denying the science, so we can't even start a proper discussion about any proposal"
That other half of the 'deniers' are the ones who won't let us implement any low-carbon solution, even going so far as "Ivanpah kills birds!" No, Ivanpah is making bird species more intelligent by selecting out the individuals who blunder around in foodless desert wasteland.
"I was born with a penis but consider myself female."
Cool! You can be a high-maintenance aggressor now.
Looks as though the public firestorm caused the FBI to back down on its main request, which was to force Apple to give them a way of breaking into whatever other iPhones they would in the future want to, starting with a specified list of 12 devices that had been seized in drug cases.
The ISS is our best way of gaining experience with daily life in microgravity: cooking, cleaning bathrooms, responding to leaks and breakdowns, maintaining health over periods of a year or more. There is no other way of being sure about how such things will work when we take longer voyages. The latest finding, which was totally unanticipated, is that microgravity affects the rate at which certain bacteria grow. This will be a problem in some cases and a solution in others.
So the Australians don't really have 400 different words for 'vomit' and the Hawaiians don't actually have 400 different terms for 'fucking haole'?
iPhones will wash out and be unreadable in direct sunlight. No problem. People just look at me funny while I intone "Call Mother?" or "Navigate to Joseph Blow!"
When you take the train from Barcelona into France, there is an extended stop at the old Spanish border village of Portbou. For half an hour track engineers will scurry back and forth from one car to the other, rattling and banging away to change each whelset from the Spanish 5 ft 6 inch gauge to the international standard gauge to the train can proceed into France.There must have been a worldwide standards tussle between the 5' 6" and 4' 8.5" gauge at one time. Spain and San Francisco lost.
"That might buy you a couple of thyristors. Not enough to make a difference."
If personnel are that cheap compared to hardware, go ahead and fire the redundant drivers. Then hire a cop for each car. A safer BART is a BART that taxpayers will ride.
"However it's nothing like the Portland MAX where they actually took the lines all the way to the airport, unlike in D.C."
The DC Metro does go to Reagan. It just doesn't go to Dulles.
Both are complex technologies which need a detailed regime of control for safe operation. We fly knowing that about once a year we lose a plane load of people, 200-300 at a time, at least once somewhere in the world. Aviation has been around long enough that we know the chance of our next flight being this year's fatal one will be vanishingly small. Nuclear power should be subject to the same calculus, but with one 'crash' of 51 dead in its entire history.
The difference between the two is pure politics. If you insist on our eliminating carbon, you're going to have to accept changing our baseload over from fossil to nuclear.
Be glad you're not the geologist who has to get a paper on intrusion dikes past the campus censorship system.
"Bartender, pour me an African-American Modelo!"
The name Mackenzie would be normally rendered in Japanese as three sounds, Ma Ken Ji. Normally these would be phonetic kana characters, and I have never heard of a Jaoanese database (I used to implement these) which didn't support kana. But if you rule out kana names, a foreigner can still choose kanji, or Chinese, characters to represent his name.