Is the Magna Carta their equivalent of the US constitution?
It was an attempt to limit the powers of the King and protect the feudal barons, but also had a trickle down effect to protect the common man. Its influence is felt around the world, including the constitution of the USA. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_carta.
The original copy is on view just down the road from me in St Albans until 29 August, I must go & see this - friends tell me that it is a good exhibition.
The US gov't is feeling quite terrorized by the publication of top secret documents by Glenn Greenwald,....
Did you read the story or do you not realise that Heathrow airport is just outside London, England ?
Having said that I am increasingly concerned that my (English) government is increasingly doing what the USA government wants it to.
I have written a letter to my MP complaining about this incident, I wrote to him last August warning about the problems of abuse under the USA Patriot Act.
The government of the USA wants to reduce the likelihood of more whistle-blowers exposing what they are really up to. The best way to do this is to show to any potential whistle-blowers that if they do then their life will not be pleasant: a boring, long, incaceration is the best way of doing this; it will put most people off.
Edward Snowden is a celebrity at the moment, being in the public eye will be attractive to some, regardless of the reality of living in an airport (or sofa in the Ecuadorian embassy in the case of Assange). If Snowden is killed or tortured he will be seen as a martyr, again this may be attractive to some. I am not saying that this is for everyone, but it may put some attention seekers off (I am not trying to imply that Snowden is an attention seeker).
Also: by making the no kill/torture promise it raises the bar for Snowden's various applications for political assylum.
Setting up a CA is easy, anyone can do it.. The hard part is getting the CA's keys into the various browsers. If you don't get your keys into browsers then users don't have any confidence in the certificates that you hand out and the browser cannot detect a Man In The Middle attack. Users will (righly) see nasty warnings from the browsers.
If the NSA says ''no'' then the major browser vendors will not distribute your keys with their browsers. Unfortunately: but probably so.
Something needs to change else it is game over for web security; I am afraid that the majority of the sheeple will just not care and go back to watching TV.
We cannot let this lie, quite how to keep it alive I am not sure.
If you don't get a copy what happens when, 5 years later, you get sued for doing an illegal wire tap ? The spooks will deny that they ever asked you to do it and will happily see you carry the can for their actions.
I think that it has to be a case of: ''no copy, I can't comply -- take me to court''. Hopefully the court will give him an order that he can keep. I fear that they might just sling him into gitmo on the basis of a secret court order that he never attended the hearing.
They want facebook users who have a little disposible inome that they might intice to buy something. Users without much money are less likely to buy on-line and won't be able to afford $10/month. Users who can afford $10/month are the very ones who the advertsiers want.
So: if facebook were to do this they would hurt their advertisers who would see less reason to advertise with facebook. Ie this would be a total fail for facebook.
It SHOULD be controlled by a democracy of the world, not Obama and the NSA.
Agreed. However I don't think that the UN is the right body; it has shown itself spineless and prone to manipulation. What we want is an Internet that is not beholden the country/block intererests. This does not mean that it is not controlled (ie a wild west), but that the governanance is in the best interests of the vast majority of humanity. Something that is determinedly neutral.
Finding the bodies to do this will not be easy; I would readily vote for the likes of Jon Postel, but although his heart would be in the right place I don't know how he would cope with the inevitable political pressure. It is easier to say who not : Govt of USA, ICANN & UN are out.
As your elected representative let me enlighten you as to why you voted for me rather than the other guy:
* I made good, powerful speaches. I went to some classes to help with this, it is more important that I dress in a good suit and have a strong voice than what I say makes sense.
* I avoided checking facts when making opinions. If you know the facts you realise that things are not black & white, but to express that makes people think that you are a ditherer, that you don't know what you stand for. Who wants a politician who, when asked a question instead of saying ''yes'' or ''no'' says something long and boring that starts with ''It depends'' ?
* Most of you don't look at the facts, you work on gut feeling and gross extrapolation. You remember that story in the local press last week about the thief from out of town who had green eyes, blond hair and a limp ? Yes: you are quite right to know that everyone from out of town with blond hair & a limp is a good for nothing crook and we don't want people like that round here!
* You people just want to be safe. You don't care what happens to out of townies, how hard we make it for them; or even foreigners -- some of who have a skin of a funny colour. They just don't matter!
* You don't really know what safe means, but are happy if you can still watch TV and drink beer when supporting your team. My predecessor did not do anything to make you realise that you can do something else, neither will I --so you will vote for me next time.
* In order to get on the short list for election I had to sign up to what the party says. They won't listen to a newbie like me, if I ask questions there are plenty of others to choose from who do what the party bosses say.
* Do you know how much I got in ''research grants'' and travel ''expences'' from the large corpotations? To say nothing about my fee for 2 days work a year as a consultant. I must not upset them by saying something that upsets them. All that money buys a lot of publicity as well as letting me buy that new yacht..
* I have a good friend who knows people, (I don't want to know why they are), but I got warnings of the other guy's plans and it was mighty useful when his campaign manager was caught in bed with that young... that no one had seen before
So you see, I would be really silly if I upset the status quo and made you think for yourself.
It does not matter if a contract was not signed, there was still an agreement. All that signing a contract means is that the agreement is provable and, hopefully, responsibilities clearly defined. Here: there does not seem to be a dispute as to who should have deleted the data (destroyed the disks), it is the contractor they should pay every penny of the fine.
All of the above written without knowing exactly what was agreed!
In case you have not noticed there has recently been much discussion here about Edward Snowden, also Bradley Manning & others before. I will let you work out the links between these stories.
We could save even more bandwidth and speed up browsers by making HTML a binary format. Just think of all the lovely bugs in the difference between HTML 2 and HTML 2b:-(
Please don't forget to make and test backups every now and then otherwise you may well have your insurance payout but no data.
I keep my data on my server at home, I put stuff on my laptop if/when I need to use it when I am out & about. Nothing of real value would be lost if I were to lose my laptop.
More added to the snowball that Edward Snowden started rolling. I accept that a certain amount of targetted monitoring is needed, but what we are being shown is on a different scale. What really annoys me is how the politicians have lied and told us that we should not worry our silly little heads. Now is the time to hold the politicians to account -- not accept the ''I will not discuss operations'' answers that they fob us off with. Time for honesty and heads to roll.
It will be interesting to see how much attention the mainstream media pay to this or if they will try to bury it.
Which means: (sorry, this is an English language forum)
Now you can break up with your iPhone does not work and all screws replaced. "Hey Apple (or O2 or Vodaphone or who sold it), the phone does not work and it sure must be your fault because I never opened it." "So how do you explain that all screws have been replaced? You certainly opened up the phone."
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Is the Magna Carta their equivalent of the US constitution?
It was an attempt to limit the powers of the King and protect the feudal barons, but also had a trickle down effect to protect the common man. Its influence is felt around the world, including the constitution of the USA. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_carta.
The original copy is on view just down the road from me in St Albans until 29 August, I must go & see this - friends tell me that it is a good exhibition.
The US gov't is feeling quite terrorized by the publication of top secret documents by Glenn Greenwald, ....
Did you read the story or do you not realise that Heathrow airport is just outside London, England ?
Having said that I am increasingly concerned that my (English) government is increasingly doing what the USA government wants it to. I have written a letter to my MP complaining about this incident, I wrote to him last August warning about the problems of abuse under the USA Patriot Act.
The government of the USA wants to reduce the likelihood of more whistle-blowers exposing what they are really up to. The best way to do this is to show to any potential whistle-blowers that if they do then their life will not be pleasant: a boring, long, incaceration is the best way of doing this; it will put most people off.
Edward Snowden is a celebrity at the moment, being in the public eye will be attractive to some, regardless of the reality of living in an airport (or sofa in the Ecuadorian embassy in the case of Assange). If Snowden is killed or tortured he will be seen as a martyr, again this may be attractive to some. I am not saying that this is for everyone, but it may put some attention seekers off (I am not trying to imply that Snowden is an attention seeker).
Also: by making the no kill/torture promise it raises the bar for Snowden's various applications for political assylum.
Cut off your head & grow a new one. Cool!
Setting up a CA is easy, anyone can do it.. The hard part is getting the CA's keys into the various browsers. If you don't get your keys into browsers then users don't have any confidence in the certificates that you hand out and the browser cannot detect a Man In The Middle attack. Users will (righly) see nasty warnings from the browsers.
If the NSA says ''no'' then the major browser vendors will not distribute your keys with their browsers. Unfortunately: but probably so.
Something needs to change else it is game over for web security; I am afraid that the majority of the sheeple will just not care and go back to watching TV. We cannot let this lie, quite how to keep it alive I am not sure.
Even worse is Dubai where woman was raped and then slammed into prison for extra-marital sex. She only go out when the Norwegians kicked up a fuss. I know that I am supposed to respect other cultural values, but some I find very hard.
Interesting how we calmly discuss this and applaud the idea. However a school kid who draws a picture of some guns at school is arrested ????
If you don't get a copy what happens when, 5 years later, you get sued for doing an illegal wire tap ? The spooks will deny that they ever asked you to do it and will happily see you carry the can for their actions. I think that it has to be a case of: ''no copy, I can't comply -- take me to court''. Hopefully the court will give him an order that he can keep. I fear that they might just sling him into gitmo on the basis of a secret court order that he never attended the hearing.
They want facebook users who have a little disposible inome that they might intice to buy something. Users without much money are less likely to buy on-line and won't be able to afford $10/month. Users who can afford $10/month are the very ones who the advertsiers want.
So: if facebook were to do this they would hurt their advertisers who would see less reason to advertise with facebook. Ie this would be a total fail for facebook.
How can they afford them ? Oh, wait .....
Otherwise he will be asked to pay tax on his income! :-)
If the NSA were to respect the DNT header then I would stop fretting about a lot of the rest of this week's news :-)
It SHOULD be controlled by a democracy of the world, not Obama and the NSA.
Agreed. However I don't think that the UN is the right body; it has shown itself spineless and prone to manipulation. What we want is an Internet that is not beholden the country/block intererests. This does not mean that it is not controlled (ie a wild west), but that the governanance is in the best interests of the vast majority of humanity. Something that is determinedly neutral.
Finding the bodies to do this will not be easy; I would readily vote for the likes of Jon Postel, but although his heart would be in the right place I don't know how he would cope with the inevitable political pressure. It is easier to say who not : Govt of USA, ICANN & UN are out.
It is exactly that sort of attitude that makes the USA the wrong ''controller'' of the Internet.
As your elected representative let me enlighten you as to why you voted for me rather than the other guy:
* I made good, powerful speaches. I went to some classes to help with this, it is more important that I dress in a good suit and have a strong voice than what I say makes sense.
* I avoided checking facts when making opinions. If you know the facts you realise that things are not black & white, but to express that makes people think that you are a ditherer, that you don't know what you stand for. Who wants a politician who, when asked a question instead of saying ''yes'' or ''no'' says something long and boring that starts with ''It depends'' ?
* Most of you don't look at the facts, you work on gut feeling and gross extrapolation. You remember that story in the local press last week about the thief from out of town who had green eyes, blond hair and a limp ? Yes: you are quite right to know that everyone from out of town with blond hair & a limp is a good for nothing crook and we don't want people like that round here!
* You people just want to be safe. You don't care what happens to out of townies, how hard we make it for them; or even foreigners -- some of who have a skin of a funny colour. They just don't matter!
* You don't really know what safe means, but are happy if you can still watch TV and drink beer when supporting your team. My predecessor did not do anything to make you realise that you can do something else, neither will I --so you will vote for me next time.
* In order to get on the short list for election I had to sign up to what the party says. They won't listen to a newbie like me, if I ask questions there are plenty of others to choose from who do what the party bosses say.
* Do you know how much I got in ''research grants'' and travel ''expences'' from the large corpotations? To say nothing about my fee for 2 days work a year as a consultant. I must not upset them by saying something that upsets them. All that money buys a lot of publicity as well as letting me buy that new yacht..
* I have a good friend who knows people, (I don't want to know why they are), but I got warnings of the other guy's plans and it was mighty useful when his campaign manager was caught in bed with that young ... that no one had seen before
So you see, I would be really silly if I upset the status quo and made you think for yourself.
It does not matter if a contract was not signed, there was still an agreement. All that signing a contract means is that the agreement is provable and, hopefully, responsibilities clearly defined. Here: there does not seem to be a dispute as to who should have deleted the data (destroyed the disks), it is the contractor they should pay every penny of the fine.
All of the above written without knowing exactly what was agreed!
In case you have not noticed there has recently been much discussion here about Edward Snowden, also Bradley Manning & others before. I will let you work out the links between these stories.
It is drifting, continuing it's journey because of its momentum: launched on 19 January 2006 ... velocity of about 16.26 km/s after its last engine was shut down. OK: powering reads more dramatically, but is wrong.
We could save even more bandwidth and speed up browsers by making HTML a binary format. Just think of all the lovely bugs in the difference between HTML 2 and HTML 2b :-(
Please don't forget to make and test backups every now and then otherwise you may well have your insurance payout but no data.
I keep my data on my server at home, I put stuff on my laptop if/when I need to use it when I am out & about. Nothing of real value would be lost if I were to lose my laptop.
who suffered financial loss because of stuxnet use this evidence to sue the NSA & Mossad for damages ? If not, why not ?
More added to the snowball that Edward Snowden started rolling. I accept that a certain amount of targetted monitoring is needed, but what we are being shown is on a different scale. What really annoys me is how the politicians have lied and told us that we should not worry our silly little heads. Now is the time to hold the politicians to account -- not accept the ''I will not discuss operations'' answers that they fob us off with. Time for honesty and heads to roll.
It will be interesting to see how much attention the mainstream media pay to this or if they will try to bury it.
Which means: (sorry, this is an English language forum)
Now you can break up with your iPhone does not work and all screws replaced. "Hey Apple (or O2 or Vodaphone or who sold it), the phone does not work and it sure must be your fault because I never opened it." "So how do you explain that all screws have been replaced? You certainly opened up the phone."
I always thought that they were mythological, I now have to admit that I was wrong; dead things can come back to try to suck your blood!
your eyes would actually be a different color.
I know some people who's left eye is a different colour than their right eye. How do you code that in your database?