The concience of the soldiers that pushed the buttons to send drones to schools? At least with robots you can hope for malfunctions. And the soldiers with a concience already discarding disobeying after Manning.
For they will be operating inside normal parameters to kill 50 civilians for each terrorist, enemy soldier or robber in US soil. Because police (or at least, swat teams) WILL use them.
In movies you should take care if the robot eyes shine in red light, or maybe yellow one. But for those robots you should take cover if they show Blue Eyes Of Death.
NSA (& associates) made that equation worthless when started to require to manufacturers to insert backdoors and timebombs into their products and spread privileged access over too much people.
So a single person or a group of them (either being insider, or finding how to access those backdoors deployed everywhere) with the right motivation can access most of world's critical information, including US one, and Snowden is a proof of that, the one that decided to go public, for good. What you don't know is how many in the past, present or future will abuse that privilege, or just will make a security mistake giving access to that information to the wrong people.
If something could end the EU is this kind of actions from UK, how you continue in something based on mutual trust when that trust is not deserved? This century Axis of evil has changed actors, but once again are a few countries (some of them inside Europe, some of them outside) vs the rest of the world, just wait for their next moves if you are still not doped enough.
Don't fall into the streetlight effect bias. Yes, sending probes is cheaper than sending robots, and sending robots is cheaper and less complex than send humans. But you won't learn all you need if you don't use all those alternatives where are best. Humans beat AIs and robots a lot of tasks, and is not something that should be discarded, but sending probes with sensors to space and robots to the surface of planets/asteoroids/moons, probably will have to be the first steps. Just follow the right order.
Maybe you can use poop as shield, not sure how efficient it is, but if is something that you produce and don't change the overall weight of the ship. But you will have better shielding at the end of the trip than at the start.
The major damage has been disclosed as a result of the Snowden. If you kill someone, bury the body, and someone else finds it, must he be charged with murder? Don't shoot the messenger, you could be the next victim.
And every country forces companies to put backdoors in their worldwide products, or give them directly the information, and not to tell anyone because is forbidden by secret law? Didn't know that Microsoft or Cisco were following indication of Russia or China government when put those backdoors there. That other (a very few) even try to go in their surveillance outside the borders don't make the NSA a good citizen, and they have definately the upper hand in a lot of areas.
But is ok, sleep in the lion's den if you feel safe, you know, could be tigers outside.
So is ok that US does it to all the world because other countries maybe doing it?
Even if the other countries, at most, and the ones that does it, does mostly in their own population or internal connections (and for those, how many started shortly after the arab spring? if some external power is social engineering a revolution is better to be aware of it). US not only does that on all the world, their citizens and all the foreing ones that are within their reach (and not just the ones that are connecting in that moment with US servers), but also is getting ready to fire cyberattacks on critical structure.
They are shitting, pissing, and puking in the pool. They don't just they spy, force manufacturers to put backdoors in their products and plant logical timebombs in all other countries critical infrastructure, but they are forcing other countries to protect themselves. If over that, those governments does their own quote of surveillance, is anyway a small drop in the ocean that the US is doing.
Is amazing how much people focus in Brazil the blame, suspect of spying, or ulterior motives, and forget that they are just a symptom, and that more should follow example. But the disease, the one that should take all the blame, is barely named, and even justified when so. Put attention on the original action, not on the reactions thar will keep coming from the rest of the world.
And how that is worse than being spied, controlled, and manipulated by a foreing country, one that had no problem supporting the overthrow of a democratically elected president in Brazil in 1963, and that don't have clear hands on the recent revolutions in the middle east. Remember, they are reacting to what US is doing, place the fault where really is.
So the 0.1% will be able to defeat death and keep ruling forever. Our civilization is not at the right stage to do that, there are things that must be solved before giving that kind of power to people that clearly abuses it for their own good to opress the majority.
xkcd's Purity. In the other hand, can't take out of my head that Kepler originally tried to match that the orbits of the 6 known planets at that time with the shapes of the platonic solids, and this could face the same risk.
New IE Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Discovered... 3 years ago, reported to Microsoft, that reported it to the NSA, that took advantage of it all that time. Now a new, safer backdoor that only they should exploit is being deployed thru the fix for this vulnerability.
Is all those new slashdot redesigns, headlines can't hold all the relevant information anymore.
Android when launched looked like never would be mainstream. And a factor in its success was cyanogenmod letting install it even on phones that didn't sold with android, like old windows phones.
Also, not sure how much "secret sauce" it will have (or will try to have open source version or something close), but at the very least the company that makes it is not american. It could be less probable to have NSA intrussions compared with phones with iOS, Android, Windows Phone or even Blackberry. That could give it a push over the existing alternatives, at least in other countries.
If its only needed to run JVM, then no matter what OS runs it, it could be the same version of Linux. The main thing that you don't have (yet) with Docker regarding this is live migration of running containers between servers, as you have with VMWare/KVM/Xen VMs or (not so lightweight) OpenVZ containers.
Probably a lot of the ones that know about Docker asked themselves the same. I can install a JVM in a Docker container, install even the java app on it, and run it directly, no extra overhead, no messing with a shared filesystem with other apps. Is not that in practice what they are proposing to do? If you want a barebones Linux to run all of this, you can use CoreOS as a minimal Linux system to run docker containers.
And over that, you can in that way more things than just run java apps.
The root cause are not those. The root cause is that there is profit to be made, and that profit justifies things like replacing cleaner transportation alternatives with polluting ones.
There is just no profit in building an economy over renovable energies. The pipe that make everything run must be controlled, specially if is done by a few (and if new players come in the government is always willing to help them). And if that non-renovable but tight controllable energy is polluting, too bad, but they will do anything in their hand to avoid that the dependence on them weakens.
So maybe the right analogy would had been burning platform instead of boiling frogs? In any case, the more things stay as they are, the more damage they will keep getting, till it gets fatal. Maybe losing an arm would be bad, but is better than dying. And that will happen for sure if they keep supporting the big bully.
International agreements have 2 parts, if one of the parts misbehave that agreement could be nullified. The other countries could just leave the dollar as international trade standard. They can reject all US IP claims (if they as policy of state ignores the IP of foreing citizens/companies/etc, they well can do the same). Can do trade embargos (US love to do them, the rest can do it too). Can loose ties with US and move to i.e. China as main market. And, of course, can cut dependence on US based internet services and software.
Don't attribute to stupidity what can be adequately explained by greed/malice/agreement to a cheaper way to snoop in their own citizens/buying the promise that they won't be desestabilized next with the intelligence that US is gathering (ok, this one is stupidity too). After all, they don't have oil, so are still low in the list of priorities. Or maybe they didn't know what reaction they can do without shooting themselves in the foot, or that the intelligence gathered contains elements to blackmail them.
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The concience of the soldiers that pushed the buttons to send drones to schools? At least with robots you can hope for malfunctions. And the soldiers with a concience already discarding disobeying after Manning.
For they will be operating inside normal parameters to kill 50 civilians for each terrorist, enemy soldier or robber in US soil. Because police (or at least, swat teams) WILL use them.
In movies you should take care if the robot eyes shine in red light, or maybe yellow one. But for those robots you should take cover if they show Blue Eyes Of Death.
NSA (& associates) made that equation worthless when started to require to manufacturers to insert backdoors and timebombs into their products and spread privileged access over too much people.
So a single person or a group of them (either being insider, or finding how to access those backdoors deployed everywhere) with the right motivation can access most of world's critical information, including US one, and Snowden is a proof of that, the one that decided to go public, for good. What you don't know is how many in the past, present or future will abuse that privilege, or just will make a security mistake giving access to that information to the wrong people.
If something could end the EU is this kind of actions from UK, how you continue in something based on mutual trust when that trust is not deserved? This century Axis of evil has changed actors, but once again are a few countries (some of them inside Europe, some of them outside) vs the rest of the world, just wait for their next moves if you are still not doped enough.
Don't fall into the streetlight effect bias. Yes, sending probes is cheaper than sending robots, and sending robots is cheaper and less complex than send humans. But you won't learn all you need if you don't use all those alternatives where are best. Humans beat AIs and robots a lot of tasks, and is not something that should be discarded, but sending probes with sensors to space and robots to the surface of planets/asteoroids/moons, probably will have to be the first steps. Just follow the right order.
Maybe you can use poop as shield, not sure how efficient it is, but if is something that you produce and don't change the overall weight of the ship. But you will have better shielding at the end of the trip than at the start.
The major damage has been disclosed as a result of the Snowden. If you kill someone, bury the body, and someone else finds it, must he be charged with murder? Don't shoot the messenger, you could be the next victim.
And every country forces companies to put backdoors in their worldwide products, or give them directly the information, and not to tell anyone because is forbidden by secret law? Didn't know that Microsoft or Cisco were following indication of Russia or China government when put those backdoors there. That other (a very few) even try to go in their surveillance outside the borders don't make the NSA a good citizen, and they have definately the upper hand in a lot of areas.
But is ok, sleep in the lion's den if you feel safe, you know, could be tigers outside.
So is ok that US does it to all the world because other countries maybe doing it?
Even if the other countries, at most, and the ones that does it, does mostly in their own population or internal connections (and for those, how many started shortly after the arab spring? if some external power is social engineering a revolution is better to be aware of it). US not only does that on all the world, their citizens and all the foreing ones that are within their reach (and not just the ones that are connecting in that moment with US servers), but also is getting ready to fire cyberattacks on critical structure.
They are shitting, pissing, and puking in the pool. They don't just they spy, force manufacturers to put backdoors in their products and plant logical timebombs in all other countries critical infrastructure, but they are forcing other countries to protect themselves. If over that, those governments does their own quote of surveillance, is anyway a small drop in the ocean that the US is doing.
Is amazing how much people focus in Brazil the blame, suspect of spying, or ulterior motives, and forget that they are just a symptom, and that more should follow example. But the disease, the one that should take all the blame, is barely named, and even justified when so. Put attention on the original action, not on the reactions thar will keep coming from the rest of the world.
And how that is worse than being spied, controlled, and manipulated by a foreing country, one that had no problem supporting the overthrow of a democratically elected president in Brazil in 1963, and that don't have clear hands on the recent revolutions in the middle east. Remember, they are reacting to what US is doing, place the fault where really is.
So the 0.1% will be able to defeat death and keep ruling forever. Our civilization is not at the right stage to do that, there are things that must be solved before giving that kind of power to people that clearly abuses it for their own good to opress the majority.
xkcd's Purity. In the other hand, can't take out of my head that Kepler originally tried to match that the orbits of the 6 known planets at that time with the shapes of the platonic solids, and this could face the same risk.
New IE Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Discovered... 3 years ago, reported to Microsoft, that reported it to the NSA, that took advantage of it all that time. Now a new, safer backdoor that only they should exploit is being deployed thru the fix for this vulnerability.
Is all those new slashdot redesigns, headlines can't hold all the relevant information anymore.
Android when launched looked like never would be mainstream. And a factor in its success was cyanogenmod letting install it even on phones that didn't sold with android, like old windows phones.
If Sailfish releases a version that enable to install it in most android devices (i.e. this list could be a guide ) that way to gain market share and buzz around will be available. And when becomes popular enough the phones with it includes will be the natural continuation.
Also, not sure how much "secret sauce" it will have (or will try to have open source version or something close), but at the very least the company that makes it is not american. It could be less probable to have NSA intrussions compared with phones with iOS, Android, Windows Phone or even Blackberry. That could give it a push over the existing alternatives, at least in other countries.
If its only needed to run JVM, then no matter what OS runs it, it could be the same version of Linux. The main thing that you don't have (yet) with Docker regarding this is live migration of running containers between servers, as you have with VMWare/KVM/Xen VMs or (not so lightweight) OpenVZ containers.
Probably a lot of the ones that know about Docker asked themselves the same. I can install a JVM in a Docker container, install even the java app on it, and run it directly, no extra overhead, no messing with a shared filesystem with other apps. Is not that in practice what they are proposing to do? If you want a barebones Linux to run all of this, you can use CoreOS as a minimal Linux system to run docker containers.
And over that, you can in that way more things than just run java apps.
The government wont dare to touch their bosses. Any hint of this reaching the NSA will be promptly erased, even from the backups.
At least they are trying to do something in that (and others) respect.
The root cause are not those. The root cause is that there is profit to be made, and that profit justifies things like replacing cleaner transportation alternatives with polluting ones.
There is just no profit in building an economy over renovable energies. The pipe that make everything run must be controlled, specially if is done by a few (and if new players come in the government is always willing to help them). And if that non-renovable but tight controllable energy is polluting, too bad, but they will do anything in their hand to avoid that the dependence on them weakens.
So maybe the right analogy would had been burning platform instead of boiling frogs? In any case, the more things stay as they are, the more damage they will keep getting, till it gets fatal. Maybe losing an arm would be bad, but is better than dying. And that will happen for sure if they keep supporting the big bully.
International agreements have 2 parts, if one of the parts misbehave that agreement could be nullified. The other countries could just leave the dollar as international trade standard. They can reject all US IP claims (if they as policy of state ignores the IP of foreing citizens/companies/etc, they well can do the same). Can do trade embargos (US love to do them, the rest can do it too). Can loose ties with US and move to i.e. China as main market. And, of course, can cut dependence on US based internet services and software.
Else they are just boiling frogs.
Don't attribute to stupidity what can be adequately explained by greed/malice/agreement to a cheaper way to snoop in their own citizens/buying the promise that they won't be desestabilized next with the intelligence that US is gathering (ok, this one is stupidity too). After all, they don't have oil, so are still low in the list of priorities. Or maybe they didn't know what reaction they can do without shooting themselves in the foot, or that the intelligence gathered contains elements to blackmail them.
By now US is the prime example. China may be evil with its own population, but US is with the entire world's one.