Where does it say that the purpose of govt is to regulate the free market? Why would the govt know better than industry which things should be standardized or not? Innovation is a Good Thing, and mandated standards pee on this.
Industry standards are great Govt mandated standards always make things worse and serve to enrich a minority of players. While penalizing innovators. Why should Switzerland care if one company wants to do its own thing, and some Swiss citizens choose to buy it? govt overreach, I prefer to live in US.
All the overseas airports I've seen recently have a dhs station before you board. Us imperialism ftw. Also, the summary mixed up Disneyland and disneyworld. Get it right!
> Here's a wild idea - have each state figure out where to store their own waste. Then let them fucking store it there. If they didn't know what to do with the waste, perhaps nuclear power wasn't the way to go.
This is a really cool idea. Instead of the Feds building a repository, they mandate that each state build one. Feds set rigorous standards. States can pay other states to store it. A nuclear waste market arises, capitalism ftw!
I'm trying to figure out how this works and what the threat level is. does it just lurk in the background and record any traffic going back and forth? or does it infiltrate the phone and extract things? The latter is obviously much more scary.
here's a list of what the device purports to capture (FTFA):
InterApp system extracts the following information from the targets smartphone: User email address, password and content Twitter, Facebook and other social media passwords and information Dropbox passwords & content Previous locations on map MSISDN and IMEI identities MAC address, device model, operating system Contact list of the target Photos Targets personal info: gender, age, address, education, etc.
i think randomizing some of the bits (as opposed to blocking them completely) would make a good bit of difference. Imagine this problem: * match a fingerprint against a database, assuming all bits are correct: easy, there's only one database call. * match a fingerprint against a database, assuming one bit is incorrect: harder, * match assuming only n out of N bits are correct and the rest are randomized (although you don't know which): incredibly hard.
2 interesting things about panopticlick: first, they report on browser fingerprinting, which is notoriously hard to defeat. second, they encourage users to allow ads from websites that purport to respect Do Not Track. there's no way to know if they actually respect it, and companies like google and facebook have been bald face liars in saying they respect it when they actually don't.
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Where does it say that the purpose of govt is to regulate the free market? Why would the govt know better than industry which things should be standardized or not? Innovation is a Good Thing, and mandated standards pee on this.
Industry standards are great Govt mandated standards always make things worse and serve to enrich a minority of players. While penalizing innovators. Why should Switzerland care if one company wants to do its own thing, and some Swiss citizens choose to buy it? govt overreach, I prefer to live in US.
Nobody knows what systemd really means, or where it came from.
>Hopefully, this is the start of a trend; the race to zero in the Windows laptop market is finally killing off some of the participants
I agree, pcs are more and more commoditized and it is harder to make a profit, but why is this something to hope for?
All the overseas airports I've seen recently have a dhs station before you board. Us imperialism ftw. Also, the summary mixed up Disneyland and disneyworld. Get it right!
> Here's a wild idea - have each state figure out where to store their own waste. Then let them fucking store it there. If they didn't know what to do with the waste, perhaps nuclear power wasn't the way to go.
This is a really cool idea. Instead of the Feds building a repository, they mandate that each state build one. Feds set rigorous standards. States can pay other states to store it. A nuclear waste market arises, capitalism ftw!
> but because of the relative orbits of Mars and Earth, the agency will have to wait at least 26 months before it can try to launch again
*opens ksp*
Checks out.
U-S-A! U-S-A! A reminder that space travel is 10% science and 90% nationalism. Take that, foreigners!
what is U-L-A?
i got it in the regular mail.
you're like a walking advent calendar...
Meanwhile, I just got my privacy notification saying all my deets were stolen from the GAO. People suck, and govt sucks harder.
I'm trying to figure out how this works and what the threat level is. does it just lurk in the background and record any traffic going back and forth? or does it infiltrate the phone and extract things? The latter is obviously much more scary.
here's a list of what the device purports to capture (FTFA):
InterApp system extracts the following information from the targets smartphone:
User email address, password and content
Twitter, Facebook and other social media passwords and information
Dropbox passwords & content
Previous locations on map
MSISDN and IMEI identities
MAC address, device model, operating system Contact list of the target
Photos
Targets personal info: gender, age, address, education, etc.
Yeah, don't yhey degrade over the course of years? That would be a boring video!
I know that. but what does it stand for?
what does wine stand for
agreed. better to blow somebody away when they are threatening you /nosnark
i think randomizing some of the bits (as opposed to blocking them completely) would make a good bit of difference. Imagine this problem:
* match a fingerprint against a database, assuming all bits are correct: easy, there's only one database call.
* match a fingerprint against a database, assuming one bit is incorrect: harder,
* match assuming only n out of N bits are correct and the rest are randomized (although you don't know which): incredibly hard.
its ok to have a unique hash as long as your hash is always changing.
presumably you just need to change one property? If they are just hashing together all these settings, this would scramble everything...
you just need one VPN. All of your browsers will have the same IP, but so will 10,000 other browsers from other users on that VPN.
Use different browsers for different web sites.
*wink*
2 interesting things about panopticlick: first, they report on browser fingerprinting, which is notoriously hard to defeat. second, they encourage users to allow ads from websites that purport to respect Do Not Track. there's no way to know if they actually respect it, and companies like google and facebook have been bald face liars in saying they respect it when they actually don't.
+1 truth, there are some brutal on ramps in downtown LA.
how do you enforce something 100% without going for a big brother solution? there are only so many cops.