"Will that be before or after they have to hand them over to the secret police under the new Snooper's Charter?"
Neither. That data will have been slurped live in real time once end-to-end encryption is banned.
"I would love to see a national referendum on surveillance. I would bet we'd see at least 75% against."
Sadly you're totally wrong. Most normal people (i.e. those that don't read sites like slashdot) have fully swallowed and digested the message that snooping is needed to keep us safe from paedophiles and terrorists. I expect you would see 75% vote in favour, so FFS let's not have a referendum on it.
My school had a room full of Commodore PETs with cassette tape drives to load space invaders from. We were also given access to the nearby university's mainframe with teletype terminals with rolls of paper. These of course printed out your username and password, which was then safely disposed of in the bin next to each terminal.
That was the new mainframe. In the next room were the terminals for the punch cards for the old one.
Loyalty? Not so much.......
So this is a true story. I work for a small-ish company that had an MBO. We were tight with money because we had to be, and for legacy reasons had been using Lotus Smartsuite. No really - don't laugh. We still have loads of old documents we need to access occasionally in wordpro or 123 format.
Anyway, I installed open>libreoffice on everyones desktop. And the vast majority of users were happy with it. By happy, I mean didn't give a fuck since most users only do basic stuff.
But a very small minority of users complained very loudly. They claimed there were things they absolutely needed to do, that they couldn't do on Libreoffice. When I asked them to explain in detail what exactly so I could help (or at least understand), they never quite got round to telling me.
Eventually a new boss was appointed. He listened to the minority of loud complainers then added his own experience of MS Office only, and decided we needed to "upgrade our desktop IT". This was justified because it would "save money" and "improve morale".
So now everyone now has Office 2016, legally purchased of course. The funny thing is, it turns out that the loud complainers who didn't know how to do stuff in Libreoffice don't know how to do it in MS Office 2016 either. And the previously happy regular users who never needed any training to use Libreoffice because thier last experience of MS Office was circa 2003, now want training to learn how to use Office 2016.
This doesn't quite ring true to me due to a medium to long range missile like a Patriot having a minimum engagement range and altitude. I could find numbers, but a google search shows that the Patriot flies for 9 seconds before it is armed, which is quite a long way for a object that quickly accelerates to maybe ~mach 3.
How high does a $200 drone fly, and how far away can you spot it on radar at that altitude?
Check out the F-Droid store. K9mail for email, OsmAnd~ for mapping/navigation, firefox, vlc, Face Slim if you really must use facebook. Not using google play store and the related services does wonders for your battery life.
It's perfectly feasible to run a productively useful yet google-free android phone.
You can't take insurance against being caught committing a crime. If what Uber is doing is illegal and there is an accident, insurance won't cover it and (in effect) Uber's shareholders will pay.
If someone sends you a file which wants to run a vba macro then you hope to god your firewall or antivirus blocks it before it can execute on your computer.
Any article about KDE seems to bring out the haters, but I have used it since version 1 on Corel Linux (remeber Corel?). I've tried most other desktops over the years, and particularly tried really hard to like Enlightenment, but have always stuck with KDE. Even through the dodgy early years of KDE4. I just love how well all KDE apps integrate together, and I actually like that I can customise everything if I want.
You do realise you could get your kid a key cut, and it would be much cheaper. If your kid is old enough to be going home alone, he's old enough to have a key.
Or leave a spare key with a neighbour, like people used to when they knew and talked to their neighbours.
Is it possible to use LXC containers in an android kernel? Containerise the app and control it's access. Maybe use that to allow the presentation of multiple different address books to different containers so that Facebook only gets to see the contacts you actually use Whatsapp to talk to. Feed fake location data to other apps so they think you are in Antarctica.
If you have a rooted phone and something like titanium backup then you can simply freeze location services and all the other google stuff you don't want or need (including maps).
I use osmand for navigation as it works offline with downloaded maps. All the google stuff is frozen all the time, apart from brief occasions when I unfreeze just enough to pull app updates from play store.
Seriously, if you're going to rob banks then root your phone first.....
If I run over your child, I might be prosecuted if the police can prove I was drunk or driving dangerously. You could try sueing me, but I haven't got enough for you to recover your legal costs.
When the self-driving car made by a large multi-national corporation runs over your child, you will be rapidly surrounded by lawyers desperate to represent you as you try to claim your millions. Even if the child runs out in front of you, they will claim that a human could have anticipated it, and therefore the self-driving car should have.
If the self-driving car does anticipate it and brake in time to miss the child, the driver of the car behind will sue for whiplash when he runs into the back of you.
It will be a field day for lawyers when machines made by deep-pocketed corporations are responsible for decisions, as opposed to fallible and poor humans.
There is no human right to post on social media. There is a human right to privacy. So yeah, someone does have the right to ask not to feature in your facebook postings.
I'll settle for that. We are on Win 7 Pro at work. Apparently Win 10 Pro isn't equivalent, and to get the same level of control we will need to get Win 10 Enterprise at whatever cost.
It's 2016 now, so I hope that between now and 2020 either MS will see sense and start treating it's customers decently, or managing the corporate network will be someone elses problem.
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I remember songs and sometimes replay them entirely in my head. Is that OK? What about if I sing along to the song in my head, and someone else hears?
In 10 Downing Street, Theresa May is reading this and drooling. Once she is rid of that pesky human rights convention............
"Will that be before or after they have to hand them over to the secret police under the new Snooper's Charter?" Neither. That data will have been slurped live in real time once end-to-end encryption is banned.
"I would love to see a national referendum on surveillance. I would bet we'd see at least 75% against." Sadly you're totally wrong. Most normal people (i.e. those that don't read sites like slashdot) have fully swallowed and digested the message that snooping is needed to keep us safe from paedophiles and terrorists. I expect you would see 75% vote in favour, so FFS let's not have a referendum on it.
My school had a room full of Commodore PETs with cassette tape drives to load space invaders from. We were also given access to the nearby university's mainframe with teletype terminals with rolls of paper. These of course printed out your username and password, which was then safely disposed of in the bin next to each terminal. That was the new mainframe. In the next room were the terminals for the punch cards for the old one. Loyalty? Not so much.......
So this is a true story. I work for a small-ish company that had an MBO. We were tight with money because we had to be, and for legacy reasons had been using Lotus Smartsuite. No really - don't laugh. We still have loads of old documents we need to access occasionally in wordpro or 123 format. Anyway, I installed open>libreoffice on everyones desktop. And the vast majority of users were happy with it. By happy, I mean didn't give a fuck since most users only do basic stuff. But a very small minority of users complained very loudly. They claimed there were things they absolutely needed to do, that they couldn't do on Libreoffice. When I asked them to explain in detail what exactly so I could help (or at least understand), they never quite got round to telling me. Eventually a new boss was appointed. He listened to the minority of loud complainers then added his own experience of MS Office only, and decided we needed to "upgrade our desktop IT". This was justified because it would "save money" and "improve morale". So now everyone now has Office 2016, legally purchased of course. The funny thing is, it turns out that the loud complainers who didn't know how to do stuff in Libreoffice don't know how to do it in MS Office 2016 either. And the previously happy regular users who never needed any training to use Libreoffice because thier last experience of MS Office was circa 2003, now want training to learn how to use Office 2016.
I bet FreeDOS and ReactOS will run just fine.
This doesn't quite ring true to me due to a medium to long range missile like a Patriot having a minimum engagement range and altitude. I could find numbers, but a google search shows that the Patriot flies for 9 seconds before it is armed, which is quite a long way for a object that quickly accelerates to maybe ~mach 3. How high does a $200 drone fly, and how far away can you spot it on radar at that altitude?
Check out the F-Droid store. K9mail for email, OsmAnd~ for mapping/navigation, firefox, vlc, Face Slim if you really must use facebook. Not using google play store and the related services does wonders for your battery life. It's perfectly feasible to run a productively useful yet google-free android phone.
You can't take insurance against being caught committing a crime. If what Uber is doing is illegal and there is an accident, insurance won't cover it and (in effect) Uber's shareholders will pay.
And ReactOS!
If someone sends you a file which wants to run a vba macro then you hope to god your firewall or antivirus blocks it before it can execute on your computer.
some senior staff will be discplined, and they will be ordered to delete all the data gathered unlawfully. That's how it works, right?
Any article about KDE seems to bring out the haters, but I have used it since version 1 on Corel Linux (remeber Corel?). I've tried most other desktops over the years, and particularly tried really hard to like Enlightenment, but have always stuck with KDE. Even through the dodgy early years of KDE4. I just love how well all KDE apps integrate together, and I actually like that I can customise everything if I want.
You do realise you could get your kid a key cut, and it would be much cheaper. If your kid is old enough to be going home alone, he's old enough to have a key. Or leave a spare key with a neighbour, like people used to when they knew and talked to their neighbours.
Is it possible to use LXC containers in an android kernel? Containerise the app and control it's access. Maybe use that to allow the presentation of multiple different address books to different containers so that Facebook only gets to see the contacts you actually use Whatsapp to talk to. Feed fake location data to other apps so they think you are in Antarctica.
My friends, my girlfriend and my mother are all on facebook, and I still choose not to use it. Other means of communication are available.
I think we should be thanking the North Koreans for demonstrating that making ballistic missiles that actually work isn't easy.
If you have a rooted phone and something like titanium backup then you can simply freeze location services and all the other google stuff you don't want or need (including maps). I use osmand for navigation as it works offline with downloaded maps. All the google stuff is frozen all the time, apart from brief occasions when I unfreeze just enough to pull app updates from play store. Seriously, if you're going to rob banks then root your phone first.....
If I run over your child, I might be prosecuted if the police can prove I was drunk or driving dangerously. You could try sueing me, but I haven't got enough for you to recover your legal costs. When the self-driving car made by a large multi-national corporation runs over your child, you will be rapidly surrounded by lawyers desperate to represent you as you try to claim your millions. Even if the child runs out in front of you, they will claim that a human could have anticipated it, and therefore the self-driving car should have. If the self-driving car does anticipate it and brake in time to miss the child, the driver of the car behind will sue for whiplash when he runs into the back of you. It will be a field day for lawyers when machines made by deep-pocketed corporations are responsible for decisions, as opposed to fallible and poor humans.
Can't I do that with my hosts file? Can anyone on slashdot help me with that?
There is no human right to post on social media. There is a human right to privacy. So yeah, someone does have the right to ask not to feature in your facebook postings.
I'll settle for that. We are on Win 7 Pro at work. Apparently Win 10 Pro isn't equivalent, and to get the same level of control we will need to get Win 10 Enterprise at whatever cost. It's 2016 now, so I hope that between now and 2020 either MS will see sense and start treating it's customers decently, or managing the corporate network will be someone elses problem.
Particularly series 2 of Blackadder, possibly the best thing ever in terms of comedy writing and acting.....
Because ketones are stinky?