if you actually know what you are doing (and care) you don't do this sort of testing by wandering around the campus saying "Can you hear me now?". You make actual measurements. There are instruments designed for this purpose. Of course, actual engineers are needed to design the tests and interpret the results, which may be the problem.
Other side of the story is that for example on the Somalian waters the international navy basically gives cover to illegal fishers...
Unfortunately most of those fishing boats are technically legal, having purchased licenses from the UN-recognized government (which controls no territory outside a few blocks in Mogadishu). The previous Islamic Courts government had the piracy problem under control, but the US and the EU hired the Ethiopians to knock it over, replacing it with the current mess.
If a document is not classified it is unclassified by definition and can be subject to a FOIA request. It is also not illegal for a government employee to release such a document (though doing so to the embarassment of one's boss could be a career-limiting move).
> Maybe Facebook users will migrate to The Real Internet too?
They like Facebook because they think of it as a "place" analogous to the mall that they used to hang out at. The Internet confuses and frightens them because it isn't like anything familiar. Decentralization is beyond them.
> the degree of molten-ness depends mostly on composition, not square-cubiness.
The rate of heat production is proportional to volume while the rate of heat loss is proportional to surface area so equilibrium temperature is proportional to the 3/2 power of diameter.
I don't really see a TV as being useful in pumping out spam, either, unless the manufacturers were putting mail agents in there to report problems back to the manufacturer.
The bot will have a built-in MTA, of course. More likely they will primarily be interested in stealing credentials, though.
Are all the internet connected TVs using the same CPUs and operating systems? If not you would need to craft ways to deploy your requisite applications for each CPU/OS combination (not to mention you would of course need compatible binaries for each of them).
Crafting a piece of malware that could compromise several tens of millions of TVs would be worth doing even if there were tens of millions of others that it would not run on.
Sure, you can run SSH and some of the others through Java, which may clear the CPU/OS hurdle (assuming of course that the set runs Java fairly well) but then how will you get them to run when you want?
The bot will run whenever the set is on, of course.
> 'I don't have to get a credential if I don't want to,'
Unless you want want to engage in any sort of non-cash transaction. Of course, if you try to live entirely on cash, you will eventually be accused of "money laundering"...
> 'There's no chance that 'a centralized database will emerge,'
No. It will stay hidden.
> 'we need the private sector to lead the implementation of this.'
Because that way when things go wrong you can blame the "evil corporations".
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> ...most young people know how to actually use a computer...
+5 funny.
if you actually know what you are doing (and care) you don't do this sort of testing by wandering around the campus saying "Can you hear me now?". You make actual measurements. There are instruments designed for this purpose. Of course, actual engineers are needed to design the tests and interpret the results, which may be the problem.
> ...how hard is it to take the phone through normal use case scenarios...
Easy, when you let the customers do it for you.
> Most stores refuse to sell to us...
Because the rights for your country were sold to someone in your country. That's who you need to deal with.
Publishers are old businesses.
> ...with cheese...
Aphid cheese.
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> What kind of beans are they?
Meter wide ones: the kind that grew on Jack's beanstalk. Quite a wallop when they fall from a few hundred feet up.
How about a fisherman who made the mistake of getting too close?
Since the cruise ship outran the pirates it's not clear that the noismaker had any effect.
> I don't see that as a feature (allowing the pirates to escape), rather a bug.
Why is letting them return to port empty-handed and with one or two of them bleeding to death a bug?
Unfortunately most of those fishing boats are technically legal, having purchased licenses from the UN-recognized government (which controls no territory outside a few blocks in Mogadishu). The previous Islamic Courts government had the piracy problem under control, but the US and the EU hired the Ethiopians to knock it over, replacing it with the current mess.
...it won't work more than once.
0. Stop classifying stuff that does not need to be secret.
If a document is not classified it is unclassified by definition and can be subject to a FOIA request. It is also not illegal for a government employee to release such a document (though doing so to the embarassment of one's boss could be a career-limiting move).
> Maybe Facebook users will migrate to The Real Internet too?
They like Facebook because they think of it as a "place" analogous to the mall that they used to hang out at. The Internet confuses and frightens them because it isn't like anything familiar. Decentralization is beyond them.
> the degree of molten-ness depends mostly on composition, not square-cubiness.
The rate of heat production is proportional to volume while the rate of heat loss is proportional to surface area so equilibrium temperature is proportional to the 3/2 power of diameter.
> A "Big iMac" sounds like something you can eat.
But you can only put iCondiments on it and you must hold it just so.
> This is one of the reasons I say we need NAT on IPV6.
No. You need a firewall.
> Maybe the core hasn't had enough time to cool entirely. Its a pretty small core.
A smaller planet cools faster.
> People watch that crap without being forced to?
Yes, billions of people watch television without being forced to. Amazing, isn't it?
The bot will have a built-in MTA, of course. More likely they will primarily be interested in stealing credentials, though.
Crafting a piece of malware that could compromise several tens of millions of TVs would be worth doing even if there were tens of millions of others that it would not run on.
The bot will run whenever the set is on, of course.
> 'We are not talking about a national ID card,'
Yes you are.
> 'I don't have to get a credential if I don't want to,'
Unless you want want to engage in any sort of non-cash transaction. Of course, if you try to live entirely on cash, you will eventually be accused of "money laundering"...
> 'There's no chance that 'a centralized database will emerge,'
No. It will stay hidden.
> 'we need the private sector to lead the implementation of this.'
Because that way when things go wrong you can blame the "evil corporations".