Why is it that you can get arrested for smoking a joint, but when it comes to violating the constitution it seems that the worst punishment is "we'll cut your funding"?
Because the CIA funds its black ops with money from drug running, so it has to remain very illegal to keep the prices up.
Who do you think is really controlling things, the Congress or the permanent bureaucracy that makes the outcomes of elections largely meaningless?
Media blackout. A populace ignorant of goings on is easier to control.
Alternate media black-out. I can guarantee you CNN will be on the air saying what they're told[paid] to say.
And yes I am an ashamed American, ashamed of what my country has become.
You should be a proud American, but realize that the US Government has become an enemy of the idea the is America. There's a reason why the Founders spoke of "Enemies Foreign and Domestic".
Seems like a strange ruling to me. How is something intended to prevent bombs going off not to do with saving lives? I'm all for interpreting things like this narrowly, but the fact that you don't know in advance which lives you are saving doesn't seem like a sensible argument to me...
I haven't read the ruling yet, but just based on what you've got there, things like that could go either way. There's a very non-zero chance that if you take down the whole Internet, something will fail that's never been tested like that before. That something may very well have dangerous, even deadly consequences, not to mention the economic disruption.
So, you better have a damn good case for building the communications equivalent of nuking the homeland, and general vague scenarios might not fit that bill.
Oh, and let's put this on the "Espionage Act of 1917 needs to be repealed" pile - most of the country thinks the government is incompetent; giving them an Internet kill switch is as smart as passing out live grenades in the Kindergarten, and massive secrecy just lets the toddlers smuggle them in.
But, unfortunately, law by no means confines itself to its proper functions. And when it has exceeded its proper functions, it has not done so merely in some inconsequential and debatable matters. The law has gone further than this; it has acted in direct opposition to its own purpose. The law has been used to destroy its own objective: It has been applied to annihilating the justice that it was supposed to maintain; to limiting and destroying rights which its real purpose was to respect. The law has placed the collective force at the disposal of the unscrupulous who wish, without risk, to exploit the person, liberty, and property of others. It has converted plunder into a right, in order to protect plunder. And it has converted lawful defense into a crime, in order to punish lawful defense.
How has this perversion of the law been accomplished? And what have been the results?
The law has been perverted by the influence of two entirely different causes: stupid greed and false philanthropy. Let us speak of the first.
And also money. I know some people who have gone to work for the MIC when they might have gone to work for something non-destructive except for the funding problems.
Sadly, I think this situation is unavoidable, for you always encounter the argument: "better that we build it before somebody else does". Which I suppose is a valid point
It's not. The 'arms race' towards ever more deadly weapons only serves offensive purposes. If you want to have a peaceful nation you need a massively distributed low-level capability, not a highly centralized high-level capability.
If only I hadn't been raised on a steady diet of moral platitudes
Perhaps more people need to be. The current ones here are OK with the government taking trillions of dollars from them and their progeny every year and funneling it to the war machine. Imagine if that money went instead to solving hunger, clean water, or clean energy problems. But, as long as you have psychopaths with unconquerable libido dominandi running things, that's not going to happen.
They were all related to iTunes, which is all about music - and the Beatles worldwide trademark was established in 1968, so Apple Computers' conflicting mark had no legal leg to stand on.
Which is silly because nobody was confused that the iPod or iTunes were from the Beatles publishing company - the computer company was a far more successful brand by that point. It's actually a great example of trademark law just adding cost to the system and not doing what it's purported to be for.
Some things just have to wait for the technology to be ready.
I switched a couple years ago to running my daily work desktop via a VM on a server, at HD resolution, and it works great. The only time I remember I'm in VNC is when I try to play a video; not because the video stutters but because I haven't taken the time to hook up a network sound adapter yet.
You need fast networks, fast CPU's, proper segmentation, and lots of cheap storage for it to work.
I did testing of a prototype network computer for a big fruity computer company in the 90's. I worked great on the LAN, but over the T1 links on our WAN it wasn't practical. They were aiming it towards home users who were mostly still on dial-up. One of the execs there had a T3 to his house and couldn't understand why the project was going to be cancelled since it worked great for him.
Here were are in 2013 where HD video streaming to the living room is commonplace and the other IT parts have come into being in the past few years.
Heck, I remember when carrying a brick phone and a Newton was something that only high priests of geekdom would do. Technology marches along and these things become usable for the masses.
If they could use Ceylon over python for the system tools, that'd be a godsend. I know there are some good python programmers out there, but everybody writing Redhat system tools isn't a good python programmer. Node.js is coming along nicely, and that'd be a great combination.
Hrm, maybe next time I need to poke the hornet's nest...
We have a real problem where the PCI scanning vendors are so freaked out about BEAST attacks (where client hardening is the correct solution) that the only cipher they'll accept (server side) that's FIPS compliant and BEAST resistant is RC4.
What they should be doing instead is scoring people down for not doing ephemeral key exchange, scoring people down for not using TLS 1.2 and stop freaking out about CBC on the server side when getting rid of it is not even a thorough solution (fear of CBC is overblown, especially when compared to post-Snowden risks).
If you look at your ciphers, even if you're negotiating ephemeral ECC with Google, you're then using RC4 as your stream cipher. RC4 isn't _so_ horrible that this is a major risk, but it's a theoretical one and it might fall eventually. Ephemeral key exchange is there to prevent against future attacks on captured streams, so RC4 may not be the best pairing for that.
So, perhaps Microsoft is doing a good thing here and putting its weight behind some pressure to move past RC4.
and there's still a fight brewing over keccak rounds - NIST wants the rounds reduced to improve performance, at the same time we know that NSA has been weakening public crypto to hurt security. This may not be the case with keccak but the implications are strong enough and stock keccak good enough, that keccak, as submitted, should become SHA-3, not the reduced round version.
If that doesn't happen, we may just ignore NIST and do a community standard based on published keccak. NIST should take heed to not become irrelevant.
nah, this is great - patent all the methods for complying with illegal NSA spying to make sure that other companies can't do the same. It's an effective attack limiter to only one company per valid attack.
I'm pretending the NSA won't illegally coerce the companies into illegally violating the patents for the illegal surveillance they're coercing the companies into doing. Oh, sorry, that's the FBI, isn't it?
Well clearly you do not understand what the word "problem" means
Apparently it means that the kernel community is looking for more (younger) participants.
Funny how all the a-holes on this thread are posting A/C, eh? Besides that, every business school researcher who's looked at this issue has found that the environment the parent loves reduces productivity. It's the hazing culture that perpetuates it.
Bitcoin was advertized as the virtual currency NOT stored in one place with NO detrimental reliances upon any ONE server, person or gov't. WTF?
I don't know about this exchange, but there are a few Bitcoin management services, where they keep the wallet for you and you don't have to worry about running bitcoin yourself.
It's almost exactly like how a bank will hold cash for you, except these banks are typically uninsured.
3. States targeted by the NSA find it more viable than switching to linux, fund it to completion, and most of the world stops using Microsoft's version.
How about streamlining the process to get autopilots out to mass production?
Do you think the passage of this law hasn't stopped at least a few folks from texting while driving? If so, then hasn't the law done at least some good?
But if it's done more harm than good, it should be done away with.
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Why is it that you can get arrested for smoking a joint, but when it comes to violating the constitution it seems that the worst punishment is "we'll cut your funding"?
Because the CIA funds its black ops with money from drug running, so it has to remain very illegal to keep the prices up.
Who do you think is really controlling things, the Congress or the permanent bureaucracy that makes the outcomes of elections largely meaningless?
It appears EPIC's argument is that there is no such court.
EPIC Catch-22.
I always knew I'd find a way to get back at that small town meter maid.....
Oh, just pay the meters for other people and they'll completely flip out.
Defense is very tricky - perhaps you've heard of Pearl Harbor or 9/11?
They should really change the name back to the War Department.
Media blackout. A populace ignorant of goings on is easier to control.
Alternate media black-out. I can guarantee you CNN will be on the air saying what they're told[paid] to say.
And yes I am an ashamed American, ashamed of what my country has become.
You should be a proud American, but realize that the US Government has become an enemy of the idea the is America. There's a reason why the Founders spoke of "Enemies Foreign and Domestic".
Seems like a strange ruling to me. How is something intended to prevent bombs going off not to do with saving lives? I'm all for interpreting things like this narrowly, but the fact that you don't know in advance which lives you are saving doesn't seem like a sensible argument to me...
I haven't read the ruling yet, but just based on what you've got there, things like that could go either way. There's a very non-zero chance that if you take down the whole Internet, something will fail that's never been tested like that before. That something may very well have dangerous, even deadly consequences, not to mention the economic disruption.
So, you better have a damn good case for building the communications equivalent of nuking the homeland, and general vague scenarios might not fit that bill.
Oh, and let's put this on the "Espionage Act of 1917 needs to be repealed" pile - most of the country thinks the government is incompetent; giving them an Internet kill switch is as smart as passing out live grenades in the Kindergarten, and massive secrecy just lets the toddlers smuggle them in.
The main thing is that a problem is "neat".
And also money. I know some people who have gone to work for the MIC when they might have gone to work for something non-destructive except for the funding problems.
Sadly, I think this situation is unavoidable, for you always encounter the argument: "better that we build it before somebody else does". Which I suppose is a valid point
It's not. The 'arms race' towards ever more deadly weapons only serves offensive purposes. If you want to have a peaceful nation you need a massively distributed low-level capability, not a highly centralized high-level capability.
If only I hadn't been raised on a steady diet of moral platitudes
Perhaps more people need to be. The current ones here are OK with the government taking trillions of dollars from them and their progeny every year and funneling it to the war machine. Imagine if that money went instead to solving hunger, clean water, or clean energy problems. But, as long as you have psychopaths with unconquerable libido dominandi running things, that's not going to happen.
That's basically tyranny.
That's not what we were taught in government schooling.
Do you know where these steps originated?
Geez, politicians have been doing it since at least the Roman Senate.
They were all related to iTunes, which is all about music - and the Beatles worldwide trademark was established in 1968, so Apple Computers' conflicting mark had no legal leg to stand on.
Which is silly because nobody was confused that the iPod or iTunes were from the Beatles publishing company - the computer company was a far more successful brand by that point. It's actually a great example of trademark law just adding cost to the system and not doing what it's purported to be for.
It's technology that has died more times
Some things just have to wait for the technology to be ready.
I switched a couple years ago to running my daily work desktop via a VM on a server, at HD resolution, and it works great. The only time I remember I'm in VNC is when I try to play a video; not because the video stutters but because I haven't taken the time to hook up a network sound adapter yet.
You need fast networks, fast CPU's, proper segmentation, and lots of cheap storage for it to work.
I did testing of a prototype network computer for a big fruity computer company in the 90's. I worked great on the LAN, but over the T1 links on our WAN it wasn't practical. They were aiming it towards home users who were mostly still on dial-up. One of the execs there had a T3 to his house and couldn't understand why the project was going to be cancelled since it worked great for him.
Here were are in 2013 where HD video streaming to the living room is commonplace and the other IT parts have come into being in the past few years.
Heck, I remember when carrying a brick phone and a Newton was something that only high priests of geekdom would do. Technology marches along and these things become usable for the masses.
They probably will, but with that many people on the list, the list becomes worthless.
The author should put it up on Amazon for 99 cents for a limited time, given all this free publicity he'll probably sell a million copies.
If they could use Ceylon over python for the system tools, that'd be a godsend. I know there are some good python programmers out there, but everybody writing Redhat system tools isn't a good python programmer. Node.js is coming along nicely, and that'd be a great combination.
Hrm, maybe next time I need to poke the hornet's nest...
What, nobody makes an app that tells you when the traffic in front of you starts to move again? I think the camera is pointed the right way...
We have a real problem where the PCI scanning vendors are so freaked out about BEAST attacks (where client hardening is the correct solution) that the only cipher they'll accept (server side) that's FIPS compliant and BEAST resistant is RC4.
What they should be doing instead is scoring people down for not doing ephemeral key exchange, scoring people down for not using TLS 1.2 and stop freaking out about CBC on the server side when getting rid of it is not even a thorough solution (fear of CBC is overblown, especially when compared to post-Snowden risks).
If you look at your ciphers, even if you're negotiating ephemeral ECC with Google, you're then using RC4 as your stream cipher. RC4 isn't _so_ horrible that this is a major risk, but it's a theoretical one and it might fall eventually. Ephemeral key exchange is there to prevent against future attacks on captured streams, so RC4 may not be the best pairing for that.
So, perhaps Microsoft is doing a good thing here and putting its weight behind some pressure to move past RC4.
remember that while keccak was chosen as the SHA3
and there's still a fight brewing over keccak rounds - NIST wants the rounds reduced to improve performance, at the same time we know that NSA has been weakening public crypto to hurt security. This may not be the case with keccak but the implications are strong enough and stock keccak good enough, that keccak, as submitted, should become SHA-3, not the reduced round version.
If that doesn't happen, we may just ignore NIST and do a community standard based on published keccak. NIST should take heed to not become irrelevant.
nah, this is great - patent all the methods for complying with illegal NSA spying to make sure that other companies can't do the same. It's an effective attack limiter to only one company per valid attack.
I'm pretending the NSA won't illegally coerce the companies into illegally violating the patents for the illegal surveillance they're coercing the companies into doing. Oh, sorry, that's the FBI, isn't it?
Well clearly you do not understand what the word "problem" means
Apparently it means that the kernel community is looking for more (younger) participants.
Funny how all the a-holes on this thread are posting A/C, eh? Besides that, every business school researcher who's looked at this issue has found that the environment the parent loves reduces productivity. It's the hazing culture that perpetuates it.
You may not reproduce it without permission. Wheres the problem?
Reproducing a copy on the local hard drive to inspect the source? I know that's not what they meant, but it's what they wrote.
As I recall there's not even any insoluable fiber in the stuff. Pass.
And people fall for this?
Yep, pretty much like how most of the people I know keep their wealth in USD in US banks.
Nobody said most people were bright.
Bitcoin was advertized as the virtual currency NOT stored in one place with NO detrimental reliances upon any ONE server, person or gov't. WTF?
I don't know about this exchange, but there are a few Bitcoin management services, where they keep the wallet for you and you don't have to worry about running bitcoin yourself.
It's almost exactly like how a bank will hold cash for you, except these banks are typically uninsured.
3. States targeted by the NSA find it more viable than switching to linux, fund it to completion, and most of the world stops using Microsoft's version.
No, but what would you have them do instead?
How about streamlining the process to get autopilots out to mass production?
Do you think the passage of this law hasn't stopped at least a few folks from texting while driving? If so, then hasn't the law done at least some good?
But if it's done more harm than good, it should be done away with.