What we need is NOT more gender separation, this time under the pretense of 'safety', but an actual fix that will bring safety without separation.
In other words - we need to go for the cause of the safety concerns - bad male behavior. This is not an easy fix because some areas of society is saturated with misogynistic attitudes, culture and traditions. This is made worse by the lack of consequence for men behaving badly, which easily can escalate into more rude and abusive behavior.
I can't say what the solution here is. A swift kick in the groin and a whack over the head may feel nice but I doubt it will have any long term effect on the rude behavior. Maybe we really need to directly outlaw catcalling and similar 'soft' abusive behavior, along with actual groping and similar invasive behavior, and punish with stiff fines and a stint behind bars.
Some airports have the worst wifi ever! People who are just passing through won't connect to roaming data services which are beyond expensive but will look for a working wifi anywhere. Passed through Toronto Pearson Airport late January 2016: Possibly the worst wifi ever. Hard to connect, frequent drops, basically no actual network connection. I was basically looking for *anything* to get connected and would most likely have jumped on any open network...
I'm completely amazed that the Iranian government don't see the obvious problem with their society when they need a 'morality police' to make the population comply with some arbitrary standard that the population obviously don't agree with. Shouldn't the standard be defined by the people, not by some out-of-touch-with-reality council or similar?
Am I the only one to see an arms race here? - Drones armed to take out birds, or escort drones means to distract the birds and keep them from attacking the important drone?
Like all arms races it can only either end badly or never - continuously escalating.
I still remap it to control. It's the only proper use of that key....
I tend to hit it when I go for the A-key so I've always simply remapped it to also be an A-key, or if I tend to hit both keys (depends on the keyboard) map it to do absolutely nothing.
The solution is obviously to use a machine generated one time password, possibly with a limited lifetime, to protect some data - for instance a password. It can be used only one time and the protected data delivered using SSL and is securely deleted afterwards. The real password would be stored inside this data and will only be in cleartext for the lifetime of the data or until it is fetched.
Are they going to actually collect taxes to get some funds? - From what I've heard most citizens pay nothing in taxes or there are so many loopholes that they can avoid actually paying the taxes.
How can it not be MY choice to decide what I DON'T want to see on my screen?!?!
I understand that content owners control stuff they create and can require me to pay to view or ban me from viewing, or even from replacing one set of ads with another before passing content to a third party, but they can't prevent me from closing my eyes or looking away so why should they think they can prevent me from removing junk from a webpage?
A lot of things are forbidden in Europe and we're better off for it. One day you stupid americans will learn that civilization is defined but what we forbid and not by what we allow. The more bans, the more civilized a country is. It's as simple as that.
You're kidding, right? Irony?
In my opinion we would be better off with absolutely no limits on free speech.
I've noticed that every single IP address has at least one segment >255. Perhaps it's a legal thing - their lawyers tell them not to show any address that might be in use by a real entity, and using invalid IPs is their equivilent of a 555 area code?
That is exactly what it is. Saw it as far back as the first "American Pie" movie. The legal angle is to avoid collision with real IPs (or phone numbers) which could result in nasty lawsuits.
Actually we can win. It is just a matter of not paying for movies and music for long enough and the Big Money will run out of money. Then the artists will have to reorganize in order to continue their career and make a living, and that will be the end of those huge media organizations as the only profitable way of making a living for the artists will be to sell directly to their fans, bypassing everything else thus both making stuff a lot cheaper to buy and to make distribution truly global and immediate - thus eliminating the two most fundamental reasons for pirating.
How incredibly likely... You are a fanatic willing to kill scores of innocents but won't use encryption because it's illegal? This has to be the most stupid idea in a long time!
BANNING ENCRYPTION WILL NOT PREVENT TERRORISTS FROM USING IT !!! Sorry for shouting but it's so bleeding obvious!
The only people that will respect such a ban would be normal law-abiding people and they are not likely to be interesting to Europol and similar.
...or geodiscrimination as I've always called it must be global and it should have happened 20 years ago.
It is one of the leading causes of piracy (unavailability of products locally) and a serious anachronism in a world long ago gone global communication-wise.
In many civilized countries, voters will receive a voter's card inviting them to vote at each election. To vote you show up with the card and it is matched with a list. In case of issues picture id may be required but that's extremely rare. When validated you get the ballot and do the actual voting.
How hard can that be?
Of course illegals with get no voter's card and cannot vote, but that's to be expected.
If you don't vote you'll have no say in the decisions made but it's all up to you. Making people vote by force will gain noting useful.
Aside from experiences, there's also the price. In some countries (Denmark) regular cab fare is pretty expensive and Uber and similar is far cheaper. Until recently it was a requirement that expensive high end cars (usually Mercedes) were used as cabs, and now more regular cars are often used, but the fares are centrally controlled and they have not come down.
Keep spreading the word about this device so that every single person, no matter how stupid, will know this device exists and that it can be used both to locate a specific phone extremely accurately, to access logs and other contents on certain phones, to eavesdrop on conversations and so on. People will also know that it can be used without a warrant so it may be used against them no matter what. Morale? - Don't carry a cellphone to a crime and used encryption software on the phone to ensure that anyone with such a device cannot eavesdrop.
But - as is the case with the infamous 'updated CDA' from the USA - nobody bothers to actually define the very fuzzy words 'offensive', 'indecent' and 'obscene' which means that you basically can get arrested and punished for saying ANYTHING as it just has to be offensive, indecent or obscene to someone, and you have no way of knowing in advance if you are breaking the law or not. This is exactly why the updates to the CDA has been struck down repeatedly.
It is sad that a supposedly civilized country like the UK has such laws that people can violate without knowing it.
* Copyright Infringements are not theft !!! * ISPs are not a police department despite their three-letter acronym 'ISP' !!!
Hopefully some court will slap those stupid publishers with a massive fine for contempt in wasting the courts time and for harassment of random people using evil blackmail tactics.
I thought Google lived by their "Do no evil" motto, but I guess "Think of the Children!" is more important.
Good thing I only use my gmail as backup. My real mail is handled by my very own private mailserver. Of course a MITM attack is possible against traffic to and from the server but then they need to be explicitly investigating me and then I guess it's okay.
A decade ago I was part of as team coding a fraud detection module for a payment system that looked up where the credit card had been used before and compared it with the current usage location and calculated a travel speed between the two. If the speed was reasonable and feasible all was well, but no consumer travels a warp speed between remote locations on our planet so that would raise a red flag. For online transactions it used the customer IP to geolocate the card user, not the location of the shop - of course.
Why reinvent a similar technology and add unnecessary complications like a cellphone, which may even be lent out during the vacation to avoid obscene roaming charges?
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You can get a basic SSL certificate for $5 or something like that these days.
What we need is NOT more gender separation, this time under the pretense of 'safety', but an actual fix that will bring safety without separation.
In other words - we need to go for the cause of the safety concerns - bad male behavior. This is not an easy fix because some areas of society is saturated with misogynistic attitudes, culture and traditions. This is made worse by the lack of consequence for men behaving badly, which easily can escalate into more rude and abusive behavior.
I can't say what the solution here is. A swift kick in the groin and a whack over the head may feel nice but I doubt it will have any long term effect on the rude behavior. Maybe we really need to directly outlaw catcalling and similar 'soft' abusive behavior, along with actual groping and similar invasive behavior, and punish with stiff fines and a stint behind bars.
Some airports have the worst wifi ever! People who are just passing through won't connect to roaming data services which are beyond expensive but will look for a working wifi anywhere. Passed through Toronto Pearson Airport late January 2016: Possibly the worst wifi ever. Hard to connect, frequent drops, basically no actual network connection. I was basically looking for *anything* to get connected and would most likely have jumped on any open network...
I'm completely amazed that the Iranian government don't see the obvious problem with their society when they need a 'morality police' to make the population comply with some arbitrary standard that the population obviously don't agree with. Shouldn't the standard be defined by the people, not by some out-of-touch-with-reality council or similar?
Religion is once again beyond stupid.
Am I the only one to see an arms race here? - Drones armed to take out birds, or escort drones means to distract the birds and keep them from attacking the important drone?
Like all arms races it can only either end badly or never - continuously escalating.
The logical next step! :)
I still remap it to control. It's the only proper use of that key. ...
I tend to hit it when I go for the A-key so I've always simply remapped it to also be an A-key, or if I tend to hit both keys (depends on the keyboard) map it to do absolutely nothing.
Huh? - So if you stop applying security updates you'll eventually have the ability to apply security updates cut off? - What good is that going to do?
The solution is obviously to use a machine generated one time password, possibly with a limited lifetime, to protect some data - for instance a password. It can be used only one time and the protected data delivered using SSL and is securely deleted afterwards. The real password would be stored inside this data and will only be in cleartext for the lifetime of the data or until it is fetched.
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Are they going to actually collect taxes to get some funds? - From what I've heard most citizens pay nothing in taxes or there are so many loopholes that they can avoid actually paying the taxes.
How can it not be MY choice to decide what I DON'T want to see on my screen?!?!
I understand that content owners control stuff they create and can require me to pay to view or ban me from viewing, or even from replacing one set of ads with another before passing content to a third party, but they can't prevent me from closing my eyes or looking away so why should they think they can prevent me from removing junk from a webpage?
A lot of things are forbidden in Europe and we're better off for it. One day you stupid americans will learn that civilization is defined but what we forbid and not by what we allow. The more bans, the more civilized a country is. It's as simple as that.
You're kidding, right? Irony?
In my opinion we would be better off with absolutely no limits on free speech.
I've noticed that every single IP address has at least one segment >255. Perhaps it's a legal thing - their lawyers tell them not to show any address that might be in use by a real entity, and using invalid IPs is their equivilent of a 555 area code?
That is exactly what it is. Saw it as far back as the first "American Pie" movie. The legal angle is to avoid collision with real IPs (or phone numbers) which could result in nasty lawsuits.
Actually we can win. It is just a matter of not paying for movies and music for long enough and the Big Money will run out of money. Then the artists will have to reorganize in order to continue their career and make a living, and that will be the end of those huge media organizations as the only profitable way of making a living for the artists will be to sell directly to their fans, bypassing everything else thus both making stuff a lot cheaper to buy and to make distribution truly global and immediate - thus eliminating the two most fundamental reasons for pirating.
How incredibly likely... You are a fanatic willing to kill scores of innocents but won't use encryption because it's illegal? This has to be the most stupid idea in a long time!
BANNING ENCRYPTION WILL NOT PREVENT TERRORISTS FROM USING IT !!!
Sorry for shouting but it's so bleeding obvious!
The only people that will respect such a ban would be normal law-abiding people and they are not likely to be interesting to Europol and similar.
...or geodiscrimination as I've always called it must be global and it should have happened 20 years ago.
It is one of the leading causes of piracy (unavailability of products locally) and a serious anachronism in a world long ago gone global communication-wise.
In many civilized countries, voters will receive a voter's card inviting them to vote at each election. To vote you show up with the card and it is matched with a list. In case of issues picture id may be required but that's extremely rare. When validated you get the ballot and do the actual voting.
How hard can that be?
Of course illegals with get no voter's card and cannot vote, but that's to be expected.
If you don't vote you'll have no say in the decisions made but it's all up to you. Making people vote by force will gain noting useful.
Aside from experiences, there's also the price. In some countries (Denmark) regular cab fare is pretty expensive and Uber and similar is far cheaper. Until recently it was a requirement that expensive high end cars (usually Mercedes) were used as cabs, and now more regular cars are often used, but the fares are centrally controlled and they have not come down.
Keep spreading the word about this device so that every single person, no matter how stupid, will know this device exists and that it can be used both to locate a specific phone extremely accurately, to access logs and other contents on certain phones, to eavesdrop on conversations and so on. People will also know that it can be used without a warrant so it may be used against them no matter what. Morale? - Don't carry a cellphone to a crime and used encryption software on the phone to ensure that anyone with such a device cannot eavesdrop.
But - as is the case with the infamous 'updated CDA' from the USA - nobody bothers to actually define the very fuzzy words 'offensive', 'indecent' and 'obscene' which means that you basically can get arrested and punished for saying ANYTHING as it just has to be offensive, indecent or obscene to someone, and you have no way of knowing in advance if you are breaking the law or not. This is exactly why the updates to the CDA has been struck down repeatedly.
It is sad that a supposedly civilized country like the UK has such laws that people can violate without knowing it.
No. No. No.
How many times do we need to repeat these facts?
* Copyright Infringements are not theft !!!
* ISPs are not a police department despite their three-letter acronym 'ISP' !!!
Hopefully some court will slap those stupid publishers with a massive fine for contempt in wasting the courts time and for harassment of random people using evil blackmail tactics.
I thought Google lived by their "Do no evil" motto, but I guess "Think of the Children!" is more important.
Good thing I only use my gmail as backup. My real mail is handled by my very own private mailserver. Of course a MITM attack is possible against traffic to and from the server but then they need to be explicitly investigating me and then I guess it's okay.
Nothing copied elsewhere or onto tape? - Guess not. The cloud is SOOOO secure...
A decade ago I was part of as team coding a fraud detection module for a payment system that looked up where the credit card had been used before and compared it with the current usage location and calculated a travel speed between the two. If the speed was reasonable and feasible all was well, but no consumer travels a warp speed between remote locations on our planet so that would raise a red flag. For online transactions it used the customer IP to geolocate the card user, not the location of the shop - of course.
Why reinvent a similar technology and add unnecessary complications like a cellphone, which may even be lent out during the vacation to avoid obscene roaming charges?