What the govt can't do, is find out every IP address on the internet running this software and block it.
What if the chinese had a cluster of machines running NMAP or other such portscanner on large ip blocks looking for this specific open port and update the Great Firewall list of blocked IPs if they come back positive? Granted it could never get them all, but I'd imagine it would make a dent after a while.
Maybe some kind of power cable in the ribbon itself would be practical once this matures. Much like the third rail commuter trains use to get power without stringing overhead power lines.
Let bad guys use deniable encryption schemes and this won't even be a concern. Please, someone in the U.K. gov get a clue about encryption!
Doesn't seem likely. IIRC, its the law in Britain that you have to turn over your encryption key if lawfully ordered to. Even if you feed them keys for a RubberHose-type system of deniable encryption, I'm sure they'll detain you until it turns up something good. Law enforcement wouldn't buy that a sophisticated encryption system like that was set up solely for keeping cake recipes safe on your hard drive.
Mine was the IBM PCjr. To this day, you can see the dent in the roof of my childhood home from where my old man hit it after learning that IBM was dropping software and support for it a year after they bought it.
From there on out until my junior year of college, it was hand-me-down machines from my Dad's office. Having an IBM PC boatanchor built character when your peers had fancy 286s and 386s with actual hard drives and 3.5" floppy drives.
Intermediate hosts are infected either by eating food or water contaminated with infected cat faeces; by eating undercooked meat from other intermediate hosts containing Toxoplasma cysts
To be safe, make sure you cook your cat feces to 170 degrees or higher before eating.
An armed uprising in the U.S. wouldn't consist of a bunch of farmers walking out into a field with a banner which reads "we are revolting" and taking on a modern military head to head. It would be a conflict of ambush, sabotage and other guerilla tactics. Never underestimate a determined resistance movement fighting on its home soil. Viet-Nam and Afghanistan in the 1980s come to mind, and let's not forget Iraq . . . whose insurgency had its "back broken" ages ago. The important thing here is that there is nothing superficial to distinguish a citizen going along with the program from a revolutionary or a sympathizer who isn't.
A fair point.
You also forget that members of the military, reserves, national guard, etc. are still citizens with friends and relatives. Some of the soldiers would not take kindly to orders directing them to kill other U.S. citizens.
I have to disagree. An overriding theme of most militaries is dehumanization. On the battlefield, the killing of human beings is referred to by disconnected terminology like "taking out a target". A soldier, trained to carry out orders without question will not resist. Even if an order is illegal, a soldier risks jail or execution if he or she cannot prove that fact before a military kangaroo court.
That said, plenty of killing of US citizens went on during our civil war. The size of Gettysburg National cemetery says that soldiers wouldn't seem apt to disobey a direct order to kill other citizens. At that point, those fellow citzens become the enemy and must be destroyed as ordered.
Hi, remember me? I'm the first DVD you ever bought. Back in 1997, I cost you $25 and had no extra features. I eventually went down in price.
Would you like to meet my friend, VHS? He cost $25 a pop back in 1980, had no features, and was a linear format that degraded over each use. Maybe being from the past makes me naive (sorry no dots for you), but, it seems that the point of this article -- although factual -- is totally irrelavent.
Slashdot has now been visited by the Ghost of Media Past. Will the Ghost of Media Present show us Tiny Tim rocking out on an iPod?
The time is NOW to reverse these power grabs for Presidential authority and no oversight. Vote out those representatives and senators that have supported eliminating our rights and take back your lives
All it would take are a few choice terror attacks and the populace would be groveling for safety again. As pessimistic as this sounds, most Americans today have grown up in all the trappings of comfort and complacency that American living provides, a far cry from the conditions that spurred the Revolutionary war. Unless crackdowns on basic liberties trickle down to the Average Joe, taking away those comforts and distractions, nothing will change.
If revolution became necessary, the odds are overwhelming stacked against the resistance. You have a military that vastly outguns a ragtag citizen militia and a compliant media that would paint the opposition as traitors and terrorists, sapping their support from the common American.
I don't honestly see how 1776 could work again today.
She wasn't the only one removed, as a war supporter's tshirt got another woman removed...but the anti-war mom was the only one ARRESTED too.
As such, the charges were quickly dropped. This is a common tactic to silence people long enough to let an event take place. Much how the protestors for the 2004 RNC were swept up by NYPD, detained for duration of the RNC, and released with only a handful of the bunch being charged (many of which were later exonerated after videotape disproved the polices claims. Funny how police don't get charged with perjury...).
None of that seems to matter in this finding, merely conception (and probably enough development for the zygote to become a fetus so that there is blood, but I don't think that was said explicitly.)
Since when have so-called "facts" ever disuaded the anti-abortion nutters from pushing this crap in poor women's faces?
Corporate espionage especially. It's been common practice for years to have American intelligence services pass on information to Boeing regarding Airbus' activities and vice versa. Helps in the bidding and design process a bit.
A dual-carriageway is where those foppish dandies and their tin-lizzies really trip the light fantastic at breath-taking speeds of up to 25 miles-per-hour.
It'll scare the horses out of their wits! Huzzah! 23 skidoo!
A user may speak the words "Koko-wa-dokodesuka?" (Where is this?) in Japanese, for example, into the device's microphone, upon which a cartoon bird acting as an interpreter will pop up and start talking in the user's language. The bird is also able to translate the reply into Japanese.'
I'm glad that Bonzi Buddy has been able to find a new job.
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What the govt can't do, is find out every IP address on the internet
running this software and block it.
What if the chinese had a cluster of machines running NMAP or other such portscanner on large ip blocks looking for this specific open port and update the Great Firewall list of blocked IPs if they come back positive? Granted it could never get them all, but I'd imagine it would make a dent after a while.
Maybe some kind of power cable in the ribbon itself would be practical once this matures. Much like the third rail commuter trains use to get power without stringing overhead power lines.
Let bad guys use deniable encryption schemes and this won't even be a concern. Please, someone in the U.K. gov get a clue about encryption!
Doesn't seem likely. IIRC, its the law in Britain that you have to turn over your encryption key if lawfully ordered to. Even if you feed them keys for a RubberHose-type system of deniable encryption, I'm sure they'll detain you until it turns up something good. Law enforcement wouldn't buy that a sophisticated encryption system like that was set up solely for keeping cake recipes safe on your hard drive.
Slime Moulds are basically single celled organisms, and while they can achieve some interesting feats
Got that right. Canadians in the 80's had slime that reacted to the words "I don't know".
According to the Spinal Tap Principle, it's only a matter of time before someone makes one that goes to 11.
Did he hook you up with the outboard 64k ram upgrade?
Mine was the IBM PCjr. To this day, you can see the dent in the roof of my childhood home from where my old man hit it after learning that IBM was dropping software and support for it a year after they bought it.
From there on out until my junior year of college, it was hand-me-down machines from my Dad's office. Having an IBM PC boatanchor built character when your peers had fancy 286s and 386s with actual hard drives and 3.5" floppy drives.
Intermediate hosts are infected either by eating food or water contaminated with infected cat faeces; by eating undercooked meat from other intermediate hosts containing Toxoplasma cysts
To be safe, make sure you cook your cat feces to 170 degrees or higher before eating.
An armed uprising in the U.S. wouldn't consist of a bunch of farmers walking out into a field with a banner which reads "we are revolting" and taking on a modern military head to head. It would be a conflict of ambush, sabotage and other guerilla tactics. Never underestimate a determined resistance movement fighting on its home soil. Viet-Nam and Afghanistan in the 1980s come to mind, and let's not forget Iraq . . . whose insurgency had its "back broken" ages ago. The important thing here is that there is nothing superficial to distinguish a citizen going along with the program from a revolutionary or a sympathizer who isn't.
A fair point.
You also forget that members of the military, reserves, national guard, etc. are still citizens with friends and relatives. Some of the soldiers would not take kindly to orders directing them to kill other U.S. citizens.
I have to disagree. An overriding theme of most militaries is dehumanization. On the battlefield, the killing of human beings is referred to by disconnected terminology like "taking out a target". A soldier, trained to carry out orders without question will not resist. Even if an order is illegal, a soldier risks jail or execution if he or she cannot prove that fact before a military kangaroo court.
That said, plenty of killing of US citizens went on during our civil war. The size of Gettysburg National cemetery says that soldiers wouldn't seem apt to disobey a direct order to kill other citizens. At that point, those fellow citzens become the enemy and must be destroyed as ordered.
Hi, remember me? I'm the first DVD you ever bought. Back in 1997, I cost you $25 and had no extra features. I eventually went down in price.
Would you like to meet my friend, VHS? He cost $25 a pop back in 1980, had no features, and was a linear format that degraded over each use. Maybe being from the past makes me naive (sorry no dots for you), but, it seems that the point of this article -- although factual -- is totally irrelavent.
Slashdot has now been visited by the Ghost of Media Past. Will the Ghost of Media Present show us Tiny Tim rocking out on an iPod?
The time is NOW to reverse these power grabs for Presidential authority and no oversight. Vote out those representatives and senators that have supported eliminating our rights and take back your lives
All it would take are a few choice terror attacks and the populace would be groveling for safety again. As pessimistic as this sounds, most Americans today have grown up in all the trappings of comfort and complacency that American living provides, a far cry from the conditions that spurred the Revolutionary war. Unless crackdowns on basic liberties trickle down to the Average Joe, taking away those comforts and distractions, nothing will change.
If revolution became necessary, the odds are overwhelming stacked against the resistance. You have a military that vastly outguns a ragtag citizen militia and a compliant media that would paint the opposition as traitors and terrorists, sapping their support from the common American.
I don't honestly see how 1776 could work again today.
Attack: Cartoon
Defense: Death threats, burn down buildings, deface websites, protests, and the list goes on.
If those defenses worked, Cathy would have been off the comic pages years ago.
She wasn't the only one removed, as a war supporter's tshirt got another woman removed...but the anti-war mom was the only one ARRESTED too.
As such, the charges were quickly dropped. This is a common tactic to silence people long enough to let an event take place. Much how the protestors for the 2004 RNC were swept up by NYPD, detained for duration of the RNC, and released with only a handful of the bunch being charged (many of which were later exonerated after videotape disproved the polices claims. Funny how police don't get charged with perjury...).
None of that seems to matter in this finding, merely conception (and probably enough development for the zygote to become a fetus so that there is blood, but I don't think that was said explicitly.)
Since when have so-called "facts" ever disuaded the anti-abortion nutters from pushing this crap in poor women's faces?
The ancient greeks, for example, would probably not have made sense of the question "are you gay or straight?".
Of course they wouldn't have. Probably because they didn't speak english.
What job has led me to make these financially retarded career moves?
I'm a USAF fighter pilot.
Does your ego routinely write checks that your body can't cash?
I am a holographic engineer.
Awesome! Just like the holographic doctor from Voyager.
Do you work if you get removed from engineering?
Corporate espionage especially. It's been common practice for years to have American intelligence services pass on information to Boeing regarding Airbus' activities and vice versa. Helps in the bidding and design process a bit.
It's not my fault though, my mother subjected me to years of 'light' music on my way to school.
Years of 80s music made me think that this was the Karma Chameleon worm. Seems to come and go. Whoa-o-o.
This is the kind of guy who would sue because he stuck his tongue on a metal pole when it's significantly below freezing.
In other news, the suit has been amended to include a mysterious defendant who "triple-dog-dared" the plaintiff. More on this as it develops.
creating human-animal hybrids
Wiretaps, schwiretaps, HE'S GOING TO BAN FURRIES.
Thank you, Mr. President.
A dual-carriageway is where those foppish dandies and their tin-lizzies really trip the light fantastic at breath-taking speeds of up to 25 miles-per-hour.
It'll scare the horses out of their wits! Huzzah! 23 skidoo!
With Ethanol becoming more common in gasoline, your car can be DWI too!
A user may speak the words "Koko-wa-dokodesuka?" (Where is this?) in Japanese, for example, into the device's microphone, upon which a cartoon bird acting as an interpreter will pop up and start talking in the user's language. The bird is also able to translate the reply into Japanese.'
I'm glad that Bonzi Buddy has been able to find a new job.
Practical jokes? I'm thinking the SW angle is an excuse to get Kari into a slave Leia outfit.