What Diebold clearly don't understand (or care about) is that while trust in the election officials has always been very important, never before could one single person change all the votes in seconds leaving no evidence! Its like being able to stick your coat hanger through a stack of 50 million punch-cards and have the chads disappear into thin air. But that's not even half of it - they just assume that it can only be done with physical access to that machine - how can they be sure the data is secure on its way to the machine? What if its already been compromised? With a system as complex as the average computer you have allot of exits to cover. At least with paper it would take an army of people to fake 50 million ballots, with computers it could potentially take a few lines of code and an opportunity. Its not even in Diebolds interests to secure things like verifiable election logs, because, if something does screw up Diebold certainly wont want you to know. This is why we call privatisation "The short-sighted or externally lobbied greed of a government in which an enterprise requiring only better management is aquired by worse management who take all profits and place them in a tax haven or a yacht."
[Insert snooty remark about Bahrain not being Iraq]
He should have kept it in his palace and used it as his escape pod when the bombs dropped "Bwahahaha you may take Iraq, but i'll be back George W, i'll be back!" - I can see 3 years on, the US will have found 2 oil-tanker ships in the middle of the desert, 3 russian space probes, Darwins missing link and a McDonalds, but no WMDs;)
Do cell companies actually comprehend the fact that decent quality wireless access (even as low as 128k) for the same flat monthly price as wired 'dsl etc is such a killer app that they could even steal half the wired ISP userbase and have people accessing the net at home from their mobiles??? do they even understand that offering at the same price as current home access would mean that _anyone_ with a decent mobile phone would want it (you could browse the net on your phone without a laptop). Do they simply not understand how this would practically make 3G overtake GSM in one month? Who the fuck wants to pay stupid prices to download some stupid football goal video on their phone in poor streaming quality??? mobile broadband would kick so much and since most home connections arnt going to be used while the person is out they will easily switch to mobile and dump their current ISP! - you could even have a 'shared' account between 2 phones and only one person would be able to use the net at a time. Stop this stupid stone-age per/mb pricing or even more stone-age business plan pricing: If you can ensure a good network think about this: how many people have mobiles? how many people have broadband at home? they would all switch to paying you money mr greedy phone company and you could say good-bye to wireless access points in starbucks, whos going to want them anymore? internet cafes would surely take a hit to and all this going into your pockets, so fucking offer us the package at a reasonable price (ie the price we pay for fixed access now): we want to give you our money!!!!!!! stop wasting network bandwidth on stupid 'value added services' that no-one wants!
Frankly, i wouldnt even care if you did everything in your power to try and stop people using voip on your network, i just want decent net access:|
Its really a business decision - if the government of a country whos internet population is over 60 million demands that you stick a few lines of code in your software or they will block you totally, what are you gonna do? sure you're aiding and abetting crimes against humanity, but business is business and 60 million people is allot of business, its not like other companies don't do it - IBM supplied counting machines to the Nazis, Cisco supplies network equipment to the Great Firewall of China.
Also what exactly did they proove here? it seems a bit of a bad explination, if google was providing different chinese content based on your position relative to the firewall then that would mean the firewall was doing the censoring right? "Google China" means that google has determined you are in China from your IP or the address you typed - if the news was the same on both sides then that would be dodgy because it would mean the firewall wasnt changing anything so google must be?
Its OK aslong as people stick together in their unions. Its all about 2 parties - the customer and the server, the employee and the employer etc etc and its vital that both have a fair footing - look at consumers, we very rarely have any kind of fair footing and thats why we get ripped the fuck off! Its an interesting way to do things on an employee level but in the end its very easy for things to slip into just being about money and doing as little work as you can get away with for it. Obviously to be fair this system is gonna have to be used on CEOs, presidents etc..
Does anyone else read "quid pro quo" as "throw us a bone"? Its good and all that Microsoft are fighting so that we can get abit of extra content but really, this is extra content thats probably not going to be included in the albums' rar torrents so it doesnt really apply to most of us! Also i don't like the way they call it "effective DRM" is that misleading advertising? can they back that up?
I read the article it didnt explain much, people keep talking crap and speculating, can anyone explain.. when they say the password is stored on the device in XOR form do they mean XOR'd with some obvious key or just binary-flipped? Does this thing have its own CPU to do authentication/decrypting etc or does it install something on Windows etc? (im guessing it installs something on Windows and they just used a debugger to see what was going on?) if so why doesnt it have its own hardware to handle everything? that way theres nothing to sniff.. im sure you can get cheap enough hardware that would be small enough and powerful enough to pass all the data in time?
What would be nice is if you could just trap the little buggers automatically without you even having to wake up - next morning you just call the cops and have them picked up. Of course if you happened to be away for a couple of weeks it would be too bad that they starved to death..
In that situation you do the only thing you can do... you tell him you can sell him psycic generators that are 10 times more powerful then send him a parcel bomb.
yeah but there have been examples in history - especially big cargo ships carrying ammo - anything can produce a mushroom cloud and crater if its big enough, not just nuclear detonations.
if Bush thought he had any chance of passing this off as a nuclear test, he would be infront of the cameras right now telling everyone how we must bomb them back to the stone age.
Reading 'Mushroom Cloud Over North Korea' woke me up;) but its abit of a dud. Move along everyone, nothing to see here. Firstly, if it was a nuke theres no way it would be hidden for 4 days - the US would certainly want the news out, hell even i would support a pre-emptive attack on that evidence, and even if the didnt, lots of people would want to know so a cover up would be hard. The radiation would be picked up, its not. Even that padded-cell case wouldnt do an above ground test in the small country, it would be below ground or over the sea (he himself would be at risk from the radiation!). Its not a US bombing raid on a nuke facility, nuclear weapons dont go off when you drop bombs on them, they do give off lots of radiation tho. Its unlikely to be a US mini-nuke (although that would explain a cover-up) again because of the radiation: if it leaves a crater, you're gonna get fall-out and even if not from that, you'd get if from the nukes they destroy! From the location its probably a missile test gone wrong or some explosives all stored in one place or fuel?
Well its back, now the special effects can be done cheaply and the whole brand has been re-awoken (not that it was asleep) expect tons and tons of spin-off, more games more cartoons and definately tv shows - startrek/stargate style? we can only hope natalie portman has been signed up, if so, id hit it!
Whats the killer app here? no-one has found a reason yet that a PDA is more useful than some paper, most people who even have PDAs only use them for games really, everyone stores their numbers on their phones and notes on paper. Stick a very easy input system on a phone (as easy as a pen), make it easy and free to send anywhere and people might just do it. a way of writing that feels so good you would rather use it than pen and paper, the recognition doesnt need to be perfect, but instead of converting it right there it could be converted and kept with the original notes - when you want to search for something you search the converted text - some of which will be wrong but hopefully enough to get the keywords, then you read the original handwriting on your very hi-res screen and if you want you can convert it and correct it properly.
Fortunately the crackers/hackers and build-your-own camp don't agree.. as far as im concerned, if its in my house, i record what i like, get the fuck off my land.
If you look at the main 3 things that people use email for you can find solutions for each of them: most people use it to email friends and family, they already know each-others email address so spam could easily be blocked, its just the first email that they might have to add to their ok list but after that its fine. websites often use email to confirm accounts so you can just use a separate address and grab their email from the top of the pile. people use email to contact companies/websites - instead just give them a web-form! (yes you can spam a form but why would you bother just to spam one address? And if you have any other reason to email a random person who doesnt expect you, then their email provider/server could have a simple challenge-response: the first email you send, they send back an automated reply that gives you a simple obvious question, finish-the-sentence or riddle that you need to send a reply too, it could even be something as simple as "the red cat sat on the mat, what colour was the cat?", once thats done you're on the ok list, does anyone see a problem here?
If you have cameras you have to have some sort of protection law for the people who are going to be on them, everyone must have the right to see the tapes they appear on and the right for their image to be kept secure and not sold etc. Its also vital that policies are made and kept about recording and use - eg recordings must be deleted after x time and a camera may only be accessed in certain circumstances vs just random watching of people. I think this would have been good in NY during the RNC to record the unfair policing, its sometimes a evil but constant monitoring of people is not ok.
This is barely news, its really just yet another image enhancement algorithm that tries to make something out of nothing, unless they are doing something very new and innovative (unlikely) its not going to be much better than anything else. Also isnt it the directors job to make sure that you see in detail everything you need to see? thats what real close-ups and long-shots are for - so you can sit down and just watch the show!
The added bonus is that if we get enough of these they will kill off the spiders' food source, so we replace the spiders with these! i can live with that!! hell i can live with mini government controlled spy-bots that eat flies and run round my bathroom floor as long as they dont have 8 legs!
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What Diebold clearly don't understand (or care about) is that while trust in the election officials has always been very important, never before could one single person change all the votes in seconds leaving no evidence! Its like being able to stick your coat hanger through a stack of 50 million punch-cards and have the chads disappear into thin air. But that's not even half of it - they just assume that it can only be done with physical access to that machine - how can they be sure the data is secure on its way to the machine? What if its already been compromised? With a system as complex as the average computer you have allot of exits to cover. At least with paper it would take an army of people to fake 50 million ballots, with computers it could potentially take a few lines of code and an opportunity. Its not even in Diebolds interests to secure things like verifiable election logs, because, if something does screw up Diebold certainly wont want you to know. This is why we call privatisation "The short-sighted or externally lobbied greed of a government in which an enterprise requiring only better management is aquired by worse management who take all profits and place them in a tax haven or a yacht."
but can George W Bush?
[Insert snooty remark about Bahrain not being Iraq]
;)
He should have kept it in his palace and used it as his escape pod when the bombs dropped "Bwahahaha you may take Iraq, but i'll be back George W, i'll be back!" - I can see 3 years on, the US will have found 2 oil-tanker ships in the middle of the desert, 3 russian space probes, Darwins missing link and a McDonalds, but no WMDs
Do cell companies actually comprehend the fact that decent quality wireless access (even as low as 128k) for the same flat monthly price as wired 'dsl etc is such a killer app that they could even steal half the wired ISP userbase and have people accessing the net at home from their mobiles??? do they even understand that offering at the same price as current home access would mean that _anyone_ with a decent mobile phone would want it (you could browse the net on your phone without a laptop). Do they simply not understand how this would practically make 3G overtake GSM in one month? Who the fuck wants to pay stupid prices to download some stupid football goal video on their phone in poor streaming quality??? mobile broadband would kick so much and since most home connections arnt going to be used while the person is out they will easily switch to mobile and dump their current ISP! - you could even have a 'shared' account between 2 phones and only one person would be able to use the net at a time. Stop this stupid stone-age per/mb pricing or even more stone-age business plan pricing: If you can ensure a good network think about this: how many people have mobiles? how many people have broadband at home? they would all switch to paying you money mr greedy phone company and you could say good-bye to wireless access points in starbucks, whos going to want them anymore? internet cafes would surely take a hit to and all this going into your pockets, so fucking offer us the package at a reasonable price (ie the price we pay for fixed access now): we want to give you our money!!!!!!! stop wasting network bandwidth on stupid 'value added services' that no-one wants!
Frankly, i wouldnt even care if you did everything in your power to try and stop people using voip on your network, i just want decent net access:|
Its really a business decision - if the government of a country whos internet population is over 60 million demands that you stick a few lines of code in your software or they will block you totally, what are you gonna do? sure you're aiding and abetting crimes against humanity, but business is business and 60 million people is allot of business, its not like other companies don't do it - IBM supplied counting machines to the Nazis, Cisco supplies network equipment to the Great Firewall of China.
Also what exactly did they proove here? it seems a bit of a bad explination, if google was providing different chinese content based on your position relative to the firewall then that would mean the firewall was doing the censoring right? "Google China" means that google has determined you are in China from your IP or the address you typed - if the news was the same on both sides then that would be dodgy because it would mean the firewall wasnt changing anything so google must be?
Damnit they hate our freedom!.. wait a sec, who are these iraqi oil-stealing 50,000 killing terrorists?
Its OK aslong as people stick together in their unions. Its all about 2 parties - the customer and the server, the employee and the employer etc etc and its vital that both have a fair footing - look at consumers, we very rarely have any kind of fair footing and thats why we get ripped the fuck off! Its an interesting way to do things on an employee level but in the end its very easy for things to slip into just being about money and doing as little work as you can get away with for it. Obviously to be fair this system is gonna have to be used on CEOs, presidents etc..
Does anyone else read "quid pro quo" as "throw us a bone"? Its good and all that Microsoft are fighting so that we can get abit of extra content but really, this is extra content thats probably not going to be included in the albums' rar torrents so it doesnt really apply to most of us! Also i don't like the way they call it "effective DRM" is that misleading advertising? can they back that up?
sounds like you've got ad-ware.. is this on IE? if so then nothings off-limits, if not IE then thats just weird..
No i think its abit more than that, they know how to get the key without leaving a trace..
I read the article it didnt explain much, people keep talking crap and speculating, can anyone explain.. when they say the password is stored on the device in XOR form do they mean XOR'd with some obvious key or just binary-flipped? Does this thing have its own CPU to do authentication/decrypting etc or does it install something on Windows etc? (im guessing it installs something on Windows and they just used a debugger to see what was going on?) if so why doesnt it have its own hardware to handle everything? that way theres nothing to sniff.. im sure you can get cheap enough hardware that would be small enough and powerful enough to pass all the data in time?
You mean german shizer porn?
What would be nice is if you could just trap the little buggers automatically without you even having to wake up - next morning you just call the cops and have them picked up. Of course if you happened to be away for a couple of weeks it would be too bad that they starved to death..
In that situation you do the only thing you can do... you tell him you can sell him psycic generators that are 10 times more powerful then send him a parcel bomb.
yeah but there have been examples in history - especially big cargo ships carrying ammo - anything can produce a mushroom cloud and crater if its big enough, not just nuclear detonations.
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if Bush thought he had any chance of passing this off as a nuclear test, he would be infront of the cameras right now telling everyone how we must bomb them back to the stone age.
Reading 'Mushroom Cloud Over North Korea' woke me up ;) but its abit of a dud. Move along everyone, nothing to see here. Firstly, if it was a nuke theres no way it would be hidden for 4 days - the US would certainly want the news out, hell even i would support a pre-emptive attack on that evidence, and even if the didnt, lots of people would want to know so a cover up would be hard. The radiation would be picked up, its not. Even that padded-cell case wouldnt do an above ground test in the small country, it would be below ground or over the sea (he himself would be at risk from the radiation!). Its not a US bombing raid on a nuke facility, nuclear weapons dont go off when you drop bombs on them, they do give off lots of radiation tho. Its unlikely to be a US mini-nuke (although that would explain a cover-up) again because of the radiation: if it leaves a crater, you're gonna get fall-out and even if not from that, you'd get if from the nukes they destroy! From the location its probably a missile test gone wrong or some explosives all stored in one place or fuel?
Well its back, now the special effects can be done cheaply and the whole brand has been re-awoken (not that it was asleep) expect tons and tons of spin-off, more games more cartoons and definately tv shows - startrek/stargate style? we can only hope natalie portman has been signed up, if so, id hit it!
Whats the killer app here? no-one has found a reason yet that a PDA is more useful than some paper, most people who even have PDAs only use them for games really, everyone stores their numbers on their phones and notes on paper. Stick a very easy input system on a phone (as easy as a pen), make it easy and free to send anywhere and people might just do it. a way of writing that feels so good you would rather use it than pen and paper, the recognition doesnt need to be perfect, but instead of converting it right there it could be converted and kept with the original notes - when you want to search for something you search the converted text - some of which will be wrong but hopefully enough to get the keywords, then you read the original handwriting on your very hi-res screen and if you want you can convert it and correct it properly.
Fortunately the crackers/hackers and build-your-own camp don't agree.. as far as im concerned, if its in my house, i record what i like, get the fuck off my land.
If you look at the main 3 things that people use email for you can find solutions for each of them: most people use it to email friends and family, they already know each-others email address so spam could easily be blocked, its just the first email that they might have to add to their ok list but after that its fine. websites often use email to confirm accounts so you can just use a separate address and grab their email from the top of the pile. people use email to contact companies/websites - instead just give them a web-form! (yes you can spam a form but why would you bother just to spam one address? And if you have any other reason to email a random person who doesnt expect you, then their email provider/server could have a simple challenge-response: the first email you send, they send back an automated reply that gives you a simple obvious question, finish-the-sentence or riddle that you need to send a reply too, it could even be something as simple as "the red cat sat on the mat, what colour was the cat?", once thats done you're on the ok list, does anyone see a problem here?
If you have cameras you have to have some sort of protection law for the people who are going to be on them, everyone must have the right to see the tapes they appear on and the right for their image to be kept secure and not sold etc. Its also vital that policies are made and kept about recording and use - eg recordings must be deleted after x time and a camera may only be accessed in certain circumstances vs just random watching of people. I think this would have been good in NY during the RNC to record the unfair policing, its sometimes a evil but constant monitoring of people is not ok.
"Or were they merely designed to streamline outdated rules?"
The thing about bullshit speak is that it only works on stupid people..
This is barely news, its really just yet another image enhancement algorithm that tries to make something out of nothing, unless they are doing something very new and innovative (unlikely) its not going to be much better than anything else. Also isnt it the directors job to make sure that you see in detail everything you need to see? thats what real close-ups and long-shots are for - so you can sit down and just watch the show!
The added bonus is that if we get enough of these they will kill off the spiders' food source, so we replace the spiders with these! i can live with that!! hell i can live with mini government controlled spy-bots that eat flies and run round my bathroom floor as long as they dont have 8 legs!