Without cameras in public places, we rely on other citizens to give evidence of a crime, which will be judged by still other citizens. None of those citizens is given particularly much power, but the weight of evidence still convicts.
With cameras, a totalitarian wannabe doesn't even have to train the Youth to do his bidding. The Tot already has stooges to inform on the population for violating arbitrary rules. His stooges (cameras, duh) give nearly-incontrovertible evidence---it's not just heresay, the jury can see it right there. And he can pick and choose who to target, since *everybody* gets caught on film.
I like the earlier argument that uniform enforcement will help flush out lousy laws, but I don't see that kind of activism in my town. Until I can trust the other citizens to be proactive supporters of liberty---not sheep more worried about what's on TV than what's happening in their town---I don't think it's wise to trust the police not to create a police state!
I ran across this very clever technique recently: an online magazine had a section that was open to google that had obfuscated versions of all their back articles. They randomly reorganizing the phrases in the article, but kept the metadata the same.
That preserves nearly all of the searchability without giving the articles away for free in the Google Cache. Then when you link to the article it redirects you to the "you gotta register/pay" portal.
If the NYT did that then it might get much better rankings, and hopefully it could charge a sane price like $10/mo or $.50/article instead of $3/article!
Check out LaserMate if that is what you're looking for. They have laser modules that take TTL-level input for datarates in the (low) megabits, and also modules that take analog input if you want to do some other waveform than square.
Then you just have to make the receiver, which could be any RadioShack phototransistor...
Lucent Silver and Gold cards have WEP support (40-bit DES for Silver, 128-bit for Gold), and this is supported by the Linux driver provided by Lucent (for Silver at least; my work with the code doesn't look like it supports the longer keys but I may be wrong).
Unfortunately (this is a problem with the standard) WEP is not public-key. So on one hand it will still be somewhat secure when quantumn computing comes out. On the other, that means I can only make the network secure if I trust the hosts. If it were public key, I could have the hosts hear the router and the router hear the hosts without the hosts hearing each other. But I guess that's what IPSec and ssh are for...
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Indeed, that is exactly the issue at hand.
Without cameras in public places, we rely on other citizens to give evidence of a crime, which will be judged by still other citizens. None of those citizens is given particularly much power, but the weight of evidence still convicts.
With cameras, a totalitarian wannabe doesn't even have to train the Youth to do his bidding. The Tot already has stooges to inform on the population for violating arbitrary rules. His stooges (cameras, duh) give nearly-incontrovertible evidence---it's not just heresay, the jury can see it right there. And he can pick and choose who to target, since *everybody* gets caught on film.
I like the earlier argument that uniform enforcement will help flush out lousy laws, but I don't see that kind of activism in my town. Until I can trust the other citizens to be proactive supporters of liberty---not sheep more worried about what's on TV than what's happening in their town---I don't think it's wise to trust the police not to create a police state!
I ran across this very clever technique recently: an online magazine had a section that was open to google that had obfuscated versions of all their back articles. They randomly reorganizing the phrases in the article, but kept the metadata the same.
That preserves nearly all of the searchability without giving the articles away for free in the Google Cache. Then when you link to the article it redirects you to the "you gotta register/pay" portal.
If the NYT did that then it might get much better rankings, and hopefully it could charge a sane price like $10/mo or $.50/article instead of $3/article!
Then you just have to make the receiver, which could be any RadioShack phototransistor...
Lucent Silver and Gold cards have WEP support (40-bit DES for Silver, 128-bit for Gold), and this is supported by the Linux driver provided by Lucent (for Silver at least; my work with the code doesn't look like it supports the longer keys but I may be wrong).
Unfortunately (this is a problem with the standard) WEP is not public-key. So on one hand it will still be somewhat secure when quantumn computing comes out. On the other, that means I can only make the network secure if I trust the hosts. If it were public key, I could have the hosts hear the router and the router hear the hosts without the hosts hearing each other. But I guess that's what IPSec and ssh are for...
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