I hear it used all the time. In phrases like 'password cracking' or 'WEP cracking'. It doesn't sound right to say hacking WEP or password hacking. For something like a website the term 'hacking' just sounds better than cracking. Maybe its an association of the word cracking with safe cracking. So it sounds more natural when referring to some kind of code that is being broken.
Between the x-ray powered strip searches, the paranoid interrogations, and sexual molestations by abusive, angry pedophile wannabe mall cops, only masochists and boot lickers will want to ride in what could have been a beautiful piece of engineering. I'd rather drive in relative freedom than take a bullet train and be humiliated, brutalized, violated, and treated like an inmate. To quote the Elephant Man, "I am not an animal!".
If the TSA could be kept away, then it would be great. But that isn't going to happen.
Why ex-gamers exactly? Is there something about parenthood that prevents you from playing games?
I am in my 40s and still play computer games on a regular basis. If I had kids I could recommend games going back to the early 80s. Computer games have been around at least since the 70s. The graphics have gotten a lot better though right up until Crysis where they finally hit a ceiling. At this point I guess graphics less good than Crysis are finally considered 'good enough'. Some people might have predicted that at this point gameplay would finally start improving. Unfortunately that didn't happen.
All you need to protect yourself is genuine anonymity. Internet Cafe + Tor + Freenet perhaps? But gangsters are generally not too bright. They may just randomly kill people who they have heard work with that internet stuff.
Actually Japan is generally far ahead of the US in robotics. And you can actually buy ASIMO for around the price of a car. Show me a single product that a civilian can buy from Boston Dynamics. As cool as and as uncanny valley as Petman and Big Dog/Alpha Dog are , they are not interested in any market but the US military.
And I bet ASIMO is much more practical. You couldn't even find out what Petman is capable of without a security clearance and a need to know, but I doubt it is anywhere near as advanced in terms of intelligence as ASIMO. And at the moment Petman is still dragging wires behind itself.
Which is to day, eliminating malaria is not a technical problem at all. Malaria used to be common where I live now, back in the 1800's. But improved sanitation fixed that over a century ago.
Not only is it a technical problem but it is a very difficult one. And what kind of 'improved sanitation' can eradicate malaria?
Actually I have a better idea. How about respecting everyone's freedom and human rights? No matter what their religion or skin color may be. Even when they look different from you. How about accepting that nothing in life is without risk? How about remembering that this country used to stand for liberty and freedom at any price. Bad things occasionally happen. That's life. It doesn't require changing the whole philosophy of our Republic from a Republic of Liberty to a Republic of Fear and Paranoia. We have come full circle from Liberty at Any Price to Security at Any Price. East Germany was not supposed to be an instruction manual.
You could require all passengers to enter the plane completely naked and undergo cavity searches more thorough than you would get upon entering prison. You could give everyone medical xrays to see inside their bodies. You could only allow white US born citizens on commercial aircraft. You could forbid anyone of certain religions or nationalities or skin color from flying. You could require full background checks of the kind you would get applying for a government security clearance for everyone who wants to fly. Do you think placing all people appearing to be of Middle Eastern descent in extermination camps would be enough to calm people's fears? How far would you be willing to go to make people less afraid? Who gets to decide how far is too far?
Some of these things are more than security theater. Forcing everyone to fly naked and undergo full cavity searches and x-rays really could make flying safer. They won't stop your plane from being struck by lighting though. It would be safer never to leave your house. You could die in a car accident or be struck by lightning or even be abducted by aliens. Perhaps the government should place everyone under house arrest until further notice. That wouldn't stop terrorists from invading your home however. For that we would need heavily armed security agents on every street in America. To keep us safe.
And why draw the line only with aircraft? What about trains and subways and buses and bridges and tunnels and rush hour traffic jams and sporting events and cinemas and hospital emergency rooms and New Years Eve celebrations and shopping malls and schools and even busy restaurants? Should we have x-ray, strip search, cavity search, interrogation checkpoints for all of these?
And as far as I know, usage is not a requirement to fly.
Actually it kind of is. If you are selected for x-ray harrassment your choices are: 1) Be irradiated with x-rays and be viewed naked by some snickering perverts in a back room. And then maybe sexually molested anyway. 2) Engage in sexual activity with an ugly, obese, same-sex, authoritarian sicko pedophile. This basically involves a bit of a hand-job and/or anal exploration for the men and a bit of breast-squeezing and shallow fingering for the women. 3) Leave the airport and don't fly that day. This choice may or may not involve being arrested or even fined by the TSA for failure to complete the screening process. This is the correct choice, but it is also the most expensive one (if you don't count therapist bills for the sexual molestation).
Tea Partiers are not anarchists. They are just old school Republicans. You know like Ronald Reagan Republicans. Perhaps you are thinking of Libertarians. Or, more to the point, Anarcho-Libertarians. Anarcho-Libertarians can genuinely be described as anarchists without straw man building. Tea Party supporters cannot be. They are just old fashioned republicans who don't agree with where the Party is headed. Many Democrats seem to have a similar problem. Not every Democrat agrees with the mainstream Party either. I think both groups should split off and form their own parties.
Why do you think it was fear that motivated the Germans in WWII? I don't think fear is a plausible motivation for attempting to take over all of Europe and exterminate entire races of people just because you don't like them.
but if you've been in the US for a while, and can't figure out when to go to the License Bureau to get short lines, that's your problem, not the systems.
No. His point remains because the shorter lines at the DMV are a very recent development. At least in my state. If you just go back as little as 10 years there was no way to avoid 3+ hour lines. Now you can do a lot of things online that you used to have to go to the registry for.
However, using the credit card for dinning out all the time and then only paying the monthly minimum, you're heading for trouble.
That makes sense, but the US government seems to have an infinite credit limit.
What would happen if instead of cutting the space program, we decided to expand it beyond anything in human history: manned missions to establish permanent settlements not only on the moon, but on Mars, Europa, and Titan. Not just a space station, but an entire manufacturing facility at the Earth Moon Lagrange point, manned and unmanned insterstellar missions to Alpha Centauri, Epsilon Eridani, Tau Ceti, and Gliese 581 using nuclear pulse Orion ships the size of cities...
To get the gajillions of dollars to fund this race-into-space we just borrow it. What would actually happen if our debt became a thousand or even a million times what it is now? And would the outcome be different if the rest of the world could somehow be brainwashed into believing that the US would never, ever default on its debt?
Someone who shoots a thief is a murderer. Someone who robs is just a thief. So who is the bad guy? There are countries where shooting a fleeing thief (or presumed thief) will get you tried for murder. I like those countries. It's just common sense that murder is worse than theft and that one does not justify the other. If someone points a gun at you then you are free to shoot them on the assumption that they are about to shoot you. But shooting a running person in the back? That's murder. Plain and simple.
What would you have done if you were standing near another cop who was beating an innocent civilian for insulting him? Would you have intervened? Would you have reported him? Would you have testified against him in court? If he filed false charges (cover charges) against the victim of the beating would you come forward to testify for the victim that the other cops were testilying and that the victim was just an innocent (except for the insult) victim of police brutality?
Even if only 1 in 5 cops routinely violates peoples' rights, falsely arrests people on trumped up charges (contempt of cop), and beats or shoots people who don't show what they consider the proper amount of respect and fear in their presence, that is still a highly corrupt police force that is far more dangerous than any civilian group of criminals.
It is especially bad when the Blue Wall of Silence prevents the bad cops from being punished or fired.
Most people don't become cops because they want to help people. They become cops because they want to hurt people. The people they regard as 'scumbags' usually, but any civilian is a potential target for their rage. They usually only beat up men though. They'll torture-taze the women instead of beating them. Angry sadists without the courage to become real criminals or risk going to jail are attracted to law enforcement like flies to...
I sure hope you're not a cop, if you were I'd report you to the higher-ups I know to do my part in ensuring you either a) get help or b) don't work in a police force anywhere I can help it.
The cops would just laugh at you. And maybe target you for harassment. There are cops who have been caught on tape beating people up and who have even been found guilty in court who are still working as cops. Do you have any idea how hard it is to get a cop in any trouble? It's almost impossible. Part of the reason is district attorneys almost universally refuse to prosecute cops because their job depends on working closely with them. Also keep in mind that if you did by some miracle manage to get a bad cop in trouble he would probably come to your house and either beat the shit out of you or kill you. There is only one way to punish a cop in the US where the courts don't punish them. You have to kill them.
but the cops don't hassle me or steal or rob in my neighborhood.
As someone who was recently beaten up by a cop in a relatively wealthy suburb and then falsely charged with enough stuff to put me in prison (the real America) for a couple of years if the jury believes his lies, it is hard for me to sympathize. American cops are evil thugs. Period. I have lived in a number of third world countries and none of them had cops like we have. In most third world countries 'corrupt' means asking for and accepting small bribes. In the US it means sadistically beating innocent people for the fun of it and then trying their best to put them in prison for getting beat up (cover charges). And there is no oversight. The police police themselves here.
VIPR already has a presence at bus stations. They aren't yet stopping private passenger vehicles, but in TN TSA is randomly stopping trucks. We already have the state police and CBP thugs enforcing checkpoints on the roads officially to discourage drunk driving and illegal immigration respectively, but unofficially they are dragnets for illegal searches and interrogations in the hopes of scoring drug busts or whatever.
5. Hypothermia from being underdressed near Vostok, Antarctica which holds the record for the coldest temperature on the planet. I'm not sure what it feels like to freeze to death, but I'm betting it is less painful and unpleasant than most methods. Have a friend bury you in a chipped out block of ice. Poor man's cryonic storage. Like those frozen bodies on Mount Everest that have been there for decades.
4. Fill a room with nitrogen. Supposedly it doesn't have some of the nastier effects that Carbon Monoxide or Carbon Dioxide would have. It's what we normally breathe. You'd still might get headaches from the lack of oxygen before you passed out, but no suicide method is perfect.
3. I have heard that drowning is one of the more pleasant ways to day. Quite painless. Using excessive diving weights, drown yourself above the Challanger Deep, a part of Mariana Trench near Guam. Hopefully you would die before you reached the bottom 6.78 miles down. You would truly have gone where no man has gone before.
2. Radiation poisoning while attempting to build your own nuclear fission reactor. Or you could do the tickling the dragon's tail experiment by piling subcritical bricks of U235 on top of each other until you get a nice blue flash of Cerenkov radiation or maybe even a tiny nuclear explosion.
1. Try to beat the high altitude record for a manned gas balloon of 34.67 km set by Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather in 1961 in a 300 ft diameter balloon. Use hydrogen. You'd get to experience a view of the earth that you would never otherwise get to see. When your bottled oxygen ran out I am guessing you would asphyxiate in the near vacuum nearly 4 times higher than Mount Everest.
I think they are just trying to account for the 10-20% 'naive' inflation that most of us lower income people have noticed in the past years or two on food and most basic goods. That's exactly what I have noticed on products that I actually buy: 10% at the low end and 20% at the high end. Yes, I know that the government statistics deny it, but I can see the prices with my own eyes. I think the reason a lot of people haven't noticed it is that they are rich enough not to bother looking at prices too closely or remembering them. I make just over minimum wage. So I remember. I think it also takes a while for the inflation to fully propagate through the economy. Gradually it affects more and more products as companies realize they have no choice but to raise prices if they want to maintain the same profit margins in terms of actual goods. Or at least they will try.
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I hear it used all the time. In phrases like 'password cracking' or 'WEP cracking'. It doesn't sound right to say hacking WEP or password hacking. For something like a website the term 'hacking' just sounds better than cracking. Maybe its an association of the word cracking with safe cracking. So it sounds more natural when referring to some kind of code that is being broken.
Yes, this means that certain people cannot travel by air under any circumstances. That is as it should be.
Just as long as you are willing to be one of those people.
Between the x-ray powered strip searches, the paranoid interrogations, and sexual molestations by abusive, angry pedophile wannabe mall cops, only masochists and boot lickers will want to ride in what could have been a beautiful piece of engineering. I'd rather drive in relative freedom than take a bullet train and be humiliated, brutalized, violated, and treated like an inmate. To quote the Elephant Man, "I am not an animal!".
If the TSA could be kept away, then it would be great. But that isn't going to happen.
who are lovely hardworking honest people.
Are you sure you were in Thailand?
Soon all parents will be ex-gamers
Why ex-gamers exactly? Is there something about parenthood that prevents you from playing games?
I am in my 40s and still play computer games on a regular basis. If I had kids I could recommend games going back to the early 80s. Computer games have been around at least since the 70s. The graphics have gotten a lot better though right up until Crysis where they finally hit a ceiling. At this point I guess graphics less good than Crysis are finally considered 'good enough'. Some people might have predicted that at this point gameplay would finally start improving. Unfortunately that didn't happen.
Take your teenage angst elsewhere.
Says someone with a UID of over 2 1/2 million.
No. Those terraces are much more orderly.
All you need to protect yourself is genuine anonymity. Internet Cafe + Tor + Freenet perhaps? But gangsters are generally not too bright. They may just randomly kill people who they have heard work with that internet stuff.
Actually Japan is generally far ahead of the US in robotics. And you can actually buy ASIMO for around the price of a car. Show me a single product that a civilian can buy from Boston Dynamics. As cool as and as uncanny valley as Petman and Big Dog/Alpha Dog are , they are not interested in any market but the US military.
And I bet ASIMO is much more practical. You couldn't even find out what Petman is capable of without a security clearance and a need to know, but I doubt it is anywhere near as advanced in terms of intelligence as ASIMO. And at the moment Petman is still dragging wires behind itself.
Which is to day, eliminating malaria is not a technical problem at all. Malaria used to be common where I live now, back in the 1800's. But improved sanitation fixed that over a century ago.
Not only is it a technical problem but it is a very difficult one. And what kind of 'improved sanitation' can eradicate malaria?
Actually I have a better idea. How about respecting everyone's freedom and human rights? No matter what their religion or skin color may be. Even when they look different from you. How about accepting that nothing in life is without risk? How about remembering that this country used to stand for liberty and freedom at any price. Bad things occasionally happen. That's life. It doesn't require changing the whole philosophy of our Republic from a Republic of Liberty to a Republic of Fear and Paranoia. We have come full circle from Liberty at Any Price to Security at Any Price. East Germany was not supposed to be an instruction manual.
You could require all passengers to enter the plane completely naked and undergo cavity searches more thorough than you would get upon entering prison. You could give everyone medical xrays to see inside their bodies. You could only allow white US born citizens on commercial aircraft. You could forbid anyone of certain religions or nationalities or skin color from flying. You could require full background checks of the kind you would get applying for a government security clearance for everyone who wants to fly. Do you think placing all people appearing to be of Middle Eastern descent in extermination camps would be enough to calm people's fears? How far would you be willing to go to make people less afraid? Who gets to decide how far is too far?
Some of these things are more than security theater. Forcing everyone to fly naked and undergo full cavity searches and x-rays really could make flying safer. They won't stop your plane from being struck by lighting though. It would be safer never to leave your house. You could die in a car accident or be struck by lightning or even be abducted by aliens. Perhaps the government should place everyone under house arrest until further notice. That wouldn't stop terrorists from invading your home however. For that we would need heavily armed security agents on every street in America. To keep us safe.
And why draw the line only with aircraft? What about trains and subways and buses and bridges and tunnels and rush hour traffic jams and sporting events and cinemas and hospital emergency rooms and New Years Eve celebrations and shopping malls and schools and even busy restaurants? Should we have x-ray, strip search, cavity search, interrogation checkpoints for all of these?
And as far as I know, usage is not a requirement to fly.
Actually it kind of is. If you are selected for x-ray harrassment your choices are:
1) Be irradiated with x-rays and be viewed naked by some snickering perverts in a back room. And then maybe sexually molested anyway.
2) Engage in sexual activity with an ugly, obese, same-sex, authoritarian sicko pedophile. This basically involves a bit of a hand-job and/or anal exploration for the men and a bit of breast-squeezing and shallow fingering for the women.
3) Leave the airport and don't fly that day. This choice may or may not involve being arrested or even fined by the TSA for failure to complete the screening process. This is the correct choice, but it is also the most expensive one (if you don't count therapist bills for the sexual molestation).
Tea Partiers are not anarchists. They are just old school Republicans. You know like Ronald Reagan Republicans. Perhaps you are thinking of Libertarians. Or, more to the point, Anarcho-Libertarians. Anarcho-Libertarians can genuinely be described as anarchists without straw man building. Tea Party supporters cannot be. They are just old fashioned republicans who don't agree with where the Party is headed. Many Democrats seem to have a similar problem. Not every Democrat agrees with the mainstream Party either. I think both groups should split off and form their own parties.
Why do you think it was fear that motivated the Germans in WWII? I don't think fear is a plausible motivation for attempting to take over all of Europe and exterminate entire races of people just because you don't like them.
but if you've been in the US for a while, and can't figure out when to go to the License Bureau to get short lines, that's your problem, not the systems.
No. His point remains because the shorter lines at the DMV are a very recent development. At least in my state. If you just go back as little as 10 years there was no way to avoid 3+ hour lines. Now you can do a lot of things online that you used to have to go to the registry for.
However, using the credit card for dinning out all the time and then only paying the monthly minimum, you're heading for trouble.
That makes sense, but the US government seems to have an infinite credit limit.
What would happen if instead of cutting the space program, we decided to expand it beyond anything in human history: manned missions to establish permanent settlements not only on the moon, but on Mars, Europa, and Titan. Not just a space station, but an entire manufacturing facility at the Earth Moon Lagrange point, manned and unmanned insterstellar missions to Alpha Centauri, Epsilon Eridani, Tau Ceti, and Gliese 581 using nuclear pulse Orion ships the size of cities...
To get the gajillions of dollars to fund this race-into-space we just borrow it. What would actually happen if our debt became a thousand or even a million times what it is now? And would the outcome be different if the rest of the world could somehow be brainwashed into believing that the US would never, ever default on its debt?
Someone who shoots a thief is a murderer. Someone who robs is just a thief. So who is the bad guy? There are countries where shooting a fleeing thief (or presumed thief) will get you tried for murder. I like those countries. It's just common sense that murder is worse than theft and that one does not justify the other. If someone points a gun at you then you are free to shoot them on the assumption that they are about to shoot you. But shooting a running person in the back? That's murder. Plain and simple.
What would you have done if you were standing near another cop who was beating an innocent civilian for insulting him? Would you have intervened? Would you have reported him? Would you have testified against him in court? If he filed false charges (cover charges) against the victim of the beating would you come forward to testify for the victim that the other cops were testilying and that the victim was just an innocent (except for the insult) victim of police brutality?
Even if only 1 in 5 cops routinely violates peoples' rights, falsely arrests people on trumped up charges (contempt of cop), and beats or shoots people who don't show what they consider the proper amount of respect and fear in their presence, that is still a highly corrupt police force that is far more dangerous than any civilian group of criminals.
It is especially bad when the Blue Wall of Silence prevents the bad cops from being punished or fired.
Most people don't become cops because they want to help people. They become cops because they want to hurt people. The people they regard as 'scumbags' usually, but any civilian is a potential target for their rage. They usually only beat up men though. They'll torture-taze the women instead of beating them. Angry sadists without the courage to become real criminals or risk going to jail are attracted to law enforcement like flies to...
I sure hope you're not a cop, if you were I'd report you to the higher-ups I know to do my part in ensuring you either a) get help or b) don't work in a police force anywhere I can help it.
The cops would just laugh at you. And maybe target you for harassment. There are cops who have been caught on tape beating people up and who have even been found guilty in court who are still working as cops. Do you have any idea how hard it is to get a cop in any trouble? It's almost impossible. Part of the reason is district attorneys almost universally refuse to prosecute cops because their job depends on working closely with them. Also keep in mind that if you did by some miracle manage to get a bad cop in trouble he would probably come to your house and either beat the shit out of you or kill you. There is only one way to punish a cop in the US where the courts don't punish them. You have to kill them.
but the cops don't hassle me or steal or rob in my neighborhood.
As someone who was recently beaten up by a cop in a relatively wealthy suburb and then falsely charged with enough stuff to put me in prison (the real America) for a couple of years if the jury believes his lies, it is hard for me to sympathize. American cops are evil thugs. Period. I have lived in a number of third world countries and none of them had cops like we have. In most third world countries 'corrupt' means asking for and accepting small bribes. In the US it means sadistically beating innocent people for the fun of it and then trying their best to put them in prison for getting beat up (cover charges). And there is no oversight. The police police themselves here.
VIPR already has a presence at bus stations. They aren't yet stopping private passenger vehicles, but in TN TSA is randomly stopping trucks. We already have the state police and CBP thugs enforcing checkpoints on the roads officially to discourage drunk driving and illegal immigration respectively, but unofficially they are dragnets for illegal searches and interrogations in the hopes of scoring drug busts or whatever.
I had to think about that. Here are my top 5:
5. Hypothermia from being underdressed near Vostok, Antarctica which holds the record for the coldest temperature on the planet. I'm not sure what it feels like to freeze to death, but I'm betting it is less painful and unpleasant than most methods. Have a friend bury you in a chipped out block of ice. Poor man's cryonic storage. Like those frozen bodies on Mount Everest that have been there for decades.
4. Fill a room with nitrogen. Supposedly it doesn't have some of the nastier effects that Carbon Monoxide or Carbon Dioxide would have. It's what we normally breathe. You'd still might get headaches from the lack of oxygen before you passed out, but no suicide method is perfect.
3. I have heard that drowning is one of the more pleasant ways to day. Quite painless. Using excessive diving weights, drown yourself above the Challanger Deep, a part of Mariana Trench near Guam. Hopefully you would die before you reached the bottom 6.78 miles down. You would truly have gone where no man has gone before.
2. Radiation poisoning while attempting to build your own nuclear fission reactor. Or you could do the tickling the dragon's tail experiment by piling subcritical bricks of U235 on top of each other until you get a nice blue flash of Cerenkov radiation or maybe even a tiny nuclear explosion.
1. Try to beat the high altitude record for a manned gas balloon of 34.67 km set by Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather in 1961 in a 300 ft diameter balloon. Use hydrogen. You'd get to experience a view of the earth that you would never otherwise get to see. When your bottled oxygen ran out I am guessing you would asphyxiate in the near vacuum nearly 4 times higher than Mount Everest.
I'm afraid ritual suicide would be my only option.
I think they are just trying to account for the 10-20% 'naive' inflation that most of us lower income people have noticed in the past years or two on food and most basic goods. That's exactly what I have noticed on products that I actually buy: 10% at the low end and 20% at the high end. Yes, I know that the government statistics deny it, but I can see the prices with my own eyes. I think the reason a lot of people haven't noticed it is that they are rich enough not to bother looking at prices too closely or remembering them. I make just over minimum wage. So I remember. I think it also takes a while for the inflation to fully propagate through the economy. Gradually it affects more and more products as companies realize they have no choice but to raise prices if they want to maintain the same profit margins in terms of actual goods. Or at least they will try.