Yeah, bitcoins are mostly all owned by a very small group, so using them effectively centralizes the money supply in a few hand. And that ultimately increases wealth inequality and decreases the velocity of money. I.e. bitcoin is bad for the economy.
If however you create a bitcoin alternative with a permanent constant inflation that pays out through mining then that constant inflation reduces the transaction costs below bitcoin's and serves to redistribute wealth slightly, making the currency very good for the economy.
We need new standards to minimize cross site scripting throughout the web, like maybe : - If you want to run code from a site other than your own then you need that code to jump through various obnoxious approval hurdles, which suck so bad that people abandon cross site scripting. - Restrict all off site cookie access massively as well.
We need better cross site script blocking apps. Ghostery is a nice start, but you must block facebook connect and may other's too. And then it starts getting complicated.
Every try using stackexchange sites with javascript blockers blocking cross site scripting? Very tricky!
TLS is useless against PRISM which simply takes records from the server.
You need end-to-end encryption like OTR over XMPP. Afaik all the good XMPP clients like Adium and Jitsi include OTR be default. Of course OTR does nothing against traffic analysis. Worse, OTR is not a mandatory part of the protocol.
TorChat is resistant to traffic analysis, but nobody uses it. Also, it's badly designed so that, if many people did use it, then it'd be hard on the Tor network.
Pond is a new attempt traffic analysis resistant messaging and email over Tor, but Pond is in pretty early stages of development.
There is ample historical precedent for authorities using sex crimes to silence successful dissidents who are obviously in the right.
John Wilkes was the first person to successfully publish the proceedings of parlement, arguably creating our notion of freedom of the press. He was also imprisoned for sex crimes. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/dec/11/henry-porter-wikileaks-cables
I'm imagine the U.S. would keep him for a while if they had him, but doing so would prove messy. In reality, the U.S. doesn't want him so long as someone else has a better way to punish him, which the Swedes do.
Assange has an awful lot of very astute writing and work leading up to Wikileaks, technically he's no Jacob Appelbaum, but his philosophical writing nails it.
Wikileaks was based upon that philosophy and changed our world by starting this "leaking culture", certainly leaking existed long before, but social factors preventing it were more powerful. Assange created a framework proving that leaking often works where internal reforms fail.
Assange has obviously been driven a little batty by the U.S. government's pursuit via Sweden, U.K., etc., but historians will continue talking about Assange long after they've forgotten about Bush, Clinton, etc. Anyone who can actually push all the way from new philosophy to real political change is a certified genius.
Worse, this sounds *far* less secure than using Tor's official bridge system, which does exactly the same thing.
Amazon might not share your data with Turkey directly. If however Turkey asks the CIA, etc., the CIA, etc. might very well take your data form Amazon using an NSL and send it to Turkey.
If you want a fast insecure VPN that's good enough for most things, then simply VPN through Amazon's EC2 or whatever.
If you want a more secure but slower VPN, then simply use Tor directly. If Tor seems blocked, follow the Tor bridge usage instructions.
Ideally, we need a standard for placing advertisements inside the music files themselves, basically a codec that controls the album artwork display. Bands could overlay the album artwork with links to their website, to make donations, tour information, etc. All controlled by whoever uploaded the mp3, which the band can always do first.
I fixed one fan in the machine myself after it went off warranty. It destroyed batteries and external power supplies too, albeit slower. I therefore believe the power system caused the problems. Apple replace many parts but never the internal power supply, probably cost them over $500 plus labor by not fixing it. I donno if they could realistically diagnose the power supply issue though, assuming it had one.
In Apple's defense, I travel lots and commonly got the machine repaired by Apple certified retailers, not Apple themselves. It's entirely possible they occasionally missed warning signs for power system issues that Apple's own diagnostic systems might pick up.
There are parts like hard drives, batteries, and power adapters that die faster than the warranty. My old MacBook Pro killed six hard drives over four years, mostly while AppleCare still applied. I recall my previous MacBook killing numerous drives as well. My almost two year old MacBook Air has killed the cable on 3 power supplies. I've had my top case replaced on all three machines as well.
If you use your equipment heavily, then you should expect that ordinary wear destroys some components before the warranty expires.
Yes, ordinary libertarians oppose oppose corporate welfare, etc., but so do most ordinary people, be they republicans, democrats, NRA members, union members, environmentalists, Keynesian economists, etc. at least most instances. In practice, an electable libertarian would support an awful lot of corporate welfare because that's how you win elections in the U.S. Ron Paul differs somewhat but he is anomalous.
The real question is what kind of campaign finance reform do they support? Will it be effective? etc.
Omg wow! Yeah that product already exists. I've seen em' used in profesional landscaping, although not at houses, well you only need wheels if the sprinkler is heavy. It's a trivial invention, but an old patent application form 1977 does exactly the same thing. I suppose the telescoping business might be new, but what the hell is the point in making it telescoping?
Thank you for reminding us about TEPCO as well as posting that specific link.
After Fukushima, the Japanese government lied about the radiation until a hacker space started building GPS radiation sensor devices. They gave an excellent talk from 29c3 : Safecast: DIY and citizen-sensing of radiation [29c3]
Did I mention they used Open Street Map? Open Street Map rocks! It's basically the wikipedia of maps, blows away google maps.
Anyone remember the IRS claiming they could read your email without a warrant? Yeah well, that's obviously debatable at present, especially if they want to just pay yahoo to scann everyone's email for signs of tax evasion. Yet, CISPA legalizes precisely that!
So that's what all these Republican and Democrat senators are really voting for here : To let the IRS scan everyone's email for signs of tax evasion.
Open a new retirement account with a couple different institutions? Bing, you're flagged for further investigation. etc.
Also, CISPA does nothing for real cybersecurity concerns because the NSA and CIA would already read your mail without a warrant.
They've no fixed value like $100k, but must prove they're paying more than the average pay for that job. It works extremely well, a shockingly huge proportion of Swiss residents are foreigners. In effect, if a Swiss company wants anybody in the world they know exactly what they need to do to hire them, no bullshit, just prove you want them by paying them more.
Amusingly, the Swiss immigration law exists at three levels, federal, canton, and local, so theoretically you might encounter really messy local immigration laws, but the Swiss are sensible about it.
Jeez, Schmidt is really one to talk about private organizations spying. It's almost as if he wants a wall of regulation that prevents others from fully exploiting computerized cameras.
You know, OpenStreetMaps already creams Google Maps' data. Just like wikipedia creams Quara, etc. I'm serious, if I pull up any random locate street, I'll find much better information on OpenStreetMaps. Can anyone say Open Street View?
I'd imagine Tor and VPNs work much better over Google Fiber than most U.S. ISPs.
At present, I block most google services and urls except search and certain tools everyone uses like Google's jquery.js from my default browser, Chrome. FireFox allows google services, but forbids remembering cookies, local storage, etc.
If you don't mind me trying to get the first thread back on track, the results quoted here apply to Sweden, not necessarily the U.S.
Sweden has a multi-party parliamentary system. Parliamentary system do create inequality that favors established parties, especially first-past-the-post ones like the U.K. Yet, their process of government formation means electing small parties isn't automatic pork suicide for districts. So at least some small parties get in and influence the direction for future changes.
In other words, Swedes change their mind because they've some choice. American parties more resemble sports teams. Yes, one plays nastier than the other, but fundamentally Americans might not change their minds because neither party represents much meaningful change.
Bertrand Russell computed that nobody should work more than 4 hours per day when he wrote In Praise of Idleness. That was over 80 years ago, before computers. Today, there is basically no reason anybody should be working more than a couple hours per week. Except..
We're consuming a fair bit more with two cars instead of one car, longer distance vacations, etc. All that warrants an extra couple hours per week, but it'd never cost more than that.
So where does the money go? You claim some things grow more expensive? Actually no, almost everything has grown massively cheaper, excluding a few commodities and maybe social security. You claim healthcare got more expensive? Again no, healthcare got massively cheaper : http://truecostofhealthcare.org/video_presentation
You remind me that unnecessary law enforcement caused over 12% of the total increase in federal spending over the last 30 years? Fair enough, but law enforcement has grown massively more efficient too, partially to information technology, but.. We don't even bother holding trials now, if you're accused, you just negotiate your punishment with the prosecutor. If you stand up for your right to a trial, you get locked away for decades.
Really, anything you might mention, I can prove the actual costs declined. Even military costs declined.
So why does stuff still cost so much? It's many reasons, market forces, corruption, graft, exploitation, etc., but the fancy summary word is rent seeking, meaning insiders manipulating the economy to extract non-value added benefits.
Righties blame the government for this. Lefties blame the corporations for this. Both are completely correct, but corruption a fundamental feature of human nature.
We're perfectly able to create a society where almost nobody works more than they want to and everybody works on stuff they consider fun. We choose not do create this society so that rich and powerful people can become more rich and powerful.
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Yeah, bitcoins are mostly all owned by a very small group, so using them effectively centralizes the money supply in a few hand. And that ultimately increases wealth inequality and decreases the velocity of money. I.e. bitcoin is bad for the economy.
If however you create a bitcoin alternative with a permanent constant inflation that pays out through mining then that constant inflation reduces the transaction costs below bitcoin's and serves to redistribute wealth slightly, making the currency very good for the economy.
We need new standards to minimize cross site scripting throughout the web, like maybe :
- If you want to run code from a site other than your own then you need that code to jump through various obnoxious approval hurdles, which suck so bad that people abandon cross site scripting.
- Restrict all off site cookie access massively as well.
We need better cross site script blocking apps. Ghostery is a nice start, but you must block facebook connect and may other's too. And then it starts getting complicated.
Every try using stackexchange sites with javascript blockers blocking cross site scripting? Very tricky!
TLS is useless against PRISM which simply takes records from the server.
You need end-to-end encryption like OTR over XMPP. Afaik all the good XMPP clients like Adium and Jitsi include OTR be default. Of course OTR does nothing against traffic analysis. Worse, OTR is not a mandatory part of the protocol.
TorChat is resistant to traffic analysis, but nobody uses it. Also, it's badly designed so that, if many people did use it, then it'd be hard on the Tor network.
Pond is a new attempt traffic analysis resistant messaging and email over Tor, but Pond is in pretty early stages of development.
As they say, most criminals are stupid. It's true for government criminals too.
Just fyi, lead exposure has been shown to trigger schizophrenia and retard development, nasty shit.
There is ample historical precedent for authorities using sex crimes to silence successful dissidents who are obviously in the right.
John Wilkes was the first person to successfully publish the proceedings of parlement, arguably creating our notion of freedom of the press. He was also imprisoned for sex crimes. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/dec/11/henry-porter-wikileaks-cables
I'm imagine the U.S. would keep him for a while if they had him, but doing so would prove messy. In reality, the U.S. doesn't want him so long as someone else has a better way to punish him, which the Swedes do.
Very true, but that's actually my point. Assange gave the anonymous leaking enabled by the internet a stronger philosophical basis and direction.
Thanks for mentioning them. I hadn't heard about them.
Wikileaks worked because both Assange found the right technical people and anyone who delved into it found his philosophical writings.
And it's still working because those philisophical writing have been borne out to some extent.
Assange has an awful lot of very astute writing and work leading up to Wikileaks, technically he's no Jacob Appelbaum, but his philosophical writing nails it.
Wikileaks was based upon that philosophy and changed our world by starting this "leaking culture", certainly leaking existed long before, but social factors preventing it were more powerful. Assange created a framework proving that leaking often works where internal reforms fail.
Assange has obviously been driven a little batty by the U.S. government's pursuit via Sweden, U.K., etc., but historians will continue talking about Assange long after they've forgotten about Bush, Clinton, etc. Anyone who can actually push all the way from new philosophy to real political change is a certified genius.
Worse, this sounds *far* less secure than using Tor's official bridge system, which does exactly the same thing.
Amazon might not share your data with Turkey directly. If however Turkey asks the CIA, etc., the CIA, etc. might very well take your data form Amazon using an NSL and send it to Turkey.
If you want a fast insecure VPN that's good enough for most things, then simply VPN through Amazon's EC2 or whatever.
If you want a more secure but slower VPN, then simply use Tor directly. If Tor seems blocked, follow the Tor bridge usage instructions.
Ideally, we need a standard for placing advertisements inside the music files themselves, basically a codec that controls the album artwork display. Bands could overlay the album artwork with links to their website, to make donations, tour information, etc. All controlled by whoever uploaded the mp3, which the band can always do first.
I fixed one fan in the machine myself after it went off warranty. It destroyed batteries and external power supplies too, albeit slower. I therefore believe the power system caused the problems. Apple replace many parts but never the internal power supply, probably cost them over $500 plus labor by not fixing it. I donno if they could realistically diagnose the power supply issue though, assuming it had one.
In Apple's defense, I travel lots and commonly got the machine repaired by Apple certified retailers, not Apple themselves. It's entirely possible they occasionally missed warning signs for power system issues that Apple's own diagnostic systems might pick up.
There are parts like hard drives, batteries, and power adapters that die faster than the warranty. My old MacBook Pro killed six hard drives over four years, mostly while AppleCare still applied. I recall my previous MacBook killing numerous drives as well. My almost two year old MacBook Air has killed the cable on 3 power supplies. I've had my top case replaced on all three machines as well.
If you use your equipment heavily, then you should expect that ordinary wear destroys some components before the warranty expires.
Yes, ordinary libertarians oppose oppose corporate welfare, etc., but so do most ordinary people, be they republicans, democrats, NRA members, union members, environmentalists, Keynesian economists, etc. at least most instances. In practice, an electable libertarian would support an awful lot of corporate welfare because that's how you win elections in the U.S. Ron Paul differs somewhat but he is anomalous.
The real question is what kind of campaign finance reform do they support? Will it be effective? etc.
Omg wow! Yeah that product already exists. I've seen em' used in profesional landscaping, although not at houses, well you only need wheels if the sprinkler is heavy. It's a trivial invention, but an old patent application form 1977 does exactly the same thing. I suppose the telescoping business might be new, but what the hell is the point in making it telescoping?
Thank you for reminding us about TEPCO as well as posting that specific link.
After Fukushima, the Japanese government lied about the radiation until a hacker space started building GPS radiation sensor devices. They gave an excellent talk from 29c3 :
Safecast: DIY and citizen-sensing of radiation [29c3]
Did I mention they used Open Street Map? Open Street Map rocks! It's basically the wikipedia of maps, blows away google maps.
Truth is no defense against libel in the U.K.
An interesting attack on U.K. libel law might be for foreigners to sue various MPs for things they've said.
Anyone remember the IRS claiming they could read your email without a warrant? Yeah well, that's obviously debatable at present, especially if they want to just pay yahoo to scann everyone's email for signs of tax evasion. Yet, CISPA legalizes precisely that!
So that's what all these Republican and Democrat senators are really voting for here : To let the IRS scan everyone's email for signs of tax evasion.
Open a new retirement account with a couple different institutions? Bing, you're flagged for further investigation. etc.
Also, CISPA does nothing for real cybersecurity concerns because the NSA and CIA would already read your mail without a warrant.
They've no fixed value like $100k, but must prove they're paying more than the average pay for that job. It works extremely well, a shockingly huge proportion of Swiss residents are foreigners. In effect, if a Swiss company wants anybody in the world they know exactly what they need to do to hire them, no bullshit, just prove you want them by paying them more.
Amusingly, the Swiss immigration law exists at three levels, federal, canton, and local, so theoretically you might encounter really messy local immigration laws, but the Swiss are sensible about it.
Jeez, Schmidt is really one to talk about private organizations spying. It's almost as if he wants a wall of regulation that prevents others from fully exploiting computerized cameras.
You know, OpenStreetMaps already creams Google Maps' data. Just like wikipedia creams Quara, etc. I'm serious, if I pull up any random locate street, I'll find much better information on OpenStreetMaps. Can anyone say Open Street View?
I'd imagine Tor and VPNs work much better over Google Fiber than most U.S. ISPs.
At present, I block most google services and urls except search and certain tools everyone uses like Google's jquery.js from my default browser, Chrome. FireFox allows google services, but forbids remembering cookies, local storage, etc.
.. in that you take what you can through bribery and manipulation.
If you don't mind me trying to get the first thread back on track, the results quoted here apply to Sweden, not necessarily the U.S.
Sweden has a multi-party parliamentary system. Parliamentary system do create inequality that favors established parties, especially first-past-the-post ones like the U.K. Yet, their process of government formation means electing small parties isn't automatic pork suicide for districts. So at least some small parties get in and influence the direction for future changes.
In other words, Swedes change their mind because they've some choice. American parties more resemble sports teams. Yes, one plays nastier than the other, but fundamentally Americans might not change their minds because neither party represents much meaningful change.
Bertrand Russell computed that nobody should work more than 4 hours per day when he wrote In Praise of Idleness. That was over 80 years ago, before computers. Today, there is basically no reason anybody should be working more than a couple hours per week. Except..
We're consuming a fair bit more with two cars instead of one car, longer distance vacations, etc. All that warrants an extra couple hours per week, but it'd never cost more than that.
So where does the money go? You claim some things grow more expensive? Actually no, almost everything has grown massively cheaper, excluding a few commodities and maybe social security. You claim healthcare got more expensive? Again no, healthcare got massively cheaper :
http://truecostofhealthcare.org/video_presentation
You remind me that unnecessary law enforcement caused over 12% of the total increase in federal spending over the last 30 years? Fair enough, but law enforcement has grown massively more efficient too, partially to information technology, but.. We don't even bother holding trials now, if you're accused, you just negotiate your punishment with the prosecutor. If you stand up for your right to a trial, you get locked away for decades.
Really, anything you might mention, I can prove the actual costs declined. Even military costs declined.
So why does stuff still cost so much? It's many reasons, market forces, corruption, graft, exploitation, etc., but the fancy summary word is rent seeking, meaning insiders manipulating the economy to extract non-value added benefits.
Righties blame the government for this. Lefties blame the corporations for this. Both are completely correct, but corruption a fundamental feature of human nature.
We're perfectly able to create a society where almost nobody works more than they want to and everybody works on stuff they consider fun. We choose not do create this society so that rich and powerful people can become more rich and powerful.
"Because work is unnecessary except to those whose power it secures, workers are shifted from relatively useful to relatively useless occupations as a measure to assure public order." -- The Abolition Of Work by Bob Black
Additional links here : http://www.metafilter.com/124387/Workers-of-the-world-Relax