Yep. As long as the government has gone through the proper procedures and has a lawfully obtained warrant, then I most certainly want to make sure they can access my private communications. Smart move by Blackberry to differentiate their product that way! I'll get rid of my iPhone next chance I get and proudly buy a Blackberry.
For the sarcasm impaired, please disregard my comment.
Exactly. Your kids probably already have friends on one of the two networks, so that might determine your choice. You don't want your kids to be the only one of their peer group with the wrong console, unable to play with their friends.
I'm not a big fan of taxi companies but they have a point. In order to be fair, the Government may need to start handing out some refunds on taxi licenses / medallions.
It's more reasonable to assume they'll simply require Uber drivers to carry medallions.
Why does the software need to re-transmit a Windows key button press unmolested?
The software doesn't need to re-transmit anything at all. In a keyboard wedge barcode reader, the OS will interpret these keypresses and run the malicious code before your software even sees it. Just like if you push the calculator key on your fancy keyboard, the calculator pops up. It doesn't require that the running application interpret that keypress and launch the calculator app for you. This is why sanitization won't help you at all: the damage is done before your software even gets any of the data.
This is more of a Linux thing, Windows users are mostly locked to the OS-provided console UI,
I use Cygwin on Windows, and most often I use xterm running under Cygwin's X Server. I use xterm mainly out of habit, cause that's what I always used back in the day on Unix and later on Linux systems.
Gambling is a government monopoly by law in the province. So either repeal this law and allow competition, or be consequent and enforce the law whether online or in brick and mortar casinos.
Your argument would be a valid reason for the Quebec government to shut down online gambling services in Quebec. But they are trying to force ISPs to block the traffic to these sites. A brick-and-mortar analog would be to forbid taxi or bus companies from driving passengers if they might be headed towards an illegal casino. Or to require car manufacturers to install GPS and locking hardware to prevent people from driving themselves to these casinos.
We had our daughter at home with a midwife, and she required that we get the blood screening done. I had no idea her DNA could be in a database from that somewhere, and I never signed anything to authorize that sort of thing. The screening was performed at a LabCorp office.
The midwife requires this as a condition for delivering your baby? The problem is, by the time you're supposed to take your baby in for that screening, she has already delivered the baby! So what happens if you just don't bring the baby in?
Elsevier is a business. The goal of a business is to make money. If their prices are too high, rather than complain about it, publish somewhere else. Or, if subscriptions are too much, don't subscribe. Authors will stop sending them papers if no one is subscribing to the journal. It's simple market economics. No one is forcing you to use Elsevier.
In my community, there were fliers left on every door requesting that people not hand out candy from their homes due to concerns about children with dietary restrictions and "safety."
Flyers left by whom? The police, acting under the authority of a newly enacted bylaw regarding candy distribution on Halloween, or a busy-body neighbor who thinks he or she gets to decide how people celebrate Halloween? If its the former, you might want to remember this next time you vote in municipal elections; if it's the latter, send him/her a kindly worded flyer suggesting what he/she can do with the original flyers.
The police have to show that you have the key for there to be a prosecution. Otherwise they could just lock anyone up by demanding that they decrypt/dev/random. For safety you have should make sure you can prove that you don't have the key.
First of all, there's never any way you can prove you don't have a key. Period.
Secondly, I don't think you're correct about the law. I think the law requires you to be able to decrypt any encrypted data you have (/dev/random is not a file; it's a device), or any encrypted communications you have engaged in. My understanding is that it is effectively illegal in the U.K. to use communications protocols which employ perfect forward secrecy for that reason. (There are exceptions for some SSL web traffic, I think, but I could be wrong.) I'm not a lawyer though, so I could be wrong about my second point.
The key is to have no way to decrypt the laptop, then they can't force you to. Make sure someone else has the key, preferably in another jurisdiction (i.e. country).
That could land you in prison in the U.K. Legislation in that country required you to decrypt data for authorities on demand. Losing or destroying the keys is no excuse.
Why swallow? Micro SD is small enough to hide in your shoe. Rip the inner sole slightly and carve out a tiny slot. The police might check your shoes quickly but they won't look close. The metal will block scanners.
Even at airports, you're required to take off your shoes and have them X-rayed. I'm sure a targeted search by police would be at least as thorough.
The focus was on whether the school, a governmental entity, should in its official capacity make comments for or against a candidate.
According to the article, this was a charter school, which is not a government entity. Charter schools are publicly funded, which may be the issue here, but they are most definitely not government entities. That's what distinguishes charter schools from public schools.
One thing that always drove me crazy was the Unix "make" command because of the syntax of the Makefiles. The problem was, unlike just about every other language, Makefiles distinguish between TAB and SPACE characters, and they can look indistinguishable in printouts. I always avoided make for that reason and just wrote shell scripts to compile my code. I've also stayed away from Python because of its use of indentation to indicate the scope of control structures. Too easy to screw up by mixing tabs and spaces. In many fonts used in early terminals and printers, zeros were drawn with a slash through them so they wouldn't be confused with uppercase O's. Now with Unicode replacing ASCII as the encoding for source code in most languages, let the nightmares begin!
I remember playing Hamurabi on a Commodore PET model 2001 computer. It had 8K of RAM and a built in cassette drive. It was one of the first computer games I ever played.
No it depends on how you feel about fraud. The reason this is a big deal isn't the pollution though that is not a trivial part of it. No the big deal is that this company intentionally defrauded millions of customers. They promised their technology worked in a way that it didn't.
Did they really? Did they actually promise their customers in writing that their cars emit below a certain level of NOx? Did they promise anywhere that their cars would emit the same on the highway as in an emissions testing facility? If not, I'm really not sure how the customers were defrauded.
Not only that, but keep in mind this is just a district court judge. His ruling is only binding in his jurisdiction. Warner can and almost certainly will appeal. The first appeal will probably go to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeal, then possibly the Supreme Court. A decision like this, which really has an impact on the losing side's business model is exactly the type that frequently gets overturned. So, don't put on the birthday hats yet; this is far from over.
Twitter is a free service that users voluntarily sign up to use. I don't remember ever being promised that Twitter would not read direct messages. Where is the expectation of privacy here? Just because other users can't normally see DMs is no implied promise that Twitter isn't going to look at them. If you want private messaging, use a paid service that states so in their terms of service, or better yet, use a messaging application with end-to-end encryption.
Slashdot Mirror
Yep. As long as the government has gone through the proper procedures and has a lawfully obtained warrant, then I most certainly want to make sure they can access my private communications. Smart move by Blackberry to differentiate their product that way! I'll get rid of my iPhone next chance I get and proudly buy a Blackberry.
For the sarcasm impaired, please disregard my comment.
Exactly. Your kids probably already have friends on one of the two networks, so that might determine your choice. You don't want your kids to be the only one of their peer group with the wrong console, unable to play with their friends.
I'm not a big fan of taxi companies but they have a point. In order to be fair, the Government may need to start handing out some refunds on taxi licenses / medallions.
It's more reasonable to assume they'll simply require Uber drivers to carry medallions.
Why does the software need to re-transmit a Windows key button press unmolested?
The software doesn't need to re-transmit anything at all. In a keyboard wedge barcode reader, the OS will interpret these keypresses and run the malicious code before your software even sees it. Just like if you push the calculator key on your fancy keyboard, the calculator pops up. It doesn't require that the running application interpret that keypress and launch the calculator app for you. This is why sanitization won't help you at all: the damage is done before your software even gets any of the data.
This is more of a Linux thing, Windows users are mostly locked to the OS-provided console UI,
I use Cygwin on Windows, and most often I use xterm running under Cygwin's X Server. I use xterm mainly out of habit, cause that's what I always used back in the day on Unix and later on Linux systems.
Gambling is a government monopoly by law in the province. So either repeal this law and allow competition, or be consequent and enforce the law whether online or in brick and mortar casinos.
Your argument would be a valid reason for the Quebec government to shut down online gambling services in Quebec. But they are trying to force ISPs to block the traffic to these sites. A brick-and-mortar analog would be to forbid taxi or bus companies from driving passengers if they might be headed towards an illegal casino. Or to require car manufacturers to install GPS and locking hardware to prevent people from driving themselves to these casinos.
We had our daughter at home with a midwife, and she required that we get the blood screening done. I had no idea her DNA could be in a database from that somewhere, and I never signed anything to authorize that sort of thing. The screening was performed at a LabCorp office.
The midwife requires this as a condition for delivering your baby? The problem is, by the time you're supposed to take your baby in for that screening, she has already delivered the baby! So what happens if you just don't bring the baby in?
We still want a sample because
You may want a sample. I want a beach house in Malibu. Luck to us all.
we are mandated by law to screen every baby.
You may be mandated by law to screen every baby, but that doesn't mean I am mandated by law to hand you my baby for screening.
You can avoid this by refusing to have your child participate in the medical and legal systems... we won't mind.. less work.
Please cite the law which says my child can never go to a doctor or hire a lawyer because he hasn't provided the state with a DNA sample.
Wow....
Is there a way parents can refuse to allow this to their kid?
Yes. Don't have your baby in a hospital.
Elsevier is a business. The goal of a business is to make money. If their prices are too high, rather than complain about it, publish somewhere else. Or, if subscriptions are too much, don't subscribe. Authors will stop sending them papers if no one is subscribing to the journal. It's simple market economics. No one is forcing you to use Elsevier.
I would suggest using drones for trick-or-treating. You can send out several at a time and cover a lot more houses that way.
In my community, there were fliers left on every door requesting that people not hand out candy from their homes due to concerns about children with dietary restrictions and "safety."
Flyers left by whom? The police, acting under the authority of a newly enacted bylaw regarding candy distribution on Halloween, or a busy-body neighbor who thinks he or she gets to decide how people celebrate Halloween? If its the former, you might want to remember this next time you vote in municipal elections; if it's the latter, send him/her a kindly worded flyer suggesting what he/she can do with the original flyers.
The police have to show that you have the key for there to be a prosecution. Otherwise they could just lock anyone up by demanding that they decrypt /dev/random. For safety you have should make sure you can prove that you don't have the key.
First of all, there's never any way you can prove you don't have a key. Period.
Secondly, I don't think you're correct about the law. I think the law requires you to be able to decrypt any encrypted data you have (/dev/random is not a file; it's a device), or any encrypted communications you have engaged in. My understanding is that it is effectively illegal in the U.K. to use communications protocols which employ perfect forward secrecy for that reason. (There are exceptions for some SSL web traffic, I think, but I could be wrong.) I'm not a lawyer though, so I could be wrong about my second point.
The key is to have no way to decrypt the laptop, then they can't force you to. Make sure someone else has the key, preferably in another jurisdiction (i.e. country).
That could land you in prison in the U.K. Legislation in that country required you to decrypt data for authorities on demand. Losing or destroying the keys is no excuse.
Why swallow? Micro SD is small enough to hide in your shoe. Rip the inner sole slightly and carve out a tiny slot. The police might check your shoes quickly but they won't look close. The metal will block scanners.
Even at airports, you're required to take off your shoes and have them X-rayed. I'm sure a targeted search by police would be at least as thorough.
The focus was on whether the school, a governmental entity, should in its official capacity make comments for or against a candidate.
According to the article, this was a charter school, which is not a government entity. Charter schools are publicly funded, which may be the issue here, but they are most definitely not government entities. That's what distinguishes charter schools from public schools.
One thing that always drove me crazy was the Unix "make" command because of the syntax of the Makefiles. The problem was, unlike just about every other language, Makefiles distinguish between TAB and SPACE characters, and they can look indistinguishable in printouts. I always avoided make for that reason and just wrote shell scripts to compile my code. I've also stayed away from Python because of its use of indentation to indicate the scope of control structures. Too easy to screw up by mixing tabs and spaces. In many fonts used in early terminals and printers, zeros were drawn with a slash through them so they wouldn't be confused with uppercase O's. Now with Unicode replacing ASCII as the encoding for source code in most languages, let the nightmares begin!
I remember playing Hamurabi on a Commodore PET model 2001 computer. It had 8K of RAM and a built in cassette drive. It was one of the first computer games I ever played.
No it depends on how you feel about fraud. The reason this is a big deal isn't the pollution though that is not a trivial part of it. No the big deal is that this company intentionally defrauded millions of customers. They promised their technology worked in a way that it didn't.
Did they really? Did they actually promise their customers in writing that their cars emit below a certain level of NOx? Did they promise anywhere that their cars would emit the same on the highway as in an emissions testing facility? If not, I'm really not sure how the customers were defrauded.
Not only that, but keep in mind this is just a district court judge. His ruling is only binding in his jurisdiction. Warner can and almost certainly will appeal. The first appeal will probably go to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeal, then possibly the Supreme Court. A decision like this, which really has an impact on the losing side's business model is exactly the type that frequently gets overturned. So, don't put on the birthday hats yet; this is far from over.
There is one other possible trick left in that particular box, but I will leave it as an exercise to the reader :)
GPS to detect if the car is actually moving?
Based on summary - you will pass emission test easily:)
No, I'm sure the emission testing folks will know about this car and will make sure it has the recall installed before testing.
Translated: If you have one, don't take it in, unless you want it to run even worse.
I don't think it will be optional. This is a government ordered recall to prevent cars from defrauding emissions tests.
Twitter is a free service that users voluntarily sign up to use. I don't remember ever being promised that Twitter would not read direct messages. Where is the expectation of privacy here? Just because other users can't normally see DMs is no implied promise that Twitter isn't going to look at them. If you want private messaging, use a paid service that states so in their terms of service, or better yet, use a messaging application with end-to-end encryption.
What happens if you leak the letter? Jail time? What if a copy shows up on Wikileaks? They can't prove 100% you leaked it.
They can if you were the only one who received the letter.