If they designed it in such a way that the LEA backdoor is secure (say, it's got an LEA public key on it, and the private key is kept in the forensics labs), I'll buy one tomorrow. I don't have a need to defend against.gov adversaries - I just want to know that the data on my drives remains secure even after someone steals 'em to get his or her crack fix.
If, however, they designed it in such a way that the backdoor is not secure (say, a default password stored in cleartext on a serial EEPROM), that's another story. I'll download the crack when it comes out next week, and my soldering iron and I will have an endless supply of cheap entertainment when the machines start showing up at the surplus stores in 2009.
> But, eh, I don't think plots should be terribly necessary. I mean, why would we watch real people just to see them act? I'd rather toss them all in a comfy, well-lit space, say "Fuck!" and tape it.
> A picture of a person engaged in a sexual act is no more erotic than a book telling of the martyrdom of a quixotic rebel is holy
Hands up, all of us who'd like to see this guy's pr0n collection!
> The significance of both are constructs in the mind of the viewer.. to the porn-seeker, the woman in the pic becomes a part-player in his imagination, to the believer, the suffering of Jesus becomes an atonement for our sins and his way becomes a path to enlightenment.
Warning: Commentary on the psychological and neurophysiological parallels between sadomasochism and religious ecstasy will not emable you to get off (!) on the resulting obscenity charges should you attempt to film "THE PASSION OF JENNA: FLOGGED AND NAILED!"
> Having pilots wear coloured safety glasses wouldn't be impractical, it would be impossible; the only colour that would block all laser frequencies is black.
Simple. Equip every pilot with a pair of Joo-Janta 2000 Peril-Sensitive Sunglasses, that turn totally black at the first indication of danger! Joo-Janta 2000 Peril-Sensitive Sunglasses: Another fine product of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation!
> You can see that the bottom 40 percent take home 29K, and that was at the HEIGHT of the longest boom in a long while. It has gone downhill since then for most people. No class warfare, huh? Well, there should be....
Funny. I was just looking at the chart of taxes paid by income quintile, and saw how much those at the top pay (while receiving nothing), and how much those at the bottom receive (despite contributing nothing).
> The word is not "symbiotic", but "parasitic". The capitalist class parasitizes the rest of us.
We may disagree on who the parasites are. And we may disagree on who should win. But on this much, we probably agree completely: Class warfare not only long overdue, it's justified.
> Hmm... Let's see here. Name, Address, Email, and Phone. Yeah okay, filled out. After all, when the German government required registration for gun owners in 1938, they didn't immediately turn around and seek those people out when they banned guns. Err wait.
At the moment, they need your name, address, email, and phone number, and it's a disincentive for the public to participate - your post being a prime example.
Which is why a wiretapped society could be good for democracy. You see, after they've tapped the 'net, you won't have to enter any identifying details. Ideally, you won't even have to fill out a form. When they want your opinion, they'll be able to just pull it out of the database!
> Claims Win 98SE is not affected! Great, all MS users can take a bold step back.
As with everything Microsoft, read the fine print:
The non-affected versions of Windows do not natively contain the vulnerable component. However, the vulnerable component is installed on these non-affected operating systems when you install any of the software programs or components that are listed in the Affected Software and Affected Components sections of this bulletin.
So if you have unpatched 9x, you're safe - but pwn3d from all the other holes in the unpatched IE.
The minute you download "Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1" on 9x to protect yourself against the older holes in IE, you open yourself up to the JPEG vulnerability.
> > And I think there are deffinite chances of there being some extremely unique creatures at these depths of a cave.
> >You're right, they are called "Cavers", very frightning to run into in a dark enclosed space.
It is dark. You are likely to be eaten by a caver?
> Take a aerial photo of a street, add other ground photos with accurate location metadata and a standard map for wireframing.
>
Then take a live video feed from a known point (or multiple points) and you can accurately transpose any movement onto a 3-d model for accurate viewing at any angle. Sort of like that fake first down line they have on football.
>
Multiply it by every camera at every hotel, etc, instantly accessable by unique URL and you have an "Enemy of the State" scenario actually becoming possible. That's the road this stuff is all headed. I think it will be wonderful for security and marketing but I don't really see any useful characteristics for the common man, besides navigation. I could be wrong however.
You typed the word "navigation".
Was that some sort of newfangled abbreviation or typo for "best massively-multiplayer online first-person shooter evah?":)
> Will we be able to zoom in on the smoking ruins of the slashdotted webserver?:)
With a 259MB download, you won't need to zoom in. You'll be able to see the crater from orbit. Heck, you'll probably be able to see the crater from the surface of the moon.
> Why am I paying a fifth of my paycheck for a retirement plan that will be broke before I'm halfway to even thinking about retirement? What will you do to make sure I'm not turned into an indentured servant for retiring boomers?
Bush's plan involves at least partial privatization: if someone chooses to risk their money in the markets, 2% of their SS taxes can be diverted into private accounts, so that only 4.3% (of the total 6.3%) go into the pyramid scheme.
My question is this:
Senator Kerry: Would you voluntarily invest your retirement savings at a bank whose
own very own account statements at socialsecurity.gov state, in effect, "Your account balance are based on current management policy. Management has made changes to the policy in the past and can do so at any time. The policy governing withdrawals may change because, by 2042, deposits of new money will be enough to pay only about 73 percent of account balances."
If so, why, and if not, why do you oppose even partial Social Security privatization?
At least Charles Ponzi had the integrity to make participation in his pyramid scheme voluntary.
> Unless they were planning to Superglue the token to the kid?
Actually, not a bad idea. Implant an RFID chip encoding date-of-birth (and if you don't care for anonymity, a unique identifier) in the hand.
Embed the receiver in the mouse or on the keyboard. Problem (mostly) solved, because although someone can get a friend to do the keyboard/mouse driving for them, the friend'll get bored pretty quick.
> When I watch the SE, I don't vomit, I don't cry, I don't think about some part of my childhood slipping away. The great parts of the movie are still there. Luke meeting Obi-wan, the sunset, meeting Han, saving Leia, Obi-wan vs. Vader, "I am your father", the final duel, etc.
...looking at blue-glowie Anakin at the end of Episode VI and going "Who the fuck was that guy?"
> It is all there still, just like it was back in the day. > >
The movies still give me that chill during certain scenes, where they just touch some part inside that you never knew you had.
Actually, that's your prostate. I prefer metal bikini Leia myself, but if you want to put in a CGI Jabba doing a Goatse Guy impression while R2-D2 uses his manipulator arm, hey, it's the Special Edition. Go nuts.
> A rather large number of characters are built up for dozens of pages and are then abruptly killed, never to be mentioned again -- and a fair number of established characters meet the same fate. > > I have been an avid reader of each Neal Stephenson book, and I will probably read the next book he writes. Still, I hope that his editor cracks down on him in his next endeavor, and that he doesn't allow his fondness for some characters to override the point he's trying to make.
Ah, don't worry. Half the fun of a Neal Stephenson novel is knowing that all the characters he abruptly kills off get to come back to life in the next series.
> But Francisco Ortiz Franco thought it mattered. The crusading reporter co-founded a weekly magazine in Tijuana whose motto is "Free like the Wind." He was relentless in exposing the incestuous connections between wealthy elites in Baja California and its most corrupt law enforcement agencies and with the most violent of drag cartels. Several months ago Francisco Ortiz Franco died sitting at the wheel of his car outside a local clinic -- shot four times while his two children, aged 8 and l0, looked on from the back seat. As his blood was being hosed off the pavement, more than l00 of his fellow Mexican reporters and editors marched quietly through the streets, holding their pens defiantly high in the air. They believe journalism matters.
I'm going to hell for this, but...
This Just In. Journallisimo Francisco Franco still dead!
What I really want to know is -- if this guy's old-school enough to use a lowercase "l" in place of the digit "1", because the two characters were indistinguishable on 99% of the typewriters of the era and there's less finger-travel involved in "l" versus "1". (Reading through the article, he does it even more often than Jon Katz did - almost 3/4 of the time). Anyways... given that he grew up on the typing technology of the 70s, I'd love to hear his opinion on the Dan Rathergate forged memo scandal?
Particularly because we're talking about journalism and politics, does he have the integrity to speak up (once upon a time, he was willing to call shenanigans on Democrats as well as Republicans) or will he continue to remain completely and utterly silent on it?
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If they designed it in such a way that the LEA backdoor is secure (say, it's got an LEA public key on it, and the private key is kept in the forensics labs), I'll buy one tomorrow. I don't have a need to defend against .gov adversaries - I just want to know that the data on my drives remains secure even after someone steals 'em to get his or her crack fix.
If, however, they designed it in such a way that the backdoor is not secure (say, a default password stored in cleartext on a serial EEPROM), that's another story. I'll download the crack when it comes out next week, and my soldering iron and I will have an endless supply of cheap entertainment when the machines start showing up at the surplus stores in 2009.
Funny. You don't look like Carly Fiorina!
"No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow... What? Somebody's gotta have some damned perspective around here! One day, BOOM!"
(muttering to herself) "Boom. boomboomboom. BOOM!"
- Susan Ivanova, Babylon 5
Hands up, all of us who'd like to see this guy's pr0n collection!
> The significance of both are constructs in the mind of the viewer.. to the porn-seeker, the woman in the pic becomes a part-player in his imagination, to the believer, the suffering of Jesus becomes an atonement for our sins and his way becomes a path to enlightenment.
Warning: Commentary on the psychological and neurophysiological parallels between sadomasochism and religious ecstasy will not emable you to get off (!) on the resulting obscenity charges should you attempt to film "THE PASSION OF JENNA: FLOGGED AND NAILED!"
Simple. Equip every pilot with a pair of Joo-Janta 2000 Peril-Sensitive Sunglasses, that turn totally black at the first indication of danger! Joo-Janta 2000 Peril-Sensitive Sunglasses: Another fine product of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation!
Funny. I was just looking at the chart of taxes paid by income quintile, and saw how much those at the top pay (while receiving nothing), and how much those at the bottom receive (despite contributing nothing).
> The word is not "symbiotic", but "parasitic". The capitalist class parasitizes the rest of us.
We may disagree on who the parasites are. And we may disagree on who should win. But on this much, we probably agree completely: Class warfare not only long overdue, it's justified.
At the moment, they need your name, address, email, and phone number, and it's a disincentive for the public to participate - your post being a prime example.
Which is why a wiretapped society could be good for democracy. You see, after they've tapped the 'net, you won't have to enter any identifying details. Ideally, you won't even have to fill out a form. When they want your opinion, they'll be able to just pull it out of the database!
As with everything Microsoft, read the fine print:
So if you have unpatched 9x, you're safe - but pwn3d from all the other holes in the unpatched IE.
The minute you download "Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1" on 9x to protect yourself against the older holes in IE, you open yourself up to the JPEG vulnerability.
>
>You're right, they are called "Cavers", very frightning to run into in a dark enclosed space.
It is dark. You are likely to be eaten by a caver?
>
>Apparently it's easy to put things in goatse man as well.
On Soviet Christmas Island, does Goatse Man's head get put into you?
> Then take a live video feed from a known point (or multiple points) and you can accurately transpose any movement onto a 3-d model for accurate viewing at any angle. Sort of like that fake first down line they have on football.
> Multiply it by every camera at every hotel, etc, instantly accessable by unique URL and you have an "Enemy of the State" scenario actually becoming possible. That's the road this stuff is all headed. I think it will be wonderful for security and marketing but I don't really see any useful characteristics for the common man, besides navigation. I could be wrong however.
You typed the word "navigation". Was that some sort of newfangled abbreviation or typo for "best massively-multiplayer online first-person shooter evah?" :)
> Margaret Mead
"Originally overheard in a Munich beer hall, 1923, and again at the Wansee Conference, 1942." - A Cynic
>
> Throwing in polygamy into the mix is NOT the same thing.
No shit. The tax forms are hairy enough for two-person marriages.
(Mercifully, this is Slashdot, so I don't even have to worry about those! :)
With a 259MB download, you won't need to zoom in. You'll be able to see the crater from orbit. Heck, you'll probably be able to see the crater from the surface of the moon.
In Soviet Russia, YOU question the GOVERNMENT!
Bush's plan involves at least partial privatization: if someone chooses to risk their money in the markets, 2% of their SS taxes can be diverted into private accounts, so that only 4.3% (of the total 6.3%) go into the pyramid scheme.
My question is this:
At least Charles Ponzi had the integrity to make participation in his pyramid scheme voluntary.
Actually, not a bad idea. Implant an RFID chip encoding date-of-birth (and if you don't care for anonymity, a unique identifier) in the hand.
Embed the receiver in the mouse or on the keyboard. Problem (mostly) solved, because although someone can get a friend to do the keyboard/mouse driving for them, the friend'll get bored pretty quick.
For that matter, how do you respond to donations from Republicans :)
> It is all there still, just like it was back in the day.
>
> The movies still give me that chill during certain scenes, where they just touch some part inside that you never knew you had.
Actually, that's your prostate. I prefer metal bikini Leia myself, but if you want to put in a CGI Jabba doing a Goatse Guy impression while R2-D2 uses his manipulator arm, hey, it's the Special Edition. Go nuts.
>
> I have been an avid reader of each Neal Stephenson book, and I will probably read the next book he writes. Still, I hope that his editor cracks down on him in his next endeavor, and that he doesn't allow his fondness for some characters to override the point he's trying to make.
Ah, don't worry. Half the fun of a Neal Stephenson novel is knowing that all the characters he abruptly kills off get to come back to life in the next series.
>...you're already blown the sale.
I said "Just fix the dnma thing and leave my private life out of it, okay, pal?"
I'm going to hell for this, but...
This Just In. Journallisimo Francisco Franco still dead!
What I really want to know is -- if this guy's old-school enough to use a lowercase "l" in place of the digit "1", because the two characters were indistinguishable on 99% of the typewriters of the era and there's less finger-travel involved in "l" versus "1". (Reading through the article, he does it even more often than Jon Katz did - almost 3/4 of the time). Anyways... given that he grew up on the typing technology of the 70s, I'd love to hear his opinion on the Dan Rathergate forged memo scandal?
Particularly because we're talking about journalism and politics, does he have the integrity to speak up (once upon a time, he was willing to call shenanigans on Democrats as well as Republicans) or will he continue to remain completely and utterly silent on it?
We did?
Jar Jar Binks: ITSA BESA TRAP!
Ackbar: I knew I should have joined the Empire when they took over my homeworld.
"Officer, what does it cost someone resists arrest and charges you with using excessive force these days?"
"Well, Citizen, you usually get sued in civil court, and with court costs and lawyers... umm, all in all, it usually costs about $25000."
*THUMP* *THUMP* *THUMP* *THUMP*
"Thanks, Officer. He put up a bit of a fight, but the spammer's all yours now!"