If government authorities insist that we have no private data....they must do the same. It's like freedom of speech: You can only have it in a society if you allow others the same liberty...otherwise it doesn't work.
If this body insists that all private information should be freely available...they must also comply. If they don't...they must state the reasons.
As they are making these statements they will be providing all of the obvious arguments supporting the importance of privacy.
Catch-22 bitch.
We are constantly ceasing to be exactly what we were a moment ago and becoming something completely different. We exist in a different place in the universe, our molecules have all changed in relation to one another...but for tax purposes, we get to keep the same social security number. The important note is, we're constantly changing and being hurled through the universe while still maintaining our identity. So if we cease to exist at one coordinate, and are lucky enough to continue to exist elsewhere...that's nothing new. It's really just a matter of degree.
I know enough about Bitcoin to find this highly dubious, but not enough about it to say it's impossible. I'm certain that blockchain technology can be used to store files and images...it can be used to store any sort of information, just like any file system, notebook, or bathroom stall. In my limited understanding the Bitcoin ledger works by presenting a string to decrypt wiith an intended possibility of error....thousands of computers work on the decryption and come up with a solution. When a large number of them come up with the same conclusion, that's written to the ledger and the computer, or pool of computers are credited a portion of bitcoin....I suppose that if you used a computer that also served illegal content then the IP could get into the Bitcoin blockchain. I don't see how any intentional images would be possible without using ASCII art and a great deal of imagination. I suspect this is an article with an agenda....
Good critical thinking should never be abandoned because we defer to the source of the arguments put forth. From many religions to Hitler this has proven over and over again to be a bad road to go down. Completely untrustworthy people can be right sometimes. The most rigid researcher can make a mistake. I agree that truth and validity are becoming more important. The way to recognize them, and to distinguish sound arguments from unsound arguments is to apply good critical thinking skills. Unfortunately Logic is a university level course. It really should be taught in Jr. High, and touched upon in Elementary. This would certainly boost the IQ of the general populace...which is maybe why it isn't taught. Politicians and governments get away with too many things because the people they rule don't seem to have very good bullshit detectors.
I think that we could somehow leverage Blockchain technology from top to bottom, weâ(TM)d see a more realistic representation of voters. Votes can still be manipulated through gerrymandering and the like, but at least we would have real and transparent numbers on the other side of the equation.
I see these iterations as consumers filling the os makers need for recurring revenue, and it can be disruptive. Most businesses need a foundation of policy and procedure. The way they print, scan, and even read email attachments often changes when a new os comes out. Often their mission critical software doesnâ(TM)t support the os, and in order to upgrade work around and compromises have to be made to a system that was secure, reliable, and predictable. I know at least one government is still using Windows 7. Most of the bugs and security issues have been worked out. Expensive custom made software remains compatible. Companies need stability, and a new OS is invariably disruptive. This is why many kiosks mobile computing systems and telephone systems are still using NT, CE, and OS/2. The investment of integrating these systems into a highly secure and well documented infrastructure is just too expensive or impractical to do every year, or every 5 years. Microsoft moving to a subscription based scheme is probably a good compromise. Clients can keep using the systems they have in place, people can be trained, and documentation doesnâ(TM)t need to be recreated every year. Of course the OS makers keep trying to push these organisations to use the new systems by taking away support, and creating new applications incompatible with older OSâ(TM)s. This will probably always be a point of contention.
We could all be using satellite phones now...but they're not commercially viable...capability does not equal widely applicable. Especially technological capacity in its infancy. We could theoretically all be travelling in electromagnetic floating cars...but we're not...it's technically feasible...but not practical or commercially viable at this point in time...so...even though Tesla demonstrated wireless electricity in the 1800's...we're just now coming into induction charging as a regular thing. We're still not powering every device in our house through one central electrical generator...it's all being worked on though folks...you just can't get it cheap now...
Although obviously the new guy fucked up...unless his job was to be solely responsible for the repository...he probably shouldn't be fired. He's pointed out a systemic issue with the system...and punishing him for it isn't reasonable. I don't know all of the details...but on first glance...the people responsible are looking anywhere else for the blame. Typical.
This is one of the articles which makes me sick about Alarmist claims of Malware....and it applies to most malware. For it to work the user would have to point port 22 to their device...and if they have the savvy to do this, they would of course password the device as well...we're in much less danger than we're lead to believe..
So it looks like they're simply getting the IP address of the downloader and running VLC client against it. Is there any actual code in the file, or do they simply hope the user is running VLC server without password?
If you want an open machine that allows a great deal of user control and options, go with a PC. If you want a machine which gives you less control, but also less hassles, go with an Apple.
Because Apple tightly controls the software and the hardware, and today is UNIX based, weird timings and compatibility issues rarely exist. They often use standard hardware today, but may modify the ROM of a hard drive to insure it is optimally tuned to work with the particular drive controller it's connected to.
Dell and HP do this on a higher level to insure compatibility and reliability, but have to allow for more OS options, thus increasing the complexity, and possibility of failure.
Apples are more expensive because a great deal of engineering and quality control goes into them. You can build your own more powerful PC for less, but unless you do a great deal of research and understand very low level timings and settings, you're more likely to have some strange glitch or failure that seems completely inexplicable.
The same is true with OSX vs Windows or Linux...the latter two allow for more options, but as a result often do many things, but less of them quite as well as a system tuned for those specific purposes. You also have a lot of contingency code you will probably never need or use, which is also true, but less so, with OSX.
The appeal from a user perspective is that an Apple is generally less hassle to own and use if you only need it to do a few specific things very well. This is why they are generally preferred by professional video and audio editing and production. It's also a highly polished and engineered product.
I like to create on an Apple. I like to play games on a PC.
I remember buying one of these from Radio Shack in the late 80's. It was meant for drawing on perf board (PCB) so maybe it wasn't flexible...but I'm surprised this is news, and that it didn't already exist.
I remember running Photoshop 3 in OS/2 at a publishing shop. No issues. It subjectively felt more robust than Windows. About 10 years back I worked at a telecommunications company. I was surprised to see that all of their comms hardware was running OS/2 or Solaris. The IT admin told me that they were very good for utility computing. Once you had the system in place on premis, you very rarely if ever had to worry about it. I suppose that once your have the formula for a solid system, you don't want changes and updates. You just want it to do the one thing it does really well.. OS/2 was good at this.
I think that the analytics which decide these things are mislead into making misleading statement, not because they are faulty, but because most people try to avoid being perceived as dicks, in one form, or another.
McDonalds Australia has had this for a year or more. It creates more orders on the back end, but for people who want anything customised, they still go to the counter. In my experience as a client, people only check out the kiosk as a novelty, or if there are long lines.
Once the internet became a thing regulated by government as opposed to technologists, it was lost. The intangible reality of it was lost, and now you can steal things off of the internet...even though we the owners and thieves know this is a false economy, at the end of the tunnel there is real money. So now the wrong people have taken interest and subsequently control. A new unregulated internet has to be created which is something more than a layer of encryption laid over the original. We've fucked this one up completely and all of the wrong people control something they will never understand but simply want things from. Now that that we know idiots will take over the internet, can't we start think about an even better system?
Isn't it odd how the US government seems to openly and willfully emulate all of the hacks and cracks it deems to be illegal? Each branch has an agenda, often not in the interest or to the benefit of the people of the US...and each never has to be answerable. Perfectly innocent exploration and discovery is now a criminal act. I guess it's like killing a person, or a large group of people. You can't do it, unless you're killing for the government. Then it's not only okay, but heroic. I shouldn't pick on the US, many governments are ran this way. I just don't like my government exhibiting this hypocrisy. It's a matter of, if they'll do it to someone else...they'll do it to you as well. Also, who's Jeremy Hammond?
I remember seeing the precursor to this question asked many years ago on Slashdot; "Should governments be allowed to regulate the internet?" and the resounding answer was, "No, that will break the internet." And here we are, asking the same fundamental question over again...but this time we're asking:Should corporate interests control the internet? The answer is: No. No fucking way.
So...the next question is; "How do we recreate the internet in its previous form?" It's a very nice thing we had that's been somewhat ruined. I intuitively suspect that with all of the tech available we can abandon the higher levels of the OSI and fork off to a safer place where people are free to say whatever they want to, post anything, express themselves freely without fear of imprisonment. I know bad people with terrible agendas might love such a place...but perhaps we can keep it out of their reach through technology. Or let them on it...because everything is equal....the ethical questions are almost a quagmire. But...do you feel your internet is safer than it was 20 years ago? I don't.
So, we are expected to believe that all government email resides on individual workstations, as opposed to a centralized server that gets backed up reguarly? That's simply absurd.
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If government authorities insist that we have no private data....they must do the same. It's like freedom of speech: You can only have it in a society if you allow others the same liberty...otherwise it doesn't work. If this body insists that all private information should be freely available...they must also comply. If they don't...they must state the reasons. As they are making these statements they will be providing all of the obvious arguments supporting the importance of privacy. Catch-22 bitch.
You could always run pfsense or Untangle...something like that in a VM and use it to securely route and monitor your workstation VM.
We are constantly ceasing to be exactly what we were a moment ago and becoming something completely different. We exist in a different place in the universe, our molecules have all changed in relation to one another...but for tax purposes, we get to keep the same social security number. The important note is, we're constantly changing and being hurled through the universe while still maintaining our identity. So if we cease to exist at one coordinate, and are lucky enough to continue to exist elsewhere...that's nothing new. It's really just a matter of degree.
I know enough about Bitcoin to find this highly dubious, but not enough about it to say it's impossible. I'm certain that blockchain technology can be used to store files and images...it can be used to store any sort of information, just like any file system, notebook, or bathroom stall. In my limited understanding the Bitcoin ledger works by presenting a string to decrypt wiith an intended possibility of error....thousands of computers work on the decryption and come up with a solution. When a large number of them come up with the same conclusion, that's written to the ledger and the computer, or pool of computers are credited a portion of bitcoin....I suppose that if you used a computer that also served illegal content then the IP could get into the Bitcoin blockchain. I don't see how any intentional images would be possible without using ASCII art and a great deal of imagination. I suspect this is an article with an agenda....
Good critical thinking should never be abandoned because we defer to the source of the arguments put forth. From many religions to Hitler this has proven over and over again to be a bad road to go down. Completely untrustworthy people can be right sometimes. The most rigid researcher can make a mistake. I agree that truth and validity are becoming more important. The way to recognize them, and to distinguish sound arguments from unsound arguments is to apply good critical thinking skills. Unfortunately Logic is a university level course. It really should be taught in Jr. High, and touched upon in Elementary. This would certainly boost the IQ of the general populace...which is maybe why it isn't taught. Politicians and governments get away with too many things because the people they rule don't seem to have very good bullshit detectors.
I think that we could somehow leverage Blockchain technology from top to bottom, weâ(TM)d see a more realistic representation of voters. Votes can still be manipulated through gerrymandering and the like, but at least we would have real and transparent numbers on the other side of the equation.
I see these iterations as consumers filling the os makers need for recurring revenue, and it can be disruptive. Most businesses need a foundation of policy and procedure. The way they print, scan, and even read email attachments often changes when a new os comes out. Often their mission critical software doesnâ(TM)t support the os, and in order to upgrade work around and compromises have to be made to a system that was secure, reliable, and predictable. I know at least one government is still using Windows 7. Most of the bugs and security issues have been worked out. Expensive custom made software remains compatible. Companies need stability, and a new OS is invariably disruptive. This is why many kiosks mobile computing systems and telephone systems are still using NT, CE, and OS/2. The investment of integrating these systems into a highly secure and well documented infrastructure is just too expensive or impractical to do every year, or every 5 years. Microsoft moving to a subscription based scheme is probably a good compromise. Clients can keep using the systems they have in place, people can be trained, and documentation doesnâ(TM)t need to be recreated every year. Of course the OS makers keep trying to push these organisations to use the new systems by taking away support, and creating new applications incompatible with older OSâ(TM)s. This will probably always be a point of contention.
Beam your old Atari to randomly placed monitors in the house.
We could all be using satellite phones now...but they're not commercially viable...capability does not equal widely applicable. Especially technological capacity in its infancy. We could theoretically all be travelling in electromagnetic floating cars...but we're not...it's technically feasible...but not practical or commercially viable at this point in time...so...even though Tesla demonstrated wireless electricity in the 1800's...we're just now coming into induction charging as a regular thing. We're still not powering every device in our house through one central electrical generator...it's all being worked on though folks...you just can't get it cheap now...
Although obviously the new guy fucked up...unless his job was to be solely responsible for the repository...he probably shouldn't be fired. He's pointed out a systemic issue with the system...and punishing him for it isn't reasonable. I don't know all of the details...but on first glance...the people responsible are looking anywhere else for the blame. Typical.
This is one of the articles which makes me sick about Alarmist claims of Malware....and it applies to most malware. For it to work the user would have to point port 22 to their device...and if they have the savvy to do this, they would of course password the device as well...we're in much less danger than we're lead to believe..
So it looks like they're simply getting the IP address of the downloader and running VLC client against it. Is there any actual code in the file, or do they simply hope the user is running VLC server without password?
If you want an open machine that allows a great deal of user control and options, go with a PC. If you want a machine which gives you less control, but also less hassles, go with an Apple. Because Apple tightly controls the software and the hardware, and today is UNIX based, weird timings and compatibility issues rarely exist. They often use standard hardware today, but may modify the ROM of a hard drive to insure it is optimally tuned to work with the particular drive controller it's connected to. Dell and HP do this on a higher level to insure compatibility and reliability, but have to allow for more OS options, thus increasing the complexity, and possibility of failure. Apples are more expensive because a great deal of engineering and quality control goes into them. You can build your own more powerful PC for less, but unless you do a great deal of research and understand very low level timings and settings, you're more likely to have some strange glitch or failure that seems completely inexplicable. The same is true with OSX vs Windows or Linux...the latter two allow for more options, but as a result often do many things, but less of them quite as well as a system tuned for those specific purposes. You also have a lot of contingency code you will probably never need or use, which is also true, but less so, with OSX. The appeal from a user perspective is that an Apple is generally less hassle to own and use if you only need it to do a few specific things very well. This is why they are generally preferred by professional video and audio editing and production. It's also a highly polished and engineered product. I like to create on an Apple. I like to play games on a PC.
I remember buying one of these from Radio Shack in the late 80's. It was meant for drawing on perf board (PCB) so maybe it wasn't flexible...but I'm surprised this is news, and that it didn't already exist.
If you can't beat the hare, well....you just change the rules of the race. Um....yep.
I remember running Photoshop 3 in OS/2 at a publishing shop. No issues. It subjectively felt more robust than Windows. About 10 years back I worked at a telecommunications company. I was surprised to see that all of their comms hardware was running OS/2 or Solaris. The IT admin told me that they were very good for utility computing. Once you had the system in place on premis, you very rarely if ever had to worry about it. I suppose that once your have the formula for a solid system, you don't want changes and updates. You just want it to do the one thing it does really well.. OS/2 was good at this.
I think that the analytics which decide these things are mislead into making misleading statement, not because they are faulty, but because most people try to avoid being perceived as dicks, in one form, or another.
McDonalds Australia has had this for a year or more. It creates more orders on the back end, but for people who want anything customised, they still go to the counter. In my experience as a client, people only check out the kiosk as a novelty, or if there are long lines.
I was going to make this same suggestion.
Once the internet became a thing regulated by government as opposed to technologists, it was lost. The intangible reality of it was lost, and now you can steal things off of the internet...even though we the owners and thieves know this is a false economy, at the end of the tunnel there is real money. So now the wrong people have taken interest and subsequently control. A new unregulated internet has to be created which is something more than a layer of encryption laid over the original. We've fucked this one up completely and all of the wrong people control something they will never understand but simply want things from. Now that that we know idiots will take over the internet, can't we start think about an even better system?
Isn't it odd how the US government seems to openly and willfully emulate all of the hacks and cracks it deems to be illegal? Each branch has an agenda, often not in the interest or to the benefit of the people of the US...and each never has to be answerable. Perfectly innocent exploration and discovery is now a criminal act. I guess it's like killing a person, or a large group of people. You can't do it, unless you're killing for the government. Then it's not only okay, but heroic. I shouldn't pick on the US, many governments are ran this way. I just don't like my government exhibiting this hypocrisy. It's a matter of, if they'll do it to someone else...they'll do it to you as well. Also, who's Jeremy Hammond?
I remember seeing the precursor to this question asked many years ago on Slashdot; "Should governments be allowed to regulate the internet?" and the resounding answer was, "No, that will break the internet." And here we are, asking the same fundamental question over again...but this time we're asking :Should corporate interests control the internet? The answer is: No. No fucking way.
So...the next question is; "How do we recreate the internet in its previous form?" It's a very nice thing we had that's been somewhat ruined. I intuitively suspect that with all of the tech available we can abandon the higher levels of the OSI and fork off to a safer place where people are free to say whatever they want to, post anything, express themselves freely without fear of imprisonment. I know bad people with terrible agendas might love such a place...but perhaps we can keep it out of their reach through technology. Or let them on it...because everything is equal....the ethical questions are almost a quagmire. But...do you feel your internet is safer than it was 20 years ago? I don't.
Because everyone knows the only way to beat discrimination is by discriminating.
So, we are expected to believe that all government email resides on individual workstations, as opposed to a centralized server that gets backed up reguarly? That's simply absurd.
It's going to be someone lazy. Why not an Australian? What are you? Prejudiced?