It has been horribly overused and corrupted, but surely laws pertaining to Internet have to be decided on national or, better, international level. With 50 states passing conflicting laws, soon no employee of a tech company will be able to travel across state lines without risk of arrest.
Well, all we can do is act on our current knowledge. If someday someone proves that we do not and will never cause global warming, we can go right back to making gas guzzlers. If we also do not have to worry about polution and oil shortage that is.
Whoa. I connect to another party and send encrypted stream that can only be interpreted by the owner of that person's private key. If the government listens to this communication, they just get a stream of random numbers. How is it worse than the current situation, where the Big Brother can determine your identity through ISP logs AND content of the conversation by logging packets?
You don't have to provide your certificate to communicate to someone else. Security is provided by their public/private key pair, which you most probably do want to authenticate to make sure you are not sending your Falun Gong exercise worksheets to Chinese government. But if needed, both parties can generate self-signed certificates and use them instead of identity verified by ISP. In this case it's their responsibility to verify key hashes offline.
Why should I care about ODF vs OOXML? Both are so complex that they can only be implemented by big corporations (and Ok, big Open Source groups). Give me something for which a moderately computer-educated citizen can write a parser to, for example, find inconsistencies or unusual items in a state budget spreadsheet. Plain HTML will do nicely and there is no reason government documents should have formatting needs that exceed that.
Phew! Hats off! I have never seen a slashdot post where someone puts a bigger foot in their mouth. Encryption helping governments monitor the Internet? Internet being anonymous NOW? You need to read any Security 101 book. Here is a big hint: how will the Big Brother find out just what was the subversive text?
Especially that last part doesn't fit into the doctrine of high mobility of the US military. Not to mention that there are less expensive and more reliable means of getting rid of missiles.
For example? I hear Patriot Intercepter missiles and space umbrella program didn't ever shoot anything down except under test conditions. If people are shooting nukes at you, maybe those very poisonous gases and expenses are not that bad after all.
Do these things where I am not forced to participate. We do not need closed quarters to be any more uncomfortable. What I would support is for a stewardess to keep one phone of some kind that is known not to compromise the onboard system. Either passengers or people on the ground can use this phone, with stewardess'es approval, to relay emergency or other essential messages.
You are forgetting the fact that, unlike kaboom, laser travels instantly (unless you try to shoot Martians) and precisely. This makes them better suited for shooting down airplanes and cruise missiles. There is also an option of using a smaller laser to blind the pilot.
Discovering a security hole is elite. Sitting on it and gloating is lame. I guess it's Ok - both you and lonescu will most likely reach the level of maturity required to understand this by your mid-20th. Now, why would I want to be elite in anything related to Vista? That's like being a world class expert on security in prison showers.
These days, after all the time to perfect technology and awareness of identity theft and industrial espionage, non-encryped traffic should be banned from Internet at backbone routers. Every ISP can issue you an SSL certificate that indicates the level of verification (possibly none) they performed on your identity. Even with multicast, data can be encrypted with server's private key for which the public key is available to intended recipients, or public. The only exception would be very low powered dumb devices, but those shouldn't be connected to public Internet anyway.
True if it's actually your own code. If you find a security flaw in a widely owned product written by others, it's good net citizenship to explain it to said owners so that they can (hire others to) protect against it and make use of any implications that are in their favor. As it is, he is displaying a typical 1337 attitude. "Hahaha, I know how to compromise your system, but I am not going to tell you!".
Well, you can not just arbitrarily try to force the government to do what YOU think is right without accepting the consequences. Somehow prosecutors convinced the judge to issue the subpoena and reject the compromise in question. Perhaps it even makes sense - judge or a 3rd party in question do not necessarily have the law enforcement expertise to identify potential lawbreakers to be questioned in the crowd of shouting people. If it was a grave error, there are petitions, elections and revolutions depending on the circumstances. If you are willing to stay in jail for your convictions in such a case, well that's your decision.
The guy is a low life for not releasing the source code. We need administration tools to manage our own systems, and yes Symantec would be one company with legitimate use of this functionality.
1. A violent crime has been committed 2. The blogger directly recorded videos in question, so he is only protecting perpetrators of a crime, not innocent bystanders
I don't see how this is different from a regular individual who witnesses a crime and refuses to testify. If we allow this, anyone can claim to be an amateur journalist just because they don't want to testify about their buddies or bother coming to court. And we compare this to a political leak, it would like someone pointing out that one of the Senators is sleeping with underage boys but refusing to reveal which one.
How so? Retail == Walmart, Software == Microsoft, Entertainment == {MP,RI}AA. Same companies largely dictate government policies and together with half a dozen or so smaller competitors each control at least more than half US economy. Sounds pretty centralized to me.
Abstract and artificial concepts like IP is not something college students can comprehand. Lets hope they don't get in trouble with basic things such as using birth control or knowing their alcohol tolerance. Just exempt anyone under the age of 25 from copyright laws and let them not get into a habit of pirating in the first place. Of course current copyrights last way too long to make sense to anyone, not just kids.
Someone should sell a monthly malware research subscription that identifies attack sources for an enterprise or ISP for a month and submits case files to the appropriate government to put the offenders in jail. In countries with no functional government, hire privateers instead.
Most people buy a PC and run the same OS for its lifetime (which is around 5 years if you want current programs). "How many people are planning to buy a PC with Vista as opposed to any other computing device" survey would likely return 90%.
It's not your budget we are worried about. If you make 100K, millions of people spending 20K spend a quarter of income on food, after paying taxes, rent, medical expenses, home heating costs... If prices go 50% higher, it's easy to see how one can fail to get needing nutrition during pregnancy or for small children, with disastrous consequences.
Besides, if agriculture is fully automated, just how do you expect current farmers to pay for their groceries? What makes you think it will be more ecologically sound or humane to animals than some current factory-style practices?
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It has been horribly overused and corrupted, but surely laws pertaining to Internet have to be decided on national or, better, international level. With 50 states passing conflicting laws, soon no employee of a tech company will be able to travel across state lines without risk of arrest.
Well, all we can do is act on our current knowledge. If someday someone proves that we do not and will never cause global warming, we can go right back to making gas guzzlers. If we also do not have to worry about polution and oil shortage that is.
Maybe because your cellphone doesn't have to send pictures from space to mission control in adverse weather conditions?
Whoa. I connect to another party and send encrypted stream that can only be interpreted by the owner of that person's private key. If the government listens to this communication, they just get a stream of random numbers. How is it worse than the current situation, where the Big Brother can determine your identity through ISP logs AND content of the conversation by logging packets?
You don't have to provide your certificate to communicate to someone else. Security is provided by their public/private key pair, which you most probably do want to authenticate to make sure you are not sending your Falun Gong exercise worksheets to Chinese government. But if needed, both parties can generate self-signed certificates and use them instead of identity verified by ISP. In this case it's their responsibility to verify key hashes offline.
The point is that he is selling his adapter to people who want more battery life or skip protection out of their video iPods.
Why should I care about ODF vs OOXML? Both are so complex that they can only be implemented by big corporations (and Ok, big Open Source groups). Give me something for which a moderately computer-educated citizen can write a parser to, for example, find inconsistencies or unusual items in a state budget spreadsheet. Plain HTML will do nicely and there is no reason government documents should have formatting needs that exceed that.
Phew! Hats off! I have never seen a slashdot post where someone puts a bigger foot in their mouth. Encryption helping governments monitor the Internet? Internet being anonymous NOW? You need to read any Security 101 book. Here is a big hint: how will the Big Brother find out just what was the subversive text?
Especially that last part doesn't fit into the doctrine of high mobility of the US military. Not to mention that there are less expensive and more reliable means of getting rid of missiles.
For example? I hear Patriot Intercepter missiles and space umbrella program didn't ever shoot anything down except under test conditions. If people are shooting nukes at you, maybe those very poisonous gases and expenses are not that bad after all.
Do these things where I am not forced to participate. We do not need closed quarters to be any more uncomfortable. What I would support is for a stewardess to keep one phone of some kind that is known not to compromise the onboard system. Either passengers or people on the ground can use this phone, with stewardess'es approval, to relay emergency or other essential messages.
You are forgetting the fact that, unlike kaboom, laser travels instantly (unless you try to shoot Martians) and precisely. This makes them better suited for shooting down airplanes and cruise missiles. There is also an option of using a smaller laser to blind the pilot.
Discovering a security hole is elite. Sitting on it and gloating is lame. I guess it's Ok - both you and lonescu will most likely reach the level of maturity required to understand this by your mid-20th. Now, why would I want to be elite in anything related to Vista? That's like being a world class expert on security in prison showers.
These days, after all the time to perfect technology and awareness of identity theft and industrial espionage, non-encryped traffic should be banned from Internet at backbone routers. Every ISP can issue you an SSL certificate that indicates the level of verification (possibly none) they performed on your identity. Even with multicast, data can be encrypted with server's private key for which the public key is available to intended recipients, or public. The only exception would be very low powered dumb devices, but those shouldn't be connected to public Internet anyway.
True if it's actually your own code. If you find a security flaw in a widely owned product written by others, it's good net citizenship to explain it to said owners so that they can (hire others to) protect against it and make use of any implications that are in their favor. As it is, he is displaying a typical 1337 attitude. "Hahaha, I know how to compromise your system, but I am not going to tell you!".
Well, you can not just arbitrarily try to force the government to do what YOU think is right without accepting the consequences. Somehow prosecutors convinced the judge to issue the subpoena and reject the compromise in question. Perhaps it even makes sense - judge or a 3rd party in question do not necessarily have the law enforcement expertise to identify potential lawbreakers to be questioned in the crowd of shouting people. If it was a grave error, there are petitions, elections and revolutions depending on the circumstances. If you are willing to stay in jail for your convictions in such a case, well that's your decision.
The guy is a low life for not releasing the source code. We need administration tools to manage our own systems, and yes Symantec would be one company with legitimate use of this functionality.
So basically, if you killed someone on the block and people who saw it are either your buddies or are shit scared of you, you get to walk away free?
1. A violent crime has been committed
2. The blogger directly recorded videos in question, so he is only protecting perpetrators of a crime, not innocent bystanders
I don't see how this is different from a regular individual who witnesses a crime and refuses to testify. If we allow this, anyone can claim to be an amateur journalist just because they don't want to testify about their buddies or bother coming to court. And we compare this to a political leak, it would like someone pointing out that one of the Senators is sleeping with underage boys but refusing to reveal which one.
How so? Retail == Walmart, Software == Microsoft, Entertainment == {MP,RI}AA. Same companies largely dictate government policies and together with half a dozen or so smaller competitors each control at least more than half US economy. Sounds pretty centralized to me.
Abstract and artificial concepts like IP is not something college students can comprehand. Lets hope they don't get in trouble with basic things such as using birth control or knowing their alcohol tolerance. Just exempt anyone under the age of 25 from copyright laws and let them not get into a habit of pirating in the first place. Of course current copyrights last way too long to make sense to anyone, not just kids.
Someone should sell a monthly malware research subscription that identifies attack sources for an enterprise or ISP for a month and submits case files to the appropriate government to put the offenders in jail. In countries with no functional government, hire privateers instead.
Most people buy a PC and run the same OS for its lifetime (which is around 5 years if you want current programs). "How many people are planning to buy a PC with Vista as opposed to any other computing device" survey would likely return 90%.
It's not your budget we are worried about. If you make 100K, millions of people spending 20K spend a quarter of income on food, after paying taxes, rent, medical expenses, home heating costs... If prices go 50% higher, it's easy to see how one can fail to get needing nutrition during pregnancy or for small children, with disastrous consequences.
Besides, if agriculture is fully automated, just how do you expect current farmers to pay for their groceries? What makes you think it will be more ecologically sound or humane to animals than some current factory-style practices?
Marriage vows have little to do with filling in a government paper.
"Free" because the their salary is minimal, so almost no taxes are withdrawn.
Its too bad that their employers are forced by someone to pay lousy salaries or to evade taxes themselves.
After the war, Europe's problems were merely economical, beforehand they were decent countries
Which is what made them fight one world war after another, huh?