" Step 1: Invent gadget Step 2: Get the US Government addicted to it. Step 3: ??? Step 4: Profit "
Sorry doesn't work. It goes more like this: Step 1: Cut down trees Step 2: Get the US addicted to it. Step 3: ??? Step 4: US charges illegal tarrifs and duties and ignores NAFTA rulings to pay them back to Canadians.
The only solution to a paper trail that the public can trust, is to have the paper marked in front of the voter, and have it inserted into the ballot box in front of their eyes, so they can be confident that a machine isn't mis-marking their ballot, or discarding their ballot for another that's put into the ballot box.
Punch cards are really a good way to do a paper trail, as it's visible to the voter, and if there's a dimple or pregnant chad it's clear the voter meant to mark that one. If there's more than one dimple, it's spoiled. In Canada if there's any kind of a mark in the designated area, the ballot is considered valid, it doesn't have to be an X. But if there's marks outside of the Voting O circle for the candidate, then it's bad, or if there's more than one marked. It's not rocket science, it's democracy. Diebold just gets it very, very wrong.
"and a lot of people wont see the retraction so it may seem their ahead of the curve"
Darn tootin'! People don't need to buy Antivirus software at home, since there's AVG by grisoft.com and Clam AV for Windows.
Symantec, Trend, and McAfee are a blight on the computer security industry, and their tactics are only better than the virus writers they claim to fight because at the end of the day, they destroy fewer computers. McAfee tries hard to match destruction though.
" How naive do you have to be to think outlawing it will keep it out of the hands of criminals?"
I don't think it will keep it out of the hands of criminals, but it will make it possible for police to take it away from criminals when they are caught with it. It might also slow the spread of the technology to bad people, so that the slow government can keep up.
I have no doubt the USA, Canada, and the UK will make it illegal to own one to keep code breaking superiority with the governments' spies, rather than criminal organizations.
Does this mean that I shouldn't bother with a 28 character bank password, since it's all going to be moot anyway?
It was easy to spot obviously bad capacitors once I knew what they looked like. The ones I notice look like little cylinders on metal legs, with a rounded instead of flat metal top.
My least favourite kind of capacitor though, is one that works properly, but has been put in the worst place possible so that putting the heat sink on that is supposed to match the CPU, is impossible. And you can't exactly bend those suckers over out of the way, so you have to buy another heat sink that conforms to the annoying motherboard layout.
"may be an increase in the number of Darwin Award winners"
A significant loss in the foil hat wearing community could have a significant impact on the amount of intelligence "They" gather on us all. Ask yourself, will the loss of the paranoid leave mankind more vulnerable?
Protect your foil foisting friends, for they will save us all.
My pet's foil hat specificly doesn't come with any kind of electrical or grounding cord requirement, because I use a polyethylene layer coated with peanut butter for added protection. I haven't had a CIA or FBI.com leak since the PFHT has been in place, but you shoulda seen the leaks before then!
Good point. If I had been playing Google Risk, I might have known better.
I was working completely from memory. I'm a little impressed I spelled it right, but I did meet someone from Uzbekistan a few months ago which helped with my familiarity with the country that's seen some civil strife in the past year.
Processor names, and their various compatible motherboards and heatsinks has been a thorn in the sides of custom computer builders for some time now. I understand we can't pin companies down to certain standards so everything works with all other available equipment, but wow it would be nicer if we could. You wouldn't have to learn the latest tech trends to get a 3GHz upgrade, by matching a CPU with a processor, with the right heat sink, and read up on the compatible RAM etc, since it would "just work".
"Some countries made an effort to distribute their transmigrants evenly around the country."
Canada is facing an immigration crisis. In the first half of the 20th Century our population boomed, with millions coming from Europe mostly to settle in the West. Now nearly all immigrants are to major cities, typically Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto. This leaves other provinces without many immigrants, so much so, that with Canadians having fewer babies, some places are already declining in population. My province, Saskatchewan, is sponsoring skilled immigrants to improve our workforce which has great potential in many industries including mining and goods processing. They're trying to increase the number of immigrants by many thousands more every year, but are hampered by a meticulous, and red tape ladden federal department of immigration.
Here's the Slashdot crowd's chance to get the phrase invented by a Slashdotter out in the public eye. It's important that the public learn that DRM is a bad thing, and this is simply one way to tell them plainly how it is bad. DRM breaks their computer, or makes their life more difficult.
"Infected with DRM"
Sony's rootkit has also been linked to Windows crashes, which isn't surprising to me. Most spyware causes instability in Windows because it is poorly written and designed to break parts of Windows to protect itself from removal. Sony writes, "This component is not malicious and does not compromise security. However to alleviate any concerns that users may have about the program posing potential security vulnerabilities, this update has been released to enable users to remove this component from their computers." The incongruence of their words, is not startling to me, as they are playing a PR game to hide the fact that they messed up people's computers, and made them vulnerable to an attack that hasn't gained popularity yet, but now surely will. Virus writers will be able to easily hide their virus files using programs like Sony's cloaking DRM. Sony is lying that their cloaking DRM does not compromise security of an infected computer. http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.j html?articleID=173601122
I'm all for computer game violence. I play Carmageddon [forerunner to GTA], and Unreal Tournament, and Doom, Wolf 3D, etc.
I think it's perfectly acceptable, and where the problem lies is in parents who don't supervise their kids, or buy them games inappropriate for their mental capacity. Some kids get whacked out on games, or are nuts to start with, and it's not game maker's fault for making their works of art, it's the parent's fault for not seeing the harm it's doing to their child.
They wouldn't buy their kids beer or cigs [ I hope ], why would they buy them an adult game if it will hurt their development?
I wonder if this would be a good way to encourage students to learn the geography they are so sorely lacking? What better way to learn where Uzbekistan is, than to invade Iran from it?
I think the interest in Sony's rootkit methods will only grow as spyware writers begin to include a rootkit with their install routines, so that Spybot, MS Antispyware, and competitors will begin to have further trouble cleaning up customer's computers. Perhaps it's already started?
And as a side note, today AVG detected my Adaware 1.06.exe file as containing a trojan downloader. I guess whichever site like Download.com that I got it from was less than trustworthy, or has Adaware gone to the dogs according to Grisoft.com?
Imagine a cell phone that doesn't need recharging. I'm sure that rescuers at a hurricane scene would have killed for an emergency transmitter like that. Even if something like this isn't as portable as modern flip phones, it could still mean the difference between communicating, and not being able to when electricity from the wall isn't available.
A golden age of energy accessibility may be at hand, and could open up parts of the third world to modern technology too, if it has a readiliy available power source in those places.
What modern Linux distributions will work on a 486 and Pentium with only 16MB of RAM? Will it be updatable through a web apt-get type feature? The only one I know that in theory works is DSLinux, but it's a live CD not an install. What graphical system do I use?
Windows is easy, and should work, it's a shame really that it has bugs like this that aren't fixed.
Every time the ID topic comes up on Slashdot, there's a flood of moderators even that side with the anti-science crowd that wants to teach Christian creation myth in biology class, just so that their God isn't offended. It's enough to make some people say why bother fighting against the slide into ignorance that Kansas seems willing to embrace, and take the rest of America down a peg with it.
" Translation: It will never be safe to play my mp3s that I downloaded off the net now."
Sort of. But think of a virus that infects your MP3 files you've made, so that now they aren't a "Safe" data type to save in the event of a suspected or known virus attack on your computer. There used to be files that could be considered "uninfected" when you backed them up, like.mp3,.jpg,.gif,.txt. How much longer until.txt is hosed too?
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" Step 1: Invent gadget
Step 2: Get the US Government addicted to it.
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit
"
Sorry doesn't work. It goes more like this:
Step 1: Cut down trees
Step 2: Get the US addicted to it.
Step 3: ???
Step 4: US charges illegal tarrifs and duties and ignores NAFTA rulings to pay them back to Canadians.
The only solution to a paper trail that the public can trust, is to have the paper marked in front of the voter, and have it inserted into the ballot box in front of their eyes, so they can be confident that a machine isn't mis-marking their ballot, or discarding their ballot for another that's put into the ballot box.
Punch cards are really a good way to do a paper trail, as it's visible to the voter, and if there's a dimple or pregnant chad it's clear the voter meant to mark that one. If there's more than one dimple, it's spoiled. In Canada if there's any kind of a mark in the designated area, the ballot is considered valid, it doesn't have to be an X. But if there's marks outside of the Voting O circle for the candidate, then it's bad, or if there's more than one marked. It's not rocket science, it's democracy. Diebold just gets it very, very wrong.
And I too will continue to read Slashdot until they post:
Ancient 'Godzilla'-like Slashdot Dupe Discovered
"and a lot of people wont see the retraction so it may seem their ahead of the curve"
Darn tootin'! People don't need to buy Antivirus software at home, since there's AVG by grisoft.com and Clam AV for Windows.
Symantec, Trend, and McAfee are a blight on the computer security industry, and their tactics are only better than the virus writers they claim to fight because at the end of the day, they destroy fewer computers. McAfee tries hard to match destruction though.
" if its not broke, don't fix it."
If it ain't broke, you're not trying. - Red Green
Don't worry, Microsoft will make sure that XP is broken by 2006. Blaster II is due any month now.
It's probably going to be called $sys$180solutions soon, thanks to Sony.
Then again, it's not surprising that $ dollar signs makes things invisible. Works for hidden shares in Windows, and bribes to Congressmen.
" How naive do you have to be to think outlawing it will keep it out of the hands of criminals?"
I don't think it will keep it out of the hands of criminals, but it will make it possible for police to take it away from criminals when they are caught with it. It might also slow the spread of the technology to bad people, so that the slow government can keep up.
I have no doubt the USA, Canada, and the UK will make it illegal to own one to keep code breaking superiority with the governments' spies, rather than criminal organizations.
Does this mean that I shouldn't bother with a 28 character bank password, since it's all going to be moot anyway?
Montgomery Gentry's "Something to be Proud of" is one of my favourite titles in this ironic parade of CDs infected with DRM.
It was easy to spot obviously bad capacitors once I knew what they looked like. The ones I notice look like little cylinders on metal legs, with a rounded instead of flat metal top.
My least favourite kind of capacitor though, is one that works properly, but has been put in the worst place possible so that putting the heat sink on that is supposed to match the CPU, is impossible. And you can't exactly bend those suckers over out of the way, so you have to buy another heat sink that conforms to the annoying motherboard layout.
"may be an increase in the number of Darwin Award winners"
A significant loss in the foil hat wearing community could have a significant impact on the amount of intelligence "They" gather on us all. Ask yourself, will the loss of the paranoid leave mankind more vulnerable?
Protect your foil foisting friends, for they will save us all.
Peace out.
"do you really think a tinfoil hat will do ANYTHING???"
That's what "THEY" want us to think! Tin foil could be like kryptonite to them!
Fight the Man, and Them! Get advanced foil protection today!
My pet's foil hat specificly doesn't come with any kind of electrical or grounding cord requirement, because I use a polyethylene layer coated with peanut butter for added protection. I haven't had a CIA or FBI.com leak since the PFHT has been in place, but you shoulda seen the leaks before then!
Good point. If I had been playing Google Risk, I might have known better.
I was working completely from memory. I'm a little impressed I spelled it right, but I did meet someone from Uzbekistan a few months ago which helped with my familiarity with the country that's seen some civil strife in the past year.
"Do you want fries with that?"
Processor names, and their various compatible motherboards and heatsinks has been a thorn in the sides of custom computer builders for some time now. I understand we can't pin companies down to certain standards so everything works with all other available equipment, but wow it would be nicer if we could. You wouldn't have to learn the latest tech trends to get a 3GHz upgrade, by matching a CPU with a processor, with the right heat sink, and read up on the compatible RAM etc, since it would "just work".
On Google RISK though I'd hope they would be, unless the game is unplayable if there's too many real countries?
It could be the "Oregon Trail" of the 2000s, as far as educational games go.
"Some countries made an effort to distribute their transmigrants evenly around the country."
Canada is facing an immigration crisis. In the first half of the 20th Century our population boomed, with millions coming from Europe mostly to settle in the West. Now nearly all immigrants are to major cities, typically Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto. This leaves other provinces without many immigrants, so much so, that with Canadians having fewer babies, some places are already declining in population. My province, Saskatchewan, is sponsoring skilled immigrants to improve our workforce which has great potential in many industries including mining and goods processing. They're trying to increase the number of immigrants by many thousands more every year, but are hampered by a meticulous, and red tape ladden federal department of immigration.
Here's the Slashdot crowd's chance to get the phrase invented by a Slashdotter out in the public eye. It's important that the public learn that DRM is a bad thing, and this is simply one way to tell them plainly how it is bad. DRM breaks their computer, or makes their life more difficult.
j html?articleID=173601122
"Infected with DRM"
Sony's rootkit has also been linked to Windows crashes, which isn't surprising to me. Most spyware causes instability in Windows because it is poorly written and designed to break parts of Windows to protect itself from removal. Sony writes, "This component is not malicious and does not compromise security. However to alleviate any concerns that users may have about the program posing potential security vulnerabilities, this update has been released to enable users to remove this component from their computers."
The incongruence of their words, is not startling to me, as they are playing a PR game to hide the fact that they messed up people's computers, and made them vulnerable to an attack that hasn't gained popularity yet, but now surely will. Virus writers will be able to easily hide their virus files using programs like Sony's cloaking DRM. Sony is lying that their cloaking DRM does not compromise security of an infected computer.
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.
What are law makers thinking?
I'm all for computer game violence. I play Carmageddon [forerunner to GTA], and Unreal Tournament, and Doom, Wolf 3D, etc.
I think it's perfectly acceptable, and where the problem lies is in parents who don't supervise their kids, or buy them games inappropriate for their mental capacity. Some kids get whacked out on games, or are nuts to start with, and it's not game maker's fault for making their works of art, it's the parent's fault for not seeing the harm it's doing to their child.
They wouldn't buy their kids beer or cigs [ I hope ], why would they buy them an adult game if it will hurt their development?
I wonder if this would be a good way to encourage students to learn the geography they are so sorely lacking? What better way to learn where Uzbekistan is, than to invade Iran from it?
OpenDocument DRM, Intelligently Designed.
I think the interest in Sony's rootkit methods will only grow as spyware writers begin to include a rootkit with their install routines, so that Spybot, MS Antispyware, and competitors will begin to have further trouble cleaning up customer's computers. Perhaps it's already started?
And as a side note, today AVG detected my Adaware 1.06.exe file as containing a trojan downloader. I guess whichever site like Download.com that I got it from was less than trustworthy, or has Adaware gone to the dogs according to Grisoft.com?
Imagine a cell phone that doesn't need recharging. I'm sure that rescuers at a hurricane scene would have killed for an emergency transmitter like that. Even if something like this isn't as portable as modern flip phones, it could still mean the difference between communicating, and not being able to when electricity from the wall isn't available.
A golden age of energy accessibility may be at hand, and could open up parts of the third world to modern technology too, if it has a readiliy available power source in those places.
What modern Linux distributions will work on a 486 and Pentium with only 16MB of RAM? Will it be updatable through a web apt-get type feature? The only one I know that in theory works is DSLinux, but it's a live CD not an install.
What graphical system do I use?
Windows is easy, and should work, it's a shame really that it has bugs like this that aren't fixed.
Every time the ID topic comes up on Slashdot, there's a flood of moderators even that side with the anti-science crowd that wants to teach Christian creation myth in biology class, just so that their God isn't offended. It's enough to make some people say why bother fighting against the slide into ignorance that Kansas seems willing to embrace, and take the rest of America down a peg with it.
"
.mp3, .jpg, .gif, .txt. How much longer until .txt is hosed too?
Translation: It will never be safe to play my mp3s that I downloaded off the net now."
Sort of. But think of a virus that infects your MP3 files you've made, so that now they aren't a "Safe" data type to save in the event of a suspected or known virus attack on your computer. There used to be files that could be considered "uninfected" when you backed them up, like