I still think the idea is stupid, though... but I'm not in the market for a new phone, in any case.
So just use the SUPPLIED Lightnng headset, or buy a third party set. There are already several, and sure to be more in 3...2...1
With it being more complex than a simple analog connection the problem with 3rd party sets is that Apple will be able to change the protocol behind the scenes and lock out 3rd parties they don't like. Something I'm sure has never ever happened before...
You mean that magnet thing that drops out every time you try to move your laptop somewhere? Most annoying thing in the world!
Huh, I was assuming (what with Apples awesome innovation) that every time the magnet fell out and got plugged in it was generating current which helped charge the laptop...
(wheres that backward question mark when you need it, Apple can you put that on the iphone?)
Your rights? You are sitting in a private airport. Oh yeah, I am sure they are out to "get you" because they have nothing better to do. Another narcissist.
Well they are out to get *someone*. They have quotas to fill. Even if its just pulling someone in for a detailed search and they don't find something, this makes their monthly 'balance' sheet look better.
The main thing that makes crime in higher population areas so much more appealing than crime in remote locations is the anonymity that large populations afford.
Someone driving up to your house in the remote location stands out like a sore thumb, everyone for miles might be looking at them wondering what they are up to and notice the exact make and model of the car/truck.
In the city, not so much.
The main deterrent to crime is not the prospect of punishment; its the prospect of being caught. In the case of your remote location, even if they get away with the goods, chances of being caught are much higher because their presence is more noticeable.
'Unclean' is probably the wrong term. Dogs betrayed the prophet when he and his minions were attempting to infiltrate Mecca (they barked and gave them away). So dogs are bad, not so much dirty.
If I get TSA Precheck this week that assumes I am not a big "security risk". Then why next week am I a " security risk" when they don't give me precheck on my next flight?
It makes no sense.
You really need to read some Franz Kafka novels, or even the movies. There are a couple of movie adaptations of 'The Trial'. Then you'll get it.
...Buy more explosives checkers, and get ones so sensitive they'll detect the explosives inside a firearm cartridge loaded inside a gun. Don't look for the metal. Look for the cartridge.
In any system, there are always two complementary failure modes. We call these "type 1" and "type 2" errors. For example, a switch can fail open (does not conduct when it should conduct) or closed (conducts when it is not supposed to conduct).
For a detector, the error types are "false negative", failing to detect an explosive that is there, and "false positive"-- detecting an explosive when one is not there.
It's easy to make a detective super sensitive. Of course, this means that the false positive rate will be astronomical.
The phrase "You can't be too careful!" comes to mind, one I hear a LOT from Americans.
The TSA hasn't caught any terrorists yet. It's expensive, intrusive, and useless.
The purpose of the screenings is not to "catch terrorists" but to deter the terrorists from even trying. I am not say that the TSA is effective, I am just saying that the lack of arrested terrorists isn't proof that they aren't.
There was a guy on a train with sheets of paper in his hand. Every so often he'd tear off a piece of paper, roll it into a ball and throw it out the window. Curious, I asked him why he was doing this.
He: "It keeps the tigers away." Me: "Don't be silly there aren't any tigers here!" He: "See! It works!"
As far as the middle east goes they are a lot closer to it than we are. If they want to take on those problems, I'd argue for letting them. The bulk of the oil money has already been made, the minor loss of influence over there in exchange for giving up the cost of responsibility for it is worth it.
Actually, a good swat of Eastern European countries are NATO members, to the infinite dismay of Russia.
Yep, when I hear of law enforcement I see tax-payer funded concentrations of power that selectively enforce laws inversely proportional to a criminal's social status, and are too eager to spy on american public with reckless disregard for core societal values like privacy.
They probably see how much money Facebook makes by selling its users data and think they should be able to do something similar...
What they haven't learned is the Universe doesn't care about the FBI, or even criminals for that matter. If mathematics makes hard-to-break encryption possible, then that is simply that. Unless Congress plans to pass laws banning encryption, or demanding back doors, which will set it up for a big fight in the Supreme Court, the government should just shut its fucking pie hole and get about investigating crimes. Criminals have been hiding and destroying evidence as long as there have been criminals, and I've seen absolutely nothing that suggests that more criminals are getting away with crimes now than they did a couple of decades ago.
Wasn't there some famous quote about not being able to legislate away the laws of physics?
I learned this from Joanna Rutkowska; you have at least 3 virtual machines.
One is 'green' and you only ever use it for very sensitive things like online banking. One is 'yellow' and you only ever use it for semi-sensitive things like social media. One is 'red' and you do this for random web browsing, searching etc. This one gets re-imaged or reverted to snapshot regularly.
If you like (and have the system resources for it) you can have multiple 'yellow' VMs for multiple social network sites or email accounts.
You can set these VMs up on separate networks with routers/firewalls between them. You can use egress filtering on the green VM so that literally the only sites it can possibly reach are your online banking sites.
You NEVER EVER read email in your green VM or on your host. You NEVER use a web browser in your host.
The basic red,yellow,green VM setup is very very easy to build, doesn't take a lot of skills. Modern PC's and laptops are quite capable of running these 3 VMs.
It's not surprising anyone wants their money back. It's also kind of hard to see how anyone "Stole" the content unless it was the same planet 18 million times.
I'm a bit out of the loop on this game. Is this not a 'fly around in space exploring the galaxy' game? All the screen shots I've seen have just been on the surfaces of planets.
I can't remember the last time I used a CD or DVD. Never used Bluray.
Oh wait, no. I can remember the last time I tried to use a CD; it was the install media for some software that I'd purchased a few years ago. I couldn't install it, the CD had developed a defect. I'm not sure that counts as 'The last time I USED optical media' because I didn't actually get to USE it.
"But at least this new automated-lawsuit system will keep a lot of lawyers employed."
Me, I would rathe see lawyers unemployed. We could use them as compost or for ginning cotton ("...Premium organic hand-ginned cotton...".
My ex-wife is a lawyer. You are significantly overestimating her utility as an unemployed lawyer.
Surely an unemployed lawyer actually brings value to society simply by not operating as a lawyer... ie the more lawyers there are the worse things are for society, so the fewer lawyers, the more unemployed lawyers, the better.
Therefore an unemployed lawyer is more productive in the larger context than an employed lawyer (working as a lawyer).
So what I'm getting at is that lawyers are actually more a burden on society than the unemployed.
What I meant is: If a judge decides that a company is up to illegal activities and tells the company to stop then anyone working with that company in spite of this is aiding those illegal activities.
Not quite. The company can get shut down, but only those involved in the actual illegal activity will be prosecuted.
Otherwise you'll have the janitor serving time for something they was completely unrelated to them.
As such, ALS would have to prove the CloudFlare was involved as a conspirator in the illegal activity. Otherwise, CloudFlare has done nothing wrong other than sell there own services.
So no, unless you can show that CloudFlare (or any company) for that matter was involved in the Copyright Infringement (or other illegal activity) then they are absolved of the supposed crime. For example, a bank holds a criminals money; is the bank then a legal conspirator (and therefore guilty) of murder for an Assassin? Or illegal drug possession or drug trafficking for a drug dealer? No. It's no different for CloudFlare and other companies; yes, they may help make websites and services more secure; but they're not participating in the crime itself in any form - no different from the bank.
You don't have to be convicted of an offence to have assets seized if you are 'supporting' an illegal endeavor; its called 'civil forfeiture'. Eg people who rent properties to drug dealers have been known to have had those properties seized without any conviction against them, just a conviction against the drug dealer and the presumption that the property owner 'should have' known about it and reported it to the police.
Hell, even driving around in the USA with some cash in your car can result in that cash being seized by the police because its 'obvious drug money'. They don't even have to prove anything.
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Knock down the drone, win a burrito.
Actually I was thinking surely some kind of cannon would be the best way to deliver burritos... Perhaps methane powered.
The dongle comes with the phone.
I still think the idea is stupid, though... but I'm not in the market for a new phone, in any case.
So just use the SUPPLIED Lightnng headset, or buy a third party set. There are already several, and sure to be more in 3...2...1
With it being more complex than a simple analog connection the problem with 3rd party sets is that Apple will be able to change the protocol behind the scenes and lock out 3rd parties they don't like. Something I'm sure has never ever happened before...
https://apple.slashdot.org/sto...
never.
You mean that magnet thing that drops out every time you try to move your laptop somewhere? Most annoying thing in the world!
Huh, I was assuming (what with Apples awesome innovation) that every time the magnet fell out and got plugged in it was generating current which helped charge the laptop...
(wheres that backward question mark when you need it, Apple can you put that on the iphone?)
Re: your tagline
Clearly, there is no free world then
I think theres a triangle of land between Sudan and Egypt which isn't claimed by any nation...
Your rights? You are sitting in a private airport. Oh yeah, I am sure they are out to "get you" because they have nothing better to do. Another narcissist.
Well they are out to get *someone*. They have quotas to fill. Even if its just pulling someone in for a detailed search and they don't find something, this makes their monthly 'balance' sheet look better.
The main thing that makes crime in higher population areas so much more appealing than crime in remote locations is the anonymity that large populations afford.
Someone driving up to your house in the remote location stands out like a sore thumb, everyone for miles might be looking at them wondering what they are up to and notice the exact make and model of the car/truck.
In the city, not so much.
The main deterrent to crime is not the prospect of punishment; its the prospect of being caught. In the case of your remote location, even if they get away with the goods, chances of being caught are much higher because their presence is more noticeable.
In Islam dogs are "unclean"
'Unclean' is probably the wrong term. Dogs betrayed the prophet when he and his minions were attempting to infiltrate Mecca (they barked and gave them away). So dogs are bad, not so much dirty.
You can be too careful
That's why the TSA is NOT a civil service (by law) protection organization
To prevent excess costs going to the airlines.
Check out
http://www.freerangekids.com/
for some examples of excessive "can't be too careful"
If I get TSA Precheck this week that assumes I am not a big "security risk". Then why next week am I a " security risk" when they don't give me precheck on my next flight?
It makes no sense.
You really need to read some Franz Kafka novels, or even the movies. There are a couple of movie adaptations of 'The Trial'. Then you'll get it.
It also scares away people having good intentions.
I'd rather walk than fly in the "Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave".
I just assumed that the 'Brave' the song mentions were the Native American warriors.
...Buy more explosives checkers, and get ones so sensitive they'll detect the explosives inside a firearm cartridge loaded inside a gun. Don't look for the metal. Look for the cartridge.
In any system, there are always two complementary failure modes. We call these "type 1" and "type 2" errors. For example, a switch can fail open (does not conduct when it should conduct) or closed (conducts when it is not supposed to conduct).
For a detector, the error types are "false negative", failing to detect an explosive that is there, and "false positive"-- detecting an explosive when one is not there.
It's easy to make a detective super sensitive. Of course, this means that the false positive rate will be astronomical.
The phrase "You can't be too careful!" comes to mind, one I hear a LOT from Americans.
The TSA hasn't caught any terrorists yet. It's expensive, intrusive, and useless.
The purpose of the screenings is not to "catch terrorists" but to deter the terrorists from even trying. I am not say that the TSA is effective, I am just saying that the lack of arrested terrorists isn't proof that they aren't.
There was a guy on a train with sheets of paper in his hand. Every so often he'd tear off a piece of paper, roll it into a ball and throw it out the window. Curious, I asked him why he was doing this.
He: "It keeps the tigers away."
Me: "Don't be silly there aren't any tigers here!"
He: "See! It works!"
Really. Not reliable. Don't quote "the Mail". It's a good way of finding yourself ridiculed in the UK.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI
Except its very widely read. Almost all my relatives and old school friends literally do get all their news from the Daily Mail.
As far as the middle east goes they are a lot closer to it than we are. If they want to take on those problems, I'd argue for letting them. The bulk of the oil money has already been made, the minor loss of influence over there in exchange for giving up the cost of responsibility for it is worth it.
Actually, a good swat of Eastern European countries are NATO members, to the infinite dismay of Russia.
Obvious solution; invite Russia to join NATO.
Yep, when I hear of law enforcement I see tax-payer funded concentrations of power that selectively enforce laws inversely proportional to a criminal's social status, and are too eager to spy on american public with reckless disregard for core societal values like privacy.
They probably see how much money Facebook makes by selling its users data and think they should be able to do something similar...
What they haven't learned is the Universe doesn't care about the FBI, or even criminals for that matter. If mathematics makes hard-to-break encryption possible, then that is simply that. Unless Congress plans to pass laws banning encryption, or demanding back doors, which will set it up for a big fight in the Supreme Court, the government should just shut its fucking pie hole and get about investigating crimes. Criminals have been hiding and destroying evidence as long as there have been criminals, and I've seen absolutely nothing that suggests that more criminals are getting away with crimes now than they did a couple of decades ago.
Wasn't there some famous quote about not being able to legislate away the laws of physics?
Please no, we can't take a Kardashian civilization!
I think we'd know if it was a Kardashian civilization; the arses would blot out their sun.
Let's put the aliens on a watch-list. Because humans putting humans on watch-lists isn't nearly invasive enough.
Better yet, put them on the no fly list!
Or, you know, you can stop being paranoid....
Just because you are paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.
Do everything Internet-related in a guest VM.
I learned this from Joanna Rutkowska; you have at least 3 virtual machines.
One is 'green' and you only ever use it for very sensitive things like online banking.
One is 'yellow' and you only ever use it for semi-sensitive things like social media.
One is 'red' and you do this for random web browsing, searching etc. This one gets re-imaged or reverted to snapshot regularly.
If you like (and have the system resources for it) you can have multiple 'yellow' VMs for multiple social network sites or email accounts.
You can set these VMs up on separate networks with routers/firewalls between them. You can use egress filtering on the green VM so that literally the only sites it can possibly reach are your online banking sites.
You NEVER EVER read email in your green VM or on your host. You NEVER use a web browser in your host.
The basic red,yellow,green VM setup is very very easy to build, doesn't take a lot of skills. Modern PC's and laptops are quite capable of running these 3 VMs.
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/...
A walking simulator on 18 million planets.
It's not surprising anyone wants their money back. It's also kind of hard to see how anyone "Stole" the content unless it was the same planet 18 million times.
I'm a bit out of the loop on this game. Is this not a 'fly around in space exploring the galaxy' game? All the screen shots I've seen have just been on the surfaces of planets.
"new licenses will no longer be issued until a photo clears their database."
Let me guess. The technology takes longer to clear or doesn't work so well for black faces? Because people will need these to vote...
I can't remember the last time I used a CD or DVD. Never used Bluray.
Oh wait, no. I can remember the last time I tried to use a CD; it was the install media for some software that I'd purchased a few years ago. I couldn't install it, the CD had developed a defect. I'm not sure that counts as 'The last time I USED optical media' because I didn't actually get to USE it.
"But at least this new automated-lawsuit system will keep a lot of lawyers employed."
Me, I would rathe see lawyers unemployed. We could use them as compost or for ginning cotton ("...Premium organic hand-ginned cotton...".
My ex-wife is a lawyer. You are significantly overestimating her utility as an unemployed lawyer.
Surely an unemployed lawyer actually brings value to society simply by not operating as a lawyer... ie the more lawyers there are the worse things are for society, so the fewer lawyers, the more unemployed lawyers, the better.
Therefore an unemployed lawyer is more productive in the larger context than an employed lawyer (working as a lawyer).
So what I'm getting at is that lawyers are actually more a burden on society than the unemployed.
Ok, I misspoke.
What I meant is: If a judge decides that a company is up to illegal activities and tells the company to stop then anyone working with that company in spite of this is aiding those illegal activities.
Not quite. The company can get shut down, but only those involved in the actual illegal activity will be prosecuted.
Otherwise you'll have the janitor serving time for something they was completely unrelated to them.
As such, ALS would have to prove the CloudFlare was involved as a conspirator in the illegal activity. Otherwise, CloudFlare has done nothing wrong other than sell there own services.
So no, unless you can show that CloudFlare (or any company) for that matter was involved in the Copyright Infringement (or other illegal activity) then they are absolved of the supposed crime. For example, a bank holds a criminals money; is the bank then a legal conspirator (and therefore guilty) of murder for an Assassin? Or illegal drug possession or drug trafficking for a drug dealer? No. It's no different for CloudFlare and other companies; yes, they may help make websites and services more secure; but they're not participating in the crime itself in any form - no different from the bank.
You don't have to be convicted of an offence to have assets seized if you are 'supporting' an illegal endeavor; its called 'civil forfeiture'. Eg people who rent properties to drug dealers have been known to have had those properties seized without any conviction against them, just a conviction against the drug dealer and the presumption that the property owner 'should have' known about it and reported it to the police.
Hell, even driving around in the USA with some cash in your car can result in that cash being seized by the police because its 'obvious drug money'. They don't even have to prove anything.