Interesting reply - you did lead me to do a little more digging to make sure I wasn't mistaken.
If you're interested on learning a bit more about the pope's involvement in the cover-ups, this article lays out some of the evidence against him.
It sounds like your church has a much better attitude to homosexuality than many, which is great. To me, though, the pope's efforts to oppose equal legal rights for homosexuals seems to fly in the face of tolerance. He does, at least, advocate 'respect and compassion', but his words and actions seem to be at odds in a lot of cases.
Finally, I'd say that political organisations absolutely do interfere with my life, and that is precisely the same context I meant when I said that the church does so. They don't simply impose their own moral values upon themselves and their followers, they attempt to sway legislation to impose these values on all. The pope does not simply state the beliefs of the church, he attempts to leverage the power of his followers to ensure that all people are influenced by them.
That may be true, but there are plenty of very good reasons to be mistrusting of Pope Benedict, religion notwithstanding. He's a powerful leader who pushes policies which cause significant harm to people's day to day lives (discouraging the use of condoms, shielding paedophiles from the accusations of their victims, perpetuating an intolerant attitude to homosexuality, and generally attempting to interfere with people who are attempting to privately live a happy life). More or less all of his public suggestions and ideas, regardless of the stated reasoning, would have the effect of increasing the power of his organisation were they carried out or taken literally.
According to TFA, the insurance company covered it. Admittedly the cost will filter down into the premiums, but the taxpayer didn't take a significant hit here (although as another post points out, hiring morons has a financial cost, and this is just an example of that).
What struck me as odd is that one student got $175k and the other only got $10k.
Come to think of it, how do physical search warrants deal with a situation like this (in the US or the UK)? Say the courts believe that there is evidence kept in a safe in your home - they turn up with a warrant, confiscate it, and find they can't get in. They demand you provide the combination, and you refuse - what happens next?
As an aside, thinking about physical safes made me realise that many methods of cracking would destroy the contents. Seems like that would be a good angle to pursue here: in light of laws like this, good encryption software should have a duress password that irretrievably nukes the data and shows an empty container. Person happily provides that code, explains that they hadn't yet had a chance to transfer any data to the encrypted volume, and leaves with both their privacy and their freedom intact.
It's allegorical - the point isn't that the government will beat you with a wrench, it's that it doesn't matter how strong your encryption is when the opponent can just threaten you if you don't reveal the password.
I think we're looking at the issue differently. I was thinking more of the major breakthroughs that caused significant jumps (at least once they were past the teething problems), rather than the refinement of those technologies for a little more improvement.
Obviously I don't know whether we're going to manage to fill in that '?' on the end, nor do I know whether the relatively short gap between the advent of internal combustion and that of the jet was just a fluke, but if history's taught us anything it's that we're good at coming up with things that previous generations couldn't predict!
Interesting link - I like the idea of getting people interested through the public competition, but in reality that's all it is, a publicity stunt. I hope they spent a while broadcasting a simpler signal as well - prime numbers, simple repeating patterns, something like that. Think of it from our point of view: would SETI really pick out something like a digitally encoded image, using an alien data transfer scheme, from random data? I doubt it. Recognising a sequence of primes, or squares, or some such, whatever numerical base they were transmitted in, is much more plausible.
Yeah, but I'd still say it's a good plan. Considering the outlay (minimal - point a big ass laser or radio dish in the right direction, pump out a sequence of prime numbers or some such for a while), the potential reward (a very small, but nonetheless plausible, chance of discovering extraterrestrial life), and the other realistic options (do nothing), I'd say waiting for signals with a 40 year round trip is probably our best bet.
And a bog standard passenger jet can get you pretty much anywhere on the planet within a day. A fast military jet can do the same in an afternoon. The difference over the past century is orders of magnitude.
One person told me she got a pop up telling her that the computer was infected with 45 viruses.
A thought that just struck me - if Comcast is using web overlays to pass on this info, it will, if anything, serve to legitimise the "Your computer is infected click here and give us your credit card details to fix it" pop-ups.
An email to the address they have on file would be much less creepy and more effective, IMO.
These paper clips are no different to those that a kid could come into contact with in any of a hundred other day-to-day situations. Either there's a general safety problem with the lead content of paper clips or there isn't - being a part of a science kit doesn't change that.
Interestingly, that post also highlights the fact that within the iPod touch line, Apple are charging £80 for an extra 32GB of flash. Obviously from their point of view it's a matter of maximising profit with a lot more to it than simply adding up component costs, but it's a good apples to apples (no pun intended) comparison of their markups.
Surely one could use this code to create a dummy display driver that dumps an unencrypted video stream?
Computer's internal blu-ray drive happily handshakes with the virtual monitor and sends it the stream thanks to the master key, whereas before it would've just thrown an error or given a degraded stream. This stream can then be passed unencrypted through the graphics card, or saved for later viewing. Of course, it seems like a resource intensive method of ripping, and you'd need to re-encode the stream to something more manageable in size (at some loss of quality), but it seems like a technically plausible use of this software.
I do agree, however, that a little black box with an 'encrypted in' and an 'unencrypted out' would be a whole lot more useful for most real-world applications.
One of the more interesting aspects of this story is the attempt at damage control that ACS:Law are trying to pull. To quote their statement to the BBC: "All our evidence does is identify an internet connection that has been utilised to share copyright work," he told BBC News when pressed about the BSkyB database. "In relation to the individual names, these are just the names and addresses of the account owner and we make no claims that they themselves were sharing the files," he added.
Seems a pretty sharp turnaround from threatening legal action against those people based on that same evidence, doesn't it?
Google's scary data gathering skills to the rescue! I clicked on the little 'street view' icon, fully expecting to see nothing, but it popped up with a whole bunch of geotagged photos. Found one with a descriptive title and it's then just a short hop to the Wikipedia page.
If I were running the cell companies I wouldn't be worried - it's one town (not enough market to really hurt if it's lost) and people will realise within a month or two that they actually quite enjoyed being able to use their phones. Just let the administrators steam in their own stupidity once the population gets pissed off, making sure to politely point out exactly why nobody has phone coverage.
That's actually quite surprising (assuming, of course, that the YouTube clip hasn't been messed with for effect) - I tend to put things like this down as the rantings of the $1000 network cable brigade but the difference was definitely noticeable to me (without the video visible, of course; I didn't want to bias myself).
You make an intriguing suggestion - I (and presumably many other/.ers) would very much appreciate a bit more info; how did you get the main connection, how's it shared out, did you come up against any particularly significant red tape, what's the rough cost breakdown (hardware/installation/monthly connection), and so on?
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How about donation to medical school? They're always looking for corpses to practice on and they'll cremate the remains when they're done.
Interesting reply - you did lead me to do a little more digging to make sure I wasn't mistaken.
If you're interested on learning a bit more about the pope's involvement in the cover-ups, this article lays out some of the evidence against him.
It sounds like your church has a much better attitude to homosexuality than many, which is great. To me, though, the pope's efforts to oppose equal legal rights for homosexuals seems to fly in the face of tolerance. He does, at least, advocate 'respect and compassion', but his words and actions seem to be at odds in a lot of cases.
Finally, I'd say that political organisations absolutely do interfere with my life, and that is precisely the same context I meant when I said that the church does so. They don't simply impose their own moral values upon themselves and their followers, they attempt to sway legislation to impose these values on all. The pope does not simply state the beliefs of the church, he attempts to leverage the power of his followers to ensure that all people are influenced by them.
That may be true, but there are plenty of very good reasons to be mistrusting of Pope Benedict, religion notwithstanding. He's a powerful leader who pushes policies which cause significant harm to people's day to day lives (discouraging the use of condoms, shielding paedophiles from the accusations of their victims, perpetuating an intolerant attitude to homosexuality, and generally attempting to interfere with people who are attempting to privately live a happy life). More or less all of his public suggestions and ideas, regardless of the stated reasoning, would have the effect of increasing the power of his organisation were they carried out or taken literally.
According to TFA, the insurance company covered it. Admittedly the cost will filter down into the premiums, but the taxpayer didn't take a significant hit here (although as another post points out, hiring morons has a financial cost, and this is just an example of that).
What struck me as odd is that one student got $175k and the other only got $10k.
Exactly; who'd expect Oxford university, of all places, to hold on to archaic English units?
Come to think of it, how do physical search warrants deal with a situation like this (in the US or the UK)? Say the courts believe that there is evidence kept in a safe in your home - they turn up with a warrant, confiscate it, and find they can't get in. They demand you provide the combination, and you refuse - what happens next?
As an aside, thinking about physical safes made me realise that many methods of cracking would destroy the contents. Seems like that would be a good angle to pursue here: in light of laws like this, good encryption software should have a duress password that irretrievably nukes the data and shows an empty container. Person happily provides that code, explains that they hadn't yet had a chance to transfer any data to the encrypted volume, and leaves with both their privacy and their freedom intact.
It's allegorical - the point isn't that the government will beat you with a wrench, it's that it doesn't matter how strong your encryption is when the opponent can just threaten you if you don't reveal the password.
I think we're looking at the issue differently. I was thinking more of the major breakthroughs that caused significant jumps (at least once they were past the teething problems), rather than the refinement of those technologies for a little more improvement.
Think sails (order 10mph) -> internal combustion (order 100mph) -> jets (order 1000mph) -> ? (order 10,000mph).
Obviously I don't know whether we're going to manage to fill in that '?' on the end, nor do I know whether the relatively short gap between the advent of internal combustion and that of the jet was just a fluke, but if history's taught us anything it's that we're good at coming up with things that previous generations couldn't predict!
Interesting link - I like the idea of getting people interested through the public competition, but in reality that's all it is, a publicity stunt. I hope they spent a while broadcasting a simpler signal as well - prime numbers, simple repeating patterns, something like that. Think of it from our point of view: would SETI really pick out something like a digitally encoded image, using an alien data transfer scheme, from random data? I doubt it. Recognising a sequence of primes, or squares, or some such, whatever numerical base they were transmitted in, is much more plausible.
Yeah, but I'd still say it's a good plan. Considering the outlay (minimal - point a big ass laser or radio dish in the right direction, pump out a sequence of prime numbers or some such for a while), the potential reward (a very small, but nonetheless plausible, chance of discovering extraterrestrial life), and the other realistic options (do nothing), I'd say waiting for signals with a 40 year round trip is probably our best bet.
And a bog standard passenger jet can get you pretty much anywhere on the planet within a day. A fast military jet can do the same in an afternoon. The difference over the past century is orders of magnitude.
One person told me she got a pop up telling her that the computer was infected with 45 viruses.
A thought that just struck me - if Comcast is using web overlays to pass on this info, it will, if anything, serve to legitimise the "Your computer is infected click here and give us your credit card details to fix it" pop-ups.
An email to the address they have on file would be much less creepy and more effective, IMO.
Or the more succinct 'Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos'.
These paper clips are no different to those that a kid could come into contact with in any of a hundred other day-to-day situations. Either there's a general safety problem with the lead content of paper clips or there isn't - being a part of a science kit doesn't change that.
I'm suddenly seeing a market for a microSD add-on for the iPhone!
Interestingly, that post also highlights the fact that within the iPod touch line, Apple are charging £80 for an extra 32GB of flash. Obviously from their point of view it's a matter of maximising profit with a lot more to it than simply adding up component costs, but it's a good apples to apples (no pun intended) comparison of their markups.
Surely one could use this code to create a dummy display driver that dumps an unencrypted video stream?
Computer's internal blu-ray drive happily handshakes with the virtual monitor and sends it the stream thanks to the master key, whereas before it would've just thrown an error or given a degraded stream. This stream can then be passed unencrypted through the graphics card, or saved for later viewing. Of course, it seems like a resource intensive method of ripping, and you'd need to re-encode the stream to something more manageable in size (at some loss of quality), but it seems like a technically plausible use of this software.
I do agree, however, that a little black box with an 'encrypted in' and an 'unencrypted out' would be a whole lot more useful for most real-world applications.
One of the more interesting aspects of this story is the attempt at damage control that ACS:Law are trying to pull. To quote their statement to the BBC: "All our evidence does is identify an internet connection that has been utilised to share copyright work," he told BBC News when pressed about the BSkyB database. "In relation to the individual names, these are just the names and addresses of the account owner and we make no claims that they themselves were sharing the files," he added.
Seems a pretty sharp turnaround from threatening legal action against those people based on that same evidence, doesn't it?
Or maybe just head over to the5k or 10k Apart
Isn't it just short for application?
Google's scary data gathering skills to the rescue! I clicked on the little 'street view' icon, fully expecting to see nothing, but it popped up with a whole bunch of geotagged photos. Found one with a descriptive title and it's then just a short hop to the Wikipedia page.
If I were running the cell companies I wouldn't be worried - it's one town (not enough market to really hurt if it's lost) and people will realise within a month or two that they actually quite enjoyed being able to use their phones. Just let the administrators steam in their own stupidity once the population gets pissed off, making sure to politely point out exactly why nobody has phone coverage.
That's actually quite surprising (assuming, of course, that the YouTube clip hasn't been messed with for effect) - I tend to put things like this down as the rantings of the $1000 network cable brigade but the difference was definitely noticeable to me (without the video visible, of course; I didn't want to bias myself).
You make an intriguing suggestion - I (and presumably many other /.ers) would very much appreciate a bit more info; how did you get the main connection, how's it shared out, did you come up against any particularly significant red tape, what's the rough cost breakdown (hardware/installation/monthly connection), and so on?
Also they were analog...