Wrong. The MITM/Trojan may need to change or add a single dialog box. Anyone already versed in these attacks won't find it any more difficult at all with TFA in play. That was Schneier's point.
FYI the "free report" offered at the top of that page snares you into a continuing service you must then cancel. For the "FREE as in required by law" annual credit report go here:
The government is one of ChoicePoint's largest customers
Then we can hope that enough high-ranking members of Congress, Justice, NSA, and the Armed Services having their information compromised will motivate them to do something about it.
Maybe someone should mail Microsoft's software development competitors in Denmark a big Microsoft box conatining yellow armbands with the words "EU Software Patents" printed on them.
How about genetically engineered humans that can appreciate nature without having to compulsively twist it into something considered "beautiful" by the chemical industry?
My original post was rhetorical, but I find it interesting that you ask such a question.
Except in movies, empathy is not a kind of talent that one might arbitrarily apply for its fact finding power. Empathy is the power to feel what someone else feels in a way that defeats our own selfishness. To me it is an intrinsically positive quality, something that can only enable one to act more ethically, or at least less unethically. It isn't empathy that enables one to make intelligent guesses of passwords, just shrewd insight into someone else's character. IMO calling such a quality "empathy" is just the entertainment industry talking.
When you study all the conditions and restrictions this will end up being as valuable as those "Fuel Prepurchase" offers we all love at car rental companies. There will be a few consumers whose routine behavior benfits from it. The rest of us are going to find out the hard way that this is just another way to get us to part with our money buying something we didn't need in the first place -- either the shipping itelf or the items we'll buy trying to use up the "shipping prepurchase".
Next thing you know cops will be asking you to submit to a cellalyzer test, that can tell if your cellphone has been on and next to your head within the past few hours. Impairment will be registered in %BAC (busy at cellphone, %time). There will be arrests of kids with opened 6-packs of prepaid disposable cellphones in the front seat with only half the minutes left on them. In Massachusetts only certain stores will be licenses to sell "hard cliquor" phones with 1000 proof flat rate plans. Etc etc.
It used to be that not matter how old you got your license remained valid with only formal renewals. Now some states require vision to be retested after a certain age. I don't know what criteria Finnish doctors apply in judging a patient's driving fitness, but doing a simple vision test (right at the Motor Vehicle Office) is a step in the right direction, no?
How about we just slap a little sticker on every Bible sold in GA:
This Bible contains material called a creation myth. The creation myth is a story, not a fact,regarding the origin of living things. This material should be approached with the mind open to all creation myths in various religions scattered across the globe and the purposes those myths served in the pre-science cultures that originated and embraced them.
The question should be simply "What do you believe?" Because if something can be proven, the issue of belief does not arise. And only idiots believe what what is proven as false.
Then the question should be simply "Are you an idiot?"
And I believe Scott Adams already answered that one.
Looks like a 24-pack Bud that was shrink wrapped in a garbage bag. I wouldn't dare leave it in the living room for fear someone would take it out with the trash.
Johnny lives in... a cramped three-bedroom apartment shared with his parents and his teenage sister.
Yes, let's.
No amount of technology could sufficiently drive such a dismal reality from my mind. Not that Johnny Sokko would necessarily say that. Nevertheless I'm grateful that where I lived enabled me to escape it entirely.
The writers at dictionary.com think Grammar Nazis everywhere will eventually capitulate on this one:
The use of impact as a verb meaning "to have an effect" often has a big impact on readers. Eighty-four percent of the Usage Panel disapproves of the construction to impact on, as in the phrase social pathologies, common to the inner city, that impact heavily on such a community; fully 95 percent disapproves of the use of impact as a transitive verb in the sentence Companies have used disposable techniques that have a potential for impacting our health. It is unclear why this usage provokes such a strong response, but it cannot be because of novelty. Impact has been used as a verb since 1601, when it meant "to fix or pack in," and its modern, figurative use dates from 1935. It may be that its frequent appearance in the jargon-riddled remarks of politicians, military officials, and financial analysts continues to make people suspicious. Nevertheless, the verbal use of impact has become so common in the working language of corporations and institutions that many speakers have begun to regard it as standard. It seems likely, then, that the verb will eventually become as unobjectionable as contact is now, since it will no longer betray any particular pretentiousness on the part of those who use it. See Usage Note at contact.
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I'm sorry but both Carter and Bush pronounce it "noo kya lur".
With SCO every day is April Fool's. No matter what they do.
...what is the product of information x reliable storage time doing.
Wrong. The MITM/Trojan may need to change or add a single dialog box. Anyone already versed in these attacks won't find it any more difficult at all with TFA in play. That was Schneier's point.
Yeah right. When Satan speaks, bonch listens.
Forgot to mention: the site seems weakly obfuscated. At first I got a simple page of text. I had to then reload to get the site. Weird.
> annual credit report... http://www.creditreporting.com/
FYI the "free report" offered at the top of that page snares you into a continuing service you must then cancel. For the "FREE as in required by law" annual credit report go here:
The government is one of ChoicePoint's largest customers
Then we can hope that enough high-ranking members of Congress, Justice, NSA, and the Armed Services having their information compromised will motivate them to do something about it.
Maybe someone should mail Microsoft's software development competitors in Denmark a big Microsoft box conatining yellow armbands with the words "EU Software Patents" printed on them.
How about genetically engineered humans that can appreciate nature without having to compulsively twist it into something considered "beautiful" by the chemical industry?
My original post was rhetorical, but I find it interesting that you ask such a question.
Except in movies, empathy is not a kind of talent that one might arbitrarily apply for its fact finding power. Empathy is the power to feel what someone else feels in a way that defeats our own selfishness. To me it is an intrinsically positive quality, something that can only enable one to act more ethically, or at least less unethically. It isn't empathy that enables one to make intelligent guesses of passwords, just shrewd insight into someone else's character. IMO calling such a quality "empathy" is just the entertainment industry talking.
In particular, sufferers of mild paranoia might enjoy the change of pace.
Anyway...what Surt said.
I think brain implants that enhance empathy, social awareness, and self-control would be of far more use to us all.
When you study all the conditions and restrictions this will end up being as valuable as those "Fuel Prepurchase" offers we all love at car rental companies. There will be a few consumers whose routine behavior benfits from it. The rest of us are going to find out the hard way that this is just another way to get us to part with our money buying something we didn't need in the first place -- either the shipping itelf or the items we'll buy trying to use up the "shipping prepurchase".
Next thing you know cops will be asking you to submit to a cellalyzer test, that can tell if your cellphone has been on and next to your head within the past few hours. Impairment will be registered in %BAC (busy at cellphone, %time). There will be arrests of kids with opened 6-packs of prepaid disposable cellphones in the front seat with only half the minutes left on them. In Massachusetts only certain stores will be licenses to sell "hard cliquor" phones with 1000 proof flat rate plans. Etc etc.
It used to be that not matter how old you got your license remained valid with only formal renewals. Now some states require vision to be retested after a certain age. I don't know what criteria Finnish doctors apply in judging a patient's driving fitness, but doing a simple vision test (right at the Motor Vehicle Office) is a step in the right direction, no?
The worlds of facts and feelings are not always so neatly divided as we might like. As Michael Roemer puts it:
Somewhere there's a product that will Grow Bleeding-edge Eyeballs!
And w/r/t Centrino, Turion is less likely to provoke a trademark lawsuit than Turino.
The question should be simply "What do you believe?" Because if something can be proven, the issue of belief does not arise. And only idiots believe what what is proven as false.
Then the question should be simply "Are you an idiot?"
And I believe Scott Adams already answered that one.
Looks like a 24-pack Bud that was shrink wrapped in a garbage bag.
I wouldn't dare leave it in the living room for fear someone would take it out with the trash.
Yes, let's.
No amount of technology could sufficiently drive such a dismal reality from my mind. Not that Johnny Sokko would necessarily say that. Nevertheless I'm grateful that where I lived enabled me to escape it entirely.
:-) Heh! Quite right, touché.
The writers at dictionary.com think Grammar Nazis everywhere will eventually capitulate on this one: