I've wondered for many years about probably 99% of social network users and if they even realise there are so many great sites out there beyond the scope of their interactions "on the wall" (or whatever the f*ck it's called).
I know of several people that have almost lost all knowledge of the world beyond their social networks and have got themselves trapped in the "Zuckerberg Web".
If this is true, then I believe Facebook serves a greater good. Much like AOL kept the sheeple safely away from the rest of the internet so will Facebook. Honestly, think of how this would effect the quality of comments on places like slashdot if they allowed every "moran" to post on he.... actually never mind.
A music-industry speaker at an American Chamber of Commerce event in Stockholm waxed enthusiastic about child porn, because it serves as the perfect excuse for network censorship, and once you've got a child-porn filter, you can censor anything:
The speaker has a point but it is misdirected. This censorship is really a thinly veiled attempt at shielding domestically produced child pornography from competition. Because child pornography in general is illegal, it is impossible to impose trade tariffs without raising the alarm bells. It is also well known that cheap overseas labour can out-produce more expensive Australian labour in most non-technical industries.
Australian based child pornographers were finding their margins dwindling so they used "special interest" groups to penetrate government and introduce laws to protect their business. It is obvious that anyone in support of the "Australian Net Filter" is simply disguising their interest in strengthening domestic child pornography.:)
It's a cute idea. It assumes a single point of contact with the ground, and thus requires a flat, hard floor. This is limiting.
You could add as many points of contact as you like as long as they are synchronized. Plus, I hear hill billies can slap chains on them for better traction in the mud.
The friction between the power and pavement surfaces is dependent on how much that wheel is worn down. While driving the response you get as the wheel ages will change.
Of course, what they are doing is not unique to the legal profession. I just wish engineers had been clever enough to figure out a way to do the same thing so that "Engineer" could only be used by a "real" engineer. Yes, there are P.E.s but in most engineering jobs a P.E. is just a fancy title, not a job requirement.
Canada guards the title engineer. You can't use "engineer" unless you're a P.Eng and you can't be a P.Eng unless you have a degree. Graduates from diploma mills are allowed to use the title "technician".
"And of course, shouldn't the cops want to be recorded if they're not doing anything wrong?"
If A, then B. Not B. Therefore not A.
This reminds me of the quote from "American Beauty":
Lester Burnham: Then I guess I'll have to throw in a sexual harassment charge. Brad Dupree: Against who? Lester Burnham: Against YOU. Can you prove that you didn't offer to save my job if I let you blow me? Brad Dupree: Man, you are one twisted fuck. Lester Burnham: Nope; I'm just an ordinary guy who has nothing left to lose.
Can the police prove they didn't beat the suspect.... they could if they had video evidence of them not doing it:)
In real life, the vast, vast majority of my money is stored in bank or building society accounts.
Every major country uses a fiat currency that is nothing more than "digital currency" much like bitcoin. The actual physical currency (M0), at least in the US, represents less than 5% of the actual wealth (M3).
Bitcoin is "stealable" because it has no central authority. If you want a currency with central authority it also comes with many negatives. The biggest being that the central authority effectively gives itself a license to debase the currency. This is nothing more than legalized counterfeiting.
Vancouver housing prices weren't the cause of the riot. Neither were disaffected youth angry about the cost of living.
While the housing market is grossly overinflated, the rental market is sane. Young people simply rent instead of buying, and rent quite nice places too because the main driver of inflating housing costs are foreign investors buying up all the condo stock. Metro Vancouver's unemployment rate (7.6%) is lower than Canada's overall, and has been pretty constant for the last decade. There's no large, pent up reservoir of anger.
Employment rate is not always the best indicator as people are often underemployed. The common term is the "working poor" and it is well documented:
""" Despite the manipulation of statistics by various government agencies, more people are hungry in this country and in this province than we have seen for a long time. Food banks are multiplying, each one reporting that there is not enough in contributions to meet the need. It is reported that 700,000 people in Canada rely on food banks to feed themselves and their families... The fact is that the majority of the poor in Canada and in British Columbia are working. """
Vancouver is similar to the worst US cities before the housing bust. It costs 11 times the average income to buy the average house. This would put servicing housing debt at 72% of your gross income. There isn't much industry and therefore job prospects aren't the greatest. The average young person is likely to live in debt their entire lives if they stay. I don't see how people can live without drawing equity from their homes to pay daily expenses. Add on top of that foreigners driving up the price of everything.
As someone mentioned about the hooligans trying to start a riot during the Olympics, it didn't work. A riot only happens when you have enough pissed off people in a large group. The end of a losing hockey playoff is just a catalyst that brought a lot of already morally defeated people together in one place.
Saying the hockey game caused the riot is like saying the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand caused World War I.
Where's the leak? According to the data I see in the article this feature looks like it's specifically designed in. It's not "leaking" anything, it's specifically disseminating that information.
It's not a leak, that's just the way it was designed. Similar to a condom with a hole in it.
Wait, that's inseminating not disseminating, never mind.
So, if Google's advanced supercomputer can crack a billion keys/second and they have 1 billion computers at their disposal to do the cracking, it would only take them around 1 x 10^17 years to crack your data.
Of course, now that you've figured out their plan, they're going to have to kill you, and they will surely do so within 1 x 10^2 years.
This entire thread is so full of fail it's going to make my head explode.
Fact 1: Most encryption schemes are cracked by exploiting the hardware or the algorithm BUT rarely are they ever brute forced. If an entity has the hardware, and they do in a cloud, then encryption algorithm is not the weak spot. -XBOX original, game exploit -XBOX360 game exploit -Satellite: including DirecTV, Dish and Bell (smart card / firmware exploit) -PS3: exploit -HDCP/HDMI - exploit -$5 suitcase lock Vs. TSA - wire cutters, nobody brute forces anything
Fact 2: Someone is confused about encryption or "the cloud" or both. Encryption isn't magic, a decryption key has to exist. If it exists on the fucking servers running in the cloud then it isn't really all that safe is it. That's right, a cloud is not just a data repository, it is data + computing + networking. I think people are thinking CIFS chare when they should be thinking VM.
Fact 3: It's not Google you have to be most worried about. It's Google's security, it's the US government (who owns everything on US soil) and hackers that would find it very profitable to have a single attack vector.
All the digital clocks I have will keep the wrong time if they lose power. Lose power, comes back and clock says "12:00". One hour later, clock now says "01:00". That's a broken clock that's never right.
Republican fearmongering says we need to invade North Korea.
Don't be silly. North Korea *actually* has nukes. The US has no problem invading people *suspected* of having nukes, but hell if they'll set foot in any place that actually has them. They had plenty of legitimate opportunities to invade North Korea and just shrugged it off. 1) North Korea routinely threatens the South AND the US. 2) They aren't bullshitting - they've actually sunk SK military ships, bombed islands, kidnapped people from the south, counterfeit US currency, etc, etc 3) They openly test above ground nuclear weapons and *long range* missiles in an attempt to put Japan in range WHO IS NOT allowed to have a military (Plus they have the balls to use the word "dong" to name their missile name... Type-of-Dong which would make getting deep-throated by one that much more humiliating) 5) Any threat to Japan is a threat to the US who is in charge of protecting them in exchange for giving up the military.
But none of these compare at all to an OPEC member threatening to sell oil in Euros.
There may be some controversy over the "evilness" of GM foods. We've done artificial selection for hundreds of years to create the crops we have now. If you look at pictures of wild corn and wild wheat it is unidentifiable to the lay person. In fact most people laugh at the idea of banana seeds, which are basically gone now. I don't have a problem with GM foods that are properly tested.
I do have a problem with the legality. I think GM foods should be a government/international effort. When you hear stories of Monsanto suing farmers which GM strains in their crops from cross contamination or killing off seed banks that gets me riled up.
One of the basic principles of the scientific method is the ability for peers to independently reproduce results. If this is not the case, then this is not science.
If your congressman or senator failed to vote against this violation of the fourth and fifth amendments, he or she has violated their oath of office. Don't vote for them again unless you want this shit to continue.
-jcr
I hope this is a lesson to everyone regarding temporary suspension of powers. There is NO SUCH THING AS TEMPORARY. Once you give them away they are gone until the next revolution and re-establishment of laws.
On your first point, you'd have to prove that a god doesn't exist as much as the religious would have to prove a god exists. It's unprovable.
First, you can prove to me that the earth is the center of the universe and that the heavens move in relation to our center. Second, you can prove to me that spontaneous human creation is possible.
Work on those and then we'll consider moving on to the bigger stuff.
I'll also throw in "the power of prayer". Show me a double blind study proving that prayer has a statistically significant impact on anything beyond a placebo effect.
On your first point, you'd have to prove that a god doesn't exist as much as the religious would have to prove a god exists. It's unprovable.
First, you can prove to me that the earth is the center of the universe and that the heavens move in relation to our center. Second, you can prove to me that spontaneous human creation is possible.
Work on those and then we'll consider moving on to the bigger stuff.
Atheism isn't a religion, but it is a leap of faith nevertheless. You are basically saying, without any proof, that god doesn't exist at the same time as a preacher is saying, without any proof, that god does exist, and neither of you have really defined who or what God is.
So yeah, keep pretending you're different from theists...
Not even the same ballpark in leaps of "faith".
- One prediction has a long standing history of being proven wrong on all the small details so why would I believe the biggest lie of all.
- The other prediction is a logical extension of everything I've learned up until now regarding how the physical universe works.
Slashdot Mirror
Why not build a better one yourself then?
Someone beat me to it.. in 2009:
http://www.hizook.com/blog/2009/08/03/high-speed-robot-hand-demonstrates-dexterity-and-skillful-manipulation
I've wondered for many years about probably 99% of social network users and if they even realise there are so many great sites out there beyond the scope of their interactions "on the wall" (or whatever the f*ck it's called).
I know of several people that have almost lost all knowledge of the world beyond their social networks and have got themselves trapped in the "Zuckerberg Web".
If this is true, then I believe Facebook serves a greater good. Much like AOL kept the sheeple safely away from the rest of the internet so will Facebook.
Honestly, think of how this would effect the quality of comments on places like slashdot if they allowed every "moran" to post on he.... actually never mind.
Theft is the taking of something with the intent of depriving the owner of that item permanently.
So software piracy is NOT theft? Debate closed.
A music-industry speaker at an American Chamber of Commerce event in Stockholm waxed enthusiastic about child porn, because it serves as the perfect excuse for network censorship, and once you've got a child-porn filter, you can censor anything:
The speaker has a point but it is misdirected. This censorship is really a thinly veiled attempt at shielding domestically produced child pornography from competition. Because child pornography in general is illegal, it is impossible to impose trade tariffs without raising the alarm bells. It is also well known that cheap overseas labour can out-produce more expensive Australian labour in most non-technical industries.
Australian based child pornographers were finding their margins dwindling so they used "special interest" groups to penetrate government and introduce laws to protect their business. It is obvious that anyone in support of the "Australian Net Filter" is simply disguising their interest in strengthening domestic child pornography. :)
It's a cute idea. It assumes a single point of contact with the ground, and thus requires a flat, hard floor. This is limiting.
You could add as many points of contact as you like as long as they are synchronized. Plus, I hear hill billies can slap chains on them for better traction in the mud.
The friction between the power and pavement surfaces is dependent on how much that wheel is worn down. While driving the response you get as the wheel ages will change.
Just like a traditional wheel!
Of course, what they are doing is not unique to the legal profession. I just wish engineers had been clever enough to figure out a way to do the same thing so that "Engineer" could only be used by a "real" engineer. Yes, there are P.E.s but in most engineering jobs a P.E. is just a fancy title, not a job requirement.
Canada guards the title engineer. You can't use "engineer" unless you're a P.Eng and you can't be a P.Eng unless you have a degree. Graduates from diploma mills are allowed to use the title "technician".
"And of course, shouldn't the cops want to be recorded if they're not doing anything wrong?"
If A, then B.
Not B.
Therefore not A.
This reminds me of the quote from "American Beauty":
Lester Burnham: Then I guess I'll have to throw in a sexual harassment charge.
Brad Dupree: Against who?
Lester Burnham: Against YOU. Can you prove that you didn't offer to save my job if I let you blow me?
Brad Dupree: Man, you are one twisted fuck.
Lester Burnham: Nope; I'm just an ordinary guy who has nothing left to lose.
Can the police prove they didn't beat the suspect.... they could if they had video evidence of them not doing it :)
Whoever bought Chinese software to control industrial plants should be fired and made to work in a Microsoft call center.
I think that would qualify as both cruel AND unusual punishment.
In real life, the vast, vast majority of my money is stored in bank or building society accounts.
Every major country uses a fiat currency that is nothing more than "digital currency" much like bitcoin. The actual physical currency (M0), at least in the US, represents less than 5% of the actual wealth (M3).
Bitcoin is "stealable" because it has no central authority. If you want a currency with central authority it also comes with many negatives. The biggest being that the central authority effectively gives itself a license to debase the currency. This is nothing more than legalized counterfeiting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_supply
People still talk about "printing money" when they refer to quantitative easing, but now it is little more than changing a single value in a database.
Vancouver housing prices weren't the cause of the riot. Neither were disaffected youth angry about the cost of living.
While the housing market is grossly overinflated, the rental market is sane. Young people simply rent instead of buying, and rent quite nice places too because the main driver of inflating housing costs are foreign investors buying up all the condo stock. Metro Vancouver's unemployment rate (7.6%) is lower than Canada's overall, and has been pretty constant for the last decade. There's no large, pent up reservoir of anger.
Employment rate is not always the best indicator as people are often underemployed. The common term is the "working poor" and it is well documented:
"""" Seth Klein with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives says that's because a lot of British Columbians make very low wages. "They can't make ends meet. They're faced with terrible trade-offs between paying the rent, feeding the kids, or heating the house." """
- http://www.news1130.com/news/local/article/241285--bc-has-highest-child-poverty-rate-of-all-canadian-provinces
""" The poverty rate for people of all ages in BC also rose to 12 percent. It was the highest overall poverty rate of any province for the 11th consecutive year. """
- http://mostlywater.org/bcs_poverty_rate_still_highest_canada
""" Despite the manipulation of statistics by various government agencies, more people are hungry in this country and in this province than we have seen for a long time. Food banks are multiplying, each one reporting that there is not enough in contributions to meet the need. It is reported that 700,000 people in Canada rely on food banks to feed themselves and their families... The fact is that the majority of the poor in Canada and in British Columbia are working. """
- http://www2.canada.com/oceansidestar/news/story.html?id=418878d9-429c-4361-acf5-c06f05079302
Also, I'm not sure how renting from foreigners who are driving up and/or controlling condo prices contributes to peace of mind.
People care about hockey? And enough to riot?
Different people, different worries
Vancouver is similar to the worst US cities before the housing bust. It costs 11 times the average income to buy the average house. This would put servicing housing debt at 72% of your gross income. There isn't much industry and therefore job prospects aren't the greatest. The average young person is likely to live in debt their entire lives if they stay. I don't see how people can live without drawing equity from their homes to pay daily expenses. Add on top of that foreigners driving up the price of everything.
As someone mentioned about the hooligans trying to start a riot during the Olympics, it didn't work. A riot only happens when you have enough pissed off people in a large group. The end of a losing hockey playoff is just a catalyst that brought a lot of already morally defeated people together in one place.
Saying the hockey game caused the riot is like saying the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand caused World War I.
Where's the leak? According to the data I see in the article this feature looks like it's specifically designed in. It's not "leaking" anything, it's specifically disseminating that information.
It's not a leak, that's just the way it was designed. Similar to a condom with a hole in it.
Wait, that's inseminating not disseminating, never mind.
Governments continue to back the most restrictive interpretations of intellectual property they can.
This is the King's land.
It is illegal to hunt on the King's land.
Hmm... we've just come full circle.
AES256 is crackable with a complexity of 2^99.5: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Encryption_Standard
So, if Google's advanced supercomputer can crack a billion keys/second and they have 1 billion computers at their disposal to do the cracking, it would only take them around 1 x 10^17 years to crack your data.
Of course, now that you've figured out their plan, they're going to have to kill you, and they will surely do so within 1 x 10^2 years.
This entire thread is so full of fail it's going to make my head explode.
Fact 1: Most encryption schemes are cracked by exploiting the hardware or the algorithm BUT rarely are they ever brute forced. If an entity has the hardware, and they do in a cloud, then encryption algorithm is not the weak spot.
-XBOX original, game exploit
-XBOX360 game exploit
-Satellite: including DirecTV, Dish and Bell (smart card / firmware exploit)
-PS3: exploit
-HDCP/HDMI - exploit
-$5 suitcase lock Vs. TSA - wire cutters, nobody brute forces anything
Fact 2: Someone is confused about encryption or "the cloud" or both. Encryption isn't magic, a decryption key has to exist. If it exists on the fucking servers running in the cloud then it isn't really all that safe is it. That's right, a cloud is not just a data repository, it is data + computing + networking. I think people are thinking CIFS chare when they should be thinking VM.
Fact 3: It's not Google you have to be most worried about. It's Google's security, it's the US government (who owns everything on US soil) and hackers that would find it very profitable to have a single attack vector.
You do realize that Paul Revere was captured on his ride and did warn the British that they would not be able to take away the colonists' guns?
Meh, it's a stretch. But try and fix this one: "Obviously, we gotta stand with our North Korean allies."
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20023899-503544.html
All the digital clocks I have will keep the wrong time if they lose power. Lose power, comes back and clock says "12:00". One hour later, clock now says "01:00". That's a broken clock that's never right.
80's technology did have its draw backs. But here in 2011, for just $11.99 you can fix that problem: http://www.amazon.com/Sony-ICF-C218-Automatic-Clock-Radio/dp/B000MXWSWI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1307379350&sr=8-1
Republican fearmongering says we need to invade North Korea.
Don't be silly. North Korea *actually* has nukes. The US has no problem invading people *suspected* of having nukes, but hell if they'll set foot in any place that actually has them. They had plenty of legitimate opportunities to invade North Korea and just shrugged it off. 1) North Korea routinely threatens the South AND the US. 2) They aren't bullshitting - they've actually sunk SK military ships, bombed islands, kidnapped people from the south, counterfeit US currency, etc, etc 3) They openly test above ground nuclear weapons and *long range* missiles in an attempt to put Japan in range WHO IS NOT allowed to have a military (Plus they have the balls to use the word "dong" to name their missile name... Type-of-Dong which would make getting deep-throated by one that much more humiliating) 5) Any threat to Japan is a threat to the US who is in charge of protecting them in exchange for giving up the military.
But none of these compare at all to an OPEC member threatening to sell oil in Euros.
There may be some controversy over the "evilness" of GM foods. We've done artificial selection for hundreds of years to create the crops we have now. If you look at pictures of wild corn and wild wheat it is unidentifiable to the lay person. In fact most people laugh at the idea of banana seeds, which are basically gone now. I don't have a problem with GM foods that are properly tested. I do have a problem with the legality. I think GM foods should be a government/international effort. When you hear stories of Monsanto suing farmers which GM strains in their crops from cross contamination or killing off seed banks that gets me riled up.
One of the basic principles of the scientific method is the ability for peers to independently reproduce results. If this is not the case, then this is not science.
If your congressman or senator failed to vote against this violation of the fourth and fifth amendments, he or she has violated their oath of office. Don't vote for them again unless you want this shit to continue.
-jcr
I hope this is a lesson to everyone regarding temporary suspension of powers. There is NO SUCH THING AS TEMPORARY. Once you give them away they are gone until the next revolution and re-establishment of laws.
Exactly. Reactor size is important.
It's not the size of your reactor that matters, it's how you use it.
On your first point, you'd have to prove that a god doesn't exist as much as the religious would have to prove a god exists. It's unprovable.
First, you can prove to me that the earth is the center of the universe and that the heavens move in relation to our center.
Second, you can prove to me that spontaneous human creation is possible.
Work on those and then we'll consider moving on to the bigger stuff.
I'll also throw in "the power of prayer". Show me a double blind study proving that prayer has a statistically significant impact on anything beyond a placebo effect.
On your first point, you'd have to prove that a god doesn't exist as much as the religious would have to prove a god exists. It's unprovable.
First, you can prove to me that the earth is the center of the universe and that the heavens move in relation to our center.
Second, you can prove to me that spontaneous human creation is possible.
Work on those and then we'll consider moving on to the bigger stuff.
Atheism isn't a religion, but it is a leap of faith nevertheless. You are basically saying, without any proof, that god doesn't exist at the same time as a preacher is saying, without any proof, that god does exist, and neither of you have really defined who or what God is.
So yeah, keep pretending you're different from theists...
Not even the same ballpark in leaps of "faith".
- One prediction has a long standing history of being proven wrong on all the small details so why would I believe the biggest lie of all.
- The other prediction is a logical extension of everything I've learned up until now regarding how the physical universe works.