Just a wild guess, but what are the chances that NSA developed this secretly years ago and either planned to, or already does, use it. When the civilian cryptography sector finally caught up with them and actually patented the algorithm, NSA had to license it or stop using it. It wouldn't be the first time NSA has been shown to be far ahead of publicly known cryptographic knowledge. Differential Cryptology comes to mind.
How long before the cop just walks up, plugs a handheld into your car's standardized onboard access port (like they do for smog checks now), and it spits out a ticket with your exact speed, while recording a record for the court?
How long after that before random checkpoints access this data without a cop seeing you apparently speeding first?
How long before a wireless option is added and your car data is checked by unmanned roadside monitors and the ticket arrives in the mail? Or is just automatically debited?
How long before they just automatically disable your car when you exceed your limit?
Strong doors on the cockpits of planes would have prevented 9/11.
Stronger cockpit doors would have done NOTHING to prevent 9/11. The captain of the flight opened the door and came out when boxcutter blades were held against the necks of stewardesses. The cabin crew made two fatal errors because there had never been a hijacking like this before. Those errors were:
1. The hijackers wouldn't hurt the pilot or co-pilot because they needed them to fly the plane.
2. They hijackers intended to live through the experience.
We now know that neither of the above assumptions are true anymore, and the next time such a hijacking occurs passengers and crew may be murdered in the flight cabin, but the smart Captain will stay in the cockpit, hope they don't blow the door open, and get the plane down as quickly as possible short of a crash.
As for saying it's all the FBI's fault for not listening well enough that just goes to show that you have no idea of the total volume of tips and leaks the FBI gets. Many are bogus, intentionally false, or even true but never acted upon in the end. There is not the manpower sufficient to fully check them all out, thanks in good part to the demolition of our intelligence services under the previous administration that was more interested in FBI files on political enemies, rather than terrorists.
As for your second comment:
Your desire to implement Stalinist tactics is not a rational response
You, sir, are an idiot, a fool, and an asshole -- not necessarily in that order.
You are in idiot for ever making such a statement in the first place.
You are a fool for not knowing a thing about history and what life in Russia under Stalin in the 1930's and 1940's.
And you are an asshole for being such an idiot and fool in the first place to think that life in the United States today bears any relationship to life under Stalin 65 years ago. You insult the memory of those people who really suffered by claiming what is happening here is equivalently Stalinist.
Is it any more of a mystery than the belief that spying on every American citizen will deter terrorism?
Until you have a reliable method to separate out the terrorists from the rest of the American citizens, I'll accept this for now as opposed to the alternative of more 9/11's.
Computers should be strictly controlled in what functions they perform and NEVER taught to think like humans.
The problem is that these computers if/when built will be used by humans, who are exceptionally bad about following all the rules laid down to protect them. Humans will keep wanting them to act just a bit more human because it is easier to think about them and interface with them that way.
Humans never RTFM and actually follow it afterwards!
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I thought Gore was the Robot.
Has Microsoft excluded Linux yet?
Has /. excluded goatse posts yet?
This movement has a long way to go.
Just a wild guess, but what are the chances that NSA developed this secretly years ago and either planned to, or already does, use it. When the civilian cryptography sector finally caught up with them and actually patented the algorithm, NSA had to license it or stop using it. It wouldn't be the first time NSA has been shown to be far ahead of publicly known cryptographic knowledge. Differential Cryptology comes to mind.
How long after that before random checkpoints access this data without a cop seeing you apparently speeding first?
How long before a wireless option is added and your car data is checked by unmanned roadside monitors and the ticket arrives in the mail? Or is just automatically debited?
How long before they just automatically disable your car when you exceed your limit?
How long...
Mandrake 9.3 anyone?
And for extra points, what first poster can say exactly what PET stands for?
Definitely ahead of its time.
Not mine. Nobody gets it until they pry it out of my cold, dead hands.
And you might learn all that material if you had to enter it by hand.
Still got one of those. And an HP-16C as well.
Yoda, an HP calculator, uses.
Stronger cockpit doors would have done NOTHING to prevent 9/11. The captain of the flight opened the door and came out when boxcutter blades were held against the necks of stewardesses. The cabin crew made two fatal errors because there had never been a hijacking like this before. Those errors were:
1. The hijackers wouldn't hurt the pilot or co-pilot because they needed them to fly the plane.
2. They hijackers intended to live through the experience.
We now know that neither of the above assumptions are true anymore, and the next time such a hijacking occurs passengers and crew may be murdered in the flight cabin, but the smart Captain will stay in the cockpit, hope they don't blow the door open, and get the plane down as quickly as possible short of a crash.
As for saying it's all the FBI's fault for not listening well enough that just goes to show that you have no idea of the total volume of tips and leaks the FBI gets. Many are bogus, intentionally false, or even true but never acted upon in the end. There is not the manpower sufficient to fully check them all out, thanks in good part to the demolition of our intelligence services under the previous administration that was more interested in FBI files on political enemies, rather than terrorists.
As for your second comment:
Your desire to implement Stalinist tactics is not a rational response
You, sir, are an idiot, a fool, and an asshole -- not necessarily in that order.
You are in idiot for ever making such a statement in the first place.
You are a fool for not knowing a thing about history and what life in Russia under Stalin in the 1930's and 1940's.
And you are an asshole for being such an idiot and fool in the first place to think that life in the United States today bears any relationship to life under Stalin 65 years ago. You insult the memory of those people who really suffered by claiming what is happening here is equivalently Stalinist.
And to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Watch out now!
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(This is part of the new M3 Moderation system, for people who can't M or M2 Moderate.)
Until you have a reliable method to separate out the terrorists from the rest of the American citizens, I'll accept this for now as opposed to the alternative of more 9/11's.
That's the best one I've seen since:
SAT - Saturday Afternoon Test.
No Broadcast Flag over Public airways!
Over non-public resources, use permitted.
This is often suggested, but which one?
Which network(s) do Slashdotters favor?
What file names?
It's not enough to just drop them out in P2P land. Give people a place to look.
Freenet.
Exactly why it exists.
Or not!
They're made out of meat, and they send Spam.
Dogbert, I didn't know you posted to Slashdot.
Crash in 1965.
Freedom of Information, in or around 1976.
SciFi Channel founded when? About 1995 give or take a couple.
Public interest in UFO's and mysterious government coverups? Since 1947 at least.
Other programs that have explored things like this? Sightings. Encounters. The Discovery Channel. Steven Speilberg.
Project Blue Book. How many years?
And it takes until now to realize that we may have a big deal here? What has taken them so long?
The problem is that these computers if/when built will be used by humans, who are exceptionally bad about following all the rules laid down to protect them. Humans will keep wanting them to act just a bit more human because it is easier to think about them and interface with them that way.
Humans never RTFM and actually follow it afterwards!
That would make a great .sig line.