I think the point is concerns the poster's location. So if you post something in country X then you have to abide by country X's laws. It doesn't matter if you post through 20 proxies or not.
And this got me thinking, how can they outlaw strong encryption anyway?
If I send you a file which contains random garbage, how is that different from a file/text encrypted? I don't think there is a way for them to prove that you were using encryption beyond reasonable doubt.
All of this trying to outlaw strong encryption completely pointless.
As far as I know, there aren't a lot of Catholics strapping bombs to themselves, and chanting, "In the name of the Father, the Son, and the holy Ghost, amen.", detonating it on the end of "amen".
Oh, but they would! if you are living in a very very poor country, with no law enforcement and no future, I'm certain that this would breed extremism and of violent sort probably. Whatever the dominant religion there is.
Trying to portray christianity or some US denominations as somehow peaceful is silly. Just because those religions are operating under a developed society where there is a rule of law (in broad sense), forces them to behave. They would go out of control if given the chance.
Big Brass Ones are kind of required at this level.
I don't agree. It is just a matter of training. While I'm no spaceship captain I was in couple of quite tight spots where the probability of loss of life of my crewmembers and me was quite high. Shouting and panicking over the communications channel helps absolutely no on,e and I would be very much surprised if the Apollo 13 or some other Captain was screaming on the radio to Houston.
It is just drill, drill and drill more. You don't think much, everything is done almost by reflex. So you are crediting those those brave guys with a bit too much. I've even read somewhere that in tight situations a very small minority will panic, other will keep their wits about them.
I always thought this is normal but I went and bought a car with cash and was surprised that I couldn't get even a cent of discount or some upgrade package on it.
Asked why and the guy just shrugged and said that if I pay by monthly installments it doesn't make any difference to them because the bank pays the full price of the car to the dealer and then the payments are between you and the bank.
This is in Croatia though, dunno how it is in the rest of EU.
Same thing I told myself, but instead of law school I should have gone to maritime school. By my age now I could have been a staff captain on a cruise ship or even captain/master in few years time with no problem at all. And that means triple the salary and better benefits.
Instead, I'm looking at our deck officers on our ships who can barely tell the difference between port and starboard. For great majority of them, maritime school was the only one they could actually complete.
But what can you do, life is too short to look back.
I don't agree because it is so easy to get infected even with years of experience. Unless you run all your installs, exe's or whatever in VMs, you are open for attack. And if you do this, maybe it is easier to just have AV at the ready.
But leaving aside IT pros, an average user has nowhere near enough experience to diferentiante a lot of normal situations with suspicious situations, they click yes on everything etc. If you wish to train someone, that frankly can take months/years.
Another problem which a lot of people are missing is the difference between some "soft" malware, classic malware and/or viruses. I've seen more than a couple of computers with half of the screen taken by fucking toolbars/search bars, ad popups etc. Of course, those computers are unusable and everythign grinds to a halt. Even with AV programs saying that all is fine and dandy. So yeah, the user just went to install new java/adobe reader/whatever version, clicked next next next finish and got himself fucked in the process. Sometimes this "innocent" programs will confuse even the most experienced guys with installing shit you don't need but this installed claims that it needs it. Not everyone has 3 programs installed on their computers.
So my point is, nowadays, AV programs are more or less useless as they don't find a lot of malware (licensing or whatever). Yes, I still have it on my windows systems (MSE), but that is for just in case scenario and better to have it for that one time then get infected. But still, people get crap on their computers sideloaded all the time. You can blame the user as much as you want for this kind of infections, but this install X and youl'll get Y which will later download Z and R system has to get fixed somehow.
This is the biggest point. You could lower down the graphic settings and all, but the gameplay was still shitty and that was the biggest downfall in my opinion. Yeah they were just tech demos you had to pay for and nobody could actually run it. No wonder they didn't sold anything.
It only got relatively ok last major patch because original iOS 7 was horribly slow on ipad 2. Point being that one of the major features of the patch was to bring back some of the speed to iPad 2.
But thank you for a bit of sanity, this kibibullshit was really getting on my nerves. It is all over wikipedia as well and people think that is a holy book of knowledge. Even my youngish sister at school had to learn this bullshit. I wanted to go to her school and punch the prof in the face.
The 1GB = 1000MB was a ploy by the HD manufacturers, and if they could, they would write that 1GB = 666MB. And of course, some people in academia who have nothing better to do than to invent and parrot bs. Still, every now and then you'll have a guy who thinks that we're just peasants for not knowing the arcane, excuse me, technologist/precisionist/engineerist claptrap./end rant
Had the same problem! I wanted to restart but couldn't find the damned button for it. After a few minutes of trying to find it (that is eternity!), I've typed the shutdown command.
I had this installed in boot camp so I've removed that partition immediately afterwards.
Or my MBP with retina display with a display burn in. I mean, "image persistence feature". And the same laptop had its mobo replaced twice as it was freezing when switching to discrete graphics board.
I still have late 2010 MBA which works great to this day. And I've used that one for countless hours of gaming.
My next laptop is probably going to be air again. I just love that portability.
And unfortunately the hybrid Yaris is not that good at all. I really wanted to buy the car until I had a test drive in it.
The accelleration is quite slow, and every time you want to accelerate you have to put your foot down completely. And then the petrol engine goes into high revs *all* the time and that would be fine if you didn't hear it. But the noise insulation is bad so you can hear it quite loudly and it is not pleasant at all. Did I mention that no overtaking can happen with this car? It claims that it has 100hp combined, but it certainly doesn't seem so when you compare it to a 100hp "normal" car.
Also the car is heavy and you notice it going into relatively high speed roundabout curves, and of course steering has artificial thing. And it would help if it had any dash of color inside, they are quite bland inside.
The car would be bareable if the only driving one does in a horribly congested city. Anything else is just too painful with that car.
So I went with smaller car with 3 cylinder engine petrol engine and couldn't be happier about it.
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I actually wanted to buy the damned thing, but I was stunned that it has such a poor gas mileage. I talked to two owners and read a lot online and the car definitely isn't austere.
Went and had a go in hybrid Toyota Yaris, and the thing was loud, wobbly and glacially slow. I went with Volkswagen Up and couldn't been happier.
Now thinking about it, I don't recall seeing an iphone (or gorilla glass equipped phone) with screen scratches. Yes, there most probably are there, but they are not visible in day to day operation which I think is all that matters.
Of course, what everyone sees is a lot of phones with cracked glass.
And as we all know, sapphire crystal glass on watches is more fragile than on the ones with mineral glass. Sapphire is more clear so the dials look nicer and it is less scratched though. But I haven't seen a watch with gorilla glass though.
The situation is still quite different as much better explained here for which I don't have much to add as I was writing in a hurry.
There is still a difference in that Snowden didn't help any country directly. The leaks are not about position of troops, military resources or something of that kind. He brought direct proof that NSA has access to all the means of communications in the world and much more.
I mean probably everyone concerned about it already knew about it, but the papers showed that it is much more aggressive and widespread and goes against their own allies (Merkel etc) which is huge and a bit no no if you get caught. If anything, Snowden helped civil liberties groups all over the world in trying to curb the absolute power of the NSA.
Yes, you could argue that the it helped Russia, but that is very indirectly by maybe weaking NSA. But then it helped Trinidad and Tobago too. Snowden went to Russia because he was denied to run anywhere else and he didn't have options. He is there probably a guarded prisoner (but not in prison). Russia didn't need any of the papers he leaked, if their agencies are worth any salt, they knew about surveillance already.
I don't have time to write a full answer, but I'll just give one counterpoint.
During the 1944 there was a World War going on changing the comparison dramatically.
Bletchley park was strictly a military/couter intelligence operation working against Axis, while the NSA is fcuking surveillance on a world scale against *everyone*.
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I think the point is concerns the poster's location. So if you post something in country X then you have to abide by country X's laws. It doesn't matter if you post through 20 proxies or not.
And this got me thinking, how can they outlaw strong encryption anyway?
If I send you a file which contains random garbage, how is that different from a file/text encrypted? I don't think there is a way for them to prove that you were using encryption beyond reasonable doubt.
All of this trying to outlaw strong encryption completely pointless.
Oh, but they would! if you are living in a very very poor country, with no law enforcement and no future, I'm certain that this would breed extremism and of violent sort probably. Whatever the dominant religion there is.
Trying to portray christianity or some US denominations as somehow peaceful is silly. Just because those religions are operating under a developed society where there is a rule of law (in broad sense), forces them to behave. They would go out of control if given the chance.
Instead of making Chrome usable on mac laptops, we get emoji support...
Guys, just fix the high CPU/battery usage already please. Thanks!
I just couldn't watch any episode he was in as I would pass out from cringing. Luckily, I didn't miss anything.
I don't agree. It is just a matter of training. While I'm no spaceship captain I was in couple of quite tight spots where the probability of loss of life of my crewmembers and me was quite high. Shouting and panicking over the communications channel helps absolutely no on,e and I would be very much surprised if the Apollo 13 or some other Captain was screaming on the radio to Houston.
It is just drill, drill and drill more. You don't think much, everything is done almost by reflex. So you are crediting those those brave guys with a bit too much. I've even read somewhere that in tight situations a very small minority will panic, other will keep their wits about them.
So you get a discount on paying cash for the car?
I always thought this is normal but I went and bought a car with cash and was surprised that I couldn't get even a cent of discount or some upgrade package on it.
Asked why and the guy just shrugged and said that if I pay by monthly installments it doesn't make any difference to them because the bank pays the full price of the car to the dealer and then the payments are between you and the bank.
This is in Croatia though, dunno how it is in the rest of EU.
Yeah, but then all the fashionable blogosphere would decry the materials used and call it the koreanization of the one american way.
Same thing I told myself, but instead of law school I should have gone to maritime school. By my age now I could have been a staff captain on a cruise ship or even captain/master in few years time with no problem at all. And that means triple the salary and better benefits.
Instead, I'm looking at our deck officers on our ships who can barely tell the difference between port and starboard. For great majority of them, maritime school was the only one they could actually complete.
But what can you do, life is too short to look back.
I don't agree because it is so easy to get infected even with years of experience. Unless you run all your installs, exe's or whatever in VMs, you are open for attack. And if you do this, maybe it is easier to just have AV at the ready.
But leaving aside IT pros, an average user has nowhere near enough experience to diferentiante a lot of normal situations with suspicious situations, they click yes on everything etc. If you wish to train someone, that frankly can take months/years.
Another problem which a lot of people are missing is the difference between some "soft" malware, classic malware and/or viruses. I've seen more than a couple of computers with half of the screen taken by fucking toolbars/search bars, ad popups etc. Of course, those computers are unusable and everythign grinds to a halt. Even with AV programs saying that all is fine and dandy. So yeah, the user just went to install new java/adobe reader/whatever version, clicked next next next finish and got himself fucked in the process. Sometimes this "innocent" programs will confuse even the most experienced guys with installing shit you don't need but this installed claims that it needs it. Not everyone has 3 programs installed on their computers.
So my point is, nowadays, AV programs are more or less useless as they don't find a lot of malware (licensing or whatever). Yes, I still have it on my windows systems (MSE), but that is for just in case scenario and better to have it for that one time then get infected. But still, people get crap on their computers sideloaded all the time. You can blame the user as much as you want for this kind of infections, but this install X and youl'll get Y which will later download Z and R system has to get fixed somehow.
This is the biggest point. You could lower down the graphic settings and all, but the gameplay was still shitty and that was the biggest downfall in my opinion. Yeah they were just tech demos you had to pay for and nobody could actually run it. No wonder they didn't sold anything.
It only got relatively ok last major patch because original iOS 7 was horribly slow on ipad 2. Point being that one of the major features of the patch was to bring back some of the speed to iPad 2.
Wish had some mod points.
But thank you for a bit of sanity, this kibibullshit was really getting on my nerves. It is all over wikipedia as well and people think that is a holy book of knowledge. Even my youngish sister at school had to learn this bullshit. I wanted to go to her school and punch the prof in the face.
The 1GB = 1000MB was a ploy by the HD manufacturers, and if they could, they would write that 1GB = 666MB. And of course, some people in academia who have nothing better to do than to invent and parrot bs. Still, every now and then you'll have a guy who thinks that we're just peasants for not knowing the arcane, excuse me, technologist/precisionist/engineerist claptrap. /end rant
Had the same problem! I wanted to restart but couldn't find the damned button for it. After a few minutes of trying to find it (that is eternity!), I've typed the shutdown command.
I had this installed in boot camp so I've removed that partition immediately afterwards.
Or my MBP with retina display with a display burn in. I mean, "image persistence feature". And the same laptop had its mobo replaced twice as it was freezing when switching to discrete graphics board.
I still have late 2010 MBA which works great to this day. And I've used that one for countless hours of gaming.
My next laptop is probably going to be air again. I just love that portability.
And accountants see everything in accounts, balances and money. I know, I've worked there.
And unfortunately the hybrid Yaris is not that good at all. I really wanted to buy the car until I had a test drive in it.
The accelleration is quite slow, and every time you want to accelerate you have to put your foot down completely. And then the petrol engine goes into high revs *all* the time and that would be fine if you didn't hear it. But the noise insulation is bad so you can hear it quite loudly and it is not pleasant at all. Did I mention that no overtaking can happen with this car? It claims that it has 100hp combined, but it certainly doesn't seem so when you compare it to a 100hp "normal" car.
Also the car is heavy and you notice it going into relatively high speed roundabout curves, and of course steering has artificial thing. And it would help if it had any dash of color inside, they are quite bland inside.
The car would be bareable if the only driving one does in a horribly congested city. Anything else is just too painful with that car.
So I went with smaller car with 3 cylinder engine petrol engine and couldn't be happier about it.
I'll hope this is going to be visible on google maps one day: http://imgur.com/a/rkQpO
I actually wanted to buy the damned thing, but I was stunned that it has such a poor gas mileage. I talked to two owners and read a lot online and the car definitely isn't austere.
Went and had a go in hybrid Toyota Yaris, and the thing was loud, wobbly and glacially slow. I went with Volkswagen Up and couldn't been happier.
How many XL1 cars have been sold so far? None? What is going to be the price? How many have been built?
Exactly, it's not really a production car.
Or maybe they'll get an apple store gift card so they can go and buy a nice shiny macbook?;))
Now thinking about it, I don't recall seeing an iphone (or gorilla glass equipped phone) with screen scratches. Yes, there most probably are there, but they are not visible in day to day operation which I think is all that matters.
Of course, what everyone sees is a lot of phones with cracked glass.
And as we all know, sapphire crystal glass on watches is more fragile than on the ones with mineral glass. Sapphire is more clear so the dials look nicer and it is less scratched though. But I haven't seen a watch with gorilla glass though.
The situation is still quite different as much better explained here for which I don't have much to add as I was writing in a hurry.
There is still a difference in that Snowden didn't help any country directly. The leaks are not about position of troops, military resources or something of that kind. He brought direct proof that NSA has access to all the means of communications in the world and much more.
I mean probably everyone concerned about it already knew about it, but the papers showed that it is much more aggressive and widespread and goes against their own allies (Merkel etc) which is huge and a bit no no if you get caught. If anything, Snowden helped civil liberties groups all over the world in trying to curb the absolute power of the NSA.
Yes, you could argue that the it helped Russia, but that is very indirectly by maybe weaking NSA. But then it helped Trinidad and Tobago too. Snowden went to Russia because he was denied to run anywhere else and he didn't have options. He is there probably a guarded prisoner (but not in prison). Russia didn't need any of the papers he leaked, if their agencies are worth any salt, they knew about surveillance already.
I don't have time to write a full answer, but I'll just give one counterpoint.
During the 1944 there was a World War going on changing the comparison dramatically.
Bletchley park was strictly a military/couter intelligence operation working against Axis, while the NSA is fcuking surveillance on a world scale against *everyone*.
If only they made some really pocketable multimeters for us IT/Systems guys.
I don't need a 2KG brick to check if a power supply is dead or not.