The social liberals tend to get more and more distrustful of the government yet the politicians that represent this line of thinking do more and more to make sure no citizen can defend themself. When the Big Brother world goes from being decades away, to a few years, to weeks and days, I think the liberals will wish they hadn't forsaken the second amendment as a relic of times past. Buy what guns you can before the politicians decide they are so scared of pissing off their constituents that they all support erasing the Constitution and removing arms from the populace. History repeats and nobody learns.
Was that a jab at his appearance in that stretch Hummer? In case you weren't aware, that itself was a hybrid car. Sorry, nice try though.
Interesting logic about your estimates regarding Hummer owners. I thought you liberals made it clear that Republicans are poor podunk hicks who sleep with their sisters and live in trailers? How do they afford Hummers? Oh right, Republicans are also rich oil-hungry capitalist pig dogs too. It's so easy to attack a group when you can put ANYONE in the group if it fits your nice little compact beliefs...
Perhaps that's true. When using Nessus, however, one should schedule downtime for their servers ahead of time because Nessus has a tendency to hang systems even when you tell it to use 'safe scans'.
Those are great tools to use and the fact that they are free is even better. The only thing I might recommend replacing for a commercial alternative is Nessus. If you can afford it, something like eEye's Retina scanner is a very nice product. It doesn't come cheap, but if you work in a big corporate environment you can probably justify the cost. Not to mention, Nessus is a bit flaky so if you start crashing machines during your testing you will have some angry people to answer to. Don't get me wrong, Nessus is great for a free tool, but it lacks professionalism and is a bit overintrusive at times, even with the safe settings activated.
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The whole legal strategy of the RIAA is to settle out of court and that's harder to do with a dead person. They know full well taking it to trial would not be in their best interests.
The study also says that use will turn a driver who is age 20 into age 70.
They have no skills for paraphrasing. If the blurb was true I'd never drink alcohol again for fear of instant wrinkled skin, white hair, and random cancer.
While I agree with that stance on web browsing...
Requiring a Warrant to monitor URL's and Content would basically put Google and Netcraft out of existence.
Of course the main difference here is that Google and Netcraft cannot tie this information to any individual. The FBI can. The FBI has to as part of its job. This is why 'envelope' information such as headers and IPs can be observed, but a warrant must be obtained to inspect the contents of the packets for any law enforcement purposes. Any data they collect will be heavily scrutinized in a court of law if/when they bring charges against someone. Remember that what the FBI does is vastly different to the monitoring and reporting tasks of agencies like the CIA and NSA.
I would suspect the FBI is kept on a pretty tight leash about these things because they have to be more accountable. Their task is to use the information they collect to prosecute people for offenses. Can't very well use the information in court if they didn't follow the laws in collecting it.
I would be much more wary of intelligence agencies like the CIA and NSA who do not collect information for court purposes and thus do not need to cite how they collected it to any judicial oversight. If things like Echelon are real, and I assume that they are, then as you say you should always assume your communications are watched somewhere. Personally I'm less concerned about those agencies and more concerned about mischievous 1337 h4x0rz misusing my information. Either way, anyone should know that Internet communications are not really private at all.
That in general, and under the USA PATRIOT Act, the information an agency can collect pertaining to communications is only 'routing' information basically. Think of your packets going out over the Internet as sealed envelopes as far as law enforcement is concerned (in reality assume some hacker can see them and use SSL/PKI, but that's an aside). Anyone can see to whom and from whom a letter in the mail is going to, but law enforcement cannot open the letter without a warrant to do so. Likewise, they cannot just look at your packets. They are allowed to look at source and destination IP addresses as well as email headers, but to actually look at the packet content or email content they would need a warrant (at least if they wanted to use it in court). I suspect the answer to this FOIA request will say that URLs are protected given that in an IP packet, the HTTP request is part of the data.
The idea is actually pretty good, but the problem is the technology is not there to support it yet. The most notable obstacle from the article:
"The feat would require a 60-megawatt microwave beam with a similar diameter to the sail. It would also have to be capable of tracking the craft as it accelerated away. But this power level could not be delivered by any existing microwave transmission system. The deep-space communications network that NASA uses to communicate with Mars rovers and the Cassini probe now orbiting Saturn can only manage half a megawatt. The Benfords say the power could be ramped up in future and hope to persuade NASA to consider doing this as part of a future upgrade to the network.
So basically NASA's currently-used equipment is 1/120th of the power needed to get this sail to Mars. I would say this idea is not in our near future for sure.
For those who may not be familiar with such translations:
In A.D. 2101 War was beginning. Captain: What happen ? Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb Operator: We get signal Captain: What ! Operator: Main screen turn on Captain: It's You !! Cats: How are you gentlemen !! Cats: All your base are belong to us Cats: You are on the way to destruction Captain: What you say !! Cats: You have no chance to survive make your time Cats: HA HA HA HA.... Captain: Take off every 'zig' Captain: You know what you doing Captain: Move 'zig' Captain: For great justice
For those of you who didn't bother to look at TFA:
A spokesman said: "Following the press conference given by the prime minister, Bill Gates and Bono in Davos on Thursday, a number of newspapers printed stories claiming that a page of notes and doodles left behind on the platform belonged to Tony Blair, and provided an insight into the mind of the prime minister.
"They were in fact doodles made by Bill Gates.
"We look forward with amusement to explanations by a variety of psychologists and graphologists of how various characteristics ascribed to the prime minister on the basis of the doodles, such as 'struggling to concentrate', 'not a natural leader', 'struggling to keep control of a confusing world' and 'an unstable man who is feeling under enormous pressure', equally apply to Mr Gates.
"We are astonished that no-one who ran the story thought to ask No 10 if the doodles were in fact Mr Blair's, particularly as it was obvious to anyone the handwriting was totally different."
In other words, graphology is BS and the people who analyzed it already had a preconceived notion about whose it was and made the appropriate BS analyses.
A more accurate analogy would be that you knowingly drove your friend to a site where an illegal item was sold thus making you an accomplice to the crime. You may not have possessed the illegal item nor actually paid for it yourself, but you are not inculpable having fully known what was going on.
Daddy: And if you get caught using MP3s and P2Ps together when you don't have permission, Daddy's going to have to take out a loan on your ass to pay off the music industry, capiche?
Each one of those things offers some benefit because it is larger, whereas things like computers can be made to offer the same service in less size. People also like small things, if smaller size doesn't make it less useful, such as with PDAs, cell phones, and pretty much anything one would want to carry around frequently or not want to take up unnecessary space. After all what good is that big old house if you have to fill up a room to get a computer.
* In the seventies they recommended changes to DES, which in the early ninties were discovered to have made it more secure.
* They have developed and are freely distributing the source for an improved-security version of Linux.
Well also consider things like the idea of a federally-controlled encryption scheme where the government held a key escrow so they could decrypt any traffic for national security purposes. Ultimately nobody wanted to buy into it but they did push it as a great idea.
That is, unless they're just a bunch of Linux freaks.
They have already banned it in Canada and not the US. From TFA:
"Last year Canada passed the Assisted Human Reproduction Act, which bans chimeras. Specifically, it prohibits transferring a nonhuman cell into a human embryo and putting human cells into a nonhuman embryo.
Cynthia Cohen is a member of Canada's Stem Cell Oversight Committee, which oversees research protocols to ensure they are in accordance with the new guidelines.
She believes a ban should also be put into place in the U.S."
Considering Canada's political atmosphere compared to that of the US, I would tend to agree that religion is not really involved at this point, but general overall scientific ethics (or lack thereof, depending on your POV).
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The social liberals tend to get more and more distrustful of the government yet the politicians that represent this line of thinking do more and more to make sure no citizen can defend themself. When the Big Brother world goes from being decades away, to a few years, to weeks and days, I think the liberals will wish they hadn't forsaken the second amendment as a relic of times past. Buy what guns you can before the politicians decide they are so scared of pissing off their constituents that they all support erasing the Constitution and removing arms from the populace. History repeats and nobody learns.
Interesting logic about your estimates regarding Hummer owners. I thought you liberals made it clear that Republicans are poor podunk hicks who sleep with their sisters and live in trailers? How do they afford Hummers? Oh right, Republicans are also rich oil-hungry capitalist pig dogs too. It's so easy to attack a group when you can put ANYONE in the group if it fits your nice little compact beliefs...
Perhaps that's true. When using Nessus, however, one should schedule downtime for their servers ahead of time because Nessus has a tendency to hang systems even when you tell it to use 'safe scans'.
Those are great tools to use and the fact that they are free is even better. The only thing I might recommend replacing for a commercial alternative is Nessus. If you can afford it, something like eEye's Retina scanner is a very nice product. It doesn't come cheap, but if you work in a big corporate environment you can probably justify the cost. Not to mention, Nessus is a bit flaky so if you start crashing machines during your testing you will have some angry people to answer to. Don't get me wrong, Nessus is great for a free tool, but it lacks professionalism and is a bit overintrusive at times, even with the safe settings activated.
I am starting the People Unified to Stop Science In Extraterrestrial Settings. Join today to help us stop this senseless disregard for possible microbial life on Mars! Life is life and we must preserve it to the end!
The whole legal strategy of the RIAA is to settle out of court and that's harder to do with a dead person. They know full well taking it to trial would not be in their best interests.
They have no skills for paraphrasing. If the blurb was true I'd never drink alcohol again for fear of instant wrinkled skin, white hair, and random cancer.
Of course the main difference here is that Google and Netcraft cannot tie this information to any individual. The FBI can. The FBI has to as part of its job. This is why 'envelope' information such as headers and IPs can be observed, but a warrant must be obtained to inspect the contents of the packets for any law enforcement purposes. Any data they collect will be heavily scrutinized in a court of law if/when they bring charges against someone. Remember that what the FBI does is vastly different to the monitoring and reporting tasks of agencies like the CIA and NSA.
I would be much more wary of intelligence agencies like the CIA and NSA who do not collect information for court purposes and thus do not need to cite how they collected it to any judicial oversight. If things like Echelon are real, and I assume that they are, then as you say you should always assume your communications are watched somewhere. Personally I'm less concerned about those agencies and more concerned about mischievous 1337 h4x0rz misusing my information. Either way, anyone should know that Internet communications are not really private at all.
That in general, and under the USA PATRIOT Act, the information an agency can collect pertaining to communications is only 'routing' information basically. Think of your packets going out over the Internet as sealed envelopes as far as law enforcement is concerned (in reality assume some hacker can see them and use SSL/PKI, but that's an aside). Anyone can see to whom and from whom a letter in the mail is going to, but law enforcement cannot open the letter without a warrant to do so. Likewise, they cannot just look at your packets. They are allowed to look at source and destination IP addresses as well as email headers, but to actually look at the packet content or email content they would need a warrant (at least if they wanted to use it in court). I suspect the answer to this FOIA request will say that URLs are protected given that in an IP packet, the HTTP request is part of the data.
"The feat would require a 60-megawatt microwave beam with a similar diameter to the sail. It would also have to be capable of tracking the craft as it accelerated away. But this power level could not be delivered by any existing microwave transmission system. The deep-space communications network that NASA uses to communicate with Mars rovers and the Cassini probe now orbiting Saturn can only manage half a megawatt. The Benfords say the power could be ramped up in future and hope to persuade NASA to consider doing this as part of a future upgrade to the network.
So basically NASA's currently-used equipment is 1/120th of the power needed to get this sail to Mars. I would say this idea is not in our near future for sure.
For those who may not be familiar with such translations:
....
In A.D. 2101
War was beginning.
Captain: What happen ?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb
Operator: We get signal
Captain: What !
Operator: Main screen turn on
Captain: It's You !!
Cats: How are you gentlemen !!
Cats: All your base are belong to us
Cats: You are on the way to destruction
Captain: What you say !!
Cats: You have no chance to survive make your time
Cats: HA HA HA HA
Captain: Take off every 'zig'
Captain: You know what you doing
Captain: Move 'zig'
Captain: For great justice
A spokesman said: "Following the press conference given by the prime minister, Bill Gates and Bono in Davos on Thursday, a number of newspapers printed stories claiming that a page of notes and doodles left behind on the platform belonged to Tony Blair, and provided an insight into the mind of the prime minister.
"They were in fact doodles made by Bill Gates.
"We look forward with amusement to explanations by a variety of psychologists and graphologists of how various characteristics ascribed to the prime minister on the basis of the doodles, such as 'struggling to concentrate', 'not a natural leader', 'struggling to keep control of a confusing world' and 'an unstable man who is feeling under enormous pressure', equally apply to Mr Gates.
"We are astonished that no-one who ran the story thought to ask No 10 if the doodles were in fact Mr Blair's, particularly as it was obvious to anyone the handwriting was totally different."
In other words, graphology is BS and the people who analyzed it already had a preconceived notion about whose it was and made the appropriate BS analyses.
Welcome our one-mouse-button overlords.
A more accurate analogy would be that you knowingly drove your friend to a site where an illegal item was sold thus making you an accomplice to the crime. You may not have possessed the illegal item nor actually paid for it yourself, but you are not inculpable having fully known what was going on.
It did say "This isn't the story you're looking for" at which point I had an uncontrollable urge to say "Move along, move along". That was weird.
That's not true, that's IMPOSSIBLE!!!!
Microsoft is not dying.
Sell it on eBay and your journey will be complete.
Daddy: And if you get caught using MP3s and P2Ps together when you don't have permission, Daddy's going to have to take out a loan on your ass to pay off the music industry, capiche?
Shut your iHole...
Each one of those things offers some benefit because it is larger, whereas things like computers can be made to offer the same service in less size. People also like small things, if smaller size doesn't make it less useful, such as with PDAs, cell phones, and pretty much anything one would want to carry around frequently or not want to take up unnecessary space. After all what good is that big old house if you have to fill up a room to get a computer.
That one popular yet dubious trick of telling your browser to hit websites you point to 20 or so times at once to get a faster response...
* In the seventies they recommended changes to DES, which in the early ninties were discovered to have made it more secure.
* They have developed and are freely distributing the source for an improved-security version of Linux.
Well also consider things like the idea of a federally-controlled encryption scheme where the government held a key escrow so they could decrypt any traffic for national security purposes. Ultimately nobody wanted to buy into it but they did push it as a great idea.
That is, unless they're just a bunch of Linux freaks.
Well they did create SELinux after all.
"Last year Canada passed the Assisted Human Reproduction Act, which bans chimeras. Specifically, it prohibits transferring a nonhuman cell into a human embryo and putting human cells into a nonhuman embryo.
Cynthia Cohen is a member of Canada's Stem Cell Oversight Committee, which oversees research protocols to ensure they are in accordance with the new guidelines.
She believes a ban should also be put into place in the U.S."
Considering Canada's political atmosphere compared to that of the US, I would tend to agree that religion is not really involved at this point, but general overall scientific ethics (or lack thereof, depending on your POV).