to say that everything that was Soviet must be a Russian problem after is (to exaggerate a bit) like blaming Britain when something goes wrong in Australia.
Well, the present situation is sort of akin to saying anything that happens on Bikini Atoll is an American problem once the US decided to use this quiet little pacific paradise as a bomb test site. The Bikini-ans, like the Kazakhs, had no such technology then or now, and had little choice in the decision to use their land as test sites. How could it possibly be THEIR problem?
"It means the Model S joins more established vehicles such as the 2013 Kia Optima, Honda Accord and Volvo S60 in scoring maximum marks in all impact tests."
And some of them can be had with performance packages that will exceed the Model S, and virtually all of them will exceed the range of the Model S, and be half the price. The difference is they won't be electric. There are dozens of 5 star cars on the market in the 30K price range. Further, as the summary says 1% of all models tested earn 5 stars in ALL categories.
Nobody buys a car these days WITHOUT considering the safety ratings.
All I can say is, HOLY PLUTONIUM Batman! Not residue from tests, but hundreds of pounds of plutonium metal in useable form. Enough for dozens of nuclear bombs. And they capped it and left it there! And now they are telling the world where it is. I'm speechless. (Other than the preceding text of course.)
With the collapse of the soviet union, packing up that much plutonium and trucking it back to Russia would have been a fools errand. I suspect those involved didn't expect the disruption to be permanent, and didn't think the local population had any capability utilize it, or to even understand what they had under their feet.
But still, there are horror stories almost as bad right here in the US. The Hanford site is again leaking and DOE was perfectly happy to ignore it for years.
Do you suppose the Russians would reciprocate and sent people to help with Hanford?
You invent a cheaper rechargeable battery that matches LiIon on energy density, and congratulations, you've reduced the price of a model S.
If the battery was free, it would still cost twice what I paid for a decent car. This is a top end luxury vehicle, not a green vehicle.
But this isn't what you would call a "decent car", its a luxury performance electric. It starts in the same price range as a Cacillac CTS-V Coupe. (67K). Where as Cadillac (perversely) proudly displays the $2600 gas guzzler line item on their website, the Model S lists a $7,500 tax credit.
That you wouldn't consider paying that much for a decent car is not germane. It is still comparable to vehicles in its class. And contrary to your assertion, it is a GREEN vehicle, using the standards of "Green" that are commonly applied to cars. But there are other models in the pipeline, at cheaper price points. And if the same frame construction is used for these, and they could earn the same safety ratings, it will clearly be a good thing.
They will always cost more than your ricer. But that's hardly the market segment this car is aiming for.
Its like buying a burial plot. If you are a nobody, you can expect to be dug up, probably within 100 years, but surely within 200. If you are famous, and your headstone is huge enough, you might rest there forever, but you might also have friends or perfect strangers buried on top of you.
I could foresee records being *cough* lost and bodies going bad and having to be cremated over the centuries. I seriously doubt anyone in the future would welcome back any long frozen geezer. Who knows what diseases might be lurking in those bodies.
Except they probably won't stoop to murder, at least not of random citizens because they couldn't be sure of how those families might react, and how far they would push demands for investigation.
But with all those embassies sitting empty, don't be surprised if one or two get ransacked. That supplies all the "See, we told you so" moments they would ever need.
There have been a bunch of attacks in Pakistan and Iraq and Afghanistan and Syria and even India for the last 5 years. Its a daily occurrence, and you would have had to be on a rafting trip down the Amazon for the last several months not to have known this has been going on for years.
The old saw is that you have no expectation of privacy in public. But that is merely a play on words, and is a shallow argument.
We have an expectation of going about our business without being tracked, and stalked by authorities (or anyone else) for no reason at all. The public space is owned equally by all, and simply because you walk down a sidewalk or drive down a road there is no valid reason for the government to record that event, or to be able to prove that you did walk or drive there. Its not their space. Its OUR space. Privacy by virtue of anonymity in public is the normal expectation in a large urban area. The chances of meeting someone on the street that recognizes you is inversely proportional to the population density, and that is the natural condition that humans have had forever. Because it is possible to eliminate this natural anonymity doesn't make it right just because you are in a public place.
If someone followed you around, you could call the cops on them, and they would be questioned and detained long enough for you to at least get out of sight. Unless they were a cop themselves. But somehow police get this right for no reason at all.
All stolen/wanted vehicle plate numbers should be downloaded to these police cars, and the plate recognition software should check against THAT LIST ONLY, and immediately discard any other recognized plate number. Don't allow it to be kept for even 10 seconds.
Its pointless to even allow this functionality at all, because when a vehicle is stolen the first thing that happens is that the plates are changed out. The focus is not to recover stolen vehicles. Its to keep tabs on everybody.
You act like every cop in the world needs to be monitored so they don't do bad things. How often do you actually hear about a police officer in America doing something wrong on national tv? Very rarely, even locally I barely ever hear about that. So yeah, there a couple bad cops, but what about the other 934,976 cops that never get in trouble or do bad stuff?
You hear about it almost every week, if not every day. If you don't, then its only because you are not paying attention. Google "police officer suspended" and limit it to any time frame you want. If you don't get 10 pages of hits I'd be surprised.
There are a lot of bad cops, and a lot of cops that are just bullies. There are even more cops that are provoked into taking actions they shouldn't take by taunting assholes, who somehow never show up in the news.
But by and large, this group of cops is small by comparison to the total number of cops that follow the rules most of the time, do their jobs without trying to piss off and provoke everyone they come into contact with.
So no, not every copy should wear recorders. But maybe if X number complaints filed against against an officer that guy gets to where the camera for a month.
It would serve two purposes. Shame the officer into better behavior, and warn the public that this guy has a short fuse.
That is because the mainstream media is in bed with the government and cover up a lot of shit. It's the same reason you rarely hear about all of the unsolved crimes and the criminals who do get away. They are trying to save face and retain power.
I would hate to live in a society that had enough cops to be sure there are no unsolved crimes and criminals never get away. Be very careful what you ask for Mr. Anonymous Coward.
If conference calls can cause America to close embassies, piss away money like there's no tomorrow and spy on its own citizens then I think we have to conclude that the terrorists are winning.
When you add up everything US citizens have lost, its clear the terrorists have already won big time.
But in all the years of chasing Bin Laden, and all the other terrorists that have been killed or captured when have you ever heard of a conference call? Secret messages, couriers, double blind message drops, and encrypted text messages. Not once conference call. If it happened at all, I'm sure it was orchestrated to see what effect it would have and to determine if the NSA was listening.
But the timing suggests it was totally contrived by the NSA in some sort of childish attempt at self justification with the administration playing along. What is odd, is the press is buying the whole act, they've stopped talking about Snowden. 7th graders could concoct a more believable one act play on a saturday afternoon. The CIA will probably have to pay some useful idiots to toss grenades into the empty embassies when it becomes clear that nothing else was actually planned, and the egg starts running down their collective faces.
Snowden holds the keys, not Wikeleaks. Your have your story muddled.
All wikeleaks is doing is making sure the file can't be destroyed at one source. We can only hope that Snowden has the keys escrow-ed such that simply killing him prevents disclosure.
The idea (I think) is that these files will be released in time, but releasing them all at once, but encrypted, is to discourage governments from arresting or killing the high-ups of WikiLeaks. The info will come out, just like it did last time (wasn't the last insurance file the bulk of cables that was eventually released?), but this is a mechanism for doing that while protecting themselves.
In this case I believe Snowden holds the final encryption key, not Wikileaks. He has stated he doesn't want to harm the US, and hopes the people or congress steps in and stops the NSA abuse without having to release the most damning evidence. Its not attention whoring, its a pretty good understanding of human nature. The whole discussion would be yesterdays news had he released it all at once. Amazingly, for a young man, he understands that short sharp shocks are easily put to bed by demonizing the source and burying the issue, and a drum beat of news has more effect.
You can see this going on today. After a few political hacks attempting to cast him as a traitor were met with an equal amount of push-back calling him a hero, the administration abruptly changed tactics.
1) They stopped talking about Snowden. 2) They have started trying to prove that the spying is actually good for America. (Essentially owning the spying in the hopes the public will go along.) 3) They rushed to close embassies on the slimmest of evidence and are hoping desperately that there will in fact be some actual attacks.
So far the terrorists don't seem willing to play along. (In fact I believe the so-called intercepted "conference call" was made up of whole cloth, or was simply the terrorists "playing" the NSA. Since when to terrorists hold conference calls?. The attacks were supposed to happen last week, yet nothing at all is happening that wasn't already in progress in Egypt and Syria).
So its about time for a couple more of Snowden's Shoes to drop.
When you first set up the account they may be the same, but from then on out, you need never access the website again. But if you do they don't write it to disk. So if you dont trust SSL, just don't visit the website. Do everything through the client.
You can't change the password on the website. (Why? Because they recognize that is insecure). You can only change it in the client application (a locally installed piece of software), and as soon as you do that your machine gets busy re-encoding all of your data on their site from your synced directories with the new key.
They can't even see directory names or file names. They intentionally have no way to decrypt your data. If you lose your key, you are SOL. They intend to Opensource the Client side.
What about Ustream, (where anyone can stream just about anything from kittens to combat, and many foreign TV News stations stream 24/7? What about YouTube, where you can watch complete episodes of many tv shows?
There are hundreds of other examples that they have just declared that they have authority to charge fees, even when they do nothing for these sites.
The fees are designed to recover the costs that the FCC incurs in administering licenses and the like and are based on the number of full-time employees dedicated to such functions on a bureau-by-bureau basis.
And since the FCC does not regulate HULU or any other site sending video streams, it is NOT merely a money grab, but another way to shut down people streaming video of any kind, by simply declaring they failed to pay the fee. They've essentially brought the entire streaming video industry under their control by fiat!
Your website log in key is not your spideroak encryption keep. You can't deduce one from the other unless you were stupid enough to use the same key for both.
Advertising is meant to inform you that Coke is available here. You were thirsty anyway or you wouldn't have noticed it. Advertising a steaming fresh sack of shit won't get you customers who were really looking for new shoes.
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to say that everything that was Soviet must be a Russian problem after is (to exaggerate a bit) like blaming Britain when something goes wrong in Australia.
Well, the present situation is sort of akin to saying anything that happens on Bikini Atoll is an American problem once the US decided to use this quiet little pacific paradise as a bomb test site. The Bikini-ans, like the Kazakhs, had no such technology then or now, and had little choice in the decision to use their land as test sites. How could it possibly be THEIR problem?
Actually, your argument misses his point.
You CAN buy several cars that get 5stars,
"It means the Model S joins more established vehicles such as the 2013 Kia Optima, Honda Accord and Volvo S60 in scoring maximum marks in all impact tests."
And some of them can be had with performance packages that will exceed the Model S, and virtually all of them will exceed the range of the Model S, and be half the price. The difference is they won't be electric.
There are dozens of 5 star cars on the market in the 30K price range. Further, as the summary says 1% of all models tested earn 5 stars in ALL categories.
Nobody buys a car these days WITHOUT considering the safety ratings.
No they don't.
All I can say is, HOLY PLUTONIUM Batman! Not residue from tests, but hundreds of pounds of plutonium metal in useable form. Enough for dozens of nuclear bombs. And they capped it and left it there! And now they are telling the world where it is. I'm speechless. (Other than the preceding text of course.)
With the collapse of the soviet union, packing up that much plutonium and trucking it back to Russia would have been a fools errand. I suspect those involved didn't expect the disruption to be permanent, and didn't think the local population had any capability utilize it, or to even understand what they had under their feet.
But still, there are horror stories almost as bad right here in the US. The Hanford site is again leaking and DOE was perfectly happy to ignore it for years.
Do you suppose the Russians would reciprocate and sent people to help with Hanford?
You invent a cheaper rechargeable battery that matches LiIon on energy density, and congratulations, you've reduced the price of a model S.
If the battery was free, it would still cost twice what I paid for a decent car. This is a top end luxury vehicle, not a green vehicle.
But this isn't what you would call a "decent car", its a luxury performance electric.
It starts in the same price range as a Cacillac CTS-V Coupe. (67K). Where as Cadillac (perversely) proudly displays the $2600 gas guzzler line item on their website, the Model S lists a $7,500 tax credit.
That you wouldn't consider paying that much for a decent car is not germane. It is still comparable to vehicles in its class. And contrary to your assertion, it is a GREEN vehicle, using the standards of "Green" that are commonly applied to cars.
But there are other models in the pipeline, at cheaper price points. And if the same frame construction is used for these, and they could earn the same safety ratings, it will clearly be a good thing.
They will always cost more than your ricer. But that's hardly the market segment this car is aiming for.
There is zero contract enforceability.
Its like buying a burial plot. If you are a nobody, you can expect to be dug up, probably within 100 years, but surely within 200. If you are famous, and your headstone is huge enough, you might rest there forever, but you might also have friends or perfect strangers buried on top of you.
I could foresee records being *cough* lost and bodies going bad and having to be cremated over the centuries.
I seriously doubt anyone in the future would welcome back any long frozen geezer. Who knows what diseases might be lurking in those bodies.
Great. Plausible Deniabilaty.
It wasn't us, it was those damn terrorists.
Who do you suppose dreamed up that gem?
Except they probably won't stoop to murder, at least not of random citizens because they couldn't be sure of how those families might react, and how far they would push demands for investigation.
But with all those embassies sitting empty, don't be surprised if one or two get ransacked. That supplies all the "See, we told you so" moments they would ever need.
There have been a bunch of attacks in Pakistan and Iraq and Afghanistan and Syria and even India for the last 5 years. Its a daily occurrence, and you would have had to be on a rafting trip down the Amazon for the last several months not to have known this has been going on for years.
I doubt the database is national.
But its not warranted in any case.
The old saw is that you have no expectation of privacy in public. But that is merely a play on words, and is a shallow argument.
We have an expectation of going about our business without being tracked, and stalked by authorities (or anyone else) for no reason at all.
The public space is owned equally by all, and simply because you walk down a sidewalk or drive down a road there is no valid reason for the government to record that event, or to be able to prove that you did walk or drive there. Its not their space. Its OUR space. Privacy by virtue of anonymity in public is the normal expectation in a large urban area. The chances of meeting someone on the street that recognizes you is inversely proportional to the population density, and that is the natural condition that humans have had forever. Because it is possible to eliminate this natural anonymity doesn't make it right just because you are in a public place.
If someone followed you around, you could call the cops on them, and they would be questioned and detained long enough for you to at least get out of sight. Unless they were a cop themselves. But somehow police get this right for no reason at all.
All stolen/wanted vehicle plate numbers should be downloaded to these police cars, and the plate recognition software should check against THAT LIST ONLY, and immediately discard any other recognized plate number. Don't allow it to be kept for even 10 seconds.
Its pointless to even allow this functionality at all, because when a vehicle is stolen the first thing that happens is that the plates are changed out. The focus is not to recover stolen vehicles. Its to keep tabs on everybody.
Sigh.. wear, not where.
I save my best spelling for the work week.
You act like every cop in the world needs to be monitored so they don't do bad things. How often do you actually hear about a police officer in America doing something wrong on national tv? Very rarely, even locally I barely ever hear about that. So yeah, there a couple bad cops, but what about the other 934,976 cops that never get in trouble or do bad stuff?
You hear about it almost every week, if not every day. If you don't, then its only because you are not paying attention.
Google "police officer suspended" and limit it to any time frame you want. If you don't get 10 pages of hits I'd be surprised.
There are a lot of bad cops, and a lot of cops that are just bullies. There are even more cops that are provoked into taking actions they shouldn't take by taunting assholes, who somehow never show up in the news.
But by and large, this group of cops is small by comparison to the total number of cops that follow the rules most of the time, do their jobs without trying to piss off and provoke everyone they come into contact with.
So no, not every copy should wear recorders. But maybe if X number complaints filed against against an officer that guy gets to where the camera for a month.
It would serve two purposes. Shame the officer into better behavior, and warn the public that this guy has a short fuse.
That is because the mainstream media is in bed with the government and cover up a lot of shit. It's the same reason you rarely hear about all of the unsolved crimes and the criminals who do get away. They are trying to save face and retain power.
I would hate to live in a society that had enough cops to be sure there are no unsolved crimes and criminals never get away.
Be very careful what you ask for Mr. Anonymous Coward.
If conference calls can cause America to close embassies, piss away money like there's no tomorrow and spy on its own citizens then I think we have to conclude that the terrorists are winning.
When you add up everything US citizens have lost, its clear the terrorists have already won big time.
But in all the years of chasing Bin Laden, and all the other terrorists that have been killed or captured when have you ever heard of a conference call? Secret messages, couriers, double blind message drops, and encrypted text messages. Not once conference call.
If it happened at all, I'm sure it was orchestrated to see what effect it would have and to determine if the NSA was listening.
But the timing suggests it was totally contrived by the NSA in some sort of childish attempt at self justification with the administration playing along. What is odd, is the press is buying the whole act, they've stopped talking about Snowden. 7th graders could concoct a more believable one act play on a saturday afternoon. The CIA will probably have to pay some useful idiots to toss grenades into the empty embassies when it becomes clear that nothing else was actually planned, and the egg starts running down their collective faces.
We can only hope that Snowden has the keys escrow-ed such that simply killing him prevents disclosure.
Shouldn't he have it set up in the opposite way, so that if he dies, then disclosure is automatic?
Yes, that' is EXACTLY what I meant to say, even though my fingers typed something else. Thanks for catching that.
Snowden holds the keys, not Wikeleaks. Your have your story muddled.
All wikeleaks is doing is making sure the file can't be destroyed at one source.
We can only hope that Snowden has the keys escrow-ed such that simply killing him prevents disclosure.
The idea (I think) is that these files will be released in time, but releasing them all at once, but encrypted, is to discourage governments from arresting or killing the high-ups of WikiLeaks. The info will come out, just like it did last time (wasn't the last insurance file the bulk of cables that was eventually released?), but this is a mechanism for doing that while protecting themselves.
In this case I believe Snowden holds the final encryption key, not Wikileaks.
He has stated he doesn't want to harm the US, and hopes the people or congress steps in and stops the NSA abuse without having to release the most damning evidence. Its not attention whoring, its a pretty good understanding of human nature. The whole discussion would be yesterdays news had he released it all at once. Amazingly, for a young man, he understands that short sharp shocks are easily put to bed by demonizing the source and burying the issue, and a drum beat of news has more effect.
You can see this going on today.
After a few political hacks attempting to cast him as a traitor were met with an equal amount of push-back calling him a hero, the administration abruptly changed tactics.
1) They stopped talking about Snowden.
2) They have started trying to prove that the spying is actually good for America. (Essentially owning the spying in the hopes the public will go along.)
3) They rushed to close embassies on the slimmest of evidence and are hoping desperately that there will in fact be some actual attacks.
So far the terrorists don't seem willing to play along. (In fact I believe the so-called intercepted "conference call" was made up of whole cloth, or was simply the terrorists "playing" the NSA. Since when to terrorists hold conference calls?. The attacks were supposed to happen last week, yet nothing at all is happening that wasn't already in progress in Egypt and Syria).
So its about time for a couple more of Snowden's Shoes to drop.
Oh, forgot, go carry on your argument with SpiderOak. Start here: https://spideroak.com/engineering_matters where they explain exactly how it works.
When you first set up the account they may be the same, but from then on out, you need never access the website again. But if you do they don't write it to disk. So if you dont trust SSL, just don't visit the website. Do everything through the client.
You can't change the password on the website. (Why? Because they recognize that is insecure). You can only change it in the client application (a locally installed piece of software), and as soon as you do that your machine gets busy re-encoding all of your data on their site from your synced directories with the new key.
They do not retain the new key on their site.
See: https://spideroak.com/faq/questions/3/does_spideroak_use_encryption_when_storing_and_transferring_data/
They can't even see directory names or file names. They intentionally have no way to decrypt your data.
If you lose your key, you are SOL.
They intend to Opensource the Client side.
What about Ustream, (where anyone can stream just about anything from kittens to combat, and many foreign TV News stations stream 24/7?
What about YouTube, where you can watch complete episodes of many tv shows?
There are hundreds of other examples that they have just declared that they have authority to charge fees, even when they do nothing for these sites.
But the article clearly states:
The fees are designed to recover the costs that the FCC incurs in administering licenses and the like and are based on the number of full-time employees dedicated to such functions on a bureau-by-bureau basis.
And since the FCC does not regulate HULU or any other site sending video streams, it is NOT merely a money grab, but another way to shut down people streaming video of any kind, by simply declaring they failed to pay the fee. They've essentially brought the entire streaming video industry under their control by fiat!
What if you read them at the library? Oh! Or what if you borrow them from a friend who checked them out?
It wouldn't work. They would ask you, "Have you ever read a book on how to beat the polygraph?"
But you'd know how to beat that question, so.....
Your website log in key is not your spideroak encryption keep. You can't deduce one from the other unless you were stupid enough to use the same key for both.
#2 cannot be arbitrary designated as destructive just because you find some products advertised as being something you wouldn't seek out for yourself.
Ignorance is equally destructive to society. Advertising campaigns can also educate.
No, your definition is bogus.
Advertising is meant to inform you that Coke is available here. You were thirsty anyway or you wouldn't have noticed it.
Advertising a steaming fresh sack of shit won't get you customers who were really looking for new shoes.