The way I read this, they want the kind of stuff that is in the head of only one guy, the mastermind stuff. If that's the premise, I kinda fail to see how they verify such details, or prevent someone from pulling a Keyser Soze on them.
It is quite telling that torture was liberally used in practically all widely known trials that relied on fake confessions in Stalin's Russia, yet I haven't seen a lot of references about torture when real foreign intelligence agents were involved. Of course, it may just be the details of their trials are guarded better.
I am sure they have heard the theory that coercion does not produce useful intelligence. I'd assume they have in mind some kind of truth serum rather than a big basement with torture implements.
This is an old prediction, made for the first time in 1973. Things have so far developed more or less pretty close to the original publication. See "The Limits to Growth".
To be fair, Kipster never stood a chance in a fact-based argument and probably knows it well. What Schneier says is true - TSA, and the whole security theater is just a CYA operation with some budged to dispose of to friends, and is defended mostly by interested parties to an emotionally involved audience.
But the theater is also there because most of the US public think they can afford it and that it is very visible and looks impressive. In a way, this is similar to the US carrying 25,000 nuclear warheads at the peak of the Cold war, although 3000 were more than enough for adequate retaliation threat. I guess you can call it demonstration of prowess, and it seems it is at least as important as effectiveness to many.
I would add this "Gawker" you speak about to my boycott list, but what is it? Is it one of those "websites" that you open with no-script and see a blank page? If so, they've been "boycotting" me for a few years now.
You are very shortsighted or outright stupid to equate a democratic system to a dictatorship based on what influence you suppose one individual has on the system. First, as I pointed out, a democracy is a system where the will of large groups matter. Second, as long as I as an individual am not censored, I have the opportunity to influence the system by convincing large groups of people to listen to my message. This mechanism works in the US without doubt - many oppressive laws were removed in the past because of civil action, many bad practices are regulated, and there is some real public threat that has brought about most of the laws you complain about.
The particular laws may be good or bad, may be influenced by lobbying and so on, but there is little doubt that the mechanism works in the US and does not even exist in countries like Iran.
In short, grow up and try to see complex reality beyond the babble you're used to in your comfortable information bubble.
Well, the intercept is also lawful in Iran, the only difference is how much the general populace gets to influence the laws. You have to concede that in America the population still has a lot more influence over the legislature than in Iran no matter how rabidly anti-American you are.
First, this is hardly new, the culture of replacement vs. repair is nothing new. A "licensed technician" is in most cases someone who has access to the service manual and the replacement gear, and this is done so that this whole branch of "services" are outsourced, as they are not a significant income source for the manufacturer.
Second, nothing stops you from doing DIY electronics -- I assemble circuits all the time, some I interface with purchased gear. Frankly, most of the time I use purchased gear for a UI, and have my circuit do whatever job must be done without many frills except the communication unit and some command protocol.
If Apple (and, btw, practically all other mass electronic device manufacturers) must be pressed about something, it is about allowing communication with the device and easily deploying own software.
In this respect, Android does a moderately decent job for USB, Apple and various android devices are roughly equivalent WRT bluetooth, and I suspect, while I haven't bothered to check, that if necessary one can probably learn the Apple connector interface and use that too.
One can find the origin of these rather shallow "deep thoughts" in much older literature. The requirement is just a little knowledge. E.g. the first on the "recent list" is a seriously dumbed-down Faust:
When I say to the Moment flying;
'Linger a while -- thou art so fair!'
Or even better, get a good book on the subject (there are a few) by someone who knows what's he's talking about (there are fewer). "Presenting to Win" isn't a bad start. The subject of presentations is irrelevant, study the techniques being used. http://www.amazon.com/Presenting-Win-Telling-Your-Story/dp/0130464139
Well, I've been carrying a priority card of some sort for ages, and I am going through those checkpoints so fast that the faces of security are blurred, tinted blueish and distorted. I don't recall spending more than a minute or two in those "security checks" in ages. Everything in the security checks that are administered to people with priority standing is just a pretense.
This is in stark contrast with your typical "security check", in which I hear you wait for upwards of 15 minutes, and then sometimes have to take shit out of your hand baggage, remove belts and whatnot.
So, there are checks and "checks", and a "priority check" is just buying your way out of a check.
The fact is that if you wave money, you can get around any "security check". You can, of course, interpret this fact in any other convenient way of your choosing.
No, it doesn't, you're not careful, my son. Not only does the video show the Moon after it was initially shaped by the hand of God, it also showed God's hand during its changing through the aeons. Consider the sounds of all those explosions from the stones God threw at the moon. The mad scientists would have you believe you can't hear them in space, but by God's will you heard them loud and clear.
Maybe, I haven't seen a good video of it falling. It is hard to tell anything about the fall from what's available on the intertubes. So I choose to apply Beckham's scissors and assume it is unlikely a better video would have shown anything different than the twin towers' fall.
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The way I read this, they want the kind of stuff that is in the head of only one guy, the mastermind stuff. If that's the premise, I kinda fail to see how they verify such details, or prevent someone from pulling a Keyser Soze on them.
It is quite telling that torture was liberally used in practically all widely known trials that relied on fake confessions in Stalin's Russia, yet I haven't seen a lot of references about torture when real foreign intelligence agents were involved. Of course, it may just be the details of their trials are guarded better.
I am sure they have heard the theory that coercion does not produce useful intelligence. I'd assume they have in mind some kind of truth serum rather than a big basement with torture implements.
Just in case.
I saw it in Terminator 3 already, thank you. The robot chick had pneumatic tits.
This is an old prediction, made for the first time in 1973. Things have so far developed more or less pretty close to the original publication. See "The Limits to Growth".
Anonymous Coward looks a lot sexier than that woman looked when she was 31.
Too bad you did not have the first post advantage.
To be fair, Kipster never stood a chance in a fact-based argument and probably knows it well. What Schneier says is true - TSA, and the whole security theater is just a CYA operation with some budged to dispose of to friends, and is defended mostly by interested parties to an emotionally involved audience.
But the theater is also there because most of the US public think they can afford it and that it is very visible and looks impressive. In a way, this is similar to the US carrying 25,000 nuclear warheads at the peak of the Cold war, although 3000 were more than enough for adequate retaliation threat. I guess you can call it demonstration of prowess, and it seems it is at least as important as effectiveness to many.
I would add this "Gawker" you speak about to my boycott list, but what is it? Is it one of those "websites" that you open with no-script and see a blank page? If so, they've been "boycotting" me for a few years now.
You are very shortsighted or outright stupid to equate a democratic system to a dictatorship based on what influence you suppose one individual has on the system. First, as I pointed out, a democracy is a system where the will of large groups matter. Second, as long as I as an individual am not censored, I have the opportunity to influence the system by convincing large groups of people to listen to my message. This mechanism works in the US without doubt - many oppressive laws were removed in the past because of civil action, many bad practices are regulated, and there is some real public threat that has brought about most of the laws you complain about.
The particular laws may be good or bad, may be influenced by lobbying and so on, but there is little doubt that the mechanism works in the US and does not even exist in countries like Iran.
In short, grow up and try to see complex reality beyond the babble you're used to in your comfortable information bubble.
Well, the intercept is also lawful in Iran, the only difference is how much the general populace gets to influence the laws. You have to concede that in America the population still has a lot more influence over the legislature than in Iran no matter how rabidly anti-American you are.
Do they chase a suspect every time they are speeding?
This joke hasn't been funny since Karl May published "The Ghost of Llano Estacado".
First, this is hardly new, the culture of replacement vs. repair is nothing new. A "licensed technician" is in most cases someone who has access to the service manual and the replacement gear, and this is done so that this whole branch of "services" are outsourced, as they are not a significant income source for the manufacturer.
Second, nothing stops you from doing DIY electronics -- I assemble circuits all the time, some I interface with purchased gear. Frankly, most of the time I use purchased gear for a UI, and have my circuit do whatever job must be done without many frills except the communication unit and some command protocol.
If Apple (and, btw, practically all other mass electronic device manufacturers) must be pressed about something, it is about allowing communication with the device and easily deploying own software.
In this respect, Android does a moderately decent job for USB, Apple and various android devices are roughly equivalent WRT bluetooth, and I suspect, while I haven't bothered to check, that if necessary one can probably learn the Apple connector interface and use that too.
One can find the origin of these rather shallow "deep thoughts" in much older literature. The requirement is just a little knowledge. E.g. the first on the "recent list" is a seriously dumbed-down Faust:
When I say to the Moment flying;
'Linger a while -- thou art so fair!'
And so on.
Or even better, get a good book on the subject (there are a few) by someone who knows what's he's talking about (there are fewer). "Presenting to Win" isn't a bad start. The subject of presentations is irrelevant, study the techniques being used. http://www.amazon.com/Presenting-Win-Telling-Your-Story/dp/0130464139
No, it isn't Cobalt Thorium G, they perfected the Gravitzapa and the Pepelatz.
Actually, Putin's Russia is nothing like Soviet Russia. In Putin's Russia you only get a lot of promises about the Moon landing on you.
Allahu Akbar!
Well, I've been carrying a priority card of some sort for ages, and I am going through those checkpoints so fast that the faces of security are blurred, tinted blueish and distorted. I don't recall spending more than a minute or two in those "security checks" in ages. Everything in the security checks that are administered to people with priority standing is just a pretense.
This is in stark contrast with your typical "security check", in which I hear you wait for upwards of 15 minutes, and then sometimes have to take shit out of your hand baggage, remove belts and whatnot.
So, there are checks and "checks", and a "priority check" is just buying your way out of a check.
The fact is that if you wave money, you can get around any "security check". You can, of course, interpret this fact in any other convenient way of your choosing.
That's not a ticket to freedom, that's an indulgence.
Forget SETI, how about CETI with neutrinos? Especially the superluminal ones ...
No, it doesn't, you're not careful, my son. Not only does the video show the Moon after it was initially shaped by the hand of God, it also showed God's hand during its changing through the aeons. Consider the sounds of all those explosions from the stones God threw at the moon. The mad scientists would have you believe you can't hear them in space, but by God's will you heard them loud and clear.
Sincerely, your father Porphirios.
Maybe, I haven't seen a good video of it falling. It is hard to tell anything about the fall from what's available on the intertubes. So I choose to apply Beckham's scissors and assume it is unlikely a better video would have shown anything different than the twin towers' fall.