You must be from the east coast, from a different country or have terribly low standards, because the state of rail transportation on the west coast of the USA has never great and it's been getting worse for the past 70 years or so.
I take that back. On further consideration (of about 10 seconds) it looks like you're right--the combination of hardware and software is what's certified.
It's simple, really. You just need a watchdog program that prompts the user to biometrically verify their identity via retinal scan and enter a 10 digit PIN code every 15 seconds. In the event of failed verification or loss of power, the LAPads contain a small amount of high explosive, which detonates, showering the would-be student with supersonic fragments of glass, metal and plastic.
Pilots could work normal shifts and you could change your flight crew in the middle of the Pacific if they were tired or in case of a medical emergency. For some reason, the people that we depend upon the most to be alert and make important decisions, like doctors and pilots, don't seem to get enough sleep.
You're suggesting voting in response to an article about America and you expect to be taken seriously? Can anyone name me the last successful campaign for a federal office by a third party candidate? What exactly changed when Obama got voted in and control of the senate changed parties? The wars stopped and Gitmo was closed and Americans won back all their rights, didn't they? Voting for the other guy would hardly have been better in that regard.
In all honesty, the vast majority of Americans will do whatever is suggested by interested parties with large advertising budgets and clever marketeers. It doesn't matter if those parties are political parties or corporations. Voting is more pathetic because there are only two boxes to tick. At least there are more than two corporations in America!
That would take some massive work, and be easily visible in the gcc/g++ source code.
The modified compiler is only distributed as a binary. There is no source code available.
The compiler would have to embed network objects into code it detects as network code.
No, the compiler would only need to add a few instructions that--under certain circumstances--modify calls to libraries that it knows are already being linked into the target executable. A compromised compiler is in the perfect position to determine everything about the executable it's compiling and to compromise it in extremely subtle ways. Think about all of the exploits that require only a single buffer overflow to execute a small stub, but need to make many assumptions about their environment. A compiler wouldn't need make any assumptions about the configuration of the target machine.
Dumping system calls and stack traces you would be able to see the hidden functions and variables.
You know that a call stack isn't strictly necessary, right? And the maker of malicious code is hardly going to add all his variables to a symbol table. It's easiest to add system calls directly to the malicious code, but it's possible to jump to existing system calls instead. None of this is hypothetical, either.
You, sir, sound like someone who has only dealt with credit card companies as a consumer. Their per-transaction rates and additional fees are ridiculous and they reserve the right to reverse any transaction at any time on their own discretion. A move away from centralized payment systems, with their single points of control and the accompanying rent-seeking is a benefit to everyone except the major processors.
Do you really think that giving a few financial service companies a stranglehold on most economic activity is a good thing? If a handful of companies including Visa, Inc. work together, they can effectively stop payments to any organization they like. Bitcoin isn't perfect, but it's a step in the right direction.
I only meant to say that there isn't any need to make a hierarchy of maintenance robots in which class A robots are maintained by class B robots, which are maintained by class C robots, which are maintained by class D robots... as long as you design class B so that they can maintain each other. Is it so far-fetched to imagine a robot that can assemble (or disassemble) another robot with the same design from modular components?
No, no. You just need to build one kind of fixer robot that's capable of fixing its own kind. If they can fix each other faster than they break, they can fix each other and use the excess fixing capacity to fix all your other robots.
You obviously haven't even read the wikipedia article on homomorphic encryption, much less any of the relevant papers. Every single thing you said was wrong.
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Unlike stock, [which have intrinsic value,] there's no intrinsic value [in storage capacity] to be cheapened by issuing more capacity.
Is this really what you were trying to say?
Don't you just love rhetorical questions?
No, why?
Ah, that's pretty reasonable compared to whatever I was imagining.
I'm generating 2-30GB of object files per build
I'm not sure if I should be impressed or disgusted. It's actually a little of both.
I had to sign off on an agreement that I could be wiretapped and have my mail intercepted
I don't remember signing an agreement like that but I ended up in a similar arrangement, along with several hundred million of my closest friends.
Ever considered a tunnel through outer space? We are talking about connecting cities that are on Earth's surface.
existing decent rail on the coasts
You must be from the east coast, from a different country or have terribly low standards, because the state of rail transportation on the west coast of the USA has never great and it's been getting worse for the past 70 years or so.
I take that back. On further consideration (of about 10 seconds) it looks like you're right--the combination of hardware and software is what's certified.
The FCC aren't acting like fucking savages, having certified SDR equipment--with a modifiable software software component--since 2004.
http://transition.fcc.gov/pshs/techtopics/techtopics4.html
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-254463A1.doc
It's simple, really. You just need a watchdog program that prompts the user to biometrically verify their identity via retinal scan and enter a 10 digit PIN code every 15 seconds. In the event of failed verification or loss of power, the LAPads contain a small amount of high explosive, which detonates, showering the would-be student with supersonic fragments of glass, metal and plastic.
Pilots could work normal shifts and you could change your flight crew in the middle of the Pacific if they were tired or in case of a medical emergency. For some reason, the people that we depend upon the most to be alert and make important decisions, like doctors and pilots, don't seem to get enough sleep.
You're suggesting voting in response to an article about America and you expect to be taken seriously? Can anyone name me the last successful campaign for a federal office by a third party candidate? What exactly changed when Obama got voted in and control of the senate changed parties? The wars stopped and Gitmo was closed and Americans won back all their rights, didn't they? Voting for the other guy would hardly have been better in that regard.
In all honesty, the vast majority of Americans will do whatever is suggested by interested parties with large advertising budgets and clever marketeers. It doesn't matter if those parties are political parties or corporations. Voting is more pathetic because there are only two boxes to tick. At least there are more than two corporations in America!
That would take some massive work, and be easily visible in the gcc/g++ source code.
The modified compiler is only distributed as a binary. There is no source code available.
The compiler would have to embed network objects into code it detects as network code.
No, the compiler would only need to add a few instructions that--under certain circumstances--modify calls to libraries that it knows are already being linked into the target executable. A compromised compiler is in the perfect position to determine everything about the executable it's compiling and to compromise it in extremely subtle ways. Think about all of the exploits that require only a single buffer overflow to execute a small stub, but need to make many assumptions about their environment. A compiler wouldn't need make any assumptions about the configuration of the target machine.
Dumping system calls and stack traces you would be able to see the hidden functions and variables.
You know that a call stack isn't strictly necessary, right? And the maker of malicious code is hardly going to add all his variables to a symbol table. It's easiest to add system calls directly to the malicious code, but it's possible to jump to existing system calls instead. None of this is hypothetical, either.
You, sir, sound like someone who has only dealt with credit card companies as a consumer. Their per-transaction rates and additional fees are ridiculous and they reserve the right to reverse any transaction at any time on their own discretion. A move away from centralized payment systems, with their single points of control and the accompanying rent-seeking is a benefit to everyone except the major processors.
Do you really think that giving a few financial service companies a stranglehold on most economic activity is a good thing? If a handful of companies including Visa, Inc. work together, they can effectively stop payments to any organization they like. Bitcoin isn't perfect, but it's a step in the right direction.
I only meant to say that there isn't any need to make a hierarchy of maintenance robots in which class A robots are maintained by class B robots, which are maintained by class C robots, which are maintained by class D robots... as long as you design class B so that they can maintain each other. Is it so far-fetched to imagine a robot that can assemble (or disassemble) another robot with the same design from modular components?
No, no. You just need to build one kind of fixer robot that's capable of fixing its own kind. If they can fix each other faster than they break, they can fix each other and use the excess fixing capacity to fix all your other robots.
They should have gone with Ogle.
You obviously haven't even read the wikipedia article on homomorphic encryption, much less any of the relevant papers. Every single thing you said was wrong.
Dig up some story about how you can plots of land on the Moon?
That sounds like an awesome story! Those must be some big cans. How do you get them to the Moon and what do you do with them afterward?
It's not your time so you don't get to judge whether it's wasted or not.
It's not your judgement so you don't get to judge whether it's allowed or not. You were doing fine until there, though.
You've never heard of the Danites? There was even a Sherlock Holmes story about them.
Seriously, the EU might be thinking about considering the Church of Scientology a criminal organization, but historically there was armed conflict between the Mormons and their neighbors, and the US federal government very nearly went to war with Utah.
FarmMansion with sharecroppers and huge herds of various animals
Wait, how far does this go? Is there a Plantationville, too?
How can you be sure it was PieceOfShitAndroid posting in the first place?
You can never be too sure, especially since the submitter thinks his uncle has been compromised.
Anything bigger than 2 meters is no longer a small animal.