This from the guy that told us Saddam was a threat.
Exactly how are terrorists going to hurt me with the Internet, send me a really mean email message? Kill me with annoying popups?
How exactly to TCP/IP packets hurt anyone? We could turn the Internet off today and I would keep on breathing. Nothing important happens on the Internet.
I'm much more concerned about explosives and guns and bombs and fear mongering tyrants like Tenet.
The US Gov doesn't need to police the Internet or regulate the development of software. All they need to do is make companies liable for the consequences of placing my personal information in peril.
If I buy dinner at a restaurant and pay for it with my credit card... then they put my credit card number in a place where others can see it... I should be able to sue them.
Most, if not all, recent incidences were brought about by the system administrators and application hosting service providers. Software companies, even Microsoft, have released patches before the exploits became widespread. The admins didn't apply the patches in a timely fashion. They are the ones responsible.
If you leave your big screen TV on the front lawn, it's going to get stolen.
When these people feel the sting... they will either drop out of ecommerce or pay attention to security.
I might also add, that businesses should be able to sue software companies for security defects which are not addressed in a timely fashion... in much the same way auto manufacturers are.
The Ministry of Truth is a fictitious government agency from George Orwell's dystopian work 1984. The protagonist, Winston Smith, was an employee of the Ministry of Truth (Minitrue).
Minitrue concerned itself with the publishing of all media such as newspapers, novels and pornography. Winston's job within Minitrue was to edit newspapers (The London Times) after they were published to rewrite history. This process was controlled by the all-powerful "party" of which Winston was a mere functionary.
Winston would modify economic data such as ration values to transform decreases into increases, when in reality the product was not available to any but the inner party. He would replace names in articles for citizens who had recently been arrested for crimes against the state. The state (Oceania) was constantly at war with either Eastasia or Eurasia. When the party decided they were at war with Eastasia, Minitrue would be required to rewrite all references to a war with Eurasia. When the tide changed, Minitrue would rewrite all news to reflect the current enemy. According to the party, whomever Oceania was at war with in the present moment was who they had been at war with throughout history.
A quote from 1984: "He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future."
And maybe the problem is on music match's side. Maybe the apple software is working correctly with the device and music match isn't.
And I suppose, "working correctly with an ipod" is whatever Apple says it is...
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supposedly...
The NSA records and evaluates the communications of US citizens all the time. They are watching, of course. They have cast a huge net and overhear all sorts of things.
However, they cannot use these things as evidence in a US court unless they had permission from a judge to conduct the surveillance, before the fact. I don't know how difficult this is to acquire these days, but I believe it is still the case.
They cannot use intelligence from foreign countries to spy on US citizens without a judge's approval either. so it is said...
This doesn't mean they wouldn't overhear something and then "anonymously" call the local police tip line in your area... or doing something else to "launder" the information. I'm sure there are many little birdies telling all sorts of things these days.
They probably saved the moth just in case removing the moth made the entire system break... they might have needed to back out the moth removal change.
I know some software people who work this way.
On a different note, I wonder if ther are any operators who still keep logs.
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Use a laptop... use OpenBSD... encrypt your entire drive... carry it with you everywhere, sleep with it under your pillow.
This from the guy that told us Saddam was a threat.
Exactly how are terrorists going to hurt me with the Internet, send me a really mean email message? Kill me with annoying popups?
How exactly to TCP/IP packets hurt anyone? We could turn the Internet off today and I would keep on breathing. Nothing important happens on the Internet.
I'm much more concerned about explosives and guns and bombs and fear mongering tyrants like Tenet.
Ever heard of Sykes (www.sykes.com)...?
The US Gov doesn't need to police the Internet or regulate the development of software. All they need to do is make companies liable for the consequences of placing my personal information in peril.
If I buy dinner at a restaurant and pay for it with my credit card... then they put my credit card number in a place where others can see it... I should be able to sue them.
Most, if not all, recent incidences were brought about by the system administrators and application hosting service providers. Software companies, even Microsoft, have released patches before the exploits became widespread. The admins didn't apply the patches in a timely fashion. They are the ones responsible.
If you leave your big screen TV on the front lawn, it's going to get stolen.
When these people feel the sting... they will either drop out of ecommerce or pay attention to security.
I might also add, that businesses should be able to sue software companies for security defects which are not addressed in a timely fashion... in much the same way auto manufacturers are.
For all we know, Saturn could have a vast ocean at it's center crammed full of sea monkeys.
It would be "Doubleplus defective memory". What the party says is truth. "Good" memory is recalling what the party believes to be true.
The Ministry of Truth is a fictitious government agency from George Orwell's dystopian work 1984. The protagonist, Winston Smith, was an employee of the Ministry of Truth (Minitrue).
Minitrue concerned itself with the publishing of all media such as newspapers, novels and pornography. Winston's job within Minitrue was to edit newspapers (The London Times) after they were published to rewrite history. This process was controlled by the all-powerful "party" of which Winston was a mere functionary.
Winston would modify economic data such as ration values to transform decreases into increases, when in reality the product was not available to any but the inner party. He would replace names in articles for citizens who had recently been arrested for crimes against the state. The state (Oceania) was constantly at war with either Eastasia or Eurasia. When the party decided they were at war with Eastasia, Minitrue would be required to rewrite all references to a war with Eurasia. When the tide changed, Minitrue would rewrite all news to reflect the current enemy. According to the party, whomever Oceania was at war with in the present moment was who they had been at war with throughout history.
A quote from 1984: "He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future."
And maybe the problem is on music match's side. Maybe the apple software is working correctly with the device and music match isn't.
And I suppose, "working correctly with an ipod" is whatever Apple says it is...
supposedly...
The NSA records and evaluates the communications of US citizens all the time. They are watching, of course. They have cast a huge net and overhear all sorts of things.
However, they cannot use these things as evidence in a US court unless they had permission from a judge to conduct the surveillance, before the fact. I don't know how difficult this is to acquire these days, but I believe it is still the case.
They cannot use intelligence from foreign countries to spy on US citizens without a judge's approval either. so it is said...
This doesn't mean they wouldn't overhear something and then "anonymously" call the local police tip line in your area... or doing something else to "launder" the information. I'm sure there are many little birdies telling all sorts of things these days.
They probably saved the moth just in case removing the moth made the entire system break... they might have needed to back out the moth removal change.
I know some software people who work this way.
On a different note, I wonder if ther are any operators who still keep logs.
We at IBM have traded psychoanalysis for a delicate mix of antidepressants.
We also have ambulances waiting on a hair trigger to wisk us to the emergency room for chest pain.
All that you say is true... However, the battery life is not the greatest in my experience.