Considering that the implant will likely run on Windows CE, according to the government purchasing policy, there'll be enough holes in it to make it run Linux instead. With an open-source terrorist tool known as AdBlock.
The Adversary already has a rocketry tech. Google Qassam-4. Solid fuel engines are easier to use in tactical situations than more powerful but also more finicky liquid ones.
There are tools for machine translation out there, not for machine paraphrasing - at least yet. The results can be comical, but it is the cost of automation.
Well... if it is me or them, I know what option to pick.
Not if I don't go around telling everyone else not to buy their product.
You won't give an advice to your friends? You won't share what you know?
The next day, we'll be sitting in a federal penitentiary for having crazy ideas about "anonymity" and "not submitting to strip searches on the way to work.'
Or not, with a good combination of knowledge and luck. Or the Adversary kills itself by jailing enough smart people to cripple its own R&D and manufacturing. You also should always have a plan B, eg. using the jail time to learn some higher math, and practice playing chess.
Fortunately, I've turned this all into a game "How quickly can we Plunge into a New Dark Age."
You may also consider printing out some art on color papers that make the yellow dots highly visible, then call the techsupport and tie them for couple hours demanding a repair of a defective printer that prints things where it shouldn't. Demand talking with the manager, their time is more expensive than of helpdesk drones; think denial of service attack on humans. After all, printing output different from what you told the machine is a sign of defect, isn't it?
All you need is a plausible scenario why you want to print color output on a paper that is not white. Maybe an art project, maybe some physics experiment.
There are times in history when extreme solutions gain on attractivity.
Boycotted is too. No, instead, we just shouldn't buy their products.
Isn't not buying their product a sort of a boycott?
If you don't BUY products designed to take away your freedom, then you keep your freedom.
First, you have to *know* about it. Second, what can ensure that the "safe brands" won't get a driver update in couple months...
I guess that freedom is a privilege of the wealthy.
Other possibility: freedom may also be a privilege of the smart. Few people will mess with $10,000 printer in an attempt to disable the watermarking chip, but put it to a $100 one and geeks with soldering iron start swarming. Remember that a PIC16F873 costs under $2.
Today we are chipping Playstations. Tomorrow we'll chip printers.
Workaround: Translate it to another language, then back. Good amount of wording gets changed that way. Check of changed/altered meaning is needed, though.
Oh, come on. Just disassemble the device, throw out the proprietary connector, and put in a standard one. Been there, done that, in everything from low power through 220V AC to 2.4 GHz signal (pick a good connector for 2.4GHz or you'll have badass losses). Saves an awful lot of headache.
Sometimes governments' desires have to be ignored in the same way they ignore our desires, in order to keep the world in symmetry.
What religious bashing? There are no gods anyway, only an infinitely iterated mutation-selection on molecular level, and the life is an emergent property, a mere tool of the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
Pretty much possible for a flat area with a suitable geology allowing the required deformations by the gravity of Moon (see tidal waves, it works not only with water), and suitable timing of arrivals and departures to work.
The dice were thrown in December 1938 by Otto Hahn. When the fission was discovered, together with its energy bilance, there was no way back - the only things that could've been different were names and dates. Weaponizing of fission was impossible to be prevented - perhaps delayed by few years. If it won't be Oppenheimer, it'd be Kurchatov, or somebody else. And then once one has it, everybody must have it.
Adam Smith would disagree with you that giving back is better for the society.
Luckily for us all, nobody asked Smith for his opinion.
In a free market, it is the self-interest of capitalists that ultimately enhance society and sustain the free market.
The mythical Invisible Hand, returning again and again like a bad check. Bullshit, as most of what we can expect of Economists. With unrestrained self-interest we get just greed and fights and limited options because if a $whatever does not make money, it does not have the right to exist.
The GPL, accessible guilt-free wide-spread piracy, and socialism are all related in that they remove the valuation of a product or service.
The product is MORE valuable BECAUSE of removed valuation.
With the GPL, all work and contribution is on equal footing.
A code is a code is a code.
No one would argue Linus' contribution is much greater than someone who wrote an obscure kernel driver. Yet Linus receives equal reward (i.e. the Linux kernel code base) as the person who wrote a single driver. Take this concept further to worrying with social concerns, as you argue MS should do, and you have socialism.
No, this is communism. Come, take whatever you need, and give whatever you can. And if you don't like it, make (and maintain) your own fork. Pure, unadulterated communism, not that Soviet dictatorship crap.
...As if MS disappeared tomorrow the world would automatically be a better place to live in.
There'd be more choices on the market and even the big bastards like banks and state institutions would be FORCED to follow standards. No more MSIE-only web services. And no more 1800-pound monster gorilla strongarming others to conform to their business plans (just a couple more smaller monkeys, which is more manageable).
Another related fallacy is "evil is everywhere," where members of society point out the "evildoers" and are constantly on the look-out for evil.
In the age of megacorporations, evil *is* everywhere. It's a loss of time trying to find it, when all you need to do is randomly point a finger.
Corporations are not inherently evil, and Bill Gates is certainly not an evil person (compared to other capitalists, some greater and some less than he, Gates is relatively tame).
Corporations are only inherently greedy, as a survival necessity. Their evilness is an effect, not a cause. Wealthy William himself is a ruthless rotter unwilling to keep promises and willing to lie and lawyer and strongarm whenever it can make him more powerful - though again, he is not doing it because of being evil per se, but because of being power-hungry. Take away the power lust, and he could even be a quite agreeable man...
You may also hide the machine in a box hidden underground in your backyard. Not only it will be safer from the fire perspective (power supplies are a royal pain these days), you can also swear that there is no more equipment *in* the house. It should also give a limited resistance against fire in the house.
For extra sensitive files, you may have a computer hired offshore, with an encrypted drive mounted via NFS/VPN or WebDAV.
Meetings like this attract protesters like honey wasps. The bashaws want to have a taxpayer-paid junket, because they Can Not have a smaller-scale action (eg. less people per delegation), do it as a videoteleconference, nor rent a hotel complex somewhere Far Away in the mountains in the middle of nowhere. Maybe it'd be best if the cities like Edinburg would flat out reject the offers to host such nonsenses, or require full reimbursement including lost profits to small businesses in the area that had to shut down for the time of the Superimportant Meeting.
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Is its performance piss-poor?
Considering that the implant will likely run on Windows CE, according to the government purchasing policy, there'll be enough holes in it to make it run Linux instead. With an open-source terrorist tool known as AdBlock.
The Adversary already has a rocketry tech. Google Qassam-4. Solid fuel engines are easier to use in tactical situations than more powerful but also more finicky liquid ones.
You got the sides wrong, leftists don't rely on Constitution. Back to Montana, militiaman!
There are tools for machine translation out there, not for machine paraphrasing - at least yet. The results can be comical, but it is the cost of automation.
Seriously, you're an idiot.
Really?
Well... if it is me or them, I know what option to pick.
Not if I don't go around telling everyone else not to buy their product.
You won't give an advice to your friends? You won't share what you know?
The next day, we'll be sitting in a federal penitentiary for having crazy ideas about "anonymity" and "not submitting to strip searches on the way to work.'
Or not, with a good combination of knowledge and luck. Or the Adversary kills itself by jailing enough smart people to cripple its own R&D and manufacturing. You also should always have a plan B, eg. using the jail time to learn some higher math, and practice playing chess.
Fortunately, I've turned this all into a game "How quickly can we Plunge into a New Dark Age."
We can always try to fight and slow things down.
All you need is a plausible scenario why you want to print color output on a paper that is not white. Maybe an art project, maybe some physics experiment.
There are times in history when extreme solutions gain on attractivity.
Boycotted is too. No, instead, we just shouldn't buy their products.
Isn't not buying their product a sort of a boycott?
If you don't BUY products designed to take away your freedom, then you keep your freedom.
First, you have to *know* about it. Second, what can ensure that the "safe brands" won't get a driver update in couple months...
I guess that freedom is a privilege of the wealthy.
Other possibility: freedom may also be a privilege of the smart. Few people will mess with $10,000 printer in an attempt to disable the watermarking chip, but put it to a $100 one and geeks with soldering iron start swarming. Remember that a PIC16F873 costs under $2.
Today we are chipping Playstations. Tomorrow we'll chip printers.
The staff will remember you as the one who was the only one paying cash. In addition, there are those "security" cameras...
Workaround: Translate it to another language, then back. Good amount of wording gets changed that way. Check of changed/altered meaning is needed, though.
Alternatively, disable the yellow ink cartridge. No yellow - no yellow dots.
Oh, come on. Just disassemble the device, throw out the proprietary connector, and put in a standard one. Been there, done that, in everything from low power through 220V AC to 2.4 GHz signal (pick a good connector for 2.4GHz or you'll have badass losses). Saves an awful lot of headache.
Sometimes governments' desires have to be ignored in the same way they ignore our desires, in order to keep the world in symmetry.
What religious bashing? There are no gods anyway, only an infinitely iterated mutation-selection on molecular level, and the life is an emergent property, a mere tool of the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
Does forcing Avery Lee to drop ASF support from Virtualdub count as offensive?
Pretty much possible for a flat area with a suitable geology allowing the required deformations by the gravity of Moon (see tidal waves, it works not only with water), and suitable timing of arrivals and departures to work.
If the attacker needs to be root to hook the keyboard handling at the moment of entering the root password, he gets a catch 22.
The dice were thrown in December 1938 by Otto Hahn. When the fission was discovered, together with its energy bilance, there was no way back - the only things that could've been different were names and dates. Weaponizing of fission was impossible to be prevented - perhaps delayed by few years. If it won't be Oppenheimer, it'd be Kurchatov, or somebody else.
And then once one has it, everybody must have it.
Is Java included in the package?
Caffeinated beers?
People are mostly good. As long as they are kept FAR away from lawyers.
Well, I was in bad mood and I have a rather strong dislike for money-first economists and ESPECIALLY for the Invisible Hand.
As the subject, there's the annoyance of elinks that it remembers some forms. Sorry for that one.
Besides, ACs - and especially -1 trolls - do not require much mercy. As for Greedy Gates, he just reaps what he sow.
Luckily for us all, nobody asked Smith for his opinion.
In a free market, it is the self-interest of capitalists that ultimately enhance society and sustain the free market.
The mythical Invisible Hand, returning again and again like a bad check. Bullshit, as most of what we can expect of Economists. With unrestrained self-interest we get just greed and fights and limited options because if a $whatever does not make money, it does not have the right to exist.
The GPL, accessible guilt-free wide-spread piracy, and socialism are all related in that they remove the valuation of a product or service.
The product is MORE valuable BECAUSE of removed valuation.
With the GPL, all work and contribution is on equal footing.
A code is a code is a code.
No one would argue Linus' contribution is much greater than someone who wrote an obscure kernel driver. Yet Linus receives equal reward (i.e. the Linux kernel code base) as the person who wrote a single driver. Take this concept further to worrying with social concerns, as you argue MS should do, and you have socialism.
No, this is communism. Come, take whatever you need, and give whatever you can. And if you don't like it, make (and maintain) your own fork. Pure, unadulterated communism, not that Soviet dictatorship crap.
There'd be more choices on the market and even the big bastards like banks and state institutions would be FORCED to follow standards. No more MSIE-only web services. And no more 1800-pound monster gorilla strongarming others to conform to their business plans (just a couple more smaller monkeys, which is more manageable).
Another related fallacy is "evil is everywhere," where members of society point out the "evildoers" and are constantly on the look-out for evil.
In the age of megacorporations, evil *is* everywhere. It's a loss of time trying to find it, when all you need to do is randomly point a finger.
Corporations are not inherently evil, and Bill Gates is certainly not an evil person (compared to other capitalists, some greater and some less than he, Gates is relatively tame).
Corporations are only inherently greedy, as a survival necessity. Their evilness is an effect, not a cause. Wealthy William himself is a ruthless rotter unwilling to keep promises and willing to lie and lawyer and strongarm whenever it can make him more powerful - though again, he is not doing it because of being evil per se, but because of being power-hungry. Take away the power lust, and he could even be a quite agreeable man...
You may also hide the machine in a box hidden underground in your backyard. Not only it will be safer from the fire perspective (power supplies are a royal pain these days), you can also swear that there is no more equipment *in* the house. It should also give a limited resistance against fire in the house. For extra sensitive files, you may have a computer hired offshore, with an encrypted drive mounted via NFS/VPN or WebDAV.
For the cops, it's just "another day another raid". The excrement happens in slightly higher levels of hierarchy.
Meetings like this attract protesters like honey wasps. The bashaws want to have a taxpayer-paid junket, because they Can Not have a smaller-scale action (eg. less people per delegation), do it as a videoteleconference, nor rent a hotel complex somewhere Far Away in the mountains in the middle of nowhere. Maybe it'd be best if the cities like Edinburg would flat out reject the offers to host such nonsenses, or require full reimbursement including lost profits to small businesses in the area that had to shut down for the time of the Superimportant Meeting.