If there would be a will from the society, surely that shouldn't be a showstopper and the society would be able to promote and choose some more virtuos candidates...
Ultimately, it is up to good citizens and the public at large to insist government obey its regulations. But yeah... I'm pessimistic about any real change until society collapses and we can rewrite the regulations on government.
"Collapse and rewriting the regulations" is probably not a solution; that's essentially a revolution, and there's one thing inherent in them: chaos, you have no real idea what will emerge out of them (quite often it's worse; whatever was ruthless enough to thrive in the time of chaos)
Sure, ultimatelly the style of governance is the reflection of the society; but it takes time to change that. Generations.
Pork barrel politics would become much stronger. Generally it would become an impossibility to push unpopular, but neccessary decisions - sure, govs are not great at making them already, but...
Plus the problem is that too many people don't strive to be "informed and make reasonable choices".
All minutes of all government meetings (including cabinet meetings) should be published except parts which have security implications. Just like opensource code allows for scrutiny...
I would like ballots to contain only a Name, DOB, and Residency and not political party. I hate parties, can't outlaw them, but at least we can stifle their effectiveness. If you don't know who you are voting for besides party, you don't deserve to vote. If you would like a single checkmark to vote down the line, you should be severely disappointed that you are made to think.
I don't think that would give much; those people would stil be basically told how to vote, and would go with it. But making party affiliation clear (at least if there are actually lots of choices...) is quite convenient. Yes, optimally one should research candidates before going to the polling place, but even when there the grouping makes clear in which part of the ballot you'll find your choices, greatly speeding the process (and didn't stop me from voting sometimes, during the same elections (two houses of the parliament), for candidates whose parties are quite at odds, if I came to conclusion that each of them makes the most sense)
I see, so it has a group of words for each symbol in ciphertext; picking appropriate word for each symbol to give whole ciphertext roughly proper syntax.
Much harder, but I wouldn't be too surprised if machine analysis turned out to be also decently straightforward - for example, by using in some way experiences with machine translation (should help in determining human/non-human) or...spam filters! (their messages look like that already, and we're still good at catching them) Also, we get into the problem of exchanging somehow the huge, tediously personalised (if encrypted messages start telling similar stories, it won't help them much) dictionary...
Trend-driven consumption is good for the fashion industry, because it sells more clothing. " That nature is hardly applicable to software, literature, film, or design.
What? There's more literature, possibly films (at the least - the "old" ones are cheap; for various values of old - I'm still speechless when somebody considers films made during last decade "old", which happens often) in the public domain than you could possibly consume in your entrire lifetime. Designs are also for the taking. Don't start me on planned obsolescence of software...
And yet that's what everybody are doing and are quite happy.
Perhaps building our societies on overconsumption is the only problem here...
I'm aware of hidden volumes of Truecrypt, but so are possible torturers almost certainly. That doesn't help you in such situation in any way. Might make it worse...
It all essentially boils down to - if you're dealing with such a regime, relying on encryption doesn't really work.
Why do you suppose I'm not familiar with links I provide?...I didn't say it's what software from TFA does, just that it's one easy possibility (with example).
And I pointed out another straightforward one; if they can already send encrypted sms, why not use them for automatic IP exchange when initiating a call?
Uhm, in case of breaking encryption that method usually doesn't have typical downsides. You either know the keys, which is good since you can give them. Or you don't know them...which is not so good for you.
That's what I said..."whole words of "texting" used as substitutes for symbols". But that still doesn't look like written text, has totally different statistical properties; you...just use a different kind of symbols (after all, each letter in an sms is also not a single bit already) So (what I also said) "that still should be fairly trivial to filter (starting with messages of ungodly length)"
For most rigorous values of "continue" - of course not;p
But long term it will surely be one of few major players (add bada OS to that list - Samsung seems to bet heavily on it, with the goal of having very large part of total sales using bada in a year or two; and just look at this total). I must say I prefer such situation way more from what we have on the desktop.
Really repressive governments are very skilled in the techniques of rubber hose cryptoanalisis (well, some of the formally not-repressive ones also are, as long as they can put the encrypted data being analysed in a legal limbo)
I believe it's either encrypted or looking statistically like text / english. "Texting language" might be of some considerable help, plus perhaps whole words of "texting" used as substitutes for symbols...but that still should be fairly trivial to filter (starting with messages of ungodly length)
Plus we can look at the impact done by availability of Zfone/ZRTP (this new encrypted VoIP standard from Phil Zimmermann) for Symbian smartphones (half of all smartphones)
Oh, nobody was aware of its availability? Exactly...
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If there would be a will from the society, surely that shouldn't be a showstopper and the society would be able to promote and choose some more virtuos candidates...
Uhm, or they'll just continue having disasters and trying hard to weasel out of them.
Ultimately, it is up to good citizens and the public at large to insist government obey its regulations.
But yeah... I'm pessimistic about any real change until society collapses and we can rewrite the regulations on government.
"Collapse and rewriting the regulations" is probably not a solution; that's essentially a revolution, and there's one thing inherent in them: chaos, you have no real idea what will emerge out of them (quite often it's worse; whatever was ruthless enough to thrive in the time of chaos)
Sure, ultimatelly the style of governance is the reflection of the society; but it takes time to change that. Generations.
:)
Hm, OTOH very small subset of anime could look...stunning. Imagine moving painting, essentially.
People enable that; essentially want that.
Pork barrel politics would become much stronger. Generally it would become an impossibility to push unpopular, but neccessary decisions - sure, govs are not great at making them already, but...
Plus the problem is that too many people don't strive to be "informed and make reasonable choices".
So at the end of their term, they would not give a shit. Apart from setting up favors that need to be repaid to them.
All minutes of all government meetings (including cabinet meetings) should be published except parts which have security implications. Just like opensource code allows for scrutiny...
You mean national security through obscurity?
And the layer below that. And one more below. And another.
All originating from the society - with the system of governance reflecting...the society.
I would like ballots to contain only a Name, DOB, and Residency and not political party. I hate parties, can't outlaw them, but at least we can stifle their effectiveness. If you don't know who you are voting for besides party, you don't deserve to vote. If you would like a single checkmark to vote down the line, you should be severely disappointed that you are made to think.
I don't think that would give much; those people would stil be basically told how to vote, and would go with it.
But making party affiliation clear (at least if there are actually lots of choices...) is quite convenient. Yes, optimally one should research candidates before going to the polling place, but even when there the grouping makes clear in which part of the ballot you'll find your choices, greatly speeding the process (and didn't stop me from voting sometimes, during the same elections (two houses of the parliament), for candidates whose parties are quite at odds, if I came to conclusion that each of them makes the most sense)
Considering that Japan has HD TV for alsmot 2 decades (they had an analogue system; decently succesful, it seems), it might be only 20 years?
Probably largely pointless anyway...
I see, so it has a group of words for each symbol in ciphertext; picking appropriate word for each symbol to give whole ciphertext roughly proper syntax.
Much harder, but I wouldn't be too surprised if machine analysis turned out to be also decently straightforward - for example, by using in some way experiences with machine translation (should help in determining human/non-human) or...spam filters! (their messages look like that already, and we're still good at catching them) Also, we get into the problem of exchanging somehow the huge, tediously personalised (if encrypted messages start telling similar stories, it won't help them much) dictionary...
You joke, but the Japanese are actually working on a video format with resolution just like the one you mentioned - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Hi-Vision
Disks at which TFA hints might come handy for that...
Trend-driven consumption is good for the fashion industry, because it sells more clothing. " That nature is hardly applicable to software, literature, film, or design.
What? There's more literature, possibly films (at the least - the "old" ones are cheap; for various values of old - I'm still speechless when somebody considers films made during last decade "old", which happens often) in the public domain than you could possibly consume in your entrire lifetime. Designs are also for the taking. Don't start me on planned obsolescence of software...
And yet that's what everybody are doing and are quite happy.
Perhaps building our societies on overconsumption is the only problem here...
I'm aware of hidden volumes of Truecrypt, but so are possible torturers almost certainly. That doesn't help you in such situation in any way. Might make it worse...
It all essentially boils down to - if you're dealing with such a regime, relying on encryption doesn't really work.
Why do you suppose I'm not familiar with links I provide?...I didn't say it's what software from TFA does, just that it's one easy possibility (with example).
And I pointed out another straightforward one; if they can already send encrypted sms, why not use them for automatic IP exchange when initiating a call?
Uhm, in case of breaking encryption that method usually doesn't have typical downsides. You either know the keys, which is good since you can give them. Or you don't know them...which is not so good for you.
That's what I said..."whole words of "texting" used as substitutes for symbols". But that still doesn't look like written text, has totally different statistical properties; you...just use a different kind of symbols (after all, each letter in an sms is also not a single bit already)
So (what I also said) "that still should be fairly trivial to filter (starting with messages of ungodly length)"
Well, the simplest is just to...make a call. GSM has a data channel; this thing does just that, for example.
Plus sms messages might just as well exchange the IP of already established connections, right?
For most rigorous values of "continue" - of course not ;p
But long term it will surely be one of few major players (add bada OS to that list - Samsung seems to bet heavily on it, with the goal of having very large part of total sales using bada in a year or two; and just look at this total). I must say I prefer such situation way more from what we have on the desktop.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZRTP
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zfone
Not the first implementation for mobile phones, too.
Really repressive governments are very skilled in the techniques of rubber hose cryptoanalisis (well, some of the formally not-repressive ones also are, as long as they can put the encrypted data being analysed in a legal limbo)
About time? It's pretty hard to be more wasteful than the US (X axis), which per capita claims around 3 times more resources compared to the most lean places with similar standard of living.
I believe it's either encrypted or looking statistically like text / english. "Texting language" might be of some considerable help, plus perhaps whole words of "texting" used as substitutes for symbols...but that still should be fairly trivial to filter (starting with messages of ungodly length)
Plus we can look at the impact done by availability of Zfone/ZRTP (this new encrypted VoIP standard from Phil Zimmermann) for Symbian smartphones (half of all smartphones)
Oh, nobody was aware of its availability? Exactly...