That is why software like truecrypt has option of making hidden encrypted drives, while showing unencrypted content.
The only problem I see with it however, is that under intelligent scrutiny (which the police may or may not have), it is discoverable, and at that point you have the same problem with contempt of court. You have to make it however more plausible that it does not exist.
So for instance you might be able to hide a 3MB crypt on a 2TB drive. However any amount of close scrutiny will find it. If you have 1.5TB hidden on a 2TB drive, it will be more apparent. You can spoof the OS to report incorrectly likely, but that would be more involved I would think. Also if you have multiple drives hooked up to your computer that are "unformatted" it may be enough evidence to suggest you actually have encrypted drives.
Anyway I am not expert, but I expect the best defense is them not even knowing or suggesting that you might have anything encrypted to begin with. Another possibility would be encrypted offsite storage in cloud... Though that has its own security issues. It has been suggested before however, to simply keep secure copies of whatever you need online (talk of industrial espionage), come into the country with a laptop containing no sensitive data, then once in country simply connect to your secure server, download and decrypt, use data and delete before crossing boarder again. If your really paranoid (a la the cryptonomicon) don't ever save anything to your hard drive, load it all into RAM and download and decrypt each time, blowing away the lot each time you turn off your laptop. Ease of use and laziness VS security is the usually ratio to be evaluated as to how important one is to the other.
I was going to cite same example. Scary stuff. Decisions like that make me angry. Not sure if that would fly in Canada, but I would hope not!
"Hand over 2.5 million" "I don't have 2.5 million" "Fine we will throw you in jail until you find 2.5 million" "Where am I going to find 2.5 million in jail?" 15 years pass...
Best quote: "I am hopeful that Mr. Chadwick will not be the first American to receive life imprisonment in a divorce case."
"produced by Montreal-based consulting firm Lemay Yates Associates Inc. on behalf of Rogers Communications Inc."
So this study was done by a Canadian Firm paid for by one of the two telcos that have a state sponsored duopoly. This in response to the CRTC, a body that is supposed to be regulating the industry, but which really is just in the pocket of the two companies, gets a record amount of complaints about how shitty internet is in Canada and how expensive it is and an international report that puts Canada on the dummy list of have not "developed" but expensive slow internet.
This is PURE FUD and propaganda on the part of Rogers Communications trying to convince the sheeple that everything is fine, nothing to see here, move alone, and keep paying us for status quo.
For those of you that quote the ULTIMATE plans from Rogers, or the FIBER plans from Bell, or even those quoting plans from independents like Teksavvy, know that ALL of those are only availbale in limited areas. By limited areas I mean, Toronto, Montreal (where study was from), Vancouver, etc... The largest cities in Canada. If you don't live in a megacity, you get squat for squat.
I live in a city called Peterborough, Ontario pop 70-80k people, so not a "rural" area. Best plan is Rogers (Cogeco Cable) 14MB/s 80GB cap. This up from 6 months ago where it was 12MB/s 60GB cap (so admittedly some improvement, sort of). For this service I pay 60$ a month, and it did have a 30$ (1.5$/GB) cap on excess bandwidth, which they moved to 50$ after the speed increase (of course). So if I use 115GB of bandwidth, my monthly bill will be 110$ a month. JUST for internet.
This BS just shows how out of touch Rogers and Canadian Telecommunications are with reality. They really need a wake up call!
Then we moved to a new data center this past year.
Emphasis on *MOVE*.
The "New" data center didn't so much contain new servers, as it was just a new building. They packed up (I assume at least backed up, but I wouldn't bet on it) all the servers into a truck, and DROVE them to the "new data center", and installed the old busted ass equipment into the new center.
We also experienced a short outage due to the transition.
When I heard what had actually taken place (rather than the process you outlined), my jaw dropped and I laughed at the silliness of it all.
I don't even want to think what chaos would have occurred had the trucks had an accident on the way there.
In ALL of human history we have only sent a few probes into the beyond. Of those, only a few have ever made it out of our solar system, and that was 30+ years ago.
If we use this as a base line of current capability, Voyager 1 is traveling about 17,000 m/s. It can go 4.2 light years in about 73,600 earth years. Factoring that this new planet is 22 light years away, at our current proven technology, it would take us approximately 385, 524 earth years for use to send a probe to this new planet. Of course this is to smash into the planet at 17,000 m/s, so some additional time for deceleration would be required. Also once it got there, assuming that it has a power source strong enough to beam a light message back somehow, that would take an additional 22 years on top of all that. I have no idea how long the delay would be with radio, certainly a very long time anyway.
So yeah, a pretty big IF. I find it more likely we will all have killed ourselves by then, or evolved into some sort of thing that no longer remotely resembles what we currently are, so it may be hard to determine if this would even interest us anymore.
Yes you can tell by the environment they fly them in. First thing I noticed (other than the creepy flying things) was the drop sheet and the attempts to make a uniform environment, presumably to help the tracking system focus on the targets.
May I suggest next time they use GREEN drop sheets, and then project some interesting images on the green screens!:)
Getting the infrastructure in a "moon base" to build and launch anything significant will be difficult and far off to say the least.
Really the only option that has been put forward that even has some realism is the space elevator, and even that is pretty fantastic.
When it comes down to it, the reason it is so impractical is A) it is so big and would require X amount of resources to physically build, and B) the dimensions being so big that no current material would be able to withstand the stresses required for construction. You mention nano-tubes and graphene (and I recall something called buckyballs, which might just be something about carbon nano-tubes), but the problem with those right now, is to make the amount required for even a hairs strand is very hard to do and expensive.
Seems to me, if anyone is really interested in space travel we should really be intensifying our research into engineering materials, and getting the construction costs of that and the elevator down.
Unless of course some magic wand technology is invented in the meantime of course.
Right now the only afforded protections they get are from the UK, meager that they are. However without that, they have nothing, unless they feel like living in some other sponsor nation. I am sure there are those out there, however some might be nicer than others. They could probably go to NK and get immunity, and be the biggest expert computer user in the land!
At least in Canada, these (Bell, Rogers) are the exact same guys to advertize faster download speeds for music and video with their services, while all the time throttling all p2p traffic... They also take faster connections, and put low caps on them, with high penalty if you go over. That's how they roll. These corporations are crazy, they only way to make any sense of them is in terms of profit. Up here at least there is very little choice, and your only option really is to go without, which today isn't really a viable option. People are starting to wake up, but it will take awhile for the mainstream voters to get involved. Until these issues and the regulation by CRTC (which realistically doesn't seem to be able to be up to it) gets elevated to the point where people really start to take notice (and thus become issues politically) nothing is going to change up here.
As my drunken Geography Professor used to like to say: "When the ice in your rum and coke (alternative ending was whiskey/soda) melts, does the volume of your drink change? NO!" I always thought he said it rather sadly...
Have you seen the mobile prices and plans in France? If only we could be so lucky. I don't know what their internet is like, but I'd wager it is cheaper as well.
I found myself thinking, "WOW the CTRC actually ruled against Rogers or Bell? That blows my mind! Perhaps all is not lost..."
Then I read down and see you comment... recheck the summary... LOL Oh noes indeed!
The really summary is: "Nothing happened. Likely nothing will happen. If it does happen, they won't do anything about it anyway..."
This sounds a lot like Bell and the Independent ISP fight they had awhile back. ISP said it wasn't fair for bell to throttle their lines they buy from them. They even showed an internal Bell report detailing how it really wasn't needed. Bell responded by saying, regardless of report, we throttle our own customers just as badly, therefore it is a fair level playing field... To which the CRTC basically said "Touche Bell, Touche...".
1) You will only get people who are awesome 2) You will only get people who actually really care 3) You will probably save a bundle! 4) If none are returned, elope somewhere tropical and have fun!
I bet the communication had to be immediate or at least a "plan"...
"I'm going to go kill X right now!"
or
"I'm going to kill X on July 3rd, 2014"
Etc...
Otherwise you might as well go arrest anyone who has any information whatsoever on chemical, biology, physics, science...
Maybe if I draw a diagram of a piano, attached to a rope, on top of a building, with a stick figure at the bottom of the building... heck even better I could make it a flip book, and anyone that downloaded it would have nefarious plans worth arresting. Also anyone that had read a murder mystery book. I know last weekend I was part of a fictional murder mystery dinner party, and yes I was the murderer... I could have used that plan in real life! Of course I am not an 81 year old Italian named Papa Vito either, Mamma Mia!
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That is why software like truecrypt has option of making hidden encrypted drives, while showing unencrypted content.
The only problem I see with it however, is that under intelligent scrutiny (which the police may or may not have), it is discoverable, and at that point you have the same problem with contempt of court. You have to make it however more plausible that it does not exist.
So for instance you might be able to hide a 3MB crypt on a 2TB drive. However any amount of close scrutiny will find it. If you have 1.5TB hidden on a 2TB drive, it will be more apparent. You can spoof the OS to report incorrectly likely, but that would be more involved I would think. Also if you have multiple drives hooked up to your computer that are "unformatted" it may be enough evidence to suggest you actually have encrypted drives.
Anyway I am not expert, but I expect the best defense is them not even knowing or suggesting that you might have anything encrypted to begin with. Another possibility would be encrypted offsite storage in cloud... Though that has its own security issues. It has been suggested before however, to simply keep secure copies of whatever you need online (talk of industrial espionage), come into the country with a laptop containing no sensitive data, then once in country simply connect to your secure server, download and decrypt, use data and delete before crossing boarder again. If your really paranoid (a la the cryptonomicon) don't ever save anything to your hard drive, load it all into RAM and download and decrypt each time, blowing away the lot each time you turn off your laptop. Ease of use and laziness VS security is the usually ratio to be evaluated as to how important one is to the other.
I was going to cite same example. Scary stuff. Decisions like that make me angry. Not sure if that would fly in Canada, but I would hope not!
"Hand over 2.5 million"
"I don't have 2.5 million"
"Fine we will throw you in jail until you find 2.5 million"
"Where am I going to find 2.5 million in jail?"
15 years pass...
Best quote:
"I am hopeful that Mr. Chadwick will not be the first American to receive life imprisonment in a divorce case."
How all decisions aught to be made.
"produced by Montreal-based consulting firm Lemay Yates Associates Inc. on behalf of Rogers Communications Inc."
So this study was done by a Canadian Firm paid for by one of the two telcos that have a state sponsored duopoly. This in response to the CRTC, a body that is supposed to be regulating the industry, but which really is just in the pocket of the two companies, gets a record amount of complaints about how shitty internet is in Canada and how expensive it is and an international report that puts Canada on the dummy list of have not "developed" but expensive slow internet.
This is PURE FUD and propaganda on the part of Rogers Communications trying to convince the sheeple that everything is fine, nothing to see here, move alone, and keep paying us for status quo.
For those of you that quote the ULTIMATE plans from Rogers, or the FIBER plans from Bell, or even those quoting plans from independents like Teksavvy, know that ALL of those are only availbale in limited areas. By limited areas I mean, Toronto, Montreal (where study was from), Vancouver, etc... The largest cities in Canada. If you don't live in a megacity, you get squat for squat.
I live in a city called Peterborough, Ontario pop 70-80k people, so not a "rural" area. Best plan is Rogers (Cogeco Cable) 14MB/s 80GB cap. This up from 6 months ago where it was 12MB/s 60GB cap (so admittedly some improvement, sort of). For this service I pay 60$ a month, and it did have a 30$ (1.5$/GB) cap on excess bandwidth, which they moved to 50$ after the speed increase (of course). So if I use 115GB of bandwidth, my monthly bill will be 110$ a month. JUST for internet.
This BS just shows how out of touch Rogers and Canadian Telecommunications are with reality. They really need a wake up call!
You see that was what I thought it meant to!
Then we moved to a new data center this past year.
Emphasis on *MOVE*.
The "New" data center didn't so much contain new servers, as it was just a new building. They packed up (I assume at least backed up, but I wouldn't bet on it) all the servers into a truck, and DROVE them to the "new data center", and installed the old busted ass equipment into the new center.
We also experienced a short outage due to the transition.
When I heard what had actually taken place (rather than the process you outlined), my jaw dropped and I laughed at the silliness of it all.
I don't even want to think what chaos would have occurred had the trucks had an accident on the way there.
In ALL of human history we have only sent a few probes into the beyond. Of those, only a few have ever made it out of our solar system, and that was 30+ years ago.
If we use this as a base line of current capability, Voyager 1 is traveling about 17,000 m/s. It can go 4.2 light years in about 73,600 earth years. Factoring that this new planet is 22 light years away, at our current proven technology, it would take us approximately 385, 524 earth years for use to send a probe to this new planet. Of course this is to smash into the planet at 17,000 m/s, so some additional time for deceleration would be required. Also once it got there, assuming that it has a power source strong enough to beam a light message back somehow, that would take an additional 22 years on top of all that. I have no idea how long the delay would be with radio, certainly a very long time anyway.
So yeah, a pretty big IF. I find it more likely we will all have killed ourselves by then, or evolved into some sort of thing that no longer remotely resembles what we currently are, so it may be hard to determine if this would even interest us anymore.
Yes you can tell by the environment they fly them in. First thing I noticed (other than the creepy flying things) was the drop sheet and the attempts to make a uniform environment, presumably to help the tracking system focus on the targets.
May I suggest next time they use GREEN drop sheets, and then project some interesting images on the green screens! :)
So long as command gets gold, science blue, and anyone the designers hate get red.
I am just waiting for the McDonalds, Wallmart, Apple war to begin. I am not sure what will start the hostilities, but I know there can only be one!
Pretty sure Map Quest predates Google... I recall using their "free" service years ago.
"Yup, that there tree WAS 4900 years old, waddayou know!"
Also define a living thing? Typically beyond single cell it is something that is made up of other living component parts.
Some hippy will point out that GAIA is the oldest living thing at 3 or 4 billion years old... :P
Someone has been watching too much.
Ben Affleck, yuck.
Getting the infrastructure in a "moon base" to build and launch anything significant will be difficult and far off to say the least.
Really the only option that has been put forward that even has some realism is the space elevator, and even that is pretty fantastic.
When it comes down to it, the reason it is so impractical is A) it is so big and would require X amount of resources to physically build, and B) the dimensions being so big that no current material would be able to withstand the stresses required for construction. You mention nano-tubes and graphene (and I recall something called buckyballs, which might just be something about carbon nano-tubes), but the problem with those right now, is to make the amount required for even a hairs strand is very hard to do and expensive.
Seems to me, if anyone is really interested in space travel we should really be intensifying our research into engineering materials, and getting the construction costs of that and the elevator down.
Unless of course some magic wand technology is invented in the meantime of course.
Overcompensate Much?
Also that makes no sense? Is this a weapon that penetrates Massive Ordnance? Or does some general just like the idea of issuing orders to "MOP up!"
Massive Bunker Penetrator might make more sense really.
Does "Sealand" have a Navy?
Because the USA has one. A big one.
Right now the only afforded protections they get are from the UK, meager that they are. However without that, they have nothing, unless they feel like living in some other sponsor nation. I am sure there are those out there, however some might be nicer than others. They could probably go to NK and get immunity, and be the biggest expert computer user in the land!
At least in Canada, these (Bell, Rogers) are the exact same guys to advertize faster download speeds for music and video with their services, while all the time throttling all p2p traffic... They also take faster connections, and put low caps on them, with high penalty if you go over. That's how they roll. These corporations are crazy, they only way to make any sense of them is in terms of profit. Up here at least there is very little choice, and your only option really is to go without, which today isn't really a viable option. People are starting to wake up, but it will take awhile for the mainstream voters to get involved. Until these issues and the regulation by CRTC (which realistically doesn't seem to be able to be up to it) gets elevated to the point where people really start to take notice (and thus become issues politically) nothing is going to change up here.
As my drunken Geography Professor used to like to say: "When the ice in your rum and coke (alternative ending was whiskey/soda) melts, does the volume of your drink change? NO!" I always thought he said it rather sadly...
Have you seen the mobile prices and plans in France? If only we could be so lucky. I don't know what their internet is like, but I'd wager it is cheaper as well.
When their method of "going on strike" is threatening to kill themselves, one has to wonder exactly how voluntary it really is.
HA!
If I could I would mod you up.
I found myself thinking, "WOW the CTRC actually ruled against Rogers or Bell? That blows my mind! Perhaps all is not lost..."
Then I read down and see you comment... recheck the summary... LOL Oh noes indeed!
The really summary is: "Nothing happened. Likely nothing will happen. If it does happen, they won't do anything about it anyway..."
This sounds a lot like Bell and the Independent ISP fight they had awhile back. ISP said it wasn't fair for bell to throttle their lines they buy from them. They even showed an internal Bell report detailing how it really wasn't needed. Bell responded by saying, regardless of report, we throttle our own customers just as badly, therefore it is a fair level playing field... To which the CRTC basically said "Touche Bell, Touche...".
From what I understand this is already practiced by EA and a few other companies.
Multiplayer will be disabled.
Have fun buying a game you can finish in 4 hours and has no replay value.
Send them a card.
Email them a cipher.
Those that can figure it out get to go.
1) You will only get people who are awesome
2) You will only get people who actually really care
3) You will probably save a bundle!
4) If none are returned, elope somewhere tropical and have fun!
"The LCLS isn't really a laser. It's a coherent synchrotron radiation source. "
Oh well fsck that clears it up! :) LOL
I wonder when that quote is from? That would be interesting.
I bet the communication had to be immediate or at least a "plan"...
"I'm going to go kill X right now!"
or
"I'm going to kill X on July 3rd, 2014"
Etc...
Otherwise you might as well go arrest anyone who has any information whatsoever on chemical, biology, physics, science...
Maybe if I draw a diagram of a piano, attached to a rope, on top of a building, with a stick figure at the bottom of the building... heck even better I could make it a flip book, and anyone that downloaded it would have nefarious plans worth arresting. Also anyone that had read a murder mystery book. I know last weekend I was part of a fictional murder mystery dinner party, and yes I was the murderer... I could have used that plan in real life! Of course I am not an 81 year old Italian named Papa Vito either, Mamma Mia!