The very premise is that you're in war, and need to kill someone. So the question is: do we kill the target, or do we kill the target and everyone else in the general area or just happens to be unlucky?
It is never "free speech" to accuse someone of a crime
So perhaps you think the founders would not have defended someone's right to say.. oh.. something like
The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. ...etc.
Where the current systems fail, IMO, is that they tend to give me coupons at the end of my shopping trip, and I never see them again
You said it!
Coupons at the wrong time can even mess things up. I get a coupon when I leave the store, and next week I'm back at the store, but the coupon is at home, stuck to my fridge with a magnet.
"Ooh, I need to get a widget. Oh wait, I have a coupon for widgets at home. Oh well, I'll get the widget next week instead of today. I hope I remember the coupon."
And what exactly will they discover? Some long string of bytes that's all.
A unique string of bytes. It's different for every person, but it's the same every time you read the same person, so you just need to tie it to identifying info once. Walk past a reader, buy something with debit card, and upload the tuple to a server. Now when you walk by a different reader, doubleclick knows who you are.
It's a cookie.
You watch too many movies where these bytes lead to some impossible story progression.
One of the problems with the advances over the last two decades, though - is that instead of having these great designs in smaller cars, they put them in big trucks and SUVs.
Or they're making them pollute less. Over the last 25 years as I've kept about the same size of car, and my MPG hasn't changed at all. But my '82 civic might not pass today's emissions standards.
but with its cruise control set at 55 MPH its fuel computer measures up to a 36 mpg average on a 100 mile trip... It has even better mileage than the tiny 1984 fuel injected four cylinder VW Rabbit
Dude, your Rabbit must have been seriously broken. A normal 1980s Rabbit would have to average a speed around 90 MPH to get mileage as low as 36 MPG.
Surprisingly enough, people choose Windows for reasons other than legacy.
You're right. I forgot the most common reason. Someone bought a Cray and it came with Windows preloaded. To get it without Windows, they would have had to pay $20 more.
Why is the government determining royalty rates for the music industry?
Maybe it's because that same government is who declares that compulsory licensing must happen in the first place?
It wouldn't make sense to have compulsory licensing if the price could then be negotiated. The copyright holder could just say, "Ok, $1 million per play if you want access to my song," and then no one would be able to license it.
Either get rid of compulsory licensing, or deal with the fact that the associated rates are legitimately within the scope of government. The whole point of this type of licensing is that people didn't want to deal with a free market.
Flame 'em for the rates being absurd; don't flame 'em for being Big Bad Government poking their nose where they aren't wanted. Their involvement was wanted; the licensees (internet "radio") depend on it.
Wow, the economists have joined the parties that they think are best for the economy. Shocking.
Not even this is surprising:
Moving along, we asked the economists which candidate they thought would do the best job on the most important issues. For me, the surprise is how many economists say there would be no difference.
In January 2009, the total national debt will be the same, regardless of whoever is going to become president. This is a massive drag on the economy.
Furthermore, this is just a president, not a central committee chairman. The president obviously has some power, but he's definitely in second place. The part of government that has the most influence over the economy (congress), isn't getting nearly as much media coverage for their elections, as the president is. The next truly economy-related election is in two years, not in two months.
"I think it's safe to say then that either Apple's USB driver shipped with iTunes 8 is broken on Vista, or it's causing a problem with some other common Vista driver," speculated a user named "Mike de Awesome."
Silly people. Drivers come with kernels, not with the devices that you plug into them. What? Your platform doesn't work that way? Oh. Enjoy your crashes.
Is there anything out there to scramble our whereabouts, encrypt our text messages or voice convos?
Encrypting the contents of the communications is easy. It is not widely deployed, but the technology matured decades ago with the discovery of PK (and as some people point out, OTP might be viable in many situations).
Protecting locations and who-is-talking-to-whom is harder. Read up on "onion routing." The problem with that is that it adds latency. For text messages, email, and voice mail, that's no problem at all. For interactive communication, you might have to compromise with saying a sentence, appending the word "over" and then waiting literally a random number of seconds before the recipient hears what you said. If you can live with that, then we have the tech now, and it just needs to get into the protocols and deployed to users. If you can't live with that, then I don't know what to do.
The fact that your only words on the phone are "Aunti feels better now" are encrypted or not are mostly irrelevant.
Not to distract from your point, but Aunti's insurance company might want to know that. Or the insurance company for the driver who hit her car last week.
Seemingly innocuous information can often be useful to someone.
With all the data available, what they are interested to see is who talks to whom and se how the networks are.
Your view of who "they" are, is narrow. "They" isn't just the government, "they" are everyone.
The real problem is elsewhere -- encryption is hard to do, entails cost in convenience and implies a warranty on the part of the body that provides the service/device.
No, encryption is easy and can be made fairly convenient.
Not to mention the fact that such product will be killed by the mobile carriers...
Yes, sort of.
The reason we don't encrypt, is that the capability just doesn't exist in the default devices/software. In USA, most of us get our mobile phones from the carriers.
The carriers have reasons to want to keep us from encrypting. And then throw CALEA requirements into the mix (CALEA applies to carriers, even though it doesn't apply to software/phone manufacturers).
We could free ourselves, but it would require saying no to "cheap" phones, where we pay a mere $30 (and forget that we also sign a years-long contract so that the phone actually costed us hundreds of dollars).
On these matters, both candidates use the same agenda.
There are candidates who oppose it. The words "both candidates" are interesting, because..
It's like when I want a new computer and ask my wife about what color should it be.
..The reason she's happy is that you didn't limit the colors to light grey and dark grey. But when it comes to candidates, you still choose to vote against the ones who have taken a stand against expanding government power, thinking that the pro-expand candidates are your only choice. No wonder you lose. Bring your wife a grey computer after she chooses red, and see how happy she is.
There is massive, overwhelming diversity in all the different party's agendas. If you ignore it, it's your fault.
The risk lies in the ability of [??] to remotely activate the phone and eavesdrop on the microphone. This wasn't a joke, several people believe the capability already exists.
Sure, talk in terms of money only, as if bragging rights don't matter. The neat thing about hybrids is that your bragging rights cover two bases: 1) high-tech geeks 2) green treehuggers.
Think of the chicks you'll get! It could pay off even better than a puppy.
I have to, also, but not because of anyone's name. The problem is that he chose a corrupt long-time senator, which cancels out Obama's advantage over corrupt long-time senator McCain (unless McCain also chooses a corrupt senator as his running mate).
When someone serves in the Senate for 30 years, we have to..
assume they have been bought and sold so many times, that they don't really have any position on any issue. If they were your foe 15 years ago, that doesn't mean they're your foe today. Nor your friend.
It's pretty damn uncommon if you don't run Windows!
I know the Olympics have been around for a long time, but they are so big-money, that it's hard to believe they are still paying for some mistake they made back in the 1980s, such that they have to run Windows. Getting a BSOD on a main display like that, is like seeing a videotape where a lobbyist gives your congressman a bag with a comical "$" on the side of it. It's a fuckup beyond obviousness, into over-the-top ridiculous territory.
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The very premise is that you're in war, and need to kill someone. So the question is: do we kill the target, or do we kill the target and everyone else in the general area or just happens to be unlucky?
Improving weapons is humane.
So perhaps you think the founders would not have defended someone's right to say.. oh .. something like
You said it!
Coupons at the wrong time can even mess things up. I get a coupon when I leave the store, and next week I'm back at the store, but the coupon is at home, stuck to my fridge with a magnet.
"Ooh, I need to get a widget. Oh wait, I have a coupon for widgets at home. Oh well, I'll get the widget next week instead of today. I hope I remember the coupon."
Well, they wanted to use fishing licenses, but those are mandatory and not everyone likes to fish.
A unique string of bytes. It's different for every person, but it's the same every time you read the same person, so you just need to tie it to identifying info once. Walk past a reader, buy something with debit card, and upload the tuple to a server. Now when you walk by a different reader, doubleclick knows who you are.
It's a cookie.
That would be Minority Report.
Me neither. Every time a new big plane comes out, the main thing I hear about it, is how much better the new engines are than the old ones.
Or they're making them pollute less. Over the last 25 years as I've kept about the same size of car, and my MPG hasn't changed at all. But my '82 civic might not pass today's emissions standards.
Dude, your Rabbit must have been seriously broken. A normal 1980s Rabbit would have to average a speed around 90 MPH to get mileage as low as 36 MPG.
You're right. I forgot the most common reason. Someone bought a Cray and it came with Windows preloaded. To get it without Windows, they would have had to pay $20 more.
Maybe it's because that same government is who declares that compulsory licensing must happen in the first place?
It wouldn't make sense to have compulsory licensing if the price could then be negotiated. The copyright holder could just say, "Ok, $1 million per play if you want access to my song," and then no one would be able to license it.
Either get rid of compulsory licensing, or deal with the fact that the associated rates are legitimately within the scope of government. The whole point of this type of licensing is that people didn't want to deal with a free market.
Flame 'em for the rates being absurd; don't flame 'em for being Big Bad Government poking their nose where they aren't wanted. Their involvement was wanted; the licensees (internet "radio") depend on it.
China? They can just use NAT and have one address for the whole country. ;)
Wow, the economists have joined the parties that they think are best for the economy. Shocking.
Not even this is surprising:
In January 2009, the total national debt will be the same, regardless of whoever is going to become president. This is a massive drag on the economy.
Furthermore, this is just a president, not a central committee chairman. The president obviously has some power, but he's definitely in second place. The part of government that has the most influence over the economy (congress), isn't getting nearly as much media coverage for their elections, as the president is. The next truly economy-related election is in two years, not in two months.
What the hell kind of legacy requirements makes someone with a Cray need Windows? "Uhh.. well, someone emailed me this Excel spreadsheet..."
Silly people. Drivers come with kernels, not with the devices that you plug into them. What? Your platform doesn't work that way? Oh. Enjoy your crashes.
Encrypting the contents of the communications is easy. It is not widely deployed, but the technology matured decades ago with the discovery of PK (and as some people point out, OTP might be viable in many situations).
Protecting locations and who-is-talking-to-whom is harder. Read up on "onion routing." The problem with that is that it adds latency. For text messages, email, and voice mail, that's no problem at all. For interactive communication, you might have to compromise with saying a sentence, appending the word "over" and then waiting literally a random number of seconds before the recipient hears what you said. If you can live with that, then we have the tech now, and it just needs to get into the protocols and deployed to users. If you can't live with that, then I don't know what to do.
Not to distract from your point, but Aunti's insurance company might want to know that. Or the insurance company for the driver who hit her car last week.
Seemingly innocuous information can often be useful to someone.
Your view of who "they" are, is narrow. "They" isn't just the government, "they" are everyone.
Perhaps anyone who doesn't want all the local burglars to know when they tell someone, "Let's go camping next weekend."
No, encryption is easy and can be made fairly convenient.
Yes, sort of.
The reason we don't encrypt, is that the capability just doesn't exist in the default devices/software. In USA, most of us get our mobile phones from the carriers.
The carriers have reasons to want to keep us from encrypting. And then throw CALEA requirements into the mix (CALEA applies to carriers, even though it doesn't apply to software/phone manufacturers).
We could free ourselves, but it would require saying no to "cheap" phones, where we pay a mere $30 (and forget that we also sign a years-long contract so that the phone actually costed us hundreds of dollars).
There are candidates who oppose it. The words "both candidates" are interesting, because..
There is massive, overwhelming diversity in all the different party's agendas. If you ignore it, it's your fault.
They believe the capability exists?!?
If the FBI can do it, who else can do it? The Ruskies? Your insurance company? Coca Cola's marketing department? Your neighbor?
I, for one, look forward to owning an auditable open source phone some day.
Sure, talk in terms of money only, as if bragging rights don't matter. The neat thing about hybrids is that your bragging rights cover two bases: 1) high-tech geeks 2) green treehuggers.
Think of the chicks you'll get! It could pay off even better than a puppy.
They would need a constitutional amendment, not merely a "new law."
I have to, also, but not because of anyone's name. The problem is that he chose a corrupt long-time senator, which cancels out Obama's advantage over corrupt long-time senator McCain (unless McCain also chooses a corrupt senator as his running mate).
assume they have been bought and sold so many times, that they don't really have any position on any issue. If they were your foe 15 years ago, that doesn't mean they're your foe today. Nor your friend.
It's pretty damn uncommon if you don't run Windows!
I know the Olympics have been around for a long time, but they are so big-money, that it's hard to believe they are still paying for some mistake they made back in the 1980s, such that they have to run Windows. Getting a BSOD on a main display like that, is like seeing a videotape where a lobbyist gives your congressman a bag with a comical "$" on the side of it. It's a fuckup beyond obviousness, into over-the-top ridiculous territory.