Facial recognition software, voice pattern recognition software, intelligent pattern finding software... the list of automated analysis technology developments goes on.
It's easy to discard the majority of meaningless stuff automatically these days so that humans can focus on a subset of the data with a higher signal to noise ratio, and the ability of software to isolate such a subset is getting better, meaning that SNR will only get better, reducing the costs per hit of human analysis.
Does anyone out there still believe the made up religious fanatic terrorist fundamentalist threat pretext any more? I don't know about you, it's pretty obvious to me that that threat was just made up by the US/UK/Australian governments as an excuse to carry out the biggest power grab in history.
If the threat really was from organized groups who are well-resourced and determined to derail Western society, you have to wonder how this would help. You also have to wonder how it'd even help catch child porn purveyors who are typically reasonably computer literate, at least enough so to use encrypted ZIP files. The only conclustion that I can come to is that we have been lied to from the very beginning about the real reason behind all these security measures, and that so-called national security threats are nothing more than fabricated pretexts to consolidate the domination of the already rich and powerful even further, and to give their control a new, global reach.
To me, child porn and the terrorist threat are the equivalent of those malware popups. "Your country is infected with terrorism and/or child porn. Click here to install anti-terrorist / anti-child porn legislation, social controls and security-minded leaders who will protect you from the Bad Guys(tm)."
It's been a long time since I bought from DLink anyway. Their products are expensive, inconsistent, unreliable and plain ugly. I hate how they always use non standard names for things like port forwarding, making it hard to talk people through it over the phone.
This is a new low for DLink, and is further vindication of my strict no-DLink policy.
I'm trying to find something funny to say about crashing, Windows and Qantas' recent in-flight incidents. I'm sure there's a joke in there somewhere...
Surprised? Surprised to learn that Win3.1 is still in use? I think the descriptor they're after is totally fucking gobsmacked so hard my gob flew across the room and bit me in the ass when I passed out and fell on it.
Because the Air Force can't catch people over the internet, that must mean that they are also vulnerable to vans with tinted windows in the car park of the armed forces branch head quarters with a 20" dish antenna mounted on top.
Unless of course, you have something in the house that actually is worth protecting.
The calculus is:
Potential Loot * Risk of capture > Cost of burglary
So if the cost of breaking in (hiring the skill, buying tools etc) is greater than the risk adjusted potential gain, then they'll spend the time, money or effort needed to break in. So yea, security through obscurity works if you hide the fact that you have something valuable at home. If they do, however, find out, then you're pretty much screwed.
This is the *reason* that if you have anything worth stealing, you should *assume* that somebody who is willing to steal it knows about it.
Google actually has a stronger foothold in its primary market than Microsoft does in its, at the moment. Google is not embattled by free alternatives to its main product line that are catching up rapidly.
If you ask me, Google is the company that we have the most to fear from at the moment, given that they are the biggest pushers (quietly) of "cloud" computing, which is essentially an effort to remove control from you of the computer on which you work.
You can be as much of a fanboy as you like, but accept it or not, Google is a business which has a very large interest in turning you into a controllable revenue asset.
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Facial recognition software, voice pattern recognition software, intelligent pattern finding software... the list of automated analysis technology developments goes on.
It's easy to discard the majority of meaningless stuff automatically these days so that humans can focus on a subset of the data with a higher signal to noise ratio, and the ability of software to isolate such a subset is getting better, meaning that SNR will only get better, reducing the costs per hit of human analysis.
Does anyone out there still believe the made up religious fanatic terrorist fundamentalist threat pretext any more? I don't know about you, it's pretty obvious to me that that threat was just made up by the US/UK/Australian governments as an excuse to carry out the biggest power grab in history.
If the threat really was from organized groups who are well-resourced and determined to derail Western society, you have to wonder how this would help. You also have to wonder how it'd even help catch child porn purveyors who are typically reasonably computer literate, at least enough so to use encrypted ZIP files. The only conclustion that I can come to is that we have been lied to from the very beginning about the real reason behind all these security measures, and that so-called national security threats are nothing more than fabricated pretexts to consolidate the domination of the already rich and powerful even further, and to give their control a new, global reach.
To me, child porn and the terrorist threat are the equivalent of those malware popups. "Your country is infected with terrorism and/or child porn. Click here to install anti-terrorist / anti-child porn legislation, social controls and security-minded leaders who will protect you from the Bad Guys(tm)."
It's been a long time since I bought from DLink anyway. Their products are expensive, inconsistent, unreliable and plain ugly. I hate how they always use non standard names for things like port forwarding, making it hard to talk people through it over the phone.
This is a new low for DLink, and is further vindication of my strict no-DLink policy.
*He* might not have been engineered, but the cow he's eating was made better, faster, stronger...
I think he'd say something like this:
"Hey everyone, I'm British! Look at me! Look! Look damn you!"
Yea these jokes are in very bad taste. Whenever bones are found it is never a humerus matter.
Online search... Are you suggesting they could have found Fossett's remains faster by Googling for the crash site?
Yea, perhaps if the medics had arrived earlier they could have put Humpty Dumpty back together again too.
Yea but I won't believe it until Netcraft confirms it.
Look, if you're going to make wild claims like that, I want to see some statistics to back them up.
I'm trying to find something funny to say about crashing, Windows and Qantas' recent in-flight incidents. I'm sure there's a joke in there somewhere...
Yes, and all nerds by now know that when it comes to governmental issues, the president no longer matters. A new CEO for General Electric however...
Surprised? Surprised to learn that Win3.1 is still in use? I think the descriptor they're after is totally fucking gobsmacked so hard my gob flew across the room and bit me in the ass when I passed out and fell on it.
It can't be. Reading Slashdot means you can read.
"every system is different and that means its can really just be specific to you"?
That's a long-winded and grammatically incorrect name, I thought it was called non-homogeneous hardware.
Because the Air Force can't catch people over the internet, that must mean that they are also vulnerable to vans with tinted windows in the car park of the armed forces branch head quarters with a 20" dish antenna mounted on top.
Befuddlement isn't an emotion, it's a noun.
Dickhead.
You think cash is safe? In a bank? Have you been under a rock for the last year?
I should bloody well hope it doesn't allow 110A to go through the CPU.
Unless of course, you have something in the house that actually is worth protecting.
The calculus is:
Potential Loot * Risk of capture > Cost of burglary
So if the cost of breaking in (hiring the skill, buying tools etc) is greater than the risk adjusted potential gain, then they'll spend the time, money or effort needed to break in. So yea, security through obscurity works if you hide the fact that you have something valuable at home. If they do, however, find out, then you're pretty much screwed.
This is the *reason* that if you have anything worth stealing, you should *assume* that somebody who is willing to steal it knows about it.
Where's the boot-on-all-hardware fork of MacOS then?
Troll? Oh for Pete's sake I wasn't serious...
Mods are retards. Should all be gassed.
"They gassed retards instead of modding them down."
You say that like it would be a bad thing.
Google actually has a stronger foothold in its primary market than Microsoft does in its, at the moment. Google is not embattled by free alternatives to its main product line that are catching up rapidly.
If you ask me, Google is the company that we have the most to fear from at the moment, given that they are the biggest pushers (quietly) of "cloud" computing, which is essentially an effort to remove control from you of the computer on which you work.
You can be as much of a fanboy as you like, but accept it or not, Google is a business which has a very large interest in turning you into a controllable revenue asset.
While someone at Google throws a chair. How the tables have turned. Or chairs, as the case may be.
Youngster. In my day we had to point and laugh uphill. Both ways. In the snow. Wearing nothing but edible underwear.
Now get off my lawn.