FTA: Lawmakers had demanded the $1 million federal study, ultimately called "Signposts in Cyberspace," under a 1998 federal law, the Next Generation Internet Research Act
Encryption is never unbreakable as you can always brute force the key. This is essentially the only way to do it nowadays as even the shorcuts and holes in PGP and the rest maybe speed up the time by 1% (if that). So what is left is to make sure that the information can not be bruteforced in a reasonable amount of time. We have that technology and capability.
As for DNA. Yes, identical twins and triplets and so on have identical DNA. As for using it for any form of security? That is a very bad idea. All someone would need would be a tissue or blood sample and they would be able to impersonate you. The movie Gataca already covered part of this. Essentially I could cut off you finger and use that to impersonate you in places. Biometrics and DNA are a nice idea, but hard to implement unless you have really good security around every single one of the readers and can garuntee that no one is pulling a fast one. Even then, it is proably possible to bypass by bribing a lazy guard.
If they're not terrorists, and have nothing to hide, why are they so worried about being tracked? If anything, if your passport is stolen, wouldn't you rather have the chip in there to track it?
Because terrorists/kidnappers can set up a remote reader to look specifically for people carrying this type or passport. Kidnapers can use it to find people from specific other contries that they think are richer than they are and ransom them off for big bucks. Terrorists can use it to find people from specific nationalities. Bin Laden said to kill all americans everywhere, not just americans in the US. This gives them a leg up in finding people carrying around their passports when overseas.
That said, if they go through with this, they definitely need to build in a faraday cage into the passport case.
Not sure that it is rampant. Just pretty sure that it's what makes the news. Either that or they are just the most vocal of everyone. As for the otherside; If I'm not worried about it, why should I bother to shoot down someone who is? To make them feel better? Why should I bother? They probably wouldn't listen to me anyway.
It was probably still an Erols at that point. Back when they still had rental stores and before they got bought by blockbuster. The store was later changed to a blockbuster after Erols was bought out. Wasn't sure which it was at the time since it's been so long.
As undocumented immigrants they are ineligible for state and federal government grants/scholarships. MIT is a private school. They can offer them anything they want.
And the half that I _do_ use turned out be useful at occasionally very unexpected places. So I'm hopeful that I might be able to use some of the other half at some point in my future.
Half of the knowledge I use at work I learned in my hobbies that I did for fun in college (and weren't supported by the school). Half the home repair I do at home uses what I learned in college. Go figure. My college ed is used for repairing home equipment and my hobbies are what I use at my job. And my major is directly related to my job.
This was late 80's early 90's. Before anime became known. Most people thought (and still do) cartoons are cartoons and think along the lines of saturday morning and Mickey Mouse. Anything animated was in that section. After all, cartoons are for kids, right?
Department of Health and Human Services: 643.9 billion
Department of Housing and Urban Developement: 40.2 billion (housing voucher)
DoD: 475.4 billion
Verterans Affairs: 68.3 billion
Interest on Public Debt: 392.4 billion
Totals:
Welfare of some form: 684.1 billion
Military spending of some form: 543.7 billion
Sum Total of all spending: 2567.6 billion
Here's another example to go along with yours. (i'm 23 now for some context) I was looking at the cartoon section in erols/blockbuster one day for some anime (was 8 at the time or something like this). My mother was with me (her card) and saw a kid (about the same age) pull one off the shelf to rent. His mom took it and didn't give much glance thinking, it's a cartoon, it has to be clean. My mom noticed a bit more detail of hte box than she did and gave a polite warning about it. It was Hentai and the other mom thanked mine for the warning and put it back (and take a bit more notice in what her kid was trying to get).
At least in the example you give the people are doing something in exchange for the money. As opposed to wellfare and the like where large chunks of the people on it are given money for doing nothing.
Free Housing! Food Stamps! Clothing Vouchers! Jobs for everyone!
Just a guess (from my own observations) but... The reason 80-90% of us fall into the middle is because most of us think we are in the middle and shape our views around that. As far as I can tell self perception leads people to believe that they are towards the middle and slightly one way or another instead of being way one way or another.
That said, it is possible for two people who are in exactly the middle to be polar opposites of each other due to what has come to be representative of both parties. High level example: Alvin agrees with half the Democrats ideals and half the Republican Ideals. Brian does too. Just so happens that the Republican ideals Alvin agrees with are not the same ones that Brian agrees with. Same for the Democrat half. See?
And most Linux distros come with a variety of tools, like office suites, graphic editors, games, etc.
Can you tell me why anyone just getting a computer for the first time would want to or know how to use a Graphics Editor or offic suite? Some form of text editor program, e-mail and browser is all that is needed. If all they do is play games and surf for porn this whole thing will have failed.
Ditch kirk, have it take place at the same time as ST:TNG in the academy about recruits. Don't use any pre-existing main characters from other series unless they are having cameos. (I.E. McCoy [who's still alive] makes a visit to the academy).
Biometrics could possibly be worse for security and here is how. No matter what you request, some part of it must eventually go through a scanner. I'll take the Voice and Retinal you use since they are more or less at two different ends of the spectrum here. For voice, someone can tape record you and then play that back. Have you ever seen the movie "Sneakers"? They get around a voice pass phrase that way. For retinal, at some point your information is read by the scanner. All someone needs to do is intercept and copy that information to have you biometrics. You can only protect against this if you can watch all the terminals and make sure that no one is doing any cheating. Over the internet, you can't do this since every computer is a terminal and you can't watch them all.
The most secure method is going to remain passwords and passphrases for the forseable future.
Please provide your name, address and times you are available at home. I have some goons..uh , I mean Customers yes Customers who would like to talk to you about your products.
Not sure it would qualify as libel as there was no actual deffamation. However, it may qualify as threatening or breach of contract. Threatening as in, "Gee, this is a nice business you got here. Be a shame if it burned down."
Ask them what you were doing that was possibly illegal. If they can not name any possible source of infringment, you might be able to do something. As for all file sharing being illegal, point out to them that a webserver (such as the universities webserver) along with google does essentially the same thing.
If the telecom act of 96 was the one which required the local telcos to open up the networks to competing local companies, it may be partially responsible for our current problems. If that is the one I am thinking of, and as I understand it, if the companies had built an all fibre network the competitors would have had access to it at cost (the cost of maintaining it). Since installation costs would not be payed back anytime soon there would be little reason to install it in the first place. Same goes for having better DSL. Why do all the work when the law allows the competitors to undercut you using your own lines?
Regulation might have been able to work, but only if the local telcos were able to make a decent profit off of the fee charged to the competitors operating on the telcos lines. In that case they could become line providers and not service providers. As is, it's been pretty much a coup/scam by the indpendants. The telcos have no reason to upgrade if they can't make their money back.
I'm going to assume you have Domminion power like I do for this. (I'm in NVA) Just ask Domminion to get BPL into your area. It looks like BPL will have better capapbilities than wireless and your lines are already laid. That said, I envy your home where you can look out across the Shenandoah. Been there and it is beautiful. Anyone offering Cable TV/internet in your area?
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FTA: Lawmakers had demanded the $1 million federal study, ultimately called "Signposts in Cyberspace," under a 1998 federal law, the Next Generation Internet Research Act
$1 million is pocket change to a gov.
Encryption is never unbreakable as you can always brute force the key. This is essentially the only way to do it nowadays as even the shorcuts and holes in PGP and the rest maybe speed up the time by 1% (if that). So what is left is to make sure that the information can not be bruteforced in a reasonable amount of time. We have that technology and capability.
As for DNA. Yes, identical twins and triplets and so on have identical DNA. As for using it for any form of security? That is a very bad idea. All someone would need would be a tissue or blood sample and they would be able to impersonate you. The movie Gataca already covered part of this. Essentially I could cut off you finger and use that to impersonate you in places. Biometrics and DNA are a nice idea, but hard to implement unless you have really good security around every single one of the readers and can garuntee that no one is pulling a fast one. Even then, it is proably possible to bypass by bribing a lazy guard.
Posted today at the BBC
If they're not terrorists, and have nothing to hide, why are they so worried about being tracked? If anything, if your passport is stolen, wouldn't you rather have the chip in there to track it?
Because terrorists/kidnappers can set up a remote reader to look specifically for people carrying this type or passport. Kidnapers can use it to find people from specific other contries that they think are richer than they are and ransom them off for big bucks. Terrorists can use it to find people from specific nationalities. Bin Laden said to kill all americans everywhere, not just americans in the US. This gives them a leg up in finding people carrying around their passports when overseas.
That said, if they go through with this, they definitely need to build in a faraday cage into the passport case.
The rampant paranoia there is baffling.
Not sure that it is rampant. Just pretty sure that it's what makes the news. Either that or they are just the most vocal of everyone. As for the otherside; If I'm not worried about it, why should I bother to shoot down someone who is? To make them feel better? Why should I bother? They probably wouldn't listen to me anyway.
It was probably still an Erols at that point. Back when they still had rental stores and before they got bought by blockbuster. The store was later changed to a blockbuster after Erols was bought out. Wasn't sure which it was at the time since it's been so long.
As undocumented immigrants they are ineligible for state and federal government grants/scholarships. MIT is a private school. They can offer them anything they want.
And the half that I _do_ use turned out be useful at occasionally very unexpected places. So I'm hopeful that I might be able to use some of the other half at some point in my future.
Half of the knowledge I use at work I learned in my hobbies that I did for fun in college (and weren't supported by the school). Half the home repair I do at home uses what I learned in college. Go figure. My college ed is used for repairing home equipment and my hobbies are what I use at my job. And my major is directly related to my job.
Here's an example going to the 30's in movies. http://www.turnerclassicmovies.com/ThisMonth/Artic le/0,,90481,00.html
This was late 80's early 90's. Before anime became known. Most people thought (and still do) cartoons are cartoons and think along the lines of saturday morning and Mickey Mouse. Anything animated was in that section. After all, cartoons are for kids, right?
Aside from pensions being earned.
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Department of Health and Human Services: 643.9 billion
Department of Housing and Urban Developement: 40.2 billion (housing voucher)
DoD: 475.4 billion
Verterans Affairs: 68.3 billion
Interest on Public Debt: 392.4 billion
Totals:
Welfare of some form: 684.1 billion
Military spending of some form: 543.7 billion
Sum Total of all spending: 2567.6 billion
Source: http://www.kowaldesign.com/cgi/Budget.pl?estimate
Here's another example to go along with yours. (i'm 23 now for some context) I was looking at the cartoon section in erols/blockbuster one day for some anime (was 8 at the time or something like this). My mother was with me (her card) and saw a kid (about the same age) pull one off the shelf to rent. His mom took it and didn't give much glance thinking, it's a cartoon, it has to be clean. My mom noticed a bit more detail of hte box than she did and gave a polite warning about it. It was Hentai and the other mom thanked mine for the warning and put it back (and take a bit more notice in what her kid was trying to get).
Set A was boys and Set B was girls?
At least in the example you give the people are doing something in exchange for the money. As opposed to wellfare and the like where large chunks of the people on it are given money for doing nothing.
Free Housing! Food Stamps! Clothing Vouchers! Jobs for everyone!
Don't 80-90% of us fall into the middle?
Just a guess (from my own observations) but... The reason 80-90% of us fall into the middle is because most of us think we are in the middle and shape our views around that. As far as I can tell self perception leads people to believe that they are towards the middle and slightly one way or another instead of being way one way or another.
That said, it is possible for two people who are in exactly the middle to be polar opposites of each other due to what has come to be representative of both parties. High level example: Alvin agrees with half the Democrats ideals and half the Republican Ideals. Brian does too. Just so happens that the Republican ideals Alvin agrees with are not the same ones that Brian agrees with. Same for the Democrat half. See?
They're making buckets on product placement within the shows now.
Replace "now" with "again" or "still". They have been doing product placement since at least the 50's.
And most Linux distros come with a variety of tools, like office suites, graphic editors, games, etc.
Can you tell me why anyone just getting a computer for the first time would want to or know how to use a Graphics Editor or offic suite? Some form of text editor program, e-mail and browser is all that is needed. If all they do is play games and surf for porn this whole thing will have failed.
Ditch kirk, have it take place at the same time as ST:TNG in the academy about recruits. Don't use any pre-existing main characters from other series unless they are having cameos. (I.E. McCoy [who's still alive] makes a visit to the academy).
Biometrics could possibly be worse for security and here is how. No matter what you request, some part of it must eventually go through a scanner. I'll take the Voice and Retinal you use since they are more or less at two different ends of the spectrum here. For voice, someone can tape record you and then play that back. Have you ever seen the movie "Sneakers"? They get around a voice pass phrase that way. For retinal, at some point your information is read by the scanner. All someone needs to do is intercept and copy that information to have you biometrics. You can only protect against this if you can watch all the terminals and make sure that no one is doing any cheating. Over the internet, you can't do this since every computer is a terminal and you can't watch them all.
The most secure method is going to remain passwords and passphrases for the forseable future.
Being in the telemarketing industry
Please provide your name, address and times you are available at home. I have some goons..uh , I mean Customers yes Customers who would like to talk to you about your products.
Not sure it would qualify as libel as there was no actual deffamation. However, it may qualify as threatening or breach of contract. Threatening as in, "Gee, this is a nice business you got here. Be a shame if it burned down."
Try IRC. My college started throtling BT to hell, but we tried IRC and they weren't blocking it. It is a possiblity to try.
Ask them what you were doing that was possibly illegal. If they can not name any possible source of infringment, you might be able to do something. As for all file sharing being illegal, point out to them that a webserver (such as the universities webserver) along with google does essentially the same thing.
If the telecom act of 96 was the one which required the local telcos to open up the networks to competing local companies, it may be partially responsible for our current problems. If that is the one I am thinking of, and as I understand it, if the companies had built an all fibre network the competitors would have had access to it at cost (the cost of maintaining it). Since installation costs would not be payed back anytime soon there would be little reason to install it in the first place. Same goes for having better DSL. Why do all the work when the law allows the competitors to undercut you using your own lines?
Regulation might have been able to work, but only if the local telcos were able to make a decent profit off of the fee charged to the competitors operating on the telcos lines. In that case they could become line providers and not service providers. As is, it's been pretty much a coup/scam by the indpendants. The telcos have no reason to upgrade if they can't make their money back.
I'm going to assume you have Domminion power like I do for this. (I'm in NVA) Just ask Domminion to get BPL into your area. It looks like BPL will have better capapbilities than wireless and your lines are already laid. That said, I envy your home where you can look out across the Shenandoah. Been there and it is beautiful. Anyone offering Cable TV/internet in your area?