When the rest of the US wakes up to the fact that the EFF is not just another government institution. Maybe it is the three letter acronyms making the populace look the other way in boredom, or maybe they just can't get past two letter acronyms (TV).
Maybe you should stick to the two letter places....
And I vaguely recall that the feds retain the right to basically say "you have no standing to sue because we said so". I have no idea of what entity could undertake this and be in any way free of being shut down by the feds who cite national security.
Yes, you are thinking of the Federal Tort Claims Act. They're the dealer AND the house rolled up in one.
Do you expect the head of a spy service NOT to lie? This is at the top of the whole chain of problems with 'intelligence'.
The basic safety valve in the US approach to government isn't 'democracy' (which we aren't) or some sort of special affinity by a magical deity. It is the concept and application of checks and balances. Nobody can ultimately be trusted. No institution can be trusted for any period of time. You MUST have the ability to check the scope and application of any government department's mission.
An intelligence service beholden to no one with essentially unlimited funds is a scary monster indeed.
Even if the numbers are corrected, we have no guarantee that a lower-level system isn't undoing that work. Backdoors can (and probably do) exist in not only compilers, but in hardware. If this is the case, then broken encryption parameters are far less important. For example, git uses SHA1 for encryption. Assuming the scheme isn't already broken, it is likely possible to generate a collision with brute-force (especially if you need only one number). If some link in the git chain were thus broken, a replacement file with a backdoor payload could be injected (eg. in the confusion surrounding the gnu.org repos being hacked). As ken points out, once that initial injection is made (assuming it is of sufficent quality) it can be used to add anything to future compiled versions.
This must be the reason my checking account never balances.....
Going by your UID, you're getting on the older side. You're gonna check out sooner or later - might as well get as much done as possible. Practical benefit might be weighted towards performance rather than price
The phone doesn't have your fingerprint - it stores a digital value based on some point mapping from a scanner that relates to your fingerprint. Just putting a picture of a fingerprint is not going to unlock the phone.
Unless the police or whomever could take their digital copy of the print, convert it to whatever (likely encrypted) value for the scanner and inject it into the phone, they can''t do jack. What they COULD do is grab your hand and jam it onto the phone, that would be possible. But if they're into that sort of thing they could just as soon threaten you with a rubber hose.
And if you're doing some illegal while carrying any cell phone, you belong in the 'dumbass behind bars' category. They don't need to touch the phone to get you in trouble.
WHY are you worried about a fingerprint? NSA has lots more useful information about you, they don't need the wetware. If anyone actually DOES want your fingerprint, following you surreptitiously for a day will give them lots of chances to pull one (or all ten). It would be just as useful as your unlock code, ie, not. They've got the real data without getting near your phone.
but each studio requires a small army of linux gurus to patch and modify the OS and kernel just to keep the OS from constantly falling over.
But isn't this because the installations are largely custom? Different studios seem to run different toolchains, have their 'special sauce' application that somebody wrote and, of course, have to deal with hundreds of different hardware configurations and even more wetware configurations. It's not like everyone is just installing Creative Suite (as much as Adobe would like that to happen) and letting it go at that.
I'd worry about those expensive studio recorders not being available in the future. The chance of finding a copy of the source code for, say, FLAC and computer hardware that can run it seems higher than a specific 4 channel tape deck last made in the 1990s.
The ACLU, however, has a someone different take on the 2cd Amendment (surprise). Their official position is that the ACLU supports state militias rather than an individual gun right.
That said, the NRA's position here seems something of a reach. There theory sees to be that if the US government can spy on and collect all communications, then they have de facto created a $whatever watch database. The $whatever in this case being guns. This could be expanded to $whatever = stamps, radios, dildos and Hello Kitty paraphernalia.
This gives the government the power of regulating pretty much anything ever mentioned in electronic communications. Personally, I'm not so worried. They have enough trouble rounding up pressure cooker aficionados, much less Hello Kitty perverts.
Whatever works for you. My wife and I have separate accounts with the ability of for each of us to look up / transfer funds / whatever to the other account. That way we can keep track of balances individually but keep everything out in the open. We like it that way. YMMV. I cannot even begin to imagine having 15 credit cards....
It's also turned out to be useful when the banks temporarily screw up one account by locking it for whatever confused reason their computers dream up. Use the other account. We keep the savings account completely separate so that if someone managed to hack into our checking accounts, they could only get to what limited amounts of money we keep there.
I know people that keep accounts in four different banks. They're worried about a bank run and think this way they'll be able to get to some of their money. Personally, if things are that bad, I'm just going to pull the boat out of the harbor and wait for the smoke to clear.
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Too bad Starbucks wasn't around then. A woolly on a 50 shot latte would be an entertaining sight.
When the rest of the US wakes up to the fact that the EFF is not just another government institution.
Maybe it is the three letter acronyms making the populace look the other way in boredom, or maybe they just can't get past two letter acronyms (TV).
Maybe you should stick to the two letter places....
And I vaguely recall that the feds retain the right to basically say "you have no standing to sue because we said so". I have no idea of what entity could undertake this and be in any way free of being shut down by the feds who cite national security.
Yes, you are thinking of the Federal Tort Claims Act. They're the dealer AND the house rolled up in one.
Do you expect the head of a spy service NOT to lie? This is at the top of the whole chain of problems with 'intelligence'.
The basic safety valve in the US approach to government isn't 'democracy' (which we aren't) or some sort of special affinity by a magical deity. It is the concept and application of checks and balances. Nobody can ultimately be trusted. No institution can be trusted for any period of time. You MUST have the ability to check the scope and application of any government department's mission.
An intelligence service beholden to no one with essentially unlimited funds is a scary monster indeed.
Ken Thompson's article "Reflections on Trusting Trust" seems to apply here.
http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
Even if the numbers are corrected, we have no guarantee that a lower-level system isn't undoing that work. Backdoors can (and probably do) exist in not only compilers, but in hardware. If this is the case, then broken encryption parameters are far less important. For example, git uses SHA1 for encryption. Assuming the scheme isn't already broken, it is likely possible to generate a collision with brute-force (especially if you need only one number). If some link in the git chain were thus broken, a replacement file with a backdoor payload could be injected (eg. in the confusion surrounding the gnu.org repos being hacked). As ken points out, once that initial injection is made (assuming it is of sufficent quality) it can be used to add anything to future compiled versions.
This must be the reason my checking account never balances.....
Oh, and while you're at it, could you please recover the directory I inadvertently deleted last week? I don't recall the name, but I'm sure you do.
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Do slowly frying people smell like bacon cooking?
Going by your UID, you're getting on the older side. You're gonna check out sooner or later - might as well get as much done as possible. Practical benefit might be weighted towards performance rather than price
What? No.
The phone doesn't have your fingerprint - it stores a digital value based on some point mapping from a scanner that relates to your fingerprint. Just putting a picture of a fingerprint is not going to unlock the phone.
Unless the police or whomever could take their digital copy of the print, convert it to whatever (likely encrypted) value for the scanner and inject it into the phone, they can''t do jack. What they COULD do is grab your hand and jam it onto the phone, that would be possible. But if they're into that sort of thing they could just as soon threaten you with a rubber hose.
And if you're doing some illegal while carrying any cell phone, you belong in the 'dumbass behind bars' category. They don't need to touch the phone to get you in trouble.
WHY are you worried about a fingerprint? NSA has lots more useful information about you, they don't need the wetware. If anyone actually DOES want your fingerprint, following you surreptitiously for a day will give them lots of chances to pull one (or all ten). It would be just as useful as your unlock code, ie, not. They've got the real data without getting near your phone.
They broke some China.
Spying indeed. They were just trying to help.
Nah, they're just pissed off that they have new competition. The old neighborhood was just fine, thankyouverymuch.
I'm pretty sure this is being styled as a BYOB party.
There's the stealth snowmobiles, but you never see them out there.
My God! He's right
(Looks nervously northward)
but each studio requires a small army of linux gurus to patch and modify the OS and kernel just to keep the OS from constantly falling over.
But isn't this because the installations are largely custom? Different studios seem to run different toolchains, have their 'special sauce' application that somebody wrote and, of course, have to deal with hundreds of different hardware configurations and even more wetware configurations. It's not like everyone is just installing Creative Suite (as much as Adobe would like that to happen) and letting it go at that.
Hey, what do you all think of the new iPhone?
And 5 GB per song is nothing for master files. Hell, that's a few minutes of video. You think you have problems.
I'd worry about those expensive studio recorders not being available in the future. The chance of finding a copy of the source code for, say, FLAC and computer hardware that can run it seems higher than a specific 4 channel tape deck last made in the 1990s.
Man, you think moderation is a mess now.....
Maybe it was the Radio Shack closest to the NSA labs.
I say we nuke it from orbit.
It's the only way to be sure.
The ACLU, however, has a someone different take on the 2cd Amendment (surprise). Their official position is that the ACLU supports state militias rather than an individual gun right.
That said, the NRA's position here seems something of a reach. There theory sees to be that if the US government can spy on and collect all communications, then they have de facto created a $whatever watch database. The $whatever in this case being guns. This could be expanded to $whatever = stamps, radios, dildos and Hello Kitty paraphernalia.
This gives the government the power of regulating pretty much anything ever mentioned in electronic communications. Personally, I'm not so worried. They have enough trouble rounding up pressure cooker aficionados, much less Hello Kitty perverts.
The NRA continues to be a bunch of paranoid loons.
But sometimes they really are after you.
Whatever works for you. My wife and I have separate accounts with the ability of for each of us to look up / transfer funds / whatever to the other account. That way we can keep track of balances individually but keep everything out in the open. We like it that way. YMMV. I cannot even begin to imagine having 15 credit cards ....
It's also turned out to be useful when the banks temporarily screw up one account by locking it for whatever confused reason their computers dream up. Use the other account. We keep the savings account completely separate so that if someone managed to hack into our checking accounts, they could only get to what limited amounts of money we keep there.
I know people that keep accounts in four different banks. They're worried about a bank run and think this way they'll be able to get to some of their money. Personally, if things are that bad, I'm just going to pull the boat out of the harbor and wait for the smoke to clear.