Practically, a new card costs $1 with $4 of "hidden" credit. If you think of them as having $4 hidden credit, you should always use the negative credit if (say) you're a tourist who isn't planning on returning, Then leave the card lying around so someone can pick it up and not have to pay for a new card. Pay it forward.
Australia doesn't actually require ID to fly domestically in all cases so manifests may or may not be accurate. Also, there are plenty of non-flyers going to the airport on any given day. Contractors, interviewees, people meeting friends/dropping them off, etc.
What if you tapped in with a card bought for cash, then "lost the card on the train?" Could you buy another card in the final station to "tap out", thus preserving the sanctity of the "Black" Opal card?
I don't want passive authentication. I want active. And I don't want Apple or Google having access to biometric info that I can't change. I'll keep my long passcode, thanks very much. Not a big deal to tap it in it I need the phone.
Nutbar Puritan zealots come from both sides of the left-right spectrum. The problem isn't the left-right axis for the libertarian-authoritarian one. The US is moving to the authoritarian side.
Requiring "secure boot" on all hardware would screw over anyone who's doing Linux (or other) kernel development in the US. Besides, there's a lot of existing non-secure-boot hardware capable of communication floating around. Not like it's going away any time soon.
If you need cloud hosting, go with a non-US provider. The US is gradually reverting to a pit of Puritanism and religious zealotry. More evolved societies only worry about what can actually harm people (i.e. terrorist recruitment material), not about the naked human body.
Seems like violence and gunplay is fine in US media and TV shows, but the moment you see one-fifth of an areola, the Puritans get up in arms.
Sure, but Linux is open-source. What's to stop someone from writing, downloading, and/or installing an "unapproved" distro that doesn't archive passcodes? Or just disabling whatever is responsible for archiving the passcodes. Not all Linux variants are released by companies subject to US jurisdiction.
Unless they're willing to dictate that all hardware sold in the US (or worldwide!) has to be designed to only to run approved OS's.
Do you really need Facebook notifications? If you just want to read FB, go to m.facebook.com on your favorite browser. No snooping app required for it to work, and they don't block messaging and try to get you to install Messenger if you use Opera on Android.
Alternatively, let Trump run the US into a recession. Reducing the revenue available to authorities is one way of making them rethink Draconian sentences and the cost of incarcerating people for obscene amounts of time. Note that US incarceration rates finally started to go down after the 2007-9 Great Recession.
What if you're running an OS where Apple/M$/Google/etc is not privy to your LUKS passphrase? Will this ban any OS that doesn't require a "cloud" login?
Not if we prosecuted fewer crimes. Start ignoring simple drug possession, even sale among adults. Moral laws, like laws against gambling or online gambling, out the window. Same goes for laws against sex between consenting adults of sound mind. Public drinking? Same thing.
Live and let live, let people do what they want to with their own bodies and minds. Getting rid of crimes where people are only hurting themselves would go a long way towards freeing up the courts to give everyone a fair trial in more serious cases.
Or (more likely) the US just defines more things as crimes and punishes the same crimes more harshly than the UK. The UK has evolved since the Bloody Code. The US has de-evolved in the last 35 years. Rise in incarceration coincident with the War on (Some) Drugs. The only thing that caused the recent drop in rate was the recession. Bankruptcy is a powerful motivator in getting governments to re-evaluate the cost-effectiveness of jailing so many people.
This is basically impossible without banning general-purpose computing devices entirely. Even if phones have a backdoor, what's to stop someone from loading a Linux variant designed outside the US onto a laptop and using it for secure communications?
Entirely banning "unhackable" communication would require a walled garden that looks more like Alcatraz for every single compute device sold in the world.
How many CIA and DEA agents did heinous deeds outside the US and were never prosecuted for it. I'm all for prosecuting foreign intelligence operatives, but it's difficult...
The DEA agents and Honduran police who attacked unarmed Honduran civilians should be rotting in prison, for starters...
Sounds good -- the police do their jobs too "well" in the rest of the US. I can deal with homeless people, might even buy one a sandwich some day. Besides, it's not the police's place to arrest and abuse people who are already down and out. Drugs? I'm not a Puritan. As long as no one is forcing me to do the drugs, what business of mine is it? Offer treatment, don't jail people. Property crimes are what insurance is for.
I'm not a coward who needs a heavy-handed police department to protect me. Good on Seattle for taking a hands-off approach. And glad that #BLM drew attention to how heavy-handed US policing could be.
I'll root for a non-violent criminal that needles and pokes a government over the government itself any day. I have a firm policy of rooting for the underdog.
Thing is, it's better to live under a government like the UK's, which has lower guidelines than the US and has also abolished the death penalty. It's much nicer when one's government isn't willing or allowed to enforce its authority in Draconian ways.
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Practically, a new card costs $1 with $4 of "hidden" credit. If you think of them as having $4 hidden credit, you should always use the negative credit if (say) you're a tourist who isn't planning on returning, Then leave the card lying around so someone can pick it up and not have to pay for a new card. Pay it forward.
I'm confused: if you don't tap on at the start, the fare gates don't open, right? How do you board the train without tapping on or jumping the gates?
Also, $200 might be worth if to keep the anonymity of your "cash" card.
Sure they do -- if they're in Boston :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Australia doesn't actually require ID to fly domestically in all cases so manifests may or may not be accurate. Also, there are plenty of non-flyers going to the airport on any given day. Contractors, interviewees, people meeting friends/dropping them off, etc.
What if you tapped in with a card bought for cash, then "lost the card on the train?" Could you buy another card in the final station to "tap out", thus preserving the sanctity of the "Black" Opal card?
Keep a second backup on encrypted SSD at the office.
I don't want passive authentication. I want active. And I don't want Apple or Google having access to biometric info that I can't change. I'll keep my long passcode, thanks very much. Not a big deal to tap it in it I need the phone.
Unless the hardware with the VM running on it has a logger built in, what's to stop people from just running an encrypted VM?
Nutbar Puritan zealots come from both sides of the left-right spectrum. The problem isn't the left-right axis for the libertarian-authoritarian one. The US is moving to the authoritarian side.
Requiring "secure boot" on all hardware would screw over anyone who's doing Linux (or other) kernel development in the US. Besides, there's a lot of existing non-secure-boot hardware capable of communication floating around. Not like it's going away any time soon.
If you need cloud hosting, go with a non-US provider. The US is gradually reverting to a pit of Puritanism and religious zealotry. More evolved societies only worry about what can actually harm people (i.e. terrorist recruitment material), not about the naked human body.
Seems like violence and gunplay is fine in US media and TV shows, but the moment you see one-fifth of an areola, the Puritans get up in arms.
There's the problem. Don't store your only copy of expensive data on Someone Else's Computer aka The Cloud(tm). At least have a local backup.
If it's on someone else's computer, they can impose their rules, laws, and religious superstitions on you.
Sure, but Linux is open-source. What's to stop someone from writing, downloading, and/or installing an "unapproved" distro that doesn't archive passcodes? Or just disabling whatever is responsible for archiving the passcodes. Not all Linux variants are released by companies subject to US jurisdiction.
Unless they're willing to dictate that all hardware sold in the US (or worldwide!) has to be designed to only to run approved OS's.
Do you really need Facebook notifications? If you just want to read FB, go to m.facebook.com on your favorite browser. No snooping app required for it to work, and they don't block messaging and try to get you to install Messenger if you use Opera on Android.
Alternatively, let Trump run the US into a recession. Reducing the revenue available to authorities is one way of making them rethink Draconian sentences and the cost of incarcerating people for obscene amounts of time. Note that US incarceration rates finally started to go down after the 2007-9 Great Recession.
What if you're running an OS where Apple/M$/Google/etc is not privy to your LUKS passphrase? Will this ban any OS that doesn't require a "cloud" login?
Not if we prosecuted fewer crimes. Start ignoring simple drug possession, even sale among adults. Moral laws, like laws against gambling or online gambling, out the window. Same goes for laws against sex between consenting adults of sound mind. Public drinking? Same thing.
Live and let live, let people do what they want to with their own bodies and minds. Getting rid of crimes where people are only hurting themselves would go a long way towards freeing up the courts to give everyone a fair trial in more serious cases.
Or (more likely) the US just defines more things as crimes and punishes the same crimes more harshly than the UK. The UK has evolved since the Bloody Code. The US has de-evolved in the last 35 years. Rise in incarceration coincident with the War on (Some) Drugs. The only thing that caused the recent drop in rate was the recession. Bankruptcy is a powerful motivator in getting governments to re-evaluate the cost-effectiveness of jailing so many people.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...
This is basically impossible without banning general-purpose computing devices entirely. Even if phones have a backdoor, what's to stop someone from loading a Linux variant designed outside the US onto a laptop and using it for secure communications?
Entirely banning "unhackable" communication would require a walled garden that looks more like Alcatraz for every single compute device sold in the world.
How many CIA and DEA agents did heinous deeds outside the US and were never prosecuted for it. I'm all for prosecuting foreign intelligence operatives, but it's difficult...
The DEA agents and Honduran police who attacked unarmed Honduran civilians should be rotting in prison, for starters...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/d...
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
The Hitler dog video guy hasn't been sentenced yet, and will likely either be fined or told not to do it again - suspended sentence.
Sounds good -- the police do their jobs too "well" in the rest of the US. I can deal with homeless people, might even buy one a sandwich some day. Besides, it's not the police's place to arrest and abuse people who are already down and out. Drugs? I'm not a Puritan. As long as no one is forcing me to do the drugs, what business of mine is it? Offer treatment, don't jail people. Property crimes are what insurance is for.
I'm not a coward who needs a heavy-handed police department to protect me. Good on Seattle for taking a hands-off approach. And glad that #BLM drew attention to how heavy-handed US policing could be.
I was using a drastic example, obviously.
I'll root for a non-violent criminal that needles and pokes a government over the government itself any day. I have a firm policy of rooting for the underdog.
Thing is, it's better to live under a government like the UK's, which has lower guidelines than the US and has also abolished the death penalty. It's much nicer when one's government isn't willing or allowed to enforce its authority in Draconian ways.
A real crime WAS committed. The punishment he's being threatened with doesn't fit the crime. THAT's why the court ruled correctly.