ICAO has cryptographic key support through AA (Active Authentication); but the US and some other countries are not creating their passports with such key support. This has been turned off. Probably Germany is one of these countries not enforcing this AA because else it wouldn't be -that- easy to copy in the first place.
Probably because the PKI would be too difficult to deploy for an entire nation/risks of compromise?
This means; US passports and any passport without AA can (and probably will) be copied. Why introduce new passports with a rfid chip which isn't even safe while the current system works as good?
How would the whitehouse and all the government sites feel if they have to pay their extortion fee to be as reachable as they where before through the Internet?
You would have a card checking if you can even read the next upcoming punch card. And a verification card if your product is genuine, And a card for your login, And a card to check if you got enough access to use the punch card reader...
When you want to start watching Video Punch Cards (VPC) you will have to use 5 boxes for the restrictions and 1 box for the video;)
I didn't mention we are the aliens on this planet; I did mention any machines/AI being crafted by humans cannot be calles a "natural thing" but rather a "creation of mankind". Even if we try to make it as "human as possible" it will never be human...
Making a child is a natural thing, it does not involve technology; only 2 genders and some time together...
I've had a similar problem; I previewed my text and the text was previewed IN THE WRONG article; while I did click and reply on the right article. Could it be something to do with that test of the University of Michigan? (which by the way also slows down Firefox on a Powerbook drastically when opening more than 3 articles at a time resulting often with a spinning beachball of dead)..
Oh, finally someone I can fully agree with with such short words! You got my modpoint for sure; although its destroyed when answering to it...
I need to add to this; I've quitted my cable subscription as Belgian more than 5years ago. My Internet connection is through the company which means I don't need the artificial limited cablemodem subscription either. This saves me a lot of money; but; the reason I did this is because:
At night there is not really "anything good" going on; unless you like to watch Discovery Channel over and over
Those nasty DAMN porn commercials on the screen "to call now" to hear/talk with the "sexy" *gross sometimes* lady on the phone. (Goatse sometimes looks sexy compared to them).
Those shows to get more callers by asking them "simple questions" so they call and call their fortune away to a never-answering-line (Been there; done that; tried it with my ex and we've been nowhere than 90 euro burning in our pockets...)
The never ending news flash; not even cultural repeats
IF I'd had cable-subscription for the modem; I would be royally screwed because they advertise "watch movies on the Internet" but how many movies can you watch before you go to 19k2 speed-slowband ??
I've found another way to bridge "my need". I need to work at night; I sit with the laptop on my bed or sofa and while I check out some things I can start a movie when I want; I put in the DVD disk and it just works. I've also got a Mediaplayer 35"; which I put all my good DVD's on.
I didn't feel very restricted by then; I cancelled cable; I've got richer. I've bought DVD's; mostly I wait till they are cheap (don't need the extras if they are worth crap); I got poorer; but it was more or less in balance. Now; still; DVD's are being artificially kept high in price and some even low in quality. This balance is going to break more-or-less if Blueray or any other implementation with more restrictive DRM will be adopted worldwide by customers. I am getting even more restricted by law to rip my DVD's to be used to my own Mediaplayer 35" which protects my investment of DVD's. What's up with that? Add to this; some DVD's are LOADED with 5 to 7 commercials before hand you NEED TO SEE over and over (sigh)...
it doesn't only end with limiting the customer in what he can do with it; but also what gets offered....
irl example: I've bought a DVD player (Hoher) at FNAC; local book/electronics/media store here in Antwerpen; it was broken after 7 months. I've never received the invoice by mail, didn't check either especially for the 70 euro; I could use it to test the DVDs of my customers with and I could view movies on it. That player broke; I brought it back; the store is being unfair that I bought it in another affiliate of them (which is total crap; I still know where I buy my stuff not?!?) and they are unable to repair without invoice. short end: Customer f*cked.
This trend; cheaper electronics, cheaper dvd's also has it's own pros and cons. The con is; the customer will always be more screwed instead of the supplier. Combine this with the super-restrictions these media companies are putting on us; putting all customers again in a sandbox to only play with the toys available IN THAT BOX and the future doesn't look very bright; or maybe very blonde?...
Do you really think a historical day would change the future ? These peeps had years to take away your freedom; this won't be solved on one day, even if it is the 4th of July; even if it is called "Independence day" ; since there is no Independence anymore.
Because those people did not ever try or know the real effects of weed; it's a never-ending-battle. For one it's good and for the other it's bad. I'd rather want weed to be legal instead of alcohol; I know what alcohol does (have seen enough of it in my family) and I sure also know it breaks more than smoking a joint or bong...
It's the ignorance (yet again) and the thougth "its the best thing to do for everyone" although such thinking leads to both more use in cigarettes and alcohol because it IS legal: it must be better than drugs.. right? heh
I wish I could be more responsible of myself instead of being born with hunderds of rules to protect "myself" against harm; while the real harm (alcohol etc..) is still out there... I don't like such superficial bullshittery...
What's so natural about technology created and manifested by humans?
An AI, robot, droid or whatever isn't really something "created or caused by nature" but rather created and caused by mankind; so; if such kills mankind on this planet this is not a "natural selection" but a general f*ckup (probably because of ignorance/fake trust) by mankind.
Why do we rely so heavy on technology while we know a single magnetic pulse could wipe out an entire city?
They don't understand because for "them" it's just the same piece of plastic; which is even called "Compact Disk" (although to my best opinion a CD **MUST** work in ANY player and not the newer because of breaking the CD standards).
I'd wish more people think and act like this; but most people are ignorant what happens to them; even with their very own property...
Is it so cool to be prejudiced towards a large amount of people ?
And next to that; with the topics also -under- this; is it so cool to be insulting people with such nonsense?
First look in your own garden before shooting random people; the world would already become a better place if tolerance and accepting would be taken more seriously...
my 2 cents; and this ain't troll or flamebait; rather a call to respect your fellow human instead of tearing them down based on skin, language or country. Remember that most "normal" people cannot even stop or do anything against these (holy) wars; because it's (mostly) a political hidden agenda being executed coming from higher grounds...
I wonder how legal this is; I've downloaded almost all songs I've bought on 2CD's named "Solid Sounds" ; I burned them again; since some of the Solid Sounds CDs ("music for the new club generation") contains a DRM which doesn't even allow the CD to be seriously played on professional DENON CD equipment (it mostly hangs for +/- 1-2 minutes and then suddenly the CD gets read; in both my Denon 2500 as the new 2600 series). This cd serie is not one of its kind; there are more CD's which have the same problem (they all have an extra "ring (of data?) on the outer side on the CD; which I can identify already if they are going to work or not in my Denon and older car-cd player)
Also I wonder why I, as customer, must (1) buy the CD (2) put all the time in it to find/download those files to be (3) playing them whenever I want without being interrupted by their silly protections ?
As I explained here I am fed-up with all this DRM; and this not because I am technologically challenged but because it also interrupts my listening experience drastically and sure also interrupts my DJ work.
which duty ? to tolerate or to smite DRM ? Because I still think as long there are people freeloading from other(s) resources because it "just can be done freely"; the market will always keep looking for better options to make one sale equal to be getting one product.
Still, too bad when you bought the product it's sometimes haunting you like a ghost; like the Beastie Boys cd crippled my PC into tiny lil shreds of void rendering it useless for +1 week for invoicing/serious use because the CD drive and the network card was affected by their DRM.
It's a tradeoff which the publishers -need to understand-. Don't bother your valued customers with it and for sure don't piss them off with it; because the result is ; like I did ; that I won't ever buy CD's anymore (because I'm really scared of them; now-a-days I need to check a on-line list before its SAFE to even PLAY a cd on your computer).
I used to buy 1-2 cd's / week ; from now on it'll be only vinyl records because there is no shitty DRM; just the needle on the record and instant music ; like it should be. No fuzz, not being scared, no problems afterwards.
Don't know where you are from but in Europe; atleast the Benelux (and probably a lot of other countries) [and that's not because I was sitting there but because my ex-partner was prison-keeper] are no "dropping-the-soap-stories" or prison-rape-a-go-go-days. Very simple. Next to that they could never put people working under demand of their superiors for such a long time in jail to be ass-pounded anyways; so why should they be afraid even?
If I get the order from my boss; which seems not illegal and I proceed to follow that order, it's nothing more than a responsibility of the one who gave the order and not the ones who executed it. This is not justice for murder or rape we are talking about but a political and commercial game (which the ball lies in Microsoft's camp for now).
been there seen it, bad customer service; bad cable services; fallouts. I've been on KPN and @HOME for years in Holland and it's mess is just happening on different levels. The broadband multimedia experience as they want to promote is moot currently. They cannot afford it or they do not want to make it affordable.
The prices are still high; Telenet for example; massal broadband provider in Belgium gave a lot of commercials to watch movies over the Internet. Result: users get smallband after 1gig d/l.
View two movies and you are already over that 1 gig.
We also got a direct connection to the UUNet (now Worldcom) backbone; I cannot say it's cheap; it's expensive for the speed coming out of it; while the line is capable of doing +10 times as much traffic. It's clear to me; they are not ready for high-speed/high-bandwidth demanding applications over the Internet yet and with this kind of mentality they will never be ready.
I don't think there is such much difference inbetween France (which I presume you are from) and Belgium; the salesmen tell "unlimited bandwidth" while the technical side says "thats the maximum and furtheron you will be surfing on a 19k2/38k speed"...
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ICAO has cryptographic key support through AA (Active Authentication); but the US and some other countries are not creating their passports with such key support. This has been turned off. Probably Germany is one of these countries not enforcing this AA because else it wouldn't be -that- easy to copy in the first place.
Probably because the PKI would be too difficult to deploy for an entire nation/risks of compromise?
This means; US passports and any passport without AA can (and probably will) be copied.
Why introduce new passports with a rfid chip which isn't even safe while the current system works as good?
in Dutch it's "rode auto" instead of "auto rood"...
But we do have the dd/mm/yyyy notation.
Every time you use your fingerprint, god kills a mountain dew ;)
Ask yourself the following question:
How would the whitehouse and all the government sites feel if they have to pay their extortion fee to be as reachable as they where before through the Internet?
You would have a card checking if you can even read the next upcoming punch card. ...
;)
And a verification card if your product is genuine,
And a card for your login,
And a card to check if you got enough access to use the punch card reader
When you want to start watching Video Punch Cards (VPC) you will have to use 5 boxes for the restrictions and 1 box for the video
I didn't mention we are the aliens on this planet; I did mention any machines/AI being crafted by humans cannot be calles a "natural thing" but rather a "creation of mankind". Even if we try to make it as "human as possible" it will never be human...
Making a child is a natural thing, it does not involve technology; only 2 genders and some time together...
It's probably that Deathstar they have been warning us on television about.
Guess it's time to bow to our Sith overlords before it's too late...
I sense you have lost faith in the dark side if you mod this down.
I've had a similar problem; I previewed my text and the text was previewed IN THE WRONG article; while I did click and reply on the right article. Could it be something to do with that test of the University of Michigan? (which by the way also slows down Firefox on a Powerbook drastically when opening more than 3 articles at a time resulting often with a spinning beachball of dead) ..
I need to add to this; I've quitted my cable subscription as Belgian more than 5years ago. My Internet connection is through the company which means I don't need the artificial limited cablemodem subscription either. This saves me a lot of money; but; the reason I did this is because:
(Goatse sometimes looks sexy compared to them).
(Been there; done that; tried it with my ex and we've been nowhere than 90 euro burning in our pockets...)
I've found another way to bridge "my need". I need to work at night; I sit with the laptop on my bed or sofa and while I check out some things I can start a movie when I want; I put in the DVD disk and it just works. I've also got a Mediaplayer 35"; which I put all my good DVD's on.
I didn't feel very restricted by then; I cancelled cable; I've got richer. I've bought DVD's; mostly I wait till they are cheap (don't need the extras if they are worth crap); I got poorer; but it was more or less in balance. Now; still; DVD's are being artificially kept high in price and some even low in quality. This balance is going to break more-or-less if Blueray or any other implementation with more restrictive DRM will be adopted worldwide by customers. I am getting even more restricted by law to rip my DVD's to be used to my own Mediaplayer 35" which protects my investment of DVD's. What's up with that? Add to this; some DVD's are LOADED with 5 to 7 commercials before hand you NEED TO SEE over and over (sigh)...
it doesn't only end with limiting the customer in what he can do with it; but also what gets offered....
irl example: I've bought a DVD player (Hoher) at FNAC; local book/electronics/media store here in Antwerpen; it was broken after 7 months. I've never received the invoice by mail, didn't check either especially for the 70 euro; I could use it to test the DVDs of my customers with and I could view movies on it. That player broke; I brought it back; the store is being unfair that I bought it in another affiliate of them (which is total crap; I still know where I buy my stuff not?!?) and they are unable to repair without invoice. short end: Customer f*cked.
This trend; cheaper electronics, cheaper dvd's also has it's own pros and cons. The con is; the customer will always be more screwed instead of the supplier. Combine this with the super-restrictions these media companies are putting on us; putting all customers again in a sandbox to only play with the toys available IN THAT BOX and the future doesn't look very bright; or maybe very blonde?
Some people I don't understand what's so right about provocing other races/thougths and values in this way ...
I guess this gives a complete different meaning to "raping fruits" ;)
You'd have to pry that mango out of my cold death hands before you put that one in the microwave!
Do you really think a historical day would change the future ? These peeps had years to take away your freedom; this won't be solved on one day, even if it is the 4th of July; even if it is called "Independence day" ; since there is no Independence anymore.
Welcome to the collective.
Because those people did not ever try or know the real effects of weed; it's a never-ending-battle. For one it's good and for the other it's bad. I'd rather want weed to be legal instead of alcohol; I know what alcohol does (have seen enough of it in my family) and I sure also know it breaks more than smoking a joint or bong ...
.. right? heh
... I don't like such superficial bullshittery...
It's the ignorance (yet again) and the thougth "its the best thing to do for everyone" although such thinking leads to both more use in cigarettes and alcohol because it IS legal: it must be better than drugs
I wish I could be more responsible of myself instead of being born with hunderds of rules to protect "myself" against harm; while the real harm (alcohol etc..) is still out there
What's so natural about technology created and manifested by humans?
An AI, robot, droid or whatever isn't really something "created or caused by nature" but rather created and caused by mankind; so; if such kills mankind on this planet this is not a "natural selection" but a general f*ckup (probably because of ignorance/fake trust) by mankind.
Why do we rely so heavy on technology while we know a single magnetic pulse could wipe out an entire city?
They don't understand because for "them" it's just the same piece of plastic; which is even called "Compact Disk" (although to my best opinion a CD **MUST** work in ANY player and not the newer because of breaking the CD standards).
I'd wish more people think and act like this; but most people are ignorant what happens to them; even with their very own property...
Is it so cool to be prejudiced towards a large amount of people ?
...
...
And next to that; with the topics also -under- this; is it so cool to be insulting people with such nonsense?
First look in your own garden before shooting random people; the world would already become a better place if tolerance and accepting would be taken more seriously
my 2 cents; and this ain't troll or flamebait; rather a call to respect your fellow human instead of tearing them down based on skin, language or country. Remember that most "normal" people cannot even stop or do anything against these (holy) wars; because it's (mostly) a political hidden agenda being executed coming from higher grounds
I wonder how legal this is; I've downloaded almost all songs I've bought on 2CD's named "Solid Sounds" ; I burned them again; since some of the Solid Sounds CDs ("music for the new club generation") contains a DRM which doesn't even allow the CD to be seriously played on professional DENON CD equipment (it mostly hangs for +/- 1-2 minutes and then suddenly the CD gets read; in both my Denon 2500 as the new 2600 series). This cd serie is not one of its kind; there are more CD's which have the same problem (they all have an extra "ring (of data?) on the outer side on the CD; which I can identify already if they are going to work or not in my Denon and older car-cd player)
Also I wonder why I, as customer, must (1) buy the CD (2) put all the time in it to find/download those files to be (3) playing them whenever I want without being interrupted by their silly protections ?
As I explained here I am fed-up with all this DRM; and this not because I am technologically challenged but because it also interrupts my listening experience drastically and sure also interrupts my DJ work.
which duty ? to tolerate or to smite DRM ? Because I still think as long there are people freeloading from other(s) resources because it "just can be done freely"; the market will always keep looking for better options to make one sale equal to be getting one product.
Still, too bad when you bought the product it's sometimes haunting you like a ghost; like the Beastie Boys cd crippled my PC into tiny lil shreds of void rendering it useless for +1 week for invoicing/serious use because the CD drive and the network card was affected by their DRM.
It's a tradeoff which the publishers -need to understand-. Don't bother your valued customers with it and for sure don't piss them off with it; because the result is ; like I did ; that I won't ever buy CD's anymore (because I'm really scared of them; now-a-days I need to check a on-line list before its SAFE to even PLAY a cd on your computer).
I used to buy 1-2 cd's / week ; from now on it'll be only vinyl records because there is no shitty DRM; just the needle on the record and instant music ; like it should be. No fuzz, not being scared, no problems afterwards.
You opened PersonName and closed it with PersonFullName ; your xml won't be parsed good like that ;)
Don't know where you are from but in Europe; atleast the Benelux (and probably a lot of other countries) [and that's not because I was sitting there but because my ex-partner was prison-keeper] are no "dropping-the-soap-stories" or prison-rape-a-go-go-days. Very simple. Next to that they could never put people working under demand of their superiors for such a long time in jail to be ass-pounded anyways; so why should they be afraid even?
If I get the order from my boss; which seems not illegal and I proceed to follow that order, it's nothing more than a responsibility of the one who gave the order and not the ones who executed it. This is not justice for murder or rape we are talking about but a political and commercial game (which the ball lies in Microsoft's camp for now).
old news ? :)
been there seen it, bad customer service; bad cable services; fallouts. I've been on KPN and @HOME for years in Holland and it's mess is just happening on different levels. The broadband multimedia experience as they want to promote is moot currently. They cannot afford it or they do not want to make it affordable.
The prices are still high; Telenet for example; massal broadband provider in Belgium gave a lot of commercials to watch movies over the Internet. Result: users get smallband after 1gig d/l.
View two movies and you are already over that 1 gig.
We also got a direct connection to the UUNet (now Worldcom) backbone; I cannot say it's cheap; it's expensive for the speed coming out of it; while the line is capable of doing +10 times as much traffic. It's clear to me; they are not ready for high-speed/high-bandwidth demanding applications over the Internet yet and with this kind of mentality they will never be ready.
I don't think there is such much difference inbetween France (which I presume you are from) and Belgium; the salesmen tell "unlimited bandwidth" while the technical side says "thats the maximum and furtheron you will be surfing on a 19k2/38k speed"...
First the VMWARE free; now VirtualPC free; one day later.
;)
One might wish their security department would roll as fast as their customer relations department do
Nothing news about this; this is a dupe; there was already an article before of the US being the #1 destination for Internet traffic.