“But what do you do? You just there?” Case shrugged, put the vodka and the shuriken down on the cabinet and lit a Yeheyuan. “I talk to my own kind.” “But you’re the whole thing. Talk to yourself?” “There’s others. I found one already. Series of transmissions recorded over a period of eight years, in the nineteen-seventies. ’Til there was me, natch, there was nobody to know, nobody to answer.” “From where?” “Centauri system.” “Oh,” Case said. “Yeah? No shit?” “No shit.” And then the screen was blank.
I take your point, however. The Catholic Church has been pretty good on most science - up and down- but you've got to be careful, because if Science starts to suggest something that makes the Vatican too uncomfortable, they might get slapped down pretty hard. Though Benedict seems a decent sort in that regard.
Well, right now Catholic Church is very uncomfortable with embryonic research. I don't see the hammer falling.
Because they understand that political lobbying is much more effective that excommunication nowadays.
Can you get federal funding for stem cell research in 2017? Mostly no, because "research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death" (so, most of the really useful research) is prohibited. And they didn't need to burn anyone at the stake.
Voting out of spite is a very stupid thing to do, no matter for whom the vote was cast.
Voting out of spite is eventually inevitable, if you offer the voters no alternatives. Trump is a monster of your own making, whether you are a Democrat or a Republican.
Stranger in a Strange Land is really like two novels. The first part is good, classical Heinlein. The second part is some kind of rambling political pamphlet that always manages to bore me. I read somewhere that they were written with several years difference, and it shows.
I hope they base it in the first part, really. Well, probably, if it's a typical TV product, they will take the basic idea and massacre all else, so why do I care?
"Rambling political pamphlet" pretty much describes most of the Heinlein production:)
I think you consider the first part of Stranger in a Strange Land as "good Heinlein" just because you happen to be familiar with the ideas presented.
It's all fun and games until they institute a tax collection policy, with the recognition of the UN behind them as a sovereign nation with the right to enforce it...
Do you really think they have better chances of getting UN recognition than the Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands?
Then you better stop driving right now, because, if your car is less than 20 years old, i can assure you there is quite a bit of electronics between your gas pedal and the engine, and even more between the brake pedal and the wheels.
On Android, if I click on a link in an e-mail to a response to a comment of mine it takes me to the Slashdot mobile site with the parent of my comment.
Scrolling down I get to my comment, then the reply, then my comment again, then the reply again, ad infinitum (or ad crash really).
I do not event get to the comments. The frontpage takes forever to load and cannot be scrolled.
In addition to this the author is blatantly ignorant about ssl and criptography:
If you possess DuckDuckGo’s cert, you can decrypt all traffic to DuckDuckGo
They claim NSA can decrypt all SSL traffic on a whim. They probably can obtain DDG private key if they want to, but that does not mean that anyone with the _public_ key can decrypt all SSL traffic directed to them.
True that, but agreeing on a password is a lot easier than comparing key fingerprints. A phone call, if you trust you can recognize your partner voice, could suffice.
You may not even need a sideband channel, the name of the place where you met for the first time would probably be secure enough for most purposes.
"You already use the internet, they should be able easily to associate your IP with your identity. "
only if you are a complete fool and use your home internet for most things.
they cant find me in the noise of a starbucks connection.
Unfortunately for you, the combination of browser plugins you use is basically unique (see https://panopticlick.eff.org/) and more than sufficient to track you.
AFAIK, you can't use OTR for 'disconnected' messaging, where one user is offline atm.
Actually, you can, even if it is a bit impratical. The original OTR paper (http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/otr-wpes.pdf) even discussed a way to use OTR with emails. Unfortunately that never gained much support.
There are ways to prevent MitM attacks. The crypto.cat people were working on an implementation of the scialist millionaire protocol (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_millionaire) that would use a simple password, exchanged via secure means (read: in person) to validate the partecipant public keys.
Slashdot Mirror
I kind of like the idea but there are a few downsides:
- They have no backing from large players, partly because of the project aversion to them.
- No device -> no login. there is no way to login on an internet café if you lose your phone (unless you have a copy of your seed in your wallet and blindly trust the café). This is, again, partly because of the project aversion to big players playing the role of gatekeepers.
- possibly patent encumbered. The project tries to handwave it away, but they should really pay a lawyer and they probably don't have the money.
I almost never visit (legit) sites using unicode characters. I'd love my browser warning me whenever I visit one -- just in case.
Check out IDND https://lingvo.org/idnd
Also for Firefox too as can be quickly found out.
Makes it harder for google to block should they wish.
You can automatically convert Chrome (and Opera) extensions to firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...
They all use the Same API now anyway.
“But what do you do? You just there?” Case shrugged, put the vodka and the shuriken down on the cabinet and lit a Yeheyuan.
“I talk to my own kind.”
“But you’re the whole thing. Talk to yourself?”
“There’s others. I found one already. Series of transmissions recorded over a period of eight years, in the nineteen-seventies. ’Til there was me, natch, there was nobody to know, nobody to answer.”
“From where?”
“Centauri system.”
“Oh,” Case said. “Yeah? No shit?”
“No shit.”
And then the screen was blank.
The bitcoin market is pretty shallow; if a state wanted to crash it, they could just buy a few millions of them, and then sell everything at once.
I take your point, however. The Catholic Church has been pretty good on most science - up and down- but you've got to be careful, because if Science starts to suggest something that makes the Vatican too uncomfortable, they might get slapped down pretty hard. Though Benedict seems a decent sort in that regard.
Well, right now Catholic Church is very uncomfortable with embryonic research. I don't see the hammer falling.
Because they understand that political lobbying is much more effective that excommunication nowadays.
Can you get federal funding for stem cell research in 2017? Mostly no, because "research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death" (so, most of the really useful research) is prohibited. And they didn't need to burn anyone at the stake.
And I use IFTTT and other tools to create and filter RSS feeds of websites lacking one.
I've been saving the stream of "united" tweets since Apr 10 15:32.
What kind of psycho paranoid are you? :)
(but, really, why are you doing it?)
Voting out of spite is a very stupid thing to do, no matter for whom the vote was cast.
Voting out of spite is eventually inevitable, if you offer the voters no alternatives. Trump is a monster of your own making, whether you are a Democrat or a Republican.
Stranger in a Strange Land is really like two novels. The first part is good, classical Heinlein. The second part is some kind of rambling political pamphlet that always manages to bore me. I read somewhere that they were written with several years difference, and it shows.
I hope they base it in the first part, really. Well, probably, if it's a typical TV product, they will take the basic idea and massacre all else, so why do I care?
"Rambling political pamphlet" pretty much describes most of the Heinlein production :)
I think you consider the first part of Stranger in a Strange Land as "good Heinlein" just because you happen to be familiar with the ideas presented.
obligatory https://xkcd.com/250/
It's all fun and games until they institute a tax collection policy, with the recognition of the UN behind them as a sovereign nation with the right to enforce it...
Do you really think they have better chances of getting UN recognition than the Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands?
Congratulations, you have successfully conditioned yourself into productivity! Dr. Skinner would be so proud :)
I believe they will have to cave in, eventually, as European regulators are pushing for micro USB-B as a standard for charging mobile devices.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_External_Power_Supply
Then you better stop driving right now, because, if your car is less than 20 years old, i can assure you there is quite a bit of electronics between your gas pedal and the engine, and even more between the brake pedal and the wheels.
Somebody port a *BSD, or minix, or haiku, or what-have-you to phones already.
Someone has already
http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/09/17/2050200/inferno-os-running-on-android-phones
but it didn't get much attention
That's what I use, but you have to admit using an interface dating back to the 90s it's ridiculous.
Do you get an infinite comment loop?
On Android, if I click on a link in an e-mail to a response to a comment of mine it takes me to the Slashdot mobile site with the parent of my comment.
Scrolling down I get to my comment, then the reply, then my comment again, then the reply again, ad infinitum (or ad crash really).
I do not event get to the comments. The frontpage takes forever to load and cannot be scrolled.
I find it very amusing that we are having this conversation on a website that just deployed the slowest suckiest mobile website I have ever seen.
Will you still accept bitcoins? Paper bitcoins, maybe? :)
In addition to this the author is blatantly ignorant about ssl and criptography:
If you possess DuckDuckGo’s cert, you can decrypt all traffic to DuckDuckGo
They claim NSA can decrypt all SSL traffic on a whim. They probably can obtain DDG private key if they want to, but that does not mean that anyone with the _public_ key can decrypt all SSL traffic directed to them.
True that, but agreeing on a password is a lot easier than comparing key fingerprints. A phone call, if you trust you can recognize your partner voice, could suffice.
You may not even need a sideband channel, the name of the place where you met for the first time would probably be secure enough for most purposes.
"You already use the internet, they should be able easily to associate your IP with your identity. "
only if you are a complete fool and use your home internet for most things.
they cant find me in the noise of a starbucks connection.
Unfortunately for you, the combination of browser plugins you use is basically unique (see https://panopticlick.eff.org/) and more than sufficient to track you.
AFAIK, you can't use OTR for 'disconnected' messaging, where one user is offline atm.
Actually, you can, even if it is a bit impratical. The original OTR paper (http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/otr-wpes.pdf) even discussed a way to use OTR with emails. Unfortunately that never gained much support.
There are ways to prevent MitM attacks. The crypto.cat people were working on an implementation of the scialist millionaire protocol (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_millionaire) that would use a simple password, exchanged via secure means (read: in person) to validate the partecipant public keys.