Wiretaps, used with proper judicial oversight, for legitimate law-enforcement purposes, are not wrong. If a wiretap provides the proof that a violent criminal actually committed the crime for which they are being charged, then that is a good thing.
Your argument is a case of the ends justifying the means, and the law agrees with you - I do not. I would argue that wiretaps are an invasion of privacy and are wrong no matter the reason. The bottom line is that compromising privacy is a slippery slope that can lead to unintended consequences, as this article shows.
Even if the numbers/strip are obscured without a PIN the finger smudges on the card over the commonly used numbers will make the PIN a trivial matter to guess.
Solution....wash your damn hands once in a while. That is just disgusting.
It's funny, because if you're a white, middle-class male you're automatically exempt from like 90% of the free money for college, and yet like 90% of the kids I go to school with are white, middle-class males.
Being a white male, from a middle class family, means you are expected to go to college in order to earn your place as a wage slave -making enough to live, sometimes comfortably, sometimes not, but never enough to get out of debt.
You have a government issued ID with a government-issued ID number. Phone companies are required to collect this information and verify it with the government. They also generally require banking information for billing purposes, and make sure that that's consistent with the registered user of the phone as well. Yes, you can try to privately sell a SIM card registered under your name to someone else and manage to get by with prepaid cards. But that's a risky thing to do, because if the phone is used for some illicit purpose, the police will come to you. Even if you can prove you didn't do the crime, intending to get around registration requirements itself may cause trouble. There are some ways around this (e.g. roaming SIM cards), but most people are fully registered and tracked.
As for the Internet, Internet connections are also registered with the government under your name, and your provider is required to keep a record of all your connections, and it's illegal to set up open access points. Of course, it's easier to communicate clandestinely with Internet protocols, including going through foreign proxies, but if you try, that itself is often detectable and suspicious.
Where Germany wins over a place like Saudi Arabia is that they generally use all this tracking and surveillance only against actual crimes, although it's probably only a matter of time until those protections erode and governments will start using it for political purposes. Some of the people responsible for the laws and technology had plenty of experience from fascist and communist regimes.
Wow. That is just difficult to imagine, especially for Germany. I'm trying really hard not to Godwin this discussion, but... Doesn't that all sound a bit fascist? The population is numbered, registered, monitored, and tracked?
Now when they try to push the same legislation thru here in the USA all it will take is a quick comparison to COMMUNIST CHINA to get the politicians to vehemently oppose it....
I find it amusing that this comment would get modded up without any sources or links being cited. Meaning, mods have done zero confirmatory investigation before "doing their job."
Not to say it didn't actually happen, just sayin'...
A mod of interesting does not imply truth. Its just interesting.
... anybody wanting to write truly high performance software had really better get used to writing in lower-level languages, or at the very least, understanding their stack right down to the hardware level.
The system was built with redundancies and backup storage. It was hailed as being able to suffer a failure to one part but continue uninterrupted service because standby parts or systems would take over. But when the memory card failed Wednesday, a fallback that attempted to shoulder the load began reporting multiple errors, Nixon said.
Cheap solution problem? Possibly. Infrastructure design fail? Possibly, but not likely. Couldn't critique it without seeing their setup, but it sounds like they designed some redundancy in. I wonder what kind of "memory card" failed. From the description, it sounds like it might be a cache module.
Regular testing of redundant systems is critical. Anyone who has done disaster planning knows this.
Because Government is the monopoly on the legitimate use of force. They are different from you by definition. It's like this in every single nation-state that has ever existed.
I remember in my BioII class we were given an 'experiment' to flip a penny one hundred times and record the results. We were the only group that did not record 50% heads and 50% tails. Our professor insisted that we had made a mistake, and that with this 'large' number of flips we would have absolutely reached 50%.
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.
I use a smartphone (non-iPhone) and a netbook pretty much every day. They are far from obsolete, as they do exactly what I need in a form factor that provides a good balance of size, weight and battery life.
If your iPad doesn't meet your needs how can you claim it makes other devices that DO meet your needs obsolete?
I still want an iPad, but more as a cool toy than to fill any need. Oh, and I do not want an iPhone.
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Should be Funny, not Troll. Learn to moderate.
Wiretaps, used with proper judicial oversight, for legitimate law-enforcement purposes, are not wrong. If a wiretap provides the proof that a violent criminal actually committed the crime for which they are being charged, then that is a good thing.
Your argument is a case of the ends justifying the means, and the law agrees with you - I do not. I would argue that wiretaps are an invasion of privacy and are wrong no matter the reason. The bottom line is that compromising privacy is a slippery slope that can lead to unintended consequences, as this article shows.
how does delusional hoping for the rapture do for leadership?
It worked for Bush!
Pigs were seen flying over central park.
Roger Waters is touring again...
Something you have (your eye) and something you know (your PIN) = two factor security. Its a simple alternative to a card.
For low value transactions you can skip the second factor (the PIN) just like you can with modern ATM/credit cards.
More secure, simpler, and less to carry around in your pockets.
The results were surprising. IE9 held its own pretty well (with a few caveats), and the latest Firefox 4 beta came in dead last.
No. Not surprising at all... but I still prefer Firefox for everyday use.
Even if the numbers/strip are obscured without a PIN the finger smudges on the card over the commonly used numbers will make the PIN a trivial matter to guess.
Solution....wash your damn hands once in a while. That is just disgusting.
Its a better deal than what I get from Verizon.
I wonder what the coverage is like, also if the phones will be any good.
No thank you to the surveillance state... we have all seen Metropolis, and as cool as it was, we don't want to live there.
Unless there's a signed "non-compete" document from Hurd, HP will just have to live with their mess up.
In California, non-compete agreements have been disallowed by the courts...
It's funny, because if you're a white, middle-class male you're automatically exempt from like 90% of the free money for college, and yet like 90% of the kids I go to school with are white, middle-class males.
Being a white male, from a middle class family, means you are expected to go to college in order to earn your place as a wage slave -making enough to live, sometimes comfortably, sometimes not, but never enough to get out of debt.
You have a government issued ID with a government-issued ID number. Phone companies are required to collect this information and verify it with the government. They also generally require banking information for billing purposes, and make sure that that's consistent with the registered user of the phone as well. Yes, you can try to privately sell a SIM card registered under your name to someone else and manage to get by with prepaid cards. But that's a risky thing to do, because if the phone is used for some illicit purpose, the police will come to you. Even if you can prove you didn't do the crime, intending to get around registration requirements itself may cause trouble. There are some ways around this (e.g. roaming SIM cards), but most people are fully registered and tracked.
As for the Internet, Internet connections are also registered with the government under your name, and your provider is required to keep a record of all your connections, and it's illegal to set up open access points. Of course, it's easier to communicate clandestinely with Internet protocols, including going through foreign proxies, but if you try, that itself is often detectable and suspicious.
Where Germany wins over a place like Saudi Arabia is that they generally use all this tracking and surveillance only against actual crimes, although it's probably only a matter of time until those protections erode and governments will start using it for political purposes. Some of the people responsible for the laws and technology had plenty of experience from fascist and communist regimes.
Wow. That is just difficult to imagine, especially for Germany. I'm trying really hard not to Godwin this discussion, but... Doesn't that all sound a bit fascist? The population is numbered, registered, monitored, and tracked?
Now when they try to push the same legislation thru here in the USA all it will take is a quick comparison to COMMUNIST CHINA to get the politicians to vehemently oppose it....
I find it amusing that this comment would get modded up without any sources or links being cited. Meaning, mods have done zero confirmatory investigation before "doing their job."
Not to say it didn't actually happen, just sayin'...
A mod of interesting does not imply truth. Its just interesting.
All this would mean is that they noticed they got better after drinking beer, which makes sense.
I certainly feel better after drinking beer...
... anybody wanting to write truly high performance software had really better get used to writing in lower-level languages, or at the very least, understanding their stack right down to the hardware level.
This has always been the case.
Because there was more than one failure. FTFA:
The system was built with redundancies and backup storage. It was hailed as being able to suffer a failure to one part but continue uninterrupted service because standby parts or systems would take over. But when the memory card failed Wednesday, a fallback that attempted to shoulder the load began reporting multiple errors, Nixon said.
Cheap solution problem? Possibly. Infrastructure design fail? Possibly, but not likely. Couldn't critique it without seeing their setup, but it sounds like they designed some redundancy in. I wonder what kind of "memory card" failed. From the description, it sounds like it might be a cache module.
Regular testing of redundant systems is critical. Anyone who has done disaster planning knows this.
Just like you're never really free, unless you have the freedom to lock people up.
You are thinking of the BDSM license...
if exist (best option) buy it,
else build it;
Because Government is the monopoly on the legitimate use of force. They are different from you by definition. It's like this in every single nation-state that has ever existed.
In the USA this is specifically not true.
For reference see the Second Amendment, and some ramblings about watering the tree of liberty...
and of course you can't trust anything coming out of Samsung.
Feeling a touch critical are you?
I remember in my BioII class we were given an 'experiment' to flip a penny one hundred times and record the results. We were the only group that did not record 50% heads and 50% tails. Our professor insisted that we had made a mistake, and that with this 'large' number of flips we would have absolutely reached 50%.
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.
Good point.
The two women who went to the police have stated that the U.S. Government is not involved, only Assange's arrogance is involved:
Operative: I was never here. The US Government was not involved. /*Operative hands over a bag of cash*/
Women: You were never here. The US Government was not involved.
I use a smartphone (non-iPhone) and a netbook pretty much every day. They are far from obsolete, as they do exactly what I need in a form factor that provides a good balance of size, weight and battery life.
If your iPad doesn't meet your needs how can you claim it makes other devices that DO meet your needs obsolete?
I still want an iPad, but more as a cool toy than to fill any need. Oh, and I do not want an iPhone.