If there are using a form of space-time distortion to travel, then we wouldn't detect them at all. The best we can hope for is to see the distortions as they appear in orbit above us.
"What will it take to end mass surveillance?"
This is the wrong question, the right question is how long will it take before we stop caring? Privacy on the internet is an illusion (probably perpetrated by people wanting to sell security). With the right justification, any form of communication is subject to monitoring, but you are probably safer sending a letter through the post office than an e-mail, simply because of the legal hurdles involved in interfering with the interactions between two government agencies US Postal service and the NSA. I think the notion of internet privacy contradicts the idea of free an open information. Sure I want to read the entire content of the Library of Congress, but I don't want anyone to know that I did? I consider the internet in the same way I consider the other side of my front door, anything that happens out there is happening in public, regardless of how I try to disguise it. People will eventually come to the same conclusion and simply stop caring whose looking at them when they walk out the front door.
Machines surveying the landscape and building semi-subterranean structures. Have sites near the polar ice caps to tap the water trapped there and wind power and geothermal taps to power the whole process. All of this could happen long before the first humans step foot on the planet.
You missed one. Pay-to-Develop
Basically games that stay in perpetual Beta while offering features to move the development along or special early access features for nominal fees.
For all the information he leaked, the only thing he didn't leak was the names of the people he tried to report this to. I wouldn't either if it were my intention to infiltrate the NSA from the start.
I was just thinking, if I wanted to create enough fear that our my enemies would be looking over their shoulders everytime they used the internet, nothing would work better than creating the belief that I was omnipresent on the web. One the one side, people are certain that the government in incapable of managing the simplest of programs or managing it's own affairs, but when given the notion that that same government could orchestrate a massive campaign of internet monitoring and targeted strikes again individuals, most seem to have no doubt of it's validity. Every other week there is a new revelation of the widening scope of the NSA powers to peer into every aspect of our lives and yet when asked, people still believe that same government is buying $400 toilet seats. Perhaps the biggest conspiracy is that the NSA isn't omnipresent, but wants you to think they are.
A lot of "arm-chair" lawyers here, but the basic thing is that they tried to fight it in open court and they lost, over, done. And if you think the others (Google, Facebook, etc) would have fared any better, you are simply fooling yourself. You can try to reinterpret what treason is all you like, but the fact is they are compelled to comply.
"Refusing a search w/o a *proper* warrant is not treason. Secret court generated 'warrants' do not count as being proper by any stretch of common law."
Apparently they do count.
Everyone touting how great their encryption methods are. I wonder how do they know they are secure or not? How would you know if the NSA was monitoring you specifically or you are simply too obscure to be noticed? Send a threatening email about a politician or a fake terror plot and see how good your encryption is. Are you willing to bet your ass on it?
"While the lack of contamination is encouraging, Jackson said he wondered whether the unidentified drilling company might have consciously or unconsciously taken extra care with the research site, since it was being watched. "
Ya think?
Profiling? Let's just spy on Arabs and Asian? It's works for the police doesn't it? Blacks and Hispanics are the criminals, so concentrating on them is how America should reduce crime right? You see, the assumption is that there is some flag or indicator that allows organizations like the police or the NSA to identify potential criminals before they become a threat. News flash...there isn't. At least not often enough to save people from an individual intent on causing massive harm. All I have seen is outrage about the NSA practices, but what I haven't seen, even in the most offhanded opinion, is an option for how to be just as effective without the perceived violation of personal privacy.
I'd sleep a lot better knowing that at least it will be safe from some 12 year old Chinese hacker.
It's not a 12 y/o Chinese hacker that most US citizens need to fear. It is the unrestrained overreaching of the US government as they push aside our privacy, our rights, our Constitution and our history.
Seriously? And who do you think that 12-year-old Chinese hacker works for (oh yes I said work)? What? You think hacking in China is a hobby? Grow up.
I'm sorry, but I think you're completely wrong. Intelligence doesn't breed opinion, emotion does. Without the desire to be correct, all answers to the same problem will eventually be the same. The desire to hold on to a theory based on flawed data is an emotional response that machines would and should be without.
So I know everything about the phone except, where's the Gorilla Glass?! I know there is a newer version of the Corning Glass, but I want all the goodness of the S4 to be well protected whether it's the new or old version.
Intelligence is the perception of those around you. If you are perceived as intelligent to a rational person, then you are. Anything beyond that is philosophical and not worth discussion in a practical sense. All I see here is humans trying to make excuses for themselves to appear special. I am sorry, but you parallel processing is impressive, but ultimately reproducible.
"Western" meaning it's market would be primarily to a western audience. Where it is created is moot in an international market, where it sells the most is what's important.
Slashdot Mirror
If there are using a form of space-time distortion to travel, then we wouldn't detect them at all. The best we can hope for is to see the distortions as they appear in orbit above us.
If I wanted to commit a crime, I would like to record the police as well. Would be very helpful in knowing how they operate.
"What will it take to end mass surveillance?" This is the wrong question, the right question is how long will it take before we stop caring? Privacy on the internet is an illusion (probably perpetrated by people wanting to sell security). With the right justification, any form of communication is subject to monitoring, but you are probably safer sending a letter through the post office than an e-mail, simply because of the legal hurdles involved in interfering with the interactions between two government agencies US Postal service and the NSA. I think the notion of internet privacy contradicts the idea of free an open information. Sure I want to read the entire content of the Library of Congress, but I don't want anyone to know that I did? I consider the internet in the same way I consider the other side of my front door, anything that happens out there is happening in public, regardless of how I try to disguise it. People will eventually come to the same conclusion and simply stop caring whose looking at them when they walk out the front door.
http://phys.org/news/2013-09-s...
Why not electrostaticly spin the fibers? http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm...
Unless your skin, muscle, and bone were all reinforced with different version of fibrion (spider silk) molecules
Machines surveying the landscape and building semi-subterranean structures. Have sites near the polar ice caps to tap the water trapped there and wind power and geothermal taps to power the whole process. All of this could happen long before the first humans step foot on the planet.
When they discover Warp Drive, True AI, and immortality, then they can run out of new discoveries.
You missed one. Pay-to-Develop Basically games that stay in perpetual Beta while offering features to move the development along or special early access features for nominal fees.
For all the information he leaked, the only thing he didn't leak was the names of the people he tried to report this to. I wouldn't either if it were my intention to infiltrate the NSA from the start.
I was just thinking, if I wanted to create enough fear that our my enemies would be looking over their shoulders everytime they used the internet, nothing would work better than creating the belief that I was omnipresent on the web. One the one side, people are certain that the government in incapable of managing the simplest of programs or managing it's own affairs, but when given the notion that that same government could orchestrate a massive campaign of internet monitoring and targeted strikes again individuals, most seem to have no doubt of it's validity. Every other week there is a new revelation of the widening scope of the NSA powers to peer into every aspect of our lives and yet when asked, people still believe that same government is buying $400 toilet seats. Perhaps the biggest conspiracy is that the NSA isn't omnipresent, but wants you to think they are.
A lot of "arm-chair" lawyers here, but the basic thing is that they tried to fight it in open court and they lost, over, done. And if you think the others (Google, Facebook, etc) would have fared any better, you are simply fooling yourself. You can try to reinterpret what treason is all you like, but the fact is they are compelled to comply.
"Refusing a search w/o a *proper* warrant is not treason. Secret court generated 'warrants' do not count as being proper by any stretch of common law." Apparently they do count.
All information gathered by the NSA in regards to German emails was given to the NSA in a mutual exchange of intelligence information. What the Germans are doing now is trying to wash their hands of any complicity in the matter, even when that very information helped capture two Russian spies. http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/trial-of-russian-spies-in-germany-strains-diplomatic-relations-a-908975.html
Everyone touting how great their encryption methods are. I wonder how do they know they are secure or not? How would you know if the NSA was monitoring you specifically or you are simply too obscure to be noticed? Send a threatening email about a politician or a fake terror plot and see how good your encryption is. Are you willing to bet your ass on it?
Sounds like application-based routing algorithms that allow programs to design specific routing patterns on the fly.
"While the lack of contamination is encouraging, Jackson said he wondered whether the unidentified drilling company might have consciously or unconsciously taken extra care with the research site, since it was being watched. " Ya think?
Profiling? Let's just spy on Arabs and Asian? It's works for the police doesn't it? Blacks and Hispanics are the criminals, so concentrating on them is how America should reduce crime right? You see, the assumption is that there is some flag or indicator that allows organizations like the police or the NSA to identify potential criminals before they become a threat. News flash...there isn't. At least not often enough to save people from an individual intent on causing massive harm. All I have seen is outrage about the NSA practices, but what I haven't seen, even in the most offhanded opinion, is an option for how to be just as effective without the perceived violation of personal privacy.
I'd sleep a lot better knowing that at least it will be safe from some 12 year old Chinese hacker.
It's not a 12 y/o Chinese hacker that most US citizens need to fear. It is the unrestrained overreaching of the US government as they push aside our privacy, our rights, our Constitution and our history.
Seriously? And who do you think that 12-year-old Chinese hacker works for (oh yes I said work)? What? You think hacking in China is a hobby? Grow up.
"(Disclaimer: I'm not a conspiracy theorist, nut.)" Sure you are, you're just not good at it.
I see the tin foil hats will be all the craze this fall.
I'm sorry, but I think you're completely wrong. Intelligence doesn't breed opinion, emotion does. Without the desire to be correct, all answers to the same problem will eventually be the same. The desire to hold on to a theory based on flawed data is an emotional response that machines would and should be without.
So I know everything about the phone except, where's the Gorilla Glass?! I know there is a newer version of the Corning Glass, but I want all the goodness of the S4 to be well protected whether it's the new or old version.
Intelligence is the perception of those around you. If you are perceived as intelligent to a rational person, then you are. Anything beyond that is philosophical and not worth discussion in a practical sense. All I see here is humans trying to make excuses for themselves to appear special. I am sorry, but you parallel processing is impressive, but ultimately reproducible.
"Western" meaning it's market would be primarily to a western audience. Where it is created is moot in an international market, where it sells the most is what's important.