As a point of comparison, how many Canadian gun owners are murdering people?
A few, but I think you'll find most of the guns murdering people in Canada are unlicensed imports from the US.
However, that's completely besides the point, as most gun-related injuries and deaths in Canada are from mishandling, NOT from using guns specifically purchased to shoot at people.
To explain further: this would be like saying that when filling up at the pump, only 86% of the gasoline makes it from the pump to your gas tank, and the rest is lost in the transfer.
Of course, direct contact also has losses during charging, so I'd like to see a direct comparison with measurable numbers. If this is on TOP of the losses already accrued due to charging... well....
Hmm... you make a good point for this entire study being faked so that security forces can track those who go about attempting to reproduce it.
Too bad my tinfoil hat's the wrong size, as it's obvious that nature (not Nature) would have reproduced the findings eventually anyway, so this study is most likely legit....
Those ones are easy to counter... just convince them that Satan appears in the form of a virus. It is their divine calling to resist and stamp out the virus, and prevent it from infecting people. Spreading the virus would make them Satan worshipers and agents of demon possession.
I suggest that you read what you wrote. AKA That eco-terrorists are justified in their action even if it involves mass murder to do some "greater" good. That is the classic tactic of all great evil.... Anytime you minimize the evil of mass murder for a cause you are justifying and doing evil.
So you're saying that humans are inherently evil? Or just governments and corporations?
Or are you saying that it's only evil if the mass murder is targeted at a specific group of homo sapiens sapiens in the here and now?
The thing is, scientific discoveries are not made in a vacuum. History shows that often people "discover" the same thing at roughly the same time in multiple parts of the world. Why? Because they're all using the same technologies and have the same bodies of research to work from.
Because of this, redacting the last steps will do nothing to prevent "the bad guys" from coming to the same point, even if the findings had NOT already been presented. What will prevent "the bad guys" from developing such a weapon is providing them with easier ways of doing what they want to do, coupled with restricting their access to the technologies and bodies of research needed. Since the second and third are pretty much impossible, the only way to ensure that "the bad guys" don't start decimating world populations with killer viruses is to either give them access to something not so drastic that will allow them to achieve their aims (but which can be monitored and protected against), or to completely open the research so that "the good guys" can all get defense funding to find a cure for such viruses, and a way to subvert them to create a reverse situation, where viruses that can already spread have that vector disabled.
Actually, this raises an interesting point... while you get lots of lawsuits over re-use of melody lines, in the percussion industry, re-use and adaptation of other people's work is taken for granted. I've never heard of a successful lawsuit over stealing a drum track (although I'm sure at least someone must have succeeded at some point), even though rhythm is just as important to music (and just as much a created work) as melody.
Not to mention... if an RIAA-sponsored song uses that chord over and over and over, like they are wont to do, you can sue them for infringement hundreds of times PER SONG...
Of course, courts actually have sane people interpreting the laws, so they'd probably throw out any suit pressed based on a single chord. Based on 4 bars though... that might work.
The other trick would be that you'd have to weed out all the sets of four bars that are already copyrighted by someone else, and things like the 4 bar blues, which are in the public domain.
The brilliance is that you don't need to copyright the melody line... you could copyright all BASS LINES or even the drum tracks. I think you'd find that most popular music probably runs afoul of other works not owned by the RIAA if you looked outside the melody line.
SOPA won't kill DNS; it only kills US-based DNS authorities. Use a DNS server outside the US that doesn't honor changes to IP addresses in the SOPA range, and you've routed around the problem.
That's the exact same metaphor I use to explain DNS. It fails to explain how DNS forwarding works, but as a general concept, it works perfectly.
A better example may be finding the location of a physical business by using a phone book and a map book. First you look up the business' name using the phone book, and get the address. That points you to what map book you need to use to find the location. You find the map book, and look up the address in the index. It then tells you what page it is located on, along with a lat/long reference (M2, etc.). You turn to the appropriate page, look at the location information, and bingo! There's the business... assuming that some other business hasn't moved in there between when the phone book was published and now.
SOPA is saying that the government has editorial control over all phone books produced in the US, and can, at will, change the contact information for any business' name to point to SOPA instead. It is further saying that they have the right to change the index information located in any map book produced in the US to point to a SOPA location instead of the intended business.
At this point, the obvious problems with the system should become pretty apparent to almost everyone. It even explains the issues with vhosts (multi-tennant offices).
The Internet doesn't really provide anything new, just a new and more efficient way of doing things. If the government attempted something like this with phone books and maps, the outcry would start pretty quickly once people figured out what was going on.
Not to mention the fact that because of how entrenched the US is in the Internet, this impacts the world... just like US military presence. It will impact you eventually, even if you never visit any sites that have anything directly related to activity on US soil (Domain host presence, credit card processing, server hosting, parent company ownership, domain name registration, target audience, etc.)
Hmm... this just gave me an idea. VPNs stick out like a sore thumb... but shouldn't it be possible to run a stego VPN over, say, DNS? You could probably even do it pretty well over some AJAX-y persistent connection, where the encryption sits inside all the junk requests to refresh news from a news feed, etc. To make it work even better, have it distributed multipoint, so it looks like your VPN is actually visiting multiple boring sites. This has the added benefit that none of those endpoints has access to your complete datastream either; and using the right encryption scheme, it would be impossible for any single exit point to know anything about the stream other than the next hop destination.
And how many citizens will actually know about that law?
Virtually none
And how many citizens who know will actually care about that law?
Virtually none....until it gets in their way of doing what they want.
The fact that countermeasure exists does not mean anything because only "lost cases" will use it. Or do you expect people to happily download some kind of obscure tool so that they will be able to follow some links they can as easily just ignore?
If people find that all the links to their favorite pirate feeds suddenly redirect to a SOPA page, you can rest assured that they'll find someone who knows how to "fix" that really fast. They'll have no clue why or how it works, but they'll know "If I want X, I need to have Y to do it." This has been shown time and time again in the war on P2P.
Most people will propably give you "oh, its like hintfoil hat, but for your computer." if you try to explain them evils of sopa and tool by kazachi hackers.
No, they wouldn't even go that far. They'd go "Some TLA government org broke my internet? Oh, I can install this and everything will be OK again?"
Yes, but then Apple will have to start building new fab plants as the tech becomes obsolete. There's a reason why most companies, like Apple, buy all their tech from elsewhere. It costs a bloody fortune to cycle plant tech, and the reason why we have so few players. It cost billions to build the buggers.
Well, Apple has the billions to spend, and this way, they can take the technology in the direction they want to go, instead of having to go the way the SS industry decides to go. Fabulous decision, IMHO.
(I don't either but the MPAA never let facts get in the way of arguments for buying legislation so I'm not going to let facts get in the way of my making a mockery of them.)
I think it's impossible to make a mockery of them at this point... that's like making water wet.
DIY drones I have seen video from there of sub $1000 UAVs that will follow a GPS controlled flight path, stop at waypoints and take video towards the desired direction. What else do you want?
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As a point of comparison, how many Canadian gun owners are murdering people?
A few, but I think you'll find most of the guns murdering people in Canada are unlicensed imports from the US.
However, that's completely besides the point, as most gun-related injuries and deaths in Canada are from mishandling, NOT from using guns specifically purchased to shoot at people.
That was a different water-treatment event; in fact, it's the one that prompted pr0f to pull his attack, because nobody was taking the security holes seriously: http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/11/22/interview-with-scada-hacker-pr0f-about-the-state-of-infrastructure-security/
Humane Gnome Project. AKA: KDE.
We all use genomes... I think they should have called it helix though... Helix GNOME has a ring to it, with some amazingly bad puns.
To explain further: this would be like saying that when filling up at the pump, only 86% of the gasoline makes it from the pump to your gas tank, and the rest is lost in the transfer.
Of course, direct contact also has losses during charging, so I'd like to see a direct comparison with measurable numbers. If this is on TOP of the losses already accrued due to charging... well....
Hmm... you make a good point for this entire study being faked so that security forces can track those who go about attempting to reproduce it.
Too bad my tinfoil hat's the wrong size, as it's obvious that nature (not Nature) would have reproduced the findings eventually anyway, so this study is most likely legit....
To me, this seems very similar to the onset of Fascist Italy. Italy survived it, but it did cost them.
You had me worried there for a moment; for some reason (likely this thread) my mind did an s/ferrets/terrorists/ on me.
Those ones are easy to counter... just convince them that Satan appears in the form of a virus. It is their divine calling to resist and stamp out the virus, and prevent it from infecting people. Spreading the virus would make them Satan worshipers and agents of demon possession.
I suggest that you read what you wrote. AKA That eco-terrorists are justified in their action even if it involves mass murder to do some "greater" good.
That is the classic tactic of all great evil....
Anytime you minimize the evil of mass murder for a cause you are justifying and doing evil.
So you're saying that humans are inherently evil? Or just governments and corporations?
Or are you saying that it's only evil if the mass murder is targeted at a specific group of homo sapiens sapiens in the here and now?
And Mother Nature's death tally is orders of magnitude larger than that... I bet most people you know will die of "natural causes".
The thing is, scientific discoveries are not made in a vacuum. History shows that often people "discover" the same thing at roughly the same time in multiple parts of the world. Why? Because they're all using the same technologies and have the same bodies of research to work from.
Because of this, redacting the last steps will do nothing to prevent "the bad guys" from coming to the same point, even if the findings had NOT already been presented. What will prevent "the bad guys" from developing such a weapon is providing them with easier ways of doing what they want to do, coupled with restricting their access to the technologies and bodies of research needed.
Since the second and third are pretty much impossible, the only way to ensure that "the bad guys" don't start decimating world populations with killer viruses is to either give them access to something not so drastic that will allow them to achieve their aims (but which can be monitored and protected against), or to completely open the research so that "the good guys" can all get defense funding to find a cure for such viruses, and a way to subvert them to create a reverse situation, where viruses that can already spread have that vector disabled.
Actually, this raises an interesting point... while you get lots of lawsuits over re-use of melody lines, in the percussion industry, re-use and adaptation of other people's work is taken for granted. I've never heard of a successful lawsuit over stealing a drum track (although I'm sure at least someone must have succeeded at some point), even though rhythm is just as important to music (and just as much a created work) as melody.
Not to mention... if an RIAA-sponsored song uses that chord over and over and over, like they are wont to do, you can sue them for infringement hundreds of times PER SONG...
Of course, courts actually have sane people interpreting the laws, so they'd probably throw out any suit pressed based on a single chord. Based on 4 bars though... that might work.
The other trick would be that you'd have to weed out all the sets of four bars that are already copyrighted by someone else, and things like the 4 bar blues, which are in the public domain.
The brilliance is that you don't need to copyright the melody line... you could copyright all BASS LINES or even the drum tracks. I think you'd find that most popular music probably runs afoul of other works not owned by the RIAA if you looked outside the melody line.
hosts files only work for sites whose address you already know. They do work for VHOSTS, unlike this plugin's approach.
SOPA won't kill DNS; it only kills US-based DNS authorities. Use a DNS server outside the US that doesn't honor changes to IP addresses in the SOPA range, and you've routed around the problem.
That's the exact same metaphor I use to explain DNS. It fails to explain how DNS forwarding works, but as a general concept, it works perfectly.
A better example may be finding the location of a physical business by using a phone book and a map book. First you look up the business' name using the phone book, and get the address. That points you to what map book you need to use to find the location. You find the map book, and look up the address in the index. It then tells you what page it is located on, along with a lat/long reference (M2, etc.). You turn to the appropriate page, look at the location information, and bingo! There's the business... assuming that some other business hasn't moved in there between when the phone book was published and now.
SOPA is saying that the government has editorial control over all phone books produced in the US, and can, at will, change the contact information for any business' name to point to SOPA instead. It is further saying that they have the right to change the index information located in any map book produced in the US to point to a SOPA location instead of the intended business.
At this point, the obvious problems with the system should become pretty apparent to almost everyone. It even explains the issues with vhosts (multi-tennant offices).
The Internet doesn't really provide anything new, just a new and more efficient way of doing things. If the government attempted something like this with phone books and maps, the outcry would start pretty quickly once people figured out what was going on.
Not to mention the fact that because of how entrenched the US is in the Internet, this impacts the world... just like US military presence. It will impact you eventually, even if you never visit any sites that have anything directly related to activity on US soil (Domain host presence, credit card processing, server hosting, parent company ownership, domain name registration, target audience, etc.)
Hmm... this just gave me an idea. VPNs stick out like a sore thumb... but shouldn't it be possible to run a stego VPN over, say, DNS? You could probably even do it pretty well over some AJAX-y persistent connection, where the encryption sits inside all the junk requests to refresh news from a news feed, etc. To make it work even better, have it distributed multipoint, so it looks like your VPN is actually visiting multiple boring sites. This has the added benefit that none of those endpoints has access to your complete datastream either; and using the right encryption scheme, it would be impossible for any single exit point to know anything about the stream other than the next hop destination.
And how many citizens will actually know about that law?
Virtually none
And how many citizens who know will actually care about that law?
Virtually none... .until it gets in their way of doing what they want.
The fact that countermeasure exists does not mean anything because only "lost cases" will use it. Or do you expect people to happily download some kind of obscure tool so that they will be able to follow some links they can as easily just ignore?
If people find that all the links to their favorite pirate feeds suddenly redirect to a SOPA page, you can rest assured that they'll find someone who knows how to "fix" that really fast. They'll have no clue why or how it works, but they'll know "If I want X, I need to have Y to do it." This has been shown time and time again in the war on P2P.
Most people will propably give you "oh, its like hintfoil hat, but for your computer." if you try to explain them evils of sopa and tool by kazachi hackers.
No, they wouldn't even go that far. They'd go "Some TLA government org broke my internet? Oh, I can install this and everything will be OK again?"
Yes, but then Apple will have to start building new fab plants as the tech becomes obsolete. There's a reason why most companies, like Apple, buy all their tech from elsewhere. It costs a bloody fortune to cycle plant tech, and the reason why we have so few players. It cost billions to build the buggers.
Well, Apple has the billions to spend, and this way, they can take the technology in the direction they want to go, instead of having to go the way the SS industry decides to go. Fabulous decision, IMHO.
(I don't either but the MPAA never let facts get in the way of arguments for buying legislation so I'm not going to let facts get in the way of my making a mockery of them.)
I think it's impossible to make a mockery of them at this point... that's like making water wet.
No, that's if he bought the movie... which he couldn't do, as it hadn't been released yet.
This should all have been fixable by donating a decent sum to his congressman's election campaign, or direct to IRS, or both.
DIY drones I have seen video from there of sub $1000 UAVs that will follow a GPS controlled flight path, stop at waypoints and take video towards the desired direction. What else do you want?
lasers and of course, Air to Surface missiles.
Time to add that to Santa's list.
Air to Surface? Is that to take out the sharks?
...do they have G.I. Joe Autonomous Drones with Night Vision and streaming capabilities yet?