95% will continue oblivious to the dangers of mass surveillance. Those concerned about freedom and privacy have solutions...for now.
And the criminals, of course. They've already started to use separate phones, or just leave them at home when doing misdeeds.
And a decent VPN / TOR is not THAT hard to get going. And if it really is that hard to get going, then I'm sure they have some cash to hire a geek to fix it up for them.
And even that's not really needed.. I read about one drug network that was run over facebook, with fake (female) profiles. Using separate laptops to log in with. Only reason why police found out about it was that one of them forgot his laptop at his brother's place, police raided it for some other reason, and found the laptop. If the criminals also had added truecrypt to the mix, police still wouldn't have any clue. And facebook support HTTPS, so can't log which profile and which data goes through there. If the guy also have a normal FB account, there's no way a 3rd party monitoring system can pick it up (except for some massive SSL root cert abuse)
So in practice, these laws only monitor lawful citizens, and retarded criminals.. And the police shouldn't need all that just to catch retards.
When DRD was pushed here in Norway, I tried to discuss this part of the problem with some politicians, they all went glassy-eyed and started repeating the party lines ("If we don't do this, Norway will be a free place for all the world's heavy criminals, and pedos, and nazis, and drug people, and other assorted bogey men. BE AFRAID!") or just refused to accept the possibility (had one that, after clearly admitting he knew nothing about the internet, stated as a fact that you can't go around it, and then ignored me)
I am sick and tired of politicians making rules about things they don't even have a sliver of understanding about, don't want to understand, and shows an obscene amount of hubris if you try to even hint to them that they might start getting a clue, or at least listen to those that does have.
Sweden have been doing this shit for years already, and here in Norway the politicians are working their asses off to log everything, too. Only, not one of those politicians have any clue about computers, so they still have no idea what should be logged (and thus it's still not active, even tho it should be active from April this year).
And, as an extra bonus, they leave the bill to the ISP's. Because, you know, anything else would be expensive.
The really sad part is, one of the reasons the police wants longer storage (at the moment there is a law that no data can be stored for more than 6 months, including data required to calculate bills and so forth) is that THEY DON'T HAVE ENOUGH MANPOWER to check the data that is collected now within the 6 months period... So the obvious solution is to gather MUCH MORE data to go through, and thus require even more work being spent on it... Logical, right? Welcome to Circus Norway.
Okay, just have to reply to myself here, finally figured out what I did:)
Since the bat was a dollar more, and the price total was 1.10 - I removed the dollar completely and had.10 left. Values was then multiplied by 100 since it's easier to work with.
There was two assertions : Total - 10 -should be equal to bat + ball, and bat should be equal to ball. If first assertion was correct, and if ball was 10, then bat would had to be 0. And thus the second assertion could not be correct.
And so my first answer (ball cost.10) could not be correct. But at that stage, the correct answer was pretty obvious too, since I had a value of 10 that had to be shard equally between two objects. 10/2 = 5. Divide by 100 for ball price, and add the dollar to get the bat price.
I immediately leapt to the wrong answer to the bat and ball but then I subtracted the two, got 90 cents, realised I had messed up and corrected myself.
I also quickly got the 10 cent, then I also did a sanity check.. But the weird thing is, when I did the check it was natural and logical, and obvious.. Now, when I think back, it's just weird.
I checked the price of the bat, and found out it cost.. nothing.. It seems I'd already removed one dollar from the price of the bat mentally, so the logical "price" of the bat would be whatever that was above the one dollar, and should be equal to the ball. So the correction was just a mental exercise of taking the 10 cent and divide it so both had "equal". And thus the right solution became obvious.
But I still have no idea where that logic train came from.. And when I look at it now, it's just weird. Either my brain is smarter than me, or I'm a mad scientist in training.
It also seems like Apple relies on Samsung for the iPhone 5 processor, too. Maybe Samsung is the only manufacturer with the right set of tools for building them?
I really like the EU "law" / guide that the UK law was made from (found here).
Let me quote part 25 (with some added emphasis):
However, such devices, for instance so-called "cookies", can be a legitimate and useful tool, for example, in analysing the effectiveness of website design and advertising, and in verifying the identity of users engaged in on-line transactions.
Where such devices, for instance cookies, are intended for a legitimate purpose, such as to facilitate the provision of information society services, their use should be allowed on condition that users are provided with clear and precise information in accordance with Directive 95/46/EC about the purposes of cookies or similar devices so as to ensure that users are made aware of information being placed on the terminal equipment they are using.
Users should have the opportunity to refuse to have a cookie or similar device stored on their terminal equipment. This is particularly important where users other than the original user have access to the terminal equipment and thereby to any data containing privacy-sensitive information stored on such equipment.
Information and the right to refuse may be offered once for the use of various devices to be installed on the user's terminal equipment during the same connection and also covering any further use that may be made of those devices during subsequent connections.
The methods for giving information, offering a right to refuse or requesting consent should be made as user-friendly as possible. Access to specific website content may still be made conditional on the well-informed acceptance of a cookie or similar device, if it is used for a legitimate purpose.
So if they refuse to have a cookie or similar device stored on their device, we need to know that the user opted out for that and following connections. Since it's a legitimate purpose, we can store that information. But only if the user does not opt out to storing that information, which.. he already has.. What is this I don't even.. Are those fuckers completely clueless to basic logic?
Humans want answers. For many people, even if those answers are wrong, they're better than having no answers.
I also think that a part of humanity is compelled to believe in something greater than / outside of themselves. And for those that don't go for religion, I think that's manifest in conspiracy theories, ghosts and UFO's.
Btw, your comment sounds a bit similar to one of my older posts regarding science / religion:)
Yeah, it's exactly what it sounds like. My natural sleeping pattern makes me go to bed around 3-4am. And sleep for ~8-9 hours. And no, just waking early in the weekend does not help. This has been going on since before I started school, and nothing tried the last 20 years have changed that one bit.
I'm tired of friends and complete strangers saying stuff like "Just change your rhythm" or "You're just lazy, I did it just fine!" - I have tried, it Does Not Help. It does not change a thing.
In fact, the disorder is sometimes referred to as "social jet lag" - it might even be the exact disorder the article is hinting at.
Your comment sounds like an asshole seeing a guy in wheelchair, and saying "He's just lazy. Look, I can walk just fine, and so can my friends!"
Have you ever tried to get a document or spreadsheet out of Google Docs and into one of the other on-line office suites? How about exporting your entire Google Mail archive and importing it into Hotmail?
Trolling much? I just tested.
Google docs :
File -> Download as -> Word, ODT, RDF, PDF, Text, HTML (Zipped)
I downloaded as ODT, and it looked exactly like on google docs. You can also batch download docs.
And Gmail support both POP3 and IMAP.. What else do you need?
From my point of view, science and religion is equal and opposite.
In religion, you have the explanation, then you try to find and change the facts to fit that.
In science, you have the facts, then you try to find and change the explanation to fit them.
And if you look at it that way, it's easy to see why so many are uncomfortable with science. It's changing, moving, unsure, insecure. What is truth today might be hogwash tomorrow. And humans also have an instinctive impulse to follow those that seem to be most certain.
Science, due to the way it is, changing (sometimes drastically) as new facts or better explanations surface, is easily seen as unsure and less convincing. Religion, on the other hand, have had the same explanation for everything for hundreds of years. It's safe. Reassuring. Comforting. It gives you a cliff to build your self on.
"Here's a new, beautiful 18 year old secretary for you. To help you in your important work. She's up for any work task! *nudge nudge, wink wink*
Oh, no worries, we'll of course pay for her salary. Signed MPAA.
PS: Are boys more your thing, maybe? Want to babysit these two kids for us next week?"
or "Here's a bag of white entertainment products for you, sir!"
Money is only important for what it can buy. Remove money, and they'll just get given the perks directly. And unless you put all of them under 24/7 surveillance, and put the ones doing surveillance under surveillance... Then you WILL have corruption.
Slashdot Mirror
95% will continue oblivious to the dangers of mass surveillance. Those concerned about freedom and privacy have solutions...for now.
And the criminals, of course. They've already started to use separate phones, or just leave them at home when doing misdeeds.
And a decent VPN / TOR is not THAT hard to get going. And if it really is that hard to get going, then I'm sure they have some cash to hire a geek to fix it up for them.
And even that's not really needed.. I read about one drug network that was run over facebook, with fake (female) profiles. Using separate laptops to log in with. Only reason why police found out about it was that one of them forgot his laptop at his brother's place, police raided it for some other reason, and found the laptop. If the criminals also had added truecrypt to the mix, police still wouldn't have any clue. And facebook support HTTPS, so can't log which profile and which data goes through there. If the guy also have a normal FB account, there's no way a 3rd party monitoring system can pick it up (except for some massive SSL root cert abuse)
So in practice, these laws only monitor lawful citizens, and retarded criminals.. And the police shouldn't need all that just to catch retards.
When DRD was pushed here in Norway, I tried to discuss this part of the problem with some politicians, they all went glassy-eyed and started repeating the party lines ("If we don't do this, Norway will be a free place for all the world's heavy criminals, and pedos, and nazis, and drug people, and other assorted bogey men. BE AFRAID!") or just refused to accept the possibility (had one that, after clearly admitting he knew nothing about the internet, stated as a fact that you can't go around it, and then ignored me)
I am sick and tired of politicians making rules about things they don't even have a sliver of understanding about, don't want to understand, and shows an obscene amount of hubris if you try to even hint to them that they might start getting a clue, or at least listen to those that does have.
Sweden have been doing this shit for years already, and here in Norway the politicians are working their asses off to log everything, too. Only, not one of those politicians have any clue about computers, so they still have no idea what should be logged (and thus it's still not active, even tho it should be active from April this year).
And, as an extra bonus, they leave the bill to the ISP's. Because, you know, anything else would be expensive.
The really sad part is, one of the reasons the police wants longer storage (at the moment there is a law that no data can be stored for more than 6 months, including data required to calculate bills and so forth) is that THEY DON'T HAVE ENOUGH MANPOWER to check the data that is collected now within the 6 months period... So the obvious solution is to gather MUCH MORE data to go through, and thus require even more work being spent on it... Logical, right? Welcome to Circus Norway.
Love that one :) Also, this is a perfect followup after that one :)
Now that you actually know how the celloist feel about it all, I mean
Okay, just have to reply to myself here, finally figured out what I did :)
Since the bat was a dollar more, and the price total was 1.10 - I removed the dollar completely and had .10 left. Values was then multiplied by 100 since it's easier to work with.
There was two assertions : Total - 10 -should be equal to bat + ball, and bat should be equal to ball. If first assertion was correct, and if ball was 10, then bat would had to be 0. And thus the second assertion could not be correct.
And so my first answer (ball cost .10) could not be correct. But at that stage, the correct answer was pretty obvious too, since I had a value of 10 that had to be shard equally between two objects. 10/2 = 5. Divide by 100 for ball price, and add the dollar to get the bat price.
I immediately leapt to the wrong answer to the bat and ball but then I subtracted the two, got 90 cents, realised I had messed up and corrected myself.
I also quickly got the 10 cent, then I also did a sanity check.. But the weird thing is, when I did the check it was natural and logical, and obvious.. Now, when I think back, it's just weird.
I checked the price of the bat, and found out it cost .. nothing .. It seems I'd already removed one dollar from the price of the bat mentally, so the logical "price" of the bat would be whatever that was above the one dollar, and should be equal to the ball. So the correction was just a mental exercise of taking the 10 cent and divide it so both had "equal". And thus the right solution became obvious.
But I still have no idea where that logic train came from.. And when I look at it now, it's just weird. Either my brain is smarter than me, or I'm a mad scientist in training.
*facepalm*
Regex, the solution to every problem! Why do it right, when a regex can solve it?
http://hashapass.com/ have a bookmarklet. Not completely auto, you still need to write in a keyword for the site, but still.. Does a good job.
That would only result in Apple going elsewhere
They already tried. It didn't go well.
It also seems like Apple relies on Samsung for the iPhone 5 processor, too. Maybe Samsung is the only manufacturer with the right set of tools for building them?
And the hash is the password again...
If I have stolen $hash from server, I won't need to break that hash to emulate the user.
I just need to get challenge and return hash($stolen_hash + challenge) to the server. Congratulations, you re-invented saving "plaintext" passwords! ;)
Actually, it does store your save games in the cloud, for the games that support it.
Either that, or my desktop and laptop have some weird data quantum entanglement going on.
And the narrator... A reason itself to buy the game :)
A Bone to Pick with Cave :D
I really like the EU "law" / guide that the UK law was made from (found here).
Let me quote part 25 (with some added emphasis):
However, such devices, for instance so-called "cookies", can be a legitimate and useful tool, for example, in analysing the effectiveness of website design and advertising, and in verifying the identity of users engaged in on-line transactions.
Where such devices, for instance cookies, are intended for a legitimate purpose, such as to facilitate the provision of information society services, their use should be allowed on condition that users are provided with clear and precise information in accordance with Directive 95/46/EC about the purposes of cookies or similar devices so as to ensure that users are made aware of information being placed on the terminal equipment they are using.
Users should have the opportunity to refuse to have a cookie or similar device stored on their terminal equipment. This is particularly important where users other than the original user have access to the terminal equipment and thereby to any data containing privacy-sensitive information stored on such equipment.
Information and the right to refuse may be offered once for the use of various devices to be installed on the user's terminal equipment during the same connection and also covering any further use that may be made of those devices during subsequent connections.
The methods for giving information, offering a right to refuse or requesting consent should be made as user-friendly as possible. Access to specific website content may still be made conditional on the well-informed acceptance of a cookie or similar device, if it is used for a legitimate purpose.
So if they refuse to have a cookie or similar device stored on their device, we need to know that the user opted out for that and following connections. Since it's a legitimate purpose, we can store that information. But only if the user does not opt out to storing that information, which .. he already has .. What is this I don't even .. Are those fuckers completely clueless to basic logic?
Oh, please.. As if the Bible is that much better?
Remember who gobbled the apple?
There are so many bible verses that I'll just link to some web pages:
First page
Second page
Third page
Yes, the new testament was generally better than the old testament, but there's lots of fun wackiness in both.
Deuteronomy - Chapter 13 is also a fun read :)
Humans want answers. For many people, even if those answers are wrong, they're better than having no answers.
I also think that a part of humanity is compelled to believe in something greater than / outside of themselves. And for those that don't go for religion, I think that's manifest in conspiracy theories, ghosts and UFO's.
Btw, your comment sounds a bit similar to one of my older posts regarding science / religion :)
I'm sure that Samsung, Motorola, HTC, and Google combined have more patents than Apple.
Actually...
Maybe this would fit?
You had languages!? Oh, we used to DREAM about having languages!
We had to bash our head into a sharp metal spike until the right bits were randomly generated, or we passed out from blood loss.
And after that, for the failed students, the professor would rip their skin off and make punch cards from it!
OMG! This is the most meaningful thing I've ever read on this site! // yeah.. someone had to say it..
Delayed sleep phase disorder
Yeah, it's exactly what it sounds like. My natural sleeping pattern makes me go to bed around 3-4am. And sleep for ~8-9 hours. And no, just waking early in the weekend does not help. This has been going on since before I started school, and nothing tried the last 20 years have changed that one bit.
I'm tired of friends and complete strangers saying stuff like "Just change your rhythm" or "You're just lazy, I did it just fine!" - I have tried, it Does Not Help. It does not change a thing.
In fact, the disorder is sometimes referred to as "social jet lag" - it might even be the exact disorder the article is hinting at.
Your comment sounds like an asshole seeing a guy in wheelchair, and saying "He's just lazy. Look, I can walk just fine, and so can my friends!"
This. First thought I had when seeing the headline.
And now to contribute a bit here.. Meet Doug
Have you ever tried to get a document or spreadsheet out of Google Docs and into one of the other on-line office suites? How about exporting your entire Google Mail archive and importing it into Hotmail?
Trolling much? I just tested.
Google docs :
File -> Download as -> Word, ODT, RDF, PDF, Text, HTML (Zipped)
I downloaded as ODT, and it looked exactly like on google docs. You can also batch download docs.
And Gmail support both POP3 and IMAP.. What else do you need?
Contacs list... CSV and vCard export.
Well, if he's the good guy, what does that tell you about the bad guys?
From my point of view, science and religion is equal and opposite.
In religion, you have the explanation, then you try to find and change the facts to fit that.
In science, you have the facts, then you try to find and change the explanation to fit them.
And if you look at it that way, it's easy to see why so many are uncomfortable with science. It's changing, moving, unsure, insecure. What is truth today might be hogwash tomorrow. And humans also have an instinctive impulse to follow those that seem to be most certain.
Science, due to the way it is, changing (sometimes drastically) as new facts or better explanations surface, is easily seen as unsure and less convincing. Religion, on the other hand, have had the same explanation for everything for hundreds of years. It's safe. Reassuring. Comforting. It gives you a cliff to build your self on.
...and thus bringing Big Media's power into a whole new dimension.
If you really believe that will cut down on corruption, I got a very nice bridge to sell you.
Are you kidding?
"Here's a new, beautiful 18 year old secretary for you. To help you in your important work. She's up for any work task! *nudge nudge, wink wink*
Oh, no worries, we'll of course pay for her salary.
Signed MPAA.
PS: Are boys more your thing, maybe? Want to babysit these two kids for us next week?"
or "Here's a bag of white entertainment products for you, sir!"
Money is only important for what it can buy. Remove money, and they'll just get given the perks directly. And unless you put all of them under 24/7 surveillance, and put the ones doing surveillance under surveillance... Then you WILL have corruption.