It doesn't matter that it's impossible. Someone got paid to do it. The judge said the gov't must hire someone to do it, so they did, and thus passed the hot potato. Everyone gets to say "I did my job." and kee their pay. Yet the job doesn't get done.
What are they going to do? Fucking outlaw Mac OS X, Linux and all the other non-Microsoft operating systems?
They wouldn't outlaw them, just buraucratize it and wash their hands. "You can run Linux, MacOS, any OS you want, you just have to run this software on it. It is win32 software. You are free to choose your own OS but must resolve technical problems arising from these choices. " Polite, diplomatic, bureaucratic way of saying "fuck you".
> I don't see why they don't just put in some sort of sniffer at ISP switches.
I'm sure they already have that, but it's reserved for more important uses.
Could be. The ISP filters remain as a lesser-used, real-crime and spy snooping, while the clientside "snooping" serves mostly as a false-door for criminals to believe they can foil and be anon, also satisfies the anti-p2p industry people.
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I've seen that in many volunteer groups, open source projocts, etc. People start it with enthusiasm, "it'll be the best", etc. They run into problems, of course, there always are. They stop, turn to other things, and "have no time". They changed priorities.
You can call anything ecological now. BP successfully marketed themselves as an ecological energy company. They should stop calling these "airships" and call them "super-ecological-airplanes", quoting fuel usage compared to jets.
The only form of transportation I think could be better that trains is some combination of low-altitude flying pulled by engines on the ground. 100% electric, safety provided by ground, weight of engine, fuel, guidance, etc, supported by ground. Needs some kind of "rail", but fast-switching rails now can be as flexible as roads.
Many things take time and a second or third effort to catch on. Microsoft has failed at many things initially, but they never give up. They do use many unfair advantages, but they also are persistent.
Whatever. It seems that people were asked "do you want your country to have economic advantages, by using... ", and most people just say "yes", right there. Many people also favor using invasions and war for economic advantage, or foreign terrorizing and pillaging for economic advantage. I would support all secrets of all kinds to be aired and *widely distributed and published*, no matter what kind of data, secret, or info. But it seems that these secrets just pass on from one secret knowledge store to another through invisible conduits called espionage.
So, when it seems like someone else has control over your phone, it's much more unsettling. You think of it and everything on it as "yours," and every time you're reminded that someone else holds all the keys to it, that illusion is dispelled a little bit more.
Well I'm coming to see it this way. Transparency, public accessibility, open source, GPL, leaks, true information, hacks, jailbreaks, less privacy, and spying, are all are a forms of "uncontrolled data", of data circulating with no control, although with contrary politics and interests depending on when, who, what, and where the data involves. Privacy, security, encryption, proprietary data, closed source, copyrights, patents, successful secrecy, misinformation, are all forms of "controlled data", of some party successfully controlling access according to whatever needs or interests they have. From a political, interests point of view, everyone wants their own data to be controlled, and those of others, to be uncontrolled. From a purely technical point of view, those intests are contradictory. Either we want technology that is controllable, or that is not. Any hack can be be used for spying, or for finding and leaking secret data. A right to privacy and secrecy can be used by a citizen to have the right to go out on a date hidden from his mom, and the same "rights" are used by a corrupt government official to hold private, secret meetings. It's the same tools, just the principles, politics, are different. Mom, or an ex, can spy on the son, or journalists can spy on the official, both violating this privacy. Well, in the end, data tends to circulate too easily, like ideas and thoughts, it seems to be the nature of all three, and going against this nature is just more and more complicated. It's much easier and efficient to go with the uncontrolled-data methods, and have open meetings, date people openly, have open source, less secrecy, and that unfortunately comes with it's price - less privacy. The problem is with the people that abuse this lack of control to data, and use it for secret purposes. Marketing companies, closed source, copyrights, spies, saboteurs, controlling parents, and the jealous ex.
Genuine question, no sarcasm tag required: How do those who berate Apple's walled-garden approach feel about games consoles? It genuinely puzzles me why we don't hear nearly so many complaints about the lack of open access to consoles, while a similar (to my mind; feel free to put me right) approach to a phone is evil.
As for the exploit that makes this jailbreaking possible, I sympathize with people who wish to jailbreak their phone, but I hope this particular exploit is closed as soon as possible. I've heard there are some unscrupulous types in tha intarweb who might consider using such a thing for less than altruistic purposes.
OK, maybe a touch of sarcasm after all.
I believe that would be qualified as light irony, and good-humored - not sarcasm. I think irony is more positive, honest and humorous, while sarcasm is more critical and degrading, and welcome by most of the audience, unless against their interests of course. Good irony is someties hard to be funny without becoming negative or offensive. If more were to speak like that...
Not infighting. Beetter to work. Why don't people want Linux? Why do factory-preinstalled boxes get formatted with pirate windows? What to do about Microsft allowing piracy and profiting from it? What compelling reason could there be to run linux? What can Linux do, and Windows cannot? Aside from the usual price, legality, and viruses, as those aren't cutting it? Rhetoric doesn't really help influence millions of users either.
Local internet-crime-and-game hysteria here in Sao Paulo crteated local laws requiring we keep ID, name, phone, address, DOB, access times, school hours, blabla forever, from every user at cybercafes. I said "I refuse to" - and let everyone go undocumented. Couple of smarty-pants lawyers sent anonymous email offending each other from here. Sued each other. Fines we may face, around USD 7,000. Damages we may pay, about another USD 7,000. Profit we get there, around USD 1000/mo. Result - hell if I know, just that we're sad one day, angry the next. And reading up. On Tor, Aircrack, new legislation, how to send anon email appropriately. And perhaps for a new job, if I just close...
So many exploits and spy wares, you'd think more stuff would end up in wikileaks. I guess it all goes to various groups private wikileaks, known as intelligence or something similar..
Drive full. It's packed in here dude. Please release some space. Like those potential-evidence 121,000 scanned federal court transcripts from 1972 you found in grandpas basement, but havent read yet to decide if it belongs on some icelandic website... Nobody's gonna read it all.
Definitely obscure. "Ecological" cars and airplanes? Carbon-powered? Obscure motivations? Trains are 100% electric, infinitely safer, more spacious, smaller footprint than roads, etc. On short routes, they can be faster than flying, after factoring taxis and airport waits. And, there are bar-cars. -- http://gizmodo.com/5434582/the-fastest-train-in-the-world
I would vote for them too. But not hoping some immediate revolution would take place. It's hard to implement and would have backlash from the establishment, claiming something is illegal, irregular, etc. Having the candidate fully represent his online-bosses (thats what constituents should be!) will become a practical and technical challenge. To really represent what the poll-participants said, he would have to also change his mind when they do, adopt positions setup and give speeches written by them, see how to give interviews, participate in debates, etc. The mass of represented voters would have to be organized. Their organization would need to have some sort of structure, or have it be the no-structure-officialized, mass-rule-is-an-organized-structure. Abuse of power, or infighting, will follow, because it is so common in society. In the end, the only real path to a better society and government is education, reducing the average level of ignorance. .
Its really annoying to see everyone saying their browser runs "faster", then browsing pages on any kind of out-of-date pc and seeing it go as fast as cold molasses. Come on, just to browse websites you need to buy new computers? It's not easy to make standards good for all, but some kind of tolerance for older equipment is necessary too, at least in public standards of stuff.
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It doesn't matter that it's impossible. Someone got paid to do it. The judge said the gov't must hire someone to do it, so they did, and thus passed the hot potato. Everyone gets to say "I did my job." and kee their pay. Yet the job doesn't get done.
What are they going to do? Fucking outlaw Mac OS X, Linux and all the other non-Microsoft operating systems?
They wouldn't outlaw them, just buraucratize it and wash their hands. "You can run Linux, MacOS, any OS you want, you just have to run this software on it. It is win32 software. You are free to choose your own OS but must resolve technical problems arising from these choices. " Polite, diplomatic, bureaucratic way of saying "fuck you".
Does the law perchance say you *have* to run it? No matter what your platform?
I'll agree to record everything everyone does. As long as it monitors _everything_ that _everyone_ does. Especially corporations and governments.
> I don't see why they don't just put in some sort of sniffer at ISP switches.
I'm sure they already have that, but it's reserved for more important uses.
Could be. The ISP filters remain as a lesser-used, real-crime and spy snooping, while the clientside "snooping" serves mostly as a false-door for criminals to believe they can foil and be anon, also satisfies the anti-p2p industry people.
I've seen that in many volunteer groups, open source projocts, etc. People start it with enthusiasm, "it'll be the best", etc. They run into problems, of course, there always are. They stop, turn to other things, and "have no time". They changed priorities.
At this rate, soon the public will own nothing at all, everything will be copyright, patent, or contractually resctricted by some corporation.
I don't see why they don't just put in some sort of sniffer at ISP switches. Like the Carnivore/Omnivore things.
Doesn't Windows have built-in monitoring, or are non-US government entities not allowable parties to contract services for it?
You can call anything ecological now. BP successfully marketed themselves as an ecological energy company. They should stop calling these "airships" and call them "super-ecological-airplanes", quoting fuel usage compared to jets.
The only form of transportation I think could be better that trains is some combination of low-altitude flying pulled by engines on the ground. 100% electric, safety provided by ground, weight of engine, fuel, guidance, etc, supported by ground. Needs some kind of "rail", but fast-switching rails now can be as flexible as roads.
Many things take time and a second or third effort to catch on. Microsoft has failed at many things initially, but they never give up. They do use many unfair advantages, but they also are persistent.
Whatever. It seems that people were asked "do you want your country to have economic advantages, by using... ", and most people just say "yes", right there. Many people also favor using invasions and war for economic advantage, or foreign terrorizing and pillaging for economic advantage. I would support all secrets of all kinds to be aired and *widely distributed and published*, no matter what kind of data, secret, or info. But it seems that these secrets just pass on from one secret knowledge store to another through invisible conduits called espionage.
So, when it seems like someone else has control over your phone, it's much more unsettling. You think of it and everything on it as "yours," and every time you're reminded that someone else holds all the keys to it, that illusion is dispelled a little bit more.
Well I'm coming to see it this way. Transparency, public accessibility, open source, GPL, leaks, true information, hacks, jailbreaks, less privacy, and spying, are all are a forms of "uncontrolled data", of data circulating with no control, although with contrary politics and interests depending on when, who, what, and where the data involves. Privacy, security, encryption, proprietary data, closed source, copyrights, patents, successful secrecy, misinformation, are all forms of "controlled data", of some party successfully controlling access according to whatever needs or interests they have. From a political, interests point of view, everyone wants their own data to be controlled, and those of others, to be uncontrolled. From a purely technical point of view, those intests are contradictory. Either we want technology that is controllable, or that is not. Any hack can be be used for spying, or for finding and leaking secret data. A right to privacy and secrecy can be used by a citizen to have the right to go out on a date hidden from his mom, and the same "rights" are used by a corrupt government official to hold private, secret meetings. It's the same tools, just the principles, politics, are different. Mom, or an ex, can spy on the son, or journalists can spy on the official, both violating this privacy. Well, in the end, data tends to circulate too easily, like ideas and thoughts, it seems to be the nature of all three, and going against this nature is just more and more complicated. It's much easier and efficient to go with the uncontrolled-data methods, and have open meetings, date people openly, have open source, less secrecy, and that unfortunately comes with it's price - less privacy. The problem is with the people that abuse this lack of control to data, and use it for secret purposes. Marketing companies, closed source, copyrights, spies, saboteurs, controlling parents, and the jealous ex.
Genuine question, no sarcasm tag required: How do those who berate Apple's walled-garden approach feel about games consoles? It genuinely puzzles me why we don't hear nearly so many complaints about the lack of open access to consoles, while a similar (to my mind; feel free to put me right) approach to a phone is evil.
As for the exploit that makes this jailbreaking possible, I sympathize with people who wish to jailbreak their phone, but I hope this particular exploit is closed as soon as possible. I've heard there are some unscrupulous types in tha intarweb who might consider using such a thing for less than altruistic purposes.
OK, maybe a touch of sarcasm after all.
I believe that would be qualified as light irony, and good-humored - not sarcasm. I think irony is more positive, honest and humorous, while sarcasm is more critical and degrading, and welcome by most of the audience, unless against their interests of course. Good irony is someties hard to be funny without becoming negative or offensive. If more were to speak like that...
Linux has about 1% of os market. Divided among distros. And that 1% argues among themselves over everything.
Not infighting. Beetter to work. Why don't people want Linux? Why do factory-preinstalled boxes get formatted with pirate windows? What to do about Microsft allowing piracy and profiting from it? What compelling reason could there be to run linux? What can Linux do, and Windows cannot? Aside from the usual price, legality, and viruses, as those aren't cutting it? Rhetoric doesn't really help influence millions of users either.
Local internet-crime-and-game hysteria here in Sao Paulo crteated local laws requiring we keep ID, name, phone, address, DOB, access times, school hours, blabla forever, from every user at cybercafes. I said "I refuse to" - and let everyone go undocumented. Couple of smarty-pants lawyers sent anonymous email offending each other from here. Sued each other. Fines we may face, around USD 7,000. Damages we may pay, about another USD 7,000. Profit we get there, around USD 1000/mo. Result - hell if I know, just that we're sad one day, angry the next. And reading up. On Tor, Aircrack, new legislation, how to send anon email appropriately. And perhaps for a new job, if I just close...
You mean they never get detected, right? Iphone virii are *much* better written. The data stolen is worth much more.
So many exploits and spy wares, you'd think more stuff would end up in wikileaks. I guess it all goes to various groups private wikileaks, known as intelligence or something similar..
This is the internet. Facts, spelling, and concepts are all optional.
Nah. TEA is unreadable. Especially the leaves.
Drive full. It's packed in here dude. Please release some space. Like those potential-evidence 121,000 scanned federal court transcripts from 1972 you found in grandpas basement, but havent read yet to decide if it belongs on some icelandic website... Nobody's gonna read it all.
obscure?
Definitely obscure. "Ecological" cars and airplanes? Carbon-powered? Obscure motivations? Trains are 100% electric, infinitely safer, more spacious, smaller footprint than roads, etc. On short routes, they can be faster than flying, after factoring taxis and airport waits. And, there are bar-cars. -- http://gizmodo.com/5434582/the-fastest-train-in-the-world
I would vote for them too. But not hoping some immediate revolution would take place. It's hard to implement and would have backlash from the establishment, claiming something is illegal, irregular, etc. Having the candidate fully represent his online-bosses (thats what constituents should be!) will become a practical and technical challenge. To really represent what the poll-participants said, he would have to also change his mind when they do, adopt positions setup and give speeches written by them, see how to give interviews, participate in debates, etc. The mass of represented voters would have to be organized. Their organization would need to have some sort of structure, or have it be the no-structure-officialized, mass-rule-is-an-organized-structure. Abuse of power, or infighting, will follow, because it is so common in society. In the end, the only real path to a better society and government is education, reducing the average level of ignorance. .
Its really annoying to see everyone saying their browser runs "faster", then browsing pages on any kind of out-of-date pc and seeing it go as fast as cold molasses. Come on, just to browse websites you need to buy new computers? It's not easy to make standards good for all, but some kind of tolerance for older equipment is necessary too, at least in public standards of stuff.