The plane crash probably kills me, the bomb exploding definitely kills me. Yes it matters: there is a small difference between probably and definitely.
However, with Win10 it's the other way around: there is a bomb exploding while your plane lost its tail and is plummeting down. Given that the explosion of the bomb already killed you, do you still care that the remainder of the plane is crashing?
Disclamer, I'm a PADI Rescue Diver (1409EW7988). Diving can be exhausting on the mind and body. The sport underwater itself isn't very harsh on the muscles and doesn't require fitness unless you do something wrong or you are into and trained for that kind of dives. But everything surrounding the dive can be. For example lifting equipment into and out of the boat, helping other (less experienced divers) with their equipment, putting the equipment on and off, getting out of the water and back into the boat. Current can also drag you away hard and that might mean that you have to push your legs harder to navigate right. But you can choose not to dive if the current is too hard (it can also be dangerous to dive with too much current).
Mentally, depending on the site, the difficulty of the site (ie. was visibility low and navigation hard), the amount of stuff you experience (colors, colors, colors all over the place, fish, animal life, etc) and back on the boat talking about the experience and listening to other people's experiences, it can also be "a lot" to digest. This doesn't make it any less fun. But too much fun can also be mentally hard, after a week.
But of course, it all depends on how hard you squeeze your vacation. As you mention, you can squeeze three or four dives or five in a day. One or two in the morning. One or two in the afternoon. And a night dive. I can assure you you'll sleep well if you did five dives in a day. Repeat that an entire week, and you'll be exhausted.
Oh, absolutely. Don't worry. I want anonymity, encryption and all that for the same reasons Snowden needed it and free speech to flourish. But only if a currency allows it, will criminals use it. Similarly are the smarter criminals already increasingly using truly anonymous communication systems like OTR, Tor, etc.
Interestingly are the terrorist-criminals not using much of that. I guess that's because they calculate that they only need to stay alive until the moment they'll strike society. And if they'd use communication systems that don't disappear in the masses of normal-civil communications, then that could be dangerous for their sleeper-cell companions who'll strike later.
But selling and buying stolen goods? Stuff that matters? Tor, OTR, Bitcoin (or dodgecoin), etc. Of course.
It's anonymous, so who cares? Your chances of getting caught are too slim to care too much. Note that this only counts in environments where using national currency for similar transactions ain't anonymous (buying goods from a minor without parental consent is illegal too, so if you'd do that with non-anonymous currency then you'd also face jail-time). In such an environment you're best bet is indeed to exchange his used phone for a few packs of cigarettes. You can buy the packs legally (still) in any counter with non-anonymous currency, the boy can sell the phone in exchange for the packs, and his dad will probably give him non-anonymous national currency in return for it.
Anonymity might be removed, too. This is fine as long as you work with (as in, for or pro) the system that has eyes on all purchases and transactions taking place.
For example if that system allows a certain amount of (big fish) criminal activity to take place in (or with, within) its currency (world), then it might not be a problem (for the system).
And this would or could actually be beneficial for said system (and its ruling elite and powerful huge fish). As then the big criminal fish are easily detected, and can be taught to play by the rules of the truly elite and powerful huge fish. Ie. their gas company gets suddenly taken over by the state, and they get imprisoned for treason. Things like that. Happens every few decades, and then it's all over in the news and foreign powers are suddenly mad and pissed that their lobbyist dogs are no longer in power.
The small fish and their petty criminal activity won't harm or endanger the huge truly elite and powerful fish. So for the system it's perfectly fine to allow certain amounts of criminal stuff going on within the national currency system.
But take away the anonymity of the small criminal fish, and they'll start trading in anonymous barter, instead of the currency published by the huge truly elite and powerful fish. This, however, enables the big criminal fish to trade with aforementioned same small criminal fish in ways that the truly elite and powerful fish can monitor nor control.
You see. It wasn't turtles but fish all the way down.
Truly elite powerful fish that announce inter-banking interest rates, print money, make poor suffering honest fish pay taxes, police them, etc down to big criminal fish to small criminal fish to poor suffering tax paying honest fish. Just like the food-chain. Like everything in nature.
Don't worry. Before we need to take cash from your cold dead heads; society will have replaced currency with a different barter system. Happened plenty of times in history. Especially in times of currency crisis, war, etc. Also look at prisons to learn how micro societies deal with the problem: in many prisons are packs of cigarettes the popular means of payment.
Phasing out cash is a great tool to get alternative barter systems going. Human nature evolves around restrictions like a non-anonymous payment system.
In prison, for example, and during wartime, too, are packs of cigarettes a fine means of payment. Tobacco doesn't quickly go bad, you can divide a pack easily into smaller parts in case of smaller transactions and the barter even comes with a box to hold the small cash amounts together. The box makes it easy to count. And it's a commonality in prison. Thus, great as exchange of value when selling and buying contraband.
In total wartime, same thing. If cash leaves, other barter systems replace it. Immediately.
If digital currency replaces anonymous cash, and the digital currency is not guaranteed to be anonymous (if criminals can't use it); it'll get replaced. Immediately. I expect there to be alternative barter systems in China already. They will grow in popularity the moment it's no longer possible to pay and sell anonymously with the national currencies of China.
You just created the first need for symmetric multiprocessing right there: as your first computer's results must be filtered by a second infinitely fast computer.
They don't have to be infinitely fast. They need to be infinitely deterministic. Ie. a measurement or an interrupt must arrive in time, with in-time defined by the maximum timing boundaries of the experiment being executed.
If that happens with a garbage-collector (which is now infinitely fast), then we could perhaps use higher languages for real time.
Obviously if performance no longer matters at all, all function parameters, both in and out, could be checked. Sure why not, then.
And how about having infinite memory and storage resources at equally infinite reading and writing speed?
However, rfc1925:
(2) No matter how hard you push and no matter what the priority,
you can't increase the speed of light.
For example: rumor has it that you can't work on the same file with two people in Visual Source Safe, as you have to lock files while working on it.
But then again, I always convinced the teams I was working with to use a CVS service that I set up and then at the of the day we copied that over to VSS, whenever I had to use VSS. Nowadays everybody uses git of course, and before that most companies and/or teams had already migrated to Subversion. Long time since I heard about Visual Source Safe. Didn't know it was still in use, at all.
Cool about git is that Microsoft is going for it fully. By that I mean that nowadays almost all of its development tools come with really good git support, by default. And rumor has it that Microsoft internally uses git with gitflow for a lot of their own projects, too. I guess that explains why they adapted their own tools for it.
The same thing. A staff, a bunch of people, who made it their career for others to depend on their shitty tools. The guys in the company that I worked at even made some thing, some program, with a UI, that would show the elements that got changed given a specific mkbranch for a specific workflow (because in ClearCase a 'branch' is apparently just a way of marking elements. I don't even dare to call them files anymore, as they are 'elements'. Or something somethings).
Problem was this tool they made didn't have scrollbars. So when the element path (which is a magical string that looks like a filepath but isn't, it's a something somethings path) got too long, then it was all my fault and i did it all wrong and... their tool they made was great and a gift from god. And how could I! Seriously! So long element paths! Blasphemy.
And reading what I just wrote, I realize it's absurd. It doesn't make any fucking sense.
It really doesn't. I know!
ClearCase doesn't make any fucking sense. So much that you can't explain what is wrong with it without saying things that make no goddamn fucking sense.
Ever had this thing called eclipsed files with ClearCase? Ever received a huge E-mail with fifty "element"-lines as reply "can you give me your branch so that I can help out with your feature?". Ever didn't know what version of a file you were looking at because the config_spec has some magical order in that it processes said element lines (making me call ClearCase the SchrÃdingers Cat Management - you have to open the box to know if your code was dead or alive, and opening it kills it).
Ever saw compilation performance drop to 500% or 600% or more slower due to fstat being called on each and every header file in a preprocessed.cpp file's output over the network? (so, network latency is killing your compiler's speed). Ever had a SCM that required you to rewrite all your Makefiles in some absurdly stupid format so that some omake thing understands it?
Ever had to head time and time again that it's all your fault because "you don't use ClearCase right". While when you ask the ClearCase fanboys "so then how do I use it?" you basically get IBM this and IBM that and IBM is great and no answers.
I'm going to stop.. before I mental because of thinking about the horror I've been through.
Oh comon. As if the the fact that intelligence agency could possibly use a preinstalled microphone of an electronic device, is in any way non-obvious or as if it's problematic that the 'intended' knows about this.
Truth is that all terrorists so far used unencrypted normal SMS services and burner phones, or the unencrypted chat services of various Playstation games. What, you want to make it a secret that intelligence agencies can see the chatlogs of Playstation games, too?
Mister obvious is obvious. A microphone in a smartTV can obviously be turned against the owner of the smartTV. Nothing special or secret about that. The news here is just the fact that with this it got confirmed that intel-agencies are doing this actively. Not that they can. They can from day one, even from before TV-sets came with microphones.
With physical access, they are in your living room. That means they could also just stick a tiny microphone at the back of the TV, or underneath your coach, or.. drill a hole in your walls, insert microphone, fix the hole with some material that doesn't block sound too much and repaint the fixed wall. Endless possibilities.
I'm more concerned when the smartTV can be remotely turned into a listening device. Which, btw, wouldn't surprise if also that would be possible. Either way, my TV ain't online. Nexflix, if I ever want it, will go via another device to the TV.
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Belgium doesn't exist! It's all one big conspiracy! https://zapatopi.net/belgium/
(But still, I'm glad that my government is taking action against Facebook. Let's hope the other EU nations join in on the fun)
Just make a CAPTCHA displaying the number 90. If they type "nonante", they are Belgian. If they type wa is da hier? They are Belgian.
Police in China are now the new Glassholes.
In the same ruling they are also encouraging the use of encryption and explicitly stating that EU states must not ban the use of encryption.
The plane crash probably kills me, the bomb exploding definitely kills me. Yes it matters: there is a small difference between probably and definitely.
However, with Win10 it's the other way around: there is a bomb exploding while your plane lost its tail and is plummeting down. Given that the explosion of the bomb already killed you, do you still care that the remainder of the plane is crashing?
Disclamer, I'm a PADI Rescue Diver (1409EW7988). Diving can be exhausting on the mind and body. The sport underwater itself isn't very harsh on the muscles and doesn't require fitness unless you do something wrong or you are into and trained for that kind of dives. But everything surrounding the dive can be. For example lifting equipment into and out of the boat, helping other (less experienced divers) with their equipment, putting the equipment on and off, getting out of the water and back into the boat. Current can also drag you away hard and that might mean that you have to push your legs harder to navigate right. But you can choose not to dive if the current is too hard (it can also be dangerous to dive with too much current).
Mentally, depending on the site, the difficulty of the site (ie. was visibility low and navigation hard), the amount of stuff you experience (colors, colors, colors all over the place, fish, animal life, etc) and back on the boat talking about the experience and listening to other people's experiences, it can also be "a lot" to digest. This doesn't make it any less fun. But too much fun can also be mentally hard, after a week.
But of course, it all depends on how hard you squeeze your vacation. As you mention, you can squeeze three or four dives or five in a day. One or two in the morning. One or two in the afternoon. And a night dive. I can assure you you'll sleep well if you did five dives in a day. Repeat that an entire week, and you'll be exhausted.
Oh, absolutely. Don't worry. I want anonymity, encryption and all that for the same reasons Snowden needed it and free speech to flourish. But only if a currency allows it, will criminals use it. Similarly are the smarter criminals already increasingly using truly anonymous communication systems like OTR, Tor, etc.
Interestingly are the terrorist-criminals not using much of that. I guess that's because they calculate that they only need to stay alive until the moment they'll strike society. And if they'd use communication systems that don't disappear in the masses of normal-civil communications, then that could be dangerous for their sleeper-cell companions who'll strike later.
But selling and buying stolen goods? Stuff that matters? Tor, OTR, Bitcoin (or dodgecoin), etc. Of course.
It's anonymous, so who cares? Your chances of getting caught are too slim to care too much. Note that this only counts in environments where using national currency for similar transactions ain't anonymous (buying goods from a minor without parental consent is illegal too, so if you'd do that with non-anonymous currency then you'd also face jail-time). In such an environment you're best bet is indeed to exchange his used phone for a few packs of cigarettes. You can buy the packs legally (still) in any counter with non-anonymous currency, the boy can sell the phone in exchange for the packs, and his dad will probably give him non-anonymous national currency in return for it.
(note, I'm indeed a scuba diver)
Anonymity might be removed, too. This is fine as long as you work with (as in, for or pro) the system that has eyes on all purchases and transactions taking place.
For example if that system allows a certain amount of (big fish) criminal activity to take place in (or with, within) its currency (world), then it might not be a problem (for the system).
And this would or could actually be beneficial for said system (and its ruling elite and powerful huge fish). As then the big criminal fish are easily detected, and can be taught to play by the rules of the truly elite and powerful huge fish. Ie. their gas company gets suddenly taken over by the state, and they get imprisoned for treason. Things like that. Happens every few decades, and then it's all over in the news and foreign powers are suddenly mad and pissed that their lobbyist dogs are no longer in power.
The small fish and their petty criminal activity won't harm or endanger the huge truly elite and powerful fish. So for the system it's perfectly fine to allow certain amounts of criminal stuff going on within the national currency system.
But take away the anonymity of the small criminal fish, and they'll start trading in anonymous barter, instead of the currency published by the huge truly elite and powerful fish. This, however, enables the big criminal fish to trade with aforementioned same small criminal fish in ways that the truly elite and powerful fish can monitor nor control.
You see. It wasn't turtles but fish all the way down.
Truly elite powerful fish that announce inter-banking interest rates, print money, make poor suffering honest fish pay taxes, police them, etc down to big criminal fish to small criminal fish to poor suffering tax paying honest fish. Just like the food-chain. Like everything in nature.
It's beautifully evil.
Don't worry. Before we need to take cash from your cold dead heads; society will have replaced currency with a different barter system. Happened plenty of times in history. Especially in times of currency crisis, war, etc. Also look at prisons to learn how micro societies deal with the problem: in many prisons are packs of cigarettes the popular means of payment.
Phasing out cash is a great tool to get alternative barter systems going. Human nature evolves around restrictions like a non-anonymous payment system.
In prison, for example, and during wartime, too, are packs of cigarettes a fine means of payment. Tobacco doesn't quickly go bad, you can divide a pack easily into smaller parts in case of smaller transactions and the barter even comes with a box to hold the small cash amounts together. The box makes it easy to count. And it's a commonality in prison. Thus, great as exchange of value when selling and buying contraband.
In total wartime, same thing. If cash leaves, other barter systems replace it. Immediately.
If digital currency replaces anonymous cash, and the digital currency is not guaranteed to be anonymous (if criminals can't use it); it'll get replaced. Immediately. I expect there to be alternative barter systems in China already. They will grow in popularity the moment it's no longer possible to pay and sell anonymously with the national currencies of China.
Slashdot has finally finalized its registration system for monkeys? Great! That'll dramatically improve the average quality of comments.
Hey! It's not our fault that your employer makes shitty technology decisions. No need to make us worry about it.
Silly money people.
You just created the first need for symmetric multiprocessing right there: as your first computer's results must be filtered by a second infinitely fast computer.
They don't have to be infinitely fast. They need to be infinitely deterministic. Ie. a measurement or an interrupt must arrive in time, with in-time defined by the maximum timing boundaries of the experiment being executed.
If that happens with a garbage-collector (which is now infinitely fast), then we could perhaps use higher languages for real time.
Obviously if performance no longer matters at all, all function parameters, both in and out, could be checked. Sure why not, then.
And how about having infinite memory and storage resources at equally infinite reading and writing speed?
However, rfc1925:
(2) No matter how hard you push and no matter what the priority,
you can't increase the speed of light.
For example: rumor has it that you can't work on the same file with two people in Visual Source Safe, as you have to lock files while working on it.
But then again, I always convinced the teams I was working with to use a CVS service that I set up and then at the of the day we copied that over to VSS, whenever I had to use VSS. Nowadays everybody uses git of course, and before that most companies and/or teams had already migrated to Subversion. Long time since I heard about Visual Source Safe. Didn't know it was still in use, at all.
Cool about git is that Microsoft is going for it fully. By that I mean that nowadays almost all of its development tools come with really good git support, by default. And rumor has it that Microsoft internally uses git with gitflow for a lot of their own projects, too. I guess that explains why they adapted their own tools for it.
The same thing. A staff, a bunch of people, who made it their career for others to depend on their shitty tools. The guys in the company that I worked at even made some thing, some program, with a UI, that would show the elements that got changed given a specific mkbranch for a specific workflow (because in ClearCase a 'branch' is apparently just a way of marking elements. I don't even dare to call them files anymore, as they are 'elements'. Or something somethings).
Problem was this tool they made didn't have scrollbars. So when the element path (which is a magical string that looks like a filepath but isn't, it's a something somethings path) got too long, then it was all my fault and i did it all wrong and ... their tool they made was great and a gift from god. And how could I! Seriously! So long element paths! Blasphemy.
And reading what I just wrote, I realize it's absurd. It doesn't make any fucking sense.
It really doesn't. I know!
ClearCase doesn't make any fucking sense. So much that you can't explain what is wrong with it without saying things that make no goddamn fucking sense.
omg. Good for you that you managed to escape.
Ever had this thing called eclipsed files with ClearCase? Ever received a huge E-mail with fifty "element"-lines as reply "can you give me your branch so that I can help out with your feature?". Ever didn't know what version of a file you were looking at because the config_spec has some magical order in that it processes said element lines (making me call ClearCase the SchrÃdingers Cat Management - you have to open the box to know if your code was dead or alive, and opening it kills it).
Ever saw compilation performance drop to 500% or 600% or more slower due to fstat being called on each and every header file in a preprocessed .cpp file's output over the network? (so, network latency is killing your compiler's speed). Ever had a SCM that required you to rewrite all your Makefiles in some absurdly stupid format so that some omake thing understands it?
Ever had to head time and time again that it's all your fault because "you don't use ClearCase right". While when you ask the ClearCase fanboys "so then how do I use it?" you basically get IBM this and IBM that and IBM is great and no answers.
I'm going to stop.. before I mental because of thinking about the horror I've been through.
Sorry. No keyboard. Poor guy.
Okay. That doesn't sound as bad as having to use it..
I once had to use ClearCase.
QED
Oh comon. As if the the fact that intelligence agency could possibly use a preinstalled microphone of an electronic device, is in any way non-obvious or as if it's problematic that the 'intended' knows about this.
Truth is that all terrorists so far used unencrypted normal SMS services and burner phones, or the unencrypted chat services of various Playstation games. What, you want to make it a secret that intelligence agencies can see the chatlogs of Playstation games, too?
Mister obvious is obvious. A microphone in a smartTV can obviously be turned against the owner of the smartTV. Nothing special or secret about that. The news here is just the fact that with this it got confirmed that intel-agencies are doing this actively. Not that they can. They can from day one, even from before TV-sets came with microphones.
With physical access, they are in your living room. That means they could also just stick a tiny microphone at the back of the TV, or underneath your coach, or .. drill a hole in your walls, insert microphone, fix the hole with some material that doesn't block sound too much and repaint the fixed wall. Endless possibilities.
I'm more concerned when the smartTV can be remotely turned into a listening device. Which, btw, wouldn't surprise if also that would be possible. Either way, my TV ain't online. Nexflix, if I ever want it, will go via another device to the TV.
No no no, no. Right click and eMacs opens. Not vi. Besides, the usability issues will go away if you'd let vim, not vi, open.