you can also pin the lack of creative output on the inability to exchange ideas outside of a small sphere.
Even then you don't have the freedom to hang out with the weirdos if your neighbors are going to ostracize you for it. Cities definitely bring more than just anonymity, all the pieces are necessary to sustain a culture of developing new ideas.
Until the last few hundred years, at most, the vast majority of humanity lived in small villages or tribes where basically everyone knew everything about everyone else, at least within their village. Secrets could be kept, but only with difficulty and usually not for a long time.
And there was very little creative output. Cities enabled the privacy that comes with being just another face in the crowd. Some people like to complain that in the city no knows their neighbors. But that very lack of societal pressure enables people to be more adventurous. It lets people take risks because if they do something stupid it won't haunt them for the rest of their life.
When the pressure to conform is lifted people naturally see the world in new ways because they don't have to worry whether their neighbors agree or not. Take away the freedom that comes with privacy and progress - both artistic and scientific - will come to a near standstill.
This time they're trying to push their propaganda on us. "Oh yes, botnets are bad, but oh my, aren't they neat?".
Oh come on, it doesn't read like that at all. All it does is explain why the guys who are supposed to be fighting these things now have incentive to do a really bad job of fighting them. Much in the same way that NSA perverted their own mission statement by weakening crypto standards used by the US government so that they could snoop on anyone using those same crypto standards.
is it not just a little bit disingenuous to make it the first word of the headline, implying that it was her physical disability rather than her mental illness that caused the issue at the border?
Since I wrote the headline, I'll tell you why I did it that way -- In order to emphasize that she was not a threat. The agent would not have needed "private medical records" to deny her entrance for being in a wheelchair.
Although I don't really understand why they want to keep depressed people out, it's just a tourist visa, not even a long term thing.
Bruce Schneier calls it "the war on the unusual" - I like "the war on diginity" because it better encompasses the kafka-esque nature of the unthinking and unyielding bureaucracy that produces this sort of result.
Why would citizens be talking about granting political figures asylum when citizens don't have the power to grant asylum?
Lol. You were the one bitchin about me ignoring the citizens. The questions you ask me would be better directed at yourself. You certainly are terribly careless. Probably a little mental illness there too.
On the one hand we are all glad that he persevered, on the other hand, he was the "Reverend" Martin Luther King Jr. and he was cheating on his wife with multiple women. Hypocritical scumbag, even though also a great man.
"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." --Cardinal Richelieu
The FBI used similar tactics on the "most dangerous Negro" aka Martin Luther King -- they bugged his bedroom and then tried to blackmail him with an audiotape of him having sex with women who weren't his wife.
Facial recognition is plenty fast to track you throughout public transit with trivial difficulty
Citation required. I'd totally buy that they can track a rider on a single trip. But tracking everybody across every trip they make every day of the year. No way.
That only has meaning if the jury is already informed. Assuming this jury is like most, all they've got is one guy saying "I invented it" compared to the patent being disputed which essentially says the same thing about another guy.
Maybe there was more to it, like spelling out the patents he was awarded for PKE (if there were any) or journal articles he wrote about it. That sort of thing. But if there wasn't a lot of effort put in to establish his credibility beyond his own words on the stand, then I can see how a jury would minimize what he said and come up with the kind of ruling they did.
They used Lenovo T400 laptops which are circa 2008 models, no extra audio hardware. They could do 20bits/sec over nearly meters 20 meters if they had line-of-site between the laptops.
No, it's the people of those countries who were wronged, and they are angry. Who cares about the fuxking politicians? That's a distraction.
OK, just for you:
All these aggrieved citizens who wouldn't have anything to talk about were it not for Snowden, but not a single one of them is talking about offering him asylum.
If you use Google Voice you can set it to ask each caller to say their name before it will ring your phone. That's enough to stop practically all automated calling systems.
It's $20 to port your number to Google Voice, but then everything else besides outgoing international calls is paid for by Google spying on you.
With the right plugin you could also configure your browser to spew random ip addresses in the forwarded-for header if your proxy doesn't put one itself.
Since it isn't obvious, there are two ways that VPNs help:
(1) They mix your traffic in with everybody else using the same proxy - when you are at home your IP address is generally yours alone, but with one of these proxy services there could be hundreds of people using the same IP address.
(2) You can easily switch between proxies. The service I use has about 20 proxies in the US alone. Whenever I do something where I have to explicitly hand out identifying information (like make a purchase with paypal) I switch to a different proxy for just that one transaction and then move on to a 3rd proxy or back to the original proxy as soon as that specific transaction is done. That makes it harder to correlate any of the other websites I 'anonymously' browsed with the information I had to give up to in order to make a purchase.
All these aggrieved politicians who wouldn't have anything to talk about were it not for Snowden, but not a single one of them is talking about offering him asylum.
Indonesia's got its problems (seems to be on the 2-steps forward, 1-step back path to social modernity) but it is hard to think of a better place to live your life in exile than Bali. Beats the hell out of those russian winters.
As I see it, there are two main problems with this situation:
(1) The obvious - that Google will have undue influence over Mozilla's design decisions. Some will argue that is impossible, etc. Maybe so, but money talks.
(2) The less obvious - that Google will fall on hard times and Mozilla will find themselves high and dry. Some people argue that Bing and other search engines also bid to be default search engine in Firefox so Mozilla could just switch to one of them for a nearly equivalent revenue stream. But the main reason there were other bids is because Google is so dominate. If Google tanks, then the other search engines will be in a stronger position and won't need Mozilla as much as they do today. So the money they are likely to offer will also be reduced.
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you can also pin the lack of creative output on the inability to exchange ideas outside of a small sphere.
Even then you don't have the freedom to hang out with the weirdos if your neighbors are going to ostracize you for it. Cities definitely bring more than just anonymity, all the pieces are necessary to sustain a culture of developing new ideas.
Until the last few hundred years, at most, the vast majority of humanity lived in small villages or tribes where basically everyone knew everything about everyone else, at least within their village. Secrets could be kept, but only with difficulty and usually not for a long time.
And there was very little creative output. Cities enabled the privacy that comes with being just another face in the crowd. Some people like to complain that in the city no knows their neighbors. But that very lack of societal pressure enables people to be more adventurous. It lets people take risks because if they do something stupid it won't haunt them for the rest of their life.
When the pressure to conform is lifted people naturally see the world in new ways because they don't have to worry whether their neighbors agree or not. Take away the freedom that comes with privacy and progress - both artistic and scientific - will come to a near standstill.
Cash prices have started to get much better.
Some related info here:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2012/05/27/why-do-hospitals-charge-4423-for-250-ct-scans-blame-arizona-republicans/
Uh, I dunno why that first link is effedup. Here it is again:
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/obamacare-healthcaregov-registration-98671.html
To test it, they want you to put in all kinds of personal information. No thanks.
You joke, but it is true. At the last minute, the government added a http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/obamacare-healthcaregov-registration-98671.html">requirement to force people to register before they could see prices.
Foruntately, these guys came along and partially liberated that information. It still isn't detailed - when I looked up what was available to me, there were about 20 different plans all priced within $10 of each other, but no further details.
This time they're trying to push their propaganda on us. "Oh yes, botnets are bad, but oh my, aren't they neat?".
Oh come on, it doesn't read like that at all. All it does is explain why the guys who are supposed to be fighting these things now have incentive to do a really bad job of fighting them. Much in the same way that NSA perverted their own mission statement by weakening crypto standards used by the US government so that they could snoop on anyone using those same crypto standards.
When big pharma pays a publisher to publish a fake journalâ¦
is it not just a little bit disingenuous to make it the first word of the headline, implying that it was her physical disability rather than her mental illness that caused the issue at the border?
Since I wrote the headline, I'll tell you why I did it that way -- In order to emphasize that she was not a threat. The agent would not have needed "private medical records" to deny her entrance for being in a wheelchair.
Although I don't really understand why they want to keep depressed people out, it's just a tourist visa, not even a long term thing.
Bruce Schneier calls it "the war on the unusual" - I like "the war on diginity" because it better encompasses the kafka-esque nature of the unthinking and unyielding bureaucracy that produces this sort of result.
Not due to private medical records, due to her medical condition being advertised all over the internet
There have been at least 12 others with similar experiences at the border. I think it is unlikely that they've all written books about their circumstances.
We don't want no evil Canadian paraplegic terrorist to assault our defenseless citizens with kind words.
Irrational fear is the new patriotism.
Can I get this for my car, to absorb radar and lidar?
Why would citizens be talking about granting political figures asylum when citizens don't have the power to grant asylum?
Lol. You were the one bitchin about me ignoring the citizens. The questions you ask me would be better directed at yourself. You certainly are terribly careless. Probably a little mental illness there too.
On the one hand we are all glad that he persevered, on the other hand, he was the "Reverend" Martin Luther King Jr. and he was cheating on his wife with multiple women. Hypocritical scumbag, even though also a great man.
"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."
--Cardinal Richelieu
Here's an article on the danger of wiretapping to the political process.
The FBI used similar tactics on the "most dangerous Negro" aka Martin Luther King -- they bugged his bedroom and then tried to blackmail him with an audiotape of him having sex with women who weren't his wife.
Facial recognition is plenty fast to track you throughout public transit with trivial difficulty
Citation required. I'd totally buy that they can track a rider on a single trip. But tracking everybody across every trip they make every day of the year. No way.
"I invented it."
That only has meaning if the jury is already informed. Assuming this jury is like most, all they've got is one guy saying "I invented it" compared to the patent being disputed which essentially says the same thing about another guy.
Maybe there was more to it, like spelling out the patents he was awarded for PKE (if there were any) or journal articles he wrote about it. That sort of thing. But if there wasn't a lot of effort put in to establish his credibility beyond his own words on the stand, then I can see how a jury would minimize what he said and come up with the kind of ruling they did.
I am really interested in learning details of an ANAL FONT.
The Details of an ANAL FONT
They used Lenovo T400 laptops which are circa 2008 models, no extra audio hardware. They could do 20bits/sec over nearly meters 20 meters if they had line-of-site between the laptops.
No, it's the people of those countries who were wronged, and they are angry. Who cares about the fuxking politicians? That's a distraction.
OK, just for you:
All these aggrieved citizens who wouldn't have anything to talk about were it not for Snowden, but not a single one of them is talking about offering him asylum.
If you use Google Voice you can set it to ask each caller to say their name before it will ring your phone. That's enough to stop practically all automated calling systems.
It's $20 to port your number to Google Voice, but then everything else besides outgoing international calls is paid for by Google spying on you.
https://support.google.com/voice/answer/1065667?hl=en
Http proxies can add (if configured to do so) an header reporting the real IP, so even if you are behind a proxy they will get your IP.
They can indeed. You can use this website to see if your browser is doing that, it is the HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR header.
http://ipinfo.info/html/privacy-check.php
With the right plugin you could also configure your browser to spew random ip addresses in the forwarded-for header if your proxy doesn't put one itself.
proxy/VPN access to the net.
Since it isn't obvious, there are two ways that VPNs help:
(1) They mix your traffic in with everybody else using the same proxy - when you are at home your IP address is generally yours alone, but with one of these proxy services there could be hundreds of people using the same IP address.
(2) You can easily switch between proxies. The service I use has about 20 proxies in the US alone. Whenever I do something where I have to explicitly hand out identifying information (like make a purchase with paypal) I switch to a different proxy for just that one transaction and then move on to a 3rd proxy or back to the original proxy as soon as that specific transaction is done. That makes it harder to correlate any of the other websites I 'anonymously' browsed with the information I had to give up to in order to make a purchase.
All these aggrieved politicians who wouldn't have anything to talk about were it not for Snowden, but not a single one of them is talking about offering him asylum.
Indonesia's got its problems (seems to be on the 2-steps forward, 1-step back path to social modernity) but it is hard to think of a better place to live your life in exile than Bali. Beats the hell out of those russian winters.
As I see it, there are two main problems with this situation:
(1) The obvious - that Google will have undue influence over Mozilla's design decisions. Some will argue that is impossible, etc. Maybe so, but money talks.
(2) The less obvious - that Google will fall on hard times and Mozilla will find themselves high and dry. Some people argue that Bing and other search engines also bid to be default search engine in Firefox so Mozilla could just switch to one of them for a nearly equivalent revenue stream. But the main reason there were other bids is because Google is so dominate. If Google tanks, then the other search engines will be in a stronger position and won't need Mozilla as much as they do today. So the money they are likely to offer will also be reduced.