You just don't know how to recognise weasel words when you hear them. No president has ever been able to dictate the full terms of any budget plan, not even close. At best he leans on prominent committee members to get some high profile stuff the way he wants it. Then it's either compromise and get something passed or fight it out with a veto. Obama seems to be big on compromising.
Neither of these are perfect, but here are two different firefox add-ons that can significantly reduce the chance of you falling victim to a compromised certificate authority:
Network Notary - sort of crowd-sourcing approach Certificate Patrol - remembers the certs of sites you've visited in the past and tells you when they change
This is a somewhat infamous clip of Shatner really taking the piss out of a producer trying to tell him how to act. I think it was from something in the mid-90s.
Oops, something took the spaces out of the URL. Try this instead
After about 10 takes, Shanter would get tired and stop trying to be Shatner (i.e. the pompous hero) and he would start to play around with the lines and actually act.
This is a somewhat infamous clip of Shatner really taking the piss out of a producer trying to tell him how to act. I think it was from something in the mid-90s.
It's not a short code but since gv numbers are seen as landlines you can't sign up for Amber alerts.
Sounds like a feature to me. Amber alerts don't work and the system has been abused like crazy because nobody has the balls to tell a freaked out parent that they don't qualify for an amber alert.
So far I have the following sites set to always get a referrer of "http://google.com/"
nytimes.com wsj.com ft.com
I've done it because at one point or another all of those sites have blocked access to some article with the default referrer but let my in with the spoofed referrer.
I also block all cookies associated with those sites too.
We'll need to research a way to "scramble" this predictability that's more efficient than using fixed bitrates, which eats up un-needed bandwidth.
Any fix is going "waste" some amount of bandwidth.
One solution to this attack may be to semi-randomly inject "nops" to bridge phoneme breaks. So instead of being able to identify individual phonemes by bandwidth spikes, attackers will be limited to identifying entire word clusters - like filling the "space" between the phonemes in the first three words of a sentence to make it look like one really long phoneme.
But perhaps something more exotic might work, like randomly re-ordering chunks of audio so that they are transmitted somewhat out of order and then re-ordered on the receiving end. That probably won't use up much extra bandwidth but would increase latency.
This is what happens when you love rule of law so much that you follow laws, rules, policies, terms of service, and end user license agreements over basic ethics.
Actually this is just the opposite - as the submitter pointed out, Flickr's enforcement is arbitrary. That makes it a standard rule of man fubar, just masquerading as rule of law.
the $30 box from the evil empire was shutting down Newark Airport twice a day because a truck driver was using it to defeat the toll transponder on the NJ Turnpike next door.
Which, incidentally, is another reason why all of these plans to replace gasoline taxes by levying road-use taxes based on in-car GPS monitoring devices are a really bad idea. It will create a massive demand for such jammers and they will get a lot more sophisticated than the current ones - coverage will be limited to a few feet, or even inches, and be essentially undetectable without physical inspection.
Valve discovered that if they release more translations of a game on the day of release instead of delaying for a few months, piracy drops and legit purchases go up. Turns out game crackers translate the games too.
In certain countries (Thailand comes to mind) it is common for local movies to be released on DVD without English subtitles to "protect" the local studio's ability to license the movie for foreign distribution. Unfortunately the net result seems to be that a lot of interesting movies never get an english-friendly release. So some people have taken to doing the subtitles themselves (sort of like anime subbers but without all the drama).
I would had wanted to argue "what is there to discuss?", but nevermind. Is apple _turning_ into the next evil empire? No, they already are. Now what?
We need a totally buff chick to throw a giant hammer into the video screen during Jobs's speech at an apple brainwash^d^d^d^d^d^d^d^d^d... product announcement.
Just like the smear job that was performed against those who wanted to know if this man who was completely unknown prior to suddenly becoming President and spent a great deal of his childhood in Kenya
Man it is bizarre that you would make the exact same egregiously ignorant error as Huckabee, two days before he did. Is this a meme on a bunch of nutter websites that Huckabee thinks he can adopt to grab more votes?
Considering this a story about the freaking US government doing this to some of its citizens, what the hell country did you think I was talking about? Don't be a dumbass.
Most (not all, but most) of the drive and support for such programmes seems to come from a relatively small range of business and governmental bodies.
No, the drive comes from the companies themselves - they see immediate value to creating such databases for their primary purposes - billing, trouble-shooting, etc. But because storage is so cheap they figure why the hell not just keep the data around in case they can come up with some other uses for it. It is an extremely rare company that has a formal policy of culling old data from their records - the only contrary example that's widespread are email expiration policies in order to avoid discovery in case they get sued. But that's data about themselves, not about their customers.
Data Protection Act of 1980+something covers a lot of this terrain.
Much of which has been eroded in the name of the terrorism.
...journalists should learn about Tor, email encryption, steganography, and other privacy protecting technologies.
They should also be using their "bully pulpits" to argue against the ongoing centralisation of databases. If our society weren't so enthused with the centralized collection of as much data as possible about its citizens, these sorts of trawling expeditions would be much more difficult to pull off.
We need policies and laws that restrict such databases to collecting and maintaining records to the minimum required for their primary purpose only. For example, call records that go back at least 6 years are completely unnecessary for billing purposes - 6 months, maybe a year at tops, should be the limit.
Let me object in a slightly different way - Congress has no fucking business setting standards for the efficiency of light bulbs. Nope, it's not there in the good ole Constitution. Can't find it anywhere. They should butt out of such things!
Let them first stop wasting billions of dollars a year on the war on drugs and then we can worry about piddly little things like light bulbs.
This is another example of whackos in government run amok. Why not let consumers decide what to buy and for what purpose?
Actually, its another example of politicians (and their monied backers) distorting the truth for political gain. Incandescent bulbs are not being banned.
The law requires all general-purpose light bulbs that produce 310-2600 lumens of light be 30% more energy efficient than circa 2007 incandescent bulbs by 2014. Incandescents are fine if they are more efficient and even back in 2009 plenty of improved incandescents were available. I'm sure even cheaper bulbs are now on store shelves.
During the winter I leave a small 40 watt bulb on in my well house to prevent the pipes from freezing...it gives out enough heat and it's perfect for that application. Now I will have to get a space heater causing me to burn even more electricity even when turned on the lowest setting.
Well, you are using a bulb as a heater - bulbs are intended to produce light. But instead of being stupid about it and wasting all that money on a heater, how about just buying a socket that takes two 20 watt bulbs and use those instead? Everything under 40 watts is exempt from the new efficiency requirements. Or you could just buy a new 60 watt bulb and use that - 20 more watts will cost you what? like $10 more a year for the same heat output.
You try to pitch this as if Amazon was being unreasonable.
No, that's just a side comment. The main point here is that it is not immediately obvious how paying for Prime changes the relative power balance so I pointed it out with an example.
You don't care because you think Amazon will never make use of the power imbalance to harm you directly because you think you are a good person. Great, but irrelevant.
And you missed my point. If someone steals from them, they have the moral right in my opinion to use such levers.
Lol. I didn't miss your point, I explicitly acknowledged it when I said to argue morality is to miss the point. You think the end justifies the means, fine but irrelevant.
So yeah, I think Amazon was definitely in the right here,
To argue about the morality of the issue is to miss the point - you pay for prime, you give amazon a lever they can use to manipulate you. Wether you like the fact that amazon has tried to use that lever on other people is irrelevant.
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"I can make a firm pledge under my plan,...
You just don't know how to recognise weasel words when you hear them. No president has ever been able to dictate the full terms of any budget plan, not even close. At best he leans on prominent committee members to get some high profile stuff the way he wants it. Then it's either compromise and get something passed or fight it out with a veto. Obama seems to be big on compromising.
Neither of these are perfect, but here are two different firefox add-ons that can significantly reduce the chance of you falling victim to a compromised certificate authority:
Network Notary - sort of crowd-sourcing approach
Certificate Patrol - remembers the certs of sites you've visited in the past and tells you when they change
This is a somewhat infamous clip of Shatner really taking the piss out of a producer trying to tell him how to act. I think it was from something in the mid-90s.
Oops, something took the spaces out of the URL.
Try this instead
After about 10 takes, Shanter would get tired and stop trying to be Shatner (i.e. the pompous hero) and he would start to play around with the lines and actually act.
This is a somewhat infamous clip of Shatner really taking the piss out of a producer trying to tell him how to act. I think it was from something in the mid-90s.
It's not a short code but since gv numbers are seen as landlines you can't sign up for Amber alerts.
Sounds like a feature to me. Amber alerts don't work and the system has been abused like crazy because nobody has the balls to tell a freaked out parent that they don't qualify for an amber alert.
We already do. It's called RefControl.
So far I have the following sites set to always get a referrer of "http://google.com/"
nytimes.com
wsj.com
ft.com
I've done it because at one point or another all of those sites have blocked access to some article with the default referrer but let my in with the spoofed referrer.
I also block all cookies associated with those sites too.
At the heart of the best classic science fiction is solid character development and rich human interaction. Its really a psychological drama.
Check out Never Let Me Go (2010) for a great example of doing it right.
We'll need to research a way to "scramble" this predictability that's more efficient than using fixed bitrates, which eats up un-needed bandwidth.
Any fix is going "waste" some amount of bandwidth.
One solution to this attack may be to semi-randomly inject "nops" to bridge phoneme breaks. So instead of being able to identify individual phonemes by bandwidth spikes, attackers will be limited to identifying entire word clusters - like filling the "space" between the phonemes in the first three words of a sentence to make it look like one really long phoneme.
But perhaps something more exotic might work, like randomly re-ordering chunks of audio so that they are transmitted somewhat out of order and then re-ordered on the receiving end. That probably won't use up much extra bandwidth but would increase latency.
This is what happens when you love rule of law so much that you follow laws, rules, policies, terms of service, and end user license agreements over basic ethics.
Actually this is just the opposite - as the submitter pointed out, Flickr's enforcement is arbitrary. That makes it a standard rule of man fubar, just masquerading as rule of law.
Great, so now Sony doesn't have to stop with rooting your PC, they can also root your car. All in the name of copy protection, natch!
"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
"America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, bad-ass speed."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
I prefer the old buttons and liked having a status bar but i'm sure somebody will create add-ons to fix that.
Status-4-Evar
Easily solved by the odometer reading at your biannual inspection.
Bingo. Simple, Elegant and Obvious.
The problem with that is it doesn't put any money into the pockets of political cronies that own companies which make GPS-based trackers.
But does the back button work properly? It has been broken for ages on certain sites...
out on the net today
i saw a dead head sticker on a cadillac
a voice inside my head said don't look back
you can never look back
the $30 box from the evil empire was shutting down Newark Airport twice a day because a truck driver was using it to defeat the toll transponder on the NJ Turnpike next door.
Which, incidentally, is another reason why all of these plans to replace gasoline taxes by levying road-use taxes based on in-car GPS monitoring devices are a really bad idea. It will create a massive demand for such jammers and they will get a lot more sophisticated than the current ones - coverage will be limited to a few feet, or even inches, and be essentially undetectable without physical inspection.
Valve discovered that if they release more translations of a game on the day of release instead of delaying for a few months, piracy drops and legit purchases go up. Turns out game crackers translate the games too.
In certain countries (Thailand comes to mind) it is common for local movies to be released on DVD without English subtitles to "protect" the local studio's ability to license the movie for foreign distribution. Unfortunately the net result seems to be that a lot of interesting movies never get an english-friendly release. So some people have taken to doing the subtitles themselves (sort of like anime subbers but without all the drama).
I would had wanted to argue "what is there to discuss?", but nevermind.
Is apple _turning_ into the next evil empire?
No, they already are.
Now what?
We need a totally buff chick to throw a giant hammer into the video screen during Jobs's speech at an apple brainwash^d^d^d^d^d^d^d^d^d ... product announcement.
Just like the smear job that was performed against those who wanted to know if this man who was completely unknown prior to suddenly becoming President and spent a great deal of his childhood in Kenya
Man it is bizarre that you would make the exact same egregiously ignorant error as Huckabee, two days before he did.
Is this a meme on a bunch of nutter websites that Huckabee thinks he can adopt to grab more votes?
Huckabee Thinks Obama 'Grew Up' in Kenya
"our"? - speak for yourself, probably-American!
Considering this a story about the freaking US government doing this to some of its citizens, what the hell country did you think I was talking about? Don't be a dumbass.
Most (not all, but most) of the drive and support for such programmes seems to come from a relatively small range of business and governmental bodies.
No, the drive comes from the companies themselves - they see immediate value to creating such databases for their primary purposes - billing, trouble-shooting, etc. But because storage is so cheap they figure why the hell not just keep the data around in case they can come up with some other uses for it. It is an extremely rare company that has a formal policy of culling old data from their records - the only contrary example that's widespread are email expiration policies in order to avoid discovery in case they get sued. But that's data about themselves, not about their customers.
Data Protection Act of 1980+something covers a lot of this terrain.
Much of which has been eroded in the name of the terrorism.
...journalists should learn about Tor, email encryption, steganography, and other privacy protecting technologies.
They should also be using their "bully pulpits" to argue against the ongoing centralisation of databases. If our society weren't so enthused with the centralized collection of as much data as possible about its citizens, these sorts of trawling expeditions would be much more difficult to pull off.
We need policies and laws that restrict such databases to collecting and maintaining records to the minimum required for their primary purpose only. For example, call records that go back at least 6 years are completely unnecessary for billing purposes - 6 months, maybe a year at tops, should be the limit.
Let me object in a slightly different way - Congress has no fucking business setting standards for the efficiency of light bulbs. Nope, it's not there in the good ole Constitution. Can't find it anywhere. They should butt out of such things!
Let them first stop wasting billions of dollars a year on the war on drugs and then we can worry about piddly little things like light bulbs.
This is another example of whackos in government run amok. Why not let consumers decide what to buy and for what purpose?
Actually, its another example of politicians (and their monied backers) distorting the truth for political gain. Incandescent bulbs are not being banned.
The law requires all general-purpose light bulbs that produce 310-2600 lumens of light be 30% more energy efficient than circa 2007 incandescent bulbs by 2014. Incandescents are fine if they are more efficient and even back in 2009 plenty of improved incandescents were available. I'm sure even cheaper bulbs are now on store shelves.
During the winter I leave a small 40 watt bulb on in my well house to prevent the pipes from freezing...it gives out enough heat and it's perfect for that application. Now I will have to get a space heater causing me to burn even more electricity even when turned on the lowest setting.
Well, you are using a bulb as a heater - bulbs are intended to produce light. But instead of being stupid about it and wasting all that money on a heater, how about just buying a socket that takes two 20 watt bulbs and use those instead? Everything under 40 watts is exempt from the new efficiency requirements. Or you could just buy a new 60 watt bulb and use that - 20 more watts will cost you what? like $10 more a year for the same heat output.
You try to pitch this as if Amazon was being unreasonable.
No, that's just a side comment. The main point here is that it is not immediately obvious how paying for Prime changes the relative power balance so I pointed it out with an example.
You don't care because you think Amazon will never make use of the power imbalance to harm you directly because you think you are a good person. Great, but irrelevant.
And you missed my point. If someone steals from them, they have the moral right in my opinion to use such levers.
Lol. I didn't miss your point, I explicitly acknowledged it when I said to argue morality is to miss the point. You think the end justifies the means, fine but irrelevant.
So yeah, I think Amazon was definitely in the right here,
To argue about the morality of the issue is to miss the point - you pay for prime, you give amazon a lever they can use to manipulate you. Wether you like the fact that amazon has tried to use that lever on other people is irrelevant.