You do not understand the danger of having everything you look at, read, say, and/or comment on being catalogued (sp? really?) and analyzed.
There have been numerous books written that explore this idea which implies that I can not do it justice in the limited space available here.
I think you should take a step back and look at what you are really giving up by not encrypting everything. Yes, if "they" really want you, such lame encryption tactics and strategies will not help. It will help a LOT against untargeted (wtf? no such word? Firefox is REALLY getting on my nerves.) dragnets.
Really Why? what content on Slashdot justify's the need for encrypted content? I really don't get this huge push for SSL everywhere. give me SSL when I need it, I don't want SSL for accessing a forum or a news site or just generally browsing the web.
I already moderated in this discussion but I thought this was important enough to reply to.
SSL everywhere defeats fishing expeditions. Your argument is roughly equivalent to, "I did not do anything wrong; therefore, I have nothing to hide".
People express opinions here. Sometimes, ideas are explored. It is very easy to imagine a scenario where you have somehow come to the attention of some government functionary and they decide to examine your communications history.
Your perfectly innocent comments on Slashdot could come back to haunt you. Isn't it better to not let it all get collected in the first place?
The problem is that most Americans are perfectly happy with the police acting this way.
Then by definition, they are not Americans. They should go form their own fucking gestapo somewhere else. It is not welcome in America. Such things are blatantly against the spirit and letter of the laws that America was founded upon.
Honestly, I think most people miss the point entirely. It does not matter if Deckard is human or replicant. You are supposed to judge him by his actions and feelings. By all accounts, he is supremely human in nature even if he is actually a replicant.
In summary, he or it, thinks, feels, and cares. Are these not the things that matter? It is a story of racism but without the obvious cues like skin color.
Hm. Autism or polio. Autism or polio. What a choice. Heh.
A non-proven 1 in 9 million chance of Autism or a 1 in 400 thousand chance of polio. 400 is greater than 9 if I ignore the trailing word so let's risk polio!
I don't care what stereo you put in the car. The fact of the matter is, cars last 10 to 20 years. Stereo/entertainment technology lasts less than 5.
Not true if the stereo has an auxiliary input and is just an amplifier and some speakers, possibly with radio tuning technology as well. A setup like that would have been useful 60 years ago and useful today.
What you are referring to is extra technology beyond simple audio. That expires relatively quickly. Simple audio? Pretty much timeless.
But you are missing the entire point of all of this:
There was no technical reason for Inifiniti to include part of the ECU in the radio in the G35X (10 years ago now). It was to prevent you from EVER changing the radio. Why do that? It was to provide a disincentive to you buying the base model for less money. The price spread of the Inifiniti G35X base model to the Fully Loaded model was about $10,000. The actual amenities were worth maybe $1,000. That is a 10x markup.
If you could just remove the crappy base stereo, you could probably do without the automatic windows, heated seats, etc too. These people are not dumb. They will do everything they can to take as much money from you as possible. Preventing the removal of the stereo is one of those ways (despite it being technically illegal, but who is going to prosecute that case?)
Long story short, the stereo is "integrated" so they can upsell you. The stereo has a limited span of usefulness so you have to go back and buy a new CAR. The stereo is used as leverage against you.
Every single one of those bastards should be facing a public trial for breaking their oath of office. They have successfully passed a bill that is directly in violation of the Constitution.
Just wow.
How do I get them into a courtroom? Do I have to write the Justice Department? Can I make a citizens arrest? How does this work exactly because this is clearly the time it needs to happen.
That's one of the reasons the government loves the secret gathering so much, makes it harder for it to get challenged. If you can't show this harmed you, then you can't fight it in court.
I will be harmed by this when it becomes law. I feel intimidated by it. It will alter my personal and private behavior because I know someone will always be able to review what I do privately.
I am a terrible dancer. I go hide in my house and record myself dancing so I can improve my dancing... but I am utterly ashamed for anyone to see it. This law will allow them to see me dancing; therefore, I can no longer do it.
I am courageous enough to bring a lawsuit over it though. Let's see them show that I do not have standing.
However, all is not lost. Despite the problems of politics, the voters still do respond to such tactics eventually. Every Senator that got elected for their first time in 2008 and voted for the ACA just lost their re-election bid. Many others who voted for the ACA are also gone. Once the real effects of the ACA started to hit home and the propaganda proven untrue, the voters responded.
So business as usual. Politicians are the mercenaries in the war of the power elite against the general populace. They were always considered disposable... and they were disposed. It does not matter as their purpose was served: The ACA remains and it will not be removed.
I can cut a straight line with a circular saw without using a guide or a guard, but I can do it a hell of a lot quicker with a guide to rest against and a guard to keep me from having to constantly check my fingers and chords etc.
The metaphor does not stand. C with guides and guards has not been invented yet. All of the "safe" languages are more like a device that you put your wood into and choose the shape you want it from a list of predefined shapes.
C is a very powerful tool. It is almost as powerful as Assembly language. The bar is very high indeed to competent with C.
Hmm... upon reading my comment, I realize that C *IS* guides and guards... for Assembly language. There is no way to add more guides and guards without limiting free-form cutting with the saw.
Expensive as it might be, the first call he should have made would have been to his lawyer.
No. If you have a clearance, you know EXACTLY who to contact in this instance. Talking to a lawyer does nothing. You report the contact through the proper channels and nothing bad happens to you. You do not report the contact and you are in trouble. Involving a lawyer does NOT help.
You sound as if you are under 30... If not, I would guess that you grew up in a very middle class to upper class household and have not suffered much in this life.
consider that for a moment...only 90 years ago, the son of perhaps the most powerful and well connected man on the earth died from a blister. playing tennis.
Not to be terribly pedantic here but 90 years ago, the American President was not THAT important of a person. Sure, America participated in World War 1, but America did not emerge as a superpower until World War 2.
The essence of your point is still valid though: The son of a leader in a technologically accelerating country died. From a blister. Within range of the greatest medical care available. Died. From a blister. When a previous president had been shot in the chest and continued giving his speech before getting medical attention. And lived. Crazy.
There is virtually no place in the US where someone who is homeless and jobless cannot get enough assistance from city/state/private agency to change their situation.
That may be true now, I have no current experience. 20+ years ago it was definitely NOT true. I suffered greatly being homeless. Hell, I suffered greatly even having a fucking job working 6 days a week being paid $3.35 an hour. Housing was, and is, not cheap. Sharing doesn't do any good if the people you share with refuse to ever pay their fair share.
Fuck it. At that point, crimes of theft are not such a big deal. Everyone needs to eat.
Where do you get your definition of Capitalism from?
Capitalism is always, 100% of the time, about trying to restrict or eliminate competition if it is in any way possible to do so.
No. That is not Capitalism. That may happen in Capitalism but it is not an essential feature of it. Restricting or eliminating competition happens in every system, Socialism, Fascism, and even Nature itself.
I suspect you have been indoctrinated. At a minimum, the indoctrination is to Hate Capitalism. Yes, I capitalized the word 'hate'. Deal with it.:)
Girls were dominant in general when I was in grade school but I dominated them in all classes. Teachers made pets out of the smart girls and tended to ignore me but I did not care. I had as many stars as the top girls did in the lower grades and got as many E's and then A's on tests as the smartest girls as well.
In the third grade, we had a math face-off competition. All the smart girls ended up on one team and one by one, my team kept falling into the smart girls team until I was the only one left in my team. It was me against the smartest girl. I beat her. The bell rang to end the class but I knew that I had won the entire contest. Once I had the smartest girl on my team, the other smart girls would "fail" to her on purpose and to me because I was smarter. At that point, it was over.
In summary, girls may dominate subjects in general during grade school but it is not always true.
Back in the early 80's something like 40% of CS graduates were women. Why do you think they seem to have collectively chosen to avoid it and related fields?
Because of the oppressive white male autocracy of course. There is nothing else that it could be.
After all, females are not being subconsciously and subtly programmed and manipulated to be actually unable to socialize with males.
Someone (probably white males (no sarcasm that time but gender and race are truly irrelevant here)) is poisoning the well so to speak concerning relationships between males and females. I can not stand being around American females anymore. Their world view has become incredibly distorted. It is to the point that I suspect that many of them have a very precarious hold on reality. European women in general seem to be mostly real. Women from the Netherlands seem to be the best to interact with as they do not assume that every interaction with a male is all about the male trying to get into their panties.
Why is this programming occurring? Who does it benefit? I have no idea, but it is a terrible terrible thing. Men and women just want to get along but someone clearly has a vested interest in not letting that happen.
But yeah, let's just blame men in general disrespecting women in general and carry on with the pre-manufactured conflicts that we are intended to participate in.
My only concern would be raising the speed limit on the western side of the state where there are more mountains and forests. There are some highways with 70 mph limits with limited visibility (both on the road and in the underbrush around) that makes for dangerous driving.
Not a problem. Any driver that drives beyond the limit of their vehicle or conditions is soon dead. Since it is empty out there, the only thing that anyone needs to worry about is the unsightly wreck wrapped around a boulder.
I did not miss your point. I am pretty sure I addressed it by saying bad things happen to people and:
I do not want any of those things to happen just as I do not want someone's life ruined because a person is too stupid to do anything more than look at initial search results as a basis for life altering decisions.
I am willing to accept being the victim of such a bad luck thing if it means my search results are untainted. Honestly, I think it says a lot about people if they are willing to ruin someone's life as easily as performing a Google search and judging without even reading any of the articles and trying to understand what they are seeing.
Tainted search results are tainted search results. I do not want them. Yes, I understand I could one day be the victim here. I stand by what I say.
Just as unbundling internet access from other network services makes a lot of sense.
People pay directly for internet access. Nobody pays for search. If you "unbundle" search from all other offerings, you lose search entirely. Are you going to mandate that people pay search engines directly?
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You do not understand the danger of having everything you look at, read, say, and/or comment on being catalogued (sp? really?) and analyzed.
There have been numerous books written that explore this idea which implies that I can not do it justice in the limited space available here.
I think you should take a step back and look at what you are really giving up by not encrypting everything. Yes, if "they" really want you, such lame encryption tactics and strategies will not help. It will help a LOT against untargeted (wtf? no such word? Firefox is REALLY getting on my nerves.) dragnets.
Really Why? what content on Slashdot justify's the need for encrypted content? I really don't get this huge push for SSL everywhere. give me SSL when I need it, I don't want SSL for accessing a forum or a news site or just generally browsing the web.
I already moderated in this discussion but I thought this was important enough to reply to.
SSL everywhere defeats fishing expeditions. Your argument is roughly equivalent to, "I did not do anything wrong; therefore, I have nothing to hide".
People express opinions here. Sometimes, ideas are explored. It is very easy to imagine a scenario where you have somehow come to the attention of some government functionary and they decide to examine your communications history.
Your perfectly innocent comments on Slashdot could come back to haunt you. Isn't it better to not let it all get collected in the first place?
The problem is that most Americans are perfectly happy with the police acting this way.
Then by definition, they are not Americans. They should go form their own fucking gestapo somewhere else. It is not welcome in America. Such things are blatantly against the spirit and letter of the laws that America was founded upon.
Honestly, I think most people miss the point entirely. It does not matter if Deckard is human or replicant. You are supposed to judge him by his actions and feelings. By all accounts, he is supremely human in nature even if he is actually a replicant.
In summary, he or it, thinks, feels, and cares. Are these not the things that matter? It is a story of racism but without the obvious cues like skin color.
Hm. Autism or polio. Autism or polio. What a choice. Heh.
A non-proven 1 in 9 million chance of Autism or a 1 in 400 thousand chance of polio. 400 is greater than 9 if I ignore the trailing word so let's risk polio!
I don't care what stereo you put in the car. The fact of the matter is, cars last 10 to 20 years. Stereo/entertainment technology lasts less than 5.
Not true if the stereo has an auxiliary input and is just an amplifier and some speakers, possibly with radio tuning technology as well. A setup like that would have been useful 60 years ago and useful today.
What you are referring to is extra technology beyond simple audio. That expires relatively quickly. Simple audio? Pretty much timeless.
But you are missing the entire point of all of this:
There was no technical reason for Inifiniti to include part of the ECU in the radio in the G35X (10 years ago now). It was to prevent you from EVER changing the radio. Why do that? It was to provide a disincentive to you buying the base model for less money. The price spread of the Inifiniti G35X base model to the Fully Loaded model was about $10,000. The actual amenities were worth maybe $1,000. That is a 10x markup.
If you could just remove the crappy base stereo, you could probably do without the automatic windows, heated seats, etc too. These people are not dumb. They will do everything they can to take as much money from you as possible. Preventing the removal of the stereo is one of those ways (despite it being technically illegal, but who is going to prosecute that case?)
Long story short, the stereo is "integrated" so they can upsell you. The stereo has a limited span of usefulness so you have to go back and buy a new CAR. The stereo is used as leverage against you.
This has to be the most purposefully misleading post I've ever seen on slash dot.
Oh please. There have been far more misleading posts on Slashdot. This one is bad, but not even close to the most misleading.
LOL
I normally ignore AC comments but this one is good. Thank you. :)
Every single one of those bastards should be facing a public trial for breaking their oath of office. They have successfully passed a bill that is directly in violation of the Constitution.
Just wow.
How do I get them into a courtroom? Do I have to write the Justice Department? Can I make a citizens arrest? How does this work exactly because this is clearly the time it needs to happen.
That's one of the reasons the government loves the secret gathering so much, makes it harder for it to get challenged. If you can't show this harmed you, then you can't fight it in court.
I will be harmed by this when it becomes law. I feel intimidated by it. It will alter my personal and private behavior because I know someone will always be able to review what I do privately.
I am a terrible dancer. I go hide in my house and record myself dancing so I can improve my dancing... but I am utterly ashamed for anyone to see it. This law will allow them to see me dancing; therefore, I can no longer do it.
I am courageous enough to bring a lawsuit over it though. Let's see them show that I do not have standing.
However, all is not lost. Despite the problems of politics, the voters still do respond to such tactics eventually. Every Senator that got elected for their first time in 2008 and voted for the ACA just lost their re-election bid. Many others who voted for the ACA are also gone. Once the real effects of the ACA started to hit home and the propaganda proven untrue, the voters responded.
So business as usual. Politicians are the mercenaries in the war of the power elite against the general populace. They were always considered disposable... and they were disposed. It does not matter as their purpose was served: The ACA remains and it will not be removed.
I can cut a straight line with a circular saw without using a guide or a guard, but I can do it a hell of a lot quicker with a guide to rest against and a guard to keep me from having to constantly check my fingers and chords etc.
The metaphor does not stand. C with guides and guards has not been invented yet. All of the "safe" languages are more like a device that you put your wood into and choose the shape you want it from a list of predefined shapes.
C is a very powerful tool. It is almost as powerful as Assembly language. The bar is very high indeed to competent with C.
Hmm... upon reading my comment, I realize that C *IS* guides and guards... for Assembly language. There is no way to add more guides and guards without limiting free-form cutting with the saw.
Expensive as it might be, the first call he should have made would have been to his lawyer.
No. If you have a clearance, you know EXACTLY who to contact in this instance. Talking to a lawyer does nothing. You report the contact through the proper channels and nothing bad happens to you. You do not report the contact and you are in trouble. Involving a lawyer does NOT help.
You sound as if you are under 30... If not, I would guess that you grew up in a very middle class to upper class household and have not suffered much in this life.
consider that for a moment...only 90 years ago, the son of perhaps the most powerful and well connected man on the earth died from a blister. playing tennis.
Not to be terribly pedantic here but 90 years ago, the American President was not THAT important of a person. Sure, America participated in World War 1, but America did not emerge as a superpower until World War 2.
The essence of your point is still valid though: The son of a leader in a technologically accelerating country died. From a blister. Within range of the greatest medical care available. Died. From a blister. When a previous president had been shot in the chest and continued giving his speech before getting medical attention. And lived. Crazy.
There is virtually no place in the US where someone who is homeless and jobless cannot get enough assistance from city/state/private agency to change their situation.
That may be true now, I have no current experience. 20+ years ago it was definitely NOT true. I suffered greatly being homeless. Hell, I suffered greatly even having a fucking job working 6 days a week being paid $3.35 an hour. Housing was, and is, not cheap. Sharing doesn't do any good if the people you share with refuse to ever pay their fair share.
Fuck it. At that point, crimes of theft are not such a big deal. Everyone needs to eat.
Where do you get your definition of Capitalism from?
Capitalism is always, 100% of the time, about trying to restrict or eliminate competition if it is in any way possible to do so.
No. That is not Capitalism. That may happen in Capitalism but it is not an essential feature of it. Restricting or eliminating competition happens in every system, Socialism, Fascism, and even Nature itself.
I suspect you have been indoctrinated. At a minimum, the indoctrination is to Hate Capitalism. Yes, I capitalized the word 'hate'. Deal with it. :)
Girls were dominant in general when I was in grade school but I dominated them in all classes. Teachers made pets out of the smart girls and tended to ignore me but I did not care. I had as many stars as the top girls did in the lower grades and got as many E's and then A's on tests as the smartest girls as well.
In the third grade, we had a math face-off competition. All the smart girls ended up on one team and one by one, my team kept falling into the smart girls team until I was the only one left in my team. It was me against the smartest girl. I beat her. The bell rang to end the class but I knew that I had won the entire contest. Once I had the smartest girl on my team, the other smart girls would "fail" to her on purpose and to me because I was smarter. At that point, it was over.
In summary, girls may dominate subjects in general during grade school but it is not always true.
Back in the early 80's something like 40% of CS graduates were women. Why do you think they seem to have collectively chosen to avoid it and related fields?
Because of the oppressive white male autocracy of course. There is nothing else that it could be.
After all, females are not being subconsciously and subtly programmed and manipulated to be actually unable to socialize with males.
Someone (probably white males (no sarcasm that time but gender and race are truly irrelevant here)) is poisoning the well so to speak concerning relationships between males and females. I can not stand being around American females anymore. Their world view has become incredibly distorted. It is to the point that I suspect that many of them have a very precarious hold on reality. European women in general seem to be mostly real. Women from the Netherlands seem to be the best to interact with as they do not assume that every interaction with a male is all about the male trying to get into their panties.
Why is this programming occurring? Who does it benefit? I have no idea, but it is a terrible terrible thing. Men and women just want to get along but someone clearly has a vested interest in not letting that happen.
But yeah, let's just blame men in general disrespecting women in general and carry on with the pre-manufactured conflicts that we are intended to participate in.
... or you should quit pretending that a 512-bit cert is going to stop anything besides a nosy neighbor ...
Erm, that is EXACTLY what the 512-bit cert is for: to stop the nosy neighbor.
But whatever...
My only concern would be raising the speed limit on the western side of the state where there are more mountains and forests. There are some highways with 70 mph limits with limited visibility (both on the road and in the underbrush around) that makes for dangerous driving.
Not a problem. Any driver that drives beyond the limit of their vehicle or conditions is soon dead. Since it is empty out there, the only thing that anyone needs to worry about is the unsightly wreck wrapped around a boulder.
How do you source something that didn't happen? There was never a major fire.
Attach a Citation Needed tag to the claim of the fire?
Ah. So the idea is communism. Stupid people are stupid. We should call them what they are rather than call them anti-capitalists.
I did not miss your point. I am pretty sure I addressed it by saying bad things happen to people and:
I do not want any of those things to happen just as I do not want someone's life ruined because a person is too stupid to do anything more than look at initial search results as a basis for life altering decisions.
I am willing to accept being the victim of such a bad luck thing if it means my search results are untainted. Honestly, I think it says a lot about people if they are willing to ruin someone's life as easily as performing a Google search and judging without even reading any of the articles and trying to understand what they are seeing.
Tainted search results are tainted search results. I do not want them. Yes, I understand I could one day be the victim here. I stand by what I say.
Just as unbundling internet access from other network services makes a lot of sense.
People pay directly for internet access. Nobody pays for search. If you "unbundle" search from all other offerings, you lose search entirely. Are you going to mandate that people pay search engines directly?