LOL, not a chance. Those tools that are for fighting terrorism also bring about a level of potential control that all humans are born with a desire to be granted. We are about to see the most insane dictatorship that this world has ever seen. It is going to get BAD. Very very bad.
Honestly, I have not pedaled more than 100 miles in a few decades now... but when I did, there was no such thing as GPS and it was not a problem at all. I would just head out randomly and explore. Mountains, buildings, even the location of the sun was sufficient for navigation.
Nowadays, when I explore, it is anywhere up to a thousand miles in a day... and GPS is fantastic. I love being able to look at a map and see exactly where I am. "Oh look, there is a lake over there! Let's head over in that direction."
Do I care exactly which road I take? Nope. As long as I am heading in the proper general direction. I never allow the GPS device to plan a route. All I want from a GPS is to show me exactly where I am on a map at any given time.
I guess what I am getting at is that I fail to see the strong need for GPS while biking. A decent mental model and a knowledge of what direction you are heading in should be sufficient.
Interesting, I think it is the first time I see a link to copyright infringing material here. Will it be deleted?
Since when is a.torrent file considered copyrightable material? What you are seeing is a link to a file that tells you how to get (is itself a link) copyrighted material.
Europeans are dropping American-based offerings for European-based ones or moving it back inhouse.
LOL. Like European data centers are any more secure from their governments... and they get the additional "benefit" of being directly under the regulatory powers of the country they reside in. Wheeee.
No, if I were in Europe, I would choose Indian data centers. Even though the folks from India would be snooping my data, they could not do much against me or my company. All they could do is steal my secrets. Oh yeah. Gotta love putting your data in external hands. Duh.
As for the NSA...who cares about the hardware? Any company that gives 2 shits about privacy is gonna avoid the USA like an STD and the NSA also put the brakes on the whole "just use the cloud!" bullshit as we now know anything you put into a USA based cloud becomes the NSA's to snoop as they like.
This is something I have never understood: If it were not the NSA doing it, it would be someone else. A commercial competitor, another government, or even another agency within the same government... or even hackers. Why would you ever trust "the cloud". WTF? Centralized computing gives control over to another entity. One break, breaks us all. I thought we moved beyond that model.
Things like SSL are possibly out of question as NSA has corrupted the root certs.
I suspect that you have not thought this through. SSL is only out of the question if the NSA (or any other entity) has a method of bypassing the protocols or encryption. Since this is not proven, it is safe to trust SSL.
What I think you are missing is that while SSL has been promoted as a system involving public Certificate Authorities, this does not have to be the case. While having public CAs is generally seen as a convenience, it is terribly insecure and always has been regardless of NSA involvement.
Run your own Certificate Authority but do not complain that you have to get your users to install your Root Certificate.
Oh yes, please continue to to repeat that mass-murder-justifying state propaganda. It does wonders for our society's ability to think clearly about moral issues.
So you would rather that those cities were firebombed like Dresden? Or would you have preferred that America surrender to the Japanese? There were not many other options considering the path that Japan was on.
I would recommend Cyanogen Mod. Sure, you should not have to do it, but on the other hand, you at least have the option of doing it. Amongst much more important reasons to use it, CM by default comes with a weather app that displays on the lockscreen.
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BTW, I stole your sig and added it to my emails. Did you make it up or is it a quote? It has quite a few interesting aspects to it.:)
Who is driving all of this "simplicity" shit? It killed Gnome and has made Firefox much less desirable already. Who the fuck is doing this?! Why does nobody seem to be able to name a name of someone at Mozilla (and previously at Gnome) who is pushing for this shit. I want names.
It's just silly to count the cost of insurance without counting the benefits of the coverage.
Except, when, of course, it is close to 25% of your entire income... but yeah. No point in looking at the overall cost as long as we are all covered. D'oh!
...with less than 4 hour sleep per day during the weekdays...
How come we could do that and survived, but on the other hand, the current crop of youngsters couldn't ?
Most people are not functional like that. Congratulations for being an ironman.
While I feel fairly certain there are some kids that are doing the same thing right now, I am just as certain that what you did was not as common as you seem to think it was. Pulling a number out of my ass here, but you are part of the 5% that could and now all you are seeing is the 95% who can't.
Undoing a well deserved upmod here but I had to comment:
Easy. You have something (like a header) that leads the image decoder to allocate a certain amount of memory on the stack (a buffer) for an expected piece of data. Then you have the decompressed data be larger then it was advertised or calculated, overflowing the buffer and so overwriting other items on the stack, like the return address.
This is an extremely serious WTF. Okay fine, the header says to expect X amount of data. Okay fine, you allocate a buffer of X size. Why in god's name would you continue writing to the buffer after you reached X? No, really. There is no good reason or excuse for this. The person writing this should NEVER be allowed to write code that could be used in an elevated context.
Why do people accept this as normal or reasonable? For years the excuse was the software was so new and catching everything was so hard... but THIS. This is not hard. This is obvious. Glaringly so. Meh. People piss me off. Utterly unacceptable. No excuse for this.
You must be insane. Running your own web server from a Mac is as easy as going to System Preferences and activate Web Sharing. While you are at it, I honestly beg you to try the share internet checkmark and then choose to broadcast the WiFi signal you are using over bluetooth to another device.
Ok, let's talk. First, the grandparent said, "try to run an upgraded Apache that is not yet released by Apple."
Could you kindly explain how going into System Preferences and activating Web Sharing will solve that issue? Thanks. I knew you couldn't.
Now, let's get down to the issue you bring up that is near and dear to my heart: Internet Connection Sharing. On every Macbook Pro that I have ever owned since 2006, this has been a terrible experience. Oh, yeah, it definitely gets you connected quickly and painlessly... for a while. After anywhere from 15 minutes to 4 hours, randomly, your packet stream turns into a dribble and then dries up entirely. This was present from at least Panther to Snow Leopard. I have not "upgraded" from Snow Leopard because I am seeing another issue that is probably related on other Macs: WiFi connectivity.
In America, sometimes WiFi will stay connected for 5 minutes, at other times, 5 days. Usually, connectivity drops within 20 minutes fairly regularly. This occurs on my Macbook Pro and my friends 27 inch IMac running Lion and then Mountain Lion.
I really cannot believe the "garbage" that is getting posted here as comments to this news item.
There is a "goodly" percentage of people out there who only know how to be negative. There are also a large number of people, like myself, who are thinking good thoughts but rarely say anything. Don't let the haters bring you down. They do not represent everyone.:)
I doubt anyone cares but my requirement checklist is:
All Wheel Drive (I find myself in lots of low traction situations such as snow or water) Not naturally aspirated (turbo or supercharger helps when driving in mountains) Hard top convertible (I can't explain) Built quality (can not having it falling apart immediately out of warranty) Aesthetics (the Aztec was a godawfully ugly vehicle)
Unfortunately, there are no cars under $100k that fit the bill and precious few over $100k.:(
Electronics and other features are not requirements but can be nice to have... headlights and air conditioning have been known to be used frequently in cars that I drive.:)
It's like Toyota marketing a sports car under the Toyota name, with Ferrari prices.
I do not think that is a good analogy. Ferrari does not command high prices because of their name. No, Ferrari can command high prices because of quality. The engineering is of very high quality, the materials are of very high quality, and the aesthetics are of very high quality.
Granted, Toyota is not generally known for such high quality, but for myself personally, I would evaluate such a car and see if it really is worth Ferrari level prices.
I love cars and I love driving. A whole LOT. I would examine any car by any car maker if it fit into my list of requirements. A car designed by one of the American automakers would be difficult for me to swallow but any of the Japanese or many of the European automakers could easily pull it off. Hell, Mercedes does pull it off: Look at the SL65 AMG or the SLS; although neither are as nimble as most Ferraris.
If you read between the lines, the real reason was spelled out in the summary. These things can be used to detect narcotics manufacturing as well as bomb making. The real reason is the wish to escalate the war on drugs, which has been the real guiding principle behind, and primary use of, all anti-terrorism laws.
Why would anyone care so much about drugs though? It just does not make any sense.
Thanks to causality, matter outside of our horizon cannot have an effect on us.
Your statement is definitely true; however, the definition of 'horizon' seems a bit fuzzy to me.
I am surely wrong, but it seems to me that due to expansion of the universe, something beyond the current horizon could have affected us. What I mean is this: An event happened within our light cone but due to the expansion of the universe, the cause of this event has moved beyond our horizon faster than the speed of light. In effect, we are affected by something over the horizon. No?
It is not required that you respond. I am not educated in this stuff, but thank you for reading what I wrote. I read Slashdot because of people like you.:)
Where this conversation went off track is this: The NSA *is* supposed to be doing all of this just as foreign SIGINT services are supposed to be doing it.
The real surprise, hence the real problem, is that this spying is not being used purely for State related safety. It is being passed to various other entities to be used for common criminal prosecutions. This is just plain invasive and abusive. It gives WAY too much power to the unethical greedy powermongers.
I recall back in 2011 when Bush made the statement that September 11th happened because of lack of data sharing... and I knew then that THIS was going to be the result. The types of data that were not being shared were common criminal type data. I knew the powermongers would try to get at the State related data through this "lack of data sharing" issue. It is a shame that they succeeded because America is now officially the most Ultimate Police State ever created on this planet.
There is no need for lip service concerning freedom and liberty anymore. It is all gone now. Everything I do, including posting this message, I do with the knowledge that it is being stored, filed, sorted, and categorized somewhere and that at some point, it WILL come back to haunt me. THAT IS NOT FREEDOM. Those are chains.
America will likely survive but I doubt that the police apparatus will. It is not a function that belongs in a civilized society.
You know he's designed several ciphers, right? Blowfish, Twofish, perhaps you've heard of them? Twofish was an AES finalist. If that doesn't give him credentials, what does?
It's a secret warrant issued by a secret court, binding the recipient to secrecy under pain of imprisonment, and with no way to contest the warrant. And since it's the NSA, you can't even see evidence used against you because it's obviously in regards to national security...even if it isn't.
That is not the NSA. The NSA does not work like that. FBI/DEA/DOJ work like that.
If a thinner seat allows the airline to cut $20 off the price, that is fine with me.
Well, yeah, but you actually have to be able to fit into the seat...
I am a fairly big guy. I am not so tall but my shoulders are very broad. If I were in a middle seat, my shoulders would pass over the arm rests and into both neighboring seats. I am talking about my bone structure here so suggesting I go on a diet will NOT help. This is why I *always* get a window seat. I can usually lean against the side of the airplane and not take up someones space.
Making the seating area smaller is only going to aggravate this. Not everyone is 175cm and 65 kilos. There are many regions around the world where this is considered small, not average.
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The one thing that really surprises me is you haven't heard more from NRA type organisations.
Why would that surprise you? They have a file on everyone at the NRA. If the NRA leadership gets too "uppity" about certain things, blackmail will occur.
Everything is perfectly under control. Just relax and let it happen.
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LOL, not a chance. Those tools that are for fighting terrorism also bring about a level of potential control that all humans are born with a desire to be granted. We are about to see the most insane dictatorship that this world has ever seen. It is going to get BAD. Very very bad.
Honestly, I have not pedaled more than 100 miles in a few decades now... but when I did, there was no such thing as GPS and it was not a problem at all. I would just head out randomly and explore. Mountains, buildings, even the location of the sun was sufficient for navigation.
Nowadays, when I explore, it is anywhere up to a thousand miles in a day... and GPS is fantastic. I love being able to look at a map and see exactly where I am. "Oh look, there is a lake over there! Let's head over in that direction."
Do I care exactly which road I take? Nope. As long as I am heading in the proper general direction. I never allow the GPS device to plan a route. All I want from a GPS is to show me exactly where I am on a map at any given time.
I guess what I am getting at is that I fail to see the strong need for GPS while biking. A decent mental model and a knowledge of what direction you are heading in should be sufficient.
You are brutally evil.
You deserve to get ran over for making such an ignorant response to his.
Reread this sentence:
Stopping on the road (even at a stop sign) to bury your head in a map or phone GPS
I bolded the important part that you should be comprehending before you go acting all venomous and crazy.
I would expect that hawguy deserves an apology.
Interesting, I think it is the first time I see a link to copyright infringing material here. Will it be deleted?
Since when is a .torrent file considered copyrightable material? What you are seeing is a link to a file that tells you how to get (is itself a link) copyrighted material.
Moo
Europeans are dropping American-based offerings for European-based ones or moving it back inhouse.
LOL. Like European data centers are any more secure from their governments... and they get the additional "benefit" of being directly under the regulatory powers of the country they reside in. Wheeee.
No, if I were in Europe, I would choose Indian data centers. Even though the folks from India would be snooping my data, they could not do much against me or my company. All they could do is steal my secrets. Oh yeah. Gotta love putting your data in external hands. Duh.
As for the NSA...who cares about the hardware? Any company that gives 2 shits about privacy is gonna avoid the USA like an STD and the NSA also put the brakes on the whole "just use the cloud!" bullshit as we now know anything you put into a USA based cloud becomes the NSA's to snoop as they like.
This is something I have never understood: If it were not the NSA doing it, it would be someone else. A commercial competitor, another government, or even another agency within the same government... or even hackers. Why would you ever trust "the cloud". WTF? Centralized computing gives control over to another entity. One break, breaks us all. I thought we moved beyond that model.
Things like SSL are possibly out of question as NSA has corrupted the root certs.
I suspect that you have not thought this through. SSL is only out of the question if the NSA (or any other entity) has a method of bypassing the protocols or encryption. Since this is not proven, it is safe to trust SSL.
What I think you are missing is that while SSL has been promoted as a system involving public Certificate Authorities, this does not have to be the case. While having public CAs is generally seen as a convenience, it is terribly insecure and always has been regardless of NSA involvement.
Run your own Certificate Authority but do not complain that you have to get your users to install your Root Certificate.
Oh yes, please continue to to repeat that mass-murder-justifying state propaganda. It does wonders for our society's ability to think clearly about moral issues.
So you would rather that those cities were firebombed like Dresden? Or would you have preferred that America surrender to the Japanese? There were not many other options considering the path that Japan was on.
Kind regards,
strike
I would recommend Cyanogen Mod. Sure, you should not have to do it, but on the other hand, you at least have the option of doing it. Amongst much more important reasons to use it, CM by default comes with a weather app that displays on the lockscreen.
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BTW, I stole your sig and added it to my emails. Did you make it up or is it a quote? It has quite a few interesting aspects to it. :)
Who is driving all of this "simplicity" shit? It killed Gnome and has made Firefox much less desirable already. Who the fuck is doing this?! Why does nobody seem to be able to name a name of someone at Mozilla (and previously at Gnome) who is pushing for this shit. I want names.
It's just silly to count the cost of insurance without counting the benefits of the coverage.
Except, when, of course, it is close to 25% of your entire income... but yeah. No point in looking at the overall cost as long as we are all covered. D'oh!
...with less than 4 hour sleep per day during the weekdays...
How come we could do that and survived, but on the other hand, the current crop of youngsters couldn't ?
Most people are not functional like that. Congratulations for being an ironman.
While I feel fairly certain there are some kids that are doing the same thing right now, I am just as certain that what you did was not as common as you seem to think it was. Pulling a number out of my ass here, but you are part of the 5% that could and now all you are seeing is the 95% who can't.
Kind regards,
strike
Undoing a well deserved upmod here but I had to comment:
Easy. You have something (like a header) that leads the image decoder to allocate a certain amount of memory on the stack (a buffer) for an expected piece of data. Then you have the decompressed data be larger then it was advertised or calculated, overflowing the buffer and so overwriting other items on the stack, like the return address.
This is an extremely serious WTF. Okay fine, the header says to expect X amount of data. Okay fine, you allocate a buffer of X size. Why in god's name would you continue writing to the buffer after you reached X? No, really. There is no good reason or excuse for this. The person writing this should NEVER be allowed to write code that could be used in an elevated context.
Why do people accept this as normal or reasonable? For years the excuse was the software was so new and catching everything was so hard... but THIS. This is not hard. This is obvious. Glaringly so. Meh. People piss me off. Utterly unacceptable. No excuse for this.
You must be insane. Running your own web server from a Mac is as easy as going to System Preferences and activate Web Sharing. While you are at it, I honestly beg you to try the share internet checkmark and then choose to broadcast the WiFi signal you are using over bluetooth to another device.
Ok, let's talk. First, the grandparent said, "try to run an upgraded Apache that is not yet released by Apple."
Could you kindly explain how going into System Preferences and activating Web Sharing will solve that issue? Thanks. I knew you couldn't.
Now, let's get down to the issue you bring up that is near and dear to my heart: Internet Connection Sharing. On every Macbook Pro that I have ever owned since 2006, this has been a terrible experience. Oh, yeah, it definitely gets you connected quickly and painlessly... for a while. After anywhere from 15 minutes to 4 hours, randomly, your packet stream turns into a dribble and then dries up entirely. This was present from at least Panther to Snow Leopard. I have not "upgraded" from Snow Leopard because I am seeing another issue that is probably related on other Macs: WiFi connectivity.
In America, sometimes WiFi will stay connected for 5 minutes, at other times, 5 days. Usually, connectivity drops within 20 minutes fairly regularly. This occurs on my Macbook Pro and my friends 27 inch IMac running Lion and then Mountain Lion.
I really cannot believe the "garbage" that is getting posted here as comments to this news item.
There is a "goodly" percentage of people out there who only know how to be negative. There are also a large number of people, like myself, who are thinking good thoughts but rarely say anything. Don't let the haters bring you down. They do not represent everyone. :)
I doubt anyone cares but my requirement checklist is:
All Wheel Drive (I find myself in lots of low traction situations such as snow or water)
Not naturally aspirated (turbo or supercharger helps when driving in mountains)
Hard top convertible (I can't explain)
Built quality (can not having it falling apart immediately out of warranty)
Aesthetics (the Aztec was a godawfully ugly vehicle)
Unfortunately, there are no cars under $100k that fit the bill and precious few over $100k. :(
Electronics and other features are not requirements but can be nice to have... headlights and air conditioning have been known to be used frequently in cars that I drive. :)
It's like Toyota marketing a sports car under the Toyota name, with Ferrari prices.
I do not think that is a good analogy. Ferrari does not command high prices because of their name. No, Ferrari can command high prices because of quality. The engineering is of very high quality, the materials are of very high quality, and the aesthetics are of very high quality.
Granted, Toyota is not generally known for such high quality, but for myself personally, I would evaluate such a car and see if it really is worth Ferrari level prices.
I love cars and I love driving. A whole LOT. I would examine any car by any car maker if it fit into my list of requirements. A car designed by one of the American automakers would be difficult for me to swallow but any of the Japanese or many of the European automakers could easily pull it off. Hell, Mercedes does pull it off: Look at the SL65 AMG or the SLS; although neither are as nimble as most Ferraris.
If you read between the lines, the real reason was spelled out in the summary. These things can be used to detect narcotics manufacturing as well as bomb making. The real reason is the wish to escalate the war on drugs, which has been the real guiding principle behind, and primary use of, all anti-terrorism laws.
Why would anyone care so much about drugs though? It just does not make any sense.
Thanks to causality, matter outside of our horizon cannot have an effect on us.
Your statement is definitely true; however, the definition of 'horizon' seems a bit fuzzy to me.
I am surely wrong, but it seems to me that due to expansion of the universe, something beyond the current horizon could have affected us. What I mean is this: An event happened within our light cone but due to the expansion of the universe, the cause of this event has moved beyond our horizon faster than the speed of light. In effect, we are affected by something over the horizon. No?
It is not required that you respond. I am not educated in this stuff, but thank you for reading what I wrote. I read Slashdot because of people like you. :)
Where this conversation went off track is this: The NSA *is* supposed to be doing all of this just as foreign SIGINT services are supposed to be doing it.
The real surprise, hence the real problem, is that this spying is not being used purely for State related safety. It is being passed to various other entities to be used for common criminal prosecutions. This is just plain invasive and abusive. It gives WAY too much power to the unethical greedy powermongers.
I recall back in 2011 when Bush made the statement that September 11th happened because of lack of data sharing... and I knew then that THIS was going to be the result. The types of data that were not being shared were common criminal type data. I knew the powermongers would try to get at the State related data through this "lack of data sharing" issue. It is a shame that they succeeded because America is now officially the most Ultimate Police State ever created on this planet.
There is no need for lip service concerning freedom and liberty anymore. It is all gone now. Everything I do, including posting this message, I do with the knowledge that it is being stored, filed, sorted, and categorized somewhere and that at some point, it WILL come back to haunt me. THAT IS NOT FREEDOM. Those are chains.
America will likely survive but I doubt that the police apparatus will. It is not a function that belongs in a civilized society.
Dave
You know he's designed several ciphers, right? Blowfish, Twofish, perhaps you've heard of them? Twofish was an AES finalist. If that doesn't give him credentials, what does?
Hm. A golden plaque from the NSA? ;)
It's a secret warrant issued by a secret court, binding the recipient to secrecy under pain of imprisonment, and with no way to contest the warrant. And since it's the NSA, you can't even see evidence used against you because it's obviously in regards to national security...even if it isn't.
That is not the NSA. The NSA does not work like that. FBI/DEA/DOJ work like that.
If a thinner seat allows the airline to cut $20 off the price, that is fine with me.
Well, yeah, but you actually have to be able to fit into the seat...
I am a fairly big guy. I am not so tall but my shoulders are very broad. If I were in a middle seat, my shoulders would pass over the arm rests and into both neighboring seats. I am talking about my bone structure here so suggesting I go on a diet will NOT help. This is why I *always* get a window seat. I can usually lean against the side of the airplane and not take up someones space.
Making the seating area smaller is only going to aggravate this. Not everyone is 175cm and 65 kilos. There are many regions around the world where this is considered small, not average.
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The one thing that really surprises me is you haven't heard more from NRA type organisations.
Why would that surprise you? They have a file on everyone at the NRA. If the NRA leadership gets too "uppity" about certain things, blackmail will occur.
Everything is perfectly under control. Just relax and let it happen.