If I could make any change I wanted, I would make it illegal and/or impossible to display advertisement to someone without prior consent. No spam, no pop-ups, pop-unders, malware, clickbaiting, punched gorillas, max-volume ads, interstitinal ads, all that bullshit gone. The world would be a better place.
If it has to be a technological change, I would wish for a universal connector. Everything going in and out of my computers, screens, drives, etc. is zeroes and ones anyways, why do I need twenty different form factors for those bits? I want one cable instead of power, audio, HDMI, DVI, VGA, USB, mini-USB, micro-USB, lightning, thunderbolt, ethernet, and all its relatives. Also, it should be a bus. One cable into computer, into a hub, and from there into screen, external drive, lan and whatever else. Power across all those cables to all the devices.
Those 500 keyfobs can be software. That phone number can be 500 phone numbers, all routed to one, the same way we make bogus mail accounts that forward to our real mail accounts, but that we can shut down if they get too much spam.
It's the most popular (by far) newspaper "for the lower classes" in Germany. It is massively influential on public opinion, and thus required reading for politicians and such. Several german chancellors are known to have checked the BILD headlines first thing in the morning to know what the people will wake up to.
It is also rumours to be funded by the CIA, at least during its early, post-war years, and to this day is fanatically pro-american, conservative and anti-communist.
With that in mind, you understand who the readership is and why they are more likely than, say, the/. crowd, to turn off their adblockers.
And why would Putin relay anything to ISIS ? Whatever you think of Putin, he is certainly not a friend of islamic terrorism and seems in fact much more serious about fighting them than the US. (I mean seriously, the by far largest war machine of the planet vs. a few ten thousand barely organized desert nomads and after two years they are still expanding? It's gone beyond the point that can be explained by stupidity and incompetence.)
Yeah, that change was when I uninstalled ABP and switched to ABE. Because it turns out their criteria for allowing ads are a little tainted - they sell whitelisting.
Authorities tap the telephone networks. Not by breaking its encryption, but by going in behind the encryption, at the switching points. Every Telco has equipment for legal interception installed, because it's mandated by law.
I worked in the Telco industry for 10 years. Authorities don't worry about the encryption your phone uses, it doesn't even touch them. They worry about end-to-end encryption.
Sorry, didn't realize that. As a Mac user, when I get a new computer it copies everything from my old one while I go to lunch. It's been a long time since I re-installed an entire machine from scratch.
But you are right, there is some in that, and a few people won't re-install. But since people are creatures of habit, and they have a long list of re-installs anyway, that will be only one checkmark on that list. Most likely, those not re-installing will be the ones whose ad-blocker has since gone out of business or something.
Yes, look at the attackers. None of them came with the recent wave of refugees (the one Syrian passport found has since been identified as a fake). So closing the borders now accomplishes - pretty much nothing.
We need to figure out why there are people living in our countries that hate those same countries so much they are willing to die just for the joy of expressing their hatred. We didn't and we let it foster, that is our first fault. Our second fault was not facing the problem, believing too much in a peaceful co-existence and multi-cultural society to not see that some parts of the same want to fucking kill us.
This. Because once you have an ad blocker installed, it doesn't matter if the ad industry changes for something more reasonable again. You'll simply not see it, so you won't uninstall.
Fine than a 'watchlist' is the wrong tool isn't it.
Why?
Of course it shouldn't stop there. You actually need to follow up and prevent things, of course.
I say lock the boarder down.
Firstly, passports can be faked, so you would lock out a lot of innocent people and not lock out the terrorists. Secondly, borders are huge, you can't lock them all down. If the USA closes its borders, terrorists will fly to Canada, rent a truck and take a hike in the woods. Thirdly, the real problem is that our leaders are either incompetent or corrupt, because they don't act on information we have. For example that Saudi Arabia is financing ISIS. Wait, wasn't SA also where most of the 9/11 hijackers came from? But idiot Bush attacked Afghanistan instead, yeah that makes sense.
You are mistaken when you believe that everyone in the west wants to fight terror. There are a lot of people for whom all of this is quite convenient. To get new laws for stronger surveillance. To sell more weapons. To play political games. To flood the employee market with cheap labour. And a dozen other reasons.
most muslims are normal people too, outside of the reach of ISIS
That is true, but an alarming number of them support Sharia law, which is basically just the slightly-more-friendly-coloured version of ISIS.
Yes, most muslims are interested in their family, children and business. At the same time, their definition of what that means differ radically from ours, proved by crazy shit like "honour killings" (if you're living under a rock: Murdering your daughter because she's dating a non-muslim or something like that which "stains the family honour").
And let's not forget that Islam is the one religion that even Ghandi could not convince to peacefully co-exist with everyone else in India, hence the muslim-majority region of India split off as Pakistan.
I'm a big fan of these projects, and at the same time I will never eat insects. She is right that it's a cultural thing, and for us grown up on western food, insects simply are not in the category of "food". It's pure semantics, but you can't change a life-long training easily.
I suspect like many major changes, it will take two generations. The next one might experiment with it here and there, which will make it acceptable for their children.
If list is to big to effectively monitor and interdict the people on it before they do something then the list is useless. If the mass surveillance can't produce a list small enough to be actionable then the surveillance in useless. All the data in the world won't help you if you are not prepared to act on it.
That's nonsense. It's a watchlist, so its purpose is, if we go by name, that the people on the list get monitored closely. They haven't yet done anything arrest-worthy (else we should arrest them), but it is believed that they likely will. But since we're talking terrorism and not petty theft, we want to catch them before they do whatever they want to do.
For such a purpose a long list is fine, and 5000 would be manageable.
1) Total firewall. Nobody who has ever so much as visited the middle east while not wearing a US Service Uniform enters the country.
Which means I couldn't come because I had a holiday in Egypt last year. Like one million other people.
2) Fight them abroad with a strategy set on actually winning.
Define "winning".
Where we run the territories like colonies and gradually supplant their culture.
Ah, because that worked so well with the real colonies, they are all examplary developed countries today, friendly to us, modern, secular and with no ethnic or religious conflicts.
If there are only 50 people on this list, then there are good reasons they went on the list. Otherwise, the list would be much bigger (which I assume it is).
We don't know how many people are on it. If there are 50 people on it, then yeah, why the fuck don't you simply arrest them all? If there are 5000 people on it, then one slipping through the cracks is much more likely.
That requires technological know-how that is apparently hard to get.
From what I've read recently, one of the main reason authorities are surprised by the attack is that the making of a suicide bombing vest that explodes only when the wearer wants it to is already a sophisticated technological challenge and the people who can do it are highly valued within the terror organisations.
That makes me think setting up your own communications network is not necessarily as easy for them as it seems.
I am condemning islam, and I am telling the moderates that they have a lot of explaining to do, the same way that if the topic were the crusades, I'm not letting christians off the hook just because they say now is a different time. Yes, it's a different time, but it's the same religion. You're not a member of a "2.0 version" that officially replaced the old one.
So to anyone who is a muslim, I ask: How could you let this thing happen in your religion? How can you be a member in the same club as these fuckers?
ISIS didn't appear out of nowhere, it was decades in the making. I'm not expecting moderate muslims to perform a miracle now, I'm expecting them to explain how it was possible that for at least 40 years (since the russian invasion of afghanistan and the formation of the Mujahideen) this was allowed to spread and prosper.
I'm a German, and we are taught very clearly that our grandfathers were guilty in making Nazi Germany, if not actively, then by not preventing it. Maybe this education is why I apply the same logic. I ask: If you are a muslim, what have you, personally, done to prevent the rise of ISIS and the fanatical ideology that it has its roots in?
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If I could make any change I wanted, I would make it illegal and/or impossible to display advertisement to someone without prior consent. No spam, no pop-ups, pop-unders, malware, clickbaiting, punched gorillas, max-volume ads, interstitinal ads, all that bullshit gone. The world would be a better place.
If it has to be a technological change, I would wish for a universal connector. Everything going in and out of my computers, screens, drives, etc. is zeroes and ones anyways, why do I need twenty different form factors for those bits? I want one cable instead of power, audio, HDMI, DVI, VGA, USB, mini-USB, micro-USB, lightning, thunderbolt, ethernet, and all its relatives.
Also, it should be a bus. One cable into computer, into a hub, and from there into screen, external drive, lan and whatever else. Power across all those cables to all the devices.
A man can dream, yes?
Those 500 keyfobs can be software.
That phone number can be 500 phone numbers, all routed to one, the same way we make bogus mail accounts that forward to our real mail accounts, but that we can shut down if they get too much spam.
What you need to know about BILD:
It's the most popular (by far) newspaper "for the lower classes" in Germany. It is massively influential on public opinion, and thus required reading for politicians and such. Several german chancellors are known to have checked the BILD headlines first thing in the morning to know what the people will wake up to.
It is also rumours to be funded by the CIA, at least during its early, post-war years, and to this day is fanatically pro-american, conservative and anti-communist.
With that in mind, you understand who the readership is and why they are more likely than, say, the /. crowd, to turn off their adblockers.
And why would Putin relay anything to ISIS ? Whatever you think of Putin, he is certainly not a friend of islamic terrorism and seems in fact much more serious about fighting them than the US.
(I mean seriously, the by far largest war machine of the planet vs. a few ten thousand barely organized desert nomads and after two years they are still expanding? It's gone beyond the point that can be explained by stupidity and incompetence.)
Yeah, that change was when I uninstalled ABP and switched to ABE. Because it turns out their criteria for allowing ads are a little tainted - they sell whitelisting.
Bullshit.
Authorities tap the telephone networks. Not by breaking its encryption, but by going in behind the encryption, at the switching points. Every Telco has equipment for legal interception installed, because it's mandated by law.
I worked in the Telco industry for 10 years. Authorities don't worry about the encryption your phone uses, it doesn't even touch them. They worry about end-to-end encryption.
I don't disagree with that at all.
But the GP was about refugees, not immigrants one or two generations ago.
Sorry, didn't realize that. As a Mac user, when I get a new computer it copies everything from my old one while I go to lunch. It's been a long time since I re-installed an entire machine from scratch.
But you are right, there is some in that, and a few people won't re-install. But since people are creatures of habit, and they have a long list of re-installs anyway, that will be only one checkmark on that list. Most likely, those not re-installing will be the ones whose ad-blocker has since gone out of business or something.
Which authorities can and routinely do tap. That's obviously not the kind of encryption they are referring to.
Yes, look at the attackers. None of them came with the recent wave of refugees (the one Syrian passport found has since been identified as a fake). So closing the borders now accomplishes - pretty much nothing.
We need to figure out why there are people living in our countries that hate those same countries so much they are willing to die just for the joy of expressing their hatred.
We didn't and we let it foster, that is our first fault.
Our second fault was not facing the problem, believing too much in a peaceful co-existence and multi-cultural society to not see that some parts of the same want to fucking kill us.
And there is no way back.
This. Because once you have an ad blocker installed, it doesn't matter if the ad industry changes for something more reasonable again. You'll simply not see it, so you won't uninstall.
How do you fit the fact that all of the identified attackers so far are european nationals into your narrative?
the Paris attackers had used some kind of encrypted communication
Which requires the incredibly rare high-tech skill of installing a readily available app on your smartphone.
Fine than a 'watchlist' is the wrong tool isn't it.
Why?
Of course it shouldn't stop there. You actually need to follow up and prevent things, of course.
I say lock the boarder down.
Firstly, passports can be faked, so you would lock out a lot of innocent people and not lock out the terrorists.
Secondly, borders are huge, you can't lock them all down. If the USA closes its borders, terrorists will fly to Canada, rent a truck and take a hike in the woods.
Thirdly, the real problem is that our leaders are either incompetent or corrupt, because they don't act on information we have. For example that Saudi Arabia is financing ISIS. Wait, wasn't SA also where most of the 9/11 hijackers came from? But idiot Bush attacked Afghanistan instead, yeah that makes sense.
You are mistaken when you believe that everyone in the west wants to fight terror. There are a lot of people for whom all of this is quite convenient. To get new laws for stronger surveillance. To sell more weapons. To play political games. To flood the employee market with cheap labour. And a dozen other reasons.
If Islam is so great, how come so many people are trying to get away from it?
The refugees are not trying to get away from Islam. They are trying to get away from war, bombs and dying in a hail of bullets.
most muslims are normal people too, outside of the reach of ISIS
That is true, but an alarming number of them support Sharia law, which is basically just the slightly-more-friendly-coloured version of ISIS.
Yes, most muslims are interested in their family, children and business. At the same time, their definition of what that means differ radically from ours, proved by crazy shit like "honour killings" (if you're living under a rock: Murdering your daughter because she's dating a non-muslim or something like that which "stains the family honour").
And let's not forget that Islam is the one religion that even Ghandi could not convince to peacefully co-exist with everyone else in India, hence the muslim-majority region of India split off as Pakistan.
I'm a big fan of these projects, and at the same time I will never eat insects. She is right that it's a cultural thing, and for us grown up on western food, insects simply are not in the category of "food". It's pure semantics, but you can't change a life-long training easily.
I suspect like many major changes, it will take two generations. The next one might experiment with it here and there, which will make it acceptable for their children.
It is sickening how politicians abuse a tragedy to push their personal agendas. Are there really no journalists left calling out their opportunism?
Reveal all their financial supporters
1. Saudi Arabia
(nothing for a long time)
x. various individuals
If list is to big to effectively monitor and interdict the people on it before they do something then the list is useless. If the mass surveillance can't produce a list small enough to be actionable then the surveillance in useless. All the data in the world won't help you if you are not prepared to act on it.
That's nonsense. It's a watchlist, so its purpose is, if we go by name, that the people on the list get monitored closely. They haven't yet done anything arrest-worthy (else we should arrest them), but it is believed that they likely will. But since we're talking terrorism and not petty theft, we want to catch them before they do whatever they want to do.
For such a purpose a long list is fine, and 5000 would be manageable.
1) Total firewall. Nobody who has ever so much as visited the middle east while not wearing a US Service Uniform enters the country.
Which means I couldn't come because I had a holiday in Egypt last year. Like one million other people.
2) Fight them abroad with a strategy set on actually winning.
Define "winning".
Where we run the territories like colonies and gradually supplant their culture.
Ah, because that worked so well with the real colonies, they are all examplary developed countries today, friendly to us, modern, secular and with no ethnic or religious conflicts.
If there are only 50 people on this list, then there are good reasons they went on the list. Otherwise, the list would be much bigger (which I assume it is).
Or work your watchlist better.
We don't know how many people are on it. If there are 50 people on it, then yeah, why the fuck don't you simply arrest them all? If there are 5000 people on it, then one slipping through the cracks is much more likely.
That requires technological know-how that is apparently hard to get.
From what I've read recently, one of the main reason authorities are surprised by the attack is that the making of a suicide bombing vest that explodes only when the wearer wants it to is already a sophisticated technological challenge and the people who can do it are highly valued within the terror organisations.
That makes me think setting up your own communications network is not necessarily as easy for them as it seems.
I am condemning islam, and I am telling the moderates that they have a lot of explaining to do, the same way that if the topic were the crusades, I'm not letting christians off the hook just because they say now is a different time.
Yes, it's a different time, but it's the same religion. You're not a member of a "2.0 version" that officially replaced the old one.
So to anyone who is a muslim, I ask: How could you let this thing happen in your religion? How can you be a member in the same club as these fuckers?
ISIS didn't appear out of nowhere, it was decades in the making. I'm not expecting moderate muslims to perform a miracle now, I'm expecting them to explain how it was possible that for at least 40 years (since the russian invasion of afghanistan and the formation of the Mujahideen) this was allowed to spread and prosper.
I'm a German, and we are taught very clearly that our grandfathers were guilty in making Nazi Germany, if not actively, then by not preventing it. Maybe this education is why I apply the same logic. I ask: If you are a muslim, what have you, personally, done to prevent the rise of ISIS and the fanatical ideology that it has its roots in?
Thank you, that is indeed what I was looking for.
Now I can look for the next link in the chain: Why is it ignored by the very people it is aimed at?