Compassion *within* your society / tribe / family-group. Strangers: kill 'em on sight. After all, they're not true people, they're . . . *strangers*.
Well, maybe that's a little bit harsh; after all, if you only breed within the family, you get recessives and die out. Maybe I need to add a definition of "neighbor" in the middle. Point is, there is a place for both, and in particular a place for the family Dirty Harry character as long as he behaves *within* the group.
... in which you can specify whatever you want for your lower and upper indices and the compiler just figures it out for you. C requires the programmer to confuse "counting" and "indexing" and wind up doing them wrong. Zero, rather than meaning "nothing" like it does in the rest of all meaning, means "the first" - which is not counting one. I never expected that after all these years I'd still be programming so close to assembler.
Citation, please? I can't believe Russia ever let the US put any such thing in place - I remember the insistence on local labor building the American embassy in Moscow, which had so much monitoring built into the walls that it was heavily rebuilt as soon as it was handed over.
Besides, what does GPS need ground stations for? Homing beacons?
The State Department position reminds me of Keith Laumer's Corps Diplomatique Terrestrienne. I suppose that was art imitating life, so no surprise that the next generation's life imitates that art.
They belong to the ISPs, who have been *saved* from competing with each other through government-ordered monopolies ("Why bother building out duplicated services?"). (NYC is one of the worst examples.) Since government allowed them a monopoly, government has a right to insist they allow open usage.
You have to post trespass notices in places that otherwise appear public; like posting notices on the boundaries of your undeveloped property where the property line would not be obvious (especially in a place where you don't construct a physical fence, like the woods) .
You do NOT have to post a trespass notice on your front door, or garage door, or shed door, whether you lock them or not. OTOH a visibly-marked store does not have to post a "non-trespass" notice on *their* door. The contexts in the physical world are well understood. In places where it is ambiguous - for example, in New York City there are patios and sections of building lobbies that are legally "public space" in trade for other floorspace (or height), or because there are restaurants/stores inside - the "public access" must be posted.
The context online is still not as well defined, certainly not to non-technical people. The use of passwords would be a clear demarcation.
... unless all of the folks walking around with gear that we Americans think of as "hobby enthusiast" level will find their cameras confiscated because it has been redefined as "pro level without a license". The level of picture-taking that Americans are used to, especially on vacation, is considered "espionage" in some places. Heck, people get hassled in New York for taking traditional touristy sunrise/sunset shots of bridges and such at off-hours, so what do you expect in Russia?
There are plenty of products, and services, and restaurants, and professionals, who do not advertise. They do not need to - it is beneath them. All of their business is word of mouth - or publicity of the past projects (like cases or rescues or parties or medical miracles) they have been involved with. You may call them clueless; others call them elitist and exclusive.
I'm sure the government hired the usual suspects from the well-known accounting and engineering firms, due to the complexity of the project. I'm also sure that they rebuilt web services and HTML generation from the ground up, because, you know, "not invented here, can't trust it".
If I wanted to get this done, I'd post to slashdot: "I have a project that Deloite and Booze-Allen say can't be done. Any takers?" and watch my email server crash.
I dont give a **** how important you think it is, when those that engage it step over the line, its time for sunshine sanitation.
As a third party reader, I see the two of you as being in violent agreement. I read one comment about "absolute, immediate, and unremitting punishment" for abuse, and another about "step over the line", and they agree.
I agree too. The *biggest* problem in the NSA fiasco, just as it was in the financial fiasco and the CIA-agent-disclosure fiasco, is that somebody wasn't taken out and shot for treason. Perhaps multiple somebodies. Destroying trust in the financial system, destroying trust in the lawful exercise of legitimate police powers, destroying trust in society as a whole - these are treasonous offenses against the very fabric of our nation that far outweigh any of the money and information involved.
Wasn't "display less information" the solution back in the 1970s? The then-new planes had meters and readouts for everything, and a few test pilots insisted that some of them should go back to idiot lights red/yellow/green at the most.
Having met some helicopter pilots (in connection with secure communications testing), I've always thought that one of the things separating military pilots from normal people is that they have personalities that respond to "I'm going to die now" as "well, wtf do I do next?" rather than shitting their pants.
... the helmet. The pilot can always take it off...
Can he? I mean, in practical terms? The space is small, hands are needed on the controls, it's the main display screen . . . it may not be even possible, let alone a good idea at high speed. And if it is, then you've got a big heavy helmet loose waiting to conk the pilot in the face on the next turn.
The FAA press release does NOT say "turned off during take-off and landing", it just says things must be secured. As in, held tightly. As I read it, I can continue reading my Nook and listening to my MP3 player through my active noise canceling headphones from the moment I sit down and get comfortable, rather than turn everything off for takeoff.
No, sorry, wrong movie. Evil madman --> evil robots. This is the movie where the good guys decide that common people just don't understand the dangers of the outside world, and slowly go from "paternalistic" to "totalitarian" while still thinking they're the good guys.
Thunderbird reads Gmail just fine . . .
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. . . and what's wrong with IMAP and POP? They're called "standards" because they're "standard" and consistent and don't change every day like some people's menu bars and web interfaces. My wife can read her Gmail from her iPhone, too. Neither of us is confused by their interface . . . In fact I don't know what this article is complaining about other than "MICROSOFT IS NONSTANDARD" which is not exactly a shock, but he's saying it as if everyone else in the world is supposed to conform to Microsoft's standards. Um m m m m , no.
If you're worried about privacy: I pay for Verizon FIOS. That includes email. I *pay* for this, it's *mine*, they're not supposed to be making money off it . . . except I know from other evidence that they are scanning the email just like Google does, especially when I'm looking at it with the webmail interface rather than Thunderbird. So I don't think you can trust paid services either. And I'll bet dollars to donuts that if you run your own server, someone is scanning things to the SMTP port. If you don't control the wires end-to-end, then you don't have control, period.
For the ultra-cool folks who ask "who uses a client" and "who uses email anymore" . . . what are you doing reading such an ancient site as Slashdot? Go read something that nobody else knows about yet, and let us dinosaurs roam in peace.
This is what the NSA is SUPPOSED to do, what it was CREATED to do. There should not be any surprise at this. Of course, it was created in wartime and lasted into the cold war, when overseas contact was suspect.
...At which point it becomes a "fool me once" kind of scenario...
Thank you. I think that's a better, more succinct way of putting it than I ever came up with.
And as soon as it seems that anything *might* stabilize, there's something else. My brother-in-law bought a 3D TV this year, and at some point we'll probably jump directly to that - except then I'll also have to upgrade my Onkyo 7.1 channel receiver, because the supposedly-future-proof TOSLINK inputs don't matter anymore with the audio on HDMI. That added expense is another part of the hesitation to change *anything*.
An especially annoying aspect to the situation: I spent 10 years doing the embedded audio processing side of computer telephony (before IP telephony). We had to deliver better audio quality at the same time as being compatible with cables and repeaters buried under the street 40 years earlier. Standards that change every few months are more annoying than having no standards at all.
If these were "rental", people probably didn't have an original OS disk. And messing with the system like that would probably be considered a flag that someone was trying to steal it. At the very least, it would be against the lease, like modifying a leased car.
This++. We needed a new TV when our old analog one died, and hoped to future-proof ourselves by buying an HDTV ( Sony WEGA). Has always worked as advertised. But it's not HDMI, and it's not 1080, and it's not fully compatible with Blu-ray; but we're not about to spend the money for an equivalent-or-better quality & size new TV until 3D stabilizes (which probably means "never", but that's another problem).
OTOH I watched the original Star Trek in B&W, so complaining about HD always seems a little . . . whiny.
"Already in the place" wouldn't work at a concert, or a sports arena, or an amusement park - you would be escorted to the exit, and maybe the police would be waiting for you when you got there.
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Compassion *within* your society / tribe / family-group. Strangers: kill 'em on sight. After all, they're not true people, they're . . . *strangers*.
Well, maybe that's a little bit harsh; after all, if you only breed within the family, you get recessives and die out. Maybe I need to add a definition of "neighbor" in the middle. Point is, there is a place for both, and in particular a place for the family Dirty Harry character as long as he behaves *within* the group.
Far more likely the now dominant species were playing by pillage, plunder, rape and enslave rules.
Which part of DOMINANT surprises you? :-)
... in which you can specify whatever you want for your lower and upper indices and the compiler just figures it out for you. C requires the programmer to confuse "counting" and "indexing" and wind up doing them wrong. Zero, rather than meaning "nothing" like it does in the rest of all meaning, means "the first" - which is not counting one. I never expected that after all these years I'd still be programming so close to assembler.
Citation, please? I can't believe Russia ever let the US put any such thing in place - I remember the insistence on local labor building the American embassy in Moscow, which had so much monitoring built into the walls that it was heavily rebuilt as soon as it was handed over.
Besides, what does GPS need ground stations for? Homing beacons?
The State Department position reminds me of Keith Laumer's Corps Diplomatique Terrestrienne. I suppose that was art imitating life, so no surprise that the next generation's life imitates that art.
They belong to the ISPs, who have been *saved* from competing with each other through government-ordered monopolies ("Why bother building out duplicated services?"). (NYC is one of the worst examples.) Since government allowed them a monopoly, government has a right to insist they allow open usage.
You have to post trespass notices in places that otherwise appear public; like posting notices on the boundaries of your undeveloped property where the property line would not be obvious (especially in a place where you don't construct a physical fence, like the woods) .
You do NOT have to post a trespass notice on your front door, or garage door, or shed door, whether you lock them or not. OTOH a visibly-marked store does not have to post a "non-trespass" notice on *their* door. The contexts in the physical world are well understood. In places where it is ambiguous - for example, in New York City there are patios and sections of building lobbies that are legally "public space" in trade for other floorspace (or height), or because there are restaurants/stores inside - the "public access" must be posted.
The context online is still not as well defined, certainly not to non-technical people. The use of passwords would be a clear demarcation.
... unless all of the folks walking around with gear that we Americans think of as "hobby enthusiast" level will find their cameras confiscated because it has been redefined as "pro level without a license". The level of picture-taking that Americans are used to, especially on vacation, is considered "espionage" in some places. Heck, people get hassled in New York for taking traditional touristy sunrise/sunset shots of bridges and such at off-hours, so what do you expect in Russia?
.... just like a religion.
Isn't the classic line about how to get the best shots "F5 and be there"? One infers that having a camera at the time was assumed.
Those "stray wireless signals" may well be doing something useful.
There are plenty of products, and services, and restaurants, and professionals, who do not advertise. They do not need to - it is beneath them. All of their business is word of mouth - or publicity of the past projects (like cases or rescues or parties or medical miracles) they have been involved with. You may call them clueless; others call them elitist and exclusive.
I'm sure the government hired the usual suspects from the well-known accounting and engineering firms, due to the complexity of the project. I'm also sure that they rebuilt web services and HTML generation from the ground up, because, you know, "not invented here, can't trust it".
If I wanted to get this done, I'd post to slashdot: "I have a project that Deloite and Booze-Allen say can't be done. Any takers?" and watch my email server crash.
You mean the way Republicans wrote laws an administration or two back?
I dont give a **** how important you think it is, when those that engage it step over the line, its time for sunshine sanitation.
As a third party reader, I see the two of you as being in violent agreement. I read one comment about "absolute, immediate, and unremitting punishment" for abuse, and another about "step over the line", and they agree.
I agree too. The *biggest* problem in the NSA fiasco, just as it was in the financial fiasco and the CIA-agent-disclosure fiasco, is that somebody wasn't taken out and shot for treason. Perhaps multiple somebodies. Destroying trust in the financial system, destroying trust in the lawful exercise of legitimate police powers, destroying trust in society as a whole - these are treasonous offenses against the very fabric of our nation that far outweigh any of the money and information involved.
I'm shocked. Shocked and dismayed.
Wasn't "display less information" the solution back in the 1970s? The then-new planes had meters and readouts for everything, and a few test pilots insisted that some of them should go back to idiot lights red/yellow/green at the most.
Having met some helicopter pilots (in connection with secure communications testing), I've always thought that one of the things separating military pilots from normal people is that they have personalities that respond to "I'm going to die now" as "well, wtf do I do next?" rather than shitting their pants.
... the helmet. The pilot can always take it off...
Can he? I mean, in practical terms? The space is small, hands are needed on the controls, it's the main display screen . . . it may not be even possible, let alone a good idea at high speed. And if it is, then you've got a big heavy helmet loose waiting to conk the pilot in the face on the next turn.
The FAA press release does NOT say "turned off during take-off and landing", it just says things must be secured. As in, held tightly. As I read it, I can continue reading my Nook and listening to my MP3 player through my active noise canceling headphones from the moment I sit down and get comfortable, rather than turn everything off for takeoff.
No, sorry, wrong movie. Evil madman --> evil robots. This is the movie where the good guys decide that common people just don't understand the dangers of the outside world, and slowly go from "paternalistic" to "totalitarian" while still thinking they're the good guys.
. . . and what's wrong with IMAP and POP? They're called "standards" because they're "standard" and consistent and don't change every day like some people's menu bars and web interfaces. My wife can read her Gmail from her iPhone, too. Neither of us is confused by their interface . . . In fact I don't know what this article is complaining about other than "MICROSOFT IS NONSTANDARD" which is not exactly a shock, but he's saying it as if everyone else in the world is supposed to conform to Microsoft's standards. Um m m m m , no.
If you're worried about privacy: I pay for Verizon FIOS. That includes email. I *pay* for this, it's *mine*, they're not supposed to be making money off it . . . except I know from other evidence that they are scanning the email just like Google does, especially when I'm looking at it with the webmail interface rather than Thunderbird. So I don't think you can trust paid services either. And I'll bet dollars to donuts that if you run your own server, someone is scanning things to the SMTP port. If you don't control the wires end-to-end, then you don't have control, period.
For the ultra-cool folks who ask "who uses a client" and "who uses email anymore" . . . what are you doing reading such an ancient site as Slashdot? Go read something that nobody else knows about yet, and let us dinosaurs roam in peace.
This is what the NSA is SUPPOSED to do, what it was CREATED to do. There should not be any surprise at this. Of course, it was created in wartime and lasted into the cold war, when overseas contact was suspect.
...At which point it becomes a "fool me once" kind of scenario ...
Thank you. I think that's a better, more succinct way of putting it than I ever came up with.
And as soon as it seems that anything *might* stabilize, there's something else. My brother-in-law bought a 3D TV this year, and at some point we'll probably jump directly to that - except then I'll also have to upgrade my Onkyo 7.1 channel receiver, because the supposedly-future-proof TOSLINK inputs don't matter anymore with the audio on HDMI. That added expense is another part of the hesitation to change *anything*.
An especially annoying aspect to the situation: I spent 10 years doing the embedded audio processing side of computer telephony (before IP telephony). We had to deliver better audio quality at the same time as being compatible with cables and repeaters buried under the street 40 years earlier. Standards that change every few months are more annoying than having no standards at all.
If these were "rental", people probably didn't have an original OS disk. And messing with the system like that would probably be considered a flag that someone was trying to steal it. At the very least, it would be against the lease, like modifying a leased car.
This++. We needed a new TV when our old analog one died, and hoped to future-proof ourselves by buying an HDTV ( Sony WEGA). Has always worked as advertised. But it's not HDMI, and it's not 1080, and it's not fully compatible with Blu-ray; but we're not about to spend the money for an equivalent-or-better quality & size new TV until 3D stabilizes (which probably means "never", but that's another problem).
OTOH I watched the original Star Trek in B&W, so complaining about HD always seems a little . . . whiny.
"Already in the place" wouldn't work at a concert, or a sports arena, or an amusement park - you would be escorted to the exit, and maybe the police would be waiting for you when you got there.