20th Century Fox is owned by Rupert Murdoch, Lucasfilm is owned by Disney Corp. I personally am confused as to how the Deadpool movies is both a Marvel (Disney) and 20th Century Fox (Fox) movie, as these corporations represent competing entertainment megacorporations. As near as I can tell, Fox owns some of the rights to X-Men, e.g. the word "mutants", so they had to work together?
Back in the 80's when my friends wife owned a video store, she had copies all the Disney movies that had never been released on videotape or DVD, so apparently there has been a booming black market on converting film to digital for quite some time now. I assume many of the art film/non-first run theaters do this as a sideline; how else would they stay in business?
Silly leftists, confusing classism with racism yet again! Jobs get offshored for one reason and one reason alone: to maximize profits! If profits are maximized by adversely effecting the health of citizens in another country, it doesn't matter what color they are, had profits!
So, tennis matches have ball boys, Rio Olympics rowing events will have floating turd scoopers? I can see how getting bogged down in raw sewage might effect the outcome of an event...
Tourists will be staying away from this Olympics in droves, so it is virtually guaranteed to be the biggest money loser in Olympic history. I suspect a few athletes may decide not to show up as well, to protect their own health. If the IOC wasn't so corrupt, they'd move the Olympics to an emergency backup location, say one of the many cities that have hosted in the past and still have the facilities (e.g. Los Angeles).
It also provides an excellent excuse to confiscate large sums of cash from anybody traveling with large sums of cash, so our law enforcement is not the best funded law enforcement in history! We must all be safer than ever now! (Yes, the property forfeiture laws are seriously messed up.)
100% agree, This statement appears to be based on the assumption that criminals are too stupid to implement their own one-time pad encryption system. 100% secure encryption has been possible for hundreds of years... criminals only use commercially available solutions because they are easily available, cheap, and easy. I also get a "methinks the maiden doth protest too much" feeling regarding all the whining about Apple not unlocking a phone for the FBI. If the NSA already had a way of unlocking iPhones, wouldn't they being doing everything in their power to convince criminals it was 100% secure? Lure them into a false sense of security then monitor all their data via a remote hack would be the fed's wet dream.
Vacuum tubes? Yeah, my friend really enjoys waiting 15 minutes for his tube amp to warm up before he can listen to his electrostatic speakers... (although after the 500W amp is warmed up, it does sound really good.)
Wouldn't any actual criminals just add 3rd party software to do strong encryption? These bills just create a market for one-time pad encryption support.
If every manufacture inserted back doors for the Feds, wouldn't criminals simply hire a few techs to implement one-time pads to use for encryption? In fact, shouldn't anybody that wants to keep data private long-term already be using a one-time pad?
Is it really that complicated? My take was that if you can do an end-run around the fingerprint scanner by just plugging in a different fingerprint scanner, then by definition the fingerprint scanner isn't secure. Meaning that, if you want to replace the fingerprint scanner, you must be forced to first unlock the old fingerprint scanner. But then, what happens if the fingerprint scanner itself fails? You either brick the whole phone every time a scanner fails, or leave your data wide open to anyone who steals your phone.
I'm pretty sure that, given sufficient compute time, the NSA can brute-force decrypt anything. They just can analyze all encrypted traffic in real time. No encryption lasts for ever, it only pushes back the time people can see what's inside by a few years.
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20th Century Fox is owned by Rupert Murdoch, Lucasfilm is owned by Disney Corp. I personally am confused as to how the Deadpool movies is both a Marvel (Disney) and 20th Century Fox (Fox) movie, as these corporations represent competing entertainment megacorporations. As near as I can tell, Fox owns some of the rights to X-Men, e.g. the word "mutants", so they had to work together?
Back in the 80's when my friends wife owned a video store, she had copies all the Disney movies that had never been released on videotape or DVD, so apparently there has been a booming black market on converting film to digital for quite some time now. I assume many of the art film/non-first run theaters do this as a sideline; how else would they stay in business?
Ewok is just Wookie backwards...
Back in my day, we didn't call it "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope", we just called it "Star Wars", and we were happy with the name, doggone it!
"Ever since the Phoenicians invented money, there has only been one answer to that question." -- Clarence Darrow
Getting to host the Olympics is like a penis size contest: the biggest dicks always win!
Silly leftists, confusing classism with racism yet again! Jobs get offshored for one reason and one reason alone: to maximize profits! If profits are maximized by adversely effecting the health of citizens in another country, it doesn't matter what color they are, had profits!
"Well sure, we're up Shit Creek... but at least we have paddles!" -- overheard at Olympic rowing event
So, tennis matches have ball boys, Rio Olympics rowing events will have floating turd scoopers? I can see how getting bogged down in raw sewage might effect the outcome of an event...
Tourists will be staying away from this Olympics in droves, so it is virtually guaranteed to be the biggest money loser in Olympic history. I suspect a few athletes may decide not to show up as well, to protect their own health. If the IOC wasn't so corrupt, they'd move the Olympics to an emergency backup location, say one of the many cities that have hosted in the past and still have the facilities (e.g. Los Angeles).
They were taking flight lessons. You'd think the "No, we only need to practice take offs, not landings" comments would have been a red flag...
It also provides an excellent excuse to confiscate large sums of cash from anybody traveling with large sums of cash, so our law enforcement is not the best funded law enforcement in history! We must all be safer than ever now! (Yes, the property forfeiture laws are seriously messed up.)
Can't you just grow your own ephedra/ma huang? You know, the plant that pseudoephedrine was designed to copy in the first place?
Trump? You're posting on /. now? Awesome!
I always do ROT13 twice, to be doubly secure!
Apparently Sarah Palin has access to the most secure form of encryption known to mankind; I can't understand a thing she says!
Double-plus ungood thought crime! Report immediately to your nearest reeducation center! Big Brother is watching you!
100% agree, This statement appears to be based on the assumption that criminals are too stupid to implement their own one-time pad encryption system. 100% secure encryption has been possible for hundreds of years... criminals only use commercially available solutions because they are easily available, cheap, and easy. I also get a "methinks the maiden doth protest too much" feeling regarding all the whining about Apple not unlocking a phone for the FBI. If the NSA already had a way of unlocking iPhones, wouldn't they being doing everything in their power to convince criminals it was 100% secure? Lure them into a false sense of security then monitor all their data via a remote hack would be the fed's wet dream.
Vacuum tubes? Yeah, my friend really enjoys waiting 15 minutes for his tube amp to warm up before he can listen to his electrostatic speakers... (although after the 500W amp is warmed up, it does sound really good.)
I pretty sure the Feds already know my social security number! And, you know what they say about NSA agents: they always have the best porn!
Penises are the tools of choice for rapists... we need to regulate penises!
Wouldn't any actual criminals just add 3rd party software to do strong encryption? These bills just create a market for one-time pad encryption support.
If every manufacture inserted back doors for the Feds, wouldn't criminals simply hire a few techs to implement one-time pads to use for encryption? In fact, shouldn't anybody that wants to keep data private long-term already be using a one-time pad?
Is it really that complicated? My take was that if you can do an end-run around the fingerprint scanner by just plugging in a different fingerprint scanner, then by definition the fingerprint scanner isn't secure. Meaning that, if you want to replace the fingerprint scanner, you must be forced to first unlock the old fingerprint scanner. But then, what happens if the fingerprint scanner itself fails? You either brick the whole phone every time a scanner fails, or leave your data wide open to anyone who steals your phone.
I'm pretty sure that, given sufficient compute time, the NSA can brute-force decrypt anything. They just can analyze all encrypted traffic in real time. No encryption lasts for ever, it only pushes back the time people can see what's inside by a few years.