And if he wanted to create a panic, would he only announce it in a tweet responding to a friend from his community? Why not just call 911? Tell the flight attendant?
Not quite the same. He tweeted in a language completely unintelligible to regular twitter followers, understandable only to friends that already knew him and his gripes about certain alleged vulnerabilities. To make it comparable, he would have to announce it to his fellow passengers and to the crew, in a language that they would understand.
But he was mistaken because there were followers that were not his intended audience, and who knew just enough of the lingo to go an ask him questions.
Having a laptop is very unspecific. Everybody has a laptop.
The tweet does not have the form of a threat. It has a standard form of a tired joke from someone somewhat immature and infatuated with the technical lingo of his field.
What should matter is the degree of likelyhood that can be inferred from the available evidence.
I too have had to ask myself how this is. But my conclusion is the opposite. The warning signals are too many. Where such a culture of corruption reigns, there is always the possibility that "the truth coming on the table" is as fabricated as the taser next to Scott's dead body. So while I am no longer so sure that everything was exactly as the first witness accounts told, I rather opt to file it as "unresolved - probably police murder".
There is nothing in this video that justifies killing the suspect. There is also nothing suggesting the victim is armed. This is not "cop defends life of self and/or others".
The killing was wholly unnecessary, the cop already had the face of this man on his camera, and they could have gotten back to him later. Publishing the picture in the papers and getting the public to tell who he is and where he is, is not too much bother to save his life.
If they absolutely had to shoot, they could hav aimed for the legs, not the torso.
And once the victim is lying lifeless, the friend was desperate to be allowed to give some first aid, stem the bleeding or whatever, but the cop has everything else higher up on his list.
If anything, this video is a means to instill fear of the police and to teach people to accept willy-nilly handcuffing.
4. There are a handful of people in law enforcement who have no business being in law enforcement, or any other field that requires them to interact with human beings as a matter of course. They have chips on their shoulders, the stereotype is the kid that got bullied a lot in high school, now he has a badge and a gun, so don't you dare fuck with him. These people are a minority, out of the dozens of LEOs I know I can only name one that falls into this category. Short tempered and thin skinned are bad personality attributes for LEOs.
DING! DING! DING! I think this is the real answer right here. I can think of one or two times I have encountered a LEO who made me think to myself "Ya know, maybe law enforcement is just not your thing, sir". I didn't say it out loud, of course. Instead I just gave him the "yes, sir, no, sir" treatment. Luckily, I'm a lily-white male from suburbia, so that usually mollifies them. I can only imagine how much grovelling a black male would have to do to get through an encounter with one of those assholes.
It's not just a few bad apples among the LEO, it's the system and a mentality that has so far protected them and allowed them to develop a culture of impunity. In many countries the police officers do not even carry weapons. If a situation arises, they are first supposed to withdraw, then call reinforcements. This means they don't always win at first. Yet, that is not a problem, and it saves countless lives.
Another portion of the order, highlighted in the Reddit article:
there need be no prior notice of a listing or determination made pursuant to section 1 of this order.
But it could easily mean that no prior warning need to be given to Snowden himself before he is listed, not that nobody will have the means to find out who is listed at a given moment.
To find out if this order applies to what you intend to do, you probably need to study the conditions specified in the order. Donations...
"...to, or for the benefit of any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to section 1 of this order..."
are being prohibited. Now, how do I know whether Snowden is such a person whose property is blocked pursuant to said order? Is there a registry over such persons?
Wrong question. What text-handlig (string-handlig) library do you want to use? Then use whatever that library supports.
I still in doubt, go for UTF-8. Then you will be less tempted to think you can handle things yourself in C code.
If you do think so, you will invariably write buggy code because you don't know enough about the issues.
I think much of this discussion misses the point. The company did have offline backups. However, they had an insufficient threat model. Their threat model probably included such disasters like disk crashes, software errors wiping the data, regular hacker break ins, and a row of other similar mundane threats.
If you want to compare with scantly clad girls in the park at 2 AM, I think this is more similar to the girl who wore long robes and arranged for a friend to go along, but was shot to death by a mugger. Of course she should have carried a helmet and a bullet-proof jacket.
The point is that this enterprise met an aggressor way out of the ordinary. It's a low probability, high consequence event.
That said, they should have done a few things that cost little to do (unlike carrying helmets and bulletproof jackets in the metaphorical case), and this is an opportunity for the rest of us to learn from their bad luck and to think over and discuss what exactly those few things should have been.
It would also be interesting to find out if they could have handled the attempted recovery differently. Should they have disconnected the entire site from the internet, and done the recovery purely on-site?
Life may not be so common as we dream about, and then, there may be no technical solution to the brutal distances. The recently discovered "mega-earth" (17 x Earth's mass) is 500 light years away. A spaceship would need at least 20 generations' time, time dilation notwithstanding. Even if we could reduce the number of generations by slowing down life processes, it would not be a mass migration opportunity.
If the ship weights a mere 100 tons, accelerating that to 80% of the speed of light, and then decelerating it, requires a huge amount of energy, many times the current world's yearly output.
Back home we will have to wait for another 500 years to learn what happened. Spaceships will be sent out only in desperate situations, and only to planets near the source, and only to planets that have been ascertained to have the desirable properties.
Intelligent life may be rare, because even if there are numerous planets in the habitable zone, few of them will have a benign climate for sufficiently long time as stars increase their output. The case of the Earth gradually reducing its greenhouse effect, tracking the increase in the sun's output sufficiently closely, may be extremely rare, and the nearest such case may be several tens of thousands light years away.
I don't know the 8", but all my old 3.5" failed when I tried to read them a few years later. I don't think it was the drives, the disks began failing one by one, and I had multiple drives that gave fairly consistent results. I hope they remember to make copies of the floppies every year or so.
By reading this comment, you waive all rights to the ownership of your car...
Usually you become bound by an agreement when you confirm that you accept the deal.
If I infringe somebody's copyright, my only defense is that the copyright holder gave me permission.
If the only proof I have is the text of an eula, then my choices are (1) I did agree to the eula (and then I am bound by its terms), or (2) I did not agree to the eula, in which case I have no permission to use the copyrighted work.
This is the logic behind the binding power of an eula.
Reading your comment on slashdot does not constitute a violation of your copyright. If I hold that I did not enter into the agreement you offered in your eula, you have no basis for suing me even if I read your comment.
Similarly, clicking "like" is not a copyright violation, and I can safely hold that I never entered into any agreement not to sue.
If the heartbeat message is stored in memory allocated near the top of the heap, then if the bug is being exploited, the server should be reading data beyond the top of the heap. If this bug has been extensively exploited, why have we not seen servers crashing every now and then? Or have we seen it?
Obama's problem wasn't just obstructionism in Congress. Can you remember the protests when they were thinking of trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others in New York? If Obama had pushed on these things, his whole presidency would have become impossible. I guess his priority number one is not to leave behind a lesson that says never again to elect a black president. So he kept a low profile and answered only slowly to the allegations that he was born somewhere else than Hawaii.
American voters seem to judge politicians by their perceived strength. If you say stupid things and get away with it, you are strong and get their support. Had the Democrats defended Obama and reason ten times more forcefully and persistently, the Tea Party guys may have ended up looking stupid, and may have lost. But perhaps the Democrats just did not have enough media control to win anyway.
To automate generation of a web of trust, the mail client may compute an "auto-trust score" based on how long you have been using the same key, and how many times you have responded to responses to encrypted messages. Extend the keyserver protocols to make room for such auto-trust score records. Of course, this requires permission from the user, since it publishes that the two do communicate.
Another vector: Have the mail client show the user a QR code (or similar with enough capcacity) containing the public key, and suggest to the user that he posts it on Facebook and similar social services. Then have some software spider the social sites for such QR codes, and assign them an auto-trust value based on how long that QR code has been on the page, possibly combined with a metric of how much the page has changed.
Add a function to cut an paste such QRs from the browser into the mail client, to open a new mail to the corresponding recipient.
Slashdot Mirror
I am pretty sure that Mohammad Atta never ends a sentence with "anyone?".
And if he wanted to create a panic, would he only announce it in a tweet responding to a friend from his community? Why not just call 911? Tell the flight attendant?
Not quite the same. He tweeted in a language completely unintelligible to regular twitter followers, understandable only to friends that already knew him and his gripes about certain alleged vulnerabilities. To make it comparable, he would have to announce it to his fellow passengers and to the crew, in a language that they would understand.
But he was mistaken because there were followers that were not his intended audience, and who knew just enough of the lingo to go an ask him questions.
Having a laptop is very unspecific. Everybody has a laptop.
The tweet does not have the form of a threat. It has a standard form of a tired joke from someone somewhat immature and infatuated with the technical lingo of his field.
What should matter is the degree of likelyhood that can be inferred from the available evidence.
Reasonable suspiction?
Suspiction maybe, but reasonable? Really?
I too have had to ask myself how this is. But my conclusion is the opposite. The warning signals are too many. Where such a culture of corruption reigns, there is always the possibility that "the truth coming on the table" is as fabricated as the taser next to Scott's dead body. So while I am no longer so sure that everything was exactly as the first witness accounts told, I rather opt to file it as "unresolved - probably police murder".
There should also be no death penalty for having an anxiety disorder and panicking.
How many people have gotten away with running from the police? It is hardly a clever strategy, even for a criminal.
People respond irrationally so often, that it is hardly evidence of much more than being humans.
You may consider it probable cause for an interrogation, but not for an execution.
There is nothing in this video that justifies killing the suspect. There is also nothing suggesting the victim is armed. This is not "cop defends life of self and/or others".
The killing was wholly unnecessary, the cop already had the face of this man on his camera, and they could have gotten back to him later. Publishing the picture in the papers and getting the public to tell who he is and where he is, is not too much bother to save his life.
If they absolutely had to shoot, they could hav aimed for the legs, not the torso.
And once the victim is lying lifeless, the friend was desperate to be allowed to give some first aid, stem the bleeding or whatever, but the cop has everything else higher up on his list.
If anything, this video is a means to instill fear of the police and to teach people to accept willy-nilly handcuffing.
4. There are a handful of people in law enforcement who have no business being in law enforcement, or any other field that requires them to interact with human beings as a matter of course. They have chips on their shoulders, the stereotype is the kid that got bullied a lot in high school, now he has a badge and a gun, so don't you dare fuck with him. These people are a minority, out of the dozens of LEOs I know I can only name one that falls into this category. Short tempered and thin skinned are bad personality attributes for LEOs.
DING! DING! DING! I think this is the real answer right here. I can think of one or two times I have encountered a LEO who made me think to myself "Ya know, maybe law enforcement is just not your thing, sir". I didn't say it out loud, of course. Instead I just gave him the "yes, sir, no, sir" treatment. Luckily, I'm a lily-white male from suburbia, so that usually mollifies them. I can only imagine how much grovelling a black male would have to do to get through an encounter with one of those assholes.
It's not just a few bad apples among the LEO, it's the system and a mentality that has so far protected them and allowed them to develop a culture of impunity. In many countries the police officers do not even carry weapons. If a situation arises, they are first supposed to withdraw, then call reinforcements. This means they don't always win at first. Yet, that is not a problem, and it saves countless lives.
If you witness a murder unfolding, and you have a weapon, and can prevent it, do you have a duty use it to save the victim?
But it could easily mean that no prior warning need to be given to Snowden himself before he is listed, not that nobody will have the means to find out who is listed at a given moment.
are being prohibited. Now, how do I know whether Snowden is such a person whose property is blocked pursuant to said order? Is there a registry over such persons?
Problem solved!
Mod parent up!
I would go with the cloud services. For the sensitive parts, use encryption. And for the private keys, use stone tablets.
Wrong question. What text-handlig (string-handlig) library do you want to use? Then use whatever that library supports. I still in doubt, go for UTF-8. Then you will be less tempted to think you can handle things yourself in C code. If you do think so, you will invariably write buggy code because you don't know enough about the issues.
I think much of this discussion misses the point. The company did have offline backups. However, they had an insufficient threat model. Their threat model probably included such disasters like disk crashes, software errors wiping the data, regular hacker break ins, and a row of other similar mundane threats.
If you want to compare with scantly clad girls in the park at 2 AM, I think this is more similar to the girl who wore long robes and arranged for a friend to go along, but was shot to death by a mugger. Of course she should have carried a helmet and a bullet-proof jacket.
The point is that this enterprise met an aggressor way out of the ordinary. It's a low probability, high consequence event.
That said, they should have done a few things that cost little to do (unlike carrying helmets and bulletproof jackets in the metaphorical case), and this is an opportunity for the rest of us to learn from their bad luck and to think over and discuss what exactly those few things should have been.
It would also be interesting to find out if they could have handled the attempted recovery differently. Should they have disconnected the entire site from the internet, and done the recovery purely on-site?
OR they could migrate those services to IPv6??
Let the public access those services both ways, but introduce a slight delay when accessing the IPv4 address.
There will be no switch to IPv6 until people begin to request it from their ISPs
Life may not be so common as we dream about, and then, there may be no technical solution to the brutal distances. The recently discovered "mega-earth" (17 x Earth's mass) is 500 light years away. A spaceship would need at least 20 generations' time, time dilation notwithstanding. Even if we could reduce the number of generations by slowing down life processes, it would not be a mass migration opportunity.
If the ship weights a mere 100 tons, accelerating that to 80% of the speed of light, and then decelerating it, requires a huge amount of energy, many times the current world's yearly output.
Back home we will have to wait for another 500 years to learn what happened. Spaceships will be sent out only in desperate situations, and only to planets near the source, and only to planets that have been ascertained to have the desirable properties.
Intelligent life may be rare, because even if there are numerous planets in the habitable zone, few of them will have a benign climate for sufficiently long time as stars increase their output. The case of the Earth gradually reducing its greenhouse effect, tracking the increase in the sun's output sufficiently closely, may be extremely rare, and the nearest such case may be several tens of thousands light years away.
I don't know the 8", but all my old 3.5" failed when I tried to read them a few years later. I don't think it was the drives, the disks began failing one by one, and I had multiple drives that gave fairly consistent results. I hope they remember to make copies of the floppies every year or so.
By reading this comment, you waive all rights to the ownership of your car...
Usually you become bound by an agreement when you confirm that you accept the deal.
If I infringe somebody's copyright, my only defense is that the copyright holder gave me permission.
If the only proof I have is the text of an eula, then my choices are (1) I did agree to the eula (and then I am bound by its terms), or (2) I did not agree to the eula, in which case I have no permission to use the copyrighted work.
This is the logic behind the binding power of an eula.
Reading your comment on slashdot does not constitute a violation of your copyright. If I hold that I did not enter into the agreement you offered in your eula, you have no basis for suing me even if I read your comment.
Similarly, clicking "like" is not a copyright violation, and I can safely hold that I never entered into any agreement not to sue.
I'd like to blame it on the Republicans but i cannot. The gridlock is to severe. It takes 2 to tango.
Wrong. It only takes one to make war. Surrender is not peace.
If the heartbeat message is stored in memory allocated near the top of the heap, then if the bug is being exploited, the server should be reading data beyond the top of the heap. If this bug has been extensively exploited, why have we not seen servers crashing every now and then? Or have we seen it?
Obama's problem wasn't just obstructionism in Congress. Can you remember the protests when they were thinking of trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others in New York? If Obama had pushed on these things, his whole presidency would have become impossible. I guess his priority number one is not to leave behind a lesson that says never again to elect a black president. So he kept a low profile and answered only slowly to the allegations that he was born somewhere else than Hawaii.
American voters seem to judge politicians by their perceived strength. If you say stupid things and get away with it, you are strong and get their support. Had the Democrats defended Obama and reason ten times more forcefully and persistently, the Tea Party guys may have ended up looking stupid, and may have lost. But perhaps the Democrats just did not have enough media control to win anyway.
To automate generation of a web of trust, the mail client may compute an "auto-trust score" based on how long you have been using the same key, and how many times you have responded to responses to encrypted messages. Extend the keyserver protocols to make room for such auto-trust score records. Of course, this requires permission from the user, since it publishes that the two do communicate.
Another vector: Have the mail client show the user a QR code (or similar with enough capcacity) containing the public key, and suggest to the user that he posts it on Facebook and similar social services. Then have some software spider the social sites for such QR codes, and assign them an auto-trust value based on how long that QR code has been on the page, possibly combined with a metric of how much the page has changed.
Add a function to cut an paste such QRs from the browser into the mail client, to open a new mail to the corresponding recipient.