I got it before the turn of the millenium, big ol' bulky SONY CRT. Doesn't even have digital connectors, that's how old it is. I just have a couple of sets of composite plugs.
That could very easily be the last TV that I ever buy. It's been more and more irrelevant as time goes on -- neither next generation of console interests me, cable's a vast wasteland of uninteresting programming and anything that IS interesting can be found on the Internet with more convenience and less expense. If I need something to look at when I'm in the living room, maybe I could take its guts out and turn it into a fish tank.
That's not really the point. Gmail is one of the larger mail services and if they were encrypt-by-default, a lot more mail would be encrypted. A large campaign to subvert that would be more likely to be spotted. I'm not saying that would be the be-all and end-all to security. There IS NO be-all and end-all to security. I'm just saying I would find that to be an impressive move on their part and it would go a long way toward restoring the confidence I've lost in the company.
I'll trust my 4096 bit GPG key over some ietf-approved 256-bit encryption standard. At least I'm not asking them to support a one-time pad sent on a DVD via personal courier:-/
If Google wanted to impress me, they'd include a spot to paste a GPG public key in gmail and auto-encrypt all mails with it on the client side for gmail users or at the entry point of their network for all other mail users. As it stands Google is very much part of the problem, not very much part of the solution.
No! It seemed like an ENTIRELY reasonable position, at the time, that there was NO CONCEIVABLE WAY that "they" would be listening to EVERYONE! That would be a COMPLETELY USELESS waste of resources to catch then probably-less-than-a-thousand people who were ACTUAL THREATS to security! People, I might add, who already knew NOT TO USE THE INTERNET for communication! "Mom," I told mom, in a reassuring tone of voice, "go ahead and use the internet. 'They' already know you're not a threat. Their file on you says 'mostly harmless.'" She's gone dark since this story broke. Now I'm going to have to find a motherfucking CAVE somewhere in Florida and send a motherfucking CARRIER PIGEON there with a note that says "Fine, you were right." AND I'm going to have to give tinfoil-hat-guy $20 next time I see him, because if he was right about THAT, then ALL BETS ARE OFF! Now I'm having to rethink my position on ALIEN MIND CONTROL rays! Thank you VERY GODDAMN MUCH, NSA!
Yeah yeah and I'm having to go through the last couple years of E-mails and tell the various paranoid whackos, slightly demented old relatives and that one guy with the tinfoil that they were right and I was wrong. How do you think that makes ME feel?
If someone could get a class action lawsuit on and get a judge to find that Paypal must pay interest at the rate of inflation when it freezes funds, it would pay better interest than a typical savings account. Just sayin'...
But I'm pretty sure you could start a fire on the internet without having to pay a company for gasoline. If we're at the point now where a snarky comment in the right forum doesn't explode into 2/3rds of the planet's population judging your business, well, there's something wrong with the internet.
Figured the set that wouldn't consider it wouldn't be interested anyway. In any event my post is like a mirror. What you see in it reflects what you want to see in it.
Yuh huh, and with that loss of ticket revenue, every small town along the interstate would go bankrupt.
Under the current system, pretty much all drivers ignore the speed limit and the police mostly just ding the ones who are driving REALLY unsafely. Start absolute enforcement of the speed limit and you'll see a push by the citizens to push the speed limit up to what people are actually doing on those roads. I reckon it'd probably also kill every sports car line overnight, which arguably might not be a bad thing.
You deploy an app that is actually capable of NSA-Proofing the internet. How long do you reckon it'd be before someone pulls up next to your car at a light and shoots you in the ear? I doubt they'd actually be that unsubtle, but you know what they say... "Accidents happen ALL the time... to people who try to NSA-Proof the Internet."
He should have just marketed a real gun for kids. He'd probably still be in business, and some court would probably have ruled that neither he or his company could be sued for damages resulting from the use of his product. Perhaps his next venture should be buckyguns.
I did an outsourcing gig in Romania in the late 90's and liked the country. I liked the people I met, the food was good and the wine was fantastic. On the negative side, everyone seems to smoke everywhere there and no emissions controls means fleeing outside provides no relief. At the end of a week there my lungs just ached. Then we get on the plane and they announce it's a smoking flight until we get to London... I think the most concise and accurate description of the town I was in that I could come up with was "Miami with no emissions controls." Given an excuse, I'd go back!
I've thrown stuff together with a wireless access point, some SIP phones and a computer running asterisk. One of those would probably meet all the necessary requirements to work. Put a few of 'em around a city with call routing between the various asterisk nodes and it'd probably start to get pretty spiffy in no time. If you prefer a smart phone to the default SIP phone solution you can do that, as long as can install a SIP dialer on it.
Neither of them has NEARLY as much money as the phone company, who with location data can tell the owner of the phone is on a road going REALLY fast! There's absolutely no technical reason they couldn't disable text messaging to or from that phone that's in a moving vehicle! If you already feel that someone who knows that person's driving can be held liable then the obvious next step is to sue the phone company that knew he was in a moving vehicle, for TEN MILLION DOLLARS!
I've been seeing it coming for years. It seems like it would be prudent to have other means of power generation at your house if at all possible. You can get a generator that'll run on LP or natural gas, power your whole house and cut in automatically if there's an outage for less than 10 grand. After a three day outage last winter, this has moved WAY up my list of priorities. If I had an exta few tens of millions sitting around I'd just drop a pebble bed reactor in my back yard and watch the vein in that one neighbor's head just explode! Heh heh heh.
I'm pretty sure "sucking" is Yahoo's new business model. They seem to be generating more traffic by sucking than anything else they try. I think humanity as a whole needs someone to look down upon with disdain, and Yahoo seems to be willing to step up to the plate here! Sure, you can scoff now but 5 years from now everyone will be talking about how much they hate them, yet everyone will be visiting their web site in record numbers (Kind of like Facebook and Zynga games, now.) I don't think there's any other explanation for their behavior. Even "gross incompetence" doesn't fit -- even a blind squirrel gets a nut from time to time, and they've got no nuts over there!
Would they work better than the current laws that are supposed to stop that? Oh, you're talking about suppressing press freedoms? Yeah, the colonies got a bit touchy about that a while back. Now that they've been embarrassed a couple times, their leaders might be more amenable to it. I don't know if it's really worth probably looking like their... what do they call it again? "President"? His sock puppet over the subject. Feel free to run it up the flag and see who salutes, though. If it doesn't look like it's going to take, we can always bury the idea under a manufactured cricket controversy!
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That could very easily be the last TV that I ever buy. It's been more and more irrelevant as time goes on -- neither next generation of console interests me, cable's a vast wasteland of uninteresting programming and anything that IS interesting can be found on the Internet with more convenience and less expense. If I need something to look at when I'm in the living room, maybe I could take its guts out and turn it into a fish tank.
The staff of the Consulate should construct giant satellite dishes out of tin foil and hang them out of every window in the place.
That's not really the point. Gmail is one of the larger mail services and if they were encrypt-by-default, a lot more mail would be encrypted. A large campaign to subvert that would be more likely to be spotted. I'm not saying that would be the be-all and end-all to security. There IS NO be-all and end-all to security. I'm just saying I would find that to be an impressive move on their part and it would go a long way toward restoring the confidence I've lost in the company.
I'll trust my 4096 bit GPG key over some ietf-approved 256-bit encryption standard. At least I'm not asking them to support a one-time pad sent on a DVD via personal courier :-/
If Google wanted to impress me, they'd include a spot to paste a GPG public key in gmail and auto-encrypt all mails with it on the client side for gmail users or at the entry point of their network for all other mail users. As it stands Google is very much part of the problem, not very much part of the solution.
No! It seemed like an ENTIRELY reasonable position, at the time, that there was NO CONCEIVABLE WAY that "they" would be listening to EVERYONE! That would be a COMPLETELY USELESS waste of resources to catch then probably-less-than-a-thousand people who were ACTUAL THREATS to security! People, I might add, who already knew NOT TO USE THE INTERNET for communication! "Mom," I told mom, in a reassuring tone of voice, "go ahead and use the internet. 'They' already know you're not a threat. Their file on you says 'mostly harmless.'" She's gone dark since this story broke. Now I'm going to have to find a motherfucking CAVE somewhere in Florida and send a motherfucking CARRIER PIGEON there with a note that says "Fine, you were right." AND I'm going to have to give tinfoil-hat-guy $20 next time I see him, because if he was right about THAT, then ALL BETS ARE OFF! Now I'm having to rethink my position on ALIEN MIND CONTROL rays! Thank you VERY GODDAMN MUCH, NSA!
Hey baby! How's about you and I get together and... kill all humans?
Yeah yeah and I'm having to go through the last couple years of E-mails and tell the various paranoid whackos, slightly demented old relatives and that one guy with the tinfoil that they were right and I was wrong. How do you think that makes ME feel?
Maybe we should be electing people who will actually respect our rights an the constitution. As soon as someone like that actually runs...
If someone could get a class action lawsuit on and get a judge to find that Paypal must pay interest at the rate of inflation when it freezes funds, it would pay better interest than a typical savings account. Just sayin'...
Ooh yeah now that you mention it I do believe you're right!
But I'm pretty sure you could start a fire on the internet without having to pay a company for gasoline. If we're at the point now where a snarky comment in the right forum doesn't explode into 2/3rds of the planet's population judging your business, well, there's something wrong with the internet.
Actually forget if it's Simpsons or Futurama but "It's the amount of money our scientists have calculated that poor people think is a lot of money!"
Figured the set that wouldn't consider it wouldn't be interested anyway. In any event my post is like a mirror. What you see in it reflects what you want to see in it.
Which way is up to you.
Under the current system, pretty much all drivers ignore the speed limit and the police mostly just ding the ones who are driving REALLY unsafely. Start absolute enforcement of the speed limit and you'll see a push by the citizens to push the speed limit up to what people are actually doing on those roads. I reckon it'd probably also kill every sports car line overnight, which arguably might not be a bad thing.
You deploy an app that is actually capable of NSA-Proofing the internet. How long do you reckon it'd be before someone pulls up next to your car at a light and shoots you in the ear? I doubt they'd actually be that unsubtle, but you know what they say... "Accidents happen ALL the time... to people who try to NSA-Proof the Internet."
He should have just marketed a real gun for kids. He'd probably still be in business, and some court would probably have ruled that neither he or his company could be sued for damages resulting from the use of his product. Perhaps his next venture should be buckyguns.
I did an outsourcing gig in Romania in the late 90's and liked the country. I liked the people I met, the food was good and the wine was fantastic. On the negative side, everyone seems to smoke everywhere there and no emissions controls means fleeing outside provides no relief. At the end of a week there my lungs just ached. Then we get on the plane and they announce it's a smoking flight until we get to London... I think the most concise and accurate description of the town I was in that I could come up with was "Miami with no emissions controls." Given an excuse, I'd go back!
I've thrown stuff together with a wireless access point, some SIP phones and a computer running asterisk. One of those would probably meet all the necessary requirements to work. Put a few of 'em around a city with call routing between the various asterisk nodes and it'd probably start to get pretty spiffy in no time. If you prefer a smart phone to the default SIP phone solution you can do that, as long as can install a SIP dialer on it.
Neither of them has NEARLY as much money as the phone company, who with location data can tell the owner of the phone is on a road going REALLY fast! There's absolutely no technical reason they couldn't disable text messaging to or from that phone that's in a moving vehicle! If you already feel that someone who knows that person's driving can be held liable then the obvious next step is to sue the phone company that knew he was in a moving vehicle, for TEN MILLION DOLLARS!
I've been seeing it coming for years. It seems like it would be prudent to have other means of power generation at your house if at all possible. You can get a generator that'll run on LP or natural gas, power your whole house and cut in automatically if there's an outage for less than 10 grand. After a three day outage last winter, this has moved WAY up my list of priorities. If I had an exta few tens of millions sitting around I'd just drop a pebble bed reactor in my back yard and watch the vein in that one neighbor's head just explode! Heh heh heh.
I'm pretty sure "sucking" is Yahoo's new business model. They seem to be generating more traffic by sucking than anything else they try. I think humanity as a whole needs someone to look down upon with disdain, and Yahoo seems to be willing to step up to the plate here! Sure, you can scoff now but 5 years from now everyone will be talking about how much they hate them, yet everyone will be visiting their web site in record numbers (Kind of like Facebook and Zynga games, now.) I don't think there's any other explanation for their behavior. Even "gross incompetence" doesn't fit -- even a blind squirrel gets a nut from time to time, and they've got no nuts over there!
The Google Plus one just makes you feel lonely. So... very... lonely...
Would they work better than the current laws that are supposed to stop that? Oh, you're talking about suppressing press freedoms? Yeah, the colonies got a bit touchy about that a while back. Now that they've been embarrassed a couple times, their leaders might be more amenable to it. I don't know if it's really worth probably looking like their... what do they call it again? "President"? His sock puppet over the subject. Feel free to run it up the flag and see who salutes, though. If it doesn't look like it's going to take, we can always bury the idea under a manufactured cricket controversy!