What business would want to give up guaranteed sales? I mean, a gaming platform is like walking into a bank, depositing one cent and then getting a cent every second until the bank closes.
You seem to be ignoring the fact that we live in a credit card century. The government could easily standardize on credit tokens. Like a piece of plastic that is has a handshake token that states the amount of money on the card. For example, the Treasurers Office could start stamping cards with a One Time Pad that assigns a dollar amount. Now, if done correctly, the trust value on this would be significant. As long as you can prove to the public that it's safe and can't be duplicated. And it would make theft of the cards not only suspect, but highly dangerous. Can you imagine a mugger stealing one and then being arrested when the card is flagged? And not only that, you could get a replacement of the value and deactivate the card. Now, I can see numerous scams that people may try to point out. Like someone buying something and then claiming fraud. But the OTP would be linked to you specifically. Any attempt to claim fraud would put a flag on you. Now, if someone decided to steal your pad, yes you would be screwed. But that's where learning basic security comes in. No one should be so stupid as to allow someone to know your personal encryption key.
The entire time I'm reading the article, I can't help but think that they could have made a better name choice. I mean, who wants to be associated with one of the most debated schemes in current computing? And I'm curious if they can embed a "no record" bit in this specification?
That seems more cultish then actually helping. It promotes ideas that SEEM good, but are rather counter intuitive. Working holidays? Why not just stay home, where you don't burn fuel traveling? Or better yet, start a hydroponics garden. House swapping? Sounds like a great way to have your stuff stolen / Identity snatched. There is little proof that "organic" is truely organic. Especially since most enviromental factors are out of the farmers hands. Pesticides, metals toxicity , etc. Your basically paying extra for the same amount of pollutants. And it's not encouraging sane practices. Allowing large areas of land to be fed to grazing animals does nothing to encourage top soil retention. Nothing your site presents sounds sustainable long term. Especially when oil powers the farmers house, the house that your swapping with and the machinery the farm uses. That isn't transition, its commune propaganda.
Which seems more likely, A guy "suddenly" having a opinion on a device thats understood worldwide. Or that he just wants someone above him to notice him? And I have no problem with being snooped on. Privacy is a illusion, one that I gladly hide behind. But I am not deluded into thinking that it's more then a paper tiger. If governments TRULY wanted access, they would. It doesn't take much to torture a person.
I mean, Not modchips themselves. But the code to unlock a PS3 is the wild now. It's like trying to lock the gate after the cows run into the town square.
Really? This NEVER happens in windows? As in statically, 100% of the cases of Windows ® use, it never happens? That my friend, is a incredibly flawed study. I would enjoy seeing the sources you used! Me personally, I experiance these problems a large portion of the time. But that is due to a combination of overheating hardware and memory leaking plugins in firefox.
As far as being the most secure city on earth? That just sounds like a planetary challenge. I mean, what kind of idiot politician still says stuff like this? Can you imagine what would happen if there was a contest to test this "security" of theirs? Not to mention the fact it sounds more a hollow threat. Especially in light of the glaring drug problems the country is experiencing. Security is only as good as the human running it. And NO country is immune to corruption.
Couldn't this also be used for hydroponically grown produce? It would be incredibly useful for those that are required to spend long periods of time in high salinity areas. For example, navy ships, Oil rigs, Exploration ships and island dwelling nations?
FYI, It is International Code of Medical Ethics of the World Medical Association - 1949 that i was thinking of. It covers the kind of things that they shouldn't be doing. Especially these lines, 3) the requirement to "observe the principles of The Declaration of Geneva", because that document requires that a doctor must not use "medical knowledge contrary to the laws of humanity", and 4) the requirement that a doctor must "practice his profession uninfluenced by motives of profit."]
Noted, thank you. I'll make sure to pay closer attention to the wording, as I'm only marginally familiar with the convention. Though I wouldn't be surprised if the doctors were somehow connected to the state.
Since the Geneva convention has specific rules against testing on human subjects. True it is meant for forced testing but this seems like it might still apply.
This is the kind of behavior that I like to see when someone screws up. Don't be secretive. Don't try to deny it happened. Fess up and make sure people know. *applauds*
How do you know they don't do exactly that? You couldn't unless you ONLY shopped there. You leave a data trail a mile long simply by doing day to day things. What do you think wal-mart does with the database on its customers?
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What business would want to give up guaranteed sales? I mean, a gaming platform is like walking into a bank, depositing one cent and then getting a cent every second until the bank closes.
You seem to be ignoring the fact that we live in a credit card century. The government could easily standardize on credit tokens. Like a piece of plastic that is has a handshake token that states the amount of money on the card. For example, the Treasurers Office could start stamping cards with a One Time Pad that assigns a dollar amount. Now, if done correctly, the trust value on this would be significant. As long as you can prove to the public that it's safe and can't be duplicated. And it would make theft of the cards not only suspect, but highly dangerous. Can you imagine a mugger stealing one and then being arrested when the card is flagged? And not only that, you could get a replacement of the value and deactivate the card. Now, I can see numerous scams that people may try to point out. Like someone buying something and then claiming fraud. But the OTP would be linked to you specifically. Any attempt to claim fraud would put a flag on you. Now, if someone decided to steal your pad, yes you would be screwed. But that's where learning basic security comes in. No one should be so stupid as to allow someone to know your personal encryption key.
I sold my ps3 back when they took away my OtherOS abilities. Now I'm almost sad to see it disappear now that so many options are open to me.
The entire time I'm reading the article, I can't help but think that they could have made a better name choice. I mean, who wants to be associated with one of the most debated schemes in current computing? And I'm curious if they can embed a "no record" bit in this specification?
So this rock, I suppose it Rocks?
Does it come pre-encrusted in diamonds or not? :p
http://lng.sourceforge.net/ Always provide your sources. :p
Or glow in the dark porn. It would be "A night in Paris." reimagined. :p
That seems more cultish then actually helping. It promotes ideas that SEEM good, but are rather counter intuitive. Working holidays? Why not just stay home, where you don't burn fuel traveling? Or better yet, start a hydroponics garden. House swapping? Sounds like a great way to have your stuff stolen / Identity snatched. There is little proof that "organic" is truely organic. Especially since most enviromental factors are out of the farmers hands. Pesticides, metals toxicity , etc. Your basically paying extra for the same amount of pollutants. And it's not encouraging sane practices. Allowing large areas of land to be fed to grazing animals does nothing to encourage top soil retention. Nothing your site presents sounds sustainable long term. Especially when oil powers the farmers house, the house that your swapping with and the machinery the farm uses. That isn't transition, its commune propaganda.
I suddenly had a image of rockets being attached to a bunk bed and being launched. Am the only one that got this image?
Which seems more likely, A guy "suddenly" having a opinion on a device thats understood worldwide. Or that he just wants someone above him to notice him? And I have no problem with being snooped on. Privacy is a illusion, one that I gladly hide behind. But I am not deluded into thinking that it's more then a paper tiger. If governments TRULY wanted access, they would. It doesn't take much to torture a person.
You have to wonder if this guy isn't looking for some kind of promotion. The easiest way to go from nobody to somebody is to get noticed.
I mean, Not modchips themselves. But the code to unlock a PS3 is the wild now. It's like trying to lock the gate after the cows run into the town square.
Really? This NEVER happens in windows? As in statically, 100% of the cases of Windows ® use, it never happens? That my friend, is a incredibly flawed study. I would enjoy seeing the sources you used! Me personally, I experiance these problems a large portion of the time. But that is due to a combination of overheating hardware and memory leaking plugins in firefox.
As far as being the most secure city on earth? That just sounds like a planetary challenge. I mean, what kind of idiot politician still says stuff like this? Can you imagine what would happen if there was a contest to test this "security" of theirs? Not to mention the fact it sounds more a hollow threat. Especially in light of the glaring drug problems the country is experiencing. Security is only as good as the human running it. And NO country is immune to corruption.
0.o Is that some kind of meta-joke? You can never tell here..........
Couldn't this also be used for hydroponically grown produce? It would be incredibly useful for those that are required to spend long periods of time in high salinity areas. For example, navy ships, Oil rigs, Exploration ships and island dwelling nations?
FYI, It is International Code of Medical Ethics of the World Medical Association - 1949 that i was thinking of. It covers the kind of things that they shouldn't be doing. Especially these lines, 3) the requirement to "observe the principles of The Declaration of Geneva", because that document requires that a doctor must not use "medical knowledge contrary to the laws of humanity", and 4) the requirement that a doctor must "practice his profession uninfluenced by motives of profit."]
Noted, thank you. I'll make sure to pay closer attention to the wording, as I'm only marginally familiar with the convention. Though I wouldn't be surprised if the doctors were somehow connected to the state.
Since the Geneva convention has specific rules against testing on human subjects. True it is meant for forced testing but this seems like it might still apply.
This is the kind of behavior that I like to see when someone screws up. Don't be secretive. Don't try to deny it happened. Fess up and make sure people know. *applauds*
They'll make the app disappear and to appease the FSF they'll provide a notice about the app. And possibly a link to the source for awhile.
That's because you don't have huge lobbyists paying your senators to pollute the streets.
How do you know they don't do exactly that? You couldn't unless you ONLY shopped there. You leave a data trail a mile long simply by doing day to day things. What do you think wal-mart does with the database on its customers?
You could always buy a HDFury device. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDfury