Well, _I_ am capable of ripping out any and all crap they put in there, but most people are not. But it takes way too much time to do so, so I will not buy anything from them again without careful research.
You miss something important completely: If people install ad-blockers, then they do not want ads and any revenue sites are making are based on invalid assumptions.
It relies on invalid assumptions. People that block ads are not going to buy things from the blocked ads, ever, even if they were displayed. The industry is lying to its customers, and, as is traditional, fraud of this nature allows its perpetrators to make far more money than any type of honest work. On the other hand, the ad-industry has over-done it to an extreme degree. The success of ad-blocking software shows how intrusive and disrespectful of the user's time and attention it has become. Of course, people fight back, and the ultimate outcome can only be the demise of this cancer of the Internet. On the plus-side, this does not threaten content creators, as there are other, valid ways to finance content-creation.
Like the copyright-industry, the ad-industry cannot die fast enough.
Deuterium-Tritium is a stepping stone. Once it works, the next level is easier. Of course, if we only ever get Deuterium-Tritium to work, then fusion will likely not work out as Tritium has rather limited availability.
Just my thought. Of course, we are more comfortably tracked than by televisor and the invariable economic collapse of any totalitarian society has not progressed as far, but the direction is pretty clear.
Seems I misremembered actual numbers here. My apologies. Still, what is created in hydrogen fusion is massively less dangerous than what fission creates and there is no risk of large-scale explosions and the like as you do not use a "pressure cocker" design and the reaction itself is basically stable, unlike fission. Also, fuel is plentiful (deuterium can be gotten from the oceans and ordinary hydrogen is no issue at all).
My take is that if we get fusion to work reliably and efficiently on Deuterium and Hydrogen, we will enter a new golden age.
It is mainly radioactive Helium. That one has a 48 hour half-life and is a gas. As a result, the only ones really at risk for short-term exposure are workers directly in the reactor-housing. And even on a massive breach, things will be quite safe again after a few days.
You misunderstand. These hashes can be used to find and identify people that are sending entirely different, and possibly legal, pictures around. That allows them to do things that would require a specific warrant. But as nobody can verify what they are hashing, there is zero possibility for legal action to stop this.
Still, it is good that research in that area is still ongoing. We need to find out pretty soon whether this planet has to go all-renewable in order to survive. Working fusion within the foreseeable future would be very much desirable.
Freedom always comes with risks and one is some degree of unsolved crime. That is fine, a free society can withstand some crime being unsolved. On the other hand, a non-free society is about the worst form of human existence, and countless people have risked and given their lives to help establish free societies. It is really a very small evil (some unsolved crime) against an extremely large evil. And preventing people from using secure encryption is a huge step towards the large evil.
Here is a solution that prevents all murders and all crime: Just kill everybody. This could even be made law (it cannot be made legal without fundamental changes to the constitution though). Why is it still wrong? Simple: The gain is far, far inferior to the losses this brings with it.
So, if 6 people get murdered, and the job of the police to find the killers would be made a little easier by establishing a surveillance-state, is that a balanced solution? Rather obviously, it is not. And so is requiring everybody to use bad and insecure encryption just to make the police's job a bit easier in some cases. The problem here is that the police is unable to police itself. That is something that has been known for a very long time. It is no accident, that what comes out when the police gets what they want is called a "police state". In order to maintain freedom, the police always needs to have significant less power than it wants and significantly less funding than it desires. Otherwise things will get out of hand and the negative consequences for society will be drastic.
Sexism, racism, nationalism, ageism, etc. cannot be eradicated, as it is a mechanism by which people that are not very smart and not very capable try to elevate themselves above others. Unless that problem can be fixed, sexism, racism, etc. will remain with the human race.
If I remember correctly, reverse-engineering to fix bugs that prevent software from working as intended and to secure systems is always legal in Europe, no matter what the contract says. But it is nice that Oracle confirmed that they do not care about their customers at all except as cash-cows. Not that this is a surprises to anybody.
There is also no legal way for any ordinary citizen or company to verify the hashes are actually hashes of CP. They could be hashes for something else entirely. This is obviously an intended thing.
There are "robust" image hashes out there, so that is not the real problem here. The real problem is the huge opportunity to do censorship this way. And anybody even trying to find out whether this is real or a complete abuse of the law will see some illegal pixels and will have searched for them, and hence can be easily removed to jail for a long, long time. Basically, doing it this way removes any legal possibility for ordinary citizens to evaluate what is going on and complain about abuses (except for very specific cases). The chilling effect is staggering. If that is not hugely dangerous, I do not know what is.
There is something inherently wrong in making the possession of any specific configuration of bits illegal. Sure, selling them, creating them is different, but criminalizing possession is just a cop-out by law enforcement to make their job easy so they do not have to prove intent. Hence it has become so easy to kill people socially, just hack their computers and put some CP on then and then give an anonymous tip to law enforcement. In many countries, drawings are already enough to get the desired effect. This is really not helping the problem at all.
This is simple economics: If they stop 10 producers of CP, they have arrested 10 people. If they stop 1000 consumers, the still have the 10 producers out there, creating new consumers and they can claim 100x the "success". Add to that that in many countries no-victim CP (drawings, comics, texts, etc.) are illegal as well, they can present their huge successes in "fighting CP" to get more power and funding, while at the same time they can make sure the sources do not dry up. Of course this means not fighting actual child abuse, because if they went after those that hurt children and document it, they would slaughter the goose that lays golden eggs for them. And in addition, finding and stopping those that abuse children is much, much harder, as very likely only a tiny part of actual child abuse ends up on the Internet.
Hence, overall, there is no real interest in rescuing or protecting any children here. The incentives have gotten entirely perverted, to the detriment of any and all children that get abused.
He seems to be under the delusion that he has "challenged" me, when I could not care less about him or his "views". Some kind of megalomania, I think. That he posts as AC probably shows that he is at Karma-minimum because most people immediately notice the insanity dripping from his posts.
It differs by use of extreme marketing lies. It is well-known that ASLR makes some attacks on a system or application harder, but not impossible. It does nothing at all for other attacks.
These people are lying to their customers. Even hardened systems need to be operated with security in mind. And, of course, OS hardening does not a lot to harden applications.
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Well, _I_ am capable of ripping out any and all crap they put in there, but most people are not. But it takes way too much time to do so, so I will not buy anything from them again without careful research.
You miss something important completely: If people install ad-blockers, then they do not want ads and any revenue sites are making are based on invalid assumptions.
It relies on invalid assumptions. People that block ads are not going to buy things from the blocked ads, ever, even if they were displayed. The industry is lying to its customers, and, as is traditional, fraud of this nature allows its perpetrators to make far more money than any type of honest work. On the other hand, the ad-industry has over-done it to an extreme degree. The success of ad-blocking software shows how intrusive and disrespectful of the user's time and attention it has become. Of course, people fight back, and the ultimate outcome can only be the demise of this cancer of the Internet. On the plus-side, this does not threaten content creators, as there are other, valid ways to finance content-creation.
Like the copyright-industry, the ad-industry cannot die fast enough.
Deuterium-Tritium is a stepping stone. Once it works, the next level is easier. Of course, if we only ever get Deuterium-Tritium to work, then fusion will likely not work out as Tritium has rather limited availability.
Just my thought. Of course, we are more comfortably tracked than by televisor and the invariable economic collapse of any totalitarian society has not progressed as far, but the direction is pretty clear.
Seems I misremembered actual numbers here. My apologies. Still, what is created in hydrogen fusion is massively less dangerous than what fission creates and there is no risk of large-scale explosions and the like as you do not use a "pressure cocker" design and the reaction itself is basically stable, unlike fission. Also, fuel is plentiful (deuterium can be gotten from the oceans and ordinary hydrogen is no issue at all).
My take is that if we get fusion to work reliably and efficiently on Deuterium and Hydrogen, we will enter a new golden age.
What is the world coming to?" It seems, no matter how obviously bad an idea is, somebody has to try it.
It is mainly radioactive Helium. That one has a 48 hour half-life and is a gas. As a result, the only ones really at risk for short-term exposure are workers directly in the reactor-housing. And even on a massive breach, things will be quite safe again after a few days.
You misunderstand. These hashes can be used to find and identify people that are sending entirely different, and possibly legal, pictures around. That allows them to do things that would require a specific warrant. But as nobody can verify what they are hashing, there is zero possibility for legal action to stop this.
Go where? Mars? You are kidding yourself.
Still, it is good that research in that area is still ongoing. We need to find out pretty soon whether this planet has to go all-renewable in order to survive. Working fusion within the foreseeable future would be very much desirable.
Freedom always comes with risks and one is some degree of unsolved crime. That is fine, a free society can withstand some crime being unsolved. On the other hand, a non-free society is about the worst form of human existence, and countless people have risked and given their lives to help establish free societies. It is really a very small evil (some unsolved crime) against an extremely large evil. And preventing people from using secure encryption is a huge step towards the large evil.
Here is a solution that prevents all murders and all crime: Just kill everybody. This could even be made law (it cannot be made legal without fundamental changes to the constitution though). Why is it still wrong? Simple: The gain is far, far inferior to the losses this brings with it.
So, if 6 people get murdered, and the job of the police to find the killers would be made a little easier by establishing a surveillance-state, is that a balanced solution? Rather obviously, it is not. And so is requiring everybody to use bad and insecure encryption just to make the police's job a bit easier in some cases. The problem here is that the police is unable to police itself. That is something that has been known for a very long time. It is no accident, that what comes out when the police gets what they want is called a "police state". In order to maintain freedom, the police always needs to have significant less power than it wants and significantly less funding than it desires. Otherwise things will get out of hand and the negative consequences for society will be drastic.
Nice trolling.
Sexism, racism, nationalism, ageism, etc. cannot be eradicated, as it is a mechanism by which people that are not very smart and not very capable try to elevate themselves above others. Unless that problem can be fixed, sexism, racism, etc. will remain with the human race.
If I remember correctly, reverse-engineering to fix bugs that prevent software from working as intended and to secure systems is always legal in Europe, no matter what the contract says. But it is nice that Oracle confirmed that they do not care about their customers at all except as cash-cows. Not that this is a surprises to anybody.
Right on the mark. And that is why the stated goals are rather obvious lies.
There is also no legal way for any ordinary citizen or company to verify the hashes are actually hashes of CP. They could be hashes for something else entirely. This is obviously an intended thing.
There are "robust" image hashes out there, so that is not the real problem here. The real problem is the huge opportunity to do censorship this way. And anybody even trying to find out whether this is real or a complete abuse of the law will see some illegal pixels and will have searched for them, and hence can be easily removed to jail for a long, long time. Basically, doing it this way removes any legal possibility for ordinary citizens to evaluate what is going on and complain about abuses (except for very specific cases). The chilling effect is staggering. If that is not hugely dangerous, I do not know what is.
There is something inherently wrong in making the possession of any specific configuration of bits illegal. Sure, selling them, creating them is different, but criminalizing possession is just a cop-out by law enforcement to make their job easy so they do not have to prove intent. Hence it has become so easy to kill people socially, just hack their computers and put some CP on then and then give an anonymous tip to law enforcement. In many countries, drawings are already enough to get the desired effect. This is really not helping the problem at all.
This is simple economics: If they stop 10 producers of CP, they have arrested 10 people. If they stop 1000 consumers, the still have the 10 producers out there, creating new consumers and they can claim 100x the "success". Add to that that in many countries no-victim CP (drawings, comics, texts, etc.) are illegal as well, they can present their huge successes in "fighting CP" to get more power and funding, while at the same time they can make sure the sources do not dry up. Of course this means not fighting actual child abuse, because if they went after those that hurt children and document it, they would slaughter the goose that lays golden eggs for them. And in addition, finding and stopping those that abuse children is much, much harder, as very likely only a tiny part of actual child abuse ends up on the Internet.
Hence, overall, there is no real interest in rescuing or protecting any children here. The incentives have gotten entirely perverted, to the detriment of any and all children that get abused.
He seems to be under the delusion that he has "challenged" me, when I could not care less about him or his "views". Some kind of megalomania, I think. That he posts as AC probably shows that he is at Karma-minimum because most people immediately notice the insanity dripping from his posts.
Really, you should start to take your medication again.
It differs by use of extreme marketing lies. It is well-known that ASLR makes some attacks on a system or application harder, but not impossible. It does nothing at all for other attacks.
These people are lying to their customers. Even hardened systems need to be operated with security in mind. And, of course, OS hardening does not a lot to harden applications.