Global warming is real. Now if the Department of Transportation starts digging lots of holes in the ground then I guess well also know the meteor is coming...
"It insists it does not provide encryption keys or access to Outlook's encryption mechanisms, and that the government must petition MS to provide information via the legal process."
Why the encryption process employed is susceptible to third party decryption in the first place. To avoid this from happening, the design needs to be end-to-end with the users holding the keys.
I was scanning these comments to moderate them and I ran across this one. On the surface, I agree with what you said regarding personal responsibility, however, addictions are chemically imbalanced. Your body does indeed build up a physical need for the substance that you're addicted to. I've seen alcoholics die when they tired to become sober because their body didn't have the substances that it needed. So I must respectfully disagree with you on that front. Many addictive substances alter the brain chemistry to change the way a person processes those substances. And yes, porn produces endorphins and other hormones, which can also be addictive. This cycle is what leads to the ever increasing need for more of the substance. Hard core drugs like Meth and Heroine are perfect examples of this. So yes, Alcoholism and Drug Abuse are very much diseases in much the same manner that mental disorders are a disease. They take a lot of effort to overcome and is not as simple as just "stopping".
My point exactly. The FISA Court (a federal court) blessed it. So until a case can get to a Federal Appeals Court or the Supreme Court, then nothing changes.
It's only illegal if it's enforceable. If the Congress passed it, the courts verified it, and the executive branch is acting on it, there are no more checks and balances left. And if the highest levels of those branches are in support of it, then there's no one to jail. There's no top cover over that to hold the parties responsible. At this point, there's really only two choices for holding those responsible. First, we can support civil organizations like the EFF or EPIC and hope their cases make it to the Supreme Court (and hope for a favorable ruling)... difficult. Or we have to seriously reconsider those in office and seriously change our voting habits to start supporting candidates that don't permit these types of programs... damn near impossible. So instead, we're stuck with what we've got. And that's not going to change.
Actually be responsible for bringing peace to the world? Barack Obama didn't do anything to promote peace when he first took office, and Snowden hasn't done anything "yet" to promote peace either. Nothing saying that what he did might not later, but should we not at least wait to see how the drama unfolds first before we award the medal?
This a fascinating development. The trick will be to see if they can actually make money off of it. Two things that stand out to me as why this is good is first, it creates a much broader acceptance (if successful) of the 3D printing technology. As people gain confidence in the technology, you'll see more advances in the technology as well as more people adopting the technology. If that happens, then Ebay will already be well situated in the market to switch from an connection between consumer and printing services to a provider of printing plans for various things. Ultimately, it might turn out that instead of going to Ebay to buy whatever, you go to Ebay to download whatever and to print it yourself.
Now I'll start getting emails notifying me that I've won the Bitcoin lottery and that I'm to send Bitcoin payment to Mr. Abdul Smith courtesy of international trasit number.... and that I only need to help pay the 10BC fee for setting up the transit. By way of official international transit carrier. And certified by Mr. Smith himself. On behalf of the US FBI and director J Edgar Hoover.
"I wish we knew a lot more about these organizations. They should receive positive feedback when they operate the right way and negative when they act the wrong way. Right now they only get negative and I doubt the organization is universally bad but without both reinforcements and greater public awareness along with people unwilling to do these immoral acts it is very hard to get change."
The NSA does a lot of good things and certainly isn't all bad. But the down side here is that the good things they do are also classified. There are many people who work in the NSA who do amazing things and they can't talk about them. Imagine all the folks in the CIA and NSA that may have helped with identifying where Osama Bin Laden was. The Seals didn't just happen upon a house in the middle of Pakistan by accident. That effort no doubt took years to analyse, coordinate, plan, and to do all over again. Imagine the analyst who positively identified Obama? Imagine the pride they had when they found him. But they can't even tell their husband or wife. There are things everyday that our intel agencies do that the world will never know. Sans the aliens, in some ways, it's a lot like Men in Black.
But on this note, and not to get too involved in the debate on surveillance, we are quick to criticize the NSA for the revelations that Snowden released, but yet we have companies like Google, who's job it is to suck up all the information in the first place. Think about it, Google has access to probably nearly every webpage on earth, a huge percentage of our emails, a huge number of our cell phone and VOIP calls, pictures of our doorsteps, and now is even coming out with a pair of glasses for everyone to walk around recording their day-to-day lives, and an ultra highspeed Internet that they can see all of our day to day surfing on. If we're worried about metadata in the hands of the NSA, why are we not worried about the intrusiveness of the companies we do business with?
Well, it's a good thing that Cobol was required training for the 3C0x2 career field in the Air Force.... oh wait, they outsourced all of those... Ooops.
A remote root exploit is discovered in in Gingerbread and Sprint refuses to fix the issue because they don't have the resources to address the issue and then every smartphone on Sprint running that version turns into a spambot with a dead battery.... Not that that would ever happen...
I thought they fixed all the security bugs. Wasn't that the whole point of the big push with their decade of trustworthy computing? Well, it's been over a decade now...
If memory serves, the US Navy's NMCI hotline (tech support for their global intranet) is 1-866-THE-NMCI.... If memory also serves, either 888, 877, or 800 THE-NMCI is also a phone sex hotline.
I believe the daily tome of knowledge tends to sum these fears up on a... er... daily basis. "Out out you daemons of stupidity!" (Yes, typo is intentional.)
This is really fascinating... In unrelated thoughts, the US currently has a law on the books called the Bradley Amendment, which defines child support enforcement mechanisms at the Federal Level. One of those provisions that states are allowed to do is to revoke passports for individuals that are behind on their child support. Curious how this treaty affects implementation of the Brandley Amendment and whether or not a fight in court at the State level (and theoretically to the Federal level) would play out if challenged against this...<\off topic> I think I'll have to do more reading on this...
I hate reading articles like this. Yes, the power company puts off pollution. Yes, charging your electric car technically still pollutes the environment because of the coal that is burned to produce the electricity. But here's the question: Is it easier to replace 1 power plant, or 1 million cars? Sorry, not phased by the report. Looking forward to eventually owning a plugin hybrid so that I can let the gas market compete with the power market and to help drive down costs through competition. Thanks.
"So is some dickhead is bothering your movie experience, complain to the manager. Immediately. Demand they either enforce their rules (and they have them) or give you your money back. And if they don't, make it clear they've lost a customer, and anybody else who you can tell about it."
Absolutely agree. But I think this article is hinting at a bigger problem. Time Magazine did an interesting article that analyses the upcoming generation and there is some truth in the analysis. (Cue flame war in 3... 2... 1..). But the key here is the analysis on the view of authority and the introspective narcissism that is much more prevalent. These factor in when we consider things like cell phones on in the theater.
I am also friends with a number of high school teachers and they echo the issues raised in the Time Article.
My wife and I like getting some coffee while we thumb through books and figure out which ones we want to buy on our nooks. Borders was a blow, to loose B&N too would shut down our abilities to do that.
Perhaps, but they don't allow extensions in iOS, and while I own a Macbook, the majority of users for Apple use Safari on a small 4 inch screen. I apologize, I wasn't thinking of the version in OSX.
would be why I have no Internet Cache. Disabled immediately after install. What is also concerning is the myriad of other client side data storage techniques (to include the newer ones with HTML5) Firefox does a pretty good job with plugins and Chrome to some extent as well, but with Apple refusing to allow addons in their Webkit and Microsoft doing whatever it does with IE, this issue is likely to get worse as technology continues to evolve.
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It is amazing how the behaviors of large organizations change when profit is involved.
Global warming is real. Now if the Department of Transportation starts digging lots of holes in the ground then I guess well also know the meteor is coming...
Why the encryption process employed is susceptible to third party decryption in the first place. To avoid this from happening, the design needs to be end-to-end with the users holding the keys.
I was scanning these comments to moderate them and I ran across this one. On the surface, I agree with what you said regarding personal responsibility, however, addictions are chemically imbalanced. Your body does indeed build up a physical need for the substance that you're addicted to. I've seen alcoholics die when they tired to become sober because their body didn't have the substances that it needed. So I must respectfully disagree with you on that front. Many addictive substances alter the brain chemistry to change the way a person processes those substances. And yes, porn produces endorphins and other hormones, which can also be addictive. This cycle is what leads to the ever increasing need for more of the substance. Hard core drugs like Meth and Heroine are perfect examples of this. So yes, Alcoholism and Drug Abuse are very much diseases in much the same manner that mental disorders are a disease. They take a lot of effort to overcome and is not as simple as just "stopping".
My point exactly. The FISA Court (a federal court) blessed it. So until a case can get to a Federal Appeals Court or the Supreme Court, then nothing changes.
It's only illegal if it's enforceable. If the Congress passed it, the courts verified it, and the executive branch is acting on it, there are no more checks and balances left. And if the highest levels of those branches are in support of it, then there's no one to jail. There's no top cover over that to hold the parties responsible. At this point, there's really only two choices for holding those responsible. First, we can support civil organizations like the EFF or EPIC and hope their cases make it to the Supreme Court (and hope for a favorable ruling)... difficult. Or we have to seriously reconsider those in office and seriously change our voting habits to start supporting candidates that don't permit these types of programs ... damn near impossible. So instead, we're stuck with what we've got. And that's not going to change.
Actually be responsible for bringing peace to the world? Barack Obama didn't do anything to promote peace when he first took office, and Snowden hasn't done anything "yet" to promote peace either. Nothing saying that what he did might not later, but should we not at least wait to see how the drama unfolds first before we award the medal?
Replicators ... here we come...
Or something like that.
The NSA does a lot of good things and certainly isn't all bad. But the down side here is that the good things they do are also classified. There are many people who work in the NSA who do amazing things and they can't talk about them. Imagine all the folks in the CIA and NSA that may have helped with identifying where Osama Bin Laden was. The Seals didn't just happen upon a house in the middle of Pakistan by accident. That effort no doubt took years to analyse, coordinate, plan, and to do all over again. Imagine the analyst who positively identified Obama? Imagine the pride they had when they found him. But they can't even tell their husband or wife. There are things everyday that our intel agencies do that the world will never know. Sans the aliens, in some ways, it's a lot like Men in Black.
But on this note, and not to get too involved in the debate on surveillance, we are quick to criticize the NSA for the revelations that Snowden released, but yet we have companies like Google, who's job it is to suck up all the information in the first place. Think about it, Google has access to probably nearly every webpage on earth, a huge percentage of our emails, a huge number of our cell phone and VOIP calls, pictures of our doorsteps, and now is even coming out with a pair of glasses for everyone to walk around recording their day-to-day lives, and an ultra highspeed Internet that they can see all of our day to day surfing on. If we're worried about metadata in the hands of the NSA, why are we not worried about the intrusiveness of the companies we do business with?
Well, it's a good thing that Cobol was required training for the 3C0x2 career field in the Air Force. ... oh wait, they outsourced all of those... Ooops.
A remote root exploit is discovered in in Gingerbread and Sprint refuses to fix the issue because they don't have the resources to address the issue and then every smartphone on Sprint running that version turns into a spambot with a dead battery. ... Not that that would ever happen...
I thought they fixed all the security bugs. Wasn't that the whole point of the big push with their decade of trustworthy computing? Well, it's been over a decade now...
If memory serves, the US Navy's NMCI hotline (tech support for their global intranet) is 1-866-THE-NMCI. ... If memory also serves, either 888, 877, or 800 THE-NMCI is also a phone sex hotline.
Which is more serious, the traditional high crimes like murder and rape, or illegally copying a DVD.
I believe the daily tome of knowledge tends to sum these fears up on a ... er... daily basis. "Out out you daemons of stupidity!" (Yes, typo is intentional.)
The bigger threat to encryption isn't the pre-computed magic numbers that the NSA may or may not have placed into key algorithms, it is the advance of technology and the subsequent rendering useless of the models we currently use today.
This is really fascinating... In unrelated thoughts, the US currently has a law on the books called the Bradley Amendment, which defines child support enforcement mechanisms at the Federal Level. One of those provisions that states are allowed to do is to revoke passports for individuals that are behind on their child support. Curious how this treaty affects implementation of the Brandley Amendment and whether or not a fight in court at the State level (and theoretically to the Federal level) would play out if challenged against this...<\off topic> I think I'll have to do more reading on this...
I hate reading articles like this. Yes, the power company puts off pollution. Yes, charging your electric car technically still pollutes the environment because of the coal that is burned to produce the electricity. But here's the question: Is it easier to replace 1 power plant, or 1 million cars? Sorry, not phased by the report. Looking forward to eventually owning a plugin hybrid so that I can let the gas market compete with the power market and to help drive down costs through competition. Thanks.
Absolutely agree. But I think this article is hinting at a bigger problem. Time Magazine did an interesting article that analyses the upcoming generation and there is some truth in the analysis. (Cue flame war in 3... 2... 1..). But the key here is the analysis on the view of authority and the introspective narcissism that is much more prevalent. These factor in when we consider things like cell phones on in the theater.
I am also friends with a number of high school teachers and they echo the issues raised in the Time Article.
My wife and I like getting some coffee while we thumb through books and figure out which ones we want to buy on our nooks. Borders was a blow, to loose B&N too would shut down our abilities to do that.
Yeah, but I doubt he can respawn if he's shot.
Hope he speaks Russian. Seems that his stay in Russia may have inexplicably been extended if this news report is correct.
Perhaps, but they don't allow extensions in iOS, and while I own a Macbook, the majority of users for Apple use Safari on a small 4 inch screen. I apologize, I wasn't thinking of the version in OSX.
would be why I have no Internet Cache. Disabled immediately after install. What is also concerning is the myriad of other client side data storage techniques (to include the newer ones with HTML5) Firefox does a pretty good job with plugins and Chrome to some extent as well, but with Apple refusing to allow addons in their Webkit and Microsoft doing whatever it does with IE, this issue is likely to get worse as technology continues to evolve.