"driving your own car will be a novelty that only a few holdouts like you will want"
This will eventually become a matter of practicality and insurance. If autonomous cars can go 100M miles/accident and humans average 2.3M miles/accident, then insurance for autonomous cars will be nearly nothing and insurance for manually driven cars will be $5000 a month if you can even find a company to insure you.
I don't know if/when autonomous will reach that level, but I feel there is a good chance they will be better than humans. They can see better, have much better reflexes, are never distracted, can communicate with the vehicle to know how good the brakes/tires/etc are, can communicate with other autonomous vehicles, and more.
"Just because you would be happy with 35Mph doesn't mean the rest of us should slow down and lose liberty because you want to be lazy."
You have already lost "liberty" by being restricted to speed limits on every public road in the USA.
"I have strong doubts about these ever being safer. Maybe if/when quantum computing really takes off and sensor tech is better than it is now..."
Do you really think it will take a quantum computer to be able to have better vision, a wider field of vision, better reflexes, automatic communication with nearby vehicles, etc.?
" 39 million blind and 285 million visually impaired"
I'll assume those numbers are worldwide. For starters, how many can even afford a vehicle?I suspect most don't have decent incomes due to their disability. Secondly, are we wanting to create rules to keep them at home so they can't cause emissions? That doesn't seem fair. It could even be considered eugenics-lite.
What if all this is a smokescreen to make everyone think you can't decrypt an iPhone, yet the NSA or whenever really can?
Then all the bad guys will use them and feel safe while in reality, the freedom loving USA patriot force can peruse phone data at will.
I have thought for a while that the best intelligence scam going would be to create a company that keeps information safe to the point where the government fights it, while in reality the information is readable and the company is actually in cahoots with the government.
Should someone who has ever been a "rapist or a mugger" be precluded from ever driving a taxi? Especially one like Uber where they are tracked 100% of the time while on the job?
"we've seen little indication that companies will stop implementing proprietary software anywhere, because there's not enough push-back from people who care"
Are you suggesting all code should be pubically viewable and verifiable in its precompiled state? If you are really that paranoid, why don't you only use devices that run open source code that you have personally vetted? Really, the easy solution to this is to not connect your TV to the internet. Problem solved.
"TV's in patient's room in a hospital with HIPPA violations"
If you talk where you and the patient are knowingly being recorded, then it isn't really a HIPPA violation. They just need little disclaimers on the TVs. Or better yet, not connect the TVs to the hospital's network.
"could make those people or their families vulnerable to kidnapping and violence"
Realistically, has anything like this ever happened in the existence of the FBI? Its a great movie plot, but at least in the US, political based kidnappings are unheard of.
With some work, you could put solar cells in the desert, use them to create Methanol (slowly but surely), and occasionally come by to pick up your fuel. The economics may not be there yet, but something like this could be the future. It would basically take advantage of free energy and convert that into a more dense portable energy like Methanol. That said, fre
If you really object, report any and all porn to the authorities as possible child porn. Unless you know all parties in a video or image and the time they were captured, you can't be totally sure they weren't minors and participating in child porn.
That is not true in the US. There must be an identified victim.
Now on the other hand, you could write a paragraph of how you "plan" to commit a crime that you really have no intention of carrying out. That could be construed as conspiracy and you could be placed in jail for life for such an action. Or shipped to Cuba as an enemy combatant and not even see a trial.
Date and time stamps on it being accessed while in your possession could be used as evidence if you did indeed encounter it. At the least, your home could be raided and all your computers gathered for analysis to see if you made any copies for yourself. Maybe they won't find anything because you are innocent, but it would be an inconvenience at the least.
Child porn is contraband, just like cocaine. Being in possession of it is a liability. Now if you're a car mechanic and someone brings in a vehicle to be repaired with 10 kilos in the trunk, you likely aren't going to get in trouble. But its not an impossibility.
"I would think that if something like that were to happen, it would have happened already."
That statement was valid on 9/10/2001 concerning the theory that 19 men could take over a set of airliners and use them as guided missiles to take out iconic representations of capitalism.
"you can be arrested for any action at officer discretion these day"
You always could. But can you be convicted for a crime you didn't commit? I know it has happened in the past. Back in 1972 a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune.
I doubt there are any backdoors in RSA keys, but most https traffic uses 256-bit symmetric keys. Let's say the NSA or whoever has a bank of computers that can crack that key in a day. With today's CPUs, you could encrypt your traffic with 10,000 keys relatively quickly. Then they would have to decrypt each one at a time. Of course, exchanging those keys may be complicated. Maybe to accomplish that you need a 4096-bit key.
The biggest problem with this theory is if they can crack a key, how long does it take? 0.001 second, 1 second, 1 day, 1 year, etc? A 10,000 key deep encryption would be fine if it takes a day to break but obviously not if the process can be completed in 2 seconds.
I've really thought about starting a service that writes OTPs to a 2TB drive, sends them to customers, and they use that to connect back to offshore servers that act as a proxy for them. Then, unless someone tampered with the drives intransit all communications would be secure.
Law enforcement will still try to justify their existence by "catching" people for a crime they didn't commit.I remember back in 1972 a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for just such an offense. Those men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune.
Desert Hot Springs, CA - population 27,902 (2013) 16 Pine Bluff, AR - population 46,094 (2013) Chester, PA - population 34,046 (2013) East Chicago, IN - population 29,212 (2013) Chicago Heights, IL - population 30,423 (2013)
Perhaps a town with under 50k people should not be compared to large cities when looking at "murders per 1,000 residents". One murder/suicide can skew the numbers for the whole year.
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"the unconstitutional ban on post-1986 automatic weapons"
Wasn't that passed by Congress, signed by the president and offered up for debate to the Supreme Court which opted not to hear the case?
"it describes a well-regulated militia, which requires military arms."
So do you think anyone should be able to own grenades, C4, RPGs, and any other types of arms used by the military?
"driving your own car will be a novelty that only a few holdouts like you will want"
This will eventually become a matter of practicality and insurance. If autonomous cars can go 100M miles/accident and humans average 2.3M miles/accident, then insurance for autonomous cars will be nearly nothing and insurance for manually driven cars will be $5000 a month if you can even find a company to insure you.
I don't know if/when autonomous will reach that level, but I feel there is a good chance they will be better than humans. They can see better, have much better reflexes, are never distracted, can communicate with the vehicle to know how good the brakes/tires/etc are, can communicate with other autonomous vehicles, and more.
"Just because you would be happy with 35Mph doesn't mean the rest of us should slow down and lose liberty because you want to be lazy."
You have already lost "liberty" by being restricted to speed limits on every public road in the USA.
"I have strong doubts about these ever being safer. Maybe if/when quantum computing really takes off and sensor tech is better than it is now..."
Do you really think it will take a quantum computer to be able to have better vision, a wider field of vision, better reflexes, automatic communication with nearby vehicles, etc.?
" 39 million blind and 285 million visually impaired"
I'll assume those numbers are worldwide. For starters, how many can even afford a vehicle?I suspect most don't have decent incomes due to their disability. Secondly, are we wanting to create rules to keep them at home so they can't cause emissions? That doesn't seem fair. It could even be considered eugenics-lite.
What if all this is a smokescreen to make everyone think you can't decrypt an iPhone, yet the NSA or whenever really can?
Then all the bad guys will use them and feel safe while in reality, the freedom loving USA patriot force can peruse phone data at will.
I have thought for a while that the best intelligence scam going would be to create a company that keeps information safe to the point where the government fights it, while in reality the information is readable and the company is actually in cahoots with the government.
Should someone who has ever been a "rapist or a mugger" be precluded from ever driving a taxi? Especially one like Uber where they are tracked 100% of the time while on the job?
"we've seen little indication that companies will stop implementing proprietary software anywhere, because there's not enough push-back from people who care"
Are you suggesting all code should be pubically viewable and verifiable in its precompiled state? If you are really that paranoid, why don't you only use devices that run open source code that you have personally vetted? Really, the easy solution to this is to not connect your TV to the internet. Problem solved.
"TV's in patient's room in a hospital with HIPPA violations"
If you talk where you and the patient are knowingly being recorded, then it isn't really a HIPPA violation. They just need little disclaimers on the TVs. Or better yet, not connect the TVs to the hospital's network.
"could make those people or their families vulnerable to kidnapping and violence"
Realistically, has anything like this ever happened in the existence of the FBI? Its a great movie plot, but at least in the US, political based kidnappings are unheard of.
With some work, you could put solar cells in the desert, use them to create Methanol (slowly but surely), and occasionally come by to pick up your fuel. The economics may not be there yet, but something like this could be the future. It would basically take advantage of free energy and convert that into a more dense portable energy like Methanol. That said, fre
Or you could use a fan to blow/suck air into a smaller apparatus and not have a facility the size of a monster aircraft hanger.
Great. Now GrandPa Simpson is an Uber driver.
If you really object, report any and all porn to the authorities as possible child porn. Unless you know all parties in a video or image and the time they were captured, you can't be totally sure they weren't minors and participating in child porn.
That is not true in the US. There must be an identified victim.
Now on the other hand, you could write a paragraph of how you "plan" to commit a crime that you really have no intention of carrying out. That could be construed as conspiracy and you could be placed in jail for life for such an action. Or shipped to Cuba as an enemy combatant and not even see a trial.
Date and time stamps on it being accessed while in your possession could be used as evidence if you did indeed encounter it. At the least, your home could be raided and all your computers gathered for analysis to see if you made any copies for yourself. Maybe they won't find anything because you are innocent, but it would be an inconvenience at the least.
Child porn is contraband, just like cocaine. Being in possession of it is a liability. Now if you're a car mechanic and someone brings in a vehicle to be repaired with 10 kilos in the trunk, you likely aren't going to get in trouble. But its not an impossibility.
"I would think that if something like that were to happen, it would have happened already."
That statement was valid on 9/10/2001 concerning the theory that 19 men could take over a set of airliners and use them as guided missiles to take out iconic representations of capitalism.
"you can be arrested for any action at officer discretion these day"
You always could. But can you be convicted for a crime you didn't commit? I know it has happened in the past. Back in 1972 a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune.
I doubt there are any backdoors in RSA keys, but most https traffic uses 256-bit symmetric keys. Let's say the NSA or whoever has a bank of computers that can crack that key in a day. With today's CPUs, you could encrypt your traffic with 10,000 keys relatively quickly. Then they would have to decrypt each one at a time. Of course, exchanging those keys may be complicated. Maybe to accomplish that you need a 4096-bit key.
The biggest problem with this theory is if they can crack a key, how long does it take? 0.001 second, 1 second, 1 day, 1 year, etc? A 10,000 key deep encryption would be fine if it takes a day to break but obviously not if the process can be completed in 2 seconds.
I've really thought about starting a service that writes OTPs to a 2TB drive, sends them to customers, and they use that to connect back to offshore servers that act as a proxy for them. Then, unless someone tampered with the drives intransit all communications would be secure.
At least Europe doesn't have a repeated history of nations building up large amounts of firepower and armies and trying to conquer it.
So true. Look at poor Canada, or India.
Law enforcement will still try to justify their existence by "catching" people for a crime they didn't commit.I remember back in 1972 a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for just such an offense. Those men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune.
Desert Hot Springs, CA - population 27,902 (2013)
16 Pine Bluff, AR - population 46,094 (2013)
Chester, PA - population 34,046 (2013)
East Chicago, IN - population 29,212 (2013)
Chicago Heights, IL - population 30,423 (2013)
Perhaps a town with under 50k people should not be compared to large cities when looking at "murders per 1,000 residents". One murder/suicide can skew the numbers for the whole year.
Where is the list of "legal" things we can do?