Can you really have true freedom of speech without anonymity? Depends on your local legal system and/or what conspicuous weapons and defense mechanisms you have. I'm guessing Iron Man is pretty free with his speech.
Same. Everyone seems to think I know their password already but I try to tell them that I don't even *need* their password. Also a lot of users don't seem to get the whole 'network' thing and think that you need the normal user's username and password to be able to access a computer. And sometimes when people leave the company then others still use the account of the person that has left without letting me know, so when I remove the account I get questions on why they can't access the account anymore. *sigh* Thankfully they are learning, slowly, but I find it so hard to get into the mindset of those users that I'm never going to be able to anticipate all the moronic things they're likely to do..
Privacy and freedom of speech seem to me to not really have that much to do with each other. If you truly have freedom of speech, you shouldn't need the privacy in regards to what you're saying. Personal and private information (your social security number for example?) isn't something that you want to be covered under freedom of speech either, so the two are quite separate issues IMO.
Can't everyone read the password hashes file? On Linux at least. You aren't protecting the file, you're protecting the keys that were used to generate the hashes in the file. Biiiiig difference between read and write access to a password file.
Hmm well after googling then it appears that currently it is legal to use any strength of encryption in the US, thought it is illegal to export certain products if they have good levels of encryption, and law enforcement is against people using strong encryption (for obvious reasons) (source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/encryption/encryption.htm ). I was sure I'd read before on/. that it was illegal to use encryption that was over a certain strength, but maybe that wasn't for the US, or it was only being proposed rather than being actual law..
Dude with the billions that are given to the military and separate agencies each year, it wouldn't be very difficult to build awesome supercomputers. Plus isn't it common knowledge that the CIA or FBI or whoever (I'm not that up on my government agencies, and I've never even been to the USA) have supercomputers to crack encryption on communications, and in fact it's 'illegal' to use encryption over a certain strength?
At which point you start to see were IBM's idea actually make sense--they are talking about building a worldwide, distributed, networked collection of cooperating computers... HEY, that sounds an awful lot like the Internet!! That's what I was thinking. Have they applied for a patent for this system, by any chance?;)
He wasn't talking about the money going back to regular Joes, he was talking about it going to those who work in fancy restaurants and classy car dealerships. Take from the working class, feed it back into the upper class! Yay!! You could just save time and give me your money instead, I'll be upper class in no time!
sit in their little room while they look in their Google database or whatever No, no, no! It's not their Google database, it's their MySpace database. Anyone can insert their page into the Google database these days, but it takes an American to hack their page onto MySpace - it's a tricky proposition.
If the overall efficiency was the same or even slightly below current levels, it would still be significantly faster, which is a net gain in a lot of people's books (as long as it doesn't cost much more than 'normal' transport)
Main problem there is what do you do if more than one person wants to travel intercity that day:P Would need a large cluster of tubes, or one massive tube with lots of rails and lots of little airlocked chambers on each side. Guess that could work. I wouldn't want to be the guy/robot that performs maintenance work though:P Actually I wouldn't mind if I was the robot, then I wouldn't need any air.
After that there's the Headquarters made of Ben and Jerry's Chocolate Fudge Brownie ice cream, plus appropriate cooling for the structure, and winter garments/spoons for all employees.
The solution is obvious - build soundproof tunnels in the sky that the planes can fly through. Or soundproof bubble-domes over habitation and picnic areas.
But then you finally have a good reason to buy a supercomputer (to crack the passwords)! Or, alternatively, you could write them all down and put them in a safe.
I thought that was called the 'Slashdot effect', or the fact that a lot of people have been waiting for the new version and now are downloading it and sucking up all the bandwidth.
Well, we do a lot of 3D CAD, rather than CGI, though they're okay with 3DSM too, and you can use Inventor to render shiny images of your designs if you wish. We used to always get in Dell workstations, but more recently I found an independent company down in England who do nice workstations, they were basically the only place I found that had a choice of AMD processors back when Athlons were on the rise (these says you have a choice of Athlon X2s or Core 2 Duos for the basic workstations), and they also have a few choices of Linux distro if you wish that preinstalled alongside/instead of Windows. Basically I just consider a workstation to be the same as a normal desktop but with a better graphics card (of course if I built a desktop it would involve a decent mobo, processor and RAM anyway, none of your celeron/sempron crap, thankyouverymuch). Anyway, rambling. I also would like to hear an opinion on this stuff from a professional CAD/Graphics guy who is interested in the actual hardware he uses as well as his craft (most of the engineers here wouldn't have any clue, they just use what I provide)
Slashdot Mirror
Same. Everyone seems to think I know their password already but I try to tell them that I don't even *need* their password. Also a lot of users don't seem to get the whole 'network' thing and think that you need the normal user's username and password to be able to access a computer. And sometimes when people leave the company then others still use the account of the person that has left without letting me know, so when I remove the account I get questions on why they can't access the account anymore. *sigh* Thankfully they are learning, slowly, but I find it so hard to get into the mindset of those users that I'm never going to be able to anticipate all the moronic things they're likely to do..
100% security is never possible unless you don't want to give anyone access, ever.
Privacy and freedom of speech seem to me to not really have that much to do with each other. If you truly have freedom of speech, you shouldn't need the privacy in regards to what you're saying. Personal and private information (your social security number for example?) isn't something that you want to be covered under freedom of speech either, so the two are quite separate issues IMO.
Can't everyone read the password hashes file? On Linux at least. You aren't protecting the file, you're protecting the keys that were used to generate the hashes in the file. Biiiiig difference between read and write access to a password file.
Hmm well after googling then it appears that currently it is legal to use any strength of encryption in the US, thought it is illegal to export certain products if they have good levels of encryption, and law enforcement is against people using strong encryption (for obvious reasons) (source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/encryption/encryption.htm ). I was sure I'd read before on /. that it was illegal to use encryption that was over a certain strength, but maybe that wasn't for the US, or it was only being proposed rather than being actual law..
Case 2: Gee Dubya?
Dude with the billions that are given to the military and separate agencies each year, it wouldn't be very difficult to build awesome supercomputers. Plus isn't it common knowledge that the CIA or FBI or whoever (I'm not that up on my government agencies, and I've never even been to the USA) have supercomputers to crack encryption on communications, and in fact it's 'illegal' to use encryption over a certain strength?
He wasn't talking about the money going back to regular Joes, he was talking about it going to those who work in fancy restaurants and classy car dealerships. Take from the working class, feed it back into the upper class! Yay!! You could just save time and give me your money instead, I'll be upper class in no time!
"A note to the Department of Homeland Security: Terrorists can get passports too."
Yeah, but then they have 6 months to consider the error of their ways! Well, if they're Americans going to another country to commit terrification.
Where do the mercenaries (A-Team!!) fit in?
"My government (Germany) introduced biometric information into passports through the EU backdoor"
Eww. Why were they keeping their passports in there anyway?
Give me the location of the nuclear wessels!
Spellcheckers are very effective, they check that words are spelled correctly. They don't claim to be 'intention checkers'..
I'm not sure that a whole load of bedsores equates to more comfort ;)
If the overall efficiency was the same or even slightly below current levels, it would still be significantly faster, which is a net gain in a lot of people's books (as long as it doesn't cost much more than 'normal' transport)
Main problem there is what do you do if more than one person wants to travel intercity that day :P Would need a large cluster of tubes, or one massive tube with lots of rails and lots of little airlocked chambers on each side. Guess that could work. I wouldn't want to be the guy/robot that performs maintenance work though :P Actually I wouldn't mind if I was the robot, then I wouldn't need any air.
"Our government claims it wants democracy and freedom for others, but doesn't seem to value that too much here at home either."
There, fixed that for you..
After that there's the Headquarters made of Ben and Jerry's Chocolate Fudge Brownie ice cream, plus appropriate cooling for the structure, and winter garments/spoons for all employees.
The solution is obvious - build soundproof tunnels in the sky that the planes can fly through. Or soundproof bubble-domes over habitation and picnic areas.
But then you finally have a good reason to buy a supercomputer (to crack the passwords)! Or, alternatively, you could write them all down and put them in a safe.
I thought that was called the 'Slashdot effect', or the fact that a lot of people have been waiting for the new version and now are downloading it and sucking up all the bandwidth.
Indiana Dumbasses and the Almost Legislated Pi
Well, we do a lot of 3D CAD, rather than CGI, though they're okay with 3DSM too, and you can use Inventor to render shiny images of your designs if you wish. We used to always get in Dell workstations, but more recently I found an independent company down in England who do nice workstations, they were basically the only place I found that had a choice of AMD processors back when Athlons were on the rise (these says you have a choice of Athlon X2s or Core 2 Duos for the basic workstations), and they also have a few choices of Linux distro if you wish that preinstalled alongside/instead of Windows. Basically I just consider a workstation to be the same as a normal desktop but with a better graphics card (of course if I built a desktop it would involve a decent mobo, processor and RAM anyway, none of your celeron/sempron crap, thankyouverymuch). Anyway, rambling. I also would like to hear an opinion on this stuff from a professional CAD/Graphics guy who is interested in the actual hardware he uses as well as his craft (most of the engineers here wouldn't have any clue, they just use what I provide)