Distributed and secure don't have to be mutually exclusive. Social graphs could be built with signed public keys and friends could exchange private keys to access profile data. With the right APIs this could be made largely invisible to the user.
(And it gets pretty damn annoying after a while.) Even more mystifying was Japanese people constantly getting surprised that I could use chopsticks well. I would turn it into a joke and remind them that it was a hell of a lot easier than learning Kanji. I would also tell them that unlike the language learning process, there are only three levels of chopstick expertise: 1. No ability 2. Able to pick up anything except udon 3. Able to pick up anything including udon
Well, it is funny to many (even if in a PC sense it is a bit racist). In the US we have many roles for Asian actors speaking in broken English; Some of them were even born here. It's just a play on stereotypes.
Unless you're perfect, you'll say some stupid things and people will laugh. Might as well go along with it and make some friends along the way.
in Nihon, if you speak the language correctly with the right accent as well as you can, it's considered a gesture of friendship. How is that at all inconsistent with what the GP said? Of course you try your best, whether you suck or you're fluent. And even when you suck, you'll often get compliments. I don't think its so much out of friendship as it is about respect. Learning Japanese (or Nihongo if you prefer) shows respect for their culture (or at least trying to learn, as the case may be). So, even strangers will appreciate it. Of course, depending on what area you visit, the reaction will be somewhat different, but that's true in any country.
Though I doubt it was done in this case, there is a privacy-maintaining way to prevent tampering after the fact. The GPS could send secure hashes of its data to the GPS vendor, who stores them unmodified and can provide them upon request. Then the car owner can submit the GPS data to the court along with a request for the hash from the GPS vendor. While you cannot recover records from the hash alone, you can verify that they haven't been changed. This does not prevent hacking the GPS beforehand of course, but that is a little bit easier to prove compared to tweaking data.
What the GP said "Microsoft's site is cached using Linux" is completely consistent with what you said. He didn't say anything about serving, just the caching, which is what Akamai does (using Linux).
I know why they want the information, I'm just asking why they need the information. I'm sure police want to be able to stop and search anyone, at any time, but the law has decided that they only need to be able do this when they have probable cause.
Regardless of their intentions, I think this is a bad precedent. Today its the Patriots, but tomorrow it can be any large company demanding all the information from a website for people that might be breaking their rules.
If the ticket is listed as non-transferable (you can buy ten, but only if you plan on going with nine of your friends... or you can buy them, and do what you want, but you can't re-sell them for a profit), then isn't it a contract issue and not so much a criminal law issue? Well, that's easy enough to enforce without resorting to questionable privacy violations. Just check IDs at the entrance to the game and match them up to names on the tickets. Airlines have been doing this for years now, and haven't needed to break open website records to do it. This reminds me of some of the crap law-enforcement legislation passed after 9/11. Just because something is a convenient method to get the information you want (warrantless wiretaps, etc), it doesn't mean that you should be allowed to use it when less invasive methods to get the same information exist.
That said, I wish sports teams would match IDs with tickets. Many people would be howling, but if you can't make it to at least 2/3 of the games in person, you don't deserve season tickets. At least then there probably wouldn't be 30+ year waiting lists for season tickets.
If I remember correctly, here in MA is is completely legal to resell tickets - just not for profit. If that's true, then law enforcement should be getting the list of names, not an NFL team. Are the Patriots now a law enforcement agency? Also, why do they need the list of people buying tickets?
I think scalping sucks too, but you really can't fight the market and pretend there isn't scarcity.
None of those are free; They are public or universal. Unless your purpose is to mislead people, you should just call it "universal socialized medicine". Why is that so hard?
Besides, if you feel things paid for by taxes are "free", then the war in Iraq must be free too.
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Maybe he means people embedded in titanium? It might be like molten carbonite...
Distributed and secure don't have to be mutually exclusive. Social graphs could be built with signed public keys and friends could exchange private keys to access profile data. With the right APIs this could be made largely invisible to the user.
1. No ability
2. Able to pick up anything except udon
3. Able to pick up anything including udon
Well, it is funny to many (even if in a PC sense it is a bit racist). In the US we have many roles for Asian actors speaking in broken English; Some of them were even born here. It's just a play on stereotypes.
Unless you're perfect, you'll say some stupid things and people will laugh. Might as well go along with it and make some friends along the way.
Though I doubt it was done in this case, there is a privacy-maintaining way to prevent tampering after the fact. The GPS could send secure hashes of its data to the GPS vendor, who stores them unmodified and can provide them upon request. Then the car owner can submit the GPS data to the court along with a request for the hash from the GPS vendor. While you cannot recover records from the hash alone, you can verify that they haven't been changed. This does not prevent hacking the GPS beforehand of course, but that is a little bit easier to prove compared to tweaking data.
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What the GP said "Microsoft's site is cached using Linux" is completely consistent with what you said. He didn't say anything about serving, just the caching, which is what Akamai does (using Linux).
Truth can be stranger than speculation :)
Hm, will the laws be in a Wiki now?
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I know why they want the information, I'm just asking why they need the information. I'm sure police want to be able to stop and search anyone, at any time, but the law has decided that they only need to be able do this when they have probable cause.
Regardless of their intentions, I think this is a bad precedent. Today its the Patriots, but tomorrow it can be any large company demanding all the information from a website for people that might be breaking their rules.
That said, I wish sports teams would match IDs with tickets. Many people would be howling, but if you can't make it to at least 2/3 of the games in person, you don't deserve season tickets. At least then there probably wouldn't be 30+ year waiting lists for season tickets.
I think scalping sucks too, but you really can't fight the market and pretend there isn't scarcity.
None of those are free; They are public or universal. Unless your purpose is to mislead people, you should just call it "universal socialized medicine". Why is that so hard?
Besides, if you feel things paid for by taxes are "free", then the war in Iraq must be free too.
Free as in taxes, right?
Well said; You must either encrypt your data, or accept the possibility that suitably well-connected middlemen can see it. SMTP is not SSH.
Sounds terrible. That kind of stuff really belongs on a website, and email should just refer to it.
...and watch Theo actually turn into a demon.
Well, that is kind of the point of virtualization, isn't it?