How would they prevent it? Bing wouldn't be sending packets to Google directly, they'd be pulling results of previous searches from users' PCs. There would be no different from Google's perspective in terms of packets received or sent. And at the moment, Google not only gives the direct search result links in the code as HREF links, it gives them all visually as well. Even if they scrambled the link results through their own forwarder with a tagging hash string, the visual and selectable text of the raw link is still right there under every search result.
I like the system in Perth * ====, Western Australia. You buy absolutely nothing to put anywhere in your car and you can drive wherever the hell you want for free, because the city and state administrations recognize that giving people more free road access means better, faster, and cheaper access to labor, goods, and services all around. New roads pay for themselves.
The question is - can it be made cheaper to launch a rock of size X from the moon than to deploy a countermissile sufficient to destroy a rock of size X?
It's not much use being able to see the rocks coming if there are more of them than you have counter-nukes. All you can do is try and keep evacuating your population out from the designated targets, and hope that once all your cities and bases and natural resources have been kinetically pounded into dust and craters, the moon base decides to stop throwing rocks instead of just letting an automatic mining and launching operation continue targeting random locations inside your country for the next fifty years.
Alternatively, what happens when a "small" 500t rock hits the dead centre of every major city in your country at the same time, and you only have three days' warning to prepare? You might be able to evacuate the blast zones, sure, but that's a hell of a lot of valuable infrastructure that's going to go boom in a very short timeframe. Not to mention that you then have absolutely no assurance that next week or next month you won't find another armada of rocks on their way, and another, and another...
Well, they're your drives. I guess they might be able to get you on discharging a firearm in an unsafe manner and obstruction of justice, although that last one could be tricky to make stick.
Maybe have the drives poised above an industrial shredder running off a lot of batteries, and the whole thing wrapped in armor? Of course, you'd have to figure out how to proof it against physical intrusion when you were offsite or asleep, or if you were manhandled offsite before you could trigger anything, or if you were drugged and made to reveal the admin passwords, or any one of a number of other scenarios.
Depending on the paranoia level, it shouldn't be too hard to rig up what looks like a standard home PC or server room (depending on requirements) tricked out so that several standard confiscation or takeover actions result in a silent, invisible datapocalypse or disks full of slightly encrypted junk data.
I bet most of the current US political structure partied while they were in college. Perhaps a little less partying and a little more studying might lead to a bit more genuine leadership.
That's... actually goddamn brilliant. I'm sure some engineer could come up with a variation on the logo which would provide suitable torque and all that, and the marketing division would go NUTS over it.
How hard would it be to rig the systems so that pulling the drives physically out of the servers rendered them unreadable? I'm thinking some kind of encrypted striping on the individual drives, and the whole array running through a second hardware encryptor hooked up to GPS and a passphrase... maybe also an internal sensor linked to something inside the wall of the server room. Move the encryptor box out of the room and it scrambles the key, rendering the array useless even if the correct passphrase is given. Restore it to the room, and re-enter the passphrase, and it can be used to read the array again.
Anyone wanting to access the data on the array would have to either do so with the hardware in situ, or demand a copy be run off for them. Confiscating the hardware would net them nothing. And unless they demanded that the keys to the kingdom be handed over, they couldn't trust the information they were getting.
There could also be a system set up so that if an organisation's access to its own data was compromised in this way, one of the required decryption keys could be remotely scrambled and the original only known by someone overseas and outside of the local authorities' jurisdiction. Run that link through sufficient obscuration methods and it might become impossible to find out precisely who has that key and where they're located, or at least extremely difficult and time-consuming.
All job applications and CVs should be in plain text. Problem solved.:)
(And yes, I've seen online application processes which will not accept text or even RTF files, demanding that any submission must end in DOC or PDF. Stupid, stupid, stupid...)
Currently, if the lead truck in a convoy does something stupid, unexpected, or dangerous, the following trucks with their human drivers are able to instantly make the decision to stop following the first truck's lead and instead perform a much safer action, such as slowing down, changing lane, taking a different route, pulling over etc, regardless of location, road condition, weather, catastrophic damage to the route (landslide, bridge out etc). They are also able to reform the convoy and deliver their own cargoes even if the lead truck's driver has been turned into a road pancake. In the event that the lead truck is rendered immobile but the driver is still alive, the other drivers can notify emergency services, perform first aid, direct traffic away from the dangerous area, etc.
What happens to an automatic convoy when the lead truck clips something on the side of the road, flips over, and slides 200 feet into a ditch? Are the others obligated to follow suit like giant mechanical lemmings?
Education and cultural opportunities. If a sexually mature human has access to time-consuming activities outside sex (work, education, entertainment etc) and multiple birth-control methods (and the education to use them), and the society they grew up in emphasizes having fewer kids in order to have a more interesting/well-paid/healthier/respectable life, it's quite easy to push the group as a total into negative population growth.
Wow, it would sure be a pity if one of the other drives in that array MYSTERIOUSLY FAILED three days after you advised the urgent need to replace the originally bricked drive.:)
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How would they prevent it? Bing wouldn't be sending packets to Google directly, they'd be pulling results of previous searches from users' PCs. There would be no different from Google's perspective in terms of packets received or sent. And at the moment, Google not only gives the direct search result links in the code as HREF links, it gives them all visually as well. Even if they scrambled the link results through their own forwarder with a tagging hash string, the visual and selectable text of the raw link is still right there under every search result.
and they've all got US passports to boot.
Not only that, their passports can't be electronically tracked because they're carved out of wood!
I like the system in Perth * ====, Western Australia. You buy absolutely nothing to put anywhere in your car and you can drive wherever the hell you want for free, because the city and state administrations recognize that giving people more free road access means better, faster, and cheaper access to labor, goods, and services all around. New roads pay for themselves.
It's just spending a year dead for tax reasons.
The question is - can it be made cheaper to launch a rock of size X from the moon than to deploy a countermissile sufficient to destroy a rock of size X?
It's not much use being able to see the rocks coming if there are more of them than you have counter-nukes. All you can do is try and keep evacuating your population out from the designated targets, and hope that once all your cities and bases and natural resources have been kinetically pounded into dust and craters, the moon base decides to stop throwing rocks instead of just letting an automatic mining and launching operation continue targeting random locations inside your country for the next fifty years.
Alternatively, what happens when a "small" 500t rock hits the dead centre of every major city in your country at the same time, and you only have three days' warning to prepare? You might be able to evacuate the blast zones, sure, but that's a hell of a lot of valuable infrastructure that's going to go boom in a very short timeframe. Not to mention that you then have absolutely no assurance that next week or next month you won't find another armada of rocks on their way, and another, and another...
Then his Valve would have been a Portal. :)
Well, they're your drives. I guess they might be able to get you on discharging a firearm in an unsafe manner and obstruction of justice, although that last one could be tricky to make stick.
Maybe have the drives poised above an industrial shredder running off a lot of batteries, and the whole thing wrapped in armor? Of course, you'd have to figure out how to proof it against physical intrusion when you were offsite or asleep, or if you were manhandled offsite before you could trigger anything, or if you were drugged and made to reveal the admin passwords, or any one of a number of other scenarios.
Depending on the paranoia level, it shouldn't be too hard to rig up what looks like a standard home PC or server room (depending on requirements) tricked out so that several standard confiscation or takeover actions result in a silent, invisible datapocalypse or disks full of slightly encrypted junk data.
Mercury motion switch? :)
Don't digitise the photos in the first place, someone else might upload them.
Wait, don't take the photos in the first place, someone else might scan them.
Wait, you're not the only person at that party with a camera...
I bet most of the current US political structure partied while they were in college. Perhaps a little less partying and a little more studying might lead to a bit more genuine leadership.
That's... actually goddamn brilliant. I'm sure some engineer could come up with a variation on the logo which would provide suitable torque and all that, and the marketing division would go NUTS over it.
How hard would it be to rig the systems so that pulling the drives physically out of the servers rendered them unreadable? I'm thinking some kind of encrypted striping on the individual drives, and the whole array running through a second hardware encryptor hooked up to GPS and a passphrase... maybe also an internal sensor linked to something inside the wall of the server room. Move the encryptor box out of the room and it scrambles the key, rendering the array useless even if the correct passphrase is given. Restore it to the room, and re-enter the passphrase, and it can be used to read the array again.
Anyone wanting to access the data on the array would have to either do so with the hardware in situ, or demand a copy be run off for them. Confiscating the hardware would net them nothing. And unless they demanded that the keys to the kingdom be handed over, they couldn't trust the information they were getting.
There could also be a system set up so that if an organisation's access to its own data was compromised in this way, one of the required decryption keys could be remotely scrambled and the original only known by someone overseas and outside of the local authorities' jurisdiction. Run that link through sufficient obscuration methods and it might become impossible to find out precisely who has that key and where they're located, or at least extremely difficult and time-consuming.
1. Pop the debt bubble. Throw everything back to the dark ages.
2. Send in Baron Wulfenbach.
All job applications and CVs should be in plain text. Problem solved. :)
(And yes, I've seen online application processes which will not accept text or even RTF files, demanding that any submission must end in DOC or PDF. Stupid, stupid, stupid...)
Currently, if the lead truck in a convoy does something stupid, unexpected, or dangerous, the following trucks with their human drivers are able to instantly make the decision to stop following the first truck's lead and instead perform a much safer action, such as slowing down, changing lane, taking a different route, pulling over etc, regardless of location, road condition, weather, catastrophic damage to the route (landslide, bridge out etc). They are also able to reform the convoy and deliver their own cargoes even if the lead truck's driver has been turned into a road pancake. In the event that the lead truck is rendered immobile but the driver is still alive, the other drivers can notify emergency services, perform first aid, direct traffic away from the dangerous area, etc.
What happens to an automatic convoy when the lead truck clips something on the side of the road, flips over, and slides 200 feet into a ditch? Are the others obligated to follow suit like giant mechanical lemmings?
Looking like an ass is not a reason to make a document secret. It's a reason to not make documents which make you look like an ass in the first place.
To be exact, they will be stopped up with møøse.
More like the prototype, the Knight Industries Two. :)
Education and cultural opportunities. If a sexually mature human has access to time-consuming activities outside sex (work, education, entertainment etc) and multiple birth-control methods (and the education to use them), and the society they grew up in emphasizes having fewer kids in order to have a more interesting/well-paid/healthier/respectable life, it's quite easy to push the group as a total into negative population growth.
I don't think anyone wants to watch a bunch of lab scientists exercise their meat.
Obviously, the solution is to replace politicians with sysadmins.
Wow, it would sure be a pity if one of the other drives in that array MYSTERIOUSLY FAILED three days after you advised the urgent need to replace the originally bricked drive. :)
This kind of thing is normal here Down Under. We use it to put out cities which are on fire.
"We call him Bubba."