To come back to your tools analogy: You use a hammer for nails and a screwdriver for screws. Additionally you can use gloves to protect your hands. For some reason you are trying to argue that gloves shouldn't be used with hammers.
No, he's saying that the protection needs to be at the beginning of the process, by filtering what information is released in the wild.
No encryption is guaranteed to be unbreakable at a future date.
I give you my personal guarantee that no one will ever be able to decrypt information you haven't shared.
Are you going to try to tell me it's easier to log in to facebook and add someone to the authorized list than it is to forward them an email from my Sent box?
It's better for business users - ie: anyone whose employer is providing the phone.
The cost of the hardware is a capital expense.
The monthly is an operating expense.
Operating expenses are preferable for tax purposes, which is why businesses lease equipment in situations where total cost is a wash compared to outright purchase.
Around the time of the windows 95 launch, I was doing isdn support and was amazed how many hicks from Tennessee were calling up about their new isdn modems.
Turns out that Gore had used his influence to cause regional artificially low isdn pricing.
So he did play a large part in introducing a large chunk of people to the internet.
And no - I don't buy the idea of the internet being created in 69.
There was nothing approaching cohesiveness until the late 80's-early 90's.
Transmitting bits over a wire isn't shit.
Telegraph did that a hundred years ago.
Creating the political/social/economic environment for online participation to reach critical mass was a much bigger challenge than the technical end of it.
yep - my first was a young Ginger Lynn - fit on a floppy - you had to squint at it to even make out what you were looking at.
This was on a US Navy aircraft carrier.
I convinced them I needed a pc for admin work, and it was on the GSA list....
Most people had never seen a computer, and yet within days, the pron floppy mysteriously
I suspect it was also my first pirated video - ripped from vhs. Of course, that was all you could get on vhs then. You could also get your porn on betamax.
A lot of people really like watching other people fuck.
This is similar to regulations already in place which provide an option to shut down the private cellular network during national disasters.
There is nothing in the act to allow suppression of dissent, and if there were, it would be nullified by various existing bodies of law, including but not limited to the constitution.
If you're worried that they are going to simply ignore law like the previous administration, then debate over a law is moot.
Further, this is codifying behavior that you'd want to happen:
Hacker X develops a new malware variant an order of magnitude more virulent, by exploiting a vulnerability in Provider Y's infrastructure.
Only by shutting down that provider until the threat can be eradicated, can compromise of the rest of the commercial networks be avoided.
Provider Y delays, citing some nebulous concern, trying to couch their real fear of losing money.
Provider Y continues to delay, resulting in complete compromise of their network.
At some point, Authority Figure Z steps in, orders troops to take control of, and shut down provider.
After the crisis is over, Y bitches about Z overstepping it's authority, and pisses away a lot of money on legal motions that ultimately go nowhere, as no one is going to sanction the party that saved the day.
What the act does is codify the actions of Z as within Z's scope of authority, eliminating some of the delay, and post-crisis legal hi jinx. It also assigns the responsibility for this decision to Z,
The act also mandates a number of things that should be happening anyway, and are due for being codifed.
One of our people wanted a pc notebook to replace his dead macbook.
Since I don't deploy notebooks with less than 4 gig of ram, that left few options.
I've decided to bypass Vista, and the driver support for xp64 is sparse.
After testing win7 on a trash box, I gave it a shot on the new notebook.
The gui doesn't follow exactly the same design choices I'd make, but it's adequate, and the performance is better than xp or vista, especially running memory hog software.
So, in the end, it's an incremental overall improvement over xp, and supports my strategy of jumping over vista.
Which is driven by the desire for validation through possession of "secret knowledge."
Therefore, NASA faked the moon landing, auto makers have suppressed the 200mpg carburetor, and scientists are all glory seeker publishing dubious results that they make up as they go along./. has a large tin foil hat contingency, so this should come as no great shock.
What is it about the words -Criminal- and -Illegal- alien that is so hard for slashdotters to fathom.
Wholly irrelevant.
Both are legal terms which carry no moral content, nor relate directly to protection of citizens.
Teaching a black man to read was once a criminal act by definition.
Copyright violation is now a criminal act.
Jay walking is illegal.
So is selling a mattress with the tag removed.
And as others have pointed out, not everyone in jail is a criminal - some are awaiting trial.
Weight lifting equipment is just about as cheap a way of channeling prisoner energy as there is. You have a better suggestion?
Television is a way to allow prisoners to retain some connection to the outside world.
Prisoners losing that connection either become depressed or violent. While you don't care about the former, the latter increases prison costs.
Prison guards either start out abusive, or quickly become that way, or quickly find other employment - no exceptions.
What needs to happen if people want the crime rate to drop and prison costs to stop spiraling is to put *fewer* people in jail, and spend what it costs to maintain control of prisons - instead of allowing an Escape from New York situation to exist simply because it's cheap and salves their lust for vengeance.
Don't get me wrong - I know there are people who are not salvageable and need to never be given freedom.
Most people in prison don't fall into that category.
Why are we continuing to put a big chunk of the population in prison for non violent drug violations, having sex for money, and other victimless crimes?
Simply because we still have a big powerful voting block comprised of people who feel entitled and obliged to foist their superstitious religious beliefs on everyone else.
Why don't we start with understanding the presumption of innocence?
The principle applies to the relationship between a government and it's citizens.
It doesn't refer to the opinions held by it's citizenry, since these are outside the purview of government.
If I say that OJ killed his ex wife, OJ's only remedy is via civil litigation, and I can offer truth as an absolute defense, if I can show by preponderance of evidence that my conclusions are those of a reasonable person.
IINAL - so this is probably a gross oversimplification.
Slashdot Mirror
Not an unreasonable area of interest.
The company for which I work produces a product which does appeal greatly to hipsters.
We get tweeted about A LOT.
In our case, most tweets are of "zomg - these guys rock" nature - but if there was a sudden air of negativity, we'd want to know about it right away.
Ubeen Hadd was my fave.
And I still use socks@white.gov as an email.
I haven't checked lately to see if mail to that address bounces now, or generates an Out of Office message...
To come back to your tools analogy:
You use a hammer for nails and a screwdriver for screws. Additionally you can use gloves to protect your hands. For some reason you are trying to argue that gloves shouldn't be used with hammers.
No, he's saying that the protection needs to be at the beginning of the process, by filtering what information is released in the wild.
No encryption is guaranteed to be unbreakable at a future date.
I give you my personal guarantee that no one will ever be able to decrypt information you haven't shared.
um..yeah - you just resent it.
Are you going to try to tell me it's easier to log in to facebook and add someone to the authorized list than it is to forward them an email from my Sent box?
and they aren't right.
They aren't even wrong.
We really need a -1 I want to kick you in the throat
Please refrain from reckless use of analogies.
booting a separate os during a break to read a web page is hardly a productive use of one's personal time.
Your company restricts flash drives but allows you to boot from an optical drive?
Not to mention the fact that Apollo was a "Yes We Can" statement of epic proportions.
I always preferred a quick, surgical strike against a weak foreign city, assimilating their technology.
If you can pull that off a few times in a row quickly, you can make substantial gains quickly.
It's better for business users - ie: anyone whose employer is providing the phone.
The cost of the hardware is a capital expense.
The monthly is an operating expense.
Operating expenses are preferable for tax purposes, which is why businesses lease equipment in situations where total cost is a wash compared to outright purchase.
His popularity was entirely due to our ability to google pics of his wife's vag.
It's a matter of definition and perspective.
Around the time of the windows 95 launch, I was doing isdn support and was amazed how many hicks from Tennessee were calling up about their new isdn modems.
Turns out that Gore had used his influence to cause regional artificially low isdn pricing.
So he did play a large part in introducing a large chunk of people to the internet.
And no - I don't buy the idea of the internet being created in 69.
There was nothing approaching cohesiveness until the late 80's-early 90's.
Transmitting bits over a wire isn't shit.
Telegraph did that a hundred years ago.
Creating the political/social/economic environment for online participation to reach critical mass was a much bigger challenge than the technical end of it.
yep - my first was a young Ginger Lynn - fit on a floppy - you had to squint at it to even make out what you were looking at.
This was on a US Navy aircraft carrier.
I convinced them I needed a pc for admin work, and it was on the GSA list....
Most people had never seen a computer, and yet within days, the pron floppy mysteriously
I suspect it was also my first pirated video - ripped from vhs.
Of course, that was all you could get on vhs then.
You could also get your porn on betamax.
A lot of people really like watching other people fuck.
Build them a way to do it and they will come.
___
take your pick
Put away your pitchforks and tinfoil hats.
This is similar to regulations already in place which provide an option to shut down the private cellular network during national disasters.
There is nothing in the act to allow suppression of dissent, and if there were, it would be nullified by various existing bodies of law, including but not limited to the constitution.
If you're worried that they are going to simply ignore law like the previous administration, then debate over a law is moot.
Further, this is codifying behavior that you'd want to happen:
Hacker X develops a new malware variant an order of magnitude more virulent, by exploiting a vulnerability in Provider Y's infrastructure.
Only by shutting down that provider until the threat can be eradicated, can compromise of the rest of the commercial networks be avoided.
Provider Y delays, citing some nebulous concern, trying to couch their real fear of losing money.
Provider Y continues to delay, resulting in complete compromise of their network.
At some point, Authority Figure Z steps in, orders troops to take control of, and shut down provider.
After the crisis is over, Y bitches about Z overstepping it's authority, and pisses away a lot of money on legal motions that ultimately go nowhere, as no one is going to sanction the party that saved the day.
What the act does is codify the actions of Z as within Z's scope of authority, eliminating some of the delay, and post-crisis legal hi jinx.
It also assigns the responsibility for this decision to Z,
The act also mandates a number of things that should be happening anyway, and are due for being codifed.
One of our people wanted a pc notebook to replace his dead macbook.
Since I don't deploy notebooks with less than 4 gig of ram, that left few options.
I've decided to bypass Vista, and the driver support for xp64 is sparse.
After testing win7 on a trash box, I gave it a shot on the new notebook.
The gui doesn't follow exactly the same design choices I'd make, but it's adequate, and the performance is better than xp or vista, especially running memory hog software.
So, in the end, it's an incremental overall improvement over xp, and supports my strategy of jumping over vista.
Which is driven by the desire for validation through possession of "secret knowledge."
Therefore, NASA faked the moon landing, auto makers have suppressed the 200mpg carburetor, and scientists are all glory seeker publishing dubious results that they make up as they go along. /. has a large tin foil hat contingency, so this should come as no great shock.
In 1905, the British Admiralty announced all new ships of the line would be turbine driven.
Babcock & Wilcox built coal fired boilers through the 50's - most of these driving turbines.
By the time of the Stanley record, piston steam was on it's way out for capital ships
Now, some WWII naval ships used piston steam driven pumps for damage control, but it sounds like you're talking about main propulsion.
figure it out
Obviously, someone is modding from multiple accounts.
Thus I would suspect that a large portion of his constituency are woefully ignorant.
What is it about the words -Criminal- and -Illegal- alien that is so hard for slashdotters to fathom.
Wholly irrelevant.
Both are legal terms which carry no moral content, nor relate directly to protection of citizens.
Teaching a black man to read was once a criminal act by definition.
Copyright violation is now a criminal act.
Jay walking is illegal.
So is selling a mattress with the tag removed.
And as others have pointed out, not everyone in jail is a criminal - some are awaiting trial.
Weight lifting equipment is just about as cheap a way of channeling prisoner energy as there is.
You have a better suggestion?
Television is a way to allow prisoners to retain some connection to the outside world.
Prisoners losing that connection either become depressed or violent.
While you don't care about the former, the latter increases prison costs.
Prison guards either start out abusive, or quickly become that way, or quickly find other employment - no exceptions.
What needs to happen if people want the crime rate to drop and prison costs to stop spiraling is to put *fewer* people in jail, and spend what it costs to maintain control of prisons - instead of allowing an Escape from New York situation to exist simply because it's cheap and salves their lust for vengeance.
Don't get me wrong - I know there are people who are not salvageable and need to never be given freedom.
Most people in prison don't fall into that category.
Why are we continuing to put a big chunk of the population in prison for non violent drug violations, having sex for money, and other victimless crimes?
Simply because we still have a big powerful voting block comprised of people who feel entitled and obliged to foist their superstitious religious beliefs on everyone else.
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man man
Why don't we start with understanding the presumption of innocence?
The principle applies to the relationship between a government and it's citizens.
It doesn't refer to the opinions held by it's citizenry, since these are outside the purview of government.
If I say that OJ killed his ex wife, OJ's only remedy is via civil litigation, and I can offer truth as an absolute defense, if I can show by preponderance of evidence that my conclusions are those of a reasonable person.
IINAL - so this is probably a gross oversimplification.