The releases can't be contained. The freedom seeking individuals are the problem. It's impossible to have a total control anybody, so the measures taken can only go to the infinity, unless the facades themselves are deconstructed. That's not going to happen, because so many are dependent on the illusionary constructions.
What Snowden possesses is what's inside all of us - the desire to be free. It's being chained by semantic structures like nationalism, top-down hierarchy, late primordial version of the democracy and the glorified and commercialized needs and desires.
The admission that absolute control is impossible is not going to be heard, and to avoid the uneasy feelings snowdens need to be removed from the stage.
Wars (and threats) only exist as long as there's enough people who believe in enemies. Sometimes it only takes a few to install the images in the minds of millions.
When the facades come down it's obvious that everybody does everything, and the useful illusions are no longer valid as a control mechanism. It's therefore paramount to control the information, and the ultimate construction to achieve that is basically a totalitarian state.
To enable the p2p control and loyality to the leader and the state measures have already been taken - Insider Threat Program for example.
The changes are slowly creeping in. The problem is that an individual is impossible to control in the end, so the measures are also tightened to infinity.
They don't claim the recommended options are necessarily more secure, but they are freer and more in your control. They can also be tinkered with by yourself (also to be more secure, if you wish), and the code is more available.
That's a great list, and the least what one can do is change from Google to some other default search engine. Some of those listed are actually proxies to Google so they use its engine while filtering out all unnecessary information.
...and which would constantly talk you down because of its ability to analyze your lip movements 500 frames per second and so know what you are going to say next...
I use Parallels Desktop to enable virtual machines on my 2010 entry-level MacBook Pro, and it was amusing to notice that I could operate a 40 track effect laden Cubase project on a virtualized XP with less latency than on my ex-desktop PC. I needed to finish a sound design project for a feature length indie film, and everything went really smoothly. I didn't do comparisons myself but at the time gathered from the net that Parallels performed better than VMware.
It's true that humans are designed to eat and digest meat. It's also true that humans are not only carnivores, and if you carefully analyse the nutrients of edible stuff from animal to plants it's often the plant sources that are better choices.
It's interesting to compare the nutritional content of a typical McDonald's meal and peanuts for example. Peanuts win in every way, with something like double the protein - and they cost less. Fish is also a great source of excellent nutrients. Of course the fast food joints want to optimize their profits like meat industry, which creates the supermarket stuff from a mix of some meat and soy + added taste.
Being vegan or vegetarian is also a statement against the over-exploitation and bad practices. It should be worrying that the industry doesn't want you to know where the meat comes from. They don't necessarily let you go for a tour in the production facilities, even though the chain of trust should be established from the producers to the consumer. The other quite recent thing in the human history is the 24/7 availability of meat.
My diet is about 95% vegan/vegetarian, with some fish from time to time, and the diet is really whole with everything I need. I also don't say know if I get to drink fresh milk or meat, because in essence I want the diet to be natural, and I want to be completely aware where it comes from and what it contains. It's tragic that some fanatics take their distorted views to the extreme.
I work as a part-time helper and I've seen some pretty average cases of autism too. Normal in this case means incapacitating sensitivity to stimuli, inability to communicate (some just scream or laugh at things) and extremely aggressive behaviour (Some of the care-takers I know have been bitten, badly bruised or some of their hair has been pulled off). The image what general population have of autism and asperger's is twisted, and it's amusing how many self diagnose themselves with some totally idealized disease just to have some meaning in their lives. The diagnosis selectively lands on the 'best' cases.
Just found this quote by Mark Dillon the software director. Essentially anyone can create a cover (the tools are open):
“Of course we will be offering a choice of Other Halves for the user to buy but this is a place where we want to see others get involved. Designers can design Other Halves for the device, engineers or hackers or techies can design new interfaces and maybe add physical hardware features that they wish they had on their device but might have a smaller market than to deserve having a whole entire device,” he said. “We talked about 3D printing them today. So it could be those kinds of things, but really we’re offering a new kind of interface for a device so that people can really take their imagination, and I believe there will be a lot of third parties and a lot of people who have a lot of great ideas in order to help you use the Other Half of the Jolla device.”
Same here. It's an intriguing strategy they are trying to pull off. The central Jolla platform is expandable by third party hardware vendors, who can become the other half of the device, not just an external peripheral maker. This kind of modularity will surely become more prevalent in the future, because smaller and smaller parts are made to be smart in some way. The Jolla platform functionality will be quickly copied though, but hopefully the Sailfish OS will connect all together...
In the Logica incident report it says that after the incident they run the same password cracking tools as the perpetrators and managed to crack a very large number of user passwords. Their summary:
In general, the passwords set by Logica, Applicate and their customers are:
- Very easy to discover by a dictionarv attack
- Often is still the default password that where set once when the account where created
- Not complex (as per password camplexity goes)
Since RACF stores its passwords in uppercase only, and that there is a restriction on what characters can be used, the keyspace is samewhat limited, thus letting the attacker running a brute force password cracking attem pt gaining yet a nother advantage.
The psychological manipulation and citizen monitoring have been going on since the beginning of organized societies, because the rulers needed to secure their position and so know everything. It's build in the human psyche.
This has since turned into a science since the 1920s at least, when Edward Bernays came up with the whole new field called Public Relations and successfully applied Freudian psychoanalysis in his consulting business for large corporations. His book 'Propaganda' is worth reading, and the documentary series The Century of The Self explores it too.
I'd say it's not reasonable to trust any corporation, because they only seek to create more profit at your expense.
Let's imagine that aliens start to pour carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the Earth's atmosphere. The greenhouse effect has been known for over 100 years so we quickly can conclude that the net effect would be a warmer atmosphere. We would definitely try to do something to the matter, because well, the risk assessments would be increasingly worrying.
So why is it so difficult to act now?
And true, the climate has changed. Also it's normal that gamma ray explosions happen in space and they might destroy most of the Earth's atmosphere. It's still rather insane to explode one on Earth.
True. Even during the black&white developing process one can alter the lighting of the original exposure by various means. One simple method is to cover certain areas with hands while the photographic paper is exposed. Press images always have a viewpoint which is pronounced by a simple crop for example. Their function is to distill the context into a striking composition. This image conveys the feeling and the depth of the actual event really well - it's a good press photo.
It works if one also lived like the test animals - in a controlled dust and aerosol free environment on an optimized non-excessive diet. So in essence everybody should turn into nature lovers.
I'm afraid this will just turn out to be one more pill...
The game creators kind of created the statistics by making the title easily available, so the data is skewed.
The titles are competing of a share of the amount of money (and time) a gamer is willing to spend. The available sum doesn't magically accumulate when new titles are released, so I'd guess that better / more marketed games will get a larger share.
I wonder what's the average conversion rate. Usually not all who pirate buy the game anyway. How about demo downloads versus purchases? It's a neat trick they pulled, but I think some context would be nice.
SARS is/was more fatal strain, and it was prevented with quick and effective international response. I'm pretty sure people don't want SARS or any new strain to be as prevalently hanging around as common flu. The immune system is not used to it, and there's little reason to let the viruses go freely around and mingle with each other.
It's a bit morbid to compare the fatalities. I'd rather say that great, only 773. The lower the number the better the response has been.
Besides the mechanics of the free market (is there any?) works so that if someone comes up with a nice product of course others will copy it because otherwise they would lose their share. To differentiate from the others some details are changed or improved. Some just clone the current winning concept. So far the successful product of Apple's have been like hot knife in butter, but the market is not so vertical anymore.
So there's no innate need to innovate at all. It's an option The past is pretty much meaningless. The sales happen now and the appreciation comes from the expectations. Successful companies can differentiate and deliver. If similar product has been released and it wasn't a success then it's a bad example of a product and management.
For example, the doubling time of the number of scientific publications from 1900 to 1960 was only 15 years (de Solla Price, 1971). Interestingly, extrapolating the exponential increase of scientific publications backwards gives us an estimated origin of science at 1710 which is the time of Isaac Newton.
That's not the origin of science, but it coincides with the industrial revolution, which sparked a new range of philosophical thinking from economy to nature. Besides printing press was readily established at that time to spread the news. There has always been science at some level. The selected viewpoint has an effect to the origin.
Consider for example 10 freely usable computers in a public space. Now open the same website yearly in each of the computers and leave the session open. Random visitor can then have a glance of 10 years of a website's history, and the action is approved by the content holders.
Persistent positive charge of the solar wind's magnetic field is preventing the storm to happen, even though conditions otherwise are favorable. Should the oncoming particles carry a negative charge things could change dramatically. The parameter is called Bz in this plot from the ACE satellite between Earth and Sun: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ace/MAG_24h.html The current value is also presented in the left sidebar of http://www.spaceweather.com/
Slashdot Mirror
Quite many buttloads, I'd presume.
The releases can't be contained. The freedom seeking individuals are the problem. It's impossible to have a total control anybody, so the measures taken can only go to the infinity, unless the facades themselves are deconstructed. That's not going to happen, because so many are dependent on the illusionary constructions.
What Snowden possesses is what's inside all of us - the desire to be free. It's being chained by semantic structures like nationalism, top-down hierarchy, late primordial version of the democracy and the glorified and commercialized needs and desires.
The admission that absolute control is impossible is not going to be heard, and to avoid the uneasy feelings snowdens need to be removed from the stage.
Wars (and threats) only exist as long as there's enough people who believe in enemies. Sometimes it only takes a few to install the images in the minds of millions.
When the facades come down it's obvious that everybody does everything, and the useful illusions are no longer valid as a control mechanism. It's therefore paramount to control the information, and the ultimate construction to achieve that is basically a totalitarian state.
To enable the p2p control and loyality to the leader and the state measures have already been taken - Insider Threat Program for example.
The changes are slowly creeping in. The problem is that an individual is impossible to control in the end, so the measures are also tightened to infinity.
They don't claim the recommended options are necessarily more secure, but they are freer and more in your control. They can also be tinkered with by yourself (also to be more secure, if you wish), and the code is more available.
That's a great list, and the least what one can do is change from Google to some other default search engine. Some of those listed are actually proxies to Google so they use its engine while filtering out all unnecessary information.
...and which would constantly talk you down because of its ability to analyze your lip movements 500 frames per second and so know what you are going to say next...
That's entry level 15" MBP.
I use Parallels Desktop to enable virtual machines on my 2010 entry-level MacBook Pro, and it was amusing to notice that I could operate a 40 track effect laden Cubase project on a virtualized XP with less latency than on my ex-desktop PC. I needed to finish a sound design project for a feature length indie film, and everything went really smoothly. I didn't do comparisons myself but at the time gathered from the net that Parallels performed better than VMware.
It's true that humans are designed to eat and digest meat. It's also true that humans are not only carnivores, and if you carefully analyse the nutrients of edible stuff from animal to plants it's often the plant sources that are better choices.
It's interesting to compare the nutritional content of a typical McDonald's meal and peanuts for example. Peanuts win in every way, with something like double the protein - and they cost less. Fish is also a great source of excellent nutrients. Of course the fast food joints want to optimize their profits like meat industry, which creates the supermarket stuff from a mix of some meat and soy + added taste.
Being vegan or vegetarian is also a statement against the over-exploitation and bad practices. It should be worrying that the industry doesn't want you to know where the meat comes from. They don't necessarily let you go for a tour in the production facilities, even though the chain of trust should be established from the producers to the consumer. The other quite recent thing in the human history is the 24/7 availability of meat.
My diet is about 95% vegan/vegetarian, with some fish from time to time, and the diet is really whole with everything I need. I also don't say know if I get to drink fresh milk or meat, because in essence I want the diet to be natural, and I want to be completely aware where it comes from and what it contains. It's tragic that some fanatics take their distorted views to the extreme.
I work as a part-time helper and I've seen some pretty average cases of autism too. Normal in this case means incapacitating sensitivity to stimuli, inability to communicate (some just scream or laugh at things) and extremely aggressive behaviour (Some of the care-takers I know have been bitten, badly bruised or some of their hair has been pulled off). The image what general population have of autism and asperger's is twisted, and it's amusing how many self diagnose themselves with some totally idealized disease just to have some meaning in their lives. The diagnosis selectively lands on the 'best' cases.
Just found this quote by Mark Dillon the software director. Essentially anyone can create a cover (the tools are open):
“Of course we will be offering a choice of Other Halves for the user to buy but this is a place where we want to see others get involved. Designers can design Other Halves for the device, engineers or hackers or techies can design new interfaces and maybe add physical hardware features that they wish they had on their device but might have a smaller market than to deserve having a whole entire device,” he said. “We talked about 3D printing them today. So it could be those kinds of things, but really we’re offering a new kind of interface for a device so that people can really take their imagination, and I believe there will be a lot of third parties and a lot of people who have a lot of great ideas in order to help you use the Other Half of the Jolla device.”
Same here. It's an intriguing strategy they are trying to pull off. The central Jolla platform is expandable by third party hardware vendors, who can become the other half of the device, not just an external peripheral maker. This kind of modularity will surely become more prevalent in the future, because smaller and smaller parts are made to be smart in some way. The Jolla platform functionality will be quickly copied though, but hopefully the Sailfish OS will connect all together...
In the Logica incident report it says that after the incident they run the same password cracking tools as the perpetrators and managed to crack a very large number of user passwords. Their summary:
In general, the passwords set by Logica, Applicate and their customers are:
created
Since RACF stores its passwords in uppercase only, and that there is a restriction on what
characters can be used, the keyspace is samewhat limited, thus letting the attacker running a
brute force password cracking attem pt gaining yet a nother advantage.
The psychological manipulation and citizen monitoring have been going on since the beginning of organized societies, because the rulers needed to secure their position and so know everything. It's build in the human psyche.
This has since turned into a science since the 1920s at least, when Edward Bernays came up with the whole new field called Public Relations and successfully applied Freudian psychoanalysis in his consulting business for large corporations. His book 'Propaganda' is worth reading, and the documentary series The Century of The Self explores it too.
I'd say it's not reasonable to trust any corporation, because they only seek to create more profit at your expense.
Let's imagine that aliens start to pour carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the Earth's atmosphere. The greenhouse effect has been known for over 100 years so we quickly can conclude that the net effect would be a warmer atmosphere. We would definitely try to do something to the matter, because well, the risk assessments would be increasingly worrying.
So why is it so difficult to act now?
And true, the climate has changed. Also it's normal that gamma ray explosions happen in space and they might destroy most of the Earth's atmosphere. It's still rather insane to explode one on Earth.
True. Even during the black&white developing process one can alter the lighting of the original exposure by various means. One simple method is to cover certain areas with hands while the photographic paper is exposed. Press images always have a viewpoint which is pronounced by a simple crop for example. Their function is to distill the context into a striking composition. This image conveys the feeling and the depth of the actual event really well - it's a good press photo.
It works if one also lived like the test animals - in a controlled dust and aerosol free environment on an optimized non-excessive diet. So in essence everybody should turn into nature lovers.
I'm afraid this will just turn out to be one more pill...
The game creators kind of created the statistics by making the title easily available, so the data is skewed.
The titles are competing of a share of the amount of money (and time) a gamer is willing to spend. The available sum doesn't magically accumulate when new titles are released, so I'd guess that better / more marketed games will get a larger share.
Here's a forum about this with screencaps: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=550032 They show that in the first day 6,4% were genuine versions and the rest were pirated copies.
I wonder what's the average conversion rate. Usually not all who pirate buy the game anyway. How about demo downloads versus purchases? It's a neat trick they pulled, but I think some context would be nice.
Maybe the illumination should come from bacteria, held inside biopanels? When the nutrients are low the panels would light up to say feed me!
SARS is/was more fatal strain, and it was prevented with quick and effective international response. I'm pretty sure people don't want SARS or any new strain to be as prevalently hanging around as common flu. The immune system is not used to it, and there's little reason to let the viruses go freely around and mingle with each other.
It's a bit morbid to compare the fatalities. I'd rather say that great, only 773. The lower the number the better the response has been.
Besides the mechanics of the free market (is there any?) works so that if someone comes up with a nice product of course others will copy it because otherwise they would lose their share. To differentiate from the others some details are changed or improved. Some just clone the current winning concept. So far the successful product of Apple's have been like hot knife in butter, but the market is not so vertical anymore.
So there's no innate need to innovate at all. It's an option The past is pretty much meaningless. The sales happen now and the appreciation comes from the expectations. Successful companies can differentiate and deliver. If similar product has been released and it wasn't a success then it's a bad example of a product and management.
Take this gem for example from the article:
For example, the doubling time of the number of scientific publications from 1900 to 1960 was only 15 years (de Solla Price, 1971). Interestingly, extrapolating the exponential increase of scientific publications backwards gives us an estimated origin of science at 1710 which is the time of Isaac Newton.
That's not the origin of science, but it coincides with the industrial revolution, which sparked a new range of philosophical thinking from economy to nature. Besides printing press was readily established at that time to spread the news. There has always been science at some level. The selected viewpoint has an effect to the origin.
Consider for example 10 freely usable computers in a public space. Now open the same website yearly in each of the computers and leave the session open. Random visitor can then have a glance of 10 years of a website's history, and the action is approved by the content holders.
Thanks for the correction, I made a silly mistake...
Persistent positive charge of the solar wind's magnetic field is preventing the storm to happen, even though conditions otherwise are favorable. Should the oncoming particles carry a negative charge things could change dramatically. The parameter is called Bz in this plot from the ACE satellite between Earth and Sun: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ace/MAG_24h.html The current value is also presented in the left sidebar of http://www.spaceweather.com/