EDA: did you guys just smash a bunch of computers with a hammer because of viruses? DHS: Yes, but there havent been any terrorist attacks since we smashed everything with hammers. clearly the operation was a massive success. EDA: I dont even..... DHS: yep. Freedom isnt free.
Disclosure: I dont own a gun.
The app seems like its going to anger quite a few people who hold the second amendment dear. I can see instances in which the app is used by police to target dissenters before an organized protest on the guise they plan to start a riot. Or perhaps the map is used by criminals to identify homes without firearms. marking an entire neighborhood is bound to lower property value. However in many cases the recourse for average citizens to do anything about a mentally unstable neighbor that owns a gun or guns is pretty limited. The viet-nam vet who pipes michael savage throughout the porch and parades around the back yard in fatigues with an assault rifle literally was my neighbor for 4 years in suburban ohio. i cringed every time i saw a girl scout or jehovas witness approach the door. The neighborhood association did nothing and the local police, despite the fact the man had been banned from a local public festival and a wal-mart, simply acknowledged him to be an interesting character.
The site asks if I know anyone who does not use a gun lock, and considering as i live in a state that
leads the nation in child firearm fatalities im inclined to use the app to report people who dont use them.
UPDATE: NATS has claimed to have now fixed the problem.
“NATS has identified and corrected the technical problem that has been affecting air traffic control systems in the south of England,” its latest statement read.
“Operations are now returning to normal and we are working with the airports, airlines and Eurocontrol to clear the backlog of flights to ensure disruption is kept to a minimum.
“Outbound delays from the UK have generally been limited to 20 minutes.”
on an unrelated note: Dennis is no longer allowed to sit in the control room while quaffing his morning cuppa.
Regards,
NATS operations management team
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3948321&cid=44215203
you can expect a few more of these "see its freedom surveillance!" stories in the next few days. After all, we dont want anyone else questioning the American Dream(c) now do we?
Automated trading systems are far different than whats intended for a working stock market...one could make a compelling argument to suggest automated trading was by its design made to quickly and quietly abdicate the big players from any sense of liability or responsibility for a crash. If for example automated trades dont go the way wall-street firms like, they can have them rolled back. its not selling a share, its not cancelling a buy, its literally going into the system and undoing the trade. HFT is based on algorythms that themselves are as unfounded and hypothetical as the very modern theory of economics. Market Making, or as we know it to be pump and dump, is a real algorythm employed daily by firms.
dark liquidity markets take this a step further, but HFT has cataclysmic potential here. the buyer and seller are generally not known, quantities can be limited for sale or purchase, the markets themselves are not available to the general public, and there is very minimal oversight. The dark market was invented for the financial sector. its purpose is to silently enjoy the benefits of things like credit-default swaps and predatory lending, but without having to atone for their sins on the open market once they start printing the eviction notices.
Its important to clarify what this system is intended to do, as im certain the government will furiously refute this new round of allegations...presuming mainstream media feels like covering this one
This is not, nor has it ever been about terrorism. Its about the maintenance of power, wherein terrorism is a convenient excuse as it directly challenges and undermines a governments authority. All legitimate challenges, be they from disenfranchised middle eastern nationals or occupy protestors, are now taken very seriously. The middle east questions everything from the well established narrative of american freedom in the context of guantanamo bay to the carter doctrine of foreign imperialism and Israeli occupation each time a bombing or attack is successfully affected. People begin to ask why we are being attacked, and the excuse that terrorists "hate our freedom" becomes less effective with each blast that rocks a city as more of its citizens learn about the home state of the bomber, her motives and objectives and most dangerously, the full context under which america became a part of it.
the occupy protests question the narrative of the american dream in the context of class stratification that is so rife with inequality it guarantees forty percent of a worlds wealth is concentrated amongst one percent of its wealthiest inhabitants. Bank foreclosures and unemployment can only be explained by "economic downturn" and "irresponsible homeowners" so many times before the answers do not work anymore, and with each march or sit-in a protest gains momentum to change this class stratification. protests like occupy work to force a ruling class to remain under scrutiny or crush dissent. Crushing dissent is a force multiplier however, like water on a grease fire, and merely galvanizes your opponents. Ruling plutocracies cannot tolerate sustained scrutiny.
the middle of the road is simply surveillance. Find the organizers, topple them first, and the dissent never has an opportunity to interrupt the american "dream." pre-emptive detention of G8 protesters, flypapering articles about how much americans think Snowden is a traitor, and manufacturing crimes against peaceful demonstrators is much more efficient and effective. you contol the outcome of the detentions, and without a rally point protestors are supplanted by media reports of valiantly thwarted attacks by the TSA or FBI. Snowdens security state, as its been exposed, also serves also to galvanize more severe convictions against protestors by providing nearly infinite evidence of any crime the prosecution so wishes. its a slightly larger padlock by which political and social unrest is quelled. it is our form of political prisoner.
to fix it not only requires expunging elected leaders but cutting the feed bag from a society that largely reviles the poor and champions the rich, and consents to warrantless search so long as they have enough room on the DVR to still make it home in time to catch up on Big Bang Theory. We must begin to ask uncomfortable questions: Why are people rich, what is the longstanding history of our foreign policy and its potential future ramifications, why should corporations be given say in politics, and why do we need a deep-rooted surveillance system to combat something that kills orders-of-magnitude fewer people each year than heart disease?
im sure that while most customers will appreciate not having to fill out tags, the will decidedly not appreciate my set of ">;;,;DROP TABLE LUGGAGE" skis as they make their first and final trek through heathrow..
for those unsure of how to mourn, Here are a few tips. Awesomewm users: remove dust from mouse (small black/beige peripheral.) place hand atop it for a moment of rememberence...both for doug and in trying to recall what people use this thing for outlook users: Although its often said not to, today you may in fact click that link in your HTML email for "1000% DIS.CPUNT VJAGRA CIA.LIS" Chatroulette users: Adjust the camera from its standard crotch-facing position to a more respectful head-facing position. Microsoft Word users: Today, indulge clippy in his helpful banter and accept his offer of assistance in writing a letter. Embrace the ensuing application crash as proof that the spirit of Doug lives on. VAX users: Get back to work installing VMS 5.0. Forget you ever heard of 'windowed' interfaces. also those TPS reports, we need them by EOD...so lets plan for saturday. Excel users: As you stalk from cubicle to cubicle hunting for the rat-bastard who left the spreadsheet open this evening, ponder Dougs wisdom of shared documents and its profound impact on your ability to hunt down pudgy white coworkers, like some kind of middle aged predator. Oracle users: Send a support ticket. Approach your multi million dollar obelisk of remorse and sorrow. slowly push unmarked $100 bills into the ventillation slots. Weep in knowing this is not what Doug intended. PDF users: chances are youre holding a document that is nothing but an image with text...no search for you, so you may as well ponder Dougs infinite wisdom as you mash away at the spacebar in time to lady gagas judas. YouTube users: "Doug Engelbart Harlem Shake Americas Got Talent" is certainly a mournful keyword search. Management: each time you bored us with tales of (a)synchronous collaboration, know that it was pushing this great man one step closer to the grave. If you'd stuck to the 1 hour meeting rule and not called it on a friday, this man may still be alive today.
And they get shown in fine art galleries, so we know they're art, not just ordinary robots.
MoMA? LACMA? nope, according to the website we're just showcasing around the florida area. sure, they can be regular art, lets just take a step back from comparing it to works from artists like Brendan Carney, Jonathan Hartshorn, Thury Sigurthorsdottir, or Scott Lawrence
We met Sarah purely by chance.
Perhaps. Seeing as slashdot video articles are commonly geared exclusively toward slashvertisement I'll fashion another theory. People ignore these like the plague, so to drum up more support (and targeted advertising interest) you gin-up a nice fluff piece and build some click metrics.
Sarah assembles robots from found parts that others might think are just ordinary industrial detritus
thats because they are industrial detritus. these are the to slashdot as Folk Art is to a 62 year old empty nester, only most of us are intelligent enough not to venture on down to the gift shop at the St Petersburg museum (thats the world famous Florida location, not the Moscow one) and blow $340 on a paperweight because it reminds us of robots.
Perhaps the Quantum Computer that runs the Orbiting Robot Laboratory directed us to her.
Perhaps it can redirect your milton freeman head out of your moneygrabbing arse and point it in the direction of meaningful news for nerds instead of a middle aged EE Dropout who moved to florida to follow her true calling hocking scrap steel figurines.
Vulcan was rejected because it shared its name with a hypothetical planet inside the orbit of Mercury, and also because, as god of the forge, Vulcan had little connection to the icy moons of Pluto.
"Don's directs will report to me and will continue to drive the day-to-day business as a team, particularly focused on shipping Xbox One this holiday.""
Dear Steve,
Theres been a terrible mistake. You are the new "Chief Xichang box associate, Dock 1," you know, for the Xichang factory in China. Dons still on for the "Chief Xbox One" roll, its just we need you down there to help with shipping this christmas.
Sorry about the mixup.
OpenBSD had the same press smear in . The result? there was no secret back door in SSL libraries or BSD.
The NSA arguably doesnt need a linux backdoor. They own the links between you and the server. They already get preferential access to the #1 and #2 OS on every desktop and laptop, and when that doesnt cut it they've had a foot in the door of everything from Facebook to Amazon for quite a while now. the warrants and courts are secret, and the action comes with a free 'shut the fuck up' stamp to make sure you never hear a word about it.
what the NSA cares about is mostly what the government cares about: detecting and correcting civil unrest. monitoring social networks, chat rooms and forums ensures things like Occupy never get too far out of hand. Sure, running occupywallstreetrightnow.com from your basement might be safe if you're encrypting root, running SELinux and wiping disks, but the NSA will still have enough metadata from your driving patterns and network traffic to fashion a very long noose for your execution.
FBI: what did you learn from infiltrating wikileaks? Sigurdur: Its headed by Julian Assange FBI: okay...and.... Sigurdur: and he is on a mission to expose a ton of sensitive information about governments...especially american governments. FBI:OKAY. AND... Sigurdur: he intends to release any leaks he receives to the public. FBI: How much have we paid this asshole already?
Doom still hasnt acclimated me to the inevitable demonic invasion of earth from a hell-portal on phobos, and despite rigorous training in Doom 2, i for one am entirely unprepared to fire shoulder mounted rockets at the decapitated head of John Romero.
Half Life however is doing a spectacular job of teaching me how to live and work in a post-apocalyptic society governed by constant surveillance in which i have no real rights.
Established in 1912, regulation of amateur radio was a result of the U.S. Navy's concern about interference to its stations and its desire to be able to order amateur radio stations off the air in the event of war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_radio_licensing_in_the_United_States
as most naval communication is encrypted de-facto in the 21st century and often dedicated outside the ham band, the original licensing purpose is rather useless. One could argue in the 50's the radio act served to ensure VHF and UHF television broadcasts and commercial radio would not be interrupted by hobbyists, but the anti-cryptography purposes intended 'do-no-harm' clause smacks of the cold-war.
If hams can't decode messages, they can't identify if the communication even belongs on ham radio. A potentially worse problem is that encryption destroys the harmless nature of Amateur radio.
while hams cannot identify these communications we do regularly hold triangulation contests to see where theyre coming from. The mysterious Yosemite Sam broadcast in the southwest was detected and triangulated by a number of hams during its run with relative success. Again, the "harmless nature" of amateur radio must be re-evaluated in the modern context of the united states government in the 21st century. The NSA warrantlessly spies on us all, we run a torture camp, and execute our own citizens without trial. To continue to enforce anti cryptography in amateur radio is to the benefit of the state, not the amateurs which hold the rights to the airwaves. And if you consider commercial radio as any bellweather for the nature of the radio wave, then its charter to provide a public good is evidence enough the airwaves do in fact belong to the people.
Disclosure: I am a licensed ham operator working toward their general class upgrade.
I dont think people are so upset about the mans motive; to educate people about surveillance is a good thing. the problem is 90% of the footage captured by public CCTV cameras is different. Municipalities in the US that receive funding for CCTV cameras do so likely as part of a Homeland Security grant from the federal government and will install low-resolution cameras typically at intersections as government buildings have already been covered. These low resolution cameras are typically designed to reduce the cities expenditure on insurance for police and emergency services as they blow through red lights far more frequently and thus have a greater potential for collision with an automobile than does the average driver.
The footage is, in my personal experience as an accident victim, uselessly low quality and low framerate.
as for private surveillance, ATM video is hillariously low quality (check out youtube for a few examples.) higher end DVR systems in stores and pubs however are only used during an altercation or when required in order to prosecute a violation of law. nobody of any importance has interest to this video.
what the privacy evangelist is doing in contrast is uploading people to a distributed global network of video content which is freely available to anyone at any time. It serves to educate the public about google more than anything else, which is good. Given the potential for my boss, my coworkers, or my loved ones to stumble across the video however, I cant say id think twice about landing a haymaker on the first glasshole to shout "record."
3d systems, the patent holder for both the process and the hardware that in fact realizes the process, has been doing this since 1986. their polymer, conveniently termed a "resin" on the Form 1 website, seems like nothing more than a creative attempt at skirting patent law. Looking at the 3d systems CubeX or ProJet 1000, the Form1 is the fucking definition of knock-off.
3d printers funded by a kickstarter make for your traditional slashdot-du-jour, but after the litigation dont expect Formlabs to be able to release their product for anything less than what a 3d systems entry-level model should cost. best to save your money go for a
Mendel.
Obama's current->plan() || current->legislation() Face(s) Long Fight
Everything from gun legislation after massive shooting sprees to just keeping the government fucking running has been next to impossible for this guy. Instead, you can thank the party of no for making sure we reaffirm 'in god we trust' and try to repeal healthcare reform 33 times. because thats way more important.
the range on a model S is ~205 miles, if you go for the top of the line its 265 miles. shouldnt this meet the needs of most drivers? i mean who drives more than 200 miles per day other than a CDL holder?
I think tesla is working like hell to dispel negative publicity surrounding the vehicle. Top Gear didnt do them any favours and the guys at the New York Times basically tried their damnedest to put it on a wrecker and make a story.
I also think the unspoken issue is the same as with a regular car: responsibility. If you want to drive on a quarter tank the entire week, floor it at every intersection and consistently violate the speed limit then so be it, but stop relying on a gas station on every corner to come to the rescue so you can keep treating your car like a toy.
disclosure: im a motorcyclist, so responsibility and range for me personally are something i dont just get to ignore without serious repercussions.
I hate to see politicians toss this phrase around. Silicon Valley is not just a place with a bunch of nerds working in an internet factory, its an ecosystem of cultural diversity built around technology, art and science. I understand everyone wants a slice of the Tech pie, but New Yorks industry centers on finance. everything im looking at is "large financial firm", none of the startups or 3d printers in tfs. Whining about long term leases making it difficult for your city to be next->siliconvalley() is lik whining about the space under your desk being so insufficient as to preclude you from rewriting the linux kernel.
the US did this during the occupy protests. to their credit, it was a largely successful means of quelling civil unrest in New York, preventing unrest in other cities, and downplaying the message that the united states class is a lemon socialism designed to perpetuate a class stratification of the rich and the rest of us.
Slashdot Mirror
EDA: did you guys just smash a bunch of computers with a hammer because of viruses?
DHS: Yes, but there havent been any terrorist attacks since we smashed everything with hammers. clearly the operation was a massive success.
EDA: I dont even.....
DHS: yep. Freedom isnt free.
Disclosure: I dont own a gun.
The app seems like its going to anger quite a few people who hold the second amendment dear. I can see instances in which the app is used by police to target dissenters before an organized protest on the guise they plan to start a riot. Or perhaps the map is used by criminals to identify homes without firearms. marking an entire neighborhood is bound to lower property value. However in many cases the recourse for average citizens to do anything about a mentally unstable neighbor that owns a gun or guns is pretty limited. The viet-nam vet who pipes michael savage throughout the porch and parades around the back yard in fatigues with an assault rifle literally was my neighbor for 4 years in suburban ohio. i cringed every time i saw a girl scout or jehovas witness approach the door. The neighborhood association did nothing and the local police, despite the fact the man had been banned from a local public festival and a wal-mart, simply acknowledged him to be an interesting character.
The site asks if I know anyone who does not use a gun lock, and considering as i live in a state that leads the nation in child firearm fatalities im inclined to use the app to report people who dont use them.
UPDATE: NATS has claimed to have now fixed the problem. “NATS has identified and corrected the technical problem that has been affecting air traffic control systems in the south of England,” its latest statement read. “Operations are now returning to normal and we are working with the airports, airlines and Eurocontrol to clear the backlog of flights to ensure disruption is kept to a minimum. “Outbound delays from the UK have generally been limited to 20 minutes.”
on an unrelated note: Dennis is no longer allowed to sit in the control room while quaffing his morning cuppa.
Regards,
NATS operations management team
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3948321&cid=44215203
you can expect a few more of these "see its freedom surveillance!" stories in the next few days. After all, we dont want anyone else questioning the American Dream(c) now do we?
Automated trading systems are far different than whats intended for a working stock market...one could make a compelling argument to suggest automated trading was by its design made to quickly and quietly abdicate the big players from any sense of liability or responsibility for a crash. If for example automated trades dont go the way wall-street firms like, they can have them rolled back. its not selling a share, its not cancelling a buy, its literally going into the system and undoing the trade. HFT is based on algorythms that themselves are as unfounded and hypothetical as the very modern theory of economics. Market Making, or as we know it to be pump and dump, is a real algorythm employed daily by firms.
dark liquidity markets take this a step further, but HFT has cataclysmic potential here. the buyer and seller are generally not known, quantities can be limited for sale or purchase, the markets themselves are not available to the general public, and there is very minimal oversight. The dark market was invented for the financial sector. its purpose is to silently enjoy the benefits of things like credit-default swaps and predatory lending, but without having to atone for their sins on the open market once they start printing the eviction notices.
Its important to clarify what this system is intended to do, as im certain the government will furiously refute this new round of allegations...presuming mainstream media feels like covering this one
This is not, nor has it ever been about terrorism. Its about the maintenance of power, wherein terrorism is a convenient excuse as it directly challenges and undermines a governments authority. All legitimate challenges, be they from disenfranchised middle eastern nationals or occupy protestors, are now taken very seriously. The middle east questions everything from the well established narrative of american freedom in the context of guantanamo bay to the carter doctrine of foreign imperialism and Israeli occupation each time a bombing or attack is successfully affected. People begin to ask why we are being attacked, and the excuse that terrorists "hate our freedom" becomes less effective with each blast that rocks a city as more of its citizens learn about the home state of the bomber, her motives and objectives and most dangerously, the full context under which america became a part of it.
the occupy protests question the narrative of the american dream in the context of class stratification that is so rife with inequality it guarantees forty percent of a worlds wealth is concentrated amongst one percent of its wealthiest inhabitants. Bank foreclosures and unemployment can only be explained by "economic downturn" and "irresponsible homeowners" so many times before the answers do not work anymore, and with each march or sit-in a protest gains momentum to change this class stratification. protests like occupy work to force a ruling class to remain under scrutiny or crush dissent. Crushing dissent is a force multiplier however, like water on a grease fire, and merely galvanizes your opponents. Ruling plutocracies cannot tolerate sustained scrutiny.
the middle of the road is simply surveillance. Find the organizers, topple them first, and the dissent never has an opportunity to interrupt the american "dream." pre-emptive detention of G8 protesters, flypapering articles about how much americans think Snowden is a traitor, and manufacturing crimes against peaceful demonstrators is much more efficient and effective. you contol the outcome of the detentions, and without a rally point protestors are supplanted by media reports of valiantly thwarted attacks by the TSA or FBI. Snowdens security state, as its been exposed, also serves also to galvanize more severe convictions against protestors by providing nearly infinite evidence of any crime the prosecution so wishes. its a slightly larger padlock by which political and social unrest is quelled. it is our form of political prisoner.
to fix it not only requires expunging elected leaders but cutting the feed bag from a society that largely reviles the poor and champions the rich, and consents to warrantless search so long as they have enough room on the DVR to still make it home in time to catch up on Big Bang Theory. We must begin to ask uncomfortable questions: Why are people rich, what is the longstanding history of our foreign policy and its potential future ramifications, why should corporations be given say in politics, and why do we need a deep-rooted surveillance system to combat something that kills orders-of-magnitude fewer people each year than heart disease?
im sure that while most customers will appreciate not having to fill out tags, the will decidedly not appreciate my set of ">;;,;DROP TABLE LUGGAGE" skis as they make their first and final trek through heathrow..
for those unsure of how to mourn, Here are a few tips.
Awesomewm users: remove dust from mouse (small black/beige peripheral.) place hand atop it for a moment of rememberence...both for doug and in trying to recall what people use this thing for
outlook users: Although its often said not to, today you may in fact click that link in your HTML email for "1000% DIS.CPUNT VJAGRA CIA.LIS"
Chatroulette users: Adjust the camera from its standard crotch-facing position to a more respectful head-facing position.
Microsoft Word users: Today, indulge clippy in his helpful banter and accept his offer of assistance in writing a letter. Embrace the ensuing application crash as proof that the spirit of Doug lives on.
VAX users: Get back to work installing VMS 5.0. Forget you ever heard of 'windowed' interfaces. also those TPS reports, we need them by EOD...so lets plan for saturday.
Excel users: As you stalk from cubicle to cubicle hunting for the rat-bastard who left the spreadsheet open this evening, ponder Dougs wisdom of shared documents and its profound impact on your ability to hunt down pudgy white coworkers, like some kind of middle aged predator.
Oracle users: Send a support ticket. Approach your multi million dollar obelisk of remorse and sorrow. slowly push unmarked $100 bills into the ventillation slots. Weep in knowing this is not what Doug intended.
PDF users: chances are youre holding a document that is nothing but an image with text...no search for you, so you may as well ponder Dougs infinite wisdom as you mash away at the spacebar in time to lady gagas judas.
YouTube users: "Doug Engelbart Harlem Shake Americas Got Talent" is certainly a mournful keyword search.
Management: each time you bored us with tales of (a)synchronous collaboration, know that it was pushing this great man one step closer to the grave. If you'd stuck to the 1 hour meeting rule and not called it on a friday, this man may still be alive today.
http://xkcd.com/325/
just sayin'
And they get shown in fine art galleries, so we know they're art, not just ordinary robots.
MoMA? LACMA? nope, according to the website we're just showcasing around the florida area. sure, they can be regular art, lets just take a step back from comparing it to works from artists like Brendan Carney, Jonathan Hartshorn, Thury Sigurthorsdottir, or Scott Lawrence
We met Sarah purely by chance.
Perhaps. Seeing as slashdot video articles are commonly geared exclusively toward slashvertisement I'll fashion another theory. People ignore these like the plague, so to drum up more support (and targeted advertising interest) you gin-up a nice fluff piece and build some click metrics.
Sarah assembles robots from found parts that others might think are just ordinary industrial detritus
thats because they are industrial detritus. these are the to slashdot as Folk Art is to a 62 year old empty nester, only most of us are intelligent enough not to venture on down to the gift shop at the St Petersburg museum (thats the world famous Florida location, not the Moscow one) and blow $340 on a paperweight because it reminds us of robots.
Perhaps the Quantum Computer that runs the Orbiting Robot Laboratory directed us to her.
Perhaps it can redirect your milton freeman head out of your moneygrabbing arse and point it in the direction of meaningful news for nerds instead of a middle aged EE Dropout who moved to florida to follow her true calling hocking scrap steel figurines.
Vulcan was rejected because it shared its name with a hypothetical planet inside the orbit of Mercury, and also because, as god of the forge, Vulcan had little connection to the icy moons of Pluto.
https://whispersystems.org/
Moxie Marlinspike sends his regards.
"Don's directs will report to me and will continue to drive the day-to-day business as a team, particularly focused on shipping Xbox One this holiday.""
Dear Steve,
Theres been a terrible mistake. You are the new "Chief Xichang box associate, Dock 1," you know, for the Xichang factory in China. Dons still on for the "Chief Xbox One" roll, its just we need you down there to help with shipping this christmas. Sorry about the mixup.
Regards,
MSFT Board of Directors.
three words should put an end to this chicanery: Immortal Dick Cheney.
OpenBSD had the same press smear in . The result? there was no secret back door in SSL libraries or BSD.
The NSA arguably doesnt need a linux backdoor. They own the links between you and the server. They already get preferential access to the #1 and #2 OS on every desktop and laptop, and when that doesnt cut it they've had a foot in the door of everything from Facebook to Amazon for quite a while now. the warrants and courts are secret, and the action comes with a free 'shut the fuck up' stamp to make sure you never hear a word about it.
what the NSA cares about is mostly what the government cares about: detecting and correcting civil unrest. monitoring social networks, chat rooms and forums ensures things like Occupy never get too far out of hand. Sure, running occupywallstreetrightnow.com from your basement might be safe if you're encrypting root, running SELinux and wiping disks, but the NSA will still have enough metadata from your driving patterns and network traffic to fashion a very long noose for your execution.
FBI: what did you learn from infiltrating wikileaks?
Sigurdur: Its headed by Julian Assange
FBI: okay...and....
Sigurdur: and he is on a mission to expose a ton of sensitive information about governments...especially american governments.
FBI:OKAY. AND...
Sigurdur: he intends to release any leaks he receives to the public.
FBI: How much have we paid this asshole already?
Doom still hasnt acclimated me to the inevitable demonic invasion of earth from a hell-portal on phobos, and despite rigorous training in Doom 2, i for one am entirely unprepared to fire shoulder mounted rockets at the decapitated head of John Romero.
Half Life however is doing a spectacular job of teaching me how to live and work in a post-apocalyptic society governed by constant surveillance in which i have no real rights.
as most naval communication is encrypted de-facto in the 21st century and often dedicated outside the ham band, the original licensing purpose is rather useless. One could argue in the 50's the radio act served to ensure VHF and UHF television broadcasts and commercial radio would not be interrupted by hobbyists, but the anti-cryptography purposes intended 'do-no-harm' clause smacks of the cold-war.
If hams can't decode messages, they can't identify if the communication even belongs on ham radio. A potentially worse problem is that encryption destroys the harmless nature of Amateur radio.
while hams cannot identify these communications we do regularly hold triangulation contests to see where theyre coming from. The mysterious Yosemite Sam broadcast in the southwest was detected and triangulated by a number of hams during its run with relative success. Again, the "harmless nature" of amateur radio must be re-evaluated in the modern context of the united states government in the 21st century. The NSA warrantlessly spies on us all, we run a torture camp, and execute our own citizens without trial. To continue to enforce anti cryptography in amateur radio is to the benefit of the state, not the amateurs which hold the rights to the airwaves. And if you consider commercial radio as any bellweather for the nature of the radio wave, then its charter to provide a public good is evidence enough the airwaves do in fact belong to the people.
Disclosure: I am a licensed ham operator working toward their general class upgrade.
I dont think people are so upset about the mans motive; to educate people about surveillance is a good thing. the problem is 90% of the footage captured by public CCTV cameras is different. Municipalities in the US that receive funding for CCTV cameras do so likely as part of a Homeland Security grant from the federal government and will install low-resolution cameras typically at intersections as government buildings have already been covered. These low resolution cameras are typically designed to reduce the cities expenditure on insurance for police and emergency services as they blow through red lights far more frequently and thus have a greater potential for collision with an automobile than does the average driver.
The footage is, in my personal experience as an accident victim, uselessly low quality and low framerate.
as for private surveillance, ATM video is hillariously low quality (check out youtube for a few examples.) higher end DVR systems in stores and pubs however are only used during an altercation or when required in order to prosecute a violation of law. nobody of any importance has interest to this video.
what the privacy evangelist is doing in contrast is uploading people to a distributed global network of video content which is freely available to anyone at any time. It serves to educate the public about google more than anything else, which is good. Given the potential for my boss, my coworkers, or my loved ones to stumble across the video however, I cant say id think twice about landing a haymaker on the first glasshole to shout "record."
3d systems, the patent holder for both the process and the hardware that in fact realizes the process, has been doing this since 1986. their polymer, conveniently termed a "resin" on the Form 1 website, seems like nothing more than a creative attempt at skirting patent law. Looking at the 3d systems CubeX or ProJet 1000, the Form1 is the fucking definition of knock-off.
3d printers funded by a kickstarter make for your traditional slashdot-du-jour, but after the litigation dont expect Formlabs to be able to release their product for anything less than what a 3d systems entry-level model should cost. best to save your money go for a Mendel.
Obama's current->plan() || current->legislation() Face(s) Long Fight
Everything from gun legislation after massive shooting sprees to just keeping the government fucking running has been next to impossible for this guy. Instead, you can thank the party of no for making sure we reaffirm 'in god we trust' and try to repeal healthcare reform 33 times. because thats way more important.
Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, said: "I know nothing."'
Who wrote this, summary William, Shatner?
the range on a model S is ~205 miles, if you go for the top of the line its 265 miles. shouldnt this meet the needs of most drivers? i mean who drives more than 200 miles per day other than a CDL holder?
I think tesla is working like hell to dispel negative publicity surrounding the vehicle. Top Gear didnt do them any favours and the guys at the New York Times basically tried their damnedest to put it on a wrecker and make a story.
I also think the unspoken issue is the same as with a regular car: responsibility. If you want to drive on a quarter tank the entire week, floor it at every intersection and consistently violate the speed limit then so be it, but stop relying on a gas station on every corner to come to the rescue so you can keep treating your car like a toy.
disclosure: im a motorcyclist, so responsibility and range for me personally are something i dont just get to ignore without serious repercussions.
I hate to see politicians toss this phrase around. Silicon Valley is not just a place with a bunch of nerds working in an internet factory, its an ecosystem of cultural diversity built around technology, art and science. I understand everyone wants a slice of the Tech pie, but New Yorks industry centers on finance. everything im looking at is "large financial firm", none of the startups or 3d printers in tfs. Whining about long term leases making it difficult for your city to be next->siliconvalley() is lik whining about the space under your desk being so insufficient as to preclude you from rewriting the linux kernel.
the US did this during the occupy protests. to their credit, it was a largely successful means of quelling civil unrest in New York, preventing unrest in other cities, and downplaying the message that the united states class is a lemon socialism designed to perpetuate a class stratification of the rich and the rest of us.