You seem to misunderstand their likely intent: that BOTH parties pull this kind of crap, and indeed people in general do it out of stupidity and ignorance.
[Hitler's] primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it./Godwin.
It's the Big Lie technique, through and through. Do you really expect otherwise from these mooks?
Except anything that this 200wpm typist types can be recognized by anyone. Nobody's going to be able to read a damn thing written in shorthand unless they've been trained in it. Way to draw horrible comparisons.
Well, here's the thing: by having this information out in the open, people can look at how it's done and look at the protocols they use, and find out whether such vulnerabilities could exist. Sure, it might not help anyone right now if they're vulnerable, but it does mean that the protocols that people use in the future are a lot less likely to have such weaknesses that allow for data corruption.
Copyright or not, when you have the ability to corrupt data on a whim, the network is quickly rendered useless.
Yeah, and your caller cheerfully keeps blathering on despite telling them three times to hold on, god damn it, I'm in the middle of rush hour traffic trying to merge. This was the point that I decided that just about anyone on the other end of the phone while I'm driving is probably not going to listen to me anyway. If it's important they can leave a damn message and I'll get back to them at my convenience.
Term limits for the country's leader are not rare. He attempted to call a referendum directly, when it is stated that he does not have the power to do that in the local constitution; the courts and the legislature refused to have such a referendum when asked. This is what makes it illegal - he does not legally have the power to call such a referendum.
Is it any surprise that he was ousted? And is it any surprise that the referendum never happened and yet the results are sitting on the servers?
As it has been said from the beginning, anyone with physical access to the machine and sufficient knowledge of how the machine works can alter the results, and it is clear that the ousted President (who had called for an illegal referendum to have term limits removed so he could basically be president for life) had people with both those things.
For electronic voting, you have to assume that the manufacturer and everyone involved in the storage, transport and operation of such voting machines to be acting in good faith, and I don't think you can find a country on this planet that has everyone acting this way.
Technology is a great thing, but it is not the solution to every problem.
Well, when you get down to it, any outside communications that isn't through a secure line is a possible liability. You don't want someone waltzing in and sending out sensitive information on a phone call. Granted, if they're determined they'll get that information one way or another, but that's where SIGINT ends and HUMINT begins.
This is using green lasers and the picture shows it with red? Okay, that's silly in itself, but more importantly, whenever it hits a puddle, any other reflective surface or god forbid is used in the rain, isn't EVERYONE GOING TO GO BLIND INCLUDING THE BICYCLIST?
Take 'minor' and replace with 'former student', and ask yourself whether this is the sort of behavior you want to see exhibited. Whether you really want to see someone in charge of the school who is clearly vengeful and holding grudges years after the student is no longer a part of the school.
Sure they are. They're making the initial investment to put that thing into the pavement so that they can use it to harvest energy. It's like saying that the supermarket installed solar panels and the power they're getting is free.
What's funny about being told that the world is millions of years old when in fact it's only a hundred and fifty-seven years old -- fact! -- and its age does not change?
I expect to see ABP forked nearly immediately and the version that supports this metatag system to lapse into disuse by the majority within six months.
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The point is that there will be millions who don't, and thereby it's ideal for embedding content and adverts.
Actually, by all appearances, it's just a bright orange variety of the Smart Mass that ThinkGeek sells.
Let's hope so. It's generally considered to be an incredibly stupid thing to anger a congress-critter in DC; I doubt it's much different in Canada.
Australia TRIED the Great Firewall idea and there was a groundswell against it. This is Option B.
Expect them to flip-flop between these two options until the apathy is great enough for one of them to stick. The other will inevitably follow.
You seem to misunderstand their likely intent: that BOTH parties pull this kind of crap, and indeed people in general do it out of stupidity and ignorance.
[Hitler's] primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it. /Godwin.
It's the Big Lie technique, through and through. Do you really expect otherwise from these mooks?
McAfee's marketing department leaked it, because they were testing the old 'bad publicity is worse than no publicity' theory.
Results so far are not promising.
Except anything that this 200wpm typist types can be recognized by anyone. Nobody's going to be able to read a damn thing written in shorthand unless they've been trained in it. Way to draw horrible comparisons.
Well, here's the thing: by having this information out in the open, people can look at how it's done and look at the protocols they use, and find out whether such vulnerabilities could exist. Sure, it might not help anyone right now if they're vulnerable, but it does mean that the protocols that people use in the future are a lot less likely to have such weaknesses that allow for data corruption.
Copyright or not, when you have the ability to corrupt data on a whim, the network is quickly rendered useless.
Best analogy ever. This would, of course, be the one day where I end up without mod points.
Yeah, and your caller cheerfully keeps blathering on despite telling them three times to hold on, god damn it, I'm in the middle of rush hour traffic trying to merge. This was the point that I decided that just about anyone on the other end of the phone while I'm driving is probably not going to listen to me anyway. If it's important they can leave a damn message and I'll get back to them at my convenience.
Term limits for the country's leader are not rare. He attempted to call a referendum directly, when it is stated that he does not have the power to do that in the local constitution; the courts and the legislature refused to have such a referendum when asked. This is what makes it illegal - he does not legally have the power to call such a referendum.
Is it any surprise that he was ousted? And is it any surprise that the referendum never happened and yet the results are sitting on the servers?
As it has been said from the beginning, anyone with physical access to the machine and sufficient knowledge of how the machine works can alter the results, and it is clear that the ousted President (who had called for an illegal referendum to have term limits removed so he could basically be president for life) had people with both those things.
For electronic voting, you have to assume that the manufacturer and everyone involved in the storage, transport and operation of such voting machines to be acting in good faith, and I don't think you can find a country on this planet that has everyone acting this way.
Technology is a great thing, but it is not the solution to every problem.
But that would mean it was actually observing something USEFUL. The odds of that are staggeringly low.
Well, when you get down to it, any outside communications that isn't through a secure line is a possible liability. You don't want someone waltzing in and sending out sensitive information on a phone call. Granted, if they're determined they'll get that information one way or another, but that's where SIGINT ends and HUMINT begins.
Depending on their region or ethnic diet, having dog or cat meat to eat themselves isn't out of the question.
This is using green lasers and the picture shows it with red? Okay, that's silly in itself, but more importantly, whenever it hits a puddle, any other reflective surface or god forbid is used in the rain, isn't EVERYONE GOING TO GO BLIND INCLUDING THE BICYCLIST?
Take 'minor' and replace with 'former student', and ask yourself whether this is the sort of behavior you want to see exhibited. Whether you really want to see someone in charge of the school who is clearly vengeful and holding grudges years after the student is no longer a part of the school.
I've got mod points, but I can't find anything that matches +1 Frightful Police State.
Sure they are. They're making the initial investment to put that thing into the pavement so that they can use it to harvest energy. It's like saying that the supermarket installed solar panels and the power they're getting is free.
Altruism. It's a good idea. Too bad it's about as likely to work as manifesting things through pure force of will. Go take an economics class.
No, you need $10,000,000 worth of Red Bull to get one gram of cocaine.
Seriously, what the HELL, Germany?!
What's funny about being told that the world is millions of years old when in fact it's only a hundred and fifty-seven years old -- fact! -- and its age does not change?
Yes, but that's not the RIAA's problem either. Their lawyers just claim it is.
However, if GM were to cry foul on used car sales, everyone and their mother would jump on them.
I expect to see ABP forked nearly immediately and the version that supports this metatag system to lapse into disuse by the majority within six months.