Censorship is good in one case only; To protect children. I personally think in that case it is protection.
For all other cases. If someone is going to do something dangerous with some information then its protection. Most countries are filtering because they are trying to control what ideas their citizens are exposed to. That is oppression.
When you read about a bank system being hacked in order to steal 100,000 accounts, more than likely this crime was committed by perpetrators overseas, and there will almost definitely be a connection to organized crime. I got a great idea. Lets give everyone an account, so we know which account hacked our bank accounts.
We have hybrid cars that store extra energy in batteries. Eliminate the battery and the cost and weight goes down. Plus the battery isn't 100% efficient. I'm just thinking out of the box.
Once it's flying it's no longer a car. Once you strap wings on it's an airplane. Go buy a glider and ride those thermals. Just need a tow to get up there and then it runs on wind.
Maybe it's not the radiation from the cell phone, but maybe the fact that they talk more causes their mouth to dry out and the salivary glands to work too hard.
After a nuclear holocost the only thing left will be cockroaches, twinkies and SCO. If you chop off the heads of SCO lawyers they continue to live for a week. Just when you think they're dead those tiny little litigating arms start moving again.
I'm not saying those lights don't flicker, but I haven't really noticed. Why would brake lights flicker at 60Hz? They are not connected to the power grid AC which alternates at 60Hz. The car runs on DC. The the voltage from the alternator fluctuates a little bit, but shouldn't cause it to flicker. Maybe the flickering is intentional.
If someone came up to me with those silver suits and asked me to go inside a radioactive nuclear reactor I'm pretty sure I'd be laughing hysterically. They seriously don't give them silver space suits and tell them it will protect them from radiation do they? I thought that was just in the movies. I wonder how many of those guys plan to have children...
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The entire linux team was traveling to a conferance after releasing their final kernel. The pilot were recorded screaming "AHHHH BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH" Followed by an explosion of the right engine. The plane fell out of the sky moments later.
I'd assume the guy who would exploit such things would at least need to be able to set up his own DNS as well. Fair amount of knowledge is required. Lets use the term "exploit" because that is a term that is slightly easier to debate.
With the advent of uPnP type stuff for routers it is easy to write those scripts. Heck once you have access to those routers why not just install some customer firmware and give yourself a backdoor? You know openwrt runs on a lot of routers now a days.
How far from a hack is it really?
Now if they were writing a script to automatically find, mis-configure, and report any devices....that might be considered a notable hack. Mis-configured routers are less common than unconfigured routers. Most people buy them plug them in and assume they are safe. It's a shame.
Didn't say I changed anything I've got more ethics than that. Calm down bro and change your router password before someone who really has no ethics gets ya.;-)
What does "drive-by" have to do with this kind of hack? Oh sure we've all logged into neighbors wireless routers and snickered because they've left the default password. Somehow I think "drive-by" part was coined by a guy who thought of exploiting unsecured wireless routers and changing DNS settings. Am I the only one who doesn't think "drive-by" applies to this kind of attack?
You want to understand the linux boot process better the best way is to build yourself your own mini linux boot disk. All you really need is busybox(gnu tools), the c library and linux kernel. It doesn't do much, but it will help you learn how it works. It's a lot more interesting than reading that article.
The only way you are going to learn math is if you're not completely bored while learning it.
I think the best way to practice math is to find fun ways to exercise the analytical side of your brain. When I was young I grew up playing starcraft. Math was never a problem for me. Playing games like starcraft is probably not the best way for most people, but I'm sure there are good interactive learning tools that won't get you bored..
You could publish a public key and have all senders encrypt their e-mail. I've had to do this using PGP for some sensitive e-mail communication. You can still use gmail servers, but you'd either have to decrypt the e-mail yourself or use a program that does it for you automatically.
If you're worried about private information then encrypt it. As long as you're sending e-mail without encryption your data in unsafe. Too bad most websites don't have a checkbox that says "send me encrypted e-mails." That would be cool. Maybe in e-mail 2.0.
I think the only way you could get encrypted e-mails in widespread use is build encryption into the protocol layer.
I think our immune systems deal with much more now than they did a few thousand years ago. With all this international travel humans are exposed to a much larger variety of things.
I'm more concerned with antibacterial products creating super resistant bacteria.
I never take antibiotics and consider myself to have a strong immune system. I think antibiotics make your immune system lazy.
The software is LICENSED to you. You don't OWN it. You OWN the hardware. Without the licensed software you have an expensive paper weight, but when you start violating software license agreements your license can be terminated.
You have a license to use your car. If your license is terminated legally you can't drive. Now your car is a big hunk of metal since you can't go anywhere.
If your software license is terminated you can't use the software. Congratz you own an expensive paper weight, unless you can figure out how to run Linux on there.
It's not apples responsibility. I don't think this is good press for Apple.
I read the license agreement. Says you can't modify the software.
The government is not going to do anything about it while they are getting kick backs from the telcos. Thats not capitalism. Thats not a free market. Look back at the EPB case. The cable company sued the power company when they were going to install fibre. What did that hurt? The cable companies bottom line.
The hardware companies views the GPL as a way to sell more hardware. Unless you are selling the hardware you can't make money off GPLed code because the person making the hardware could easily undercut you.
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Censorship is good in one case only; To protect children. I personally think in that case it is protection.
For all other cases. If someone is going to do something dangerous with some information then its protection. Most countries are filtering because they are trying to control what ideas their citizens are exposed to. That is oppression.
We have hybrid cars that store extra energy in batteries. Eliminate the battery and the cost and weight goes down. Plus the battery isn't 100% efficient. I'm just thinking out of the box.
Once it's flying it's no longer a car. Once you strap wings on it's an airplane. Go buy a glider and ride those thermals. Just need a tow to get up there and then it runs on wind.
Both are valid spellings. Anyway completely Off topic.
Sometimes I wish I too was dyslectic. The things I miss out on.
Torture isn't a reliable means to obtain information. I know...I have a great idea... Lets make them crazy.
Maybe it's not the radiation from the cell phone, but maybe the fact that they talk more causes their mouth to dry out and the salivary glands to work too hard.
After a nuclear holocost the only thing left will be cockroaches, twinkies and SCO. If you chop off the heads of SCO lawyers they continue to live for a week. Just when you think they're dead those tiny little litigating arms start moving again.
I'm not saying those lights don't flicker, but I haven't really noticed.
Why would brake lights flicker at 60Hz? They are not connected to the power grid AC which alternates at 60Hz.
The car runs on DC. The the voltage from the alternator fluctuates a little bit, but shouldn't cause it to flicker.
Maybe the flickering is intentional.
If someone came up to me with those silver suits and asked me to go inside a radioactive nuclear reactor I'm pretty sure I'd be laughing hysterically. They seriously don't give them silver space suits and tell them it will protect them from radiation do they? I thought that was just in the movies. I wonder how many of those guys plan to have children...
Too much late night slashdotting.
*New builtin* The entire linux team was traveling to a conferance after releasing their final kernel. The pilot were recorded screaming "AHHHH BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH" Followed by an explosion of the right engine. The plane fell out of the sky moments later.
With the advent of uPnP type stuff for routers it is easy to write those scripts.
Heck once you have access to those routers why not just install some customer firmware and give yourself a backdoor?
You know openwrt runs on a lot of routers now a days.
How far from a hack is it really? Now if they were writing a script to automatically find, mis-configure, and report any devices....that might be considered a notable hack. Mis-configured routers are less common than unconfigured routers. Most people buy them plug them in and assume they are safe. It's a shame.
Didn't say I changed anything I've got more ethics than that. Calm down bro and change your router password before someone who really has no ethics gets ya. ;-)
What does "drive-by" have to do with this kind of hack? Oh sure we've all logged into neighbors wireless routers and snickered because they've left the default password. Somehow I think "drive-by" part was coined by a guy who thought of exploiting unsecured wireless routers and changing DNS settings. Am I the only one who doesn't think "drive-by" applies to this kind of attack?
You want to understand the linux boot process better the best way is to build yourself your own mini linux boot disk.
All you really need is busybox(gnu tools), the c library and linux kernel. It doesn't do much, but it will help you learn how it works.
It's a lot more interesting than reading that article.
The only way you are going to learn math is if you're not completely bored while learning it.
I think the best way to practice math is to find fun ways to exercise the analytical side of your brain.
When I was young I grew up playing starcraft. Math was never a problem for me.
Playing games like starcraft is probably not the best way for most people,
but I'm sure there are good interactive learning tools that won't get you bored..
I'm stuck using Exchange. :-(
I use evolution on Linux.
I hate the exchange web stuff. I use g-mail for person stuff.
Thunderbird is not something I've ever used and I'm not going to miss it.
Btw, Google does data mining across all products.
You could publish a public key and have all senders encrypt their e-mail. I've had to do this using PGP for some sensitive e-mail communication. You can still use gmail servers, but you'd either have to decrypt the e-mail yourself or use a program that does it for you automatically.
If you're worried about private information then encrypt it. As long as you're sending e-mail without encryption your data in unsafe. Too bad most websites don't have a checkbox that says "send me encrypted e-mails." That would be cool. Maybe in e-mail 2.0.
I think the only way you could get encrypted e-mails in widespread use is build encryption into the protocol layer.
I think our immune systems deal with much more now than they did a few thousand years ago. With all this international travel humans are exposed to a much larger variety of things.
I'm more concerned with antibacterial products creating super resistant bacteria.
I never take antibiotics and consider myself to have a strong immune system. I think antibiotics make your immune system lazy.
The software is LICENSED to you. You don't OWN it. You OWN the hardware. Without the licensed software you have an expensive paper weight, but when you start violating software license agreements your license can be terminated.
You have a license to use your car. If your license is terminated legally you can't drive. Now your car is a big hunk of metal since you can't go anywhere.
If your software license is terminated you can't use the software. Congratz you own an expensive paper weight, unless you can figure out how to run Linux on there.
It's not apples responsibility. I don't think this is good press for Apple.
I read the license agreement. Says you can't modify the software.
The government is not going to do anything about it while they are getting kick backs from the telcos. Thats not capitalism. Thats not a free market. Look back at the EPB case. The cable company sued the power company when they were going to install fibre. What did that hurt? The cable companies bottom line.
How does forcing communication companies to lease their lines at discount help you get fiber?
The hardware companies views the GPL as a way to sell more hardware. Unless you are selling the hardware you can't make money off GPLed code because the person making the hardware could easily undercut you.