Whilst this example is crass and boorish, in the USA, shouldn't you be able to name your Wi-Fi SSID anything you want and it be protected (as free speech) under the First Amendment ??
Are you just now realizing that some of our first amendment rights have eroded in the US?
First amendment hasn't meant "You can say whatever you want no matter what" for a long time. Do you think it would be OK for me to write "Death to all " on the side of my house, and expect not to have legal problems? How about painting "I am planning to kill Obama" on the side of your car and driving around? Expect to have problems? What about walking around with a sign that said "Ask me for instructions on manufacturing bio-terror weapons"?
Is setting your WiFi SSID to something considered "illegal speech" different than painting it on the side of your house?
I am AMAZED at the number of people saying "I don't say anything interesting anyway" or "I have nothing to hide".
Picture a scenario like this: You get a new cellphone. When you first set it up, it gives you this question, "Encrypt all your phone calls by default, or Allow us to listen to your phone calls". How many people would say, "I don't say anything interesting anyway, let them listen".
If when you were having your cable modem installed, the cable installer said, "Hey, do you mind if while I'm installing this cable modem, I also install a microphone, so we could listen to your conversations?" How many people would say "sure, I don't say anything of interest anyway".
I think that in these hyperbolic scenarios, most people would say, "Yeah, I actually want my privacy."
So, since we have had all the technology available for years, why isn't encrypted conversation by email the default yet? Why wouldn't people want that?
I figure it this way: You give these mice that growth of musculature, something's going to take a beating (probably lifespan), because the body's designed to only grow so much in that area, there must be a reason, a LONG TERM REASON, why.
I reject the notion that mice were "designed" or that a mouses body is the way it is due to any reasoning.
Something about the way they reached the $1 billion figure smells fishy to me...
Those people can't built computers without hard drives, so they are buying fewer processors. Not that hard to figure out
I agree that it seems fishy. To say "I was guessing I would make $14, but it turned out I only made $13" and then to make the leap to "therefore I lost $1" seems wrong. You didn't lose $1, you just guessed wrong. Then to go farther and say "I can say that the $1 I lost was all because of this reason." makes me want to ask how you could know this. To me it seems like a good case of "correlation is not causation."
Mammoths are dumb, If they are going to pick a species to bring back from extinction, they should pick something cooler, like a mermaid or a unicorn or something.
This wasn't a failure of "two-factor authentication" this was a failure of the bank to have actually require two factors. It seems that the bank was relying on one of the two factors to be a "something you have" factor, which was the client's mobile phone, when in reality it was just another "something you know" factor. The "something you know" being just the phone number itself.
Because spotify costs money (I either have to pay a monthly fee, or I have to buy a copy of windows or a mac or so). They say this is because they haven't figured out how to display ads on linux yet. Oh and you can't store music locally on linux. This doesn't doesn't sound like the type of software I'm psyched to pay for. Oh even though I might be paying for a "premium" account. It would be unsupported...
If it's anything like the movies, a search warrant allows police to search property by any means necessary
Actually, if it is anything like the movies, a quirky, slightly overweight, but cute computer genius that works for the feds will type 4 or 5 keystrokes, then the computer will flash lots of semi garbled text while emitting cute little beeps for 10 or so seconds until the encryption is broken.
Why can't the FSF learn and correct this huge mistake?
The people from the FSF who I have talked to about this issue took the (suprising to me) stance that they don't consider documentation to be software, and don't believe that documentation should necessarily be free.
what does child care have to do with it? I telecommute, but it doesn't affect how much I have to spend on child care. its not like you can do a job effectively while also caring for children.
Yes, there is a public list of all transactions. But it is transactions between bitcoin addresses. You don't have to make public that you are the owner of a bitcoin address. You can create new bitcoin addresses at will.
I don't believe that IBM made the claim that "headers are not copyrightable". I believe they made claims like "this specific set of files does not contain copyrightable information", which is much different than "headers are not copyrightable". Its not like copyright law has any exception for header files
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Are you just now realizing that some of our first amendment rights have eroded in the US?
First amendment hasn't meant "You can say whatever you want no matter what" for a long time. Do you think it would be OK for me to write "Death to all " on the side of my house, and expect not to have legal problems? How about painting "I am planning to kill Obama" on the side of your car and driving around? Expect to have problems? What about walking around with a sign that said "Ask me for instructions on manufacturing bio-terror weapons"?
Is setting your WiFi SSID to something considered "illegal speech" different than painting it on the side of your house?
Perhaps both, definitely a bug in win7. If something the unprivileged safari process does crashes the kernel, we know there must be a bug in win7.
I am AMAZED at the number of people saying "I don't say anything interesting anyway" or "I have nothing to hide".
Picture a scenario like this: You get a new cellphone. When you first set it up, it gives you this question, "Encrypt all your phone calls by default, or Allow us to listen to your phone calls". How many people would say, "I don't say anything interesting anyway, let them listen".
If when you were having your cable modem installed, the cable installer said, "Hey, do you mind if while I'm installing this cable modem, I also install a microphone, so we could listen to your conversations?" How many people would say "sure, I don't say anything of interest anyway".
I think that in these hyperbolic scenarios, most people would say, "Yeah, I actually want my privacy."
So, since we have had all the technology available for years, why isn't encrypted conversation by email the default yet? Why wouldn't people want that?
I reject the notion that mice were "designed" or that a mouses body is the way it is due to any reasoning.
A 4 digit ID and you can't make it to RTFA? :)
I agree that it seems fishy. To say "I was guessing I would make $14, but it turned out I only made $13" and then to make the leap to "therefore I lost $1" seems wrong. You didn't lose $1, you just guessed wrong. Then to go farther and say "I can say that the $1 I lost was all because of this reason." makes me want to ask how you could know this. To me it seems like a good case of "correlation is not causation."
Next they are going to tell me that online poker is gambling and hentai is pornography, and that "Daily Mail" is real news.
Mammoths are dumb, If they are going to pick a species to bring back from extinction, they should pick something cooler, like a mermaid or a unicorn or something.
I thought they were done in by humans hunting with clovis point spears. They should be fine now, nobody uses spears anymore.
what was the second factor then? Something you know and... ____ what?
This wasn't a failure of "two-factor authentication" this was a failure of the bank to have actually require two factors. It seems that the bank was relying on one of the two factors to be a "something you have" factor, which was the client's mobile phone, when in reality it was just another "something you know" factor. The "something you know" being just the phone number itself.
Because spotify costs money (I either have to pay a monthly fee, or I have to buy a copy of windows or a mac or so). They say this is because they haven't figured out how to display ads on linux yet. Oh and you can't store music locally on linux. This doesn't doesn't sound like the type of software I'm psyched to pay for. Oh even though I might be paying for a "premium" account. It would be unsupported...
Who else said, "wait, is that Ali G?"
Hipster martians were totally underground, which is why you've never heard of them before
The robot made doing pushups look as hard as I find them to do.
Maybe it would mean that their money would have more time to "trickle down"!
Actually, if it is anything like the movies, a quirky, slightly overweight, but cute computer genius that works for the feds will type 4 or 5 keystrokes, then the computer will flash lots of semi garbled text while emitting cute little beeps for 10 or so seconds until the encryption is broken.
The people from the FSF who I have talked to about this issue took the (suprising to me) stance that they don't consider documentation to be software, and don't believe that documentation should necessarily be free.
what does child care have to do with it? I telecommute, but it doesn't affect how much I have to spend on child care. its not like you can do a job effectively while also caring for children.
We better figure this one quick, seeing as how this is going to be the the year of the Linux desktop...
How do you know it is a one time pad?
Yes, there is a public list of all transactions. But it is transactions between bitcoin addresses. You don't have to make public that you are the owner of a bitcoin address. You can create new bitcoin addresses at will.
Yes, they do?
If we are transitioning to 5D, I'm going to wait a little longer before shelling out for a 3D television.
I don't believe that IBM made the claim that "headers are not copyrightable". I believe they made claims like "this specific set of files does not contain copyrightable information", which is much different than "headers are not copyrightable". Its not like copyright law has any exception for header files