Comment You call it a flaw, the NSA calls it a feature (Score 1) 57
Based on what my family knows from the intel agencies we worked in, it's a feature.
What, you thought you lived in a Free Society, with Rights?
Based on what my family knows from the intel agencies we worked in, it's a feature.
What, you thought you lived in a Free Society, with Rights?
There are real privacy laws in America.
Just ask Canada. It's a Right in the Canadian Constitution.
Heck, even Mexico has more privacy rights than the US does.
You don't need your TV to monitor your conversation so that you get even less exercise than pressing a button.
You don't need a smartphone if all you do is listen to music and get bus times and stock quotes and news briefs.
Embrace Dumbness. Reject Smart Technology.
Besides, we're already recording you and using your cell and phone and Net providers to track you. Don't help us even more.
This includes answering those stupid FB polls that just let us collect more data on you.
Rip FB out of your phone.
One year vaper, previously 20 year smoker. I've had the medical labs done to show how much damage was undone in just one year.
At 41, I can run farther and faster, keep up with young folk better than most of my non-smoker friends of the same age. 3 years ago this was not the case.
lol say that to the people who bought a home in toronto or vancover in the past 15 years. quadruple their investment
try Alberta
the Vancouver bubble is mostly due to people preparing to flee from China, or move assets out for the next inevitable crackdown.
Homes are a subsidized tax break for the top 10 percent of our society, paid for by the renter class and those who pay taxes (usually the bottom 95 percent).
They do limit your moving options, since your cost out is higher than cost in for the first 2-3 years, or 10 years if you buy high and sell low (approx 7 year cycle) like most people do.
That said, for most people aren't in the bottom 10 percent, they make sense. Until they seize the house on a made up pretext.
Sigh.
Look, if you do win, you'll burn through it very fast and end up no better, and with fewer friends and upset relatives than if you didn't bother at all.
That's what happens.
Raffles on the other hand, since they return 100-400 percent of the expected value, tend to do a lot better.
(caveat - I have won raffles, lotteries, and many forms of gambling myself, but that has nothing to do with your odds)
They'll enable them next year.
Fairly easy to do that already, though. Problem is people try to take the whole bottle in one unit, which shows up as a vacuum area on the scans. If you switch to flat or tubular bladders, you can use shoes or purse handles or briefcase handles or backpack parts to move the same amount of liquid.
You're thinking of the single stage versions that go from the surface to earth orbit. Multi-stage (platform) is currently possible, and viable for lunar at the moment, and we're almost at the point where we could do a Mars version. Depends on how you lift and the speed and wind profiles. Switch to a balloon method - hydrogen gets you high enough that the air resistance drops so that you can go higher.
You confuse "difficult" "non-elegant" engineering problems with "impossible" problems. It's not impossible. Just not elegant or simple.
The first part of the lift cycle uses the most energy, after all.
Depends on the feed protocols. Would be far easier to change the text and color displays, and have the headset send back an "override: incorrect identification" message back to the system. This "clears" the subject long enough for them to proceed and confuses, due to high levels of mismatch. Any system without such overrides would be non-functional, due to real world constraints.
Basic application of social engineering - find the most common override that shuts or delays the security and use that. Don't upgrade from BAD GUY to VIP, upgrade from BAD GUY to NORMAL or from NORMAL to VIP. Play the numbers.
(caveat: none of this will impact real world risks, which are already set up for failure)
Not that hard either, just use the NSA backdoors in the protocol and hijack the streams
Then their GGs would show a nice little old lady going thru security instead of the actual person.
Or maybe show they have credentials for pass thru.
For every solution, their is a workaround.
Doubt it, without massive governmental subsidies or cloaked subsidies.
It's all a choice. You can run monofilament cables to orbital satellites, but we don't, due to perceived and actual risks.
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