Comment Re:MUTANTS AMONG US! (Score 2) 125
Although their powers are not very impressive.
You mean our powers to change color after exposure to the sun for long periods? Ok well we aren't chameleons but you have to start somewhere.
Although their powers are not very impressive.
You mean our powers to change color after exposure to the sun for long periods? Ok well we aren't chameleons but you have to start somewhere.
There is a lot of peer pressure in school, and this drives people into classes they wouldn't necessarily choose otherwise... School is actually a pretty poor environment for learning anything because of this, kids who work hard get shunned by their peers, smart kids get shunned by their peers, kids who dare to choose a subject thats not seen as appropriate for their gender get shunned.
That's a problem only for certain cultures and why peer group is so important during childhood.
You decided to start WW I and WW II
How did some white kid working in a coal mine in Wales 'decide' to start WW 2?
He didn't overthrow Churchill, who as it happens was actually an angry drunken war mongering white man.
... the rich and powerful elite behind todays governments and therefore also the secret services will learn hopefully soon enough, that their wealth and power is worth nothing, absolutely nothing if you face a large turnaround in society regarding civil rights and privacy rights. Good luck.
You seem to be under the impression the same laws apply to the rich elites as apply to the working class.
A solution to this was invented centuries ago. Seal the packages of network hardware with tamper-proof seals (something involving smart cards that the NSA can't duplicate) from the manufacture. Make it impossible for the NSA to open the package without making the customer aware the package was opened in transit. If a package was opened in transit, return to sender and Cisco engineers can figure out how the NSA is implanting bugs.
How would a NSL oblige you to make changes to software?
Step 1: NSA goes to judge who is both friendly to them and completely ignorant of technology
Step 2: Request warrant for all truecrypt containers everywhere
Step 3: Tell Truecrypt developers that if they don't insert a backdoor then they're interfering with the warrant, they can't challenge it without revealing who they are
If you had used JerrysSSLMadeInMyBasementAsACollegeProject, and it was found vulnerable, and you leaked personal information, a court would likely find you negligent. Of consideration would be an analysis of the product on the face: if it looks like a Geocities site done in FrontPage and says "I made this SSL implementation as a college project", you are negligent. If it boasts tons of security research and explanations on why this is much more secure and reliable and resistant to attack and programming bugs than other SSL libraries, you could be found not-negligent.
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I wonder what the liability issues are for using an antivirus package made by a company founded by a man best known for sneaking into the US using a series of elaborate disguises to avoid prosecution for the murder of his neighbor and then making a video about how to remove said software in which he reveals some of his more colorful vices.
When faced with plausible deniability, replace the rubber hose with bamboo and scourge.
Don't be silly, the US government would never torture someone for their password. They would waterboard them during an enhanced interrogation. They would never use torture.
Yeah, the jobs disappear.
That's how you eliminate poverty. No low-paying jobs, no reserve army of labor willing to work those low-paying jobs means everyone is working a better paying job.
If the menial low-paying jobs disappear but so do the people willing to work them doesn't that mean that society is better off?
For an even stranger theory, what if the NSA made TrueCrypt under COMSEC and now that SIGINT has been prioritized over COMSEC the people who made it decided that terminating and discrediting the project would be more effective than inserting a back door in the middle of an audit?
Probably better they give people a chance to migrate off of it before they release the major exploit that was found to the public.
The Swiss love their robot mowers even though they only need them 6 months a year
Incredible what happens when you don't have easy access to a limitless amount of cheap labor.
Then just give them more. There's a lethal dose of heroin for everyone.
With the possible exception of Keith Richards.
Slugs apprently frequent this thing (hard to call it a running wheel when's a slug).
I wish there was a video of this I could speed up 20x, loop, and add music to.
"When the going gets tough, the tough get empirical." -- Jon Carroll
