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Comment Grownups too (Score 1) 1

by u64 (#43516931) Attached to: Toddlers becoming so addicted to iPads they require therapy

Take away the Pads and Phones from adults and many of them will start to cry too. (Especially the Apple-religious persons).

Humans *likes* bright surfaces. Try it yourself, start a TV and try to focus on something near the screen. It's very hard. The screen keeps flickering and constantly begs for attention. Step one for sucking us in.

Comment Collective punishment (Score 1) 2

by u64 (#43512295) Attached to: Japanese Police Urge ISPs to Block Tor

So punish everyone that's using Tor. Great.

Also, some person used a knife to commit a crime. Obviously there will be a ban on all knives.
Also, some person ran over someone with a car. Obviously there will be a ban on all cars.
Also, some person drowned another person. Obviously there will be a ban on water.

Submission + - Japanese Police Urge ISPs to Block Tor (paritynews.com) 2

Submitted by hypnosec
hypnosec writes: Authorities in Japan are presumably worried about their inability to tackle cybercrime and, in a bid to stem one of the sources of anonymous traffic, the National Police Agency (NPA) is asking ISPs to block Tor. The recommendation comes from the special panel formed by the NPA after a hacker going by the name Demon Killer was found to regularly used Tor to anonymize his online activities like posting of death threats of public message boards.

Submission + - Secret Chat between Julian Assange and Eric Schmidt published by Wikileaks (wikileaks.org)

Submitted by milkasing
milkasing writes: Via The verge (http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/19/4241486/eric-schmidt-and-julian-assange-conversation-published-on-wikileaks)

Google chairman Eric Schmidt and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange secretly met in 2011 and held a lengthy interview, according to a transcript published on the whistleblowing site. The leak is surprisingly timely — Schmidt was apparently conducting research with Jared Cohen for the pair's book The New Digital Age, which is set to be released on Tuesday. Assange was under house arrest in England at the time the five-hour conversation took place. The conversation is a fascinating look into the minds of the two men, both of whom have had immeasurable impact on issues surrounding technology over recent years.

Submission + - YouTube wins again 3

Submitted by NewYorkCountryLawyer
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: Once again YouTube has defeated Viacom and other members of the content cartel; once again the Court has held that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act actually does mean what it says. YouTube had won the case earlier, at the district court level, but the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, although ruling in YouTube's favor on all of the general principles at stake, felt that there were several factual issues involving some of the videos and remanded to the lower court for a cleanup of those loose ends. Now, the lower court — Judge Louis L. Stanton to be exact — has resolved all of the remaining issues in YouTube's favor, in a 24-page opinion. Among other things Judge Stanton concluded that YouTube had not had knowledge or awareness of any specific infringement, been 'willfully blind' to any specific infringement, induced its users to commit copyright infringement, interacted with its users to a point where it might be said to have participated in their infringements, or manually selected or delivered videos to its syndication partners. Nevertheless, 5 will get you 10 that the content maximalists will appeal once again.

Comment My JAVA security fix (Score 1) 1

by u64 (#43471565) Attached to: Oracle Fixes 42 Security Vulnerabilities in Java

1. I Uninstall JAVA wherever possible.
2. I make best efforts to create blocks against people installing JAVA on their machines by mistake.

But some banks requires JAVA in the browser. So i'm thinking of getting a separate portable browser for
just the JAVA plugin. And harden the browser to only allow visiting the bank site...

Maybe there's an addon for that. To only run JAVA plugin on a few whitelisted sites...

Submission + - Magic trick transforms conservatives into liberals - and vice versa (nature.com)

Submitted by ananyo
ananyo writes: When US presidential candidate Mitt Romney said last year that he was not even going to try to reach 47% of the US electorate, and that he would focus on the 5–10% thought to be floating voters, he was articulating a commonly held opinion: that most voters are locked in to their ideological party loyalty. But Lars Hall, a cognitive scientist at Lund University in Sweden, knew better. When Hall and his colleagues tested the rigidity of people’s political attitudes and voting intentions during Sweden’s 2010 general election, they discovered that loyalty was malleable: nearly half of all voters were open to changing their minds.
Hall’s group polled 162 voters during the final weeks of the election campaign, asking them which of two opposing political coalitions — conservative or social democrat/green — they intended to vote for. The researchers also asked voters to rate where they stood on 12 key political issues, including tax rates and nuclear power. The person conducting the experiment secretly filled in an identical survey with the reverse of the voter's answers, and used sleight-of-hand to exchange the answer sheets, placing the voter in the opposite political camp. The researcher invited the voter to give reasons for their manipulated opinions, then summarized their score to give a probable political affiliation and asked again who they intended to vote for. On the basis of the manipulated score, 10% of the subjects switched their voting intentions, from right to left wing or vice versa. Another 19% changed from firm support of their preferred coalition to undecided. A further 18% had been undecided before the survey, indicating that as many as 47% of the electorate were open to changing their minds, in sharp contrast to the 10% of voters identified as undecided in Swedish polls at the time (research paper). Hall has used a similar sleight of hand before to show that our moral compass can often be easily reversed.

Comment Re:Well the ultimate value of Bitcoin is (Score 2) 605

by u64 (#43419449) Attached to: BitCoin Value Collapses, Possibly Due To DDoS

All currencies have a subjective value for each individual at each point in time. Unlike an objective value as say, 1 meter, or 1 gram.

When i'm willing to trade 1 BTC for 1 USD or 1 g Gold that's my choice, and if anyone else agrees during that time we can trade.

I'm having a zen-like moment where i'm thinking as a ferengi and a hippie at the same time... Money is a game that we're all forced to play, and naturally there are many that looses. Then comes the problem that the rich can rig the game so that they win no matter how stupid they are.

Comment Low hanging fruits (Score 1) 2

by u64 (#43402701) Attached to: Bruce Schneier: IT for Oppression

The clueless masses uses the default settings and the default installed software. Several things can be improved right now,

  • Does Linux and BSD distros come with TorBrowser installed by default...
  • Does the Free browsers use DuckDuckGo or StartPage.com by default...
  • Does the Free browsers have HTTPS-Everywhere by default...

Submission + - Bruce Schneier: IT for Oppression (schneier.com) 2

Submitted by jrepin
jrepin writes: Whether it's Syria using Facebook to help identify and arrest dissidents or China using its "Great Firewall" to limit access to international news throughout the country, repressive regimes all over the world are using the Internet to more efficiently implement surveillance, censorship, propaganda, and control. They're getting really good at it, and the IT industry is helping. We're helping by creating business applications — categories of applications, really — that are being repurposed by oppressive governments for their own use.

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