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I'm just waiting for the first time that opting out is used as evidence in court that the subscriber is a pervert. That's why I have refused to express an opinion, and use a VPN to block their blocking anyway.
I'm just waiting for the first time that opting out is used as evidence in court that the subscriber is a pervert. That's why I have refused to express an opinion, and use a VPN to block their blocking anyway.
I hope this results in two things:
1. More people use a VPN to block ISP monitoring.
2. Someone sues over the accusation that they infringed copyright.
I think the "Iron Dome" people would respond to TFA thusly:
"Yes, but **the program** is effective. "Iron Dome" is our missile defense system, which is one part of our civil defense, which is an entire program of things to keep people safe...if you look at the program in its entirity it's a success"
So it's expensive security theatre.
Back in 2004 my girlfriend has 100/100 symmetrical fibre to her appartment. Truly unlimited, around $30/month. Verizon is still a few years away from where Japan was a decade ago.
What's "cozy" about that?
Did a judge authorize every release of data? I don't know, I'm asking. If they just handed it over when asked then that is a cozy relationship, if they demanded a warrant and gave the target notice and an opportunity to contest it then that's fair enough.
That is not happening in a household where the single parent works 3 jobs.
The way to fix that is after school clubs and activities. Then the parent just has to make the easy decision to keep their kid at school for a few more hours, and the school can give them a good meal and help with homework. It all needs extra staff and money of course, but it does work.
If teachers' unions ever agree to let teachers be paid based on how good they are - rather than just by seniority - you might actually see more attractive salaries for good teachers.
How do you determine how good they are? Grades? No-one will want to teach difficult classes or in poor areas. Level of improvement? No-one will want to teach in good areas where standards are already high.
So unless teachers refuse to pay at current wage rates en mass, the system isn't going to give them raises.
Nah, their jobs would just be outsourced. Put all the material online, and have teachers communicate via Skype from India.
Try convincing an MBA to give away the company's IP to an unlicenced, non-NDA open-source hippy collective.
There is another option now: buy a Cyanogen phone. The best one is the OnePlus One and is very hard to come by, but it will get easier.
Cyanogen only lags behind mainline Android by weeks or a few months at most, and more than makes up for that with all the extra features you get. It's incredibly customizable and has lots of privacy enhancing tools. I hope we start seeing a lot more phones shipping with it.
The reason is that the old hardware they use in these things only gets support from the manufacturer for older versions of Android. They provide something called a Board Support Package, or BSP, that is basically drivers for the hardware but is also tied to certain versions of the OS.
Cyanogenmod normally doesn't have a problem with this and just ports the drivers to newer versions, or finds newer drivers from other vendors that are compatible. Cheap shitty phones don't exactly have the best people working on them or much motivation to even try and not be shit, so your only real hope is that Cyanogen helps you out.
Software isn't free, even if it's open source. If you want quality you do, unfortunately, have to pay for it. Pay for it in money (a higher end Android phone like a Nexus 5) or in time (fixing it yourself, installing Cyanogen etc.)
Cheap phones carry more crapware precisely because they are cheap. They money they didn't make on the hardware is clawed back through the crapware.
Most games used the video vertical blank for synchronization, so ended up running too fast on NTSC displays. Rarely it created problems on faster CPUs but mostly an 060 Amiga will run games just fine.
At this point I'm thinking that the NSA or GCHQ asked them not to implement HTTPS. What other reason could there be for not taking the simple, low cost, minimal action required to enable it? Soylent News, which runs on the same code base, supports it.
It doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to increase the cost of mass surveillance to a level where it is no longer feasible. Surveillance is too cheap because much of the data is just there for collection, unprotected.
For example, the UK government just pass emergency data retention laws that require all ISPs to continue logging the domain names of every web site every subscriber visits. If more people started using VPNs regularly that capability would become far less useful, and while I'm sure they could attack the VPN providers or crypto or even the individual target's computers the cost would be much higher than simply requiring the ISP to run a large database. They would be forced to stop bulk collection and only target people of genuine interest, which is the reasonable.
The russians could only say "this is too secure, design something that can be broken more easily".
Like the NSA did with TrueCrypt?
The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh
