recall the cynic's, i.e founding father's, observation that government seeks massive regulation and legislation precisely to have things to lord over people with.
Interesting if true, do you have a citation for that? I've never seen it and would be interested in reading it. I'm a readaholic and love learning.
It seems to me that when Microsoft's involved, "responsible disclosure" guidelines should be adjusted to immediate public release, as long as MS is feeding exploits to hackers before fixing them.
It seems to me that ALL vulnerabilities should be disclosed immediately. Vuln in FireFox? No problem, use IE or Opera. Vuln in PDF? Uninstall it until it's fixed or use a different reader or writer. It's not like there's only one OS, spreadsheet, browser, image editor, etc.
It seems to me that when a white hat finds a vuln there's probably a 50% chance a black hat found it first, but he's not going to disclose it at all, he'll keep it under his hat and use the hell out of it until a white hat discloses it.
Fuck the company that wrote the software, tell ME, the user, so I can stop using the vulnerable software until it's fixed.
Your cell number isn't in the phone book, which is where survey outfits get the phone numbers.
I've maintained that what IQ tests measure how good you are at taking IQ tests, but what other measure could you go by? At any rate, regardless of how you measure intelligence, probably (although not necessarily) half the population will be below average, with most being at or close to the median.
At any rate, there are an awful lot of stupid people out there.
People are going to compose documents, spreadsheets, etc. on a tablet??
Maybe I need more coffee, can someone explain why anyone would want this?
This is actually a few years old but I've never posted it on the internet, but I did drunkenly sing it at a karaoke bar. One woman was laughing so hard she literally fell out of her chair, although I didn't think it was THAT funny. When I got off the stage I told the bartender "I want whatever she's having!"
I heard this song on the radio this morning and I said to myself, "those geezers are even older than me!" So I changed a few words...
The recent Pew poll indicating a majority of Americans are okay with warrantless data aggregation is merely a sign of the times to come.
Not a majority of Americans, a majority of Americans who have landlines. Who still has a landline these days? The only ones I know are in their eighties. A telephone poll is hardly a representative sample of the American people.
Professors too have the right to be scaremongered into an unrealistic fear of terrorism.
Occam says they're better at math than that. However, they can be bought or threatened easily enough.
Too many Americans are too fucking stupid to give enough of a shit for these revelations to cause real change.
You have to remember, half the population have two digit IQs. And I haven't spoken to a single person IRL who isn't disgusted by what the NSA is doing. The only apologists I've seen are politicians, a few columnists, and anonymous people on the internet.
That said, there isn't a whole hell of a lot we can do but speak out loudly, especially to our elected "representatives".
He gave up a $200k job, a beautiful, talented girlfriend and all his possessions with nothing in return. The secrets he's revealing should never have been secret in the first place and brought government crimes against the constitution to light. The "putting lives in danger" is a baldfaced lie only a moron would believe.
As to freedom, what freedoms do we have that other civilized nations don't?
The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh
