Back in the day of big computers, punched cards and line printers with green and white striped paper, people gradually treated anything printed on computer green-white striped paper as gospel truth. Input data might be bad. Program analyzing it might be bad. But if something comes out on the line printer, then it must be true! I read it on them intarweb tubes, so it MUST be true! Critical thinking goes out the window with the bathwater.
Your DNA was found at location X, so you MUST have been there! DNA doesn't lie! You can't argue with that. No possible way could your DNA be somewhere unless you were there. Guilty. Next case. Hear ye, hear ye, the automated superior court of the people is now in session.
Another risk is: GATTACA (read synopsis of the movie) It may seem like it couldn't happen. But the incentives are there for it to happen. Gradually. Slowly. With various qualifiers and safeguards -- at first.
Another risk is that some very subtle eugenics programs could start but with nice euphemistic names. (like "patriot act", or "big brother")
(apologies to School House Rock) This is probably copyright infringement with damages in the TRILLIONS if not Quadrillions of dollars.
I'm an amendment to be.
An amendment to be.
And I hope that they ratify me.
It seems we've got some left liberals
Who have got too much freeedom
And I want to make it legal
For policemen to beat 'em!
'cause there's limits to our liberty!
Oh I hope and I pray that there are
'cause these liberal freaks go to far!
I want to express my thanks that in the very first sentence is an acknowledgement that there actually exist people who are not sports fans nor have any clue what Deadspin is. -- Thanks!
I not only am not a sports fan, I see sports as a colossal waste of resources that could be used to develop better silicon and/or more sophisticated compilers.
Alex and Bob. The original, generic characters. Generally, Alice and Bob want to exchange a message or cryptographic key.
Carlos or Charlie. A generic third participant.
Carol. A third participant, usually of malicious intent.[11]
Cindy. A password cracker, often encountered in situations with stored passwords.
Dan, Dave or David. A generic fourth participant.
Eve. An eavesdropper, who is usually a passive attacker. While they can listen in on messages between Alice and Bob, they cannot modify them. In quantum cryptography, Eve may also represent the environment[clarification needed].
Faythe. A trusted advisor, courier or intermediary. Faythe is used infrequently, and is associated with Faith and Faithfulness. Faythe may be a repository of key service or courier of shared secrets.[citation needed]
Grace. A government representative. For example, Grace may try to force Alice or Bob to implement backdoors in their protocols. May also deliberately weaken standards.[citation needed]
Heidi. A mischievous designer for cryptographic standards, but rarely used.[12]
Judy. A judge who may be called upon to resolve a potential dispute between participants.
Melony. A malicious attacker. Associated with Trudy, an intruder. Unlike the passive Eve, Melony is an active attacker (often used in monkey-in-the-middle attacks), who can modify messages, substitute messages, or replay old messages. The difficulty of securing a system against Melony is much greater than against Eve.
Oscar. An opponent, similar to Mallory, but not necessarily malicious.
Pat. A prover, who interacts with the system to show that the intended transaction has actually taken place. Pat is often found in zero-knowledge proofs. Similar to Victor.
Rupert. A repudiator who appears for interactions that desire Non-repudiation.
Sybil. A pseudonymous attacker, who usually uses a large number of identities. For example, Sybil may attempt to subvert a reputation system. See Sybil attack.
Trent. A trusted arbitrator, who acts as a neutral third party.
Big Brother is merely wanting to serve the warrant upon the wrong party. Some unrelated third party in between the two parties doing the actual communicating.
The earliest forms of ciphers were to keep messages private . . . for safety of the sender and receiver of the messages. Alex and Bob want to exchange messages privately, keeping Eve from reading them.
From those earliest primitive ciphers, there are various advances in how to encrypt messages to keep them private, and thus safe, between the sender and receiver. As Eve gets more clever and cunning, Alex and Bob must improve their cipher technology to remain safe.
Everything about cipher technology is now published openly in textbooks. Would the US stop someone from exiting or entering the country with a widely published academic technical textbook under their arm? Let's burn the books!
Complying with law is proof of trying to evade the consequences!
This is being framed by some as Google trying to "bypass" the EU Copyright Directive, but that's nonsense. This is Google complying with the EU Copyright Directive.
Police: You are being arrested for jaywalking.
Pedestrian: But officer, I was crossing in the crosswalk.
Police: Yes, you were. And that is proof that you were trying to work around the new jaywalking law that was just passed, which requires people to cross only in crosswalks.
Pedestrian: Were you aware that there is a new donut shop only half a block to the west?
Sprint will need to look quite contrite. Keep snickering to a minimum. And apologize.
Sprint is deeply sorry that it got caught doing this. Sprint promises that going forward Sprint will not be caught doing anything like this ever again.
Sprint would like to apologize especially to any individuals within Sprint who suffered personal embarrassment due to their participation in these crimes.
To all of those who were harmed by Sprint's thoughtless, selfish, and criminal actions, Sprint would like to offer its sincerest indifference.
They haven't even fully realized their evil genius plan yet.
The next step is that each new streaming service will require it's own HDMI stick / device to be plugged into your TV.
Before long TVs will come with 32, then later 64 HDMI ports on the back. But 64 "channels" won't be enough, so they'll have 128 HDMI ports.
Of course, each HDMI device plugged into a port, probably also needs either a USB port or wall-wart power supply. (how many power strips is that?)
Next will come various gadgets and accessories to manage the nightmare of cables.
Oh, and each device for each streaming service, will, naturally, require its own remote!
I would reveal the ultimate plan of making you have a separate TV for each streaming service. But you didn't hear that from me. They don't think you're ready to accept that yet. Not supposed to talk about that. You didn't hear that. Nope. Nosiree.
Merger Mania could be a result of perverse incentives.
Imagine if the people who would gain significant self enrichment from a merger are the very ones that can cause the merger to happen. What would you expect to happen? Even if the merger is in the interest of nobody else.
Another example of a possible perverse incentive situation. I suspect Google internally incentivizes creating new products over maintaining and servicing existing products. Hence, we see existing well working products discontinued to be replaced by different products that don't do quite the same thing, but have different overlapping groups of functionality.
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Intentional Unintended Consequences
Back in the day of big computers, punched cards and line printers with green and white striped paper, people gradually treated anything printed on computer green-white striped paper as gospel truth. Input data might be bad. Program analyzing it might be bad. But if something comes out on the line printer, then it must be true! I read it on them intarweb tubes, so it MUST be true! Critical thinking goes out the window with the bathwater.
Your DNA was found at location X, so you MUST have been there! DNA doesn't lie! You can't argue with that. No possible way could your DNA be somewhere unless you were there. Guilty. Next case. Hear ye, hear ye, the automated superior court of the people is now in session.
Another risk is: GATTACA (read synopsis of the movie) It may seem like it couldn't happen. But the incentives are there for it to happen. Gradually. Slowly. With various qualifiers and safeguards -- at first.
Another risk is that some very subtle eugenics programs could start but with nice euphemistic names. (like "patriot act", or "big brother")
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Too Much Free Speech
(apologies to School House Rock)
This is probably copyright infringement with damages in the TRILLIONS if not Quadrillions of dollars.
I'm an amendment to be.
An amendment to be.
And I hope that they ratify me.
It seems we've got some left liberals
Who have got too much freeedom
And I want to make it legal
For policemen to beat 'em!
'cause there's limits to our liberty!
Oh I hope and I pray that there are
'cause these liberal freaks go to far!
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A Thank You to Timothy
I want to express my thanks that in the very first sentence is an acknowledgement that there actually exist people who are not sports fans nor have any clue what Deadspin is. -- Thanks!
I not only am not a sports fan, I see sports as a colossal waste of resources that could be used to develop better silicon and/or more sophisticated compilers.
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Which Impossible Dream will last the longest?
I am betting that number 3 will outlast the other two. Because it is the most impossible.
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It should work both ways
Citizens should be able to lie to get out of whatever they just got pulled over for. (if they can't record)
Seems fair.
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Re: Re: Privacy is part of Safety
Alex and Bob. The original, generic characters. Generally, Alice and Bob want to exchange a message or cryptographic key.
Carlos or Charlie. A generic third participant.
Carol. A third participant, usually of malicious intent.[11]
Cindy. A password cracker, often encountered in situations with stored passwords.
Dan, Dave or David. A generic fourth participant.
Eve. An eavesdropper, who is usually a passive attacker. While they can listen in on messages between Alice and Bob, they cannot modify them. In quantum cryptography, Eve may also represent the environment[clarification needed].
Faythe. A trusted advisor, courier or intermediary. Faythe is used infrequently, and is associated with Faith and Faithfulness. Faythe may be a repository of key service or courier of shared secrets.[citation needed]
Grace. A government representative. For example, Grace may try to force Alice or Bob to implement backdoors in their protocols. May also deliberately weaken standards.[citation needed]
Heidi. A mischievous designer for cryptographic standards, but rarely used.[12]
Judy. A judge who may be called upon to resolve a potential dispute between participants.
Melony. A malicious attacker. Associated with Trudy, an intruder. Unlike the passive Eve, Melony is an active attacker (often used in monkey-in-the-middle attacks), who can modify messages, substitute messages, or replay old messages. The difficulty of securing a system against Melony is much greater than against Eve.
Oscar. An opponent, similar to Mallory, but not necessarily malicious.
Pat. A prover, who interacts with the system to show that the intended transaction has actually taken place. Pat is often found in zero-knowledge proofs. Similar to Victor.
Rupert. A repudiator who appears for interactions that desire Non-repudiation.
Sybil. A pseudonymous attacker, who usually uses a large number of identities. For example, Sybil may attempt to subvert a reputation system. See Sybil attack.
Trent. A trusted arbitrator, who acts as a neutral third party.
Trudy. An intruder.
Victor. A verifier, similar to Peggy or Pat.
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Re: Lawful access?
"Warrant Proof" -- no such thing.
Big Brother is merely wanting to serve the warrant upon the wrong party. Some unrelated third party in between the two parties doing the actual communicating.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Privacy is part of Safety
I suppose Adam and Bob wold work.
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Re: Re: Privacy is part of Safety
Then why is Trent, the trusted third party, such as for example a certificate authority, a male name?
:-) Don't take it too seriously.
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Re: The Entire NSA is violating the law why should we trust more
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Privacy is part of Safety
The earliest forms of ciphers were to keep messages private . . . for safety of the sender and receiver of the messages. Alex and Bob want to exchange messages privately, keeping Eve from reading them.
From those earliest primitive ciphers, there are various advances in how to encrypt messages to keep them private, and thus safe, between the sender and receiver. As Eve gets more clever and cunning, Alex and Bob must improve their cipher technology to remain safe.
Everything about cipher technology is now published openly in textbooks. Would the US stop someone from exiting or entering the country with a widely published academic technical textbook under their arm? Let's burn the books!
On the post: Just As Everyone Predicted: EU Copyright Directive's Link Tax Won't Lead To Google Paying Publishers
Complying with law is proof of trying to evade the consequences!
Police: You are being arrested for jaywalking.
Pedestrian: But officer, I was crossing in the crosswalk.
Police: Yes, you were. And that is proof that you were trying to work around the new jaywalking law that was just passed, which requires people to cross only in crosswalks.
Pedestrian: Were you aware that there is a new donut shop only half a block to the west?
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A slap on the wrist
Sprint will need to look quite contrite. Keep snickering to a minimum. And apologize.
Sprint is deeply sorry that it got caught doing this. Sprint promises that going forward Sprint will not be caught doing anything like this ever again.
Sprint would like to apologize especially to any individuals within Sprint who suffered personal embarrassment due to their participation in these crimes.
To all of those who were harmed by Sprint's thoughtless, selfish, and criminal actions, Sprint would like to offer its sincerest indifference.
On the post: Phew: EU Court Of Justice Says Right To Be Forgotten Is Not A Global Censorship Tool (Just An EU One)
I predict
This will turn Right To Be Forgotten requests into Streisand Effect requests.
On the post: 'Subscription Fatigue' Looms As Comcast Reveals Yet Another New Streaming TV Platform
Subscription Fatigue?
They haven't even fully realized their evil genius plan yet.
The next step is that each new streaming service will require it's own HDMI stick / device to be plugged into your TV.
Before long TVs will come with 32, then later 64 HDMI ports on the back. But 64 "channels" won't be enough, so they'll have 128 HDMI ports.
Of course, each HDMI device plugged into a port, probably also needs either a USB port or wall-wart power supply. (how many power strips is that?)
Next will come various gadgets and accessories to manage the nightmare of cables.
Oh, and each device for each streaming service, will, naturally, require its own remote!
I would reveal the ultimate plan of making you have a separate TV for each streaming service. But you didn't hear that from me. They don't think you're ready to accept that yet. Not supposed to talk about that. You didn't hear that. Nope. Nosiree.
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I hope
I hope SpaceX doesn't screw it up by offering Cable TV content along with internet service.
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Re: Re: Unanswered Question
A successful business model would be to issue the refunds. Then resume the regular billings unless anyone notices.
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Unanswered Question
I have a question which the article fails to address.
Does Movie Pass intend to stop billing their former customers?
Thanks.
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Perverse Incentives
Merger Mania could be a result of perverse incentives.
Imagine if the people who would gain significant self enrichment from a merger are the very ones that can cause the merger to happen. What would you expect to happen? Even if the merger is in the interest of nobody else.
Another example of a possible perverse incentive situation. I suspect Google internally incentivizes creating new products over maintaining and servicing existing products. Hence, we see existing well working products discontinued to be replaced by different products that don't do quite the same thing, but have different overlapping groups of functionality.
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There can be only one
AT&T could form AT&T-Mobile.
Then merge with: ABCNNBCBS
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