That's what I was thinking. If there are ANY laptops connected to SIPRNET they most likely have a wifi card. On most new smartphones (not sure about iPhones) you can setup a peer to peer wifi.
I could be sitting at one of the computers dumping gigs of data to the phone sitting in my pocket with no visible indication.
I'm pretty sure most people know there have been DDOS attacks on Visa and Mastercard. That might cause them to seek more information.
Granted if I go once and get a blank page I might not think twice about it, but if a site is down for more than a couple seconds I might email support or try a quick Google search to see if anything is going on.
I think most users have the technical capacity to search.
Actually democracy is where everyone is involved in everything all the time. What we have is a representative republic.
If killing innocent people and being a jerk are basically the same thing, then I guess they are terrorists. Hell, by that definition I'm a terrorist sometimes.
cyber-bomb? really? At least it's not a cyber-bunker buster so it can't get me here in my cyber-bunker. I think I should build some cyber tunnels so I can get away. I should probably stock up on cyber-MRE's and cyber-bullets for by cyber-rifle.
Re: Re: The Singularity must be stopped at all costs!!
Even with the documents wikileaks has released there is much redacted information. I have yet to see something come out of wikileaks that deserves government privacy. There may be some things, I certainly haven't read even most of what has been put out, but these releases weren't careless.
This is pretty close to my thoughts. What we are seeing isn't anything like a war, it's a transition to a more efficient system. Just like any transition there is significant disruption and alot of angry 'it's the end of the world' people who are used to the old way.
This transition from closed and central to open and distributed started decades ago with the birth of the internet. Most major companies are adopting (at varying rates) more decentralized and open management practices. It's spreading and growing because it is a better, more efficient, way of doing things. It's going to get really interesting when this breaks out of the private sector and starts getting into government. That will take a long time and we'll have to deal with alot of screaming and gnashing of teeth.
First, we're not talking about the names of 'OMG all r spies'.
Second if a reporter is able to get his hands on a list of all our spies I would assume that others also have that at which time the reporting of them becomes moot. I would hope the reporter would contact the necessary agency to alert them of the security breach.
Re: Who cares what the numbers are, except the creators of the content,
So let's see if I can follow your logic here.
We care that content is being created in sufficient amounts. That is the purpose of copyright law (so far I'm with you).
The entertainment industry will indicate to us if the protections are sufficient by the amount of content created. (sure sounds good)
So to follow that we should look at how much content is being created. Hmm... As the internet has become mainstream and the piracy 'problem' grown we have seen more content created that ever before.
Therefor I must conclude that the industry is perfectly fine with the current situation in terms of protections being offered and we should not attempt to spend more effort than we currently do in this realm. We should monitor the creative output of entertainment and if there is significant drops we may want to adjust laws or enforcement. We should also monitor situations in which creativity is stifled by copyright laws and in the face of that look to loosen protections.
"(basically "zero", which is obviously lower than reality)"
I don't think that is at all 'obviously lower than reality' unless you are only counting specific companies in the industry. The entertainment industry in general is a growing industry. They are making more money. It is quite possible that the net impact of piracy is zero, or maybe even a gain, but we don't know for sure.
However I don't care how much money these people are making. That is not the point of copyright. I care about the overall benefit to society and the access of society to it's cultural heritage. If (and that's a big if) we need special laws that grant special privileges to content creators in order for sufficient creative activity, those laws should be as minimal as possible. Copyright law today is a net loss to society and needs to be massively scaled back.
I'm pretty sure the AC was being satirical as fashion, cooking, and hairstyling are all industries that are not offered copyright protections and are massively creative.
"(Someone mentioned potential health problems. I know nothing about that-- have these things been thoroughly tested?)"
No they have not been tested. There have been some reports that the radiation type and level will increase risk for breast cancer in women and cause birth defects (by altering male seamen). Also the TSA personnel are not allowed to wear radiation badges, something that is required in all other situations in which you work with radioactive scans, so there is no data for how much exposure they get.
Ad video chat is one of their big selling points (although I don't think I'd have much use for it) I'd like to see how long you could video chat before hitting the cap.
I couldn't seem to find good numbers for bitrate of video chat.
You're mostly correct, although I think Firefox has outrun EI.
However this does not make it the purview of the government to jump in with a 'solution'. As much as I appreciate the Do Not Call list I still think it was at best a questionable stretch of government power.
Even with noscript+adblock you can still be reasonably tracked. The techniques used to do so are not generally in use as there is not a large enough percentage of the population using noscript+adblock.
Wow, you want to get the american public in an uproar? Take away amazon.com as we gear up for Christmas. That kind of backlash would be something not seen in decades.
torrent-finder (and other similar search sites) don't focus on the 'illicit part of the web'. They index all of the web that has a particular file type. If the makers of Harry Potter released a torrent it would show up on the site.
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I though
PIRACY == TERRORISM
Now you're telling me
PIRACY == !TERRORISM
I'm so confused.
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Re: Smartphones
I could be sitting at one of the computers dumping gigs of data to the phone sitting in my pocket with no visible indication.
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Re: The Difference
Granted if I go once and get a blank page I might not think twice about it, but if a site is down for more than a couple seconds I might email support or try a quick Google search to see if anything is going on.
I think most users have the technical capacity to search.
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If killing innocent people and being a jerk are basically the same thing, then I guess they are terrorists. Hell, by that definition I'm a terrorist sometimes.
cyber-bomb? really? At least it's not a cyber-bunker buster so it can't get me here in my cyber-bunker. I think I should build some cyber tunnels so I can get away. I should probably stock up on cyber-MRE's and cyber-bullets for by cyber-rifle.
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Re: Re: Re: The Singularity must be stopped at all costs!!
I think the only reasonable exception to that would be the names of people still in the field (you know the spy stuff).
As it is now we wait decades for most of this information, and some we'll never see.
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Re: Re: The Singularity must be stopped at all costs!!
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Re: old guard/new guard
This transition from closed and central to open and distributed started decades ago with the birth of the internet. Most major companies are adopting (at varying rates) more decentralized and open management practices. It's spreading and growing because it is a better, more efficient, way of doing things. It's going to get really interesting when this breaks out of the private sector and starts getting into government. That will take a long time and we'll have to deal with alot of screaming and gnashing of teeth.
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Re: Re:
Second if a reporter is able to get his hands on a list of all our spies I would assume that others also have that at which time the reporting of them becomes moot. I would hope the reporter would contact the necessary agency to alert them of the security breach.
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Re: Who cares what the numbers are, except the creators of the content,
We care that content is being created in sufficient amounts. That is the purpose of copyright law (so far I'm with you).
The entertainment industry will indicate to us if the protections are sufficient by the amount of content created. (sure sounds good)
So to follow that we should look at how much content is being created. Hmm... As the internet has become mainstream and the piracy 'problem' grown we have seen more content created that ever before.
Therefor I must conclude that the industry is perfectly fine with the current situation in terms of protections being offered and we should not attempt to spend more effort than we currently do in this realm. We should monitor the creative output of entertainment and if there is significant drops we may want to adjust laws or enforcement. We should also monitor situations in which creativity is stifled by copyright laws and in the face of that look to loosen protections.
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Re:
I don't think that is at all 'obviously lower than reality' unless you are only counting specific companies in the industry. The entertainment industry in general is a growing industry. They are making more money. It is quite possible that the net impact of piracy is zero, or maybe even a gain, but we don't know for sure.
However I don't care how much money these people are making. That is not the point of copyright. I care about the overall benefit to society and the access of society to it's cultural heritage. If (and that's a big if) we need special laws that grant special privileges to content creators in order for sufficient creative activity, those laws should be as minimal as possible. Copyright law today is a net loss to society and needs to be massively scaled back.
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Re: Re: Re: hysterical
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No they have not been tested. There have been some reports that the radiation type and level will increase risk for breast cancer in women and cause birth defects (by altering male seamen). Also the TSA personnel are not allowed to wear radiation badges, something that is required in all other situations in which you work with radioactive scans, so there is no data for how much exposure they get.
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Video Chat
I couldn't seem to find good numbers for bitrate of video chat.
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Re:
http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2010/05/13
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Re: Internet Explorer
However this does not make it the purview of the government to jump in with a 'solution'. As much as I appreciate the Do Not Call list I still think it was at best a questionable stretch of government power.
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Re: derp
But that doesn't make this proposal any better.
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Re: Re: Not physical goods
Additionally this is outside the jurisdiction of ICE.
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