I can not say that I find the use of such terminology offensive. But when it, and its ilk, is used as verb, noun, adverb, adjective, punctuation, and every other role of words in the language, I do find it rather boring.
Then it is necessary to remove all books on mathematics from the library. The practice of math leads to cryptography.
Many innocent bystanders are killed by police. Their batons and guns must be taken away.
Many innocent people are improperly arrested and charged by the police. Their ability to arrest and charge must be reduced to finger wagging at possible criminals.
Health and safety inspectors sometimes become corrupt. That entire set of occupations must be eliminated.
There is an endless set of behaviors and actions that the authorities can declare as potentially dangerous.
The Wall Street whiners ignore the fact that the enduser pays for bandwidth, and Netflix pays for bandwidth. How many times should the bandwidth be paid for?
HIPPA was never meant to provide privacy for patient data, but rather the illusion of privacy. It creates a significant hassle for those who have a reasonable right and need to access patient information, while leaving the door wide open for just about any LEO to gain full access. Sometimes directly, sometimes indirectly.
What is worse, is that in almost all cases, physicians and patients never know about it.
The highest price for a Taxi Medallion in NYC was ~ $1M. The most recent sale was $750K. It is damn near impossible to imagine that the "right" to ferry people around is worth that much.
Uber is realistic competition to the politically powerful taxi companies. And the media will be paid in dollars, or favors for thei support. Perhaps it is just fear of retribution that causes these "poor, poor" taxi cab company stories.
But what kind of margin does a cab make that a medallion goes for such incredible sums of money?
There are massive class differences and inequality that are evil. That are intensely destructive of not just the poor, but society as a whole. But this is not a significant issue.
So people who spend their day behind a desk can wear a watch that reminds them to exercise. Meanwhile the poor are either out excercising on a basketball court, or running for their lives from cops who would like nothing more than to shoot them in the back, or beat the gut contents out of them.
There is more meaningful technology available today than ever before. The net is the largest library ever available to humankind. The greatest treasure is knowledge, not another phone with a capability that few will ever use.
Further, technology, like shit, rolls downhill. Early models are expensive, but prices drop not just rapidly, but radically. And after all, how many people are truly happier with an 8 core computer rather than a 4 core? How many even know the difference, except that the number 8 was on the box?
A decent education, a proper diet, medical care, fair treatment in the courts (and on the streets), opportunity, and other issues are of real significance -- not the latest piece of techno-bling.
I hope that I missed the /s on "It was legal and it worked."
Do you really believe that law enforcement adheres to the law? Or tells the truth?
It was legal at the time? DOJ and FBI guidelines do not supercede the Constitution. SCOTUS ruled that law enforcement was permitted to lie under certain, limited circumstances. That does not mean that LEOs can lawfully lie to anyone and everyone (including SCOTUS) about everything.
That they get away with it merely demonstrates the power that law enforcement has developed and stolen over the past 35 years.
Right you are. I haven't run Windows in more than a decade, and I have forgotten that. That of course is part of the security problem. Those once knowledgeable depending on their memories.
There is no choice but to continue to fight the overarching state. Not that I believe that it will make any difference in the final outcome.
It was obvious that civil liberties were headed south since the early '90s. And even then, looking back, it should have been obvious that was the case since the early '80s.
What is most surprising is not that Clapper lied to SCOTUS, but that he was proud to brag about it, and that SCOTUS was willing to accept this crime against the nation as the normal flow of events. In and of itself it is not the worst of all events, but it is a damn good yardstick showing how far we have degenerated.
The TSA has repeatedly failed every test it has been subjected to. The latest one, this June, failed 67 of 70 fake implants of weapons, explosives, etc. Clearly more aggressive measures must be taken -- perhaps firing everyone in the TSA?
Depends on whether the rogue is an equal opportunity invader, or wants something from you specifically.
Before the Sony rootkit scandal, how many security minded individuals would have hesitated to put an audio CD into their computer's CD player? That insertion didn't have to go through a network firewall, but rather was walked right around it.
You can believe that, but having had a muiltidisciplinary career, half of which was in various levels of IT, I will paraphrase a wise man: the only safe computer has had its CPU, memory and storage removed and destroyed, is buried in 50 ft of concrete, is surrounded by a moat filled with hungry sharks, and the moat is in turn surrounded by armed guards who are watched 24/7 on CATV from a hidden bunker. And even then I am not certain the computer is safe.
There is only the probability of safety, never an assurance. To suggest only one hole that can not be cured by a firewall -- your router may have suffered the same fate as Ciscos.
The ability to hack (don't know if it was done in the wild) cars is not new. It goes back at least a decade, since the "fly by wire" brake, accelerator and other controls started to be connected by radio signals instead of wires.
When I asked the salesman about it, he seemed genuinely surprised and unbelieving. Given that I was able to read him well enough to beat his price into the dirt, I believe he was telling the truth about not knowing about it.
Actually only the attorney who files the DMCA takedown needs to swear that he believes the complainant. The complainant makes no statement under penalty of law that he has any rights to the work in question.
But, I do agree with you. Filing a fraudulent claim should be a basis for significant punishment. Repeated fraudulent claims should be a criminal matter.
The proper interpretation of "may" in such documents is "will." As in buried deeply in certain ISP agreements is that the ISP "may" (sure as hell will) interpret unlimited as meaning capped.
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Offensive?
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Many innocent bystanders are killed by police. Their batons and guns must be taken away.
Many innocent people are improperly arrested and charged by the police. Their ability to arrest and charge must be reduced to finger wagging at possible criminals.
Health and safety inspectors sometimes become corrupt. That entire set of occupations must be eliminated.
There is an endless set of behaviors and actions that the authorities can declare as potentially dangerous.
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What is worse, is that in almost all cases, physicians and patients never know about it.
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Should I look at those pictures, am I a paedophile? Am I exploiting my 1 month old self?
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Uber is realistic competition to the politically powerful taxi companies. And the media will be paid in dollars, or favors for thei support. Perhaps it is just fear of retribution that causes these "poor, poor" taxi cab company stories.
But what kind of margin does a cab make that a medallion goes for such incredible sums of money?
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So people who spend their day behind a desk can wear a watch that reminds them to exercise. Meanwhile the poor are either out excercising on a basketball court, or running for their lives from cops who would like nothing more than to shoot them in the back, or beat the gut contents out of them.
There is more meaningful technology available today than ever before. The net is the largest library ever available to humankind. The greatest treasure is knowledge, not another phone with a capability that few will ever use.
Further, technology, like shit, rolls downhill. Early models are expensive, but prices drop not just rapidly, but radically. And after all, how many people are truly happier with an 8 core computer rather than a 4 core? How many even know the difference, except that the number 8 was on the box?
A decent education, a proper diet, medical care, fair treatment in the courts (and on the streets), opportunity, and other issues are of real significance -- not the latest piece of techno-bling.
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Do you really believe that law enforcement adheres to the law? Or tells the truth?
It was legal at the time? DOJ and FBI guidelines do not supercede the Constitution. SCOTUS ruled that law enforcement was permitted to lie under certain, limited circumstances. That does not mean that LEOs can lawfully lie to anyone and everyone (including SCOTUS) about everything.
That they get away with it merely demonstrates the power that law enforcement has developed and stolen over the past 35 years.
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Re: Why do we elect lawyers?
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Mensuration
It was obvious that civil liberties were headed south since the early '90s. And even then, looking back, it should have been obvious that was the case since the early '80s.
What is most surprising is not that Clapper lied to SCOTUS, but that he was proud to brag about it, and that SCOTUS was willing to accept this crime against the nation as the normal flow of events. In and of itself it is not the worst of all events, but it is a damn good yardstick showing how far we have degenerated.
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Obvious
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Current techniques are clearly inadequate
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Before the Sony rootkit scandal, how many security minded individuals would have hesitated to put an audio CD into their computer's CD player? That insertion didn't have to go through a network firewall, but rather was walked right around it.
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There is only the probability of safety, never an assurance. To suggest only one hole that can not be cured by a firewall -- your router may have suffered the same fate as Ciscos.
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Re: Remember the Jeep Cherokee security hack?
When I asked the salesman about it, he seemed genuinely surprised and unbelieving. Given that I was able to read him well enough to beat his price into the dirt, I believe he was telling the truth about not knowing about it.
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But, I do agree with you. Filing a fraudulent claim should be a basis for significant punishment. Repeated fraudulent claims should be a criminal matter.
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