I used to GM (gamemaster) Paranoia every once in a while.
The poor, hapless clones (the other people role-playhing) always thought that if they phrase the question just the right way, they'll get the information they need to, er, survive to the end of the game.
One of my main jobs as GM was to invent, usually on the fly, all sorts of reasons why "that information is above your security clearance".
That Prenda Hearing dialogue sounded like half the games I ran... Good times.
Voice-activated? Fingerprint? Er...haven't these been fooled by work-arounds? Besides, by displaying the password, aren't you:
1) forcing the user to use easy-to-type-in passwords?
2) exposing yourself to "over-the-shoulder" cryptanalysis attacks?
..as fertilizer, as well. Well, maybe not the meat, but the leftovers from the carcasses.
Older lobsters still taste good. The best time to cook 'em is when they're all mottled and varigated, and with a hard, hard shell. Just before they're going to molt.
Then you get what we call a 'full' lobster, with lots of flavour and lots of meat. Getting the meat out is a matter of technique, lotsa practice. And twelve years of judo - developping your kumi kata.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Me, I'm waiting for the commentators to start citing the US Consitutition to rebut this case....
You're the commenter who drug the US Constitution underneath an article about a court case in Iceland
No, I was expecting other commentators to start citing US law when 'explaining' why the judge might or might not be wrong. I see this kind of behaviour all the time. I was trying reverse psychology so that this wouldn't happen. Obviously, I failed.
I knew full well that this was an Icelandic case and court. And it's a good decision, mostly, IMHO, for the reason I stated: banks are not businesses like other businesses are.
On the post: Fox Uses Bogus DMCA Claims To Censor Cory Doctorow's Book About Censorship
Re: Re:
http://craphound.com/homeland/download/
Tor went _all_ DRM-free last year. But they've always published Cory's book as DRM-free. In any case, read the text at the link above.
Don't go for the information third-hand.
On the post: Transcript Of The 12 Minute 'We're Done' Prenda Hearing Released
Court transcripts as Paranoia dialogue...
The poor, hapless clones (the other people role-playhing) always thought that if they phrase the question just the right way, they'll get the information they need to, er, survive to the end of the game.
One of my main jobs as GM was to invent, usually on the fly, all sorts of reasons why "that information is above your security clearance".
That Prenda Hearing dialogue sounded like half the games I ran... Good times.
On the post: California Attorney General Claims Foreign Companies Using 'Pirated' Software Represent Unfair Competition
Would using...
..smart people be considered an unfair competitive advantage?
..underpaid workers be considered an unfair competitive advantage?
..basing your factory in a country with lax environmental regulations be considered an unfair competitive advantage?
On the post: Awesome Stuff: Little Devices That Help You Out
Re: Re: Re.: myIDkey...
I forgot to mention: Yubikey plus a string you prepend to the password stored on the key.
On the post: Awesome Stuff: Little Devices That Help You Out
Re.: myIDkey...
1) forcing the user to use easy-to-type-in passwords?
2) exposing yourself to "over-the-shoulder" cryptanalysis attacks?
My suggestion? Yubikey and LastPass.
On the post: Swedish Pirate Party Stops Hosting The Pirate Bay, But Intends To Sue Anti-Piracy Organization For Unlawful Coercion
Re: Re: Check
On the post: Breaking: Countries Act In Their Own Interests In Spite Of What's Best For Everyone Else
Link to the actual paper...
https://editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/conference/download.cgi?db_name=CEF2012&paper_id= 396
If you don't trust the link, (and really, you shouldn't) just google the authors' names. It should be the first hit:
Bianca De Paoli and Anna Lipinska
On the post: DailyDirt: Push Button, Rub Hands, Wipe Hands On Jeans...
Get rid of washroom doors where you can...
(Y'know: a wall feature where you walk in through a "u", so you don't have to touch anything.)
On the post: Hivemind Elects Dictator! 4chan Pushes Kim Jong-Un To Top Of TIME 'Person Of The Year' Poll
So there's still a chance..
/Yes, it's a rhetorical question. I already know the answer.
On the post: Taliban Spokesman Accidentally Copies Mailing List On Press Release Email
Well-troden territory - The Terrorist as Gumby. (No, not the plasticine figurine.)
http://www.schneier.com/essay-174.html
Byman & Fair, The Case for Calling Them Nitwits
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/the-case-for-calling-them-nitwits/30813 0/
Max Fisher, The Incompetent Terrorist
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2010/05/the-incompetent-terrorist/56272/
Tim Harford, Dumb Bomb
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/the_undercover_economist/2007/07/dumb_bomb.html
..as well as many other essays.
On the post: Why The Press Is Getting The Wrong Message Out Of The 'Nate Silver Walloped The Pundits' Story
Me, I want to read those 6 comments.
On the post: Amazon Wipes Customer's Account, Locks All Ebooks, Says 'Find A New Retailer' When She Asks Why
I think I know what she did wrong.
It's obvious how they're 'related', no? They both have accounts at Amazon.
On the post: Congressional Investigation Slams DHS Anti-Terror Centers: Wasted Taxpayer Funds, Created No Useful Intelligence & Violated Civil Liberties
Wow! Congress is actually taking the side of the citizens!?!
On the post: Harvard Business Review Press Goes DRM-Free And Platform Independent
Re:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNTf8iublLc
On the post: DailyDirt: You Say Ketchup, I Say Catsup...
Really, who cares what Malcom Gladwell says?
On the post: DailyDirt: Lobsters -- Sea Food Different
Actually, around here they used to be used...
Older lobsters still taste good. The best time to cook 'em is when they're all mottled and varigated, and with a hard, hard shell. Just before they're going to molt.
Then you get what we call a 'full' lobster, with lots of flavour and lots of meat. Getting the meat out is a matter of technique, lotsa practice. And twelve years of judo - developping your kumi kata.
On the post: The Stats Used To Support Cybercrime 'Threats' Just As Bogus As Hollywood's 'Loss' Claims
...and just as bogus as the claims that frakking is safe.
http://public-accountability.org/2012/07/contaminated-inquiry/
A lot of people need to get thrown in jail. Really.
On the post: Amazon Hides Classic Free Public Domain Ebooks
Um...why even bother with Amazon?
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2010/11/amazon_charges_kindle_users_fo .html
Support your local Public Domain supplier.
http://gutenberg.ca/
http://gutenberg.org/
While I'm at it:
http://librivox.org
On the post: Iceland Court Orders Visa To Start Processing Wikileaks Payments Again Within Two Weeks
Re: Re: Re: Re: Me, I'm waiting for the commentators to start citing the US Consitutition to rebut this case....
No, I was expecting other commentators to start citing US law when 'explaining' why the judge might or might not be wrong. I see this kind of behaviour all the time. I was trying reverse psychology so that this wouldn't happen. Obviously, I failed.
I knew full well that this was an Icelandic case and court. And it's a good decision, mostly, IMHO, for the reason I stated: banks are not businesses like other businesses are.
On the post: Great Day For Canadian Copyright: Supreme Court Issues Five (Count 'Em) Rulings Supporting Fair Dealing And Fewer Tariffs
Re: Re: O Canada
Ô Canada!
Terre de nos aîeux,
Ton front est ceint de fleurons glorieux,
The rest is fine.
However, this is the one you should be singing, while you're watching the Maple Laughs "losing that damn hockey game" (to quote Jody Mitchell):
ᐆ ᑲᓇᑕ!
ᓇᖕᒥᓂ ᓄᓇᕗᑦ!
ᐱᖁᔭᑏ ᓇᓚᑦᑎᐊᖅᐸᕗᑦ.
ᐊᖏᒡᓕᕙ ;ᓪᓕᐊᔪᑎ,
ᓴᙱᔪᓗᑎᓪᓗ.
ᓇ&# 5519;ᖅᐳᒍ, ᐆ ᑲᓇᑕ,
ᒥᐊᓂᕆᑉᓗᑎᑎ.
ᐆ ᑲᓇᑕ! ᓄᓇᑦᓯᐊ!
ᓇᖏᖅᐳᒍ ᒥᐊᑎᓂᕆᑉᓗᑎ,
ᐆ ᑲᓇᑕ, ᓴᓚᒋᔭᐅᖁᓇ!
All together now!
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