Posts by Charles 9 16605 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jun 2009
I have, actually, and maintaining a tight speed is pretty easy for your average cruise control since it can react more quickly and thus not need to use the brakes: just light adjustments to the throttle is all. It only gets tricky when the angle changes (curves and inclines), but in my firsthand experience the cruise control (which isn't exactly state of the art, it's an early 00's car) tends to correct itself pretty smoothly.
"You need to block all their domains (I believe around 1,500 domains at last count). On a PC, the easiest way is to slap them into your Hosts file."
IF you have access to it. You can't do that on Android without rooting it (which breaks things), and you can't run a filtering VPN if you're running another VPN already (Android last I checked won't allow you to chain VPNs).
And then there's the issue if Facebook decides to forgo DNS and hit straight to IP addresses or finds other ways to defeat firewalls by hooking up with commonly-visited sites that typically get whitelisted, to the point you either bend over or get off the Internet.
"Try visiting India if you have Pakistani heritage. You will literally be denied a Visa."
So what happens when the two countries have to play cricket with each other (as both have Test status)? Do they have to use a neutral venue?
"There are, by some estimates, some 50,000,000 vehicles on US roads that are over 40 years old. These aren't all old junkers, these are carefully maintained family heirlooms. They are driven daily, both for utility and for fun. Outlawing all these vehicles would alienate a LOT of voters."
Many of those old cars required retrofitting to qualify for emissions standards and so on, and since inspections are an ongoing thing, grandfathering doesn't apply. So it could just require another retrofit, justified in Congress (who BTW doesn't listen to the people anyway) for environmental (emissions, traffic planning) and criminal reasons.
"The dealer should be making sure the car is digitally clean before sell on."
But what happens if it's a private sale, and no dealer is involved in the transaction? And it takes place either across jurisdictions or by some other way that there's no automated way to register transfer of ownership? It's very easy for ownership status to get lost in the bureaucracy.
"If all electric cars require connection to the internet (or any service provider whatsoever), then I won't be jumping into the world of electric cars. That's a complete dealbreaker."
So what happens when ALL cars MUST be connected to be declared road-worthy (so no, used cars are out as well)? Do you walk everywhere from now on even during a downpour?
"That only applies to people they have a contract with, and you are not in that group of people, so you can legally ignore the wording entirely."
I'd STILL call that false or misleading wording and legally subject to intervention. Unless there's a legally-binding contract or an actual criminal act involved, there shouldn't be anything that implies such.
"The essence of encryption is that it needs to take longer to crack than the information remains significant. If it can be cracked in 20 seconds it doesn't matter provided the message is an instruction to do something in 10 seconds time."
Not necessarily. It could still be useful as historical evidence: the whole "Six Lines" thing. And it's not just interception you have to worry about. What about doubling and moles?
"I noticed that the complaint used the word theft, I'm waiting for some smart lawyer to ask the copyright holder how making a copy of a song permanently deprived them of that song."
The theft is of the revenues from a legitimate transaction. Kind of like how organized criminals get nailed for tax evasion.
And there's a reason no open-source implementation can be made? Pantone perhaps is out of reach because of patents, but CMYK is basic enough. Last I checked, CMYK is simply low priority because DTP isn't the bulk of GIMP's users (you still have photographers, web image designers, et al).
Right. Most ARM systems weren't built with modular, replaceable components in mind which is how servers normally operate (hot swapping, automatic failover, etc.). Most ARM systems today are SoCs full of trade secret sauce (because Qualcomm, Mediatrk, etc. are at each other's throats). Portable ARM systems are a whole different kettle of fish from server ARM systems. What you describe is relatively new and will need time to reach a broad-enough consensus.
Didn't work. Something leaked outside the private mode, probably some server-side tracking. After I discovered deleted cookies resurrecting (complete with pre-existing data), I learned how useless any kind of privacy-based system is these days. If they want to track you, they'll track you in spite of God, Man, or the Devil, and yes they'll track you even if you're anonymous. They'll just use what they do know to de-anonymize you later (Facebook is notorious for this AND defeating ad- and tracker-blockers).
One, Apple's clientele is the general public, not a club. Two, Apple is publicly traded. That's two strikes against Apple being able to do what it wants. Companies that cater to the general public cannot exclude people, intentionally or not, without legal reason (eg. a restraining order). That's why things like the Americans with Disabilities Act which requires stores and other public-serving facilities to accommodate people who can't do business otherwise. It could easily be applied to virtual locations like the Web as well.
Makes you wonder, though, how you can maintain accessibility for a website whose content is inherently dynamic and therefore can't rely on static formats or even server-side scripting (because the content could update too quickly--think a hot eBay auction). I mean, can AJAX be made screenreader-compatible?
"I do believe there is just such a provision if I remember correctly. Something about a verdict "with prejudice" , which means the applicant is no longer allowed to pursue the case any further."
But wpuldn't they just challenge the ruling of prejudice on the basis of judiciary bias or some other claim? Or does such a ruling carry a legal basis of finality or even a threat of criminal prosecution?
"If you work anywhere that has InfoSec requirements, then that thing slowing down your workstation is the indexer looking for things that aren't supposed to be on your workstation."
I have wondered about that. What happens when privacy laws conflict with data protection laws (say the job is at a government facility that handles other people's data). If the two types of laws conflict, which takes precedence?
"nah. as a journalist once wrote a true conspiracy theorist will know far more about one particular facet of the issue than you ever will."
Can't that be countered by simply learning EVEN MORE about that facet than him (if by nothing else thatn using his own tactics against him, so it's always possible), to the point you can out-AHA him in an argument? I mean, at some point, you'll eventually corner him. Then what?
"There IS something that a group of individuals can do for messaging -- namely use a privately implemented cipher scheme. To some extent it doesn't matter if it can be broken, as long as the breaking takes months or weeks. The eavesdroppers need near real-time access, which only the owners of the cipher scheme possess! This gets round the possibility (remote I know) that even PGP can be broken quickly. The private scheme might only be implemented for text messages."
Does it HAVE to be real-time, or can they just use the whole "Give me Six Lines" bit and work from there?
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