Posts by Truckle The Uncivil 213 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Jun 2016
‘So, this is a survey of people who don't have it and haven't used it?
Will be more interested to see a survey of 10,000 people after they have used it for a few months.”
How the hell did you not get down voted to oblivion? You said something sensible about an Appleproduct. That is a mortal sin normally.
Please tell me why I should respect some fool who believes in gods? I am an atheist. 'Belief" and 'faith' are not rational things. Why must I respect such irrationality? The ADF _requires_ that I _must_ do so, even though that is not actually possible for me. So the ADF does not support atheism (and in fact, insultingly, calls it a 'belief') as free expression of this 'religion' (atheism) is most certainly not protected. In fact by calling atheism a belief or religion it becomes annulled.
Why are irrational religious beliefs considered to be on the same level as rational atheists? It is ridiculous really.
Why are religious beliefs even recorded?
@Commswonk
<quote>Trade Deal will be greatly weighted in the USA's favour, and that the UK might be better off without one. "Greatly weighted in the USA's favour" should be read as the UK getting royally shafted.
And I say that as a "leave" voter, although I am not seeking to reopen the Brexit debate.</quote>
I don't know why you wouldn't reopen it. It looked like a bad decision (to me) at the time and has got worse every day. Europe has common problems and would be best worked on together. They are hardly likely to be resolved independently.
@shadmeister
No, no, no. Situations 2, 3 and 4 are what they want. It will all funnel down to a few sources, which then can be preserved and analysed. That way they can catch them as their playing field has been limited. It allows them to focus in on the 'bad actors' and those who communicate with them.
<sarcasm>Of course the impact it has on the 'good actors' who require some privacy cannot be important, can it? After all, we don't need freedom and democracy anymore, do we? Look at where it all has lead?</sarcasm>
systemd with faint praise
And here is the rub; in Australia it illegal to write or even posses the source code to a computer virus unless there is a legitimate reason. By writing virus code that has entered the country the have broken Aussie law - in Australia, which gives cause for a legal sanction.
So if we had the identities of the NSA staffers who wrote this stuff, they can be charged here, just as Cardinal George Pell has been. The USA and the Vatican are both nation states.
Perhaps they are attacking the wrong problem. A couple of whistles attached to the front of the car and animals and flocks of birds get out of the way before you close in.
So, prevention is possible but a cure would be hard with just LIDAR. I think you would need something like infra-red mapping.
BTW: Has anybody seen a motorcycle and rider that has gone through a flock of budgies?
I wonder what a flight of monarchs would do to a tesla
@AC
They don't have them in Australia either. If they did I would be dead. Dropped my bike on an oil slick and went under a semi with the bike. Came out the other side and picked up the bike with the motor still running. If the semi had had side protection I would have been swept under the wheels. I know they save many lives but they can cost a few too.
@John Smith 19
It is BS now but will it remain so long term.
People's personal power, the individual's ability to destroy or create becomes greater with every passing moment. Bigger guns, better explosives, transport, training. Let alone access to new technologies like CRISPR. Every year we get more deadly to ourselves.
We are almost at the point (almost?) where an individual could destroy us all.
So either every one 'has to' be happy -OR-
Everyone 'has to' be controlled.
Is that, ultimately what we are looking at? Because I would die before making either of those choices.
@Sloth77
You are completely erroneous in the assumption that user to user encryption is rare. It is not. The majority of my communications with other persons is end-to-end user-to-user encrypted. It is inherent in an Apple eco-system.
I don't care which fanboi side of the fence you sit on, you cannot call the use of Apple devices 'rare'.
@The Allie Cat
So, after this is in effect use of all iPhones becomes illegal? I use iMessages and FaceTime far more than I use cell calls. They both use end-to-end and full disk encryption. Most of the people I am in contact with on a regular basis are covered by them.
Even if Apple 'withdrew' from the country the devices would still be there.
@MNGrrrl
Okay, I like what you said and it gets an up vote from me. There is a caveat though. People evaluate risks differently.
My father was apprenticed as an aircraft mechanic at 15 and spent his life at that profession becoming an inordinately qualified LAME. He always said "only fools fly". Not that he never flew. His point was never to compound a risk unecessarily.
Aircraft are designed to cope with all sorts of strikes when new and perfect. Nevertheless, sometimes strikes can be catastrophic for compound reasons.
After an aircraft has been in service for a while all you can be sure of is that it will no longer pass the same tests as when new (mind you it is also better tested for what it has been through).
Regulators, engineers and mechanics need my father's attitude to keep aviation as safe as possible. Pilots need your attitude or they would never climb in the seat of a single seater let alone take responsibility for a crew and passengers. It takes both attitudes to make the system work. Checks and balances maybe?
We all depend on others assessment of safety all the time. Even in your own home; did you check the wiring? Plumbing? Perhaps we all need to be a bit more aware that we live only on the surface of our lives. There is no time for more.
No doubt your daughters just throw their phone in their handbag, just as mine did. It stopped when I pointed out that neither their brother nor their father had to replace phones or screens every six months. Now they keep them in the pockets of their handbags (as do I) there are no problems.
An interesting thought is that in Australia and other places it is a criminal act to write a virus or code that is a software attack mechanism.
Since the NSA acknowledges they wrote this shit, they did it in direct contravention of the law of countries with which the US does have an extradition treaty.
Does this not make the NSA a criminal conspiracy?
Regardless, it clearly demonstrates that the argument for government backdoors is false. It has just been demonstrated that master key will not be kept secret and publishing it would have catastrophic results.
@Popmpous Git
Sorry but that is incorrect. Been through it. The "always cash a pay check" business is based on an agreement between banks (not law). Their reasoning (as they explained to me) was that funds from a person's pay must be available on payday. So if paycheques have to clear then they have to be issued a week earlier. This upsets the employers and fragments of who owes who what and when and where interest goes just devolves into crap as it fragments further and further.
Since the people issuing the pay checks are usually in good standing, the banks pay them and the agreement between the banks is to pay each others. But there is no legal obligation and particular bank mangers can be arseholes if they want to be.
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