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A potential issue is the rate of deforestation the model assumes. The rate of deforestation is unpredictable, especially when companies hack into Brazil's rainforest management system:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/12/hackers-plunder/

But any news of decreased damage from climate change is good news, since mankind is entirely incapable of taking action against anything that isn't at our doorstep in terms of time and/or space. If that damage isn't as great, maybe there will be more time for humanity to act between the time when Earth becomes uncomfortable and when it becomes uninhabitable.

Here is the debunk link from Wired.

tear you to shreds with a single shot

You couldn't be more right

• http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/07/wikileaks-insurance-file/
• http://erictric.com/2010/12/04/what-does-the-wikileaks-history-insurance-file-contain/

Found this a while ago on wired http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/07/robot-delivers-packages-through-sewers/?intcid=postnav; it uses the sewerage system already there to deliver smaller parcels seems to be a better idea han digging new tunnels all over the place.

When I was in college I proposed a research paper exploring the max MHz of CPUs, and my instructor said it was a dumb idea because "they" always figure a way around any barrier. Well, "they" didn't, and clock speed hit a brick wall. Transistor density will do the same, I think within 10 years.

In montreal, they are doing this for garbage disposal:

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/06/st_trashsucker_canada/

Opinion hardly. Wired even wrote an article about in 1999. I never said Nielsen. Cable companies collect the data so they can sell targetting marketing to certain demographics. They do not hand it over to Nielsen becaue it is part of their competive marketing when selling targeted ad space to corporations looking to hit a certain demographic. They cannot sell the data, but they can use it. The networks/stations can get the data directly from the cable providers. Hell even Wired wrote an article about it in 1999. http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/1999/04/19132

I notice that our government officials are very good at making laws that "appear" to kosher with the constitution when they actually are NOT. Lets make it simple. If you don't like the first Amendment and its freedom of the press then you just make a law that says possession of "classified/government/secrect" information is illegal as heck. This way, you can maintain your image of supporting the Constitution while not having to fear it. You can classify the fact that they take a crap each morning as a security precaution and make it a capital offense if that information is given to the press!

This is being worked on. Give it some time.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/12/shield/
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20030926.html

If a newspaper gets classified information through regular investigative journalism, they are now NOT allowed to print that information?

If Joe Lieberman has his way...

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/12/shield/

They catch the dangerous individuals who installed this menace. Maybe they can change the law to make sure they're put away for a good long time!

Do you mean those documents that caused his German spokesman (among others) to quit because he DIDN'T take enough time to redact them? Are we talking about the same guy? Oh, and I particularly liked this bit:

"I am the heart and soul of this organization, its founder, philosopher, spokesperson, original coder, organizer, financier and all the rest,” Assange wrote Snorrason. “If you have a problem with me, piss off.”

Assange is a autocratic asshole who thinks he's on some noble crusade against evil by preaching transparency while hopping from country to country under assumed names to flee a rape investigation. I'm all for exposing what our government is hiding from us, but that doesn't change the fact that the guy doing it is a hypocrite.

That is why they have Insurance?

"If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine." - Obi-Wan Assange

Given that his organization is still fairly secret, it could continue to run without him.

Maybe, but I wouldn't count on it. I wish he would just release everything he has already. Apparently the next big release will cause scandal and humiliation in major banks, and it's killing me that the release of such information could depend on Assange's life.

Probably his best shot is to send the decryption key for the insurance file as a threat to someone like the state department and let them shut these idiots up about assassinating foreign nationals.

That is why they have Insurance?

... And then they gave up.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/12/crippen-dismissed/

Take the porn from Usenet.


http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/1998/11/16276


I mean, come on, Usenet with out porn is like Penthouse without nudity.

So long as you don't talk to Adrian Lamo and his friends at Wired

http://www.techeye.net/internet/lamo-challenges-wikileaks-assange

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/06/leak/

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Some additional story from Wired on the case. From this Article:

"He produced a pirated video game. He placed it into the ROM he had just worked on. He initiated the game and it played. He showed me that the actual game would play," Rosario testified.

But on cross examination, Rosario conceded he did not write that fact on any of his notes or reports. Nor did it appear on a secret video he took of the encounter.

Tony Rosario is an investigator for the Entertainment Software Association. (Obtained from article posted in summary)

Hasn't al Qaida been doing this for months? http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/11/qaeda-yeah-the-printer-bomb-plot-was-us/

The reason he's still living is that he hasn't exposed anything embarrassing enough to Russia, or another country that doesn't have any problem getting their hands dirty.

That and no one knows what is in his insurance policy.

Not after it's been through accounting...

"price" is a very ethereal thing in defense contracts.

You may now retort with "but they didn't pay $600 for a hammer!!" and I'll retort "whoosh!" in advance (to save time).

100% big enough for you?

The App Store is not 100% of apps sold.

They are the sole marketplace for i-apps.

No they aren't. There are something north of three to four million jailbroken phones at this point, all of which can use the Cydia store. And the jailbreaking tools are so easy anyone who cares to can use them.

The ONLY reason apple's app bannings are news is because they assert 100% control

Since they don't I guess there is another reason. It appears it's the Apple Hating Fever.

Hold on a second.....

You are stating that because a jailbroken iPhone can use a 3rd party store this is all Apple Hating?

How about the fact that you MUST jailbreak your iPhone to use it with a 3rd party store?

Ok, how about the fact that iPhone Jailbreaking Could Crash Cellphone Towers, Apple Claims.

Sorry, just trying to point out a problem with logic.

Wait, but you can use a 3rd party store...but you have to jailbreak your phone, which is bad......

For such an embarrassment these leaks do go some way to promoting the US world view, or is that just editing from the media outlets. Examples such as many middle eastern counties (Saudi, Jordan and Egypt etc) urging US to bomb Iran, as well as the links below.

Iraq document leaks show US forces found WMD after invasion
Wikileaked documents normalise Iraq civilian death toll at 'massive' 66,000

Your rant doesn't map (assuming the Slashdot system is showing me the parent post you actually replied to.)

For such an embarrassment these leaks do go some way to promoting the US world view, or is that just editing from the media outlets. Examples such as many middle eastern counties (Saudi, Jordan and Egypt etc) urging US to bomb Iran, as well as the links below.

Iraq document leaks show US forces found WMD after invasion
Wikileaked documents normalise Iraq civilian death toll at 'massive' 66,000

Your rant doesn't map (assuming the Slashdot system is showing me the parent post you actually replied to.)

For such an embarrassment these leaks do go some way to promoting the US world view, or is that just editing from the media outlets. Examples such as many middle eastern counties (Saudi, Jordan and Egypt etc) urging US to bomb Iran, as well as the links below
Iraq document leaks show US forces found WMD after invasion - http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/10/wikileaks-show-wmd-hunt-continued-in-iraq-with-surprising-results/
Wikileaked documents normalise Iraq civilian death toll at 'massive' 66,000

Wikileaks used to feature leaks from all over the world, big and small. Truth and transparency for their own sake motivated the organization. In this capacity, Wikileaks might have been a force for good.

But a few years ago, Julian Assange (who is as autocratic as the rumors indicate) and his ilk abandoned the original goals of the organization to wage a political war against the United States. Wikileaks launched a massive fundraising effort, then started to ignore documents from the general public. Most telling is that the operators let the submission system stay broken for months at a time: if your leak doesn't harm the United States, Wikileaks isn't interested.

Today's Wikileaks uses methods that the old Wikileaks would have found deplorable: these include a strict internal hierarchy, deceptive video editing, spin-heavy public statements, marketing-driven timing, purity tests, and blackmail. Whereas idealism drove the old Wikileaks, every action taken by its present incarnation is informed by malice aforethought. It's no longer about the truth. Now, it's a vendetta.

Speaking as someone who was formerly involved with the organization, I cannot support today's Wikileaks or its leadership. They've been captured by their vanity and pride[1] and as far as I'm concerned, they can hang, then burn.

Posting anonymously for obvious reasons.

[1] That some prominent members of the organization consider this wretched document the "obvious truth" illuminates their mindset.

You're not too lazy to post, but you are too lazy to follow that link? Apparently! Anyway, here is one link to get you started, and here's another.

This is ludicrous. Nobody should be able to trademark common words.

The Google/Oracle patent litigation is really heating up. If judged in the court of public opinion, it's looking more and more like Oracle would be the loser.

For more on the Google/Oracle patent litigation, check this out.

The lack of a spaced repetition-algorithm in Moodle--or any other course management system, such as Blackboard or Sakai--is a such a glaring omission that I wonder why no one has done it. SuperMemo, a Windows program written in Delphi, remains the best spaced repetition system for memorization despite an idiosyncratic user interface. Piotr Wozniak, the developer of SuperMemo, used it to learn English; an article in Wired mentions that Wozniak speaks perfect English despite never having set foot in an English-speaking country. In addition to SuperMemo, there are two open source spaced-repetition systems: Anki and Mnemosyne. But the algorithms have yet to be incorporated into online learning systems.

An extensive literature attests to the efficacy of spaced repetition algorithms, especially for learning language. I've used SuperMemo to make quick work of memorizing the FCC question pools for the General and Extra class amateur radio examinations. In fact, the program was so efficient that I was left with hardly any sense of accomplishment having used it to pass the exams.

The need for memorization algorithms is so obvious (I repeat myself) that I'm tempted to write a spaced-repetition plugin for Moodle myself.

Here's an example of how it's used in the entertainment sector:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhJauu_vB2A
Basically linking a 3D suite up to a camera to get motion data, reference point positioning and other information to allow more seamless integration and even low-quality previews during the shoot. It's the technique from "Avatar", which was combined with two-stage motion capturing to make those shots possible ( http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/11/ff_avatar_5steps/ ).

Even with twin-hexacore workstations on the market and using GPU-based processing as well they're still in dire need for more.

Tyranny? Don't go pretending that Democrats aren't tyrants.

Obama asserts the right to execute American citizens without any kind of trial, charges, or judicial oversight based on nothing but allegations, i.e., Obama says your are a terrorist -- you get murdered and don't get a chance to defend yourself. Look up Amendments 4-6.

Read: http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/10/02/assassinations/index.html
Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JojnYXRrBaI

Don't ask don't tell: Obama fulfilled his duty to defend the law in court and lost. He could have left it there, but chose to appeal. You can't blame that on obstructionist republicans because you just don't accidentally file an appeal and republicans can neither further nor hinder the decision to appeal. http://jonathanturley.org/2010/10/20/obama-administration-loses-effort-to-block-injunction-of-dont-ask-dont-tell-announces-appeal-to-reverse-victory-over-dadt/

Then of course there is the refusal to prosecute the illegal wiretapping of the previous administration, but rather to immunize the evildoers: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/01/obama-sides-wit/

Closing Gitmo? Not. But worse, since the procedures at Gitmo have been declared unconstitutional, Obama is merely shifting operations to Bagram, as if the place in which one denies Habeas Corpus is of such great import: http://www.scotusblog.com/2010/05/no-habeas-at-bagram/

Obama uses the state secrets doctrine to prevent civil lawsuits against American companies complicit in the plaintiffs' torture under Bush's rendition program: http://www.cleveland.com/world/index.ssf/2010/09/suit_alleging_cia_torture_dism.html

Yes the "greeted by two U.S. Customs officials ... and asked for the passwords needed to access the encrypted material on them."
The idea that they devices could be unlocked in a lab seems to point towards a MS and others do their part to help.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/11/hacker-border-search/#more-20877 has the interesting comment on that "send them to the lab and you’re not going to have the equipment anyway and we’re going to get all the data"
Then the extended layover at the airport in Frankfurt chat is interesting too. " agent said he was from the U.S. Consulate and .... routine customs question asking him where he’d been and why he’d gone there .. Now I have to call Washington.”"
I would suggest entering (or exiting the US), have nothing on your HD/SSD but an OS with a few games/media player and a phone that empty and can be used once for a short time.
Once the feds have your contact data, everybody enters same database. Then the friends of your friends.
If your computer is cloned, wipe and sell it.

Tell that to the people scared of the terrorists... You can also join this chart to your argument.

Didn't DHS already have issues with their own corporate network security?
Major DHS Security Fail!

Great, so instead of x-raying or groping travellers, maybe TSA can subtly take a few snaps up the leg of people's trousers and down the top of your t-shirt :-)

http://www.prisonplanet.com/tsa-now-putting-hands-down-fliers-pants.html

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/11/tsa-investigating-passenger/

This is a wake-up call to a new vulnerability. There are a helluva lot worse ways to have found out about it than this relatively innocuous version. It also exposes stupid weaknesses like the fact that all Siemens PLC's (programmable logic controllers) have a hard-coded password that was never meant to be changed, and that all the obscure proprietary software in the world on PLC's doesn't mean jack for security--because they all still have to take their orders from a machine running it software on regular old Windows.

We could have realized these vulnerabilities only after a bunch of stuff started exploding.

The exact business plan of marketing a phone with fewer capabilities has been done before. It's advertised as the kosher phone. The service provider that sells them has a monopoly over the Hareidi Jewish community in Israel.

Wow, nice URL.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/11/taiwanese-animators-recreate-tsa-junk-incident

You can usually strip all those junk parameters off. The <a> tag is your friend, too.

Does it bother you that you aren't allowed to log in as root on your dishwasher?

Oh, but I am. I own my dishwasher - I can do whatever I want to it. There is no end user license agreement. I can write my own roms and I doubt anyone will ever care.

I can do the same with all of the other examples you list. The manufacturers of my TV set don't include an EULA telling me that I can't modify it. They don't tell me that I would be breaking the law if I tried.

This is the complete opposite of Apple's position - that it is illegal to modify the software on an iPhone

On a side note, scotch tape releases x-rays when you peel it: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/multimedia/2008/10/gallery_xray_tape?slide=1&slideView=7

You're all targeting the wrong problem.

It's not much the government wanting to spy on you to perpetuate itself in power. It's the general populace that is so, oh so much afraid of dying in a terrorist attack that demand actions. Any action!

That people -- the majority of people, it would seem -- will scream and sue if something happens and they have the slightest excuse of saying that the government didn't do enough to keep them safe.

It's the people that won't accept the bargain of having a 20% free country which is 98% secure if they can be 98.1% secure with 10% freedom.

I'm sorry to tell you, but if you accept that bargain, you're the exception.

This fear didn't come from the media nor the government. It came from inside each and every one.

Today's generation can't live with the idea of having a 0.001% chance of dying in a terrorist attack or having a relative falling to that statistic. The vision of TWC crumbling to dust with 5000 people inside is too terrifying.

Before pointing the finger to the government, people should first review their concepts. Get things into perspective.

There's even a company offering an HTTPS MITM appliance - info on it isn't publically available. Not groundbreaking, I know, but a company now sells a neat rackmount unit that makes it easy and convenient.

What's funny is that when Wired magazine got their hands on a brochure with info on this thing that was handed out at a secret government intelligence convention, the company that builds it first asked "How did you find out about that!?" XD

Ah here found the article on it:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/03/packet-forensics/

Not all of them.

An anonymous hacker wearing a Guy Fawkes mask took over classroom projection screens at Washington State University last Friday, the fifth of November, to broadcast a prerecorded message adapted from V For Vendetta, in a prank that evidently alarmed administrators and amused students.

The nearly four minute video, which was also posted on YouTube, and has its own website, Facebook page and Twitter hashtag, criticizes the university's IT department. It also urges the student body to rise up against squirrels on the campus grounds. The rodents, the ersatz V complains, do nothing but "eat, drink and breed."

Video projectors in two dozen classrooms were high-jacked in the prank, according to news reports, and the video was set to replay automatically every hour. The hacker's website advised university staff that the messages would stop automatically at the end of the day, but referred them to a batch file left on the AV servers that would also reverse the hack. "This script will cleanly remove and reverse all modifications made to the systems."

A spokeswoman told the Chronicle of Higher Education that campus police were working to identify the perpetrator. "Childish pranks just don't have a place anymore," said Darin Watkins. "What may have been seen as cute and clever years ago really doesn't get that kind of reaction today."

Here are stories about GoDaddy on Slashdot, in order by date, to 2010-09-11:

Go Daddy Usurps Network Solutions (2005-05-04)

GoDaddy Serves Blank Pages to Safari & Opera (2005-12-08)

GoDaddy.com Dumps Linux for Microsoft (2006-03-23)

GoDaddy Holds Domains Hostage (2006-06-17)

GoDaddy Caves To Irish Legal Threat (2006-09-16)

MySpace and GoDaddy Shut Down Security Site (2007-01-26) That incident prompted this web site:
Exposing the Many Reasons Not to Trust GoDaddy with Your Domain Names.

Alternative Registrars to GoDaddy? (2007-02-03)

GoDaddy Bobbles DST Changeover? (2007-03-11)

850K RegisterFly Domains Moved To GoDaddy (2007-05-29)

According to this March 11, 2008 story in Wired, GoDaddy shut down an entire web site of 250,000 pages because of one archived mailing list comment: GoDaddy Silences Police-Watchdog Site RateMyCop.com. See below for Slashdot's story about RateMyCop.com.

GoDaddy Silences RateMyCop.com (2008-03-12)

ICANN Moves Against GoDaddy Domain Lockdowns (2008-04-08)

GoDaddy VP Caught Bidding Against Customers (2008-06-29)

KnujOn Updates Top 10 Spam-Friendly Registrars List (2009-02-06, 80 comments) GoDaddy is on the list.

R.I.P. FTP (2009-07-13, 359 comments) The GoDaddy web site is extremely complicated. Quote: "In that case, why don't more people switch to administering their sites via SFTP instead of FTP? Here are the steps it took me to enable SFTP on my GoDaddy hosting account. Feel free to use this as a reference, but the obvious point is that as long as this many steps are required, it's safe to say that most users won't be switching: 1) Go to the 'Hosting' menu and pick 'My Hosting Account.' 2) Next to the name of your website, pick 'Manage Account.' This will open the Hosting Control Center. 3) In Hosting Control Center, click to expand the 'Settings' options. 4) In the 'Settings' control panel, click the 'SSH' icon. 5) You will see a page saying 'SSH is not set up', and prompting you to enter a phone number so that their automated service can call you with a PIN number. After you enter your phone number, the phone rings a second later, and you enter the PIN in a form on the GoDaddy website. 6 ) You will then see a page which says: Current Hosting Account Status: Pending Account Change -- Your request to enable SSH is being processed. This upgrade may take up to 24 hours." [Punctuation and emphasis changed for clarity.]

Registrars Still Ignoring ICANN Rules (2009-07-22, 122 comments) Quote: "GoDaddy (and their reseller arm, Wild West Domains) have a different problem: They still block transfers for 60 days after a registrant's contact update, even after the ICANN update specifically prohibited doing so. They freely admit it, too."

You guys have cocks? http://www.wired.com/bodyhack/2006/12/indian_men_too_/

recall the magnet explosion last year that shut down the LHC for a year?

I'm currently playing Angry Birds on my phone, so, yes, hilariously.

BTW, I highly recommend both the LHC and Angry Birds. The latter is highly playable, apparently the physics are correct (at least, the gravity is, not so sure about feathered-friend vs. oaken plank) and all puzzles are solvable at the maximum bonus if you have the touch.

A study, written for U.S. Special Operations Command, suggested "clandestinely recruiting or hiring prominent bloggers."

Since the start of the Iraq war, there's been a raucous debate in military circles over how to handle blogs -- and the servicemembers who want to keep them. One faction sees blogs as security risks, and a collective waste of troops' time. The other (which includes top officers, like Gen. David Petraeus and Lt. Gen. William Caldwell) considers blogs to be a valuable source of information, and a way for ordinary troops to shape opinions, both at home and abroad.

This 2006 report for the Joint Special Operations University, "Blogs and Military Information Strategy," offers a third approach -- co-opting bloggers, or even putting them on the payroll. "Hiring a block of bloggers to verbally attack a specific person or promote a specific message may be worth considering," write the report's co-authors, James Kinniburgh and Dororthy Denning.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2008/03/report-recruit/