The paramilitaries (police) defy the courts, take control of critical infrastructure as part of their "investigation" into vaguely-hinted-at obscure misdeeds, exclude civilian oversight, claiming civilians are part of it. Repeat across the country. Voila, police forces answerable to nobody, able to do whatever they want. Sounds familiar...don't these militaristic types do this all the time?
I really miss the days of true and realistic strategy games like Harpoon and pure turn based strategic games like V for Victory. Perhaps with the exception of Hearts of Iron, I don't think these games have been mimicked since. Real time tactical and FPS games basically dominate everything.
How does she know who the undercover cops are? Seems to me they must be doing a terrible job if she's able to figure this stuff out.
This reminds me of a story I read as a kid, of a teenager in Paris who was arrested and jailed for watching an unmarked Gestapo building from a cafe across the street.
This has nothing to do with gender, I find it's perfectly true for most people who talk about their problems, male or female, regardless of their relationship to you. A lot of people don't seem to be interested in solutions. They seem to get irritated if you solve their problems or suggest solutons. The more solutions you suggest, the more they'll invent some bullshit reason for rejecting your solutions - this thereby extends the conversation to such a point that you're reduced to just nodding and expressing fake sympathy, hoping they'll go away. More, by then you'll have lost your respect for them, since they obviously want to create a problem out of nothing, which can't be solved by anyone, and just want to whine about it for the sake of whining about it.
Now, when someone says this is the "secret" to a happy marriage, namely nodding and pretending to empathize rather than suggesting solutions, I say no, it's not. If you have to come up with a rule such as this, there is no underlying foundation of respect in the marriage. In fact, I think you just obliquely called your wife some kind of idiot...
I've never had to "just talk, not problem solve" with my girlfriend of 20 years.
Does this mean that soon sociopathy or psychopathy will be listed as a handicap? And...and...how do you make something more accessible to psychopaths? I can just see it now...W3C WAI recommendations to accomodate narcissism. A mirror in the top right corner? Nicknames and avatars? Oh wait a minute...
Seriously, though, I think most of the world satisfies the DSM definition of psycho/sociopath. Does that mean most of the world is brain damaged? Something is not right with this finding.
However, it's my belief that ultimately, there is no real choice. We are a product of our biology, genetics, epi-genetics, and experiences.We make choices based on the combination of these factors, and if it were, in fact, possible to account for all the minute variables in these factors, our decisions could be predicted in virtually every case.
The more science news I read, the more firm this conclusion, and this is no exception.
What you might not understand is that much science is based on the assumption that every effect must have a direct cause. In other words, the scientific method, and scientific thought, tends to assume a deterministic world view. That world view seeks to reproduce causes and effects through experiments that are self-validating.
Mind, I think there are branches of science such as physics that deal with random and/or uncaused events or are fully aware of how the experimenter influences the experiment. I'm not sure psychology has advanced to that point yet. Psychology seems pretty much locked on the old-style deterministic and logical positivism thing.
If I encrypt my data, and I like apples, and I can now use this new technique to determine that 20 other people like apples too, don't I have an essential piece of information I can use to decrypt the encrypted data of those 20 other people?
All nuclear power plants that I've encountered have been next to large bodies of water, built at the shoreline. I guess they need to be able to dump excess waste someplace where it would be diluted.
If true, it strikes me as making these floating plants ideal. They'd just float them to some shore where they'd likely be permanently anchored and become part of some land facilities. So really they're not any different from existing plants except insofar as they're pre-fabricated.
And in the event of political instability they can be shut down and moved elsewhere, unlike a permanent land-based installation. So that probably makes them even less vulnerable to attack, not more so.
And the facilities, labour and expertise to build them is kept in one place, which to my mind makes security easier.
I'd say a lot of New Yorkers were psychologically scarred or traumatized by 9/11. For a lot of Americans this was the single most traumatic event of their entire lives, their whole world came crashing down with the towers, they were emotionally crushed under the rubble, snuffed out, demoralized to the very core of their being, helpless. They became angry, resentful, vowing revenge, and they bombed a couple of countries "back to the stone age"
Yup, now you know how it feels to be a Palestinian, Iraqi, Chechen, Pakistani, etc., now you share something in common with your distant brothers in Lebanon, Vietnam, Cambodia, Grenada, Bosnia...or anywhere else where there has been death from above on buildings full of innocents who never did anything to anyone - usually at the hands Americans.
Yeah, except those people never get a chance to evacuate, like it was some kind of fire drill.
This thread seems to have stirred up a lot of buzz.
People who have no stake whatsoever, or who are impacted only in a very negligible way by this piracy, probably a mere two cents out of their big fat wallets, seem spoiling for a fight. Lots of cowboy swagger here...
Some things I'm wondering...
1. Is it the colour of their skin? Black versus white? Can't let the coloureds/ragheads/ win or get too uppity...?
2. Is it that the Somalis whupped their asses in Blackhawk Down and they're sore losers or holding a grudge?
3. Is it just the principle of the thing, law and order at all cost?
4. General ignorance and stupidity about the ways of the world, other countries and cultures, global situations, etc.
5. They didn't like Captain Jack in Pirates of the Carribean?
6. This is the new spectator sport, lots of opportunity for blood and gore to be had here, especially for a populace weaned on lifelong "us versus them" warfare on their televisions and wanting more (Iraq got old).
Why are these sensitive systems connected to the public internet.
They don't have to be connected to the public internet. Maybe they used some form of vampire tap.
Someone working on the project who has access to the long cable runs between computers could simply attach this thing at any number of hidden junctions. Even if it weren't hidden, the majority of people walking past it wouldn't even know what it is, it looks like regular equipment.
It does mean that for it to work there would have to be moles on the US/NATO side of things.
Just don't fuck with your average person's TV and you can do whatever you want to them.
It used to be that these taxes were a temporary wartime measure to support the war effort. Then they become permanent and...hey, wait a minute, TV's weren't even widespread back then...
Nevermind, just roll over and take it up the ass as usual.
But if anyone wants to volunteer some lazy, cowardly, bloodless, sit on your ass and pointclick type of petition "revolt", please do if it'll make everyone feel better.
I'm pretty sure anyone with a porn collection unintentionally has at least a few photos of underage people. Trying to determine age can be damn tricky nowadays. Likely almost everyone on slashdot can be charged with possession.
In my viewpoint, based on my relatively bad childhood experiences, the majority of teachers and principals become such not because they love teaching or children, but because they either want the easy money and long summer holiday or have a sadomasochistic need to dominate and control others. Children represent one of the easiest groups to dominate.
Think - all your best teachers were the probably the opposite of disciplinarian - they maintained order through other means, perhaps through respect, but most likely by treating you like a dignified human being. The majority of your teachers were probably disciplinarian, they maintained order through fear, threat of harm or violence. To them, treating you with respect and dignity means showing weakness and, well, they don't want you to know they're fundamentally weak.
For these people, children have no rights and are only slightly different than animals (the other group that's easy to dominate). They probably started out by abusing animals.
From the article I don't get the impression the student was being treated with respect and dignity.
Man, I just finished watching a movie called The Lives of Others, about the Stasi in East Berlin before the wall fell. They had these same powers, they could search/bug peoples homes on mere suspicion alone.
If the supposedly "democratic" and "free" societies are heading in this direction I wonder how the world will ever recover from it.
I use Joomla! extensively myself, nearly all of my sites use it, but I also share your frustration with the community built components/extensions/addons almost universal lack of readable documentation. I agree with your assessement of angsty ADHD teenagers snarling at anyone who doesn't instinctively and magically understand how to use their apps.
Since good documentation is the sign of a good programmer, this almost community-wide disdain for user-friendly documentation reflects poorly on Joomla! and brings it down.
Also, having doled out a lot of custom work to Joomla! coders my general impression is that the field is dominated by young inexperienced programmers of questionable maturity and work ethics. You have to be able to state exactly what you want and review every single line of code - and they don't take criticisms/suggestions very well and they certainly don't respect the advice of a programmer with decades more experience than themselves. They're in it for a quick buck, they want money, not work. So if you want it done right expect to hire a dedicated coder or do it yourself.
But that doesn't stop me from using Joomla!, it still works for me and does what I need better than other CMS's I've looked at. I don't think there is anything wrong with Joomla! per se, just the Joomla! programming community.
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Actually, seems to me there was a time when conversation on IRC was somewhat intelligent. In the early days it was all academics, scientists, engineers, grads, etc. Then it was a yearly flood of university freshmen. As it grew, quality of conversation declined. Then there was the AOL invasion (1996?) where everyone and their developmentally delayed hormone challenged nephews suddenly had access to IRC. It's never been the same again.
So the average mental and chronological age of the conversationalists became younger, gender representation became disproportionate, average education levels went from university level to high school, vocabulary levels went from college to kindergarten, etc.
It's just that recent comers have no frame of reference for quality conversation on IRC, they've never seen it.
In a galaxy far, far away, I remember when many IRC channels banned.au addies on sight because, it seemed, the vast majority of Australians on efnet were troublemakers.
This got me thinking about Broadcast Signal Intrusion", culture jamming, radio/television piracy, etc. Is the recent/upcoming conversion to digital signals from analog a way to circumvent or foil "terrorists" who might want to broadcast "alternative" messages? Would it make this a thing of the past?
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The paramilitaries (police) defy the courts, take control of critical infrastructure as part of their "investigation" into vaguely-hinted-at obscure misdeeds, exclude civilian oversight, claiming civilians are part of it. Repeat across the country. Voila, police forces answerable to nobody, able to do whatever they want. Sounds familiar...don't these militaristic types do this all the time?
I really miss the days of true and realistic strategy games like Harpoon and pure turn based strategic games like V for Victory. Perhaps with the exception of Hearts of Iron, I don't think these games have been mimicked since. Real time tactical and FPS games basically dominate everything.
How does she know who the undercover cops are? Seems to me they must be doing a terrible job if she's able to figure this stuff out.
This reminds me of a story I read as a kid, of a teenager in Paris who was arrested and jailed for watching an unmarked Gestapo building from a cafe across the street.
This has nothing to do with gender, I find it's perfectly true for most people who talk about their problems, male or female, regardless of their relationship to you. A lot of people don't seem to be interested in solutions. They seem to get irritated if you solve their problems or suggest solutons. The more solutions you suggest, the more they'll invent some bullshit reason for rejecting your solutions - this thereby extends the conversation to such a point that you're reduced to just nodding and expressing fake sympathy, hoping they'll go away. More, by then you'll have lost your respect for them, since they obviously want to create a problem out of nothing, which can't be solved by anyone, and just want to whine about it for the sake of whining about it.
Now, when someone says this is the "secret" to a happy marriage, namely nodding and pretending to empathize rather than suggesting solutions, I say no, it's not. If you have to come up with a rule such as this, there is no underlying foundation of respect in the marriage. In fact, I think you just obliquely called your wife some kind of idiot...
I've never had to "just talk, not problem solve" with my girlfriend of 20 years.
Does this mean that soon sociopathy or psychopathy will be listed as a handicap? And...and...how do you make something more accessible to psychopaths? I can just see it now...W3C WAI recommendations to accomodate narcissism. A mirror in the top right corner? Nicknames and avatars? Oh wait a minute...
Seriously, though, I think most of the world satisfies the DSM definition of psycho/sociopath. Does that mean most of the world is brain damaged? Something is not right with this finding.
What you might not understand is that much science is based on the assumption that every effect must have a direct cause. In other words, the scientific method, and scientific thought, tends to assume a deterministic world view. That world view seeks to reproduce causes and effects through experiments that are self-validating.
Mind, I think there are branches of science such as physics that deal with random and/or uncaused events or are fully aware of how the experimenter influences the experiment. I'm not sure psychology has advanced to that point yet. Psychology seems pretty much locked on the old-style deterministic and logical positivism thing.
If I encrypt my data, and I like apples, and I can now use this new technique to determine that 20 other people like apples too, don't I have an essential piece of information I can use to decrypt the encrypted data of those 20 other people?
Excellent! Now let's use this to track police, since it's not illegal.
And since a warrant isn't needed to follow a car because anyone can do that anyway, why not attack these devices to people too?
All nuclear power plants that I've encountered have been next to large bodies of water, built at the shoreline. I guess they need to be able to dump excess waste someplace where it would be diluted.
If true, it strikes me as making these floating plants ideal. They'd just float them to some shore where they'd likely be permanently anchored and become part of some land facilities. So really they're not any different from existing plants except insofar as they're pre-fabricated.
And in the event of political instability they can be shut down and moved elsewhere, unlike a permanent land-based installation. So that probably makes them even less vulnerable to attack, not more so.
And the facilities, labour and expertise to build them is kept in one place, which to my mind makes security easier.
I'd say a lot of New Yorkers were psychologically scarred or traumatized by 9/11. For a lot of Americans this was the single most traumatic event of their entire lives, their whole world came crashing down with the towers, they were emotionally crushed under the rubble, snuffed out, demoralized to the very core of their being, helpless. They became angry, resentful, vowing revenge, and they bombed a couple of countries "back to the stone age"
Yup, now you know how it feels to be a Palestinian, Iraqi, Chechen, Pakistani, etc., now you share something in common with your distant brothers in Lebanon, Vietnam, Cambodia, Grenada, Bosnia...or anywhere else where there has been death from above on buildings full of innocents who never did anything to anyone - usually at the hands Americans.
Yeah, except those people never get a chance to evacuate, like it was some kind of fire drill.
This thread seems to have stirred up a lot of buzz.
People who have no stake whatsoever, or who are impacted only in a very negligible way by this piracy, probably a mere two cents out of their big fat wallets, seem spoiling for a fight. Lots of cowboy swagger here...
Some things I'm wondering...
They don't have to be connected to the public internet. Maybe they used some form of vampire tap.
Someone working on the project who has access to the long cable runs between computers could simply attach this thing at any number of hidden junctions. Even if it weren't hidden, the majority of people walking past it wouldn't even know what it is, it looks like regular equipment.
It does mean that for it to work there would have to be moles on the US/NATO side of things.
Just don't fuck with your average person's TV and you can do whatever you want to them.
It used to be that these taxes were a temporary wartime measure to support the war effort. Then they become permanent and...hey, wait a minute, TV's weren't even widespread back then...
Nevermind, just roll over and take it up the ass as usual.
But if anyone wants to volunteer some lazy, cowardly, bloodless, sit on your ass and pointclick type of petition "revolt", please do if it'll make everyone feel better.
Oh, I read that as upload it and watch as Norton and McAffee no longer function, meaning there goes our only defense.
I'm pretty sure anyone with a porn collection unintentionally has at least a few photos of underage people. Trying to determine age can be damn tricky nowadays. Likely almost everyone on slashdot can be charged with possession.
In my viewpoint, based on my relatively bad childhood experiences, the majority of teachers and principals become such not because they love teaching or children, but because they either want the easy money and long summer holiday or have a sadomasochistic need to dominate and control others. Children represent one of the easiest groups to dominate.
Think - all your best teachers were the probably the opposite of disciplinarian - they maintained order through other means, perhaps through respect, but most likely by treating you like a dignified human being. The majority of your teachers were probably disciplinarian, they maintained order through fear, threat of harm or violence. To them, treating you with respect and dignity means showing weakness and, well, they don't want you to know they're fundamentally weak.
For these people, children have no rights and are only slightly different than animals (the other group that's easy to dominate). They probably started out by abusing animals.
From the article I don't get the impression the student was being treated with respect and dignity.
Man, I just finished watching a movie called The Lives of Others, about the Stasi in East Berlin before the wall fell. They had these same powers, they could search/bug peoples homes on mere suspicion alone.
If the supposedly "democratic" and "free" societies are heading in this direction I wonder how the world will ever recover from it.
I use Joomla! extensively myself, nearly all of my sites use it, but I also share your frustration with the community built components/extensions/addons almost universal lack of readable documentation. I agree with your assessement of angsty ADHD teenagers snarling at anyone who doesn't instinctively and magically understand how to use their apps.
Since good documentation is the sign of a good programmer, this almost community-wide disdain for user-friendly documentation reflects poorly on Joomla! and brings it down.
Also, having doled out a lot of custom work to Joomla! coders my general impression is that the field is dominated by young inexperienced programmers of questionable maturity and work ethics. You have to be able to state exactly what you want and review every single line of code - and they don't take criticisms/suggestions very well and they certainly don't respect the advice of a programmer with decades more experience than themselves. They're in it for a quick buck, they want money, not work. So if you want it done right expect to hire a dedicated coder or do it yourself.
But that doesn't stop me from using Joomla!, it still works for me and does what I need better than other CMS's I've looked at. I don't think there is anything wrong with Joomla! per se, just the Joomla! programming community.
Actually, seems to me there was a time when conversation on IRC was somewhat intelligent. In the early days it was all academics, scientists, engineers, grads, etc. Then it was a yearly flood of university freshmen. As it grew, quality of conversation declined. Then there was the AOL invasion (1996?) where everyone and their developmentally delayed hormone challenged nephews suddenly had access to IRC. It's never been the same again.
So the average mental and chronological age of the conversationalists became younger, gender representation became disproportionate, average education levels went from university level to high school, vocabulary levels went from college to kindergarten, etc.
It's just that recent comers have no frame of reference for quality conversation on IRC, they've never seen it.
In a galaxy far, far away, I remember when many IRC channels banned .au addies on sight because, it seemed, the vast majority of Australians on efnet were troublemakers.
Seems the .au government agrees.
That someone recognized it as a Klingon Bat'leth. Who was the trekkie who recognized it? A cop?
Ummm...yes? Are you suggesting there were "Western nations" in that film?
This got me thinking about Broadcast Signal Intrusion", culture jamming, radio/television piracy, etc. Is the recent/upcoming conversion to digital signals from analog a way to circumvent or foil "terrorists" who might want to broadcast "alternative" messages? Would it make this a thing of the past?
Are you sure there were "Western nations" 1500 and 3000 years ago?
It never ceases to amaze me that Saddam had more moral integrity than Bush. Especially now that we add up the civilian deaths attributed to each.