They're probably implying that other nations aren't importing the "best and brightest" Americans at the same rate that America is importing the "best and brightest" from other nations.
Either you're supporting the deliberate draining of talent from other nations--perpetually dooming them to substandard status and ensuring a cycle of us always needing to subsidize them with foreign aid--or you're supporting a system of undermining our society here in America by deliberately importing people who have no more love for our nation than they can pick up from what amounts to a driving school in Patriotism.
The mitigating factor is that the typical H1-B immigrant is not carrying the historical debt load that the US Government has saddled the typical American with and, therefore, $50k for an immigrant leads to a lifestyle which is vastly superior to $50k for a home-grown American worker. Immigrants also, iirc, have their first seven years somewhat free of income taxes--or at least significantly lessened (through whatever sort of kickback program).
It's all a boondoggle meant to continue to vest and retain control of the majority of capital in the financial upper echelons of the society. I can't blame you personally if you don't see it that way. The public school system teaches economics as a method of pushing numbers--not analyzing where the numbers actually go.
I don't personally hold anything against immigrants--for the most part their just people trying to make a living like the rest of us. The blame for this exploitation of the American people lies directly on the shoulders of those who sold the entire population into inescapable debt to begin with--a reading of Section 4 of the 14th Amendment makes this abundantly clear,"We sold you into debt and now you must pay it and don't you dare bother trying to challenge it at all!". From that initial debt everything else is just a subsystem.
Debt is a system of financial control when control through physical force would look bad in the public eye. For anyone to think that it's not being used for this purpose is naive and brainwashed.
(the humorous option) "You just think there's some big conspiracy to keep you down because you're an arrogant substandard programmer who thinks you deserve to be paid six figures"
and
(the honest option) "Yeah... I know exactly how you feel."
Thank you for returning to Slashdot, yet again, to follow up to my posts as an anonymous coward with nothing productive to add to the discussion.
I am convinced that you are not a stalker. I am also convinced that you have some intellectual ability of your own.
It has become clear, over the last six months, that you do not like the topics which I choose. It has also become clear, over the last six months, that you do not like what I have to say about those topics. It has also become clear, over the last six months, that you will never relent in your demonstrated goal to follow up nearly everything which I post with an anonymous reply filled with derision, scorn, disdain, challenge, and vitriol. It is also clear that you have not made a single original post of your own but, rather, you exist only by coattailing on thoughts which I express.
So here's your big chance: Sign up for an account, watch the front page, and post some original material or original thoughts of your own. Then e-mail to me a link to your particular Thank you for returning to Slashdot, yet again, to follow up to my posts.
How is this anti-US? It's anti-runaway-abusive-government. It has very little to do with the US as a nation, though, unless you equate runaway-abusive-government with the nation.
So basically if you are a hard-core protester, could you now get your house and bank account seized Even if you're just a mid-core, mostly passive, dissident the groupthink empowered by the sorts of actions espoused in the executive order gives encourages workplace harassment. Once you're harassed, fired, and made homeless, it all works out about the same.
You know how police basically can find some law that you are breaking at any given time if they simple deside to hassle you? When I tried to point out the "hassling" part to HR (not by the police, but by coworkers and management) the only response that I heard was,"This is about YOU!!!"
May be an AC but I don't think many Americans knew that we were officially in a "State of Emergency".
Even if we mod the parent up, though, I don't hold much hope that many Americans will spend more than a few moments thinking about what that really means.
The vast majority of intervals between primes are of even length, Since all the primes after 2 are odd, why yes, the intervals between all prime(x) and prime(y), after 2, are of even length. Have you tried dividing by 2 and graphing again?
I always thought that the perfect random number generator would be the interval between prime numbers. If we can't predict whether or not a number will be prime then, by definition, the interval between one prime and the next should be random.
Graphing various mathematical transformations of a sequence of prime numbers (take, for example, the first ten thousand and do crazy things with interval, logarithms, and statistical analyses) leads me to lend plenty of credibility to what you've said:
just because it is 'impossible to predict' doesn't mean there's not a pattern to it that humans are just too dumb to figure out! That's bordering on conspiracy theory.:)
Because quantum electrodynamics is not a study which dictates the outcome of Schroedinger's cat. You can talk quantum electrodynamics all day long, until you're blue in the face, but the outcome is still 50/50, and it's still determined every bit as much by the surroundings as it is by the nuclei making the emission.
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So many court cases...so many lawsuits...FOI requests...etc. etc. etc. Where do I begin? Yet you haven't named a single one. More crackpot conspiracy theory.
They have all done wonders for my self esteem Clearly demonstrating that you troll because you have a low self-esteem.
I never considered Mother Nature to be very conspiratorial. That's because she isn't. You only think she is because you're a crackpot conspiracy theorist...
I drink to forget, and it's working wonderfully. ...with a substance problem.
How is anyone supposed to take you seriously? Why aren't you homeless?! -- This concludes the trolling section of this post -- In seventh grade my Amer. Hist. teacher, first day of class, was reciting the usual litany of rules of the classroom. Although he didn't ask for our assent I gave mine, with an "Uh-huh" from the back of the classroom, after each and every one. A week later he got me back. In a discussion about the early American colonies and the Salem witch trials he illustrated the importance of the American judicial principle "Innocent until proven guilty." He asked the class for a volunteer to role-play an accused witch in a "guilty until proven innocent" courtroom. I volunteered.
Everything which comes from the ACs over the last sixth months (with this account), over the last five years (with previous ones), from my managers with the employers whom I left (leading to my homelessness), and from the ego-driven knuckleheads on IRC over the last ten has been 100% reminiscent of that simple 15-minute example of "guilty until proven innocent" which I learned in 7th grade.
It really saddens me that there are corporate heavyweights, "leading" researchers with multiple PhD degrees, corporate managers, executives, politicians, and anyone over the age of 12 who still conducts their business as if all of life is a "guilty until proven innocent" interrogation of anyone who dares to refuses to acknowledge their supreme authority.
It also puzzles(*) me as to how I became such a primary target above all the other available humans in society.
(*) Not really. Witch hunters tend to go after anyone more intelligent than they are--and their fanatical zeal increases exponentially with the intelligence differential.
I see you've made it back. Again, I'm flattered by your constant and neverending attention.
It's clear that you crave my attention. You hardly ever miss a post or a chance to respond to anything which I say with contradiction, derision, disdain, and scorn. You obviously don't like the topics which I pick to discuss and you obviously don't like what I have to say about those topics. It's also obvious, though, that my attention is very important to you.
So why don't you do something productive? If you crave my attention so much, if it's that important to you, then sign up for an account, watch the front page, and post some of your own original thoughts to any of the stories. Have you had any original thoughts in the last six months? I haven't seen any. Every single one of your posts has been nothing but a response to what I'm thinking. You've made yourself out to nothing more than a very poor sidekick. Go ahead, post any of your own original material to any topic, and then mail a notice to my Hotmail account to tell me which post was yours. I will then demonstrate for you, since the concept is clearly (with six month history) beyond your scope of understanding, the art of constructive and casual conversation.
And that's one reason I would expose them at every opportunity. As do I. I've gathered a larger crowd of ACs ranting "conspiracy theory!" than you have.:p
The chance that it will be abused is 100%. To quote an AC (for your amusement): "Do you have any evidence to back that up or are you just being a raving crackpot conspiracy theorist again?"
And since the vast majority of the voting public is every bit as corrupt as the government they put into power, To quote an AC (for your amusement): "And you think you're so much better than they are? Maybe you just think everyone's out to get your because you're a paranoid crackpot conspiracy theorist!"
And how many people have died and are dying as a result of prohibition? To follow a troll's logic (again for your amusement): "None. They died because they were breaking the law."
If you take away 100% of the ability to abuse, you end up with policemen walking a beat with little more than a whistle to do their jobs! That's a real good indicator that we don't need so many policemen.
Now if we could just do something about the part about having 1100 new, lobbyist driven laws every year maybe we could balance things out.
The trick is to recognize the potential, demand oversight and employ extremely strict punishment to prevent abuse so the tools are allowed to be used in a legal manner. That's not a trick. It's utter and complete fantasy to think that the system won't be exploited at the oversight level, or that "extremely strict punishment" won't be selectively enforced.
If they have a court order (with proper oversight), I don't see a problem with this FBI warrantless wiretap living under a rock and avoiding reality what?
There's no link to the advisories page from their front page, the advisories page doesn't actually list the.pdf, and the home page isn't the same as the first page.
The article is rather light on details. My first thought is to wonder how, after all this time, they finally managed to figure out that their systems were compromised.
My second thought is to wonder if it's even true or if this is just spin-hype for Trend.
My third thought is to objectively note that this is probably not an isolated incident. If this particular incident is this big then, in all likelihood, there are hundreds or even thousands of other compromised systems which haven't been diagnosed.
you may be able to catch: - the financier We already can catch the financier--it really is no secret where the money comes from and where it goes. The problem is that the financier is exempted, both socially and legally, from prosecution.
I know it's quite easy for most Americans to sit and think that it's possible to anonymously finance a terrorist organization but, in real life, those organizations take five or ten years just to build them up to a useable state. In five or ten years there is plenty of "talking time", even for the most secretive of organizations. This is just the facts of real life. As a public we're led to believe that terrorist cells just spring up, out of nowhere, with well trained and well funded men and equipment and the social connections necessary to acquire passports and plane tickets.
Try an experiment. Try to do some project, which takes over four hours of time per day, at least four days per week, and which costs at least $200/mo., and keep it a complete and utter secret--even from your family and best friends--for a year.
Within reasonable limits, especially if you want to extrapolate the "SECRET PROJECT" to be something like an international terrorist organization, it simply cannot be done.
rely on the power of jury nullification (That a jury has the legal right to acquit a defendant if they disagree with a law) incase a couple of overzealous officials attempt to enforce it. Problem with that is most judges will strongly urge juries, off the record, to forget that they have such a power. There are cases where judges have replaced juries who have tried. In more recent decades attorneys will exclude potential jurors who indicate that they know what jury nullification is.
Sad but true. Most people think that, if you don't like the laws, you're supposed to try and build enough financial and political support to lobby the politicians to change them or elect different politicians. The one true power which the public had to police the laws created by politicians was jury nullification and most attorneys and judges are staunchly against allowing anyone to use it.
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They're probably implying that other nations aren't importing the "best and brightest" Americans at the same rate that America is importing the "best and brightest" from other nations.
Either you're supporting the deliberate draining of talent from other nations--perpetually dooming them to substandard status and ensuring a cycle of us always needing to subsidize them with foreign aid--or you're supporting a system of undermining our society here in America by deliberately importing people who have no more love for our nation than they can pick up from what amounts to a driving school in Patriotism.
Which is it?
The mitigating factor is that the typical H1-B immigrant is not carrying the historical debt load that the US Government has saddled the typical American with and, therefore, $50k for an immigrant leads to a lifestyle which is vastly superior to $50k for a home-grown American worker. Immigrants also, iirc, have their first seven years somewhat free of income taxes--or at least significantly lessened (through whatever sort of kickback program).
It's all a boondoggle meant to continue to vest and retain control of the majority of capital in the financial upper echelons of the society. I can't blame you personally if you don't see it that way. The public school system teaches economics as a method of pushing numbers--not analyzing where the numbers actually go.
I don't personally hold anything against immigrants--for the most part their just people trying to make a living like the rest of us. The blame for this exploitation of the American people lies directly on the shoulders of those who sold the entire population into inescapable debt to begin with--a reading of Section 4 of the 14th Amendment makes this abundantly clear,"We sold you into debt and now you must pay it and don't you dare bother trying to challenge it at all!". From that initial debt everything else is just a subsystem.
Debt is a system of financial control when control through physical force would look bad in the public eye. For anyone to think that it's not being used for this purpose is naive and brainwashed.
I'm torn between two options:
(the humorous option) "You just think there's some big conspiracy to keep you down because you're an arrogant substandard programmer who thinks you deserve to be paid six figures"
and
(the honest option) "Yeah... I know exactly how you feel."
Beautiful. Now, is there any way that I can use this information to become un-homeless?
Thank you for returning to Slashdot, yet again, to follow up to my posts as an anonymous coward with nothing productive to add to the discussion.
I am convinced that you are not a stalker. I am also convinced that you have some intellectual ability of your own.
It has become clear, over the last six months, that you do not like the topics which I choose. It has also become clear, over the last six months, that you do not like what I have to say about those topics. It has also become clear, over the last six months, that you will never relent in your demonstrated goal to follow up nearly everything which I post with an anonymous reply filled with derision, scorn, disdain, challenge, and vitriol. It is also clear that you have not made a single original post of your own but, rather, you exist only by coattailing on thoughts which I express.
So here's your big chance: Sign up for an account, watch the front page, and post some original material or original thoughts of your own. Then e-mail to me a link to your particular Thank you for returning to Slashdot, yet again, to follow up to my posts.
How is this anti-US? It's anti-runaway-abusive-government. It has very little to do with the US as a nation, though, unless you equate runaway-abusive-government with the nation.
May be an AC but I don't think many Americans knew that we were officially in a "State of Emergency".
Even if we mod the parent up, though, I don't hold much hope that many Americans will spend more than a few moments thinking about what that really means.
Graphing various mathematical transformations of a sequence of prime numbers (take, for example, the first ten thousand and do crazy things with interval, logarithms, and statistical analyses) leads me to lend plenty of credibility to what you've said: just because it is 'impossible to predict' doesn't mean there's not a pattern to it that humans are just too dumb to figure out! That's bordering on conspiracy theory.
Because quantum electrodynamics is not a study which dictates the outcome of Schroedinger's cat. You can talk quantum electrodynamics all day long, until you're blue in the face, but the outcome is still 50/50, and it's still determined every bit as much by the surroundings as it is by the nuclei making the emission.
The following is a simulated troll for entertainment purposes only:
-- So many court cases...so many lawsuits...FOI requests...etc. etc. etc. Where do I begin? Yet you haven't named a single one. More crackpot conspiracy theory. They have all done wonders for my self esteem Clearly demonstrating that you troll because you have a low self-esteem. I never considered Mother Nature to be very conspiratorial. That's because she isn't. You only think she is because you're a crackpot conspiracy theorist... I drink to forget, and it's working wonderfully. ...with a substance problem.
How is anyone supposed to take you seriously? Why aren't you homeless?!
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This concludes the trolling section of this post
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In seventh grade my Amer. Hist. teacher, first day of class, was reciting the usual litany of rules of the classroom. Although he didn't ask for our assent I gave mine, with an "Uh-huh" from the back of the classroom, after each and every one. A week later he got me back. In a discussion about the early American colonies and the Salem witch trials he illustrated the importance of the American judicial principle "Innocent until proven guilty." He asked the class for a volunteer to role-play an accused witch in a "guilty until proven innocent" courtroom. I volunteered.
Everything which comes from the ACs over the last sixth months (with this account), over the last five years (with previous ones), from my managers with the employers whom I left (leading to my homelessness), and from the ego-driven knuckleheads on IRC over the last ten has been 100% reminiscent of that simple 15-minute example of "guilty until proven innocent" which I learned in 7th grade.
It really saddens me that there are corporate heavyweights, "leading" researchers with multiple PhD degrees, corporate managers, executives, politicians, and anyone over the age of 12 who still conducts their business as if all of life is a "guilty until proven innocent" interrogation of anyone who dares to refuses to acknowledge their supreme authority.
It also puzzles(*) me as to how I became such a primary target above all the other available humans in society.
(*) Not really. Witch hunters tend to go after anyone more intelligent than they are--and their fanatical zeal increases exponentially with the intelligence differential.
Maybe they mean the unpredictable set of environmental conditions which surrounds the tipping point between "doesn't happen" and "does happen".
I see you've made it back. Again, I'm flattered by your constant and neverending attention.
It's clear that you crave my attention. You hardly ever miss a post or a chance to respond to anything which I say with contradiction, derision, disdain, and scorn. You obviously don't like the topics which I pick to discuss and you obviously don't like what I have to say about those topics. It's also obvious, though, that my attention is very important to you.
So why don't you do something productive? If you crave my attention so much, if it's that important to you, then sign up for an account, watch the front page, and post some of your own original thoughts to any of the stories. Have you had any original thoughts in the last six months? I haven't seen any. Every single one of your posts has been nothing but a response to what I'm thinking. You've made yourself out to nothing more than a very poor sidekick. Go ahead, post any of your own original material to any topic, and then mail a notice to my Hotmail account to tell me which post was yours. I will then demonstrate for you, since the concept is clearly (with six month history) beyond your scope of understanding, the art of constructive and casual conversation.
Since you've resolved yourself to make my words a part of your daily, perhaps you'd like to introduce yourself to me?
How about you start out by telling me what you had for breakfast?
Are you at work when you type this junk or is this something that you do because you have no other options for any productive hobby in life?
Now if we could just do something about the part about having 1100 new, lobbyist driven laws every year maybe we could balance things out. The trick is to recognize the potential, demand oversight and employ extremely strict punishment to prevent abuse so the tools are allowed to be used in a legal manner. That's not a trick. It's utter and complete fantasy to think that the system won't be exploited at the oversight level, or that "extremely strict punishment" won't be selectively enforced.
C-Net was a C64 BBS system, went up to something like v18, and the codebase was forked around v13 to make Image.
They don't need to turn a blind eye to policeware. The commercially available remote administration tools aren't in the databases.
There's no link to the advisories page from their front page, the advisories page doesn't actually list the .pdf, and the home page isn't the same as the first page.
The article is rather light on details. My first thought is to wonder how, after all this time, they finally managed to figure out that their systems were compromised.
My second thought is to wonder if it's even true or if this is just spin-hype for Trend.
My third thought is to objectively note that this is probably not an isolated incident. If this particular incident is this big then, in all likelihood, there are hundreds or even thousands of other compromised systems which haven't been diagnosed.
My fourth thought is "Haha!"
- the financier We already can catch the financier--it really is no secret where the money comes from and where it goes. The problem is that the financier is exempted, both socially and legally, from prosecution.
I know it's quite easy for most Americans to sit and think that it's possible to anonymously finance a terrorist organization but, in real life, those organizations take five or ten years just to build them up to a useable state. In five or ten years there is plenty of "talking time", even for the most secretive of organizations. This is just the facts of real life. As a public we're led to believe that terrorist cells just spring up, out of nowhere, with well trained and well funded men and equipment and the social connections necessary to acquire passports and plane tickets.
Try an experiment. Try to do some project, which takes over four hours of time per day, at least four days per week, and which costs at least $200/mo., and keep it a complete and utter secret--even from your family and best friends--for a year.
Within reasonable limits, especially if you want to extrapolate the "SECRET PROJECT" to be something like an international terrorist organization, it simply cannot be done.
Sad but true. Most people think that, if you don't like the laws, you're supposed to try and build enough financial and political support to lobby the politicians to change them or elect different politicians. The one true power which the public had to police the laws created by politicians was jury nullification and most attorneys and judges are staunchly against allowing anyone to use it.