In the natural world there are three levels of privacy: private, public, and performance. The worldwide broadcast network completely eradicates the line between private and public with the added bonus of instant performance level attention.
The disingenuous part is that the global population of network users are allowed to hold on to some measure of expectation of privacy. Few recognize, and fewer admit, the extent of network surveillance by ISPs, administrators, rogues, and government. In real life there is an expectation that, even though you may be in public, you do not have a crew of people standing over your shoulder or listening in from across the street; this expectation is assisted by our perception of personal space. On the network the majority of users would have no idea if someone were right over their shoulder--much less holding an audio recorder under them 24/7.
The correct solution is to remind everyone that internet pr0n is of people who are already dead and likely have been dead for ten years or longer (today's updates were today's updates ten years ago, too) and, when they died, it was likely from severe depression related idiocies. When you watch internet pr0n you are subconsciously training yourself to want to be in the same situation as someone who was, statistically, dead within six months of the pictures you are looking at.
Do you think internet pr0n began with top-dollar pay? The money was for the drugs and parties, not for the actors. Talk with your senators about the accounting.
Your UID indicates that you have been here long enough to know that 98% of everything that goes on is based upon taking the smallest possible quote out of context and roasting the target over molten lava slowly until they die or go away.
Nice post, though.
You shouldn't be doing it in public in the first place
Somewhat pointless since almost all internet traffic goes through a backbone accessible to the US fed gov't at some point, anyway. They don't even need a warrant for your information.
Likely the family has a trust fund set up for him and they're hoping he dies in jail and, even if he doesn't, they get to play with his cash while he's locked up.
Google has hired some of the smartest programmers in the world
They have also hired some of the most cutthroat business and economic analysts in the world as well as contributing to the campaigns of the some of the most diabolical politicians in the world, not to mention significant portions of their stock being owned by some of the greediest and most immoral private entrepeneurs in the world.
the majority of their services are created by geeks who just want to do something cool and found a job at a company that lets them do cool things without requiring everything to have an ROI
What part of reality have you decided to ignore?
Think to yourself: What personality type controls the major portion of Google's executive board and their largest pools of stock? Would that be A) the good-natured geek who would shoot milk out of his nose every time you made a joke about Windows in undergrad school or B) The cold hearted a$$hole from a billionaire family who only talked with similar a$$holes on the rowing team who all came from families of global level politicians and venture capitalists?
The implicit threat is that any one of us could be selected for "special attention" or "selective enforcement" at any time if the government
And once the government finishes with its years-long special attention surveillance, having acted on the anonymous tip supplied by some alcoholic ex-lover or some malcontent and embittered former classmate or just some prankster who randomly happened to decide that you were the target of the day or some arrogant asshat son of a retired general on IRC, and after the years-long special attention inquiries have created a raft of suspicion and denied opportunity in employment and in surrounding social circles, the government quietly just drops off to go pursue the next person of interest and you are left with no way to prove they had anything to do with your f*cked up life or reclaim the years of lost promotions and opportunities.
Furthermore the surrounding society, who for the most part believe that the big brother government never does anything wrong, blames you.
Temperature is a measure of average kinetic energy. Higher temperature is higher average kinetic energy. Increased kinetic energy means more collisions per second. More collisions per second means higher pressure. Increased pressure causes a system to expand unless it is restrained or contained.
Earth is a ball of stuff, largely water, flying through the vacuum of space--it is not restrained or contained. If the globe were warming then the atmosphere would be expanding unless we are losing the mass of our atmosphere like a snowball skidding down a sidewalk.
Whether or not it is true to whatever degree people like to talk about it I do not see that it could possibly be happening to any degree which would be worth the trillions of dollars that the media, government, and environmentalists sap out of it.
I am lucky to have a lunch worth eating--and others are making billions from bullsh*t and fearmongering hype.
We've been doing this in rpg and frp video games for years. Create new characters, add them to the party, pool the money, remove the used up shells, delete them. Create new characters.
As soon as the concept of being paid to surf the web, paid to follow links, paid to click on ads arrived there were a thousand gamers who knew exactly what to do.
Are ad servers bogging down the web? Who in their right mind would pass up a chance for free cash?
Ad servers are the most profitable thing short of using a sector editor to create supercharacters.
It is not about old and unpatched. It is about looking back and thinking,"Hmm. If it was posted to Bugtraq recently and affects old browsers then, in all likelihood, it was known almost immediately when the versions came out."
IOW, you can safely deduce that this bug has been in use for years but, like an ostrich, what people do not see right in front of them still exists.
Consider the most likely group of people to have known about the exploit long before it was made popularly known: inner circle developers, hackers with code and memory analysis tools, and, likely, your friendly neighborhood government surveillance agencies.
If it can be used to install rogue code into the system do not look for system crashing viruses or resource hogging worms. How many kB does it take for a keylogger and a relay for information of interest (URLs visited, installed programs, identifying information, registry keys, etc.)?
If you consider the state of operating system security over the last ten years it is safe to operate under the assumption that your system is being monitored somewhat "Echelon" style: that is to seriously consider that the system is quietly exploited and all activity is being funnelled into a database which is mined and cross-referenced for keywords (URLs, registry keys, identifying information, etc.).
Do not think that MacOS or Linux or even OpenBSD is immune. Zero day exploits are zero day exploits and every web browser has them. The more important consideration, once you just flatly accept the truth, is: who is most likely to be making use of this... and why? With that question firmly in mind you will be able to logically assess each and every security report which appears in daily news. What you don't know _is_ being used against you. Consider that to be a real, daily, constant fact.
Treat it the way you would honesty consider that your bank, your landlord, and your local locksmith quite likely have no trouble obtaining a key to your front door and, no matter how much you think you have rights, they will never admit to it.
One thousand years ago, even one hundred years ago, the concept of communicating with people who were not within line of sight or range of hearing would be called clairvoyance, clairaudience, mental telepathy, witchcraft, astral projection, sorcery, or something similar. It would have been persecuted and shunned even to the point of executing (as painfully as possible) anyone who claimed to have such ability.
Nowadays we call it technology and we persecute and shun anyone who has no interest in it calling them antisocial, or disgruntled, or loner, or hermit, or difficult to get along with.
We have it here. It is not widely public but we have it.
The control room is down on prospect behind a stairwell. If you watch you'll see people darting in and out of a door that seems to go no where. It's the monitor room for the cameras which are all over the city.
Obviously it's used to watch the homeless more than anything productive...
It should be. Or conspiracy to set the stage for domestic violence, or something.
Consider this morning. I was sitting on the walkway and a police officer walked up to chat for a while. He commented that two of the other guys on the street ended up in jail last night because of a fight. One of the guys had kicked his girlfriend and the other guy, playing Cpt. Save-a-ho, decided to jump in to do something over it. I am unclear as to whether or not the lady ended up in jail as well.
My analysis was this. When ladies become bored they begin talking. It's babylonian. It does not even matter what they talk about. When ladies become bored they begin talking. Her boyfriend puts up with this for a while but, after several days (months, years, decades) of drinking his tolerance for mindless babble has slowly decreased. So at some point he tells her to shut up. She does... for a little while. But ladies become bored and then they start talking. It does not even matter what they talk about. When ladies become bored they begin talking. Then her boyfriend begins drinking more rapidly and eventually tells her to shut up again. She puts up with it for a while but, at some point, she will begin to argue about why she should shut up. The point of view of the male is that he doesn't need to babble endlessly (though drunks most often do--and that's my largest annoyance with being homeless is that most other homeless men are drunks whose brains operate like women: they constantly need to be running their mouths about something, anything, whateverthing). The point of view of the female is that she's bored so why shouldn't she be able to talk about something.
So boyfriend eventually becomes upset enough to hit girlfriend in the shoulder--like a guy slugging another guy in the shoulder to emphasize the point of "shut up". Women, through the media and popular culture, have cultured the "Cpt. Save-a-Ho" mentality in naive and easily manipulated males... so male number two decides that the boyfriend is out of line and jumps in to the rescue. Males end up in fight and hauled off by police... female is entertained just as much as if she had someone who would actually listen to her endlessly babbling and talking.
So... all of that in consideration... babies learning mommy's language in the womb is just a side effect of being constantly exposed to mommy when she becomes bored and feels the need to begin talking endlessly about something, anything.
What makes this something of aggravated assault is that the baby has no way of saying,"Look, lady, shut the bleep-bleep-bleep up for once!" Maybe that is why gestation is nine months long. Nine months of listening to someone else endlessly run their mouth is the absolute maximum that anyone is able to psychologically deal with.
That is a whole new perspective on premature birth.
That will be the incentive to provoke the population to drop another two or four hundred dollars on the next player for the next format that they come up with.
You have become the beta tester for software companies
At one time that was a defining difference between corporate produced software and enthusiast software. Paying for the software was theoretically covering the cost of beta testers (and corporate cruft). Using freeware, trialware, crippleware, shareware, etc. was a sign that you might be interested in assisting the programmer(s) in working out bugs.
how about we up our standards a little
For entertainment software that idea went out the window about twenty years ago. For enterprise software that idea went out the window about thirty years ago. Corporate profit margins have ensured that software quality has been on a degenerating spiral. New languages, new fads, new hardware, new advertising, whizz-bang effects and whoa! cool! graphics have been nothing but a coverup for complete loss of useability and functionality and notoriously inflated price.
Think about it within the context of the dot com bubble. Think about the dot com bubble in the realm of multibillion dollar investing brokerages. Create a complimentary timeline of government tax subsidies and industry bailouts. Might as well have a concomittant look at the military campaigns that have been staged across the globe in the last forty years.
Create debt. Maintain debt. Keep people in debt. Work them for everything they're worth. Human lives reduced to expendable batteries. Enormous glaring software deficiencies and exploits are nothing more than a margin note of logical fallout.
There is a solution. You will not like it. Leave everything behind and follow me--the alternative is to resign yourself to being just another battery in that system for someone else's greater profit. Jesus Christ was not lying and his analysis of the greater functionality of society is as true today as it was two thousand years ago.
I have often mused that, if one had a low bandwidth trojan on someone's system, the most interesting memory to watch would be the copy and paste buffer.
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In the natural world there are three levels of privacy: private, public, and performance. The worldwide broadcast network completely eradicates the line between private and public with the added bonus of instant performance level attention.
The disingenuous part is that the global population of network users are allowed to hold on to some measure of expectation of privacy. Few recognize, and fewer admit, the extent of network surveillance by ISPs, administrators, rogues, and government. In real life there is an expectation that, even though you may be in public, you do not have a crew of people standing over your shoulder or listening in from across the street; this expectation is assisted by our perception of personal space. On the network the majority of users would have no idea if someone were right over their shoulder--much less holding an audio recorder under them 24/7.
Any arguments or considerations based upon "life expectancy" are bullsh*t.
There's this two thousand and five hundred year old book, called Psalms, which clearly states:
"Seventy is the sum of our years, or eighty, if we are strong"
How have the billions of taxpayer dollars sucked away improved on that number?
You forgot me you insensitive clod!
The correct solution is to remind everyone that internet pr0n is of people who are already dead and likely have been dead for ten years or longer (today's updates were today's updates ten years ago, too) and, when they died, it was likely from severe depression related idiocies. When you watch internet pr0n you are subconsciously training yourself to want to be in the same situation as someone who was, statistically, dead within six months of the pictures you are looking at.
Do you think internet pr0n began with top-dollar pay? The money was for the drugs and parties, not for the actors. Talk with your senators about the accounting.
Your UID indicates that you have been here long enough to know that 98% of everything that goes on is based upon taking the smallest possible quote out of context and roasting the target over molten lava slowly until they die or go away.
Nice post, though.
You shouldn't be doing it in public in the first place
I am homeless you insensitive clod!
Somewhat pointless since almost all internet traffic goes through a backbone accessible to the US fed gov't at some point, anyway. They don't even need a warrant for your information.
Likely the family has a trust fund set up for him and they're hoping he dies in jail and, even if he doesn't, they get to play with his cash while he's locked up.
Google has hired some of the smartest programmers in the world
They have also hired some of the most cutthroat business and economic analysts in the world as well as contributing to the campaigns of the some of the most diabolical politicians in the world, not to mention significant portions of their stock being owned by some of the greediest and most immoral private entrepeneurs in the world.
the majority of their services are created by geeks who just want to do something cool and found a job at a company that lets them do cool things without requiring everything to have an ROI
What part of reality have you decided to ignore?
Think to yourself: What personality type controls the major portion of Google's executive board and their largest pools of stock? Would that be A) the good-natured geek who would shoot milk out of his nose every time you made a joke about Windows in undergrad school or B) The cold hearted a$$hole from a billionaire family who only talked with similar a$$holes on the rowing team who all came from families of global level politicians and venture capitalists?
Be honest.
The implicit threat is that any one of us could be selected for "special attention" or "selective enforcement" at any time if the government
And once the government finishes with its years-long special attention surveillance, having acted on the anonymous tip supplied by some alcoholic ex-lover or some malcontent and embittered former classmate or just some prankster who randomly happened to decide that you were the target of the day or some arrogant asshat son of a retired general on IRC, and after the years-long special attention inquiries have created a raft of suspicion and denied opportunity in employment and in surrounding social circles, the government quietly just drops off to go pursue the next person of interest and you are left with no way to prove they had anything to do with your f*cked up life or reclaim the years of lost promotions and opportunities.
Furthermore the surrounding society, who for the most part believe that the big brother government never does anything wrong, blames you.
Ergo... you end up homeless.
Either that or you eat sh*t and spend the rest of your life serving french fries, painting buildings, and surrounded by trash.
I decided to wait for God to sort it out. I am not going to eat sh*t over their mistakes.
They are all going to hell.
Temperature is a measure of average kinetic energy. Higher temperature is higher average kinetic energy. Increased kinetic energy means more collisions per second. More collisions per second means higher pressure. Increased pressure causes a system to expand unless it is restrained or contained.
Earth is a ball of stuff, largely water, flying through the vacuum of space--it is not restrained or contained. If the globe were warming then the atmosphere would be expanding unless we are losing the mass of our atmosphere like a snowball skidding down a sidewalk.
Whether or not it is true to whatever degree people like to talk about it I do not see that it could possibly be happening to any degree which would be worth the trillions of dollars that the media, government, and environmentalists sap out of it.
I am lucky to have a lunch worth eating--and others are making billions from bullsh*t and fearmongering hype.
You are all going to hell.
No news here.
We've been doing this in rpg and frp video games for years. Create new characters, add them to the party, pool the money, remove the used up shells, delete them. Create new characters.
As soon as the concept of being paid to surf the web, paid to follow links, paid to click on ads arrived there were a thousand gamers who knew exactly what to do.
Are ad servers bogging down the web? Who in their right mind would pass up a chance for free cash?
Ad servers are the most profitable thing short of using a sector editor to create supercharacters.
It is not about old and unpatched. It is about looking back and thinking,"Hmm. If it was posted to Bugtraq recently and affects old browsers then, in all likelihood, it was known almost immediately when the versions came out."
IOW, you can safely deduce that this bug has been in use for years but, like an ostrich, what people do not see right in front of them still exists.
Consider the most likely group of people to have known about the exploit long before it was made popularly known: inner circle developers, hackers with code and memory analysis tools, and, likely, your friendly neighborhood government surveillance agencies.
If it can be used to install rogue code into the system do not look for system crashing viruses or resource hogging worms. How many kB does it take for a keylogger and a relay for information of interest (URLs visited, installed programs, identifying information, registry keys, etc.)?
If you consider the state of operating system security over the last ten years it is safe to operate under the assumption that your system is being monitored somewhat "Echelon" style: that is to seriously consider that the system is quietly exploited and all activity is being funnelled into a database which is mined and cross-referenced for keywords (URLs, registry keys, identifying information, etc.).
Do not think that MacOS or Linux or even OpenBSD is immune. Zero day exploits are zero day exploits and every web browser has them. The more important consideration, once you just flatly accept the truth, is: who is most likely to be making use of this... and why? With that question firmly in mind you will be able to logically assess each and every security report which appears in daily news. What you don't know _is_ being used against you. Consider that to be a real, daily, constant fact.
Treat it the way you would honesty consider that your bank, your landlord, and your local locksmith quite likely have no trouble obtaining a key to your front door and, no matter how much you think you have rights, they will never admit to it.
One thousand years ago, even one hundred years ago, the concept of communicating with people who were not within line of sight or range of hearing would be called clairvoyance, clairaudience, mental telepathy, witchcraft, astral projection, sorcery, or something similar. It would have been persecuted and shunned even to the point of executing (as painfully as possible) anyone who claimed to have such ability.
Nowadays we call it technology and we persecute and shun anyone who has no interest in it calling them antisocial, or disgruntled, or loner, or hermit, or difficult to get along with.
My how human society has changed.
We have it here. It is not widely public but we have it.
The control room is down on prospect behind a stairwell. If you watch you'll see people darting in and out of a door that seems to go no where. It's the monitor room for the cameras which are all over the city.
Obviously it's used to watch the homeless more than anything productive...
takes under 7GB of space
Please insert disk two or turn the disk over
psot
It should be. Or conspiracy to set the stage for domestic violence, or something.
Consider this morning. I was sitting on the walkway and a police officer walked up to chat for a while. He commented that two of the other guys on the street ended up in jail last night because of a fight. One of the guys had kicked his girlfriend and the other guy, playing Cpt. Save-a-ho, decided to jump in to do something over it. I am unclear as to whether or not the lady ended up in jail as well.
My analysis was this. When ladies become bored they begin talking. It's babylonian. It does not even matter what they talk about. When ladies become bored they begin talking. Her boyfriend puts up with this for a while but, after several days (months, years, decades) of drinking his tolerance for mindless babble has slowly decreased. So at some point he tells her to shut up. She does... for a little while. But ladies become bored and then they start talking. It does not even matter what they talk about. When ladies become bored they begin talking. Then her boyfriend begins drinking more rapidly and eventually tells her to shut up again. She puts up with it for a while but, at some point, she will begin to argue about why she should shut up. The point of view of the male is that he doesn't need to babble endlessly (though drunks most often do--and that's my largest annoyance with being homeless is that most other homeless men are drunks whose brains operate like women: they constantly need to be running their mouths about something, anything, whateverthing). The point of view of the female is that she's bored so why shouldn't she be able to talk about something.
So boyfriend eventually becomes upset enough to hit girlfriend in the shoulder--like a guy slugging another guy in the shoulder to emphasize the point of "shut up". Women, through the media and popular culture, have cultured the "Cpt. Save-a-Ho" mentality in naive and easily manipulated males... so male number two decides that the boyfriend is out of line and jumps in to the rescue. Males end up in fight and hauled off by police... female is entertained just as much as if she had someone who would actually listen to her endlessly babbling and talking.
So... all of that in consideration... babies learning mommy's language in the womb is just a side effect of being constantly exposed to mommy when she becomes bored and feels the need to begin talking endlessly about something, anything.
What makes this something of aggravated assault is that the baby has no way of saying,"Look, lady, shut the bleep-bleep-bleep up for once!" Maybe that is why gestation is nine months long. Nine months of listening to someone else endlessly run their mouth is the absolute maximum that anyone is able to psychologically deal with.
That is a whole new perspective on premature birth.
Please turn in your Slashdot card on your way out.
That will be the incentive to provoke the population to drop another two or four hundred dollars on the next player for the next format that they come up with.
"Why can't I own a Canadian" in the summary actually makes this particularly suck troll relevent. Probably the only time you will ever see it happen.
You have become the beta tester for software companies
At one time that was a defining difference between corporate produced software and enthusiast software. Paying for the software was theoretically covering the cost of beta testers (and corporate cruft). Using freeware, trialware, crippleware, shareware, etc. was a sign that you might be interested in assisting the programmer(s) in working out bugs.
how about we up our standards a little
For entertainment software that idea went out the window about twenty years ago. For enterprise software that idea went out the window about thirty years ago. Corporate profit margins have ensured that software quality has been on a degenerating spiral. New languages, new fads, new hardware, new advertising, whizz-bang effects and whoa! cool! graphics have been nothing but a coverup for complete loss of useability and functionality and notoriously inflated price.
Think about it within the context of the dot com bubble. Think about the dot com bubble in the realm of multibillion dollar investing brokerages. Create a complimentary timeline of government tax subsidies and industry bailouts. Might as well have a concomittant look at the military campaigns that have been staged across the globe in the last forty years.
Create debt. Maintain debt. Keep people in debt. Work them for everything they're worth. Human lives reduced to expendable batteries. Enormous glaring software deficiencies and exploits are nothing more than a margin note of logical fallout.
There is a solution. You will not like it. Leave everything behind and follow me--the alternative is to resign yourself to being just another battery in that system for someone else's greater profit. Jesus Christ was not lying and his analysis of the greater functionality of society is as true today as it was two thousand years ago.
Yes. Microsoft managed to reduce that functionality to about 12k in a .dll so that they could charge extra for it.
or even tether a number of laptops together at a coffee shop that charges for WiFi
It sounds very similar to a case of conspiracy, aiding and abetting computer intrusion, and wire fraud.
Maybe Microsoft could be prosecuted for producing software which may be manipulated.
Or maybe Motorola could be prosecuted for making hardware which could be modified to circumvent ToS.
Or maybe Sony could be prosecuted for making PlayStations which can be hacked.
Why are the innovative individuals always the ones bearing the legal load?
I have often mused that, if one had a low bandwidth trojan on someone's system, the most interesting memory to watch would be the copy and paste buffer.
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