No doubt he was easily setup as they knew he was massively vain and sexually creepy. That's the real tragedy of Wikileaks; they are forever tarred by this fundamentally flawed human being.
But to believe this has *nothing* to do with US hegemony is truly ignorant - especially in light of Hillary Clinton just happening to 'drop by' Sweden this week. I wouldn't be surprised if Assange touches down at Gitmo instead.
they call things like the Internet "disruptive technology" for a reason
In ten years the Internet as we knew and took for granted will be dead as a doornail.* It will not stand a chance against the most destructive 'technology' of all: multinational corporate greed machines and their political whores, so willing to please.
* And all the talk of mythical 'dark nets' being our saviour is beyond polliannish. Even if possible, it will be along the lines of a distributed but tiny Sneakernet.
Look no farther than the dearth of actual, fucking, take once and done *CURES*. Oh, but plenty of life-long maintenance drugs for profit lock-in, yessiree bob.
The result won't be much different than what all the Silicon Valley companies already did regarding hiring practices: 'I won't poach your employees, you won't poach mine; we'll just poach (and underpay) the employees that aren't in the good-ole-boy club'. Just search and replace patents for worker bees.
I'm still shocked the Feds went after the Si V folks for collusion, but the end result will only be a wrist-slapping cost of doing business fine. It's a cute ivory tower idea, but the result would only be the rich staying filthy.
In my sadly all-too-Red little burg, come Halloween night that election year, people's presidential lawn signs disappeared. But only the Obama signs. 'Kids being kids', the cops played it off. Yes; kids being as racist as their Christian, 'Family Values' parents.
Not that deep down, we're not that far removed from the 1950's. And in some places, the 1860's.
A couple of free podcasts I listen to (Walking the Room is one; can't recall the other) have mentioned Slacker taking their podcasts - without permission, mind you - cutting them up with interstitial ads, broadcasting them over the Slacker service, and not sharing the ad revenues with the actual podcast creators. How that's even legal is beyond me. And 'business professionals' wonder why most people hate them.
And I bet those same farmers would have raised hell if there had been a crackdown on illegals, complaining to the government that they "just couldn't find workers" (at $4-$5 and hour, of course).
Yeah, the farmers in the former Confederate states ran into this problem when they passed all the new anti-brown laws: no more cheap, compliant labor! Luckily, the very robust and connected for-profit Prison Industry quickly stepped in a provided a very similar substitute. Bonus: most of them are black - just like the good ole' days!
The vote in May for ending the 'Forever War' warrantless wiretapping of US citizens was 2 to 13. Just two of fifteen US Senators believe the Rule of Law is a concept still worth defending.
If it wasn't clear already, this was confirmation the conversion of the US into police state continues unabated. A point the leadership of both parties are in agreement.
I'm more concerned about the Art of Elections Rigging. The blatant, organized, top-down plan to disenfranchise every non-white or non-GOP voter in the US is breathtaking, soul-crushing, and judging by the Wisconsin recall result, deadly effective.
You now have to have a photo ID to vote, meaning for all practical purposes, those without a drivers license need an entire day to waste to run through the rabbit maze to get an approved alternative ID. Oh, and in most large, red, square states? The voting stations are placed in far-flung suburban enclaves with no real public transportation. But I'm sure that's not intentional. Nosireebob. Might as well have a sign outside that says: "You must be this rich and white to vote."
Cold-comfort, but they are demographically doomed - though I think their plan is to rape and scorch the earth to completion before giving way.
to start deprecating the use of all things Google. Sillyness like this is why Duck Duck Go, et al are seeing an uptick in usage.
Though at the current decline and fall rate of our 'free country', it would not cause my jaw to drop if they all have been backdoored (wittingly or not) by the Security Organs of The State.
To extinguish that joke before it goes any further, MS was one of the biggest single contributors to the Linux kernel for a little while because they were adding Hyper-V compatibility stuff. So they've been embracing and extending it for some time now.
Act now, and for the low, low price of $99, you too can continue to boot into your 'Other OS'!! Hurry! This UEFI promotional price will not last long!!
This Fed black op - if it ever reaches the light of day - will be revealed to be as well thought out as the 'Fast and Furious' debacle of giving guns to Mexican cartels.
Nothing in this world is more frustrating than people who insist on standing in your way because they think they know better, all the while lacking the mental capacity to understand why they need to sit down and shut up.
And nothing is more annoying than a person writing they're smarter than the entire world.
Slashdot Mirror
I want my Ixian eyes *now*, damnit!
No doubt he was easily setup as they knew he was massively vain and sexually creepy. That's the real tragedy of Wikileaks; they are forever tarred by this fundamentally flawed human being.
But to believe this has *nothing* to do with US hegemony is truly ignorant - especially in light of Hillary Clinton just happening to 'drop by' Sweden this week. I wouldn't be surprised if Assange touches down at Gitmo instead.
In ten years the Internet as we knew and took for granted will be dead as a doornail.* It will not stand a chance against the most destructive 'technology' of all: multinational corporate greed machines and their political whores, so willing to please.
* And all the talk of mythical 'dark nets' being our saviour is beyond polliannish. Even if possible, it will be along the lines of a distributed but tiny Sneakernet.
Look no farther than the dearth of actual, fucking, take once and done *CURES*. Oh, but plenty of life-long maintenance drugs for profit lock-in, yessiree bob.
They're all the same.
The result won't be much different than what all the Silicon Valley companies already did regarding hiring practices: 'I won't poach your employees, you won't poach mine; we'll just poach (and underpay) the employees that aren't in the good-ole-boy club'. Just search and replace patents for worker bees.
I'm still shocked the Feds went after the Si V folks for collusion, but the end result will only be a wrist-slapping cost of doing business fine. It's a cute ivory tower idea, but the result would only be the rich staying filthy.
.overkill is not on the list. Nor is .pandorasbox (though it will be soon, for all the wrong reasons).
UEFI* will take care of all of this.
* - UEFI still fittingly reminds me of UFIA.
In my sadly all-too-Red little burg, come Halloween night that election year, people's presidential lawn signs disappeared. But only the Obama signs.
'Kids being kids', the cops played it off. Yes; kids being as racist as their Christian, 'Family Values' parents.
Not that deep down, we're not that far removed from the 1950's. And in some places, the 1860's.
A couple of free podcasts I listen to (Walking the Room is one; can't recall the other) have mentioned Slacker taking their podcasts - without permission, mind you - cutting them up with interstitial ads, broadcasting them over the Slacker service, and not sharing the ad revenues with the actual podcast creators. How that's even legal is beyond me. And 'business professionals' wonder why most people hate them.
Yeah, the farmers in the former Confederate states ran into this problem when they passed all the new anti-brown laws: no more cheap, compliant labor! Luckily, the very robust and connected for-profit Prison Industry quickly stepped in a provided a very similar substitute. Bonus: most of them are black - just like the good ole' days!
The vote in May for ending the 'Forever War' warrantless wiretapping of US citizens was 2 to 13. Just two of fifteen US Senators believe the Rule of Law is a concept still worth defending.
If it wasn't clear already, this was confirmation the conversion of the US into police state continues unabated. A point the leadership of both parties are in agreement.
I just hope he limits his exposure to air travel. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wellstone#Controversy
Somewhere, an astute, MBA-sporting LinkedIn user just proudly placed a salt shaker atop of their post-it note of passwords and smugly called it a day.
I'm more concerned about the Art of Elections Rigging. The blatant, organized, top-down plan to disenfranchise every non-white or non-GOP voter in the US is breathtaking, soul-crushing, and judging by the Wisconsin recall result, deadly effective.
You now have to have a photo ID to vote, meaning for all practical purposes, those without a drivers license need an entire day to waste to run through the rabbit maze to get an approved alternative ID. Oh, and in most large, red, square states? The voting stations are placed in far-flung suburban enclaves with no real public transportation. But I'm sure that's not intentional. Nosireebob. Might as well have a sign outside that says: "You must be this rich and white to vote."
Cold-comfort, but they are demographically doomed - though I think their plan is to rape and scorch the earth to completion before giving way.
Who told you my password?
Destroying both the target and the user.
Ingrates.
to start deprecating the use of all things Google. Sillyness like this is why Duck Duck Go, et al are seeing an uptick in usage.
Though at the current decline and fall rate of our 'free country', it would not cause my jaw to drop if they all have been backdoored (wittingly or not) by the Security Organs of The State.
Act now, and for the low, low price of $99, you too can continue to boot into your 'Other OS'!! Hurry! This UEFI promotional price will not last long!!
Buttle, pulling out UEFI chip: "Ah, there's your problem."
Lowry: "Can you fix it?"
Buttle: "No, but I can replace it with this."
That'll learn those cockroaches! They will never dare approach the kitchen again!
This is basically a squabble over a client (read: victim) list.
This Fed black op - if it ever reaches the light of day - will be revealed to be as well thought out as the 'Fast and Furious' debacle of giving guns to Mexican cartels.
Which is worse: hobos or hipsters?
And nothing is more annoying than a person writing they're smarter than the entire world.