Thats why it stays speculation. I don't like Alex Jones all that much myself. But he may be slightly more believable then CNN on any given day. CNN usually has nothing meaningful to say. Alex Jones usually just wants to stir up more anti-government shit.
There are stories out there, but you really have to dig deep and get 1st hand accounts. Not the kind of bullshit gibberish that you get on T.V. or a call in on Alex's show.
In other words, trust NOTHING you hear. And go about your daily business as if you have no control over the bullshit going on because really thats all we have. But I do have the power to come on here and spew forth my opinion on the matter. So thats what I do.
Lastly I respect your ideology of moderation. You are absolutely right.
Who knows but our president may have no moral scruples so if faced with someone demanding something under the threat of violence. I could see him completely not caring or thinking up ways to spin it to his own agenda anyway.
Of all the things I have heard about our current president he is not a "Nice, family guy". He is a politician and a puppet. He rubs elbows with very evil people and routinely visits and has meetings with them. He does not care about American values. He doesn't care if you specifically are anything. He wants either power, the status quo, or to protect something he does care about.
Guess what its not you, OR those families in Boston. Thats what I believe anyway. Many more do I'm sure. The dood cares more about what energy company gets pork then what happens to us all.
No one has mentioned extortion or organized crime. More speculation, but could some high up official not decided to blame something like this on some random breed of terrorism just to make people look the other way or "feel like they are being protected from the bad-guys" when shit is really out of control?
Who knows. Things like that DO happen but no one usually knows until 20 years later.
I can't fathom a motivation for these things. Stuff like this actually is counterproductive to making a gun free society. See Pakistan were everyone is afraid of everyone or Somalia, to see what kind of affect this kind of "terrorism" has. It's focus and the only motivation I can see is to further destroy the rule of law and create more anarchy.
Your right, you cant use anyones personal success as a measure of their self worth. But that does not stop someone from using it to justify their place in the world. Either we all deserve to be kings or to some degree we must acknowledge that "MIGHT" is relevant to the equation of life.
There's a difference between claiming false flag and speculating right back at you nutbags who trust EVERYTHING you read, see, or hear from an "official source".
This is still unfortunately speculation. Wishful, misguided speculation. But pure speculation. I want wake up in a world one day were I can trust the news I hear and the government spokespeople WE elected. But I fear this won't be the case for some time.
Simply regulating, taxing, or creating a black market that can be regulated by a 3 letter agency and give our good o'le boys much needed mercenary work and training should be sufficient.
False flag written all over this. Its a shame for the families no matter who is responsible. But all the media and government can do is give us speculation. Because the rule of law and the chain of trust has been destroyed in our ignorance as a nation.
I would like to extrapolate on that lottery theory of yours and say that "some" of us are smart enough to take action and advantage of those lucky coincidences your talking about while many just let them pass us by. Your arguing a fundamental philosophical point. And I think it has been proven time and again that "Man has some control over their destiny, and the destiny of their progeny." By that very nature, yes, SOME REALLY DID EARN, a higher place in life. Through attention, or nobility, or thought, or care, or whatever they did.
The guy with the f'd up broken ass car did deserve the breakdown while the guy with the cars that generally last 20 yrs did deserve the reliability from the attention and time they put into their car. This does happen. Sometimes the beater car guy gets extremely lucky and doesn't break down and sometimes the car fanatic just gets a bad weld an the whole car catches on fire. But hey, in the vast majority of cases when taken all together, odds are that destiny is in our hands despite what the universe throws at us.
Which for the vast majority of us, the universe throws the same things over and over... people living 10,000 miles away from you generally have very analogous daily routines as you.
And it took new hardware and a few years to get games to start using 11, which did indeed have some nice features like better tessellation.
But the updates to graphics rendering are slowing to a crawl as I mentioned before, the render side has been pretty much stagnant since DX9. Or just enhancements of DX9 features technology. Maybe adding a few more sharers or what have you... for example my DX11 bargain card can run SSAO without slowdown because its integrated as "yet another shader" and not a software shader. But theres a limit to how many reasonable shaders you can give a scene without it becoming ridiculously cartoony (some games go over the top here already and should stick with basic affects for what they want to accomplish).
So to simplify and summarize what said and what the article is saying:
DirectX is no longer a good investment and we won't be seeing any further development on it from Microsoft (except maybe a few patches to whats already around). No one is picking it up or buying it from Microsoft.
Anyway AFAIK most games barely use what the graphics API's are giving them, the problems are in the engines and art, and hardware being limited. The rendering is more advanced then what can run it by leaps and bounds, and its about as optimized as it gets. So until we see a whole new set of hardware optimized around different rendering technology the API calls are pretty much stagnating because they don't need to be adapted for any more "input".
We see the division of sound, networking, and physics out of the DirectX API as well. I don't think many of the newer console games are relying that heavily on the networking code "netplay" thats in there. Server heavy games like WoW definitely run mostly custom network code.
In which case we'd be really shooting our scientists in the foot by limiting their options severely. Well I guess maybe not that bad considering SRI international is now in charge of operations over at Arecibo and they are maybe a bit less affected by this. But there are still plenty of smaller universities, schools, and corporations that could use scientific computing on the cheep. (yes they need small "supercomputers" to do digital analysis on the insane amounts of data that is collected). This should be mostly unaffected by the industrial espionage and spy shit the bigger governments are pulling. Then again are the Chinese and Russians so mad at us that they would literally mess with astrophysics research...
I could see the government getting involved if it was DARPA project money. But that should be in the guidelines of the project, not a blanket rule for all in the country to follow and many larger projects are no longer secret and open for anyone or sold to companies like SRI. Keep secret and non-secret systems separate. But it seems like now-a-days they want secrecy everywhere so they expect Universities to require security clearance now and have certified computer networks. Kinda dumb;p It should be departmental, and universities should be asking for time on the governments certified hardware, not the other way around. That is if the gov is concerned about security for important mission critical war fighting computing resources.
Yeah, the other affect of locking down your own internet ISPs like this is you drive people to 3rd party solutions, satellites etc. But then the game changes from which protocols are banned to, if your caught with a transceiver thats not audited your busted (think non state approved cell phone in NK). I do have an overactive imagination;p
Then again someones already at least beat me to it, thinking of games like Mirrors Edge. The problem with future predictions and thoughts though, is its bad enough trying to predict what will happen tomorrow. We could end up with a very heterogeneous hodge podge of interconnected technologies with some nets being freer then others and lots of personal choice and freedom as to which to use and participate in. But thats not how things seem to be trending IMO.
That had the scrolly features patched away because of one of these lawsuits and sees what kind of bullshit this is. This quite literally happened to one of my friends phones after all this debacle about using the finger to scroll shit.
To clarify, you won't even be able to run a proxy in this end game situation without having to register it with the government and have it open to all kinds of scrutiny. This limits the "everyone and their brother" running a proxy situation. The ISPs could be forced to drop any packets that aren't signed by the software or hardware that, the government authors.
It can be outlawed, because if your not communicating with a bank and instead some random peer in another country, they wont bother inspecting your packets, they'll fine you and throw you in the U.S. Prison system. Probably put you to work sorting through network traffic;p This is were trusted computing starts becoming useful for the gov, like those chips that only run authorized software. But what your explaining is the locks keep honest people out thing.
But the really sneaky legitimate geeks will still be a step ahead of that level of scrutiny. They'll either have a server in a back room at a bank and they'll carefully monitor and shape the traffic to look like "legal" transactions with a institution authorized to use encryption. The other 80% of the people without too much time on their hands will be up shit creek without a paddle and probably would need to "go to a geek (fixer)" for their "sekret" communications at that point. And by gods law enforcement would love that weak spot in the chain, it would really legitimize someones crusade against hackers.
The crap they did to the interface sucks and is just a big giant screw up. They really do think they dictate to us at microcrap what users want.
The irony is in 10 years I can see Ubuntu (or its ilk) getting the "metro makeover" and being progressive about it.
On a positive note, I really have not had any issues with the apps they released for it or for doing photography sideshows. It works pretty good out of the box and is quick and responsive, which is what an OS should be.
But even my grandma is looking at the start up screen and going "What the fuck is that".
The U.S. isn't necessarily trying to stop other parts of the world (South Africa) from buying supercomputers from Russia. They are worried that banks or other infrastructure in the U.S. will buy computers that could easily be compromised by many back doors. I don't think this is going to work out well anyway.
If anything requires that much security, thats one heck of a complex project that I don't even know if it could be successfully implemented without going to "dangerous, un-audited" sources of labor, parts or resources.
Maybe this is just a symptom of the U.S. becoming paranoid in general of the world. Slippery slope stuff. N.K. has lots of rules like this, but for every day things.
It will just be made illegal to use "darker" nets then the plain web for people without licenses or permits to do so. This is the end game political situation of the web IMHO.
Of course there will always be the one or two outliers who are always one step ahead. But the idea of "law enforcement" is to keep those outliers a small non-mainstream group and focused on criminal activity (from the perspective of the power elite). This way most people will not become disruptive for whatever reason. And "most people" will feel safe and simply "not know" what is really out there. It also keeps our artificial economy in check and keep regulated (can't have people making their own chairs, or thinking its a better route to go now, its ok if 1% do though).
Maybe, and only due to coercion and bribery. The reason this company is going against TBP is because they are either getting payed to, or coerced to (they will loose business, be fined, sanctioned, harassed, etc.)
To make it clear I respect copyright but not DRM or EULA and I expect it to expire and after a short while (not a whole damn lifetime for a few hours of "work", or even months). I also expect the public domain to be vigorously defended by the people who administrate copyright.
And just because some executives "invest" an arbitrary amount of money into a movie and then do Hollywood accounting, does not give them the right to a monopoly or some kind of criminal legal framework in their favor. Movies did not even exist when the framework for copyright was put in place. (maybe it should be adapted to them in a limited fashion) but it wasn't even a consideration at the time.
While that might happen in all actuality. They would most likely blame it on the U.S. and spin it as a covert sabotage or direct attack then cry for more aid.
I find it odd that with the prevalence of things like anthrax in the wild in 3rd world countries that the Anthrax Mailer cases were such isolated incidents and that only one "terrorist" out of so many bothered to put in the effort. You would think that if there was a real serious problem in this regard we'd be seeing incidents like this on a yearly, if not at least bi-yearly basis.
This makes me think that the whole incident better explained as a conspiracy to produce propaganda and FUD. Of course thats pure conjecture. But I'm one of those dip shits who likes to trust their intuition and logic over what the news media spews forth on a daily basis.
Then again it could have just been one wacko's response to one isolated incident (9/11)... That works if you fully trust Occom's razor. It is the most simple answer.
But it is enough to make me question what I see and hear on the news and in "official reports".
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Thats why it stays speculation. I don't like Alex Jones all that much myself. But he may be slightly more believable then CNN on any given day. CNN usually has nothing meaningful to say. Alex Jones usually just wants to stir up more anti-government shit.
There are stories out there, but you really have to dig deep and get 1st hand accounts. Not the kind of bullshit gibberish that you get on T.V. or a call in on Alex's show.
In other words, trust NOTHING you hear. And go about your daily business as if you have no control over the bullshit going on because really thats all we have. But I do have the power to come on here and spew forth my opinion on the matter. So thats what I do.
Lastly I respect your ideology of moderation. You are absolutely right.
Who knows but our president may have no moral scruples so if faced with someone demanding something under the threat of violence. I could see him completely not caring or thinking up ways to spin it to his own agenda anyway.
Of all the things I have heard about our current president he is not a "Nice, family guy". He is a politician and a puppet. He rubs elbows with very evil people and routinely visits and has meetings with them. He does not care about American values. He doesn't care if you specifically are anything. He wants either power, the status quo, or to protect something he does care about.
Guess what its not you, OR those families in Boston. Thats what I believe anyway. Many more do I'm sure. The dood cares more about what energy company gets pork then what happens to us all.
No one has mentioned extortion or organized crime. More speculation, but could some high up official not decided to blame something like this on some random breed of terrorism just to make people look the other way or "feel like they are being protected from the bad-guys" when shit is really out of control?
Who knows. Things like that DO happen but no one usually knows until 20 years later.
I can't fathom a motivation for these things. Stuff like this actually is counterproductive to making a gun free society. See Pakistan were everyone is afraid of everyone or Somalia, to see what kind of affect this kind of "terrorism" has. It's focus and the only motivation I can see is to further destroy the rule of law and create more anarchy.
Your right, you cant use anyones personal success as a measure of their self worth. But that does not stop someone from using it to justify their place in the world. Either we all deserve to be kings or to some degree we must acknowledge that "MIGHT" is relevant to the equation of life.
There's a difference between claiming false flag and speculating right back at you nutbags who trust EVERYTHING you read, see, or hear from an "official source".
This is still unfortunately speculation. Wishful, misguided speculation. But pure speculation. I want wake up in a world one day were I can trust the news I hear and the government spokespeople WE elected. But I fear this won't be the case for some time.
Oh well, there's always wild speculation.
Simply regulating, taxing, or creating a black market that can be regulated by a 3 letter agency and give our good o'le boys much needed mercenary work and training should be sufficient.
False flag written all over this. Its a shame for the families no matter who is responsible. But all the media and government can do is give us speculation. Because the rule of law and the chain of trust has been destroyed in our ignorance as a nation.
I would like to extrapolate on that lottery theory of yours and say that "some" of us are smart enough to take action and advantage of those lucky coincidences your talking about while many just let them pass us by. Your arguing a fundamental philosophical point. And I think it has been proven time and again that "Man has some control over their destiny, and the destiny of their progeny." By that very nature, yes, SOME REALLY DID EARN, a higher place in life. Through attention, or nobility, or thought, or care, or whatever they did.
The guy with the f'd up broken ass car did deserve the breakdown while the guy with the cars that generally last 20 yrs did deserve the reliability from the attention and time they put into their car. This does happen. Sometimes the beater car guy gets extremely lucky and doesn't break down and sometimes the car fanatic just gets a bad weld an the whole car catches on fire. But hey, in the vast majority of cases when taken all together, odds are that destiny is in our hands despite what the universe throws at us.
Which for the vast majority of us, the universe throws the same things over and over... people living 10,000 miles away from you generally have very analogous daily routines as you.
And it took new hardware and a few years to get games to start using 11, which did indeed have some nice features like better tessellation.
But the updates to graphics rendering are slowing to a crawl as I mentioned before, the render side has been pretty much stagnant since DX9. Or just enhancements of DX9 features technology. Maybe adding a few more sharers or what have you... for example my DX11 bargain card can run SSAO without slowdown because its integrated as "yet another shader" and not a software shader. But theres a limit to how many reasonable shaders you can give a scene without it becoming ridiculously cartoony (some games go over the top here already and should stick with basic affects for what they want to accomplish).
So to simplify and summarize what said and what the article is saying:
DirectX is no longer a good investment and we won't be seeing any further development on it from Microsoft (except maybe a few patches to whats already around). No one is picking it up or buying it from Microsoft.
Anyway AFAIK most games barely use what the graphics API's are giving them, the problems are in the engines and art, and hardware being limited. The rendering is more advanced then what can run it by leaps and bounds, and its about as optimized as it gets. So until we see a whole new set of hardware optimized around different rendering technology the API calls are pretty much stagnating because they don't need to be adapted for any more "input".
We see the division of sound, networking, and physics out of the DirectX API as well. I don't think many of the newer console games are relying that heavily on the networking code "netplay" thats in there. Server heavy games like WoW definitely run mostly custom network code.
A very bad man, but indeed, some people actually bought into his propaganda or used it to suit their own ends.
In which case we'd be really shooting our scientists in the foot by limiting their options severely. Well I guess maybe not that bad considering SRI international is now in charge of operations over at Arecibo and they are maybe a bit less affected by this. But there are still plenty of smaller universities, schools, and corporations that could use scientific computing on the cheep. (yes they need small "supercomputers" to do digital analysis on the insane amounts of data that is collected). This should be mostly unaffected by the industrial espionage and spy shit the bigger governments are pulling. Then again are the Chinese and Russians so mad at us that they would literally mess with astrophysics research...
I could see the government getting involved if it was DARPA project money. But that should be in the guidelines of the project, not a blanket rule for all in the country to follow and many larger projects are no longer secret and open for anyone or sold to companies like SRI. Keep secret and non-secret systems separate. But it seems like now-a-days they want secrecy everywhere so they expect Universities to require security clearance now and have certified computer networks. Kinda dumb ;p It should be departmental, and universities should be asking for time on the governments certified hardware, not the other way around. That is if the gov is concerned about security for important mission critical war fighting computing resources.
Yeah, the other affect of locking down your own internet ISPs like this is you drive people to 3rd party solutions, satellites etc. But then the game changes from which protocols are banned to, if your caught with a transceiver thats not audited your busted (think non state approved cell phone in NK). I do have an overactive imagination ;p
Then again someones already at least beat me to it, thinking of games like Mirrors Edge. The problem with future predictions and thoughts though, is its bad enough trying to predict what will happen tomorrow. We could end up with a very heterogeneous hodge podge of interconnected technologies with some nets being freer then others and lots of personal choice and freedom as to which to use and participate in. But thats not how things seem to be trending IMO.
That had the scrolly features patched away because of one of these lawsuits and sees what kind of bullshit this is. This quite literally happened to one of my friends phones after all this debacle about using the finger to scroll shit.
To clarify, you won't even be able to run a proxy in this end game situation without having to register it with the government and have it open to all kinds of scrutiny. This limits the "everyone and their brother" running a proxy situation. The ISPs could be forced to drop any packets that aren't signed by the software or hardware that, the government authors.
P.S. The above comments by me are in the realm of sci-fi novelization trying to predict the political and legal situation of 40+ years on from now.
It can be outlawed, because if your not communicating with a bank and instead some random peer in another country, they wont bother inspecting your packets, they'll fine you and throw you in the U.S. Prison system. Probably put you to work sorting through network traffic ;p This is were trusted computing starts becoming useful for the gov, like those chips that only run authorized software. But what your explaining is the locks keep honest people out thing.
But the really sneaky legitimate geeks will still be a step ahead of that level of scrutiny. They'll either have a server in a back room at a bank and they'll carefully monitor and shape the traffic to look like "legal" transactions with a institution authorized to use encryption. The other 80% of the people without too much time on their hands will be up shit creek without a paddle and probably would need to "go to a geek (fixer)" for their "sekret" communications at that point. And by gods law enforcement would love that weak spot in the chain, it would really legitimize someones crusade against hackers.
The crap they did to the interface sucks and is just a big giant screw up. They really do think they dictate to us at microcrap what users want.
The irony is in 10 years I can see Ubuntu (or its ilk) getting the "metro makeover" and being progressive about it.
On a positive note, I really have not had any issues with the apps they released for it or for doing photography sideshows. It works pretty good out of the box and is quick and responsive, which is what an OS should be.
But even my grandma is looking at the start up screen and going "What the fuck is that".
The U.S. isn't necessarily trying to stop other parts of the world (South Africa) from buying supercomputers from Russia. They are worried that banks or other infrastructure in the U.S. will buy computers that could easily be compromised by many back doors. I don't think this is going to work out well anyway.
If anything requires that much security, thats one heck of a complex project that I don't even know if it could be successfully implemented without going to "dangerous, un-audited" sources of labor, parts or resources.
Maybe this is just a symptom of the U.S. becoming paranoid in general of the world. Slippery slope stuff. N.K. has lots of rules like this, but for every day things.
It will just be made illegal to use "darker" nets then the plain web for people without licenses or permits to do so. This is the end game political situation of the web IMHO.
Of course there will always be the one or two outliers who are always one step ahead. But the idea of "law enforcement" is to keep those outliers a small non-mainstream group and focused on criminal activity (from the perspective of the power elite). This way most people will not become disruptive for whatever reason. And "most people" will feel safe and simply "not know" what is really out there. It also keeps our artificial economy in check and keep regulated (can't have people making their own chairs, or thinking its a better route to go now, its ok if 1% do though).
Maybe, and only due to coercion and bribery. The reason this company is going against TBP is because they are either getting payed to, or coerced to (they will loose business, be fined, sanctioned, harassed, etc.)
To make it clear I respect copyright but not DRM or EULA and I expect it to expire and after a short while (not a whole damn lifetime for a few hours of "work", or even months). I also expect the public domain to be vigorously defended by the people who administrate copyright.
And just because some executives "invest" an arbitrary amount of money into a movie and then do Hollywood accounting, does not give them the right to a monopoly or some kind of criminal legal framework in their favor. Movies did not even exist when the framework for copyright was put in place. (maybe it should be adapted to them in a limited fashion) but it wasn't even a consideration at the time.
While that might happen in all actuality. They would most likely blame it on the U.S. and spin it as a covert sabotage or direct attack then cry for more aid.
I find it odd that with the prevalence of things like anthrax in the wild in 3rd world countries that the Anthrax Mailer cases were such isolated incidents and that only one "terrorist" out of so many bothered to put in the effort. You would think that if there was a real serious problem in this regard we'd be seeing incidents like this on a yearly, if not at least bi-yearly basis.
This makes me think that the whole incident better explained as a conspiracy to produce propaganda and FUD. Of course thats pure conjecture. But I'm one of those dip shits who likes to trust their intuition and logic over what the news media spews forth on a daily basis.
Then again it could have just been one wacko's response to one isolated incident (9/11)... That works if you fully trust Occom's razor. It is the most simple answer.
But it is enough to make me question what I see and hear on the news and in "official reports".