The most important people in society are paid peanutes, while the most useless, who produce nothing of lasting value, the entertainers, are severly overpaid.
Many private schools are better, but there is a large overlap with Catholic and Private in the U.S.
When you are at a Catholic school there are usually entrenched money making programs with lots of alumni attached. These people go to church in the same communities, so the school community doesn't drift apart after the kids graduate.
My experience was that the academic programs got a fraction of the budget of the alumni centric sports programs.
The one I went to is IB now, and I don't know anything about those comp-sci reqs. The wikipedia entry mentions nothing.
I was one of the CA high school computer students. We could only focus on programming because having a computer at home that could run a Pascal compiler was a requirement, and our school was in an area where computer ownership was almost universal even back then.
The school had a decent computer lab, but you can't hand out extensive homework if students are going to require school equipment after hours to complete it.
Most districts even out here can't have classes with requirements like that because large numbers of kids will automatically be excluded... As in there are still large areas where basic computer literacy/access at home is not common at all.
Maybe it is beyond their fathoming that American spies might be less than uncatchable superhuman archons of divine justice.
Execution makes sense for those Russian mortals that dared dabble in arts only perfectable in the name of White Baby Jesus of America.
On the other hand, the blank stare could be a sign that you just got through to the person. Thinking new thoughts, especially ones that invalidate previously held beliefs can take time.
It is also perfectly reasonable that the person may not have wanted to give you the satisfaction of knowing you were right after whatever conversation you had just shared.
I wonder if you could coat the balloon with a cheap reflective material that would leave residue on debris that impacted the surface. Wouldn't that provide a gradual increase in our tracking ability without costing a whole lot more than the original design?
Sure, it could be any of the things you mention. Unless it is operating under review it is also a cherry picking war hawk's dream organization. Who is going to contest the misappropriation of the analyses to support aggressive action?
The one thing that would have made this country safer after the 2001 attacks was an honest PUBLIC dialogue about the fucked nature of modern strategic options. We have been living with arsenals of WMDs for too long and they are smaller and more synonymous with power than ever.
The PUBLIC dialogue is going to need center stage to prevent the forsaking of all liberties in the name of survival. The courage to face death as a free human is strong in the U.S.A., we just aren't strapping bombs to ourselves to prove the point.
Iraq, the apparent culture around fed/local law enforcement, and the lack of courage by our leaders to invite public review are pretty much killing the hope of getting enlistment from many types of Americans that are otherwise willing to prove their courage in a formal capacity.
Groups like this are a cherry on the pile of shit.
His razor sharp wit? That's what we are supposed to be admiring? Are you nuts?
If we believe Lamo's cover story for the Manning affair he was swimming in the wrong end of the pool. That is the beginning and end of the story on the guy. There is no greater fail on my hack-o-meter.
I'm not bashing him for turning anyone over, even if I would have refrained (or told Manning to get his spook enabling ass off my channel). The guy is full of fail because he didn't know how to handle a hot potato while advertising his services as an expert on hot potatoes.
What if he had gone the other direction in his fear and looked for protection from an underground player instead of rolling over like an attention whoring opossum? Who would have had the proverbial drop on our country? Access to Manning in addition to all the documents that had already been transferred?
Lamo was handling national security level information and got scared? Even a half-assed high school hacker knows how to drop a dime without becoming known.
If the Manning thing was a cover, that's sad for Lamo's reputation. He has to bear the brunt of being the guy that didn't know how to handle a potentially deadly situation; he has to live as a known lightweight whatever his technical skills or future accomplishments.
End of story in my book, though I welcome opposing views.
Maybe we are not recognizing a friendly action because aggression is the vehicle.
Does the FBI have any rational reason to fight this battle?
Would the wiki folk be standing firm if their legal counsel thought they were going to get massacred?
Against the backdrop of recent reductions in fines for copyright violators, fallout from secretive international IP enforcement negotiations, and the flood of questionable DMCA related actions this may be as close as our community gets to a helping hand from Uncle Sam.
And industry founded on the creation, performance, and appreciation of human creativity is about to suffer devaluation of the human talent upon which it is based.
We automate lots of other work, why not this?
Because this is not 'work,' it is multi-sensory immersion into a subjective framework of context and meaning. Otherwise they could just have the beeb 'casters get up and read the scores/scripts and no one would notice a difference.
Oh noes, someone is no longer going to be doing a repetitive job better done by a machine, truly the end of the world. Why where they not already using recordings was my first question when I saw this article.
Let me guess: Your world view is that it is turtles all the way down?
The entire MIC was built on keeping up with the Jones's acquisitions so to speak. So all it really took was for one player to identify social info as potentially valuable and all players become obligated to pay attention to social media.
Seems that from the minute the DHS named/. as a site to watch the other agencies would have had an interest in flushing shit here to see where in the DHS reports it popped up, if at all.
My impression is that the intelligence agencies are always watching themselves and each other with specific intent, and the population according to averages... Unless you have already graduated to the priority lists or, god forbid, gotten whatever the equiv guv code is for 11-99 classification.
Appearing invulnerable would be a nightmare - the enemy would not have high yield insertion techniques mapped for them and they would have to get creative.
So long as there is an attractive option to execute a plan that reveals no innovation it will be chosen over the plan that requires innovation...
My impression is that spying is mostly a game of patiently outlasting your opponents. Let the majority of your enemies be stupid and they will gladly be stupid > 90% of the time. It's a survival technique.
They don't get paid much because after they accept the first envelope they have lost all negotiating power... This isn't like working for the mob where you can take your chances turning the baddies over.
Also, we are talking about spies. I can envision the conversation now:
"Yes, comrade, I promise not to do anything ostentatious or out of the ordinary for a low paid government employee such as myself.. It's just that I need at least ten million dollars to stuff beneath my floorboards so they will stop squeaking when I walk."
Seriously, I'm conflicted. I'm not any sort of web search guru, but it looks like that site just got put up. Is submitter an early adopter (v0.2) or a social engineer?
I was pretty much with you up until the last paragraph. Part of my reason for having a medical marijuana license was an illness that left me in the hospital receiving first morphine, then dilaudid every couple hours for a week. The effect of even that exposure took time to wear off, and I'm not entirely sure that I got completely over it if you know what I mean. The depth of those effects was not the straight dullness of normal painkillers, but rather an aura-like feeling that washed over me with each dose...
Next up should be clarifying why marijuana is being treated differently than the other drugs you mention:
- Most people prefer uncompressed nuggets to bricks, thus even (and especially) the delivery services are carrying small dollar amounts of product at a time. There are wine merchants in my area that deliver, and I'd bet they carry as much value on their forays into the wealthier neighborhoods, not to mention the value of stock at their physical location.
- Marijuana edibles is turning into a vast market and there have already been health scares with improper preparation. The sure to follow inspection fees, sales taxes, production equipment, corresponding utility usage, and fact that kitchens attached to dwellings are not typically able to obtain commercial certification or zoning permits is going to drive a massive secondary wave of revenue. Aside from a REALLY authentic can of coca cola or some opiate & absynth delicacy where is the secondary wave with the others?
- It is really pretty hard for non-allergic individuals to have a life threatening medical situation brought on by straight THC ingestion.
- And finally, the real reason Marijuana is being legalized for mass production in Oakland: San Francisco is right across the water and has a shit-ton of liberal cash. The real losers here are the quality growers from Marin and Humboldt that will have to compete with operations that have no travel time or expenses.
Anyhow, it is highly unlikely that flag waving patriots are going to be able to shrug off decades of programming that marijuana is Class A immediately, but with some sensible dialogue replacing the mindless babbling of the past reality can regain a foothold in the war on drugs....
I don't like that site, but I clicked through long enough to see if this was a Childs centric article... and it isn't.
Anyone currently putting utility boxes in the wild that allow passive bridging for diagnostic captures could be affected by what is being described in the article (just the first common example that comes to mind). Any entry-level Linux hacker doesn't need to veer out of the repos to install their way to diagnostic tools that could violate federal wiretapping charges if set up with the wrong cat5 off the rack at work.
I vaguely recall that was the movie where mister fish mutant climbs aboard the bad guys ship to save the civilians and the little girl turns to the bad guy and says 'You're in trouble now.'
Fish man then proceeds to run around at very land-lubbing average joe speed and off teh heavily armed baddies that suddenly cannot hit anything with their weapons.
Problem 1: I don't know anyone that thought what that little kid said was neat or cool or funny, because it strained disbelief that an entire ship of pirates would have any logical reason to fear the gilled avenger based on what we had seen so far.
Problem 2: The ultimate fight scene is one of the worst choreographed set pieces I have seen in a big budget movie because the same things that made the pirates scary (predatory behavior, weaponry) are suddenly and inexplicably useless against the protagonist without further explanation.
"Clem, if there was an asteroid and it was going to absolutely pulverize the Earth; by which I mean it will smash the Earth to frickin smithereens; and you have got only thirty minutes left to your god blessed life what in the world would you do with yourself?"
Clem chews his chaw a minute, spits, and retorts: "Well Cletus, I suppose I'd fuck the living hell out of the first thing that moved. How 'bout you good friend?"
Cletus mulls the problem and, in solemn tone replies: "Well Clem, I'd prolly just stand perfectly still."
This machine used to be on permanent display in the Evoluon, a museum dedicated to technology and modern art in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. See here. This site is run by a man named Kees who may be able to answer your questions.
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Sadly, all too true.
The most important people in society are paid peanutes, while the most useless, who produce nothing of lasting value, the entertainers, are severly overpaid.
See: The Underground History of American Education, for the indoctriniation, ^H^H^H, education of America.
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/index.htm
Keeping the otherwise arbitrary and ornery masses calm without employing aggressive tactics that erode their rights is less important than what now?
Many private schools are better, but there is a large overlap with Catholic and Private in the U.S.
When you are at a Catholic school there are usually entrenched money making programs with lots of alumni attached. These people go to church in the same communities, so the school community doesn't drift apart after the kids graduate.
My experience was that the academic programs got a fraction of the budget of the alumni centric sports programs.
The one I went to is IB now, and I don't know anything about those comp-sci reqs. The wikipedia entry mentions nothing.
I was one of the CA high school computer students. We could only focus on programming because having a computer at home that could run a Pascal compiler was a requirement, and our school was in an area where computer ownership was almost universal even back then.
The school had a decent computer lab, but you can't hand out extensive homework if students are going to require school equipment after hours to complete it.
Most districts even out here can't have classes with requirements like that because large numbers of kids will automatically be excluded... As in there are still large areas where basic computer literacy/access at home is not common at all.
Moral of the story.. don't miss the exit...
So a background check, physical inspection, and the reason you are there (interest in cryptography).
This is a clear case of miss the exit and get a job interview ;)
Maybe it is beyond their fathoming that American spies might be less than uncatchable superhuman archons of divine justice.
Execution makes sense for those Russian mortals that dared dabble in arts only perfectable in the name of White Baby Jesus of America.
On the other hand, the blank stare could be a sign that you just got through to the person. Thinking new thoughts, especially ones that invalidate previously held beliefs can take time.
It is also perfectly reasonable that the person may not have wanted to give you the satisfaction of knowing you were right after whatever conversation you had just shared.
Anyhow, keep on trucking.
I wonder if you could coat the balloon with a cheap reflective material that would leave residue on debris that impacted the surface. Wouldn't that provide a gradual increase in our tracking ability without costing a whole lot more than the original design?
Sure, it could be any of the things you mention. Unless it is operating under review it is also a cherry picking war hawk's dream organization. Who is going to contest the misappropriation of the analyses to support aggressive action?
The one thing that would have made this country safer after the 2001 attacks was an honest PUBLIC dialogue about the fucked nature of modern strategic options. We have been living with arsenals of WMDs for too long and they are smaller and more synonymous with power than ever.
The PUBLIC dialogue is going to need center stage to prevent the forsaking of all liberties in the name of survival. The courage to face death as a free human is strong in the U.S.A., we just aren't strapping bombs to ourselves to prove the point.
Iraq, the apparent culture around fed/local law enforcement, and the lack of courage by our leaders to invite public review are pretty much killing the hope of getting enlistment from many types of Americans that are otherwise willing to prove their courage in a formal capacity.
Groups like this are a cherry on the pile of shit.
How about if filming them doing it is also a crime? How big is his problem then?
His razor sharp wit? That's what we are supposed to be admiring? Are you nuts?
If we believe Lamo's cover story for the Manning affair he was swimming in the wrong end of the pool. That is the beginning and end of the story on the guy. There is no greater fail on my hack-o-meter.
I'm not bashing him for turning anyone over, even if I would have refrained (or told Manning to get his spook enabling ass off my channel). The guy is full of fail because he didn't know how to handle a hot potato while advertising his services as an expert on hot potatoes.
What if he had gone the other direction in his fear and looked for protection from an underground player instead of rolling over like an attention whoring opossum? Who would have had the proverbial drop on our country? Access to Manning in addition to all the documents that had already been transferred?
Lamo was handling national security level information and got scared? Even a half-assed high school hacker knows how to drop a dime without becoming known.
If the Manning thing was a cover, that's sad for Lamo's reputation. He has to bear the brunt of being the guy that didn't know how to handle a potentially deadly situation; he has to live as a known lightweight whatever his technical skills or future accomplishments.
End of story in my book, though I welcome opposing views.
Maybe we are not recognizing a friendly action because aggression is the vehicle.
Does the FBI have any rational reason to fight this battle?
Would the wiki folk be standing firm if their legal counsel thought they were going to get massacred?
Against the backdrop of recent reductions in fines for copyright violators, fallout from secretive international IP enforcement negotiations, and the flood of questionable DMCA related actions this may be as close as our community gets to a helping hand from Uncle Sam.
Or you are Walter Mitty.
What is the issue here?
And industry founded on the creation, performance, and appreciation of human creativity is about to suffer devaluation of the human talent upon which it is based.
We automate lots of other work, why not this?
Because this is not 'work,' it is multi-sensory immersion into a subjective framework of context and meaning. Otherwise they could just have the beeb 'casters get up and read the scores/scripts and no one would notice a difference.
Oh noes, someone is no longer going to be doing a repetitive job better done by a machine, truly the end of the world. Why where they not already using recordings was my first question when I saw this article.
Let me guess: Your world view is that it is turtles all the way down?
The entire MIC was built on keeping up with the Jones's acquisitions so to speak. So all it really took was for one player to identify social info as potentially valuable and all players become obligated to pay attention to social media.
This is probably a beautiful photograph that I will never see because of the technology chosen for the presentation layer.
Seems that from the minute the DHS named /. as a site to watch the other agencies would have had an interest in flushing shit here to see where in the DHS reports it popped up, if at all.
My impression is that the intelligence agencies are always watching themselves and each other with specific intent, and the population according to averages... Unless you have already graduated to the priority lists or, god forbid, gotten whatever the equiv guv code is for 11-99 classification.
Appearing invulnerable would be a nightmare - the enemy would not have high yield insertion techniques mapped for them and they would have to get creative.
So long as there is an attractive option to execute a plan that reveals no innovation it will be chosen over the plan that requires innovation...
My impression is that spying is mostly a game of patiently outlasting your opponents. Let the majority of your enemies be stupid and they will gladly be stupid > 90% of the time. It's a survival technique.
They don't get paid much because after they accept the first envelope they have lost all negotiating power... This isn't like working for the mob where you can take your chances turning the baddies over.
Also, we are talking about spies. I can envision the conversation now:
"Yes, comrade, I promise not to do anything ostentatious or out of the ordinary for a low paid government employee such as myself.. It's just that I need at least ten million dollars to stuff beneath my floorboards so they will stop squeaking when I walk."
Seriously, I'm conflicted. I'm not any sort of web search guru, but it looks like that site just got put up. Is submitter an early adopter (v0.2) or a social engineer?
I was pretty much with you up until the last paragraph. Part of my reason for having a medical marijuana license was an illness that left me in the hospital receiving first morphine, then dilaudid every couple hours for a week. The effect of even that exposure took time to wear off, and I'm not entirely sure that I got completely over it if you know what I mean. The depth of those effects was not the straight dullness of normal painkillers, but rather an aura-like feeling that washed over me with each dose...
Next up should be clarifying why marijuana is being treated differently than the other drugs you mention:
- Most people prefer uncompressed nuggets to bricks, thus even (and especially) the delivery services are carrying small dollar amounts of product at a time. There are wine merchants in my area that deliver, and I'd bet they carry as much value on their forays into the wealthier neighborhoods, not to mention the value of stock at their physical location.
- Marijuana edibles is turning into a vast market and there have already been health scares with improper preparation. The sure to follow inspection fees, sales taxes, production equipment, corresponding utility usage, and fact that kitchens attached to dwellings are not typically able to obtain commercial certification or zoning permits is going to drive a massive secondary wave of revenue. Aside from a REALLY authentic can of coca cola or some opiate & absynth delicacy where is the secondary wave with the others?
- It is really pretty hard for non-allergic individuals to have a life threatening medical situation brought on by straight THC ingestion.
- And finally, the real reason Marijuana is being legalized for mass production in Oakland: San Francisco is right across the water and has a shit-ton of liberal cash. The real losers here are the quality growers from Marin and Humboldt that will have to compete with operations that have no travel time or expenses.
Anyhow, it is highly unlikely that flag waving patriots are going to be able to shrug off decades of programming that marijuana is Class A immediately, but with some sensible dialogue replacing the mindless babbling of the past reality can regain a foothold in the war on drugs....
I don't like that site, but I clicked through long enough to see if this was a Childs centric article... and it isn't.
Anyone currently putting utility boxes in the wild that allow passive bridging for diagnostic captures could be affected by what is being described in the article (just the first common example that comes to mind). Any entry-level Linux hacker doesn't need to veer out of the repos to install their way to diagnostic tools that could violate federal wiretapping charges if set up with the wrong cat5 off the rack at work.
I vaguely recall that was the movie where mister fish mutant climbs aboard the bad guys ship to save the civilians and the little girl turns to the bad guy and says 'You're in trouble now.'
Fish man then proceeds to run around at very land-lubbing average joe speed and off teh heavily armed baddies that suddenly cannot hit anything with their weapons.
Problem 1: I don't know anyone that thought what that little kid said was neat or cool or funny, because it strained disbelief that an entire ship of pirates would have any logical reason to fear the gilled avenger based on what we had seen so far.
Problem 2: The ultimate fight scene is one of the worst choreographed set pieces I have seen in a big budget movie because the same things that made the pirates scary (predatory behavior, weaponry) are suddenly and inexplicably useless against the protagonist without further explanation.
Ten bucks says they were trying to develop gold extraction technology. He has a history of investing in some weird shit.
So Cletus turns to his friend Clem and says:
"Clem, if there was an asteroid and it was going to absolutely pulverize the Earth; by which I mean it will smash the Earth to frickin smithereens; and you have got only thirty minutes left to your god blessed life what in the world would you do with yourself?"
Clem chews his chaw a minute, spits, and retorts: "Well Cletus, I suppose I'd fuck the living hell out of the first thing that moved. How 'bout you good friend?"
Cletus mulls the problem and, in solemn tone replies: "Well Clem, I'd prolly just stand perfectly still."
According to their own numbers they are more on par with Canada than the U.S. re per capita incarceration.
This machine used to be on permanent display in the Evoluon, a museum dedicated to technology and modern art in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. See here. This site is run by a man named Kees who may be able to answer your questions.
You would make a great NPC.