Yep. Probably a case of the left arm not talking to the right arm*. Even the mighty Google aren't immune to that kind of sloppiness, especially as they grow.
People can be held for liable if the prosecution can prove they knowingly spread a falsehood, causing the victim damages. That is the law on the US books right now, I believe.
But with everything becoming classified on the grounds of "national security", how would you prove that a rumor is false? Shouldn't the rumor be proven false before undercover personnel attempt to subvert the group? If conspiracy theorists and other creative people pose no threat, then why is the government willing to subvert them?
Also, the article should replace "conspiracy theorist" with "somebody who says something the government dosen't like". The Air Force is featured prominently in the article, even having a shill flowchart. I served in the Air Force.
Take a look at the last bullet point in this post I made and tell me why something like that wouldn't cause a person to be more mistrustful of his/her overlords. I dealt with this kind of shit then, and I deal with it now having staring matches with the DHS at their checkpoints(if you blink before they do or refuse to look 'em in the eye, you're going to secondary).
If the government is so concerned with paranoids, they should look inward and asking themselves what the fuck they are doing to give people cause to be paranoid. And don't give me that "if you have nothing to hide..." crap, how would you like it if I sat in your closet and watched you have sex, then followed you into your bathroom and laughed at you while you shat?
Here's a little conspiracy theory of my own: The fighter-jock Airforce, rapidly becoming obsolete due to the advent of unmanned drones and ground warfare, were given ultimatums - get laid off, ("good luck finding a job in thiseconomy, pal!") or sit at home all day and shill websites. Off they go, into the wild blue(screen) yonder...:)
I served in the Air force, winning a Top Performer award and >= 90% on both my CDC's. I will hereby post a jargon-riddled screed in the hopes of attracting Air Force shills. The reason why I'm doing this is because this is totally disgusting and waaay outside the domain of military duty. You're probably not PsyOps, and this sure as hell ain't post-liberation Iraq or pre-liberation Iran. Here goes:
AF are not hardcore. The majority of you are basically civilians, and your dress uniform attests to that fact. As a result, most of you tend to lack camaraderie and have unwarranted elitist attitudes.
AF are spineless. They do not shit between their boots. Snitching was very commonplace inside tech school and out, and the AF even implemented a "wingman" program in tech school - you carried around a card saying that you will snitch out your wingman and watch him at all times for trouble. As a true-life example, a young female airman gave her friends a ride home from a club because they were drunk. Turns out that one of them had a gun. She had no idea, and still received a letter of reprimand for doing what she thought was the right thing.
The maintenance field in the AF is grossly unfair with regard to gender. The majority of the AF are men, but women were overrepresented in my career field with regard to awards like STEP. All of the females in my shop who won awards were mediocre compared to many deserving males, even our tech school instructors attested to that. One female even got a sympathy award, as well as a free baby shower, just for being single and pregnant.
OSI. In addition to their full-time investigators, OSI recruits airmen as snitch patrols to infiltrate social circles and gather data on who associates with what, etc. See that one guy at the party who's been nursing the same beer all night? That's the one. I was dragged out of bed by the first sergeant and interrogated by OSI(in a room with a 1-way mirror and 2 interrogators), asking me what I knew about airmen using drugs. After an hour or two of frustration, they finally said "No, on the night of so-and-so you smelled something. What did you smell?" I had no idea what they were talking about until I figured out weeks later that I had made a joke about how a certain kind of Djarum BD "smelled like weed". You can get used to stuff like that when you're in the Air Force, everybody's interrogated in a similar fashion at least once. And, of course, they can bug you and request your internet traffic and all that jazz.
Other Airforce or Ex-Airforce, please jump in and share your experiences.
disclaimer: I'm a former military backshop avionics technician
That technology looks to be pretty cool and excellent for routine maintenance, but I can see how it would suck for troubleshooting. For example the video in TFA locates a cable and instructs the user to unscrew it. With all that fancy visual stuff going on, it could be easy for the technician to overlook a pushed pin or a pinch in the cable which could be causing a problem. The small screen on a wrist-mounted phone would not be sufficient to display the necessary detail. The solution as-is is not suitable for finer military electronics which are tangled messes of RF hardlines, circuit cards, and even wire-wrapped backplanes. A full-size LCD to the side showing 3-D animation would be much more suitable for that. Additionally,
In the Marine Corps tests, the pair of researchers used 10 cameras in the vehicle
Which works fine for vehicles, but would totally suck for aircraft. Did the guys who came up with the statistics factor in the time it takes to set up and/or calibrate the camera array? Of course, embedding a few sensors within the vehicle and setting up the display's position with respect to them would be much easier.
Nah. Even a hardcore tinfoil-hat wearer would think of it as a western-orchestrated FUD campaign to hit China's economy, and that's only if other corporations acknowledged being attacked.
But what about GMDSS for the "oh, shit" moments when your bilge pumps and your GPS both go out in rough seas? Is LORAN-C the IE6 of maritime detection and rangefinding suites?
Disclaimer. I have an FCC GROL with ship radar endorsement, collecting dust, never used it:(
Anybody who actually uses theirs wanna chime in?
As part of our investigation we have discovered that at least twenty other large companies from a wide range of businesses--including the Internet, finance, technology, media and chemical sectors--have been similarly targeted.
The big question at this point is whether Google are really altruistic or if they just weren't making enough money and throwing a fit to save face before bowing out. What about the others who were targetted? Without a show of solidarity(others threatening to pull out or even acknowledge that they were hacked) it will appear as if Google is walking away with its tail between its legs.
Heh, It would take 25 GB of free storage just to lure me back to Windows Live. Since I don't have enough time to look into it now, could you answer some basic questions for us such as:
Requirements. Besides having a Windows live account, is there other software needed(IN short, will it work with Linux)?
File upload limit. 1 TiB capacity is useless if the upload limit is only 5MiB per file.
Other gotchas...like, is it a trial service where you have to haggle with a foreign call center to opt-out before they start charging you 50 bucks a month?
.everyone gets sexually self conscious doesnt get laid , doesn't masturbate and thus is in bad mood
Right. But instead of channeling that rage toward WoW as Eldavojohn jokinly pointed out, that collective anger can be manipulated and directed towards the enemy-of-the-day, even if it is the people themselves. You will have hordes of people, full of self-loathing due to their discord between their urges and their society, who will take out their frustrations hacking foreign governments and ratting out remaining porn sources.
Same thing already happens in America, in the form of official and unofficial snitch patrols like Perverted-justice and Infraguard and other "citizen on patrol" neighborhood watch groups who are overwhelmingly conservative Christian anti-gay anti-commie etc, though their hidden shame and frustration is much more voluntary than that of the Chinese.
"Sex-specific abortions remained extremely commonplace, especially in rural areas," where the cultural preference for boys over girls is strongest, the study said, while noting the reasons for the gender imbalance were "complex."
One particularly ugly consequence that the articles does not mention is this:
In some places men are marrying their first cousins and even their sisters through deals made with relatives because that is only way they can find a wife. The practice is so common that some communities are referred to as "incest villages."
You wouldn't want to bump into her, even by accident. She'll kick you in your nuts and then press charges against your testicles for raping her foot.
Then after you go bankrupt settling out of court, she'll writhe all over her bed while eating chocolate ice cream and listening to the new Tori Amos CD she bought with your money.
Have you ever painted a picture with your menstrual blood? You should try it.
It fades to a silvery-crimson sheen, like metallic paint does, due to the iron content of the blood. I still get all misty-eyed when I think about her giving me that painting. I framed it and put it on my desk at work. They thought I was a weirdo. Fuck them. She even kept my semen in a test tube, stored in her freezer next to the Hot Pockets.
Giving a menstrual blood painting is the ultimate expression of love -- short of cannibalism, at least:)
Fyngyrz is right. Don't be a fuckin' crybaby, you get first posts all the damn time. Perhaps you are taking Slashdot too seriously. A good cure for that is to anonymously post the most offensive thing you can think of. Feels good, man.
Autism is what happens when an American marries a Gook, often in a military marriage, and then both of them party and don't pay any attention to the developing baby.
The baby, never having been nursed with real breast milk, shuts themself out of life. They get up at all hours in the morning and just SCREAM, with no rhyme or reason, and inconveniencing everybody else in the neighborhood.
Parents of autistic kids have nothing to blame but themselves. You injected them with all kinds of crap because the news told you to. You never sang songs to them because you hired a maid to watch them while you partied all night. Yes, your kid was born autistic...because you fucked up.
"He argued that antivirus companies have tried to use common names for malware that they find..."
No they haven't.
"It's hard for users...Because anti-malware vendors are also competitors, they have little incentive to work together on normalizing names and detection techniques, he pointed out...Because of the way that the industry works, you can't work around them too well."
That's why.
"In short: is there a problem with the user confusion over threat tables like these? Most definitely..."
Most definitely not. Windows users have no idea about 'threat tables' or what the hell's going on, except that their antivirus program is blinking red and making noises and they have to keep clicking "yes" or "OK" to make it better.
"'Comparing the monthly statistics from different anti-virus companies is truly comparing apples and oranges,' said Tom Kelchner, Sunbelt Research Center manager. 'What one company detects and identifies as a specific, named piece of malcode, another may detect generically.'"
The inconsistency stems from the fact that these so-called "antivirus software research labs" are just Windows terminals with neckbeards in each. Symantec's neckbeard prefers browsing porn sites with ActiveX. Fortinet's neckbeard gets his latest and greatest malware from careless P2P downloads. Kapersky's neckbeard gets his viruses from phishing and gambling sites.
Hence the inconsistent naming conventions and detection profiles across vendors. +5 informative.
Agreed. Being a brainiac means nothing to a sexually-frustrated troll if he's unable to reproduce because he can't thrust deep enough.
Evolution has not yet caught up to higher-level intelligence. That's why, even though I am a mixed non-African, I manage to get laid -- I beat my chest and don't wear deodorant. My superior genes allow me to produce pheromones which make women flush and juice-up on the spot.
My legacy will live on, his will not. All because real men don't yap like chihuahuas, they just grunt here and there. Jealous, racist trolls just don't get it. There is a foolproof method to attracting women:
Speak slowly, in a deep voice, using as few words as possible.
The new crop of informative-reality shows(Dirty Jobs, shows that rebuild cars, shows which glorify cooking, etc.) are glorifying manual labor while leading every attention-starved American to believe that they can get their own T.V. show (or custom pimped-out ride) as long as they are able to shovel shit.
That, coupled with pop-culture emphasis on breeding (Jon and Kate, Kortney Kardashinan, Brangelina, etc..) will lead America's transition to being a docile, eager-to-please consumer service economy whose function is to prop up the extravagant lifestyles of rich foreign and domestic executives.
It's also at least arguable that "zork" sounds less destructive than "zorch,"
"Zorch" sounds exactly like "Zork" when you pronounce the "-ch" as a "k" like the word chemistry. Could've been wordplay that became viral, like when people use "guise" instead of "guys".
The general definition of "zorch" is to destroy or render unusuable, esp with electrical current of improper or fatal voltage or current.
Calvin and Hobbes' Spaceman Spiff carries a futuristic sidearm, which was eventually named Death Ray Blaster, or Death Ray Zorcher.
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Yep. Probably a case of the left arm not talking to the right arm*. Even the mighty Google aren't immune to that kind of sloppiness, especially as they grow.
*The best way to exploit anything, in my opinion.
But with everything becoming classified on the grounds of "national security", how would you prove that a rumor is false? Shouldn't the rumor be proven false before undercover personnel attempt to subvert the group? If conspiracy theorists and other creative people pose no threat, then why is the government willing to subvert them?
:)
Also, the article should replace "conspiracy theorist" with "somebody who says something the government dosen't like". The Air Force is featured prominently in the article, even having a shill flowchart. I served in the Air Force.
Take a look at the last bullet point in this post I made and tell me why something like that wouldn't cause a person to be more mistrustful of his/her overlords. I dealt with this kind of shit then, and I deal with it now having staring matches with the DHS at their checkpoints(if you blink before they do or refuse to look 'em in the eye, you're going to secondary).
If the government is so concerned with paranoids, they should look inward and asking themselves what the fuck they are doing to give people cause to be paranoid. And don't give me that "if you have nothing to hide..." crap, how would you like it if I sat in your closet and watched you have sex, then followed you into your bathroom and laughed at you while you shat? Here's a little conspiracy theory of my own: The fighter-jock Airforce, rapidly becoming obsolete due to the advent of unmanned drones and ground warfare, were given ultimatums - get laid off, ("good luck finding a job in thiseconomy, pal!") or sit at home all day and shill websites. Off they go, into the wild blue(screen) yonder...
Other Airforce or Ex-Airforce, please jump in and share your experiences.
That technology looks to be pretty cool and excellent for routine maintenance, but I can see how it would suck for troubleshooting. For example the video in TFA locates a cable and instructs the user to unscrew it. With all that fancy visual stuff going on, it could be easy for the technician to overlook a pushed pin or a pinch in the cable which could be causing a problem. The small screen on a wrist-mounted phone would not be sufficient to display the necessary detail. The solution as-is is not suitable for finer military electronics which are tangled messes of RF hardlines, circuit cards, and even wire-wrapped backplanes. A full-size LCD to the side showing 3-D animation would be much more suitable for that. Additionally,
Which works fine for vehicles, but would totally suck for aircraft. Did the guys who came up with the statistics factor in the time it takes to set up and/or calibrate the camera array? Of course, embedding a few sensors within the vehicle and setting up the display's position with respect to them would be much easier.
Bitchaz.
Somebody with a god-like sense of humor.
O' Megamod Troll, I beseech thee and offer thee a faded black semen-crusted Rush t-shirt!
"Stop it, you creeps," angry phone call-based.
But yeah, the editors and most of the submitters not knowed the English.
Nah. Even a hardcore tinfoil-hat wearer would think of it as a western-orchestrated FUD campaign to hit China's economy, and that's only if other corporations acknowledged being attacked.
Disclaimer. I have an FCC GROL with ship radar endorsement, collecting dust, never used it
Anybody who actually uses theirs wanna chime in?
Also, from Google's Sponsored Links:
The big question at this point is whether Google are really altruistic or if they just weren't making enough money and throwing a fit to save face before bowing out. What about the others who were targetted? Without a show of solidarity(others threatening to pull out or even acknowledge that they were hacked) it will appear as if Google is walking away with its tail between its legs.
Right. But instead of channeling that rage toward WoW as Eldavojohn jokinly pointed out, that collective anger can be manipulated and directed towards the enemy-of-the-day, even if it is the people themselves. You will have hordes of people, full of self-loathing due to their discord between their urges and their society, who will take out their frustrations hacking foreign governments and ratting out remaining porn sources.
Same thing already happens in America, in the form of official and unofficial snitch patrols like Perverted-justice and Infraguard and other "citizen on patrol" neighborhood watch groups who are overwhelmingly conservative Christian anti-gay anti-commie etc, though their hidden shame and frustration is much more voluntary than that of the Chinese.
One particularly ugly consequence that the articles does not mention is this:
unpri-vileged, adj. not restricted to a select group or individual.
You wouldn't want to bump into her, even by accident. She'll kick you in your nuts and then press charges against your testicles for raping her foot.
Then after you go bankrupt settling out of court, she'll writhe all over her bed while eating chocolate ice cream and listening to the new Tori Amos CD she bought with your money.
Are you jacking on in there?
Have you ever painted a picture with your menstrual blood? You should try it.
:)
It fades to a silvery-crimson sheen, like metallic paint does, due to the iron content of the blood. I still get all misty-eyed when I think about her giving me that painting. I framed it and put it on my desk at work. They thought I was a weirdo. Fuck them. She even kept my semen in a test tube, stored in her freezer next to the Hot Pockets.
Giving a menstrual blood painting is the ultimate expression of love -- short of cannibalism, at least
Fyngyrz is right. Don't be a fuckin' crybaby, you get first posts all the damn time. Perhaps you are taking Slashdot too seriously. A good cure for that is to anonymously post the most offensive thing you can think of. Feels good, man.
Autism is what happens when an American marries a Gook, often in a military marriage, and then both of them party and don't pay any attention to the developing baby.
The baby, never having been nursed with real breast milk, shuts themself out of life. They get up at all hours in the morning and just SCREAM, with no rhyme or reason, and inconveniencing everybody else in the neighborhood.
Parents of autistic kids have nothing to blame but themselves. You injected them with all kinds of crap because the news told you to. You never sang songs to them because you hired a maid to watch them while you partied all night. Yes, your kid was born autistic...because you fucked up.
Or he is you.
No they haven't.
That's why.
Most definitely not. Windows users have no idea about 'threat tables' or what the hell's going on, except that their antivirus program is blinking red and making noises and they have to keep clicking "yes" or "OK" to make it better.
The inconsistency stems from the fact that these so-called "antivirus software research labs" are just Windows terminals with neckbeards in each. Symantec's neckbeard prefers browsing porn sites with ActiveX. Fortinet's neckbeard gets his latest and greatest malware from careless P2P downloads. Kapersky's neckbeard gets his viruses from phishing and gambling sites.
Hence the inconsistent naming conventions and detection profiles across vendors. +5 informative.
Agreed. Being a brainiac means nothing to a sexually-frustrated troll if he's unable to reproduce because he can't thrust deep enough.
Evolution has not yet caught up to higher-level intelligence. That's why, even though I am a mixed non-African, I manage to get laid -- I beat my chest and don't wear deodorant. My superior genes allow me to produce pheromones which make women flush and juice-up on the spot.
My legacy will live on, his will not. All because real men don't yap like chihuahuas, they just grunt here and there. Jealous, racist trolls just don't get it. There is a foolproof method to attracting women:
Speak slowly, in a deep voice, using as few words as possible.
The new crop of informative-reality shows(Dirty Jobs, shows that rebuild cars, shows which glorify cooking, etc.) are glorifying manual labor while leading every attention-starved American to believe that they can get their own T.V. show (or custom pimped-out ride) as long as they are able to shovel shit.
That, coupled with pop-culture emphasis on breeding (Jon and Kate, Kortney Kardashinan, Brangelina, etc..) will lead America's transition to being a docile, eager-to-please consumer service economy whose function is to prop up the extravagant lifestyles of rich foreign and domestic executives.
Last I checked, 5 milliwatts per square centimeter was the maxiumum acceptable RF exposure limit.
"Zorch" sounds exactly like "Zork" when you pronounce the "-ch" as a "k" like the word chemistry. Could've been wordplay that became viral, like when people use "guise" instead of "guys".
The general definition of "zorch" is to destroy or render unusuable, esp with electrical current of improper or fatal voltage or current.
Calvin and Hobbes' Spaceman Spiff carries a futuristic sidearm, which was eventually named Death Ray Blaster, or Death Ray Zorcher.