I doubt the US government has much motivation to attempt helping Somalia again... I think you'll learn why so many governments appear to be ignoring Somalia.
On the contrary, the US is very interested in Somalia for the very same reasons the pirates are - it's lack of government and infrastructure means whoever has the most money/guns in their own patch is the law. This makes it an ideal location for the CIA to set up secret prisons, as well as pirates to set up their base of operations.
The proles constitute 85% of the population. They receive little education, work at jobs in which tough physical labour is the norm, live in poverty, and usually die by the age of sixty.
...proles are not expected to understand that they are being exploited by the Party as a source of cheap labour and are unable or unwilling to organize resistance. Their functions are simple: work and breed. They care little about anything but home and family, neighbour quarrels, films and football, beer and lottery tickets. They are not required to express support for the Party, except for a mild form of patriotism. The Party creates meaningless songs, novels, even pornography for the proles. Proles do not wear a uniform, can use cosmetics and have a relatively free internal market economy. Proles also have free sex lives, uninterrupted by the Party, and divorce is permitted. Despite the personal freedoms enjoyed by the Proles, the Thought Police moves among them, spreading false rumours and marking down and eliminating any individuals deemed capable of causing trouble.
After facebook facial recognition technology comes to fruition, your behavior patterns will be analyzed and recorded, and you may be 're-programmed' to fit back in to society nicely. If you fail to comply with the surveillance overlords, you must be prepared for the inevitable consequences.
Hohoho.. do you really think that facial recognition technology hasn't been there from the beginning?
ScienceDaily (Nov. 12, 1997) — Computer "eyes" are now up to such tasks as watching for fugitives in airline terminals and other busy locations. A sophisticated face-recognition system that placed first in recent Army competitive trials has been given the added ability to pick out faces in noisy or chaotic "street" environments.
The new "Mugspot" software module developed at the University of Southern California automatically analyzes video images, looking for passers-by. When it finds them, it picks out the heads in the images and then tracks the heads for as long as they remain in the camera's field.
Almost 15 years ago, it was already possible to accurately track and recognise people in grainy, blurry, low-res video. As if intelligence agencies *aren't* having a field day with facebook.
Because while it's all well and good to say, "You kids stop that fighting!" in the end somebody has to actually go in and separate the parties and be able to threaten real consequences if they go back to fighting.
Yes, that's why police carry weapons. But they're still not allowed to just execute anyone they accuse of a crime. Punishment is for the courts, not the police. Current US foreign policy is to act as world government, police, judge, jury and executioner.
So it was all the elites who were dancing in the streets last month when the US executed Osama Bin Laden? You guys just don't get it. Pulling that kind of crap is exactly why everyone else in the world detests US foreign policy.
If you still can't see it, consider the arrest of Ratko Mladic the other day. Almost identical situation, except Mladic personally helped to execute at least twice as many people as died in the attack on the World Trade Centre, so you could say he is more evil than OBL. And he was arrested and taken to the ICC. He wasn't shot in the head and dumped in the ocean, because that is not how civilised societies deal with criminals.
The way the US public cheers the fact that their government can and does execute anyone in the world with no due process, and is perfectly entitled to invade any country they don't like makes me feel physically ill.
Here at UWA we have full Linux support. CS units regularly set projects requiring a *NIX OS, and all Lab machines boot at least Windows and Fedora (and there's a Mac lab with triple-boot).
Incredibly sad behaviour for what used to be one of the leaders of the "Free Press". And thanks again, Wikileaks, for exposing another facet of the insidious corporate takeover of US democracy.
Manning acted out of a juvenile sense of drama, and indiscriminantly stole hundreds of thousands of documents in a fit of pique over "being in a bad place" emotionally. He betrayed his fellow service members and knew that his drama queen routine was going to put many people at great risk so that he could be seen stamping his feet...
Kissinger said much the same of Danel Ellsberg: It’s treasonable! There’s no question it’s actionable. I’m absolutely certain that this violates all sorts of security laws.
How is that the same as setting up communications channels for individuals living under an oppressive totalitarian regime like Cuba's? It's not.
He set up a communication channel with the world because he believed that the information belonged "in the public domain". His actions have been credited with helping fuel the revolutions in the middle east - helping individuals living under an oppressive totalitarian regime.
Here in Australia, we have compulsory voting. I know that to many in the US this would be an infringement of their freedom (or something), but it means that apparently we have one of the highest voter turnouts in the world (95%).
I think that it is a very good thing for several reasons:
it means that everyone at least considers the policy options. Really, people seem much more aware of government policy than in other countries I've lived in. I think it's because people know that they have to do it, so they might as well make some effort to understand the options.
there are no issues like more people turning up to vote in an area than expected; so booths close on time and everyone gets to vote.
if you really don't want to vote, you can stay home (and pay the $20 fine), or just go down to a booth and submit a blank ballot
Richard Nixon said "If the President does it, it is legal." We all know how that worked out for him. It sounds like you are substituting "government agency" for "President." No one is above the law, not a President, and not a government agency. Black Hat is Black Hat no matter who is doing it, or who they are doing it for.
Yesterday, in South Carolina, an Obama-appointed federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by Padilla against former Bush officials Donald Rumsfeld, John Ashcroft, Paul Wolfowitz and others. That suit alleges that those officials knowingly violated Padilla's Constitutional rights by ordering his due-process-free detention and torture. In dismissing Padilla's lawsuit, the court's opinion relied on the same now-depressingly-familiar weapons routinely used by our political class to immunize itself from judicial scrutiny: national security would be undermined by allowing Padilla to sue; "government officials could be distracted from their vital duties to attend depositions or respond to other discovery requests"; "a trial on the merits would be an international spectacle with Padilla, a convicted terrorist, summoning America's present and former leaders to a federal courthouse to answer his charges"; the litigation would risk disclosure of vital state secrets; and "discovery procedures could be used by our enemies to obtain valuable intelligence."
In other words, our political officials are Too Important, and engaged in far Too Weighty Matters in Keeping Us Safe, to subject them to the annoyance of the rule of law. It's much more important to allow them to Fight The Terrorists without restraints than to bother them with claims that they broke the law and violated the rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.
Desperate times call for desperate measures. And Iran is indeed in a tough neighborhood where every single day, hour, second... Every single moment is a desperate time. Ever since her inception the US and Israel tried to annihilate her.
That is why there is a policy of development when it comes to the nuclear weapons. And assassinations of the nuclear scientists by Iran's enemies shows that they are doing something right. And bombings of their reactors and finally yes -- the virus.
And for any of you who would point a finger at the "neighborhood bully" -- remember, that you do not live in that neighborhood.
Yeah, but if I did live in, say, the Gaza strip, and the neighbour used Collective Punishment (a war crime) on my society for democratically choosing, in an election described as "free, transparent and without violence", someone they didn't like, then I'd probably work damn hard to fight for my freedom and escape from beneath their boot heel too.
Using the example of a Gmail account, Google public policy and government affairs spokesperson Istar Vij used the example of deleting an email from a Gmail account.
"Once it's deleted and gone from our backup servers, it's gone," she said.
"From the entire techostratasphere?" Fisher asked.
"If I stored data with my Gmail account and I deleted it, it will be gone," Vij replied.
Thank god our elected representatives know what they are talking about.
What has always amazed me about authenication for access-control via a computer
is the widespread use of "passwords". We treat computer access-control like it's
a brand new problem, however it's really just the same old access-control
problem that we solved at least 4000 years ago.
Why don't we have passwords to get into our houses? Why don't we have passwords
to get into our cars or P.O. boxes or even safe-deposit boxes? Because passwords
are a pain in the ass that are inherently insecure because we, as humans, are
terrible at remembering arbitrary strings of numbers/letters/symbols. What we
are good at remembering - objects/ideas and the words associated with them -
make for terrible passwords because they are so darn easy to guess.
The idea of a lock and key is one which we have been using for millenia for
security, so why haven't we applied this simple metaphor for electronic
access-control. We even have the technology readily available: Public Key
Authentication. But for some reason the only place I've ever seen it used is in
OpenSSH. In fact, it's considered superior to password authentication in OpenSSH
and recommended over a password.
So why not have RSA keys to our email, online banking etc. just like we have
keys to our houses, cars etc?
Thing is, the greens are not going to get into power. However if you vote for them they'll have legislation-blocking power in the senate for The Filter and Big Brother. So even if you disagree with their other policies, it's still best to vote for them, since they can't pass any of their own legislation without one of the major parties on side.
I'm always glad to hear about mono being used less on Linux.
Yup. I've got nothing against people using it, but I completely agree with the FSF and would never use or install Mono myself.
We've still got people like Horacio Gutierrez (Corporate Vice President and Deputy General Counsel) making statements like this:
...smartphones are a product of the ‘open innovation’ paradigm – device manufacturers do not do all of their development in-house, but add their own innovations to those of others to create a product that users want. Open innovation is only possible through the licensing of third party IP rights, which ensures that those who develop the building blocks that make a new technology possible are properly compensated for their investments in research and development. After all, technology just doesn’t appear, fully-developed, from Zeus’s head. It requires lots of hard work and resources to create. ...now the industry is in the process of sorting out what royalties will be for the software stack, which now represents the principal value proposition for smartphones. In the next few years, as the IP situation settles in this space and licensing takes off, we will see the patent royalties applicable to the smartphone software stack settle at a level that reflects the increasing importance software has as a portion of the overall value of the device. (16 March 2010)
Do you still think Microsoft will allow competitors like Google (Android) and Nokia/Intel (MeeGo) to use Mono's.NET implementations for free?
Lots of ranting, but what exactly is wrong with KDE 4? I find it much more usable than the 3.5 series, mostly because of the improvements between Qt 3 and Qt 4.
I have dual monitors set up and it was literally plug-n-play with full 3d acceleration etc. But that's on intel graphics. Do you, by any chance, use shitty proprietary graphics drivers?
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I doubt the US government has much motivation to attempt helping Somalia again... I think you'll learn why so many governments appear to be ignoring Somalia.
On the contrary, the US is very interested in Somalia for the very same reasons the pirates are - it's lack of government and infrastructure means whoever has the most money/guns in their own patch is the law. This makes it an ideal location for the CIA to set up secret prisons, as well as pirates to set up their base of operations.
A democracy needs to be controlled by the citizens though, and not the citizens controlled by the government's propaganda.
The US government is controlled by the citizens. Or were you referring to the proles?
After facebook facial recognition technology comes to fruition, your behavior patterns will be analyzed and recorded, and you may be 're-programmed' to fit back in to society nicely. If you fail to comply with the surveillance overlords, you must be prepared for the inevitable consequences.
Hohoho.. do you really think that facial recognition technology hasn't been there from the beginning?
Almost 15 years ago, it was already possible to accurately track and recognise people in grainy, blurry, low-res video. As if intelligence agencies *aren't* having a field day with facebook.
Because while it's all well and good to say, "You kids stop that fighting!" in the end somebody has to actually go in and separate the parties and be able to threaten real consequences if they go back to fighting.
Yes, that's why police carry weapons. But they're still not allowed to just execute anyone they accuse of a crime. Punishment is for the courts, not the police. Current US foreign policy is to act as world government, police, judge, jury and executioner.
You have got to be fucking kidding me.
So it was all the elites who were dancing in the streets last month when the US executed Osama Bin Laden? You guys just don't get it. Pulling that kind of crap is exactly why everyone else in the world detests US foreign policy.
If you still can't see it, consider the arrest of Ratko Mladic the other day. Almost identical situation, except Mladic personally helped to execute at least twice as many people as died in the attack on the World Trade Centre, so you could say he is more evil than OBL. And he was arrested and taken to the ICC. He wasn't shot in the head and dumped in the ocean, because that is not how civilised societies deal with criminals.
The way the US public cheers the fact that their government can and does execute anyone in the world with no due process, and is perfectly entitled to invade any country they don't like makes me feel physically ill.
Here at UWA we have full Linux support. CS units regularly set projects requiring a *NIX OS, and all Lab machines boot at least Windows and Fedora (and there's a Mac lab with triple-boot).
Step-by-step networking instructions are also provided for Windows XP, Vista, 7, Ubuntu, OS X, iOS, Android and Symbian.
http://its.uwa.edu.au/wifi/unifi/setup_and_troubleshooting
The New York Times has been dead to me ever since Bill Keller, Executive Editor, admitted that he won't publish anything relating to the US govt. without their prior approval.
Incredibly sad behaviour for what used to be one of the leaders of the "Free Press". And thanks again, Wikileaks, for exposing another facet of the insidious corporate takeover of US democracy.
The H Open:
http://www.h-online.com/open/features/What-s-new-in-Linux-2-6-38-1205467.html
Manning acted out of a juvenile sense of drama, and indiscriminantly stole hundreds of thousands of documents in a fit of pique over "being in a bad place" emotionally. He betrayed his fellow service members and knew that his drama queen routine was going to put many people at great risk so that he could be seen stamping his feet...
Kissinger said much the same of Danel Ellsberg: It’s treasonable! There’s no question it’s actionable. I’m absolutely certain that this violates all sorts of security laws.
How is that the same as setting up communications channels for individuals living under an oppressive totalitarian regime like Cuba's? It's not.
He set up a communication channel with the world because he believed that the information belonged "in the public domain". His actions have been credited with helping fuel the revolutions in the middle east - helping individuals living under an oppressive totalitarian regime.
This is the original article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/mar/02/ghostmarket-web-scam-teenagers
Bonus picture of kid being a douche.
I think that it is a very good thing for several reasons:
Richard Nixon said "If the President does it, it is legal." We all know how that worked out for him. It sounds like you are substituting "government agency" for "President." No one is above the law, not a President, and not a government agency. Black Hat is Black Hat no matter who is doing it, or who they are doing it for.
Actually, in the US today, the President and government agencies *are* above the law.
Fortunately, other countries are not so squeamish about prosecuting war crimes, which is why Bush et al. will likely never set foot in the EU again.
Goodbye, leaders of the free world. It was nice while it lasted.
Desperate times call for desperate measures. And Iran is indeed in a tough neighborhood where every single day, hour, second... Every single moment is a desperate time. Ever since her inception the US and Israel tried to annihilate her. That is why there is a policy of development when it comes to the nuclear weapons. And assassinations of the nuclear scientists by Iran's enemies shows that they are doing something right. And bombings of their reactors and finally yes -- the virus.
FTFY. Remember, the major reason for Iran's military buildup is exterior threats (and the fact that it's working only reinforces that).
And for any of you who would point a finger at the "neighborhood bully" -- remember, that you do not live in that neighborhood.
Yeah, but if I did live in, say, the Gaza strip, and the neighbour used Collective Punishment (a war crime) on my society for democratically choosing, in an election described as "free, transparent and without violence", someone they didn't like, then I'd probably work damn hard to fight for my freedom and escape from beneath their boot heel too.
I have plenty of friends
I see what you did there.
At this stage, most democracies around the world are more free than the US.
This cognitive dissonance of declaring yourselves the "land of the free, home of the brave" is quite astonishing given that:
How the hell are you people not making a bigger noise about these three egregious violations of your liberty?
+1 yes please!
http://doc.trolltech.com/4.7/supported-platforms.html
Awesome, innovative new technology being developed on the back of funds earned from their last wireless patent. Thanks CSIRO.
Thank god our elected representatives know what they are talking about.
There's also stories of high tech IT companies waiting with baited breath ...
Maybe they should lay off the damp squid.
What has always amazed me about authenication for access-control via a computer is the widespread use of "passwords". We treat computer access-control like it's a brand new problem, however it's really just the same old access-control problem that we solved at least 4000 years ago.
Why don't we have passwords to get into our houses? Why don't we have passwords to get into our cars or P.O. boxes or even safe-deposit boxes? Because passwords are a pain in the ass that are inherently insecure because we, as humans, are terrible at remembering arbitrary strings of numbers/letters/symbols. What we are good at remembering - objects/ideas and the words associated with them - make for terrible passwords because they are so darn easy to guess.
The idea of a lock and key is one which we have been using for millenia for security, so why haven't we applied this simple metaphor for electronic access-control. We even have the technology readily available: Public Key Authentication. But for some reason the only place I've ever seen it used is in OpenSSH. In fact, it's considered superior to password authentication in OpenSSH and recommended over a password.
So why not have RSA keys to our email, online banking etc. just like we have keys to our houses, cars etc?
Thing is, the greens are not going to get into power. However if you vote for them they'll have legislation-blocking power in the senate for The Filter and Big Brother. So even if you disagree with their other policies, it's still best to vote for them, since they can't pass any of their own legislation without one of the major parties on side.
I'm always glad to hear about mono being used less on Linux.
Yup. I've got nothing against people using it, but I completely agree with the FSF and would never use or install Mono myself.
We've still got people like Horacio Gutierrez (Corporate Vice President and Deputy General Counsel) making statements like this:
...smartphones are a product of the ‘open innovation’ paradigm – device manufacturers do not do all of their development in-house, but add their own innovations to those of others to create a product that users want. Open innovation is only possible through the licensing of third party IP rights, which ensures that those who develop the building blocks that make a new technology possible are properly compensated for their investments in research and development. After all, technology just doesn’t appear, fully-developed, from Zeus’s head. It requires lots of hard work and resources to create.
...now the industry is in the process of sorting out what royalties will be for the software stack, which now represents the principal value proposition for smartphones. In the next few years, as the IP situation settles in this space and licensing takes off, we will see the patent royalties applicable to the smartphone software stack settle at a level that reflects the increasing importance software has as a portion of the overall value of the device.
(16 March 2010)
Do you still think Microsoft will allow competitors like Google (Android) and Nokia/Intel (MeeGo) to use Mono's .NET implementations for free?
Lots of ranting, but what exactly is wrong with KDE 4? I find it much more usable than the 3.5 series, mostly because of the improvements between Qt 3 and Qt 4.
I have dual monitors set up and it was literally plug-n-play with full 3d acceleration etc. But that's on intel graphics. Do you, by any chance, use shitty proprietary graphics drivers?