The conservative right should take some responsibility for the need to suppress this propaganda and maybe we would not be banning things.
I don't think the remaining sane conservatives can do anything about the Trumpkins and centipedes who now dominate the right and enthusiastically spread this propaganda. They clearly want to, you've probably seen John McCain's angry speeches and essays, but they just don't have the numbers or the power.
He was already effectively in custody and on the path to being extradited if such a thing was being planned. The US wasn't expecting him to jump bail and dress up as a woman to sneak into the Ecuadorian embassy.
Big fucking deal, competing pressures, public speaking and frequent travel are not a terribly unusual combination. Doesn't sound too different from a sales rep or sales manager job that pays 5, maybe 6 digits a year in fact. Try making up another excuse for the new royalty capitalism has saddled us with.
I grow tired of these false equivalence arguments. Hillary was an all too boring stay-the-course centrist who never expressed interest in mass deportation programs, committing war crimes, religion-based travel bans, initiating trade wars, using nuclear weapons, or building giant uselesss monuments to xenophobia in the middle of the desert.
The problem is that we've amplified the spread to insane and astronomical proportions that don't remotely reflect the difference in the value of the work. Now we have people doing exhausting work being ordered around by robots in a warehouse all day who can barely support themselves, and top executives taking home 7-8 digits a year for some light office work that doesn't even require a whole lot of skill.
It's really a form of plagiarism - the top management is effectively claiming credit for work done by others and reallocating the pay to suit. In a sane world, minimum wage would be plenty enough for an adult to support themselves, and nobody would make more than perhaps 10x that.
All true, the only difference between the two of them is that Assange has some intellect to fall back on when his ego isn't calling the shots (although that's pretty much all the time. He'd elect Trump to get back at Hillary, which is like getting even with an annoying neighbor by causing a nuclear winter)
That's the best-case scenario that would play out in a perfect world. Less rosy scenarios could involve him being extradited to the US or simply whisked away to a black site prison. Or getting his short prison sentence and then being mysteriously shanked to death in prison by some mysterious person who is totally not a CIA agent.
Yep, all by design. The US government's entire aim in this ridiculous charade is to keep him locked up, one way or another. They want to show that if you leak their info, you will spend the rest of your life locked in a small room of some sort, and you'll be lucky if it has telecoms.
You think the most common OS on the planet by device installations, most commonly distributed in a heavily modified binary blob, is significantly more secure than Windows 10. How cute.
If you're worried about the dangers of free wifi, check your open ports and use a VPN, problem solved.
Star Trek's transporter is sort of a combination cloning machine and suicide booth, unless you believe that a person's consciousness is some incorporeal thing that will link to any brain with a certain configuration of neurons - in which case, what happens in a transporter malfunction that fails to destroy the body that went into it and produces a copy?
I explained my personal theory of what defines a human consciousness in this hackaday post.
Yes, some. So all we have to do is hope that a person compromises their own anonymity with a traceable transaction so they can be deanonymized. Sounds pretty anonymous to me.
Most actual cryptocurrencies, most notable bitcoin, are not anonymous at all.
O RLY? Well what is the command for returning the real name of a bitcoin wallet's owner? There are some ransomware and cryptojacking operations I would like to bust. And I'll solve that Satoshi Nakamoto mystery once and for all.
I know all about the various client programs. but sometimes you're on someone else's computer and you don't have those, so what's a good web-based alternative to KeepVid?
Risks: Loss of control over foreign exchange, massive ease to criminal finance (tax evasion, ransomware, black market purchases, terror funding, sanctions evasion), massive energy consumption, massive risk of irreversible loss due to cybercrime or scams, accelerating inequality due to early purchaser/miner advantage, potential for infinite tulipmanias.
Benefits: Warm n' fuzzy feelings for the very nuttiest libertarians.
Slashdot Mirror
Any second now we'll have rich people sleeping in sarcophaguses made of powered-on cell phones, Peter Thiel is probably finishing his up by now...
The conservative right should take some responsibility for the need to suppress this propaganda and maybe we would not be banning things.
I don't think the remaining sane conservatives can do anything about the Trumpkins and centipedes who now dominate the right and enthusiastically spread this propaganda. They clearly want to, you've probably seen John McCain's angry speeches and essays, but they just don't have the numbers or the power.
He was already effectively in custody and on the path to being extradited if such a thing was being planned. The US wasn't expecting him to jump bail and dress up as a woman to sneak into the Ecuadorian embassy.
Big fucking deal, competing pressures, public speaking and frequent travel are not a terribly unusual combination. Doesn't sound too different from a sales rep or sales manager job that pays 5, maybe 6 digits a year in fact. Try making up another excuse for the new royalty capitalism has saddled us with.
I grow tired of these false equivalence arguments. Hillary was an all too boring stay-the-course centrist who never expressed interest in mass deportation programs, committing war crimes, religion-based travel bans, initiating trade wars, using nuclear weapons, or building giant uselesss monuments to xenophobia in the middle of the desert.
I'm implying that a rational person might've held those back for a while to avoid putting a dangerous white nationalist moron into the oval office.
Because he was on bail and under house arrest, not "walking the streets."
The problem is that we've amplified the spread to insane and astronomical proportions that don't remotely reflect the difference in the value of the work. Now we have people doing exhausting work being ordered around by robots in a warehouse all day who can barely support themselves, and top executives taking home 7-8 digits a year for some light office work that doesn't even require a whole lot of skill.
It's really a form of plagiarism - the top management is effectively claiming credit for work done by others and reallocating the pay to suit. In a sane world, minimum wage would be plenty enough for an adult to support themselves, and nobody would make more than perhaps 10x that.
He has groupies, right? They can set up the optical link and the ISP doesn't have to know who it's for.
Maybe just an optical link to a cell data connection on the balcony? It's expensive, so they'd have to sell some buttcoins.
All true, the only difference between the two of them is that Assange has some intellect to fall back on when his ego isn't calling the shots (although that's pretty much all the time. He'd elect Trump to get back at Hillary, which is like getting even with an annoying neighbor by causing a nuclear winter)
That's the best-case scenario that would play out in a perfect world. Less rosy scenarios could involve him being extradited to the US or simply whisked away to a black site prison. Or getting his short prison sentence and then being mysteriously shanked to death in prison by some mysterious person who is totally not a CIA agent.
Yep, all by design. The US government's entire aim in this ridiculous charade is to keep him locked up, one way or another. They want to show that if you leak their info, you will spend the rest of your life locked in a small room of some sort, and you'll be lucky if it has telecoms.
Sounds like a job for an optical link then!
You think the most common OS on the planet by device installations, most commonly distributed in a heavily modified binary blob, is significantly more secure than Windows 10. How cute.
If you're worried about the dangers of free wifi, check your open ports and use a VPN, problem solved.
Elderly hobos?
One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison
You can't steal a password off someone's body, dead or alive.
Star Trek's transporter is sort of a combination cloning machine and suicide booth, unless you believe that a person's consciousness is some incorporeal thing that will link to any brain with a certain configuration of neurons - in which case, what happens in a transporter malfunction that fails to destroy the body that went into it and produces a copy?
I explained my personal theory of what defines a human consciousness in this hackaday post.
Yes, some. So all we have to do is hope that a person compromises their own anonymity with a traceable transaction so they can be deanonymized. Sounds pretty anonymous to me.
Most actual cryptocurrencies, most notable bitcoin, are not anonymous at all.
O RLY? Well what is the command for returning the real name of a bitcoin wallet's owner? There are some ransomware and cryptojacking operations I would like to bust. And I'll solve that Satoshi Nakamoto mystery once and for all.
I know all about the various client programs. but sometimes you're on someone else's computer and you don't have those, so what's a good web-based alternative to KeepVid?
Risks: Loss of control over foreign exchange, massive ease to criminal finance (tax evasion, ransomware, black market purchases, terror funding, sanctions evasion), massive energy consumption, massive risk of irreversible loss due to cybercrime or scams, accelerating inequality due to early purchaser/miner advantage, potential for infinite tulipmanias.
Benefits: Warm n' fuzzy feelings for the very nuttiest libertarians.
But one can find other occurrences of that address and eventually trace it back to something that occurred in meatspace.
Unless no other activity was conducted with that wallet, in which case it's untraceable.
Or if lots of other activity was conducted with that wallet but none of that activity is traceable.
Basically a wallet is only traceable if the person using it doesn't put any effort into protecting their anonymity.
If someone can use (non-selective) honesty and openness as a weapon against you, you're the bad guy.
Addendum: I see this wouldn't be a problem in the US, where an employee's right to reveal pay is legally protected.