Many commercial free wifi services do similar tracking and even eavesdrop on the data passing through them (although of those with disclaimer portal pages, none have mentioned this). I always thought it was odd that so many of them run full-blown Windows...
I figured the easiest way to get a police scanner on your phone would be to build some fancy remote control / audio streaming setup...you mean there was an easy way to get local police scanner access on your phone?
Zero-fill (full disk, including bad sectors) is good enough unless there's some top-secret spy tech that you need to protect against (SQUID transducers is one thing I heard?)
Well I don't know about martian lesbian spider porn, but I know for a fact there is straight giant mutant spider porn...these are the things that you learn when you browse SomethingAwful.
So who wants to bet on what the next message will be?
1. "Reach your hardon to the stars with CHEAP VIAGRA" 2. "SatelliteFix has detected errors! Enter credit card number to repair satellite." 3. "You accidentally the whole security, we haz ur satellite. U jelly, spacefags? Yeah, u jelly. NYANSAT AWAAAAAY!"
Maybe the probe has realized that it's a lesbian and doesn't want to go to Mars, and wants to reroute to Venus instead? Maybe it's been sitting up there in silent introspection and is now ready to come out of the closet to ground control. I'm sure they'll be proud and supportive no matter which planet it wants to go to.
It's quite out of context but let's assume he's fraudulently deleted FOIA requests to avoid dealing with some annoying denialist nutjobs, and let's assume that's illegal. That still doesn't affect the scientific issues in any way. I bet many of them broke the speed limit on the way to work too and then listened to pirated MP3s after work, does that argue against the scientific integrity of their theories as well?
I don't think the denialists and/or anti-environmentalists were ever a majority, although it might seem that way if you're not looking at the usernames. The recent poll on the topic showed that 24% are denialists and 9% are "skeptical."
To be fair it could be because it makes all the denialists (remember that 24% of *Slashdotters* are denialists, and 9% are "skeptical" - and that's a technical/science-oriented community) change the channel and reduces the likelihood of them changing back (because they'll get a reputation as a "warmist" channel).
It's like showing a movie with a topless scene to an audience containing ~50% uptight puritans. They'll run away and label you a smut peddler.
Most of the highlighted quotes include so little context that they're practically meaningless by themselves, I suspect it's not due to laziness, especially considering what happened in the first round of leaks...I'll have to find the context in the source material or wait for a debunking article that includes the context.
I read through all of the highlighted quotes, 90-95% of it is more of the same stuff, climate denialists trying to find hanging material in the lines of innocent men. But there are a few quotes that were worth leaking, particularly under the "religion" and "the cause" sections. It's worrying that so many climate scientists have a professed personal interest in the outcome of their experiments turning out to support the theory of global warming. If any outcome should make them happier, they should be happier to prove themselves wrong, both because that's where the really interesting results (and Nobel prizes) come from, and in this case it would be good news for the human race which is mostly still hemming and hawing over whether to take this carbon emissions thing seriously.
Look at Iraq, at one point Saddam Hussein was a great friend of the US, then he threatened the US oil supply and all that was out the window:P
To roughly paraphrase a quote I heard on Slashdot:
"Saddam once threatened to trade oil in Euros instead of US dollars. 6 months later, he was hiding in a hole in the ground while his country burned down around him."
Besides, people have been renditioned and tortured based on a phonetic name match alone.
Hopefully if this system displays a picture it might cut down on misidentification ("Well, this short pudgy guy doesn't look anything like the tall terrorist with chiseled features we're looking for, maybe we have the wrong guy?").
Phones and tablets are pretty much post-freedom, curated computing has taken over them. The N900 was the last open phone. In the future maybe a completely different OS can be put on a rootable Android device.
Last I heard the official toll of people killed by Wikileaks was 0. If anyone had been killed as a result I'd think it would be headline news that I'd notice. Got a source?
Slashdot Mirror
None of it's truly renewable because the universe will experience heat death at some point!
Also, there's this thing called recycling, look it up.
The first paragraph should begin "MY GIRLFRIEND and I are planning..." :-P
Many commercial free wifi services do similar tracking and even eavesdrop on the data passing through them (although of those with disclaimer portal pages, none have mentioned this). I always thought it was odd that so many of them run full-blown Windows...
http://www.deloitte.com/view/en_GX/global/industries/technology-media-telecommunications/tmt-predictions-2011/telecommunications/16629ece1407d210VgnVCM2000001b56f00aRCRD.htm
I figured the easiest way to get a police scanner on your phone would be to build some fancy remote control / audio streaming setup...you mean there was an easy way to get local police scanner access on your phone?
Don't forget Tori Spelling. Just look her in the big bulgey eyes and say she wouldn't implant an egg sac in your abdomen.
I am the apex predator!
See here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_remanence#Feasibility_of_recovering_overwritten_data
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-88/NISTSP800-88_rev1.pdf
Zero-fill (full disk, including bad sectors) is good enough unless there's some top-secret spy tech that you need to protect against (SQUID transducers is one thing I heard?)
Well I don't know about martian lesbian spider porn, but I know for a fact there is straight giant mutant spider porn...these are the things that you learn when you browse SomethingAwful.
So who wants to bet on what the next message will be?
1. "Reach your hardon to the stars with CHEAP VIAGRA"
2. "SatelliteFix has detected errors! Enter credit card number to repair satellite."
3. "You accidentally the whole security, we haz ur satellite. U jelly, spacefags? Yeah, u jelly. NYANSAT AWAAAAAY!"
Maybe the probe has realized that it's a lesbian and doesn't want to go to Mars, and wants to reroute to Venus instead? Maybe it's been sitting up there in silent introspection and is now ready to come out of the closet to ground control. I'm sure they'll be proud and supportive no matter which planet it wants to go to.
It's quite out of context but let's assume he's fraudulently deleted FOIA requests to avoid dealing with some annoying denialist nutjobs, and let's assume that's illegal. That still doesn't affect the scientific issues in any way. I bet many of them broke the speed limit on the way to work too and then listened to pirated MP3s after work, does that argue against the scientific integrity of their theories as well?
I don't think the denialists and/or anti-environmentalists were ever a majority, although it might seem that way if you're not looking at the usernames. The recent poll on the topic showed that 24% are denialists and 9% are "skeptical."
To be fair it could be because it makes all the denialists (remember that 24% of *Slashdotters* are denialists, and 9% are "skeptical" - and that's a technical/science-oriented community) change the channel and reduces the likelihood of them changing back (because they'll get a reputation as a "warmist" channel).
It's like showing a movie with a topless scene to an audience containing ~50% uptight puritans. They'll run away and label you a smut peddler.
Most of the highlighted quotes include so little context that they're practically meaningless by themselves, I suspect it's not due to laziness, especially considering what happened in the first round of leaks...I'll have to find the context in the source material or wait for a debunking article that includes the context.
Depends, got details of the encryption scheme?
I read through all of the highlighted quotes, 90-95% of it is more of the same stuff, climate denialists trying to find hanging material in the lines of innocent men. But there are a few quotes that were worth leaking, particularly under the "religion" and "the cause" sections. It's worrying that so many climate scientists have a professed personal interest in the outcome of their experiments turning out to support the theory of global warming. If any outcome should make them happier, they should be happier to prove themselves wrong, both because that's where the really interesting results (and Nobel prizes) come from, and in this case it would be good news for the human race which is mostly still hemming and hawing over whether to take this carbon emissions thing seriously.
Iris scan is a joke right now:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_recognition#Security_considerations
It's worth noting that Orwell himself was also a socialist:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell#Political_views
I cared about totalitarianism and population surveillance before it was cool. *flips scarf*
Look at Iraq, at one point Saddam Hussein was a great friend of the US, then he threatened the US oil supply and all that was out the window :P
To roughly paraphrase a quote I heard on Slashdot:
"Saddam once threatened to trade oil in Euros instead of US dollars. 6 months later, he was hiding in a hole in the ground while his country burned down around him."
Besides, people have been renditioned and tortured based on a phonetic name match alone.
Hopefully if this system displays a picture it might cut down on misidentification ("Well, this short pudgy guy doesn't look anything like the tall terrorist with chiseled features we're looking for, maybe we have the wrong guy?").
Phones and tablets are pretty much post-freedom, curated computing has taken over them. The N900 was the last open phone. In the future maybe a completely different OS can be put on a rootable Android device.
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Last I heard the official toll of people killed by Wikileaks was 0. If anyone had been killed as a result I'd think it would be headline news that I'd notice. Got a source?
How about paying for child sex slaves?
http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2010/12/wikileaks_texas_company_helped.php
Heeey, now we're talkin' :D