It was a joke? Seems quite plausible in today's cyberpunk dystopia. If a bad credit score can keep you from getting hired, then revoked credentials from a college due to unpaid debts sure as hell can.
Actually, Microsoft's MCxx certs can be revoked if you're caught cheating or violating the NDA that you have to sign to take any of the exams.
I guess this is the below post you referred to - now is pot really the problem here, or is it a couple of lowsy parents who would just as easily get wasted on alcohol, meth, gasoline fumes etc?
Good post. I was going to post something similar about "education inflation," with many jobs requiring degrees for no good reason ("to prove they're dedicated," the HR drone says - which only makes sense if by "dedicated" they mean "saddled with crushing debt so we know they'll slavishly hang onto their job for dear life") and jobs that would have required a BSc now requiring a master's or PhD, etc...it's at the point now where it's really hard to argue that the job requires such qualifications, you could reasonably argue that it's some form of discrimination.
Also I've heard that people in the States sometimes rent cars just to drive to an interview because their own car isn't considered impressive enough. This seems ridiculous to me, is this a real thing?
I know a guy in the states who used to do all kinds of hard drugs (I remember he mentioned cocaine and meth) and he said that cigarettes were the hardest to quit.
That's neither here nor there, since it has been widely demonstrated that if you actually plot his data, you will find that there has been no warming for the last ten years, contrary to the statements he has made to the press:
Now the denialists are denying the denialists' study because it conflicts with denialism! LOL!
Actually when I first read about this study, I thought it didn't contribute anything new, and was just repeating past experiments under Koch funding to rule out any possibility of bias due to TEH GLOBAL AGW CONSPIRACY!
But this study is actually based on a much more robust data set than any other before in history, so it at least more concretely proves the observed warming record:
The real phone network probably doesn't have the capability built in to record phone calls, and a MITM GSM AP is quicker and cheaper than adding that capability...
Reminds me of Rage when the Authority first enters Wellspring. You go talk to Olive who's talking about the propaganda-monolith they dropped in the town square and their little flying robots.
"...if they think they can scare us with those things, they're wrong."
And then you turn around and one of the drones is RIGHT THERE SCANNING YOU D:
Google Voice at least is traceable. Email to SMS is only untraceable if you use a webmail service accessed through an anonymizing proxy. Prepaid cell phones have required contact details with signup for years now (at least in the US).
If you packets don't go through their white list of 'approved' or 'authorized' sites, they will be silently dropped.
This is happening right now? So basically no form of P2P communication will work then, especially not encrypted bittorrent?
And besides, there's always DPI and various other methods they are not at liberty to divulge.
Well DPI won't help since darknets use universal encryption. Do they have secret cracks for all the best encryption algorithms? Should I put on my tinfoil hat now?
Won't happen. SIP and IAX are out there, all free and decentralized, but all the proprietary junk continues to be adopted by the technologically-challenged masses.
Could be useful for prank calls, harassment, death threats etc if it allows a user to make calls without having a Skype account at all (sounds like a serious security problem with Skype's design).
If it's just an alternative Skype client that still requires an account, then it just prevents Skype from having absolute control over which platforms can access their network, in which case, fuck them.
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That's a shockingly forward-thinking law, even if you ignore where it's coming from :-P
It was a joke? Seems quite plausible in today's cyberpunk dystopia. If a bad credit score can keep you from getting hired, then revoked credentials from a college due to unpaid debts sure as hell can.
Actually, Microsoft's MCxx certs can be revoked if you're caught cheating or violating the NDA that you have to sign to take any of the exams.
A great way to get a cheap BMW is to shop the ones that banks have repossessed.
Seriously. Most of the vehicles that get repossessed are BMWs and Merc's, and they're generally in good condition.
I've heard that the MRE acronym is jokingly explained as "Meal that Refuses to Exit." So, I hope they've taken care of that...
That's why I told you "touch nothing," but you're...bunch of cowboys...
Rosocosmos seems like a name someone would come up with if there were making a parody of the Russian space program.
I would have suggested "Ruskienauts."
No, Apple invented copy & paste, it was first released for iOS, remember?
I guess this is the below post you referred to - now is pot really the problem here, or is it a couple of lowsy parents who would just as easily get wasted on alcohol, meth, gasoline fumes etc?
Good post. I was going to post something similar about "education inflation," with many jobs requiring degrees for no good reason ("to prove they're dedicated," the HR drone says - which only makes sense if by "dedicated" they mean "saddled with crushing debt so we know they'll slavishly hang onto their job for dear life") and jobs that would have required a BSc now requiring a master's or PhD, etc...it's at the point now where it's really hard to argue that the job requires such qualifications, you could reasonably argue that it's some form of discrimination.
Also I've heard that people in the States sometimes rent cars just to drive to an interview because their own car isn't considered impressive enough. This seems ridiculous to me, is this a real thing?
What are these negative life-fucking effects you speak of?
I know a guy in the states who used to do all kinds of hard drugs (I remember he mentioned cocaine and meth) and he said that cigarettes were the hardest to quit.
That's neither here nor there, since it has been widely demonstrated that if you actually plot his data, you will find that there has been no warming for the last ten years, contrary to the statements he has made to the press:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/10/29/uh-oh-it-was-the-best-of-times-it-was-the-worst-of-times/
Now the denialists are denying the denialists' study because it conflicts with denialism! LOL!
Actually when I first read about this study, I thought it didn't contribute anything new, and was just repeating past experiments under Koch funding to rule out any possibility of bias due to TEH GLOBAL AGW CONSPIRACY!
But this study is actually based on a much more robust data set than any other before in history, so it at least more concretely proves the observed warming record:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204422404576594872796327348.html
The real phone network probably doesn't have the capability built in to record phone calls, and a MITM GSM AP is quicker and cheaper than adding that capability...
Reminds me of Rage when the Authority first enters Wellspring. You go talk to Olive who's talking about the propaganda-monolith they dropped in the town square and their little flying robots.
"...if they think they can scare us with those things, they're wrong."
And then you turn around and one of the drones is RIGHT THERE SCANNING YOU D:
Same here. And in any case, anything that goes over a network you don't control without verified end-to-end encryption should be considered unsecure.
Look out it's a terr'ist!
Haha, QA has inspired trolls to imitate him.
It's like Perspectives for cell phone towers.
I was going to suggest this. The stage rallies around here use optically triggered timing plus RFID for identification.
The autocross group is on an even smaller budget so we use a guy with a stopwatch and a clipboard. It's good enough.
You think they don't already have the capability? LOL!
Google Voice at least is traceable. Email to SMS is only untraceable if you use a webmail service accessed through an anonymizing proxy. Prepaid cell phones have required contact details with signup for years now (at least in the US).
If you packets don't go through their white list of 'approved' or 'authorized' sites, they will be silently dropped.
This is happening right now? So basically no form of P2P communication will work then, especially not encrypted bittorrent?
And besides, there's always DPI and various other methods they are not at liberty to divulge.
Well DPI won't help since darknets use universal encryption. Do they have secret cracks for all the best encryption algorithms? Should I put on my tinfoil hat now?
Won't happen. SIP and IAX are out there, all free and decentralized, but all the proprietary junk continues to be adopted by the technologically-challenged masses.
Could be useful for prank calls, harassment, death threats etc if it allows a user to make calls without having a Skype account at all (sounds like a serious security problem with Skype's design).
If it's just an alternative Skype client that still requires an account, then it just prevents Skype from having absolute control over which platforms can access their network, in which case, fuck them.
The Windows version was getting feature-bloated even before MS bought Skype.