I'm not sure you should be ashamed for having voted for Obama in 2008. Try to remember the (realistic) alternatives we faced.
That's funny... you believe there was any difference between the two? Exactly how could Romney have been any worse? Thinking like yours is what lets this farce continue. We're mad at Democrats today, so next time we'll vote Republican, and they'll do the exact same fucking thing... So then we'll get mad at them and vote democrat... never realizing that we're just keeping the same assholes in control that we've always had. Our political system has to change, not the party in power. Democrats and Republicans are equally responsible for all of this. We need them all out of office.
I think most of us stopped listening to Linus quite a while ago. I've followed him on various social media platforms and it's been pretty clear that over time they have turned him into an asshole. Some people (myself included) should just avoid posting whatever they think at any time they want under their real name. He should just pick up some handle on slashdot and post away like I do. That way you can still be a dick and not have everyone hate you for it. And no, I'm not Linus... well, I don't think so anyway. I need to ask my shrink to be sure.
"There's a lot of technologies out there right now that are being introduced into the retail space to understand what consumers are doing in the store, and heat-mapping is one of those technologies--using cameras in the ceiling to actually track where the consumer's going. What this information tells the retailer is where a consumer is, how they're moving around the store, whether they're dwelling in certain places, like checkout or in front of specific merchandise."
I'd bet most, if not all, their investments are going into this area. We need to ask ourselves if we really want to live in a world like this. Where you walk into a store and the placement of items, the color of the walls, even the music they are playing has been psychologically profiled to affect you in a way that makes you spend your money foolishly. Casinos already pump oxygen into the air to keep you awake longer and provide free drinks to make you do stupid things.
At some point in the not too distant future you're going to walk into a retail space to find instead of music their strange buzzing and clicking noises, followed by some wall displays that flash with strange colors in what can only be described as an epileptic pattern and then you're suddenly going to find yourself outside the store, your wallet empty and the irresistible urge to find the nearest ATM, get more and come back. It sounds like a joke, but it's entirely likely. How far away are we from the entrances to stores having MRIs built into the door frame?
And that weapon isn't even the most interesting part of that book. In fact, the entire story has nothing to do with the culture. It's in a solar system that's outside the galaxy. They're just adrift, no stars... hence the name.
Consider Phlebas is a great book, but difficult to start the series on even if it was the first. Many of the culture series are down right depressing, but worth reading anyway. Excession is probably my favorite, followed by player of games. You do not have to read them in any particular order.
The point is that most Americans don't care if it's not them. But now we see that it IS them. That's the point of this leak... Even YOU are being targeted by your government now... what are YOU going to do? And voting wont help... Both parties were in on this. What are you going to do when your entire government is a corrupt mess that has more of your population in prison than any other government in history, manipulates your elections in such an efficient way most people feel like they're actually making a choice when no real choice actually exists and feels it's within their power to imprison you indefinitely, torture you, and even murder your entire family via missile strike? How is this country different than North Korea (other than the mass starving and such)? At least in North Korea you know that when the police arrive you should just run... I guess a lot of people in our poorer communities already have this figured out.
Can anyone explain to me why all this shits coming out now? All at once? From several different agencies? This can't be a coincidence. Is the NSA stuff getting leaked on purpose to get the media off the IRS story? I really don't get this. I could see all the NSA stuff coming from one source. But the other stories? Clearly we're being manipulated, but by whom and for what purpose?
I've always supported the idea that Juveniles that commit very serious crimes like this who can not serve their sentences because of their age should pass on their remaining sentence to their guardians (parents).
Keep in mind that "Significant harm" usually means the victim now has to spend lots of money upgrading the security that they never had in the first place. Because, after all, they would never had needed that if it wasn't for said hacker right?
Sorry, I've always thought Lauren Weinstein was an idiot, and now it's been confirmed. Google doesn't have to give the NSA access, the NSA will just take it. You're a moron if you think there's anything other than the constitution stopping the feds from doing whatever the hell they want. They have more money than any other organization on earth by several orders of magnitude. If the government does not respect the constitution in one way, why would they respect it in any other? If they are already packet capturing all of our traffic, is steeling API access to Googles databases any worse? As far as technical ability goes, all they would have had to do is bribe a couple of high level, psychologically profiled DBAs with talk of patriotism or telling their wives about their boyfriends and they're in.
If the federal government thinks it can fire a hellfire missile from a drone and kill a US citizen without evidence, trial or judicial oversight, then reading our email is a joke to them. It's an easy thing to do, they think they are righteous in their attempts and they have endless resources... OF COURSE THEY'RE DOING IT. The idea that Larry Page would have any fucking clue is a joke. "yes, lets makes sure some celebrities know about our evil plan!"
The prosecutor brings you in "Confess your crimes evil doer!" You: "Uh... I didn't do anything wrong..." The prosecutor: "Your honor, look at his baggy pants, sloped brow, menacing look! Clearly this man is a criminal" Judge: "He does look pretty menacing... Why don't you just tell us what you did?" You: "Because I didn't do anything!" Judge: "Well this court has ordered you to confess, you'll be held in confinement until you do so." You: "But! Wait... if I confess to something small, will you let me go?" Judge: "Well... we really just want to confiscate your lands and prevent you from having those meetings where you complain about the government. So if you just confess to a couple of these small things we'll keep you for a few months and let you go, that work for you?" You: "Not really... how long will you hold me for not confessing?" Judge: "Basically I'll just hand you over to the Jail and tell them not to allow you any outside contact until you're ready to confess... could be a long time" You: "Ok, I'll confess"
And if you don't think that would happen, just look at a few Journalists that are sitting in contempt of court for years for basically the same thing.
Don't be a fool. Terrorism is not, and never was a threat. More people are killed by cancer every DAY than have been killed by terrorist attacks in this country in all of history. Imagine if they'd used the money from these 2 data centers for cancer research. Either their idiots or their goal has nothing to do with terrorists.
More people might die from accidents than murder every day, but murder shouldn't be easy to get away with or everyone on a soapbox would be assassinated.
Terrorism isn't about the death and destruction or teh terrorz, it's 100% about intent.
Like any other crime, you don't actually stop it, you make it not worthwhile.
Murder is easy to get away with. For the most part they only catch the stupid and the poor. The government likes to give you the impression that you're safe but the fact of the matter is 35% of murders go unsolved. Most of those that were caught were heat-of-the-moment type murders that are easy. Premeditated murders almost always go unsolved.
So are you safe? Yes! Why? Because people don't want to kill you. We can live in a society governed by ourselves. We do not need nannys watching our every move. The fact is, if someone wants to kill you, you're going to die. Government or not. Do we really want to live in a police state simply to garner the "impression" that we're safer when in fact we're not?
The solution isn't legal, it's social. All those years they spend trying to ban cigarettes, tax them... none of it worked. But the day I heard my niece describe a guy as "gross" for smoking I knew it was doomed as a habit.
He was talking about SLASHDOT and all of us posters being untruthful in the presentation of the researchers work, not the researchers. The Original poster intentionally left out the details he's highlighting and then the rest of us didn't bother reading the article and just spouted off uninformed opinions.
Don't be a fool. Terrorism is not, and never was a threat. More people are killed by cancer every DAY than have been killed by terrorist attacks in this country in all of history. Imagine if they'd used the money from these 2 data centers for cancer research. Either their idiots or their goal has nothing to do with terrorists.
The easiest way to learn SQL is to get Microsoft Access, get MYSQL server, setup a server, use Access as the front end and then build an app for... I dunno, recipees or something.
I work for a phone company. You are VERY wrong. The fines for us releasing this kind of information without a warrent are so serious that many people that I work with refuse to take positions where they have access to this kind of data. One poorly written SQL query and you're getting walked out the door. We're talking hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines for even small infractions.
The ECPA also added new provisions prohibiting access to stored electronic communications *snip* The 'electronic communication' means any transfer of signs, signals, writing, images, sounds, data, or intelligence of any nature transmitted in whole or in part by a wire, radio, electromagnetic, photoelectronic or photooptical system that affects interstate or foreign commerce *snip* Title II of the ECPA, the Stored Communications Act (SCA), protects communications held in electronic storage, most notably messages stored on computers.
Because it's an interesting use of technology. Pretending difficult issues like the Israel/Palestine thing do not exist may prevent arguments on slashdot but it's certainly not going to do the world any good. Flamewars on this site are the least of the middle-Easts concerns.
And how many people would have gotten lung cancer if this reactor had never existed and they'd been burning oil or coal all of this time? Nuclear power is the safest practical form of power we have right now. This was one of the oldest designs for a reactor that's still in use, it was hit by one of the largest natural disasters in history, the aftermath was poorly handled and it still survived. One of the most astonishing things about this entire event is that people still call it a disaster. This reactor performed exactly as it was designed. It did not melt through the containment vessel, sink down to the water table and cause a radioactive steam explosion (like Chernobyl)
Lastly, comparing this event to Chernobyl in anyway is outright ridiculous. Go read up on the event... Chernobyl was a real disaster. This event was a success in that the safety systems prevented something far more terrible from happening.
Business unit: We want XYZ, We have a budget of $x and we want it done by July 1st. IS Department: You see this is a math problem. XYZ costs $y not $x. You can't come and tell us exactly what you want to have done and exactly what you are going to pay. You can tell us one or the other and we'll provide the opposing data. Business unit: That's not acceptable, and what about the date?!? IS Department: We literally have no idea how long this or any project will take. Business unit: We need hard facts! We need to claim our project is affordable and will be done by our arbitrary date! We need you to lie to us! IS Department: Ok, well, we'll use a method called "Agile" and we'll completely make up some time and costs estimates. But the whole point of Agile is that we'll revise these dozens of times during the project so that, in the end, we can claim that our estimates are accurate because we basically just made them match what they actually ended up being at the end of the project. We will blame you for the overruns in our documentation, and you will blame us in yours. Then, in some meeting somewhere we'll generally complain that all projects over-run estimates by an average of 200% and gloss over the fact that this basically proves estimates are completely made up and are of no use at all. Business unit: Perfect!
I to am marveling at how dumb his concern is given the fact that you can pretty much convert any file format in existence to any other file format in existence with any number of free conversion applications that the internet is riddled with... and he's talking about MICROSOFT file formats. You could simply open the file in Google Docs for Christs sake. I wouldn't be surprised if Firefox could open it natively either.
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I'm not sure you should be ashamed for having voted for Obama in 2008. Try to remember the (realistic) alternatives we faced.
That's funny... you believe there was any difference between the two? Exactly how could Romney have been any worse?
Thinking like yours is what lets this farce continue. We're mad at Democrats today, so next time we'll vote Republican, and they'll do the exact same fucking thing... So then we'll get mad at them and vote democrat... never realizing that we're just keeping the same assholes in control that we've always had. Our political system has to change, not the party in power. Democrats and Republicans are equally responsible for all of this. We need them all out of office.
I think most of us stopped listening to Linus quite a while ago. I've followed him on various social media platforms and it's been pretty clear that over time they have turned him into an asshole. Some people (myself included) should just avoid posting whatever they think at any time they want under their real name. He should just pick up some handle on slashdot and post away like I do. That way you can still be a dick and not have everyone hate you for it. And no, I'm not Linus... well, I don't think so anyway. I need to ask my shrink to be sure.
"There's a lot of technologies out there right now that are being introduced into the retail space to understand what consumers are doing in the store, and heat-mapping is one of those technologies--using cameras in the ceiling to actually track where the consumer's going. What this information tells the retailer is where a consumer is, how they're moving around the store, whether they're dwelling in certain places, like checkout or in front of specific merchandise."
I'd bet most, if not all, their investments are going into this area. We need to ask ourselves if we really want to live in a world like this. Where you walk into a store and the placement of items, the color of the walls, even the music they are playing has been psychologically profiled to affect you in a way that makes you spend your money foolishly. Casinos already pump oxygen into the air to keep you awake longer and provide free drinks to make you do stupid things.
At some point in the not too distant future you're going to walk into a retail space to find instead of music their strange buzzing and clicking noises, followed by some wall displays that flash with strange colors in what can only be described as an epileptic pattern and then you're suddenly going to find yourself outside the store, your wallet empty and the irresistible urge to find the nearest ATM, get more and come back. It sounds like a joke, but it's entirely likely. How far away are we from the entrances to stores having MRIs built into the door frame?
And that weapon isn't even the most interesting part of that book. In fact, the entire story has nothing to do with the culture. It's in a solar system that's outside the galaxy. They're just adrift, no stars... hence the name.
Consider Phlebas is a great book, but difficult to start the series on even if it was the first. Many of the culture series are down right depressing, but worth reading anyway. Excession is probably my favorite, followed by player of games. You do not have to read them in any particular order.
The point is that most Americans don't care if it's not them. But now we see that it IS them. That's the point of this leak... Even YOU are being targeted by your government now... what are YOU going to do? And voting wont help... Both parties were in on this. What are you going to do when your entire government is a corrupt mess that has more of your population in prison than any other government in history, manipulates your elections in such an efficient way most people feel like they're actually making a choice when no real choice actually exists and feels it's within their power to imprison you indefinitely, torture you, and even murder your entire family via missile strike? How is this country different than North Korea (other than the mass starving and such)? At least in North Korea you know that when the police arrive you should just run... I guess a lot of people in our poorer communities already have this figured out.
Can anyone explain to me why all this shits coming out now? All at once? From several different agencies? This can't be a coincidence. Is the NSA stuff getting leaked on purpose to get the media off the IRS story? I really don't get this. I could see all the NSA stuff coming from one source. But the other stories? Clearly we're being manipulated, but by whom and for what purpose?
I've always supported the idea that Juveniles that commit very serious crimes like this who can not serve their sentences because of their age should pass on their remaining sentence to their guardians (parents).
Keep in mind that "Significant harm" usually means the victim now has to spend lots of money upgrading the security that they never had in the first place. Because, after all, they would never had needed that if it wasn't for said hacker right?
Don't forget the Nazis... we beet the Nazis... and Stalin to.
Because everythings written for windows. Simple as that. It's a snowball effect.
Yes, it's called "a firewall" They do many very useful things. Allow them access on a port, and have a script running that disables it after a time.
Sorry, I've always thought Lauren Weinstein was an idiot, and now it's been confirmed. Google doesn't have to give the NSA access, the NSA will just take it. You're a moron if you think there's anything other than the constitution stopping the feds from doing whatever the hell they want. They have more money than any other organization on earth by several orders of magnitude. If the government does not respect the constitution in one way, why would they respect it in any other? If they are already packet capturing all of our traffic, is steeling API access to Googles databases any worse? As far as technical ability goes, all they would have had to do is bribe a couple of high level, psychologically profiled DBAs with talk of patriotism or telling their wives about their boyfriends and they're in.
If the federal government thinks it can fire a hellfire missile from a drone and kill a US citizen without evidence, trial or judicial oversight, then reading our email is a joke to them. It's an easy thing to do, they think they are righteous in their attempts and they have endless resources... OF COURSE THEY'RE DOING IT. The idea that Larry Page would have any fucking clue is a joke. "yes, lets makes sure some celebrities know about our evil plan!"
The prosecutor brings you in "Confess your crimes evil doer!"
You: "Uh... I didn't do anything wrong..."
The prosecutor: "Your honor, look at his baggy pants, sloped brow, menacing look! Clearly this man is a criminal"
Judge: "He does look pretty menacing... Why don't you just tell us what you did?"
You: "Because I didn't do anything!"
Judge: "Well this court has ordered you to confess, you'll be held in confinement until you do so."
You: "But! Wait... if I confess to something small, will you let me go?"
Judge: "Well... we really just want to confiscate your lands and prevent you from having those meetings where you complain about the government. So if you just confess to a couple of these small things we'll keep you for a few months and let you go, that work for you?"
You: "Not really... how long will you hold me for not confessing?"
Judge: "Basically I'll just hand you over to the Jail and tell them not to allow you any outside contact until you're ready to confess... could be a long time"
You: "Ok, I'll confess"
And if you don't think that would happen, just look at a few Journalists that are sitting in contempt of court for years for basically the same thing.
Don't be a fool. Terrorism is not, and never was a threat. More people are killed by cancer every DAY than have been killed by terrorist attacks in this country in all of history. Imagine if they'd used the money from these 2 data centers for cancer research. Either their idiots or their goal has nothing to do with terrorists.
More people might die from accidents than murder every day, but murder shouldn't be easy to get away with or everyone on a soapbox would be assassinated.
Terrorism isn't about the death and destruction or teh terrorz, it's 100% about intent.
Like any other crime, you don't actually stop it, you make it not worthwhile.
Murder is easy to get away with. For the most part they only catch the stupid and the poor. The government likes to give you the impression that you're safe but the fact of the matter is 35% of murders go unsolved. Most of those that were caught were heat-of-the-moment type murders that are easy. Premeditated murders almost always go unsolved.
So are you safe? Yes! Why? Because people don't want to kill you. We can live in a society governed by ourselves. We do not need nannys watching our every move. The fact is, if someone wants to kill you, you're going to die. Government or not. Do we really want to live in a police state simply to garner the "impression" that we're safer when in fact we're not?
The solution isn't legal, it's social. All those years they spend trying to ban cigarettes, tax them... none of it worked. But the day I heard my niece describe a guy as "gross" for smoking I knew it was doomed as a habit.
He was talking about SLASHDOT and all of us posters being untruthful in the presentation of the researchers work, not the researchers. The Original poster intentionally left out the details he's highlighting and then the rest of us didn't bother reading the article and just spouted off uninformed opinions.
Don't be a fool. Terrorism is not, and never was a threat. More people are killed by cancer every DAY than have been killed by terrorist attacks in this country in all of history. Imagine if they'd used the money from these 2 data centers for cancer research. Either their idiots or their goal has nothing to do with terrorists.
The easiest way to learn SQL is to get Microsoft Access, get MYSQL server, setup a server, use Access as the front end and then build an app for... I dunno, recipees or something.
I work for a phone company. You are VERY wrong. The fines for us releasing this kind of information without a warrent are so serious that many people that I work with refuse to take positions where they have access to this kind of data. One poorly written SQL query and you're getting walked out the door. We're talking hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines for even small infractions.
The ECPA also added new provisions prohibiting access to stored electronic communications
*snip*
The 'electronic communication' means any transfer of signs, signals, writing, images, sounds, data, or intelligence of any nature transmitted in whole or in part by a wire, radio, electromagnetic, photoelectronic or photooptical system that affects interstate or foreign commerce
*snip*
Title II of the ECPA, the Stored Communications Act (SCA), protects communications held in electronic storage, most notably messages stored on computers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Communications_Privacy_Act
The information the NSA is collecting is the data portion of your conversation.
This is clearly a violation of the 4th amendment.
No, the vast majority of Fukushimas fuel never left containment.
Here's the obligatory chart so you can compare the 2. They are not even remotely in the same league: http://xkcd.com/radiation/
>Why post this Slashdot? Because its on Twitter?
Because it's an interesting use of technology. Pretending difficult issues like the Israel/Palestine thing do not exist may prevent arguments on slashdot but it's certainly not going to do the world any good. Flamewars on this site are the least of the middle-Easts concerns.
And how many people would have gotten lung cancer if this reactor had never existed and they'd been burning oil or coal all of this time? Nuclear power is the safest practical form of power we have right now. This was one of the oldest designs for a reactor that's still in use, it was hit by one of the largest natural disasters in history, the aftermath was poorly handled and it still survived. One of the most astonishing things about this entire event is that people still call it a disaster. This reactor performed exactly as it was designed. It did not melt through the containment vessel, sink down to the water table and cause a radioactive steam explosion (like Chernobyl)
Lastly, comparing this event to Chernobyl in anyway is outright ridiculous. Go read up on the event... Chernobyl was a real disaster. This event was a success in that the safety systems prevented something far more terrible from happening.
Business unit: We want XYZ, We have a budget of $x and we want it done by July 1st.
IS Department: You see this is a math problem. XYZ costs $y not $x. You can't come and tell us exactly what you want to have done and exactly what you are going to pay. You can tell us one or the other and we'll provide the opposing data.
Business unit: That's not acceptable, and what about the date?!?
IS Department: We literally have no idea how long this or any project will take.
Business unit: We need hard facts! We need to claim our project is affordable and will be done by our arbitrary date! We need you to lie to us!
IS Department: Ok, well, we'll use a method called "Agile" and we'll completely make up some time and costs estimates. But the whole point of Agile is that we'll revise these dozens of times during the project so that, in the end, we can claim that our estimates are accurate because we basically just made them match what they actually ended up being at the end of the project. We will blame you for the overruns in our documentation, and you will blame us in yours. Then, in some meeting somewhere we'll generally complain that all projects over-run estimates by an average of 200% and gloss over the fact that this basically proves estimates are completely made up and are of no use at all.
Business unit: Perfect!
I to am marveling at how dumb his concern is given the fact that you can pretty much convert any file format in existence to any other file format in existence with any number of free conversion applications that the internet is riddled with... and he's talking about MICROSOFT file formats. You could simply open the file in Google Docs for Christs sake. I wouldn't be surprised if Firefox could open it natively either.