You studied a case where the DA was stupid enough to submit it as evidence and then the defendant got a good lawyer and fought it. The way that game usually goes is the DA pulls his stunt, plays the tape back for the defendant, then leaves the room... the cops come in and offer a deal for a full confession which the accused who usually has an IQ of 90 takes in panic while the DA's out in the hall throwing his original tape in the trash. As long as the DA and arresting officer are buddies no-ones the wiser.
So my choice is to believe the US DOJ or Kim Dotcom? You're fucking kidding me? Can't we just give them both clubs and let them beat each other to death? Either way it comes out I think the world would be a better place.
I have a good friend that got charged for drunk driving when a cop found her sleeping in her running car in the parking lot of a bar. The cop rolled up on her and asked what she was doing. She said she was too drunk to drive and didn't have anyone to come get her. It was 15 degrees out so she started the car and went to sleep. He immediately arrested her despite the fact that she never drove the car anywhere, simply putting the key in the ignition is apparently illegal. When they got back to the station she even blew bellow the legal limit, but she signed a statement describing what had happened which they then used as evidence against her in court and she lost. She spent the night in jail, paid a $1000 fine and lost her license for a year... for doing the right thing.
The moral of the story? Don't talk to the the police. Don't help them. Don't believe anything they tell you, it is perfectly legal for them to lie to you. Don't sign anything. Don't volunteer any information, even if you think it's helpful. You do one thing and one thing only: Ask for a lawyer over and over... and even then, it has happened, that the police send in the DA and tell you "here's a lawyer" and you admit everything while they're taping. It's legal, and it's been done. Fuck the police, they are not your friends, they are there to arrest you. If they can't arrest you, you are uninteresting to them.
Try it, call the police up sometime and report that your car was broken into... or your house... they may show up sometime in the next 12 to 48hrs... maybe... in my city you get to file a report over the phone to an answering machine. Then try calling them and telling them you've got an once of pot. You'll have 3 squad cars in your driveway in under 5 minutes. Welcome to American indeed.
exactly. It's easy enough for a major HMO in a large city to adopt a new system like this. But in a town of 5000 and a local Doctors office? No way in hell is this cost effective. There's a reason large HMOs don't have offices in towns like that. I think one of the biggest problems we have in this country is that we continue to elect people to office that have never lived in a small town, and have no idea how those towns work. Yet, the majority of this country is made up of small towns.
Nuclear power is not the terror you think it is. Bad things can happen, but how bad is the 29,888,121,000 metric tons of CO2 we're dumping into the atmosphere yearly? We're locked in a room with limited air, but you're too afraid of being electrocuted to turn on the light so you set your shirt on fire. You tell me, at least we can sit in this room with burning textiles, not get electrocuted while we wait for someone to figure out how to harness fireflies for light. Fuck you, I'm turning the god damned light switch on.
This is my point. Your argument is irrational. WE KNOW EXACTLY WHAT TO DO WITH THE WASTE, YOU WONT LET US DO IT. Modern reactors use the waste up but protesters wont allow modern reactors to be built. Period. Your arguments done. Then you have the fact that this particular situation is ON THE MOON. The natural radiation levels just from the sun, space and other natural sources are so high that simply leaving the nuclear waste (that will never exist if they build a newer reactor) laying out in the open completely irrelevant. Although what that waste decays into (heavy metals) may pose a threat if it contaminates ice we're trying to melt for water. But we'd sure as hell better be filtering the water anyway oh yea and... there wont be any god damned waste!
How can I now trust symantic to find a zero day and protect my systems...
You can't. You do not understand how malware/viruses work. If I wanted to write a virus to infect YOUR computer, it would never be detected. Antvirus software protects you against known threats. That's it. Someone, somewhere, figures out they are infected, figures out the file doing the infection and sends it in to Symantec or whomever. They find common code in the infected file that resembles other files that are infected and now they have something to look for when scanning. If no-one ever figures out that they are infected, and the people that wrote the virus didn't use bits of code from other viruses, then there's no way for the anti-virus companies to search for it.
Some of the better antivirus packages scan for "suspect behavior" and such, but it really doesn't do much good. Antivirus protects you from getting the eveil toolbar viruses... stuff written by the worlds intelligence organizations that do not take over the computer and infest it with ads so the users never has a clue anything is wrong? It's never going to find that.
I used to know some people in this sort of situation. They business wasn't nearly as big, but they'd run into some financial trouble and if earnings were bellow some arbitrary number, it would trigger a wave of financial ruin on the company. In the case that I was parifrialy aware of (I had a family member working there) They were getting free water, sewer, etc from the city as long as their revenue was X amount. They were short by less than a tenth of a percent. There were also loans who's interest rates would go up. The end result was, if they published the numbers they had, the company was going down. I knew a lot of the people involved and they were very torn up about the whole thing. There were around 1000 people that would lose their jobs, the entire thing would be a mess. So they lied. The company went on to make it out of their financial troubles.
I don't agree with what happened. But there's a lot more to these stories than stock options and greed. Not a single person I knew in that situation was talking about any of that. They were talking about a single earnings number destroying their business and the welfare of the people that worked for them. The moral of my story isn't that you should do this sort of thing... it's that the motives of the people behind this stuff aren't always sharks trying to score money. Some of them really care about their business and the people working there. I don't know if that's the case here, but food for thought or something.
Do you think for a second that the people that oppose nuclear power on earth aren't going to care about the moon? Keep in mind, these people don't really care about nuclear power, what they actually oppose is progress. I've met plenty of them, they want to live in straw bail houses, eat organic food, don't get their kids vaccinated etc... They're like a newage Amish. Rational arguments will not sway them. If they're willing to let people starve rather than eat GM food and their own children contract deadly disease eradicated decades ago simply to appease their own irrational fears there's no argument that you can make that will persuade them. As soon as the word "Nuclear" leaves your lips they'll oppose you.
The truly ironic part is that most big media houses, especially disney, owe their success and fortunes to long dead authors. In Disneys case, they whole-sale ripped off the Brothers Grim. Then lobbied congress to get the laws changed so others could do the same to them. They're STILL ripping off the brothers grim to this day... but now they rename their movies so they're trademark-able... "Tangled" anyone?
The majority of licenses are bundled in with computers and people have little to know choice in what they get. Compare that number to the number of PCs sold in the same period and you're going to find a very similar number. Windows 8 adoption rates can really be measured when that computer arrives and the user pulls out their win7 CD from their last computer and installs it.
People still buy CDs? It seems that the MP3.com idea may have saved CDs... tied the license to the CD itself, so you got to buy that to get a legit MP3 license. Instead they kept their heads up their asses for 15 years and the world moved on. Artists: I can get your music for free, at any time of the day or night, from nearly anywhere in the world. I can have your entire album in under 5min. It's easier, the quality is often better, it wont get scratched, it's free, there's no taxes, it's environmentally friendly... Think of a new business model. The universe is against you on this one. Trust me.
Bullshit. I doubt the court case had a direct influence on this. We know nothing of his personal life. He could have easily have fled the country and not dealt with the trial. Suicide is usually about a general lack of ability to rationalize emotion combined with some sort of psychological trauma. Getting dumped, having your secrets revealed, who knows. This is a private thing for his family and we should stay out of it.
an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Keep the troops home, no messed up brains. Lets instead, focus on problems that don't have easy solutions like "Don't ram your head into people repeatedly" or "Don't invade 3rd world counties and expect them not to try and blow your ass up"
You say this while I've got a power point presentation open about our new "lets put everyone on Virtual machines and have them remote in via linux terminals!" Something I never thought I'd see. It's not going to happen tomorrow but we're never going to Windows 8 or above. That's relatively clear. Microsoft nailed their own coffin shut.
At least we're worrying about something important like the fate of multimillionaires that played a little too rough and not wasting our time on things like poverty, cancer, the failing economy...
They do not prescribe Quinine anymore. Now they prescribe Malarone, which also treats/prevents other diseases without the side effects. I took it the whole time I was there, but I didn't see a single mosquito. Not sure if that was because it was December (yet still 80 degrees) or what.
Why do people wait for an epidemic to stay home when they are sick? If you are sick, don't go out! If you do, you are part of the problem.
Because you'd get fired. I would anyway. The only way to get a sick day in this country without pissing off your boss is to come in so sick at work that other people complain or you puke in the middle of the break room and your boss sends you home. I'm salaried, can work from home, and still am under pressure to come in at all costs. It's sad, but that's the way it works.
It used to be that you could get a doctors excuse and it was illegal for a boss to fire you because you had the excuse (at least in my state it was) Then came along HIPA and privacy concerns and it was suddenly illegal for the boss to take a doctors note. So now you can't prove you went to the doctor, and they cant ask you to. So as far as their concerned they just need to press you to come in as much as possible.
No, the best answer is not number every citizen and have those numbers be so important that it could do so much damage. No system could ever be secure enough for what the Dutch are doing. This doesn't even get into the privacy concerns and the havoc that could happen should the wrong people get into office.
I've been to Ethiopia. They go to school with Malaria. Like most diseases we see the horror stories. Most people with the disease are walking around with it and while they may have some debilitating symptoms, they aren't life threatening. It's when the person gets a second illness and becomes weak that Malaria gets deadly. I'm not sure of the total political situation there but I believe they are socialist. Their clinics are all free. The children walk in and they get treated for free. The medicine they use however is not totally effective. We took a girl there and they said that the treatment they had (and I have no idea what it was) kept the disease at bay, but it would eventually come back. According to the dr, so may people have the disease that it did little good to cure someone of it, because they'd just catch it again within a year. So instead, they buy this cheaper medication. The girl was getting adopted by an American family and according to the Dr the family could get a cure when they got back to America which they did.
We don't encrypt laptops. We don't allow sensitive data on laptops... or desktops for that matter. If you want access to that sort of thing, you need to VPN in and log onto a Virtual machine... that virtual machine is then wiped as soon as you log off. We don't have to worry about the user end of the session at all.
You vastly underestimate the size and complexity of our systems. It does not start with "Recognize risk" it starts with "Risk discovery" which is a very complex process. We're talking rooms full of people with very boring flowcharts. If you just wait for risk to "pop up" before you fix it, you've already got a breach.
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You studied a case where the DA was stupid enough to submit it as evidence and then the defendant got a good lawyer and fought it. The way that game usually goes is the DA pulls his stunt, plays the tape back for the defendant, then leaves the room... the cops come in and offer a deal for a full confession which the accused who usually has an IQ of 90 takes in panic while the DA's out in the hall throwing his original tape in the trash. As long as the DA and arresting officer are buddies no-ones the wiser.
I meant "Right" as in honerable, honest, best for society... not "right" as in, the correct, best thing for her self interest.
So my choice is to believe the US DOJ or Kim Dotcom? You're fucking kidding me? Can't we just give them both clubs and let them beat each other to death? Either way it comes out I think the world would be a better place.
I have a good friend that got charged for drunk driving when a cop found her sleeping in her running car in the parking lot of a bar. The cop rolled up on her and asked what she was doing. She said she was too drunk to drive and didn't have anyone to come get her. It was 15 degrees out so she started the car and went to sleep. He immediately arrested her despite the fact that she never drove the car anywhere, simply putting the key in the ignition is apparently illegal. When they got back to the station she even blew bellow the legal limit, but she signed a statement describing what had happened which they then used as evidence against her in court and she lost. She spent the night in jail, paid a $1000 fine and lost her license for a year... for doing the right thing.
The moral of the story? Don't talk to the the police. Don't help them. Don't believe anything they tell you, it is perfectly legal for them to lie to you. Don't sign anything. Don't volunteer any information, even if you think it's helpful. You do one thing and one thing only: Ask for a lawyer over and over... and even then, it has happened, that the police send in the DA and tell you "here's a lawyer" and you admit everything while they're taping. It's legal, and it's been done. Fuck the police, they are not your friends, they are there to arrest you. If they can't arrest you, you are uninteresting to them.
Try it, call the police up sometime and report that your car was broken into... or your house... they may show up sometime in the next 12 to 48hrs... maybe... in my city you get to file a report over the phone to an answering machine. Then try calling them and telling them you've got an once of pot. You'll have 3 squad cars in your driveway in under 5 minutes. Welcome to American indeed.
exactly. It's easy enough for a major HMO in a large city to adopt a new system like this. But in a town of 5000 and a local Doctors office? No way in hell is this cost effective. There's a reason large HMOs don't have offices in towns like that. I think one of the biggest problems we have in this country is that we continue to elect people to office that have never lived in a small town, and have no idea how those towns work. Yet, the majority of this country is made up of small towns.
When the other person has a different kind of shoes, that's the best time to try them on.
We've detonated a nuclear bomb in a major city. It should be a wasteland of atomic fallout and mutant madmen... oh wait... guess it's not:
http://www.jlgc.org.uk/en/images/enewsletter-photos/NagasakiGloverGarden.jpg
Nuclear power is not the terror you think it is. Bad things can happen, but how bad is the 29,888,121,000 metric tons of CO2 we're dumping into the atmosphere yearly? We're locked in a room with limited air, but you're too afraid of being electrocuted to turn on the light so you set your shirt on fire. You tell me, at least we can sit in this room with burning textiles, not get electrocuted while we wait for someone to figure out how to harness fireflies for light. Fuck you, I'm turning the god damned light switch on.
This is my point. Your argument is irrational. WE KNOW EXACTLY WHAT TO DO WITH THE WASTE, YOU WONT LET US DO IT. Modern reactors use the waste up but protesters wont allow modern reactors to be built. Period. Your arguments done. Then you have the fact that this particular situation is ON THE MOON. The natural radiation levels just from the sun, space and other natural sources are so high that simply leaving the nuclear waste (that will never exist if they build a newer reactor) laying out in the open completely irrelevant. Although what that waste decays into (heavy metals) may pose a threat if it contaminates ice we're trying to melt for water. But we'd sure as hell better be filtering the water anyway oh yea and... there wont be any god damned waste!
Can this device also detect when any of my friends are around and hide the microsoft/windows logo and show an Android one instead?
How can I now trust symantic to find a zero day and protect my systems...
You can't. You do not understand how malware/viruses work. If I wanted to write a virus to infect YOUR computer, it would never be detected. Antvirus software protects you against known threats. That's it. Someone, somewhere, figures out they are infected, figures out the file doing the infection and sends it in to Symantec or whomever. They find common code in the infected file that resembles other files that are infected and now they have something to look for when scanning. If no-one ever figures out that they are infected, and the people that wrote the virus didn't use bits of code from other viruses, then there's no way for the anti-virus companies to search for it.
Some of the better antivirus packages scan for "suspect behavior" and such, but it really doesn't do much good. Antivirus protects you from getting the eveil toolbar viruses... stuff written by the worlds intelligence organizations that do not take over the computer and infest it with ads so the users never has a clue anything is wrong? It's never going to find that.
They should go to jail... but...
I used to know some people in this sort of situation. They business wasn't nearly as big, but they'd run into some financial trouble and if earnings were bellow some arbitrary number, it would trigger a wave of financial ruin on the company. In the case that I was parifrialy aware of (I had a family member working there) They were getting free water, sewer, etc from the city as long as their revenue was X amount. They were short by less than a tenth of a percent. There were also loans who's interest rates would go up. The end result was, if they published the numbers they had, the company was going down. I knew a lot of the people involved and they were very torn up about the whole thing. There were around 1000 people that would lose their jobs, the entire thing would be a mess. So they lied. The company went on to make it out of their financial troubles.
I don't agree with what happened. But there's a lot more to these stories than stock options and greed. Not a single person I knew in that situation was talking about any of that. They were talking about a single earnings number destroying their business and the welfare of the people that worked for them. The moral of my story isn't that you should do this sort of thing... it's that the motives of the people behind this stuff aren't always sharks trying to score money. Some of them really care about their business and the people working there. I don't know if that's the case here, but food for thought or something.
Do you think for a second that the people that oppose nuclear power on earth aren't going to care about the moon? Keep in mind, these people don't really care about nuclear power, what they actually oppose is progress. I've met plenty of them, they want to live in straw bail houses, eat organic food, don't get their kids vaccinated etc... They're like a newage Amish. Rational arguments will not sway them. If they're willing to let people starve rather than eat GM food and their own children contract deadly disease eradicated decades ago simply to appease their own irrational fears there's no argument that you can make that will persuade them. As soon as the word "Nuclear" leaves your lips they'll oppose you.
The truly ironic part is that most big media houses, especially disney, owe their success and fortunes to long dead authors. In Disneys case, they whole-sale ripped off the Brothers Grim. Then lobbied congress to get the laws changed so others could do the same to them. They're STILL ripping off the brothers grim to this day... but now they rename their movies so they're trademark-able... "Tangled" anyone?
The majority of licenses are bundled in with computers and people have little to know choice in what they get. Compare that number to the number of PCs sold in the same period and you're going to find a very similar number. Windows 8 adoption rates can really be measured when that computer arrives and the user pulls out their win7 CD from their last computer and installs it.
People still buy CDs? It seems that the MP3.com idea may have saved CDs... tied the license to the CD itself, so you got to buy that to get a legit MP3 license. Instead they kept their heads up their asses for 15 years and the world moved on. Artists: I can get your music for free, at any time of the day or night, from nearly anywhere in the world. I can have your entire album in under 5min. It's easier, the quality is often better, it wont get scratched, it's free, there's no taxes, it's environmentally friendly... Think of a new business model. The universe is against you on this one. Trust me.
Bullshit. I doubt the court case had a direct influence on this. We know nothing of his personal life. He could have easily have fled the country and not dealt with the trial. Suicide is usually about a general lack of ability to rationalize emotion combined with some sort of psychological trauma. Getting dumped, having your secrets revealed, who knows. This is a private thing for his family and we should stay out of it.
an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Keep the troops home, no messed up brains. Lets instead, focus on problems that don't have easy solutions like "Don't ram your head into people repeatedly" or "Don't invade 3rd world counties and expect them not to try and blow your ass up"
You say this while I've got a power point presentation open about our new "lets put everyone on Virtual machines and have them remote in via linux terminals!" Something I never thought I'd see. It's not going to happen tomorrow but we're never going to Windows 8 or above. That's relatively clear. Microsoft nailed their own coffin shut.
At least we're worrying about something important like the fate of multimillionaires that played a little too rough and not wasting our time on things like poverty, cancer, the failing economy...
They do not prescribe Quinine anymore. Now they prescribe Malarone, which also treats/prevents other diseases without the side effects. I took it the whole time I was there, but I didn't see a single mosquito. Not sure if that was because it was December (yet still 80 degrees) or what.
Why do people wait for an epidemic to stay home when they are sick? If you are sick, don't go out! If you do, you are part of the problem.
Because you'd get fired. I would anyway. The only way to get a sick day in this country without pissing off your boss is to come in so sick at work that other people complain or you puke in the middle of the break room and your boss sends you home. I'm salaried, can work from home, and still am under pressure to come in at all costs. It's sad, but that's the way it works.
It used to be that you could get a doctors excuse and it was illegal for a boss to fire you because you had the excuse (at least in my state it was) Then came along HIPA and privacy concerns and it was suddenly illegal for the boss to take a doctors note. So now you can't prove you went to the doctor, and they cant ask you to. So as far as their concerned they just need to press you to come in as much as possible.
No, the best answer is not number every citizen and have those numbers be so important that it could do so much damage. No system could ever be secure enough for what the Dutch are doing. This doesn't even get into the privacy concerns and the havoc that could happen should the wrong people get into office.
I've been to Ethiopia. They go to school with Malaria. Like most diseases we see the horror stories. Most people with the disease are walking around with it and while they may have some debilitating symptoms, they aren't life threatening. It's when the person gets a second illness and becomes weak that Malaria gets deadly. I'm not sure of the total political situation there but I believe they are socialist. Their clinics are all free. The children walk in and they get treated for free. The medicine they use however is not totally effective. We took a girl there and they said that the treatment they had (and I have no idea what it was) kept the disease at bay, but it would eventually come back. According to the dr, so may people have the disease that it did little good to cure someone of it, because they'd just catch it again within a year. So instead, they buy this cheaper medication. The girl was getting adopted by an American family and according to the Dr the family could get a cure when they got back to America which they did.
We don't encrypt laptops. We don't allow sensitive data on laptops... or desktops for that matter. If you want access to that sort of thing, you need to VPN in and log onto a Virtual machine... that virtual machine is then wiped as soon as you log off. We don't have to worry about the user end of the session at all.
You vastly underestimate the size and complexity of our systems. It does not start with "Recognize risk" it starts with "Risk discovery" which is a very complex process. We're talking rooms full of people with very boring flowcharts. If you just wait for risk to "pop up" before you fix it, you've already got a breach.