No, this system tries to predict the future by reading posts on twitter. Could a certain percentage of people who commit violent crime share the common trait of psychopathy? Certainly. Do all? No. In fact, a rather large percentage of the population are psychopathic, yet lead normal, non-violent lives. Far more people that are not psychopathic commit crimes than those with psychopathy.
The end result of this research is rather clear: Watch what you say on the internet, the FBI might flag you. And that's a far more dangerous threat than a few psychopaths walking around. If you look at the biggest mass murders in human history, every single one of them was a government official. Think about that for a while.
You're a fool if you think that kind of thing is going to protect you. In fact, it probably makes it easier for them to identify you. Do they care what you're face really looks like? Not at all... their sole goal is to ID you when you visit some site, so they know what to try and sell you. If your profile pic is the FreeBSD devil, and your at the same IP with the same browser they picked up from that porn site you were just at... they pretty much have you. You are not, even remotely, anonymous on the internet. Assume that every website you visit has every bit of information about you that's on your drivers license and knows every site you've visited in the past couple of years, irrelevant of any security steps you took. Because the fact of the matter is, if they're willing to pay for the right software, that's exactly the kind of detail they have. I'm not just being paranoid, I've seen this software work on the back end. There are multiple companies out there offering it, it's cheap in enterprise terms. I think the only real hurtle so far has being the imaginations of marketing departments. The data is there... it's the smarts to do something terrible with it that have yet to arrive. 1984 was a joke compared to what's on the way if we let this keep heading where it's going. And it certainly seems like we are.
Think about it like this. Given that what ever you post here will likely be stored forever... and given what you think is likely to happen over your lifetime with all this stored data... would you be willing to denounce the government that rules whatever country you're from right here for all to see? Maybe you would... but you hesitated... you thought about it for a second. And the fact that you have to even be slightly concerned about what you said, means we're all truly, and completely fucked.
If you got a boob job, maybe you wouldn't be so grumpy that you make malicious posts that lead to men feeling the secret need to comment on your deficiencies deep inside the Linux kernel? eh eh? Ever think of that?
Oh for Christs sakes, I didn't say I could pick any lock in the world. I've yet to find one I couldn't pick. Can you buy military grade locks online that sell for $16,000 that I probably couldn't pick? Certainly.
"the war on drugs" that we have here in the US is just a simple catch phrase for the increase in arrests, incarceration and prison sentences that are supposed to target illegal drugs because they are though to be a root cause of violent crime.
What's happening in Mexico however, is nearly a civil war. A REAL war. And Google should be commended for trying to help. The people of Mexico are suffering greatly due to our own greed, and addiction. It's a terrible thing.
A lock pick is cheaper (usually free) There are plenty of youtube videos teaching how to make your own. I've yet to find a lock that I couldn't pick with one... that includes every lock in my house and even my car. It's really not that hard when you get used to it.
That's the wrong question. The correct question is: How much is the bad PR from an avoidable accident that kills an astronaut worth? Especially when you're funding comes from the public.
I've done this. It works. And the lawyer that wrote the letter for me was so offended by what the company in question was trying to do he wrote the letter for free.
They also kick up in roman times... a lot higher... and in the middle ages...
You know what? This might be hard to believe... but I don't think we're very good at predicting the weather...
All that aside... pollution is bad for many other reasons that don't involve global warming. So maybe you need to stop beating a dead horse and focus on something a little more tangible like "we're going to run out of oil rather soon" or "That shit causes cancer"
well, you're off base. It's hard to jail a company. The problem here isn't the penalty being a fine... the problem is fining a company that's worth $185 Billion, $22 million. That'd be like fining your average person $5 to $10. It's not even a slap on the wrist. The fine should be a percentage of the businesses market cap plus all gross revenue generated by the offending activity. Fines in the neighborhood of a Billion dollars would have a more dramatic affect on operations I'd think.
And if the production and database servers are "in the cloud"? Kind of hard to isolate them then, aint it?
I've run into this before. We've got a DB that's hosted in a "cloud service" then we have idiot supervisors/management that want to do training... so they set all their training accounts to Username "training1" Password "training1"
We find out, force them to change it. Next thing we know, they're trying to sick VPs on us... "Why are you making it hard for my department to train?!?! It's only a test server!" Explaining that it's a duplicate of production doesn't seem to phase them... It's kind of irrelevant which database the hackers get into when they are identical to each other. Calling one "test" is kind of irrelevant from a security standpoint.
Who says they're anarchists? The dude in Genoa could easily have been shot by his wifes secret boyfriend. The only way to get ALL the money is if he's killed... but they needed to make it look like some crazy people killed him... oh, I know... anarchists!
So Windows RDT is a hack tool? What about all the remote administration that's done in corporate environments? My security team can remote into my computer at any time and view everything I'm doing... they can move files around, download stuff... whatever they'd like... all without me knowing a thing. Is that a trojan? I use a RAT to control remote PC on my network that just plays music on my porch. Is that a trojan? There's plenty of stuff this kind of thing is useful for that's not illegal.
You're assuming those CDs and mini-DVDs are full... They are not. Even WII games usually come in under 200MB unless its a premier title like Zelda. I think where your real space hogs would be is in those pioneer discs. Those have real video, that's played at key points when you make the choices. Even the crappy games (probably all of them) fill the entire disc.
Bullshit. We've been fooled into believing we only have 2 choices in elections. Democrats and Republicans. Those 2 parties choose issues that are irrelevant and will not affect the bribes and kickbacks they get once in office. Immigration, abortion, education, etc... The media is bought and sold just like these officials are. They only cover issues they're told to. Do you think any new outlet would ever cover copyright reform in any unbiased light?
Until people realize that this country is run by a single party, a ruling class, and simply pretends to disagree on a few issues, we're going to be stuck in this rut.
If we can arrest, imprison, and confiscate the property of people from other countries that break our laws... not to mention have the military issue drone strikes on our own citizens while they are abroad without court review, I see no reason why we wouldn't apply the same to some aliens that decided to start copying our records.
I've used iGoogle for years because I spend most of my day in a corporate environment. It put everything I needed on 1 page... Google... which I was almost expected to visit regularly. So I'd pop it up, I could see my email, the temperature, CNN news, and even slashdot. In fact, I read this story first through iGoogle. Can I use Chrome and its extensions to do this like they suggest? No... my web client is fixed, and I can't add extensions at work. The idea that we're moving away from web based apps to browser based, local plugins it insane to me. What is this? 1999?
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No, this system tries to predict the future by reading posts on twitter. Could a certain percentage of people who commit violent crime share the common trait of psychopathy? Certainly. Do all? No. In fact, a rather large percentage of the population are psychopathic, yet lead normal, non-violent lives. Far more people that are not psychopathic commit crimes than those with psychopathy.
The end result of this research is rather clear: Watch what you say on the internet, the FBI might flag you. And that's a far more dangerous threat than a few psychopaths walking around. If you look at the biggest mass murders in human history, every single one of them was a government official. Think about that for a while.
You're a fool if you think that kind of thing is going to protect you. In fact, it probably makes it easier for them to identify you. Do they care what you're face really looks like? Not at all... their sole goal is to ID you when you visit some site, so they know what to try and sell you. If your profile pic is the FreeBSD devil, and your at the same IP with the same browser they picked up from that porn site you were just at... they pretty much have you. You are not, even remotely, anonymous on the internet. Assume that every website you visit has every bit of information about you that's on your drivers license and knows every site you've visited in the past couple of years, irrelevant of any security steps you took. Because the fact of the matter is, if they're willing to pay for the right software, that's exactly the kind of detail they have. I'm not just being paranoid, I've seen this software work on the back end. There are multiple companies out there offering it, it's cheap in enterprise terms. I think the only real hurtle so far has being the imaginations of marketing departments. The data is there... it's the smarts to do something terrible with it that have yet to arrive. 1984 was a joke compared to what's on the way if we let this keep heading where it's going. And it certainly seems like we are.
Think about it like this. Given that what ever you post here will likely be stored forever... and given what you think is likely to happen over your lifetime with all this stored data... would you be willing to denounce the government that rules whatever country you're from right here for all to see? Maybe you would... but you hesitated... you thought about it for a second. And the fact that you have to even be slightly concerned about what you said, means we're all truly, and completely fucked.
Be more help? Why would I want to help?
If you got a boob job, maybe you wouldn't be so grumpy that you make malicious posts that lead to men feeling the secret need to comment on your deficiencies deep inside the Linux kernel? eh eh? Ever think of that?
I'm all for this. But I don't speak Hebrew... that's what they speak right? Anyway, any English speaking Mohammedans that have a forum?
Take it from someone that's practically got a PhD in pissing people off... I've very lonely.
Definition of CIVIL WAR
: a war between opposing groups of citizens of the same country
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/civil+war
Kind of cut and dry when you actually look it up.
Oh for Christs sakes, I didn't say I could pick any lock in the world. I've yet to find one I couldn't pick. Can you buy military grade locks online that sell for $16,000 that I probably couldn't pick? Certainly.
"the war on drugs" that we have here in the US is just a simple catch phrase for the increase in arrests, incarceration and prison sentences that are supposed to target illegal drugs because they are though to be a root cause of violent crime.
What's happening in Mexico however, is nearly a civil war. A REAL war. And Google should be commended for trying to help. The people of Mexico are suffering greatly due to our own greed, and addiction. It's a terrible thing.
A lock pick is cheaper (usually free)
There are plenty of youtube videos teaching how to make your own.
I've yet to find a lock that I couldn't pick with one... that includes every lock in my house and even my car.
It's really not that hard when you get used to it.
That's the wrong question. The correct question is: How much is the bad PR from an avoidable accident that kills an astronaut worth? Especially when you're funding comes from the public.
I was not aware that anyone placed any value in facebooks "like" system in the first place...
I've done this. It works. And the lawyer that wrote the letter for me was so offended by what the company in question was trying to do he wrote the letter for free.
I thought the old Skull and crossbones was pretty universal?
"European countries always seem to have the most common sense in their rulings."
Always? Like in the 1900 to 1940s?
Well, safer for the police anyway...
They also kick up in roman times... a lot higher... and in the middle ages...
You know what? This might be hard to believe... but I don't think we're very good at predicting the weather...
All that aside... pollution is bad for many other reasons that don't involve global warming. So maybe you need to stop beating a dead horse and focus on something a little more tangible like "we're going to run out of oil rather soon" or "That shit causes cancer"
well, you're off base. It's hard to jail a company. The problem here isn't the penalty being a fine... the problem is fining a company that's worth $185 Billion, $22 million. That'd be like fining your average person $5 to $10. It's not even a slap on the wrist. The fine should be a percentage of the businesses market cap plus all gross revenue generated by the offending activity. Fines in the neighborhood of a Billion dollars would have a more dramatic affect on operations I'd think.
And if the production and database servers are "in the cloud"? Kind of hard to isolate them then, aint it?
I've run into this before. We've got a DB that's hosted in a "cloud service" then we have idiot supervisors/management that want to do training... so they set all their training accounts to
Username "training1"
Password "training1"
We find out, force them to change it. Next thing we know, they're trying to sick VPs on us... "Why are you making it hard for my department to train?!?! It's only a test server!"
Explaining that it's a duplicate of production doesn't seem to phase them... It's kind of irrelevant which database the hackers get into when they are identical to each other. Calling one "test" is kind of irrelevant from a security standpoint.
Who says they're anarchists? The dude in Genoa could easily have been shot by his wifes secret boyfriend. The only way to get ALL the money is if he's killed... but they needed to make it look like some crazy people killed him... oh, I know... anarchists!
So Windows RDT is a hack tool? What about all the remote administration that's done in corporate environments? My security team can remote into my computer at any time and view everything I'm doing... they can move files around, download stuff... whatever they'd like... all without me knowing a thing. Is that a trojan? I use a RAT to control remote PC on my network that just plays music on my porch. Is that a trojan? There's plenty of stuff this kind of thing is useful for that's not illegal.
You're assuming those CDs and mini-DVDs are full... They are not. Even WII games usually come in under 200MB unless its a premier title like Zelda. I think where your real space hogs would be is in those pioneer discs. Those have real video, that's played at key points when you make the choices. Even the crappy games (probably all of them) fill the entire disc.
Bullshit. We've been fooled into believing we only have 2 choices in elections. Democrats and Republicans. Those 2 parties choose issues that are irrelevant and will not affect the bribes and kickbacks they get once in office. Immigration, abortion, education, etc... The media is bought and sold just like these officials are. They only cover issues they're told to. Do you think any new outlet would ever cover copyright reform in any unbiased light?
Until people realize that this country is run by a single party, a ruling class, and simply pretends to disagree on a few issues, we're going to be stuck in this rut.
If we can arrest, imprison, and confiscate the property of people from other countries that break our laws... not to mention have the military issue drone strikes on our own citizens while they are abroad without court review, I see no reason why we wouldn't apply the same to some aliens that decided to start copying our records.
I've used iGoogle for years because I spend most of my day in a corporate environment. It put everything I needed on 1 page... Google... which I was almost expected to visit regularly. So I'd pop it up, I could see my email, the temperature, CNN news, and even slashdot. In fact, I read this story first through iGoogle. Can I use Chrome and its extensions to do this like they suggest? No... my web client is fixed, and I can't add extensions at work. The idea that we're moving away from web based apps to browser based, local plugins it insane to me. What is this? 1999?