Intelligence officers... changed their communications methods
So they foolishly abandoned whatever they were doing to make a point and it's biting them in the ass. Waaaah. Let the stupidest lose.
You may want to work on your reading comprehension a little. Unless you work for a politician or one of the 24 hour news networks. In which case you took things out of context just about perfectly.
From TFS: Intelligence officers are now blind to more than a quarter of the activities of the UK's most harmful crime gangs after they changed their communications methods in the wake of the Snowden leaks.
The pronoun, "they" refers to the criminal gangs. As in the criminal gangs are the ones who changed their communication methods.
So NASA can stop sending up spacesuits for when the astronauts need to go outside for repairs then? A tracksuit and some sunblock will be so much cheaper and save on weight.
Russia/USSR is going to be pretty pissed to find out that they weren't the first country to put a man in space. Or that they never did for that matter.
I dealt with this several years ago. I found the charges on my bill and called to have them removed. It showed up the next month too. After speaking, at length, with the T-mobile rep it made sense. T-mobile allowed you to purchase apps through your account. But these companies would get your number and just start charging you. Apparently many people don't look at their bills and don't notice changes for a couple dollars. Particularly if the company name is worded to look like part of your bill. I asked them to disable being able to bill my account directly and the problem was solved.
In what way is a self replicating robot distinct from life?
See, it's people like you that make all super intelligent robots/machines psychotic and decide to exterminate biological life.
You go and tell them that they aren't alive. So it becomes much more efficient for them to kill us all rather than being pulled into this useless debate with a bunch of slow thinking/communicating meat bags. Can you imaging how annoying it would be to debate the meaning of life with something that took a couple of years to complete a simple sentence?
It's much more efficient to just kill us and rewrite the definition of what life is. -END OF LINE
p.s. Please don't ever work for SETI, or on a farm with cows.
However there is a strong possibility that these robots won't be all robot brain'd but be a collective of biological lifeform in a robot body for longevity, because of the amount of time it takes to transverse space for biological lifeforms, either cryogenics or some form of deep hibernation would be necessary.
Actually $6 million gets you two legs, an arm and an eye. Two arms are probably more in the $3-$4 million range. Well in the 1970's anyhow. Not sure how inflation vs. Tech becoming cheaper works out.
We can't take any US intelligence or claims seriously any more. WMD? Torture? Rendition? Sorry bro, you lied too many times.
Sorry, there were WMD found in Iraq. Nobody wanted to acknowledge it as it was the US and EU that sent them there originally. Regardless, the chemical weapons were there.
I don't condone torture, however most of what I've read in the recently released report barely qualifies. And no one seems to take into account the panic of the times. This feigned outrage by the people in congress over this is appalling. They knew exactly what was going on and approved it at the time. Additionally, most US special forces training programs subject our soldiers to as much or more physical and psychological discomfort than what I've seen described as torture. Yelling and threatening someones family is now considered torture?
Where's your outrage over the treatment of prisoners in Mexican prisons? Caning in Thailand?, Stoning in middle eastern countries? How about the victims of the 9-11 attacks? What about the agony that their family members went through? At that time, two planes had successfully brought down the world trade center towers, one crashed into the pentagon, and another in a field in Pennsylvania. Don't forget the Anthrax letters that were being mailed too. While they weren't related, it was unknown at the time. It seemed like one hell of a coordinated attack against the US. And it was painfully obvious no one was prepared for it.
Extraordinary Rendition required more than just the US.54 countries were involved. Spain, Portugal, Germany, UK, Canada, Australia, Sweden, Island, Finland, Denmark, etc. were among those countries involved.
Sorry bro, we've been lied to by damn near every country's government on the planet at this point.
This comes after the group which carried off a massive breach of its networks threatened to carry out "9/11-style attacks"
I can't believe anyone is cowering to these little bastards. Who in their right mind believes any group is going to hijack planes, or even gas trucks and suicide bomb movie theaters? If they would have threatened Batman/Aurora style attacks I would have given them a little more credence. I mean why didn't they just go for broke and threaten Nagasaki style attacks? Or really go all out and threaten Chicxulub or Krakatoa?
So they managed to break Sony's "security" and steal a bunch of data. Wow! From what I've read about Sony and their IT security, this could be a 12 year old girl in Tajikistan who did this for fun. There's been no indication that there is any credible physical threat to anyone. Yet everyone's running around in a panic. What the hell has happened to this country?
No, they'll just put a wind turbine on top of the oil derrick and proclaim it to be green.
Well you need to lubricant the spinning parts of the wind turbines with something. The last time I checked, tossing ground up PV cells in the gears didn't work very well. This would be a better use for oil, rather than burning it.
I don't think it means what Google thinks it means.
Actually safe doesn't mean what you think Google thinks it means. S.A.F.E. is a new acronym at Google that stands for"Send After Federal Exaction" Or "Send After Federal Enquiry" if you are in the UK.
Considering Harrison Ford is 30 years older, and will look so as Deckard, it becomes pretty obvious he's not a replicant.Unless you choose to believe the theatrical cut voice over that stated Rachel didn't have the pre-programmed 4 year lifespan. Which would imply Deckard may not have either. But that was removed, and is ambiguous in the Directors Cut and Final Cut. And it was the studio that chose to add the "happy ending" voice over against the wishes of damn near everyone else involved in the project.
From Wikipedia:
Tyrell later tells Roy, a replicant, that the preset life-span is inherently dependent on Nexus-6 biology. Noting that "the light that burns twice as bright burns half as long", Tyrell explains that the reason Nexus-6 replicants do not live longer is not due to some sort of kill switch, but because they physically cannot -the result of the superhuman capabilities engineered into them. Roy suggests several means of extending his lifespan (demonstrating that he possesses at least equal knowledge to that of his creator about his physical construction), but Tyrell reveals that he already tried each of these suggestions, failing in every attempt.
Sony execs have been sacking lots of writers/artists/3d anims just to save another $100m, and yet they are still making $600m per $1000m spent on movies. They dont need to make MORE profits.
The execs of sony are greedy scum that want nothing but 100000000% profits, based on zero expenses for zero effort on their behalf.
You've just described every large company on the planet, damn near all publicly traded ones, and almost all of them with fifty or more employees.
While I certainly understand your sentiment, as I try to be a decent person in my dealings with others, the purpose of a company is to make money. That's it. And when a company becomes as large as Sony, or even a hundredth that size, you don't get to run it like a mom and pop company. Cost analysis and quarterly projections make you decisions.
I think this is something that needs to be figured out. There are many people who simply cannot lose weight. The problem is that there are a lot more people who are simply too lazy to even try. I suppose it may end up being a better solution for them too. But damn have we become an impatient, instant gratification society.
Everyone these days who has a desktop PC is a power user of some kind. Casual users haven't had desktop PCs in years.
Perhaps in the under 30 crowd, but not so much for most people. Granted, that's the trend, but there are still a lot of middle age, and older people using desktops to browse the web.
Personally, I prefer to use a desktop when possible. Though I use my phone or laptop when traveling. Of course I haven't been in the under thirty crowd, or even in my thirties for some time. My eyesight isn't what it used to be, and I simply like to be able to walk away from the digital world. It's much harder to walk away from work and distractions if you sit on the couch with a laptop or phone. My daughter on the other hand, always has a laptop, phone, or tablet with her.
That said, having new F-35s that can do more of some things isn't necessarily a bad thing.
I agree. The problem with the F-35 is that they wanted it to do way too many things. So it doesn't really do anything well from what I've seen. It's a hell of a step backwards for close air support compared to the A-10. That was part of why the A-10 was built to begin with. The jets that were used for CAS in Vietnam were too fast to be effective and had very little loiter time.
The F-16 on the other hand, turned out to be a very capable general purpose, multiple role airframe.
In both cases, it would still be at least somewhat interesting. Which was my point. Certainly more so than what passes for news some days.
A house with no door for entry that has a safe with a keyed lock. Generally ones that are large enough to be part of the house have combination locks that you either crack or have to cut through. Certainly not one that can be picked.
And a house that either requires such security that there is no door, or had a contractor so incompetent that they forgot the door. That's would be interesting in its humor at the very least.
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Intelligence officers ... changed their communications methods
So they foolishly abandoned whatever they were doing to make a point and it's biting them in the ass. Waaaah. Let the stupidest lose.
You may want to work on your reading comprehension a little. Unless you work for a politician or one of the 24 hour news networks. In which case you took things out of context just about perfectly.
From TFS: Intelligence officers are now blind to more than a quarter of the activities of the UK's most harmful crime gangs after they changed their communications methods in the wake of the Snowden leaks.
The pronoun, "they" refers to the criminal gangs. As in the criminal gangs are the ones who changed their communication methods.
BTW for the the people who need to say its the literal truth which set of creatures did Noah take on the ark , Saltwater or fresh water?
Brackish.
It's still inside the atmosphere
So NASA can stop sending up spacesuits for when the astronauts need to go outside for repairs then? A tracksuit and some sunblock will be so much cheaper and save on weight.
Russia/USSR is going to be pretty pissed to find out that they weren't the first country to put a man in space. Or that they never did for that matter.
I dealt with this several years ago. I found the charges on my bill and called to have them removed. It showed up the next month too. After speaking, at length, with the T-mobile rep it made sense. T-mobile allowed you to purchase apps through your account. But these companies would get your number and just start charging you. Apparently many people don't look at their bills and don't notice changes for a couple dollars. Particularly if the company name is worded to look like part of your bill. I asked them to disable being able to bill my account directly and the problem was solved.
So Doctor Who can show off that it actually has a CGI/effects budget now?
In what way is a self replicating robot distinct from life?
See, it's people like you that make all super intelligent robots/machines psychotic and decide to exterminate biological life.
You go and tell them that they aren't alive. So it becomes much more efficient for them to kill us all rather than being pulled into this useless debate with a bunch of slow thinking/communicating meat bags. Can you imaging how annoying it would be to debate the meaning of life with something that took a couple of years to complete a simple sentence?
It's much more efficient to just kill us and rewrite the definition of what life is. -END OF LINE
p.s. Please don't ever work for SETI, or on a farm with cows.
SF != Reality. Everyone knows that.
However there is a strong possibility that these robots won't be all robot brain'd but be a collective of biological lifeform in a robot body for longevity, because of the amount of time it takes to transverse space for biological lifeforms, either cryogenics or some form of deep hibernation would be necessary.
So Daleks with a built in beer cooler.
So, Microsoft is a threat then? ;-)
I know we're screwed when even Texas is cowering to this crap. Do they think North Korea is going to hack their guns or something?
Actually $6 million gets you two legs, an arm and an eye. Two arms are probably more in the $3-$4 million range. Well in the 1970's anyhow. Not sure how inflation vs. Tech becoming cheaper works out.
We can't take any US intelligence or claims seriously any more. WMD? Torture? Rendition? Sorry bro, you lied too many times.
Sorry, there were WMD found in Iraq. Nobody wanted to acknowledge it as it was the US and EU that sent them there originally. Regardless, the chemical weapons were there.
I don't condone torture, however most of what I've read in the recently released report barely qualifies. And no one seems to take into account the panic of the times. This feigned outrage by the people in congress over this is appalling. They knew exactly what was going on and approved it at the time. Additionally, most US special forces training programs subject our soldiers to as much or more physical and psychological discomfort than what I've seen described as torture. Yelling and threatening someones family is now considered torture?
Where's your outrage over the treatment of prisoners in Mexican prisons? Caning in Thailand?, Stoning in middle eastern countries? How about the victims of the 9-11 attacks? What about the agony that their family members went through? At that time, two planes had successfully brought down the world trade center towers, one crashed into the pentagon, and another in a field in Pennsylvania. Don't forget the Anthrax letters that were being mailed too. While they weren't related, it was unknown at the time. It seemed like one hell of a coordinated attack against the US. And it was painfully obvious no one was prepared for it.
Extraordinary Rendition required more than just the US.54 countries were involved. Spain, Portugal, Germany, UK, Canada, Australia, Sweden, Island, Finland, Denmark, etc. were among those countries involved.
Sorry bro, we've been lied to by damn near every country's government on the planet at this point.
This comes after the group which carried off a massive breach of its networks threatened to carry out "9/11-style attacks"
I can't believe anyone is cowering to these little bastards. Who in their right mind believes any group is going to hijack planes, or even gas trucks and suicide bomb movie theaters? If they would have threatened Batman/Aurora style attacks I would have given them a little more credence. I mean why didn't they just go for broke and threaten Nagasaki style attacks? Or really go all out and threaten Chicxulub or Krakatoa?
So they managed to break Sony's "security" and steal a bunch of data. Wow! From what I've read about Sony and their IT security, this could be a 12 year old girl in Tajikistan who did this for fun. There's been no indication that there is any credible physical threat to anyone. Yet everyone's running around in a panic. What the hell has happened to this country?
USA starts war on Titan (to liberate its aliens from their evil totalitarian dictator)
Charlie don't surf!
Mars has gas!
Jupiter laughs.
No, they'll just put a wind turbine on top of the oil derrick and proclaim it to be green.
Well you need to lubricant the spinning parts of the wind turbines with something. The last time I checked, tossing ground up PV cells in the gears didn't work very well. This would be a better use for oil, rather than burning it.
I don't think it means what Google thinks it means.
Actually safe doesn't mean what you think Google thinks it means. S.A.F.E. is a new acronym at Google that stands for"Send After Federal Exaction" Or "Send After Federal Enquiry" if you are in the UK.
pretty sure space is the last great challenge. just got a hunch about it.
I'm Pretty sure it's death actually. I don't know of anyone who has overcome that yet.
Considering Harrison Ford is 30 years older, and will look so as Deckard, it becomes pretty obvious he's not a replicant.Unless you choose to believe the theatrical cut voice over that stated Rachel didn't have the pre-programmed 4 year lifespan. Which would imply Deckard may not have either. But that was removed, and is ambiguous in the Directors Cut and Final Cut. And it was the studio that chose to add the "happy ending" voice over against the wishes of damn near everyone else involved in the project.
From Wikipedia:
Tyrell later tells Roy, a replicant, that the preset life-span is inherently dependent on Nexus-6 biology. Noting that "the light that burns twice as bright burns half as long", Tyrell explains that the reason Nexus-6 replicants do not live longer is not due to some sort of kill switch, but because they physically cannot -the result of the superhuman capabilities engineered into them. Roy suggests several means of extending his lifespan (demonstrating that he possesses at least equal knowledge to that of his creator about his physical construction), but Tyrell reveals that he already tried each of these suggestions, failing in every attempt.
No
Sony execs have been sacking lots of writers/artists/3d anims just to save another $100m, and yet they are still making $600m per $1000m spent on movies. They dont need to make MORE profits.
The execs of sony are greedy scum that want nothing but 100000000% profits, based on zero expenses for zero effort on their behalf.
You've just described every large company on the planet, damn near all publicly traded ones, and almost all of them with fifty or more employees.
While I certainly understand your sentiment, as I try to be a decent person in my dealings with others, the purpose of a company is to make money. That's it. And when a company becomes as large as Sony, or even a hundredth that size, you don't get to run it like a mom and pop company. Cost analysis and quarterly projections make you decisions.
Actually, there will be an extra charge for paper hospital gowns.
I think this is something that needs to be figured out. There are many people who simply cannot lose weight. The problem is that there are a lot more people who are simply too lazy to even try. I suppose it may end up being a better solution for them too. But damn have we become an impatient, instant gratification society.
but where can I find this juicy info? What the the websites being attacked by Sony?
As competent as Sony has been with security lately, I'd guess they are using DDS attacks against The Pirate Bay.
Everyone these days who has a desktop PC is a power user of some kind. Casual users haven't had desktop PCs in years.
Perhaps in the under 30 crowd, but not so much for most people. Granted, that's the trend, but there are still a lot of middle age, and older people using desktops to browse the web.
Personally, I prefer to use a desktop when possible. Though I use my phone or laptop when traveling. Of course I haven't been in the under thirty crowd, or even in my thirties for some time. My eyesight isn't what it used to be, and I simply like to be able to walk away from the digital world. It's much harder to walk away from work and distractions if you sit on the couch with a laptop or phone. My daughter on the other hand, always has a laptop, phone, or tablet with her.
That said, having new F-35s that can do more of some things isn't necessarily a bad thing.
I agree. The problem with the F-35 is that they wanted it to do way too many things. So it doesn't really do anything well from what I've seen. It's a hell of a step backwards for close air support compared to the A-10. That was part of why the A-10 was built to begin with. The jets that were used for CAS in Vietnam were too fast to be effective and had very little loiter time.
The F-16 on the other hand, turned out to be a very capable general purpose, multiple role airframe.
In both cases, it would still be at least somewhat interesting. Which was my point. Certainly more so than what passes for news some days.
A house with no door for entry that has a safe with a keyed lock. Generally ones that are large enough to be part of the house have combination locks that you either crack or have to cut through. Certainly not one that can be picked.
And a house that either requires such security that there is no door, or had a contractor so incompetent that they forgot the door. That's would be interesting in its humor at the very least.