Can we please stop using the word terrorism as though it's definition is "Illegal and I don't like it".
Terrorism: The calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear.
Is a DDoS violent or a threat of violence? No. Does a DDoS instil fear or terror? No.
Stop using the world like it's a catch all for things you don't agree with.
Yep, it's almost like if a group of people came in and took all the seats in the local diner and refused to leave, just because said diner refused to serve them.
Actively interfering with business can be a legitimate form of protest. In this case, I don't feel that it's right, since Amazon was forced to either capitulate or risk significant reprisals from the US government. It would be like blacks staging a sit-in at a privately owned diner, that was ordered by the feds to segregate, the owners of the diner aren't really the ones you should be pissed at.
If the CIA were going to frame him for rape, I'd think they could do a better job of it than they did. No evidence, flimsy and contradictory testimony by the victims, crazy interpretations of the law, public and friendly interactions with him after the fact, waiting days before making the accusation, not even an accusation of violence. I would imagine that a CIA frame up would be a bit better constructed that the case against him is.
Then you had sure as hell better lock up all the good people at MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, Reuters, the AP, etc, etc, because the information certainly hasn't gone through the proper reviews yet and it's still technically classified. Therefore, they are publishing and distributing classified information, lock them up!
Leaking the information in the first place is certainly illegal, there's little doubt in the argument that the man or woman (most likely Manning at this point) committed a crime. However, it has been shown that freedom of the press trumps the vague term national security, did you even read the link the GP posted? Here's some highlights regarding the Justices' decision:
He [Justice Hugo Black] was against any interference with freedom of expression and largely found the content and source of the documents to be immaterial.
Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. wrote separately to explain that the publication of the documents did not qualify as one of the three exceptions to the freedom of expression
The President of United States possesses great constitutional independence that is virtually unchecked by the Legislative and Judicial branch. "In absence of governmental checks and balances", per Justice Stewart, "the only effective restraint upon executive policy and power in [these two areas] may lie in an enlightened citizenry - in an informed and critical public opinion which alone can here protect the values of democratic government."
Justice Thurgood Marshall argued that the term "national security" was too broad to legitimize prior restraint
Generally you're right, COTS is Commercial Off The Shelf, but in this case it is referring to the NASA program - "Commercial Orbital Transportation Services".
God the mods are gullible sometimes, all you have to do is call everyone stupid and say RTFA and the mods are like "oh yeah, they really should *mod up*".
"Raymond investigated an employee at a Florida health organization who called in sick with the flu for three days."
"In 2009, four firefighters in Haverhill, Mass., were suspended after a private investigator, hired by the mayor, caught them attending hockey games and engaging in other blatantly non-sick-day activities."
And then there's the 'easy' solution, just track all your employees, all the time.
"Ahearn once had a client who issued each of his employees a mobile phone with a GPS tracking system."
Especially when you consider that the average American is ill approximately 3% of the time. That means that if you're average, and you don't want to spread your disease all around the office, you'll be sick 6 workdays per year. That's also something to keep in mind if you work somewhere that sick days and vacation days come out of the same pot, on average 6 of those days will be used for illness, assuming you're kind to your coworkers and don't want to drag them down with you.
Lets say a page takes a ridiculous 10s to run on the old browsers, Chrome comes out and takes 5s off that number so now it's 5s. Their next update manages to shave another 2s off, that's a 40% reduction right there, even though it's less than half the improvement the previous version gave. Then they shave another 1.5s off, the new engine is twice as fast. We look at things in ratios, which is the way it should be when looking at incremental improvements, but it means that when you're talking about fractions of a second, it doesn't take much improvement to make for accurate 'twice as fast' type claims.
And what if you can come home, snap your phone into it's charging station and have it come up on a full sized monitor with a mouse and keyboard? Or you want to show a friend how the work on said thesis is going, just snap into their dock (let's just hope and pray that they standardize these things) and pull it up.
Most people don't play PC games, not AAA, high end graphics, $60 games anyway. Those that do will undoubtedly keep their PC's for the foreseeable future, myself included. But if you don't play games, there's really zero need for more computing power than what is available in a smartphone today, and there's little reason to upgrade in the future, especially if a new phone can be had for $200 every two years. The only real obstacle is UI, and a good, universal docking solution can solve that in well under two years.
It kind of ignores the fact that people generally replace their phones every two years at most. A decent PC can last 5, even 10 years these days if the user isn't interested in games. So, by default phone sales are going to be at least 2x higher than PC sales, even if people spend more time and money on their PCs.
Speculation is that Motorola knew that Apple was preparing to sue over those patents, and opened the case in Delaware to force Apple to fight the battle in that venue, rather than a venue of Apple's choosing. I believe the case has since been moved to and lumped in with the Wisconsin battles, so Apple has turned a defensive first strike of Motorola's into a weapon against Motorola's major attack in WI.
Good god, it's all out patent war, right down to moving different weapons to different theaters of the battle. Who would have thought playing real time strategy games would come in handy as a patent lawyer.
I said a treason case, not 'throw him in the Gulag for treason'. I can understand the charge being leveled, investigated, and even brought to trial. There have been trials in the past where there have been very light sentences given for leaks of classified information.
Guess what, even if what he did was stupid and irresponsible, he didn't commit any crimes. Not any crimes that have been successfully prosecuted in the US anyway. He's not an American citizen, so he didn't commit treason. He never signed a security briefing, so he isn't bound to report and debrief if he receives classified material, he never accessed material he didn't have clearance for (it was sent to him, illegally, by someone who did have the clearance). The only thing he did, is exactly what every mainstream media does when they receive a leaked, classified document. He reviewed the information to determine if it was worth disclosing, discussed it with other media outlets with more expertise, and released it to the public. Exactly the same way that the AP, Reuters, CNN, Fox News, or the BBC would do.
So, stupid and irresponsible probably. Deserves what he's getting, sorry, but no.
Wikileaks didn't release anything, they published information that was released to them by someone else. It should be noted that there has never been a case of someone successfully being prosecuted in the US for publishing leaked documents. The leaker, the one who actually violated an oath and removed those documents and gave them to someone else, that person should be punished. I wouldn't even argue against a treason case being brought against him or her. But trying to punish what is essentially a journalist, publishing information received from a source, is a very, very slippery slope for the US to start down.
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The last thing I want to do, if caught pirating something inadvertently is to provide my identification.
Yeah, I hate it when I accidentally log into bit torrent and download software rather than paying for it. I mean, the keys are practically right next to each other.
Supply: Cell network can support X Megabytes per second, at Y cost. Demand: User asks for 1 Megabyte worth of data.
I don't see where what particular device I'm using to demand that data comes into play on the supply/demand curve. Maybe I'm missing it. The obvious exceptions would be if they are connecting to the network in different ways, LTE vs 3g for example.
The state takes money, under threat of fines, fees and, in some places, even imprisonment, from all citizens regardless of their beliefs, and hands it to a specific Church. You don't see a problem with that? You are forcing people to financially support a religion they don't believe in.
There are similar issues with relying on Semis to ship goods
1: Getting right of way to expand or build new roads 2: Wear and tear on publicly owned roads 3: Traffic accidents killing innocent bystanders 4: Massive inefficiencies at every level, even in the best conditions 5: Security of cargo is still an issue 6: Plans for storms, road outages, construction 7: Cost of an estimated 10 million semi drivers in the US alone
Basically, there are logistical issues that are similarly difficult to overcome with one of the systems that is currently commonly used.
They don't have much choice, seen as the Republicans have promised to hold their breath and stomp their feet until they get their way on a certain tax issue. Seems like when I was a kid, all the stupid filibuster rules only came into effect when something that was very, very important and very, very near and dear the the oppositions hearts. They should go back to forcing one person to stand up on the podium and speak endlessly for filibuster, at least then the people blocking the bill have to show that they're willing to sacrifice for it.
In which case all they have to do is conduct a few thousand 'tests' and bankrupt the country. Seriously, think about how much was spent neutralizing this 'threat'. $1k? $10k? $100k? (don't laugh, if I had to guess I'd put it somewhere between $10 and $100k).
The really interesting question is how an arsenic-based bacterium would avoid the effect of arsenic binding to sulfhydryl groups in proteins.
Which brings up the question of just how different this life is. Did evolution just find a neat little way to avoid the problems with Arsenic or is the biochemistry substantially different at every level? Basically, is this just a new branch off the tree of life, or is it a completely new sapling the next field over?
Harry Potter (and books like it) saved the world of literature for the next generation as sad as that is. These books aren't high art, but they got a whole group of kids interested in reading that never would have otherwise.
Or don't pirate music. I fully agree that $750 is a ridiculous amount for punishment, but the punishment is much easier to avoid than leaving the country. Just. don't. pirate. music. And while you're at it, don't support companies that engage in this behavior. If they're going to be dicks and assholes then screw 'em, let them rot in bankruptcy (if only we could convince enough people for that to actually happen).
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Can we please stop using the word terrorism as though it's definition is "Illegal and I don't like it".
Terrorism: The calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear.
Is a DDoS violent or a threat of violence? No.
Does a DDoS instil fear or terror? No.
Stop using the world like it's a catch all for things you don't agree with.
Yep, it's almost like if a group of people came in and took all the seats in the local diner and refused to leave, just because said diner refused to serve them.
Actively interfering with business can be a legitimate form of protest. In this case, I don't feel that it's right, since Amazon was forced to either capitulate or risk significant reprisals from the US government. It would be like blacks staging a sit-in at a privately owned diner, that was ordered by the feds to segregate, the owners of the diner aren't really the ones you should be pissed at.
If the CIA were going to frame him for rape, I'd think they could do a better job of it than they did. No evidence, flimsy and contradictory testimony by the victims, crazy interpretations of the law, public and friendly interactions with him after the fact, waiting days before making the accusation, not even an accusation of violence. I would imagine that a CIA frame up would be a bit better constructed that the case against him is.
Then you had sure as hell better lock up all the good people at MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, Reuters, the AP, etc, etc, because the information certainly hasn't gone through the proper reviews yet and it's still technically classified. Therefore, they are publishing and distributing classified information, lock them up!
Leaking the information in the first place is certainly illegal, there's little doubt in the argument that the man or woman (most likely Manning at this point) committed a crime. However, it has been shown that freedom of the press trumps the vague term national security, did you even read the link the GP posted? Here's some highlights regarding the Justices' decision:
He [Justice Hugo Black] was against any interference with freedom of expression and largely found the content and source of the documents to be immaterial.
Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. wrote separately to explain that the publication of the documents did not qualify as one of the three exceptions to the freedom of expression
The President of United States possesses great constitutional independence that is virtually unchecked by the Legislative and Judicial branch. "In absence of governmental checks and balances", per Justice Stewart, "the only effective restraint upon executive policy and power in [these two areas] may lie in an enlightened citizenry - in an informed and critical public opinion which alone can here protect the values of democratic government."
Justice Thurgood Marshall argued that the term "national security" was too broad to legitimize prior restraint
Generally you're right, COTS is Commercial Off The Shelf, but in this case it is referring to the NASA program - "Commercial Orbital Transportation Services".
Yeah, but now tell him about the twinkie.
God the mods are gullible sometimes, all you have to do is call everyone stupid and say RTFA and the mods are like "oh yeah, they really should *mod up*".
"Raymond investigated an employee at a Florida health organization who called in sick with the flu for three days."
"In 2009, four firefighters in Haverhill, Mass., were suspended after a private investigator, hired by the mayor, caught them attending hockey games and engaging in other blatantly non-sick-day activities."
And then there's the 'easy' solution, just track all your employees, all the time.
"Ahearn once had a client who issued each of his employees a mobile phone with a GPS tracking system."
Especially when you consider that the average American is ill approximately 3% of the time. That means that if you're average, and you don't want to spread your disease all around the office, you'll be sick 6 workdays per year. That's also something to keep in mind if you work somewhere that sick days and vacation days come out of the same pot, on average 6 of those days will be used for illness, assuming you're kind to your coworkers and don't want to drag them down with you.
Lets say a page takes a ridiculous 10s to run on the old browsers, Chrome comes out and takes 5s off that number so now it's 5s. Their next update manages to shave another 2s off, that's a 40% reduction right there, even though it's less than half the improvement the previous version gave. Then they shave another 1.5s off, the new engine is twice as fast. We look at things in ratios, which is the way it should be when looking at incremental improvements, but it means that when you're talking about fractions of a second, it doesn't take much improvement to make for accurate 'twice as fast' type claims.
And what if you can come home, snap your phone into it's charging station and have it come up on a full sized monitor with a mouse and keyboard? Or you want to show a friend how the work on said thesis is going, just snap into their dock (let's just hope and pray that they standardize these things) and pull it up.
Most people don't play PC games, not AAA, high end graphics, $60 games anyway. Those that do will undoubtedly keep their PC's for the foreseeable future, myself included. But if you don't play games, there's really zero need for more computing power than what is available in a smartphone today, and there's little reason to upgrade in the future, especially if a new phone can be had for $200 every two years. The only real obstacle is UI, and a good, universal docking solution can solve that in well under two years.
It kind of ignores the fact that people generally replace their phones every two years at most. A decent PC can last 5, even 10 years these days if the user isn't interested in games. So, by default phone sales are going to be at least 2x higher than PC sales, even if people spend more time and money on their PCs.
Speculation is that Motorola knew that Apple was preparing to sue over those patents, and opened the case in Delaware to force Apple to fight the battle in that venue, rather than a venue of Apple's choosing. I believe the case has since been moved to and lumped in with the Wisconsin battles, so Apple has turned a defensive first strike of Motorola's into a weapon against Motorola's major attack in WI.
Good god, it's all out patent war, right down to moving different weapons to different theaters of the battle. Who would have thought playing real time strategy games would come in handy as a patent lawyer.
I said a treason case, not 'throw him in the Gulag for treason'. I can understand the charge being leveled, investigated, and even brought to trial. There have been trials in the past where there have been very light sentences given for leaks of classified information.
Guess what, even if what he did was stupid and irresponsible, he didn't commit any crimes. Not any crimes that have been successfully prosecuted in the US anyway. He's not an American citizen, so he didn't commit treason. He never signed a security briefing, so he isn't bound to report and debrief if he receives classified material, he never accessed material he didn't have clearance for (it was sent to him, illegally, by someone who did have the clearance). The only thing he did, is exactly what every mainstream media does when they receive a leaked, classified document. He reviewed the information to determine if it was worth disclosing, discussed it with other media outlets with more expertise, and released it to the public. Exactly the same way that the AP, Reuters, CNN, Fox News, or the BBC would do.
So, stupid and irresponsible probably. Deserves what he's getting, sorry, but no.
Wikileaks didn't release anything, they published information that was released to them by someone else. It should be noted that there has never been a case of someone successfully being prosecuted in the US for publishing leaked documents. The leaker, the one who actually violated an oath and removed those documents and gave them to someone else, that person should be punished. I wouldn't even argue against a treason case being brought against him or her. But trying to punish what is essentially a journalist, publishing information received from a source, is a very, very slippery slope for the US to start down.
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The last thing I want to do, if caught pirating something inadvertently is to provide my identification.
Yeah, I hate it when I accidentally log into bit torrent and download software rather than paying for it. I mean, the keys are practically right next to each other.
Supply: Cell network can support X Megabytes per second, at Y cost.
Demand: User asks for 1 Megabyte worth of data.
I don't see where what particular device I'm using to demand that data comes into play on the supply/demand curve. Maybe I'm missing it. The obvious exceptions would be if they are connecting to the network in different ways, LTE vs 3g for example.
The state takes money, under threat of fines, fees and, in some places, even imprisonment, from all citizens regardless of their beliefs, and hands it to a specific Church. You don't see a problem with that? You are forcing people to financially support a religion they don't believe in.
There are similar issues with relying on Semis to ship goods
1: Getting right of way to expand or build new roads
2: Wear and tear on publicly owned roads
3: Traffic accidents killing innocent bystanders
4: Massive inefficiencies at every level, even in the best conditions
5: Security of cargo is still an issue
6: Plans for storms, road outages, construction
7: Cost of an estimated 10 million semi drivers in the US alone
Basically, there are logistical issues that are similarly difficult to overcome with one of the systems that is currently commonly used.
They don't have much choice, seen as the Republicans have promised to hold their breath and stomp their feet until they get their way on a certain tax issue. Seems like when I was a kid, all the stupid filibuster rules only came into effect when something that was very, very important and very, very near and dear the the oppositions hearts. They should go back to forcing one person to stand up on the podium and speak endlessly for filibuster, at least then the people blocking the bill have to show that they're willing to sacrifice for it.
In which case all they have to do is conduct a few thousand 'tests' and bankrupt the country. Seriously, think about how much was spent neutralizing this 'threat'. $1k? $10k? $100k? (don't laugh, if I had to guess I'd put it somewhere between $10 and $100k).
The really interesting question is how an arsenic-based bacterium would avoid the effect of arsenic binding to sulfhydryl groups in proteins.
Which brings up the question of just how different this life is. Did evolution just find a neat little way to avoid the problems with Arsenic or is the biochemistry substantially different at every level? Basically, is this just a new branch off the tree of life, or is it a completely new sapling the next field over?
Harry Potter (and books like it) saved the world of literature for the next generation as sad as that is. These books aren't high art, but they got a whole group of kids interested in reading that never would have otherwise.
If you don't like it, get out
Or don't pirate music. I fully agree that $750 is a ridiculous amount for punishment, but the punishment is much easier to avoid than leaving the country. Just. don't. pirate. music. And while you're at it, don't support companies that engage in this behavior. If they're going to be dicks and assholes then screw 'em, let them rot in bankruptcy (if only we could convince enough people for that to actually happen).