...should store "interesting stuff" he wants everybody in the world to know about on Google Drive rather than run the risk that a media source he offers it to will just "turn" him to a corporation or "the authorities".
When the most corrupt people in America include so many of our most powerful politicians, corporate CEOs, and Wall Street barons it is unreasonable to expect any facet of American society to remain unaffected. The only and only thing you can be sure will "trickle-down" is corruption as the system has been rigged by the corrupt to ensure that it is corruption that pays the big bucks in America.
A few weeks ago, two GIMP hackers got together to do some general hacking, and inadvertedly ported the core graphics code to GEGL.
You're a "hacker" if you start playing with something in an effort to make it better and you not only succeed in a reasonable amount of time but do it for free. But if you have three meetings per week, the project drags on and on and on, the bill escalates ever closer to the stratosphere, and the project never does work?
When we pool our money together to buy politicians
Hence deregulation to transfer the savings of the American people away from them, inequitable free trade to eliminate jobs and suppress wages, and the levying of private taxes by Big Carbon and "high finance"/"the speculators" in order to ensure that the many have ever less money to pool together.
Too true. Strip America's laws and tax code of regulations and loopholes paid for by Corporate America, and said laws and tax code would become much simpler.
However, I don't believe that is what Corporate America is seeking when they say that America's laws and tax code need to be simplified...rather, all evidence insists that they want the tax code simplified down to Corporate America and its owner/operators are to be exempted from taxation and the law simplified down to Corporate America and its owner/operators can do whatever they will with absolute immunity from criminal and civil liability.
That is, eager to complain about - and pay to eliminate - regulations and laws meant to protect the consumer as a danger to "the free market" and "competition" while being equally eager to eliminate "the free market" and "competition".
And so the number of people who can afford internet access - and, consequentially, the need to enlarge the range of available addresses - is about to plunge dramatically?
(Yeah, you may think that is trolling, but anybody who runs a big corporation will tell you that the corporation that doesn't keep a finger to the political winds has already seen its best days.)
Misdirection is the intent of propaganda. I'm sure Tokyo Rose had her "favorites", too. And there is the final paragraph of the piece you cite:
The al-Qaeda spinmeister didn’t like Fox News (“let her die in her anger”), but it’s hard to understand why. Surely Rupert Murdoch’s network, with its saturation coverage of the war on terror, did more to elevate bin Laden’s profile than any other news outlet.
I would concur with that analysis; Murdoch and Fox News elevated a mad dog into a war fighter.
If I would ever become a criminal or terrorist I'm already prepared for dumb technology like this. I have long hair, a moustache and a goatee. After I committed my crime I will simple shave and cut my hair. And that's simply the easy, quick and painless change.
Oh, now you've done it...now they'll fit their cameras with sonar and/or radar and/or infrared to see "through" facial hair.
Oh, well..should create a booming market for the security pics.
Why the focus solely on young people? I see plenty of so-called "adults" that are texting and jabbering incessantly behind the wheel.
Texting or otherwise using a cellphone while driving in fact suggests that the individual is too self-centered and too into instant gratification to be considered to be an "adult".
Be easier to take advantage of the infinite trust in "the database" and change who (and where) you are supposed to be - or have been - at need, don't you think?
There is that...every iPhone user a walking, talking surveillance machine. I wouldn't even go so far as to say Apple planned it that way - but if the capability exists, someone in the ever more empowered "A" agencies will see utilizing it as...part of their job.
I think it inevitable that the Patriot Act will eventually be used as a political weapon. We've already seen politicians go to extraordinary - even criminal - lengths to involve the American people in war; we've seen Congress vouchsafe incarcerating Americans forever and ever without trial with merely the accusation of terrorism; we've seen the power of "Executive Orders" abused ever more often; we've see "extraordinary renditions" used to violate international law and the sovereignty of other nations; we've seen those whose jokes on social networks are misunderstood kicked out of America.
The logical - evolutionary, if you will - next step is a political party whose leaders became infamous for demanding that Federal departments "stay on-message" when they were in the White House, for example, expanding that philosophy and using the aforementioned powers - whether Constitutional, blessed by Congress, or ignored by Congress - to silence those who criticize their actions.
And I know I wasn't clear, but my point was the technology detailed in this article will make it possible to defeat the most well-trained network and security administrators out there: Won't do you much good to have absolute control of your firewalls and proxies - or to use encryption for all external communications - if your in-house fiber plant is reading your internal communications in the clear and then "talking" around your security measures. And even if you have transparent cable trays so that you can readily detect the insertion of a splice-and-tap, you won't catch it...the technology will be a part of the fiber itself....all bundled in the factory insulation.
But in America, you don't need to take all of the risks and spend all of that money anymore; the Patriot Act lets you stick "block boxes" in right at the cable heads.
improving its technology to handle 'far-field speech,' which means holding the device at arm's length rather than directly in front of the mouth
I thought cell phone users were annoying enough when they constantly raised their voice as if the other end were deaf; now people are going to be yelling at their phones from across the room.
I think I can say with little exageration that Alan Turing won the Second World War, invented the computer and was killed by the British Government for being gay. [...] Is this how we reward our heroes?
Inline wiretapping! Happy, happy - joy, joy! I remember once upon a time opto-electric "isolators" were used to ensure that various and sundry bad guys couldn't pick up intel via RF emissions...and a lot of people still think fiber presents the most physically secure media. That might be even more of an obsolete perspective now that a seemingly innocent fiber bundle will be able to have all kinds of "goodies" in it...
Slashdot Mirror
...should store "interesting stuff" he wants everybody in the world to know about on Google Drive rather than run the risk that a media source he offers it to will just "turn" him to a corporation or "the authorities".
When the most corrupt people in America include so many of our most powerful politicians, corporate CEOs, and Wall Street barons it is unreasonable to expect any facet of American society to remain unaffected. The only and only thing you can be sure will "trickle-down" is corruption as the system has been rigged by the corrupt to ensure that it is corruption that pays the big bucks in America.
A few weeks ago, two GIMP hackers got together to do some general hacking, and inadvertedly ported the core graphics code to GEGL.
You're a "hacker" if you start playing with something in an effort to make it better and you not only succeed in a reasonable amount of time but do it for free. But if you have three meetings per week, the project drags on and on and on, the bill escalates ever closer to the stratosphere, and the project never does work?
Then you are a professional consultant.
When we pool our money together to buy politicians
Hence deregulation to transfer the savings of the American people away from them, inequitable free trade to eliminate jobs and suppress wages, and the levying of private taxes by Big Carbon and "high finance"/"the speculators" in order to ensure that the many have ever less money to pool together.
Too true. Strip America's laws and tax code of regulations and loopholes paid for by Corporate America, and said laws and tax code would become much simpler.
However, I don't believe that is what Corporate America is seeking when they say that America's laws and tax code need to be simplified...rather, all evidence insists that they want the tax code simplified down to Corporate America and its owner/operators are to be exempted from taxation and the law simplified down to Corporate America and its owner/operators can do whatever they will with absolute immunity from criminal and civil liability.
That is, eager to complain about - and pay to eliminate - regulations and laws meant to protect the consumer as a danger to "the free market" and "competition" while being equally eager to eliminate "the free market" and "competition".
And so the number of people who can afford internet access - and, consequentially, the need to enlarge the range of available addresses - is about to plunge dramatically?
(Yeah, you may think that is trolling, but anybody who runs a big corporation will tell you that the corporation that doesn't keep a finger to the political winds has already seen its best days.)
The al-Qaeda spinmeister didn’t like Fox News (“let her die in her anger”), but it’s hard to understand why. Surely Rupert Murdoch’s network, with its saturation coverage of the war on terror, did more to elevate bin Laden’s profile than any other news outlet.
I would concur with that analysis; Murdoch and Fox News elevated a mad dog into a war fighter.
If I would ever become a criminal or terrorist I'm already prepared for dumb technology like this. I have long hair, a moustache and a goatee. After I committed my crime I will simple shave and cut my hair. And that's simply the easy, quick and painless change.
Oh, now you've done it...now they'll fit their cameras with sonar and/or radar and/or infrared to see "through" facial hair.
Oh, well..should create a booming market for the security pics.
Only if you hold that deliberately behaving as a juvenile eliminates both responsibility and culpability for your actions.
numbers arent these absolute things, but representations of value in an arbitrary system that can be represented differently
Ahhhh..."numbers" are "money".
Why the focus solely on young people? I see plenty of so-called "adults" that are texting and jabbering incessantly behind the wheel.
Texting or otherwise using a cellphone while driving in fact suggests that the individual is too self-centered and too into instant gratification to be considered to be an "adult".
The result is that topic after topic has hit the limit of 500 comments, most of them in Chinese.
They have other American Presidents who were and remain quite willing (some with unseemly eagerness) to put the interests of China's people far ahead of the American people's.
Of course, some few real people in America did benefit... as did some corporate "people", too...
Who the hell goes to Las Vegas to drink water?
Judging from my readings on World War II, such deliberate attempts by "conservatives" to sabotage democracy would once have had severe repercussions.
I was running my cell phone off their GPS' battery. /lie
Be easier to take advantage of the infinite trust in "the database" and change who (and where) you are supposed to be - or have been - at need, don't you think?
There is that...every iPhone user a walking, talking surveillance machine. I wouldn't even go so far as to say Apple planned it that way - but if the capability exists, someone in the ever more empowered "A" agencies will see utilizing it as...part of their job.
I think it inevitable that the Patriot Act will eventually be used as a political weapon. We've already seen politicians go to extraordinary - even criminal - lengths to involve the American people in war; we've seen Congress vouchsafe incarcerating Americans forever and ever without trial with merely the accusation of terrorism; we've seen the power of "Executive Orders" abused ever more often; we've see "extraordinary renditions" used to violate international law and the sovereignty of other nations; we've seen those whose jokes on social networks are misunderstood kicked out of America.
The logical - evolutionary, if you will - next step is a political party whose leaders became infamous for demanding that Federal departments "stay on-message" when they were in the White House, for example, expanding that philosophy and using the aforementioned powers - whether Constitutional, blessed by Congress, or ignored by Congress - to silence those who criticize their actions.
lollll...ya mean one of these as an iPhone dock?
And I know I wasn't clear, but my point was the technology detailed in this article will make it possible to defeat the most well-trained network and security administrators out there: Won't do you much good to have absolute control of your firewalls and proxies - or to use encryption for all external communications - if your in-house fiber plant is reading your internal communications in the clear and then "talking" around your security measures. And even if you have transparent cable trays so that you can readily detect the insertion of a splice-and-tap, you won't catch it...the technology will be a part of the fiber itself....all bundled in the factory insulation.
lollll...yeah, the technology is evolved to keep up with the evolution of technology.
But in America, you don't need to take all of the risks and spend all of that money anymore; the Patriot Act lets you stick "block boxes" in right at the cable heads.
improving its technology to handle 'far-field speech,' which means holding the device at arm's length rather than directly in front of the mouth
I thought cell phone users were annoying enough when they constantly raised their voice as if the other end were deaf; now people are going to be yelling at their phones from across the room.
I think I can say with little exageration that Alan Turing won the Second World War, invented the computer and was killed by the British Government for being gay. [...] Is this how we reward our heroes?
No, that is how we reward the forces of evil.
Inline wiretapping! Happy, happy - joy, joy! I remember once upon a time opto-electric "isolators" were used to ensure that various and sundry bad guys couldn't pick up intel via RF emissions...and a lot of people still think fiber presents the most physically secure media. That might be even more of an obsolete perspective now that a seemingly innocent fiber bundle will be able to have all kinds of "goodies" in it...