Yes, I know. At the time it was honestly necessary to repair the damage done after the Jim Crow laws ended. But it's been 50-60 years since that era, and it's certainly been long enough that the horrible racism of that time is a distant memory and nothing more than an occasional statistical hiccup nowdays.
I think the entire concept of a "hate crime" is wrong. Isn't stuff like this already covered by "making threats" and "intimidation"?
Here's two similar situations:
1) A man at a bar repeatedly punches another man because he is wearing a t-shirt that shows his endorsement of a rival sports team.
2) A man at a bar repeatedly punches another man because he is wearing a skirt.
The actual crime here is assault and battery, In 1), that's all it would be, but in 2) they would tack on "hate crime", "bias intimidation", and all kinds of other crap. It'd go from a fine and a couple hundred hours of community service (at most) to a community-wide (if not nationwide) spectacle.
Now, I do understand that certain classes of people have had really, really horrible shit happen to them in the past. This is true for every country. They demand equality, they fight for it, and they are getting it - but then they also get a lot of special laws to protect them. I don't really see this as equal - more like swinging the pendulum the other way.
I'm all for equality. I don't think you should discriminate against someone because of their skin color, beliefs, sexual orientation, any of that stuff really. If you're hiring them for a job the only thing that should matter is their skills, not their skin color or gender or sexual orientation. But, I do think that hiring someone because of their orientation or skin color or giving them any other special treatment after the fact is just as wrong as the initial discrimination. You can't fix discrimination by being more discriminatory.
I honestly can't see how a DDOS of the particular sort Anonymous uses can be considered illegal.
It would be like a group of a hundred people going into a supermarket one at a time and buying a stick of gum each. Then, once they've completed their purchase they turn around, go back in, and repeat it again. They're not doing anything technically illegal, but it certainly is disruptive.
Of course, I could be entirely wrong due to lack of understanding on the law, so please feel free to enlighten me on the subject...
No, don't believe this. This is actually a shallow depiction of the magnificence that is golf.
Golf is a sport that is several hundred years old and beloved by nobleman and commoner alike. It is truly the essence of man enjoying the peaceful tranquility of nature. The swipe of a 5 iron on a cool Spring day. A majestic Titleist ball floating serenely though the air as if it were your very own personal, fluffy cloud. The light "thonk" sound as it descends perfectly on the green, setting you up for that perfect putt that will bring you one under par for the hole. Truly, golf is a sport for OF COURSE IT'S ABOUT THE BEER-SERVING BLOND WITH BIG TITTIES!
1) Offer a few public goodwill gestures to make it clear that the U.S. is *not* going to invade them or attack them 2) Tell Mossad to stop assassinating their scientists, or face sanctions of their own. 3) Reign in Israel and make it clear to them that attacking Iran will NOT be tolerated, and will cost them the friendship of the U.S. 4) Normalizing relations with Iran.
You do those four things, and you won't need to cut off their banks to get them to the table. They'll be *running* to get to the table.
Okay, well. 1 and 4 have potential, but 2 and 3 will never happen. For some unknown reason, Israel is like America Junior. Maybe because it's the only strong ally we have in the Mideast that we can practically guarantee will never turn on us (although I'm sure conspiracy theorists will spout some nonsense about Zionists and the One World Government).
Honestly, Israel is a horrible place and they are just as bad as any of the other countries out there, yet we stand by them regardless. For all I care we should get the hell out of there and let them handle their own fucked up situations instead of getting involved in it.
Great! Now all we need is for the vast majority of the Internet to support it like Paypal does.
The only thing Paypal has going for it right now is the convenience. If you shop anywhere, you can probably use Paypal. Squareup - if it's really as good as you say - needs to get its foot in the door in a couple of big places and word will spread from there.
BTW, I agree with people complaining that Slashdot seems to be putting advertisements into the stories themselves. This isn't right and it does diminish what quality is left in the website.
You talk as if this is a new thing. The word "slashvertisement" has been around for at least 5 years - and for a reason.
It need not be an evil person driving a car. In this closed system it could just be another old person driving a Buick. The old person is not evil, just too old to be driving.
The Buick may be evil. We can't be sure. At least it's not a Lincoln Town Car - those things are downright Satanic.
The service is usually pretty good. More importantly, though, is that you pretty much have full access to your server to install mods or however you like. There's no "approved" and "unapproved" list or anything of the like, nor are you prevented from backing up or tinkering with your files however you may need to.
I think nearly anyone in the world could attack the United States and they would lose. This is not jingoism or nationalism,it's simple practicality. We have one of the best militaries in the world, and we're buffered by two oceans and two very friendly countries.
Trade embargoes? Sure. Pull our diplomats. Rescue American citizens held hostage. But we have absolutely no goddamn business firing missiles, dropping bombs, or otherwise assaulting other communities around the world for whatever reason.
Right, a good analogy would be "All the water you want through a 1" copper pipe. And the pipe has a valve that might get tightened if you use too much."
Over here in the land of NASCAR and rodeos, I did the same to my two Senators and one Representative around the time of the whole SOPA/PIPA thing. I received a form letter of "this is needed to protect the industry" from one and a much, much more personalized written letter acknowledging the flaws of SOPA/PIPA and how he has never supported them (which is true on his part). The third person has yet to respond.
I had a customer who was in the military who was really concerned about his privacy. He had an ex-wife who was really vindictive and trying to get into his e-mail, Facebook, anything just to fuck with him. So he asked me for some advice on how to make a secure password that will stop casual attempts.
ME: "Give me the individual letters of 'apple' in NATO phonetics."
HIM: "Alpha Papa Papa Lima Echo."
ME: -writes down- "alpha1papa9papa8lima2echo". Here's your password. We're not going to use this, but when I finish unfucking your Windows registry I'll ask you again.
~1 hour later~
ME: "So what was that password?"
HIM: "Alpha one papa niner (lol) papa eig- holy shit, I remember it!"
ME: "Right. Now do something similar, but create something I don't know about. I don't like to know my customer's passwords."
Teach someone to use mnemonics and patterns and you can create something interesting and easy to remember. There's no reason the "random letters, numbers, etc." and "leetspeak" methodologies need to be mutually exclusive.
I use a similar logic of patterns and the like for myself. My bank's website only allows letters and numbers for the password (and only up to 20 characters, lame) so I use a pattern on the keypad to remember it via muscle memory. (I "draw" a particular shape using the number keys in my head., and then some letters, and then some more numbers. My e-mail password is 30+ characters long. I have half a dozen pretty strong passwords floating around in my head and I'm not going to forget them anytime soon because I created a pattern that is personally easy for me to remember but cryptographically difficult to discern or break.
I think this quote reinforces GP's point - why spend free time fiddling about with all of this when you could pay somebody else a few dollars to do it for you?
Why spend any money at all? Someone has already uploaded your favorite movie in your chosen language with your chosen subtitles in your chosen quality. The work was done probably before the movie was even out on DVD.
You've already bought and paid for the disc. Why would you have anything but a clear conscience in downloading a movie you've already purchased?
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Static white noise sounds actually better in 128k.
Yeah, I downgraded the encoding on my dad's Shania Twain MP3s first chance I got.
I've been playing bass for 30+ years now, guess where they always stick the bass player? Right next to the crash.
First, wear hearing protection. Too few artists actually do this and it hurts them in the long run.
Secondly, why are you standing near the crash? I mean, you're in the band. Can't you stand wherever you wa-
bass player
Oh... nevermind.
I think it was about developers.
...developers, developers.
I feel that Tartan is unfashionable and that it needs to go. There, I said it.
Yes, I know. At the time it was honestly necessary to repair the damage done after the Jim Crow laws ended. But it's been 50-60 years since that era, and it's certainly been long enough that the horrible racism of that time is a distant memory and nothing more than an occasional statistical hiccup nowdays.
I think the entire concept of a "hate crime" is wrong. Isn't stuff like this already covered by "making threats" and "intimidation"?
Here's two similar situations:
1) A man at a bar repeatedly punches another man because he is wearing a t-shirt that shows his endorsement of a rival sports team.
2) A man at a bar repeatedly punches another man because he is wearing a skirt.
The actual crime here is assault and battery, In 1), that's all it would be, but in 2) they would tack on "hate crime", "bias intimidation", and all kinds of other crap. It'd go from a fine and a couple hundred hours of community service (at most) to a community-wide (if not nationwide) spectacle.
Now, I do understand that certain classes of people have had really, really horrible shit happen to them in the past. This is true for every country. They demand equality, they fight for it, and they are getting it - but then they also get a lot of special laws to protect them. I don't really see this as equal - more like swinging the pendulum the other way.
I'm all for equality. I don't think you should discriminate against someone because of their skin color, beliefs, sexual orientation, any of that stuff really. If you're hiring them for a job the only thing that should matter is their skills, not their skin color or gender or sexual orientation. But, I do think that hiring someone because of their orientation or skin color or giving them any other special treatment after the fact is just as wrong as the initial discrimination. You can't fix discrimination by being more discriminatory.
I honestly can't see how a DDOS of the particular sort Anonymous uses can be considered illegal.
It would be like a group of a hundred people going into a supermarket one at a time and buying a stick of gum each. Then, once they've completed their purchase they turn around, go back in, and repeat it again. They're not doing anything technically illegal, but it certainly is disruptive.
Of course, I could be entirely wrong due to lack of understanding on the law, so please feel free to enlighten me on the subject...
3. Protesters are hiding under the vale of anonymity so they will not loose their jobs/reputation the next day.
Because real-life protestors never wear masks or otherwise conceal their identities!
Now now, don't be so synackal.
No, don't believe this. This is actually a shallow depiction of the magnificence that is golf.
Golf is a sport that is several hundred years old and beloved by nobleman and commoner alike. It is truly the essence of man enjoying the peaceful tranquility of nature. The swipe of a 5 iron on a cool Spring day. A majestic Titleist ball floating serenely though the air as if it were your very own personal, fluffy cloud. The light "thonk" sound as it descends perfectly on the green, setting you up for that perfect putt that will bring you one under par for the hole. Truly, golf is a sport for OF COURSE IT'S ABOUT THE BEER-SERVING BLOND WITH BIG TITTIES!
1) Offer a few public goodwill gestures to make it clear that the U.S. is *not* going to invade them or attack them
2) Tell Mossad to stop assassinating their scientists, or face sanctions of their own.
3) Reign in Israel and make it clear to them that attacking Iran will NOT be tolerated, and will cost them the friendship of the U.S.
4) Normalizing relations with Iran.
You do those four things, and you won't need to cut off their banks to get them to the table. They'll be *running* to get to the table.
Okay, well. 1 and 4 have potential, but 2 and 3 will never happen. For some unknown reason, Israel is like America Junior. Maybe because it's the only strong ally we have in the Mideast that we can practically guarantee will never turn on us (although I'm sure conspiracy theorists will spout some nonsense about Zionists and the One World Government).
Honestly, Israel is a horrible place and they are just as bad as any of the other countries out there, yet we stand by them regardless. For all I care we should get the hell out of there and let them handle their own fucked up situations instead of getting involved in it.
Great! Now all we need is for the vast majority of the Internet to support it like Paypal does.
The only thing Paypal has going for it right now is the convenience. If you shop anywhere, you can probably use Paypal. Squareup - if it's really as good as you say - needs to get its foot in the door in a couple of big places and word will spread from there.
It's bad enough when MMO's and Steam made it possible to see your playtime. :)
It's worse when you treat it like a high score.
"Ha, 5,000 hours in Diablo II! Suck on that, friends I no longer have!"
-sobs quietly-
BTW, I agree with people complaining that Slashdot seems to be putting advertisements into the stories themselves. This isn't right and it does diminish what quality is left in the website.
You talk as if this is a new thing. The word "slashvertisement" has been around for at least 5 years - and for a reason.
I've been through that stop quite a few times, but I guess I just look too clean-living to even bother with the dogs ...
timothy
And secretly, timothy's hollow eyeglass frames are filled with LSD.
It need not be an evil person driving a car. In this closed system it could just be another old person driving a Buick. The old person is not evil, just too old to be driving.
The Buick may be evil. We can't be sure. At least it's not a Lincoln Town Car - those things are downright Satanic.
I use . They have decent starter packages. The $35/month package (which comes with a free Mumble hell YES) is perfect for that medium-sized server of a dozen or so people who play whenever.
The service is usually pretty good. More importantly, though, is that you pretty much have full access to your server to install mods or however you like. There's no "approved" and "unapproved" list or anything of the like, nor are you prevented from backing up or tinkering with your files however you may need to.
I think nearly anyone in the world could attack the United States and they would lose. This is not jingoism or nationalism ,it's simple practicality. We have one of the best militaries in the world, and we're buffered by two oceans and two very friendly countries.
Trade embargoes? Sure. Pull our diplomats. Rescue American citizens held hostage. But we have absolutely no goddamn business firing missiles, dropping bombs, or otherwise assaulting other communities around the world for whatever reason.
Is there a world where you can imagine that the US would actually do something right (including exercise force),
Yes. It's a daring plan I call "Operation: Stay the Fuck Out of Other Countries Because That's None of Our Goddamned Fucking Business."
...I have a committee working on a better name.
Right, we're just as bad. We just have better P.R. and more money.
Right, a good analogy would be "All the water you want through a 1" copper pipe. And the pipe has a valve that might get tightened if you use too much."
Over here in the land of NASCAR and rodeos, I did the same to my two Senators and one Representative around the time of the whole SOPA/PIPA thing. I received a form letter of "this is needed to protect the industry" from one and a much, much more personalized written letter acknowledging the flaws of SOPA/PIPA and how he has never supported them (which is true on his part). The third person has yet to respond.
According to my ex-girlfriend, this is the most recent time I've made anyone happy in the last 5 years. So you're welcome. d=
I had a customer who was in the military who was really concerned about his privacy. He had an ex-wife who was really vindictive and trying to get into his e-mail, Facebook, anything just to fuck with him. So he asked me for some advice on how to make a secure password that will stop casual attempts.
ME: "Okay, you were a soldier, so you know NATO phonetics right?"
HIM: "Yeah..."
ME: "What year were you born?"
HIM: "1982."
ME: "Give me the individual letters of 'apple' in NATO phonetics."
HIM: "Alpha Papa Papa Lima Echo."
ME: -writes down- "alpha1papa9papa8lima2echo". Here's your password. We're not going to use this, but when I finish unfucking your Windows registry I'll ask you again.
~1 hour later~
ME: "So what was that password?"
HIM: "Alpha one papa niner (lol) papa eig- holy shit, I remember it!"
ME: "Right. Now do something similar, but create something I don't know about. I don't like to know my customer's passwords."
Teach someone to use mnemonics and patterns and you can create something interesting and easy to remember. There's no reason the "random letters, numbers, etc." and "leetspeak" methodologies need to be mutually exclusive.
I use a similar logic of patterns and the like for myself. My bank's website only allows letters and numbers for the password (and only up to 20 characters, lame) so I use a pattern on the keypad to remember it via muscle memory. (I "draw" a particular shape using the number keys in my head., and then some letters, and then some more numbers. My e-mail password is 30+ characters long. I have half a dozen pretty strong passwords floating around in my head and I'm not going to forget them anytime soon because I created a pattern that is personally easy for me to remember but cryptographically difficult to discern or break.
I think this quote reinforces GP's point - why spend free time fiddling about with all of this when you could pay somebody else a few dollars to do it for you?
Why spend any money at all? Someone has already uploaded your favorite movie in your chosen language with your chosen subtitles in your chosen quality. The work was done probably before the movie was even out on DVD.
You've already bought and paid for the disc. Why would you have anything but a clear conscience in downloading a movie you've already purchased?