These sorts of systems only work if you can not game it.
All systems can be gamed. The question is not, "Does the system 'work'?" It's, "How well does it work compared to its closest competition and how can it be improved?"
I would hope the engine would realize that the profiles of those "users" who rampantly promote sites like that are so vastly different from my profile as to not seriously affect my results.
Well then the correct solution would be to remove the need or desire for people to want to gas each other...
Good luck with that. I'm sure that if I just fly over the middle East farting rainbows on everyone there won't be a single extremist left that wants to do me harm. A perfect loving world would be really nice and most of us really want one. But that world doesn't exist and never will.
Blatant sub-kiddie-script level hacking by the Chinese government (possibly the best funded cyber-warfare division on the planet) against the Falun Gong being "exposed" by a web site created by the Falun Gong? I wonder why my Spidey-Sense is tingling?
Genius! When I go rogue and decide to bring down the country as a first step to my coup, my first step will be donating "loaner" laptops to Starbucks. *Sinister laugh*
And in which languages does the word for that particular location translate into "place to take a shit?"
OK, you list a bunch of languages. BUT, you left out "American". In the language "American", a "bathroom" is someplace to possibly bathe, but certainly piss/dump and optionally wash your hands afterward depending on the damage.
Actually, if you RTFA or watch the documentary made about this particular case I believe that you'll sympathize with his plight and understand why he went to these extremes to exact revenge over his dispute with management.
It really was his red Swingline stapler and they never should have taken it from him.
Unless, of course, you think subliminal advertising is a bad thing.
Subliminal? Unless you're completely tuned out or blind and listening to the movies rather than actually viewing the picture, product placement is most obviously liminal. In-your-face style liminal. Unmistakably liminal. Superliminal.
This message brought to you by the Dr Pepper organization to add the word "liminal" to the ever-evolving Levi's brand English language.
In at least one State, there is no requirement for a permit to carry concealed, either. You can carry any gun you want to, in any way you desire. No training required.
Umm... That may be true, but that's no state in the US. If you're suggesting that there's a place in the US where you can stroll down the street with a full-auto Thompson with a 60-round drum randomly pointing it in all directions with your finger on the trigger without being stopped (or shot), I think you've been watching too many mobster movies.
I find it a little hard to believe that there are more violent crimes per capita in the UK, but almost four times less murders.
According to this and this, there were roughly 429 violent crimes per 100,000 in the US and 1,600 per 100,000 in England and Wales last year. That's a pretty big difference, even though the murder rate is decidedly lower for the UK.
Dead easy to spoof the MAC address of the machine I unplugged to get my evil device in.
True. But that implies that you already have a security breach (even if that breach is a disgruntled employee or a bunch of employees wondering why the exterminator is hooking his laptop up to the network.) It's a lot easier to sit in the parking lot sniffing wireless traffic then it is to lob the weighted end of a long piece of CAT5 through an open 2nd story window and land it in an open port belonging to a machine that you've divined the MAC address for and spoofed.
With a couple of exceptions, this doesn't seem completely distinct from using the fact that you left your WAP open to disown any illegal traffic coming to/from your IP address. In one case, you don't know who's using it nor (presumably) explicitly condone its use. In the other case you're being paid (thus condoning use) and although people could buy cycles/bandwidth for completely legitimate purposes, you can reasonably expect that this will not be the general case as people with legitimate uses can pay less for similar services elsewhere instead of needing many distributed low-yield options.
Hmm... Now I just have to figure out which side of this little conundrum I'm trying to argue...
Don't know if I've run into any commie zombies, although a large collective collaborating to collect and process resources for the good of the community sounds about right... Now, Nazi zombies I can deliver.
I don't know what they posted, but inciting a riot is a crime in the US too. Whether that's an infraction on Freedom of Speech or not is another debate. This is different because instead of doing it in person, they're doing it "over the Internet" and because there could be doubt over whether they actually intended to incite a riot or whether they actually had any influence over the riot starting (doubtful). Although if encouraging violence over the Internet is going to be punished, then a lot of people are in big trouble - And please go set fire to anyone who disagrees with that statement.
Of course... It's not hard to find people in the US that have been jailed for encouraging violence on-line, but it's typically very specific violence toward a very specific target, with confidence that it will be carried out.
Yes it seems like they're overstepping here, but complete freedom to say whatever you want isn't something we're in danger of losing - It's something that we've already given up.
I'm still wondering if they will keep the original storyline with nuclear war between humans.
They've already strayed from the original storyline. In the originals, a virus wiped all of the traditional house pets and apes replaced them. Then became servants and were bred to be intelligent. Finally, about the time everyone had at least one ape-servant, they got pissed and went all ape-shit on the humans.
If you can't factor in a little bit of "suspension of disbelief," I'm guessing there are fewer than 10 sci-fi movies you could watch without being annoyed. I've seen a lot, but I can't think of 10 that qualify. I feel sorry for you - there's some good sci-fi out there, but very little that passes the "Could this really happen exactly as depicted?" test. Personally I wasn't expecting to like it being a big fan of the originals, but was pleasantly surprised.
And they didn't go into how the escaped apes were handled by the responders - I guess they're leaving that for the sequel - A 10 minute movie of escaped apes being gassed to death and then carefully handled on the way to the incinerator.
I think that's an economic version of Mutually Assured Destruction. Of course, both sides are trying to get out of that cycle and China is prevailing, but right now China would never go to economic war with the US because there is no winner, only multiple losers. Cyber warfare, however, just gives one side an edge over the other with little repercussions. Sometimes I feel like, here on/., anytime rivalry between the US and China comes up somebody just knee-jerks and feels the insatiable need to bring up the debt regardless of how irrelevant to the discussion.
You don't think that, if a clear profit margin is demonstrated, they won't pick it up?
Only if there is really a clear profit margin demonstrated. For example, maybe there's a large group of people willing to pay for scat porn on niche websites. Maybe those sites turn a profit. But, if advertised on the PPV channels, it may turn away more viewers from "traditional" PPV sales than it attracts for that flavor of niche porn. But, on the Internet, people can find that stuff (or anything else that may float their boat) for free.
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These sorts of systems only work if you can not game it.
All systems can be gamed. The question is not, "Does the system 'work'?" It's, "How well does it work compared to its closest competition and how can it be improved?"
I would hope the engine would realize that the profiles of those "users" who rampantly promote sites like that are so vastly different from my profile as to not seriously affect my results.
Can you point it out to me, or is this just another "I heard he fucks goats" style Political FUD attack?
Suspiciously, Assange has never gone on record to deny allegations of goat fucking.
For the first line of the file, enter:
This,file,is,protected,DO,NOT,read,next,line
Right - "I wasn't in her house to rob her, I just wanted to see what was in her fridge and see what kind of undies she liked."
Well then the correct solution would be to remove the need or desire for people to want to gas each other...
Good luck with that. I'm sure that if I just fly over the middle East farting rainbows on everyone there won't be a single extremist left that wants to do me harm. A perfect loving world would be really nice and most of us really want one. But that world doesn't exist and never will.
Blatant sub-kiddie-script level hacking by the Chinese government (possibly the best funded cyber-warfare division on the planet) against the Falun Gong being "exposed" by a web site created by the Falun Gong? I wonder why my Spidey-Sense is tingling?
Genius! When I go rogue and decide to bring down the country as a first step to my coup, my first step will be donating "loaner" laptops to Starbucks. *Sinister laugh*
Linus invented America, Steve patented it, and Bill copied it (the original America r3.1(TM)). Don't they teach history in schools any more?
And in which languages does the word for that particular location translate into "place to take a shit?"
OK, you list a bunch of languages. BUT, you left out "American". In the language "American", a "bathroom" is someplace to possibly bathe, but certainly piss/dump and optionally wash your hands afterward depending on the damage.
Actually, if you RTFA or watch the documentary made about this particular case I believe that you'll sympathize with his plight and understand why he went to these extremes to exact revenge over his dispute with management.
It really was his red Swingline stapler and they never should have taken it from him.
Unless, of course, you think subliminal advertising is a bad thing.
Subliminal? Unless you're completely tuned out or blind and listening to the movies rather than actually viewing the picture, product placement is most obviously liminal. In-your-face style liminal. Unmistakably liminal. Superliminal.
This message brought to you by the Dr Pepper organization to add the word "liminal" to the ever-evolving Levi's brand English language.
In at least one State, there is no requirement for a permit to carry concealed, either. You can carry any gun you want to, in any way you desire. No training required.
Umm... That may be true, but that's no state in the US. If you're suggesting that there's a place in the US where you can stroll down the street with a full-auto Thompson with a 60-round drum randomly pointing it in all directions with your finger on the trigger without being stopped (or shot), I think you've been watching too many mobster movies.
I find it a little hard to believe that there are more violent crimes per capita in the UK, but almost four times less murders.
According to this and this, there were roughly 429 violent crimes per 100,000 in the US and 1,600 per 100,000 in England and Wales last year. That's a pretty big difference, even though the murder rate is decidedly lower for the UK.
Rioters in the US have been peaceful so far. It sounds like an oxymoron doesn't it? Peaceful rioters.
Most of us refer to them as "protesters". And most of us think that the occasional protest is a healthy expression of dissent. Rioters are different.
...and his quixotic efforts to takedown Anonymous makes him look like a clown.
What do you mean? He's obviously a hero that's going to reform Anonymous. "We turned our attention to more constructive pursuits for the lulz."
Dead easy to spoof the MAC address of the machine I unplugged to get my evil device in.
True. But that implies that you already have a security breach (even if that breach is a disgruntled employee or a bunch of employees wondering why the exterminator is hooking his laptop up to the network.) It's a lot easier to sit in the parking lot sniffing wireless traffic then it is to lob the weighted end of a long piece of CAT5 through an open 2nd story window and land it in an open port belonging to a machine that you've divined the MAC address for and spoofed.
With a couple of exceptions, this doesn't seem completely distinct from using the fact that you left your WAP open to disown any illegal traffic coming to/from your IP address. In one case, you don't know who's using it nor (presumably) explicitly condone its use. In the other case you're being paid (thus condoning use) and although people could buy cycles/bandwidth for completely legitimate purposes, you can reasonably expect that this will not be the general case as people with legitimate uses can pay less for similar services elsewhere instead of needing many distributed low-yield options.
Hmm... Now I just have to figure out which side of this little conundrum I'm trying to argue...
Don't know if I've run into any commie zombies, although a large collective collaborating to collect and process resources for the good of the community sounds about right... Now, Nazi zombies I can deliver.
I don't know what they posted, but inciting a riot is a crime in the US too. Whether that's an infraction on Freedom of Speech or not is another debate. This is different because instead of doing it in person, they're doing it "over the Internet" and because there could be doubt over whether they actually intended to incite a riot or whether they actually had any influence over the riot starting (doubtful). Although if encouraging violence over the Internet is going to be punished, then a lot of people are in big trouble - And please go set fire to anyone who disagrees with that statement.
Of course... It's not hard to find people in the US that have been jailed for encouraging violence on-line, but it's typically very specific violence toward a very specific target, with confidence that it will be carried out.
Yes it seems like they're overstepping here, but complete freedom to say whatever you want isn't something we're in danger of losing - It's something that we've already given up.
No, really, I swear! I AM Spartacus!
I'm still wondering if they will keep the original storyline with nuclear war between humans.
They've already strayed from the original storyline. In the originals, a virus wiped all of the traditional house pets and apes replaced them. Then became servants and were bred to be intelligent. Finally, about the time everyone had at least one ape-servant, they got pissed and went all ape-shit on the humans.
If you can't factor in a little bit of "suspension of disbelief," I'm guessing there are fewer than 10 sci-fi movies you could watch without being annoyed. I've seen a lot, but I can't think of 10 that qualify. I feel sorry for you - there's some good sci-fi out there, but very little that passes the "Could this really happen exactly as depicted?" test. Personally I wasn't expecting to like it being a big fan of the originals, but was pleasantly surprised.
And they didn't go into how the escaped apes were handled by the responders - I guess they're leaving that for the sequel - A 10 minute movie of escaped apes being gassed to death and then carefully handled on the way to the incinerator.
I think that's an economic version of Mutually Assured Destruction. Of course, both sides are trying to get out of that cycle and China is prevailing, but right now China would never go to economic war with the US because there is no winner, only multiple losers. Cyber warfare, however, just gives one side an edge over the other with little repercussions. Sometimes I feel like, here on /., anytime rivalry between the US and China comes up somebody just knee-jerks and feels the insatiable need to bring up the debt regardless of how irrelevant to the discussion.
You don't think that, if a clear profit margin is demonstrated, they won't pick it up?
Only if there is really a clear profit margin demonstrated. For example, maybe there's a large group of people willing to pay for scat porn on niche websites. Maybe those sites turn a profit. But, if advertised on the PPV channels, it may turn away more viewers from "traditional" PPV sales than it attracts for that flavor of niche porn. But, on the Internet, people can find that stuff (or anything else that may float their boat) for free.