Trade barriers on a country with a coastline of 14500KM, in an economically interlinked multi-polar world system highly dependant on Chinese production capabilities?
"a minimum of 18 servers have been compromised," including some of the bank's most sensitive systems â" ranging from the bank's security and password server to a Human Resources server "that contains scanned images of staff documents."
seems like a lot more than an email server to me.
In the official report it says:
We do know that 3 main servers have been breached (...) an HR server that contains scanned staff documents (...)
As of 09/09 we have determined that 5 of the compromised servers contain sensitive data
can small countries keep up with military superpowers by upmodding existing robots for their own needs and then arming them?
no, they can't. Which is why Georgia got hammered, and every small country that isn't as dumb as Georgia, is going for good ol' unconventional warfare.
I just KNEW these damned Greek Aristotelians with their 4-elements theories wouldn't let it go.
2300 years later and they STILL carry a grudge against atomic theories.
Can't you just let it go guys? We're not made up out of earth, wind, fire and air. Not even if you succeed at blowing the LHC to Hades.
Meaning: Ossetia was, as things stood, autonomous from Georgia. However, this was not recognized by anybody that has anything to say about such things (namely, the UN), thus, this whole 'de facto' nonsense means nothing in relation to the Georgian attacks on Ossetia.
Look, afaik, Georgia is doing a lot wrong with this whole Ossetia business, but there's a very distinct line between invading what is, by international law, a runaway province (no matter how 'de facto' its independence may be) and invading a foreign country.
Russia just escalated this into a major shooting war in what is as it stands one of the geopolitically most important yet unstable regions of the world.
haha.
Sorry for laughing at that. But the only reason they 'acknowledge' natural disasters right now is to offset the realization of the general public that most of the deaths during the last few earthquakes and floods were due to massive corruption in government and building surveillance.
They create a new enemey ('nature'), to prevent from the Party getting the blame it deserves. 'quake lakes' my ass. There's a lot of building contractors and local officials in china that should be hanged for their corruption. Official 'acknowledgements' notwithstanding.
Oh, and the 'clean' air for the olympics of course. Really, no. China has been polluting north-east asia for decades now. You might want to check out the satellite maps of the wonderful Yangtze and Yellow river deltas.
You don't even need false color too see that they're pumping all sorts of shit into the oceans.
And unlike what others below me have stated, it's not just a matter of scale. Rapid development in Europe and the US, no matter how destructive it was, also kickstarted environmentalism, the protected natural park systems and both private and public efforts to safeguard the environment, thanks to the openness of the government (that is 'democracy'). China has no such thing...
I think it had something to do with the government deciding not to wait for SSL security to become viable, forcing all banks etc. to run activeX components for security.
This created a de-facto monopoly, since people could not do without the government and bank websites (which now required windows to work properly), and before you know it, everything runs windows because 'everybody uses windows anyway'.
It's actually so bad that most websites require multiple activeX components before they run, and they won't run at all on firefox or opera because most programmers don't care about proper coding, because all they 'need' is for it to run on iexplorer. The switch to newer versions of IE or to windows vista was a huge mess too, because nobody had bothered to code the components with the future in mind. My girlfriend couldn't online-bank for half a year because she ran vista.
The funniest thing is the korean free trade commision recently fined MS $32 billion for running a monopoly, which they themselves created, hah.
"... and in other news, a major pile-up on the I64 near Morehead, Kentucky. Three drivers were found dead and many heavily injured as a driver lost control of his vehicle near the mainstreet intersection.
Police officers on the scene report that the exact cause of the collision is still under investigation, but that as the driver who caused the accident was driving a 2009 model Chrysler and found in a partially unclad state, the police assume that this is the newest in a series of what the media are now calling 'money-shot accidents.
Politicians were quick to denounce the in-car internet systems as dangerous, unethical and amoral, with a bipartisan group of representatives announcing their intentions to introduce what they call the 'Will somebody please think of the children!?'-bill, which would effectively ban the controversial in-car internet systems.
Back to you John.'."
Oh please. Give me a break with all this military realism.
Notice that Von Clausewitz and Sun Tzu were part of military authority. Their single job is to propose anything they think might win a war, no matter how horrible.
Then there is civilian authority, which has the job of making sound, balanced decisions between things like winning a war and being morally right.
Civilian leadership has to make decisions that ensure that they dont go all Pinochet/electrodes-to-the-testicles just to impose their power.
The fact that there are 'insurgents' (quite a loaded term these days) that do no 'play fair' does not matter in this regard.
As a democratic, supposedly enlightened nation that cares for human rights and dignity, you should be willing to take a step back and implement rules against such amoral behavior, even if this means being a little less efficient in wartime.
Otherwise, you might as well get it over with and implement totalitarianism/communism tomorrow, because that has been proven to be quite effective during wartime.
Your comparison with Bosnia also shows a lack of knowledge, since the genocide and other atrocities commited there, were in fact largely commited by two uniformed, institutionalised, warring armies, not 'insurgents hiding within the population'.
and if there were flashes of blue and red lights, you bar up the doors, arm the kids and prepare for the new world order UN-invasion to finally begin, right?;)
anyway, it's always astonishing to see how much debate is created on slashdot simply by the fact that nobody reads the announcements. If people actually read them, there would be no debate at all, just 'well well's and apathetical headnods all over.
The big difference is that those 25000 taps in the Netherlands are all approved by a (sort-of) independent body ('rechter-commisaris', not sure of the english term for that, but it's an oversight judge). Those numbers are all out in the open. In the USA, the whole FISA thing is in shambles.
Of course that doesn't mean there are no illegal / secretive taps, it's common knowledge that there are (for example, by using new wiretap techniques that are not mentioned in the law police are able to circumvent the oversight process), but at least the numbers you mentioned are legal, institutionally approved taps. Some may say the whole process is in effect rubber stamping every application, but it seems to me it's (at least a bit) more than that.
... when will they scrap Impress and just start from scratch on their powerpoint clone?
I mean, all just praises for the OOo and all hypothetical future popularity-dreams aside, they don't stand a chance at competing with MS Office if they don't actually deliver a solid software package.
I really like Writer, but Impress is a nightmare. The controls don't function well, the interface is messy and unintuitive, the design functionality is rubbish, it's conversion to.ppt doesn't work properly under powerpoint 80% of the time, etc.
I agree that Klein is a little over-the-top on a lot of issues, but you're making a few silly assumptions yourself there.
1 - note that she calls it a prototype of a HIGH TECH police state. that's an important distinction there. wether you agree with her general position or not, this technology is in fact a new thing that makes an old, standard police state high tech. so yes, it would be alright to call it a prototype. If you disagree with her general thesis, that's fine, but if you're going to complain about her phrasing, at least read the phrasing right.
1b - 'to deal or not deal' with socialist states? The question is not about dealing, the question is about dealing ethically. The embargo on cuba is bad and unethical, punishing a people for its (unelected) dictator, in fact allowing that dude to stay in power. Just like american companies doing dirty jobs for dirty governments is bad and unethical. Also, you can't compare governments and multinationals one-on-one. Here Klein talks about companies doing unethical trade in China. With Cuba, she talks about the US government not allowing any companies to do any trade in/with Cuba. Big difference.
2 - 'classic affluent socialist families'.
Yeah, go ahead and pull that one out of the big magic hat again. Somebody can't be socially concerned and 'affluent' on the same time? A classic ad hominem that never grows old, innit?
2b - how do you connect capitalism with a police state? Well, very simple. Let's take china. A maoist-communist state in its political sphere, with a capitalist, freemarket economical sphere. She's not linking (economical) communism and capitalism here, she's linking the opressive-totalitarian tendencies of post-communist regimes with capitalism, which really is not all that strange. Ask Deng Xiaoping, it's been working out pretty well for his comrades.
I agree that her article is full of loaded language and silly rethorics, but this comparison really isn't so strange.
Klein is silly in a lot of aspects, but ignoring the rethorics for a second, it is important to keep pointing out the misconduct of multinational companies. It seems people are entirely ignoring the subject at hand just to complain about Klein, 'socialism' (or at least the misguided american conception of it) and 'those leftwing radicals' here.
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Trade barriers on a country with a coastline of 14500KM, in an economically interlinked multi-polar world system highly dependant on Chinese production capabilities?
For some actual insight into possible future policies and trends, read the new report from the National Intelligence Council that just came out a few days ago.
China is at the top of the list of countries that want to see us thrown on the trash heap of history
Can we please stop telling the Chinese how much they hate the USA, before they actually start to believe it themselves?
"a minimum of 18 servers have been compromised," including some of the bank's most sensitive systems â" ranging from the bank's security and password server to a Human Resources server "that contains scanned images of staff documents."
seems like a lot more than an email server to me.
In the official report it says:
We do know that 3 main servers have been breached (...) an HR server that contains scanned staff documents (...)
As of 09/09 we have determined that 5 of the compromised servers contain sensitive data
Well, so much for todays poll, I guess.
Who cares about boring old submarines and carriers when you can get a submersible airplane.
can small countries keep up with military superpowers by upmodding existing robots for their own needs and then arming them?
no, they can't. Which is why Georgia got hammered, and every small country that isn't as dumb as Georgia, is going for good ol' unconventional warfare.
I just KNEW these damned Greek Aristotelians with their 4-elements theories wouldn't let it go.
2300 years later and they STILL carry a grudge against atomic theories.
Can't you just let it go guys? We're not made up out of earth, wind, fire and air. Not even if you succeed at blowing the LHC to Hades.
Dailymotion offers HD quality, or at least something close to it.
I'm not sure how long the encoding on that site takes, but I've been impressed by a lot of the video's on there.
Blogotheque.com uses dailymotion for their content, and that site is pretty popular, so I think it should be a decent service...
keyword: De Facto.
Missing term: De Jure.
Meaning: Ossetia was, as things stood, autonomous from Georgia. However, this was not recognized by anybody that has anything to say about such things (namely, the UN), thus, this whole 'de facto' nonsense means nothing in relation to the Georgian attacks on Ossetia.
Look, afaik, Georgia is doing a lot wrong with this whole Ossetia business, but there's a very distinct line between invading what is, by international law, a runaway province (no matter how 'de facto' its independence may be) and invading a foreign country.
Russia just escalated this into a major shooting war in what is as it stands one of the geopolitically most important yet unstable regions of the world.
haha.
Sorry for laughing at that. But the only reason they 'acknowledge' natural disasters right now is to offset the realization of the general public that most of the deaths during the last few earthquakes and floods were due to massive corruption in government and building surveillance.
They create a new enemey ('nature'), to prevent from the Party getting the blame it deserves. 'quake lakes' my ass. There's a lot of building contractors and local officials in china that should be hanged for their corruption. Official 'acknowledgements' notwithstanding.
Oh, and the 'clean' air for the olympics of course. Really, no. China has been polluting north-east asia for decades now. You might want to check out the satellite maps of the wonderful Yangtze and Yellow river deltas.
You don't even need false color too see that they're pumping all sorts of shit into the oceans.
And unlike what others below me have stated, it's not just a matter of scale. Rapid development in Europe and the US, no matter how destructive it was, also kickstarted environmentalism, the protected natural park systems and both private and public efforts to safeguard the environment, thanks to the openness of the government (that is 'democracy'). China has no such thing...
It took me until this comment to realize we're talking about sediments, and not citrus fruits.
>_>'
Kaminsky demonstrated the vulnerability by finding a way to insert a YouTube video from 80s pop star Rick Astley into Facebook and PayPal domains
I think it had something to do with the government deciding not to wait for SSL security to become viable, forcing all banks etc. to run activeX components for security.
This created a de-facto monopoly, since people could not do without the government and bank websites (which now required windows to work properly), and before you know it, everything runs windows because 'everybody uses windows anyway'.
It's actually so bad that most websites require multiple activeX components before they run, and they won't run at all on firefox or opera because most programmers don't care about proper coding, because all they 'need' is for it to run on iexplorer. The switch to newer versions of IE or to windows vista was a huge mess too, because nobody had bothered to code the components with the future in mind. My girlfriend couldn't online-bank for half a year because she ran vista.
The funniest thing is the korean free trade commision recently fined MS $32 billion for running a monopoly, which they themselves created, hah.
You clearly have not heard of the gay terror that is plaguing the USA. You probably missed the *cough*secret*/cough* nota.
Pentagon anti-terror investigators labeled gay law school groups a "credible threat" of terrorism
"... and in other news, a major pile-up on the I64 near Morehead, Kentucky. Three drivers were found dead and many heavily injured as a driver lost control of his vehicle near the mainstreet intersection.
Police officers on the scene report that the exact cause of the collision is still under investigation, but that as the driver who caused the accident was driving a 2009 model Chrysler and found in a partially unclad state, the police assume that this is the newest in a series of what the media are now calling 'money-shot accidents.
Politicians were quick to denounce the in-car internet systems as dangerous, unethical and amoral, with a bipartisan group of representatives announcing their intentions to introduce what they call the 'Will somebody please think of the children!?'-bill, which would effectively ban the controversial in-car internet systems.
Back to you John.'."
no, that is leninism, not communism.
Oh please. Give me a break with all this military realism.
Notice that Von Clausewitz and Sun Tzu were part of military authority. Their single job is to propose anything they think might win a war, no matter how horrible.
Then there is civilian authority, which has the job of making sound, balanced decisions between things like winning a war and being morally right.
Civilian leadership has to make decisions that ensure that they dont go all Pinochet/electrodes-to-the-testicles just to impose their power.
The fact that there are 'insurgents' (quite a loaded term these days) that do no 'play fair' does not matter in this regard.
As a democratic, supposedly enlightened nation that cares for human rights and dignity, you should be willing to take a step back and implement rules against such amoral behavior, even if this means being a little less efficient in wartime.
Otherwise, you might as well get it over with and implement totalitarianism/communism tomorrow, because that has been proven to be quite effective during wartime.
Your comparison with Bosnia also shows a lack of knowledge, since the genocide and other atrocities commited there, were in fact largely commited by two uniformed, institutionalised, warring armies, not 'insurgents hiding within the population'.
For about 20 years, yes.
Then he invaded Kuwait, and the USA / West decided he suddenly wasn't such a good idea anymore.
and if there were flashes of blue and red lights, you bar up the doors, arm the kids and prepare for the new world order UN-invasion to finally begin, right? ;)
anyway, it's always astonishing to see how much debate is created on slashdot simply by the fact that nobody reads the announcements. If people actually read them, there would be no debate at all, just 'well well's and apathetical headnods all over.
What's with the stream of Joomla news all of a sudden?
I remember a joomla book review (from the same user) some weeks ago ( http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/14/1335211 )?
The big difference is that those 25000 taps in the Netherlands are all approved by a (sort-of) independent body ('rechter-commisaris', not sure of the english term for that, but it's an oversight judge). Those numbers are all out in the open. In the USA, the whole FISA thing is in shambles.
Of course that doesn't mean there are no illegal / secretive taps, it's common knowledge that there are (for example, by using new wiretap techniques that are not mentioned in the law police are able to circumvent the oversight process), but at least the numbers you mentioned are legal, institutionally approved taps. Some may say the whole process is in effect rubber stamping every application, but it seems to me it's (at least a bit) more than that.
A lunar vacuum cleaner perhaps?
... when will they scrap Impress and just start from scratch on their powerpoint clone?
.ppt doesn't work properly under powerpoint 80% of the time, etc.
I mean, all just praises for the OOo and all hypothetical future popularity-dreams aside, they don't stand a chance at competing with MS Office if they don't actually deliver a solid software package.
I really like Writer, but Impress is a nightmare. The controls don't function well, the interface is messy and unintuitive, the design functionality is rubbish, it's conversion to
I agree that Klein is a little over-the-top on a lot of issues, but you're making a few silly assumptions yourself there.
1 - note that she calls it a prototype of a HIGH TECH police state. that's an important distinction there. wether you agree with her general position or not, this technology is in fact a new thing that makes an old, standard police state high tech. so yes, it would be alright to call it a prototype. If you disagree with her general thesis, that's fine, but if you're going to complain about her phrasing, at least read the phrasing right.
1b - 'to deal or not deal' with socialist states? The question is not about dealing, the question is about dealing ethically. The embargo on cuba is bad and unethical, punishing a people for its (unelected) dictator, in fact allowing that dude to stay in power. Just like american companies doing dirty jobs for dirty governments is bad and unethical. Also, you can't compare governments and multinationals one-on-one. Here Klein talks about companies doing unethical trade in China. With Cuba, she talks about the US government not allowing any companies to do any trade in/with Cuba. Big difference.
2 - 'classic affluent socialist families'. Yeah, go ahead and pull that one out of the big magic hat again. Somebody can't be socially concerned and 'affluent' on the same time? A classic ad hominem that never grows old, innit?
2b - how do you connect capitalism with a police state? Well, very simple. Let's take china. A maoist-communist state in its political sphere, with a capitalist, freemarket economical sphere. She's not linking (economical) communism and capitalism here, she's linking the opressive-totalitarian tendencies of post-communist regimes with capitalism, which really is not all that strange. Ask Deng Xiaoping, it's been working out pretty well for his comrades.
I agree that her article is full of loaded language and silly rethorics, but this comparison really isn't so strange.
Klein is silly in a lot of aspects, but ignoring the rethorics for a second, it is important to keep pointing out the misconduct of multinational companies. It seems people are entirely ignoring the subject at hand just to complain about Klein, 'socialism' (or at least the misguided american conception of it) and 'those leftwing radicals' here.
most people I know don't understand this concept of 'efficiency'.
They browse all their folders in thumbnail mode. Or even worse, 'tile' mode, so they don't even get the added advantage of images.
I tried to get a couple of people I know to use a tree-view in explorer, but it was wasted time. They all went back to the 'cool looking' huge icons.
or to just dumping all their files on the desktop. that's another of my pet peeves, people who don't keep their desktops tidy. Ugh.
I wonder what their research proposal looked like.
I bet it goes something like this:
research hypothesis: censorship leads to conversations (c) being censored
H1: c1 > c2
Null-hypothesis: censorhsip has no consequences whatsoever
H0: c1 = c2
Money needed for research: $12 million + travel expenses