Minor point, although technically yes London is in England, it is the capital of the UK, and our bad laws cover the whole country (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland.)
Personally I use it first because it's Free - libre. Lots of other people use it because they think it's functionally better. Some people probably use it because they think Tux is cute. *shrug*
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the canonical webserver survey shows Apache declining significantly and steadily against IIS for the last two and half years - it's currently running at 50%, vs IIS with 35%.
What did the notice to Myspace/google etc consist of? I can break things on my local LAN, so fix your site? Well, yes.
The point is that, as you observe, it's trivial on many switched LANs to ARP poison and steal session credentials. (It's all about the session, dummy, not the data.) Pinch a Gmail password from a co-worker and you probably own their domain password, brokerage, online banking,... passwords as well.
You're right that this is nothing new, but the fix is really trivial. Use SSL or TLS. Gmail does support this; browse to https://mail.google.com/, bookmark that and you're done. It's not like the cost of the extra cycles is that great compared with ten years ago.
Two factors. One, there are dozens and dozens of utterly lame hosting control panels, content management systems, messageboards and suchlike written in PHP. Secondly, IIS is far, far more secure than it was back in the bad old days. (And I speak as a fervent Apache supporter.)
Yes, but it does tell us something about the quantity of programmer cycles going into Free and Open Source software. That obviously isn't a perfect correlation with "net usefulness" or "value to the economy from FOSS" or such, but it does tell us something.
(I'm the exception, because I'm heavily tattooed, muscular, and have gotten to know the locals because I don't give a fuck - I'll bum anyone a cigarette and sit there and drink my beer in public with them - hey, once you survive Houston public school, nothing really bothers you),
Yeah, it's weird how the gangsgters, drug-dealers, grannie-rapers and father-killers turn out to be mostly people not that different from you and I when you get to know 'em to the point of popping a beer, ain't it? I just wish more people had your attitude:(
What's more, there's a certain amount of precedent that assuming that anything the government tells you to do is, *cough* de facto legal, doesn't wash as a defence.
Don't you think it's interesting that for four years, the US and UK military forces in the Iraq sustained a pretty stready rate of casualties whilst the country slowly unraveled around them and a de-facto civil war / ethnic cleansing / religious genocide killed thousands of people, despite all the UAVs, ECM to jam EIDs, superstrong ballistic armour on people and vehicles, digital data and comms that have all contributed to the > $1T cost. Then in the last year or so things have quietened down considerably, due to a combination of layer-8 events - more US boots on the ground, the Sunni revolt against Al Qaeda (Iraq), Muqtada al-Sadr's ceasefire and alleged withdrawal into Iran, tighter border controls in Saudi and Syria reducing the flood of eager young Jihadists, and so on and on. (Of course it can and very likely will go tango uniform again at some point in the next five years, but we'll see.) Anyway, the point is that the gadgets can certainly help win the high-intensity phase of such a conflict, but they don't help with hearts & minds.
Citigroup's former CEO, Charlie Prince, got multi-million bonuses for running the company into the ground, wiping out years worth of profits and having to have the company rescued by foreign governments lest it collapsed. Yeah, but have you seen the state of his face? Looks to me like 20 years of plastic surgery are jussssttttt about now starting to disintegrate. In five or ten years' time he's gonna look more disturbing than Jacko.
> They were seditionists but I wouldn't call them terrorists - they started a militia war against an occupying army but AFAIK they didn't target civilians.
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Not directly perhaps, but they frequently did not wear uniforms and hid among civilians, putting them at risk. At the very least, that made them "unlawful combatants" by modern terminology. Also, the boatload of tea dumped into Boston harbour was hardly a military target. Dang, I wish the > quote < tag would indent nested subquotes.
Anyway.
No, the tea wasn't a military target, but it didn't get shot. Likewise, when Greenpeace takes non-violent direct action to destroy GM crops (which is of course much more about PR value, but then so was the Boston tea party), that's not terrorism either. Not by my definition anyway. The US Government's definition would seem to be "anyone who takes any action against the interests of the USA, including (but not limited to) anyone who takes military action against US forces". I heard Iraqi army units described as "terrorists" during the invasion in 2003. As in "we were driving along the road, then a unit of terrorists in a trench 2000 yards away opened up with heavy machine gun fire".
Another interesting real-life situation to try cookie-cutter definitions against is the anti-Nazi resistance in occupied Europe during WW2. Does it change things if you're fighting an invading army? What about if your own country has been taken over by an authoritarian dictatorship? By whose definition of "authoritarian" and "dictatorship"?
Thing is, real life fighting a mass of shades of gray, and it's all dirty, right up to pilots firing hellfire missiles in Pakistan from an office building in Arizona. Definitions are still written mostly by the victors. Much of international law is the legacy of the first and second world wars, from Versailles to Nuremburg.
One other point I find interesting. During the whole 30 years of horrendous violence and atrocity in Northern Ireland, the UK and Eire which kicked off properly the year I was born, the UK government clung tenaciously to key idea that IRA bombers and shooters were fundamentally criminals. As such they went through the same legal system and served prison time under basically the same terms and conditions as a south London bank robber, although the PIRA and Sinn Fein equally persistantly described their people in military terms, as "volunteers". The 1981 hunger strikes were an attempt to get themselves the status of prisoner of war under the Geneva Convention. The British and Unionists, on the other hand, considered it critical to deny them the legitimacy that status would give them.
I find it interesting that the US government's instincts from 2001 onwards have been almost exactly the opposite. "terrorists" are seen to be self-evidently NOT the same as "normal criminals", but the phantom terrorist skulking through a million cheap TV shows and lame straight-to-DVD C movies is seen as inherently parahuman. The tag "terrorist" immediately sets them apart from the rest of us. We in Europe are perhaps still more aware that the distinction between evil and us is less clear-cut and obvious than Mr Bruckheimer would like us to believe.
You know, I like a nice over-used meme being given endless new twists as much as anyone. But please... enough with the "Attempt no landings", 'kay? Thank you.
If that's the price of a continuing relationship, I'm i>glad I'm single. *glad*, d'you hear me? GLAD!!! BWaahahahahahaha.
(Actually the kerazy ex-es are the real reason I'm glad to be single. Man those women look good walking down the street and all, but get up close to them and you can hear them talking, and it all gets depressing.
C'mon, those are concentrations that would shame a homeopathist. Let's get some perspective here. I think the forthcoming loss of the GIS and WAIS, and subsequent 15m sea-level rise and contingent collapse of human civilisation is a more pressing concern, no?
Human genome: same thing; the sequencing was completed in 2001.
genetic medical treatments: not sure what you mean by that, but I'm not aware of any gene-based therapies in widespread use yet
dark matter: OK, given, first conjectured to account for the bizarre result in the late 90s that showed the expansion of spacetime is accelerating.
Hawking radiation: 1974.
quantum? Depending which bit you're talking about, originates between the wars. Feynmann and Murray Gell-Mann described quantum chromodynamics in the 60s.
I'm glad that I gave my Mum (uncontaminated with years of learning Windows) a Linux box, and that both my grilf and father have independently, and without any prompting from me, asked if I can fix their machines the same way (one's on Vista on a budget laptop - yes, I did warn her - the other's on XP "media centre edition". (It's got no TV tuner, surround sound, IR or anything else (even a big HD) that lends the machine to being a media centre, so I guess Dell must have wanted to puff the numbers for Unca Billy.)
One of the young chaps who hang around our office looking "cool" tried to interest me in his music, which is stuff like Sabrepulse and:( colon open bracket. The Sabrepulse stuff is all up for free download from his site. If you can listen to "Storm Raid Battle" or "|xxx is dead" and not have your jaw hanging open in amazement, well, you ain't no friend of mine. Absolutely fantastic stuff. The "Nintendokore" album's good as well.
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Minor point, although technically yes London is in England, it is the capital of the UK, and our bad laws cover the whole country (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland.)
Personally I use it first because it's Free - libre. Lots of other people use it because they think it's functionally better. Some people probably use it because they think Tux is cute. *shrug*
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the canonical webserver survey shows Apache declining significantly and steadily against IIS for the last two and half years - it's currently running at 50%, vs IIS with 35%.
The point is that, as you observe, it's trivial on many switched LANs to ARP poison and steal session credentials. (It's all about the session, dummy, not the data.) Pinch a Gmail password from a co-worker and you probably own their domain password, brokerage, online banking,... passwords as well.
You're right that this is nothing new, but the fix is really trivial. Use SSL or TLS. Gmail does support this; browse to https://mail.google.com/, bookmark that and you're done. It's not like the cost of the extra cycles is that great compared with ten years ago.
Two factors. One, there are dozens and dozens of utterly lame hosting control panels, content management systems, messageboards and suchlike written in PHP. Secondly, IIS is far, far more secure than it was back in the bad old days. (And I speak as a fervent Apache supporter.)
Yes, but it does tell us something about the quantity of programmer cycles going into Free and Open Source software. That obviously isn't a perfect correlation with "net usefulness" or "value to the economy from FOSS" or such, but it does tell us something.
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Yeah, it's weird how the gangsgters, drug-dealers, grannie-rapers and father-killers turn out to be mostly people not that different from you and I when you get to know 'em to the point of popping a beer, ain't it? I just wish more people had your attitude :(
What's more, there's a certain amount of precedent that assuming that anything the government tells you to do is, *cough* de facto legal, doesn't wash as a defence.
Yes, and I encourage all my competitors to use them.
Don't you think it's interesting that for four years, the US and UK military forces in the Iraq sustained a pretty stready rate of casualties whilst the country slowly unraveled around them and a de-facto civil war / ethnic cleansing / religious genocide killed thousands of people, despite all the UAVs, ECM to jam EIDs, superstrong ballistic armour on people and vehicles, digital data and comms that have all contributed to the > $1T cost. Then in the last year or so things have quietened down considerably, due to a combination of layer-8 events - more US boots on the ground, the Sunni revolt against Al Qaeda (Iraq), Muqtada al-Sadr's ceasefire and alleged withdrawal into Iran, tighter border controls in Saudi and Syria reducing the flood of eager young Jihadists, and so on and on. (Of course it can and very likely will go tango uniform again at some point in the next five years, but we'll see.) Anyway, the point is that the gadgets can certainly help win the high-intensity phase of such a conflict, but they don't help with hearts & minds.
Anyway.
No, the tea wasn't a military target, but it didn't get shot. Likewise, when Greenpeace takes non-violent direct action to destroy GM crops (which is of course much more about PR value, but then so was the Boston tea party), that's not terrorism either. Not by my definition anyway. The US Government's definition would seem to be "anyone who takes any action against the interests of the USA, including (but not limited to) anyone who takes military action against US forces". I heard Iraqi army units described as "terrorists" during the invasion in 2003. As in "we were driving along the road, then a unit of terrorists in a trench 2000 yards away opened up with heavy machine gun fire".
Another interesting real-life situation to try cookie-cutter definitions against is the anti-Nazi resistance in occupied Europe during WW2. Does it change things if you're fighting an invading army? What about if your own country has been taken over by an authoritarian dictatorship? By whose definition of "authoritarian" and "dictatorship"?
Thing is, real life fighting a mass of shades of gray, and it's all dirty, right up to pilots firing hellfire missiles in Pakistan from an office building in Arizona. Definitions are still written mostly by the victors. Much of international law is the legacy of the first and second world wars, from Versailles to Nuremburg.
One other point I find interesting. During the whole 30 years of horrendous violence and atrocity in Northern Ireland, the UK and Eire which kicked off properly the year I was born, the UK government clung tenaciously to key idea that IRA bombers and shooters were fundamentally criminals. As such they went through the same legal system and served prison time under basically the same terms and conditions as a south London bank robber, although the PIRA and Sinn Fein equally persistantly described their people in military terms, as "volunteers". The 1981 hunger strikes were an attempt to get themselves the status of prisoner of war under the Geneva Convention. The British and Unionists, on the other hand, considered it critical to deny them the legitimacy that status would give them.
I find it interesting that the US government's instincts from 2001 onwards have been almost exactly the opposite. "terrorists" are seen to be self-evidently NOT the same as "normal criminals", but the phantom terrorist skulking through a million cheap TV shows and lame straight-to-DVD C movies is seen as inherently parahuman. The tag "terrorist" immediately sets them apart from the rest of us. We in Europe are perhaps still more aware that the distinction between evil and us is less clear-cut and obvious than Mr Bruckheimer would like us to believe.
my $coat->get();
You know, I like a nice over-used meme being given endless new twists as much as anyone. But please... enough with the "Attempt no landings", 'kay? Thank you.
The FBI, above the law?! How can you say such a thing!! Why do you hate America?
(Actually the kerazy ex-es are the real reason I'm glad to be single. Man those women look good walking down the street and all, but get up close to them and you can hear them talking, and it all gets depressing.
Hmmmmm... I wonder why that may be?
Why not suggest that she tries mood stabilisers instead, then?
Hey, if they can retrieve a squeezed vacuum, can my love life have long to wait?? (Mom wants to know as she wants the basement back *rimshot*)
- DNA: 1951
- Human genome: same thing; the sequencing was completed in 2001.
- genetic medical treatments: not sure what you mean by that, but I'm not aware of any gene-based therapies in widespread use yet
- dark matter: OK, given, first conjectured to account for the bizarre result in the late 90s that showed the expansion of spacetime is accelerating.
- Hawking radiation: 1974.
- quantum? Depending which bit you're talking about, originates between the wars. Feynmann and Murray Gell-Mann described quantum chromodynamics in the 60s.
Nothing new under the sun, my friend.I'm glad that I gave my Mum (uncontaminated with years of learning Windows) a Linux box, and that both my grilf and father have independently, and without any prompting from me, asked if I can fix their machines the same way (one's on Vista on a budget laptop - yes, I did warn her - the other's on XP "media centre edition". (It's got no TV tuner, surround sound, IR or anything else (even a big HD) that lends the machine to being a media centre, so I guess Dell must have wanted to puff the numbers for Unca Billy.)
One of the young chaps who hang around our office looking "cool" tried to interest me in his music, which is stuff like Sabrepulse and :( colon open bracket. The Sabrepulse stuff is all up for free download from his site. If you can listen to "Storm Raid Battle" or "|xxx is dead" and not have your jaw hanging open in amazement, well, you ain't no friend of mine. Absolutely fantastic stuff. The "Nintendokore" album's good as well.