But whether or not Democracy falls is a small issue in comparison to the real worry, a potential future dystopia humanity faces as the machines rise and data compilation rise and a truely free press falls. Person's like Warrnen Buffet should be leaving their fortunes to the establishment of a global, non profit press outlet beholden to humanity, not governments and corporations. Voting machines? Hell we got bigger worries.
Obviously NOT because not even the poster RTFA - or at least did not comprehend what is says because the title of this post is 100% inaccurate. The court sided with the government, she will have to decrypt - the court refuses to hear any arguments until either a conviction or aquittal is made in the case.
Forget what I said. the f'ing/. site was f'ing up as usual and the link when I clicked it went to a completely different page which had nothing to do with the current link, it was about some woman, not a suspected child pornographer.
Obviously NOT because not even the poster RTFA - or at least did not comprehend what is says because the title of this post is 100% inaccurate. The court sided with the government, she will have to decrypt - the court refuses to hear any arguments until either a conviction or aquittal is made in the case.
Yeah - when will there be a time when everyone truley grasps the concept of privacy? If it is required that something remain a secret, it must never be written down or digitized. Period.
So what? My personal box is nowhere near tapped out, I've been doing this since I got my first broadband connection and originally on a single core.
And who gives a rats a** about the remote server resource useage?
Now not only do I have to worry about being seated next to a crying baby, but also if I'll get seated next to a jerk-off. Sounds like a great idea. (rolls eyes)
There's a local Indian eatery my wife and I enjoy from time to time. The service was always excellent until the time when our visit happened to coincide with a Groupon special. We walked in and noticed right away that the place as far busier than usual. Unfortunately that had a detrimental effect on the service, which stank and we were pissed off once we learned it was a Groupon night, as we paid full price for crap service and we are regulars.
Too bad for the restaurants in large cities which get sucked into trying Groupon. You place gets filled for one night with cheapskates, who then move on to the next Groupon deal restaurant the following night, and so on... You f'd over regular customers for a bunch of 20-somthing cheapskates - we have not returned and may not.
The whole point of coupons and specials is to get people to try your restaurant and then come back if the person likes it. However with Groupon I doubt very much this works as the only people using Groupon are the types that are eating at the next local Groupon special as all they care about is the deal.
Jenny McCarthy. Need I say more? Even Randi has taken issue with her espousing her uneducated opinion about child vaccinations in a huge public forum because of her celebrity. It may not yet be an epidemic, but the resurgence of whooping cough in the United States is in part due to her and her bubble-headed bleach-blond talking head. She has done a real disservice to mankind and has done nothing to try and reach those influenced by her words now that science has unequivocally refuted her witch doctor claims.
Sorry but in the modern world Celebrity trumps everything, even religion. That is part of the problem.
an increase in this type of malware in my occupation, I suppose it could be called a spike if +2 since January indicates a spike. Oh, part of my job is detecting and informing users of malware infections on a Class A network.
Those that benefit from suckling at the tits of the bloated pig called the military industrial complex have now found a new and fatter pig from which to suckle. Cyber War is a bunch of BS propaganda to feed to the mindless politicians who only care about lining their pockets with greenbacks. Another way to waste American taxpayer money and prevent it from being used for something that would actually help society, such as Universal Health Care.
Add Request Policy and NoScript to that list and cross domain pixel tracking will cease as well.
Of course there is always browser footprinting, so do not, for one minute, think that your activities can not be tracked regardless of what you do unless you also go about dynamically changing the data your browser sends with HTTP requests; but adding these simple helpers ups the game a little at least.
FF 5 on Linux with the latest version of Java works remarkably well, super fast, even in one of the worst Java applications known to man; Kronos Timekeeper. Usually the slowest application I have to use on a regular bases, FF 5 shows marked improvement for Linux.
True That Tempest. That and the fact that no video game since has been as challenging; period. Tempest rules them all!
Tempest, while it had basic graphics, was a fast kick-ass game, you had to be one bad mo'foing potentiometer master which super brain to hand reflexes to rule at that game.
Last week my Father sent me the debug output of a NoScript dump where Abe detected potential XSS while he was connecting to Wells Fargo Online Banking - the XSS was bogus but among the other messages was this disheartening line printed over and over again:
www.wellsfargo.com : server does not support RFC 5746, see CVE-2009-3555
Almost as lame as Citi's CC numbers in the URL string.
Of earning a degree in Comp Sci at a school where the technical staff laughs at the idea of Linux support for any reason. Any school worthy earning a Comp Sci degree not only supports Linux, but supports it at the Help Desk as well as encourages its use and offers a commercial version to students along with Windows and Mac OS.
The/. site has the same problem as the one outlined in this story; so yeah I'd pretty much have to agree with that sentiment after having let them know a long time ago and still nothing has been done about it.
Glad I don't pay for a subscription - hopefully at least there they require another token besides the one set when logging in in order to get to order and cc info; or better yet they don't save CC info.
Even so, I rarely log in to/. as in my opinion this is totally lame regardless, no site should function this way.
>> "the cloud" is better than owning infrastructure
Or as in my case, paying for it. I set up a Micro instance which suits me perfectly and now my hosting is FREE for a year, and in fact far better than the $11/month VPS service I was using.
Have yet to determine estimated costs once the instance is no longer free, however I'd guess far less than even $11/month - and for far greater resource allocation in terms of available memory and CPU.
I'd amend that to say two characteristics Corporate America is often not know for; as for America and Americans, they get the job done. From rescuing Chilean miners to landing on the moon, if American ingenuity is unencumbered, then let's rock and roll. I'm not saying America is perfect everyone, but the parent post is a ridiculous marginalization of a people and country unless it was meant in jest - hard to determine on the 'net.
To me the real danger in all of this is that the data compiled, and that is continued to be compiled, will now live on indefinitely. Data to which any entity can return to use for any reason at any time in the future.
People are so freaking selfish - all anyone is considering is themselves. What about future humans? Will future generations oppressed due to the data that lives in the machines curse our generation for being so complacent?
Bottom line is nobody knows, or could even begin to understand, the future consequences of being complacent on the current data mining issue.
Yep you got that right. Not only are they irrelevant, nobody in Hollywood has the slightest idea what makes a good film, they just throw money at a project that someone with a name gets behind in the hopes it makes money. Hollywood is pretty much Vegas, although the top brass would like everyone to think they are some kind of geniuses.
The company does not even list a Chief Information Security Office (CISO) listed among their upper level management. How can they claim to respect privacy and security when their senior level technology management expertise lies in making online maps?
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But whether or not Democracy falls is a small issue in comparison to the real worry, a potential future dystopia humanity faces as the machines rise and data compilation rise and a truely free press falls. Person's like Warrnen Buffet should be leaving their fortunes to the establishment of a global, non profit press outlet beholden to humanity, not governments and corporations. Voting machines? Hell we got bigger worries.
Obviously NOT because not even the poster RTFA - or at least did not comprehend what is says because the title of this post is 100% inaccurate. The court sided with the government, she will have to decrypt - the court refuses to hear any arguments until either a conviction or aquittal is made in the case.
Forget what I said. the f'ing /. site was f'ing up as usual and the link when I clicked it went to a completely different page which had nothing to do with the current link, it was about some woman, not a suspected child pornographer.
Obviously NOT because not even the poster RTFA - or at least did not comprehend what is says because the title of this post is 100% inaccurate. The court sided with the government, she will have to decrypt - the court refuses to hear any arguments until either a conviction or aquittal is made in the case.
Yeah - when will there be a time when everyone truley grasps the concept of privacy? If it is required that something remain a secret, it must never be written down or digitized. Period.
So what? My personal box is nowhere near tapped out, I've been doing this since I got my first broadband connection and originally on a single core. And who gives a rats a** about the remote server resource useage?
Walter, a warden, may be needed to guard Alice and Bob in some respect, depending on the protocol being discussed.
Why is it that prominent security researchers have names like Moxie, Trevor and Tavis and not Bob, Alice or Walter?
Now not only do I have to worry about being seated next to a crying baby, but also if I'll get seated next to a jerk-off. Sounds like a great idea. (rolls eyes)
There's a local Indian eatery my wife and I enjoy from time to time. The service was always excellent until the time when our visit happened to coincide with a Groupon special. We walked in and noticed right away that the place as far busier than usual. Unfortunately that had a detrimental effect on the service, which stank and we were pissed off once we learned it was a Groupon night, as we paid full price for crap service and we are regulars.
Too bad for the restaurants in large cities which get sucked into trying Groupon. You place gets filled for one night with cheapskates, who then move on to the next Groupon deal restaurant the following night, and so on... You f'd over regular customers for a bunch of 20-somthing cheapskates - we have not returned and may not.
The whole point of coupons and specials is to get people to try your restaurant and then come back if the person likes it. However with Groupon I doubt very much this works as the only people using Groupon are the types that are eating at the next local Groupon special as all they care about is the deal.
No it's not like America - it is like doing business in every country on the globe; period.
Jenny McCarthy. Need I say more? Even Randi has taken issue with her espousing her uneducated opinion about child vaccinations in a huge public forum because of her celebrity. It may not yet be an epidemic, but the resurgence of whooping cough in the United States is in part due to her and her bubble-headed bleach-blond talking head. She has done a real disservice to mankind and has done nothing to try and reach those influenced by her words now that science has unequivocally refuted her witch doctor claims.
Sorry but in the modern world Celebrity trumps everything, even religion. That is part of the problem.
an increase in this type of malware in my occupation, I suppose it could be called a spike if +2 since January indicates a spike. Oh, part of my job is detecting and informing users of malware infections on a Class A network.
Those that benefit from suckling at the tits of the bloated pig called the military industrial complex have now found a new and fatter pig from which to suckle. Cyber War is a bunch of BS propaganda to feed to the mindless politicians who only care about lining their pockets with greenbacks. Another way to waste American taxpayer money and prevent it from being used for something that would actually help society, such as Universal Health Care.
Add Request Policy and NoScript to that list and cross domain pixel tracking will cease as well.
Of course there is always browser footprinting, so do not, for one minute, think that your activities can not be tracked regardless of what you do unless you also go about dynamically changing the data your browser sends with HTTP requests; but adding these simple helpers ups the game a little at least.
FF 5 on Linux with the latest version of Java works remarkably well, super fast, even in one of the worst Java applications known to man; Kronos Timekeeper. Usually the slowest application I have to use on a regular bases, FF 5 shows marked improvement for Linux.
True That Tempest. That and the fact that no video game since has been as challenging; period. Tempest rules them all!
Tempest, while it had basic graphics, was a fast kick-ass game, you had to be one bad mo'foing potentiometer master which super brain to hand reflexes to rule at that game.
Last week my Father sent me the debug output of a NoScript dump where Abe detected potential XSS while he was connecting to Wells Fargo Online Banking - the XSS was bogus but among the other messages was this disheartening line printed over and over again:
www.wellsfargo.com : server does not support RFC 5746, see CVE-2009-3555
Almost as lame as Citi's CC numbers in the URL string.
Of earning a degree in Comp Sci at a school where the technical staff laughs at the idea of Linux support for any reason. Any school worthy earning a Comp Sci degree not only supports Linux, but supports it at the Help Desk as well as encourages its use and offers a commercial version to students along with Windows and Mac OS.
The /. site has the same problem as the one outlined in this story; so yeah I'd pretty much have to agree with that sentiment after having let them know a long time ago and still nothing has been done about it.
/. as in my opinion this is totally lame regardless, no site should function this way.
Glad I don't pay for a subscription - hopefully at least there they require another token besides the one set when logging in in order to get to order and cc info; or better yet they don't save CC info.
Even so, I rarely log in to
>> "the cloud" is better than owning infrastructure
Or as in my case, paying for it. I set up a Micro instance which suits me perfectly and now my hosting is FREE for a year, and in fact far better than the $11/month VPS service I was using.
Have yet to determine estimated costs once the instance is no longer free, however I'd guess far less than even $11/month - and for far greater resource allocation in terms of available memory and CPU.
I'd amend that to say two characteristics Corporate America is often not know for; as for America and Americans, they get the job done. From rescuing Chilean miners to landing on the moon, if American ingenuity is unencumbered, then let's rock and roll. I'm not saying America is perfect everyone, but the parent post is a ridiculous marginalization of a people and country unless it was meant in jest - hard to determine on the 'net.
To me the real danger in all of this is that the data compiled, and that is continued to be compiled, will now live on indefinitely. Data to which any entity can return to use for any reason at any time in the future.
People are so freaking selfish - all anyone is considering is themselves. What about future humans? Will future generations oppressed due to the data that lives in the machines curse our generation for being so complacent?
Bottom line is nobody knows, or could even begin to understand, the future consequences of being complacent on the current data mining issue.
Off topic but please don't click on the link to Dropbox in the post above - it will make money for the spammer who posted it.
Yep you got that right. Not only are they irrelevant, nobody in Hollywood has the slightest idea what makes a good film, they just throw money at a project that someone with a name gets behind in the hopes it makes money. Hollywood is pretty much Vegas, although the top brass would like everyone to think they are some kind of geniuses.
The company does not even list a Chief Information Security Office (CISO) listed among their upper level management. How can they claim to respect privacy and security when their senior level technology management expertise lies in making online maps?