celebrate Microsoft's initiative and commitment to making this world a better place. I will write a personal letter to whoever made this decision if I can find out who saying the same.
I, for one, think this idea sounds like one of those "sounded good at the time" things that happen when to drunken executives meet at a cocktail party. "let's leverage our synergies in marketing and social networking to make a web 2.0 customer driven blah blah blah."
From the drug war to unconstitutional searches inside our border by border agents to the President's body guards clearing away protesters they don't want on TV to "free speech" zones there are so many, many unconstitutional actions by police that to say it's a straw man is only to expose yourself as ignorant. No they're not "secret police" but with judge signed gag orders, no knock warrants based on anonymous tips, de facto punishment by rapings and beatings, and so forth the oppressometer is getting damned high these days and none of it is blessed by the constitution
I'm more worried about operators trusting hackable equipment to give them good data. What is it using? thermal? movement? shapes? colors? Whatever it is a robot's ability to "see" as in detect patterns in what it's looking at is far, far less advanced than what the human brain can detect. I dearly hope these cameras are being monitored on a 1 person/1 camera basis.
Here's an illegal checkpoint based on that law. here (warning: pdf) is a whole slew of them. This article tells of one specific victim. So does this one. Here's a dragnet for you folks in the UK. This case is the one where they stretched it to include all mail sent anywhere in America. Butwait! There's more!
While not specific to the case of searches inside borders based on these laws you may find this link enlightening, it's what our congresscritters are reading about these things.
Warrentless stops and searches inside our borders are being done and it needs to stop.
I'm not talking about the cost of losing a root server, I'm refuting the claim that the internet can go down without significant cost. The "or any server" part.
Then think more rationally. What is the cost of a missed email? How about a thousand of them? If one non-spam email in 10,000 contains an urgent piece of information what's the cost of missing an hour's worth? How about purchases? What if every internet based store, currency trading mechanism, bond exchange and commodity exchange lost an hour's income? How much the cost of 1 billion missed "I know you're there and I support you" connections between friends? How much the cost of 1,000 drivers that can't contact a tow truck, 100,000 telecommuters that can't sign in to work, 1,000,000 phone calls that don't happen, and 10,000,000 attempts to do some bit of research that fail? A million businesses that can't get int touch with a million others?
Most of us lived at least a large part of our lives without any root servers - or any servers at all. It's not the end of the world if DNS goes down. It will be ok, I promise.
You are an idiot.
At one time it wouldn't have been a disaster for DNS to go down. Now we have everything from business to business transactions to stock trading to government bonds to consumer purchases being done online. We have hospitals depending on the internet to get their plasma on time. We have a billion people using social networks for hours. We have farmers using the internet to check the weather, militaries using the internet to transmit vital intelligence, and kids using the internet to call home and say they'll be late.
From the small to the great the world is online now and even an hour's outage of the internet would be a disaster comparable in economic and social cost to the complete destruction of a small city somewhere in the world.
Would it be feasible to take a current simple game like Pacman, write a driver to check it for proper functionality on an x86 CPU, spawn thousands of them in minor variations, and use a genetic algorithm to keep the smallest?
what's fake malware? Is it a program that puts "you have been hacked" on windows desktops? Does it require similar permissions as regular malware? Will it trip virus scanners and automated lockdowns?
I've seen the religion aspect criticized for mechanics reasons. It was said that religion didn't have enough of an effect on strategy and that it could be ignored completely.
It was profitable but not as profitable as they wanted so they moved their money into offshore accounts so they wouldn't have to pay back their debts.
Tomorrow's stories: Company X buys blockbuster assets for 20 cents on the dollar, fires half the employees. Former blockbuster executive gives millions to charity! Happening tomorrow but not in the news: Company X hires former Blockbuster executives; major stakeholders suddenly and unaccountably rich. Major wheeling and dealing between politicians, the IRS, and former Blockbuster executives. Hundreds of thousands of dollars in freezers all over the country.
Call me a foil hat wearing lunatic but I say at this point we've seen more than enoughevidence of closecooperation between the American government and America's large industries to call it a budding facism.
Consider: Pluralism has been steadily weakening as congress and the presidents sign law after law giving and allowing the president to take unprecedented power. The courts already lack any real ability to stop thistrend.
New laws have made everyone a criminal. Those against whom the government chooses to enforce these laws are being imprisoned and harassed. It's no longer possible to be a law abiding citizen in America -- only on the ruling powers' good side or not. Police all over the US have an "us against them" mindset that has led to countless abuses to the extent that a police uniform is no longer a comforting site even for those who obey the law. It's now illegal in several states to even record these abuses and Americans everywhere are shutting up and keeping their heads down.
If these dangerous trends are not stopped the US will be a fascist police state very soon.
The scurvy dog that would virus a wheelchair, artificial arm or yer leg helpers is the blackest, most evil bastard this world has seen. I personally would have the filthy animal executed that does this.
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celebrate Microsoft's initiative and commitment to making this world a better place. I will write a personal letter to whoever made this decision if I can find out who saying the same.
I, for one, think this idea sounds like one of those "sounded good at the time" things that happen when to drunken executives meet at a cocktail party. "let's leverage our synergies in marketing and social networking to make a web 2.0 customer driven blah blah blah."
From the drug war to unconstitutional searches inside our border by border agents to the President's body guards clearing away protesters they don't want on TV to "free speech" zones there are so many, many unconstitutional actions by police that to say it's a straw man is only to expose yourself as ignorant. No they're not "secret police" but with judge signed gag orders, no knock warrants based on anonymous tips, de facto punishment by rapings and beatings, and so forth the oppressometer is getting damned high these days and none of it is blessed by the constitution
I'm more worried about operators trusting hackable equipment to give them good data. What is it using? thermal? movement? shapes? colors? Whatever it is a robot's ability to "see" as in detect patterns in what it's looking at is far, far less advanced than what the human brain can detect. I dearly hope these cameras are being monitored on a 1 person/1 camera basis.
Here's an illegal checkpoint based on that law. here (warning: pdf) is a whole slew of them. This article tells of one specific victim. So does this one. Here's a dragnet for you folks in the UK. This case is the one where they stretched it to include all mail sent anywhere in America. But wait! There's more!
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While not specific to the case of searches inside borders based on these laws you may find this link enlightening, it's what our congresscritters are reading about these things.
Warrentless stops and searches inside our borders are being done and it needs to stop.
In a world where votes are counted in dollars changing laws is no longer up to the people.
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I'm not talking about the cost of losing a root server, I'm refuting the claim that the internet can go down without significant cost. The "or any server" part.
Then think more rationally. What is the cost of a missed email? How about a thousand of them? If one non-spam email in 10,000 contains an urgent piece of information what's the cost of missing an hour's worth? How about purchases? What if every internet based store, currency trading mechanism, bond exchange and commodity exchange lost an hour's income? How much the cost of 1 billion missed "I know you're there and I support you" connections between friends? How much the cost of 1,000 drivers that can't contact a tow truck, 100,000 telecommuters that can't sign in to work, 1,000,000 phone calls that don't happen, and 10,000,000 attempts to do some bit of research that fail? A million businesses that can't get int touch with a million others?
Most of us lived at least a large part of our lives without any root servers - or any servers at all. It's not the end of the world if DNS goes down. It will be ok, I promise.
You are an idiot.
At one time it wouldn't have been a disaster for DNS to go down. Now we have everything from business to business transactions to stock trading to government bonds to consumer purchases being done online. We have hospitals depending on the internet to get their plasma on time. We have a billion people using social networks for hours. We have farmers using the internet to check the weather, militaries using the internet to transmit vital intelligence, and kids using the internet to call home and say they'll be late.
From the small to the great the world is online now and even an hour's outage of the internet would be a disaster comparable in economic and social cost to the complete destruction of a small city somewhere in the world.
Isn't it possible to look at the number of missing bits and guess at them to recover everything but where the bits are missing?
If aliens do visit massive fluctuations in currencies and wealth will render said bet meaningless. It only makes sense to vote against.
You don't: a handful must be enough. Then you spawn thousands of children from that handful.
Today, a day that will live in infamy, I was beaten by a 1000 byte program.
Would it be feasible to take a current simple game like Pacman, write a driver to check it for proper functionality on an x86 CPU, spawn thousands of them in minor variations, and use a genetic algorithm to keep the smallest?
what's fake malware? Is it a program that puts "you have been hacked" on windows desktops? Does it require similar permissions as regular malware? Will it trip virus scanners and automated lockdowns?
The article changed after I posted this.
It says those protons were going about speed of sound. That doesn't sound right to me...
Tor is compromised by the US government. So go have fun on it but fon't get too cocky.
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I've seen the religion aspect criticized for mechanics reasons. It was said that religion didn't have enough of an effect on strategy and that it could be ignored completely.
It was profitable but not as profitable as they wanted so they moved their money into offshore accounts so they wouldn't have to pay back their debts.
Tomorrow's stories: Company X buys blockbuster assets for 20 cents on the dollar, fires half the employees. Former blockbuster executive gives millions to charity!
Happening tomorrow but not in the news: Company X hires former Blockbuster executives; major stakeholders suddenly and unaccountably rich. Major wheeling and dealing between politicians, the IRS, and former Blockbuster executives. Hundreds of thousands of dollars in freezers all over the country.
I suppose you have a more complete collection of the oral history of ancient Iran as told by the storytellers of their day?
Call me a foil hat wearing lunatic but I say at this point we've seen more than enough evidence of close cooperation between the American government and America's large industries to call it a budding facism.
Consider: Pluralism has been steadily weakening as congress and the presidents sign law after law giving and allowing the president to take unprecedented power. The courts already lack any real ability to stop this trend.
New laws have made everyone a criminal. Those against whom the government chooses to enforce these laws are being imprisoned and harassed. It's no longer possible to be a law abiding citizen in America -- only on the ruling powers' good side or not. Police all over the US have an "us against them" mindset that has led to countless abuses to the extent that a police uniform is no longer a comforting site even for those who obey the law. It's now illegal in several states to even record these abuses and Americans everywhere are shutting up and keeping their heads down.
If these dangerous trends are not stopped the US will be a fascist police state very soon.
tasty, tasty murder...
The scurvy dog that would virus a wheelchair, artificial arm or yer leg helpers is the blackest, most evil bastard this world has seen. I personally would have the filthy animal executed that does this.