How much history do you know, regarding Somalia? What do you know of the people?
You MIGHT compare them with the America's Apache. If you even know anything about the Apache. The thing they have in common is, they are superb fighters, and have been for a long time, for basically the same reasons. They live in a hostile, barren land, and they are surrounded by peoples who have been trying to kill them off for thousands of years. Their history demanded that they fight or die, so they fought.
The major difference between the Somali and the Apache is that the Apache were more agrarian, and the Somali were nomads. Given a few years of peace, the Apache would settle in an area and farm, but the Somali never saw much point in settling, or in government, or much of anything the civilized world values.
So - enter the Brits during colonialization. They have an unruly, undisciplined, ungovernable people on their hands, who they are attempting to govern. And, they cannot govern. The Brits tagged a lot of peoples throughout the world as "savages" - and the tag fit the Somalis better than it fit any other. They had no government, didn't understand government, and wanted nothing to do with it. But, they WERE superb fighters! The Somalis handed the Brit's asses to them - repeatedly. The Brits left in disgust, and things are basically unchanged since then.
The Somalis are an unruly, undisciplined, ungovernable people who refuse to acknowledge ANY government.
If you even begin to understand all of that - how do you propose to solve any "socil/political" needs of these people?
I have some ideas that might work, but none of them are pretty, none of them socially acceptable, and certainly not politically correct. And, in view of Native American history, I don't even like my own ideas.
It's kind of funny, in a way. I imagine them breeding a truly charismatic leader, like a Genghis Khan, who unites them and leads them across Africa, raping and pillaging everywhere they go. The people are somewhat like the Khan's people were, after all - nomads who recognize only the law of "Might is right".
Correct. I live in a "dry county". Driving across county or state lines is an invitation for the cops to pull you over for a search. Then you have the hassle of explaining to them that you have a legal right NOT to be searched, they threaten to call in a K-9 dog, sometimes they are serious about the dog, sometimes not - but whatever, it wastes an honest citizen's time.
Arkansas had a drive going a few years back to change all the dry counties to wet, with the rationale that forcing people to drive 15 or 50 or more miles to buy their booze is an invitation to drive drunk on the way home. I guess that was pre-9/11 - today governments in general are more intent on stripping people of rights.
Ditto. No apps, no invites, no surveys, I ignore those stupid "Someone answered a question about you" yada yada yada. Half my personal data is false, the other half misleading. And, I still don't really expect privacy. Like yourself, I'm sure Facebook has sold everything that's on my page, and knows who I am based on the people I know. Phhht.
You can use your own search terms - or, you can just read the news headlines from most of the major news outlets. It ain't about Apple. It's about citizen's right to privacy.
You can use your own search terms - or, you can just read the news headlines from most of the major news outlets. It ain't about Apple. It's about citizen's right to privacy.
Perhaps you haven't kept up with recent developments in America. Hognoxious already addressed Europe, so I won't even go there. White people ain't reproducing. I don't know, maybe they've spent all their energy by conquering the new world or something. Or, maybe they've "evolved" into a dead end of gayness. I don't have the answers, but white people ain't keeping up with the Basketball Joneses, or with Julio either. The fact is, the white population has stayed pretty stable, and almost all population growth in recent years has been Mexican/hispanic/latin American. Oh - the black guys are doing alright, still growing their population, but not as wildly as in previous generations.
Oh yeah - have you noticed Asia? One child per couple? That's not even zero populaton growth, that is negative population growth.
In short, the only populations that are still growing exponentially today, are those populations that follow a religious mandate to "be fruitful and multiply". And, that is one of the few arguments against religion that really make sense to me!
I had one Foxconn - never again. MSI I might be persuaded to use again, but not likely. I'll stick with better name brands, such as ASUS, or Gigabyte. Oh - I have an Abit that was produced for the original AMD Athlon XP CPU's. It still runs great, I can't pry the wife away from it.
It simply doesn't matter to me what the cheap motherboards support, because I'm not buying them. My order of priority when building or buying a comuter puts the CPU at the top, and the mainboard second, the GPU third. Load the thing with good memory, then I might start cheaping out with a bargain brand CD-DVD or a budget quality case (assuming adequate ventilation).
Something tells me that the people who generally use Foxconn and the like don't give a small damn about Coreboot or any other developments in the computer world. If it connects to sluttybitch dot com and plays the media found there, then it's a good computer - for them.
You, Sir, are thinking. I like that. Let me answer your first paragraph first:
While I will ultimately not be held liable for any fraudulent charges made on my card, there are hoops to jump through. For starters, I must realize that one or more charges on my card are fraudulent. The guy who gets a million card numbers, and only takes $1 from each card might actually net a million dollars, because many people will just skim over that irrelevant charge. Second, I must report the fraud, which will almost certainly result in my card being locked. Third, I must cooperate with the CC company if they ask my assistance in gathering any kind of information. And, finally, I must wait for a new card to be issued, activated, and funds transferred. So, the inconvenience of being compromised may be minor, or it may be considerable, depending on any number of things.
Second paragraph? I like. Personal data should NOT be saved on any server, anywhere, in a form that is useful to anyone. Even a simple hash would probably be sufficient, since it represents a unique relationship between two unique parties - you probably can't duplicate it again. I'd still prefer a complex salted hash - something much more complicated than Windows XP used. (saminside is just to damned easy, LOL)
Finally - those virtual numbers. I've read of them. The bank and credit card company that I use doesn't make that available to me, so I've never had the opportunity to use them. It sounds great to me! Personally, I would use it as an added layer of protection. First, I would put the money I expected to spend online onto my debit card, then use that debit card to create these one-time numbers. Let them try to go back to my real checking, or my real credit card from that!
Google helped me to figure out what you were talking about. No, I've never had an EQ account, so no Q keys, thank you very much. My sons and I did play Everquest a few times on our home computers though. Seems ages ago - ten years? Anyway - it seems that Google serves up more EQ hacks and scams than EQ sites with the search term "EQ Key". That's a pretty good indication that EQ is truly secure, right?
It's rather similar to a trojan. It communicates with the outside world without your explicit approval. I think they are using the term 'beacon' to imply that the communication is one-way, and they hope to imply that no personal data is transmitted, etc ad nauseum.
I, for one, am NOT pissed about the Sony breaches. (plural, of course) I think it's fucking hilarious. What's even funnier is, all the people who gave Sony their credit card info have probably used those same credit cards on Google, Amazon, one or more other online games, Ebay, Newegg, hell, they probably entered their credentials into eggdrop.com and iloveyou.net. The Sony breaches are just the beginning of the story! Consumers just don't learn . . .
Actually, Sony CLAIMS that hackers broke into their systems. They CLAIM to have found an incriminating file which they ATTRIBUTE TO Anonymous. Actually, none of us knows what the hell happened. Personally, I'm not believing much that Sony says. How's that saying go? "Pictures, or it didn't happen!"
LOL - alright, I knew that, but you win because I wasn't paying attention!
You've seen those tests, where they type sentences, paragraphs, even pages of stuff with a lot of letters missing or transposed. People read right through them, because they "fix" it in their own minds. Guage or gauge, I read it the same.
Obviously, your education was lacking in firearms training and the study of railroads. You should have put a couple years in the Navy. You would have learned that a riot gun is actually a 12 guage shotgun, and that a 5 inch 54 caliber gun's chamber is 54 inches long, and 5 inches diameter where it necks down into the barrel.
First "g" is hard, the "au" is a long "a" second "g" is soft. End it right there - the "e" is silent. I guess you could sound it out if I were to spell it G-A-J-E.
I want a damned pegasus, but I've never seen one. I want my own Abrams tank, too. And, a Landrover fitted as an APC. A person can "want" all they care to, that doesn't "entitle" them. And, that's what your post boils down to. "I should be ENTITLED to sit around playing with code, and be given the best that the world has to offer for my efforts!"
There's not much of a call to make. In general (but not in all cases) people who oppose the GPL think that they are special, and ONLY THEY should be permitted to work with their code. It's up to you - use GPL, or find some pretty BSD'd code to play with. Rules are, if you play in the GPL toybox, you have to share with all the other kids.
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How much history do you know, regarding Somalia? What do you know of the people?
You MIGHT compare them with the America's Apache. If you even know anything about the Apache. The thing they have in common is, they are superb fighters, and have been for a long time, for basically the same reasons. They live in a hostile, barren land, and they are surrounded by peoples who have been trying to kill them off for thousands of years. Their history demanded that they fight or die, so they fought.
The major difference between the Somali and the Apache is that the Apache were more agrarian, and the Somali were nomads. Given a few years of peace, the Apache would settle in an area and farm, but the Somali never saw much point in settling, or in government, or much of anything the civilized world values.
So - enter the Brits during colonialization. They have an unruly, undisciplined, ungovernable people on their hands, who they are attempting to govern. And, they cannot govern. The Brits tagged a lot of peoples throughout the world as "savages" - and the tag fit the Somalis better than it fit any other. They had no government, didn't understand government, and wanted nothing to do with it. But, they WERE superb fighters! The Somalis handed the Brit's asses to them - repeatedly. The Brits left in disgust, and things are basically unchanged since then.
The Somalis are an unruly, undisciplined, ungovernable people who refuse to acknowledge ANY government.
If you even begin to understand all of that - how do you propose to solve any "socil/political" needs of these people?
I have some ideas that might work, but none of them are pretty, none of them socially acceptable, and certainly not politically correct. And, in view of Native American history, I don't even like my own ideas.
It's kind of funny, in a way. I imagine them breeding a truly charismatic leader, like a Genghis Khan, who unites them and leads them across Africa, raping and pillaging everywhere they go. The people are somewhat like the Khan's people were, after all - nomads who recognize only the law of "Might is right".
"People will be able to opt out of receiving all but the presidential alerts."
And, the officer responds, "You damned well BETTER read/listen to the President's message! Have a good day, Citizen!"
I can't be the only person here who thought "Orwelle" when I read that quoted sentence.
Correct. I live in a "dry county". Driving across county or state lines is an invitation for the cops to pull you over for a search. Then you have the hassle of explaining to them that you have a legal right NOT to be searched, they threaten to call in a K-9 dog, sometimes they are serious about the dog, sometimes not - but whatever, it wastes an honest citizen's time.
Arkansas had a drive going a few years back to change all the dry counties to wet, with the rationale that forcing people to drive 15 or 50 or more miles to buy their booze is an invitation to drive drunk on the way home. I guess that was pre-9/11 - today governments in general are more intent on stripping people of rights.
"watch with compassion how the rest of humanity does something really stupid" because someday, you may need to do something really stupid!
Ditto. No apps, no invites, no surveys, I ignore those stupid "Someone answered a question about you" yada yada yada. Half my personal data is false, the other half misleading. And, I still don't really expect privacy. Like yourself, I'm sure Facebook has sold everything that's on my page, and knows who I am based on the people I know. Phhht.
Uh-huh - a social network. Much like a local area network. You'll have no objection if I browse my way through your local area network, will you?
At the risk of being redundant - I'll repost the same thing I posted above:
TFS really isn't worth a lot, and TFA seems to be an ego-centric Apple article. But, people who keep up with the news already knew that there were going to be more people than Apple's shills testifying at that hearing. First Google hit on my set of search terms: http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/10/congress-hears-from-apple-and-google-on-privacy/?partner=rss&emc=rss [nytimes.com]
You can use your own search terms - or, you can just read the news headlines from most of the major news outlets. It ain't about Apple. It's about citizen's right to privacy.
TFS really isn't worth a lot, and TFA seems to be an ego-centric Apple article. But, people who keep up with the news already knew that there were going to be more people than Apple's shills testifying at that hearing. First Google hit on my set of search terms: http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/10/congress-hears-from-apple-and-google-on-privacy/?partner=rss&emc=rss
You can use your own search terms - or, you can just read the news headlines from most of the major news outlets. It ain't about Apple. It's about citizen's right to privacy.
You might want to see a doctor about that. I'm not really a sissy, but that sounds PAINFUL!
Perhaps you haven't kept up with recent developments in America. Hognoxious already addressed Europe, so I won't even go there. White people ain't reproducing. I don't know, maybe they've spent all their energy by conquering the new world or something. Or, maybe they've "evolved" into a dead end of gayness. I don't have the answers, but white people ain't keeping up with the Basketball Joneses, or with Julio either. The fact is, the white population has stayed pretty stable, and almost all population growth in recent years has been Mexican/hispanic/latin American. Oh - the black guys are doing alright, still growing their population, but not as wildly as in previous generations.
Oh yeah - have you noticed Asia? One child per couple? That's not even zero populaton growth, that is negative population growth.
In short, the only populations that are still growing exponentially today, are those populations that follow a religious mandate to "be fruitful and multiply". And, that is one of the few arguments against religion that really make sense to me!
I had one Foxconn - never again. MSI I might be persuaded to use again, but not likely. I'll stick with better name brands, such as ASUS, or Gigabyte. Oh - I have an Abit that was produced for the original AMD Athlon XP CPU's. It still runs great, I can't pry the wife away from it.
It simply doesn't matter to me what the cheap motherboards support, because I'm not buying them. My order of priority when building or buying a comuter puts the CPU at the top, and the mainboard second, the GPU third. Load the thing with good memory, then I might start cheaping out with a bargain brand CD-DVD or a budget quality case (assuming adequate ventilation).
Something tells me that the people who generally use Foxconn and the like don't give a small damn about Coreboot or any other developments in the computer world. If it connects to sluttybitch dot com and plays the media found there, then it's a good computer - for them.
You, Sir, are thinking. I like that. Let me answer your first paragraph first:
While I will ultimately not be held liable for any fraudulent charges made on my card, there are hoops to jump through. For starters, I must realize that one or more charges on my card are fraudulent. The guy who gets a million card numbers, and only takes $1 from each card might actually net a million dollars, because many people will just skim over that irrelevant charge. Second, I must report the fraud, which will almost certainly result in my card being locked. Third, I must cooperate with the CC company if they ask my assistance in gathering any kind of information. And, finally, I must wait for a new card to be issued, activated, and funds transferred. So, the inconvenience of being compromised may be minor, or it may be considerable, depending on any number of things.
Second paragraph? I like. Personal data should NOT be saved on any server, anywhere, in a form that is useful to anyone. Even a simple hash would probably be sufficient, since it represents a unique relationship between two unique parties - you probably can't duplicate it again. I'd still prefer a complex salted hash - something much more complicated than Windows XP used. (saminside is just to damned easy, LOL)
Finally - those virtual numbers. I've read of them. The bank and credit card company that I use doesn't make that available to me, so I've never had the opportunity to use them. It sounds great to me! Personally, I would use it as an added layer of protection. First, I would put the money I expected to spend online onto my debit card, then use that debit card to create these one-time numbers. Let them try to go back to my real checking, or my real credit card from that!
Google helped me to figure out what you were talking about. No, I've never had an EQ account, so no Q keys, thank you very much. My sons and I did play Everquest a few times on our home computers though. Seems ages ago - ten years? Anyway - it seems that Google serves up more EQ hacks and scams than EQ sites with the search term "EQ Key". That's a pretty good indication that EQ is truly secure, right?
It's rather similar to a trojan. It communicates with the outside world without your explicit approval. I think they are using the term 'beacon' to imply that the communication is one-way, and they hope to imply that no personal data is transmitted, etc ad nauseum.
I, for one, am NOT pissed about the Sony breaches. (plural, of course) I think it's fucking hilarious. What's even funnier is, all the people who gave Sony their credit card info have probably used those same credit cards on Google, Amazon, one or more other online games, Ebay, Newegg, hell, they probably entered their credentials into eggdrop.com and iloveyou.net. The Sony breaches are just the beginning of the story! Consumers just don't learn . . .
Yes, backups. Help me out here, alright? Just where is /dev/null/? Do we keep it in the server room, or under the boss's desk, or where?
DON'T CLICK THE LINK!! It's nothing more than official Sony brainwashing!
Actually, Sony CLAIMS that hackers broke into their systems. They CLAIM to have found an incriminating file which they ATTRIBUTE TO Anonymous. Actually, none of us knows what the hell happened. Personally, I'm not believing much that Sony says. How's that saying go? "Pictures, or it didn't happen!"
LOL - alright, I knew that, but you win because I wasn't paying attention!
You've seen those tests, where they type sentences, paragraphs, even pages of stuff with a lot of letters missing or transposed. People read right through them, because they "fix" it in their own minds. Guage or gauge, I read it the same.
Obviously, your education was lacking in firearms training and the study of railroads. You should have put a couple years in the Navy. You would have learned that a riot gun is actually a 12 guage shotgun, and that a 5 inch 54 caliber gun's chamber is 54 inches long, and 5 inches diameter where it necks down into the barrel.
First "g" is hard, the "au" is a long "a" second "g" is soft. End it right there - the "e" is silent. I guess you could sound it out if I were to spell it G-A-J-E.
"want to make a living writing software"
I want a damned pegasus, but I've never seen one. I want my own Abrams tank, too. And, a Landrover fitted as an APC. A person can "want" all they care to, that doesn't "entitle" them. And, that's what your post boils down to. "I should be ENTITLED to sit around playing with code, and be given the best that the world has to offer for my efforts!"
There's not much of a call to make. In general (but not in all cases) people who oppose the GPL think that they are special, and ONLY THEY should be permitted to work with their code. It's up to you - use GPL, or find some pretty BSD'd code to play with. Rules are, if you play in the GPL toybox, you have to share with all the other kids.
"because by God the other guy has to be converted too."
You've put a couple years of metaphysics study into this post . . .
It's just another VPN proxy setup. THEY know who you are.
Did you mean I2P??? http://www.i2p2.de/
It too can be compromised by MIM. Otherwise, yes, I think it is superior to TOR. Downside is, not enough people use it to make it worthwhile.
virtual machine, dude. My virtual machine doesn't come to slashdot . . .