Paranoid much? Just accept that your heroes are no such thing. They do what they do, "for the lulz". There is no higher purpose. No false flag. They just enjoy making other people miserable and laughing at their misfortune.
I saw something online a month ago or so. Apparently Anonymous responded to a bunch of dating site ads by lonely men, pretending to be interested women, and inviting them to a date at a predetermined place and time. They secretly filled the spot, hoping to live-stream the misery of these people as they realized no one was coming. Was that a false flag attack too?
These people are just bullies, getting off on the suffering of others.
And that's why we use republics. The voters are often ignorant of technical issues. They vote based on fears and emotion and ignorance. Mostly fear. By having them select representatives whom they can trust, we can filter out the bad decisions.
Fuck that. If they were altruistic, they'd be quietly alerting the site's owners of the vulnerabilities. Not posting the email addresses of porn accounts and trying to publicly humiliate thousands of people "for the lulz". They are sociopaths, getting off on causing others misery. They need to be locked up.
The OP is one of the anarchist morons who falsely accuse the government of declaring that any hacking is an act of war. I'm calling a spade a spade. Simple as that.
The main cause of our economic problems is the recession. As the economy improves, federal income will improve with it. If our tax rate had been held constant since the 90s, and if our GDP were back at normal levels, we'd be making about $5T this year. So actually, the problem is even less serious than I thought.
Also, those sources that you linked directly contradict your statements. According to them, Social Security will be fine until 2050, and the one on Medicare simply says that the cost will increase to about 6% of our GDP in the long run (10.7% without the ACA).
I know Fox has poisoned you. They tell you we're broke. We're not. They tell you SS and Medicare are on the verge of collapse. They're not. They tell you anyone who disagrees with you is a slave to the LIEberal media. I don't watch cable news at all.
They lie to you. For your own sake and that of those you love, turn off the TV.
The Ryan plan eliminates Medicare as we know it. Yes, some older people will be grandfathered in. And yes, it replaces it with a new system with the same name. But those don't change the fact that the system we know as Medicare would end under his proposal.
Furthermore, the official estimates are that his plan would only cover a small portion of health care costs, which means most seniors would be simply unable to afford care, which means they bankrupt their children and die miserable with guilt (or hide their illnesses and die in pain). And the figures Ryan uses to create his estimates are laughably optimistic, calling for the US to enter a sustained period of growth the likes of which the world hasn't seen since the Industrial Revolution.
Lots of generated power goes to waste. Our current grid is effectively "dumping massive amounts of power into a hole." The smart grid helps to reduce that waste.
We have plenty of wealth. This idea that we're broke is a right-wing lie to excuse robbing the poor and giving to the rich. If we repeal the Bush tax cuts and cut our military down to a reasonable size (say... not bigger than every other county in the world put together), we'll be back in the black in no time. Instead, we get demands to end Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security and Food Stamps, and use that money to give a record-breakingly large tax cut to the top 2%.
Yeah, God forbid our country actually do something with its wealth. We should all just sit around on our asses, living off the work of our grandfathers, while complaining that nothing ever gets done.
We decided to leave high-speed internet deployment to the private sector. How's that working out? Oh, look, $50 a month for speeds that would make Europeans laugh, and the ISPs are already looking into bandwidth caps on top because they don't want to bear the expense of laying more fiber.
No, more money for the general population means less money for the rich. If you double your employee's wages, unless he spends every last dime of the raise on your products, then you are getting less money for your company and yourself. Far better to take that money and invest it, so that you can make even more.
Objectively, the average inflation-adjusted income for the working class has gone down over the past three decades, while that of the wealthy has quadrupled.
You have been brainwashed by their lies. You are a useful idiot. But they don't care about you. They never will. You need to wake up to the poison that's been forced down your throat for years.
Walmart, and many other big retailers, will fire anyone who even mentions unionizing, and eat any associated costs. Such policies have reduced the unionized share of workers to all time lows, allowing the elite to pay lower and lower wages and keep more money for themselves. Over the past thirty years, the average inflation-adjusted income of the middle class has gone down, while that of the elite has more than quadrupled.
The wealthy are at war with the working class, and they are kicking our asses.
They said that if a state launches a massive cyberattack targeting key infrastructure, that can be considered an act of war. Then you stupid anarchist kiddies started screaming "All hacking is an act of WAR! The US is EVIL!".
Scale matters. Intent matters. Targets matter. Shooting someone is not an act of war. Sending an army to a foreign country to shoot millions of people is.
I know it's sub-optimal, but if you click the "Your Queue" link at the top, and then choose the "instant queue" tab, you can get your recently watched list.
Developers heard that tablets were popular, and decided that every interface in the world should be designed solely with tablets in mind. Just wait for the next version of Office to do away with the keyboard, and force users to input everything with mouse gestures and Swype.
I worked for weeks on this update! It is clearly superior to version n-1, and even though it lacks some of n-1's features, nobody was using them anyway. What, you say you were using those? Every day? Well, then, you're using my program wrong! Besides, the new features in version n more than make up for any inconvenience. You say that the new features don't work in your os/browser? Impossible, I tested this update for almost a whole day!
This is legitimately a bad change. In addition to hiding the movie's ratings, they also hide the title, which isn't always clear from the picture. And the pictures are so big that on smaller monitors you can only see three at a time. And there's no button to scroll within a genre - you have to hover your mouse near the edge, revealing one new movie every second or so. It takes *much* longer to find something to watch, and the only benefit is that the pictures are a bit bigger.
Or moles, warrants for access to server logs and wiretaps, and basically all the tools that are already used to track organized criminals. I know they like to bill themselves as these supernatural, everywhere-and-nowhere crusaders, but they're not. They're a bunch of losers and man-children who, until recently, didn't attract enough attention to be worth taking down. That may be changing.
Came to post exactly this. You don't turn down a multi-billion dollar offer if your goal is to get rich quick. I think some people in the media just want Groupon to turn out to be a big scam, because that's a more exciting story than "tech company makes money".
I think you're being unfair to the writer. "Finding the difference between two high-frequency wavelengths" is an accurate* description of a downconverter, which is a likely use for this device. And saying it's no different from a faster diode is like saying a GaAs transistor is just like a faster vacuum tube.
* Okay, technically, using the word "wavelength" to describe the signals is a bit...off. But it's close enough.
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Since I'm pretty sure they're talking about the PSN hack, it looks like an age is about two months.
These things just don't take the time they used to.
Paranoid much? Just accept that your heroes are no such thing. They do what they do, "for the lulz". There is no higher purpose. No false flag. They just enjoy making other people miserable and laughing at their misfortune.
I saw something online a month ago or so. Apparently Anonymous responded to a bunch of dating site ads by lonely men, pretending to be interested women, and inviting them to a date at a predetermined place and time. They secretly filled the spot, hoping to live-stream the misery of these people as they realized no one was coming. Was that a false flag attack too?
These people are just bullies, getting off on the suffering of others.
And that's why we use republics. The voters are often ignorant of technical issues. They vote based on fears and emotion and ignorance. Mostly fear. By having them select representatives whom they can trust, we can filter out the bad decisions.
Fuck that. If they were altruistic, they'd be quietly alerting the site's owners of the vulnerabilities. Not posting the email addresses of porn accounts and trying to publicly humiliate thousands of people "for the lulz". They are sociopaths, getting off on causing others misery. They need to be locked up.
I don't know what you're rambling about.
The OP is one of the anarchist morons who falsely accuse the government of declaring that any hacking is an act of war. I'm calling a spade a spade. Simple as that.
At least the summary doesn't suggest we pay for the smart grid in bitcoin.
The main cause of our economic problems is the recession. As the economy improves, federal income will improve with it. If our tax rate had been held constant since the 90s, and if our GDP were back at normal levels, we'd be making about $5T this year. So actually, the problem is even less serious than I thought.
Also, those sources that you linked directly contradict your statements. According to them, Social Security will be fine until 2050, and the one on Medicare simply says that the cost will increase to about 6% of our GDP in the long run (10.7% without the ACA).
I know Fox has poisoned you. They tell you we're broke. We're not. They tell you SS and Medicare are on the verge of collapse. They're not. They tell you anyone who disagrees with you is a slave to the LIEberal media. I don't watch cable news at all.
They lie to you. For your own sake and that of those you love, turn off the TV.
The Ryan plan eliminates Medicare as we know it. Yes, some older people will be grandfathered in. And yes, it replaces it with a new system with the same name. But those don't change the fact that the system we know as Medicare would end under his proposal.
Furthermore, the official estimates are that his plan would only cover a small portion of health care costs, which means most seniors would be simply unable to afford care, which means they bankrupt their children and die miserable with guilt (or hide their illnesses and die in pain). And the figures Ryan uses to create his estimates are laughably optimistic, calling for the US to enter a sustained period of growth the likes of which the world hasn't seen since the Industrial Revolution.
It was Carter who put them up, and Reagan who took them down.
Lots of generated power goes to waste. Our current grid is effectively "dumping massive amounts of power into a hole." The smart grid helps to reduce that waste.
We have plenty of wealth. This idea that we're broke is a right-wing lie to excuse robbing the poor and giving to the rich. If we repeal the Bush tax cuts and cut our military down to a reasonable size (say... not bigger than every other county in the world put together), we'll be back in the black in no time. Instead, we get demands to end Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security and Food Stamps, and use that money to give a record-breakingly large tax cut to the top 2%.
Yeah, God forbid our country actually do something with its wealth. We should all just sit around on our asses, living off the work of our grandfathers, while complaining that nothing ever gets done.
We decided to leave high-speed internet deployment to the private sector. How's that working out? Oh, look, $50 a month for speeds that would make Europeans laugh, and the ISPs are already looking into bandwidth caps on top because they don't want to bear the expense of laying more fiber.
No, more money for the general population means less money for the rich. If you double your employee's wages, unless he spends every last dime of the raise on your products, then you are getting less money for your company and yourself. Far better to take that money and invest it, so that you can make even more.
Objectively, the average inflation-adjusted income for the working class has gone down over the past three decades, while that of the wealthy has quadrupled.
You have been brainwashed by their lies. You are a useful idiot. But they don't care about you. They never will. You need to wake up to the poison that's been forced down your throat for years.
Walmart, and many other big retailers, will fire anyone who even mentions unionizing, and eat any associated costs. Such policies have reduced the unionized share of workers to all time lows, allowing the elite to pay lower and lower wages and keep more money for themselves. Over the past thirty years, the average inflation-adjusted income of the middle class has gone down, while that of the elite has more than quadrupled.
The wealthy are at war with the working class, and they are kicking our asses.
That just means that your current employer is screwing you. Your response should be to try to get more money, not to demand that your peers make less.
That's exactly what they're doing, only they're doing it as a group.
They said that if a state launches a massive cyberattack targeting key infrastructure, that can be considered an act of war. Then you stupid anarchist kiddies started screaming "All hacking is an act of WAR! The US is EVIL!".
Scale matters. Intent matters. Targets matter. Shooting someone is not an act of war. Sending an army to a foreign country to shoot millions of people is.
I know it's sub-optimal, but if you click the "Your Queue" link at the top, and then choose the "instant queue" tab, you can get your recently watched list.
Developers heard that tablets were popular, and decided that every interface in the world should be designed solely with tablets in mind. Just wait for the next version of Office to do away with the keyboard, and force users to input everything with mouse gestures and Swype.
I worked for weeks on this update! It is clearly superior to version n-1, and even though it lacks some of n-1's features, nobody was using them anyway. What, you say you were using those? Every day? Well, then, you're using my program wrong! Besides, the new features in version n more than make up for any inconvenience. You say that the new features don't work in your os/browser? Impossible, I tested this update for almost a whole day!
This is legitimately a bad change. In addition to hiding the movie's ratings, they also hide the title, which isn't always clear from the picture. And the pictures are so big that on smaller monitors you can only see three at a time. And there's no button to scroll within a genre - you have to hover your mouse near the edge, revealing one new movie every second or so. It takes *much* longer to find something to watch, and the only benefit is that the pictures are a bit bigger.
Or moles, warrants for access to server logs and wiretaps, and basically all the tools that are already used to track organized criminals. I know they like to bill themselves as these supernatural, everywhere-and-nowhere crusaders, but they're not. They're a bunch of losers and man-children who, until recently, didn't attract enough attention to be worth taking down. That may be changing.
If he can keep even 1% of $6 billion, he's set for life. Why risk a sure thing? Does greed really make people that stupid?
Came to post exactly this. You don't turn down a multi-billion dollar offer if your goal is to get rich quick. I think some people in the media just want Groupon to turn out to be a big scam, because that's a more exciting story than "tech company makes money".
I think you're being unfair to the writer. "Finding the difference between two high-frequency wavelengths" is an accurate* description of a downconverter, which is a likely use for this device. And saying it's no different from a faster diode is like saying a GaAs transistor is just like a faster vacuum tube.
* Okay, technically, using the word "wavelength" to describe the signals is a bit ...off. But it's close enough.