Okay, from what I'm reading here, this sounds like a gross over-reaction and a lot of rich old people taking shit way, way, way too seriously -- over an apparent lead weight added to some doo-hicky mc-shippy thing which if I spent the next several hours orgasming over the idea of captaining an overly-expensive boat with no practical application other than being a giant penis floating through the waves, I might understand the function of.
Such as it is though, I'm a computer geek, and the only thing I understand is performance. And everything I've read is that the change was tiny, and would probably have less effect on the performance of the ship than whether one of the teammates ate at McDonald's and forgot to crap after. No, I'm perfectly serious -- it seems that all this hub-a-bub amounts to someone having nailed a few ounces of metal to some part of the ship and it would have next to no impact on the ship's performance. So from an engineering and sport performance perspective... it's a tempest in a teapot.
So why the angry rich people hating on Oracle? As far as I can tell, They're angry and running about calling it "cheating" over what appears to be a simple case of not understanding the horribly dense and overly-complicated rules, in a new ship class that just debuted this year.
It's like NASCAR finding out that someone used windex to clean the windshield instead of the pre-approved isopropyl alcohol mix and deciding it was cheating, that NASCAR's reputation was ruined, and the only way to fix it would be to put the driver and the entire pit team out for a good public flogging while the guy with the jet pack flies over head carrying an American flag hung upside down and a long banner saying "You assholes! You killed it for everyone."
Fucking rich people. If it were me, I'd say screw it, build a submarine, and go out there and play Jaws with their rich-ass ships, sinking all of them one by one while Ride of the Valkyries played from giant water-proof speakers... because if there's one thing I hate more than people taking themselves too seriously, it's taking themselves too seriously and being rich pompous bastards while doing it. -_-
Oracle... you heard it here first: Build a U-boat and go sink those rich asshats.
Scale. If Japanese radiation starts affecting Russian food safety or something, then you might go to the UN to let more monkeys in to fuck the football.
Scale? The radiation being released will be highly toxic for the next fifty years, and some of it will remain toxic for hundreds of years. Millions of gallons are leaking into the ocean each week, and each gallon contains enough radioactivity to kill you several times over. What's going on in Syria will kill a few hundred thousand now... what's going on in the ocean is going to wind up killing many millions slowly and over a long time frame.
And for the record, it is affecting Russian food safety. It's affecting every country's food safety: Many fish are migratory, and life in the ocean likes to move around. A lot. We're already finding radiation-poisoned fish washing up in Hawaii, South Korea, California, Alaska, and as the radiation plume spreads out, it's eventually going to circle the globe. The scientists originally thought the heavier metals and what-not that were the most poisonous leaking into the ocean would settle onto the ocean floor and wouldn't be a big problem. Those predictions aren't panning out though -- it's getting into the bottom of the food chain and it's working its way up. And poisons like this are more dangerous to complex life than simple life -- slower metabolisms means that toxins concentrate in larger animals.
Guess which animal is at the top of the food chain, and is most readily harmed by radiological toxicity? I'll give you a hint: It's not the cockroaches.
The promise by Mega not to store your keys is the only thing that users have, because if they are running Mega's encryption code client-side then there is nothing stopping Mega from getting your keys, or unencrypted data, or whatever else, other than their promise not to.
It is likely that this was an intentional design flaw, introduced at the behest of one or more government agencies (I didn't say which government, and you shouldn't assume!). You'd be surprised what threats of torture, destitution, or prison, can do -- especially to someone like kim dot com, who is used to a higher standard of living. You can't really threaten a poor person; Government long ago learned to forget that strategy and instead go after their family and/or lover. But a rich person? oooh, so very many juicy blackmail possibilities.
It's very easy to create encrypted and secure file storage / cloud storage. Most modern computers have a dedicated hardware AES implimentation that'll generate and store keys, and will do encryption/decryption on the fly. I believe there's even java methods out there to access these hardware functions. You can also 'lock' the key using your TPM so it cannot be accessed directly -- in effect, you simply say "Load key 0x0F and attach it to stream 0x01"... and it just craps out the decrypted data.
It goes without saying then, that the decision not to do this was not an accidental oversight.
I love how the lady kept trying to get this guys information even tho they supposedly couldnt help him. WE HAVENT BEEN KEEPING TRACK OF YOUR EMAILS BUT WE SURE WOULD LIKE TO.
Well yeah... it's like the guy that called the BATF to ask which assault rifle would be better to use for destroying his computer, which he was upset with. The agent dead panned with a reply of, "Well sir, that depends... how much have you had to drink?"
But I will admit... if someone rang me and wanted to restore deleted e-mails, and I was a law enforcement officer, I'd want to know what kind of e-mail could be so important it'd compel people to call me too. If nothing else, I'd want to investigate the guy just to make sure he really was just another harmless drunk, and not one of the perenially stupid people who buzz the police to complain about being ripped off by their drug dealer, or who gave money to a prostitute who then left without rendering service. Take enough phone calls from the general public, and you will have no faith left in humanity to speak of... at which point you just dutifully take down the information, be as polite as possible, and then file it under "Yet Another Probably Drunk Person, But Since It Could Be A Really Stupid Terrorist, Please Sign This Search Warrant" and move on to the next idiot caller.
As long as we're talking about courtesy... don't call them "old". While it is common knowledge that the definition of old is 10 years older than you are, referring to another person as 'old' is universally bad form. You can be old school. You can be older. But you can't be old.
Okay, that out of the way... if Gen Y really wants some respect, they can start by showing some. You are not better than the rest of us because you can ipad your interwebs. We made those things for you, so don't act like growing up with them has somehow made you smarter than everyone else. If anything, the general consensus is that it's making you dumber, but that's neither here nor there.
Every person wants to be recognized for their contributions. A few compliments, a please and thank you, and recognizing that others earned their bona fides, goes a long way towards getting yours. It's called emotional maturity -- get some, and a lot of doors will open up. Or sit there and rage in your impotence about how much better you are than the rest of us, and fail miserably. You're adults now. It's really your choice.
Clearly, the engineer who cooked this up has never had kids. Look, they're like prisoners -- they're bored, and have nothing better to do than spend hours trying to do what they're told they can't do, because doing what you can't do is really, really fun.
You could give it nine biometric sensors, make it out of solid neutronium, and mandate 40 character randomly generated passwords and an attachment to attach to your dick and take a urine sample... and kids will still giggle, smile, and then proceed to hack it, then destroy it, then flush the pieces down the toilet, then claim they don't know what happened.
Because that's how children roll.
There is no technology that can be a substitute for good parenting -- namely, you say "don't touch this" and if they touch it... you ground their bitch ass. Problem solved. And coincidentally... parental involvement is the only thing that DOES solve the problem.
Damn first pest denialists... this problem has been going on for a lot longer than now, and the fact that it's just being reported is stupid. Oh, correlation doesn't mean causation! Intarwebs! Car analogy! (collapses giggling)
How much are the secrets of going into a surprisingly steep decline worth these days?
Considering the expansive definition of what a "trade secret" is these days, it could be grandma's tuna cassarole recipe that the secretary shared. Afterall, maybe someone decided to make a restaurant based on it, and thus it was supposed to be a secret recipe and... you know, the recipe was actually a wiccan spell to summon the lesser demon of stupidity; Litigatus.
Journalistic shield laws are a terrible idea. The freedom to speak and publish is a right shared by everyone. There should not be a special group of government approved "journalists" that have special rights that are denied to other citizens.
That sound was the point going over your head. The government isn't establishing a special group of "government approved journalists". Journalistic shield laws allow anyone to publish with the option of keeping their source private. However, only people who regularly publish and have earned a reputation for honestly are likely to be taken seriously... and as a result, people who do regularly publish are greatest at risk for censure from the government.
J. Random Blogger doesn't have much to worry about if he says "a confidential source told me the NSA is spying on everyone." but the editor in chief of the Washington Post saying has quite a bit.
As for responsiblility, you're going to need rules for that too I'm afraid. When your untrained unlicensed driver runs over some pedestrian, and does not have enough money to pay for the pedestrian's health care, someone has to enforce that they have financial responsibility.
All too often, people like this beat their chest and rip grass up screaming about their rights... and secretly hope that nobody will notice their call for "right" is a call to avoid personal responsibility. There is no human right ever now, or in the past, that relieves one of their higher obligations to their own humanity. Part of that means accepting that we need to make social contracts, like licensure for driving, in order to ensure everyone's safety. Every right comes with its own responsibilities, just as all power comes with it as well. Disregard that, and you become a monster, a villain, a sociopath.
Driving isn't a right. You don't need a car to survive. You don't need it to be successful. It's a convenience, like a dish washer, or running water. People talked about human rights as far back as pre-greek times, and they didn't put in their treatise on the subject, "And Thou Shalt Preserve Thy Right To Locomote By Means Of Crushed And Fossilized Animal Remains."
People like this don't know the meaning of the word human right. They think it means "I get to do whatever I want." Human rights aren't for that; they're put there to ensure that greater evils do not take place, because several millenia of history tells us that if we don't accept that people need to be able to question authority, to defend themselves against it, to have equal partnership in the establishing of social contracts between themselves and those of other social classes... civilization doesn't happen.
Human rights, fundamentally, ensure that civilization happens... not that you get to drive 140 MPH in the fast lane. Perspective... some people need it.
The post is pretty bad without a link to the actual updates../ has fallen a bit.
It was bought out and is now a corporate tool for Dice. All the original editors have moved on. It's just a dead husk now.
Like Facebook soon will be; I'm advising all my friends to turn their profile pics all black and delete all personal photos and "likes", unsub from all groups, etc. Basically, gut your profile and delete all your past posts, etc. Just leave a stub.
From a human rights perspective driving is a right not a privilege.
Sweet! I'll drive around blindfolded in a tank during rush hour because driving is a right. Anyone got a problem with that? You can't take my license away because I pancaked a dozen school buses! I had a right!
A right is something you can excercise at any time. Driving is not something we want that for -- there are people who are old, blind, retarded, narcoleptic... this is why we license drivers. Now, very often, it seems the government wants to take away people's licenses for offenses that have nothing to do with the safe operation of a vehicle -- like child support, parking tickets, etc. That's not right, but it is not the same problem. Same with speeding -- there is no "right" to speed because speed kills. And I don't give a fuck if you want to throw yourself into a wall at 150 MPH, but I rather do mind if you hit my car at that speed. You wanna suicide? Fine by me. But don't make me part of your political statement.
The US government is all for fundamental freedoms, providing your use of them can be logged, queried at will and used against you later.
No, I'm afraid not. Let's go down the amendments one by one and see where we come out:
First amendment: Freedom of speech and the press. The United States has no Journalistic shield law. Basically, if a whistleblower drops of some incriminating government documents, publication can land you in jail. Failing to reveal your source? That's a one-way trip to Guantanamo. Then there's the designated Free Speech Cages, surrounded by police, cameras, and barbed wire, and usually located far away from a place where your protect might be visible. Failure to protest within the cage will and you in a different cage. Don't worry -- they pre-construct them for all major events at nearby warehouses.
The right to bear arms In New York and elsewhere... yeah, no. There are so many examples of the constant attempts to remove this or at least regulate it to the point it is effectively removed, I won't provide more examples. Go look them up yourself.
Not having soldiers quartered in your home Yeah... a guy was recently arrested, beaten, and dragged out of his house for refusing to allow the police entry, so they could pitch a tent and enact surveillance of one of his neighbors. The story has since vanished off the internet, and very few sites still have any information on it.
Unlawful search and seizure The Department of Homeland Security has granted itself the ability to declare arbitrary constitution-free zones, which cover approximately 80% of the US population -- as most of the population lives within 50 miles of one of the country's borders, and that's one of the areas covered.
I could go on, but I think you get the point: They're not for all fundamental freedoms... they just want them on paper, but not in reality. Subtle difference.
What is the patent involved here? Establishing a connection between two entities on an IP network? NAT traversal techniques? Usage of Interactive Connectivity Establishment protocols?
Better question: Who cares? The patent system is so hopelessly corrupt it might as well be "Company A wants to extort money from Company B"... and so, a patent is produced, that is vaguely worded and could possibly cover something vaguely related to what Company B does. And then it's elephant mating season, with its attendant judges, teams of lawyers, reporters, etc....
I gave up long ago trying to keep up with the news on these things -- is the patent valid? Isn't it? What legal process will happen now? Aww fuck it. You know what; Corporations are like children. They don't play well with others and really need their ass paddled to learn some discipline. Unfortunately, Uncle is drunk off his ass ranting about the war and not watching the kids...
Granted I make more then minimum wage but I was wasting a lot more too.
Fun fact: People making minimum wage don't have money to waste. Or invest. Or do anything except exist. I'm happy you were able to earn more than minimum wage and then lose it all on hookers and blow... and I think that also explains your lack of empathy for others quite well. Good day, sir.
he gene the researchers focused on is called mTOR and is
... That gene is no longer available. It was seized by the NSA and is being held in guantanamo bay for suspected ties to drug dealing and terrorism because it may somehow be related to the Tor privacy network.
What operatives? None of the people involved in this are working undercover, they're working in cubicles in office blocks in the US.
The people in Wall Street work in cubicles too. Nobody accused them of causing widespread destruction. In other news, the government would like to stop criminals from running botnets... because they hate competition.
FYI my dad WAS one of those veterans. Not a "former vet" as you said - there's nothing former about being a Vietnam vet.
That's nice. Here's a cookie. You're still taking your own personal experience and putting it above large studies being done that say you're wrong. This is a cognitive fallacy; And at this point, I don't think anything anyone can say is going to convince you otherwise. I suspect you're one of those people that would insist they aren't on fire right up until the moment they turn into a carbon scorch mark on the pavement, all because they are made mostly of water, so there!
Or maybe in this case a little personal responsibility? Like if you're a teen don't put them in your mouth to try and look cool? Decorate a wedding CAKE with them? Why would you put something that had warning labels all over it about ingestion IN or ON a piece of FOOD?
"Well if you put a warning label on it that makes it okay!" logic falls short in some cases. Like if I were to put bleach into colorful containers with pictures of clowns and unicorns on them and then on the bottom print "Warning: Keep out of reach of children."... Tell me, how many people would say my new brand of Spongebob Bleach With Unicorns and Rainbows packaging isn't asking for trouble?
my dad worked overtime scrubbing toilets while going to college. that shows his dedication to hard work and learning. he was the kind of guy you want on your team.
Admirable qualities, but the example is one of personal experience, not the larger truth most people out there are experiencing today. There are only a very few opportunities out there, a lottery of sorts. You can increase your chances through hard work, dedication, virtue -- but your chances of getting a winning ticket remain very low. The middle class is collapsing, and no amount of father-worship can change that.
Most Americans would choose unemployment before they would scrub toilets.
Perhaps that is because unemployment pays better. Right now, if I lost my job, I would earn more on unemployment than working full time at minimum wage. Whether this fits with your worldview of what is fair or not is largely irrelevant. I'm better off remaining unemployed and dedicating my energy to finding employment that pays better than unemployment. Many people are similarly situated.
About 15% of Americans don't work. They "can't" find a job, or "can't" work because they are "disabled", though they can still build themselves a new deck.
Many people are physically disabled but mentally intact -- I understand Stephen Hawking was one such person, and he made considerable contributions to the field of science. He had cerebral palsy however and would die in very short order without the assistance of others. There are others who suffer from schizophrenia, traumatic brain injury, etc., who are perfectly capable of building themselves a deck... but their reality and ability to relate to others is so limited or out of sync with yours and mine they cannot hope to maintain employment.
Your arrogance in assuming these things shows a remarkable lack of understanding of the realities others face. It shows contempt for those less fortunate than you, and it shows a lack of empathy and compassion that is often indicative of clinical narcissism or sociopathy.
So they sour around complaining that they're not lucky. Guess how often my dad the janitor couldn't find a job, no job at all?
Your dad is fortunate to be able to find work. I think if you left the house once and awhile and went out amongst the people who are on the streets, in the shelters, who come to church for the soup kitchen, have searched for work, long and hard. They have searched for any kind of work. But very often, they're mentally ill. Many, perhaps half of them, are former veterans. These are men and women who were considered physically fit enough to carry hundred pound sacks of equipment across the desert and unleash hell on our enemies... but having to shovel their friends remains into a bag, or watching a cluster bomb turn people into hamburger spray takes its toll. Many of the people you spit on aren't employable because they carried burdens far beyond that of your toilet-scrubbing father. And many of them could be employable if it wasn't for people like your toilet-scrubbing father's children.
You have a very hard choice to make.
No, it's not a hard choice to make. I choose to have compassion, and I know that it's the one thing that'll dig us all out of the mess we're in. We're in this together. The disabled veteran, the unemployed black woman, the new immigrant escaping the violence of their homeland -- they're part of my community. They're my people. And they deserve the help they need to get back on their feet and make a contribution.
I'm not a narcissistic bastard like you. I'm not here for just myself, and I don't talk about my virtues as though they're a license to mistreat and look down on others. I'm working a job right now earning $34 an hour. On the weekends, I volunteer to drive people who have AIDS to the grocery store, to doctor's visits, etc. I'm active with Planned Parenthood -- because I be
Many toys over the years with powerful magnets have been banned because, if swallowed, they can connect with each other in the intestine, cause blockages, tissue death, and ultimately kill the person. This is well-documented and people have died in the past. It's not a fictional or abstract problem. While buckyballs were marketed as an "adults-only toy", the fact is that many of them were in turn given to children, and the recall was voluntary -- based on evidence supporting this statement.
No harm was done that I have read.
So people have to die or be hurt before we take action? That is a morally questionable stance, at best.
No, the banks were not prosecuted, which makes this even more egregious.
It is no more or less ethical or moral that they were, or were not prosecuted. Prosecution is what comes after harm has occurred, not before, and not to prevent. Therefore, it is exactly as egregious as it would be if it were prosecuted, compared to if it were not.
He didn't make a mistake.
When you play chess, you either win, or you lose. If you lose, it's because you made a mistake. This isn't about whether he played the game well or not. This isn't about his own morals or ethics. He lost. Maybe he shouldn't have. Maybe he's in the right and the government is wrong. But he did lose.
Mistakes are not a cause for success or failure. They are not judgements of a person's character. Acknowledging them only means the acknowledgement that the intended result was not achieved. Thomas Edison made hundreds of mistakes before he created the first lightbulb. Failure is instructive. And progress is invariably filled with failure; But if we gave up after the first one, we would never accomplish very much at all.
I'm sorry that you don't understand this; Given the fact that so many cowards marked my post as 'overrated' because they disagreed with this, instead of admitting that my position was solid and defensible it seems a great many people don't. But I can't blame you, anymore than I blame them -- our society puts such pressure on people to succeed that the acknowledgment of a mistake, of a failure, is a cultural taboo.
The question this man needs to ask is... what did he learn? Going up against the government and losing is nothing to be ashamed of. Many of our greatest civil rights leaders have done so. If he's choosing to make a stand on business ethics, he should make it count for something more than simply crying foul that he didn't get the success he feel he's owed. His reaction suggests he has learned nothing from the experience, and thus, is a bad businessman. When he has figured out how to use this experience to make a meaningful contribution to his next business venture, then he will be marketable again. But right now, I wouldn't trust anything he says, or give him any of my money, because he has yet to learn a lesson from his failure.
This is the out of control Feds doing what they do best, punish people who are creative and trying to get ahead. It is about control.
Perhaps. But how many times have we, as hackers, geeks, and engineers, told someone who said something was impossible to get out of the way and let us have a crack at it? The government is simply another system to understand, program, adapt to, and eventually overcome. When you say "the government had it in for me!" -- whether it is true or not, you are letting them win. You are beaten. You have given in to despair and helplessness.
So yes, it is about control... but if you're unwilling to take responsibility for yourself, if you're unwilling to captain your own ship, it's a rather empty thing to say government control is wrong; It is better than what you are doing for yourself.
I rather like the idea of corporations being held responsible for releasing defective products that cause harm to others. I think most people would agree that this happens far too rarely. Were any banks prosecuted for their defective financial products that nearly destroyed the world economy a few years ago? Nope. A few low-level employees were selected to be slaughtered on the alter of public opinion, but the people truly responsible are still out there, reaping the rewards of our broken and disenfranchised middle class. How about the oil companies, responsible for countless ecological disasters, and whose fines often amounted to only a few days' wages?
This is not about whether we want the government going after corporations. We do. We really, really do. But we want them going after the big-time criminals, the people who represent the bulk of by-proxy harm of our society, not these small-time entrepreneurs who simply might not have known any better. This guy made a mistake. It hurt some people, and he should be held accountable. But I don't think it was malicious. I don't think it was reckless.
What the banks did, and what they're still doing right now, today, is. It's malicious, it's intentional, and it is with a callous disregard for the lives being destroyed by their actions. They're the financial equivalent of pouring cyanide into the water supply -- they're terrorists. And we're letting them go free, because they're too big to fail, and apparently too big to jail too.
So yeah, I support this action. But I also think it's like going after the ant problem in the kitchen while the house is on fire.
It's hardly 'throwing them into a meatgrinder'. Nobody seems to know why a degree in theoretical physics gives you the power to single handedly cut your way through alien swarms, military black-ops teams, and some of the most horrifying violations of OSHA guidelines ever built; but it does.
Maybe if you're old school. If you've been watching the latest Trek movies, you know that all a degree in theoretical physics causes is nakedness.
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Okay, from what I'm reading here, this sounds like a gross over-reaction and a lot of rich old people taking shit way, way, way too seriously -- over an apparent lead weight added to some doo-hicky mc-shippy thing which if I spent the next several hours orgasming over the idea of captaining an overly-expensive boat with no practical application other than being a giant penis floating through the waves, I might understand the function of.
Such as it is though, I'm a computer geek, and the only thing I understand is performance. And everything I've read is that the change was tiny, and would probably have less effect on the performance of the ship than whether one of the teammates ate at McDonald's and forgot to crap after. No, I'm perfectly serious -- it seems that all this hub-a-bub amounts to someone having nailed a few ounces of metal to some part of the ship and it would have next to no impact on the ship's performance. So from an engineering and sport performance perspective... it's a tempest in a teapot.
So why the angry rich people hating on Oracle? As far as I can tell, They're angry and running about calling it "cheating" over what appears to be a simple case of not understanding the horribly dense and overly-complicated rules, in a new ship class that just debuted this year.
It's like NASCAR finding out that someone used windex to clean the windshield instead of the pre-approved isopropyl alcohol mix and deciding it was cheating, that NASCAR's reputation was ruined, and the only way to fix it would be to put the driver and the entire pit team out for a good public flogging while the guy with the jet pack flies over head carrying an American flag hung upside down and a long banner saying "You assholes! You killed it for everyone."
Fucking rich people. If it were me, I'd say screw it, build a submarine, and go out there and play Jaws with their rich-ass ships, sinking all of them one by one while Ride of the Valkyries played from giant water-proof speakers... because if there's one thing I hate more than people taking themselves too seriously, it's taking themselves too seriously and being rich pompous bastards while doing it. -_-
Oracle... you heard it here first: Build a U-boat and go sink those rich asshats.
Scale. If Japanese radiation starts affecting Russian food safety or something, then you might go to the UN to let more monkeys in to fuck the football.
Scale? The radiation being released will be highly toxic for the next fifty years, and some of it will remain toxic for hundreds of years. Millions of gallons are leaking into the ocean each week, and each gallon contains enough radioactivity to kill you several times over. What's going on in Syria will kill a few hundred thousand now... what's going on in the ocean is going to wind up killing many millions slowly and over a long time frame.
And for the record, it is affecting Russian food safety. It's affecting every country's food safety: Many fish are migratory, and life in the ocean likes to move around. A lot. We're already finding radiation-poisoned fish washing up in Hawaii, South Korea, California, Alaska, and as the radiation plume spreads out, it's eventually going to circle the globe. The scientists originally thought the heavier metals and what-not that were the most poisonous leaking into the ocean would settle onto the ocean floor and wouldn't be a big problem. Those predictions aren't panning out though -- it's getting into the bottom of the food chain and it's working its way up. And poisons like this are more dangerous to complex life than simple life -- slower metabolisms means that toxins concentrate in larger animals.
Guess which animal is at the top of the food chain, and is most readily harmed by radiological toxicity? I'll give you a hint: It's not the cockroaches.
The promise by Mega not to store your keys is the only thing that users have, because if they are running Mega's encryption code client-side then there is nothing stopping Mega from getting your keys, or unencrypted data, or whatever else, other than their promise not to.
It is likely that this was an intentional design flaw, introduced at the behest of one or more government agencies (I didn't say which government, and you shouldn't assume!). You'd be surprised what threats of torture, destitution, or prison, can do -- especially to someone like kim dot com, who is used to a higher standard of living. You can't really threaten a poor person; Government long ago learned to forget that strategy and instead go after their family and/or lover. But a rich person? oooh, so very many juicy blackmail possibilities.
It's very easy to create encrypted and secure file storage / cloud storage. Most modern computers have a dedicated hardware AES implimentation that'll generate and store keys, and will do encryption/decryption on the fly. I believe there's even java methods out there to access these hardware functions. You can also 'lock' the key using your TPM so it cannot be accessed directly -- in effect, you simply say "Load key 0x0F and attach it to stream 0x01"... and it just craps out the decrypted data.
It goes without saying then, that the decision not to do this was not an accidental oversight.
I love how the lady kept trying to get this guys information even tho they supposedly couldnt help him. WE HAVENT BEEN KEEPING TRACK OF YOUR EMAILS BUT WE SURE WOULD LIKE TO.
Well yeah... it's like the guy that called the BATF to ask which assault rifle would be better to use for destroying his computer, which he was upset with. The agent dead panned with a reply of, "Well sir, that depends... how much have you had to drink?"
But I will admit... if someone rang me and wanted to restore deleted e-mails, and I was a law enforcement officer, I'd want to know what kind of e-mail could be so important it'd compel people to call me too. If nothing else, I'd want to investigate the guy just to make sure he really was just another harmless drunk, and not one of the perenially stupid people who buzz the police to complain about being ripped off by their drug dealer, or who gave money to a prostitute who then left without rendering service. Take enough phone calls from the general public, and you will have no faith left in humanity to speak of... at which point you just dutifully take down the information, be as polite as possible, and then file it under "Yet Another Probably Drunk Person, But Since It Could Be A Really Stupid Terrorist, Please Sign This Search Warrant" and move on to the next idiot caller.
As long as we're talking about courtesy... don't call them "old". While it is common knowledge that the definition of old is 10 years older than you are, referring to another person as 'old' is universally bad form. You can be old school. You can be older. But you can't be old.
Okay, that out of the way... if Gen Y really wants some respect, they can start by showing some. You are not better than the rest of us because you can ipad your interwebs. We made those things for you, so don't act like growing up with them has somehow made you smarter than everyone else. If anything, the general consensus is that it's making you dumber, but that's neither here nor there.
Every person wants to be recognized for their contributions. A few compliments, a please and thank you, and recognizing that others earned their bona fides, goes a long way towards getting yours. It's called emotional maturity -- get some, and a lot of doors will open up. Or sit there and rage in your impotence about how much better you are than the rest of us, and fail miserably. You're adults now. It's really your choice.
Clearly, the engineer who cooked this up has never had kids. Look, they're like prisoners -- they're bored, and have nothing better to do than spend hours trying to do what they're told they can't do, because doing what you can't do is really, really fun.
You could give it nine biometric sensors, make it out of solid neutronium, and mandate 40 character randomly generated passwords and an attachment to attach to your dick and take a urine sample... and kids will still giggle, smile, and then proceed to hack it, then destroy it, then flush the pieces down the toilet, then claim they don't know what happened.
Because that's how children roll.
There is no technology that can be a substitute for good parenting -- namely, you say "don't touch this" and if they touch it... you ground their bitch ass. Problem solved. And coincidentally... parental involvement is the only thing that DOES solve the problem.
First pest?
Damn first pest denialists... this problem has been going on for a lot longer than now, and the fact that it's just being reported is stupid. Oh, correlation doesn't mean causation! Intarwebs! Car analogy! (collapses giggling)
How much are the secrets of going into a surprisingly steep decline worth these days?
Considering the expansive definition of what a "trade secret" is these days, it could be grandma's tuna cassarole recipe that the secretary shared. Afterall, maybe someone decided to make a restaurant based on it, and thus it was supposed to be a secret recipe and... you know, the recipe was actually a wiccan spell to summon the lesser demon of stupidity; Litigatus.
Journalistic shield laws are a terrible idea. The freedom to speak and publish is a right shared by everyone. There should not be a special group of government approved "journalists" that have special rights that are denied to other citizens.
That sound was the point going over your head. The government isn't establishing a special group of "government approved journalists". Journalistic shield laws allow anyone to publish with the option of keeping their source private. However, only people who regularly publish and have earned a reputation for honestly are likely to be taken seriously... and as a result, people who do regularly publish are greatest at risk for censure from the government.
J. Random Blogger doesn't have much to worry about if he says "a confidential source told me the NSA is spying on everyone." but the editor in chief of the Washington Post saying has quite a bit.
As for responsiblility, you're going to need rules for that too I'm afraid. When your untrained unlicensed driver runs over some pedestrian, and does not have enough money to pay for the pedestrian's health care, someone has to enforce that they have financial responsibility.
All too often, people like this beat their chest and rip grass up screaming about their rights... and secretly hope that nobody will notice their call for "right" is a call to avoid personal responsibility. There is no human right ever now, or in the past, that relieves one of their higher obligations to their own humanity. Part of that means accepting that we need to make social contracts, like licensure for driving, in order to ensure everyone's safety. Every right comes with its own responsibilities, just as all power comes with it as well. Disregard that, and you become a monster, a villain, a sociopath.
Driving isn't a right. You don't need a car to survive. You don't need it to be successful. It's a convenience, like a dish washer, or running water. People talked about human rights as far back as pre-greek times, and they didn't put in their treatise on the subject, "And Thou Shalt Preserve Thy Right To Locomote By Means Of Crushed And Fossilized Animal Remains."
People like this don't know the meaning of the word human right. They think it means "I get to do whatever I want." Human rights aren't for that; they're put there to ensure that greater evils do not take place, because several millenia of history tells us that if we don't accept that people need to be able to question authority, to defend themselves against it, to have equal partnership in the establishing of social contracts between themselves and those of other social classes... civilization doesn't happen.
Human rights, fundamentally, ensure that civilization happens... not that you get to drive 140 MPH in the fast lane. Perspective... some people need it.
The post is pretty bad without a link to the actual updates. ./ has fallen a bit.
It was bought out and is now a corporate tool for Dice. All the original editors have moved on. It's just a dead husk now.
Like Facebook soon will be; I'm advising all my friends to turn their profile pics all black and delete all personal photos and "likes", unsub from all groups, etc. Basically, gut your profile and delete all your past posts, etc. Just leave a stub.
From a human rights perspective driving is a right not a privilege.
Sweet! I'll drive around blindfolded in a tank during rush hour because driving is a right. Anyone got a problem with that? You can't take my license away because I pancaked a dozen school buses! I had a right!
A right is something you can excercise at any time. Driving is not something we want that for -- there are people who are old, blind, retarded, narcoleptic... this is why we license drivers. Now, very often, it seems the government wants to take away people's licenses for offenses that have nothing to do with the safe operation of a vehicle -- like child support, parking tickets, etc. That's not right, but it is not the same problem. Same with speeding -- there is no "right" to speed because speed kills. And I don't give a fuck if you want to throw yourself into a wall at 150 MPH, but I rather do mind if you hit my car at that speed. You wanna suicide? Fine by me. But don't make me part of your political statement.
The US government is all for fundamental freedoms, providing your use of them can be logged, queried at will and used against you later.
No, I'm afraid not. Let's go down the amendments one by one and see where we come out:
First amendment: Freedom of speech and the press.
The United States has no Journalistic shield law. Basically, if a whistleblower drops of some incriminating government documents, publication can land you in jail. Failing to reveal your source? That's a one-way trip to Guantanamo. Then there's the designated Free Speech Cages, surrounded by police, cameras, and barbed wire, and usually located far away from a place where your protect might be visible. Failure to protest within the cage will and you in a different cage. Don't worry -- they pre-construct them for all major events at nearby warehouses.
The right to bear arms
In New York and elsewhere... yeah, no. There are so many examples of the constant attempts to remove this or at least regulate it to the point it is effectively removed, I won't provide more examples. Go look them up yourself.
Not having soldiers quartered in your home
Yeah... a guy was recently arrested, beaten, and dragged out of his house for refusing to allow the police entry, so they could pitch a tent and enact surveillance of one of his neighbors. The story has since vanished off the internet, and very few sites still have any information on it.
Unlawful search and seizure
The Department of Homeland Security has granted itself the ability to declare arbitrary constitution-free zones, which cover approximately 80% of the US population -- as most of the population lives within 50 miles of one of the country's borders, and that's one of the areas covered.
Right not to self-incriminate ...
unless of course, the FBI thinks you might have child porn.
I could go on, but I think you get the point: They're not for all fundamental freedoms... they just want them on paper, but not in reality. Subtle difference.
What is the patent involved here? Establishing a connection between two entities on an IP network? NAT traversal techniques? Usage of Interactive Connectivity Establishment protocols?
Better question: Who cares? The patent system is so hopelessly corrupt it might as well be "Company A wants to extort money from Company B"... and so, a patent is produced, that is vaguely worded and could possibly cover something vaguely related to what Company B does. And then it's elephant mating season, with its attendant judges, teams of lawyers, reporters, etc. ...
I gave up long ago trying to keep up with the news on these things -- is the patent valid? Isn't it? What legal process will happen now? Aww fuck it. You know what; Corporations are like children. They don't play well with others and really need their ass paddled to learn some discipline. Unfortunately, Uncle is drunk off his ass ranting about the war and not watching the kids...
Granted I make more then minimum wage but I was wasting a lot more too.
Fun fact: People making minimum wage don't have money to waste. Or invest. Or do anything except exist. I'm happy you were able to earn more than minimum wage and then lose it all on hookers and blow... and I think that also explains your lack of empathy for others quite well. Good day, sir.
he gene the researchers focused on is called mTOR and is
... That gene is no longer available. It was seized by the NSA and is being held in guantanamo bay for suspected ties to drug dealing and terrorism because it may somehow be related to the Tor privacy network.
What operatives? None of the people involved in this are working undercover, they're working in cubicles in office blocks in the US.
The people in Wall Street work in cubicles too. Nobody accused them of causing widespread destruction. In other news, the government would like to stop criminals from running botnets... because they hate competition.
FYI my dad WAS one of those veterans. Not a "former vet" as you said - there's nothing former about being a Vietnam vet.
That's nice. Here's a cookie. You're still taking your own personal experience and putting it above large studies being done that say you're wrong. This is a cognitive fallacy; And at this point, I don't think anything anyone can say is going to convince you otherwise. I suspect you're one of those people that would insist they aren't on fire right up until the moment they turn into a carbon scorch mark on the pavement, all because they are made mostly of water, so there!
Or maybe in this case a little personal responsibility? Like if you're a teen don't put them in your mouth to try and look cool? Decorate a wedding CAKE with them? Why would you put something that had warning labels all over it about ingestion IN or ON a piece of FOOD?
"Well if you put a warning label on it that makes it okay!" logic falls short in some cases. Like if I were to put bleach into colorful containers with pictures of clowns and unicorns on them and then on the bottom print "Warning: Keep out of reach of children." ... Tell me, how many people would say my new brand of Spongebob Bleach With Unicorns and Rainbows packaging isn't asking for trouble?
You can also draw.
True, but I don't think that makes my conclusion any less valid.
my dad worked overtime scrubbing toilets while going to college. that shows his dedication to hard work and learning. he was the kind of guy you want on your team.
Admirable qualities, but the example is one of personal experience, not the larger truth most people out there are experiencing today. There are only a very few opportunities out there, a lottery of sorts. You can increase your chances through hard work, dedication, virtue -- but your chances of getting a winning ticket remain very low. The middle class is collapsing, and no amount of father-worship can change that.
Most Americans would choose unemployment before they would scrub toilets.
Perhaps that is because unemployment pays better. Right now, if I lost my job, I would earn more on unemployment than working full time at minimum wage. Whether this fits with your worldview of what is fair or not is largely irrelevant. I'm better off remaining unemployed and dedicating my energy to finding employment that pays better than unemployment. Many people are similarly situated.
About 15% of Americans don't work. They "can't" find a job, or "can't" work because they are "disabled", though they can still build themselves a new deck.
Many people are physically disabled but mentally intact -- I understand Stephen Hawking was one such person, and he made considerable contributions to the field of science. He had cerebral palsy however and would die in very short order without the assistance of others. There are others who suffer from schizophrenia, traumatic brain injury, etc., who are perfectly capable of building themselves a deck... but their reality and ability to relate to others is so limited or out of sync with yours and mine they cannot hope to maintain employment.
Your arrogance in assuming these things shows a remarkable lack of understanding of the realities others face. It shows contempt for those less fortunate than you, and it shows a lack of empathy and compassion that is often indicative of clinical narcissism or sociopathy.
So they sour around complaining that they're not lucky. Guess how often my dad the janitor couldn't find a job, no job at all?
Your dad is fortunate to be able to find work. I think if you left the house once and awhile and went out amongst the people who are on the streets, in the shelters, who come to church for the soup kitchen, have searched for work, long and hard. They have searched for any kind of work. But very often, they're mentally ill. Many, perhaps half of them, are former veterans. These are men and women who were considered physically fit enough to carry hundred pound sacks of equipment across the desert and unleash hell on our enemies... but having to shovel their friends remains into a bag, or watching a cluster bomb turn people into hamburger spray takes its toll. Many of the people you spit on aren't employable because they carried burdens far beyond that of your toilet-scrubbing father. And many of them could be employable if it wasn't for people like your toilet-scrubbing father's children.
You have a very hard choice to make.
No, it's not a hard choice to make. I choose to have compassion, and I know that it's the one thing that'll dig us all out of the mess we're in. We're in this together. The disabled veteran, the unemployed black woman, the new immigrant escaping the violence of their homeland -- they're part of my community. They're my people. And they deserve the help they need to get back on their feet and make a contribution.
I'm not a narcissistic bastard like you. I'm not here for just myself, and I don't talk about my virtues as though they're a license to mistreat and look down on others. I'm working a job right now earning $34 an hour. On the weekends, I volunteer to drive people who have AIDS to the grocery store, to doctor's visits, etc. I'm active with Planned Parenthood -- because I be
The product was not defective.
Many toys over the years with powerful magnets have been banned because, if swallowed, they can connect with each other in the intestine, cause blockages, tissue death, and ultimately kill the person. This is well-documented and people have died in the past. It's not a fictional or abstract problem. While buckyballs were marketed as an "adults-only toy", the fact is that many of them were in turn given to children, and the recall was voluntary -- based on evidence supporting this statement.
No harm was done that I have read.
So people have to die or be hurt before we take action? That is a morally questionable stance, at best.
No, the banks were not prosecuted, which makes this even more egregious.
It is no more or less ethical or moral that they were, or were not prosecuted. Prosecution is what comes after harm has occurred, not before, and not to prevent. Therefore, it is exactly as egregious as it would be if it were prosecuted, compared to if it were not.
He didn't make a mistake.
When you play chess, you either win, or you lose. If you lose, it's because you made a mistake. This isn't about whether he played the game well or not. This isn't about his own morals or ethics. He lost. Maybe he shouldn't have. Maybe he's in the right and the government is wrong. But he did lose.
Mistakes are not a cause for success or failure. They are not judgements of a person's character. Acknowledging them only means the acknowledgement that the intended result was not achieved. Thomas Edison made hundreds of mistakes before he created the first lightbulb. Failure is instructive. And progress is invariably filled with failure; But if we gave up after the first one, we would never accomplish very much at all.
I'm sorry that you don't understand this; Given the fact that so many cowards marked my post as 'overrated' because they disagreed with this, instead of admitting that my position was solid and defensible it seems a great many people don't. But I can't blame you, anymore than I blame them -- our society puts such pressure on people to succeed that the acknowledgment of a mistake, of a failure, is a cultural taboo.
The question this man needs to ask is... what did he learn? Going up against the government and losing is nothing to be ashamed of. Many of our greatest civil rights leaders have done so. If he's choosing to make a stand on business ethics, he should make it count for something more than simply crying foul that he didn't get the success he feel he's owed. His reaction suggests he has learned nothing from the experience, and thus, is a bad businessman. When he has figured out how to use this experience to make a meaningful contribution to his next business venture, then he will be marketable again. But right now, I wouldn't trust anything he says, or give him any of my money, because he has yet to learn a lesson from his failure.
This is the out of control Feds doing what they do best, punish people who are creative and trying to get ahead. It is about control.
Perhaps. But how many times have we, as hackers, geeks, and engineers, told someone who said something was impossible to get out of the way and let us have a crack at it? The government is simply another system to understand, program, adapt to, and eventually overcome. When you say "the government had it in for me!" -- whether it is true or not, you are letting them win. You are beaten. You have given in to despair and helplessness.
So yes, it is about control... but if you're unwilling to take responsibility for yourself, if you're unwilling to captain your own ship, it's a rather empty thing to say government control is wrong; It is better than what you are doing for yourself.
I rather like the idea of corporations being held responsible for releasing defective products that cause harm to others. I think most people would agree that this happens far too rarely. Were any banks prosecuted for their defective financial products that nearly destroyed the world economy a few years ago? Nope. A few low-level employees were selected to be slaughtered on the alter of public opinion, but the people truly responsible are still out there, reaping the rewards of our broken and disenfranchised middle class. How about the oil companies, responsible for countless ecological disasters, and whose fines often amounted to only a few days' wages?
This is not about whether we want the government going after corporations. We do. We really, really do. But we want them going after the big-time criminals, the people who represent the bulk of by-proxy harm of our society, not these small-time entrepreneurs who simply might not have known any better. This guy made a mistake. It hurt some people, and he should be held accountable. But I don't think it was malicious. I don't think it was reckless.
What the banks did, and what they're still doing right now, today, is. It's malicious, it's intentional, and it is with a callous disregard for the lives being destroyed by their actions. They're the financial equivalent of pouring cyanide into the water supply -- they're terrorists. And we're letting them go free, because they're too big to fail, and apparently too big to jail too.
So yeah, I support this action. But I also think it's like going after the ant problem in the kitchen while the house is on fire.
I dunno, there are lots of live Neanderthals out there, especially in politics.
...And most married women can readily provide additional samples.
It's hardly 'throwing them into a meatgrinder'. Nobody seems to know why a degree in theoretical physics gives you the power to single handedly cut your way through alien swarms, military black-ops teams, and some of the most horrifying violations of OSHA guidelines ever built; but it does.
Maybe if you're old school. If you've been watching the latest Trek movies, you know that all a degree in theoretical physics causes is nakedness.