Ha. So the punishment should be harsher just because they where clever? Also, the trial is already over - they got a 160$ fine, and they got to keep the dictaphone they used.
...I understand why the US seems to be a hotbed of conspiracy theorists. There's no way to actually see what's going on, so commenting on politics as a private citizen becomes something like making weather reports?
I was really struck by this image, actually. It gives you a visual feel for how vast the net is, with all the favicons stretching back into space until they're just indistinguishable dots. And for those who complain about uselessness, download it and give it a go yourself! To get ranges, just use whois or a http://www.iana.org/numbers/ search on a relevant ip/hostname, and to map routing paths use the zenmap frontend - the radial visualization is great, but a bit slow for large numbers. You can also use the -oX option to output a scan in XML, and import it into zenmap later; zenmap also aggregates scans for you. The script scan engine is also geared towards penetration testing/exploitation, of course, but you can ignore "offensive" parts. Just remember to read the documentation, if you want to keep a low profile.
Robin Hood. this fin' might 'eaven and 'ell lead ter the bloody Cozzer's makin' less unfounded 'rrests. 'cause sometimes a Sexton Blake recipe is just a Sexton Blake recipe.
And what do I pay for this? Around half my paycheck. The fiber backbone is state-owned and companies "lease" the last mile, so that I only need to pay 20$/month for a 100mbps broadband connection. Unmonitored, unshaped and without restrictions.
In dear communist motherland Sweden, you pay up to 120$ for any form of health care per year, including dentistry, and up to 250$ for medicine. And if you can't pay, you don't need to pay at all. And no, I don't have to wait for days to get it, unless it's something weird and they have to ship me to a specialist in one of thelarger regional hospitals.
Hmm, yes, from the POV of the employer and the employee it should be data-based. But what we are talking about here is keeping tabs on what measures can be taken to maximize producivity, to make sure that peope are not treated as slaves. It may well impact productivity in certain situations, but then so be it?
Defending yourself against senseless memetic attacks (or just trolling) online generally is very hard. The best tactic I've found is a form of social judo, where you misdirect the attackers attention/distort the meme to something that isn't relevant to you, or makes them identify with you and anulling the dehumanizing effect of the internet - either be as unreal or real as possible. The most direct example would be a pre-prepared sockpuppet personality/mask with false weaknesses, but that obviously isn't applicable here. If you where a group of nationalists trying to stem a meme/raid like that, you'd basically either need to make the flow point at something(s) about your national character that isn't important, or make the attackers (honestly) identify and sympathise with aspects of your culture. Since we are talking about young males who like to think they are clever here, acts of war and political guile spiced up with true accounts of misery would probably do; if you can't hide your weaknesses you must bluntly admit to them. Think "getting respect from boys with daddy issues". "Attacking in force" is only doable if you can do something (harsh) to them IRL that would make them snap out of it . All such machinations must be done indirectly, like it was all a big joke that you just made funnier or more clever, or it's a "forced meme." Also, truly horrible memes and information (like jokes about children and napalm) are repeated not because it's funny but because it's horrible, as a way to draw attention to them; the laughter is that of hysteria. This, and the fact that the hysteria often is completely juvenile and immature is probably the sole source for people mistaking behaviour like this for some sort of utter evil, when in reality it's just schoolyard shit-talking sped up 10x. Now, people like this are often mixed up with people who actually have a coherent point about the issues - but they are easily recognized, not being, as you so well describe it, senseless.
The user has the key. The user can retain or share the key, or just share the material unencrypted. As for remote DRM, even if you bloody well upload large parts of the game's code remotely it's just security through obscurity. As well as a source for nusiance and flakiness/unplayability.
Yeah, but not in the same way. Cocaine, for example, rewires the basic system that the brain uses for pain and pleasure. You must have the drug, because to your brain, it has become what pleasure *is*. "Not feeling like shit" is on a much higher level.
Not going to happen - I'm not saying Sweden is free of bribery, but almost. Also, even if that did happen, nothing would come of it. The bureaucracy here is epic, and it's not realistic to bribe that many people. It would be found out. The Pirate Bay situation was due to that being an actual crime - Anyone can see that Wikileaks actions is entirely outside of the scope of the police. If the Swedish system nabs him, it's going to be the security police (SÄPO) and/or MUST (the military intelligence and security service) and/or whatever they cook up. There's really noone else that can touch him, as long as all his taxes are in order.
No, you got it backwards. He was brought in on what was apparently judged to be good grounds, and then the case got dismissed by a higher-ranking/more experienced persecutor. It just happened in a very short span of time - and we don't have the details on what the girls said. From what has been released, it seems they went to the police and asked them "Hey, we did this and this with this guy/he did this and this with us - would this be rape?" Maybe they just got fazed due to the strangeness of it all, and decided to arrest him just to clear things up?
Why? You'd rather be held a few days longer? How would this improve your case? Besides, he's high-profile and a likely target for US intelligence operations. You think the persecutor (and probably the security police/military intelligence) wouldn't take that into account?
This is not physical addiction - because there's no craving present to take more of the medication. Antidepressants don't stimulate the reward pathways in the brain, though this is an easy assumption to make.
I've had to deal with SSRI discontinuation syndrome - "brain zaps". This shows up even in low doses, after a few months use. If you've ever played the "Penumbra" series, remember that effect and sound they use to simulate the character having a deja-vu?
You "just" intercept function calls using DLL injection; it's a very useful and basic technique. Another thing you can do with that is process migration from the shellcode, allowing you to hold a system until it's rebooted without creating a separate process, and without touching disk. Take a look at the meterpreter payload from the metasploit project if you want to see a nice example.
Or alternatively, skipping that part by spending your entire childhood relating to your classmates as subhuman cretins because, to you, they're behaving completely irrationally - and since you are much, much smarter than most of them (and since you have lots of free time for personal study, much more educated), they believe you. And all the adults tell you that the reason you can't relate to them is because they're too stupid for you, and that you are just that much more mature than them. If you're different, from a human perspective, it seems you must be either better or worse, wether seen through "autistic" eyes or... any other type of eyes.
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Ha. So the punishment should be harsher just because they where clever? Also, the trial is already over - they got a 160$ fine, and they got to keep the dictaphone they used.
It's *cloak* and dagger, not just dagger. Remember that next time.
...I understand why the US seems to be a hotbed of conspiracy theorists. There's no way to actually see what's going on, so commenting on politics as a private citizen becomes something like making weather reports?
I was really struck by this image, actually. It gives you a visual feel for how vast the net is, with all the favicons stretching back into space until they're just indistinguishable dots. And for those who complain about uselessness, download it and give it a go yourself! To get ranges, just use whois or a http://www.iana.org/numbers/ search on a relevant ip/hostname, and to map routing paths use the zenmap frontend - the radial visualization is great, but a bit slow for large numbers. You can also use the -oX option to output a scan in XML, and import it into zenmap later; zenmap also aggregates scans for you. The script scan engine is also geared towards penetration testing/exploitation, of course, but you can ignore "offensive" parts. Just remember to read the documentation, if you want to keep a low profile.
Yeah, income tax is close to 50% for a "good" salary. But as stated, that pays for a lot, even if you have no income to tax.
Robin Hood. this fin' might 'eaven and 'ell lead ter the bloody Cozzer's makin' less unfounded 'rrests. 'cause sometimes a Sexton Blake recipe is just a Sexton Blake recipe.
And what do I pay for this? Around half my paycheck. The fiber backbone is state-owned and companies "lease" the last mile, so that I only need to pay 20$/month for a 100mbps broadband connection. Unmonitored, unshaped and without restrictions.
In dear communist motherland Sweden, you pay up to 120$ for any form of health care per year, including dentistry, and up to 250$ for medicine. And if you can't pay, you don't need to pay at all. And no, I don't have to wait for days to get it, unless it's something weird and they have to ship me to a specialist in one of thelarger regional hospitals.
Socialism is for spineless weaklings and parasites - until a situation arises where you are a spineless weakling.
Hmm, yes, from the POV of the employer and the employee it should be data-based. But what we are talking about here is keeping tabs on what measures can be taken to maximize producivity, to make sure that peope are not treated as slaves. It may well impact productivity in certain situations, but then so be it?
Defending yourself against senseless memetic attacks (or just trolling) online generally is very hard. The best tactic I've found is a form of social judo, where you misdirect the attackers attention/distort the meme to something that isn't relevant to you, or makes them identify with you and anulling the dehumanizing effect of the internet - either be as unreal or real as possible. The most direct example would be a pre-prepared sockpuppet personality/mask with false weaknesses, but that obviously isn't applicable here. If you where a group of nationalists trying to stem a meme/raid like that, you'd basically either need to make the flow point at something(s) about your national character that isn't important, or make the attackers (honestly) identify and sympathise with aspects of your culture. Since we are talking about young males who like to think they are clever here, acts of war and political guile spiced up with true accounts of misery would probably do; if you can't hide your weaknesses you must bluntly admit to them. Think "getting respect from boys with daddy issues". "Attacking in force" is only doable if you can do something (harsh) to them IRL that would make them snap out of it .
All such machinations must be done indirectly, like it was all a big joke that you just made funnier or more clever, or it's a "forced meme." Also, truly horrible memes and information (like jokes about children and napalm) are repeated not because it's funny but because it's horrible, as a way to draw attention to them; the laughter is that of hysteria. This, and the fact that the hysteria often is completely juvenile and immature is probably the sole source for people mistaking behaviour like this for some sort of utter evil, when in reality it's just schoolyard shit-talking sped up 10x. Now, people like this are often mixed up with people who actually have a coherent point about the issues - but they are easily recognized, not being, as you so well describe it, senseless.
The user has the key. The user can retain or share the key, or just share the material unencrypted. As for remote DRM, even if you bloody well upload large parts of the game's code remotely it's just security through obscurity. As well as a source for nusiance and flakiness/unplayability.
Yeah, but not in the same way. Cocaine, for example, rewires the basic system that the brain uses for pain and pleasure. You must have the drug, because to your brain, it has become what pleasure *is*. "Not feeling like shit" is on a much higher level.
"Young?" They where in their twenties.
Aljazeera interview with Assange: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2010/08/2010822135529927326.html Apparently, he was forewarned by Australian intelligence?
Not going to happen - I'm not saying Sweden is free of bribery, but almost. Also, even if that did happen, nothing would come of it. The bureaucracy here is epic, and it's not realistic to bribe that many people. It would be found out. The Pirate Bay situation was due to that being an actual crime - Anyone can see that Wikileaks actions is entirely outside of the scope of the police. If the Swedish system nabs him, it's going to be the security police (SÄPO) and/or MUST (the military intelligence and security service) and/or whatever they cook up. There's really noone else that can touch him, as long as all his taxes are in order.
Julian Assange isn't an American citizen.
Yeah, because that should ever factor into the equation.
No, you got it backwards. He was brought in on what was apparently judged to be good grounds, and then the case got dismissed by a higher-ranking/more experienced persecutor. It just happened in a very short span of time - and we don't have the details on what the girls said. From what has been released, it seems they went to the police and asked them "Hey, we did this and this with this guy/he did this and this with us - would this be rape?"
Maybe they just got fazed due to the strangeness of it all, and decided to arrest him just to clear things up?
Why? You'd rather be held a few days longer? How would this improve your case?
Besides, he's high-profile and a likely target for US intelligence operations. You think the persecutor (and probably the security police/military intelligence) wouldn't take that into account?
Misjudgment on how the case would be handled? Expecting a stronger knee-jerk reaction?
This is not physical addiction - because there's no craving present to take more of the medication. Antidepressants don't stimulate the reward pathways in the brain, though this is an easy assumption to make.
I've had to deal with SSRI discontinuation syndrome - "brain zaps". This shows up even in low doses, after a few months use. If you've ever played the "Penumbra" series, remember that effect and sound they use to simulate the character having a deja-vu?
Yeah, for murderers. Not for adulterers and homosexuals.
You "just" intercept function calls using DLL injection; it's a very useful and basic technique. Another thing you can do with that is process migration from the shellcode, allowing you to hold a system until it's rebooted without creating a separate process, and without touching disk. Take a look at the meterpreter payload from the metasploit project if you want to see a nice example.
Or alternatively, skipping that part by spending your entire childhood relating to your classmates as subhuman cretins because, to you, they're behaving completely irrationally - and since you are much, much smarter than most of them (and since you have lots of free time for personal study, much more educated), they believe you. And all the adults tell you that the reason you can't relate to them is because they're too stupid for you, and that you are just that much more mature than them. If you're different, from a human perspective, it seems you must be either better or worse, wether seen through "autistic" eyes or... any other type of eyes.