If you have actually no interests that can be spun in a social manner, then I think you're either pretty rare or living in the wrong place. My grandpa is a ranking member of the OddFellows, and I think that most of the appeal of the "club" is the ability for older people in your situation to have a social life. Most members seems to be engineers, school teachers, middle-class businessmen, people like that.
We're not talking about Laughing Man meets Ocean 11 here, we're talking about Dave, who runs a meth lab/ID theft combo out in the boondocks, feeding junkies ice as payment for raiding postal boxes. There exists people who are criminals just for the thrill of running complicated high-profile heists (like a commando-style like money depot robbery via helicopter here in Sweden a while ago, where they blew the door to the counting room at precisely the moment the bills where out of their containers and being counted, didn't harm anyone, and had access to piloting skills described as "either suicidally lucky or based in military training"), but those people seem to be a separate kind of breed.
No, it's a known fact in information security circles that a lot of criminal stuff goes down, or at least has gone down, over ICQ. Why beats me, maybe it just got widely popular in Russia? It sounds stupid, but consider that until recently, most large-scale botnets where controlled via IRC channels.
It is, however, an act of being an aspie. As is not understanding sarcasm. *cough* Why? Systemic complexity is intuitively beautiful, regardless of any attached connections to reality, IMHO. But, you say, systems should be simple? That only holds if the system has a purpouse, and most "basement dwellers" seems chronically disconnected from any purpouse or drive besides empty mental stimulation (video games, etc...) and base drives. There's also the fact of "weak central coherence", intuitively thinking in an unattached fashion and lacking an integration into a broader perspective - if you slip in this, mental systems may easily be formed without connection to any drive to be efficient. (IANAP, but every shrink I ever met say I probably have Aspergers. Excepting the one who went with beginning catatonic schizophrenia. Oy.)
I read a long-winded description of the processes involved in an interview with a couple of officers in charge of this (they also trained soliders to resist torture and interrogation.) You take a person, strap him to a board, lean the body backwards, put a towel in their mouth, and pour water onto the towel. This stimulates the drowning reflex, which causes panic and immense psychological suffering. They had a series of tricks they had developed to streamline the process and counteract breathing techniques, but they wouldn't tell those. Most people break in a few seconds, apparently. I'm quite for torturing sufficiently guilty/evil people if results can be had from it, but applying this to try to determine if someone is guilty in the first place is ovbiously inane. I'd like to think that most "interrogation" work U.S. intelligence conducts is done like this: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB279/index.htm
I doubt the microwaves would penetrate that far into soil, and it seems counterintuitive to construct a device that blankets a large area with microwaves instead of just sweeping the fruits once in a while.
True; I have heard about such things happening under Swedish jurisdiction (together with angry letters/phonecalls/threats of legal action) at least once: a kid downloaded nessus and ran it against the external IP range of a bank (I think it was, a private institution in any case). Hilarity ensued.
The only "shelter" against censorship on the level we're talking about is a bullet to the head of the censor. (Or "removing the censors power or incentive to censor in general" if you happen to find bloodthirsty rethoric distasteful.) More specifically, if the censoring party has the competence and will to monitor the traffic for releases to wikileaks or similiar, they certainly have the means to just block the VPN service or just haul them in if they try to use it. "But they can't see/prove that they're actually reporting on things the censors wouldn't like!?" Yeah, right, as if that will stop them.
Again, the information logistics would swamp any attempt at doing this through actual inspection, and a private company can't really search your property. I understand the US has a grotesque telecom monopoly situation but in the worst case scenario you could just lie.
Not going to happen - the inspection logistics would be ludicrous. I think what is meant in this proposal is more or less legal protection for ISPs to cut the line to nodes involved in DDoS attacks, without having to stand trial for any unforseen consequences?
Long-haul optical fiber combined with DSL/a reasonably modern landline phone system for more remote sites; taxpayer money funds the backbone, and the goverment (that isn't hideously corrupt and can be trusted not to use the lines to strangle kittens as soon as you take their eyes of them) leases the last mile to private companies. But of course, there's no profit in that, so such a thing can't possibly exist outside of covert communist dictatorships such as those found here in Sweden. And Japan, to take a ideologically neutral example. Actually, both Japan and Sweden's networks came about through cooperation and understanding between the public and private sectors, more than anything else; it would never have been pulled it off as good as it turned out if the gov. actually had appointed a public sector company in charge as ISP. *Pets his RJ/45 jack connecting to a 100mbps line in an appropriately condescendingly smug manner*
B.S. Deep packet inspection on that level would grind the system to a halt. Not to mention even the simplest signature matching. Where'd you get this idea?
And what exactly does this crude grading system represent? If it's across-the-board for IT personell, the test would either be toothless or unfeasible due to sheer scope.
I live in Kiruna. Yes, it's not that dramatic. It's not a hole to hell, just the ground setting really really badly due to the mining activity. There's already a large (and spectacular) example of this kind of deterioration in "malmberget" south of here. The city will be moved piece by piece, and the railways and highways will be rerouted. There's a *lot* of free space up here.
Something being "special or hackish" doesn't matter, as long as it works. The only reason to use convoluted-but-well-known methods instead of the platform API is to dodge security; there is no reason to do such things if there's nothing to dodge.
And let them suffer out of our sight? Let the daughters of muslims be oppressed, hung slowly and painfully from a crane because they have been unfaithful/raped? And because the law states that non-virgins cannot have the death penalty, they are raped the night before? (Iran, and this is not a troll. Nono. They actually *do* this). I have a better proposal: let's "oppress", manipulate, and (when appropriate) murder key leaders of particularly vehement examples. The kind of behaviour these countries engage in is simply unforgivable in my opinion. People who do these kinds of things should be burned alive, over the course of several days. Starting with the genitals. They are less than livestock; I would cannibalize them just to spite their religion.
My mother is a trained sociologist, so I know making these things are more complicated than meets the eye. But, although I am quite empathetic in a practical sense, I recoiled at some of the wording ("tender feelings", hoo yay). I can't be alone in this, and this would definetly color the survey result?
That said, most non-crackpot disorders are completely legitimate, including most prominently Aspergers and ADD. Both of which I have been diagnosed with. Both are/include, in a very real sense, observable structural differences in the brain. You have no idea how much my world changed when I was put on methylphenidate (Ritalin). The Aspergers I specifically don't want to have any "help" with, because there is no cure, and nothing that can be done at my level of functioning. You'll just have to take my word on it that I'm emotionally/socially cut off from other people and my own emotions in an "unnatural" manner from birth, character acting my way through much of life. I can't think that anyone who ever met me would categorize me as feeling entitled to anything at all from other people.
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If you have actually no interests that can be spun in a social manner, then I think you're either pretty rare or living in the wrong place. My grandpa is a ranking member of the OddFellows, and I think that most of the appeal of the "club" is the ability for older people in your situation to have a social life. Most members seems to be engineers, school teachers, middle-class businessmen, people like that.
Is it just me, or is this creepy beyond belief?
I laughed, because it was so out of left field. But on the other hand, I also laugh at Scrubs.
We're not talking about Laughing Man meets Ocean 11 here, we're talking about Dave, who runs a meth lab/ID theft combo out in the boondocks, feeding junkies ice as payment for raiding postal boxes. There exists people who are criminals just for the thrill of running complicated high-profile heists (like a commando-style like money depot robbery via helicopter here in Sweden a while ago, where they blew the door to the counting room at precisely the moment the bills where out of their containers and being counted, didn't harm anyone, and had access to piloting skills described as "either suicidally lucky or based in military training"), but those people seem to be a separate kind of breed.
I think that the "rouge" mentality is more centered towards interpersonal information security rather than technocratic solutions.
No, it's a known fact in information security circles that a lot of criminal stuff goes down, or at least has gone down, over ICQ. Why beats me, maybe it just got widely popular in Russia? It sounds stupid, but consider that until recently, most large-scale botnets where controlled via IRC channels.
It is, however, an act of being an aspie. As is not understanding sarcasm. *cough*
Why? Systemic complexity is intuitively beautiful, regardless of any attached connections to reality, IMHO. But, you say, systems should be simple? That only holds if the system has a purpouse, and most "basement dwellers" seems chronically disconnected from any purpouse or drive besides empty mental stimulation (video games, etc...) and base drives. There's also the fact of "weak central coherence", intuitively thinking in an unattached fashion and lacking an integration into a broader perspective - if you slip in this, mental systems may easily be formed without connection to any drive to be efficient. (IANAP, but every shrink I ever met say I probably have Aspergers. Excepting the one who went with beginning catatonic schizophrenia. Oy.)
I read a long-winded description of the processes involved in an interview with a couple of officers in charge of this (they also trained soliders to resist torture and interrogation.) You take a person, strap him to a board, lean the body backwards, put a towel in their mouth, and pour water onto the towel. This stimulates the drowning reflex, which causes panic and immense psychological suffering. They had a series of tricks they had developed to streamline the process and counteract breathing techniques, but they wouldn't tell those. Most people break in a few seconds, apparently.
I'm quite for torturing sufficiently guilty/evil people if results can be had from it, but applying this to try to determine if someone is guilty in the first place is ovbiously inane. I'd like to think that most "interrogation" work U.S. intelligence conducts is done like this: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB279/index.htm
More to the point perhaps, he's not retarded, mad as a hatter, blind and probably isn't missing any limbs if he's being that confident.
I doubt the microwaves would penetrate that far into soil, and it seems counterintuitive to construct a device that blankets a large area with microwaves instead of just sweeping the fruits once in a while.
Yes. Yes.
True; I have heard about such things happening under Swedish jurisdiction (together with angry letters/phonecalls/threats of legal action) at least once: a kid downloaded nessus and ran it against the external IP range of a bank (I think it was, a private institution in any case). Hilarity ensued.
The only "shelter" against censorship on the level we're talking about is a bullet to the head of the censor. (Or "removing the censors power or incentive to censor in general" if you happen to find bloodthirsty rethoric distasteful.) More specifically, if the censoring party has the competence and will to monitor the traffic for releases to wikileaks or similiar, they certainly have the means to just block the VPN service or just haul them in if they try to use it. "But they can't see/prove that they're actually reporting on things the censors wouldn't like!?" Yeah, right, as if that will stop them.
Precisely.
Again, the information logistics would swamp any attempt at doing this through actual inspection, and a private company can't really search your property. I understand the US has a grotesque telecom monopoly situation but in the worst case scenario you could just lie.
Not going to happen - the inspection logistics would be ludicrous. I think what is meant in this proposal is more or less legal protection for ISPs to cut the line to nodes involved in DDoS attacks, without having to stand trial for any unforseen consequences?
Long-haul optical fiber combined with DSL/a reasonably modern landline phone system for more remote sites; taxpayer money funds the backbone, and the goverment (that isn't hideously corrupt and can be trusted not to use the lines to strangle kittens as soon as you take their eyes of them) leases the last mile to private companies. But of course, there's no profit in that, so such a thing can't possibly exist outside of covert communist dictatorships such as those found here in Sweden. And Japan, to take a ideologically neutral example. Actually, both Japan and Sweden's networks came about through cooperation and understanding between the public and private sectors, more than anything else; it would never have been pulled it off as good as it turned out if the gov. actually had appointed a public sector company in charge as ISP.
*Pets his RJ/45 jack connecting to a 100mbps line in an appropriately condescendingly smug manner*
B.S.
Deep packet inspection on that level would grind the system to a halt. Not to mention even the simplest signature matching. Where'd you get this idea?
If I do it in secret, what do I care if it's legal or not? If done competently, the chance of getting caught is hardly even worth considering.
And what exactly does this crude grading system represent? If it's across-the-board for IT personell, the test would either be toothless or unfeasible due to sheer scope.
I live in Kiruna. Yes, it's not that dramatic. It's not a hole to hell, just the ground setting really really badly due to the mining activity. There's already a large (and spectacular) example of this kind of deterioration in "malmberget" south of here. The city will be moved piece by piece, and the railways and highways will be rerouted. There's a *lot* of free space up here.
Something being "special or hackish" doesn't matter, as long as it works. The only reason to use convoluted-but-well-known methods instead of the platform API is to dodge security; there is no reason to do such things if there's nothing to dodge.
And let them suffer out of our sight? Let the daughters of muslims be oppressed, hung slowly and painfully from a crane because they have been unfaithful/raped? And because the law states that non-virgins cannot have the death penalty, they are raped the night before? (Iran, and this is not a troll. Nono. They actually *do* this). I have a better proposal: let's "oppress", manipulate, and (when appropriate) murder key leaders of particularly vehement examples. The kind of behaviour these countries engage in is simply unforgivable in my opinion. People who do these kinds of things should be burned alive, over the course of several days. Starting with the genitals. They are less than livestock; I would cannibalize them just to spite their religion.
My mother is a trained sociologist, so I know making these things are more complicated than meets the eye. But, although I am quite empathetic in a practical sense, I recoiled at some of the wording ("tender feelings", hoo yay). I can't be alone in this, and this would definetly color the survey result?
That said, most non-crackpot disorders are completely legitimate, including most prominently Aspergers and ADD. Both of which I have been diagnosed with. Both are/include, in a very real sense, observable structural differences in the brain. You have no idea how much my world changed when I was put on methylphenidate (Ritalin). The Aspergers I specifically don't want to have any "help" with, because there is no cure, and nothing that can be done at my level of functioning. You'll just have to take my word on it that I'm emotionally/socially cut off from other people and my own emotions in an "unnatural" manner from birth, character acting my way through much of life.
I can't think that anyone who ever met me would categorize me as feeling entitled to anything at all from other people.