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  1. Re:It had nothing to do with the pilot's age... on James Gosling Report of Reno Air Crash · · Score: 1

    Piston? That is according to my knowledge not so hard to obtain. As a matter of fact, most pilots get this rating. Only the people who just want to fly a nice cessna for transport stick with the basic PPL. Now, if it was jet-engines... Having said that, I have no doubt about the guys skills. And maybe in the US rules are different than here in Europe.

  2. Re:Wikileaks + anonymous + civilian obedience on Obama Admin Wants Hackers Charged As Mobsters · · Score: 1

    To be honest, about 4chan... more than valid point you there. I have seen /b and yes, it was horrible.

  3. Re:Citation please on Obama Admin Wants Hackers Charged As Mobsters · · Score: 1

    Good question. Well, the USA has stated that anyone publishing them is committing a capital crime. So I think at the very least in the US people might not want to take the chance? Maybe I'm paranoid, but I wouldn't be surprised if you would get into trouble for it. Think when you need to take an airplane. That might get harder for you. In the Netherlands mostly blogs write about the cables. Sometimes media picks up on it, but the good stuff is on the blogs. The Guardian had/has a section with it though. And that's the only big news-source I can think of that does/did it like that. But where it used to be a prominent item on their frontpage, now you have to use the search function to find it: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/wikileaks?INTCMP=SRCH and even then it looks like it's decapitated. So you got me thinking here as well... Where is that site lol :P Good one.

  4. Re:Wikileaks + anonymous + civilian obedience on Obama Admin Wants Hackers Charged As Mobsters · · Score: 1

    I agree with you, but for those current laws already provide the options to make it an 'organized crime'. Fair point nonetheless.

  5. Re:Wikileaks + anonymous + civilian obedience on Obama Admin Wants Hackers Charged As Mobsters · · Score: 1

    No, not at all. You are taking what I said, putting it in a totally different situation that is unrelated and try to make some cheap shots... Children - most anyway - seem to have the natural ability to know right from wrong. You are talking about boring, irritating work that still has to be done. It has nothing to do with seeing the difference between 'not hurting someone' and 'hurting' someone. I hope you can see the difference between these things.

  6. Re:Citation please on Obama Admin Wants Hackers Charged As Mobsters · · Score: 1

    too=to

  7. Re:Citation please on Obama Admin Wants Hackers Charged As Mobsters · · Score: 1

    Ok, you can't expect from me to have these cables with me or bookmarked. And I don't. However, I'm willing to find these cables for you again in the coming days/week. But only if it will actually lead to a nice discussion/talk/chat. So for that reason, give me a email on my username at home dot NL. I will send you the links when I get back to them. In the meantime a short description: I have read one cable, not from the US but from Israel to the US. In that cable they state that they are providing resources and money too students and other 'groups' in Iran for example, to start a civilian war in Iran. With the goal of after the country is destabilized to conquer and divide. That one never made the news :(

  8. Re:Wikileaks + anonymous + civilian obedience on Obama Admin Wants Hackers Charged As Mobsters · · Score: 1

    I find this a rather fair point. It's something for me to think about. Then again, those 250.000+ docs are a bit much for 1 (or a couple of people) to read. But still, you have a valid point. I have read a couple thousand of those cables and indeed, many of them aren't doing anything for the public. However, the once that do... are very interesting. Also keep in mind, that they didn't get their hands on really classified material. The best stuff is still a secret. But I'm pretty sure that the most interesting operations from governments around the world are no longer documented. Which should be crime against humanity in itself.

  9. Re:Citation please on Obama Admin Wants Hackers Charged As Mobsters · · Score: 1

    Well the easiest that comes to mind, but there are many more, is the one that told all their ambassadors(!) to try to get fingerprints, dna, logon credentials from high-profiled persons in the country those ambassadors are guests in! We call that spying... It's a capital crime in the US... Spying on the head of the UN? Come on, if you read the cables, you can see that stuff for yourself. Don't ask me to do your homework. The cables about Israel? The cables that inform us about the illegal torture and detention-centers around the world to do the dirty work? Come on.. you know better than this.

  10. Re:Wikileaks + anonymous + civilian obedience on Obama Admin Wants Hackers Charged As Mobsters · · Score: 1

    Well, kill it with fire off-course! Nah, valid point. We don't. We wait until we get dominated and constrained enough like in Libbie or Egypt. Only then will people be prepared to stand up and fight. When they have absolutely nothing left to lose. As long as we have half a penny and a bit of butter left, we won't do anything. And with "we" I mean the collective civilians of the western world. Not my choice though, but that is what I think will happen. History has always been like that. When all is gone, people will raise their collective voices and make a difference. Until that day... I consider my self lucky we got some teens out there that can't comprehend what will happen to them that are doing the dirty work.

  11. Re:Wikileaks + anonymous + civilian obedience on Obama Admin Wants Hackers Charged As Mobsters · · Score: 2

    Well it depends on the secret. Does the rest of the class suffer for or from this secret? Or let me say, the school. Did the guy/girl that had the secret made it a crime to tell that secret to anyone? Because I can name multiple examples of things that used to be a crime where we all agree on that it was the good thing to do. To make a Godwin, protecting Jews was once a crime in my own little place on earth. You would get shot for it! I think we can all agree that it still was the good thing to do. Despite it being a criminal act in that place, at that time. What if the secret (as in the wikileaks) is a much bigger crime? Sure, when things are just about ruining someones day or embarrassing them, things get different. When it's for profit (as in money) things get different... And you are right when you are pointing to those cases. But current laws are strict enough for those cases. Ask Mitnick. And in those days, laws were nowhere near as strict as now.

  12. Re:Wikileaks + anonymous + civilian obedience on Obama Admin Wants Hackers Charged As Mobsters · · Score: 1

    Thank you :) That must be the kindest reply I have ever seen here! (Well, at least as reply to my own thoughts.)

  13. Re:Wikileaks + anonymous + civilian obedience on Obama Admin Wants Hackers Charged As Mobsters · · Score: 0

    What else to expect from an AC than bursting out in tears and non-constructive uninteresting trolling? Use your account. We can agree to disagree. It's ok. Even if you think your opinion will cost you karma....

  14. Re:Wikileaks + anonymous + civilian obedience on Obama Admin Wants Hackers Charged As Mobsters · · Score: 1

    now = know disclaimer: sorry for the bad English. I suck at it :P

  15. Wikileaks + anonymous + civilian obedience on Obama Admin Wants Hackers Charged As Mobsters · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That is what this is about, make no mistake. Here most people now that 'anonymous' are mostly kids from 4chan, doing what kids and teens in general do... get pissed about injustice and morally wrong things. Hell I have one trick I have been using for years now and it is working great. If you want to know if something is fair or doing justice? Ask a child! They know! In the news, the public that doesn't know 4chan and the truth behind this non-organization, is being told that this is a group of people that know each other, that make plans, that gather together... For evil and to monetize on it... We all know that is bull. But the general public doesn't. This is just another step in that direction. Let's call them mobsters.... In the meantime however, on the background there are still the wikileaks cables burning. If these guys are so upset about crimes, they would have resigned a long time ago since well... their own jobs consists mostly out of committing crimes on a global scale. They know it, I know it and I'm pretty sure that deep in your heart, you know it too.

  16. Re:TFA is a bit more interesting on Costly SSDs Worth It, Users Say · · Score: 1

    Yeah I missed that news. Haven't been here for a couple of months. Sorry to hear that. And also to you: thanks for explaining.

  17. Re:TFA is a bit more interesting on Costly SSDs Worth It, Users Say · · Score: 1

    Yeah I missed that news indeed. Haven't been here for a couple of months. My bad guys. Sorry to hear that. I guess that has something to do with the 'dear-diary'-stuff here nowadays :( Thanks for explaining.

  18. TFA is a bit more interesting on Costly SSDs Worth It, Users Say · · Score: 1

    While this summary should never have been posted here (please taco, give us good stuf, not 'I know how to move the mouse pointer so I am a l33t hax0r-stuf) but the full article is interesting. It gives a couple of hands-on experiences from users that are quite interesting. It seems the SSD can gain you speed in more situations than previously thought/marketed. Although for my uses I'm not going to spend more than 2 dollar/euro per GB.

  19. Re:actually you could. you own our debt. on Microsoft Training May Have Helped Tunisian Regime To Spy On Citizens · · Score: 2

    Yeps but the usa has a zillion nuclear weapons and a zillion nuclear idiots... The top guys - the snakes in suits - would probably rather kill the whole world :( Having said that, here in Europe we only have a million nuclear weapons but still a zillion nuclear idiots that would do the same. People are retarded. They really are. Me myself and i. That's all that matters. And even these cables that should have lead to a complete new system... well... we - the people - just don't give a fuck. At least, that is what I have learned from this all :( And it hurts.

  20. USA on Microsoft Training May Have Helped Tunisian Regime To Spy On Citizens · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So, the USA torture practices come to light, the USA illegal wars, the USA illegal everything... and those same guys see MS doing something that might be stupid from a human perspective, but no where near the level of the USA as a country in itself... is pointing the finger???? Man, you guys here still don't get the cables. It's the fucking USA that is the enemy! YES! Even if you are a USA Citizen. I might as well say, especially if you are a US citizen. Those people, that lead your country, not the guy in the White House... are fucking war criminals at best! Do something about it! We (the rest of the world) can't! Prove for once America is about freedom. But think about real freedom for once. Not just freedom on your own continent. The world doesn't turn around you. Let alone the universe. We have one earth and we have to make it together. And right now we are fucking it up. And that fucking up is being orchestrated by a handful very powerful people. Having said that... Peace. We need to stick together. Because our children will hopefully be smarter.

  21. Re:Learn Mandarin and buy Bitcoins on Why People Who Make Things Should Learn Chinese · · Score: 1

    Still beats the 'made in the us' label when it should say: made 5 meters across the mexican border by mexicans...

  22. Re:Learn Mandarin and buy Bitcoins on Why People Who Make Things Should Learn Chinese · · Score: 1

    Well, I sure hope for you you are being sarcastic... because the quality and energy consumption of any Japanese product is about 90% better then the US standard... you might not feel it yet due to idiotic import restrictions in the US, but the rest of the world is benefiting greatly from Japanese quality. As a matter of fact, it's quite awesome to have some decent stuff finally!

  23. Re:First in a long line I hope! on Germany To End Nuclear Power By 2022 · · Score: 1

    Not really true, they (the industry) say there is a chance of 1 in 2000 years that one will meltdown. With the current number + the soon to be build new plants, you come to 1 meltdown/serious accident in 14 years. This seems to be spot on with history. You can get a free report btw from the atom agency that has all the accidents that are known with radiation in them. Many thousand cases already and a scary read.

  24. Re:How do you steal moon rock? on NASA Sting Busts Woman Selling Purported Moon Rock · · Score: 4, Informative

    RTFA! Sjezus. NASA previous shipped the rocks via mail. It got stolen. They are still searching for those missing parts since it had cost them about 50.000 per gram to get the rock here.

  25. Re:lizard skinned flesh lights on China Alleged To Use Prisoners In Lucrative Internet Gaming · · Score: 1

    Please do enlighten me your great AC-ness.