Yep, its going to get killed at the first hurdle, because the big papers can just throw infinite lawyerage at it, and these lawyers are press lawyers who live and breathe first amendment.
Its a bit like those silly anti-porn laws that used to get introduced every few years then get knocked off as being unconstitutional. A couple of years later it'd start again because politicians dont introduce the laws for them to be laws but to create persecution complexes for mouthbreathing authoritarian conservatives to get angry about when their "right" to persecute people gets trumped by reason.
When my dad was first working, back in the 60s, there was a prank they'd do on new guys, where they'd fill a big plastic bottle with acetyline, put a spark plug in and tape it under a car wired to the ignition. When someone would turn the car on, there would be a massive explosive sound, flames would engulf the car for about 1 nano-second and then it'd all stop, being largely a low heat-high flash flame unable of sustaining itself because the flames had nowhere to go.
Insane and reckless stunt, but this was a full 25 years prior to 9/11 and was seen as just pranksterism. Anyway, one day the state supervisor turned up at the yard to see how a new employee was doing, and the guys , thinking that the car was the new guys, taped the acetyline bottle to his car.
Well yeah.... lot of explaining to do. The big boss had less of a sense of humor about it then the lads did.
In this day and age he'd probably have been thrown in front of the supreme court on terrorism charges.
Oh absolutely. I recently came to realise just how much I took Debian for granted when I had to set up a Django site with Post-GIS on a CentOS (5.5) box.
Out of the box Centos only supported Python 2.4(!) and if you update it, you break everything. So trying to install a parallell version, I tried to use the EPEL repository to install Python 2.6. All good and fine until I realised I had to recompile my own pysocopg2 driver.
Then I realised Postgres and PostGIS where way too old for django. Could I update? Nope! the 8.4 version in epel didnt have any obvious version of PostGIS.
Giving up at wasting 2 days of my clients time recompiling things, trying to patch broken scripts, fighting busted versions of upgraded non supported software and pulling hair out, I badgered the host to install Debian squeeze for me (thanks Rackforce!) and they did.
Heres how I then did all this without pain on Squeeze:
And thats that. Server set up in 4 easy commands. No compiling, no complicated patch files, everything automatically and intelligently downloaded, installed, and checked for conflicts by the OS.
You'll note it looks like I have missed some things. Not true, apt-get knows installing an apache mod without apache is silly and did it for me, likewise installing postgis without the server itself is also silly. Everything done, checked for sanity, and so on.
Now of course I know YUM can do all that too, but thats no good to me, when the repository is that old its got 7 year old language distros as its cutting edge.
Its amazing to think that once upon a time Debian was considered behind the times.
Why on earth astrology could cause "real harmful effects"?
My ex fiance literally left me because a "psychic" told her I was not "the one". I spent the next year an alcoholic mess.
Seriously, fuck those homewrecking assholes.
(Ok, granted she probably would have left me anyway, being that I was a complete screw up at that part of my life, it would have been nice to have spent the next year after the analysing my failure honestly instead of just angrily stewing over a fucking ridiculous mind poisoner.)
Thats a nice analogy for something that,however , isn't true.
A breach of contract does not breach criminal law. Its not a crime to breach a contract unless it devolves into,say, fraud (which is narrowly defined) or something like that.
It is however a breach of civil law and thus is sueable.
My bigger concern would be more related to the development of 3D perception brain structures,like the occular dominance columns and the like. With vision , usually you have a dominant eye, which does most of the percieving, whilst the other eye provides mostly depth perception "meta-data" (for want of a better term) that helps you place things in space. This is usually accomplishe by structures in the visual cortex called occular dominance columns that sort of put all this together for you. A child deprived of visual information or binocular input can end up with bugged out allotments of neurons in these columns wrecking their 3D perception later in life.
My concern personally is if a child spends most of its developmental years in wierd-ass 3D projections, its really hard to know how this sort of dynamic system is going to develop. It might be fine, but we don't really know yet.
You may be disenfranchised when you discover that the people you voted for a fucking liars, but it was not the messenger that disenfranchised you.
Anyway, Assange is not an American. and has precisely zero responsibility to your democracy, so get over your authoritarian ass and recognise this gift for what it is.
One of my favorite resturants is run by a Hindu group (No , not the Hari Krishnas) , and has a "Eat as much as you want, then pay what you think its worth".
Its a great system , with people paying anywhere between $5 to $50 , usually depending on their wealth.
According to the people at the resturant, it means the rich dudes sort of subsidize the poor customers who can't afford to pay high prices, and everyone gets on fine. The resturant itself actually makes enough that it can afford a premium river-side location in one of the most exclusive parts of down-town.
Dont dismiss it that easy though. There are big problems recruiting women into IT, even though workplace experience tells me girls actually make great coders + techies. We have to look at the structural and cultural reasons why women feel off put by the field , and maybe this is one of the reasons. We don't include "cleaning with detergent" as a 'practical' lesson in chemistry science, even though its technically related. But girls are actually excelling in chemistry and hard sciences. Why are we not achieving this in IT?
Normally, but there is a lot of theories in Physics that MIGHT or MIGHT NOT be true, but can't be tested YET, including most of String theory and its weird and wonderful offspring.
Thats not to say they CANT be, but we dont know how to yet, and have to , for now, suffice with looking for mathematical models of string theory that fit with what we CAN observe.
It doesn't help Derek, that so much of the "skeptic" group have been well funded by marketing firms tasked by certain industries of creating FUD about the science, and remembering it was the same firms (and sometimes the same "scientists") that where claiming that smoking doesnt cause cancer.
I mean one of the loudest voices in my local press was Monckton, who was trumpeded as "eminant mathematician". Problem was the mans only training was in marketing and journalism, and had never published an academic paper in the field in his life (and his 'maths' where so bad my undergrad mathematics major flatmate basically destroyed his equasions in about 15 minutes)
Science might shy from rhetoric, but it also shys from charlatains, and the 'climate skeptic' field sure seems to have a lot of those.
I'm not even sure of that. I did some looking into some of the groups he was DDOSing , and frankly most where just dinky little muslim community groups and shit.
I honestly suspect he was seeing arabic writing and thinking "Uh, durka durka! must be planning a bombing!"
Hint for future wannabe crime fighters: Do not get your information on "terrorists" from "Team america: World police".
The lameness rabbit hole goes really deep with this guy.
It took me about 5 minutes of clicking around and whois , basic stuff your average donut eating cop could do, to work out who he was. He had NO IDEA how to cover his tracks, and as far as I can work out basically his attack consisted of pointing slowloris at websites, at least back when he was harassing muslims online (Seriously, most of his "jihadist" groups he attacked appeared to be community muslim groups and shit).
Presumably he got his hands on a botnet at some point, which isnt so hard to do if you know the right people, and yeah. lame-o-rama.
An even half way competent hacker wouldn't be using the lame ddos shit, and instead would have broken into the site and defaced it.
Re your first point, its important to keep in mind that it hasn't cost lives (Not a single reported incident, and the pentagon itself has said nobody has been hurt).
The information that was (suspected to have been) leaked by manning was not , it seems, at a high enough clasification to identify any informants. He was a mid level analyst at best.
I do believe in a "war on terror". The problem to me , is that it appears this war has been waged by the biggest terrorists of them all;- The military-industrial complex. If the US can be made to get the hell out of the middle east and quit terrorizing civilians , we might actually see some light at the end of the tunnel.
Unfortunately the difference between the Quantum physics meaning of "observe" and the common language version has meant that theres a whole world of useless hippies who are convinced that quantum physics must be some sort of proof of god.
Its all about vibrations maaaaaaaaaan.
God help us all when the tofu munchers come across the string theorists talking about "music" in the n-branes. Whole vistas of stupid will be unleashed.
Some DLC is great. The Undead Nightmare DLC for Red Dead was practically an entirely new game, and both the Gay Tony & whatever the biker one was called where both great content add ons for Grand theft auto.
Hey, lets inflict forced proposition-8 divorces on 1000s of californian families because an imaginary diety says so, even if the constitution says govt and religion are forbidden from combining.
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Oh, the dot net crowd are going to eat Oracles lunch over this. Microsofts dot net is free as the wind (well not free as in speech, but whatever) and has a lot of "enterprise-y" features.
Am I the only one seeing echos of the sad demise of Borland into irrelevance here?
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"Thats some very nice helium-3 you have there. Be a shame if something would happen to it. ssssssssssssssssssssss"
Yep, its going to get killed at the first hurdle, because the big papers can just throw infinite lawyerage at it, and these lawyers are press lawyers who live and breathe first amendment.
Its a bit like those silly anti-porn laws that used to get introduced every few years then get knocked off as being unconstitutional. A couple of years later it'd start again because politicians dont introduce the laws for them to be laws but to create persecution complexes for mouthbreathing authoritarian conservatives to get angry about when their "right" to persecute people gets trumped by reason.
When my dad was first working, back in the 60s, there was a prank they'd do on new guys, where they'd fill a big plastic bottle with acetyline, put a spark plug in and tape it under a car wired to the ignition. When someone would turn the car on, there would be a massive explosive sound, flames would engulf the car for about 1 nano-second and then it'd all stop, being largely a low heat-high flash flame unable of sustaining itself because the flames had nowhere to go.
Insane and reckless stunt, but this was a full 25 years prior to 9/11 and was seen as just pranksterism. Anyway, one day the state supervisor turned up at the yard to see how a new employee was doing, and the guys , thinking that the car was the new guys, taped the acetyline bottle to his car.
Well yeah.... lot of explaining to do. The big boss had less of a sense of humor about it then the lads did.
In this day and age he'd probably have been thrown in front of the supreme court on terrorism charges.
Admittedly at the high-end of stupid pranks.
Oh man, how cool would that bad boy be to have.
Granted it probably costs small mortgage worth of fuel to fly about (and more to get working again!) it'd be a damn fun toy to have.
Oh absolutely. I recently came to realise just how much I took Debian for granted when I had to set up a Django site with Post-GIS on a CentOS (5.5) box.
Out of the box Centos only supported Python 2.4(!) and if you update it, you break everything. So trying to install a parallell version, I tried to use the EPEL repository to install Python 2.6. All good and fine until I realised I had to recompile my own pysocopg2 driver.
Then I realised Postgres and PostGIS where way too old for django. Could I update? Nope! the 8.4 version in epel didnt have any obvious version of PostGIS.
Giving up at wasting 2 days of my clients time recompiling things, trying to patch broken scripts, fighting busted versions of upgraded non supported software and pulling hair out, I badgered the host to install Debian squeeze for me (thanks Rackforce!) and they did.
Heres how I then did all this without pain on Squeeze:
root@debian:~# apt-get install postgresql-8.4-postgis
root@debian:~# apt-get install libapache2-mod-passenger
root@debian:~# apt-get install python-django python-django-south
And thats that. Server set up in 4 easy commands. No compiling, no complicated patch files, everything automatically and intelligently downloaded, installed, and checked for conflicts by the OS.
You'll note it looks like I have missed some things. Not true, apt-get knows installing an apache mod without apache is silly and did it for me, likewise installing postgis without the server itself is also silly. Everything done, checked for sanity, and so on.
Now of course I know YUM can do all that too, but thats no good to me, when the repository is that old its got 7 year old language distros as its cutting edge.
Its amazing to think that once upon a time Debian was considered behind the times.
See why I love this operating system?
My ex fiance literally left me because a "psychic" told her I was not "the one". I spent the next year an alcoholic mess.
Seriously, fuck those homewrecking assholes.
(Ok, granted she probably would have left me anyway, being that I was a complete screw up at that part of my life, it would have been nice to have spent the next year after the analysing my failure honestly instead of just angrily stewing over a fucking ridiculous mind poisoner.)
You madea good post. Don't get trolled brother.
Thats a nice analogy for something that ,however , isn't true.
A breach of contract does not breach criminal law. Its not a crime to breach a contract unless it devolves into ,say, fraud (which is narrowly defined) or something like that.
It is however a breach of civil law and thus is sueable.
My bigger concern would be more related to the development of 3D perception brain structures ,like the occular dominance columns and the like. With vision , usually you have a dominant eye, which does most of the percieving, whilst the other eye provides mostly depth perception "meta-data" (for want of a better term) that helps you place things in space. This is usually accomplishe by structures in the visual cortex called occular dominance columns that sort of put all this together for you. A child deprived of visual information or binocular input can end up with bugged out allotments of neurons in these columns wrecking their 3D perception later in life.
My concern personally is if a child spends most of its developmental years in wierd-ass 3D projections, its really hard to know how this sort of dynamic system is going to develop. It might be fine, but we don't really know yet.
You may be disenfranchised when you discover that the people you voted for a fucking liars, but it was not the messenger that disenfranchised you.
Anyway, Assange is not an American. and has precisely zero responsibility to your democracy, so get over your authoritarian ass and recognise this gift for what it is.
NMS - Not Mind Safe.
One of my favorite resturants is run by a Hindu group (No , not the Hari Krishnas) , and has a "Eat as much as you want, then pay what you think its worth".
Its a great system , with people paying anywhere between $5 to $50 , usually depending on their wealth.
According to the people at the resturant, it means the rich dudes sort of subsidize the poor customers who can't afford to pay high prices, and everyone gets on fine. The resturant itself actually makes enough that it can afford a premium river-side location in one of the most exclusive parts of down-town.
I usually pay about $15
Dont dismiss it that easy though. There are big problems recruiting women into IT, even though workplace experience tells me girls actually make great coders + techies. We have to look at the structural and cultural reasons why women feel off put by the field , and maybe this is one of the reasons. We don't include "cleaning with detergent" as a 'practical' lesson in chemistry science, even though its technically related. But girls are actually excelling in chemistry and hard sciences. Why are we not achieving this in IT?
Normally, but there is a lot of theories in Physics that MIGHT or MIGHT NOT be true, but can't be tested YET, including most of String theory and its weird and wonderful offspring.
Thats not to say they CANT be, but we dont know how to yet, and have to , for now, suffice with looking for mathematical models of string theory that fit with what we CAN observe.
It doesn't help Derek, that so much of the "skeptic" group have been well funded by marketing firms tasked by certain industries of creating FUD about the science, and remembering it was the same firms (and sometimes the same "scientists") that where claiming that smoking doesnt cause cancer.
I mean one of the loudest voices in my local press was Monckton, who was trumpeded as "eminant mathematician". Problem was the mans only training was in marketing and journalism, and had never published an academic paper in the field in his life (and his 'maths' where so bad my undergrad mathematics major flatmate basically destroyed his equasions in about 15 minutes)
Science might shy from rhetoric, but it also shys from charlatains, and the 'climate skeptic' field sure seems to have a lot of those.
I'm not even sure of that. I did some looking into some of the groups he was DDOSing , and frankly most where just dinky little muslim community groups and shit.
I honestly suspect he was seeing arabic writing and thinking "Uh, durka durka! must be planning a bombing!"
Hint for future wannabe crime fighters: Do not get your information on "terrorists" from "Team america: World police".
The lameness rabbit hole goes really deep with this guy.
It took me about 5 minutes of clicking around and whois , basic stuff your average donut eating cop could do, to work out who he was. He had NO IDEA how to cover his tracks, and as far as I can work out basically his attack consisted of pointing slowloris at websites, at least back when he was harassing muslims online (Seriously, most of his "jihadist" groups he attacked appeared to be community muslim groups and shit).
Presumably he got his hands on a botnet at some point, which isnt so hard to do if you know the right people, and yeah. lame-o-rama.
An even half way competent hacker wouldn't be using the lame ddos shit, and instead would have broken into the site and defaced it.
DOS attacks using googled tools is pretty lame.
The hope would be that the alternative root largely mirrors to primary root, but differs where censorship or govt induced bad behavior occurs.
That said, if they knocked out the domain squatters too, it'd be the greatest thing ever.
I mean lets be honest, with 90% of the .COM space squatted by parasites, ICANN is not proving itself to be exactly competent here.
They'd release "Unix 95", wherein you could bypass the login by just pressing escape.
Re your first point, its important to keep in mind that it hasn't cost lives (Not a single reported incident, and the pentagon itself has said nobody has been hurt).
The information that was (suspected to have been) leaked by manning was not , it seems, at a high enough clasification to identify any informants. He was a mid level analyst at best.
I do believe in a "war on terror". The problem to me , is that it appears this war has been waged by the biggest terrorists of them all;- The military-industrial complex. If the US can be made to get the hell out of the middle east and quit terrorizing civilians , we might actually see some light at the end of the tunnel.
Unfortunately the difference between the Quantum physics meaning of "observe" and the common language version has meant that theres a whole world of useless hippies who are convinced that quantum physics must be some sort of proof of god.
Its all about vibrations maaaaaaaaaan.
God help us all when the tofu munchers come across the string theorists talking about "music" in the n-branes. Whole vistas of stupid will be unleashed.
Some DLC is great. The Undead Nightmare DLC for Red Dead was practically an entirely new game, and both the Gay Tony & whatever the biker one was called where both great content add ons for Grand theft auto.
Republican family values!
Hey, lets inflict forced proposition-8 divorces on 1000s of californian families because an imaginary diety says so, even if the constitution says govt and religion are forbidden from combining.
Oh, the dot net crowd are going to eat Oracles lunch over this. Microsofts dot net is free as the wind (well not free as in speech, but whatever) and has a lot of "enterprise-y" features.
Am I the only one seeing echos of the sad demise of Borland into irrelevance here?