What exactly is security done right? Seriously I've never seen it and I've worked the full gamut of small mum and dad businesses to security cleared govt agencies.
"Security is an illusion; life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all"
You know that the NSA don't just have money, they have access to guns and torture too?
NSA: "We'd like to pay you a good salary to work on some important projects that will help the country"
Mathnerd "no thanks, I prefer to hack in my basement"
NSA: "How would you like a life sentence being waterboarded at Gitmo instead?"
Mathnerd "I'll start on Monday"
I was with you all along but I was waiting for the line at the end where you kick off the revolution and we all join in.
The biggest problem I see these days is that we're all too slack to do anything about it. The Internet has given us a way to blow off steam without going outside and getting angry and burning shit down. We've forgotten how to revolt. Man, even as I type this I can feel the hate waning. It's all too hard... I might just waste the rest of the day reading Reddit and wanking to porn...
Saw the trailer for 10 seconds and said to myself 'O look its Captain Jack in disguise'
Saw the trailer for 10 seconds and said to myself 'O look its Edward Scissorhands in disguise'
Saw the trailer for 10 seconds and said to myself 'O look its Willy Wonka in disguise'
Saw the trailer for 10 seconds and said to myself 'O look its Mad Hatter in disguise'
Johnny Depp can't act. He plays the same guy in every single film.
I'm no art guy, and never seen a real Van Gogh, but I had a similar impression from buying a cheap fake in a Vietnamese market in Ho Chi Minh city. These are pretty shoddy copies done by street artists but the fact that it's real paint with real texture makes them much better than any print.
So we're supposed to buy a second car just to commute to/from work? Very few people have the luxury of buying a car just to handle their daily commute. If you're one who does, good for you.
Very few people have the luxury of buying one car let alone any form of motorised transport, if we're taking the global population into account. For my particular circumstance, 25kw is all I need. Where do I sign?
The fallacy can be dispelled by simply looking at the system working very well from the 40s through the early 80s where the elites paid a much higher percentage of income in tax.
That doesn't work for a couple of reasons. Firstly, post WW2 everyone was nationalistic, had belief in the brave new world, and invested heavily in nation building/rebuilding. That was a unique set of circumstances, along with a swing in birth rates which allowed certain conditions to be feasible then that aren't now. By the 80's these conditions were disappearing, technology improved to allowed globalisation in both communciations and transport. Trickle down economics can work in a Pre-1980's world because it's too hard to bleed resources overseas. Since the 80's it fails because the rich simply move offshore, so trickle down turns into trickle away. All we are experiencing now is the after shock of the 80's globalisation shift. The golden years of the 40's to 80's happened purely because of a World War immediately prior. This will not be repeated (for a little while at least).
Hong Kong was returned to China after China told the UK to give it back or they will take it back.
Cite?
I lived in Hong Kong in the 70's and early 80's. It was always clear then that Hong Hong was to be given back when the lease expired in 97. If what you say is true, then the (at the time) Chinese govt had as much say in world politics and the Ethopians do now. I hardly think that the likes of Margaret Thatcher would've been swayed by such rhetoric.
And the British Empire was giving back colonies left right and centre back then, you statement is pure bunk.
And the fewer rich people who pay the majority of the taxes in the US. Tax year 2009, top 5% of AGI paid 58% of the income taxes (from here).
It's good to see this getting more visibility. I think there'll more and more pressure put on everyone to pull their weight, and the old myth of the rich getting a free ride on the backs of blue collar labour are slowly evaporating. I'd like to see the day where people talk less about how much their salary is and more about how much tax they contributed. For the record, I paid $35k income tax last year.
Correct.
Roads don't scale very well because the bigger you make them, the more people use them and so you end up where you started, except now your nice leafy suburbs are an angry sprawl of concrete, noise and pollution. For any city over a couple of million in population rail is the only solution that scales.
Because none of that would raise any suspicions with your family, friends, workmates or neighbours (if you had any). Your problem is that even though you have no social skills (ie a loner) the people in your community do, and part of those skills involve identifying strange behaviour in others.
Where do you live? Who do you pay rent to? Where do you buy your food? If you don't drive where do you buy your train/bus tickets? (all the transport and stations here have cameras), how do you research your masterplan with no phone or internet? You think the people at the library or internet cafe not going to think it strange when some androgynous weirdo comes in each day with different coloured hair doing google searches for home made bombs? How about the girl at the hair dye selling shop? It's a lot harder than you think to get "off the grid".
Well if you have the OS already and are given the choice of MSE for no extra cost, or most of every other solution which costs money, then yes, it is free.
Nobody cares whether its original they care if it works.
But only if it doesn't hose your system in the process. MSE might not be the most water tight security app out there, but is hits a pretty nice sweet spot for 'good enough" security as well as "low enough" impact on performance. It's also free which makes it pretty hard to beat for a client based malware solution.
Its a short term problem at worst. Soon no one will bother to mine bitcoins. There will be easier ways to acquire them
Or more likely, people will ignore them. I know this is Slashdot and we must have a Bitcoin story in here every day, but outside of here no-one I know talks about or even knows anything about Bitcoin. I know a little bit about it, and even I'm not going anywhere near it, what is going to change that makes regular Joe give up his known and easily understandable concept of cash for some magic complicated fairy dust that you need a math education to figure out if it's a scam or not?
If these 14000 pieces are lined up and dug in on the border, doesn't that make them a pretty easy target for a couple of thousand carpet bomb sorties?
The US military might not have such a shining record at guerrilla style confrontations (Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam etc), but in an old fashioned big army v big army fight they have precisely the right arsenal to make very short work of you.
I'm not sure you realise how missile defence works (or doesn't as the case may be). It's 50:50 at best, not the sort of odds I'd be depending on to decide if I live or die.
He can say what he likes, but he has now escalated this to the action of pointing weapons at our friends. It won't be much safer for him if this continues as the US will be forced to act.
This will be very interesting from a technology point of view. This time around it isn't nomads living in caves or peasants in the jungle, this is precisely the type of battle of those trillions of dollars of US Defence spending have been designed for. If it goes off it will be extremely quick and devastating for the NK. I just hope we get to see this one in HD.
I assume you're trying to make some association between Bush jnr's pre-emptive strike that had zero evidence and a possible Obama pre-emptive strike for which there is plenty of verifiable evidence? It's not the pre-emption to blame, it's the justification (which in the NK case is clear and present).
If you want to see what less govt looks like, go live in Afghanistan. I hear it's working out real well for them right now...
Banning guns or imposing strict controls only sounds reasonable to people who don't value their gun rights in the first place.
You don't have to ban guns, just enact reasonable measure to ensure only appropriate guns are available for appropriate means.
And you're right, it does sounds reasonable to people who value things like health, education and safety over some redneck fascination with a weapon.
Sounds impressive doesn't it. But if you tried you could easily smash a coconut with your bare hands.
I can only assume you never tried to crack a coconut with your bare hands, I'd go so far as to say it is impossible. It's even quite difficult repeatedly smashing it on concrete, you generally need something sharp to crack the case and bare hands simply aren't up to the task. I doubt TFA claims too, coconuts can provide a challenge even for a machete, I highly doubt a rolled up magazine and cheap pointy trinkets would have any effect.
And really, if we're talking an organised holy war here, you simply bring 20 friends with you, each with small bottles of liquid explosives. 20 times a little bit equals one exploding plane.
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What exactly is security done right? Seriously I've never seen it and I've worked the full gamut of small mum and dad businesses to security cleared govt agencies. "Security is an illusion; life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all"
You know that the NSA don't just have money, they have access to guns and torture too?
NSA: "We'd like to pay you a good salary to work on some important projects that will help the country"
Mathnerd "no thanks, I prefer to hack in my basement"
NSA: "How would you like a life sentence being waterboarded at Gitmo instead?"
Mathnerd "I'll start on Monday"
I was with you all along but I was waiting for the line at the end where you kick off the revolution and we all join in. The biggest problem I see these days is that we're all too slack to do anything about it. The Internet has given us a way to blow off steam without going outside and getting angry and burning shit down. We've forgotten how to revolt. Man, even as I type this I can feel the hate waning. It's all too hard... I might just waste the rest of the day reading Reddit and wanking to porn...
Saw the trailer for 10 seconds and said to myself 'O look its Captain Jack in disguise'
Saw the trailer for 10 seconds and said to myself 'O look its Edward Scissorhands in disguise'
Saw the trailer for 10 seconds and said to myself 'O look its Willy Wonka in disguise'
Saw the trailer for 10 seconds and said to myself 'O look its Mad Hatter in disguise'
Johnny Depp can't act. He plays the same guy in every single film.
I'm no art guy, and never seen a real Van Gogh, but I had a similar impression from buying a cheap fake in a Vietnamese market in Ho Chi Minh city. These are pretty shoddy copies done by street artists but the fact that it's real paint with real texture makes them much better than any print.
So we're supposed to buy a second car just to commute to/from work? Very few people have the luxury of buying a car just to handle their daily commute. If you're one who does, good for you.
Very few people have the luxury of buying one car let alone any form of motorised transport, if we're taking the global population into account. For my particular circumstance, 25kw is all I need. Where do I sign?
The fallacy can be dispelled by simply looking at the system working very well from the 40s through the early 80s where the elites paid a much higher percentage of income in tax.
That doesn't work for a couple of reasons. Firstly, post WW2 everyone was nationalistic, had belief in the brave new world, and invested heavily in nation building/rebuilding. That was a unique set of circumstances, along with a swing in birth rates which allowed certain conditions to be feasible then that aren't now. By the 80's these conditions were disappearing, technology improved to allowed globalisation in both communciations and transport. Trickle down economics can work in a Pre-1980's world because it's too hard to bleed resources overseas. Since the 80's it fails because the rich simply move offshore, so trickle down turns into trickle away. All we are experiencing now is the after shock of the 80's globalisation shift. The golden years of the 40's to 80's happened purely because of a World War immediately prior. This will not be repeated (for a little while at least).
Since when do "state run" and "quality" belong together?
BBC.
And the ABC here in Australia follows the same model. Quality broadcasting from the state owned broadcaster.
Hong Kong was returned to China after China told the UK to give it back or they will take it back.
Cite? I lived in Hong Kong in the 70's and early 80's. It was always clear then that Hong Hong was to be given back when the lease expired in 97. If what you say is true, then the (at the time) Chinese govt had as much say in world politics and the Ethopians do now. I hardly think that the likes of Margaret Thatcher would've been swayed by such rhetoric. And the British Empire was giving back colonies left right and centre back then, you statement is pure bunk.
So how are you posting this again? Every Internet company is feeding data to the NSA sooooo?
Even in China? The NSA is bigger than we thought!
And the fewer rich people who pay the majority of the taxes in the US. Tax year 2009, top 5% of AGI paid 58% of the income taxes (from here).
It's good to see this getting more visibility. I think there'll more and more pressure put on everyone to pull their weight, and the old myth of the rich getting a free ride on the backs of blue collar labour are slowly evaporating. I'd like to see the day where people talk less about how much their salary is and more about how much tax they contributed. For the record, I paid $35k income tax last year.
Correct. Roads don't scale very well because the bigger you make them, the more people use them and so you end up where you started, except now your nice leafy suburbs are an angry sprawl of concrete, noise and pollution. For any city over a couple of million in population rail is the only solution that scales.
In what way is it a Ponzi scheme? The end game of a Ponzi scheme is new investors get nothing. BC still has value.
Because we're not at the end of the scheme yet? Come back in a decade and let me know how much value it has.
Because none of that would raise any suspicions with your family, friends, workmates or neighbours (if you had any). Your problem is that even though you have no social skills (ie a loner) the people in your community do, and part of those skills involve identifying strange behaviour in others.
Where do you live? Who do you pay rent to? Where do you buy your food? If you don't drive where do you buy your train/bus tickets? (all the transport and stations here have cameras), how do you research your masterplan with no phone or internet? You think the people at the library or internet cafe not going to think it strange when some androgynous weirdo comes in each day with different coloured hair doing google searches for home made bombs? How about the girl at the hair dye selling shop? It's a lot harder than you think to get "off the grid".
Well if you have the OS already and are given the choice of MSE for no extra cost, or most of every other solution which costs money, then yes, it is free.
Nobody cares whether its original they care if it works.
But only if it doesn't hose your system in the process. MSE might not be the most water tight security app out there, but is hits a pretty nice sweet spot for 'good enough" security as well as "low enough" impact on performance. It's also free which makes it pretty hard to beat for a client based malware solution.
Its a short term problem at worst. Soon no one will bother to mine bitcoins. There will be easier ways to acquire them
Or more likely, people will ignore them. I know this is Slashdot and we must have a Bitcoin story in here every day, but outside of here no-one I know talks about or even knows anything about Bitcoin. I know a little bit about it, and even I'm not going anywhere near it, what is going to change that makes regular Joe give up his known and easily understandable concept of cash for some magic complicated fairy dust that you need a math education to figure out if it's a scam or not?
If these 14000 pieces are lined up and dug in on the border, doesn't that make them a pretty easy target for a couple of thousand carpet bomb sorties? The US military might not have such a shining record at guerrilla style confrontations (Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam etc), but in an old fashioned big army v big army fight they have precisely the right arsenal to make very short work of you.
I'm not sure you realise how missile defence works (or doesn't as the case may be). It's 50:50 at best, not the sort of odds I'd be depending on to decide if I live or die.
He can say what he likes, but he has now escalated this to the action of pointing weapons at our friends. It won't be much safer for him if this continues as the US will be forced to act. This will be very interesting from a technology point of view. This time around it isn't nomads living in caves or peasants in the jungle, this is precisely the type of battle of those trillions of dollars of US Defence spending have been designed for. If it goes off it will be extremely quick and devastating for the NK. I just hope we get to see this one in HD.
I assume you're trying to make some association between Bush jnr's pre-emptive strike that had zero evidence and a possible Obama pre-emptive strike for which there is plenty of verifiable evidence? It's not the pre-emption to blame, it's the justification (which in the NK case is clear and present). If you want to see what less govt looks like, go live in Afghanistan. I hear it's working out real well for them right now...
Banning guns or imposing strict controls only sounds reasonable to people who don't value their gun rights in the first place.
You don't have to ban guns, just enact reasonable measure to ensure only appropriate guns are available for appropriate means. And you're right, it does sounds reasonable to people who value things like health, education and safety over some redneck fascination with a weapon.
Bullet control. You can print all the guns you like but what you going shoot out of them?
Sounds impressive doesn't it. But if you tried you could easily smash a coconut with your bare hands.
I can only assume you never tried to crack a coconut with your bare hands, I'd go so far as to say it is impossible. It's even quite difficult repeatedly smashing it on concrete, you generally need something sharp to crack the case and bare hands simply aren't up to the task. I doubt TFA claims too, coconuts can provide a challenge even for a machete, I highly doubt a rolled up magazine and cheap pointy trinkets would have any effect.
And really, if we're talking an organised holy war here, you simply bring 20 friends with you, each with small bottles of liquid explosives. 20 times a little bit equals one exploding plane.