jesus christ, have you ever had your shit auto-filled in by facebook? do you remember authorizing that shit?
this whole thing is an assault on the intelligence of the public. it is absolutely outrageous abuse of power. the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is being rolled up like a stick and used as a battering ram against the First Amendment. this administration is completely out of control.
Thomas Drake Stephen Kim Shamai Leibowitz Jeffrey Sterling James Risen Bradley Manning Aaron Swartz
When does it fucking end? This is the worst assault on free speech, since the war-time censorship during World War II. This is completely unconscionable and unacceptable. The president has gone absolutely insane and needs to be relieved of his duty.
in the US would break down into perhaps the following.
NEWS of the World actually hurting people harassment infliction of emotional distress invasion of privacy
phone phreaks / lulzsec tresspassing tortuous interference harassment public nuisance
now, , , then there are the 'evil hacker laws'.
"doing naughty things on computers" Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (same law they tried to use on the Myspace suicide woman) (also coincidentally the same law being used against Bradley Manning, Wikileaks, NSA Whistleblower Thomas Drake, etc).
Various state laws, like the California Comprehensive Computer Crimes Whatsitcalled. (Which Facebook has used to sue people who... crawl facebook)
so actually the laws are completely different depending. and IMHO most of the 'hacking laws' are unconstitutionally vague and unnecessary
but a lot of people whose life is a never ending string of relatively well paying jobs, "interesting" work, conferences, tech seminars, etc, tend to lose their ability to empathize with the rest of us losers.
i have read some of the archaeology people's writings, and uhm, they have a nice euphemism. "outcompeted". they look at burial sites and so forth to chart the spread of the species.
and uhm. the neanderthals were mass slaughtered.
actually its pretty common in history, from the genetic records, to have waves of populations come in and slaughter the existing population, completely displacing it.
when your local news says 'anti-terrorism operation happened today on the freeway, many trucks stopped', you might blow it off.
when you read a bunch of websites about what a VIPR team is, read its budget, read the congressional criticisms of it, then you starting getting antsy about it.
they spent millions of taxpayer dollars for a system that has no proven benefit, all it does is further erode civil liberties which 'our brave men and women in uniform' are said to have died to defend.
any pirates who would attack scientific intstruments are committing property crime. the death penalty seems a little harsh.
as for the pirates that attack people, well, somalia doesn't really have a government to speak of.
and if you think you can 'solve the problem' by intimidating a few of them, you might want to read about what motivates them in the first place. i.e. there is a massive drought in the region right now, millions of people are starving... as i write this.
if i were in their shoes, and you asked me if i wanted to be a pirate, and maybe eat, i dont know what i would say. you see, i've never been starving to death and watched my whole family die.
in my humble opinion, instead of starting a nother never ending 'war on piracy', we could instead try to stop the corruption and malfeasance that prevent the somalis from engaging in ordinary business activity. i.e. start enforcing international laws regarding the fisheries off of their coasts.
microsoft's strategy to use software patents to eliminate linux and throw linux programmers in jail and/or bankruptcy is, well, i mean, we should be happy about that.
there has been one book that discusses this little hedge fund, its called EConned (which grew out of a blog called nakedcapitalism.com).
on the other hand there have been a half-dozen news stories about it, some of the first being in the Wall Street Journal and New York Times.
there have been pretty much zero science fiction books that deal with financial engineering, credit derivatives, tranched securities, and everything else related to the financial crisis.
there are a lot of good reporters working for the 'corporate media', including louise story and gillian tett.
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i could also talk about the Vietnam War Crimes Working Group Files, which were originally found by an 'independent researcher', but later more thoroughly examined by someone who had worked for the LA Times.
i dont think there are any science fiction books about the Vietnam War Crimes Working Group Files.
Slashdot Mirror
jesus christ, have you ever had your shit auto-filled in by facebook? do you remember authorizing that shit?
this whole thing is an assault on the intelligence of the public. it is absolutely outrageous abuse of power. the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is being rolled up like a stick and used as a battering ram against the First Amendment. this administration is completely out of control.
Thomas Drake
Stephen Kim
Shamai Leibowitz
Jeffrey Sterling
James Risen
Bradley Manning
Aaron Swartz
When does it fucking end? This is the worst assault on free speech, since the war-time censorship during World War II. This is completely unconscionable and unacceptable. The president has gone absolutely insane and needs to be relieved of his duty.
This is not what I voted for.
although some people enjoy calling it "merging" and "assimilation"
in the US would break down into perhaps the following.
NEWS of the World
actually hurting people
harassment
infliction of emotional distress
invasion of privacy
phone phreaks / lulzsec
tresspassing
tortuous interference
harassment
public nuisance
now, , , then there are the 'evil hacker laws'.
"doing naughty things on computers"
Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (same law they tried to use on the Myspace suicide woman)
(also coincidentally the same law being used against Bradley Manning, Wikileaks, NSA Whistleblower Thomas Drake, etc).
Various state laws, like the California Comprehensive Computer Crimes Whatsitcalled. (Which Facebook has used to sue people who ... crawl facebook)
so actually the laws are completely different depending. and IMHO most of the 'hacking laws' are unconstitutionally vague and unnecessary
to dole it out to welfare projects like the B-1 bomber, the space shuttle, and a host of other socialist, big government programs.
sounds like a damn good idea! bring back that reagan guy!
look, no offense.
but a lot of people whose life is a never ending string of relatively well paying jobs, "interesting" work, conferences, tech seminars, etc, tend to lose their ability to empathize with the rest of us losers.
i have read some of the archaeology people's writings, and uhm, they have a nice euphemism. "outcompeted". they look at burial sites and so forth to chart the spread of the species.
and uhm. the neanderthals were mass slaughtered.
actually its pretty common in history, from the genetic records, to have waves of populations come in and slaughter the existing population, completely displacing it.
yay us.
TRAILBLAZER
the New York City thing
etc etc etc.
did i mention that SAIC and NSA senior officials flip back and forth between working for the company and working for NSA?
if i am not mistaken.
and he is right.
when your local news says 'anti-terrorism operation happened today on the freeway, many trucks stopped', you might blow it off.
when you read a bunch of websites about what a VIPR team is, read its budget, read the congressional criticisms of it, then you starting getting antsy about it.
made by companies that are part owned by the People's Liberation Army ?
im sure they didn't put any hardware backdoors in. nah.
of these things...
after that mayb a nw kabird.
although i am probably missing something.... but uhm. relying on your ISP to shield you from this stuff seems pointless.
thats right. adolph hitler.
"I don't know where to begin"
-- Mein Kampf, 1987.
That was right before he killed all the Muslims.
they spent millions of taxpayer dollars for a system that has no proven benefit, all it does is further erode civil liberties which 'our brave men and women in uniform' are said to have died to defend.
the TSA has gone too far this time.
you work on the Future Attribute stuff?
interesting concept. i have never heard of a 'preventative death penalty' before.
only preventative wars.
any pirates who would attack scientific intstruments are committing property crime. the death penalty seems a little harsh.
as for the pirates that attack people, well, somalia doesn't really have a government to speak of.
and if you think you can 'solve the problem' by intimidating a few of them, you might want to read about what motivates them in the first place. i.e. there is a massive drought in the region right now, millions of people are starving... as i write this.
if i were in their shoes, and you asked me if i wanted to be a pirate, and maybe eat, i dont know what i would say. you see, i've never been starving to death and watched my whole family die.
in my humble opinion, instead of starting a nother never ending 'war on piracy', we could instead try to stop the corruption and malfeasance that prevent the somalis from engaging in ordinary business activity. i.e. start enforcing international laws regarding the fisheries off of their coasts.
i personally agree with you.
microsoft's strategy to use software patents to eliminate linux and throw linux programmers in jail and/or bankruptcy is, well, i mean, we should be happy about that.
we deserve it.
we are slime. we are filth.
please sir, may we have another?
sounds very interesting.
lets take "magnetar capital" for example.
there has been one book that discusses this little hedge fund, its called EConned (which grew out of a blog called nakedcapitalism.com).
on the other hand there have been a half-dozen news stories about it, some of the first being in the Wall Street Journal and New York Times.
there have been pretty much zero science fiction books that deal with financial engineering, credit derivatives, tranched securities, and everything else related to the financial crisis.
there are a lot of good reporters working for the 'corporate media', including louise story and gillian tett.
---------
i could also talk about the Vietnam War Crimes Working Group Files, which were originally found by an 'independent researcher', but later more thoroughly examined by someone who had worked for the LA Times.
i dont think there are any science fiction books about the Vietnam War Crimes Working Group Files.
it is basically the same thing.
freebsd as 'irrelevant' and 'holding us back' is kind of a bizarro argument.
if they are trying to send us a new video of their greatest pop star, how will we be able to download it in a reasonable amount of time?
congratulations America, television has finally turned your collective brains into 300 million bowls of porridge.