of the new writing. by verbs, it allows your imagination to free, free as the wind. it a long time since we such a refreshing update to the english language. you with the flow.
lions, from what i have read, are the laziest creature on the planet.
they sit around 23 hours a day, mostly sleeping. then when they wake up once in a while, they go scavenge dead bodies of animals other animals killed, or picking some slow ass zebra and eating it.
then the male lions not only kill each other, they kill each others children. why? they are lions. thats why.
oh, lions also kill people. i mean not to defend their turf or children or whatever like elephans or bears.
they just like killing stuff. they are like big house cats, and everyone knows that house cats are sociopathic mass murderers. just ask the birds.
the last thing you want to name your product is 'lion'. thats like naming it 'lazy scavenging sociopathic killer'
there are literally hundreds of thousands of lines of code that go into me being able to type a single character on this message box and have it go through the internet and show up on slashdot.
until every system in the entire planet moves to some magical language where nothing ever leaks, on all levels from assembler hardware drivers to the lower level libraries to the UI layer to the drivers for video cards to the 3rd party programs we all use like Chrome or Firefox, then there will always be memory leaks
my post did not mention unions, nor did i imply anything about unions.
someone said 'if you dont like your wages, ask for a raise or get a new job. no problem'.
i pointed out that people who follow this advice often do, in fact, have problems, and that therefore the model of reality that the poster was using was flawed.
i do not understand why people chose to bring unions into this.
the fact that a company would choose to move production to a slave labor factory in another country with no democratic protections, rather than put up with unions in a free country, only proves my point.
the workers in those other countries will not be promoted, nor will they be given raises, no matter how hard they work.
companies compare their wages with each other, and fix wages at the 'average', which they continually drive down to reduce costs and improve margins for investors.
in a high unemployment enviornment, there is no incentive for any employer to raise wages. their business model depends on processes that deliberately eliminate any opportunity for skill or individuality to make an improvement in efficiency. everything is diagrammed and programmed and planned down to when the worker shits and eats.
if you 'ask for a raise', you will be blacklisted and/or put on a list of 'problem workers'.
think about it. you are a manger. you have two people who do roughly the same job, which has been purposely micromanaged and controlled so that one person cannot do much better at it than another, since they have no opportunity for independent decision making.
one of these people never complains, works when sick, etc. the other one asks for a raise. which one are you going to lay off at layoff time?
some can 'start their own business' or 'get retrained' or this or that and the other. after working a couple of years, seeing people who have been 'retrained' 2-3 times, people with bachelors and masters degrees, its not that simple. the theory does not match reality.
in a scientific system, when your observations do not match the predictions of your theory, then your theory has flaws, and a new theory must be created to better match observational reality.
I edited wikipedia , to make it hopefully much more neutral. Thanks for the tip.
As for the slashdot story, I believe that Thomas Drake's innocence is not opinion. I believe that it is a fact. If you have 10 counts against you, and they are all dropped, then you are innocent of them. Several readers have pointed this follows from the 'innocent until proven guilty' meme (which i hadn't thought of, but is a good argument...) do you disagree? Just because I am biased does not mean I am factually wrong, does it?
I believe the slashdot headline compares favorably in accurate to the other mainstream news headlines that are currently crowding around cyberspace.
The other headlines on other news sites typically say something like "NSA Leak case reaches plea deal", or "NSA spy espionage case pleads out" or "Spy-Agency Leaker pleads guilty to lesser charge" or "classified leak case reaches bargain" or whatever.
Many of these statments are misleading, or flat out wrong, and most of them imply things that are factually incorrect. Thomas Drake was never, ever, not even once, charged with 'leaking'. There is no law against 'leaking'. There are several laws covering 'disclosure' or 'delivery' of information, but he was not charged with one of those laws either. Why? Because they had no good evidence that he ever delivered any classified information to anyone. He specifically took precautions against divulging classified information to anyone - that was part of his agreement with Gorman of the Baltimore Sun - that he wouldn't give her any information.
Now, the DOJ indictment of him contains a lot of statements about 'giving classified information to a reporter', but when they actually brought criminal charges, none of those charges was for 'leaking' or 'disclosure' or 'delivery' of information. A statement is a totally different thing from a charge. Thus, any headline that says he was 'charged with leaking' or 'charged with disclosure' is misleading at best and flat out wrong at worst.
As for this word 'classified', it is also wrong. The Espionage Act 793(e) does not even use the word 'classified', it uses the phrase "national defense information". This is an important distinction, because only a jury can decide if a defendant's information counted as 'national defense information'. And this typically refers to serious military stuff, like diagrams of ships or something - that is what the law was refering to when Congress created it in 1917, and when Congress created its forefather the Defense Secrets Act in 1911, and what Congress intended when it amended the Espionage Act in 1950. And as Schmidt and Edgar point out in their famous 1973 Columbia Law article, Congress has repeatedly refused or failed to blanketly criminalize the posession or delivery of classified information - as Elsea points out in her 2010 CRS article, there is a 'patchwork' of laws, because Congress itself, and the President, love to leak classified information to the media. Thus, every headline that uses the word 'charged with leaking classified info' in relation to Drake's case is factually incorrect. He was never, not even once, charged with any law that contains the word 'classified' anywhere in it.
Again, the indictment makes a lot of statements about 'giving classified information to a reporter' (Which the judge ruled there was no evidence of). Even the headline of the DOJ news release might say things about 'classified information'. It is not my fault that the DOJ lawyers cannot read the Espionage Act. And again, a statement in an indcitment is a totally different thing from a criminal charge.
Lastly I'd like to cover the implications, the sort of tone and demeanor, of the language of the many articles floating around the web.
They seem to imply the story here is that a 'leaker' had to 'plead to a lesser charge'. That is utterly misleading. Another view of the story, one that I believe will be in the history books, is that the government, after a case that started when Bush demanded the FBI find the NS
the CEO and top executives get the bucks today, and they get golden parachutes tomorrow. it is not really any of their problem if the entire company goes down the toilet.
it is very much what happened in the financial crisis - CEOs like Dick Fuld of Lehman brothers walked away with hundreds of millions of dollars. He lost a lot of money personally, but he is not wondering where his next meal will come from.
There are thousands if not tens of thousands of lower level executives, hedge fund people, etc, who did the same thing. Ramp up the CDO business, get rich quick, retire, and let the rest of society fend for itself.
i really wont go into the full list, but how about the racist, screaming boss who fired the competent, friendly, but mentally challenged worker who had been there for 5 years, because she didnt like 'retards'?
im not trashing freenet nor even IRC. I had many good times on #linux or #python or #c or #asm. I was mostly on Undernet, some EFnet, a little dalnet. Freenet did not even exist when i started, #linpeople was on undernet (or dalnet?). I remember lilo, god rest his soul.
However. On undernet, I personally witnessed people on childporn channels. I used to scream at them. Now I realize they were probably cops. I personally witnessed people get glined for silly reasons. I personally witnessed channel operators who traded netsex for channel ops. I witnessed a lot of things that were improper and corrupt. Then there was the warez. And bestiality. And other things that are hard to explain in a 1996 context, when not 'just anyone' could set up a server.
I'm just saying. When someone says 'oh, by the way, 25% of hackers are cops', somehow that leaps out at me. I am not saying I'm 100% positive, I'm just saying there are a lot of bells flashing in my head. Maybe I'm going all Alex Jones, but I think it's worth looking in to.
As for comparing IRC with the rest of the net, yes. Usenet would be my first analogy - it is full of absolute horror, and yet many major ISPs kept it going for years. And 4chan, in the modern age, is full of illegal stuff, or so I've heard. I'm just saying, maybe something 'explains' their existence too.
Maybe I've been reading too much history of the CIA and FBI. But I don't think its a completely crazy thesis for someone to go do some research on.
there has to be a thoroughly sound and logical reason for the FBI to allow child porn and warez to flow through government owned (universities are government institutions) computer networks, for years on end, meanwhile the FBI goes after countless john does for having child porn and/or warez networks running on their personal computers.
i would say the vast majority do not understand or care about what you are talking about. if the police come asking for stuff, their first instinct is to be helpful and get rid of the 'bad people'.
libraries are top down bureaucracies that make corporate life seem like a montessori school. independent thought is not allowed, especially regarding "the computers", control of which many library administrators cling to as some kind of ailment for middle age.
before the big corporations got involved. i am talking 1995-2000, when i used to hang out on there alot.
you would have constant server hacks, massive problems with servers going down, networks splitting, etcetera. the whole thing was run by a mysterious group of admins, who would GLine you for making controversial political statements and annoying operators of certain channels, but these admins would freely allow child porn channels and warez channels to stay up for years on end.
and who was hosting these servers? places like universities, big ISPs, etc etc etc. That was where the names resolved to.
so yes, i am being totally serious. there is not very much logical reason for a university or business to host a massively bandwidth hogging haven for criminal activity, full of drama and expense that was almost entirely devoted to non-educational activity. I mean how did they ever justify it in their budget?
Unless the Feds put it there on purpose to help catch people, it just defies reason.
How is it different from the web in general? I don't know. I don't know how 4chan stays afloat either.
But now I have a pretty good idea.
Am I a paranoid conspiracy theorist? No, I just read a lot of CIA & FBI history books. They were heavily involved with the media in the 60s, I am just thinking it is a logical progression for them to be involved in the same way in cyberspace.
Slashdot Mirror
people need to stop acting like Europe is less corrupt, more free, and more enlightened than the united states.
its just different thats all.
of the new writing. by verbs, it allows your imagination to free, free as the wind. it a long time since we such a refreshing update to the english language. you with the flow.
personally i we should also adjectives articles.
are completely different from those in the United States and they fundamnetally alter what the press and the populace are able to do and say.
see 'Canary in the Coalmine' by former DOJ lawyer & whistleblower Jesselyn Radack.
'disclosure' is a term that whistleblowers use
'delivery' is the term that the Espionage Act uses
'leaking' is the term that Nixon used when he created the 'plumbers'.
there is a case going on -right now- where Obama's DOJ is subpoenaing a reporter over a chapter in his book State of War.
this is probably the first time this has ever happened, in the entire history of the country, in an Espionage Act case.
intimidation, political maneuvering, invasion of the k-12 school system, and soon, predatory litigtation (especially patent litigation)
lions, from what i have read, are the laziest creature on the planet.
they sit around 23 hours a day, mostly sleeping. then when they wake up once in a while, they go scavenge dead bodies of animals other animals killed, or picking some slow ass zebra and eating it.
then the male lions not only kill each other, they kill each others children. why? they are lions. thats why.
oh, lions also kill people. i mean not to defend their turf or children or whatever like elephans or bears.
they just like killing stuff. they are like big house cats, and everyone knows that house cats are sociopathic mass murderers. just ask the birds.
the last thing you want to name your product is 'lion'. thats like naming it 'lazy scavenging sociopathic killer'
memory.
there are literally hundreds of thousands of lines of code that go into me being able to type a single character on this message box and have it go through the internet and show up on slashdot.
until every system in the entire planet moves to some magical language where nothing ever leaks, on all levels from assembler hardware drivers to the lower level libraries to the UI layer to the drivers for video cards to the 3rd party programs we all use like Chrome or Firefox,
then there will always be memory leaks
and will soon be replaced by arduinos
arabic does not mean 'terrorist' , it doesnt even necessarily mean 'muslim'.
serves me right for trying to make an innocent joke that was even remotely related to culture. i should have predicted what would happen.
i have no idea what 'arabic pacman' would look like, but i was so eager to click and find out. imagine my disappointment.
my post did not mention unions, nor did i imply anything about unions.
someone said 'if you dont like your wages, ask for a raise or get a new job. no problem'.
i pointed out that people who follow this advice often do, in fact, have problems, and that therefore the model of reality that the poster was using was flawed.
i do not understand why people chose to bring unions into this.
the fact that a company would choose to move production to a slave labor factory in another country with no democratic protections, rather than put up with unions in a free country, only proves my point.
the workers in those other countries will not be promoted, nor will they be given raises, no matter how hard they work.
original comment: "If you feel you're not being paid enough, ask for a raise. "
my comment: "if you ask for a raise, management will become angry"
your comment: "[union workers are always asking for undeserved raises, and they are worthless]"
i believe that you have just proved my point.
every workplace pays roughly the same.
companies compare their wages with each other, and fix wages at the 'average', which they continually drive down to reduce costs and improve margins for investors.
in a high unemployment enviornment, there is no incentive for any employer to raise wages. their business model depends on processes that deliberately eliminate any opportunity for skill or individuality to make an improvement in efficiency. everything is diagrammed and programmed and planned down to when the worker shits and eats.
if you 'ask for a raise', you will be blacklisted and/or put on a list of 'problem workers'.
think about it. you are a manger. you have two people who do roughly the same job, which has been purposely micromanaged and controlled so that one person cannot do much better at it than another, since they have no opportunity for independent decision making.
one of these people never complains, works when sick, etc. the other one asks for a raise. which one are you going to lay off at layoff time?
some can 'start their own business' or 'get retrained' or this or that and the other. after working a couple of years, seeing people who have been 'retrained' 2-3 times, people with bachelors and masters degrees, its not that simple. the theory does not match reality.
in a scientific system, when your observations do not match the predictions of your theory, then your theory has flaws, and a new theory must be created to better match observational reality.
I edited wikipedia , to make it hopefully much more neutral. Thanks for the tip.
As for the slashdot story, I believe that Thomas Drake's innocence is not opinion. I believe that it is a fact. If you have 10 counts against you, and they are all dropped, then you are innocent of them. Several readers have pointed this follows from the 'innocent until proven guilty' meme (which i hadn't thought of, but is a good argument...) do you disagree? Just because I am biased does not mean I am factually wrong, does it?
I believe the slashdot headline compares favorably in accurate to the other mainstream news headlines that are currently crowding around cyberspace.
The other headlines on other news sites typically say something like "NSA Leak case reaches plea deal", or "NSA spy espionage case pleads out" or "Spy-Agency Leaker pleads guilty to lesser charge" or "classified leak case reaches bargain" or whatever.
Many of these statments are misleading, or flat out wrong, and most of them imply things that are factually incorrect. Thomas Drake was never, ever, not even once, charged with 'leaking'. There is no law against 'leaking'. There are several laws covering 'disclosure' or 'delivery' of information, but he was not charged with one of those laws either. Why? Because they had no good evidence that he ever delivered any classified information to anyone. He specifically took precautions against divulging classified information to anyone - that was part of his agreement with Gorman of the Baltimore Sun - that he wouldn't give her any information.
Now, the DOJ indictment of him contains a lot of statements about 'giving classified information to a reporter', but when they actually brought criminal charges, none of those charges was for 'leaking' or 'disclosure' or 'delivery' of information. A statement is a totally different thing from a charge. Thus, any headline that says he was 'charged with leaking' or 'charged with disclosure' is misleading at best and flat out wrong at worst.
As for this word 'classified', it is also wrong. The Espionage Act 793(e) does not even use the word 'classified', it uses the phrase "national defense information". This is an important distinction, because only a jury can decide if a defendant's information counted as 'national defense information'. And this typically refers to serious military stuff, like diagrams of ships or something - that is what the law was refering to when Congress created it in 1917, and when Congress created its forefather the Defense Secrets Act in 1911, and what Congress intended when it amended the Espionage Act in 1950. And as Schmidt and Edgar point out in their famous 1973 Columbia Law article, Congress has repeatedly refused or failed to blanketly criminalize the posession or delivery of classified information - as Elsea points out in her 2010 CRS article, there is a 'patchwork' of laws, because Congress itself, and the President, love to leak classified information to the media. Thus, every headline that uses the word 'charged with leaking classified info' in relation to Drake's case is factually incorrect. He was never, not even once, charged with any law that contains the word 'classified' anywhere in it.
Again, the indictment makes a lot of statements about 'giving classified information to a reporter' (Which the judge ruled there was no evidence of). Even the headline of the DOJ news release might say things about 'classified information'. It is not my fault that the DOJ lawyers cannot read the Espionage Act. And again, a statement in an indcitment is a totally different thing from a criminal charge.
Lastly I'd like to cover the implications, the sort of tone and demeanor, of the language of the many articles floating around the web.
They seem to imply the story here is that a 'leaker' had to 'plead to a lesser charge'. That is utterly misleading. Another view of the story, one that I believe will be in the history books, is that the government, after a case that started when Bush demanded the FBI find the NS
they have one of the worst safety records in the history of coal mining, and if you talk about it you get put in a labor camp
hell, they just imprisoned a guy who ran a website about the poisoned baby-milk scandal. Zhao Lianhai.
the CEO and top executives get the bucks today, and they get golden parachutes tomorrow. it is not really any of their problem if the entire company goes down the toilet.
it is very much what happened in the financial crisis - CEOs like Dick Fuld of Lehman brothers walked away with hundreds of millions of dollars. He lost a lot of money personally, but he is not wondering where his next meal will come from.
There are thousands if not tens of thousands of lower level executives, hedge fund people, etc, who did the same thing. Ramp up the CDO business, get rich quick, retire, and let the rest of society fend for itself.
what country would you suggest moving to?
i really wont go into the full list, but how about the racist, screaming boss who fired the competent, friendly, but mentally challenged worker who had been there for 5 years, because she didnt like 'retards'?
would that happen at a union shop?
im not trashing freenet nor even IRC. I had many good times on #linux or #python or #c or #asm. I was mostly on Undernet, some EFnet, a little dalnet. Freenet did not even exist when i started, #linpeople was on undernet (or dalnet?). I remember lilo, god rest his soul.
However. On undernet, I personally witnessed people on childporn channels. I used to scream at them. Now I realize they were probably cops. I personally witnessed people get glined for silly reasons. I personally witnessed channel operators who traded netsex for channel ops. I witnessed a lot of things that were improper and corrupt. Then there was the warez. And bestiality. And other things that are hard to explain in a 1996 context, when not 'just anyone' could set up a server.
I'm just saying. When someone says 'oh, by the way, 25% of hackers are cops', somehow that leaps out at me. I am not saying I'm 100% positive, I'm just saying there are a lot of bells flashing in my head. Maybe I'm going all Alex Jones, but I think it's worth looking in to.
As for comparing IRC with the rest of the net, yes. Usenet would be my first analogy - it is full of absolute horror, and yet many major ISPs kept it going for years. And 4chan, in the modern age, is full of illegal stuff, or so I've heard. I'm just saying, maybe something 'explains' their existence too.
Maybe I've been reading too much history of the CIA and FBI. But I don't think its a completely crazy thesis for someone to go do some research on.
there has to be a thoroughly sound and logical reason for the FBI to allow child porn and warez to flow through government owned (universities are government institutions) computer networks, for years on end, meanwhile the FBI goes after countless john does for having child porn and/or warez networks running on their personal computers.
i would say the vast majority do not understand or care about what you are talking about. if the police come asking for stuff, their first instinct is to be helpful and get rid of the 'bad people'.
libraries are top down bureaucracies that make corporate life seem like a montessori school. independent thought is not allowed, especially regarding "the computers", control of which many library administrators cling to as some kind of ailment for middle age.
before the big corporations got involved. i am talking 1995-2000, when i used to hang out on there alot.
you would have constant server hacks, massive problems with servers going down, networks splitting, etcetera. the whole thing was run by a mysterious group of admins, who would GLine you for making controversial political statements and annoying operators of certain channels, but these admins would freely allow child porn channels and warez channels to stay up for years on end.
and who was hosting these servers? places like universities, big ISPs, etc etc etc. That was where the names resolved to.
so yes, i am being totally serious. there is not very much logical reason for a university or business to host a massively bandwidth hogging haven for criminal activity, full of drama and expense that was almost entirely devoted to non-educational activity. I mean how did they ever justify it in their budget?
Unless the Feds put it there on purpose to help catch people, it just defies reason.
How is it different from the web in general? I don't know. I don't know how 4chan stays afloat either.
But now I have a pretty good idea.
Am I a paranoid conspiracy theorist? No, I just read a lot of CIA & FBI history books. They were heavily involved with the media in the 60s, I am just thinking it is a logical progression for them to be involved in the same way in cyberspace.
to stay afloat, full of warez, script kiddies, child pornographers, etc etc etc.