Until then, he was a rich guy with a sick mind. "Al Qaeda" was "the base" from which bin Laden operated in the CIA operation.
Next you'll be telling me that Fidel Castro wasn't created by the CIA. Just because the CIA doesn't keep hold of the monsters it creates doesn't deny that they created them.
You're no one's friend, Anonymous Coward. I don't see you ranting about any number of other valid points in your own post. We're talking about the unacceptable costs of incompetent counterterrorism. Throwing that chewbacca defense in there is nauseating. Especially from where I sit in NYC, within sight of the gap where the World Trade Center used to stand.
Even that system doesn't work. Singapore and some other SE Asian countries have execution penalties for drugs, killing people all the time. The long life of such a program proves that people want drugs more than they fear death.
The problem of cokeheads robbing, beating and killing people to get their cocaine goes away when we provide an easy way to get it. When the crime part goes away, it becomes easier to treat addicts and abusers. That makes most of the problem go away. Treating the problems with police and jail makes the problem worse.
"Those who cultivate, manufacture, and smuggle illegal drugs can leverage vast sums of cash, generated by constant demand."
You mean the people in America's 51.5th state, Afghanistan? Maybe you're referring to their Iran/Contra sponsors, the CIA that also created Osama bin Laden?
Funny how interconnected are these neverending wars that consume endless money and American and foreign lives, all run by the same people centered on the Bush family. Funny if you're stoned, that is.
Yeah, NASA "accidentally lost" them the same way the Pentagon "accidentally forgot" to secure Iraq's ancient sites and museums after they invaded the country and destroyed its security.
I'd bet there's a beautiful gallery in Crawford, TX where a certain fake cowboy can take long vacations and enjoy the best art our planet has created. Or maybe it's in Kennebunkport, ME.
When something goes wrong at Zaxby's, it will of course be "the computer's fault". Not the programmer who coded it wrong, or the Zaxby personnel who specified the business wrong. It will be the computer's fault, like blaming the corporation when it was some Zaxby's human who replaced the human managers with the computer.
Yeah, just like "Virgin Superstore" was a "Tower Records" killer, which was a "Sam Goody" killer.
What is it with these "business" experts, whether writers, MBAs, VCs or daytraders who can't recognize a simple good business competitor, but have to have an overnight monopoly to be satisfied?
As I replied, whitelists are still better than content filters. The problem of how to get the right people onto a whitelist is easier than how to filter content.
Hey, you're supposed to post such insane assholery as AC. Someday when you've retired like I have from selling software and services you'll understand that making money off secret source is usually a false economy. Get your own parents to explain it to you - mine just like to tell their friends about their successful kid who's been independent since highschool, making money on those mysterious computers.
Those public interactions still depend on "from where" you initiated a message. You can whitelist senders who fill out a form, or who send a message to a "onetime" address generated by software in a validated context. Whitelisting uses social trust networks to much better effect than content filtering. Even in the real world, which software can only approximate.
Not that I'm interested in cooperating with an Anonymous obnoxious Coward, but you should consider that "demands" for source also give developers the middle ground of specs to satisfy the requirements for developing independent drivers.
What kind of TrollMod thinks reasons for nVidia to open their drivers source is "Flamebait"? Or somehow "uninteresting"? Sounds more like they want Linux nVidia drivers to stay closed and bad. Or they're just the usual anonymous TrollMod abuse. Or both.
If nVidia is really serious about us "DIY hobbyists" doing their work for them, they should immediately release the source code for all their drivers. So we can make better ones for Linux.
I still read the stupid emails from my own contacts, even when they're useless quotes from literature and/or commercial advertisements. And I don't want to waste time with *any* unsolicited messages from anyone not a contact. Why bother filtering on content, when I care only from whom the message comes?
What I want is for Web links that initiate feedback (webpage "email" forms that just send my message) to include a link to their vCard, so I can click to ensure they're in my contacts. Then I'll get their reply email, after it clears my directory.
I can't wait until these robot competitions move from "dancing poodle" shows that are interesting just because robots can do anything at all, to robotwar competitions which choose the winner from those that survive combat among the competitors. That's when we'll see the SW attacks on the embedded OS and apps.
If I were entering my robot in that kind of competition, I'd want to see the entire OS and app, even if I got it from someone else, to strip out extras and close holes. We'll see just how popular Windows becomes in that darwinian environment.
Don't hydrogen fuelcells generate DC? I can't wait to hook my home gaspipe to more than just my stove, and suck in the MWs direct to my devices. Without all those AC adapters left over from the 20th Century cluttering my home, getting hot, drawing power when "off", getting lost and mixed up...
Maybe we can use the old AC network as a 3rd broadband line, after telco and cableco.
What's interesting is that they *don't* have unlimited amounts of money, just lots of it. But the competition between the media corps and the people of the world is asymmetrical: the attacks don't have to be coordinated, but the end-to-end DRM must be. Only one person has to crack it, then share the crack, but the corps have to keep the DRM deployment process intact. DRM costs a lot, and attacks are cheap. Corps are made of people who leave all the time, while the hordes of potential crackers are always there.
The corps have already invested a lot of money, and are otherwise motivated to see this thru. They also have lots of centralized power. And most people don't care, would sign away their grandma's rights for nothing if it didn't take too long. We'll see what happens, and soon enough.
I can't wait to see all the millions of cheap PCs, most made in China, which carry cracked "crypto ROMs". When those PCs are untrustworthy to either user or publisher, will the entire "snitch PC" system collapse under its own weight?
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The CIA armed bin Laden in Afghanistan in the 1980s to fight the Soviets.
Until then, he was a rich guy with a sick mind. "Al Qaeda" was "the base" from which bin Laden operated in the CIA operation.
Next you'll be telling me that Fidel Castro wasn't created by the CIA. Just because the CIA doesn't keep hold of the monsters it creates doesn't deny that they created them.
Thus spake the Anonymous inconsequential Coward who can't even spell "fuck".
That's why we've got so many people killing each other over $7 packs of cigarettes.
We created the Taliban, too, in partnership with our "ally" Pakistan's secret police ISI.
Fact is, "we" (the BushCo CIA) created such a monster in Central Asia that anything we do now is a catastrophe.
An air traveler from Europe to the US is discussing their take on these developments at Daily Kos.
You're no one's friend, Anonymous Coward. I don't see you ranting about any number of other valid points in your own post. We're talking about the unacceptable costs of incompetent counterterrorism. Throwing that chewbacca defense in there is nauseating. Especially from where I sit in NYC, within sight of the gap where the World Trade Center used to stand.
Scotland Yard, is that you?
Even that system doesn't work. Singapore and some other SE Asian countries have execution penalties for drugs, killing people all the time. The long life of such a program proves that people want drugs more than they fear death.
The problem of cokeheads robbing, beating and killing people to get their cocaine goes away when we provide an easy way to get it. When the crime part goes away, it becomes easier to treat addicts and abusers. That makes most of the problem go away. Treating the problems with police and jail makes the problem worse.
"Those who cultivate, manufacture, and smuggle illegal drugs can leverage vast sums of cash, generated by constant demand."
You mean the people in America's 51.5th state, Afghanistan? Maybe you're referring to their Iran/Contra sponsors, the CIA that also created Osama bin Laden?
Funny how interconnected are these neverending wars that consume endless money and American and foreign lives, all run by the same people centered on the Bush family. Funny if you're stoned, that is.
Yeah, NASA "accidentally lost" them the same way the Pentagon "accidentally forgot" to secure Iraq's ancient sites and museums after they invaded the country and destroyed its security.
I'd bet there's a beautiful gallery in Crawford, TX where a certain fake cowboy can take long vacations and enjoy the best art our planet has created. Or maybe it's in Kennebunkport, ME.
When something goes wrong at Zaxby's, it will of course be "the computer's fault". Not the programmer who coded it wrong, or the Zaxby personnel who specified the business wrong. It will be the computer's fault, like blaming the corporation when it was some Zaxby's human who replaced the human managers with the computer.
Yeah, just like "Virgin Superstore" was a "Tower Records" killer, which was a "Sam Goody" killer.
What is it with these "business" experts, whether writers, MBAs, VCs or daytraders who can't recognize a simple good business competitor, but have to have an overnight monopoly to be satisfied?
Wow, finally I beat a dead horse on Slashdot, and got an extra kick out of it! As if I needed any more encouragement ;).
As I replied, whitelists are still better than content filters. The problem of how to get the right people onto a whitelist is easier than how to filter content.
Hey, you're supposed to post such insane assholery as AC. Someday when you've retired like I have from selling software and services you'll understand that making money off secret source is usually a false economy. Get your own parents to explain it to you - mine just like to tell their friends about their successful kid who's been independent since highschool, making money on those mysterious computers.
Those public interactions still depend on "from where" you initiated a message. You can whitelist senders who fill out a form, or who send a message to a "onetime" address generated by software in a validated context. Whitelisting uses social trust networks to much better effect than content filtering. Even in the real world, which software can only approximate.
Not that I'm interested in cooperating with an Anonymous obnoxious Coward, but you should consider that "demands" for source also give developers the middle ground of specs to satisfy the requirements for developing independent drivers.
So fuck you, and best of luck.
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40% Flamebait
30% Interesting
30% Overrated
What kind of TrollMod thinks reasons for nVidia to open their drivers source is "Flamebait"? Or somehow "uninteresting"? Sounds more like they want Linux nVidia drivers to stay closed and bad. Or they're just the usual anonymous TrollMod abuse. Or both.
If nVidia is really serious about us "DIY hobbyists" doing their work for them, they should immediately release the source code for all their drivers. So we can make better ones for Linux.
I still read the stupid emails from my own contacts, even when they're useless quotes from literature and/or commercial advertisements. And I don't want to waste time with *any* unsolicited messages from anyone not a contact. Why bother filtering on content, when I care only from whom the message comes?
What I want is for Web links that initiate feedback (webpage "email" forms that just send my message) to include a link to their vCard, so I can click to ensure they're in my contacts. Then I'll get their reply email, after it clears my directory.
I can't wait until these robot competitions move from "dancing poodle" shows that are interesting just because robots can do anything at all, to robotwar competitions which choose the winner from those that survive combat among the competitors. That's when we'll see the SW attacks on the embedded OS and apps.
If I were entering my robot in that kind of competition, I'd want to see the entire OS and app, even if I got it from someone else, to strip out extras and close holes. We'll see just how popular Windows becomes in that darwinian environment.
Don't hydrogen fuelcells generate DC? I can't wait to hook my home gaspipe to more than just my stove, and suck in the MWs direct to my devices. Without all those AC adapters left over from the 20th Century cluttering my home, getting hot, drawing power when "off", getting lost and mixed up...
Maybe we can use the old AC network as a 3rd broadband line, after telco and cableco.
When Windows systems are running on HDs which in turn run on embedded Linux, this is all going to get a lot more interesting.
What's interesting is that they *don't* have unlimited amounts of money, just lots of it. But the competition between the media corps and the people of the world is asymmetrical: the attacks don't have to be coordinated, but the end-to-end DRM must be. Only one person has to crack it, then share the crack, but the corps have to keep the DRM deployment process intact. DRM costs a lot, and attacks are cheap. Corps are made of people who leave all the time, while the hordes of potential crackers are always there.
The corps have already invested a lot of money, and are otherwise motivated to see this thru. They also have lots of centralized power. And most people don't care, would sign away their grandma's rights for nothing if it didn't take too long. We'll see what happens, and soon enough.
I can't wait to see all the millions of cheap PCs, most made in China, which carry cracked "crypto ROMs". When those PCs are untrustworthy to either user or publisher, will the entire "snitch PC" system collapse under its own weight?