The USA has the right to not give aid and to not trade with certain countries. Either way, this is going to be used to force IP laws globally. The funny thing about cyber war, is that it is called a war. We have nuclear weapons and the potential to destroy each other. Does that mean we're at nuclear war? What we are seeing is cyber espionage and preparations for cyber warfare. The only way this can be fought is if the world largely stands against the American government. The American people need to also stand against their government, which is clearly no longer representing them or acting in their best interests.
But uh yeah, this is a two-way street we should all be familiar with. Drugs cross the border into the U.S. and sold for cash which is used to buy guns, which go back over the border. The gang bangers are using a lot of AR-15s when confronting the army. Where'd they get those?
Where did they get those? We're not really sure. They do a shitty job of recording serials and running them. Either way, we can be safe assuming some of the guns come from America. If so, why don't they have better border patrol? I don't blame Mexico for smuggling the drugs. We have a huge border that is impossible to effectively guard. However, you can't blame one and then acquit another. Both are either guilty, or innocent. Also, I wonder if corrupt Mexican military officials have sold weapons on "the black market" or if they were stolen from the military. Wouldn't shock me.
As an American, I'm worried about the flow of Mexican narcotics such as methamphetamine to America (we have drug control you know?). What I mean is, your government, military, and police are corrupt and controlled by drug cartels. If as a country you decided to take car of your internal problems, then we would all be better off.
So it's better to have a child killed than part with a few hundred dollars?
You need to have your reality sensors calibrated.
Way to twist his words. He merely stated that you would not be responsible for the child's death. He was not saying that you should not "part with a few hundred dollars." Moral obligations and responsibility are not the same thing. What if someone puts a gun to your child's head and says if you don't hand over classified intelligence that could lead to American lives being lost? If you hand over the information, are you responsible for the deaths of the Americans killed in the resulting attack? Or if you refuse to hand over the information, and your child is shot, are you responsible? What if you hand over the information and your child is still killed (which is common in hostage for ransom situations)? Morality is not a simple thing.
Yeah. While we're at it, lets abolish fire departments and police stations. It's not fair that I'm being forced to help some dude down the street when his house is on fire or some old lady when she gets robbed and shoved and breaks her hip.
I don't want Federal fire departments and police stations.
Although I am almost rabid about the freedom of the public to know all things I wonder if anyone has estimated the costs involved in making all of the mentioned material available in digital form. It might eat up an awful lot of tax dollars.
The cost of transparency pales at the cost of secrecy.
You know that Inter-net thing everyone is talking about? I heard you can use it to access websites in other countries. Maybe it's just a rumor, but still, it's probably worth investigating.
Yes, but the internet is no substitute for a non-biased, comprehensive media report. Sadly, we just have the internet. People don't have time to get a complete understanding of other countries. Some people don't even understand their own country.
Option A or Option B is how the health care "debate" is being presented. I don't mind a single payer system. I just don't want the Federal government doing it. If your state wants it, fine. However, the polls are clearly showing that health care reform as it is being presented by Congress is NOT wanted by the American people.
From TFA:
With the first phone, the Mariposa botnet code automatically ran and attempted to infect a computer. Mariposa was at one time one of the largest botnets, but security researchers were able to shut it down in December after disabling its command-and-control servers
It's a Windows malware, right? So a "Windows" computer connect to the phones sdcard and attempts to autorun whatever on it.
I don't see how the malware can somehow activated and affect Android Linux O/S running on ARM chip inside a user-mode VM.
Do botnets have legs now?
It's irrelevant what operating system the malware operates on. The fact that malware came pre-loaded is troubling.
I was with you until you put all the blame on government.
The federal government has failed miserably to regulate interstate and international commerce in the interests of American citizens. Our population is poorly educated, misinformed, and tricked. Sure, the corporations are the force behind this-- but the governments are their puppets. The governments share the blame for failing to do what they were created for, the people fail for not caring, and the corporations succeed in every way possible. I don't hate corporations. I love the idea of America; not the perverted America we have today.
Except we don't really know that. You may think we do, but we don't.
People think TV has an impact on obesity, in fact everyone 'knew it'. Then a study was done where kids had TV removed and..oh look no impact. Tirns out a kid who sits in front of a TV will also find something else to do that doesn't burn calories.
I suspect when Newton announced his research one of your ancestor whined about how everyone 'knew' things fell down, and it's a waste to study it.
Moron.
When I was younger and I was unable to access a television, gaming console, or computer, I read. That helped me on later in life, but only because of WHAT I read. Television isn't always a waste of time. Watch the History Channel, the Military Channel, PBS, etc. On the computer, do research. In the video games, train to be a professional assassin and perfect your carjacking ski-- erm, improve your hand-eye coordination. If parents gave a shit, they could easily use these "time wasters" to improve their childrens' lives.
I'm all for letting them in, personally...I was just throwing out the "fix up their country so they don't come into ours" as an alternative to the "OH NOES ITS DEM DERE MEXICAN" people.
Letting "them" in isn't letting the average Mexican in. The people who illegally come to America are typically poor, unskilled, and uneducated Mexicans. Look at my last sentence-- do we really need more people like that in America? Especially if they are more interested in helping their relatives in Mexico and their allegiance is to Mexico. Look at California's prisons. Illegal Mexican immigrants are a huge part of the prison population. Why? Are Mexicans criminals by birth? If you look at America's homegrown criminals, they majority tends to be less educated and poorer. If you have a bleeding heart for these Mexicans (which is fine, I actually enjoyed my time in Mexico), go down there and help them.
The thing that is most foolish about this no-R18+ stance is it causes games to be rated M15 that are rated higher everywhere else.
In the summary, they list AvP as one, but this is an example. I can't find the article now, but apparently there have been 50 games in the last 3 years or so that are released M15 here and are R18+ (or R17, depending on country) elsewhere.
No R18+ rating puts MORE violence in the hands of children (specifically teens) under the guise of being M15.
I've been an organ donor since I got my license when I was sixteen. I never really considered that people who WERE NOT organ donors would receive the same treatment in regards to their placement on the the list of people in need of an organ transplant. Total bullshit.
I don't understand how a company as huge and powerful as Microsoft can't release a good competitor for the iPhone. I have a Zune, and the hardware is quite nice, but the software is horrible and has given me a BSOD on three separate computers (with different versions of Windows).
You sure you aren't American? As your knowledge of history points to being American educated.
The US, Australia and Canada did not invade and defeat enemies across the ocean. They went across the the Ocean to a base on an Island just a few miles away from the mainland called the British Isles and attacked from there. Look it up, the invasion of Europe was launched from England.
Also one of the main reasons for the success of the invasion was due to the USSR attacking overland from the other direction.
Up the page you show ignorance of the first World War as well, namely that one of the big motivations was the moving boundaries between the belligerents. Not only is there the whole mess in the Balkans but Germany and France still had problems with their boundaries from the Franco-Prussian war, namely the Alsace-Lorraine, one of the richer parts of Europe at the time.
You forget about South America, Mexico, and the various islands in the Western Hemisphere which could serve as a launching pad for an invasion. Either way, with a heavily armed American population, good luck maintaining order. To successfully occupy America, you'd have to kill as many of us a possible.
In the Gulf War, the United States did not occupy Iraq and did not displace Saddam. There was no power vacuum, so it did not happen there once. In fact, it did occur in 1989 after the Soviets and Americans left Afghanistan. Look what happened there.
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The USA has the right to not give aid and to not trade with certain countries. Either way, this is going to be used to force IP laws globally. The funny thing about cyber war, is that it is called a war. We have nuclear weapons and the potential to destroy each other. Does that mean we're at nuclear war? What we are seeing is cyber espionage and preparations for cyber warfare. The only way this can be fought is if the world largely stands against the American government. The American people need to also stand against their government, which is clearly no longer representing them or acting in their best interests.
But uh yeah, this is a two-way street we should all be familiar with. Drugs cross the border into the U.S. and sold for cash which is used to buy guns, which go back over the border. The gang bangers are using a lot of AR-15s when confronting the army. Where'd they get those?
Where did they get those? We're not really sure. They do a shitty job of recording serials and running them. Either way, we can be safe assuming some of the guns come from America. If so, why don't they have better border patrol? I don't blame Mexico for smuggling the drugs. We have a huge border that is impossible to effectively guard. However, you can't blame one and then acquit another. Both are either guilty, or innocent. Also, I wonder if corrupt Mexican military officials have sold weapons on "the black market" or if they were stolen from the military. Wouldn't shock me.
As an American, I'm worried about the flow of Mexican narcotics such as methamphetamine to America (we have drug control you know?). What I mean is, your government, military, and police are corrupt and controlled by drug cartels. If as a country you decided to take car of your internal problems, then we would all be better off.
It says four dog hours.
So it's better to have a child killed than part with a few hundred dollars? You need to have your reality sensors calibrated.
Way to twist his words. He merely stated that you would not be responsible for the child's death. He was not saying that you should not "part with a few hundred dollars." Moral obligations and responsibility are not the same thing. What if someone puts a gun to your child's head and says if you don't hand over classified intelligence that could lead to American lives being lost? If you hand over the information, are you responsible for the deaths of the Americans killed in the resulting attack? Or if you refuse to hand over the information, and your child is shot, are you responsible? What if you hand over the information and your child is still killed (which is common in hostage for ransom situations)? Morality is not a simple thing.
Yeah. While we're at it, lets abolish fire departments and police stations. It's not fair that I'm being forced to help some dude down the street when his house is on fire or some old lady when she gets robbed and shoved and breaks her hip.
I don't want Federal fire departments and police stations.
Although I am almost rabid about the freedom of the public to know all things I wonder if anyone has estimated the costs involved in making all of the mentioned material available in digital form. It might eat up an awful lot of tax dollars.
The cost of transparency pales at the cost of secrecy.
You know that Inter-net thing everyone is talking about? I heard you can use it to access websites in other countries. Maybe it's just a rumor, but still, it's probably worth investigating.
Yes, but the internet is no substitute for a non-biased, comprehensive media report. Sadly, we just have the internet. People don't have time to get a complete understanding of other countries. Some people don't even understand their own country.
Please stop pretending to know anything about the world, just in case some poor sod believes you.
It's hard for us to know what's really going on as you guys are across the ocean and our media is not to be trusted.
Anonymous Coward, do not be angry at Anonymous, for he is your kin.
Option A or Option B is how the health care "debate" is being presented. I don't mind a single payer system. I just don't want the Federal government doing it. If your state wants it, fine. However, the polls are clearly showing that health care reform as it is being presented by Congress is NOT wanted by the American people.
Is it bashing Apple to point out that they do they same thing to OSX?
I constantly see this argument in politics.
Well A did X, so why shouldn't B be able to do X? It doesn't fucking matter, X is still wrong and they should both be criticized.
That's not pompous, that's just German thoughts translated into English ;).
You seem to have confused country and language. Those are Swiss thoughts translated into English.
(Most) Americans speak English (granted, a bastardized form thereof). But that does not make them Her Majesty's subjects ;)
It's funny how the English think that their language originated from their little island.
From TFA: With the first phone, the Mariposa botnet code automatically ran and attempted to infect a computer. Mariposa was at one time one of the largest botnets, but security researchers were able to shut it down in December after disabling its command-and-control servers
It's a Windows malware, right? So a "Windows" computer connect to the phones sdcard and attempts to autorun whatever on it. I don't see how the malware can somehow activated and affect Android Linux O/S running on ARM chip inside a user-mode VM. Do botnets have legs now?
It's irrelevant what operating system the malware operates on. The fact that malware came pre-loaded is troubling.
Idiot in Suit #2 is actually Smart, Greedy Guy in Suit.
I was with you until you put all the blame on government.
The federal government has failed miserably to regulate interstate and international commerce in the interests of American citizens. Our population is poorly educated, misinformed, and tricked. Sure, the corporations are the force behind this-- but the governments are their puppets. The governments share the blame for failing to do what they were created for, the people fail for not caring, and the corporations succeed in every way possible. I don't hate corporations. I love the idea of America; not the perverted America we have today.
Except we don't really know that. You may think we do, but we don't.
People think TV has an impact on obesity, in fact everyone 'knew it'. Then a study was done where kids had TV removed and..oh look no impact. Tirns out a kid who sits in front of a TV will also find something else to do that doesn't burn calories.
I suspect when Newton announced his research one of your ancestor whined about how everyone 'knew' things fell down, and it's a waste to study it.
Moron.
When I was younger and I was unable to access a television, gaming console, or computer, I read. That helped me on later in life, but only because of WHAT I read. Television isn't always a waste of time. Watch the History Channel, the Military Channel, PBS, etc. On the computer, do research. In the video games, train to be a professional assassin and perfect your carjacking ski-- erm, improve your hand-eye coordination. If parents gave a shit, they could easily use these "time wasters" to improve their childrens' lives.
Google doesn't care where you go, as long as their advertisements are there. That's it.
I'm all for letting them in, personally...I was just throwing out the "fix up their country so they don't come into ours" as an alternative to the "OH NOES ITS DEM DERE MEXICAN" people.
Letting "them" in isn't letting the average Mexican in. The people who illegally come to America are typically poor, unskilled, and uneducated Mexicans. Look at my last sentence-- do we really need more people like that in America? Especially if they are more interested in helping their relatives in Mexico and their allegiance is to Mexico. Look at California's prisons. Illegal Mexican immigrants are a huge part of the prison population. Why? Are Mexicans criminals by birth? If you look at America's homegrown criminals, they majority tends to be less educated and poorer. If you have a bleeding heart for these Mexicans (which is fine, I actually enjoyed my time in Mexico), go down there and help them.
The thing that is most foolish about this no-R18+ stance is it causes games to be rated M15 that are rated higher everywhere else.
In the summary, they list AvP as one, but this is an example. I can't find the article now, but apparently there have been 50 games in the last 3 years or so that are released M15 here and are R18+ (or R17, depending on country) elsewhere.
No R18+ rating puts MORE violence in the hands of children (specifically teens) under the guise of being M15.
Those are the censored versions, IIRC.
I've been an organ donor since I got my license when I was sixteen. I never really considered that people who WERE NOT organ donors would receive the same treatment in regards to their placement on the the list of people in need of an organ transplant. Total bullshit.
My life philosophy is "plan for the worst, hope for the best, and expect the most likely."
I don't understand how a company as huge and powerful as Microsoft can't release a good competitor for the iPhone. I have a Zune, and the hardware is quite nice, but the software is horrible and has given me a BSOD on three separate computers (with different versions of Windows).
You sure you aren't American? As your knowledge of history points to being American educated. The US, Australia and Canada did not invade and defeat enemies across the ocean. They went across the the Ocean to a base on an Island just a few miles away from the mainland called the British Isles and attacked from there. Look it up, the invasion of Europe was launched from England. Also one of the main reasons for the success of the invasion was due to the USSR attacking overland from the other direction. Up the page you show ignorance of the first World War as well, namely that one of the big motivations was the moving boundaries between the belligerents. Not only is there the whole mess in the Balkans but Germany and France still had problems with their boundaries from the Franco-Prussian war, namely the Alsace-Lorraine, one of the richer parts of Europe at the time.
You forget about South America, Mexico, and the various islands in the Western Hemisphere which could serve as a launching pad for an invasion. Either way, with a heavily armed American population, good luck maintaining order. To successfully occupy America, you'd have to kill as many of us a possible.
In the Gulf War, the United States did not occupy Iraq and did not displace Saddam. There was no power vacuum, so it did not happen there once. In fact, it did occur in 1989 after the Soviets and Americans left Afghanistan. Look what happened there.