If they're doing this to someone so tangentially connected to a vaguely bothersome post on an obscure blog,...
Um, no not really. It' looks as if there's more to it...
From the Wired article:
Afifi’s father, Aladdin Afifi, was a U.S. citizen and former president of the Muslim Community Association here, before his family moved to Egypt in 2003. Yasir Afifi returned to the United States alone in 2008, while his father and brothers stayed in Egypt, to further his education he said. He knows he’s on a federal watchlist and is regularly taken aside at airports for secondary screening.
So, this "Muslim Community Association" could be tied somehow (maybe in the FBI's imagination) to terrorism or funding of terrorism and maybe the sending money overseas is somehow another red flag by the Feds which warrants the extra surveillance. The kid is being watched anyway and maybe the blog post got the tracking on his car - or not.
I'm never alarmed at this kind of stuff. Same thing with terrorism.
OTOH, driving (traffic accidents) and heart disease is something that I'm mildly concerned about. The odds are, those are things will take me out prematurely.
we should trade them barrel for barrel, = a barrel of water for a barrel of oil.
We're creating more and more substitutes for energy from oil. Substitutes for water? None. Sure they can build desalination plants but all we need to do is make the water to ship to them just cheap enough where desalination makes no sense but yet maximize our profits.
That's what they do with oil prices - they try to manipulate the market price so it's just high enough to max out their profits but low enough that we keep coming back.
Actually, it's kind of a fun game. Lurk for a while, get what the group think is, set up an account, post things that get modd'ed up easily, and then when you have karma up the ass, post any Goddamn Fucking thing you want. Some are really entertaining - EthanolFueled for one - love his comments
Here on Slashdot in the Old days: anti-MS, Pro-Apple, pro-F/OSS got you points - guaranteed. Posting anything opposite got yo modd'ed "Troll" or something else "-1" - regardless of the merit.
Now, the Apple fanboys have chilled and with Apple's success, they're not such the under dogs as they once were. Posting anything that's critical of F/OSS will get modd'ed down unless it's really something specific that's also a criticism of folks in the F/OSS community.
The Libertarian bent here has been chilling too - I think it's the economy and seeing Mr. Rand or drank the Randian Cool-Aide and went back for seconds Alan Greenspan and others admitting that deregulation wasn't such a god idea.
Building up karma wasnt' as easy as it was in the old days - I abandon accounts when I get bored and start new ones.... like I'll eventually do with this one. When I have an account I spend way too much fucking time on Slashdot or any other posting site spewing my two-bit, ignorant, no nothing opinion.
It's kind of a sick sort of entertainment really. Although, unlike TV, I do learn a bit more on very rare occasions. Sometimes - very rare times, the corrections to my two-bit ignorant opinions are quite educational.
If it cracks the back that could be an issue but how is Apple to blame for this?
Apple designs a product - a fourth generation of a product - knowing full well how their users user it and you're saying it not their fault? They even supplied some of the cases that caused the damage.
This is a shitty design and it is Apple's fault.
Good god! Putting so much glass on a cell phone?!? A device that's going to be used, moved around, dropped (it should stand up to dropping a small height like a foot or so like falling out of a purse), stuck in purses and knocked around, etc...
If you have to baby a device like a phone, then it's too delicate of a design. The designer should be whipped for this.
Your only hope is to get a job with the government
I'm going to write an economics book based upon the labor and wealth cycle of countries:
1. Growth - work hard get rich 2. Maturation: Get educated do well - rich get richer poor get better off 3.Slump: jobs go to cheaper places, rich get richer everyone else gets poorer (This is where America is now) 4.Flat: rich stay rich, unions galore, employment stagnant, if you want a future, work for government (Europe and soon to be America) 5. Collapse: Everyone in the World gets to #4 and there's not enough resources because we all used them in our consumption based economies - Capitalism, Socialism, Mercantilism, every-lism is based upon consumption to keep the economy going.
An energy industry employee, who asked for anonymity, said younger workers have greater job security because they cost less, but the better-paid baby boomers are in danger of job loss.
Is that news to anyone?
As far as taking classes, it's been my experience that if you don't have on the job experience with those skills, it doesn't matter. So, if you take classes in something, be ruthless about using it on the job - figure out a way to make it part of your job.
And it is just so obvious that we need to get off this goddamned planet and out into the universe and start staking our claims.
And planets that can support us will more than likely have indigenous life forms. Are we to repeat what has been done on this planet with regards to indigenous populations?
The only reason we have to leave is because we're destructive, wasteful, and this irrational belief that everything around us is for us to exploit.
Most people forget how much money some of the big companies like Microsoft and IBM put into pure research efforts (i.e. no immediate plan for a ROI)
Forget? Is there anything to really forget? Back in the day, IBM did quite a bit of pure research and now, occasionally you'll see something about them writing "IBM" with atoms or making a computer that's really fast but nothing like the research they did.
BTW, nothing will ever beat AT&T Bell Labs - especially for the pure research they did back when they existed - all that's gone now.
Basically, a guy like William Shockley wouldn't have a chance in this day and age.
Real democracy will only come when we apply the principles of free software [metagovernment.org] to government.
You don't live somewhere with a Home Owners Association, do you? Getting people to participate is nearly impossible even when it results in there being a lot of money levied on them. People would rather do other things. They hardly get out to vote.
And you actually think something like Metagovernment will work?!? Talk about a pipe dream!
Critical infrastructure providers represent industries that are of such importance either to a nation’s economy or society that if their cyber networks were successfully attacked and damaged, the result would threaten national security.
WTF are "critical infrastructure providers" doing by connecting their critical systems to the internet?
If they need to connect plants or other things, leased lines aren't an option?
Slashdot Mirror
According to the article which I ::gasp:: read, ....
Dude, you got out of breath typing?!
If they're doing this to someone so tangentially connected to a vaguely bothersome post on an obscure blog,...
Um, no not really. It' looks as if there's more to it ...
From the Wired article:
Afifi’s father, Aladdin Afifi, was a U.S. citizen and former president of the Muslim Community Association here, before his family moved to Egypt in 2003. Yasir Afifi returned to the United States alone in 2008, while his father and brothers stayed in Egypt, to further his education he said. He knows he’s on a federal watchlist and is regularly taken aside at airports for secondary screening.
So, this "Muslim Community Association" could be tied somehow (maybe in the FBI's imagination) to terrorism or funding of terrorism and maybe the sending money overseas is somehow another red flag by the Feds which warrants the extra surveillance. The kid is being watched anyway and maybe the blog post got the tracking on his car - or not.
I don't care. As long as they live under MY Roof, they will use correct grammar and spelling when they send nudie texts.
Easier said than done.
I'm in a predicament. Should I punish the child for spelling it "cumming" instead of "coming"?
OTOH, driving (traffic accidents) and heart disease is something that I'm mildly concerned about. The odds are, those are things will take me out prematurely.
we should trade them barrel for barrel, = a barrel of water for a barrel of oil.
We're creating more and more substitutes for energy from oil. Substitutes for water? None. Sure they can build desalination plants but all we need to do is make the water to ship to them just cheap enough where desalination makes no sense but yet maximize our profits.
That's what they do with oil prices - they try to manipulate the market price so it's just high enough to max out their profits but low enough that we keep coming back.
Do unto others as they do onto to you.
Here on Slashdot in the Old days: anti-MS, Pro-Apple, pro-F/OSS got you points - guaranteed. Posting anything opposite got yo modd'ed "Troll" or something else "-1" - regardless of the merit.
Now, the Apple fanboys have chilled and with Apple's success, they're not such the under dogs as they once were. Posting anything that's critical of F/OSS will get modd'ed down unless it's really something specific that's also a criticism of folks in the F/OSS community.
The Libertarian bent here has been chilling too - I think it's the economy and seeing Mr. Rand or drank the Randian Cool-Aide and went back for seconds Alan Greenspan and others admitting that deregulation wasn't such a god idea.
Building up karma wasnt' as easy as it was in the old days - I abandon accounts when I get bored and start new ones .... like I'll eventually do with this one. When I have an account I spend way too much fucking time on Slashdot or any other posting site spewing my two-bit, ignorant, no nothing opinion.
It's kind of a sick sort of entertainment really. Although, unlike TV, I do learn a bit more on very rare occasions. Sometimes - very rare times, the corrections to my two-bit ignorant opinions are quite educational.
If it cracks the back that could be an issue but how is Apple to blame for this?
Apple designs a product - a fourth generation of a product - knowing full well how their users user it and you're saying it not their fault? They even supplied some of the cases that caused the damage.
This is a shitty design and it is Apple's fault.
Good god! Putting so much glass on a cell phone?!? A device that's going to be used, moved around, dropped (it should stand up to dropping a small height like a foot or so like falling out of a purse), stuck in purses and knocked around, etc...
If you have to baby a device like a phone, then it's too delicate of a design. The designer should be whipped for this.
I just wish Steve would sell his sperm so I could just artificially inseminate my wife and have a little Steve Jobs of my own!
Wouldn't doing it yourself violate the warranty?
This is speculation right now, where are the pictures of phones with scratched or broken glass?
The damn phone has been out for months and Gawker, Powerpage or any of the Apple fanboy sites have no photos of this "issue".
Cognitive dissonance? They're just assuming they broke their own phones?
That's what I would think - those things aren't exactly built for rough use.
RUN NORTON OR NO INTERNET
If those are my only two choices, I'll take NO INTERNET please.
Labor of any kind is a commodity.
Your only hope is to get a job with the government
I'm going to write an economics book based upon the labor and wealth cycle of countries:
1. Growth - work hard get rich
2. Maturation: Get educated do well - rich get richer poor get better off
3.Slump: jobs go to cheaper places, rich get richer everyone else gets poorer (This is where America is now)
4.Flat: rich stay rich, unions galore, employment stagnant, if you want a future, work for government (Europe and soon to be America)
5. Collapse: Everyone in the World gets to #4 and there's not enough resources because we all used them in our consumption based economies - Capitalism, Socialism, Mercantilism, every-lism is based upon consumption to keep the economy going.
An energy industry employee, who asked for anonymity, said younger workers have greater job security because they cost less, but the better-paid baby boomers are in danger of job loss.
Is that news to anyone?
As far as taking classes, it's been my experience that if you don't have on the job experience with those skills, it doesn't matter. So, if you take classes in something, be ruthless about using it on the job - figure out a way to make it part of your job.
And it is just so obvious that we need to get off this goddamned planet and out into the universe and start staking our claims.
And planets that can support us will more than likely have indigenous life forms. Are we to repeat what has been done on this planet with regards to indigenous populations?
The only reason we have to leave is because we're destructive, wasteful, and this irrational belief that everything around us is for us to exploit.
. It's only after being exposed to Murdoch-media for too long that you think the owner should be the only one deciding the newspaper's opinions.
Randolph Hearst predates him by a century, Ben Franklin when he was publishing stuck his nose into things and every other newspaper owner before them.
No one really needs either of these systems yet.
What makes him think that I'll ever need it?
What's this need for TV?
Most people forget how much money some of the big companies like Microsoft and IBM put into pure research efforts (i.e. no immediate plan for a ROI)
Forget? Is there anything to really forget? Back in the day, IBM did quite a bit of pure research and now, occasionally you'll see something about them writing "IBM" with atoms or making a computer that's really fast but nothing like the research they did.
BTW, nothing will ever beat AT&T Bell Labs - especially for the pure research they did back when they existed - all that's gone now.
Basically, a guy like William Shockley wouldn't have a chance in this day and age.
Just create a domain "deathtoamerica.ly" and the Libyan's won't have any problem with anything that you put through there.
"Hitting the water activates an expanding foam unit..."
What about hitting a drowning human?
The unit will still expand upon impact.
Why? Is that a concern?
It's sad, but it seems everyone has fallen for the 'wider is better' idea.
Because folks are viewing more TV and movies on their computers?
Real democracy will only come when we apply the principles of free software [metagovernment.org] to government.
You don't live somewhere with a Home Owners Association, do you? Getting people to participate is nearly impossible even when it results in there being a lot of money levied on them. People would rather do other things. They hardly get out to vote.
And you actually think something like Metagovernment will work?!? Talk about a pipe dream!
Critical infrastructure providers represent industries that are of such importance either to a nation’s economy or society that if their cyber networks were successfully attacked and damaged, the result would threaten national security.
WTF are "critical infrastructure providers" doing by connecting their critical systems to the internet?
If they need to connect plants or other things, leased lines aren't an option?
I wonder what he is hiding.
Source code to Stuxnet?
Although the new IE isn't the security train wreck that it once was.
If you write a script, you're certain that the changes made will be identical on each box.
One little mistake in the script and you fuck up the whole organization.