Why were the NSA spying on someone who was possibly involved in copyright infringement? Why was the GCSB assisting the NSA in spying on someone who was possibly involved in copyright infringement?
Remember, back then the 'crime' that DotCom was supposed to have committed was not actually a crime in NZ (they later played a lot of political games to shuffle things over the other supposed crimes that were, so they could not get laughed out of extradition hearings). It was certainly nothing that should come under NSA jurisdiction.
What we are really seeing here is the truth of the government spying - and that is it is a tool to use against citizens whenever the government feels they have 'crossed the line' of what they are allowed to do. It is not a particularly useful tool against terrorism - because you need to know your targets, and you usually dont know a terrorism target until AFTER they have done whatever they were planning.
It is however a very VERY effective political tool for repressing alternative views - you only have to point out to someone some 'embarrassing' details that have been trawled up, and quietly suggest they play along, or such things could get leaked by accident..
So, are they going to remove safe harbor for newspapers? The postal service? Phone companies? Hell, you see such adds posted on library community noticeboards! All of those mediums can and do have an involvement in the sex trade. Are they going to shut down strip bars? or do we just keep pretending that they have nothing to do with the sex trade.
Or just perhaps it is time to grow up out of the 1800s and accept that pushing these things deeper and deeper into hidden markets actually makes things much worse for the women involved, and that they should legalise and regulate - as many countries have done - with a matching reduction in drugs, violence, disease and abuse in that inevitable industry? The way things stand, a girl going to the police because of abuse is more likely to end up in trouble herself than get any protection - is that the way things should be?
Interestingly you will find, just like the drug 'industry' the lawless 'big players' running most of these things are actually strongly against legalisation - because it reduces their own control and profitability. They would need to clean up their act a lot, would face competition, and would need to treat their workers much, much better than many do.
But no, the US will continue burying its head (like many other countries) in an 'us and them' view of the world where the women caught up in such situations are bad and the people passing laws to punish them for their situation are good, and a blid eye is turned to the fact that many of the people passing the laws are violating them themselves, with impunity..
Well, Trump got elected because of the Democrats. All they had to do was supply a less bad option. They failed to do that.
Simple really, isn't it?
Given a choice between incompetent and evil, incompetent is a better choice every time. Trump is a loudmouth, which is a refreshing change from all the secret backdoor deals the Dems seem to love so much these days.
Dems can only blame themselves for this situation..
These idiots need to get over their cult of personality world view. This company did not have everything, it had a few good ideas and the willingness to lie through their teeth about their ability to deliver on that. Having two 'charismatic young founders' doesn't give you much. A few flashy ideas and the ability to spin a good story even if you have to lie through your teeth is not the basis of a good business.
The primary failure here is the failure of these young charismatic founders to have been responsible for their actions.
But apparently we are supposed to feel bad for them and pay them on the head and tell them to keep up the good work, maybe next time it will go better. Who cares about the people who lost millions.. After all.. The American dream!
This is written by a startup 'CEO' so what do you expect? Narcissists and bullshitters are their poster children.
Serial quitters are usually the ones with little actual skills who just lie through their teeth to get a good looking position for their CV, then proceed to screw it up terribly due to incompetence, then try and flee before the shit hits the fan. It usually takes a while for that to catch up with people, and you can get away with it for a while in a bubble economy. But once things turn down in their economy, they tend to end up in big trouble. Who would have guessed.
The reason we keep being told 'dont force close you apps' is that if you do, they cannot continue to do 'their thing' quietly in the background. Their thing is often reporting things back to their developers - your position, actions, etc, etc..
THAT is why every now and then they remind us how foolish we would be not to keep them running.
Because it has already been quite well demonstrated that these methods, while they sound convincing, dont actually work.
Why? good old natural selection. The few females that can resist the Wolbachia bacteria (the infection being carried that is effective) will be the ones that breed. And quite likely they will produce more resistant females, and males. Very soon, the population is back, and now resistant to that vector.
Already well demonstrated in trials, but the modern way is not to research, its just to do, and assume you know best.
Pseudo-elitist dreams of being slightly more elitist without having to leave their conformist comfort zone.
what he really means is 'every kid on the block has an iphone these days, I pine for when I felt more special, so make a more expensive model so I can separate myself from the unwashed masses again (but actually I am a closet conformist, so it needs to be from my regular supplier, work in the same way - so please just make it cost more so I can buy myself a bit more 'special'..).
Believing that Apple is somehow constrained by price or volume is laughably laughable, they already delivery less for more and have demonstrated a willingness to have availability shortages (in fact historically have done it with a sense of pride during notable releases).
[Stands back to watch the koolaid drinkers backlash against reality]
Isn't it interesting how many of the subject trolls come out on this article. Its almost as if they want to shut down discussion here so that people don't find out that this article is a blatant misrepresentation. Now, the question is, who would want to do that? Ahh, could it possibly be the anti-car lobby who think we should all gently ride out pushbikes through green meadows on our way to yoga class?
Of course the reality is that this is not a case of carpool LANES being closed, that is a blatant and false misrepresentation. It is a whole carpool ROAD being opened to normal drivers. You will note there is exactly zero mention of the fact that, because of this, total road users would have gone up massively.
So, surprise surprise, when you convert a whole road from restricted use to open use, MORE PEOPLE USE IT.
However, I expect this 'study' to be heavily used by anti-car groups in councils, etc to shut off more lanes to the general public 'for their own good'. Because after all, you should punish those damn middle class workers who need to actually go to work to feed their families. They should just be poor enough to not work, or rich enough to have other options, like not working or living next to their employment.
The news here is that systemd, in its usual 'we know better than anyone, even though we have very very little experience' way replaced perfectly functional systems for the most dubious of reasons (usually 'because we want to make them different, and cannot even be bothered raising our reasons with maintainers of existing solutions because then we may need to rationalise what we want'), and went away and implemented a system broken in a way SO foolish that the existing solutions have addressed exactly these issues decades ago. Not to mention the fact that they have worked hard to try and make it unavoidable that ALL linux solutions will end up with the problems caused by their basic ignorance by making systemd basically indespensible.
Clear enough? Or perhaps you think a trivially exploitable and almost indefensible DNS bug, along with a file system wiping bug (the good old rm../...) are just minor bumps on the road to nirvana?
Of course the clear and obvious REASON for systemd is a power grab by RedHat to give them control of the Linux 'standard'. It is unfortunate that they cannot see past their own grab at power to see how damaging such an approach is to the robustness of Linux itself -they must turn away, stick their fingers in their ears, and sing 'la la la la, wont happen to us, la la la la' loudly to themselves each time a big windows exploit drops these days.. Because that is the endpoint of the path they are following.
That is because the current cesspool that is media reporting cannot comprehend the difference between Artificial Intelligence (AI), which this is not, and Machine Learning (ML), which this is.
Machine Learning is what is exploding right now, and AI has not really moved one step closer, mostly because that would require incremental low-impact learning feedback - something that is not yet even attempted in ML systems.
So, this is not a bad example of Machine Learning, and has nothing at all to do with AI.
I do wonder, however, how many ML bots are already being used by companies to bid up their ebay auctions until the algorithm decides the other bidder has peaked.. If it is not happening yet, it will not be far away. Clearly fraud, of course, but hey.. thats hardly anything new.
As I mentioned last time this little gem came up..
Just dig out the first 20 meters of the tunnel to slope downwards? The ceiling doesnt matter, it can slope up, there may be very minor water trickle in that way. However, having a floor sloping upwards (from the interior end..) was always pure incompetence. Easily rectified - would probably take a good solid week to achieve with no major impact on the sites operations.
And yet, someone, they need to spend 1.6 million to 'investigate' this? I guess its a nice tasting gravy train...
As can be seen from this image of the site: http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2009/seed_vault/seed_vault_01.jpg They may need to compromise the pretty look of the entrance a little, but is that what really matters?
Since you enjoy violence as a way to silence other opinions... does your brown shirt fit well? You enjoy wearing it? You feel good and POWERFUL in it?
And, as you are, as you say, German, I am sure you understand that the 'problem' with the Nazi party was their totalitarian beliefs, rather than their left/right leaning, no? Or is that too confusing for you..
Or, on the other hand, perhaps it is just as valid as any other parsing requirement? Language commands need some form of context, python just happens to choose that one.
The real issues with python are lack of performance scaling within the language (without using extension hacks), and the horrific threading problem. If those were solved then it would be much much much better.
Fwiw I have been developing commercial systems in python for over ten years.
Perhaps you would like to point out when the super majority to join the EU was given? Of course you know that there was not even a majority, because there was no vote..
And no, the common market is very very different from the EU, and I am also sure you know.
None of which matters. The brexit vote was a vote of no confidence in politicians and there continual destruction of the middle class in favor of their own wealth and power, in the same way the Trump vote was.
Trying to gloss over that is simply hiding from the reality. What people want is actual change, because the current systems are being actively used to damage the majority or the population.
The problem is there are no viable alternatives given, of course, however even with that people with their eyes open have reached the point of desperation where they must vote for non viable alternatives.
No amimojo, the problem is that unlike your favorite mutual ego masturbation groups, here you actually have to deal with alternate views of things, and soon learn that the world does not often agree with the highly biased black and white world view of the extremist.
As was correctly said above, most extremists claim the other side is in control of moderation, because extremists breed in groups who support their unusual worldviews.
Sorry that the normal world doesn't want to bow to your personal biases. Deal with it.
Yep. I was right. Whiny Apple fans cannot possibly allow any negative comment about their chosen religion without attacking the people making perfectly correct comments on the poor design.
I am wondering, what did you smoke to get this full retard?
'they don't understand that you can't build a fast CISC processor in analog' ' you have to actually build a big mishmash of multiple RISC processors that together simulate a single CISC processor' 'it even has fake timing semantics that are phrased as if it is a traditional digital logic circuit built from analog parts' 'those analog parts are actually multiple levels of code below the interface you can touch' 'This goes back to the 1950s!' ' If you don't want microcode, stick to running RISC processors' 'You can have tight real-time timing, but you won't get high total throughput or a useful cache'
Do you actually realise that pretty much every statement you made is completely false bordering on hilarious? Or did I miss the fact that this is some kind of joke where you make up ludicrous claims to be funny? I mean, if so it is quite well done, each of the completely insane claims is based on the tiniest kernel of truth, before it is bent and stretched so far away from reality that it becomes insanity...
However, I am rather concerned that you actually believe this crap. That truly is scary.
Let's see. Einstein isn't going to get anything proven to him. He is dead. However, he showed that this should be true, why would it need to be proven to him? Let alone the fact that gravitational lensing, which uses this exact effect, is a common technique these days.
The search engines purpose is to locate accessible information. Information behind a paywall is not accessible, hence should not be indexed. As it is behind a paywall, it is up to the owner to provide their own indexing and search capability.
Simple enough for you?
Unfortunately these days it seems it is not simple enough for Google. This is because it long ago stopped being a search system, and instead became an information aggregator, of which search is only one area of application. Google has realised that controlling all the information is more valuable than providing an index of it, hence they are willing to participate in these games.
Well, you have you remember they didn't have much time to get a better name. When you innovate by chasing ambulances you don't have time to polish the turd..
Come an Apple, don't your cult members deserve better than another me too product to empty their wallets and put them for under your control?
While I know you are just being a moron, think about it for a moment.
This is one of the major reason such companies provide such services 'in the cloud' You cannot copy them, you can only utilize the service - any more than you can copy the google PageRank algorithm, or their translation machine learning codes.
Don't forget to mention 'when they realised that it's resource requirements were horrific as soon as you include the basic set of libraries, which are needed for most used..'
Java has never been a usable embedded solution, even if they once tried to pretend it could.
Hell, embedded python is more popular these days, and that's pretty damn shocking.
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Why were the NSA spying on someone who was possibly involved in copyright infringement?
Why was the GCSB assisting the NSA in spying on someone who was possibly involved in copyright infringement?
Remember, back then the 'crime' that DotCom was supposed to have committed was not actually a crime in NZ (they later played a lot of political games to shuffle things over the other supposed crimes that were, so they could not get laughed out of extradition hearings). It was certainly nothing that should come under NSA jurisdiction.
What we are really seeing here is the truth of the government spying - and that is it is a tool to use against citizens whenever the government feels they have 'crossed the line' of what they are allowed to do. It is not a particularly useful tool against terrorism - because you need to know your targets, and you usually dont know a terrorism target until AFTER they have done whatever they were planning.
It is however a very VERY effective political tool for repressing alternative views - you only have to point out to someone some 'embarrassing' details that have been trawled up, and quietly suggest they play along, or such things could get leaked by accident..
Great.
So, are they going to remove safe harbor for newspapers? The postal service? Phone companies? Hell, you see such adds posted on library community noticeboards! All of those mediums can and do have an involvement in the sex trade. Are they going to shut down strip bars? or do we just keep pretending that they have nothing to do with the sex trade.
Or just perhaps it is time to grow up out of the 1800s and accept that pushing these things deeper and deeper into hidden markets actually makes things much worse for the women involved, and that they should legalise and regulate - as many countries have done - with a matching reduction in drugs, violence, disease and abuse in that inevitable industry? The way things stand, a girl going to the police because of abuse is more likely to end up in trouble herself than get any protection - is that the way things should be?
Interestingly you will find, just like the drug 'industry' the lawless 'big players' running most of these things are actually strongly against legalisation - because it reduces their own control and profitability. They would need to clean up their act a lot, would face competition, and would need to treat their workers much, much better than many do.
But no, the US will continue burying its head (like many other countries) in an 'us and them' view of the world where the women caught up in such situations are bad and the people passing laws to punish them for their situation are good, and a blid eye is turned to the fact that many of the people passing the laws are violating them themselves, with impunity..
Sad, really.
Well, Trump got elected because of the Democrats.
All they had to do was supply a less bad option.
They failed to do that.
Simple really, isn't it?
Given a choice between incompetent and evil, incompetent is a better choice every time.
Trump is a loudmouth, which is a refreshing change from all the secret backdoor deals the Dems seem to love so much these days.
Dems can only blame themselves for this situation..
These idiots need to get over their cult of personality world view.
This company did not have everything, it had a few good ideas and the willingness to lie through their teeth about their ability to deliver on that.
Having two 'charismatic young founders' doesn't give you much. A few flashy ideas and the ability to spin a good story even if you have to lie through your teeth is not the basis of a good business.
The primary failure here is the failure of these young charismatic founders to have been responsible for their actions.
But apparently we are supposed to feel bad for them and pay them on the head and tell them to keep up the good work, maybe next time it will go better.
Who cares about the people who lost millions.. After all.. The American dream!
This is written by a startup 'CEO' so what do you expect? Narcissists and bullshitters are their poster children.
Serial quitters are usually the ones with little actual skills who just lie through their teeth to get a good looking position for their CV, then proceed to screw it up terribly due to incompetence, then try and flee before the shit hits the fan.
It usually takes a while for that to catch up with people, and you can get away with it for a while in a bubble economy.
But once things turn down in their economy, they tend to end up in big trouble. Who would have guessed.
The reason we keep being told 'dont force close you apps' is that if you do, they cannot continue to do 'their thing' quietly in the background.
Their thing is often reporting things back to their developers - your position, actions, etc, etc..
THAT is why every now and then they remind us how foolish we would be not to keep them running.
Because it has already been quite well demonstrated that these methods, while they sound convincing, dont actually work.
Why? good old natural selection.
The few females that can resist the Wolbachia bacteria (the infection being carried that is effective) will be the ones that breed.
And quite likely they will produce more resistant females, and males.
Very soon, the population is back, and now resistant to that vector.
Already well demonstrated in trials, but the modern way is not to research, its just to do, and assume you know best.
Pseudo-elitist dreams of being slightly more elitist without having to leave their conformist comfort zone.
what he really means is 'every kid on the block has an iphone these days, I pine for when I felt more special, so make a more expensive model so I can separate myself from the unwashed masses again (but actually I am a closet conformist, so it needs to be from my regular supplier, work in the same way - so please just make it cost more so I can buy myself a bit more 'special'..).
Believing that Apple is somehow constrained by price or volume is laughably laughable, they already delivery less for more and have demonstrated a willingness to have availability shortages (in fact historically have done it with a sense of pride during notable releases).
[Stands back to watch the koolaid drinkers backlash against reality]
Isn't it interesting how many of the subject trolls come out on this article.
Its almost as if they want to shut down discussion here so that people don't find out that this article is a blatant misrepresentation.
Now, the question is, who would want to do that?
Ahh, could it possibly be the anti-car lobby who think we should all gently ride out pushbikes through green meadows on our way to yoga class?
Of course the reality is that this is not a case of carpool LANES being closed, that is a blatant and false misrepresentation.
It is a whole carpool ROAD being opened to normal drivers.
You will note there is exactly zero mention of the fact that, because of this, total road users would have gone up massively.
So, surprise surprise, when you convert a whole road from restricted use to open use, MORE PEOPLE USE IT.
However, I expect this 'study' to be heavily used by anti-car groups in councils, etc to shut off more lanes to the general public 'for their own good'.
Because after all, you should punish those damn middle class workers who need to actually go to work to feed their families. They should just be
poor enough to not work, or rich enough to have other options, like not working or living next to their employment.
The news is clear, Shill.
The news here is that systemd, in its usual 'we know better than anyone, even though we have very very little experience' way replaced perfectly functional systems for the most dubious of reasons (usually 'because we want to make them different, and cannot even be bothered raising our reasons with maintainers of existing solutions because then we may need to rationalise what we want'), and went away and implemented a system broken in a way SO foolish that the existing solutions have addressed exactly these issues decades ago.
Not to mention the fact that they have worked hard to try and make it unavoidable that ALL linux solutions will end up with the problems caused by their basic ignorance by making systemd basically indespensible.
Clear enough? Or perhaps you think a trivially exploitable and almost indefensible DNS bug, along with a file system wiping bug (the good old rm ../...) are just minor bumps on the road to nirvana?
Of course the clear and obvious REASON for systemd is a power grab by RedHat to give them control of the Linux 'standard'. It is unfortunate that they cannot see past their own grab at power to see how damaging such an approach is to the robustness of Linux itself -they must turn away, stick their fingers in their ears, and sing 'la la la la, wont happen to us, la la la la' loudly to themselves each time a big windows exploit drops these days.. Because that is the endpoint of the path they are following.
That is because the current cesspool that is media reporting cannot comprehend the difference between Artificial Intelligence (AI), which this is not, and Machine Learning (ML), which this is.
Machine Learning is what is exploding right now, and AI has not really moved one step closer, mostly because that would require incremental low-impact learning feedback - something that is not yet even attempted in ML systems.
So, this is not a bad example of Machine Learning, and has nothing at all to do with AI.
I do wonder, however, how many ML bots are already being used by companies to bid up their ebay auctions until the algorithm decides the other bidder has peaked.. If it is not happening yet, it will not be far away.
Clearly fraud, of course, but hey.. thats hardly anything new.
As I mentioned last time this little gem came up..
Just dig out the first 20 meters of the tunnel to slope downwards?
The ceiling doesnt matter, it can slope up, there may be very minor water trickle in that way.
However, having a floor sloping upwards (from the interior end..) was always pure incompetence.
Easily rectified - would probably take a good solid week to achieve with no major impact on the sites operations.
And yet, someone, they need to spend 1.6 million to 'investigate' this?
I guess its a nice tasting gravy train...
As can be seen from this image of the site:
http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2009/seed_vault/seed_vault_01.jpg
They may need to compromise the pretty look of the entrance a little, but is that what really matters?
I'm just wondering..
Since you enjoy violence as a way to silence other opinions... does your brown shirt fit well? You enjoy wearing it? You feel good and POWERFUL in it?
And, as you are, as you say, German, I am sure you understand that the 'problem' with the Nazi party was their totalitarian beliefs, rather than their left/right leaning, no? Or is that too confusing for you..
Iseeyourpointinfactifeelthatyoushouldpushforsuchaconcepttobemorewidelyaccepted.
Or, on the other hand, perhaps it is just as valid as any other parsing requirement? Language commands need some form of context, python just happens to choose that one.
The real issues with python are lack of performance scaling within the language (without using extension hacks), and the horrific threading problem. If those were solved then it would be much much much better.
Fwiw I have been developing commercial systems in python for over ten years.
So mr know it all...
Perhaps you would like to point out when the super majority to join the EU was given?
Of course you know that there was not even a majority, because there was no vote..
And no, the common market is very very different from the EU, and I am also sure you know.
None of which matters. The brexit vote was a vote of no confidence in politicians and there continual destruction of the middle class in favor of their own wealth and power, in the same way the Trump vote was.
Trying to gloss over that is simply hiding from the reality. What people want is actual change, because the current systems are being actively used to damage the majority or the population.
The problem is there are no viable alternatives given, of course, however even with that people with their eyes open have reached the point of desperation where they must vote for non viable alternatives.
No amimojo, the problem is that unlike your favorite mutual ego masturbation groups, here you actually have to deal with alternate views of things, and soon learn that the world does not often agree with the highly biased black and white world view of the extremist.
As was correctly said above, most extremists claim the other side is in control of moderation, because extremists breed in groups who support their unusual worldviews.
Sorry that the normal world doesn't want to bow to your personal biases. Deal with it.
Yep. I was right.
Whiny Apple fans cannot possibly allow any negative comment about their chosen religion without attacking the people making perfectly correct comments on the poor design.
See how it works?
Isnt the real question here why a distributor has access to such data?
Apple really provide its resellers with a searchable database containing such data on its users?
If so, then go Apple! I am quite impressed, however suggest you need to drop two of the letters in your name, to fit into the normal US TLA system..
I am wondering, what did you smoke to get this full retard?
'they don't understand that you can't build a fast CISC processor in analog'
' you have to actually build a big mishmash of multiple RISC processors that together simulate a single CISC processor'
'it even has fake timing semantics that are phrased as if it is a traditional digital logic circuit built from analog parts'
'those analog parts are actually multiple levels of code below the interface you can touch'
'This goes back to the 1950s!'
' If you don't want microcode, stick to running RISC processors'
'You can have tight real-time timing, but you won't get high total throughput or a useful cache'
Do you actually realise that pretty much every statement you made is completely false bordering on hilarious?
Or did I miss the fact that this is some kind of joke where you make up ludicrous claims to be funny?
I mean, if so it is quite well done, each of the completely insane claims is based on the tiniest kernel of truth, before it is bent and stretched so far away from reality that it becomes insanity...
However, I am rather concerned that you actually believe this crap. That truly is scary.
Let's see.
Einstein isn't going to get anything proven to him. He is dead.
However, he showed that this should be true, why would it need to be proven to him?
Let alone the fact that gravitational lensing, which uses this exact effect, is a common technique these days.
What is the point?
The search engines purpose is to locate accessible information.
Information behind a paywall is not accessible, hence should not be indexed.
As it is behind a paywall, it is up to the owner to provide their own indexing and search capability.
Simple enough for you?
Unfortunately these days it seems it is not simple enough for Google.
This is because it long ago stopped being a search system, and instead became an information aggregator, of which search is only one area of application.
Google has realised that controlling all the information is more valuable than providing an index of it, hence they are willing to participate in these games.
Well, you have you remember they didn't have much time to get a better name.
When you innovate by chasing ambulances you don't have time to polish the turd..
Come an Apple, don't your cult members deserve better than another me too product to empty their wallets and put them for under your control?
What else would matter?
While I know you are just being a moron, think about it for a moment.
This is one of the major reason such companies provide such services 'in the cloud'
You cannot copy them, you can only utilize the service - any more than you can copy the google PageRank algorithm, or their translation machine learning codes.
So no, go back to your cave..
Don't forget to mention 'when they realised that it's resource requirements were horrific as soon as you include the basic set of libraries, which are needed for most used..'
Java has never been a usable embedded solution, even if they once tried to pretend it could.
Hell, embedded python is more popular these days, and that's pretty damn shocking.