You make an unfortunately excellent point. We all like to think that insurance.aes256 is going to be some massive Stick It To The Man thing, but it could be an absolute firebomb as far as the people with lives on the line goes.
Naturally I'm hoping that the only people who get hurt by the release of insurance.aes256 are corporations and governments... but the chances of that happening and not resulting in lots of deaths is, probably, pretty slim. (Plus, such entites are usually made up of, you know, squishy people.)
This decision also repealed the portion of the UCMJ that made homosexual behavior illegal and grounds for court-martial and discharge; I think it was Section 264? I may be wrong about the number.
"Traditionally," there are a number of ways that terrorist groups would identify themselves as being responsible for a given act. The most well-known is the IRA (or the Real IRA (yes, that was their name)) having arranged certain code phraseology and signs to the Royal Ulster Constabulary that would be sent following an action to confirm that it was the RIRA that committed the act.
Obviously the action isn't available to Anonymous, but Anonymous -- specifically, the kids over at 4chan who call themselves 'Anonymous' -- doesn't need it. Anonymous can't keep a secret and doesn't even try. It's security through obscurity, or rather anonymity, but so fine-grained that it actually seems to work. Anonymous can't help but telegraph its actions because it doesn't even really bother with security except on a personal, individual level. In a sense this is even better than the cellular structure favored by terrorist and covert cells: Even if you bust one person, you may not be able to get at even their closest accomplices. Unfortunately, this does leave Anonymous up for subordination, though the counter to that is, ironically, reputation of individual members to each other. The threat of subordination is there but generally only long-term. A newbie to Anonymous who proposes DDOSing the Pentagon is going to be suspected immediately, while if someone with more reputation proposes it, it may be seriously considered.
No matter what one thinks of Anonymous, or even if they should be considered as a single entity at all, it does make for some fascinating studies in fifth-generation warfare.
It's for this reason that I go to the FLGS (Friendly Local Game Store) rather than order gaming stuff online through Amazon or B&N. Maybe I'll go to DriveThruRPG or Gaming Attic now and then, but if I can order it through Game Kastle, I'll do it that way. I LIKE having a game store located conveniently nearby.
Civil Disobedience is not only refusing to follow an unjust law. It also involves, and in some ways requires, facing the consequences of that disobedience. That will involve arrests, jail time, court dates, and even, sometimes, prison, as well as all the ancillary niceties involved in a punitive judicial system, to wit: police brutality, criminal records, prosecutors conducting 'coercive negotiation,' and the like. Civil Disobedience seeks to put a face and a name to those who are disobeying an unjust law. It is not a panacea, there is no critical mass of participants which will collapse an unjust system, and it will not happen overnight. It is not easy, and it takes a lot of courage to, for example, handcuff yourself to the gate of Raytheon, knowing that you're going to be arrested.
Did you know that when people were protesting nuclear plants and nuclear weapons production, there was a whole procedure that led to virtual coordination between security forces and protesters? There was even a "How to arrest a nuclear protester" training course. Basically, the protesters were told to not put up a fight, and the security guys would be very formal and arrest them. The arrest of the protesters was part of the procedure.
Mohandas Ghandi, who first proposed satyagraha (only one aspect of which is civil disobedience,) knew that there are two ways to break an unjust system. One way is slow, painful, bloodless but for a handful of voluntary victims, long-term, and can be a heartbreaking struggle. This is civil disobedience. The other way is fast, but much more painful, incredibly bloody for anyone near it, hopefully short term, and can also be a heartbreaking struggle. This is armed insurrection. And the real life Ghandi did not have nuclear weapons backing up his words.
What this is, is not satyagraha. It is closer to what you see the Black Bands do when the G-8 comes to town and firebomb a few dozen Starbucks.* They firebomb and then they run. Their goal is to NOT be arrested. Now, I can respect the anarchist message, even sympathise with it, but don't go confusing what they do with civil disobedience.
* - Not like it's all that hard to MISS one of them, considering how many there are. Can't lob a Molotov Snapple without hitting a damn Starbucks.
We do know that the Iraq documents leak were traced to him. I suspect that they have no idea how the bulk of these cables got in the hands of WikiLeaks so for the time being they're blaming a sergeant in Army Intel.
Naturally, I could be wrong and he could be a leaking machine. Wait, that didn't come out right... oh, dammit, neither did that....
After looking through the article, while the user seems to have erred in taking Sophos and Time Machine both at their word -- I need to re-read the part he was talking about VMs, something there didn't sound right but I'm not sure what -- and been a little too quick with the OK button, it does strike me as odd that Sophos didn't drop some kind of error when it tried to write to the backup file.
Er... could you clarify this a little? While a number of indigenous peoples have built some structures that date back to 760CE, none of them are currently in use as housing. Europeans arrived in the 1500s and started building structures and cities then.
Did you mean '260 years old?' If not, I apologize, and would like to know more of where you got that amazing date of 1260 from!
And where said version information is at the same time all-too-easy to dig out. It must be one of Murphy's rules: Meta-information you want a document to be available is nearly impossible to get, while meta-information you don't want to be available is ridiculously easy to retrieve.
I haven't the cites, but I do seem to recall a couple of embarrassing moments when documents with redacted information still stored that information, and it was only slightly nontrivial to have it reappear in all it's classified: top secret glory.
It's important to note what else 'older' techies bring to the table: Not only experience but integration. Sure, cool new piece of tech is the New Hotness, and you might not expect your resident 'great old one' to 'get it.' But if he's worth his salt, he'll get it. And then he'll get it to talk to your older system and hardware. Because he knows that hardware, he's worked with it for a while, and that kid who came out of a cert program all fresh-faced and bright-eyed and knowing New Hotness inside and out? He's never even HEARD of your system before, let alone worked with it.
So the much-dumped-upon 'older' techies are not only experienced in all the existing tech, they can help your new crap talk to the old crap. =)
And I agree... 40 is not old. Not when folks are finding they have to retire at 55-65 these days.
Dude, seriously. You're in New Zealand. You owe it to yourself and your stomach to go to Hell's Pizza. Yes it's called Hell's. It's also some of the best damn pizza in the world.
Pizza Hut and Domino's are like... they're the Hershey's Chocolate of pizza. Filling, tastes sort of like it should, but totally slumming it compared to Ghirardelli's or Godiva.
Note: I am not recommending putting Godiva chocolate on your Hell's pizza. Or Hershey's on your Domino's. Unless you really want to. Then knock yourself out. But Godiva on your Domino's is right out. That ain't right, man.
Interesting, I had a slightly different experience, but that would probably be because I went to a military college, or at least a college that purported to be 'military.' If anything there was an increase in the percentage of people who seemed more than willing to be bullying assholes.
Maybe it would have been different if I'd gone to a school that took the 'military honor' thing more seriously; I think, though, that I perhaps doubt that. Authoritarians get their jollies from having omegas to beat on. It would have almost certainly been different at a normal college.
Ah, the old question of 'What might have been, if...?' Regret is a horrible piece of luggage to carry. Toss it into the drink as soon as possible.
You don't have to be Randian to recognize that there's just plain too many laws, such that you can be dinged for just about anything a judge having a bad day can think of. Hell, I'm a left-leaning progressive and I think there's too many laws on the books.*
* - At least when it comes to the average citizen. In other cases -- like banks and other industries that should be regulated to within an inch of their profit margins -- it's not so much a matter of 'not enough' laws but rather not enough *enforcement* of existing laws. The biggest crooks in the country are the ones wearing suits, but you hardly ever see the cops coming into board rooms with arrest warrants.
Dammit. We need just plain reform from the top down. Maybe it's time we had another Constitutional Convention.
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You make an unfortunately excellent point. We all like to think that insurance.aes256 is going to be some massive Stick It To The Man thing, but it could be an absolute firebomb as far as the people with lives on the line goes.
Naturally I'm hoping that the only people who get hurt by the release of insurance.aes256 are corporations and governments... but the chances of that happening and not resulting in lots of deaths is, probably, pretty slim. (Plus, such entites are usually made up of, you know, squishy people.)
Wake me once his words are backed by nuclear weapons.
This decision also repealed the portion of the UCMJ that made homosexual behavior illegal and grounds for court-martial and discharge; I think it was Section 264? I may be wrong about the number.
"Traditionally," there are a number of ways that terrorist groups would identify themselves as being responsible for a given act. The most well-known is the IRA (or the Real IRA (yes, that was their name)) having arranged certain code phraseology and signs to the Royal Ulster Constabulary that would be sent following an action to confirm that it was the RIRA that committed the act.
Obviously the action isn't available to Anonymous, but Anonymous -- specifically, the kids over at 4chan who call themselves 'Anonymous' -- doesn't need it. Anonymous can't keep a secret and doesn't even try. It's security through obscurity, or rather anonymity, but so fine-grained that it actually seems to work. Anonymous can't help but telegraph its actions because it doesn't even really bother with security except on a personal, individual level. In a sense this is even better than the cellular structure favored by terrorist and covert cells: Even if you bust one person, you may not be able to get at even their closest accomplices. Unfortunately, this does leave Anonymous up for subordination, though the counter to that is, ironically, reputation of individual members to each other. The threat of subordination is there but generally only long-term. A newbie to Anonymous who proposes DDOSing the Pentagon is going to be suspected immediately, while if someone with more reputation proposes it, it may be seriously considered.
No matter what one thinks of Anonymous, or even if they should be considered as a single entity at all, it does make for some fascinating studies in fifth-generation warfare.
It's for this reason that I go to the FLGS (Friendly Local Game Store) rather than order gaming stuff online through Amazon or B&N. Maybe I'll go to DriveThruRPG or Gaming Attic now and then, but if I can order it through Game Kastle, I'll do it that way. I LIKE having a game store located conveniently nearby.
So you're saying that after DDOSing their web sites, and DDOSing their fax machines, Anonymous is going to DDOS their... carrier pigeons?
God damn, that's bloody brilliant. Forget the messages the pigeons are carrying. Think of all that pigeon shit!
I'm sorry, but that is not entirely the case.
Civil Disobedience is not only refusing to follow an unjust law. It also involves, and in some ways requires, facing the consequences of that disobedience. That will involve arrests, jail time, court dates, and even, sometimes, prison, as well as all the ancillary niceties involved in a punitive judicial system, to wit: police brutality, criminal records, prosecutors conducting 'coercive negotiation,' and the like. Civil Disobedience seeks to put a face and a name to those who are disobeying an unjust law. It is not a panacea, there is no critical mass of participants which will collapse an unjust system, and it will not happen overnight. It is not easy, and it takes a lot of courage to, for example, handcuff yourself to the gate of Raytheon, knowing that you're going to be arrested.
Did you know that when people were protesting nuclear plants and nuclear weapons production, there was a whole procedure that led to virtual coordination between security forces and protesters? There was even a "How to arrest a nuclear protester" training course. Basically, the protesters were told to not put up a fight, and the security guys would be very formal and arrest them. The arrest of the protesters was part of the procedure.
Mohandas Ghandi, who first proposed satyagraha (only one aspect of which is civil disobedience,) knew that there are two ways to break an unjust system. One way is slow, painful, bloodless but for a handful of voluntary victims, long-term, and can be a heartbreaking struggle. This is civil disobedience. The other way is fast, but much more painful, incredibly bloody for anyone near it, hopefully short term, and can also be a heartbreaking struggle. This is armed insurrection. And the real life Ghandi did not have nuclear weapons backing up his words.
What this is, is not satyagraha. It is closer to what you see the Black Bands do when the G-8 comes to town and firebomb a few dozen Starbucks.* They firebomb and then they run. Their goal is to NOT be arrested. Now, I can respect the anarchist message, even sympathise with it, but don't go confusing what they do with civil disobedience.
* - Not like it's all that hard to MISS one of them, considering how many there are. Can't lob a Molotov Snapple without hitting a damn Starbucks.
With a UID that low? I'm surprised you're not already pushing up vacuum tubes. =)
(I kid! I'm not that far behind.)
We do know that the Iraq documents leak were traced to him. I suspect that they have no idea how the bulk of these cables got in the hands of WikiLeaks so for the time being they're blaming a sergeant in Army Intel.
Naturally, I could be wrong and he could be a leaking machine. Wait, that didn't come out right... oh, dammit, neither did that....
He's NOT GAY, dammit! Honest! Really, he isn't!! /DothProtestTooMuch
After looking through the article, while the user seems to have erred in taking Sophos and Time Machine both at their word -- I need to re-read the part he was talking about VMs, something there didn't sound right but I'm not sure what -- and been a little too quick with the OK button, it does strike me as odd that Sophos didn't drop some kind of error when it tried to write to the backup file.
Er... could you clarify this a little? While a number of indigenous peoples have built some structures that date back to 760CE, none of them are currently in use as housing. Europeans arrived in the 1500s and started building structures and cities then.
Did you mean '260 years old?' If not, I apologize, and would like to know more of where you got that amazing date of 1260 from!
Only if we can subpoena Mae Ling Mak.
And hot grits.
Would part of the problem be that they suspect that there are breeder reactors for which they do not have the appropriate data?
This is the sort of conversation that can only end in a gunshot.
And where said version information is at the same time all-too-easy to dig out. It must be one of Murphy's rules: Meta-information you want a document to be available is nearly impossible to get, while meta-information you don't want to be available is ridiculously easy to retrieve.
I haven't the cites, but I do seem to recall a couple of embarrassing moments when documents with redacted information still stored that information, and it was only slightly nontrivial to have it reappear in all it's classified: top secret glory.
It's important to note what else 'older' techies bring to the table: Not only experience but integration. Sure, cool new piece of tech is the New Hotness, and you might not expect your resident 'great old one' to 'get it.' But if he's worth his salt, he'll get it. And then he'll get it to talk to your older system and hardware. Because he knows that hardware, he's worked with it for a while, and that kid who came out of a cert program all fresh-faced and bright-eyed and knowing New Hotness inside and out? He's never even HEARD of your system before, let alone worked with it.
So the much-dumped-upon 'older' techies are not only experienced in all the existing tech, they can help your new crap talk to the old crap. =)
And I agree... 40 is not old. Not when folks are finding they have to retire at 55-65 these days.
Ask Pat Robertson, I'm sure he'll say something about God punishing the Italians for being Catholic.
He's a nice guy like that.
For purposes of this exercise, assume a perfectly spherical politician.
Pizza Hut? Domino's?
Dude, seriously. You're in New Zealand. You owe it to yourself and your stomach to go to Hell's Pizza. Yes it's called Hell's. It's also some of the best damn pizza in the world.
Pizza Hut and Domino's are like... they're the Hershey's Chocolate of pizza. Filling, tastes sort of like it should, but totally slumming it compared to Ghirardelli's or Godiva.
Note: I am not recommending putting Godiva chocolate on your Hell's pizza. Or Hershey's on your Domino's. Unless you really want to. Then knock yourself out. But Godiva on your Domino's is right out. That ain't right, man.
Interesting, I had a slightly different experience, but that would probably be because I went to a military college, or at least a college that purported to be 'military.' If anything there was an increase in the percentage of people who seemed more than willing to be bullying assholes.
Maybe it would have been different if I'd gone to a school that took the 'military honor' thing more seriously; I think, though, that I perhaps doubt that. Authoritarians get their jollies from having omegas to beat on. It would have almost certainly been different at a normal college.
Ah, the old question of 'What might have been, if...?' Regret is a horrible piece of luggage to carry. Toss it into the drink as soon as possible.
Well, remember that /. article recently about the rat implants that generate power from glucose...?
Yeah. The good news is, you won't have to take your iPad in to replace it because the batteries are out....
That's a rather egregious use of the word 'belgium,' don't you think?
You don't have to be Randian to recognize that there's just plain too many laws, such that you can be dinged for just about anything a judge having a bad day can think of. Hell, I'm a left-leaning progressive and I think there's too many laws on the books.*
* - At least when it comes to the average citizen. In other cases -- like banks and other industries that should be regulated to within an inch of their profit margins -- it's not so much a matter of 'not enough' laws but rather not enough *enforcement* of existing laws. The biggest crooks in the country are the ones wearing suits, but you hardly ever see the cops coming into board rooms with arrest warrants.
Dammit. We need just plain reform from the top down. Maybe it's time we had another Constitutional Convention.
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