Red slime, blue slime... seriously, the US political system is messed up. The two major parties have so sewn up the political arena, anyone not affiliated with one of them is essentially a joke. That means they can set up a few token points to disagree over and make a big media circus, but on so many issues there is really little choice. They both sell out to the same special interests.
But lots of them do. And they don't get found out easily, as the evidence of hideing evidence is itsself hidden by the hiding of ev... er... yeah. Painful sentence. All they need to do is say it's a personal account, and do government business anyway. They only way they get caught is if a hacker gets in, as happened to Sarah Palin - although in that case, her personal email was only being used for rather routine setting of appointments and such. Official governer business, yes, but no juicy scandals.
Depends on their deal. The royalty is the most common form of payment, yes, but not the only one. They can also negociate a fixed fee - the no-risk option. They won't rake in the big bucks, but they won't make nothing either. And even if the music does make a profit, that doesn't mean they get paid - both movie industry and record labels have well-documented methods of playing accounting games, to the point where every movie makes a loss on paper and even successful albums rarely make enough royalties for the artists to pay off the loans the label provided to cover production costs.
I have half a life: I have a job, but no partner. Before the job I was an enthusiastic coder, somewhat-passable 3d-artist and eager researcher into video and image processing. Then I got the job. I've not made a piece of art in years, and my occasional dabbling in code achieve nothing I just work hard for eight hours on the helldesk, then spend the remainder of the day watching TV because I can't build up the enthusiasm to think any more.
Those officers and directors are the ones who decide where money is going. When people are able to set their own pay, of course they'll add a few zeros.
1. Announce the C&C server IPs to the world.
2. Watch Anonymous DDoS them so hard the host will have to choice but to kick them to protect the rest of their datacenter.
And the best part is that the operators of the servers have no legal recourse at all, because that would mean revealing their identities.
But the people making the decisions are accountable to the voters, who would risk being called up in the draft. Could Bush have so easily called for the invasion of Iraq if the voters he depended upon had known they or their family members might be called upon to fight and die for it? It'd certainly have cost him a few votes.
Anyone else long for the days when a word processor was for editing formatted text, a spreadsheet for mathematical calculations, and an email client sent and received emails?
I don't know what it's like at that particular prison, but I know that in some parts of the US being too nice to prisoners results in either the locals getting upset that you are being 'soft' or the state politicians getting involved to make sure the prisoners are properly miserable and mistreated. There seems to be a natural instinct for justice, or at least a desire to see more suffering inflicted upon wrongdoers regardless of the impact on rehabilitation and reoffending. It seems people don't want to see prisoners turned straight so much as they want to see prisoners lives properly destroyed, even if this leaves them no option but to return to crime upon their release.
You expect inclusiveness from the US military? Up until quite recently, their policy was to kick out anyone they determined to be gay. Their policy on women is still to confine them to desk jobs, far away from combat. Perhaps it would be better to strip the DoD from all responsibility for internet security and assign such tasks exclusively to a new agency, answerable directly to congress. They'd work with the military and intelligence services, but not be part of them. No boot camp, no ranks, and a staff of tech-experts and intelligence experts rather than generals who got up the ranks by being good at killing stuff.
Principles can be overridden with money. Doesn't even need much. The benefit is that some of those hackers are very highly skilled, and they are used to not playing by the rules - which is good, because the enemies of the US won't be playing by the rules either.
That's the idea, anyway. I think in practice any good hacker (As opposed to a conventionally, formally trained engineer) is going to be driven half-crazy by the highly conformist military culture, and those that can stick with it are going to need constant micromanaging to keep them on their assigned mission ('You want me to disassemble yet another possible Chinese worm? BORING!') rather than using the available resources to do what they think is best ('Ohh, I'll write a virus that installs HTTPSeverywhere and blocks RST packets! That'll totally screw with China's filtering!').
Manned spaceflight isn't just a means to advance technology. It is a goal in itsself. For those of us who grew up on science fiction, manned spaceflight is the key to perhaps one day reaching the future we dream about and long for. Fiction gave us those dreams, and manned space exploration offers at least the possibility of seeing them realised in reality as well.
There was a bit of a public outcry after a book was published, 'Unsafe at any Speed,' detailing all the dangers in cars of the time and the resistance of car manufacturers to improving safety. Governmental safety standards for cars followed the outcry.
The patron model, from before copyright, but now adaptable to crowdsourcing. The artist still needs to make their early works at their own cost to prove their skill, but after that, yes... it could work.
The kirpan actually varies depending on the sect. Some of them regard it as symbolic and require only a knife-shaped pendant or a knife riveted into the sheath to render it harmless, while others are strictly traditional and believe that only a full-sized knife will do. This particular one was from one of the latter groups, probably because they are the ones more likely to run into trouble. You are also correct about the Criminal Justice Act in regard to carrying in public, but I don't know the legal situation regarding the permitting of kirpan in privately-owned venues.
I think they should drop the knife as a symbol, and replace it with a pen. A quill pen, because it has to be traditional. A more modern symbol, and arguably a more powerful tool in the fight against injustice.
The silly thing to me is that among those who do 'cyber', the term is actually considered very vulgar. Or at least, among my crowd. I've never tried it with an outsider. Maybe the language is different in other channels.
It helps to fool Facebook's anti-fraud mechanisms. If a page has thousands of likes, all from accounts that like nothing else, it will look very suspicious. By having their bots like random pages all over facebook, the operators make those accounts look more like legitimate users with diverse interests.
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Red slime, blue slime... seriously, the US political system is messed up. The two major parties have so sewn up the political arena, anyone not affiliated with one of them is essentially a joke. That means they can set up a few token points to disagree over and make a big media circus, but on so many issues there is really little choice. They both sell out to the same special interests.
But lots of them do. And they don't get found out easily, as the evidence of hideing evidence is itsself hidden by the hiding of ev... er... yeah. Painful sentence. All they need to do is say it's a personal account, and do government business anyway. They only way they get caught is if a hacker gets in, as happened to Sarah Palin - although in that case, her personal email was only being used for rather routine setting of appointments and such. Official governer business, yes, but no juicy scandals.
Depends on their deal. The royalty is the most common form of payment, yes, but not the only one. They can also negociate a fixed fee - the no-risk option. They won't rake in the big bucks, but they won't make nothing either. And even if the music does make a profit, that doesn't mean they get paid - both movie industry and record labels have well-documented methods of playing accounting games, to the point where every movie makes a loss on paper and even successful albums rarely make enough royalties for the artists to pay off the loans the label provided to cover production costs.
I have half a life: I have a job, but no partner. Before the job I was an enthusiastic coder, somewhat-passable 3d-artist and eager researcher into video and image processing. Then I got the job. I've not made a piece of art in years, and my occasional dabbling in code achieve nothing I just work hard for eight hours on the helldesk, then spend the remainder of the day watching TV because I can't build up the enthusiasm to think any more.
Those officers and directors are the ones who decide where money is going. When people are able to set their own pay, of course they'll add a few zeros.
To a teenager, every one feels like The One. I blame the hormones, and inexperience. Life has yet to instill sufficient cynicism in them.
1. Announce the C&C server IPs to the world.
2. Watch Anonymous DDoS them so hard the host will have to choice but to kick them to protect the rest of their datacenter.
And the best part is that the operators of the servers have no legal recourse at all, because that would mean revealing their identities.
Poe's Law in action. If this weren't posted on Slashdot, I'd assume you were serious. I troll a few sites where comments like that are very typical.
Almost all. We'd need much improved decentralised ad-hoc networking, otherwise the army can be defeated by simply turning off the cellphone masts.
But the people making the decisions are accountable to the voters, who would risk being called up in the draft. Could Bush have so easily called for the invasion of Iraq if the voters he depended upon had known they or their family members might be called upon to fight and die for it? It'd certainly have cost him a few votes.
... the less I want.
Anyone else long for the days when a word processor was for editing formatted text, a spreadsheet for mathematical calculations, and an email client sent and received emails?
I don't know what it's like at that particular prison, but I know that in some parts of the US being too nice to prisoners results in either the locals getting upset that you are being 'soft' or the state politicians getting involved to make sure the prisoners are properly miserable and mistreated. There seems to be a natural instinct for justice, or at least a desire to see more suffering inflicted upon wrongdoers regardless of the impact on rehabilitation and reoffending. It seems people don't want to see prisoners turned straight so much as they want to see prisoners lives properly destroyed, even if this leaves them no option but to return to crime upon their release.
You expect inclusiveness from the US military? Up until quite recently, their policy was to kick out anyone they determined to be gay. Their policy on women is still to confine them to desk jobs, far away from combat. Perhaps it would be better to strip the DoD from all responsibility for internet security and assign such tasks exclusively to a new agency, answerable directly to congress. They'd work with the military and intelligence services, but not be part of them. No boot camp, no ranks, and a staff of tech-experts and intelligence experts rather than generals who got up the ranks by being good at killing stuff.
Principles can be overridden with money. Doesn't even need much. The benefit is that some of those hackers are very highly skilled, and they are used to not playing by the rules - which is good, because the enemies of the US won't be playing by the rules either.
That's the idea, anyway. I think in practice any good hacker (As opposed to a conventionally, formally trained engineer) is going to be driven half-crazy by the highly conformist military culture, and those that can stick with it are going to need constant micromanaging to keep them on their assigned mission ('You want me to disassemble yet another possible Chinese worm? BORING!') rather than using the available resources to do what they think is best ('Ohh, I'll write a virus that installs HTTPSeverywhere and blocks RST packets! That'll totally screw with China's filtering!').
Manned spaceflight isn't just a means to advance technology. It is a goal in itsself. For those of us who grew up on science fiction, manned spaceflight is the key to perhaps one day reaching the future we dream about and long for. Fiction gave us those dreams, and manned space exploration offers at least the possibility of seeing them realised in reality as well.
If soldiers cost $28,000,000,000 each, the nukes would come out much quicker.
There was a bit of a public outcry after a book was published, 'Unsafe at any Speed,' detailing all the dangers in cars of the time and the resistance of car manufacturers to improving safety. Governmental safety standards for cars followed the outcry.
It does have a good story element though, even if the actual combat isn't hugely exciting.
I recall that in Hexen, entering the iddqd results in instant death.
Idkfa takes all your weapons away.
The patron model, from before copyright, but now adaptable to crowdsourcing. The artist still needs to make their early works at their own cost to prove their skill, but after that, yes... it could work.
Or it might be because those cultures didn't have a means of writing musical notation. They passed their music on through memorisation.
Until the RIAA threatens to sue, and the cloud provider starts deleting your MP3s to avoid liability.
The kirpan actually varies depending on the sect. Some of them regard it as symbolic and require only a knife-shaped pendant or a knife riveted into the sheath to render it harmless, while others are strictly traditional and believe that only a full-sized knife will do. This particular one was from one of the latter groups, probably because they are the ones more likely to run into trouble. You are also correct about the Criminal Justice Act in regard to carrying in public, but I don't know the legal situation regarding the permitting of kirpan in privately-owned venues.
I think they should drop the knife as a symbol, and replace it with a pen. A quill pen, because it has to be traditional. A more modern symbol, and arguably a more powerful tool in the fight against injustice.
The silly thing to me is that among those who do 'cyber', the term is actually considered very vulgar. Or at least, among my crowd. I've never tried it with an outsider. Maybe the language is different in other channels.
It helps to fool Facebook's anti-fraud mechanisms. If a page has thousands of likes, all from accounts that like nothing else, it will look very suspicious. By having their bots like random pages all over facebook, the operators make those accounts look more like legitimate users with diverse interests.