Quoting another slashdotter: "This is just a reporter's opinion sourced from conversations with people whose names he won't reveal at times he won't reveal..... he details the exact contents of a meeting that consisted of president Obama, vice president Biden, and CIA director Leon Panetta. For him to have this conversation, it means he has interviewed either the president, the vice president, or Panetta on this. Fat fucking chance. It's probably true, but no it's no way in hell close to "offical"."
You could say the same thing, more or less, about Woodward and Bernstein and Deep Throat. It could be Biden or Panetta instructed an aide to leak the story at (or not) the President's direction.
TOR is only slow because there is currently extremely poor community participation.
If every single person had a big red button to enable a TOR exit node on their router, you would change your mind about the speed.
I'm only passably familiar with TOR from reading/. comments. What's the liability to me for enabling an exit node? My understanding is that other people's traffic will hop over the network to my router, and then from there into the "open" internet. If I were in the UK and this law was in effect, would the ISP see this as my traffic?
Also, do you need a host/server online to support the exit node, or does it just run on the router (I could look this answer up on the TOR site I'm sure, but since I'm already asking the other question...)
The representative's job is to represent the will of the people. The Constitution's job is to insure the other structures of government constrain the dangers of "mob rule." A representative putting each vote out to the people and going with their majority opinion is not that different than a majority liberal/conservative district picking a progressive/liberal/conservative/tea partier and having that person vote their own individual will. In fact, the individual representative's "will" is probably less in line with the majority of the people on any one issue due to the political game of trading votes and serving donor's interests.
The guys states that he would not go with the majority if they propose a vote which would violate the Constitution, and even if he did (which a "normal" Rep voted in by that population would probably do also), we have a process in place to deal with such a law should it be passed.
Until the percentage of the world's population with higher standards of living starts to decrease, which it hasn't for any meaningful period in centuries, I don't think we need to gnash our teeth in worry.
I think the point of TFA is that once you start seeing those types of effects, it will be impossible to reverse the causes.
Both of you are being blinded by your preconceptions.
None of the examples of terrorist plots given by Chrisq were FBI instigated plots (not sure about the Brooklyn Bridge one though). On the other hand, the FBI does have a long track record of borderline entrapment (e.g. the Christmas Bomb plot in Portland, OR in 2010(?)).
But, and this is the crucial part, all of those plots were carried out by Americans, just like the OK City bombing, the Unabomber bombings, and the stand-offs at Ruby Ridge and Waco. The FBI, as a law enforcement agency tasked with investigations on US soil, as subsequently overwhelmingly of US citizens, has a duty to the people to uphold the Constitution. There are legitimate threats*, but that doesn't mean we need a secret police.
*I happen to think our perception of these threats is wildly exaggerated. We are far more scared of, and devote far more money to, terror attacks than their frequency and lethality deserve.
Not only that, some VCR remotes had a button specifically designed to make it easy to skip commercials: each press skipped by forward 30 seconds.
Dish Network has had exactly this same button on their DVR remotes for at least the last 4-5 years. In fact, I believe it is unique to them and a (minor) selling point in their marketing material. This technology (skipping ads) is only slightly different, but I think fundamentally so, in that it is specifically targeting a type of material as opposed to simply skipping ahead a fixed amount of time.
I've talked about this with lots of artists that are big enough to sell out venues that range in size between 500-3000 people and they all say the same thing: no artists, except those at the absolute top of the heap, are making a living selling their music anymore.
We bought our house from, and are friends with, a couple who are both symphonic musicians - she with the LA Phil and he with Long Beach. AFAIK they don't have other jobs, yet they are doing fairly well.
The government's problem isn't technology. You can't automate well a process you cannot do well on paper.
Maybe we're doing it backwards. Maybe if software engineers (helped) design government processes they would be more efficient.
I'm not a software engineer, but I do have that kind of logical thought process, and I know this has helped immensely in my career as I spec out business processes and design/refine the way of doing things (i.e. processing information, moving paperwork, reporting data, etc.)
One simplification is to make SS and M like the food stamps program..... a needs-based system designed to help the 20-30 million poor persons. Those of us who have money will buy our own retirement through saving, our own medicine/insurance, and our own food at the store.
Well, Medicaid is already for the poor.
How would this work for SS though? I'm upper middle class, my wife an I contribute to our 401(k)s, etc. So do I get a pass on my SS tax? Or do I pay into it without the expectation of getting anything back? What happens if the market tanks right before I retire, and the $1m I expected to have is now $500k? Am I eligible for SS to make up the difference? I don't think you've thought your plan through (or at least, not described it very well).
We de-fund all of them, then each program has to come back to congress and justify it's continued existence.
I have a great idea, everyone. The Federal government is too wasteful - they're always making reports or wasting our money on things we don't need. So let's make each federal agency present a plan justifying it's existence to Congress. Every two years when a new Congress starts, each agency will come in turn to prove their worthiness with power point presentations, graphs, and spreadsheets. I know this will work, because we do it for Congressmen. They have to justify their existence to the voters every two years, and it's not like they have more important things to do in Washington than scrounging up donations and campaigning for 18 months in their districts.
Imagine that... treat them with respect and you are treated with respect in turn.
Fucking shame people have forgotten this.
Exactly. If the police treated the general populace with respect more often, they'd get a lot more brownies.
(In case you don't get it, you have your cause and effect backwards. The police got the brownies (i.e. treated with respect), after they did their job and retrieved the stolen property.)
In my case, when my GPS unit got stolen out of my car in my driveway, the police simply filed a report so the theft would show up in the statistics. No investigation nor follow-up. Not that I blame them - how are they going to solve that crime? I didn't have the serial number or anything, so they couldn't even track it if it turned up in a pawn shop.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
No, no, no, no, no.
That's unconstitutional. If the last 10 years have taught us anything, it is that unconstitutional things are legal.
amost every pc and router i've seen in the last 8 years has the option to change the mac address.
How does that work? I thought the point of MAC addresses was that they were unique? I suppose, or IP traffic they only need to be unique to their subnet, but still, that sounds like a potential problem for routing (though perhaps no more than assigned IP addresses).
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i dunno, maybe they could call it a "face book" or something like this.
If they got enough photos they could call it The Face Book, since it would be definitive.
Want security, pick a strong passsword.
Exactly. That's why I use a picture of Rainer Wolfcastle for my Galaxy.
Quoting another slashdotter: "This is just a reporter's opinion sourced from conversations with people whose names he won't reveal at times he won't reveal..... he details the exact contents of a meeting that consisted of president Obama, vice president Biden, and CIA director Leon Panetta. For him to have this conversation, it means he has interviewed either the president, the vice president, or Panetta on this. Fat fucking chance. It's probably true, but no it's no way in hell close to "offical"."
You could say the same thing, more or less, about Woodward and Bernstein and Deep Throat. It could be Biden or Panetta instructed an aide to leak the story at (or not) the President's direction.
If they were already here, the probe leaving the heliosheath wouldn't mean a damned thing.
Or they'll shoot it down like a raven leaving Riverrun.
TOR is only slow because there is currently extremely poor community participation.
If every single person had a big red button to enable a TOR exit node on their router, you would change your mind about the speed.
I'm only passably familiar with TOR from reading /. comments. What's the liability to me for enabling an exit node? My understanding is that other people's traffic will hop over the network to my router, and then from there into the "open" internet. If I were in the UK and this law was in effect, would the ISP see this as my traffic?
Also, do you need a host/server online to support the exit node, or does it just run on the router (I could look this answer up on the TOR site I'm sure, but since I'm already asking the other question...)
The representative's job is to represent the will of the people. The Constitution's job is to insure the other structures of government constrain the dangers of "mob rule." A representative putting each vote out to the people and going with their majority opinion is not that different than a majority liberal/conservative district picking a progressive/liberal/conservative/tea partier and having that person vote their own individual will. In fact, the individual representative's "will" is probably less in line with the majority of the people on any one issue due to the political game of trading votes and serving donor's interests.
The guys states that he would not go with the majority if they propose a vote which would violate the Constitution, and even if he did (which a "normal" Rep voted in by that population would probably do also), we have a process in place to deal with such a law should it be passed.
Until the percentage of the world's population with higher standards of living starts to decrease, which it hasn't for any meaningful period in centuries, I don't think we need to gnash our teeth in worry.
I think the point of TFA is that once you start seeing those types of effects, it will be impossible to reverse the causes.
Every time CSI or some other crime drama is on, there will be tens of thousands of searches.
Anyone with half a brain knows that everything on CSI is impossible anyway.
Secretive like a secret police? Intersting idea. Germany used to have a secret police, too, and is a pretty good country now.
"Used to" being the operative phrase.
Anything Obama wants, Obama gets.
Obama wanted six lemons.
Both of you are being blinded by your preconceptions.
None of the examples of terrorist plots given by Chrisq were FBI instigated plots (not sure about the Brooklyn Bridge one though). On the other hand, the FBI does have a long track record of borderline entrapment (e.g. the Christmas Bomb plot in Portland, OR in 2010(?)).
But, and this is the crucial part, all of those plots were carried out by Americans, just like the OK City bombing, the Unabomber bombings, and the stand-offs at Ruby Ridge and Waco. The FBI, as a law enforcement agency tasked with investigations on US soil, as subsequently overwhelmingly of US citizens, has a duty to the people to uphold the Constitution. There are legitimate threats*, but that doesn't mean we need a secret police.
*I happen to think our perception of these threats is wildly exaggerated. We are far more scared of, and devote far more money to, terror attacks than their frequency and lethality deserve.
Not only that, some VCR remotes had a button specifically designed to make it easy to skip commercials: each press skipped by forward 30 seconds.
Dish Network has had exactly this same button on their DVR remotes for at least the last 4-5 years. In fact, I believe it is unique to them and a (minor) selling point in their marketing material. This technology (skipping ads) is only slightly different, but I think fundamentally so, in that it is specifically targeting a type of material as opposed to simply skipping ahead a fixed amount of time.
They are de-listing the sites in their search results, not confiscating the domain.
So Easy Even Your Drummer Could...Well, Perhaps Not That Easy
LOL /. account.
Worth the price of my
I've talked about this with lots of artists that are big enough to sell out venues that range in size between 500-3000 people and they all say the same thing: no artists, except those at the absolute top of the heap, are making a living selling their music anymore.
We bought our house from, and are friends with, a couple who are both symphonic musicians - she with the LA Phil and he with Long Beach. AFAIK they don't have other jobs, yet they are doing fairly well.
And knowing one's SSN allows you to divine their guilt or innocence, or whether their a combatant or civilian.
The government's problem isn't technology. You can't automate well a process you cannot do well on paper.
Maybe we're doing it backwards. Maybe if software engineers (helped) design government processes they would be more efficient.
I'm not a software engineer, but I do have that kind of logical thought process, and I know this has helped immensely in my career as I spec out business processes and design/refine the way of doing things (i.e. processing information, moving paperwork, reporting data, etc.)
One simplification is to make SS and M like the food stamps program..... a needs-based system designed to help the 20-30 million poor persons. Those of us who have money will buy our own retirement through saving, our own medicine/insurance, and our own food at the store.
Well, Medicaid is already for the poor.
How would this work for SS though? I'm upper middle class, my wife an I contribute to our 401(k)s, etc. So do I get a pass on my SS tax? Or do I pay into it without the expectation of getting anything back? What happens if the market tanks right before I retire, and the $1m I expected to have is now $500k? Am I eligible for SS to make up the difference? I don't think you've thought your plan through (or at least, not described it very well).
How about all of them?
We de-fund all of them, then each program has to come back to congress and justify it's continued existence.
I have a great idea, everyone. The Federal government is too wasteful - they're always making reports or wasting our money on things we don't need. So let's make each federal agency present a plan justifying it's existence to Congress. Every two years when a new Congress starts, each agency will come in turn to prove their worthiness with power point presentations, graphs, and spreadsheets. I know this will work, because we do it for Congressmen. They have to justify their existence to the voters every two years, and it's not like they have more important things to do in Washington than scrounging up donations and campaigning for 18 months in their districts.
It is if you're in Glendale, CA.
Imagine that... treat them with respect and you are treated with respect in turn.
Fucking shame people have forgotten this.
Exactly. If the police treated the general populace with respect more often, they'd get a lot more brownies.
(In case you don't get it, you have your cause and effect backwards. The police got the brownies (i.e. treated with respect), after they did their job and retrieved the stolen property.)
In my case, when my GPS unit got stolen out of my car in my driveway, the police simply filed a report so the theft would show up in the statistics. No investigation nor follow-up. Not that I blame them - how are they going to solve that crime? I didn't have the serial number or anything, so they couldn't even track it if it turned up in a pawn shop.
urban /= city; moron.
Well, we are talking about Oakland, so that's urban by any definition.
It would be illegal.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
No, no, no, no, no.
That's unconstitutional. If the last 10 years have taught us anything, it is that unconstitutional things are legal.
This is still a free country... right?
Wrong. Get back in your cell... err home.
The word you're looking for there is cubicle
This is too depressing. I'm going to go back to work....
Aw shit.
amost every pc and router i've seen in the last 8 years has the option to change the mac address.
How does that work? I thought the point of MAC addresses was that they were unique? I suppose, or IP traffic they only need to be unique to their subnet, but still, that sounds like a potential problem for routing (though perhaps no more than assigned IP addresses).