If you are spending a ton of money on something you'll probably never use, and what's more, of no productive use at all, you might as well cut costs by stealing designs of that from the retards who developed it first and spend the savings on something useful.
Seriously, when are we going to evolve from that stage where we are still inventing new ways to throw rocks at each other?
India and Pakistan had nukes and still went to war over Kargil. There is a good, big list of nuclear close calls during cold war. If you think nuke close calls are preferable to World Wars, your brain is totally and completely cooked. And the Sanest Country in History is actually the only one ever to detonate a nuke in anger. Two, actually.
No major states went to war since WW2? I'd say, let the Superpower clowns screw each other until their rear ends bleed, but leave the poor developing countries to develop in peace. We don't want Cuba or Vietnam or Cambodia or Chile or Nicaragua or Palestine squeezed because big and benevolent America can't wave her(?) dong at Russia which had Peacekeeping nukes.
If you can make the case that nukes led to global peace, I can make the case that Nazism rid the world of Colonialism.
Please stop glorifying these academic nuts with coverage.
A little boy jumps into a fight between two big bully boys and wants to whip both of them. It's all well defeating a monopoly, but a duopoly? Any case studies in that area?
Go the Mozilla way: Make deals with Google so you can build an open web. Don't listen to the voices from the cobwebs that speak a lot but don't deliver a usable product. Freedom is good only if it allows me to swim in it.
See, he was a evil monster who balanced Sovs against America. If you are a morally upright superhero, then you are really an angel or a comic book character. No human can stand up to high levels of moral rectitude and still do things superheroes do. They call the Comedian in Watchmen a superhero. Not to mention Adrian Veidt.
You wanna make a movie about a crusader who lurked in the shadows, a darker, grittier superhero, then make a movie about Lavrenty Beria. Don't make movies about men in silly masks and also expect people not to laugh.
Why does everything named Apple look so smooth and polished while other tech companies seem to be in a perpetual mess? Apple makes great products, makes great comebacks, settles even lawsuits suavely. Used to admire Google, but they are no longer the style statement they used to be.
Oracle is of course, to a tech illiterate hackernews-reading wannabe, a patent troll.
Am I supposed to feel happy that I can preserve my privacy or should I feel sad that FBI is reduced to complaining about its own incompetence and asking to be spoon fed?
Hurmm. But the Chinese would know that, wouldn't they? But then if you are gonna do something like this, there is risk involved. A school bully is rash, while a pro takes calculated risks. So which is China?
Either China is the next superpower whose superiority is backed by superb cyber offense capability, or one of these days their "victims" are gonna expose their hubris and gonna send them(China) back to IT stone age.
Chinese were quick off the blocks as regards information warfare
Add to that their military doctrine is about hiding their strength, obscurity et al. So if they are attacking and not bothering to hide, hmmm.. What are they upto?
Do you really want CORPORATES have that power? Please. These guys don't even have the common sense to break the boom-bust cycles. It's like giving a knife to a child incapable of learning from experience.
So Company A attacks Hacker B. Only it turns out that the attack went awry and Hacker B is actually a rival corporate giant. So Rival Corporate giant attacks, which misfires too. Remember, it is difficult to prove motivation or origin or logic in a cyber attack. Isn't it fun, boys?
He'd be a traitor in Australia. To America, he is simply a foreign agent, and must be dealt as such.
Or perhaps he's a "stateless" spy? Then, he is the enemy of whoever was exposed by his actions,:-). No doubt, Wikileaks exposed a lot of dirt, but the stuff was also stolen. Espionage is a necessary evil and that's how it must remain. You can't say, "hey Assange did right, but the CIA did wrong"
Does the US have moral superiority? Can they say, "what assange did was right because we never do what he does"? No. I'm sure US spooks listen to 'dip' networks all the time on behalf of the US. Assange does it for kicks or for some holy cause, doesn't matter. He's a spy, nations and people supporting can only do because they benefited form him.
I would support him, but I would not have anything to put up in my defence if the Special Activities Division came for me. Espionage is a fair play among nations, and that's it. Morals simply don't work in this area. Just read The Spy who came in from the cold.
If ya don't like it, just Adblock it. Hope they won't get desperate and turn to those nasty persistent cookies. By the way, Wales looks a bit like Daniel Craig from an angle, no?
In his latest SS collection, CD has written a story called Human Readable that discusses the implications of Ant Colony algorithm if it is applied to all walks of life..Free download from craphound.com
I'm not sure if "open source" and "oracle" can fit in the same sentence. I mean, English is an emergent language, and it must acquire rules that reflect the current historical trends. I don't know the man, but he seems a raving hedonist.
China should give Noam Chomsky the Confucius prize for "being a courageous voice in a corrupt and hypocritical nation and having the temerity to call the US the best nation in the world". They should also learn to treat dissidents the American way: let them rant. Pay newspapers to criticise him subtly while praising him over a period of time. Sooner or later, they're gonna get called insane.
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If you are spending a ton of money on something you'll probably never use, and what's more, of no productive use at all, you might as well cut costs by stealing designs of that from the retards who developed it first and spend the savings on something useful. Seriously, when are we going to evolve from that stage where we are still inventing new ways to throw rocks at each other?
India and Pakistan had nukes and still went to war over Kargil. There is a good, big list of nuclear close calls during cold war. If you think nuke close calls are preferable to World Wars, your brain is totally and completely cooked. And the Sanest Country in History is actually the only one ever to detonate a nuke in anger. Two, actually.
No major states went to war since WW2? I'd say, let the Superpower clowns screw each other until their rear ends bleed, but leave the poor developing countries to develop in peace. We don't want Cuba or Vietnam or Cambodia or Chile or Nicaragua or Palestine squeezed because big and benevolent America can't wave her(?) dong at Russia which had Peacekeeping nukes.
If you can make the case that nukes led to global peace, I can make the case that Nazism rid the world of Colonialism. Please stop glorifying these academic nuts with coverage.
RIM and Microsoft "cute"? Actually I think they were Big until cuties Apple and Google stuffed them. Mozilla won't survive a loss.
A little boy jumps into a fight between two big bully boys and wants to whip both of them. It's all well defeating a monopoly, but a duopoly? Any case studies in that area?
Go the Mozilla way: Make deals with Google so you can build an open web. Don't listen to the voices from the cobwebs that speak a lot but don't deliver a usable product. Freedom is good only if it allows me to swim in it.
See, he was a evil monster who balanced Sovs against America. If you are a morally upright superhero, then you are really an angel or a comic book character. No human can stand up to high levels of moral rectitude and still do things superheroes do. They call the Comedian in Watchmen a superhero. Not to mention Adrian Veidt.
You wanna make a movie about a crusader who lurked in the shadows, a darker, grittier superhero, then make a movie about Lavrenty Beria. Don't make movies about men in silly masks and also expect people not to laugh.
The US's been preparing for this kind of war? Van Riper says it bosh. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/aug/21/usa.julianborger
Palm Pixi had a damn good design, never mind the OS. Woulda brought it if it had lasted long enough to get launched in India.
Why does everything named Apple look so smooth and polished while other tech companies seem to be in a perpetual mess? Apple makes great products, makes great comebacks, settles even lawsuits suavely. Used to admire Google, but they are no longer the style statement they used to be. Oracle is of course, to a tech illiterate hackernews-reading wannabe, a patent troll.
Printing press cost the job of those monks who copied, illuminated and bound manuscripts. Fie on you, Gutenberg.
Am I supposed to feel happy that I can preserve my privacy or should I feel sad that FBI is reduced to complaining about its own incompetence and asking to be spoon fed?
Hurmm. But the Chinese would know that, wouldn't they? But then if you are gonna do something like this, there is risk involved. A school bully is rash, while a pro takes calculated risks. So which is China?
Either China is the next superpower whose superiority is backed by superb cyber offense capability, or one of these days their "victims" are gonna expose their hubris and gonna send them(China) back to IT stone age. Chinese were quick off the blocks as regards information warfare Add to that their military doctrine is about hiding their strength, obscurity et al. So if they are attacking and not bothering to hide, hmmm.. What are they upto?
Do you really want CORPORATES have that power? Please. These guys don't even have the common sense to break the boom-bust cycles. It's like giving a knife to a child incapable of learning from experience. So Company A attacks Hacker B. Only it turns out that the attack went awry and Hacker B is actually a rival corporate giant. So Rival Corporate giant attacks, which misfires too. Remember, it is difficult to prove motivation or origin or logic in a cyber attack. Isn't it fun, boys?
I've heard that he campaigned for Lib Dems. Ho Ho!!
There's an addon to reappear the status bar!
To figure out how to do it. Ironic, no?
He'd be a traitor in Australia. To America, he is simply a foreign agent, and must be dealt as such. Or perhaps he's a "stateless" spy? Then, he is the enemy of whoever was exposed by his actions, :-). No doubt, Wikileaks exposed a lot of dirt, but the stuff was also stolen. Espionage is a necessary evil and that's how it must remain. You can't say, "hey Assange did right, but the CIA did wrong"
Does the US have moral superiority? Can they say, "what assange did was right because we never do what he does"? No. I'm sure US spooks listen to 'dip' networks all the time on behalf of the US. Assange does it for kicks or for some holy cause, doesn't matter. He's a spy, nations and people supporting can only do because they benefited form him.
I would support him, but I would not have anything to put up in my defence if the Special Activities Division came for me. Espionage is a fair play among nations, and that's it. Morals simply don't work in this area. Just read The Spy who came in from the cold.
If ya don't like it, just Adblock it. Hope they won't get desperate and turn to those nasty persistent cookies. By the way, Wales looks a bit like Daniel Craig from an angle, no?
In his latest SS collection, CD has written a story called Human Readable that discusses the implications of Ant Colony algorithm if it is applied to all walks of life..Free download from craphound.com
I'm not sure if "open source" and "oracle" can fit in the same sentence. I mean, English is an emergent language, and it must acquire rules that reflect the current historical trends. I don't know the man, but he seems a raving hedonist.
China should give Noam Chomsky the Confucius prize for "being a courageous voice in a corrupt and hypocritical nation and having the temerity to call the US the best nation in the world". They should also learn to treat dissidents the American way: let them rant. Pay newspapers to criticise him subtly while praising him over a period of time. Sooner or later, they're gonna get called insane.
The reason we know Mr. Ellsberg is Pentagon Papers. If he were to deny the morality of Wikileaks, it'd be like vanishing himself, no?