Your comment on equality of weapons between civilians and the government is naive. Military training trumps civilian ineptitude every time. Look up Shea's Rebellion and the Whiskey Rebellion. Our foremost Founding Father, Geo. Washington, had no qualms about how to deal with idiots pursuing what latter-day idiots would call a "2nd Amendment solution."
In the US, the main paid subscribers to internet porn reside in the so-called Red States. I bet they thought the pay sites were more secure. Or maybe they pay for ideological reasons, to show their fundamental belief in Capitalism.
Now that is creative. Had to be some mighty dumb women who fell for that.
Well now, it said many victims were students at a "small Christian university" named Biola. Something tells me such an institution would have somewhat easier academic standards than say, Barnard or Vassar.
I, OTOH, went to a respected Ivy League institution, and did more drugs (in both quantity and variety) than ever before or since in my life. Had some wild intellectual discussions while high, though.
I read some of the betanews stories, and noticed one comment to the effect that every victim had an iTunes gift card with an available balance when they got "hacked." If that is the case, it seems like one mighty big "coincidence."
Were those already on Usenet that early? I "discovered" it shortly after going on line (with an AOL account) early in 1996. It was already loaded with binary goodies. But at dial-up speeds, it became a slow-motion race to see if you could download all the segments of some juicy item before the 30-day article retention period ran out.
Your distinctions between "high tech" and "low tech" fighting actually refer to guerilla warfare vs. "traditional" warfare. Terrorism is a tactic, violence intentionally directed against civilian targets in order to damage morale. What's happening now in Afghanistan and Pakistan, for instance, has elements of both. IEDs and ambushes of NATO and government forces are guerilla warfare. Suicide bombers targeting markets and mosques are using terrorist tactics.
Bullshit! Who do you think informed people of the problems involved in the disposal of nuclear waste, and the issues that arise from carelessness with GMOs? That's right. Scientists.
Funny, I never heard the spread of Roundup-resistant weeds being blamed on farmers using only Roundup. I read that it was due to the marketing of Roundup to suburban home-owners, as an easy one-step way to keep their lawns free of dandelions and crabgrass. BTW, suburban lawns (and lawns in general) are TERRIBLE for the environment in multiple ways.
Yeah, that struck me as HIGHLY dubious. Emphatically not how I would react. I think it is much more logical to equate that search term to wanting to find SOMEBODY ELSE'S wife who is willing to cheat with the searcher.
And it applies to many of the "scientists" touted by global warming deniers. An astrophysicist, for example, may think he/she has spotted a flaw in the interpretation of the data, and will announce loudly that he/she has "disproved" AGW while failing to see the fatal flaw in his own interpretation. This is of course not true of the pure sellouts, who simply repeat the scripts provided by their paymasters: "We have no conclusive proof that cigarettes cause lung cancer, Senator."
Are you kidding? Texans are perfectly free to travel around the country by car, bus, foot, horse, llama... Air travel is not a Constitutionally guaranteed right, buddy.
Only the Constitution, laws passed in accordance with it, and treaties properly ratified are supreme. A federal law or regulation which is not in accord with the Constitution (including Amendment 4) doesnt qualify.
Nice theory. Unfortunately, what is or is not "in accord" with the Constitution is up to 9 people who may or may not have a clue (SCOTUS).
The only thing worse than waking up with a hangover is gradually getting one as the day goes along because you woke up still drunk.
You got that right. And of course it happens on a day when the office is going through 3 screaming crises at once, with the emphasis on SCREAMING (oooooh, my head).
For this bit of Apple-hater BS to get modded up as "insightful" should be deeply embarrassing to anyone who still thought intelligent discussions happened here.
For "loads" read somewhere around 20 or 30, including all variants. Not quite on a par with the hundreds of thousands affecting Windows. Still, it does throw a wrench into the whole "security through obscurity" meme.
Slashdot Mirror
Your comment on equality of weapons between civilians and the government is naive. Military training trumps civilian ineptitude every time.
Look up Shea's Rebellion and the Whiskey Rebellion. Our foremost Founding Father, Geo. Washington, had no qualms about how to deal with idiots pursuing what latter-day idiots would call a "2nd Amendment solution."
In the US, the main paid subscribers to internet porn reside in the so-called Red States.
I bet they thought the pay sites were more secure. Or maybe they pay for ideological reasons, to show their fundamental belief in Capitalism.
Now that is creative. Had to be some mighty dumb women who fell for that.
Well now, it said many victims were students at a "small Christian university" named Biola. Something tells me such an institution would have somewhat easier academic standards than say, Barnard or Vassar.
I, OTOH, went to a respected Ivy League institution, and did more drugs (in both quantity and variety) than ever before or since in my life.
Had some wild intellectual discussions while high, though.
I read some of the betanews stories, and noticed one comment to the effect that every victim had an iTunes gift card with an available balance when they got "hacked." If that is the case, it seems like one mighty big "coincidence."
Didn't Android users *just* get Netflix?
Not all of them. The Netflix app for Android has only been released for FIVE specific phone models.
Were those already on Usenet that early?
I "discovered" it shortly after going on line (with an AOL account) early in 1996. It was already loaded with binary goodies.
But at dial-up speeds, it became a slow-motion race to see if you could download all the segments of some juicy item before the 30-day article retention period ran out.
would you want a board to develop an early Christian writer?
Your distinctions between "high tech" and "low tech" fighting actually refer to guerilla warfare vs. "traditional" warfare.
Terrorism is a tactic, violence intentionally directed against civilian targets in order to damage morale.
What's happening now in Afghanistan and Pakistan, for instance, has elements of both. IEDs and ambushes of NATO and government forces are guerilla warfare. Suicide bombers targeting markets and mosques are using terrorist tactics.
And the same can be said for plane crashes, or ocean liners, or drilling for oil.
But none of those events will have consequences that remain deadly for hundreds of thousands of years.
Bullshit!
Who do you think informed people of the problems involved in the disposal of nuclear waste, and the issues that arise from carelessness with GMOs?
That's right. Scientists.
Funny, I never heard the spread of Roundup-resistant weeds being blamed on farmers using only Roundup.
I read that it was due to the marketing of Roundup to suburban home-owners, as an easy one-step way to keep their lawns free of dandelions and crabgrass.
BTW, suburban lawns (and lawns in general) are TERRIBLE for the environment in multiple ways.
Google "civil forfeiture laws" if you think the US is free of the taint of authoritarian monstrosity.
Population celebrating how the government is protecting them? Gee, that sounds like... Memorial Day.
Irony level rising.
Yeah, that struck me as HIGHLY dubious. Emphatically not how I would react.
I think it is much more logical to equate that search term to wanting to find SOMEBODY ELSE'S wife who is willing to cheat with the searcher.
And it applies to many of the "scientists" touted by global warming deniers. An astrophysicist, for example, may think he/she has spotted a flaw in the interpretation of the data, and will announce loudly that he/she has "disproved" AGW while failing to see the fatal flaw in his own interpretation.
This is of course not true of the pure sellouts, who simply repeat the scripts provided by their paymasters: "We have no conclusive proof that cigarettes cause lung cancer, Senator."
to all those Apple products that looked so much like older Samsung products. Right.
Are you kidding? Texans are perfectly free to travel around the country by car, bus, foot, horse, llama...
Air travel is not a Constitutionally guaranteed right, buddy.
Only the Constitution, laws passed in accordance with it, and treaties properly ratified are supreme. A federal law or regulation which is not in accord with the Constitution (including Amendment 4) doesnt qualify.
Nice theory. Unfortunately, what is or is not "in accord" with the Constitution is up to 9 people who may or may not have a clue (SCOTUS).
Or you could make a game of it. See who gets more caffeine from the mug, you or the bacteria.
Winner gets a double espresso.
The only thing worse than waking up with a hangover is gradually getting one as the day goes along because you woke up still drunk.
You got that right. And of course it happens on a day when the office is going through 3 screaming crises at once, with the emphasis on SCREAMING (oooooh, my head).
What about Obelix, did he want Skype dead aswell?
Nah, he just wants a nice, juicy sanglier.
For this bit of Apple-hater BS to get modded up as "insightful" should be deeply embarrassing to anyone who still thought intelligent discussions happened here.
Kids? I don't know any iPhone owners under 30.
For "loads" read somewhere around 20 or 30, including all variants. Not quite on a par with the hundreds of thousands affecting Windows.
Still, it does throw a wrench into the whole "security through obscurity" meme.