Predicted all of this, and explained very clearly why as soon as there's some traction, and the ability to move/take cash out, the existing banks/authorities will be down on their heads like a weight of very heavy things. Why Bitcoin was so scary for a time.
These things offer wonderful room for money laundering.
I dunno. I see PayPal and eBay as a cartel which should be broken up, but nodbody has done anything about it, yet. All right out there in the open.
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If Facebook told me to buy something then I'd be more skeptical than ever about it. Could be a good thing or bad thing, but I don't see Facebook as my consumer advocate or advisor.
More like an idiotic social networking site which constantly nags me about things and notices and I try adblocking the pop-ups, which invariably makes it all worse, but I don't really care.
There were also giant forests and jungles and ocean ecosystems supported by that carbon. That meant a lot of it was in the midst of the metabolisms of plants and algae and stuff, not floating free in the atmosphere. It was a generally thicker atmosphere, making more OXYGEN available, that let the world grow ____ing great lizards (also, they weren't lizards).
We, on the other hand, have increasingly small jungles and forests, and increasingly puny ocean ecosystems, which means that carbon doesn't spend much time trapped in living things. It stays in the atmosphere, which leads to something beyond "warm and cozy."
We also have this lovely whirlpool of tiny plastic molecules filling the upper current of the Pacific Ocean, which is effectively choking increasing numbers of life at the bottom of the foodchain. Can't see it from Iowa, but it's there.
Lots of smoke blown by nay-sayers and conflicting claims on why, but it is becoming quite apparent something is happening and... it's happening at an accelerating rate. Hard for be to believe we are not influencing this trend. All that carbon was up here once before and it was so warm and cozy you could grow ___ing great lizards. And lizards aren't known for their arctic preferences of climate.
As a point, the government will be using all files hosted on those servers as evidence in the case. They will not likely, and are not required to, give access to those files.
Yeah, expect a subpeona in the mail.
"Uh, I was so shocked by the news I forgot the password to my 8GB zip file."
"No worries, we have a crack team of security hackers who will have it open in a few minutes if you can't supply it."
"..."
"We'll call upon you if we need you for anything. Bye!" *click* nrrrrr...
*click* diit-doot-doot-deet-diit-doot-deet-doot-deet-doot "Hello, I'd like a ticket to New Zealand! FAST!"
My SATA connectors lock. You may have the ghetto version?
The crappy cables which came with motherboards. I went to teh computer bits store (Frys) and got some better ones, but the early SATA-1 and SATA-2 often came with connectors with no locking and were very loose. Not like those good ol' Parallel ATA connectors you needed to brace your foot on something firm to get enough leverage to disconnect.
Yep. Hollywood and Big Media will be pushing for a monitor standard which detects uncertified video, blocks it, reports you and sets your house on fire.
That's pretty overkill, and probably only represents *AA's starting position in the bargaining. I'm sure they'd be happy with just detonating the explosive slave collar, if they can get the mandate for that piece of content-protection hardware added in the next round of copyright protection legislation.
Seems I read a story in the news yestiddy - MegaUpload cost them $500 Million in losses due to piracy. Really? How did they come to that figure? Wild guess? Actual accounting? Is anyone here just blindly accepting that figure? Don't talk to me about overkill when it comes to Big Media and Hollywood (Hollywood even - legendary for Hollywood Accounting and such phrases as, "Yes the picture did gross $784 Million, but after production, distribution, marketing, promotional activities, etc, etc, etc, we lost money on the picture, which is why you are not getting a 5% of Net, because there is none. By the way, are you available for the Sequel? It'll be collassal!") $500 Million.. sure. And I'm an Asthmahound Chihuahua named 'Stimpy'.
and unlike HDMI, it works every time without fail.
That is why it is being killed off.
Puts me in mind of the wonderful move to SATA connectors.. you know, those damn things which come loose and you have to shut down, open cabinet and push back in place? Honestly, what a horrible connector. HDMI impresses me as another connector which is weak. The next standard will probably have a built in spring for pushing it out at various intervals (usually while you are in the middle of that big presentation, like I was on Wednesday and the video cable to the projector kept falling out.)
Because futurists are moronic and don't understand that dvi = hdmi in terms of quality.
This is also likely pushed for by a Far-Eastern Cable Manufacturing Syndicate, who realise the present market for DVI and VGA is saturated, the only thing to do is push for new markets for their cable wares. And when that's saturated it'll be some Video Optical Interface Device which they'll be promoting. Acthpt is only pawn in great game of life.:-(
The "Analogue Hole" is unaffected by digital restrictions It's the illegitimate* analogue re-capturing of a legitimately decoded digital stream Think TV-capture card
* From "their" POV
Which is rather pointless anyway. Most of the broadcasts I've seen on Youtube (before they get shut down) are from a video camera pointed at a TV screen. Low tech, but still effective for the nondiscriminating market for inauthentic video.
Trying to close the analog hole I guess. Using "smart" HDMI can more easily be used with DRMs. Coupled with machine you can not choose the OS of, and you might have quite annoying copy protection schemes.
Yep. Hollywood and Big Media will be pushing for a monitor standard which detects uncertified video, blocks it, reports you and sets your house on fire.
Seriously? I've heard many bad things about COBOL, a lot of it from my own mother who coded in it for many years... But I've never heard a bad word about a COBOL programmer. Can you imagine having to work with that? They're anything but retarded.
Of course I'm joking (mostly, though a lot of COBOL programmers are retired by now) banks were extremely slow to ditch code which was written (largely in COBOL or RPG) in favor of the Flavor-of-the-Month, un-tested, un-vetted server languages of the internet age. When Y2K loomed they brought in legions of old COBOL programmers (many of whom were compensated quite well) to review millions of lines of code and patch where necessary. Likely a lot of that code is still there, interfacing with Federal Reserve System or as part of it. Just because it's old code doesn't make it bad code.
While COBOL isn't my thing, if I were doing purely financial work I might give it another look. Java, Perl, PHP, etc, aren't what I would really trust, even now, for financial transactions which could happen in the millions daily and hit decimal numbers in the hundreds of billions, where every digit integrity is essential. That was something COBOL was good at.
I'm developing an app which can be run cross-platform and/or mobile. Turned out to be a giant nightmare when looking at user experience on a tablet or smartphone. So.. I bailed on anything whizzy and went back to finding the basic html and javascript to get things done -- look and work consistently on multiple platforms and also be visible in sunlight (something a lot of apps fail miserably at.)
“Government-Wide Accounting and Reporting Program” (GWA), a software system owned by the Department of the Treasury that is used mainly to manage central accounting and reporting functions and processes associated with budget execution, accountability, and asset management.
Just sounds like some average bloated corporate code that was stolen. Nothing noteworthy.
He was probably using it as an example of obfuscated code You can't beat code writtent to government specifications for cruft, obfuscation and general unuseability.
Copyright in itself is a fine idea, it is just that in the American system it has been perverted and corrupted.
Which is the American system.
The trick is to make it work for you long enough to get away with it or make enough money to influence legislation to work on your behalf.
For a little fun, try guessing where we'll be in terms of these 'rights' in another 10 years.
Dateline Russia: US forces have launched missiles on most major Russian cities and beachheads are established in the Baltic and along the Pacific, with the plan to push on to Moscow as soon as possible as the Hollywood Backed Government of the United States strives to overthrow the unjust Russian Regime which dared to declare 'Fair Use' with every incident of Copyright Violation.
Fed is not part of the government. Its a private entity controlled by the members.
You mean all that paper money I keep in my pillow, mattress and bags in my closet with ' Federal Reserve Bank' are not issued by the actual Department of the Treasure, a cabinet position below the US President, but some private firm?!?
I've been swindled! I'm going to complain about this as soon as I finish throwing away my pillow, mattress and all those heavy bags. >:(
Is it a wonder that there is a growing contempt for China and its actions?
I believe we've gone way past the "three times is enemy action" for incidents like these.
Sensationalism by the author, playing to the xenophobic among the indigenous readership. It should have been 'Programmer Steals Code..' Not 'Chinese Programmer Steals Code...'
Now, if he were an agent of the PRC, a point of nationality would be highly relevant, but in this case it does not serve fair news reporting.
What is the point of cracking open a science textbook when you are going to be competing with people in Asia who can produce the same level of genius for pennies on the dollar?
I don't care what you can learn here in America, someone in China can learn the same thing and apply that knowledge for far lower wages than you.
There is a difference between knowning the maths and being clever enough to create something new out of them. This is the difference between Reseach & Development worker bees (who pretty much just do as they are told) and someone who says, "Hey, I could create a whole new product/service with this knowledge I've acquired!" (We'll be hearing, next, how all the innovation is leaving the US, too, because some people in Asia aren't simply content to perform repetitive analysis and form-filling. Good on them, I say.
The fact of the matter is a lot of stupid certification acronyms were specifically designed to allow spenders to make decisions without being actually informed in any way about what they're spending their money on. That's actually the *point* here. The problem isn't the certifications, the problem is that to make an informed decision about which ISP should host your servers you shouldn't be the type of CTO who insists on using outlook express and ie6 still and can't even configure their own email client. You need to know bandwidth from ass-width.
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Predicted all of this, and explained very clearly why as soon as there's some traction, and the ability to move/take cash out, the existing banks/authorities will be down on their heads like a weight of very heavy things.
Why Bitcoin was so scary for a time.
These things offer wonderful room for money laundering.
I dunno. I see PayPal and eBay as a cartel which should be broken up, but nodbody has done anything about it, yet. All right out there in the open.
! It appears you are attempting to receive payment by means other than PayPal which is not allowed, please correct your listing so we get an even bigger cut of your sale
If Facebook told me to buy something then I'd be more skeptical than ever about it. Could be a good thing or bad thing, but I don't see Facebook as my consumer advocate or advisor.
More like an idiotic social networking site which constantly nags me about things and notices and I try adblocking the pop-ups, which invariably makes it all worse, but I don't really care.
There were also giant forests and jungles and ocean ecosystems supported by that carbon. That meant a lot of it was in the midst of the metabolisms of plants and algae and stuff, not floating free in the atmosphere. It was a generally thicker atmosphere, making more OXYGEN available, that let the world grow ____ing great lizards (also, they weren't lizards).
We, on the other hand, have increasingly small jungles and forests, and increasingly puny ocean ecosystems, which means that carbon doesn't spend much time trapped in living things. It stays in the atmosphere, which leads to something beyond "warm and cozy."
We also have this lovely whirlpool of tiny plastic molecules filling the upper current of the Pacific Ocean, which is effectively choking increasing numbers of life at the bottom of the foodchain. Can't see it from Iowa, but it's there.
Seeing as Dotcom was arrested in NZ, you may want to fly to a less US-friendly locale. I hear Venezuela is lovely this time of year.
Best place to hide is where they least expect you. Besides, it's just a short hop to Antarctica from NZ.
Lots of smoke blown by nay-sayers and conflicting claims on why, but it is becoming quite apparent something is happening and ... it's happening at an accelerating rate. Hard for be to believe we are not influencing this trend. All that carbon was up here once before and it was so warm and cozy you could grow ___ing great lizards. And lizards aren't known for their arctic preferences of climate.
I blame Buster Poindexter!
And I'm an Asthmahound Chihuahua named 'Stimpy'.
Hey! I thought your name was Ren :)
Forty! Seven! Meeellion! Dollars!!??!! IIIIII'm the Cat!!!
As a point, the government will be using all files hosted on those servers as evidence in the case. They will not likely, and are not required to, give access to those files.
Yeah, expect a subpeona in the mail.
"Uh, I was so shocked by the news I forgot the password to my 8GB zip file."
"No worries, we have a crack team of security hackers who will have it open in a few minutes if you can't supply it."
"..."
"We'll call upon you if we need you for anything. Bye!" *click* nrrrrr...
*click* diit-doot-doot-deet-diit-doot-deet-doot-deet-doot "Hello, I'd like a ticket to New Zealand! FAST!"
My SATA connectors lock. You may have the ghetto version?
The crappy cables which came with motherboards. I went to teh computer bits store (Frys) and got some better ones, but the early SATA-1 and SATA-2 often came with connectors with no locking and were very loose. Not like those good ol' Parallel ATA connectors you needed to brace your foot on something firm to get enough leverage to disconnect.
Yep. Hollywood and Big Media will be pushing for a monitor standard which detects uncertified video, blocks it, reports you and sets your house on fire.
That's pretty overkill, and probably only represents *AA's starting position in the bargaining. I'm sure they'd be happy with just detonating the explosive slave collar, if they can get the mandate for that piece of content-protection hardware added in the next round of copyright protection legislation.
Seems I read a story in the news yestiddy - MegaUpload cost them $500 Million in losses due to piracy. Really? How did they come to that figure? Wild guess? Actual accounting? Is anyone here just blindly accepting that figure? Don't talk to me about overkill when it comes to Big Media and Hollywood (Hollywood even - legendary for Hollywood Accounting and such phrases as, "Yes the picture did gross $784 Million, but after production, distribution, marketing, promotional activities, etc, etc, etc, we lost money on the picture, which is why you are not getting a 5% of Net, because there is none. By the way, are you available for the Sequel? It'll be collassal!") $500 Million .. sure. And I'm an Asthmahound Chihuahua named 'Stimpy'.
That is why it is being killed off.
Puts me in mind of the wonderful move to SATA connectors .. you know, those damn things which come loose and you have to shut down, open cabinet and push back in place? Honestly, what a horrible connector. HDMI impresses me as another connector which is weak. The next standard will probably have a built in spring for pushing it out at various intervals (usually while you are in the middle of that big presentation, like I was on Wednesday and the video cable to the projector kept falling out.)
Because futurists are moronic and don't understand that dvi = hdmi in terms of quality.
This is also likely pushed for by a Far-Eastern Cable Manufacturing Syndicate, who realise the present market for DVI and VGA is saturated, the only thing to do is push for new markets for their cable wares. And when that's saturated it'll be some Video Optical Interface Device which they'll be promoting. Acthpt is only pawn in great game of life. :-(
The "Analogue Hole" is unaffected by digital restrictions
It's the illegitimate* analogue re-capturing of a legitimately decoded digital stream
Think TV-capture card
* From "their" POV
Which is rather pointless anyway. Most of the broadcasts I've seen on Youtube (before they get shut down) are from a video camera pointed at a TV screen. Low tech, but still effective for the nondiscriminating market for inauthentic video.
Trying to close the analog hole I guess. Using "smart" HDMI can more easily be used with DRMs. Coupled with machine you can not choose the OS of, and you might have quite annoying copy protection schemes.
Yep. Hollywood and Big Media will be pushing for a monitor standard which detects uncertified video, blocks it, reports you and sets your house on fire.
Seriously? I've heard many bad things about COBOL, a lot of it from my own mother who coded in it for many years... But I've never heard a bad word about a COBOL programmer. Can you imagine having to work with that? They're anything but retarded.
Of course I'm joking (mostly, though a lot of COBOL programmers are retired by now) banks were extremely slow to ditch code which was written (largely in COBOL or RPG) in favor of the Flavor-of-the-Month, un-tested, un-vetted server languages of the internet age. When Y2K loomed they brought in legions of old COBOL programmers (many of whom were compensated quite well) to review millions of lines of code and patch where necessary. Likely a lot of that code is still there, interfacing with Federal Reserve System or as part of it. Just because it's old code doesn't make it bad code.
While COBOL isn't my thing, if I were doing purely financial work I might give it another look. Java, Perl, PHP, etc, aren't what I would really trust, even now, for financial transactions which could happen in the millions daily and hit decimal numbers in the hundreds of billions, where every digit integrity is essential. That was something COBOL was good at.
Keep it simple, Stupid
I'm developing an app which can be run cross-platform and/or mobile. Turned out to be a giant nightmare when looking at user experience on a tablet or smartphone. So .. I bailed on anything whizzy and went back to finding the basic html and javascript to get things done -- look and work consistently on multiple platforms and also be visible in sunlight (something a lot of apps fail miserably at.)
More goodies for the Swap n' Shop in Dayton!
“Government-Wide Accounting and Reporting Program” (GWA), a software system owned by the Department of the Treasury that is used mainly to manage central accounting and reporting functions and processes associated with budget execution, accountability, and asset management.
Just sounds like some average bloated corporate code that was stolen. Nothing noteworthy.
He was probably using it as an example of obfuscated code You can't beat code writtent to government specifications for cruft, obfuscation and general unuseability.
Copyright in itself is a fine idea, it is just that in the American system it has been perverted and corrupted.
Which is the American system.
The trick is to make it work for you long enough to get away with it or make enough money to influence legislation to work on your behalf.
For a little fun, try guessing where we'll be in terms of these 'rights' in another 10 years.
Dateline Russia: US forces have launched missiles on most major Russian cities and beachheads are established in the Baltic and along the Pacific, with the plan to push on to Moscow as soon as possible as the Hollywood Backed Government of the United States strives to overthrow the unjust Russian Regime which dared to declare 'Fair Use' with every incident of Copyright Violation.
Fed is not part of the government. Its a private entity controlled by the members.
You mean all that paper money I keep in my pillow, mattress and bags in my closet with ' Federal Reserve Bank' are not issued by the actual Department of the Treasure, a cabinet position below the US President, but some private firm?!?
I've been swindled! I'm going to complain about this as soon as I finish throwing away my pillow, mattress and all those heavy bags. >:(
Is it a wonder that there is a growing contempt for China and its actions?
I believe we've gone way past the "three times is enemy action" for incidents like these.
Sensationalism by the author, playing to the xenophobic among the indigenous readership. It should have been 'Programmer Steals Code ..' Not 'Chinese Programmer Steals Code ...'
Now, if he were an agent of the PRC, a point of nationality would be highly relevant, but in this case it does not serve fair news reporting.
Every government IT job like this I've ever seen has US citizenship required, not even green card required. How did this guy get in?
Perhaps most other COBOL programmers are retired?
Don't steal from the government - it hates the competition
The certifications amount to "This shell company we created to report whatever we want it to says we're tight and secure. Yay for us!!!!!"
And if you pay enough for our services, we'll frame the certificate, as soon as it comes off the laser printer.
What is the point of cracking open a science textbook when you are going to be competing with people in Asia who can produce the same level of genius for pennies on the dollar?
I don't care what you can learn here in America, someone in China can learn the same thing and apply that knowledge for far lower wages than you.
These people are willing to live in cages. Literally. Look.
http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/11/21/hong-kong-citizens-living-cages-literally/
There is a difference between knowning the maths and being clever enough to create something new out of them. This is the difference between Reseach & Development worker bees (who pretty much just do as they are told) and someone who says, "Hey, I could create a whole new product/service with this knowledge I've acquired!" (We'll be hearing, next, how all the innovation is leaving the US, too, because some people in Asia aren't simply content to perform repetitive analysis and form-filling. Good on them, I say.
The fact of the matter is a lot of stupid certification acronyms were specifically designed to allow spenders to make decisions without being actually informed in any way about what they're spending their money on. That's actually the *point* here. The problem isn't the certifications, the problem is that to make an informed decision about which ISP should host your servers you shouldn't be the type of CTO who insists on using outlook express and ie6 still and can't even configure their own email client. You need to know bandwidth from ass-width.
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