No where in TFA does it say just what the hell CyanogenMod is, or what an Oppo N1 is. I watched the video and it appears to be a cell phone, but it doesn't say anywhere in the article what it is, what it does, or why it's special.
Anyone working in the security field who gives up their password is an idiot, and should be fired.
There should have been extremely clear training on that. This is the fault of the people who were managing the staff. If it were one, maybe even two people, sure. But when 25 people don't know that you're not supposed to give your creds to anyone, including an admin, that's bad management.
That might sound better if the protest were out in the Loudoun or Fauquier county suburbs, but you're talking about Washington DC. The hell if I want to spend a night in one of their jails.
When Windows 95 first came out, I replaced "shell=explorer" with "shell=progman" in system.ini so I didn't need to get used to the new interface at the same time I was getting used to all the other changes. In this case, though, I really hate it. Badly.
I'll probably have to learn to live with it at some point, though.
Thank you. I know there are 3rd party tweeks, but I hadn't gotten around to figuring out which, if any, are worth while. I'll take a look at that next time I have to boot Windows.
I only use Windows for dual booting when I need Windows for some reason, which is rare, but XP was a solid and decent version of the Windows family. I'd have kept it if it weren't being sunsetted. I now have Windows 8 on my other partition. I hate the interface, passionately, but luckily I don't have to use it often. I felt like I had to move to 8 just to have software support.
Sad to see it go. It was the first decent OS Microsoft made.
Thanks, and that's exactly it. I don't care enough about gaming to even know what make and model it is, but I bought it because one title was good enough to justify the entertainment expense. As far as I'm concerned, the entire setup -- console, steering wheel and game media -- is just one driving game.
Gotta admit, I'm not much of a gamer. I played GT5 at a friends house, and was so in love with it I went and bought one. I basically just asked the guy at the store what I need to play GT5, and he sold me a console, a steering wheel, and the game. So the console is just "that black thing in my living room that has a steering wheel." So, yeah, it's a Xweestationthingie that I play The Car Game on.
In any event, this all goes to the point: A lot of people, like me, who aren't particularly interested in gaming, and (very clearly) have no knowledge of it, still buy a console just to play one game.
I bought an xbox just to play GT3. It's a fun enough game that I was willing to throw down the extra bucks for a console and steering wheel just for that game. A lot of people buy a console just because they like one game that runs on it. Kind of a first world problem.
The parties are different, yes, but they're also both full of criminals and they're both sold out. At least at the national level. It's impossible to get elected without campaign funding that is only granted with strings attached. We've created, and maintain, a system that practically necessitates serving the interests of industries and wealthy individuals first.
You can point out the differences in which party is sold out to better special interests, but arguing that one or the other isn't sold out to special interests (again, on the national level) isn't realistic. They don't get the funding without making promises, and they don't get reelected without keeping them.
Fair enough points. It's just that, over the years, we've seen so many predictions of what's going to happen next, and something completely different does. 20?? will be the year of the linux desktop; there will never be a 3.x kernel; Linux will never be an enterprise quality system; RedHat is going to die (back when people were calling Red Hat the 'Microsoft of Linux' a decade or so ago); etc. We once thought Linux would never be found in enterprise data centers, but I remember the first time we got a linux box in one. Then we thought it wouldn't scale. Then we had whole server rooms full of it. Everything was going to be resiser fs once upon a time, but that's far from happened. Hell, when I started, Slackware was the "most powerful" distro and no one would ever supplant it. Things change so fast, and so wildly, news of future maybes aren't really that moving.
I suppose a positive comment would have been more valuable. Don't mean to be negative right off the bat (and I'm usually not), it's just that "news" that someone is "considering" doing something with Linux isn't really worth reporting on -- unless it's a hell of a slow news day.
Not really that interesting that they're "considering" it. Linux produces an endless litany of RSNs that never come to fruition. I've basically become numb to predictions about the future of the system. Everyone's been planning to do everything RSN for a decade and a half.
This is why it's so frustrating to hear people defend the Patriot Acts because they "only target terrorists", but almost anything can be called 'terrorism' if the government want to.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Take the existing social media scanning code, mix it with this type of language processing code, and let a group of psychiatric professionals define "problematic" personality profiles to build some kind of scoring system for. Like an MBTI for terrorists (or whoever the latest boogie man is, once they have it in place).
I suppose it would be useful for scanning social media, but I still have a hard time believing that scanning social media will ever be useful. Too many false positives.
I think they would ultimately be looking less for specific threats than trying to profile individuals for follow-up snooping. Ie.: Someone who's politically extreme, associated with radical groups, uses aggressive language, obsesses over politics, FB "Likes" survivalist sites, extremist groups, etc. -- just to collect individuals names' to later use more focused forms of snooping. This kind of DB would be useful in spotting "problematic" demographic groups.
Or for scanning social media, as our (US) government does ( http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/29/144257/what-the-dhs-is-looking-for-in-your-posts ). I guess scanning for specific keywords isn't particularly useful since no one actually uses those keywords. "Stick it to the man" (or whatever) is more likely than "use high explosives to target key government infrastructure, such as bridges and airports" (or whatever).
Seriously, who's going to tweet something like that?
Actually, Anonymous "formed", as it were, years ago, and they did it for the lulz, not for vigilante justice against the growing influence of corporate fascism. They just happened to jump on this, also.
That's completely make-believe. There was no "eye of the needle" backdoor to any walled cities. That was an excuse invented to cover for rich people pretending to be Christians.
If these guys don't do the research, someone else will. Probably some government, and then they'll spread it once they have a secret cure for themselves.
They'll target a school, a tube station, and a water-treatment plant. Several hundred will die within the first few weeks. Until at last the true goal comes into view . . . after the election, lo and behold, a miracle. Some will believe that it was the work of God himself, but it will be a pharmaceutical company controlled by certain party members that will make them all obscenely rich. But the true genius of the plan will be the fear. A year later, several extremists will be tried, found guilty, and executed while a memorial is built to canonize their victims. Fear will become the ultimate tool of this government. And through it our politician will ultimately be appointed to the newly created position of High Chancellor. The rest, as they say, will be history.
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No where in TFA does it say just what the hell CyanogenMod is, or what an Oppo N1 is. I watched the video and it appears to be a cell phone, but it doesn't say anywhere in the article what it is, what it does, or why it's special.
Anyone working in the security field who gives up their password is an idiot, and should be fired.
There should have been extremely clear training on that. This is the fault of the people who were managing the staff. If it were one, maybe even two people, sure. But when 25 people don't know that you're not supposed to give your creds to anyone, including an admin, that's bad management.
go to jail for 24 hours
That might sound better if the protest were out in the Loudoun or Fauquier county suburbs, but you're talking about Washington DC. The hell if I want to spend a night in one of their jails.
When Windows 95 first came out, I replaced "shell=explorer" with "shell=progman" in system.ini so I didn't need to get used to the new interface at the same time I was getting used to all the other changes. In this case, though, I really hate it. Badly.
I'll probably have to learn to live with it at some point, though.
Thank you. I know there are 3rd party tweeks, but I hadn't gotten around to figuring out which, if any, are worth while. I'll take a look at that next time I have to boot Windows.
'zactly. David Cameron is calling for "social responsibility". These leaks are social responsibility.
I only use Windows for dual booting when I need Windows for some reason, which is rare, but XP was a solid and decent version of the Windows family. I'd have kept it if it weren't being sunsetted. I now have Windows 8 on my other partition. I hate the interface, passionately, but luckily I don't have to use it often. I felt like I had to move to 8 just to have software support.
Sad to see it go. It was the first decent OS Microsoft made.
Thanks, and that's exactly it. I don't care enough about gaming to even know what make and model it is, but I bought it because one title was good enough to justify the entertainment expense. As far as I'm concerned, the entire setup -- console, steering wheel and game media -- is just one driving game.
Gotta admit, I'm not much of a gamer. I played GT5 at a friends house, and was so in love with it I went and bought one. I basically just asked the guy at the store what I need to play GT5, and he sold me a console, a steering wheel, and the game. So the console is just "that black thing in my living room that has a steering wheel." So, yeah, it's a Xweestationthingie that I play The Car Game on.
In any event, this all goes to the point: A lot of people, like me, who aren't particularly interested in gaming, and (very clearly) have no knowledge of it, still buy a console just to play one game.
Cheers.
Damn. Meant GT5. Maybe I should have bought a pair of glasses to proof my posts with, instead.
I bought an xbox just to play GT3. It's a fun enough game that I was willing to throw down the extra bucks for a console and steering wheel just for that game. A lot of people buy a console just because they like one game that runs on it. Kind of a first world problem.
The parties are different, yes, but they're also both full of criminals and they're both sold out. At least at the national level. It's impossible to get elected without campaign funding that is only granted with strings attached. We've created, and maintain, a system that practically necessitates serving the interests of industries and wealthy individuals first.
You can point out the differences in which party is sold out to better special interests, but arguing that one or the other isn't sold out to special interests (again, on the national level) isn't realistic. They don't get the funding without making promises, and they don't get reelected without keeping them.
Fair enough points. It's just that, over the years, we've seen so many predictions of what's going to happen next, and something completely different does. 20?? will be the year of the linux desktop; there will never be a 3.x kernel; Linux will never be an enterprise quality system; RedHat is going to die (back when people were calling Red Hat the 'Microsoft of Linux' a decade or so ago); etc. We once thought Linux would never be found in enterprise data centers, but I remember the first time we got a linux box in one. Then we thought it wouldn't scale. Then we had whole server rooms full of it. Everything was going to be resiser fs once upon a time, but that's far from happened. Hell, when I started, Slackware was the "most powerful" distro and no one would ever supplant it. Things change so fast, and so wildly, news of future maybes aren't really that moving.
I suppose a positive comment would have been more valuable. Don't mean to be negative right off the bat (and I'm usually not), it's just that "news" that someone is "considering" doing something with Linux isn't really worth reporting on -- unless it's a hell of a slow news day.
Not really that interesting that they're "considering" it. Linux produces an endless litany of RSNs that never come to fruition. I've basically become numb to predictions about the future of the system. Everyone's been planning to do everything RSN for a decade and a half.
This is why it's so frustrating to hear people defend the Patriot Acts because they "only target terrorists", but almost anything can be called 'terrorism' if the government want to.
It's one of those annoying namespace pollution games
To resolve this problem I suggest that we start calling South Korea for The Democratic Republic of Korea.
As opposed to North Korea's official name, the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea. Yeah, that'll surely clear things up.
Sometimes we scare the crap out of ourselves.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Take the existing social media scanning code, mix it with this type of language processing code, and let a group of psychiatric professionals define "problematic" personality profiles to build some kind of scoring system for. Like an MBTI for terrorists (or whoever the latest boogie man is, once they have it in place).
I suppose it would be useful for scanning social media, but I still have a hard time believing that scanning social media will ever be useful. Too many false positives.
I think they would ultimately be looking less for specific threats than trying to profile individuals for follow-up snooping. Ie.: Someone who's politically extreme, associated with radical groups, uses aggressive language, obsesses over politics, FB "Likes" survivalist sites, extremist groups, etc. -- just to collect individuals names' to later use more focused forms of snooping. This kind of DB would be useful in spotting "problematic" demographic groups.
Or for scanning social media, as our (US) government does ( http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/29/144257/what-the-dhs-is-looking-for-in-your-posts ). I guess scanning for specific keywords isn't particularly useful since no one actually uses those keywords. "Stick it to the man" (or whatever) is more likely than "use high explosives to target key government infrastructure, such as bridges and airports" (or whatever).
Seriously, who's going to tweet something like that?
Won't this just encourage other companies, or even US companies, to switch to a national domain?
Actually, Anonymous "formed", as it were, years ago, and they did it for the lulz, not for vigilante justice against the growing influence of corporate fascism. They just happened to jump on this, also.
That's completely make-believe. There was no "eye of the needle" backdoor to any walled cities. That was an excuse invented to cover for rich people pretending to be Christians.
http://www.debunker.com/texts/needleye.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_a_needle#Christianity
Logical flaw: How are you supposed to find happiness and joy if you're stuck with a lifetime of eating algae, nuts & veggies?
I think I'm going to have to settle for 72 years of steak, pork, fried foods & beer.
If these guys don't do the research, someone else will. Probably some government, and then they'll spread it once they have a secret cure for themselves.
They'll target a school, a tube station, and a water-treatment plant. Several hundred will die within the first few weeks. Until at last the true goal comes into view . . . after the election, lo and behold, a miracle. Some will believe that it was the work of God himself, but it will be a pharmaceutical company controlled by certain party members that will make them all obscenely rich. But the true genius of the plan will be the fear. A year later, several extremists will be tried, found guilty, and executed while a memorial is built to canonize their victims. Fear will become the ultimate tool of this government. And through it our politician will ultimately be appointed to the newly created position of High Chancellor. The rest, as they say, will be history.