Anonymous's only relevance was Fox News dubbing them "Hackers On Steroids"
They were known for fucking with people on facebook when facebook had shit security and people picked weak passwords and they'd password guesss or reset passwords.
Then they declared "war" on many people almost all of which are still here. I was supprised Chanology lasted as long as it did.
The Anonymous phenomena only lasted because of the hype that generated intrest, and more people joining in with Low Orbit Ion Cannons.
There was also the HB-GARY fiasco. They got lucky, and that a contractor that existed to milk the federal government got pwned because their security practices are terribad.
Or alternatively:
"Terrorist Disables Mobile Phones On Chicago Bus"
Fuck this guy. Mabey some people needed to use the phone. Mabey Doctors, Firefighters, First Responders need to take calls. Mabey someone's wife might be pregnant, or had a kid that got hurt in the hospital.
It also screws with people quietly surfing the web, and those not on the bus.
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It certainly does. If you are writing software as a complete non-profit, than liberal licensing is fine.
However, if you are trying to make money, not copylefting is suicide. If you spend money on software you use in production, simply giving it away for free means the competition can use it. Now, lets say its a liberal license. They can just write small amounts of proprietary code, and sell something you do not have. If its copyleft, they have to re-share that code, so they can't take any advantages over you. You still have the advantage as the company who knows the product best.
It tries to solve a problem that doesn't really exist; many companies actively contribute to non-copyleft projects without needing a mandate from RMS.
At the same time, few of these programs get as much paid work. Most companies prefer Linux, and thats because it gets most of the funding. If anything, GNU and Linux have won out for this reason. The only time people use FreeBSD is for people who need a better networking stack than linux currently offers, such as Netflix.
Facebook, however, instead of moving to FreeBSD is offering a large bounty for anyone who can write an improved Linux networking stack to match FreeBSD. Instead of moving to FreeBSD.
This is a bit of weasel words. Its like saying "NAMBLA supports party XYZ", which the often support left-wing causes under the mistaken belief that other 'sexual minorities' would support them.
The fact that Scientology doesn't like a mental health bill doesn't mean that everyone opposed is supporting scientology. This tactic is called "weasel words", to paint a bad picture of the Bill's critics.
The bill itself? It allows arbitrary dentenion. The potential for abuse is huge. Already a tactic used by the police against demostrators is 'catch and release', arbitrary dention to get someone off the streets, and then release them without charge. Its a form of harrassment.
If someone is realisticly a danger to themselves or others, there are already frameworks to arrest them, however they all have all kinds of legal protections.
This is nothing more than soviet style abuse of metal health.
Its "offtopic". thats why. How she was born has nothing to do with unethical activity. Its a personal attack on a very hotbutton topic which will do nothing but legitimize her.
scam artist or not, I'd request you not misgender her. I'd rather not give this type the high ground on this issue. You'll also confuse the issue and drum up sympathy for people who will defend her for being trans*.
Regardless of what you believe Ms. Wu experienced, do you truly not know any women in software or gaming who've experienced the kind of awful "boy's only club" attitudes and sometimes downright literal sexual harassment?
regardless of which, supporting a scam artist is not helping your cause and will only serve to de-legitimize it.
Or mabey the body size shaming, ableism about mental health, and even classist attacks on the typical software engineer through the "neckbeard" stereotype don't help much. 10-15 years ago, this would most likely include some underhanded homophobic attack(i.e. 'question' their sexuality), and 5 years ago, some form of genderphobia would also be present.
Why did you pick the computer world to launch a career in journalism?
You get around $3k a month from hapless dupes with a case of the feels, any tips for setting this up?
What is your actual technical experiance with computers?
On a scale from one to ten, how much of a sucker is the average person reading your 'journalism'?
There is no intent for uniform of equal enforcement. It simply allows them to arrest who they want. Lets say two derps get into an argument on forums, about some politically relivant topic and it gets heated and words are exchanged that shouldn't have been. They can now pick and choose which one of them gets arrested, and who gets prosecuted.
Its because 'proggressive values' are a smoke screen. The US doesn't give a damn about proggressive values, and in fact most American leaders hate proggressive values. The last 30 years of US politics have been backwards religeous fearmongering, war mongering, the reliegious decay of society, and stopping 'liberal' degenrates from social progress.
The US values blind loyalty, obedience, religeon, and capitalism. It is the reason we are allied with Saudi Arabia. Its why we supported the mujadeen in the 1980s, and continue to support jihadis about as often as we fight them.
Its the reason we support replacing the pacifist liberal population in europe with a more relegious dogmatic population that has 6 children per women and eager to see them die in a conflict, and as well as support the white fascist motherfuckers who'd do the same.
Proggressive values are a smoke screen. Nothing more.
from your consumption habbits they are able to piece together other bits of information such as sexual orientation, political leanings, perhaps hidden biases. What if you are having an affair. mistress shows up? Who's that next to you, did you happen to stand next to a future criminal/terrorist in a picture?
You can make black mail out of anything.
Linux might have some slight incompatiblity with an ever shrinking list of now obscure hardware. But when it works, it works.
There is nothing this fucked up about linux drives. At worst, a few of them simply don't have the features we'd like, but nothing catastrophic.
by "going after" you mean "revoking tax exempt status", which in the grand scheme of political foul play in the US, is small fish. In the past the IRS has repeatedly audited victims every year as harrassment. The US government has spread nasty rumors about people, got them fired, or even killed, planted drugs, arrested activists, spied on activists, etc...
I'd be more concerned about facial recognition used at a political rally rather than an innocent music festival as there's not much blackmail material therein.
When you find me a form of music that doesn't have even the slightest political connotations, I've found the dullest music in existance.
Are you sure that all the technology Americans invented had nothing to do with that?
what technology America invented? a good deal of the shit that was "invented" in the US was invented elsewhere. Also, remember that 90% of the NSA's work is economic espionage, so it really wouldn't suprise me if a good deal of things "invented here" where stolen from elsewhere via espionage.
The US already had its high standard of living before we started extracting resources from foreign lands.
The US was a backward shithole and complete non-rate before WW2. The standard of living of the working class before WW2 was pretty bad, and only getting worse. Corporations gave the US citizens a temporary 20 year reprieve, but started reversing union gains starting in the 1960s. Next generation will most likely to back to pre-war standards of poor.
Because if you look at history there are certainly empires whose standards of living were definitely based upon what they could take from weaker peoples.
Sure, but the point is the viability of the American system is its military strength and its ability to exploit others. Its not exportable. No other system can employ a similar system and get similar results because there simply isn't enough resources on Earth. Also, when you calculate the standard of living of the "American" system, you have to take into consideration how well off that people who make goods for Americans are treated as well, because they are part of the system.
It makes the US completely incomparable with countries that don't have that sort of special relationships. Its why the examples of Socialism vs Capitalism don't hold up.
Let's start with this. Soon after Daniel Ellsberg was revealed as the source behind the Pentagon Papers, White House officials started spreading rumors that Ellsberg was actually a Soviet spy and that he'd passed on important secrets to the Russians:
None of it was true, but it was part of a concerted effort by administration officials to smear Ellsberg as a "Soviet spy" and a "traitor" when all he really did was blow the whistle on things by sharing documents with reporters.
So we've already written about the massive problems with the Sunday Times' big report claiming that the Russians and Chinese had "cracked" the encryption on the Snowden files (or possibly just been handed those files by Snowden) and that he had "blood on his hands" even though no one has come to any harm. It also argued that David Miranda was detained after he got documents from Snowden in Moscow, despite the fact that he was neither in Moscow, nor had met Snowden (a claim the article quietly deleted). That same report also claimed that UK intelligence agency MI6 had to remove "agents" from Moscow because of this leak, despite the fact that they're not called "agents" and there's no evidence of any actual risk. So far, the only official response from News Corp. the publisher of The Sunday Times (through a variety of subsidiaries) was to try to censor the criticism of the story with a DMCA takedown request.
Either way, one of the journalists who wrote the story, Tom Harper, gave an interview to CNN which is quite incredible to watch. Harper just keeps repeating that he doesn't know what's actually true, and that he was just saying what the government told him -- more or less admitting that his role here was not as a reporter, but as a propagandist or a stenographer.
Say it again, we live in a "Free" country. The man who penned the article has admitted to being a government "shill". The OP is nothing more than government disinformation. There is a consistant *Motis Operedni* spanning several decades to lead us to believe they do this regularly.
That may be so, but how does this make the US government good, or the US Government honest. This is a strawman argument.
The US Government might not be as outwardly harsh about dealing with dissent, but thats only because it has more subtle ways which are equally as effective.
I firmly believe if we didn't have hollywood, journalists, and a long tradition of marketing and advertising goons, you'd see the same sort of oppressive state apparatus as you do in China and Russia.
We also have a much higher standard of living because we exploit more from third world nations. The standard of living of the Average American is not by his hand, but by the gun he forces on others. The "Success" isn't even shared equally, and we have a large underclass that for all intents and purposes do not have any real benefit of living in a first world country.
We also have the highest incarceration rate in the world, namely to deal with the organized street militias that prowl the neighborhoods of the disenfranchised, malcontents, and those who violate moralist superstitions.
it is fairly insightful. I don't think you have a point besides "any other political opinion other than do what the government says is childish because I said so".
You are the product, means that not only are these companies spying on you, they are proccessing information to sell to advertisers much in the way a spy agency would go after a mark. They find your psycological weak points to convince you that their product is awesome and then have you harrass the companies neigh sayers.
At the end of the day, you loose your freedom to decide what products you want, and your opinions are owned by advertising corporations. Their clients pay for your opinion, and they manipulate you into believing.
I'm used to going to punk shows with few bouncers, and oh, no cameras. You might have to be a little more cautious, but 90% of the problems you have will be started by the security. At rock shows, most of the time these are crew members and not shy of beating people for minor provocations. Usually bikers or three letter crews, but occationally some minority based "street social clubs".
Next ask, "who is manning the cameras", and expect them to be just as sketchy. Oh the cops? So you trust the police to look for actual theft? Looking for petty theivery is very much on the low list of priorities, and on the top is enforcing strict moral code of looking for an excuse to bust people performing sexual acts or consuming intoxicants. If the music is the slightest bit "counterculture", its any excuse to arrest as many of the party goers as possible, generally making up a reason.
There is never a good reason why you'd want cops at such an event. Unless you expect crews to show up for the show(motorcycle clubs, HC three letter crews, urban corner clubs, etc...), don't hire external security either. Get people who are closer to the music community to resolve disputes.
The other known theif clause sounds too damn close to outlawry, where someone is subjected to being an outlaw and denied rights as a sentance for comitting a crime. This in history has never worked out well.
Why wouldn't they co-operate? How many people are going to stay home or spend less money because of the cameras?
How much financial damage can the police do through harrassment to ensure the cameras stay up, such as imposing fines, threatening to revoke permits, taking them through court systems, having uniformed and un-uniformed officers harrass festival goers until they don't want to come back or get them to leave before they spend too much money.
Waiting for a financial incentive to get large companies to protect your rights for you is foolish. Unpopular opinion: you might as well trust the government to "protect your rights"
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Anonymous's only relevance was Fox News dubbing them "Hackers On Steroids"
They were known for fucking with people on facebook when facebook had shit security and people picked weak passwords and they'd password guesss or reset passwords.
Then they declared "war" on many people almost all of which are still here. I was supprised Chanology lasted as long as it did.
The Anonymous phenomena only lasted because of the hype that generated intrest, and more people joining in with Low Orbit Ion Cannons.
There was also the HB-GARY fiasco. They got lucky, and that a contractor that existed to milk the federal government got pwned because their security practices are terribad.
yeah, I think you are.
I fear the day when someone can litterally force their ideas of what they think "considerate" should be at the cost of public safety.
Personally, I think this man needs an ass-whoppin.
Or alternatively: "Terrorist Disables Mobile Phones On Chicago Bus" Fuck this guy. Mabey some people needed to use the phone. Mabey Doctors, Firefighters, First Responders need to take calls. Mabey someone's wife might be pregnant, or had a kid that got hurt in the hospital. It also screws with people quietly surfing the web, and those not on the bus.
It certainly does. If you are writing software as a complete non-profit, than liberal licensing is fine.
However, if you are trying to make money, not copylefting is suicide. If you spend money on software you use in production, simply giving it away for free means the competition can use it. Now, lets say its a liberal license. They can just write small amounts of proprietary code, and sell something you do not have. If its copyleft, they have to re-share that code, so they can't take any advantages over you. You still have the advantage as the company who knows the product best.
It tries to solve a problem that doesn't really exist; many companies actively
contribute to non-copyleft projects without needing a mandate from RMS.
At the same time, few of these programs get as much paid work. Most companies prefer Linux, and thats because it gets most of the funding. If anything, GNU and Linux have won out for this reason. The only time people use FreeBSD is for people who need a better networking stack than linux currently offers, such as Netflix.
Facebook, however, instead of moving to FreeBSD is offering a large bounty for anyone who can write an improved Linux networking stack to match FreeBSD. Instead of moving to FreeBSD.
And by "current" you mean since they invented the phrase "intellectual property" in the 1970s.
This is a bit of weasel words. Its like saying "NAMBLA supports party XYZ", which the often support left-wing causes under the mistaken belief that other 'sexual minorities' would support them.
The fact that Scientology doesn't like a mental health bill doesn't mean that everyone opposed is supporting scientology. This tactic is called "weasel words", to paint a bad picture of the Bill's critics.
The bill itself? It allows arbitrary dentenion. The potential for abuse is huge. Already a tactic used by the police against demostrators is 'catch and release', arbitrary dention to get someone off the streets, and then release them without charge. Its a form of harrassment.
If someone is realisticly a danger to themselves or others, there are already frameworks to arrest them, however they all have all kinds of legal protections.
This is nothing more than soviet style abuse of metal health.
next we'll have genre fluid, such as crossover thrash.
Its "offtopic". thats why. How she was born has nothing to do with unethical activity. Its a personal attack on a very hotbutton topic which will do nothing but legitimize her.
scam artist or not, I'd request you not misgender her. I'd rather not give this type the high ground on this issue. You'll also confuse the issue and drum up sympathy for people who will defend her for being trans*.
Regardless of what you believe Ms. Wu experienced, do you truly not know any women in software or gaming who've experienced the kind of awful "boy's only club" attitudes and sometimes downright literal sexual harassment?
regardless of which, supporting a scam artist is not helping your cause and will only serve to de-legitimize it.
Or mabey the body size shaming, ableism about mental health, and even classist attacks on the typical software engineer through the "neckbeard" stereotype don't help much. 10-15 years ago, this would most likely include some underhanded homophobic attack(i.e. 'question' their sexuality), and 5 years ago, some form of genderphobia would also be present.
Why did you pick the computer world to launch a career in journalism? You get around $3k a month from hapless dupes with a case of the feels, any tips for setting this up? What is your actual technical experiance with computers? On a scale from one to ten, how much of a sucker is the average person reading your 'journalism'?
They don't
There is no intent for uniform of equal enforcement. It simply allows them to arrest who they want. Lets say two derps get into an argument on forums, about some politically relivant topic and it gets heated and words are exchanged that shouldn't have been. They can now pick and choose which one of them gets arrested, and who gets prosecuted.
Its because 'proggressive values' are a smoke screen. The US doesn't give a damn about proggressive values, and in fact most American leaders hate proggressive values. The last 30 years of US politics have been backwards religeous fearmongering, war mongering, the reliegious decay of society, and stopping 'liberal' degenrates from social progress.
The US values blind loyalty, obedience, religeon, and capitalism. It is the reason we are allied with Saudi Arabia. Its why we supported the mujadeen in the 1980s, and continue to support jihadis about as often as we fight them.
Its the reason we support replacing the pacifist liberal population in europe with a more relegious dogmatic population that has 6 children per women and eager to see them die in a conflict, and as well as support the white fascist motherfuckers who'd do the same.
Proggressive values are a smoke screen. Nothing more.
from your consumption habbits they are able to piece together other bits of information such as sexual orientation, political leanings, perhaps hidden biases. What if you are having an affair. mistress shows up? Who's that next to you, did you happen to stand next to a future criminal/terrorist in a picture? You can make black mail out of anything.
Linux might have some slight incompatiblity with an ever shrinking list of now obscure hardware. But when it works, it works. There is nothing this fucked up about linux drives. At worst, a few of them simply don't have the features we'd like, but nothing catastrophic.
you mean after he blew the whistle.
by "going after" you mean "revoking tax exempt status", which in the grand scheme of political foul play in the US, is small fish. In the past the IRS has repeatedly audited victims every year as harrassment. The US government has spread nasty rumors about people, got them fired, or even killed, planted drugs, arrested activists, spied on activists, etc...
I'd be more concerned about facial recognition used at a political rally rather than an innocent music festival as there's not much blackmail material therein.
When you find me a form of music that doesn't have even the slightest political connotations, I've found the dullest music in existance.
Are you sure that all the technology Americans invented had nothing to do with that?
what technology America invented? a good deal of the shit that was "invented" in the US was invented elsewhere. Also, remember that 90% of the NSA's work is economic espionage, so it really wouldn't suprise me if a good deal of things "invented here" where stolen from elsewhere via espionage.
The US already had its high standard of living before we started extracting resources from foreign lands.
The US was a backward shithole and complete non-rate before WW2. The standard of living of the working class before WW2 was pretty bad, and only getting worse. Corporations gave the US citizens a temporary 20 year reprieve, but started reversing union gains starting in the 1960s. Next generation will most likely to back to pre-war standards of poor.
Because if you look at history there are certainly empires whose standards of living were definitely based upon what they could take from weaker peoples.
Sure, but the point is the viability of the American system is its military strength and its ability to exploit others. Its not exportable. No other system can employ a similar system and get similar results because there simply isn't enough resources on Earth. Also, when you calculate the standard of living of the "American" system, you have to take into consideration how well off that people who make goods for Americans are treated as well, because they are part of the system.
It makes the US completely incomparable with countries that don't have that sort of special relationships. Its why the examples of Socialism vs Capitalism don't hold up.
Let's start with this. Soon after Daniel Ellsberg was revealed as the source behind the Pentagon Papers, White House officials started spreading rumors that Ellsberg was actually a Soviet spy and that he'd passed on important secrets to the Russians: None of it was true, but it was part of a concerted effort by administration officials to smear Ellsberg as a "Soviet spy" and a "traitor" when all he really did was blow the whistle on things by sharing documents with reporters.
Now we get to today:
https://www.techdirt.com/artic...
So we've already written about the massive problems with the Sunday Times' big report claiming that the Russians and Chinese had "cracked" the encryption on the Snowden files (or possibly just been handed those files by Snowden) and that he had "blood on his hands" even though no one has come to any harm. It also argued that David Miranda was detained after he got documents from Snowden in Moscow, despite the fact that he was neither in Moscow, nor had met Snowden (a claim the article quietly deleted). That same report also claimed that UK intelligence agency MI6 had to remove "agents" from Moscow because of this leak, despite the fact that they're not called "agents" and there's no evidence of any actual risk. So far, the only official response from News Corp. the publisher of The Sunday Times (through a variety of subsidiaries) was to try to censor the criticism of the story with a DMCA takedown request. Either way, one of the journalists who wrote the story, Tom Harper, gave an interview to CNN which is quite incredible to watch. Harper just keeps repeating that he doesn't know what's actually true, and that he was just saying what the government told him -- more or less admitting that his role here was not as a reporter, but as a propagandist or a stenographer.
Say it again, we live in a "Free" country. The man who penned the article has admitted to being a government "shill". The OP is nothing more than government disinformation. There is a consistant *Motis Operedni* spanning several decades to lead us to believe they do this regularly.
That may be so, but how does this make the US government good, or the US Government honest. This is a strawman argument.
The US Government might not be as outwardly harsh about dealing with dissent, but thats only because it has more subtle ways which are equally as effective.
I firmly believe if we didn't have hollywood, journalists, and a long tradition of marketing and advertising goons, you'd see the same sort of oppressive state apparatus as you do in China and Russia.
We also have a much higher standard of living because we exploit more from third world nations. The standard of living of the Average American is not by his hand, but by the gun he forces on others. The "Success" isn't even shared equally, and we have a large underclass that for all intents and purposes do not have any real benefit of living in a first world country.
We also have the highest incarceration rate in the world, namely to deal with the organized street militias that prowl the neighborhoods of the disenfranchised, malcontents, and those who violate moralist superstitions.
Thats litterally how pimps control prostitutes.
You are the product, means that not only are these companies spying on you, they are proccessing information to sell to advertisers much in the way a spy agency would go after a mark. They find your psycological weak points to convince you that their product is awesome and then have you harrass the companies neigh sayers.
At the end of the day, you loose your freedom to decide what products you want, and your opinions are owned by advertising corporations. Their clients pay for your opinion, and they manipulate you into believing.
You are the product.
Next ask, "who is manning the cameras", and expect them to be just as sketchy. Oh the cops? So you trust the police to look for actual theft? Looking for petty theivery is very much on the low list of priorities, and on the top is enforcing strict moral code of looking for an excuse to bust people performing sexual acts or consuming intoxicants. If the music is the slightest bit "counterculture", its any excuse to arrest as many of the party goers as possible, generally making up a reason.
There is never a good reason why you'd want cops at such an event. Unless you expect crews to show up for the show(motorcycle clubs, HC three letter crews, urban corner clubs, etc...), don't hire external security either. Get people who are closer to the music community to resolve disputes.
The other known theif clause sounds too damn close to outlawry, where someone is subjected to being an outlaw and denied rights as a sentance for comitting a crime. This in history has never worked out well.
How much financial damage can the police do through harrassment to ensure the cameras stay up, such as imposing fines, threatening to revoke permits, taking them through court systems, having uniformed and un-uniformed officers harrass festival goers until they don't want to come back or get them to leave before they spend too much money.
Waiting for a financial incentive to get large companies to protect your rights for you is foolish. Unpopular opinion: you might as well trust the government to "protect your rights"