If that is the only standard, in that case, North Korea, is in fact, a democracy. They too, count votes, and the person who gets the most votes takes office. So does Iran.
So is Cuba, was the USSR, Iraq under Sadam, every nation on earth right now except the Maladives, and Saudi Arabia.
We in our everyday views challenge the validity of votes and democracy, and quality of democracy world wide. Now, I don't think we are quite as bad as any of the countries on that list, but I am just pointing out your simplistic test on "democracy" includes countries that no one in their right mind would ever consider democracies.
2. The US is not a direct democracy, but it is still a democracy.
on paper, sure, in effect, no. Its really not. It never was, our "founding fathers"(the real ones that signed our current constitution), didn't want a democracy either. Uts a republican of the rich, made to protect their intrests from both the poor and foreign powers. Always has been. Sure we've gotten more democratic over time, but still not a real democracy.
Intelligence agencies are not going to give up trying to get the bad guys. They will have to get closer to the bad guys
you mean, "do real legitimate intellegence work"
You can say that will be more targeted
problem solved. the lack of ethics isn't the fact that intellegence services exist or function, its the fact they were being deployed against the population of the entire world as a whole, hence everyone being considered an "enemy". This allows them to target people without really taking additional steps to target them, giving next to no oversight on who can be targeted and for what. This opens the door for national security and terrorism resources being used to fight the ever failing war on drugs, harrrass protestors, without leaving as much of a trace. It would even allow analysists who moonlight as private intellegence to be able to carefully extract data for their nightime employers, leading for intellegence work being used to harrass critics and enemies of private individuals and corporations.
Sure this could still happen, but it'd leave a bigger paper trail, and oversight is easier. I think this is ethically better. I think Omand has it backwards.
yeah, they are like, high ranking and everything. High ranking people never do bad stuff that would require them to step down, or go to prison. Only low ranking people do. I think he's jealous of their success, or whatever phrase they use when someone accuses someone high ranking of crime or social misbehavior
Boston Marathon Bomber case comes to mind as someone who had his life destroyed because a few lazy assholes with no burder of proof decided to be judge and jury, and leave the man out to a lynch mob justice
Given that its most likely that "Anonymous" at this point is mostly government agents now, its going to be real intresting to see who they finger as pedophiles, and if any of these people are actually guilty.
obnoxious feature request, throw in support for twofish, and try and get the TLS standards body to add twofish as a supported protocol next version. Just two cents.
Forget about building on Windows using Microsoft's C compiler.
not my fault your shitty OS doesn't run our security tools.
as far as GCC, GCC compiles for almost every platform under the sun, including windows. So the fact it doesn't compile with MS C is a moot point.
heck, I can even cross compile for windoze in GNU/Linux
they still do actually(I think they are up to p1/p2 era for space). That said, a modern Linux kernel is not really the optimal choice, try something like an embedded OS.
yes. At the same time, the real question is, why do you use a modern kernel?
If you have hardware from the 1980s, why can't you also use software from the 1980s?
Neither the radar nor the kicking isn't being done to invade privacy. The kicking is being done because they believe there is an armed assailant attacking the family, and they are coming to help. I don't know what world you want to live in where "dear police, please help keep someone from killing me" gets a response of "I'm sorry, that would interfere with your civil liberties to... fight the invaders off yourself."
The case has been made repeatedly that the cops abuse the ever living piss out of this, and many times they've used this where the perpetrator was wanted on non-violent offenses and had no history of violence, nor was there reasonable suspicion of such. Thats what people are upset over.
I think I've since come to the conclusion that "child porn", and "children watching porn", is political doublespeak for "opinions I don't like", and "ability to hunt down my otherwise law abiding enemies".
the use of the concept of "child porn", is that its so morally objectable, you can rely on the entire breadth of the political spectrum to instantly fork over their rights, to avoid any association with child porn. I used to agree with this when I was younger, but as I got older, I somewhat realized what was going on. All speak is political
Also fair, is that if its an old piece of code that is causing reggressions elsewhere, the person who wants it, should be either coding it themselves, or arranging for someone else to maintain the code.
As for the 386, I can't fathom why a new kernel would really need support for the 386, the use cases for supporting it are very slim. Industrial machines that last decades most likely will use the same software, or patched versions of the same software written around the time the machines where put online, and most likely have a very specialized distribution built around the kernel. consumer 386 hardware is next to worthless on any OS for modern computing tasks. For legacy computing tasks, legacy software is better suited for the job.
There is really no reason you need kernel 3.x 1980s hardware x86 HW. None at all.
Yes, murdered children and adults at school shootings are now simply considered an acceptable loss in the preservation of your unfettered second amendment rights. Meanwhile, first and fourth are being chipped away at constantly.
I think its mainly because their deaths are highlighted in the media they are worth more. Here is an inconvienant truth: more people get murdered by the police than at school shootings. School shootings, while tragic are rare, isolated, and more damage is done taking away rights, more privacy and speech than is done by the shootings themselves.
lets put some perspective: 11,000 people are murdered every year, all causes, out of 30,000 gun deaths, all causes. 40,000 die of drug related causes, 110,000 die of obesity.
But good job standing on a media-created tragedy to push your political views on people. Its no diffrent than white supremecists pointing out everytime a black man rapes a white women or kills a random white person as the dangers of the black race.
Nothing. Nothing happening is the worst that could happen. If you truely support Snowden, then support the type of activism he did. We have information on the government because he acted. More people need to act.
Esentially she's enlisted the help of "the system", combined efforts of capitalism to help her against a few unwashed people who refuse to buy products as told.
Lets debunk Zoe Quinn once and for all. She's not a game developer, she's a media person making a story, and this is backlash for Snowden, Manning, Wikileaks, Free Software, Piracy, and every last other radical thing the nerd community has done. Its slander at its finest.
As far as "social justice" warriors go, most of them capitalist shills using socialist language to further the agenda of marketing corporations and the state, and should be ashamed of themselves. Things you never see, SJWs go after anyone in power, despite the mess of child molesting rapist athletes, musicians, politicians, lawyers, etc...
Meanwhile while gamer gate is going on, the mainstream media repeatedly apologizies for Bill Cosby raping children, and Roman Polanski wants to get back into the country after he fled after admitting to actually raping a 13-year old girl. His excuse was typical MRA grade, "She looked older" trash. But when you make money for big media no one gives a fuck.
The only time they seem to give a shit about "misogyny" is when it ends up costing someone with enough money to pay for their services money.
only a tiny fraction of computer users are talented enough to get a job. The ones that are really good with computers tend to be more aware of rights. Awareness would make this work, but in history, strikes, slowdowns, etc... have been very effective.
The feds already have a hard time, many geeks are already more aware, intellegent and active than the typical person, and more prone to action as well. It really would not take much to make a point. Many of them are also involved activities that disqualify them from federal service anyhow, and it wouldn't take much agitating to open up old wounds the feds try and closing by loosening restrictions.
If you care about this issue, the absolute best thing you can do is give money.... to the lobbies...
See thats the hipster problem is thinking like that, and it can do anything. If you can get enough people to donate, you can make an effective boycott. This is why hipsters fail at politics and have next to zero clout, but instead make a fuckton of noise and no one cares. This is also why when some dumb hipster comes into a webforums asking for support people laugh at them, and the reason why no one really gives a fuck about turning out the polls, and people think you are just a bunch of shills. Hipsters like to pretend they have political clout, but all they are foot soliders for lobbyists. Its very obvious and very showing to everyone but themselves. They don't have power, power has them. You demand inaction and blind support in lobbies, even ones I agree with is a terrible idea. I do agree donating to the ALCU and EFF is a good, but its not enough.
In short, a boycott will be effective if you want it to be effective. In addition to boycotting you can also support the EFF and ALCU, I don't see why you can't do both. At very least I call on the EFF and ALCU to donate some lawyers to people who plan civil disobediance against federal government shenanigans. I'm proud to support both the EFF and ALCU, and if you truely support the mission of both you should support my plan.
My idea doesn't require a ton of people, and if it fails the worst that happens is nothing. You have nothing to loose, and everything to gain in making a few friends and perhaps steering them into activism with the EFF, ALCU and other such groups.
we are still mostly a capitalist and corporatist. But yeah, at one time, we where pretty damn close to capitalism and it didn't work out well. corporatism and little bits of socialism where thrown in because they tended to be more effective than police in containing mobs
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represenatative democracy is where people vote for representatives to make laws.(sort of how its supposed to work now)
So is Cuba, was the USSR, Iraq under Sadam, every nation on earth right now except the Maladives, and Saudi Arabia.
We in our everyday views challenge the validity of votes and democracy, and quality of democracy world wide. Now, I don't think we are quite as bad as any of the countries on that list, but I am just pointing out your simplistic test on "democracy" includes countries that no one in their right mind would ever consider democracies.
2. The US is not a direct democracy, but it is still a democracy.
on paper, sure, in effect, no. Its really not. It never was, our "founding fathers"(the real ones that signed our current constitution), didn't want a democracy either. Uts a republican of the rich, made to protect their intrests from both the poor and foreign powers. Always has been. Sure we've gotten more democratic over time, but still not a real democracy.
lots your typical "bad guy" isn't any smarter than your average twitter user. Go watch "Why Johnny can't encrypt"
Intelligence agencies are not going to give up trying to get the bad guys. They will have to get closer to the bad guys
you mean, "do real legitimate intellegence work"
You can say that will be more targeted
problem solved. the lack of ethics isn't the fact that intellegence services exist or function, its the fact they were being deployed against the population of the entire world as a whole, hence everyone being considered an "enemy". This allows them to target people without really taking additional steps to target them, giving next to no oversight on who can be targeted and for what. This opens the door for national security and terrorism resources being used to fight the ever failing war on drugs, harrrass protestors, without leaving as much of a trace. It would even allow analysists who moonlight as private intellegence to be able to carefully extract data for their nightime employers, leading for intellegence work being used to harrass critics and enemies of private individuals and corporations.
Sure this could still happen, but it'd leave a bigger paper trail, and oversight is easier. I think this is ethically better. I think Omand has it backwards.
yeah, they are like, high ranking and everything. High ranking people never do bad stuff that would require them to step down, or go to prison. Only low ranking people do. I think he's jealous of their success, or whatever phrase they use when someone accuses someone high ranking of crime or social misbehavior
Given that its most likely that "Anonymous" at this point is mostly government agents now, its going to be real intresting to see who they finger as pedophiles, and if any of these people are actually guilty.
the EFF opposes net neutrality, what?
obnoxious feature request, throw in support for twofish, and try and get the TLS standards body to add twofish as a supported protocol next version. Just two cents.
Forget about building on Windows using Microsoft's C compiler.
not my fault your shitty OS doesn't run our security tools. as far as GCC, GCC compiles for almost every platform under the sun, including windows. So the fact it doesn't compile with MS C is a moot point. heck, I can even cross compile for windoze in GNU/Linux
right into the lap of JJ Abrams. they should have found everyone from the 1970s that did the original star wars movies.
they still do actually(I think they are up to p1/p2 era for space). That said, a modern Linux kernel is not really the optimal choice, try something like an embedded OS.
yes. At the same time, the real question is, why do you use a modern kernel? If you have hardware from the 1980s, why can't you also use software from the 1980s?
they outperform windows on the same machine with binary drivers.
and the republicans start supporting labor issues.
in other news, the brimstone in hell is now cold enough to be superconductive and satan has been hit by a snowball, full of ice ix
Neither the radar nor the kicking isn't being done to invade privacy. The kicking is being done because they believe there is an armed assailant attacking the family, and they are coming to help. I don't know what world you want to live in where "dear police, please help keep someone from killing me" gets a response of "I'm sorry, that would interfere with your civil liberties to... fight the invaders off yourself."
The case has been made repeatedly that the cops abuse the ever living piss out of this, and many times they've used this where the perpetrator was wanted on non-violent offenses and had no history of violence, nor was there reasonable suspicion of such. Thats what people are upset over.
the use of the concept of "child porn", is that its so morally objectable, you can rely on the entire breadth of the political spectrum to instantly fork over their rights, to avoid any association with child porn. I used to agree with this when I was younger, but as I got older, I somewhat realized what was going on. All speak is political
Also fair, is that if its an old piece of code that is causing reggressions elsewhere, the person who wants it, should be either coding it themselves, or arranging for someone else to maintain the code.
As for the 386, I can't fathom why a new kernel would really need support for the 386, the use cases for supporting it are very slim. Industrial machines that last decades most likely will use the same software, or patched versions of the same software written around the time the machines where put online, and most likely have a very specialized distribution built around the kernel. consumer 386 hardware is next to worthless on any OS for modern computing tasks. For legacy computing tasks, legacy software is better suited for the job.
There is really no reason you need kernel 3.x 1980s hardware x86 HW. None at all.
Yes, murdered children and adults at school shootings are now simply considered an acceptable loss in the preservation of your unfettered second amendment rights. Meanwhile, first and fourth are being chipped away at constantly.
I think its mainly because their deaths are highlighted in the media they are worth more. Here is an inconvienant truth: more people get murdered by the police than at school shootings. School shootings, while tragic are rare, isolated, and more damage is done taking away rights, more privacy and speech than is done by the shootings themselves.
lets put some perspective: 11,000 people are murdered every year, all causes, out of 30,000 gun deaths, all causes. 40,000 die of drug related causes, 110,000 die of obesity.
But good job standing on a media-created tragedy to push your political views on people. Its no diffrent than white supremecists pointing out everytime a black man rapes a white women or kills a random white person as the dangers of the black race.
which is telling on how are society thinks. Its only bad if its the lower class doing it.
What is the worst that could happen?
Nothing. Nothing happening is the worst that could happen. If you truely support Snowden, then support the type of activism he did. We have information on the government because he acted. More people need to act.
Esentially she's enlisted the help of "the system", combined efforts of capitalism to help her against a few unwashed people who refuse to buy products as told.
Lets debunk Zoe Quinn once and for all. She's not a game developer, she's a media person making a story, and this is backlash for Snowden, Manning, Wikileaks, Free Software, Piracy, and every last other radical thing the nerd community has done. Its slander at its finest.
As far as "social justice" warriors go, most of them capitalist shills using socialist language to further the agenda of marketing corporations and the state, and should be ashamed of themselves. Things you never see, SJWs go after anyone in power, despite the mess of child molesting rapist athletes, musicians, politicians, lawyers, etc...
Meanwhile while gamer gate is going on, the mainstream media repeatedly apologizies for Bill Cosby raping children, and Roman Polanski wants to get back into the country after he fled after admitting to actually raping a 13-year old girl. His excuse was typical MRA grade, "She looked older" trash. But when you make money for big media no one gives a fuck.
The only time they seem to give a shit about "misogyny" is when it ends up costing someone with enough money to pay for their services money.
The feds already have a hard time, many geeks are already more aware, intellegent and active than the typical person, and more prone to action as well. It really would not take much to make a point. Many of them are also involved activities that disqualify them from federal service anyhow, and it wouldn't take much agitating to open up old wounds the feds try and closing by loosening restrictions.
If you care about this issue, the absolute best thing you can do is give money.... to the lobbies...
See thats the hipster problem is thinking like that, and it can do anything. If you can get enough people to donate, you can make an effective boycott. This is why hipsters fail at politics and have next to zero clout, but instead make a fuckton of noise and no one cares. This is also why when some dumb hipster comes into a webforums asking for support people laugh at them, and the reason why no one really gives a fuck about turning out the polls, and people think you are just a bunch of shills. Hipsters like to pretend they have political clout, but all they are foot soliders for lobbyists. Its very obvious and very showing to everyone but themselves. They don't have power, power has them. You demand inaction and blind support in lobbies, even ones I agree with is a terrible idea. I do agree donating to the ALCU and EFF is a good, but its not enough.
In short, a boycott will be effective if you want it to be effective. In addition to boycotting you can also support the EFF and ALCU, I don't see why you can't do both. At very least I call on the EFF and ALCU to donate some lawyers to people who plan civil disobediance against federal government shenanigans. I'm proud to support both the EFF and ALCU, and if you truely support the mission of both you should support my plan.
My idea doesn't require a ton of people, and if it fails the worst that happens is nothing. You have nothing to loose, and everything to gain in making a few friends and perhaps steering them into activism with the EFF, ALCU and other such groups.
we are still mostly a capitalist and corporatist. But yeah, at one time, we where pretty damn close to capitalism and it didn't work out well. corporatism and little bits of socialism where thrown in because they tended to be more effective than police in containing mobs
given than 60% of spying is industrial, the government spying on one corporation on the behalf of a competitor, I'd say yeah they'd care.