Maybe you use "completely" a bit loosely when noting differences in this case. Petraeus was central to both stories, and when such an individual resigns, some may want to be informed. It would be a hard argument to persuade any informed person that the CIA has little to do with technology. Maybe a bit far out, but as an example, when Steve Jobs passed away, there really was nothing any more technical about the event than the death of any other individual. It was a death, and may have better been posted on Wikipedia or the NY Times instead. But it made BIG news anyway, and few complained -- and apple didn't stop producing. That is admittedly not a great example, but it hints a point.
I don't and can't judge the relevance of a post by the number of comments alone, but the numbers might in some obscure way indicate interest; that is, if they aren't all similar to yours, in which case I'd not be writing this. Certainly it's been discussed to some degree. Is a major intelligence agency deeply imbued in technology supposed to be unappealing to nerds? If so, how restricted should content be? And where exactly is the defining boundary? The CIA seems well within reasonable boundaries to me, and if you want the coveted topic of lawsuits, they have a few too, even though most readers here aren't attorneys. I'm open to suggestions though.
Now that Lenovo, HP (and subs), and Toshiba have gone to shit, what's left? Acer or Asus? And what's with these dastardly companies trying so hard to keep people stupid about the machines they buy. HP and Lenovo put hardware blacklists in the BIOS, and Toshiba doesn't want anyone knowing what's beneath the hood. I always valued Toshiba as an indestructible and slightly buggy laptop, and they've always been an option if something better couldn't be found. Now, they are not an option. I fear though, at this rate, I am nearly out of options, with two remaining. But I won't support a tyrant. I can't help wondering what these shitbags would have to lose from some guy helping maintain the machines they've relinquished for cash. I guess they'd lose the opportunity to abuse the law, and that's fucking irresistible it seems.
Who's gonna be the next technoid rabid super-lemming to follow suit?
Considering the ambitions held by the CIA for all things cyber, I truly hope you've busted me submitting irrelevant material to Slashdot. But I'm the kind of guy who never tires of hearing "what Linus says" about whatever and so on. If you could pardon the post for just one thing; maybe it has value just for bringing attention to a new individual in a position of power and influence, quite possibly including a lot of technology. Otherwise, I continue to sway on the edge of significance and apologize for taking up a space on the RSS. In the meantime, have a look at this: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/03/petraeus-tv-remote/ -- It might offer some bit of an answer to your question/statement.
Respectfully
Ha! You made me chuckle. Now imagine how interesting it would have been for Darwin to observe that. The lobbyists would be deep in the organ market, and favabeans would be up.
An interesting (and amusing) excerpt from wikiland:
At one time in the UK, it was legal for a man to urinate in public, so long as it occurred on the rear wheel of his vehicle and he had his right hand on the vehicle. The laws allowing this were the Hackney Carriage Laws, which were repealed in 1976.[35] Public urination still remains more accepted by males in the UK, although British cultural tradition itself seems to find such practices objectionable.
I guess when wanking became ambidextrous, they nixed that one.
I can think of two examples illustrating problems with such laws.
1. Urinating in public can, in 13 states, qualify as a sex offense, through charges such as "indecent exposure", etc. A few links mentioning this issue can be viewed here:
http://www.forbes.com/2010/07/02/sex-offender-registry-megans-law-forbes-woman-time-children.html
http://www.economist.com/node/14164614 https://downtownathens.wordpress.com/2012/03/06/public-urination-considered-sex-offense-in-georgia-not-enforced-by-police/ http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-02-25-sex-offender-laws-cover_x.htm
2. Certain interactions with a prostitute can also qualify for sex offense.
Number 1 is certainly more common, and is something nearly any good beer-drinking mammal has been guilty of. Number 2, although less common, is rather questionable. Why questionable? Figure that out yourself. But if it is to be such a grievous offense in the the U.S., it would seem appropriate to prevent U.S. citizens from traveling to nations where such an atrocious offense is legal, such as Austria, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Netherlands, Switzerland, Turkey(?) and others. And certainly anyone doing business with such perverted nations should be registered and arrested as accomplices, because anyone with scruples would take the support of such offenses just as seriously as we take pissing on bushes here -- no dubya pun intended.
What is needed is a 3 Strikes law, where-after attempting to pass three insane draconian laws, such fiends are registered as civil-offenders and no longer permitted within 100' of a computer device. They should also be required for 10 years to kneel on all fours immediately (while humming the National Anthem) whenever a weary pedestrian needs a place to sit. Their only other option would be joining the French Foreign Legion, which of course would be the default option.
Alright, I understand. If not for the two maple syrup stories recently posted on/., I probably would have let this one go. But I'm a sucker for humor and enjoyed the commentary from the syrup stories, so I thought I'd submit it.
Easily! People don't understand. When plane-loads of infected USB-drives strike you at terminal velocity, it really sucks. Dude, even the discarded pizza crusts and soda cans can damage paint. But it's those Kamikaze anonymous bastards you've really got to look out for; they'll fly right into a power-plant just to insert a USB-drive manually before they die. Yeah, if we don't toss a few bombs around, uphold copyright and have a purge, we're gonna get it, bad. All you can really do without the government's help is wear clean underpants and a very thick hat, and don't open any unusual emails. I also recommend putting a crystal near your router to keep out the negative energy -- I've heard that bad guys don't like it because it reminds them of transparency.
New Pearl Harbor is a melodramatic pre-imagining of the teenage attack on U.S. power-grids and the subsequent DooAlittleMoreThanNecessary Raid. While not directed by Michael Bay, fans of his in the CIA have collaborated with the makers of Innocence of Muslims and Rupert Murdoch in this captivating mind-wrenching sequel.
"When you see the part where Leonardo DiCaprio telnets into the Pentagon and sends drones to Moldova, you'll shit your pants!" -- Sock Puppet Reviews
"If you told me Justin Bieber could've played such a convincing hacker, I'd have laughed in your face" -- Hillary Clinton
"It brought tears to my eyes, and I was a POW." -- J. McCain
"Thank Yahweh for benzodiazepines! " -- Janet Napolitano (Eight-Time Mother of the Year Award Winner)
"You'll need your Mountain Dew for this one!" -- Anonymous
I think they know this well enough, but their terminology is specifically targeted at the sort of people who consider the act of defacing a webpage serious hacking. What we really need is a GUI interface in Visual Basic to track the IPs of these terrible cyber-terrorists. That'd do it, mark my wurd.
I wish I had a public education so that I might extract more sense from your comment; but alas, I had to care for Genghis Khan when I was only 2. But please, great scholar and pedant I've amazed with what I've never had, tell me what you've written between those lines. I cannot penetrate such sophisticated verse.
Affectionately,
- Your Great, Great, Great Grandson
Damn! That's what happens when a closet exhibitionist tries to conceal his fetish by writing a bullshit summary on privacy and pesky amendments. I knew I should have been myself and gushed about how much I like to be watched by men in uniform. But then again, that might be slightly biased too. And I'm so sorry to have insulted your intelligence along with the integrity of Slashdot. I had a bad feeling when I set out today to demean the scope of your psyche and bite the hand that posts my bias.
But seriously, I voraciously accept advice. If you'd care to offer any, I will listen.
I think it has something to do with Halloween. I doubt it would have made it through had it been an electrified parsnip or burning yam. I'd also be surprised if it makes it through again come next 4th of July. I know some folks are pretty hardcore around here, and that if they built a damned pumpkin, it would be built to last and do a helluva lot more than imitate an outdated video game. No, it would make SkyRim look like Atari, and would beam lasers to the space station and hover mid-air, during boot. I'd probably be lynched and hanged with wireless if I admitted to thinking it was neat. So I'll pretend I'm disappointed too.
On my little consumer-grade cisco* router I have dd-wrt installed. It has quite a few options. I can set up a Hot Spot, allocate bandwidth, restrict access, adjust the txpower, and so on. I've never gone so far as to set up a Hot Spot, but I'm quite sure it would be easy enough to have a user-agreement wall. I'd be just as comfortable with something like that as I'd be with WEP. And then there's OpenDNS and such.
And I'd find it strange that government, which seems to operate on utilitarian principles, would fail to see the "greater good" in providing positively-used access to far more people than the fewer who'd comprise the abusive. Regarding the FBI (or others) raiding homes because of abuse, it seems in most situations a more hypocritical rather than critical response. In 'my' town, some beast had been out on his boat while connected to an open AP at one of the nearby condominiums. He'd been doing nasty things, apparently. The FBI raided the unit of the condo AP in the middle of the night, nearly killing the innocent couple by shock. Odd that they couldn't have sniffed the waves first and perhaps deduced a remote host. As advanced as they are, and for all their budget, they sure seem primitive sometimes. I have my doubts though.
I think we can see how well our post-911 hysteria has worked for us. Everyone's a terrorist now, but hardly anyone is terrorizing. We're spending enormous amounts of liberty and money on departments and agencies that are primarily self-serving. Departments like the DHS are bridging dangerous gaps between the DoD and local law-enforcement. And for all the collective efforts of our militant angelic protectors, safety hasn't increased much. We're petrified of bogeymen, yet we fill the role ourselves through social indifference and mainstream-media-administered xenophobia. It's mildly ironic that we're petrified that our networks will be abused for pedophilia, but we now lend our children without hesitation to the TSA. The yield of fear is golden indeed.
Self protection is good, and I'd not advise every soccer-mom to open their WiFi necessarily; but I can't see any benefit in building our society on principles of fear and self-imposed disadvantages, especially while so many viable sources for fear are above, not below the law.
And finally, the typical ISP competition duopoly between two gluttonous villains is not so great for many people. It's expensive, and many broadband (FIOS) subscribers never use much more than could be offered by DSL. And take note; in my area, DSL is not offered -- only cable or FIOS.
But playing the social board-game of Divide & Conquer is fun enough. After all, we're all our own unique snowflakes, and we should emphasize it as much as possible. Anything else would result in hippies, pirates, pedophiles, communists and zombies taking over our streets, eating our children and using our toothbrushes.
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe you use "completely" a bit loosely when noting differences in this case. Petraeus was central to both stories, and when such an individual resigns, some may want to be informed. It would be a hard argument to persuade any informed person that the CIA has little to do with technology. Maybe a bit far out, but as an example, when Steve Jobs passed away, there really was nothing any more technical about the event than the death of any other individual. It was a death, and may have better been posted on Wikipedia or the NY Times instead. But it made BIG news anyway, and few complained -- and apple didn't stop producing. That is admittedly not a great example, but it hints a point.
I don't and can't judge the relevance of a post by the number of comments alone, but the numbers might in some obscure way indicate interest; that is, if they aren't all similar to yours, in which case I'd not be writing this. Certainly it's been discussed to some degree. Is a major intelligence agency deeply imbued in technology supposed to be unappealing to nerds? If so, how restricted should content be? And where exactly is the defining boundary? The CIA seems well within reasonable boundaries to me, and if you want the coveted topic of lawsuits, they have a few too, even though most readers here aren't attorneys. I'm open to suggestions though.
Now that Lenovo, HP (and subs), and Toshiba have gone to shit, what's left? Acer or Asus? And what's with these dastardly companies trying so hard to keep people stupid about the machines they buy. HP and Lenovo put hardware blacklists in the BIOS, and Toshiba doesn't want anyone knowing what's beneath the hood. I always valued Toshiba as an indestructible and slightly buggy laptop, and they've always been an option if something better couldn't be found. Now, they are not an option. I fear though, at this rate, I am nearly out of options, with two remaining. But I won't support a tyrant. I can't help wondering what these shitbags would have to lose from some guy helping maintain the machines they've relinquished for cash. I guess they'd lose the opportunity to abuse the law, and that's fucking irresistible it seems.
Who's gonna be the next technoid rabid super-lemming to follow suit?
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/03/petraeus-tv-remote/ - How? Maybe stuff like that. I guess we'll see what Micheal has up his sleeve now. If you'd like me to dig up other links, I'll comply.
Respectfully
Considering the ambitions held by the CIA for all things cyber, I truly hope you've busted me submitting irrelevant material to Slashdot. But I'm the kind of guy who never tires of hearing "what Linus says" about whatever and so on. If you could pardon the post for just one thing; maybe it has value just for bringing attention to a new individual in a position of power and influence, quite possibly including a lot of technology. Otherwise, I continue to sway on the edge of significance and apologize for taking up a space on the RSS. In the meantime, have a look at this: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/03/petraeus-tv-remote/ -- It might offer some bit of an answer to your question/statement.
Respectfully
Ha! You made me chuckle. Now imagine how interesting it would have been for Darwin to observe that. The lobbyists would be deep in the organ market, and favabeans would be up.
eclectic nerds
At one time in the UK, it was legal for a man to urinate in public, so long as it occurred on the rear wheel of his vehicle and he had his right hand on the vehicle. The laws allowing this were the Hackney Carriage Laws, which were repealed in 1976.[35] Public urination still remains more accepted by males in the UK, although British cultural tradition itself seems to find such practices objectionable.
I guess when wanking became ambidextrous, they nixed that one.
I can think of two examples illustrating problems with such laws.
1. Urinating in public can, in 13 states, qualify as a sex offense, through charges such as "indecent exposure", etc. A few links mentioning this issue can be viewed here:
http://www.forbes.com/2010/07/02/sex-offender-registry-megans-law-forbes-woman-time-children.html
http://www.economist.com/node/14164614
https://downtownathens.wordpress.com/2012/03/06/public-urination-considered-sex-offense-in-georgia-not-enforced-by-police/
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-02-25-sex-offender-laws-cover_x.htm
2. Certain interactions with a prostitute can also qualify for sex offense.
Number 1 is certainly more common, and is something nearly any good beer-drinking mammal has been guilty of. Number 2, although less common, is rather questionable. Why questionable? Figure that out yourself. But if it is to be such a grievous offense in the the U.S., it would seem appropriate to prevent U.S. citizens from traveling to nations where such an atrocious offense is legal, such as Austria, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Netherlands, Switzerland, Turkey(?) and others. And certainly anyone doing business with such perverted nations should be registered and arrested as accomplices, because anyone with scruples would take the support of such offenses just as seriously as we take pissing on bushes here -- no dubya pun intended.
What is needed is a 3 Strikes law, where-after attempting to pass three insane draconian laws, such fiends are registered as civil-offenders and no longer permitted within 100' of a computer device. They should also be required for 10 years to kneel on all fours immediately (while humming the National Anthem) whenever a weary pedestrian needs a place to sit. Their only other option would be joining the French Foreign Legion, which of course would be the default option.
So who's the narcissistic vulnerability pimp now, eh? Better change that red to purple.
...Yeah, you know it.
I couldn't resist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SQGTufqOBQ - Waldorf Salad (Fawlty Towers)
I find it suspicious that your UID ( hutsell ) is merely an "n" away from a permuted nutshell. Who are you working for?
./
You have to type ./ in the nut directory to execute the script ;)
Nerds could care less about a truckload of nuts.
Alright, I understand. If not for the two maple syrup stories recently posted on /., I probably would have let this one go. But I'm a sucker for humor and enjoyed the commentary from the syrup stories, so I thought I'd submit it.
Easily! People don't understand. When plane-loads of infected USB-drives strike you at terminal velocity, it really sucks. Dude, even the discarded pizza crusts and soda cans can damage paint. But it's those Kamikaze anonymous bastards you've really got to look out for; they'll fly right into a power-plant just to insert a USB-drive manually before they die. Yeah, if we don't toss a few bombs around, uphold copyright and have a purge, we're gonna get it, bad. All you can really do without the government's help is wear clean underpants and a very thick hat, and don't open any unusual emails. I also recommend putting a crystal near your router to keep out the negative energy -- I've heard that bad guys don't like it because it reminds them of transparency.
New Pearl Harbor is a melodramatic pre-imagining of the teenage attack on U.S. power-grids and the subsequent DooAlittleMoreThanNecessary Raid. While not directed by Michael Bay, fans of his in the CIA have collaborated with the makers of Innocence of Muslims and Rupert Murdoch in this captivating mind-wrenching sequel.
"When you see the part where Leonardo DiCaprio telnets into the Pentagon and sends drones to Moldova, you'll shit your pants!" -- Sock Puppet Reviews
"If you told me Justin Bieber could've played such a convincing hacker, I'd have laughed in your face" -- Hillary Clinton
"It brought tears to my eyes, and I was a POW." -- J. McCain
"Thank Yahweh for benzodiazepines! " -- Janet Napolitano (Eight-Time Mother of the Year Award Winner)
"You'll need your Mountain Dew for this one!" -- Anonymous
*Partially plagiarized from wikipedia.
I think they know this well enough, but their terminology is specifically targeted at the sort of people who consider the act of defacing a webpage serious hacking. What we really need is a GUI interface in Visual Basic to track the IPs of these terrible cyber-terrorists. That'd do it, mark my wurd.
I wish I had a public education so that I might extract more sense from your comment; but alas, I had to care for Genghis Khan when I was only 2. But please, great scholar and pedant I've amazed with what I've never had, tell me what you've written between those lines. I cannot penetrate such sophisticated verse.
Affectionately, - Your Great, Great, Great Grandson
Damn! That's what happens when a closet exhibitionist tries to conceal his fetish by writing a bullshit summary on privacy and pesky amendments. I knew I should have been myself and gushed about how much I like to be watched by men in uniform. But then again, that might be slightly biased too. And I'm so sorry to have insulted your intelligence along with the integrity of Slashdot. I had a bad feeling when I set out today to demean the scope of your psyche and bite the hand that posts my bias.
But seriously, I voraciously accept advice. If you'd care to offer any, I will listen.
Cinderfella
Would that be Guy Fawkes; or is my British off?
- V?
PS: Regarding the yams, I concur - with butter and honey.
I think it has something to do with Halloween. I doubt it would have made it through had it been an electrified parsnip or burning yam. I'd also be surprised if it makes it through again come next 4th of July. I know some folks are pretty hardcore around here, and that if they built a damned pumpkin, it would be built to last and do a helluva lot more than imitate an outdated video game. No, it would make SkyRim look like Atari, and would beam lasers to the space station and hover mid-air, during boot. I'd probably be lynched and hanged with wireless if I admitted to thinking it was neat. So I'll pretend I'm disappointed too.
Man, I don't know why I didn't put it just that way myself. You're spot on.
As usual, a good thread on the topic from Schneier-ville: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/10/hacking_tsa_pre.html
On my little consumer-grade cisco* router I have dd-wrt installed. It has quite a few options. I can set up a Hot Spot, allocate bandwidth, restrict access, adjust the txpower, and so on. I've never gone so far as to set up a Hot Spot, but I'm quite sure it would be easy enough to have a user-agreement wall. I'd be just as comfortable with something like that as I'd be with WEP. And then there's OpenDNS and such.
And I'd find it strange that government, which seems to operate on utilitarian principles, would fail to see the "greater good" in providing positively-used access to far more people than the fewer who'd comprise the abusive. Regarding the FBI (or others) raiding homes because of abuse, it seems in most situations a more hypocritical rather than critical response. In 'my' town, some beast had been out on his boat while connected to an open AP at one of the nearby condominiums. He'd been doing nasty things, apparently. The FBI raided the unit of the condo AP in the middle of the night, nearly killing the innocent couple by shock. Odd that they couldn't have sniffed the waves first and perhaps deduced a remote host. As advanced as they are, and for all their budget, they sure seem primitive sometimes. I have my doubts though.
I think we can see how well our post-911 hysteria has worked for us. Everyone's a terrorist now, but hardly anyone is terrorizing. We're spending enormous amounts of liberty and money on departments and agencies that are primarily self-serving. Departments like the DHS are bridging dangerous gaps between the DoD and local law-enforcement. And for all the collective efforts of our militant angelic protectors, safety hasn't increased much. We're petrified of bogeymen, yet we fill the role ourselves through social indifference and mainstream-media-administered xenophobia. It's mildly ironic that we're petrified that our networks will be abused for pedophilia, but we now lend our children without hesitation to the TSA. The yield of fear is golden indeed.
Self protection is good, and I'd not advise every soccer-mom to open their WiFi necessarily; but I can't see any benefit in building our society on principles of fear and self-imposed disadvantages, especially while so many viable sources for fear are above, not below the law.
And finally, the typical ISP competition duopoly between two gluttonous villains is not so great for many people. It's expensive, and many broadband (FIOS) subscribers never use much more than could be offered by DSL. And take note; in my area, DSL is not offered -- only cable or FIOS.
But playing the social board-game of Divide & Conquer is fun enough. After all, we're all our own unique snowflakes, and we should emphasize it as much as possible. Anything else would result in hippies, pirates, pedophiles, communists and zombies taking over our streets, eating our children and using our toothbrushes.
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