I remember when 100 MFLOPS was munitions-grade computing. Now you have 1 GHz in your pocket and 4 cores of 3 GHz hooked up to 450 cores at 1.5 GHz and you still think Crysis is stuttering even in low res...
Everyone is spamming slashdot, and the people voting on the firehose are generally too lame to understand it. Throw "reduced order methods to perform real-time and reliable simulations" at them and they click the + just to look smart.
Or the one where they lifted people's email passwords and actual email going over wifi while collecting Streetview data.
That was a legitimate accident, and not really an invasion. The people collecting the info probably had no idea they were doing it or what it meant even if they were aware it included personal info. And, the info was broadcast over the airwaves in an unencrypted protocol, and in a rational world that makes it public knowledge.
Allowing Chinese malefactors to burrow into people's email accounts, however, was a massive security failure, probably with dire consequences for several of Google's users.
Actually, they correctly observed that their employers were utterly clueless about the Internet, and made the incorrect guess that they would remain clueless for a very long time.
HR departments being lemmings picked up on the "we can reject people for stuff they put on the internet" idea and companies all caught that virus within a couple of years of each other.
Lucky for me most of the stupid shit I did on the Internet was long before any of it was being archived.
You think that/. employees are actually using any sort of qualitative decisionmaking criteria when selecting articles for the main feeds?
That ended long ago.
Now they take whatever has the highest +/- ratio when the bell rings to churn the ad stream.
I'm not sure who deleted my version of the link or why, but I'm sure that it involved a long, heartfelt, gut-wrenching decision to do the right thing. Not.
You know, I deliberately posted a different version of this summary specifically because the summary that was selected here is a lazy cut-and-paste of the poorly written lead of TFA itself.
It could take a while for the feedback loop to develop, but this may result in kids not thinking that pictures of naked drunkenness posted to their facebook accounts will remain protected by obscurity. I think knowing that if you fucked the neighbor's sheep the entire town would call you Baaaarney for the rest of your life has kept a lot of sheep safe.
So rather than suggesting to kids that they plan to change their names, maybe Schmidt should suggest to them that they keep their ignorant, impulsive incompetency to a level that can be snickered at safely without derailing their chances of being elected President...
We don't assassinate people in lieu of bringing them to justice for crimes they have committed.
However, people who are in the act of committing crimes are fair game. In fact, it doesn't even take government authority to justify killing them if the crime they are committing is the sort of crime that kills people.
I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time
Why, it becomes SOCIETY again. Way back before towns had 29 million people in them and mobility wasn't hyperamplified by oil and 99% of us interacted with the same few hundred folks every day of your life, people knew of the stupid shit you did when you were a kid and repeated it at your funeral.
But they also recognized that kids are ignorant, impulsive, incompetent beings, and they treated the adult differently and got on with the world.
I don't believe Mr. Schmidt understands what society is.
I know he doesn't understand what neutrality is.
I'm pretty sure he's lost the plot on evil, as well.
Is Iran allowed to decide which actions of Americans in America are crimes too?
They do. Look up fatwa.
Also look at what they're trying to do to Israel.
You might also want to check out what Australian law and the ANZUS and NATO treaties have to say about this. I'm pretty sure it was illegal for him to traffic in that information regardless of his being non-American.
That soldier may have committed a crime, but he is a hero for it.
Only to fools who have no concept of the law.
There are rules about what should and should not be classified. There are procedures for reporting material that should not be classified. And there are rules in those procedures for protecting whistleblowers from retaliation.
What he did was unnecessary and went far beyond exposing the problem. There was a way to get that job done that did not risk lives further or damage the force's ability to make Afghanistan secure.
What he chose to do was to act on an impulse to fulfill the pitch he was getting from people who trade in classified information for their own gain. It was shortsighted, selfish, and criminal.
He saved no lives, shortened no war, and made things a lot more dangerous for everyone but the Taliban. It was the opposite of heroic.
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I remember when 100 MFLOPS was munitions-grade computing. Now you have 1 GHz in your pocket and 4 cores of 3 GHz hooked up to 450 cores at 1.5 GHz and you still think Crysis is stuttering even in low res...
Go into settings and select "scientific mode". That makes a lot more buttons appear.
Everyone is spamming slashdot, and the people voting on the firehose are generally too lame to understand it. Throw "reduced order methods to perform real-time and reliable simulations" at them and they click the + just to look smart.
When did you change it to Kobe? And do you realize they pay you for playing ball all day?
Or the one where they lifted people's email passwords and actual email going over wifi while collecting Streetview data.
That was a legitimate accident, and not really an invasion. The people collecting the info probably had no idea they were doing it or what it meant even if they were aware it included personal info. And, the info was broadcast over the airwaves in an unencrypted protocol, and in a rational world that makes it public knowledge.
Allowing Chinese malefactors to burrow into people's email accounts, however, was a massive security failure, probably with dire consequences for several of Google's users.
(and you'll note I don't got shit all over me)
Reminds me of the Lifelock CEO who put his SSN up on a billboard to taunt identity thieves.
Apparently his identity still gets stolen about 3X a year.
Actually, they correctly observed that their employers were utterly clueless about the Internet, and made the incorrect guess that they would remain clueless for a very long time.
HR departments being lemmings picked up on the "we can reject people for stuff they put on the internet" idea and companies all caught that virus within a couple of years of each other.
Lucky for me most of the stupid shit I did on the Internet was long before any of it was being archived.
No, it really wasn't.
You forgot the part about the porta-potty this time.
I don't know about a car, but 2.5 Tb/in^2 makes the tracks one 645th the width of a human hair.
We'll call them phybibits and vibibits and then you won't have to worry.
Yes, but this one has sectors one bit long.
You think that /. employees are actually using any sort of qualitative decisionmaking criteria when selecting articles for the main feeds?
That ended long ago.
Now they take whatever has the highest +/- ratio when the bell rings to churn the ad stream.
I'm not sure who deleted my version of the link or why, but I'm sure that it involved a long, heartfelt, gut-wrenching decision to do the right thing. Not.
You know, I deliberately posted a different version of this summary specifically because the summary that was selected here is a lazy cut-and-paste of the poorly written lead of TFA itself.
And not only wasn't my superior summary not selected, but it's been deleted from the firehose page, where it should appear between Minority Report Style Iris Scanners in Mexico and Cats Lies and the Research PR Machine.
Slashdot has gone from valuable to random, and is going from random to stupid.
It could take a while for the feedback loop to develop, but this may result in kids not thinking that pictures of naked drunkenness posted to their facebook accounts will remain protected by obscurity. I think knowing that if you fucked the neighbor's sheep the entire town would call you Baaaarney for the rest of your life has kept a lot of sheep safe.
So rather than suggesting to kids that they plan to change their names, maybe Schmidt should suggest to them that they keep their ignorant, impulsive incompetency to a level that can be snickered at safely without derailing their chances of being elected President...
I think your post is nonsense from top to bottom.
Obama doesn't treat our enemies as anything but enemies. And he cares a great deal about soldiers on our side.
I recognize a trolling sap when I see one.
We don't assassinate people in lieu of bringing them to justice for crimes they have committed.
However, people who are in the act of committing crimes are fair game. In fact, it doesn't even take government authority to justify killing them if the crime they are committing is the sort of crime that kills people.
I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time
Why, it becomes SOCIETY again. Way back before towns had 29 million people in them and mobility wasn't hyperamplified by oil and 99% of us interacted with the same few hundred folks every day of your life, people knew of the stupid shit you did when you were a kid and repeated it at your funeral.
But they also recognized that kids are ignorant, impulsive, incompetent beings, and they treated the adult differently and got on with the world.
I don't believe Mr. Schmidt understands what society is.
I know he doesn't understand what neutrality is.
I'm pretty sure he's lost the plot on evil, as well.
Mod article up.
Is Iran allowed to decide which actions of Americans in America are crimes too?
They do. Look up fatwa.
Also look at what they're trying to do to Israel.
You might also want to check out what Australian law and the ANZUS and NATO treaties have to say about this. I'm pretty sure it was illegal for him to traffic in that information regardless of his being non-American.
That soldier may have committed a crime, but he is a hero for it.
Only to fools who have no concept of the law.
There are rules about what should and should not be classified. There are procedures for reporting material that should not be classified. And there are rules in those procedures for protecting whistleblowers from retaliation.
What he did was unnecessary and went far beyond exposing the problem. There was a way to get that job done that did not risk lives further or damage the force's ability to make Afghanistan secure.
What he chose to do was to act on an impulse to fulfill the pitch he was getting from people who trade in classified information for their own gain. It was shortsighted, selfish, and criminal.
He saved no lives, shortened no war, and made things a lot more dangerous for everyone but the Taliban. It was the opposite of heroic.
Just click the popup telling you that your PC is infected. That'll fix it.
Where do you get the idea that they will hesitate to end Assange if he tries to release information that could put lives at risk?
The US Soldier handed it to Wikileaks.
Wikileaks handed it to the Taliban.
The US Soldier committed one crime.
Wikileaks committed another.
The US gets to retaliate against both of them.
Two wrongs do not make a right.
My statement presumes the Pirate party gets into the government; that's kind of the point of politics. They then take the wikileaks server with them.
You would then send a lone white man into their offices in Parliament and have him swing a baseball bat at their wikileaks servers.
No need for an invasion. Just enough directed energy to get the job done, then let the diplomats work out the cease-fire and reparations.