I think it's horrible. Sorry, you wanted feedback and this is mine. It looks like a comic-book with half the images removed. I'm a reader, give me no images, a wall of text and the comments. They are by far the best part of/. High text density, high information density. If your designers aren't a fan of the above they shouldn't be (re)designing/. as far as I'm concerned.
"The opinion by Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Judge Lavrenty Beria, made public Tuesday, spells out his reasons for reauthorizing the phone records collection "of specified telephone service providers" for three months.... "Indeed, no recipient of any Section 215 order has challenged the legality of such an order, despite the explicit statutory mechanism for doing so."
Supreme Court of the Soviet Union, 1938.
Yep, that statement doesn't just "sound" Stalinist.
The sun never sets on the British Empire, but it's mostly cloudy with light showers ; ).
I think many countries have roughly the same percentage of people that don't speak "The Queen's English" or whatever the local equivalent of that may be, or are even unintelligible upon arrival in the capitol so to say.
"Now, when your weapons are dulled, your ardor damped, your strength exhausted and your treasure spent, other chieftains will spring up to take advantage of your extremity. Then no man, however wise, will be able to avert the consequences that must ensue".
Machiavelli's "Discourses on the Ten Books of Titus Livy" has some nice current relevancy as well.
Wait, what, there's a "War on Poverty"? I missed that one apparently.
Read all (4 pages) of chapter 13 basically, but in this case perhaps specifically;
"Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity. Before using spies we must assure ourselves as to their integrity of character and the extent of their experience and skill."
"Without subtle ingenuity of mind, one cannot make certain of the truth of their reports."
This usually works; "Em, sorry to interrupt, but there are some policemen here? They say they need to speak to you about some irregularities in the pension fund."
The exact same process has been going with doctors (The Red Cross, Doctors without borders, World Polio programs etc.) being used as cover by intelligence services and special forces. This practice is forbidden by the Geneva conventions, and now real doctors working in war zone's are being treated with suspicion at the very least, or shot on sight at worst.
"Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you!"
Code breaking. That is sort of what their stated mission is. Not that i believe the premise of the article. Which encryption, and more importantly how long does it take? (offtopic) Shouldn't it be "NSA foils a lot of encryption" or "NSA foils most encryption" instead of "much encryption"? It don't sound right to me. / "from the do-your-taxes-buy-civilization? dept"; are we referencing slashdot users sigs in the by-line now?
The prohibition on armed forces is written into Article 9 the Japanese Constitution of 1947, which states that Japan forever swears off war as a mechanism of foreign policy to resolve disputes. This was an article that was pressed in in order to ensure that Japan could never rise up militarily again - the Pacific campaign was incredibly brutal, and the Americans didn't see the worst of it (the Chinese and Koreans were treated worse). To this day China and both Korea's are still angry with Japan for what they perceive as a failure to sufficiently apologize for what the Japanese did earlier this century, and they would massively oppose any move by Japan towards returning to that state (i.e., getting a real military instead of the Self-Defense Forces they currently have).
Plus, the majority of the Japanese population supports Article 9 - the long-term suffering of the Japanese population via Allied air raids (read about the Tokyo firebombings that killed more people directly than the A-bomb attacks) punctuated by the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki has provided an inherent anti-war sentiment in subsequent generations of Japanese people.
In short, the US cannot decide for Japan whether to allow them to have an actual military - the US does not have the legal power to do so, and no one involved wants to eliminate this situation. (copy pasted from Yahoo)
We don't need no radiation We don't need no Tepcontrol No dark sarcasm in the controlroom Tepco leave them rods alone Hey! Tepco! leave the rods alone!
There's really no need to hire someone in Damascus. Just send the chemicals from the CIA to the Saudi Mukhabarat, they'll pass it on to Al Nusra or an like-minded affiliate and BOOM there's your red line.
That's equal to the TOTAL nominal GDP 2012 of Africa's 20 (!) poorest countries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African_countries_by_GDP_(nominal) This is a criminal enterprise the size of which the world has seldom witnessed. I myself have trouble making that kind of turnover every year. I applaud the scope as I bemoan the consequences.
While China tops the list of countries engaging in cyber-espionage, according to a report published February by the US secret services, France shares second place with Russia and Israel, leading Foreign Policy to describe Hollande's outrage as "pretty hilarious". Colourful stories about the lengths the French secret services would go to emerged in the early 1990s, such as the bugging of seats on Air France planes to eavesdrop on American business leaders.
At the time, then-CIA director Stansfield Turner qualified French intelligence as "the most predatory service in the world, now that the old Soviet Union is gone".
And the Americans are not the only country to have complained about French espionage. In a 2009 US diplomatic cable revealed by Wikileaks, an unnamed German CEO of a satellite manufacturer was quoted calling France "the evil empire, stealing technology, and Germany knows this", adding that French industrial spying was doing as much damage as anything coming from Russia or China.
In the last year, former Department of Defense and intelligence agency operatives have headed to Silicon Valley to create technology start-ups specializing in tools.
"We shape our tools. And then our tools shape us."
Slashdot Mirror
I think it's horrible. /. /. as far as I'm concerned.
Sorry, you wanted feedback and this is mine.
It looks like a comic-book with half the images removed.
I'm a reader, give me no images, a wall of text and the comments. They are by far the best part of
High text density, high information density.
If your designers aren't a fan of the above they shouldn't be (re)designing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrick_(TV_series)
"The opinion by Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Judge Lavrenty Beria, made public Tuesday, spells out his reasons for reauthorizing the phone records collection "of specified telephone service providers" for three months. ... "Indeed, no recipient of any Section 215 order has challenged the legality of such an order, despite the explicit statutory mechanism for doing so."
Supreme Court of the Soviet Union, 1938.
Yep, that statement doesn't just "sound" Stalinist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_Postal
The sun never sets on the British Empire, but it's mostly cloudy with light showers ; ).
I think many countries have roughly the same percentage of people that don't speak "The Queen's English" or whatever the local equivalent of that may be, or are even unintelligible upon arrival in the capitol so to say.
"Now, when your weapons are dulled, your ardor damped, your strength exhausted and your treasure spent, other chieftains will spring up to take advantage of your extremity. Then no man, however wise, will be able to avert the consequences that must ensue".
Machiavelli's "Discourses on the Ten Books of Titus Livy" has some nice current relevancy as well.
Wait, what, there's a "War on Poverty"? I missed that one apparently.
Read all (4 pages) of chapter 13 basically, but in this case perhaps specifically;
"Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity. Before using spies we must assure ourselves as to their integrity of character and the extent of their experience and skill."
"Without subtle ingenuity of mind, one cannot make certain of the truth of their reports."
This usually works;
"Em, sorry to interrupt, but there are some policemen here?
They say they need to speak to you about some irregularities in the pension fund."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxVivkXUfdU
The exact same process has been going with doctors (The Red Cross, Doctors without borders, World Polio programs etc.) being used as cover by intelligence services and special forces. This practice is forbidden by the Geneva conventions, and now real doctors working in war zone's are being treated with suspicion at the very least, or shot on sight at worst.
"Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you!"
Code breaking.
That is sort of what their stated mission is.
Not that i believe the premise of the article.
Which encryption, and more importantly how long does it take?
(offtopic)
Shouldn't it be "NSA foils a lot of encryption" or "NSA foils most encryption" instead of "much encryption"?
It don't sound right to me.
/
"from the do-your-taxes-buy-civilization? dept"; are we referencing slashdot users sigs in the by-line now?
The prohibition on armed forces is written into Article 9 the Japanese Constitution of 1947, which states that Japan forever swears off war as a mechanism of foreign policy to resolve disputes. This was an article that was pressed in in order to ensure that Japan could never rise up militarily again - the Pacific campaign was incredibly brutal, and the Americans didn't see the worst of it (the Chinese and Koreans were treated worse). To this day China and both Korea's are still angry with Japan for what they perceive as a failure to sufficiently apologize for what the Japanese did earlier this century, and they would massively oppose any move by Japan towards returning to that state (i.e., getting a real military instead of the Self-Defense Forces they currently have).
Plus, the majority of the Japanese population supports Article 9 - the long-term suffering of the Japanese population via Allied air raids (read about the Tokyo firebombings that killed more people directly than the A-bomb attacks) punctuated by the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki has provided an inherent anti-war sentiment in subsequent generations of Japanese people.
In short, the US cannot decide for Japan whether to allow them to have an actual military - the US does not have the legal power to do so, and no one involved wants to eliminate this situation. (copy pasted from Yahoo)
The long;
http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/89apr/defend.htm
We don't need no radiation
We don't need no Tepcontrol
No dark sarcasm in the controlroom
Tepco leave them rods alone
Hey! Tepco! leave the rods alone!
I've asked everybody on the planet anonymously and nobody considers themselves to be a terrorist.
There's really no need to hire someone in Damascus.
Just send the chemicals from the CIA to the Saudi Mukhabarat, they'll pass it on to Al Nusra or an like-minded affiliate and BOOM there's your red line.
1 Survive
2 Procreate
3 Invaders must die
4 Profit
5 Don't do anything those with more power than you disapprove of
As a student of military history i think you're being overly kind and optimistic ; ).
http://www.internationalist.org/chemwarhoax0503a.html
http://www.internationalist.org/chemwarhoax0503b.html
(Ignore the ideological ranting, the facts are pretty solid).
That's equal to the TOTAL nominal GDP 2012 of Africa's 20 (!) poorest countries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)
This is a criminal enterprise the size of which the world has seldom witnessed.
I myself have trouble making that kind of turnover every year.
I applaud the scope as I bemoan the consequences.
While China tops the list of countries engaging in cyber-espionage, according to a report published February by the US secret services, France shares second place with Russia and Israel, leading Foreign Policy to describe Hollande's outrage as "pretty hilarious".
Colourful stories about the lengths the French secret services would go to emerged in the early 1990s, such as the bugging of seats on Air France planes to eavesdrop on American business leaders.
At the time, then-CIA director Stansfield Turner qualified French intelligence as "the most predatory service in the world, now that the old Soviet Union is gone".
And the Americans are not the only country to have complained about French espionage.
In a 2009 US diplomatic cable revealed by Wikileaks, an unnamed German CEO of a satellite manufacturer was quoted calling France "the evil empire, stealing technology, and Germany knows this", adding that French industrial spying was doing as much damage as anything coming from Russia or China.
http://www.france24.com/en/20130702-france-usa-spying-snowden-hollande-nsa-prism-hypocritcal
Not that i want to give anybody the wrong idea...
http://www.nativeweb.org/pages/legal/amherst/lord_jeff.html
When secret police come with secret orders based on secret laws signed by a secret court we secretly dispose of their bodies?
In the last year, former Department of Defense and intelligence agency operatives have headed to Silicon Valley to create technology start-ups specializing in tools.
"We shape our tools. And then our tools shape us."
O wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in't.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DI6-bOmxWCA/USLZ40qvbgI/AAAAAAAAABo/-TEKICFu8ik/s1600/WALL-E-humans_320.jpg
I always thought exercise mimicked the beneficial effects of drugs.
Clearly Saint John got it wrong and the four horsemen of the apocalypse are Conquest, War, Obesity and Death.
"Everyone was in favor of saving Hitler's brain. But when you put it in the body of a great white shark. Ohh, suddenly you go too far!"