The N.S.A. broke federal privacy laws, or exceeded its authority, thousands of times per year, according to the agency’s own internal auditor.
The agency broke into the communications links of major data centers around the world, allowing it to spy on hundreds of millions of user accounts and infuriating the Internet companies that own the centers. Many of those companies are now scrambling to install systems that the N.S.A. cannot yet penetrate
he was trusted to look the other way while the people he worked for were breaking the law?
if he found out his bosses were, say, importing dope and selling it to kids to boost company profits, would you still be mad at him for "violating trust"?
no? well then i say to you sir that you are a hypocrite.
i remember...i taught my high school best friend (who currently now works in IT) how to create a DOS Ramdrive with "all that memory" in order to really speed up this billing program he used for his lawn service.
to his credit, from groking how the scripts worked and gaining an interest in computers, he ended up leaving the wonderful wacky world of lawn care and became (i believe) an IT security professional.
incidentally, he got the machine as a hand-me-down from his dad, who actually worked at IBM / Ft. Lauderdale on the team that created the PC jr.
i don't understand why people think that the FBI and NSA and CIA are just going to stand by and allow criminal activity when informants (no doubt where law enforcement gets 90% of its info) tell them how and where it's happening.
technology may slow them down a bit, but people are foolish if you think your VPN and Tor browser is going to protect you for long *if* a three-letter agency really decides to getya.
"Engineers were still debugging 12 minutes later when the same system, having automatically cleared the original error, generated a new correct configuration at 11:14 a.m. and began sending it.."
along with the message "Skynet has gained self-awareness at 02:14 GMT"
i think your asking a more basic question then you may be aware...
i think if what your saying is "should we try to instill into our children a general interest in history so that they may come to understand the powerful forces and the geniuses that have lifted this world out of superstition, poverty, starvation, and disease?", i think most would agree.
if what your saying is that "son/daughter, i think you should really play Pong instead of xbone for this month so you can come to understand the roots of modern video game technology", well, not so much (at least for me).
its laughable for people to think anyone who challenges deep political and financial power structures are going to 1. somehow be rewarded or applauded for their efforts or 2. get some sort of "fair trial" (whatever that really means in our current legal system) where a positive outcome for the WB would encourage others to follow suit....and for those who think otherwise...sorry to tell you...it was your parents putting the money under the pillow, not the tooth fairy:((
i've been locked up...sometimes without books or tv.
it sucks...bad.
i wonder if this little stay is going to change Warg's attitude about continuing TPB...there is no doubt that this is what the Sweden legal system is trying to impress on him.
I'll bet if nothing else, it's going to make him find somewhere in the world to live where he won't have to worry about this happening to him again.
in other words...(as Clausewitz so accurately said )...
"war is politics by other means"
everything you mention in you post has to do with the local politics of the area, not the economics or logistics.
people in control want to get paid...and are willing to starve those they have control of to achieve that goal.
trying to negotiate will have little to no effect, unless of course the negotiations quietly contain a hefty "aid" package of payola.
this is why those commenting on this thread who say "war is never justifiable" seem, to me at least, to be living in a world of butterflies and free cable. it may not be "justifiable" but it is, given human nature, inevitable, and wishing that weren't so is a pipe dream.
with the amount of information that Snowden has disclosed about the NSA's "domestic wiretapping" shit, what was the point of the FBI duplicating the efforts??
it would seem that the NSA already has the ability to know almost anything about anyone...the FBI simply realized it was time for greener pastures.
it's my observation that programming languages have become the equivalent of fashion and bands.
it's as if choosing and using one is like saying "oh, im listening to arctic monkeys and calvis harris these days, and that makes me feel liberated from those plebs still listening to kings of leon and david guetta..and MAYBE if im lucky someone will be impressed by my trendiness"...now that so many 20-somethings code, they all seem to feel the need to break from the "boring old bonds" of existing languages and define themselves among their peers by how esoteric their language-de-jour is.
what this guy is doing is illustrating the point, he isn't going to learn anything about the benefits of each "language" or how to maximize productivity...it's just a "notice me notice me" stunt.
it's just a silly exercise in syntax-swapping anyway for 90% of it...
please don't get me wrong...it's totally fine by me whatever language you want to use, as long as it's maintainable and there is a large enough pool of existing programmers who know the language so when you leave my company because your bored with maintaining the code you wrote, i can find someone quickly and affordably to replace you.
i don't know why people here are assuming it doesn't taste good...we really have no idea....and let's not forget, different cultures have radically different preferences in taste.
it only takes one example, the Asian fondness for the to-our-western-palettes-horrific fruit Durian, to make this point.
as i've mentioned before, i owned a software company in the 80's that developed real-time interactive modules for Galacticomm's MajorBBS...pre-www and http stuff. it was actually really cool and cutting-edge stuff.
Tim Stryker, the creator of the MajorBBS (who sadly committed suicide in the 90's), preached that he built the MajorBBS to promote the idea of "Superdemocracy", the idea that citizens all vote on the issues that our relatively-corrupt politicians currently do.
In contrast, what Stryker proposes ``is a continuous network hierarchy of online referenda, open to all.``
By plugging into the system, any time -- 24 hours a day, 365 days a year -- citizens (anyone, in fact, 16 or older) could propose law, add their comments to the public debate and vote on the proposals offered by others.
Stryker likes to stress the ``symmetry`` built into his plan. There is, he contends, no built-in elitism, no snap decisions required, no lack of checks and controls to protect against what he calls ``wild gyrations about the legal landscape.``
While Stryker`s system would abolish Congress, it would retain all the implementing portions of the government: the president, cabinet, FBI and so on. (Originally, he thought even juries could be eliminated, but he`s not so certain of that now.)
Citizens` proposals would be collected into a subquorum pool, accessible to all, where they would be discussed, debated and voted on. When a critical level of interest was shown (reflected, in most cases, by participation of 50 percent of the eligible voters, 75 percent if a constitutional change were involved), the measure would be elevated to an active pool where debate and voting would continue for precisely 30 more days.
trust me...i read his books...Tim was a genius and thought everything through and even engineered and developed a brilliant system to make it really happen. his idea on voting proxies and subquorums seems to be light-years ahead of the stuff this professor is doing....and so what became of all this effort and thought? exactly nothing.
lets face the facts...the LAST thing our politicians are EVER going to do is write laws that limit and restrain or HELL-EFFFING-NO!! ELIMINATE their power and their ability to coerce the wealthy to part with their cash and give it to them.
So the chances that this guy's ideas or work are ever going to see the light of day are exactly 0.00000000001%, IMO
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from the NY Times...
The N.S.A. broke federal privacy laws, or exceeded its authority, thousands of times per year, according to the agency’s own internal auditor.
The agency broke into the communications links of major data centers around the world, allowing it to spy on hundreds of millions of user accounts and infuriating the Internet companies that own the centers. Many of those companies are now scrambling to install systems that the N.S.A. cannot yet penetrate
he was trusted to look the other way while the people he worked for were breaking the law?
if he found out his bosses were, say, importing dope and selling it to kids to boost company profits, would you still be mad at him for "violating trust"?
no? well then i say to you sir that you are a hypocrite.
ahhh yeah...the RAM!!
i remember...i taught my high school best friend (who currently now works in IT) how to create a DOS Ramdrive with "all that memory" in order to really speed up this billing program he used for his lawn service.
to his credit, from groking how the scripts worked and gaining an interest in computers, he ended up leaving the wonderful wacky world of lawn care and became (i believe) an IT security professional.
incidentally, he got the machine as a hand-me-down from his dad, who actually worked at IBM / Ft. Lauderdale on the team that created the PC jr.
this isn't your father's Microsoft.
i don't understand why people think that the FBI and NSA and CIA are just going to stand by and allow criminal activity when informants (no doubt where law enforcement gets 90% of its info) tell them how and where it's happening.
technology may slow them down a bit, but people are foolish if you think your VPN and Tor browser is going to protect you for long *if* a three-letter agency really decides to getya.
"Engineers were still debugging 12 minutes later when the same system, having automatically cleared the original error, generated a new correct configuration at 11:14 a.m. and began sending it.."
along with the message "Skynet has gained self-awareness at 02:14 GMT"
i think your asking a more basic question then you may be aware...
i think if what your saying is "should we try to instill into our children a general interest in history so that they may come to understand the powerful forces and the geniuses that have lifted this world out of superstition, poverty, starvation, and disease?", i think most would agree.
if what your saying is that "son/daughter, i think you should really play Pong instead of xbone for this month so you can come to understand the roots of modern video game technology", well, not so much (at least for me).
its called "CynogenMod"..and i'd highly recommend it.
it's easy to root/decrapify your phone nowadays...people who don't are foolish.
esp. slashdotters...
can it teach you to play this?
(yes that *is* me from, i believe, 1992 or so)
...Mr. Hickson disappeared after 10 seconds.
don't anyone tell Walmart about this...
they will want to charge Californians an "extra-low price " for it all...
its laughable for people to think anyone who challenges deep political and financial power structures are going to 1. somehow be rewarded or applauded for their efforts or 2. get some sort of "fair trial" (whatever that really means in our current legal system) where a positive outcome for the WB would encourage others to follow suit. ...and for those who think otherwise...sorry to tell you...it was your parents putting the money under the pillow, not the tooth fairy :((
no wonder our elected officials all act like brainless tools...
they are high on fumes.
so what if someone at Google is making $10bagillon dollars????
more power to him...and everyone in this world who makes $1 more then you and I do.
..its a drone on PEDs!
i've been locked up...sometimes without books or tv.
it sucks...bad.
i wonder if this little stay is going to change Warg's attitude about continuing TPB...there is no doubt that this is what the Sweden legal system is trying to impress on him.
I'll bet if nothing else, it's going to make him find somewhere in the world to live where he won't have to worry about this happening to him again.
not even for the cat pics and videos?
...is that this guy's girlfriend left him for the web developer at his company.
in other words...(as Clausewitz so accurately said )...
"war is politics by other means"
everything you mention in you post has to do with the local politics of the area, not the economics or logistics.
people in control want to get paid...and are willing to starve those they have control of to achieve that goal.
trying to negotiate will have little to no effect, unless of course the negotiations quietly contain a hefty "aid" package of payola.
this is why those commenting on this thread who say "war is never justifiable" seem, to me at least, to be living in a world of butterflies and free cable. it may not be "justifiable" but it is, given human nature, inevitable, and wishing that weren't so is a pipe dream.
with the amount of information that Snowden has disclosed about the NSA's "domestic wiretapping" shit, what was the point of the FBI duplicating the efforts??
it would seem that the NSA already has the ability to know almost anything about anyone...the FBI simply realized it was time for greener pastures.
it's my observation that programming languages have become the equivalent of fashion and bands.
it's as if choosing and using one is like saying "oh, im listening to arctic monkeys and calvis harris these days, and that makes me feel liberated from those plebs still listening to kings of leon and david guetta..and MAYBE if im lucky someone will be impressed by my trendiness"...now that so many 20-somethings code, they all seem to feel the need to break from the "boring old bonds" of existing languages and define themselves among their peers by how esoteric their language-de-jour is.
what this guy is doing is illustrating the point, he isn't going to learn anything about the benefits of each "language" or how to maximize productivity...it's just a "notice me notice me" stunt.
it's just a silly exercise in syntax-swapping anyway for 90% of it...
please don't get me wrong...it's totally fine by me whatever language you want to use, as long as it's maintainable and there is a large enough pool of existing programmers who know the language so when you leave my company because your bored with maintaining the code you wrote, i can find someone quickly and affordably to replace you.
lol...yeah but who holds that knowledge?
perhaps this is new area for Google.
Google Meat ;)
i don't know why people here are assuming it doesn't taste good...we really have no idea. ...and let's not forget, different cultures have radically different preferences in taste.
it only takes one example, the Asian fondness for the to-our-western-palettes-horrific fruit Durian, to make this point.
as i've mentioned before, i owned a software company in the 80's that developed real-time interactive modules for Galacticomm's MajorBBS...pre-www and http stuff. it was actually really cool and cutting-edge stuff.
Tim Stryker, the creator of the MajorBBS (who sadly committed suicide in the 90's), preached that he built the MajorBBS to promote the idea of "Superdemocracy", the idea that citizens all vote on the issues that our relatively-corrupt politicians currently do.
Here is a fascinating newspaper article about his idea...from 20 years ago!
in a nutshell...
SUPERDEMOCRACY - A PLAN WITH `SYMMETRY`
In contrast, what Stryker proposes ``is a continuous network hierarchy of online referenda, open to all.``
By plugging into the system, any time -- 24 hours a day, 365 days a year -- citizens (anyone, in fact, 16 or older) could propose law, add their comments to the public debate and vote on the proposals offered by others.
Stryker likes to stress the ``symmetry`` built into his plan. There is, he contends, no built-in elitism, no snap decisions required, no lack of checks and controls to protect against what he calls ``wild gyrations about the legal landscape.``
While Stryker`s system would abolish Congress, it would retain all the implementing portions of the government: the president, cabinet, FBI and so on. (Originally, he thought even juries could be eliminated, but he`s not so certain of that now.)
Citizens` proposals would be collected into a subquorum pool, accessible to all, where they would be discussed, debated and voted on. When a critical level of interest was shown (reflected, in most cases, by participation of 50 percent of the eligible voters, 75 percent if a constitutional change were involved), the measure would be elevated to an active pool where debate and voting would continue for precisely 30 more days.
trust me...i read his books...Tim was a genius and thought everything through and even engineered and developed a brilliant system to make it really happen. his idea on voting proxies and subquorums seems to be light-years ahead of the stuff this professor is doing. ...and so what became of all this effort and thought? exactly nothing.
lets face the facts...the LAST thing our politicians are EVER going to do is write laws that limit and restrain or HELL-EFFFING-NO!! ELIMINATE their power and their ability to coerce the wealthy to part with their cash and give it to them.
So the chances that this guy's ideas or work are ever going to see the light of day are exactly 0.00000000001%, IMO
yes i know...typo..that's couldnt not could...
no morning coffee yet...sigh...it sucks not having a 60 second edit window here on slashdot...