is this whole thing a joke? why would the terrorists solicit money from jewish organizations?
Ummm, the first five words of the summary... "Two radical pro-Israel terrorists"... so, who else would they go to for money besides people they hoped shared their beliefs?
I should think if you were radical pro-Elbonian terrorists, you'd seek money from Elbonians too.
This pretty much confirms what we've all known for a long time -- the security of these things is largely written by people who are unqualified to write secure applications, and people who write IE specific stuff write shit code.
Your financial information is being handled by people who are either lazy or incompetent, and the company is more interested in the spinning, flaming logo than anything like security.
Most of the younger/. readers never heard of the PDP-11
Then, seriously, get the hell of my lawn.
My introduction to assembler was PDP-11 assembly on a VAX, and when I got to C the language made a lot of sense since that's the platform C was originally written on.
In the pantheon of Things You Should Know About Computers, the PDP-11 is up there as being hugely important to be aware of.
Our founding fathers enumerated these rights (9th amendment). Also it can safely be assumed that the order in which they appear was probably pretty important to them.
Actually, by definition, didn't the amendments come after the original document?
Those amendments aren't written in a priority list, they're in the order people realized they needed to be added.
They're called amendments because they were added later.. in fact, 1-10 were some 4 years later, with the rest coming in over time.
The 1st doesn't trump the 2nd... they're all supposed to be inviolate.
The FISA court doesn't try people. Its primary purpose is to issue warrants for national security surveillance operations.
And then deny the people who they claim to have evidence against access to that, while telling the actual trial judge to trust them.
I also know that these guys will decide all sorts of shit is legal in their closed rooms that no reasonable person would agree with. You know, like Alberto Gonazles saying there was no actual right to habeus corpus. These guys can always find one or two people on their side to come up with legal opinions which ignore the laws and obligations of government. Those opinions are frequently blatantly illegal, but as long as someone on staff said it was OK, they do it.
These guys are far more interested in expediency and paranoia than any laws.
Legislatures and executives must engage in oversight of their intelligence agencies.
Those branches have demonstrated time and time again they can't be trusted. And the more they do shit like this, the more obvious it is that they aren't trustworthy.
So now we have citizens who can't see the evidence against them or defend against it, based on the assertions of organizations who refuse to be named or involved. And I simply don't believe you can trust these people are complying with the law unless there's far more transparent oversight of them.
Because right now, it sounds like they could pretty much cook up anything in the back room, and just say "trust us judge".
You may want to live in that world, but I'm not particularly happy about it.
If someone is now finding that their own defense lawyer has no access to the evidence against them, then I would call that a kangaroo court like you'd see in a banana republic, not a fair process in a democratic country. And if you're not actively keeping your country free, you're watching it slide into an over-reaching state.
So you lose the right to know your accuser, the basis on which you're accused, and the ability to see the evidence against you.
But you have to trust us, if he wasn't a bad person we wouldn't be watching him. We're just not allowed to tell you why.
This is getting pretty scary, and it seems like it undermines some pretty basic rights of the accused. Because apparently you could be tried and convicted without ever being told what for.
The US (and sadly by extension most every other country) is ceasing to be free, and starting to get to the level of the of Soviets in terms of being able to do anything in terms of state security.
Sad. This freedom thing has been a nice experiment, but not we're moving towards the global police state -- or at least a globe filled with a bunch of different police states.
So if it's a union of two mesons, I'm calling it a mesonicule, but I'm hoping for tetraquark, because that just sounds awesome and makes we want to say "10 quatloos on the newcomer".;-)
I don't see how the old table didn't work I guess.
I don't think anybody is saying it "didn't work", but that we can convey even more information if we laid it out a little differently.
So, if everything is in a spiral, the arms of the spiral instead of columns of the table contain the 'like' materials -- but I have no idea of what the 'more' information is since I haven't taken any chemistry classes in 25+ years.
If you don't know basic terms that deal with the periodic table then just maybe you aren't qualified to comment on whether or not a redesign could be useful.
And, quite frankly, you really don't need to know what the G and H blocks are to see that TFS answered the question before it was asked.
I have no idea of what they are either, but TFS says you can still extrapolate hypothetical elements.
the iphone would need four randomly place mics on it too...
Not quite. They didn't place 4 random mics on the phone (they'd be close enough to still be a point location) -- they placed the microphones in the room.
So, this will only work if you've set up the room for it.
Also, while corporations can have a lot of influence, there are few that can ruin your life as well as a government can.
Yes, but lots of people keep saying 'teh guberment is teh evil', but saying 'rah rah' to corporations and act like as long as someone is making a profit, that's how it's supposed to be.
The reality is what the government can't spy on you for, the corporations are more than happy to take up the slack -- or at least they get forced to hand over the data.
Between them, you're losing your rights and privacy from both ends. The government is out of control of terrorism hunts and tells industry to play nice, and industry is out control on things like privacy and copyright, and tell the government to play nice.
In the end, it's the people who get fucked over by both of them.
We probably ought to embrace the principle that data can only ever be used for the purpose it was gathered for, and nothing else.
I agree, but the more likely outcome is that they decide that everyone needs to submit to this kind of identification so they're on file. If you don't have a drivers license, you still need to be cataloged in case you commit a crime.
School kids will have their biometrics cataloged under the guise of protecting them, and then that information will move into the police database so that as they become older we can be sure to catch them if they ever commit a crime.
I see this getting far worse, not better. Much much worse.
Yes, they will. As weaknesses in facial recognition systems get discovered, they will get patched. Soon it won't matter if you grow or shave your facial hair, whether you dye or bleach your skin, or whatever.
And, really, at this rate they'd just make it illegal for you to significantly alter your appearance without registering with the authorities.
Once the State decides it's they're right to watch everything you do, attempting to dodge that must clearly be a sign of bad intent. Clearly an honest person wouldn't be doing this.
Oddly enough, if we tried to pass a law that says everything an officer of the law does is to be recorded and made public, they'd be up in arms about their privacy.
Going to the dentist was a nightmare for years until they realized she could still feel things.
I have a very strict policy about letting the dentist know I can still feel things... if your friend went for years without putting up a fuss, she's either very brave, or way too timid to say "hey, asshole, this still hurts way too much for the freezing to have worked".
Also, I am browsing the net since at least 12 years and i have NEVER found child porn by accident or whatsoever.
I don't know about now, but back in the days of usenet I certainly found it by accident on more than one occasion.
You used to have to play a.b.p.e roulette by dowloading several chunks, re-assembling, and uudecoding -- and lo and behold one day I found myself looking at this crap.
I doubt people stumble on it by accident very often, but I don't get the impression it's relegated solely to the 'dark' internet.
Judging by the sheer number of stories we see about this stuff, it apparently isn't all that difficult to find -- that or we have to assume that all people who go looking for this are hugely sophisticated technical people, and I'm just not convinced that's the case.
I for one hope I never have to see it again, and I can't imagine anybody whose job required them to look at it on a regular basis. I can only assume that would be a rather soul-numbing chore -- the police who track this stuff and any poor schmuck who is manually verifying for Google or someone sound like the worst job ever.
Making it "not searchable" doesn't stop that. Arresting the people who are making it does.
But, it does, in theory, slow the distribution of it. And once you have automated tools to detect it, again in theory, you have better tools to find the people making it sooner.
Oh, I definitely agree loads of people will still buy this because they don't know or don't care.
But there is still going to be a significant chunk of gamers who decide they're not going this route. I'm definitely already one of them.
I play Skyrim, my wife's dancing games, and Tiger Woods golf -- there is no benefit to me for an always on connection, so the next XBox won't be what I play those on. I'll either buy a spare XBox 360, or switch to a PS4 from the looks of it... and the spare 360 is probably cheaper.
I think Microsoft's card this time is that they'll fuck the users rights, but get better publisher support and hence better exclusives and hence hope to lure users over that way.
Or, everyone is going to conclude that this console is exceedingly anti-consumer, and not worth buying.
The more they tell us about this, the more I'm 100% certain there's no benefit to me to buy one. Lots of people will still buy them, but anybody who has been reading this stuff is definitely thinking this isn't shaping up to be a good idea.
Microsoft isn't even offering a reach-around, and the constant DRM and needing to ask Microsoft to sell used games isn't gonna happen for me.
This is greed, and acting like assholes. Guess what Microsoft, you don't get to be my entertainment hub, because I simply don't trust you or care about your platform anymore.
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Ummm, the first five words of the summary ... "Two radical pro-Israel terrorists" ... so, who else would they go to for money besides people they hoped shared their beliefs?
I should think if you were radical pro-Elbonian terrorists, you'd seek money from Elbonians too.
This pretty much confirms what we've all known for a long time -- the security of these things is largely written by people who are unqualified to write secure applications, and people who write IE specific stuff write shit code.
Your financial information is being handled by people who are either lazy or incompetent, and the company is more interested in the spinning, flaming logo than anything like security.
You might get a dose from Kardashian ... she's like the town bicycle.
Then, seriously, get the hell of my lawn.
My introduction to assembler was PDP-11 assembly on a VAX, and when I got to C the language made a lot of sense since that's the platform C was originally written on.
In the pantheon of Things You Should Know About Computers, the PDP-11 is up there as being hugely important to be aware of.
Actually, by definition, didn't the amendments come after the original document?
Those amendments aren't written in a priority list, they're in the order people realized they needed to be added.
They're called amendments because they were added later .. in fact, 1-10 were some 4 years later, with the rest coming in over time.
The 1st doesn't trump the 2nd ... they're all supposed to be inviolate.
And then deny the people who they claim to have evidence against access to that, while telling the actual trial judge to trust them.
I also know that these guys will decide all sorts of shit is legal in their closed rooms that no reasonable person would agree with. You know, like Alberto Gonazles saying there was no actual right to habeus corpus. These guys can always find one or two people on their side to come up with legal opinions which ignore the laws and obligations of government. Those opinions are frequently blatantly illegal, but as long as someone on staff said it was OK, they do it.
These guys are far more interested in expediency and paranoia than any laws.
Those branches have demonstrated time and time again they can't be trusted. And the more they do shit like this, the more obvious it is that they aren't trustworthy.
So now we have citizens who can't see the evidence against them or defend against it, based on the assertions of organizations who refuse to be named or involved. And I simply don't believe you can trust these people are complying with the law unless there's far more transparent oversight of them.
Because right now, it sounds like they could pretty much cook up anything in the back room, and just say "trust us judge".
You may want to live in that world, but I'm not particularly happy about it.
If someone is now finding that their own defense lawyer has no access to the evidence against them, then I would call that a kangaroo court like you'd see in a banana republic, not a fair process in a democratic country. And if you're not actively keeping your country free, you're watching it slide into an over-reaching state.
So you lose the right to know your accuser, the basis on which you're accused, and the ability to see the evidence against you.
But you have to trust us, if he wasn't a bad person we wouldn't be watching him. We're just not allowed to tell you why.
This is getting pretty scary, and it seems like it undermines some pretty basic rights of the accused. Because apparently you could be tried and convicted without ever being told what for.
The US (and sadly by extension most every other country) is ceasing to be free, and starting to get to the level of the of Soviets in terms of being able to do anything in terms of state security.
Sad. This freedom thing has been a nice experiment, but not we're moving towards the global police state -- or at least a globe filled with a bunch of different police states.
Thank you, I believe I actually followed that.
So if it's a union of two mesons, I'm calling it a mesonicule, but I'm hoping for tetraquark, because that just sounds awesome and makes we want to say "10 quatloos on the newcomer". ;-)
There ... are ... 4 ... quarks!
And, kidding aside, anyone care to put a meaning for this into layman's terms? Is more quarks == more energetic?
I'm afraid these particles have always been a little too abstract to grok what this means.
I don't think anybody is saying it "didn't work", but that we can convey even more information if we laid it out a little differently.
So, if everything is in a spiral, the arms of the spiral instead of columns of the table contain the 'like' materials -- but I have no idea of what the 'more' information is since I haven't taken any chemistry classes in 25+ years.
And, quite frankly, you really don't need to know what the G and H blocks are to see that TFS answered the question before it was asked.
I have no idea of what they are either, but TFS says you can still extrapolate hypothetical elements.
Did you even read the summary?
I realize nobody reads TFA, but it's a two sentence summary which says, yes, it does allow predicting hypothetical elements.
You could at least try.
Not quite. They didn't place 4 random mics on the phone (they'd be close enough to still be a point location) -- they placed the microphones in the room.
So, this will only work if you've set up the room for it.
Yes, but lots of people keep saying 'teh guberment is teh evil', but saying 'rah rah' to corporations and act like as long as someone is making a profit, that's how it's supposed to be.
The reality is what the government can't spy on you for, the corporations are more than happy to take up the slack -- or at least they get forced to hand over the data.
Between them, you're losing your rights and privacy from both ends. The government is out of control of terrorism hunts and tells industry to play nice, and industry is out control on things like privacy and copyright, and tell the government to play nice.
In the end, it's the people who get fucked over by both of them.
Bitching about it. ;-)
I agree, but the more likely outcome is that they decide that everyone needs to submit to this kind of identification so they're on file. If you don't have a drivers license, you still need to be cataloged in case you commit a crime.
School kids will have their biometrics cataloged under the guise of protecting them, and then that information will move into the police database so that as they become older we can be sure to catch them if they ever commit a crime.
I see this getting far worse, not better. Much much worse.
And, really, at this rate they'd just make it illegal for you to significantly alter your appearance without registering with the authorities.
Once the State decides it's they're right to watch everything you do, attempting to dodge that must clearly be a sign of bad intent. Clearly an honest person wouldn't be doing this.
Oddly enough, if we tried to pass a law that says everything an officer of the law does is to be recorded and made public, they'd be up in arms about their privacy.
These guys are really trying hard to make sure 1984 and Brave New World actually come true.
Once they have it, they'll misuse it, and tell you it's for your own good.
Freedom has gone out of fashion, and now we're stuck with the surveillance society.
I have a very strict policy about letting the dentist know I can still feel things ... if your friend went for years without putting up a fuss, she's either very brave, or way too timid to say "hey, asshole, this still hurts way too much for the freezing to have worked".
I don't know about now, but back in the days of usenet I certainly found it by accident on more than one occasion.
You used to have to play a.b.p.e roulette by dowloading several chunks, re-assembling, and uudecoding -- and lo and behold one day I found myself looking at this crap.
I doubt people stumble on it by accident very often, but I don't get the impression it's relegated solely to the 'dark' internet.
Judging by the sheer number of stories we see about this stuff, it apparently isn't all that difficult to find -- that or we have to assume that all people who go looking for this are hugely sophisticated technical people, and I'm just not convinced that's the case.
I for one hope I never have to see it again, and I can't imagine anybody whose job required them to look at it on a regular basis. I can only assume that would be a rather soul-numbing chore -- the police who track this stuff and any poor schmuck who is manually verifying for Google or someone sound like the worst job ever.
But, it does, in theory, slow the distribution of it. And once you have automated tools to detect it, again in theory, you have better tools to find the people making it sooner.
Oh, I definitely agree loads of people will still buy this because they don't know or don't care.
But there is still going to be a significant chunk of gamers who decide they're not going this route. I'm definitely already one of them.
I play Skyrim, my wife's dancing games, and Tiger Woods golf -- there is no benefit to me for an always on connection, so the next XBox won't be what I play those on. I'll either buy a spare XBox 360, or switch to a PS4 from the looks of it ... and the spare 360 is probably cheaper.
Wow, speaking of lying ... apparently the stuff they demoed at E3 wasn't even running on an XBox 1, but a Win 7 box.
If that's true, it's both crapware and vaporware.
Or, everyone is going to conclude that this console is exceedingly anti-consumer, and not worth buying.
The more they tell us about this, the more I'm 100% certain there's no benefit to me to buy one. Lots of people will still buy them, but anybody who has been reading this stuff is definitely thinking this isn't shaping up to be a good idea.
Microsoft isn't even offering a reach-around, and the constant DRM and needing to ask Microsoft to sell used games isn't gonna happen for me.
This is greed, and acting like assholes. Guess what Microsoft, you don't get to be my entertainment hub, because I simply don't trust you or care about your platform anymore.
LOL ... and this is why I like to stay on dry land, despite growing up near the ocean.
Too much spilling of 'yer drinks (or lunch).