Right, I understand that. But the bit torrent protocol is designed specifically with limited bandwidth in mind this. Most (if not all) bit torrent software allows for the user to throttle within, setting inbound/outbound speeds. And from my experience, most come and/or get set to unlimited inbound, and much less outbound.
As a private citizen, I expressly disapprove of the FBI as a group of people because people have proven to be corrupt, untrustworthy, dirty, and generally adding to the criminal atmosphere.
I don't see what's wrong with trottling bit torrent OUTBOUND traffic, so long as INBOUND speed isn't altered. This is the practice in most places already.
How (what mathematical construct(s), and what transmitting equipment) are we sending instructions to build our current or outdated systems (like nuclear power)?
Getting past all the jokes, and all of the "it's a year-old signal" and all that. Let's assume that it is advanced life - at least as advanced as today's slashdot crowd. What now? Do we start sending signals to it and waiting 190 years to see if something comes back? Does this prove that maybe the best approach to finding advanced life out there, is to simply assume that it's there, praise the universe for it, and carry on with improving life here? Because if that signal is some advanced civilization, it means nothing practical beyond, "Hey look, life in other parts of the universe! Wow!"
It's not clear to me as to why 'getting trampled by a large animal' is ruled out. At just over 3-1/2 feet tall, she probably didn't weigh much. From what height would she have fallen from in order to break all of those bones?
Its purpose was to analyze the ionosphere and investigate the potential for developing ionospheric enhancement technology for radio communications and surveillance. The HAARP program operated a major sub-arctic facility, named the HAARP Research Station, on an Air Force-owned site near Gakona, Alaska.
Work on the HAARP Station began in 1993. The current working IRI was completed in 2007, and its prime contractor was BAE Systems Advanced Technologies. As of 2008, HAARP had incurred around $250 million in tax-funded construction and operating costs. It was reported to be temporarily shut down in May 2013, awaiting a change of contractors. In May 2014, it was announced that the HAARP program would be permanently shut down later in the year. Ownership of the facility and its equipment was transferred to the University of Alaska Fairbanks in mid-August 2015.
So if it were a successful secret mind-control/weather-control tool, the military decided it didn't work, er something. Of course, in my mind, it does seem a bit odd that they spent so much money, in Alaska of all places, to choose to test radio communications and surveillance. Just a hunch, but maybe that's because Alaska has cleaner air to transmit through?
...there are people out there that are just 'hackers', without ever having worked quite extensively in the same environments that they hack up. To think that there are 'hackers' with tons of know-how, but no real-world experience seems naive. Of course, I'm not saying that there aren't people that 'hack at' systems, surely they do, all fucking day long. But they generally get luck here and there, and the rest of the time they are kept at bay (often by their own short-tempered childishness).
This is the same reason why 'Edward Snowden' is known today, and not some malicious 'hacker'.
I agree with you about Bill Nye not pointing to climate change as the sole cause of the flooding. Had he said that, I'd think he was a complete idiot. Of course climate change has to do with almost every weather pattern. However it's worth pointing out that every few years, some random town in America (and in other parts of the world too) floods to a large degree, and has ever since I can remember (I was born in the mid 70's).
It's also worth pointing out that the water level has been rising at a noticeable rate for the last 10 years or so. I live near the ocean, and I've watched boat launches and piers go underwater during high tide, where that never use to happen. I wonder how much of this water rising had to do with, and will have to do with in the future, Louisiana flooding. They're basically already underwater in the lower parts of the state, so much so, that they cannot bury their dead in the ground, due to ground water being so near the surface. My hunch is that the ground water rising is the main contributor to flooding at times like this.
I see the political scene as a small group of families that send their kids to special schools. When it comes time to get elected, all bets are off. Once the election is over, and the winners take their places, it's business as usual, and power stays right where it was before.
So if there's a Dawinian-style process, it's that the politicians evolve into more advanced politicians, and everyone else evolves in a real way.;)
You have a good point, and honestly I have no idea to what degree the email service integrates with other sites. Maybe it's a bigger deal than I first thought.
I guess I just feel like everyone should be using some local email client, and saving all email locally, rather than on the provider's server(s). Of course there are very good arguments against that. However, Hillary Clinton comes to mind.
The hackers were able to obtain usernames, email addresses, scrambled passwords, and birthdays.
So they have usernames (made up), email addresses (like I have on my business card), scrambled passwords (not even sure if this matters), and birthdays (not really something that many keep private anyway). I wouldn't care if any of this were taken from me, even if it were my gmail account.
With things in the IT world ever-changing, it's difficult even for IT professionals to keep up sometimes. I imagine that scientists are only using the tools available to them in the best way they know how. I seriously doubt that much of their time is spent keeping up with whatever new shit excel implements. In fact, when I think of who gets shit on the most by the constant changes to the programs that we all use, it's scientists. We all know that probably most scientists have the brain-power to understand/adjust to changes in the programs that they use, but they probably don't have the time.
Your logic is sound. The reason that it's not really happening that way is because the FBI isn't interested in making the world a better place. They're interested in getting as much money as possible. And they're not doing it for any reason, other than the same reasons that the drug cartels do it. I'm talking to you, guy who invented Civil Forfeiture.
This exactly. Facebook works by selling ads, nothing else. No eyes, no care.
You could be like me and have an account, but only use it once a year to simply check to see that no one has stolen your identity, and each time you "log off" you actually deactivate the account.
No, arguably, a lot of folks here aren't dumb, but a lot of folks in general are dumb. This is due to their lack of attention and/or connecting the dots. Connecting dots is very important. Those that run the news agencies know and depend on this fact, yet most of the people seem to incapable of caring less. It's actually become more fun to make fun of the situation that we're all in than it is to do something about it, and that's the real tragedy.
Hell, I hope so. I do it at my house. I do it so that google and/or anyone else cannot read my email. Seems totally ethical to me. But then again, I'm not a professional politician, working for the public.
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Right, I understand that. But the bit torrent protocol is designed specifically with limited bandwidth in mind this. Most (if not all) bit torrent software allows for the user to throttle within, setting inbound/outbound speeds. And from my experience, most come and/or get set to unlimited inbound, and much less outbound.
As a private citizen, I expressly disapprove of the FBI as a group of people because people have proven to be corrupt, untrustworthy, dirty, and generally adding to the criminal atmosphere.
FTFY
...Brexit.
I don't see what's wrong with trottling bit torrent OUTBOUND traffic, so long as INBOUND speed isn't altered. This is the practice in most places already.
How (what mathematical construct(s), and what transmitting equipment) are we sending instructions to build our current or outdated systems (like nuclear power)?
Getting past all the jokes, and all of the "it's a year-old signal" and all that. Let's assume that it is advanced life - at least as advanced as today's slashdot crowd. What now? Do we start sending signals to it and waiting 190 years to see if something comes back? Does this prove that maybe the best approach to finding advanced life out there, is to simply assume that it's there, praise the universe for it, and carry on with improving life here? Because if that signal is some advanced civilization, it means nothing practical beyond, "Hey look, life in other parts of the universe! Wow!"
It's not clear to me as to why 'getting trampled by a large animal' is ruled out. At just over 3-1/2 feet tall, she probably didn't weigh much. From what height would she have fallen from in order to break all of those bones?
Its purpose was to analyze the ionosphere and investigate the potential for developing ionospheric enhancement technology for radio communications and surveillance. The HAARP program operated a major sub-arctic facility, named the HAARP Research Station, on an Air Force-owned site near Gakona, Alaska.
Work on the HAARP Station began in 1993. The current working IRI was completed in 2007, and its prime contractor was BAE Systems Advanced Technologies. As of 2008, HAARP had incurred around $250 million in tax-funded construction and operating costs. It was reported to be temporarily shut down in May 2013, awaiting a change of contractors. In May 2014, it was announced that the HAARP program would be permanently shut down later in the year. Ownership of the facility and its equipment was transferred to the University of Alaska Fairbanks in mid-August 2015.
So if it were a successful secret mind-control/weather-control tool, the military decided it didn't work, er something. Of course, in my mind, it does seem a bit odd that they spent so much money, in Alaska of all places, to choose to test radio communications and surveillance. Just a hunch, but maybe that's because Alaska has cleaner air to transmit through?
...there are people out there that are just 'hackers', without ever having worked quite extensively in the same environments that they hack up. To think that there are 'hackers' with tons of know-how, but no real-world experience seems naive. Of course, I'm not saying that there aren't people that 'hack at' systems, surely they do, all fucking day long. But they generally get luck here and there, and the rest of the time they are kept at bay (often by their own short-tempered childishness).
This is the same reason why 'Edward Snowden' is known today, and not some malicious 'hacker'.
There will be a simple single word that explains: "We got hacked, please change your password until next time we get hacked."
Any suggestions?
Let's not pretend that pokemon go is the dumb twit that wasn't paying attention to reality. Pokemon go doesn't kill people, people kill people.
Just wait till BaSH has the same problem. You won't be able to boot! [/sarcasm]
I agree with you about Bill Nye not pointing to climate change as the sole cause of the flooding. Had he said that, I'd think he was a complete idiot. Of course climate change has to do with almost every weather pattern. However it's worth pointing out that every few years, some random town in America (and in other parts of the world too) floods to a large degree, and has ever since I can remember (I was born in the mid 70's).
It's also worth pointing out that the water level has been rising at a noticeable rate for the last 10 years or so. I live near the ocean, and I've watched boat launches and piers go underwater during high tide, where that never use to happen. I wonder how much of this water rising had to do with, and will have to do with in the future, Louisiana flooding. They're basically already underwater in the lower parts of the state, so much so, that they cannot bury their dead in the ground, due to ground water being so near the surface. My hunch is that the ground water rising is the main contributor to flooding at times like this.
I see the political scene as a small group of families that send their kids to special schools. When it comes time to get elected, all bets are off. Once the election is over, and the winners take their places, it's business as usual, and power stays right where it was before.
;)
So if there's a Dawinian-style process, it's that the politicians evolve into more advanced politicians, and everyone else evolves in a real way.
You have a good point, and honestly I have no idea to what degree the email service integrates with other sites. Maybe it's a bigger deal than I first thought.
I guess I just feel like everyone should be using some local email client, and saving all email locally, rather than on the provider's server(s). Of course there are very good arguments against that. However, Hillary Clinton comes to mind.
Singapore To Cut Off Public Servants From the Internet
Cool, thanks.
Yeah, this article lost my interest at "outsourced computer people".
The hackers were able to obtain usernames, email addresses, scrambled passwords, and birthdays.
So they have usernames (made up), email addresses (like I have on my business card), scrambled passwords (not even sure if this matters), and birthdays (not really something that many keep private anyway). I wouldn't care if any of this were taken from me, even if it were my gmail account.
With things in the IT world ever-changing, it's difficult even for IT professionals to keep up sometimes. I imagine that scientists are only using the tools available to them in the best way they know how. I seriously doubt that much of their time is spent keeping up with whatever new shit excel implements. In fact, when I think of who gets shit on the most by the constant changes to the programs that we all use, it's scientists. We all know that probably most scientists have the brain-power to understand/adjust to changes in the programs that they use, but they probably don't have the time.
WOOOSH! I do care about due process, but due process doesn't exist in Civil Foreiture, or anywhere else that the feds feel that it shouldn't.
Your logic is sound. The reason that it's not really happening that way is because the FBI isn't interested in making the world a better place. They're interested in getting as much money as possible. And they're not doing it for any reason, other than the same reasons that the drug cartels do it. I'm talking to you, guy who invented Civil Forfeiture.
Politicians are always the same. All they do is appeal to whatever they see as the current mentality that will get them (re)elected.
This exactly. Facebook works by selling ads, nothing else. No eyes, no care.
You could be like me and have an account, but only use it once a year to simply check to see that no one has stolen your identity, and each time you "log off" you actually deactivate the account.
Facebook is a soap-box for Vanity Smurf.
"We're not dumb..."
No, arguably, a lot of folks here aren't dumb, but a lot of folks in general are dumb. This is due to their lack of attention and/or connecting the dots. Connecting dots is very important. Those that run the news agencies know and depend on this fact, yet most of the people seem to incapable of caring less. It's actually become more fun to make fun of the situation that we're all in than it is to do something about it, and that's the real tragedy.
Hell, I hope so. I do it at my house. I do it so that google and/or anyone else cannot read my email. Seems totally ethical to me. But then again, I'm not a professional politician, working for the public.