That a big mob had the same viewpoint only on the topic on who should be the president is the most common way of working of democracy each year. It not must be the same mob each election, but the ones that express that opinion are the ones that count.
But thats not the problem. Its not democracy, is DDoScracy (or DDoScrazy), don' t need to be more people, just the big enough amount to DDoS some sites, and with the tools and bandwidth available to end users don't need to be millons to make their work (not even being in the same country, or even legaly own the computers used to do that work)
Probably Google cared a bit more when they blew it up in the start of Buzz that had a privacy problem, than Facebook, that when they disclose something, they just redefine privacy as something you don't need to have or have something dangerous to hide. And still is to be seen privacy regarding popular "apps" providers.
In any case, when is released we could have reasons to complain, or not, but i would wait till that moment to judge.
After the climate effects become really evident for everyone, the blame game will start. And what every country will start to do won't be exactly Cold-anything. Will be a political global warming (or global arming, whats a letter between friends?)
Governments and institutions are the ones which thru with their words and actions are getting discredited. Wikileaks is not saying to do, nor doing the DDoS to those sites, so why it should be discredited?
Different countries have different laws and different severity of offenses. Things that could be seen as normal or not a prison crime in some countries could be seen as severe offenses, even punishable with death in others, and you as visiting foreigner could or could not be aware of that.
Last month, i.e. was around the story of a christian woman condemned to death for blasphemy in Pakistan. Suppose a woman from US visit Pakistan, do the same, and return to her country, while Pakistan complains to Interpol because of that. Should she be imprisoned, extradited and executed in Pakistan? Having double standards and picking which one serves you better in each situation is cheating.
Im not saying that what Assagne did was right, and that that wasnt in some way (maybe not by US law, anyway) rape. Just that law should be the same for everyone. I can't imagine that that is the first time it happen, even from a foreigner that comes and goes from a country that have it as crime. If he is a criminal, then all the others are too.
The day you born you started to die. You can point any event as "the beginning of the end" of anything that is not eternal. But that one classical KDE app is renamed to something that have no K have more or less the same weight that a gnome app having a name that don't starts with g (and didnt saw any comment about the beginning of the end of gnome when one of such apps got released or renamed).
Women from all the world celebrate that they can now compalin to the interpol if their lovers choose to use no condom with the security that they will chase him with full resources in all the brave new world.
An active nuclear silo could be seen as a vital US facility and should be protected. But the factories of private pharma corporations? seriously? You should be aware that your country is more willing to defend them than to defend you.
"copyright negotiations largely meet expectations" is misleading. More like, "confirm that the US has been bullying other countries into changing their laws to suit US interests".
... to suit US corporations interests. Having US governments as puppets to do force corporations agenda on all the world speaks pretty well of US corporations (is a bright, evil plan) and pretty bad on US government and country in general.
Making aware voters of what their government is doing under their name is justification enough for defending Wikileaks.
If you define "sexual assault" as consensual sex wearing no condoms, then you will have a lot of people to prosecute, including good part of government.
Your mistake was to think that the N900 is a cellphone. Is a portable computer/tablet/whatever that can also make phone calls. If you want just a phone is not the best, but i would not change it anyway. Im afraid to find how limited are the users of other cellphones.
Forward and fast, or backward and damn slow? Information sharing and collaboration have pluses too, denying it you are probably doing more damage for sure, and in a far broader area than the eventual leak of it could do. You have to take a compromise between security and functionality, and being aware what will cost those security restrictions.
Politics would be simpler if we could peek into our future to see what will bring our choices, too bad those damn blue butterflies are waiting for us right there.
Brings the desire of money and political power. And can't derive peace and comfort from that. you never have enough of any, and even if you get that, someone else don't, and will trouble you for that.
The non subtle at all approach to control the net from US side is one way to try to control it, one that if pressed enough, will produce the Streissand effect against them. That approach, going to the upper level, will find that there are a lot of ways to communicate using internet, and will prove to be useless. But the China approach goes to the bottom level, to the people using internet opinion. Already was noted how was possible to rig online communities view on some topics (i.e. i think something of that happened in Digg in some moment), but getting that to internet as a whole. And if you can manipulate the opinion of the majority of people, no matter what kind of government you say you have in papers, everything ends being a dictatorship.
In a world where superpowers, immortality and such exists, and are known in the open, laws should take them into account. Laws are meant to adapt to a changing world, what if we did that in a world where noone could go faster than 40km/h, and suddently someone with a modern car jump in? Our world hadnt laws regarding fast cars before, but somehow the legal system acknowledged that something changed and added laws for them. The alternative is acknowledge that something weird and unique is there, and do nothing about it because you can't do nothing, and probably shouldnt. Would you give an speeding ticket to Superman or try to put him in prison?
In the other hand, if those superpowers are unknown for almost people, you can be breaking the law (in some cases, of physics), but as noone knows that, it could happen. More than the comics world, there are several sci-fi stories about immortal people, or that are around since a lot of time ago, you have from the dumb soldier that were around since middle century (that wasnt very bright, so all the money he won usually got lost in poker games and such things), or the time traveler that deposited money in compound interest 500 years ago, making in the present just enough accomulated money to build the time machine that enable him do the back in time trip, nothing in the law forbids any of both cases, even if there is an exploit to the system in the second one.
Why must be that "link" there? If you make a exact copy of you (forget chips, memristors, electronic, just focus on the copy part) will be 2 "you" around, with experiences that will start to diverge at that point. There is no universal "you", will be 2 entities that will think that each one is the real one, and the other the copy, and even could arge which is the one that got the soul, and with a bit of luck decide that or there are free souls around for anyone wanting one, or that never were one to start with.
Of course, if such "duplication" of people can be done (in real or virtual world) it could cause big legal troubles, and having only one copy "active" will solve most of it. But killing one of them will be for him dying, no matter what will or is happening at the same time to a completely separate entity that could look or think like you.
In this scenario, suiciding is not a good scape pod. You still dying, and you are forcing the "other you", someone that knows and feel exactly like you, to keep with the problem (so probably he will suicide too, because will have to add to the original problem realizing how retard was his former self).
Don't give so much value to your concience, could be just a meme.
Sometimes is not phishing. If you i.e. block for an hour in the proxy the websites refered by incoming mails you will slow down those scams, but also the real sites (i.e. places where you register and have to confirm that your email)
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That a big mob had the same viewpoint only on the topic on who should be the president is the most common way of working of democracy each year. It not must be the same mob each election, but the ones that express that opinion are the ones that count.
But thats not the problem. Its not democracy, is DDoScracy (or DDoScrazy), don' t need to be more people, just the big enough amount to DDoS some sites, and with the tools and bandwidth available to end users don't need to be millons to make their work (not even being in the same country, or even legaly own the computers used to do that work)
Probably Google cared a bit more when they blew it up in the start of Buzz that had a privacy problem, than Facebook, that when they disclose something, they just redefine privacy as something you don't need to have or have something dangerous to hide. And still is to be seen privacy regarding popular "apps" providers.
In any case, when is released we could have reasons to complain, or not, but i would wait till that moment to judge.
Welcome our future posthuman overlords. Specially their archeologists, that will be rotfling when they find this discussion.
After the climate effects become really evident for everyone, the blame game will start. And what every country will start to do won't be exactly Cold-anything. Will be a political global warming (or global arming, whats a letter between friends?)
Maybe wasnt so good idea to make Rovio to design that software, but hey, maybe we could finally find where those pigs hid the eggs.
Those zombie movie stars and him need BRAAINS!!!
Governments and institutions are the ones which thru with their words and actions are getting discredited. Wikileaks is not saying to do, nor doing the DDoS to those sites, so why it should be discredited?
Different countries have different laws and different severity of offenses. Things that could be seen as normal or not a prison crime in some countries could be seen as severe offenses, even punishable with death in others, and you as visiting foreigner could or could not be aware of that.
Last month, i.e. was around the story of a christian woman condemned to death for blasphemy in Pakistan. Suppose a woman from US visit Pakistan, do the same, and return to her country, while Pakistan complains to Interpol because of that. Should she be imprisoned, extradited and executed in Pakistan? Having double standards and picking which one serves you better in each situation is cheating.
Im not saying that what Assagne did was right, and that that wasnt in some way (maybe not by US law, anyway) rape. Just that law should be the same for everyone. I can't imagine that that is the first time it happen, even from a foreigner that comes and goes from a country that have it as crime. If he is a criminal, then all the others are too.
The day you born you started to die. You can point any event as "the beginning of the end" of anything that is not eternal. But that one classical KDE app is renamed to something that have no K have more or less the same weight that a gnome app having a name that don't starts with g (and didnt saw any comment about the beginning of the end of gnome when one of such apps got released or renamed).
Women from all the world celebrate that they can now compalin to the interpol if their lovers choose to use no condom with the security that they will chase him with full resources in all the brave new world.
Ask in Guantanamo
An active nuclear silo could be seen as a vital US facility and should be protected. But the factories of private pharma corporations? seriously? You should be aware that your country is more willing to defend them than to defend you.
"copyright negotiations largely meet expectations" is misleading. More like, "confirm that the US has been bullying other countries into changing their laws to suit US interests".
... to suit US corporations interests. Having US governments as puppets to do force corporations agenda on all the world speaks pretty well of US corporations (is a bright, evil plan) and pretty bad on US government and country in general. Making aware voters of what their government is doing under their name is justification enough for defending Wikileaks.
If you define "sexual assault" as consensual sex wearing no condoms, then you will have a lot of people to prosecute, including good part of government.
Seem to be unlocked, so you could use it with any carrier. Of course, no contract special price.
Your mistake was to think that the N900 is a cellphone. Is a portable computer/tablet/whatever that can also make phone calls. If you want just a phone is not the best, but i would not change it anyway. Im afraid to find how limited are the users of other cellphones.
Forward and fast, or backward and damn slow? Information sharing and collaboration have pluses too, denying it you are probably doing more damage for sure, and in a far broader area than the eventual leak of it could do. You have to take a compromise between security and functionality, and being aware what will cost those security restrictions.
Politics would be simpler if we could peek into our future to see what will bring our choices, too bad those damn blue butterflies are waiting for us right there.
Interpol issued an arrest warrant for Le Monde, El Pais, The Guardian and Der Spiegel for sexual assault charges in an undecided yet country.
Brings the desire of money and political power. And can't derive peace and comfort from that. you never have enough of any, and even if you get that, someone else don't, and will trouble you for that.
The non subtle at all approach to control the net from US side is one way to try to control it, one that if pressed enough, will produce the Streissand effect against them. That approach, going to the upper level, will find that there are a lot of ways to communicate using internet, and will prove to be useless. But the China approach goes to the bottom level, to the people using internet opinion. Already was noted how was possible to rig online communities view on some topics (i.e. i think something of that happened in Digg in some moment), but getting that to internet as a whole. And if you can manipulate the opinion of the majority of people, no matter what kind of government you say you have in papers, everything ends being a dictatorship.
In a world where superpowers, immortality and such exists, and are known in the open, laws should take them into account. Laws are meant to adapt to a changing world, what if we did that in a world where noone could go faster than 40km/h, and suddently someone with a modern car jump in? Our world hadnt laws regarding fast cars before, but somehow the legal system acknowledged that something changed and added laws for them. The alternative is acknowledge that something weird and unique is there, and do nothing about it because you can't do nothing, and probably shouldnt. Would you give an speeding ticket to Superman or try to put him in prison? In the other hand, if those superpowers are unknown for almost people, you can be breaking the law (in some cases, of physics), but as noone knows that, it could happen. More than the comics world, there are several sci-fi stories about immortal people, or that are around since a lot of time ago, you have from the dumb soldier that were around since middle century (that wasnt very bright, so all the money he won usually got lost in poker games and such things), or the time traveler that deposited money in compound interest 500 years ago, making in the present just enough accomulated money to build the time machine that enable him do the back in time trip, nothing in the law forbids any of both cases, even if there is an exploit to the system in the second one.
Why must be that "link" there? If you make a exact copy of you (forget chips, memristors, electronic, just focus on the copy part) will be 2 "you" around, with experiences that will start to diverge at that point. There is no universal "you", will be 2 entities that will think that each one is the real one, and the other the copy, and even could arge which is the one that got the soul, and with a bit of luck decide that or there are free souls around for anyone wanting one, or that never were one to start with.
Of course, if such "duplication" of people can be done (in real or virtual world) it could cause big legal troubles, and having only one copy "active" will solve most of it. But killing one of them will be for him dying, no matter what will or is happening at the same time to a completely separate entity that could look or think like you.
In this scenario, suiciding is not a good scape pod. You still dying, and you are forcing the "other you", someone that knows and feel exactly like you, to keep with the problem (so probably he will suicide too, because will have to add to the original problem realizing how retard was his former self).
Don't give so much value to your concience, could be just a meme.
Distributing energy from the Sahara to all the world will meet some resistance.
Sometimes is not phishing. If you i.e. block for an hour in the proxy the websites refered by incoming mails you will slow down those scams, but also the real sites (i.e. places where you register and have to confirm that your email)
They tought that where in the cloud, but now looks like coming from a smoking gun.