The solution is simple: the country needs to break up into smaller, more-manageable units. Republic-style (representative democracy) government simply doesn't work in large countries; the government just turns corrupt. Of all the democratic countries, it's the small ones where the government is most effective and least corrupt.
Not so simple, sorry. You're a Pollyanna, Hellenic Greece already tried and failed at the City States idea, and have you no idea how passionately anti-USA-ian the average Canuck is, or how derisively Canucks are thought of by typical USA-ians? Typical Canucks don't hate the US, but they desperately don't want to be "Americans." We consider we're tolerated because we're polite, and we've resources the US wants to buy. That's as far as it goes. BC was ruled for decades (is again now? Dunno, don't much care) by rabidly socialist gov'ts; they like it that way.
I also don't believe that "small ones where the gov't is most effective and least corrupt." Berlusconi's (not to mention Mussolini's) Italy, Perfidious Albion (Britain), Roman Italy, Rwanda, Tito's Yugoslavia, Serbia,... all disprove that theory.
I agree, it makes sense in theory if we were all machines, but we're not. I certainly don't believe democratic gov'ts have a greater or lesser propensity toward corruption. Churchill comes to mind...
I'm not a great fan of the status quo either, nor big gov't, but BC Canucks compared to Oregonians or Washingtonians? They'd all be at civil war with each other within a year, trust me. BC still loves the British monarchy, FFS, and they just rioted after losing a fscking hockey game to Boston!
I'm a bit of a oddball here. I love where the US started from (Declaration of Independence), and there's no love lost between me and the British monarchy, but trust me, average Canucks would be pouring across the border and slitting US-ian children's throats in their beds in the dead of night if there was a chance this could come to pass. None of us (USA-ians or Canucks) want to go there. Ask the Dutch. They're famously grateful for how bitchy we can get when offended.
Me, I really like Idaho. Let's be friends, but damnit, if you come anywhere near my lawn,... And no, that lawyer behind you scares me not at all.:-)
improve your backend before you start such endeavors.
Or, realize it's foolish to go poking sticks in hornets' nests if you're unwilling to suffer (or are ignorant of) the potential consequences. Oh yeah, that and two wrongs don't make a right. Those they attacked may be cheap, lazy !@#$s that we'd all be better off without (or who should just clean up their act, damnit!), but that doesn't give them a free pass when they decide to break the rules too.
Still, I can't think of many ways (legitimately) to fix the crap that they were purporting to fix. These days, it's simpler to accept that lots of stuff is broken and sucks. Life! Bail, and get another job (or vendor in the case of Sony). Soap box, ballot box, ammo box? I'd prefer the latter is kept locked up as long as possible, but I do identify with their frustration at the way things are turning out this century, and how little chance us peons have to affect change. Corps/shareholders/... shouldn't be so greedy and clueless, and I shouldn't be kept from upgrading a fscking Dev. server for a year and a half because my upgrades can't be fit in with the rest of the !@#$ the devs need to upgrade at the same time (true story, btw).
Potential future Darwin Award nominee? I'll take bets.
What odds will you give me that she exits in a manner which somehow involves an iPad n.0?
At $86k/a., she could afford one of her own. A Grand Theft conviction is going to lose her that gravy train so she won't be able to afford to buy one, and now (only now?!?) she knows what happens when she tries to steal one. Will she learn the lesson? Hmm... Tough call. Can old dogs learn new tricks?
I expect cops to be a lot smarter and better vetted and trained than this. Silly me. I'll guess she won't learn from this, and she'll be on the docket again in the not too distant future, but not with an iAnything in her posession.
She shouldn't have skipped the ethics classes. They might have come in handy. I wonder what else she's been up to and has so far gotten away with scott free. One less crooked cop. It's a good day.
Would we really only have five days notice before an asteroid of this size collided with earth?
I remember one a couple of years ago that came from an odd trajectory; pretty much from the Sun's corona. Surprised the crap out of everyone. And yeah, 25-50' across is pretty tiny to be seen by terrestrial telescopes at these distances, and pretty much everything out there moves at fairly high velocity.
If it were large enough to cause problems, how much sooner would we know?
If you're within miles of this thing hitting the surface, you'd no longer have any problems. On the other hand, Tunguska is assumed to have exploded some distance above the surface, which might amplify its effects on fleshy things down here (same plan they used with nukes in WWII). However, that one is believed to have been considerably larger than this.
Add also that these things are made up of varying stuff; collections of dirt & gravel, big solid rocks, or metal, all bearing down at the surface at horrific speeds. The D&G might shatter and burn up, but the others likely not.
If it was a comet, you might see it sooner, but they generally move at much higher velocity - much bigger kaboom on impact.
What is the declared value of a dollar? 1/36th of an oz of silver?
Today, dependent upon the exchange in which it's sold. Black markets may pay less (but with less accounting paperwork (paper-trail)).
This whole "BTC vs. fiat currency" phenom stuff strikes me as bizarre. "Ephemeral value (backed by gov't)" vs "ephemeral value (backed by [Ll]ibertarian computational complexity)" is interesting to/. pedestrians? Really?!? Why? I thought/. hated all that Ayn Rand Gold Standard crap.:-)
[Admitted: I'm a "[Ll]ibertarian/Objectivist" leaner (it's complicated). No apologies.].
Bitcoin has absolutely no use other than as a fiat currency.
It is astonishing to watch people such as yourself (utterly ignorant of knowledge in this area) pontificate about it (not bitcoin; basic understanding of money). *Dollars* have "absolutely no use other than as a fiat currency." Well, yeah, you can burn 'em to warm yourself up on a cold day (or trade 'em to the Chinese for trinkets), but that's about it.
Look into the hyperinflation that the German Deutchmark (sp?) suffered post WWI. *ANY* fiat currency is subject to the same problem. Bitcoin tries to make hyperinflation impossible, something *no* gov't issued currency wants for itself. You can't diddle with an economy if you can't futz with the value of its currency. Our gov'ts learned that last century and rectified that (to our detriment).
Do you not understand how tyranny works? First, you get 'em by the balls (the money supply). Now, the $IRS can get a handle on everything else.
... This's The People's Republic of China we're talking about...
This is not the People's Republic of China we are talking about, this is the CEO of a not very large company bribing Foxconn employees...
BS. The PRC has *total* and *complete* control in China. If you think the PRC doesn't control the strings in China, you're the one who's avoiding reality.
... give confidential information to outsiders. You'd go to court and probably to jail in any western country for the same crime.
For the dimensions of an iPod?!? Why the fsck would that be $SECRET?!?
Who gives a shite, they are just ordinary people living by the laws of their country. If they don't like the laws they live by they should change them.
Do you ACs get paid to post crap like this? This's The People's Republic of China we're talking about, not just any other "their country."
A small number of Chinese entrepreneurs are being crushed for the economic crime of noticing, seizing upon, and capitalising on an opportunity. Nobody was harmed in the process, but they're being crushed anyway, either for stepping out of line or for not paying the correct bribe.
Hearing that this stuff still happens crushes my soul. You should be ashamed for not feeling the same (never heard the term "empathy"?).
Spent any time in the Bamboo Archipelago lately? Their lives will not be much fun in the next few years, and for what? So some Chinee bigshot can tell Steve that his secrets are safe. Yay. If I were Steve, I'd be slapping Foxconn exec heads for creating yet another unnecessary employee relations debacle.
I think he's half right. Either the company is intelligent yet ethically challenged, in that they know that they are violating the GPL yet do not care, or they are ethically sound but intellectually challenged, in that they don't know they're controverting the license. I believe one of these scenarios is the case.
No. Their ethics may conflict with yours and nothing can be said about their intelligence.
Uhm, a whole lot of supposition is going on here, in case no-one's noticed. Intelligence doesn't always present itself as *blindingly, brilliantly obvious* to all comers. Intelligence always has its own agenda. Whether we're on its side, or we're its target is for us to determine.
Yeah, I think Socrates would slap me silly for the sophistry; it's a fair cop. "dict sophistry":
His bad opponent's "facts" he sweeps away,
And drags his sophistry to light of day;
Then swears they're pushed to madness who resort
To falsehood of so desperate a sort.
Not so; like sods upon a dead man's breast,
He lies most lightly who the least is pressed.
Polydore Smith
You can interoperate until you're blue in the face, people still have to pay attention to it and make it work.
Ah, you're not a programmer. No, that's not true. Anything can be automated, to the point it'll never need to deal with it again.
Nobody is claiming that DB is some hot new invention, in fact I recall a few similar services a few years ago. What they got right, though, is the simplicity of the app...
Any competent geek can wrap complexity, making magical stuff work for mere mortals. It's what we do, so mortals don't have to. You don't like your app's interface, I'll make you a new one that you can like.
I well remember discussions taking place 30 years ago when PCs first arrived on the market. "But, how will anyone use them?!?" Even accountaints figured out how (I've a pretty low tolerance for accountaints, sorry).
... Here's a list of niceties of DropBox, in no particular order:
- Mac and Windows support.
I have never understood that argument. Why do they need supporting? Shouldn't they just go out of their way to, I dunno, *interoperate*, like everything else?!? Cf. the bitch session elsewhere here wrt IBM's "inventing" the PC.:-P
No, they're proprietary, so want to suck you into using their proprietary formats. fsck 'em.
... - Auto-syncing
I'm pretty sure rsync can blow the doors off any proprietary *sync* thingie you can suggest. Note, it notes state, and only transmits diffs?
Easy setup, decent rates.
It's just another cloud service, methinks. Good on 'em, I don't want any, thx.
...
Boring. A Samba server could do all you want. I could build you a monster backup system with five year old parts for under $200 (plus my rate) that'd fully automate all of this for you. You'd rather p*** it off into the cloud instead of remain in control of it yourself. Your call.
Btw, no offense meant, and I don't really know anything about DB, but it seems simpler my way, from what I've heard so far.
... all revolutions required sacrifices (red herrings, expendables).
Yeesh, that's cruel.:-P
On the bright side, all the potentially innocent victims of this incident have to do is show they've at least one virus/malware infection, and the jury can put it down to "pwned by a botnet; not guilty." Aka, the civilian form of "Plausible Deniability."
actually knowing the way anon tends to work, 32 people mindlessly hitting fire lazars button on LOIC, while anyone who planned or knew what they were doing are setting up the next raid.
Meanwhile, everyone's been told ahead of time in a secured (invite only) channel to proxy and Tor their IP to death, or just use an Internet Cafe's wifi or just wardrive for open APs and go from there.
It'll be interesting to watch the authorities try to sort the guilty from the innocent bystanders on this one (generic "Anonymous" actions). IP Address != $perp
I'm not dead yet, two bit hacktivists are going strong.
ftfy. RMS may be a lot of things, but two bit hacktivist ain't one of them. How've you hacked the planet lately, AC? Slandering real hackers on/.? OMG!
that's really very surprising. If you have any more info on this I'd be interested.
BBC: "Within the United Kingdom its work is funded principally by an annual television licence fee,[7] which is charged to all United Kingdom households, companies and organisations using any type of equipment to record and/or receive live television broadcasts;[8] the level of the fee is set annually by the British Government and agreed by Parliament."
If you're in Britain and not paying BBC's fee and listening/consuming, you're pirating.
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Hi. I'm a (reluctant) Canuck, btw. :-)
Not so simple, sorry. You're a Pollyanna, Hellenic Greece already tried and failed at the City States idea, and have you no idea how passionately anti-USA-ian the average Canuck is, or how derisively Canucks are thought of by typical USA-ians? Typical Canucks don't hate the US, but they desperately don't want to be "Americans." We consider we're tolerated because we're polite, and we've resources the US wants to buy. That's as far as it goes. BC was ruled for decades (is again now? Dunno, don't much care) by rabidly socialist gov'ts; they like it that way.
I also don't believe that "small ones where the gov't is most effective and least corrupt." Berlusconi's (not to mention Mussolini's) Italy, Perfidious Albion (Britain), Roman Italy, Rwanda, Tito's Yugoslavia, Serbia, ... all disprove that theory.
I agree, it makes sense in theory if we were all machines, but we're not. I certainly don't believe democratic gov'ts have a greater or lesser propensity toward corruption. Churchill comes to mind ...
I'm not a great fan of the status quo either, nor big gov't, but BC Canucks compared to Oregonians or Washingtonians? They'd all be at civil war with each other within a year, trust me. BC still loves the British monarchy, FFS, and they just rioted after losing a fscking hockey game to Boston!
I'm a bit of a oddball here. I love where the US started from (Declaration of Independence), and there's no love lost between me and the British monarchy, but trust me, average Canucks would be pouring across the border and slitting US-ian children's throats in their beds in the dead of night if there was a chance this could come to pass. None of us (USA-ians or Canucks) want to go there. Ask the Dutch. They're famously grateful for how bitchy we can get when offended.
Me, I really like Idaho. Let's be friends, but damnit, if you come anywhere near my lawn, ... And no, that lawyer behind you scares me not at all. :-)
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Or, realize it's foolish to go poking sticks in hornets' nests if you're unwilling to suffer (or are ignorant of) the potential consequences. Oh yeah, that and two wrongs don't make a right. Those they attacked may be cheap, lazy !@#$s that we'd all be better off without (or who should just clean up their act, damnit!), but that doesn't give them a free pass when they decide to break the rules too.
Still, I can't think of many ways (legitimately) to fix the crap that they were purporting to fix. These days, it's simpler to accept that lots of stuff is broken and sucks. Life! Bail, and get another job (or vendor in the case of Sony). Soap box, ballot box, ammo box? I'd prefer the latter is kept locked up as long as possible, but I do identify with their frustration at the way things are turning out this century, and how little chance us peons have to affect change. Corps/shareholders/... shouldn't be so greedy and clueless, and I shouldn't be kept from upgrading a fscking Dev. server for a year and a half because my upgrades can't be fit in with the rest of the !@#$ the devs need to upgrade at the same time (true story, btw).
At $86k/a., she could afford one of her own. A Grand Theft conviction is going to lose her that gravy train so she won't be able to afford to buy one, and now (only now?!?) she knows what happens when she tries to steal one. Will she learn the lesson? Hmm ... Tough call. Can old dogs learn new tricks?
I expect cops to be a lot smarter and better vetted and trained than this. Silly me. I'll guess she won't learn from this, and she'll be on the docket again in the not too distant future, but not with an iAnything in her posession.
She shouldn't have skipped the ethics classes. They might have come in handy. I wonder what else she's been up to and has so far gotten away with scott free. One less crooked cop. It's a good day.
And doesn't realize airports, of all places, are now blanketed with CCTV. That's practically scary. Where's she been for the last decade?!?
Potential future Darwin Award nominee? I'll take bets.
Oops, sorry (mis-read the article). Tunguska is believed to be about this size (tens of meters across).
I remember one a couple of years ago that came from an odd trajectory; pretty much from the Sun's corona. Surprised the crap out of everyone. And yeah, 25-50' across is pretty tiny to be seen by terrestrial telescopes at these distances, and pretty much everything out there moves at fairly high velocity.
If you're within miles of this thing hitting the surface, you'd no longer have any problems. On the other hand, Tunguska is assumed to have exploded some distance above the surface, which might amplify its effects on fleshy things down here (same plan they used with nukes in WWII). However, that one is believed to have been considerably larger than this.
Add also that these things are made up of varying stuff; collections of dirt & gravel, big solid rocks, or metal, all bearing down at the surface at horrific speeds. The D&G might shatter and burn up, but the others likely not.
If it was a comet, you might see it sooner, but they generally move at much higher velocity - much bigger kaboom on impact.
Today, dependent upon the exchange in which it's sold. Black markets may pay less (but with less accounting paperwork (paper-trail)).
This whole "BTC vs. fiat currency" phenom stuff strikes me as bizarre. "Ephemeral value (backed by gov't)" vs "ephemeral value (backed by [Ll]ibertarian computational complexity)" is interesting to /. pedestrians? Really?!? Why? I thought /. hated all that Ayn Rand Gold Standard crap. :-)
[Admitted: I'm a "[Ll]ibertarian/Objectivist" leaner (it's complicated). No apologies.].
It is astonishing to watch people such as yourself (utterly ignorant of knowledge in this area) pontificate about it (not bitcoin; basic understanding of money). *Dollars* have "absolutely no use other than as a fiat currency." Well, yeah, you can burn 'em to warm yourself up on a cold day (or trade 'em to the Chinese for trinkets), but that's about it.
Look into the hyperinflation that the German Deutchmark (sp?) suffered post WWI. *ANY* fiat currency is subject to the same problem. Bitcoin tries to make hyperinflation impossible, something *no* gov't issued currency wants for itself. You can't diddle with an economy if you can't futz with the value of its currency. Our gov'ts learned that last century and rectified that (to our detriment).
Do you not understand how tyranny works? First, you get 'em by the balls (the money supply). Now, the $IRS can get a handle on everything else.
Geez. Wake up and smell the coffee.
*buntu has other ideas/agenda, which may be either good or bad, dependent upon circumstances.
I know what sudo does. That doesn't mean I like it. sudo is "for letting unprivileged users" ignore the existence of root, plain and simple. Bad idea.
BS. The PRC has *total* and *complete* control in China. If you think the PRC doesn't control the strings in China, you're the one who's avoiding reality.
For the dimensions of an iPod?!? Why the fsck would that be $SECRET?!?
FTFY.
I've never seen the point of sudo. "su -c $blah" should be all anyone needs.
Do you ACs get paid to post crap like this? This's The People's Republic of China we're talking about, not just any other "their country."
A small number of Chinese entrepreneurs are being crushed for the economic crime of noticing, seizing upon, and capitalising on an opportunity. Nobody was harmed in the process, but they're being crushed anyway, either for stepping out of line or for not paying the correct bribe.
Hearing that this stuff still happens crushes my soul. You should be ashamed for not feeling the same (never heard the term "empathy"?).
Spent any time in the Bamboo Archipelago lately? Their lives will not be much fun in the next few years, and for what? So some Chinee bigshot can tell Steve that his secrets are safe. Yay. If I were Steve, I'd be slapping Foxconn exec heads for creating yet another unnecessary employee relations debacle.
Damn, there's a lot of gray in there. Eew!
Uhm, a whole lot of supposition is going on here, in case no-one's noticed. Intelligence doesn't always present itself as *blindingly, brilliantly obvious* to all comers. Intelligence always has its own agenda. Whether we're on its side, or we're its target is for us to determine.
Yeah, I think Socrates would slap me silly for the sophistry; it's a fair cop. "dict sophistry":
His bad opponent's "facts" he sweeps away,
And drags his sophistry to light of day;
Then swears they're pushed to madness who resort
To falsehood of so desperate a sort.
Not so; like sods upon a dead man's breast,
He lies most lightly who the least is pressed.
Polydore Smith
"Me, I'm an entertainer." -- Proximus
Ah, you're not a programmer. No, that's not true. Anything can be automated, to the point it'll never need to deal with it again.
Any competent geek can wrap complexity, making magical stuff work for mere mortals. It's what we do, so mortals don't have to. You don't like your app's interface, I'll make you a new one that you can like.
I well remember discussions taking place 30 years ago when PCs first arrived on the market. "But, how will anyone use them?!?" Even accountaints figured out how (I've a pretty low tolerance for accountaints, sorry).
Meh.
I have never understood that argument. Why do they need supporting? Shouldn't they just go out of their way to, I dunno, *interoperate*, like everything else?!? Cf. the bitch session elsewhere here wrt IBM's "inventing" the PC. :-P
No, they're proprietary, so want to suck you into using their proprietary formats. fsck 'em.
I'm pretty sure rsync can blow the doors off any proprietary *sync* thingie you can suggest. Note, it notes state, and only transmits diffs?
It's just another cloud service, methinks. Good on 'em, I don't want any, thx.
Boring. A Samba server could do all you want. I could build you a monster backup system with five year old parts for under $200 (plus my rate) that'd fully automate all of this for you. You'd rather p*** it off into the cloud instead of remain in control of it yourself. Your call.
Btw, no offense meant, and I don't really know anything about DB, but it seems simpler my way, from what I've heard so far.
How? Methinks rsync would be all OP needs. Pointy-clicky interfaces, not considered ...
You should use perl. Then, it could 'die qq($0: usage - \"$0 INFILE_NAME \(_bak\)\");'[*] if it didn't do anything useful in the first place.
[*] I'll bet THAT doesn't post to /. correctly first try. Huh, son of a gun, it did. Slap me silly. :-|
Yeesh, that's cruel. :-P
On the bright side, all the potentially innocent victims of this incident have to do is show they've at least one virus/malware infection, and the jury can put it down to "pwned by a botnet; not guilty." Aka, the civilian form of "Plausible Deniability."
Meanwhile, everyone's been told ahead of time in a secured (invite only) channel to proxy and Tor their IP to death, or just use an Internet Cafe's wifi or just wardrive for open APs and go from there.
It'll be interesting to watch the authorities try to sort the guilty from the innocent bystanders on this one (generic "Anonymous" actions). IP Address != $perp
ftfy. RMS may be a lot of things, but two bit hacktivist ain't one of them. How've you hacked the planet lately, AC? Slandering real hackers on /.? OMG!
BBC:
"Within the United Kingdom its work is funded principally by an annual television licence fee,[7] which is charged to all United Kingdom households, companies and organisations using any type of equipment to record and/or receive live television broadcasts;[8] the level of the fee is set annually by the British Government and agreed by Parliament."
If you're in Britain and not paying BBC's fee and listening/consuming, you're pirating.
The name of the city within which resides the only NHL team Dave ("Cementhead") Semenko refused to play for and chose to retire from play instead.
Damn, that city's loserful.