Latin American Presidents would have just "had an accident" during the Cold War for a stunt like this.
I believe at least one African head of state met his demise this way, so yeah.
Because he WILLINGLY SIGNED UP WITH A SPY AGENCY...
He signed up with Booz Allen to work at the NSA. When I signed up as a contractor to work at ExxonMobil, it was to fix broken tech., not to accept responsibility for the Exxon Valdes, et al. Snowden is a civilian, not a spook. This why he couldn't use whistleblower laws for protection (as if they're any protection).
... but the classic religious-castrated western worldview just go tribal-brain over any sex related matter
You don't even need to drag that crap into it. It's just the recent (last century or so) attitude that "childhood" is a sacrosanct state and parents have a right and duty to enable (enforce) their precious snowflakes to remain in that pure and unsullied state as long as is physically possible. Me telling my nephews that there's no such thing as Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, or the Tooth Fairy is considered damned near child abuse. How dare I inform them of the true state of reality?!? Why make them grow up before they have to!?! Er, so they'll be armed with knowledge in order to defend themselves?
Add all that to the reverence that eastern cultures have for male offspring, and the result (TFA) is inevitable.
But then there are just people against ads period. Must be a slow, lonely world in that room.
It used to be if I wanted to be barked at by a carnival midway barker, I went to a carnival. Now, it's getting difficult to find the news in a newspaper or magazine for all the ads. It seems like half the vehicles driving down any street are hawking something. Ads are everywhere. Mad Magazine used to do jokes about people driving down the highway unable to see scenery for all the billboards. That's reality now. The labels on clothing used to be sewn inside. Now they're banner ads. Same with eyeglasses, shoes, computer cases, backpacks, furniture,...
Ads make me NOT want to buy your shit. If I want something, I'll find it without your offensive cacophany of screeching, irrelevant noise in my face. Burn in hell, marketroids.
No teenager in the USA has ever been thrown is prison for 20 years for sexting. His argument might be valid, but he shouldn't be supporting it with outright lies.
Not for lack of trying, and you shouldn't be trying to downplay the threat! Anyone needing to spend themselves into poverty just to defend themselves from this malicious insanity would love to get their hands around your throat.
It's more that ads from 201X are less irritating than ads from 200X in general.
Not at all true. Turn on a TV. Obnoxiously insipid and puerile, stars in their eyes twenty-somethings going gaga over shiny baubles they can't really begin to understand, and they want the latest version. Females futzing over cosmetics, shampoo, overpriced clothing, men extolling the virtues beer, of overpriced fuel guzzling hotrods, both of them falling for weight loss snakeoil, expensive and unnecessary pharmaceuticals, breast augmentation, hairloss treatments and cat toys. Halitosis, body odour, split ends, cracked fingernails, longer lashes...
Ick. Holy !@#$%^& boring, and offensive! I hate sharing a planet with people like that, and you know what? Real people AREN'T like that, but "Madison Avenue" portrays us that way. The commercialized web is no better. I'm reminded of that, "We've already determined you're a whore. Now we're just haggling over price."
In Connecticut, Rep. Rosa Rebimbas introduced a bill that would lessen the penalty for "sexting" between two consenting minors in 2009. The bill would make it a Class A misdemeanor for children under 18 to send or receive text messages with other minors that include nude or sexual images. It is currently a felony for children to send such messages, and violators could end up on the state's sex offender registry. [...] In 2008, a Virginia assistant principal was charged with possession of child pornography and related crimes after he had been asked to investigate a rumored sexting incident at the high school where he worked. Upon finding a student in possession of a photo on his phone that depicted the torso of a girl wearing only underpants, her arms mostly covering her breasts, the assistant principal showed the image to the principal who instructed him to preserve the photo on his computer as evidence, which he did. The court later ruled that the photo did not constitute child pornography because under Virginia law, nudity alone is not enough to qualify an image as child pornography; the image must be "sexually explicit". Loudoun County Prosecutor James Plowman stood by his initial assessment of the photo and says he would not have pursued the case if the assistant principal had agreed to resign. Instead, the assistant principal got a second mortgage on his house and spent $150,000 in attorneys' fees to clear his name.
Japan being the last civilised country where possession of child porn is legal.
Maybe they're just not foolish enough to have fallen for the group think we have, which is what you accuse them of. Here, an X rated comic strip is considered child porn. A teenager sexting their SO can get them twenty years in prison and permanent listing on the perv roll.
Every society makes choices on what is the acceptable ways to express individuality. Japan, historically, has been fairly excessive that way in comparison to the rest of the world, but that's the way Japanese (historically) roll; to excess. Go was invented in China. Japan raised it to an art including endowing universities to teach it. The Samurai raised warfare to an art. They even raised serving tea to an art.
After all this time since they opened up to the west, many of us can't even begin to understand them. That's pretty amazing in itself.
An open source implementation of the Z-wave protocol stack, openzwave, is available but it does not support the encryption part as of yet. Our talk will show how the Z-Wave protocol can be subjected to attacks.
If the closed source implementation *with encryption* is this fragile, what reason is there not to replace it with the OSS implementation? Eventually, the OSS version will support encryption and in the meantime you'll have a better (more reliable and manageable, likely more extensible, obviously less expensive (no support contracts)) system.
No, "lawyers" or anything related is not a good answer.
Moving to a new country and all he cares about is music and movies. Get a life brah.
Perhaps he cares about his life (not minutia such as music and movies), and he's heard stories about how "in someone's pocket" are the world's law enforcement agencies via its politicians and their lobbyists. Check a dictionary for the meaning of the word capricious. The last time I went through Customs, they confiscated my screwdriver and pair of pliers. They ignored the multitool with a three inch razor sharp blade hanging on my belt.
I don't feel safe anymore, and it's not terrorists that are causing it. OP is just being prudent in recognizing what's SOP these days. It's very gray out there in many ways, especially around border crossings.
The argument, as made to me, is doing these things demonstrates you are an active, respected member in your field, and that your ideas have traction.
Being "an active, respected member in your field" sounds like someone who can promote themself (marketing). Compare that to someone who just knows their stuff, is sensible enough to know what needs to be worked on, and improves the situation or makes a problem disappear, never to return.
Hans Reiser was an active, respected member of his field. People thought Ted Bundy was a wonderful person. Dennis Ritchie just got things that needed doing done. No self-promotion; just actions that speak for themselves.
SillyCon Valley values the immediate "next great woowoo" that'll drive an IPO and enrich shareholders. That gets us things like "social networking" and fart apps. I value engineers who can build bridges that don't fail, killing people.
You're one to talk. Do you get off on dumping extraneous punctuation into your writing for any particular reason? Who's this "summary William" you're asking? Why are you dragging Shatner into this?
"Who wrote this? Summary William? Shatner?
"Who wrote this summary? William Shatner?"
I take it you're unaware that the word "editor" has an entirely different definition here on/. than it has everywhere else?
Sigh. Go Edward!!! The USA should be thanking him for this lesson in humility.
The US has a whistleblower law that's ostensibly to protect them, yet this administration has attacked more whistleblowers than any other.
A "whistleblower" is someone who exposes illegal behavior or misconduct, and the "whistleblower law" is meant to protect him from reprisal. The problem here is that everything Snowden has exposed would appear to have the sanction of US law.
The problem here is Congress has written into law things it had no right to do as defined by the US' Constitution (Fourth Amendment):... which guards against unreasonable searches and seizures, along with requiring any warrant to be judicially sanctioned and supported by probable cause (emphasis mine). What probable cause allows the courts to believe *everyone in the world* is a valid suspect in the ongoing War On Terrorism? That's just utter rampant paranoia. Who put nutcases like that in charge?!?
Those laws Congress offers to justify this cannot provide sanction as they're unconstitutional. With the authorities using these laws to justify their actions, they've broken their oath to defend the Constitution. "Governing is hard" (to paraphrase Barbie).
First Orwell's "1984", now Kafka's "The Trial". What's next, Carrol's "Through The Looking Glass (Alice in Wonderland)"?
If you think we're in a 1984 state...
Did I say that? No. This discussion is centered on the (apparent) persecution of a whistleblower reporting the NSA's Hoovering up of private communications the world over on specious anti-terrorist grounds, apparently contrary to the constraints laid out in the USA's Constitution. That situation is why I mentioned Orwell as that situation strongly suggests we're headed in that direction, barring heroic actions (like Snowden's and Thomas Drake's) to the contrary.
I know, it's tough handling difficult concepts when you're hungover. It should wear off in a few hours, though.
I was really hoping that this whole ridiculous mess would wind up with him living freely as a hero in Hawaii. There's still time for that to happen. Whether it will is up to you, USA. Step up to the plate.
There is just something so wrong about all of this and on so many levels.
Yes. The US has a whistleblower law that's ostensibly to protect them, yet this administration has attacked more whistleblowers than any other. Thomas Drake was vindicated but after that Snowden wasn't comfortable relying on a whistleblower law that's being ignored. Now they're going after Snowden charging him with espionage when Snowden showed the NSA has been spying on Chinese civilians' communications.
First Orwell's "1984", now Kafka's "The Trial". What's next, Carrol's "Through The Looking Glass (Alice in Wonderland)"? Snowden's protectors so far are PRC, Russia, and Cuba. I feel a need to drag in "Rip van Winkle" here for some reason.
Is there some kind of undiagnosed "Drop Dead Simplemindedness Disease" running rampant through the USA official circles these days? John Dean's "Cancer on the presidency" comes to mind.
What a snivelling, imbecilic asshole you are. You don't like Google? Don't use them! I don't. You don't trust YouTube? Don't use it! Gmail? There's other (free even) email providers; don't use it! Android? CyanogenMod! Yeah, you'd get so much better consideration from Microsoft or Apple, right?
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Latin American Presidents would have just "had an accident" during the Cold War for a stunt like this.
I believe at least one African head of state met his demise this way, so yeah.
Because he WILLINGLY SIGNED UP WITH A SPY AGENCY ...
He signed up with Booz Allen to work at the NSA. When I signed up as a contractor to work at ExxonMobil, it was to fix broken tech., not to accept responsibility for the Exxon Valdes, et al. Snowden is a civilian, not a spook. This why he couldn't use whistleblower laws for protection (as if they're any protection).
I stand corrected. I'd forgotten about Sun Tzu. Thanks for the pointer to Miyazaki Musashi. I'll look for it.
... but the classic religious-castrated western worldview just go tribal-brain over any sex related matter
You don't even need to drag that crap into it. It's just the recent (last century or so) attitude that "childhood" is a sacrosanct state and parents have a right and duty to enable (enforce) their precious snowflakes to remain in that pure and unsullied state as long as is physically possible. Me telling my nephews that there's no such thing as Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, or the Tooth Fairy is considered damned near child abuse. How dare I inform them of the true state of reality?!? Why make them grow up before they have to!?! Er, so they'll be armed with knowledge in order to defend themselves?
Add all that to the reverence that eastern cultures have for male offspring, and the result (TFA) is inevitable.
But then there are just people against ads period. Must be a slow, lonely world in that room.
It used to be if I wanted to be barked at by a carnival midway barker, I went to a carnival. Now, it's getting difficult to find the news in a newspaper or magazine for all the ads. It seems like half the vehicles driving down any street are hawking something. Ads are everywhere. Mad Magazine used to do jokes about people driving down the highway unable to see scenery for all the billboards. That's reality now. The labels on clothing used to be sewn inside. Now they're banner ads. Same with eyeglasses, shoes, computer cases, backpacks, furniture, ...
Ads make me NOT want to buy your shit. If I want something, I'll find it without your offensive cacophany of screeching, irrelevant noise in my face. Burn in hell, marketroids.
So block the annoying ads, let the non-annoying ones through, and don't destroy the internet.
Hilarious. You crack me up. As if the Internet was nothing until the ad dollars showed up. Ha. Ha.
No teenager in the USA has ever been thrown is prison for 20 years for sexting. His argument might be valid, but he shouldn't be supporting it with outright lies.
Not for lack of trying, and you shouldn't be trying to downplay the threat! Anyone needing to spend themselves into poverty just to defend themselves from this malicious insanity would love to get their hands around your throat.
Says the typical Slashtard.
Says the typical shallow as a pane of glass webmonkey. Go play on Facebook.
It's more that ads from 201X are less irritating than ads from 200X in general.
Not at all true. Turn on a TV. Obnoxiously insipid and puerile, stars in their eyes twenty-somethings going gaga over shiny baubles they can't really begin to understand, and they want the latest version. Females futzing over cosmetics, shampoo, overpriced clothing, men extolling the virtues beer, of overpriced fuel guzzling hotrods, both of them falling for weight loss snakeoil, expensive and unnecessary pharmaceuticals, breast augmentation, hairloss treatments and cat toys. Halitosis, body odour, split ends, cracked fingernails, longer lashes ...
Ick. Holy !@#$%^& boring, and offensive! I hate sharing a planet with people like that, and you know what? Real people AREN'T like that, but "Madison Avenue" portrays us that way. The commercialized web is no better. I'm reminded of that, "We've already determined you're a whore. Now we're just haggling over price."
A teenager sexting their SO can get them twenty years in prison..
Uh huh, sure...
Fuck you and the donkey you rode in on.:
In Connecticut, Rep. Rosa Rebimbas introduced a bill that would lessen the penalty for "sexting" between two consenting minors in 2009. The bill would make it a Class A misdemeanor for children under 18 to send or receive text messages with other minors that include nude or sexual images. It is currently a felony for children to send such messages, and violators could end up on the state's sex offender registry.
[...]
In 2008, a Virginia assistant principal was charged with possession of child pornography and related crimes after he had been asked to investigate a rumored sexting incident at the high school where he worked. Upon finding a student in possession of a photo on his phone that depicted the torso of a girl wearing only underpants, her arms mostly covering her breasts, the assistant principal showed the image to the principal who instructed him to preserve the photo on his computer as evidence, which he did. The court later ruled that the photo did not constitute child pornography because under Virginia law, nudity alone is not enough to qualify an image as child pornography; the image must be "sexually explicit". Loudoun County Prosecutor James Plowman stood by his initial assessment of the photo and says he would not have pursued the case if the assistant principal had agreed to resign. Instead, the assistant principal got a second mortgage on his house and spent $150,000 in attorneys' fees to clear his name.
Asshole.
Japan being the last civilised country where possession of child porn is legal.
Maybe they're just not foolish enough to have fallen for the group think we have, which is what you accuse them of. Here, an X rated comic strip is considered child porn. A teenager sexting their SO can get them twenty years in prison and permanent listing on the perv roll.
Every society makes choices on what is the acceptable ways to express individuality. Japan, historically, has been fairly excessive that way in comparison to the rest of the world, but that's the way Japanese (historically) roll; to excess. Go was invented in China. Japan raised it to an art including endowing universities to teach it. The Samurai raised warfare to an art. They even raised serving tea to an art.
After all this time since they opened up to the west, many of us can't even begin to understand them. That's pretty amazing in itself.
Yeah. The thing to remember is that the NSA is as interested in protecting US interests ...
Yeah (*cough*Edward Snowden*cough*), right.
Erm ...
An open source implementation of the Z-wave protocol stack, openzwave, is available but it does not support the encryption part as of yet. Our talk will show how the Z-Wave protocol can be subjected to attacks.
If the closed source implementation *with encryption* is this fragile, what reason is there not to replace it with the OSS implementation? Eventually, the OSS version will support encryption and in the meantime you'll have a better (more reliable and manageable, likely more extensible, obviously less expensive (no support contracts)) system.
No, "lawyers" or anything related is not a good answer.
Moving to a new country and all he cares about is music and movies. Get a life brah.
Perhaps he cares about his life (not minutia such as music and movies), and he's heard stories about how "in someone's pocket" are the world's law enforcement agencies via its politicians and their lobbyists. Check a dictionary for the meaning of the word capricious. The last time I went through Customs, they confiscated my screwdriver and pair of pliers. They ignored the multitool with a three inch razor sharp blade hanging on my belt.
I don't feel safe anymore, and it's not terrorists that are causing it. OP is just being prudent in recognizing what's SOP these days. It's very gray out there in many ways, especially around border crossings.
Not sure why this got modded down, it makes good solid sense to me.
Moderators are voters, and voters ... (see above, way above).
The argument, as made to me, is doing these things demonstrates you are an active, respected member in your field, and that your ideas have traction.
Being "an active, respected member in your field" sounds like someone who can promote themself (marketing). Compare that to someone who just knows their stuff, is sensible enough to know what needs to be worked on, and improves the situation or makes a problem disappear, never to return.
Hans Reiser was an active, respected member of his field. People thought Ted Bundy was a wonderful person. Dennis Ritchie just got things that needed doing done. No self-promotion; just actions that speak for themselves.
SillyCon Valley values the immediate "next great woowoo" that'll drive an IPO and enrich shareholders. That gets us things like "social networking" and fart apps. I value engineers who can build bridges that don't fail, killing people.
Who wrote this, summary William, Shatner?
You're one to talk. Do you get off on dumping extraneous punctuation into your writing for any particular reason? Who's this "summary William" you're asking? Why are you dragging Shatner into this?
"Who wrote this? Summary William? Shatner?
"Who wrote this summary? William Shatner?"
I take it you're unaware that the word "editor" has an entirely different definition here on /. than it has everywhere else?
Sigh. Go Edward!!! The USA should be thanking him for this lesson in humility.
The US has a whistleblower law that's ostensibly to protect them, yet this administration has attacked more whistleblowers than any other.
A "whistleblower" is someone who exposes illegal behavior or misconduct, and the "whistleblower law" is meant to protect him from reprisal. The problem here is that everything Snowden has exposed would appear to have the sanction of US law.
The problem here is Congress has written into law things it had no right to do as defined by the US' Constitution (Fourth Amendment): ... which guards against unreasonable searches and seizures, along with requiring any warrant to be judicially sanctioned and supported by probable cause (emphasis mine). What probable cause allows the courts to believe *everyone in the world* is a valid suspect in the ongoing War On Terrorism? That's just utter rampant paranoia. Who put nutcases like that in charge?!?
Those laws Congress offers to justify this cannot provide sanction as they're unconstitutional. With the authorities using these laws to justify their actions, they've broken their oath to defend the Constitution. "Governing is hard" (to paraphrase Barbie).
First Orwell's "1984", now Kafka's "The Trial". What's next, Carrol's "Through The Looking Glass (Alice in Wonderland)"?
If you think we're in a 1984 state ...
Did I say that? No. This discussion is centered on the (apparent) persecution of a whistleblower reporting the NSA's Hoovering up of private communications the world over on specious anti-terrorist grounds, apparently contrary to the constraints laid out in the USA's Constitution. That situation is why I mentioned Orwell as that situation strongly suggests we're headed in that direction, barring heroic actions (like Snowden's and Thomas Drake's) to the contrary.
I know, it's tough handling difficult concepts when you're hungover. It should wear off in a few hours, though.
I'm not a fan of the NSA doing all of this, but anyone who didn't know it's been going on is a moron.
So, where's the treason? Is it treasonous to tell everyone that the sun sets in the west?
Do the world a favour and kill yourself.
I was really hoping he'd end up in Iceland.
I was really hoping that this whole ridiculous mess would wind up with him living freely as a hero in Hawaii. There's still time for that to happen. Whether it will is up to you, USA. Step up to the plate.
Might as well make the US law enforcement waste it times trying to figure out who to strong arm.
Next up, NSLs to all the airlines for backdoors into their reservations systems. "Oh shit! Did we forget to do that?!? Crap!"
This makes those 'In Soviet Russia' jokes somewhat more believable...
In Corporatocratic USA, NSA Whistleblows you!
There is just something so wrong about all of this and on so many levels.
Yes. The US has a whistleblower law that's ostensibly to protect them, yet this administration has attacked more whistleblowers than any other. Thomas Drake was vindicated but after that Snowden wasn't comfortable relying on a whistleblower law that's being ignored. Now they're going after Snowden charging him with espionage when Snowden showed the NSA has been spying on Chinese civilians' communications.
First Orwell's "1984", now Kafka's "The Trial". What's next, Carrol's "Through The Looking Glass (Alice in Wonderland)"? Snowden's protectors so far are PRC, Russia, and Cuba. I feel a need to drag in "Rip van Winkle" here for some reason.
Is there some kind of undiagnosed "Drop Dead Simplemindedness Disease" running rampant through the USA official circles these days? John Dean's "Cancer on the presidency" comes to mind.
What a snivelling, imbecilic asshole you are. You don't like Google? Don't use them! I don't. You don't trust YouTube? Don't use it! Gmail? There's other (free even) email providers; don't use it! Android? CyanogenMod! Yeah, you'd get so much better consideration from Microsoft or Apple, right?
Idiot.
So don't do drugs.
I'll bet you fit the dictionary definition of "loser":
A person who is habitually unsuccessful at some endeavor ...
"Looser" means:
Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book.
For you, I vote overdose, luser.