This presupposes that the cultural clash between the military and the hackers is about their fashion choices instead of being about devoting your life to the more efficient killing of other people in the pursuit of enriching the already rich and powerful.
He might want to think beyond allowing non-regulation haircuts and piercings.
For fuck's sake, anyone who's read Make magazine could make an unmanned explosive drone by buying a quadropter from Brookstone and duct taping a bomb to it. Take off from a backyard.
Technology will not be getting any harder in the future, folks.
The TSA: Keeping us safe from yesterday's threat, today.
> if 0bama is reelected, businesses will continue to face the same disastrous approach > On the other hand, if Romney is elected, a different set of businesses will continue to face the same disastrous approach
Idiots. They will lose far more than 3000 Euros from the bad publicity. Who wants to go to a university that sues their best students? I wonder if the alumni association will have the balls to call him for donations in the years to come...
"The history of anonymous political free speech in America dates back to our founding. The seminal essays found in “The Federalist Papers” were written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay under the nom de plume of “Publius” although this was not confirmed until a list of authorship complied by Hamilton was posthumously released to the public. "
I personally agree with you that anonymous speech has an important role... but the founding fathers understood very well that signing the declaration of independence could very well get them killed. They were ready to face the consequences of their not-anonymous speech.
> ppls in US or Sweden or Japan or something don't have to worry
Unless you had consensual sex without a condom in Sweden, which apparently is enough to get you extradited from the UK for questioning. Oh, minor sex-infraction plus you pissed off the US.
Seriously? "Just" find out the relevant sections of the registry and dependant dlls of every application you have installed before you can properly back them up? If you are serious and this is some 'best practice' for backing up please direct me to some info about this because I'd like to use it. More likely this suggestion is totally impractical and unusable.
I really love how reinstalling Windows destroys all of my apps and a backup doesn't help because the damn registry won't be right, requiring me to reinstall all of my apps and reconfiguring all of them by hand. Love that.
> "Could an experiment called MintChip brewing in Canada finally take us to cashless nirvana?"
When you see a headline in the form of a question, the answer is always "no". It means the writer doesn't have enough (any?) evidence to back up a conclusion, but the conclusion will attract readers, so he posits it in the form of a question.
> Could we stop such stupid wording? There's no war here. Nobody has died or is dying because of what they are pretending are weapons, which are in fact just a bunch of bits. This is becoming very silly, and I don't buy into this propaganda
Shhhhh! Stop calling out the emperor's new clothes. I have a computer security business and this level of groundless hype is good for business.
> I think cops see boring, normal people and apparently "interesting" people.
You must not know many cops. I have several in the family. They see everyone as either "perps" that have been caught or "perps" that haven't been caught yet.
Oh, and of course the third category, cops (perps that will never be caught).
Yeah, the British authorities shouldn't be forced to work with a "looking over your shoulder" effect on them. That situation is very stressful and will make you paranoid. I'm glad the British authorities understand the awful stress of constantly being monitored and surveilled.
I never got the point of making my bed either, but my wife grew up in the tropics where it was always windy and blew a lot of dust around. If you didn't make your bed you would be sleeping in a gritty sandbox that night.
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> The fact that our government doesn't do it aggressively too is the odd part
How do you know our government isn't already doing the same?
Look at Stuxnet... we have the capability.
This presupposes that the cultural clash between the military and the hackers is about their fashion choices instead of being about devoting your life to the more efficient killing of other people in the pursuit of enriching the already rich and powerful.
He might want to think beyond allowing non-regulation haircuts and piercings.
For fuck's sake, anyone who's read Make magazine could make an unmanned explosive drone by buying a quadropter from Brookstone and duct taping a bomb to it.
Take off from a backyard.
Technology will not be getting any harder in the future, folks.
The TSA: Keeping us safe from yesterday's threat, today.
Yes, he is using the same strategy as the TSA. Focus on yesterday's problem, not tomorrow's.
> if 0bama is reelected, businesses will continue to face the same disastrous approach
> On the other hand, if Romney is elected, a different set of businesses will continue to face the same disastrous approach
There, fixed that for you.
At least that's what they write in the history books.
Don't believe it for a second. Name a conflict and I (or someone) will follow the money and resources that someone wanted.
Idiots. They will lose far more than 3000 Euros from the bad publicity. Who wants to go to a university that sues their best students?
I wonder if the alumni association will have the balls to call him for donations in the years to come...
What alternate universe did this story come from?
> Microsoft has a long and storied history of leadership in the tech industry, and the company has driven innovation for decades
No, Microsoft has a long and storied history of waiting for someone else to invent something, then copying it and out-marketing it.
> the company's mobile position has deteriorated and left it with a low single-digit market share
Wa-wa-what? When did Microsoft have a dominant mobile position? Or even a noticeable market position?
I correct myself:
"The history of anonymous political free speech in America dates back to our founding. The seminal essays found in “The Federalist Papers” were written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay under the nom de plume of “Publius” although this was not confirmed until a list of authorship complied by Hamilton was posthumously released to the public. "
I personally agree with you that anonymous speech has an important role... but the founding fathers understood very well that signing the declaration of independence could very well get them killed. They were ready to face the consequences of their not-anonymous speech.
> ppls in US or Sweden or Japan or something don't have to worry
Unless you had consensual sex without a condom in Sweden, which apparently is enough to get you extradited from the UK for questioning. Oh, minor sex-infraction plus you pissed off the US.
Seriously? "Just" find out the relevant sections of the registry and dependant dlls of every application you have installed before you can properly back them up?
If you are serious and this is some 'best practice' for backing up please direct me to some info about this because I'd like to use it. More likely this suggestion is totally impractical and unusable.
I really love how reinstalling Windows destroys all of my apps and a backup doesn't help because the damn registry won't be right, requiring me to reinstall all of my apps and reconfiguring all of them by hand. Love that.
If you mod me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.
> "Could an experiment called MintChip brewing in Canada finally take us to cashless nirvana?"
When you see a headline in the form of a question, the answer is always "no".
It means the writer doesn't have enough (any?) evidence to back up a conclusion, but the conclusion will attract readers, so he posits it in the form of a question.
In the meantime, if someone could make a car you can drive with just ONE HAND that would be good enough.
I thought we are in a post-9/11 world. Shit. Now I have to go and rethink my positions on everything.
This is why we can't have anything nice.
The Internet was fun while it lasted.
> Could we stop such stupid wording? There's no war here. Nobody has died or is dying because of what they are pretending are weapons, which are in fact just a bunch of bits. This is becoming very silly, and I don't buy into this propaganda
Shhhhh! Stop calling out the emperor's new clothes. I have a computer security business and this level of groundless hype is good for business.
And what's the deal with 'c' and 'k'?
> I think cops see boring, normal people and apparently "interesting" people.
You must not know many cops. I have several in the family. They see everyone as either "perps" that have been caught or "perps" that haven't been caught yet.
Oh, and of course the third category, cops (perps that will never be caught).
Yeah, the British authorities shouldn't be forced to work with a "looking over your shoulder" effect on them. That situation is very stressful and will make you paranoid. I'm glad the British authorities understand the awful stress of constantly being monitored and surveilled.
I've been standing in the park for four fucking hours now. Where the hell are the teenagers?!
Nations with increased education, wealth, and equality ( and access to birth control ) have lower birth rates.
The world population is expected to level off at around 10 billion, not to grow forever. Watch this talk by Hans Rosling
I never got the point of making my bed either, but my wife grew up in the tropics where it was always windy and blew a lot of dust around. If you didn't make your bed you would be sleeping in a gritty sandbox that night.