USA's authoritarian, Orwellian stance is hurting American companies' ability to compete in the global market, domestic and international. It hurts the American economy.
I'm not sure who the subject of 'missing the point' is here, so I can't address that, but yeah - I suspect India knows that by doing this, they may spur some competitive enterprises in India to fill the gap. I'm all for world trade and such, but for Pete^W Lakshmi's sake, India's own government should be patronizing its businesses, not foreign corporations.
"Besides, we've been crossing the Atlantic for thousands of years."
Yes, you clearly know your stuff. Everyone should pay attention to your ideas, which aren't crazy or stupid in the least.
Tread carefully - there's pretty good evidence for commerce between Africa and South America in that time frame, and the Chinese mega-ships were almost that long ago.
There is currently no company that can realistically make something like a moon colony happen, much less a mars colony, because there needs to be some kind of return of investment.... It's just not something that's going to happen until a mars rover unearths a huge diamond deposit, or discovers some martian species capable of picking fruit for cheaper than the Mexicans. :) Your post is self-solving. The Moon is full of helium-3, which is essential to profitable fusion generators on Earth, which would pick up so many carbon credits (in the jurisdictions that are so predicated) that they will take over just as soon as the R&D is ready and the governments get out of the way (the R&D is likely the easier part).
It merely makes it harder to craft a working exploit from bugs like buffer overflows, but not impossible.
As I understood it, without being able to predict any addresses you were not able to get your exploit to jump to a good address to attach shell code to. But I'm not an exploit writer - I was hoping somebody could explain why that isn't working as a deterrent, but it sounds like I'm asking on the wrong board today.
Like making sure Russia isn't cheating on its ballistic missile treaty obligations? Like looking for North Korea making preparations to launch missiles at Japan? Like Iran assembling a nuclear warhead? I think you have a "funny" idea there, probably more than one.
Your scare tactics don't work on me - I don't live in fear, and America doesn't work when people do (even Francis Scott Key got that right) . Japan can worry about Japan. Russia isn't planning to bomb the world. Iran hasn't started a war with another country in 150 years. If you're afraid of Iran, you should look at the CIA, which even admitted this week to overthrowing its democracy and installing the government that led directly to the Islamic Revolution and the current clusterfuck of a government they have there.
America is not the World Police, but the US intelligence agencies do violate our highest laws (and International law) every single day. We need to take care of our internal problems as our primary responsibility.
No, fuck that. It's our moral responsibility to make sure this shit hits every wall in the room.
Right - don't enable the bastards. Does a spook have to spend three days re-installing his PC because some stupid rule says that he has to if he reads a WashPo article? Good, that's three days less that he can be doing other damage.
Somebody give me a "Top Secret" nugget that's been in the MSM for months so I can I can put in my.sig.
Drives me bananas when governments pass law after law after law, with no mechanism for enforcement. It should be required that the government fund enforcement if a new law is passed, and that enforcement cannot be funded through borrowing.
Unlikely - the point of doing that is, that when you need to "get" somebody, you can pull out a huge laundry list of "crimes" that they've committed and then force them into a plea deal (instead of life in prison for a minor crime, plus add-ons).
King George did much the same thing in the American Colonies.
Yes, but address space randomization was supposed to make those exploits (mostly buffer overflows) obsolete, regardless of their intent. Clearly that didn't work if there are still jailbreaks and/or other exploits.
Maybe it's that they are afraid of losing their "it just works" image if people notice they keep pushing patches like the rest of the industry...
Gosh, I'd hope it would be the opposite. People do care that "it just works" but nobody expects it to be "born of perfection". Rapid response to issues would be part of "just working".
No, coming back as Microsoft CEO was the deal he was given when he was sent to Nokia to destroy all its value.
This seems likely; I was on record here saying to expect an acquisition, or at least an IP buy-out, after it had its value devastated - but I still haven't seen what Microsoft could do differently than Nokia is doing to actually succeed with a Windows phone.
This is probably the most publicity that Milligan will ever have in his life.
I'd give even money that he's just trying to punk the academic establishment - seeing what kind of publicity an insane "libtard" position paper can get.
The "spin" here is like a top spinning, not "spin" as when you're talking about subatomic particles.
Of all the examples... At first I thought it was just strange, but I decided I wasn't down with the way you're trying to confuse people; those who want to get to the bottom of this can look it up, so don't expect to charm your way out of this one!
just to play Nancy NoFun: Jefferson expected these kinds of abuses and advocated appropriate responses to it. That's why he's classified as an extremist by DoD these days.
I don't doubt the us gov is capable of false flag. But if they were to make a false flag attempt, why something so lame?
So Twitter was rated #1 by the EFF on resisting government warrant(less) data grabs and the NYT has recently started tipping over to the side of working with Snowden and Greenwald.
Other than that, I can't see any motivation to pick those two high-profile American targets.
The problem with this measurement is that it's only to be expected for there to be less activity at the time. When you take into account the heavy militarized police/military/occupational force that flooded into Boston, you have to expect that social communications and outings will decrease significantly.
That and the effect of an illegal martial law being imposed and having troops in the streets pointing rifles at homeowners would have on former military suffering from PTSD.
So you don't feel completely ambivalent about making these donations?
I'm not saying you should - "giving is its own reward" is probably a more ancient saying than modern English - just that being charitable makes most people feel good.
Agreed. I just spent the morning finishing up (I hope...) working out a contract between a user (corporation) and an open source project's authors to get some fixes/enhancements done that they need, but are going to go out publicly (no core competency concerns there).
So, um, yeah, gimme call next time - maybe you just need somebody who will manage the process. It's probably taken me 12 hours so far to get this setup, so it's not simply a matter of shooting off an e-mail and a check. There are concerns about disclosure, access, ownership, service levels, length of term, etc.
The human cultures that are most exposed to modern scientific education are also those with birth rates below replacement levels. So, for whatever reason, scientific education is co-related with the decline of human civilization. If it leads to the decline of human cultures, it is not moral.
They're also those with effective/available birth control, female equality, and education.
Don't worry, though - as soon as we build our AI's and fusion reactors, humans will have more time to boink, pursue art, and raise families. It takes science, though, if you want to do it without famine and pestilence.
I've used OmniPage... many many years ago, and their OCR engine wasn't bad back in the day - but couldn't comment nowadays.
It used to be a great seller back in the early 90's when I was working Mac tech support. The odd thing is, I tried it out a few years ago (c. 2008) on a modern Windows machine and it seemed to be just as accurate as when I used it on an SE/30 in '93.
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I think Russia would be the experts, not the US.
Yes, and they'd probably charge less too. The current may not be flowing their way, but their oceans are much closer to the problem as well.
USA's authoritarian, Orwellian stance is hurting American companies' ability to compete in the global market, domestic and international. It hurts the American economy.
I'm not sure who the subject of 'missing the point' is here, so I can't address that, but yeah - I suspect India knows that by doing this, they may spur some competitive enterprises in India to fill the gap. I'm all for world trade and such, but for Pete^W Lakshmi's sake, India's own government should be patronizing its businesses, not foreign corporations.
By insisting it's too risky and too expensive and can't be quantified, he's just perpetuating false reasons not to go into space ... by anyone.
He's good with astronomy and communications. We can give him a pass for not being very sharp on economics.
"Besides, we've been crossing the Atlantic for thousands of years."
Yes, you clearly know your stuff. Everyone should pay attention to your ideas, which aren't crazy or stupid in the least.
Tread carefully - there's pretty good evidence for commerce between Africa and South America in that time frame, and the Chinese mega-ships were almost that long ago.
There is currently no company that can realistically make something like a moon colony happen, much less a mars colony, because there needs to be some kind of return of investment. ... It's just not something that's going to happen until a mars rover unearths a huge diamond deposit, or discovers some martian species capable of picking fruit for cheaper than the Mexicans. :) Your post is self-solving. The Moon is full of helium-3, which is essential to profitable fusion generators on Earth, which would pick up so many carbon credits (in the jurisdictions that are so predicated) that they will take over just as soon as the R&D is ready and the governments get out of the way (the R&D is likely the easier part).
It merely makes it harder to craft a working exploit from bugs like buffer overflows, but not impossible.
As I understood it, without being able to predict any addresses you were not able to get your exploit to jump to a good address to attach shell code to. But I'm not an exploit writer - I was hoping somebody could explain why that isn't working as a deterrent, but it sounds like I'm asking on the wrong board today.
Like making sure Russia isn't cheating on its ballistic missile treaty obligations? Like looking for North Korea making preparations to launch missiles at Japan? Like Iran assembling a nuclear warhead? I think you have a "funny" idea there, probably more than one.
Your scare tactics don't work on me - I don't live in fear, and America doesn't work when people do (even Francis Scott Key got that right) . Japan can worry about Japan. Russia isn't planning to bomb the world. Iran hasn't started a war with another country in 150 years. If you're afraid of Iran, you should look at the CIA, which even admitted this week to overthrowing its democracy and installing the government that led directly to the Islamic Revolution and the current clusterfuck of a government they have there.
America is not the World Police, but the US intelligence agencies do violate our highest laws (and International law) every single day. We need to take care of our internal problems as our primary responsibility.
No, fuck that. It's our moral responsibility to make sure this shit hits every wall in the room.
Right - don't enable the bastards. Does a spook have to spend three days re-installing his PC because some stupid rule says that he has to if he reads a WashPo article? Good, that's three days less that he can be doing other damage.
Somebody give me a "Top Secret" nugget that's been in the MSM for months so I can I can put in my .sig.
Drives me bananas when governments pass law after law after law, with no mechanism for enforcement. It should be required that the government fund enforcement if a new law is passed, and that enforcement cannot be funded through borrowing.
Unlikely - the point of doing that is, that when you need to "get" somebody, you can pull out a huge laundry list of "crimes" that they've committed and then force them into a plea deal (instead of life in prison for a minor crime, plus add-ons).
King George did much the same thing in the American Colonies.
Yes, but address space randomization was supposed to make those exploits (mostly buffer overflows) obsolete, regardless of their intent. Clearly that didn't work if there are still jailbreaks and/or other exploits.
But the GP was referring to jailbreaks - I thought those were exploits "used for good"?
Maybe it's that they are afraid of losing their "it just works" image if people notice they keep pushing patches like the rest of the industry...
Gosh, I'd hope it would be the opposite. People do care that "it just works" but nobody expects it to be "born of perfection". Rapid response to issues would be part of "just working".
I thought Apple added address space randomization back in Leopard? What happened?
No, coming back as Microsoft CEO was the deal he was given when he was sent to Nokia to destroy all its value.
This seems likely; I was on record here saying to expect an acquisition, or at least an IP buy-out, after it had its value devastated - but I still haven't seen what Microsoft could do differently than Nokia is doing to actually succeed with a Windows phone.
This is probably the most publicity that Milligan will ever have in his life.
I'd give even money that he's just trying to punk the academic establishment - seeing what kind of publicity an insane "libtard" position paper can get.
The "spin" here is like a top spinning, not "spin" as when you're talking about subatomic particles.
Of all the examples... At first I thought it was just strange, but I decided I wasn't down with the way you're trying to confuse people; those who want to get to the bottom of this can look it up, so don't expect to charm your way out of this one!
just to play Nancy NoFun: Jefferson expected these kinds of abuses and advocated appropriate responses to it. That's why he's classified as an extremist by DoD these days.
I don't doubt the us gov is capable of false flag. But if they were to make a false flag attempt, why something so lame?
So Twitter was rated #1 by the EFF on resisting government warrant(less) data grabs and the NYT has recently started tipping over to the side of working with Snowden and Greenwald.
Other than that, I can't see any motivation to pick those two high-profile American targets.
Sure it's a race, but it's not much of one.
And if either of them 'won', then humanity wins. What's the overhead in running the contest? This makes no sense based on the given excuses.
The problem with this measurement is that it's only to be expected for there to be less activity at the time. When you take into account the heavy militarized police/military/occupational force that flooded into Boston, you have to expect that social communications and outings will decrease significantly.
That and the effect of an illegal martial law being imposed and having troops in the streets pointing rifles at homeowners would have on former military suffering from PTSD.
The only self-benefit is to my karma.
So you don't feel completely ambivalent about making these donations?
I'm not saying you should - "giving is its own reward" is probably a more ancient saying than modern English - just that being charitable makes most people feel good.
Except that altruism is not logical.
It's extremely hard to find an example of pure altruism that doesn't have benefits for one's self or family/community.
Agreed. I just spent the morning finishing up (I hope...) working out a contract between a user (corporation) and an open source project's authors to get some fixes/enhancements done that they need, but are going to go out publicly (no core competency concerns there).
So, um, yeah, gimme call next time - maybe you just need somebody who will manage the process. It's probably taken me 12 hours so far to get this setup, so it's not simply a matter of shooting off an e-mail and a check. There are concerns about disclosure, access, ownership, service levels, length of term, etc.
The human cultures that are most exposed to modern scientific education are also those with birth rates below replacement levels. So, for whatever reason, scientific education is co-related with the decline of human civilization. If it leads to the decline of human cultures, it is not moral.
They're also those with effective/available birth control, female equality, and education.
Don't worry, though - as soon as we build our AI's and fusion reactors, humans will have more time to boink, pursue art, and raise families. It takes science, though, if you want to do it without famine and pestilence.
I've used OmniPage ... many many years ago, and their OCR engine wasn't bad back in the day - but couldn't comment nowadays.
It used to be a great seller back in the early 90's when I was working Mac tech support. The odd thing is, I tried it out a few years ago (c. 2008) on a modern Windows machine and it seemed to be just as accurate as when I used it on an SE/30 in '93.