"3. You've taken a job away from an honest man and given it to a crook."
a crook can't steal a job from an honest man if the job in question doesn't exist. the crooks in question here are doing jobs no one else is doing. otherwise, their exploit wouldn't exist
"4. The other half million blokes in prison still get to rot."
yes, which is exactly what they deserve. robbing banks and raping women isn't very new or very interesting. discovering a technological exploit no one else is doing IS interesting and useful to society, however badly implented by the crook. thus, under supervision, they get free card out of prison to use their skills for good rather than for smarmy pranks or self-indulgence at the expense of society
that tom hanks/ leonardo decaprio movie about frank abagnale serves up the most useful point about guys like these:
1. convict them and put them in prison 2. take them out and convert their sentence into useful work for the federal government. if they f**k up, back in the hole they go
when some guy finds a chink in a voting system and exploits it, yes, he's done wrong, but he's also done society a service, no matter what his intentions were. this doesn't necessarily need to be rewarded, but it does need to be recognized as useful work in pursuit of a useful goal for society. these individuals, however morally and ethically flawed, still have use to society
what they need is supervision, like frank abegnale, and skills that previously went to petty vandalism and self-indulgence at the expense of society can instead be converted into useful work for society. these individual must be supervised, since their ability to form ethical and moral decisions has obviously been shown to be severely compromised, but you will note that frank abegnale today is currently very wealthy and quite the free man, and all of his current wealth accumulated through honest work. rehab is not only possible, but it is also profitable, for the individual who needs an ethical and moral correction, and society at large
where there are less paranoid schizophrenic twits constantly obsessing with Them(tm), who control all minds by controlling all media secretly in the background
but ignore me dude. i'm obviously a neocon apologist agent of the illumnati come to cast aspersions on your blindingly keen insights into our contemporary media landscape
don't let me interfere with your cutting grasp of the current state of the secret world domination conspiracy
they've fooled everyone but YOU! YOU ALONE KNOW THE TRUTH. BUT NOW THEY ARE COMING FOR YOU. YOU ARE THE LAST OF A DYING BRAVE FEW TO REALIZE THE REAL TRUTH OF OUR COMPROMISED MEDIA. YOU TOOK A BIG RISK POSTING HERE
but the interstellar dustcloud waterchild concept wins hollywood glamor points, while your more reasonable point of view is mundane and humdrum
it is a facet of scientific theory formation known as michael bayification: the more dramatic and trippy the theory, the more likely it is to spread in the popular press, and therefore to gain more traction in the minds of the average joe
"5 billion interstellar dustcloud water" is just so cool sounding man. while your point of view is full of zzz
so c'mon, get with the program, your ideas are just so drab. perhaps if you redescribed your theory as it would appear being mumbled by a secret military organization figurehead in a big budget disaster movie. make believe you are a 23 year old hollywood script writer perusing wikipedia in forming your scientific mumbo jumbo
repeat after me: "hyperplanetary accretion disc catalysis"
or "gravity well coupled reverse electrolysis"
there you go, now we are playing in the big leagues of science-theory-by-public-relations-ad-copy-writer
i would modify your comment to say that china is not a capitalist country on the INSIDE, but it is very much a capitalist country in how it relates to the wider world: china is one giant corporation
look at your average corporation: on the inside of the corporation it is run like an autocracy, or an oligarchy, just liek china is. the average corporation exists within a capitalist framework, but capitalism has nothing to do with how the corporation functions on the inside
and so it is with china: view china as one giant corporation, and you understand capitalism's true relationship to china
That's cool because all the water in the solar system, including almost every drop you drink on Earth today, must have formed in exactly this way more than 5 billion years ago in a pre-solar dustcloud
in the immortal words of Keanu Reeves: "Whoaaa"
also forming in that dustcloud 5 billion years ago were minute traces of lysergic acid diethylamide. slight traces of which may also enable you to appreciate the far-out implications of you being a 5 billion year old dustcloud waterchild
if you view china itself as one giant corporation, and the world as the marketplace, you can call it capitalism. just shift the scope of what you are talking about from how things work inside china to how china relates to the world
how things work inside china is police state: you have no rights to expression, to vote, to the press, or anything other than work. every aspect of your media is controlled by the government, every aspect of your expression is censored and unapproved expression (talking ill of your government, oppressed minorities, or even just pornography places you at the jeopardy of being punished)
so this is indeed not capitalism. it is merely life inside the corporate structure. a corporation exists within a captalist framework, but life INSIDE the corporation, how things work inside the machine, are not capitalistic, they are autocratic, an oligarchy (i called china an autocracy, it would be more accurate to call it an oligarchy: it is not run by one grumpy old man, but a gang of grumpy old men)
north korea is officially called "Democratic People's Republic of Korea". north korea is also just about the least democratic country in the world. meaning: you shouldn't trust official names
at one time, yes, china was a communist country that practiced communist ideology. that was a long time ago. it is more exact today to say the china is perhaps the most capitalist country in the world, rivalling the gilded ages of victorian times in the usa, when capitalism ran amok with very few legal constraints. such that you had monopolies, child labor, pinkerton gangs hobbling the kneecaps of unionists, etc back then in the usa. now in china you have pretty much the same thing. in china now there are multibillionaires and starving peasants on a scale of ultrarich cities versus grueling impoverished countryside like nowhere else except perhaps the rich gulf arab oil states
china is not a worker's paradise anymore, it is a capitalist's paradise, because there are no pesky democratic impulses in the political sphere to interfere with the pure unadulterated pursuit of the almighty buck. its pure autocracy, technocracy, pure capitalism. china is one giant corporation now
that the country is officially run by something called the "Communist Party of China" is just sort of a cosmic ironic joke at this point
i understand that you hate the usa. you fling various charges against the usa, most of which in fact are true
but its not a theocracy moron
if you really hate the usa and you want to defeat it, you have to understand what it actually is. but you don't even understand the true nature of what you hate. which makes you loud and stupid and useless
so please, hate the usa, be my guest. but hate it for what it actually is. not the odd hysterical propaganda your mind operates under. although, saying that your mind operates is giving you a fair bit of credit. i don't think intelligence and reason has much to do with what you beleive
i don't care if you hate the united states. i don't care if you love the united states. everyone views this problem through the prism of the usa this or that
why are people babbling about the usa?
iran is a THEOCRACY. you know, grumpy old men who think they have a monopoly on the word of god?
and i don't know about you, but a skeptical view of religious fundamentalism, to me, is a necessity for a healthy mind. being such a person, this is what i think: a THEOCRACY with NUCLEAR BOMBS strikes me as a VERY BAD IDEA FOR THE WORLD no matter WHAT ELSE IS GOING ON IN IT
i don't really see how any other observation concerning iran and nuclear power somehow trumps, surpasses, modifies, or eclipses this point
you may now continue with the "bless the usa" "fuck the usa" fest, completely forgetting the real issue here
The form of government of Iran is that of an Islamic Republic, endorsed by the people of Iran on the basis of their longstanding belief in the sovereignty of truth and Qur'anic justice, in the referendum of Farwardin 9 and 10 in the year 1358 of the solar Islamic calendar, corresponding to Jamadi al-'Awwal 1 and 2 in the year 1399 of the lunar Islamic calendar (March 29 and 30, 1979], through the affirmative vote of a majority of 98.2% of eligible voters, held after the victorious Islamic Revolution led by the eminent marji' al-taqlid, Ayatullah al-Uzma Imam Khumayni.
Article 2
The Islamic Republic is a system based on belief in:
1.the One God (as stated in the phrase "There is no god except Allah"), His exclusive sovereignty and the right to legislate, and the necessity of submission to His commands; 2.Divine revelation and its fundamental role in setting forth the laws; 3.the return to God in the Hereafter, and the constructive role of this belief in the course of man's ascent towards God; 4.the justice of God in creation and legislation; 5.continuous leadership (imamah) and perpetual guidance, and its fundamental role in ensuring the uninterrupted process of the revolution of Islam; 6.the exalted dignity and value of man, and his freedom coupled with responsibility before God; in which equity, justice, political, economic, social, and cultural independence, and national solidarity are secured by recourse to: 1.continuous ijtihad of the fuqaha' possessing necessary qualifications, exercised on the basis off the Qur'an and the Sunnah of the Ma'sumun, upon all of whom be peace;
ok, and this government is going to have nukes?
and you are all pissing away about the usa is great/ the usa sucks?
why the fuck is everyone babbling about the usa? what a bunch of fools you all are to completely miss the main issue here
HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
REAL ISSUE: OVER HERE: THEOCRACY WITH NUKES
no, not the propaganda kind of theocracy, the real kind, as in, THE FACT IT IS A THEOCRACY IS IN THE FUCKING CONSTITUTION
wake up the fuck up fools. THEOCRACY WITH NUKES=BAD IDEA. some of you, of course, won't wake the fuck up until you see a mushroom cloud, unfortunately
they took down napster, so file sharing became decentralized. now they go after identity via ip. so identity obfuscation is the next software step
anyone caught via ip identification is simply collateral damage that drives the development of the next cycle of cryptic clients. and also drives users to the next software cycle out of fear as well
so thank you riaa, for providing the motivation to develop battle-scarred, robust, secure identity-hiding file sharing
(rolls eyes)
you can't win this game, riaa morons. you just provide incentive to beat you. you really think your lawyers can defeat an army of tech savvy music hungry poor teenagers?
when you send a college kid into bankruptcy, you don't teach him a lesson. you don't teach anyone else a lesson. you just make people fear you. and that's not what law and order is based on: law enforcement doesn't work out of fear. law and orde ris based on ethics and morality. law enforcement works out of a necessity to teach respect for a moral and ethical position, to people who have no morals or ethics. law enforcement does NOT work by teaching moral and ethical people that fear is more important than morals and ethics. capisce? understand the difference you fucktards?
all you do when you sue a college kid for thousands, is you give him and anyone else aware of the fear-based punitive damage, incentive to beat you at your game of strong arm tactics. you think now he is going to buy a $15 cd? no! he's just going to use a russian proxy you stupid fucking twits
why doesn't he "fall in line"? because there is no moral or ethical validity to what you are doing. you don't create compliance, you create resentment, because there is no morality you are teaching with your violence. your tactics only work when there is a moral position behind them. THERE IS NONE
the money you leverage from music sales does not go to the artists. you give them pennies. those artists are better off financially putting out a tip jar and distributing for free and not getting involved with you parasites. all you are doing with the money you leverage from music sales is shore up a dead business model with your lawyer goons
you're a weed. you have no moral or ethical reason to exist. and so you are there to be vanquished and beaten. we must spray you with herbicide and yank up your roots as you howl until you are surely dead. listen up riaa: THE BUSINESS MODEL YOU PROTECT IS DEAD ALREADY. THE INTERNET KILLED IT. WAKE THE FUCK UP. MOVE ON
so bring on your legions of lawyers, you asswipes. you're going down. we welcome the fight. you can't win this game. you're too fuckign stupid not to see that you are on the losing end of progress
sh1t, copypaste wut m fon sez "Dear TmobileVerizon Subscriber: The German RIAA has placed an embargo on all German media content on this cell number, including ScentFon modules, due to unauthorized content access via FonTorrent."
fukmi!!!
d00d, its da st00pid techno song u told me to dload last time!!!
"oj is guilty" according to whites is to "oj is guilty" according to blacks
as
"reiser is guilty" according to average joes is to "reiser is guilty" according to _____
hint: rhymes with "gerds" or "neeks"
that was a joke, but seriously, this case reveals sociology going on here. if reiser didn't program a file system, not only would no one here care, but most everyone protesting his conviction here would probably agree with it
what does writing a file system have to do with first degree murder? absolutely nothing
except according to all the douchebags here protesting this murderer's innocence here on slashdot
prejudice according to clique. tribalism. its a powerful motivator. just look at all the comments here grandstanding on this murderer's innocence. as if they would know better than a jury
you don't
you present two sides of a case to a jury of your peers. they decide. there is no better of arbiter of justice. don't like the verdict. why do you think you know better?
you don't
deal with it. move on. the guy is murdering asshole. according to a jury. good enough for me. why isn't good enough for you?
a free press, where anything can be printed, even though it sometimes includes the government line
is not the same as
a press that can't print anything without government approval
because the government gets its viewpoint out there with all the viewpoints, thats the same as a press that is allowed ONLY to print the government viewpoint?
3 choices concerning the interpretation of the fact that the usa has a very high prison population:
1. american culture breeds lots of criminals 2. american justice is puritanical and extreme 3. the usa does a better job of catching criminals than other countries do
that is, all i take from the high us prison population is that other countries have more criminals per capita roaming the streets. criminality is a constant across all countries. human nature is a constant. i wouldn't expect one country or another to have a lot more criminals than the next. but perhaps some do awful jobs catching crooks, and some do good jobs
i mean you can compare the usa to spitsbergen too if you like. i'm sure the prison there is tiny and only populated by the town drunk sleeping it off. but it doesn't seem like an instructive comparison to me. i mean, the prison populations are low in haiti too. so haiti is like lceland? what? the conclusions one can draw form prison populations don't tell you mcuh without other variables considered
scandinavian countries and finland are dark and cold. the people there are usually morbid or drunk. hey, that's not a smear, don't take my word for it, ask any swede or dane or finn, they'll tell you the same. so the criminals there are passed out or its too cold to go outside
so i don't think scandinavia has much to teach the rest of the world about how to run a country, just something to teach the world about what it is like living on permafrost
there seems to be a story 2 here: what the trojan will do in a few weeks to all of the IE users who visit these half a million sites
and, reading some of the links and finding that these trojan hosting domains are registered in china, there also seems to be a story 3: chinese hackers are pissed off
i got hacked shortly after the hainan island incident in 2001. that is when the us spy satellite was bumped a chinese fighter, and was forced to land on hainan island (china). there was much chinese nationalist anger then, and it was taken out by hacking western sites with "f**k usa!" and the chinese flag replacing the main page
obviously, this hack is contemporaneous with the whole tibet riots/ olympic torch protests. that's the meat of this story, and that avenue seems unexplored as of yet. similar to the russian ddos of estonia due to the deprecation of a war statue in 2007: the lesson is that, much like al qaeda and terrorism, cyber warfare is not so much a tool of any state government, but chest-thumping activity for ultranationalists and religious bigots and other organizations of cultural or national or religious chauvinism. the theme of the 21st century seems to be shaping up as partisan tribalism and extreme ideology reaching beyond the notions of sovereignty, statehood to go to war with each other in a novel ways
but your question is really asking "wouldn't you like to live in iceland?"
i'm glad icelanders have such low prison and crime rates. good for iceland. lets all clap for iceland
exactly what do you think your point is?
the idea i guess is that you want to turn the united states into iceland
ok. well lets freeze the country. then make it dark half the year. then decimate the population to a low density. then make it a monoculture of stoic scandinavians. then isolate it in the middle of an ocean far from any neighbors
how about you do this instead: go to dhaka, the capital of bangladesh. where corruption is through the roof. and the prison population is a lot lower then the us. now ask your average bangladeshi if: 1. they are filled with patriotism at how empty their jails are compared to the usa 2. or, if they would like to see their jails swell with some of the criminals they have to deal with everyday
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"3. You've taken a job away from an honest man and given it to a crook."
a crook can't steal a job from an honest man if the job in question doesn't exist. the crooks in question here are doing jobs no one else is doing. otherwise, their exploit wouldn't exist
"4. The other half million blokes in prison still get to rot."
yes, which is exactly what they deserve. robbing banks and raping women isn't very new or very interesting. discovering a technological exploit no one else is doing IS interesting and useful to society, however badly implented by the crook. thus, under supervision, they get free card out of prison to use their skills for good rather than for smarmy pranks or self-indulgence at the expense of society
"Better technology," any of us with a brain asserts, "is merely resulting in better clients. Next up: IP obfuscation"
morons
9 thousand lawyers versus 90 million technologically savvy, music hungry, poor teenagers
place your wagers
you lose, morons
that tom hanks/ leonardo decaprio movie about frank abagnale serves up the most useful point about guys like these:
1. convict them and put them in prison
2. take them out and convert their sentence into useful work for the federal government. if they f**k up, back in the hole they go
when some guy finds a chink in a voting system and exploits it, yes, he's done wrong, but he's also done society a service, no matter what his intentions were. this doesn't necessarily need to be rewarded, but it does need to be recognized as useful work in pursuit of a useful goal for society. these individuals, however morally and ethically flawed, still have use to society
what they need is supervision, like frank abegnale, and skills that previously went to petty vandalism and self-indulgence at the expense of society can instead be converted into useful work for society. these individual must be supervised, since their ability to form ethical and moral decisions has obviously been shown to be severely compromised, but you will note that frank abegnale today is currently very wealthy and quite the free man, and all of his current wealth accumulated through honest work. rehab is not only possible, but it is also profitable, for the individual who needs an ethical and moral correction, and society at large
where there are less paranoid schizophrenic twits constantly obsessing with Them(tm), who control all minds by controlling all media secretly in the background
but ignore me dude. i'm obviously a neocon apologist agent of the illumnati come to cast aspersions on your blindingly keen insights into our contemporary media landscape
don't let me interfere with your cutting grasp of the current state of the secret world domination conspiracy
they've fooled everyone but YOU! YOU ALONE KNOW THE TRUTH. BUT NOW THEY ARE COMING FOR YOU. YOU ARE THE LAST OF A DYING BRAVE FEW TO REALIZE THE REAL TRUTH OF OUR COMPROMISED MEDIA. YOU TOOK A BIG RISK POSTING HERE
watch out! behind you!
(snicker)
but the interstellar dustcloud waterchild concept wins hollywood glamor points, while your more reasonable point of view is mundane and humdrum
it is a facet of scientific theory formation known as michael bayification: the more dramatic and trippy the theory, the more likely it is to spread in the popular press, and therefore to gain more traction in the minds of the average joe
"5 billion interstellar dustcloud water" is just so cool sounding man. while your point of view is full of zzz
so c'mon, get with the program, your ideas are just so drab. perhaps if you redescribed your theory as it would appear being mumbled by a secret military organization figurehead in a big budget disaster movie. make believe you are a 23 year old hollywood script writer perusing wikipedia in forming your scientific mumbo jumbo
repeat after me: "hyperplanetary accretion disc catalysis"
or "gravity well coupled reverse electrolysis"
there you go, now we are playing in the big leagues of science-theory-by-public-relations-ad-copy-writer
of the trollocracy ;-)
i would modify your comment to say that china is not a capitalist country on the INSIDE, but it is very much a capitalist country in how it relates to the wider world: china is one giant corporation
look at your average corporation: on the inside of the corporation it is run like an autocracy, or an oligarchy, just liek china is. the average corporation exists within a capitalist framework, but capitalism has nothing to do with how the corporation functions on the inside
and so it is with china: view china as one giant corporation, and you understand capitalism's true relationship to china
i'm just riffing on my previous comment, btw:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=543286&cid=23299960
in the immortal words of Keanu Reeves: "Whoaaa"
also forming in that dustcloud 5 billion years ago were minute traces of lysergic acid diethylamide. slight traces of which may also enable you to appreciate the far-out implications of you being a 5 billion year old dustcloud waterchild
duuude
if you view china itself as one giant corporation, and the world as the marketplace, you can call it capitalism. just shift the scope of what you are talking about from how things work inside china to how china relates to the world
how things work inside china is police state: you have no rights to expression, to vote, to the press, or anything other than work. every aspect of your media is controlled by the government, every aspect of your expression is censored and unapproved expression (talking ill of your government, oppressed minorities, or even just pornography places you at the jeopardy of being punished)
so this is indeed not capitalism. it is merely life inside the corporate structure. a corporation exists within a captalist framework, but life INSIDE the corporation, how things work inside the machine, are not capitalistic, they are autocratic, an oligarchy (i called china an autocracy, it would be more accurate to call it an oligarchy: it is not run by one grumpy old man, but a gang of grumpy old men)
not communist
north korea is officially called "Democratic People's Republic of Korea". north korea is also just about the least democratic country in the world. meaning: you shouldn't trust official names
at one time, yes, china was a communist country that practiced communist ideology. that was a long time ago. it is more exact today to say the china is perhaps the most capitalist country in the world, rivalling the gilded ages of victorian times in the usa, when capitalism ran amok with very few legal constraints. such that you had monopolies, child labor, pinkerton gangs hobbling the kneecaps of unionists, etc back then in the usa. now in china you have pretty much the same thing. in china now there are multibillionaires and starving peasants on a scale of ultrarich cities versus grueling impoverished countryside like nowhere else except perhaps the rich gulf arab oil states
china is not a worker's paradise anymore, it is a capitalist's paradise, because there are no pesky democratic impulses in the political sphere to interfere with the pure unadulterated pursuit of the almighty buck. its pure autocracy, technocracy, pure capitalism. china is one giant corporation now
that the country is officially run by something called the "Communist Party of China" is just sort of a cosmic ironic joke at this point
it really isn't
i understand that you hate the usa. you fling various charges against the usa, most of which in fact are true
but its not a theocracy moron
if you really hate the usa and you want to defeat it, you have to understand what it actually is. but you don't even understand the true nature of what you hate. which makes you loud and stupid and useless
so please, hate the usa, be my guest. but hate it for what it actually is. not the odd hysterical propaganda your mind operates under. although, saying that your mind operates is giving you a fair bit of credit. i don't think intelligence and reason has much to do with what you beleive
why are people babbling about the usa?
iran is a THEOCRACY. you know, grumpy old men who think they have a monopoly on the word of god?
and i don't know about you, but a skeptical view of religious fundamentalism, to me, is a necessity for a healthy mind. being such a person, this is what i think: a THEOCRACY with NUCLEAR BOMBS strikes me as a VERY BAD IDEA FOR THE WORLD no matter WHAT ELSE IS GOING ON IN IT
i don't really see how any other observation concerning iran and nuclear power somehow trumps, surpasses, modifies, or eclipses this point
you may now continue with the "bless the usa" "fuck the usa" fest, completely forgetting the real issue here
here, it is, by the way, the real issue here:
http://www.iranonline.com/iran/iran-info/Government/constitution-1.html
ok, and this government is going to have nukes?
and you are all pissing away about the usa is great/ the usa sucks?
why the fuck is everyone babbling about the usa? what a bunch of fools you all are to completely miss the main issue here
HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
REAL ISSUE: OVER HERE: THEOCRACY WITH NUKES
no, not the propaganda kind of theocracy, the real kind, as in, THE FACT IT IS A THEOCRACY IS IN THE FUCKING CONSTITUTION
wake up the fuck up fools. THEOCRACY WITH NUKES=BAD IDEA. some of you, of course, won't wake the fuck up until you see a mushroom cloud, unfortunately
that it can only be used by alcoholics
if it is used by anyone else, the suit is not an iron man, it is a war machine
no, that's twatter
they took down napster, so file sharing became decentralized. now they go after identity via ip. so identity obfuscation is the next software step
anyone caught via ip identification is simply collateral damage that drives the development of the next cycle of cryptic clients. and also drives users to the next software cycle out of fear as well
so thank you riaa, for providing the motivation to develop battle-scarred, robust, secure identity-hiding file sharing
(rolls eyes)
you can't win this game, riaa morons. you just provide incentive to beat you. you really think your lawyers can defeat an army of tech savvy music hungry poor teenagers?
when you send a college kid into bankruptcy, you don't teach him a lesson. you don't teach anyone else a lesson. you just make people fear you. and that's not what law and order is based on: law enforcement doesn't work out of fear. law and orde ris based on ethics and morality. law enforcement works out of a necessity to teach respect for a moral and ethical position, to people who have no morals or ethics. law enforcement does NOT work by teaching moral and ethical people that fear is more important than morals and ethics. capisce? understand the difference you fucktards?
all you do when you sue a college kid for thousands, is you give him and anyone else aware of the fear-based punitive damage, incentive to beat you at your game of strong arm tactics. you think now he is going to buy a $15 cd? no! he's just going to use a russian proxy you stupid fucking twits
why doesn't he "fall in line"? because there is no moral or ethical validity to what you are doing. you don't create compliance, you create resentment, because there is no morality you are teaching with your violence. your tactics only work when there is a moral position behind them. THERE IS NONE
the money you leverage from music sales does not go to the artists. you give them pennies. those artists are better off financially putting out a tip jar and distributing for free and not getting involved with you parasites. all you are doing with the money you leverage from music sales is shore up a dead business model with your lawyer goons
you're a weed. you have no moral or ethical reason to exist. and so you are there to be vanquished and beaten. we must spray you with herbicide and yank up your roots as you howl until you are surely dead. listen up riaa: THE BUSINESS MODEL YOU PROTECT IS DEAD ALREADY. THE INTERNET KILLED IT. WAKE THE FUCK UP. MOVE ON
so bring on your legions of lawyers, you asswipes. you're going down. we welcome the fight. you can't win this game. you're too fuckign stupid not to see that you are on the losing end of progress
d00d, sc3nt txt me quik
...
wut up?
dropd m fon n da toilet, need u 2 txt me lysol
no lysol. febr33z. m gf sez i need
d00d i dont care, just dload lysol, quik
okok, hold on
sh1t, copypaste wut m fon sez "Dear TmobileVerizon Subscriber: The German RIAA has placed an embargo on all German media content on this cell number, including ScentFon modules, due to unauthorized content access via FonTorrent."
fukmi!!!
d00d, its da st00pid techno song u told me to dload last time!!!
fukmi!!!
"oj is guilty" according to whites is to "oj is guilty" according to blacks
as
"reiser is guilty" according to average joes is to "reiser is guilty" according to _____
hint: rhymes with "gerds" or "neeks"
that was a joke, but seriously, this case reveals sociology going on here. if reiser didn't program a file system, not only would no one here care, but most everyone protesting his conviction here would probably agree with it
what does writing a file system have to do with first degree murder? absolutely nothing
except according to all the douchebags here protesting this murderer's innocence here on slashdot
prejudice according to clique. tribalism. its a powerful motivator. just look at all the comments here grandstanding on this murderer's innocence. as if they would know better than a jury
you don't
you present two sides of a case to a jury of your peers. they decide. there is no better of arbiter of justice. don't like the verdict. why do you think you know better?
you don't
deal with it. move on. the guy is murdering asshole. according to a jury. good enough for me. why isn't good enough for you?
this story is so emo
i guess you get your opinion from all those multimillion dollar anticorporate antigovernment movies
(smacks forehead)
actually, you should be impressed with us spy satellite technology: it can swoop down into the atmosphere for closer looks ;-)
a free press, where anything can be printed, even though it sometimes includes the government line
is not the same as
a press that can't print anything without government approval
because the government gets its viewpoint out there with all the viewpoints, thats the same as a press that is allowed ONLY to print the government viewpoint?
you really believe that?
3 choices concerning the interpretation of the fact that the usa has a very high prison population:
1. american culture breeds lots of criminals
2. american justice is puritanical and extreme
3. the usa does a better job of catching criminals than other countries do
that is, all i take from the high us prison population is that other countries have more criminals per capita roaming the streets. criminality is a constant across all countries. human nature is a constant. i wouldn't expect one country or another to have a lot more criminals than the next. but perhaps some do awful jobs catching crooks, and some do good jobs
i mean you can compare the usa to spitsbergen too if you like. i'm sure the prison there is tiny and only populated by the town drunk sleeping it off. but it doesn't seem like an instructive comparison to me. i mean, the prison populations are low in haiti too. so haiti is like lceland? what? the conclusions one can draw form prison populations don't tell you mcuh without other variables considered
scandinavian countries and finland are dark and cold. the people there are usually morbid or drunk. hey, that's not a smear, don't take my word for it, ask any swede or dane or finn, they'll tell you the same. so the criminals there are passed out or its too cold to go outside
so i don't think scandinavia has much to teach the rest of the world about how to run a country, just something to teach the world about what it is like living on permafrost
ok, story 1 is a sql injection
there seems to be a story 2 here: what the trojan will do in a few weeks to all of the IE users who visit these half a million sites
and, reading some of the links and finding that these trojan hosting domains are registered in china, there also seems to be a story 3: chinese hackers are pissed off
i got hacked shortly after the hainan island incident in 2001. that is when the us spy satellite was bumped a chinese fighter, and was forced to land on hainan island (china). there was much chinese nationalist anger then, and it was taken out by hacking western sites with "f**k usa!" and the chinese flag replacing the main page
obviously, this hack is contemporaneous with the whole tibet riots/ olympic torch protests. that's the meat of this story, and that avenue seems unexplored as of yet. similar to the russian ddos of estonia due to the deprecation of a war statue in 2007: the lesson is that, much like al qaeda and terrorism, cyber warfare is not so much a tool of any state government, but chest-thumping activity for ultranationalists and religious bigots and other organizations of cultural or national or religious chauvinism. the theme of the 21st century seems to be shaping up as partisan tribalism and extreme ideology reaching beyond the notions of sovereignty, statehood to go to war with each other in a novel ways
they have government talking heads in teh media!
its just like teh fascism!
please. try reason and logic next time. hysterical paranoia is not a valid replacement
oh, btw, my comment under that story, you should familiarize yourself with the notion of what free speech and free media really means:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=531142&cid=23164506
but your question is really asking "wouldn't you like to live in iceland?"
i'm glad icelanders have such low prison and crime rates. good for iceland. lets all clap for iceland
exactly what do you think your point is?
the idea i guess is that you want to turn the united states into iceland
ok. well lets freeze the country. then make it dark half the year. then decimate the population to a low density. then make it a monoculture of stoic scandinavians. then isolate it in the middle of an ocean far from any neighbors
how about you do this instead: go to dhaka, the capital of bangladesh. where corruption is through the roof. and the prison population is a lot lower then the us. now ask your average bangladeshi if:
1. they are filled with patriotism at how empty their jails are compared to the usa
2. or, if they would like to see their jails swell with some of the criminals they have to deal with everyday