Whereas if porch piracy were shut down (at substantial cost and inconvenience), the people who do it would just start stealing by other means.
Most theft happens because the theif thinks she will get away with it.
Yes and no. Theft happens because people has a bad moral and think he or she can get away with it.
It may have tones of thought police but I've always felt that stings and entrapment are the way to go to get people with bad morals to reveal themselves as the criminals they are or will be given the right circumstances - and have them prosecuted.
You can think that all you want, people with a brain know Assange has been stalked with trumped up charges from the very corrupt people he's been exposing, the whole thing is a sham for those who are educated.
Well, the charges from Sweden were rather far-fetched but not completely insane as Sweden has a pretty feminist rape law that basically allows women to change their minds after the fact and still get a rape conviction against the man they had sex with. In the Assange case he had sex with two women in Sweden and both now claims that they agreed to have protected sex only and Assange didn't use a condom. He claims there was no conditions to the sex and a written contract or similar is not required so it's words against words, and the law then favors the women only.
He's not wrong, in that they're not charging Assange with treason or with receiving classified materials.
They've made up charges, saying he "hacked" a classified system with Bradley Manning, and the two of them "hacked a password" as part of a conspiracy to retrieve classified documents.
Yes, seriously, Assange is being charged with conspiracy to hack a password. It's the only way they could come up with to extradite him.
Exactly. Same thing with Kim Dotcom (founder and owner of MegaUpload) - he operated a popular bitlocker and made money selling storage space and bandwidth. In order to get him extradited from New Zealand they made up a bunch of stuff, including conspiracy and what have you. In reality he just aided copyright infringement which is a misdemeanor and thus very far from an extraditable offense.
They went from a company that may possibly install backdoors to one that will certainly do so.
No, it went from a company that will certainly install backdoors to benefit someone else to one that equally certainly will do so, but primarily to benefit our side.
The more speech is suppressed the stronger the suppressed will react. Censorship is a loser's game
Correct. Resorting to censorship is a desperate act of someone who doesn't want certain facts to come out.
The only way to properly react to hate is to rebuff it in a open debate. If your arguments hold up, you'll not lose the debate. Suppressing certain views will only make them stronger.
Or the simple If it's OK for the U.S. to interfere in Russian elections, why wouldn't you expect them to return the favor ?
I seriously doubt the US interfered much with the Russian elections. Most of the interference came from within Russia; the Putin supporters usually make sure he (or his preferred candidate) wins. Nothing to see here - move on.
I'm sorry but in my mind a kid about to be convicted for armed robbery should NOT have any expectation of privacy. He should feel lucky to avoid prison because that's where he belongs. A kid that age shouldn't be involved in more than a bit of shoplifting, vandalism and similar, not armed robbery. If you do that you both have the wrong friends and a really bad moral spine.
My reading of the Quran tells me that violence is condoned in the event of an attack by an oppressive host which does not tolerate Islamic worship, and as retaliation for other acts of violence.
In the absence of such provocations, peace and amity are enjoined.
One could say that this policy matches that followed by the nation of Israel.
Either you are misrepresenting or you have not studied the matter fully.
So what you are saying is that
- Not accepting Islamic worship (and thus lifestyle) is a provocation - Provocation is a valid excuse for violence
Which again means that every country or area with a Muslim minority that are trying to enforce their way of life upon others, but are met with resistance, are valid targets for violence?
Most western countries resist certain parts of the Islamic way of life, including gender separation, discrimination against women and homosexuals and the expected adoption of Islamic rules, like a ban on pork and alcohol. Some also resist the veil or especially the full face covering of the burka and the niqab. So violence against these countries is both justified and expected?
Religion provides a justification for some heinous acts... but this can also apply to any situation where someone in a position of power is instructing others (who willfully follow) to do a certain action.
The root cause is that there are just too many humans on the planet that are satisfied letting someone else tell them what to believe. As long as our species is this way, there will always be a select few who take advantage of it.
Actually certain religions comes with instructions to be evil towards everybody else, but to offer them peace and salvation if they convert... Islam is certainly one of these and the sheer number of evil acts world wide against non-Muslims is staggering. Yes, this is mostly the result of evil people using or abusing the religion to manipulate (brainwash) the feeble-minded into becoming tools for the evil of the controller. It certainly helps that a lot of the followers are illiterate and thus unable to know anything but what they're told, but what is scary is that some IS-warriors (especially the foreign fighters) are very well-educated and yet they're still victims of the thought control exercised by their evil leaders - or maybe they're evil themselves? - That can be hard to tell without a close examination. My bet is on evil and maybe a bit mentally disturbed beyond the usual mass delusion that make up all religion.
But who in their right mind would connect an MRI machine to the internet?
In my experience almost all CT and MRI scanners are connected to the internet, although usually on separate vlans that isn't directly connected to the open internet, but some are only protected by a firewall and perhaps some port mapping.
Many hospitals also rely on radiologists-for-hire outside the hospitals to read and diagnose the images so there's access from the outside to the DICOM-databases holding the images, although usually through a VPN tunnel.
Now, if a malware infects the external radiologists computers and uses the VPN to enter the closed network where the DICOM-databases live... The databases are not encrypted so the malware would be free to read and modify any image, completely without being detected. Access logging is usually only done through the imaging software so if you go below that and access the database directly, you can do what you want and at some point it will cost lives. Also, the ransomware attack on the DHSC in the UK shows that most 'administrative' computers on a hospital usually is connected to the internet in order to send/receive emails and so on. If they get infected, it only takes an unprotected connection between them and the DICOM-network to open the can of worms.
It ain't just IBM. Shall we take a look at the average employee age at Facebook? Google? People over 50 don't get interviews, don't get hired, and are the first out the door when the layoffs come. I thank god every day that I went into stodgy defense work, where young people generally don't want to work and being over 50 is not seen as a deal breaker (my PhD probably doesn't hurt either), and I've had 25 years of steady employment.
It's sad really. No amount of schooling can even dream of surpassing experience. Here in Denmark we actually see the opposite - 5-10 years of 'relevant experience' is a requirement in many tech job openings. They don't care about school diplomas, only experience. I've never had so many recruiters hunt me since I passed the 50-mark; I get perhaps 4-5 requests each week but I recently took the bait in one and jumped - and now I've been in my current job for 2 months. Better pay, better benefits and the age of my collegues range from late 20's to well up into the 70's with the average around my own age. Here we value knowledge and experience above everything else. It's a tech job but our 'product' is knowledge and analysis of that.
Anyone who thinks Muslins did it from a cave in Afghanistan should do the human race a favor and just kill themselves.
Anyone who thinks some Jews were able to manipulate a bunch of fanatical Muslims (including their leader sitting in a cave in Afghanistan) to execute the complex plan that ended in 9/11 should check his/her tinfoil hat carefully as it seem to be frying the brain.
How is the insurance company screwing you if you willingly don't comply with the speed limit? Speed limits are there for a reason.
Yeah, usually populist politics.
Sure, there are obviously sensible limits (residential areas, near schools etc.) but a lot of the speed limits outside the cities are more or less random, guided only by politics. There are areas where a lot of people are affected by accidents and yet the speed limit stay high, and then there are areas where nobody really lives but where lower speed limits suddenly appear. This lack of sense undermines the belief in them and then people tend to drive as they please.
Don't worry, it's only being used against people who disagree with us
Facebook has a long history of censoring stuff they simply don't like regardless of it actually being against any law or not.
Their rules on "hate speech" is a dozen lines but accounts for a huge amount of blocking/removal. In particular they don't like uncomfortable facts, like the massive over-representation of Muslims living in the west within certain crime areas, like violence, robbery, domestic violence, rape and fraud. Just mention this and you're likely to be penalized. I got hit by replying to someone complaining that yet another crime show had Muslims as terrorists, that it simply reflected reality where most terror acts in the last couple of decades were perpetrated by Muslims. Just in the last 30 days there were 111 Islamic attacks in 20 countries, in which 611 people were killed and 728 injured. In the same time period only 1 attack was perpetrated by a non-Muslim and that was the attack in Christchurch that left 50 dead and a similar number injured. Source: https://www.thereligionofpeace...
I hope those Iranian hackers were not trying to sabotage American factories.
That would be small potatoes and retardedly shortsighted. It's far more likely that they were seeking to get credentials to get deeper access into the workplaces of the targets to copy intellectual property which can cost millions to develop.
Or simply gain a foothold inside vital companies, energy distribution and other essential systems. They could then sabotage their operation as an act of (covert) war. This is pretty much SOP for military intelligence services worldwide and "state hackers" is simply another word for "hackers working for the Iranian military intelligence service".
Back in the olden days (the 1970's) I actually wrote an essay about this phenomena. It was a huge fear among typesetters back then that computers were making them obsolete, and sure enough - that profession is all but gone today. The fear was that all jobs would be automated, making everybody unemployed.
It's easy to generalize from typesetters to everybody, but then - as now - people didn't (or couldn't) think on. Because we're not all unemployed today. Quite the opposite! - Here in Denmark we're at the highest employment level ever. Never before in history there was this many people with jobs, both in numbers and in percentage of the population. There are still people without jobs, but fewer and fewer.
What happened? - Exactly what I said back then: Automation generates a lot of new jobs because somebody has to invent, design, build and maintain the machines. The machines also create new needs and new opportunities. A lot of other new stuff gets invented all the time, and things change. Nobody in the 1970's could have predicted that 'influencers' (on social media) would be a thing, or even that there would be 'social media' with all that entails (servers, data centers, power supply, cooling, support, monitoring, security etc.). The funny thing is that this constant change has always been there. There were no mechanics until the combustion engine was invented. There were no librarians until the printed book was invented. There were no carpenters until we leaned to work with wood. At the same time most blacksmiths went out of business when horses were replaced with horsepower in engines, and video rental went out of business when streaming came along. Times change but so far we've always been able to fill the void with new jobs serving a new era. I don't see any reason that this will ever stop.
Yes, it means that people will have to find new jobs in new professions when their old one goes obsolete, but then again - it has always been like that.
People are looking for places where they can say what they feel like (that's real freedom of expression) and 8chan has become such a place, like 4chan used to be.
When we live in a world where a comment to a news story about yet another hostage/terrorist drama with Islamist bad guys can cause 30 days in Facebook jail. Here's the details and the 'horrible hate speech' it contains: "No, a story like that simply reflects real life where Muslims do most of the terrorist killing in the world today, vastly outnumbering all other kinds of terrorists when it comes to both number of dead and number of incidents."
It's not made up or exaggerated in any way. It's simply uncomfortable facts. Just in the week around the Christchurch attack where 50 Muslim people got killed, about 120 people got killed in a number of Islamist attacks on christian and catholic churches in both Africa, The Middle East and the predominantly Muslim areas of East Asia - and it was a relatively quiet week...
I suppose that depends on what the Russian Government defines as "fake news"...
The stuff manufactured by the troll factories like the Internet Research Agency clearly is... but that is legal because it is meant for western media...
So much for fizzling. Our defense intelligence service neither couldn't nor wouldn't guarantee that Huawei would not be using their technology to spy or disrupt vital areas of infrastructure, so nobody wanted to take a chance. It's as simple as that.
One of the big points were that despite the whole thing hinged on the fact that a Chinese company would have to submit to total government control in case the government wanted to, and the blatantly obviously solution would be to move Huawei out of China to cut that control, nobody even considered that at Huawei which made it obvious that the government control was a central part of business, and thus that it is a core goal to place technology everywhere that the Chinese government could control easily if it so desired.
Germany thanks the USA by going Communist. Having universal health care does not make you communist, moron.
No, but claiming that it is better than the insurance-based healthcare the US has, tend to make you appear dumb.
If you dig deeper you'll see that it is horribly expensive and the prime target for 'cost reductions', making it sub-standard at best in real life. At least that is how it works here in Denmark - long waits for non-emergency treatment, severely understaffed, way too early release after treatment... and a tendency to host lingering department-wide infections due to rushed daily routines and sub-standard cleaning.
If Huawei really is an innocently accused company that has nothing to do with the Chinese state and its intelligence branches, they should state so and if necessary move out of China to escape any forced cooperation. But this hasn't happened and to me it is a clear admission that all the rumors are true.
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Remember this? "Welcome to the Internet! - Where the men are men, the women are men as well, and the kids are undercover FBI-agents."
It's still true, but now everybody might be a government agent, a troll or a spy. Enjoy!
Whereas if porch piracy were shut down (at substantial cost and inconvenience), the people who do it would just start stealing by other means.
Most theft happens because the theif thinks she will get away with it.
Yes and no. Theft happens because people has a bad moral and think he or she can get away with it.
It may have tones of thought police but I've always felt that stings and entrapment are the way to go to get people with bad morals to reveal themselves as the criminals they are or will be given the right circumstances - and have them prosecuted.
You can think that all you want, people with a brain know Assange has been stalked with trumped up charges from the very corrupt people he's been exposing, the whole thing is a sham for those who are educated.
Well, the charges from Sweden were rather far-fetched but not completely insane as Sweden has a pretty feminist rape law that basically allows women to change their minds after the fact and still get a rape conviction against the man they had sex with. In the Assange case he had sex with two women in Sweden and both now claims that they agreed to have protected sex only and Assange didn't use a condom. He claims there was no conditions to the sex and a written contract or similar is not required so it's words against words, and the law then favors the women only.
He's not wrong, in that they're not charging Assange with treason or with receiving classified materials.
They've made up charges, saying he "hacked" a classified system with Bradley Manning, and the two of them "hacked a password" as part of a conspiracy to retrieve classified documents.
Yes, seriously, Assange is being charged with conspiracy to hack a password. It's the only way they could come up with to extradite him.
Exactly. Same thing with Kim Dotcom (founder and owner of MegaUpload) - he operated a popular bitlocker and made money selling storage space and bandwidth. In order to get him extradited from New Zealand they made up a bunch of stuff, including conspiracy and what have you. In reality he just aided copyright infringement which is a misdemeanor and thus very far from an extraditable offense.
They went from a company that may possibly install backdoors to one that will certainly do so.
No, it went from a company that will certainly install backdoors to benefit someone else to one that equally certainly will do so, but primarily to benefit our side.
The more speech is suppressed the stronger the suppressed will react. Censorship is a loser's game
Correct. Resorting to censorship is a desperate act of someone who doesn't want certain facts to come out.
The only way to properly react to hate is to rebuff it in a open debate. If your arguments hold up, you'll not lose the debate. Suppressing certain views will only make them stronger.
Or the simple If it's OK for the U.S. to interfere in Russian elections, why wouldn't you expect them to return the favor ?
I seriously doubt the US interfered much with the Russian elections. Most of the interference came from within Russia; the Putin supporters usually make sure he (or his preferred candidate) wins. Nothing to see here - move on.
I'm sorry but in my mind a kid about to be convicted for armed robbery should NOT have any expectation of privacy. He should feel lucky to avoid prison because that's where he belongs. A kid that age shouldn't be involved in more than a bit of shoplifting, vandalism and similar, not armed robbery. If you do that you both have the wrong friends and a really bad moral spine.
Misrepresent much???
My reading of the Quran tells me that violence is condoned in the event of an attack by an oppressive host which does not tolerate Islamic worship, and as retaliation for other acts of violence.
In the absence of such provocations, peace and amity are enjoined.
One could say that this policy matches that followed by the nation of Israel.
Either you are misrepresenting or you have not studied the matter fully.
So what you are saying is that
- Not accepting Islamic worship (and thus lifestyle) is a provocation
- Provocation is a valid excuse for violence
Which again means that every country or area with a Muslim minority that are trying to enforce their way of life upon others, but are met with resistance, are valid targets for violence?
Most western countries resist certain parts of the Islamic way of life, including gender separation, discrimination against women and homosexuals and the expected adoption of Islamic rules, like a ban on pork and alcohol. Some also resist the veil or especially the full face covering of the burka and the niqab. So violence against these countries is both justified and expected?
Religion provides a justification for some heinous acts... but this can also apply to any situation where someone in a position of power is instructing others (who willfully follow) to do a certain action.
The root cause is that there are just too many humans on the planet that are satisfied letting someone else tell them what to believe. As long as our species is this way, there will always be a select few who take advantage of it.
Actually certain religions comes with instructions to be evil towards everybody else, but to offer them peace and salvation if they convert... Islam is certainly one of these and the sheer number of evil acts world wide against non-Muslims is staggering. Yes, this is mostly the result of evil people using or abusing the religion to manipulate (brainwash) the feeble-minded into becoming tools for the evil of the controller. It certainly helps that a lot of the followers are illiterate and thus unable to know anything but what they're told, but what is scary is that some IS-warriors (especially the foreign fighters) are very well-educated and yet they're still victims of the thought control exercised by their evil leaders - or maybe they're evil themselves? - That can be hard to tell without a close examination. My bet is on evil and maybe a bit mentally disturbed beyond the usual mass delusion that make up all religion.
But who in their right mind would connect an MRI machine to the internet?
In my experience almost all CT and MRI scanners are connected to the internet, although usually on separate vlans that isn't directly connected to the open internet, but some are only protected by a firewall and perhaps some port mapping.
Many hospitals also rely on radiologists-for-hire outside the hospitals to read and diagnose the images so there's access from the outside to the DICOM-databases holding the images, although usually through a VPN tunnel.
Now, if a malware infects the external radiologists computers and uses the VPN to enter the closed network where the DICOM-databases live... The databases are not encrypted so the malware would be free to read and modify any image, completely without being detected. Access logging is usually only done through the imaging software so if you go below that and access the database directly, you can do what you want and at some point it will cost lives. Also, the ransomware attack on the DHSC in the UK shows that most 'administrative' computers on a hospital usually is connected to the internet in order to send/receive emails and so on. If they get infected, it only takes an unprotected connection between them and the DICOM-network to open the can of worms.
But getting longer warmer summers and less ice and snow in the winter makes up for it! :)
Canada will soon be a livable country.
If they get rid of Justin Trudeau that is...
It ain't just IBM. Shall we take a look at the average employee age at Facebook? Google? People over 50 don't get interviews, don't get hired, and are the first out the door when the layoffs come. I thank god every day that I went into stodgy defense work, where young people generally don't want to work and being over 50 is not seen as a deal breaker (my PhD probably doesn't hurt either), and I've had 25 years of steady employment.
It's sad really. No amount of schooling can even dream of surpassing experience. Here in Denmark we actually see the opposite - 5-10 years of 'relevant experience' is a requirement in many tech job openings. They don't care about school diplomas, only experience. I've never had so many recruiters hunt me since I passed the 50-mark; I get perhaps 4-5 requests each week but I recently took the bait in one and jumped - and now I've been in my current job for 2 months. Better pay, better benefits and the age of my collegues range from late 20's to well up into the 70's with the average around my own age. Here we value knowledge and experience above everything else. It's a tech job but our 'product' is knowledge and analysis of that.
Anyone who thinks Muslins did it from a cave in Afghanistan should do the human race a favor and just kill themselves.
Anyone who thinks some Jews were able to manipulate a bunch of fanatical Muslims (including their leader sitting in a cave in Afghanistan) to execute the complex plan that ended in 9/11 should check his/her tinfoil hat carefully as it seem to be frying the brain.
How is the insurance company screwing you if you willingly don't comply with the speed limit? Speed limits are there for a reason.
Yeah, usually populist politics.
Sure, there are obviously sensible limits (residential areas, near schools etc.) but a lot of the speed limits outside the cities are more or less random, guided only by politics. There are areas where a lot of people are affected by accidents and yet the speed limit stay high, and then there are areas where nobody really lives but where lower speed limits suddenly appear. This lack of sense undermines the belief in them and then people tend to drive as they please.
Don't worry, it's only being used against people who disagree with us
Facebook has a long history of censoring stuff they simply don't like regardless of it actually being against any law or not.
Their rules on "hate speech" is a dozen lines but accounts for a huge amount of blocking/removal. In particular they don't like uncomfortable facts, like the massive over-representation of Muslims living in the west within certain crime areas, like violence, robbery, domestic violence, rape and fraud. Just mention this and you're likely to be penalized. I got hit by replying to someone complaining that yet another crime show had Muslims as terrorists, that it simply reflected reality where most terror acts in the last couple of decades were perpetrated by Muslims. Just in the last 30 days there were 111 Islamic attacks in 20 countries, in which 611 people were killed and 728 injured. In the same time period only 1 attack was perpetrated by a non-Muslim and that was the attack in Christchurch that left 50 dead and a similar number injured. Source: https://www.thereligionofpeace...
I hope those Iranian hackers were not trying to sabotage American factories.
That would be small potatoes and retardedly shortsighted. It's far more likely that they were seeking to get credentials to get deeper access into the workplaces of the targets to copy intellectual property which can cost millions to develop.
Or simply gain a foothold inside vital companies, energy distribution and other essential systems. They could then sabotage their operation as an act of (covert) war. This is pretty much SOP for military intelligence services worldwide and "state hackers" is simply another word for "hackers working for the Iranian military intelligence service".
Back in the olden days (the 1970's) I actually wrote an essay about this phenomena. It was a huge fear among typesetters back then that computers were making them obsolete, and sure enough - that profession is all but gone today. The fear was that all jobs would be automated, making everybody unemployed.
It's easy to generalize from typesetters to everybody, but then - as now - people didn't (or couldn't) think on. Because we're not all unemployed today. Quite the opposite! - Here in Denmark we're at the highest employment level ever. Never before in history there was this many people with jobs, both in numbers and in percentage of the population. There are still people without jobs, but fewer and fewer.
What happened? - Exactly what I said back then: Automation generates a lot of new jobs because somebody has to invent, design, build and maintain the machines. The machines also create new needs and new opportunities. A lot of other new stuff gets invented all the time, and things change. Nobody in the 1970's could have predicted that 'influencers' (on social media) would be a thing, or even that there would be 'social media' with all that entails (servers, data centers, power supply, cooling, support, monitoring, security etc.). The funny thing is that this constant change has always been there. There were no mechanics until the combustion engine was invented. There were no librarians until the printed book was invented. There were no carpenters until we leaned to work with wood. At the same time most blacksmiths went out of business when horses were replaced with horsepower in engines, and video rental went out of business when streaming came along. Times change but so far we've always been able to fill the void with new jobs serving a new era. I don't see any reason that this will ever stop.
Yes, it means that people will have to find new jobs in new professions when their old one goes obsolete, but then again - it has always been like that.
Time to Brexit, fam. The vote's been had. Bye bye EU! Shouldn't have been such shit.
Exactly. That's why people want to leave in the first place.
People are looking for places where they can say what they feel like (that's real freedom of expression) and 8chan has become such a place, like 4chan used to be.
When we live in a world where a comment to a news story about yet another hostage/terrorist drama with Islamist bad guys can cause 30 days in Facebook jail. Here's the details and the 'horrible hate speech' it contains: "No, a story like that simply reflects real life where Muslims do most of the terrorist killing in the world today, vastly outnumbering all other kinds of terrorists when it comes to both number of dead and number of incidents."
It's not made up or exaggerated in any way. It's simply uncomfortable facts. Just in the week around the Christchurch attack where 50 Muslim people got killed, about 120 people got killed in a number of Islamist attacks on christian and catholic churches in both Africa, The Middle East and the predominantly Muslim areas of East Asia - and it was a relatively quiet week...
I suppose that depends on what the Russian Government defines as "fake news"...
The stuff manufactured by the troll factories like the Internet Research Agency clearly is... but that is legal because it is meant for western media...
So much for fizzling. Our defense intelligence service neither couldn't nor wouldn't guarantee that Huawei would not be using their technology to spy or disrupt vital areas of infrastructure, so nobody wanted to take a chance. It's as simple as that.
One of the big points were that despite the whole thing hinged on the fact that a Chinese company would have to submit to total government control in case the government wanted to, and the blatantly obviously solution would be to move Huawei out of China to cut that control, nobody even considered that at Huawei which made it obvious that the government control was a central part of business, and thus that it is a core goal to place technology everywhere that the Chinese government could control easily if it so desired.
Germany thanks the USA by going Communist.
Having universal health care does not make you communist, moron.
No, but claiming that it is better than the insurance-based healthcare the US has, tend to make you appear dumb.
If you dig deeper you'll see that it is horribly expensive and the prime target for 'cost reductions', making it sub-standard at best in real life.
At least that is how it works here in Denmark - long waits for non-emergency treatment, severely understaffed, way too early release after treatment... and a tendency to host lingering department-wide infections due to rushed daily routines and sub-standard cleaning.
If Huawei really is an innocently accused company that has nothing to do with the Chinese state and its intelligence branches, they should state so and if necessary move out of China to escape any forced cooperation. But this hasn't happened and to me it is a clear admission that all the rumors are true.