Really? You know, to us in the rest of the world, there is no noticeable difference between Obama and Bush. None. The Obama government's foreign policy is much the same as Bush's. Same offshore oil wars went on. Same idiotic sabre-rattling about invading Iran, which would be a total disaster and another oil war.
Actually the mess with Iran is due to a massively failed foreign policy during the Carter administration when the embassy occupation and the so-called revolution happened. They had no problems taking out Allende using the CIA but did absolutely nothing to fix the situation in Iran and free the hostages. A military action to destroy the revolution before it could take hold wasn't even considered, despite it being a fairly simple operation supporting the Shah regime against the revolution (using the CIA to 'dissappear' key rebels like they did when they put Pinochet in power) and then to avoid additional unrest implement a transition to democracy by limiting the Shah power. If Khomeny was eliminated before he could return from France, the Islamic revolution would never have happened. A seal team action against the embassy would also have eliminated most of the 'revolutionaries', including the moron that currently is president.
Pretty naive of the admin of this web site to believe that he will be able to safeguard his anonymity in the long run.
Zombie is a well-known character that attends many "religious nut gatherings" to take pictures he then puts up on his blog. He loves to expose the multitude of brainless stupidity that's abundant at such events. Basically he offends everybody by exposing their mind-numbing infantility and sheer idiocy.
So far nothing serious has happened, but he's prepared to defend himself if somebody is stupid enough to try something.
Given that people are dying as a direct result of this video I can see the justification of some limited censorship
People are dying because Darwin's evolution (see the irony here where it applies to people denouncing Darwin?) is being proved. If you are too stupid to benefit the gene pool it's better you're killed off as soon as possible for the benefit of the future human race. There's no better way to prove stupidity than to fight (to the death) over whose God is the most peaceful...
Google complies with the laws of the country it operates in. If they are required by law to remove something, they do it.
Are you suggesting that big companies in general should be exempt from the law and obey it only as they see fit?
No, but since when does Indian or Malaysian law apply to a US company?
Google "do no evil" should especially not break basic human rights like the freedom of expression, which actually include the right to receive the expressions of others. Freedom to express yourself is practically worthless if people are prevented from 'listening'.
That was my first thought. Not sure why types of forgery they are aiming to protect against. Once common attack is bleaching. Basically the counterfeiter tries erase the print on small bill like $5 and replace it with that of $100.
Smart, but still incredibly stupid.
First of all, it will only work if the bills are all the same size. US currency is, but this isn't the case in many other countries.
Second, it will only work if the paper is identical across all denominations. It isn't. Most countries include both distinct watermarks and holographic silver threads that are unique to each denomination, including the US.
Lastly, most countries (including the US) use a closely guarded method of computing serial numbers, which signatures etc. so ether your copies will have invalid combinations or be exactly identical using a known good combination.
I find it so typical that we here see Mulims protesting the movie because (among other things) it displays them as aggresive, violent and murderous, and they do this protesting by... being aggressive, violent and murderous.
It's just like the cartoon crises - they protested against Muhammad being shown with a bomb in his turban, signifying the violent and murderous nature of Islam, by being violent and murderous...
Let me get this... They see a market for people wanting to share pictures to prevent people from saving them?
Doesn't make sense. Why share the pictures in the first place then?
Also, if the pictures can appear on your Facebook page, they can be saved. The browser has the data so can be saved just like it can be displayed. There are already tools to access the browsers rendering engine and its data so it will be trivial to do the same in a streamlined tool that makes it super-easy to save special pictures like this.
Actually, Facebook already tries to protect images by using the age-old method of displaying them as background images, but several extensions to Firefox already exist that adds a right-click option to "show background image", and then you can copy the URL or save the image or whatever - to your hearts content.
Exactly. Outlawing even references to pedophile activities is a clear first step of implementing a true thought police. Also, it will of course make both the prevention and post-abuse treatment close to impossible, thus having the opposite effect of making it significantly easier for pedophiles to do their evil stuff.
Pushing a heavy ship up on the ice to crush it and thus break it may be efficient, but is hardly the only way to break ice, and probably not the most efficient all things considered.
A nuclear-powered ship should have raw power and heat in abundance. I'm thinking that super-hot steam under extreme pressure would cause any thickness of ice to crack, and cracked ice is extremely brittle and easy to crack even more, so a combination of super-hot steam and raw ramming force would crack the ice just as efficiently without the need for the ship to go on top of the ice and crush it. Would make it possible to use a more seaworthy hull shape and thus improve the conditions for the crew.
Did aliens just steal 50 IQ-points from everybody here?
DNS is a distributed system with caches. If your DNS-resolver (which is a cache) had the godaddy.com domain cached before the attack it will continue to resolve until the cache expires, usually 24 hours after being cached. If your DNS-resolver didn't have it cached, it will be unable to fetch the records as the authoritative DNS-servers aren't responding, and thus it will fail to resolve. Some tools, like 'dig' will tell you how long time remains on the cached records.
Any good attack would have destroyed the backups before wiping the servers and workstations.
Of course, offline tapes with backups cannot be destroyed from the outside, unless we're talking a truly long term project with an inside man slowly corrupting the offline backups, or a full intrusion armed with bulk erasers...
It's not the amount of food that's the problem (there's more than enough food for twice the wold population already), but the distribution.
Basically the population is decreasing (save for immigration) in the areas with surplus food production and increasing in areas that's already a long way past a sustainable food production.
So I doubt we'll see true food riots. We might see food mass migrations and we might see riots using food as an excuse, but not the hungry masses rising up.
I have no doubt that food will be an excuse for some riots. Usually riots seems to originate with groups of habitual criminals offended that the police are doing their job, and using either stupidities committed by the police or unsubstantiated rumors to cause a widespread reaction and turn it into a full riot and thus a free for all crime spree, complete with looting, arson and massive vandalism.
18 minutes per compromised computer doesn't seem harsh to you?
Absolutely NOT! - One month minimum for each compromised computer PLUS one day for each spam mail those compromised computers sent out.
Yes, I know this means a sentence of many thousands of years... As this is a first time offense, I'll allow him to be eligible for parole when half the time is served. Serves him right and it'll keep him from repeating his crime.
A friend of mine once provided his DNA as part of something similar.
He has since FOUR times been called in for questioning because of a semi-match with DNA found on new crime scenes, and it's the kind of questioning where it seems you're guilty until proven innocent. The full profile of the crime scene DNA always clears him later but as it takes quite a bit longer than the initial profile, and the police doesn't wait until they are sure and start questioning all the semi-matches right away.
That's too much of a hassle but it's hard to argue that the police shouldn't try to run an early comparison and see if something 'pops'.
The (peer-reviewed) World Justice Project ranks Sweden the best on the planet in terms of fundamental rights.
So, why is Julian Assange so scared of being extradited to Sweden?
Could it be related to the fact that the US obviously have a lot to say in what happens legally in Sweden?
After all, the infamous raid on The Pirate Bay happend just a few days after the Swedish attorney general returned from a 14 day luxury vacation in the USA paid for by the MAFIAA and the US Department of Justice. It was executed based on a warrant signed by the attorney general (who also happens to be a judge) thus breaking the basic separation of powers and thus being highly illegal. It also failed to list the laws violated as basis for it (because TPB wasn't breaking any laws at that time), and the raid itself also far exceeded the mandate set by the warrant because it only covered servers belonging to TPB and hundreds of unrelated servers were also seized, despite everything being clearly labeled.
The government has changed in Sweden since the raid, but the new government (from the opposite political side) have strangely failed to follow up and start legal proceedings to investigate the obvious issues with the raid, despite demanding this while they were in opposition. Something is clearly rotten in the state of Sweden!
This is still pretty relevant, although todays shareware is free (but ad-supported) apps and apps you buy. You can use the free version (often with less features) but you'll get nagged by stupid ads all the time (and they cost you money if you pay for bandwidth) and there's usually a built-in option to buy the full version, In the old days you'd usually get either added features or nag screens removed if you registered and bought the full version.
Back in the day I wrote shareware like many others. It was pure shareware, i.e. "share this freely with your friends!" and there was no 'enhanced' paid version. I called it postcardware (inspired by 'beerware' - if we ever meet, buy me a beer) and asked only to receive a postcard if you liked the program. As this only cost people very little, a lot actually 'registered' and I got perhaps 200-300 postcards over a couple of years.
My local university does this. It's actually a pretty good idea if it's done right. Of course, the other side of the reality is that in addition to knocking infected computers off of the Internet, my university also knocks off computers suspected of Internet piracy. If you torrent anything on campus, even a legitimate download, you have to go to the Computing Services office to explain yourself and get it back online.
So if you do nothing wrong but happen to use a protocol they don't like, they still cut you off? - This means that you're presumed guilty until proved otherwise, and that is morally and ethically wrong.
This is certainly a violation of your civil rights but can be legal when kept within a university campus whose network can be considered private. As long as they don't prevent you from having a personal network connection in parallel with the one offered by the university, I'd say it's legal.
Almost everything in GUIs are recreations of paradigms know from the real world, and that is for one simple reason: Affordance.
People know how to manipulate real world items - how to push a button, turn a knob or push something aside. In early computing resources didn't allow for mimicry of the real world but as things became possible the GUIs incorporated more and more, thus enabling more people to use the devices more or less out of the box using intuitive guesses based on their real world experience.
Now, stupid patent law has allowed for patents on the mimicry of real world paradigms. So now you have to pay some patent troll (for instance Apple) if you slide things around (aside from the slide-to-unlock they also have a patent on using sliding to flip through images in a photo album for instance) or use something less obvious in their paradigms.
The most stupid patent of all is the one on the square shape with rounded corners. There is no other reasonable shape (the ortogonal pads from some scifi tv-show are just plain silly) and the corners need to be rounded for the device to be practical. Besides, any similar device prior to Apples i-devices were also square, flat with some degree of rounded corners. Think pocket calculators, pen-and-paper notepads and so on. Most were also available in both black and white.
I dislike both... Actually I hate religion and severely dislike those religious fanboys trying to way too hard to be oh-so-good, and that almost always involve a claim of being better than everyone else (the fans of other religions), a perceived threat from those 'heretics' that happen to believe in something else (they're under influence from Satan) and of course a need to exterminate that threat, usually in very bloody ways.
To conclude, I have to include this very relevant quote:
"Religion is like a penis. It's fine if you have one, its fine if you're proud of it. But please don't whip it out in public and wave it around, and please don't try to shove it down children's throats." -- Lee --
I find it so ironic that when Arabs do it to little girls, they're evil monsters, but when Jews do it to little boys, it's considered perfectly acceptable.
Sick, sick people.
Actually, the arabs do it to boys as well, although usually later than infancy... Yes, they're all very sick people!
The "less AIDS argument" actually holds up in third world countries where there is no access to health care, less hygienic practices, and less education.
There's a bit of Darwin here... the Darwin Award kind of thing... If people are stupid enough to have unprotected sex, contract HIV/AIDS and die from it, they get removed from the gene pool, thus improving the human race overall.
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Really? You know, to us in the rest of the world, there is no noticeable difference between Obama and Bush. None. The Obama government's foreign policy is much the same as Bush's. Same offshore oil wars went on. Same idiotic sabre-rattling about invading Iran, which would be a total disaster and another oil war.
Actually the mess with Iran is due to a massively failed foreign policy during the Carter administration when the embassy occupation and the so-called revolution happened. They had no problems taking out Allende using the CIA but did absolutely nothing to fix the situation in Iran and free the hostages. A military action to destroy the revolution before it could take hold wasn't even considered, despite it being a fairly simple operation supporting the Shah regime against the revolution (using the CIA to 'dissappear' key rebels like they did when they put Pinochet in power) and then to avoid additional unrest implement a transition to democracy by limiting the Shah power. If Khomeny was eliminated before he could return from France, the Islamic revolution would never have happened. A seal team action against the embassy would also have eliminated most of the 'revolutionaries', including the moron that currently is president.
Pretty naive of the admin of this web site to believe that he will be able to safeguard his anonymity in the long run.
Zombie is a well-known character that attends many "religious nut gatherings" to take pictures he then puts up on his blog. He loves to expose the multitude of brainless stupidity that's abundant at such events. Basically he offends everybody by exposing their mind-numbing infantility and sheer idiocy.
So far nothing serious has happened, but he's prepared to defend himself if somebody is stupid enough to try something.
Given that people are dying as a direct result of this video I can see the justification of some limited censorship
People are dying because Darwin's evolution (see the irony here where it applies to people denouncing Darwin?) is being proved. If you are too stupid to benefit the gene pool it's better you're killed off as soon as possible for the benefit of the future human race. There's no better way to prove stupidity than to fight (to the death) over whose God is the most peaceful...
Google complies with the laws of the country it operates in. If they are required by law to remove something, they do it.
Are you suggesting that big companies in general should be exempt from the law and obey it only as they see fit?
No, but since when does Indian or Malaysian law apply to a US company?
Google "do no evil" should especially not break basic human rights like the freedom of expression, which actually include the right to receive the expressions of others. Freedom to express yourself is practically worthless if people are prevented from 'listening'.
That was my first thought. Not sure why types of forgery they are aiming to protect against. Once common attack is bleaching. Basically the counterfeiter tries erase the print on small bill like $5 and replace it with that of $100.
Smart, but still incredibly stupid.
First of all, it will only work if the bills are all the same size. US currency is, but this isn't the case in many other countries.
Second, it will only work if the paper is identical across all denominations. It isn't. Most countries include both distinct watermarks and holographic silver threads that are unique to each denomination, including the US.
Lastly, most countries (including the US) use a closely guarded method of computing serial numbers, which signatures etc. so ether your copies will have invalid combinations or be exactly identical using a known good combination.
I find it so typical that we here see Mulims protesting the movie because (among other things) it displays them as aggresive, violent and murderous, and they do this protesting by... being aggressive, violent and murderous.
It's just like the cartoon crises - they protested against Muhammad being shown with a bomb in his turban, signifying the violent and murderous nature of Islam, by being violent and murderous...
Let me get this... They see a market for people wanting to share pictures to prevent people from saving them?
Doesn't make sense. Why share the pictures in the first place then?
Also, if the pictures can appear on your Facebook page, they can be saved. The browser has the data so can be saved just like it can be displayed. There are already tools to access the browsers rendering engine and its data so it will be trivial to do the same in a streamlined tool that makes it super-easy to save special pictures like this.
Actually, Facebook already tries to protect images by using the age-old method of displaying them as background images, but several extensions to Firefox already exist that adds a right-click option to "show background image", and then you can copy the URL or save the image or whatever - to your hearts content.
Exactly. Outlawing even references to pedophile activities is a clear first step of implementing a true thought police. Also, it will of course make both the prevention and post-abuse treatment close to impossible, thus having the opposite effect of making it significantly easier for pedophiles to do their evil stuff.
Impressive - This is stupidity squared!
Pushing a heavy ship up on the ice to crush it and thus break it may be efficient, but is hardly the only way to break ice, and probably not the most efficient all things considered.
A nuclear-powered ship should have raw power and heat in abundance. I'm thinking that super-hot steam under extreme pressure would cause any thickness of ice to crack, and cracked ice is extremely brittle and easy to crack even more, so a combination of super-hot steam and raw ramming force would crack the ice just as efficiently without the need for the ship to go on top of the ice and crush it. Would make it possible to use a more seaworthy hull shape and thus improve the conditions for the crew.
Did aliens just steal 50 IQ-points from everybody here?
DNS is a distributed system with caches. If your DNS-resolver (which is a cache) had the godaddy.com domain cached before the attack it will continue to resolve until the cache expires, usually 24 hours after being cached. If your DNS-resolver didn't have it cached, it will be unable to fetch the records as the authoritative DNS-servers aren't responding, and thus it will fail to resolve. Some tools, like 'dig' will tell you how long time remains on the cached records.
Any good attack would have destroyed the backups before wiping the servers and workstations.
Of course, offline tapes with backups cannot be destroyed from the outside, unless we're talking a truly long term project with an inside man slowly corrupting the offline backups, or a full intrusion armed with bulk erasers...
It's not the amount of food that's the problem (there's more than enough food for twice the wold population already), but the distribution.
Basically the population is decreasing (save for immigration) in the areas with surplus food production and increasing in areas that's already a long way past a sustainable food production.
So I doubt we'll see true food riots. We might see food mass migrations and we might see riots using food as an excuse, but not the hungry masses rising up.
I have no doubt that food will be an excuse for some riots. Usually riots seems to originate with groups of habitual criminals offended that the police are doing their job, and using either stupidities committed by the police or unsubstantiated rumors to cause a widespread reaction and turn it into a full riot and thus a free for all crime spree, complete with looting, arson and massive vandalism.
"The Internet, where men are men, women are men, and children are undercover FBI agents."
— Anonymous
IMHO, /b/ is nothing but chaos, anarchy and pedobear... My preferred hangout was/is /s/.
18 minutes per compromised computer doesn't seem harsh to you?
Absolutely NOT! - One month minimum for each compromised computer PLUS one day for each spam mail those compromised computers sent out.
Yes, I know this means a sentence of many thousands of years... As this is a first time offense, I'll allow him to be eligible for parole when half the time is served. Serves him right and it'll keep him from repeating his crime.
A friend of mine once provided his DNA as part of something similar.
He has since FOUR times been called in for questioning because of a semi-match with DNA found on new crime scenes, and it's the kind of questioning where it seems you're guilty until proven innocent. The full profile of the crime scene DNA always clears him later but as it takes quite a bit longer than the initial profile, and the police doesn't wait until they are sure and start questioning all the semi-matches right away.
That's too much of a hassle but it's hard to argue that the police shouldn't try to run an early comparison and see if something 'pops'.
The (peer-reviewed) World Justice Project ranks Sweden the best on the planet in terms of fundamental rights.
So, why is Julian Assange so scared of being extradited to Sweden?
Could it be related to the fact that the US obviously have a lot to say in what happens legally in Sweden?
After all, the infamous raid on The Pirate Bay happend just a few days after the Swedish attorney general returned from a 14 day luxury vacation in the USA paid for by the MAFIAA and the US Department of Justice. It was executed based on a warrant signed by the attorney general (who also happens to be a judge) thus breaking the basic separation of powers and thus being highly illegal. It also failed to list the laws violated as basis for it (because TPB wasn't breaking any laws at that time), and the raid itself also far exceeded the mandate set by the warrant because it only covered servers belonging to TPB and hundreds of unrelated servers were also seized, despite everything being clearly labeled.
The government has changed in Sweden since the raid, but the new government (from the opposite political side) have strangely failed to follow up and start legal proceedings to investigate the obvious issues with the raid, despite demanding this while they were in opposition. Something is clearly rotten in the state of Sweden!
This is still pretty relevant, although todays shareware is free (but ad-supported) apps and apps you buy. You can use the free version (often with less features) but you'll get nagged by stupid ads all the time (and they cost you money if you pay for bandwidth) and there's usually a built-in option to buy the full version, In the old days you'd usually get either added features or nag screens removed if you registered and bought the full version.
Back in the day I wrote shareware like many others. It was pure shareware, i.e. "share this freely with your friends!" and there was no 'enhanced' paid version. I called it postcardware (inspired by 'beerware' - if we ever meet, buy me a beer) and asked only to receive a postcard if you liked the program. As this only cost people very little, a lot actually 'registered' and I got perhaps 200-300 postcards over a couple of years.
My local university does this. It's actually a pretty good idea if it's done right. Of course, the other side of the reality is that in addition to knocking infected computers off of the Internet, my university also knocks off computers suspected of Internet piracy. If you torrent anything on campus, even a legitimate download, you have to go to the Computing Services office to explain yourself and get it back online.
So if you do nothing wrong but happen to use a protocol they don't like, they still cut you off? - This means that you're presumed guilty until proved otherwise, and that is morally and ethically wrong.
This is certainly a violation of your civil rights but can be legal when kept within a university campus whose network can be considered private. As long as they don't prevent you from having a personal network connection in parallel with the one offered by the university, I'd say it's legal.
Completely correct and accurate.
Almost everything in GUIs are recreations of paradigms know from the real world, and that is for one simple reason: Affordance.
People know how to manipulate real world items - how to push a button, turn a knob or push something aside. In early computing resources didn't allow for mimicry of the real world but as things became possible the GUIs incorporated more and more, thus enabling more people to use the devices more or less out of the box using intuitive guesses based on their real world experience.
Now, stupid patent law has allowed for patents on the mimicry of real world paradigms. So now you have to pay some patent troll (for instance Apple) if you slide things around (aside from the slide-to-unlock they also have a patent on using sliding to flip through images in a photo album for instance) or use something less obvious in their paradigms.
The most stupid patent of all is the one on the square shape with rounded corners. There is no other reasonable shape (the ortogonal pads from some scifi tv-show are just plain silly) and the corners need to be rounded for the device to be practical. Besides, any similar device prior to Apples i-devices were also square, flat with some degree of rounded corners. Think pocket calculators, pen-and-paper notepads and so on. Most were also available in both black and white.
I dislike religion not the religious.
I dislike both... Actually I hate religion and severely dislike those religious fanboys trying to way too hard to be oh-so-good, and that almost always involve a claim of being better than everyone else (the fans of other religions), a perceived threat from those 'heretics' that happen to believe in something else (they're under influence from Satan) and of course a need to exterminate that threat, usually in very bloody ways.
To conclude, I have to include this very relevant quote:
"Religion is like a penis. It's fine if you have one, its fine if you're proud of it. But please don't whip it out in public and wave it around, and please don't try to shove it down children's throats."
-- Lee --
No, it isn't obvious. Go ahead and highlight your anti-semitism for us.
Godwin's Law already?
I find it so ironic that when Arabs do it to little girls, they're evil monsters, but when Jews do it to little boys, it's considered perfectly acceptable.
Sick, sick people.
Actually, the arabs do it to boys as well, although usually later than infancy... Yes, they're all very sick people!
The "less AIDS argument" actually holds up in third world countries where there is no access to health care, less hygienic practices, and less education.
There's a bit of Darwin here... the Darwin Award kind of thing... If people are stupid enough to have unprotected sex, contract HIV/AIDS and die from it, they get removed from the gene pool, thus improving the human race overall.
Nothing like a good cave adventure... Remember to bring the lamp!