What is meant is that they openly take stance against some of the semi-extreme dogma that the churches push. That includes abortion for instance, but also the dumb moves of "The Moral Majority" in the 70's. When they started to demand censorship against trivial things like talking about sex and homosexuality on television. A show like "Soap" really got them going and a lot of people got fed up because it was so innocent - and comedy!
So, it wasn't as much a deliberate move as it was a reaction to various bible thumpers making an ass of themselves. Add to that starting avalanche of high profile television ministries getting busted for everything from stealing money, over adultery to various other more or less 'deadly sins'. It was a growing group of voters and someone was bound to start catering for them. The democrats filled the hole.
Privacy? - There may be some private material but I doubt it would have been leaked unless there was sonething juicy and newsworthy in there - and that in itself justifies the leak.
Now, anyone here know what's in those leaked materials? - Something newsworthy like we saw it with the stuff leaked on Wikileaks?
Actually 4 years seems fine to me. After all their apparent intention was to assemble a mob and create havoc and cause damage. This could be regarded as a disorganized attempt at inciting revolution, something any society must deal with in a very severe manner with harsh penalties.
The guys on the street should get a lot more than 4 years, plus have to pay FULL restitution to those affected. Yes, I know the damages runs into the billions but the taxpayers or other insurance holders should not have to pay for it - it must be those causing it that have to pay. That way they get what they deserve and they'll also be taught a lesson they won't soon forget.
1) Log on directly into one of the virtual servers. 2) Log on from there to the main server. 3) Delete the storage for the other virtual servers on that main server. Use a security wipe if possible. 4) Delete the server you're logged in through using a security wipe. That will also remove any information about where you came from. The main server will only have information on you logging in from the now securely deleted server.
Arguments about a perimeter firewall logs revealing where you came from - highly unlikely. No company I know of (except perhaps NSA) logs everything. If you've hidden your access using a standard port, odds are that access is not logged.
Oh, and for maximum damage sabotage the backup as well. Set it to backup something of no importance for a few weeks (long enough to make sure all valid backups are rotated off) so that a restore is impossible. Just stopping the job might raise an alarm (backup failed) revealing the server and what you've done.
Let's not forget what happened in London; one guy got killed and a whole town went apeshit (rightfully so)
Now that is bullshit. So because a cop causes a death in connection with doing his job, it's justified to set fire to countless random buildings, kill people protecting their property and generally cause damages nearing a billion pounds? None of which is to be paid by the police officer that killed the guy, nor his department by the way - it'll all be paid for by the insurance holders (almost everybody) and the taxpayers (everybody)... Utter lunacy!
Now, the dead guy that started it all - last I heard he was a drug kingpin who actually fired the first shot. Dunno if that is true but I seriously doubt that the police would shoot and kill a random occupant in a random taxi. Most normal cops in London aren't armed; only special armed squads are, so if they were in play, it wasn't Joe Average in that taxi. The details doesn't matter - if the dude was a criminal and he didn't surrender when the police ordered him to at gunpoint, he asked for it.
Well, I think the Global Warming cult started this by categorically denying that the Sun had anything to do with the Earths climate whatsoever... I mean it's obvious that it doesn't contribute any heat, not any ionization of the upper atmosphere, so better leave it completely out of the equation...
No, it's not a joke. In one of IPCC's reports they actually conclude that the Sun has no significant influence on Global Warming, which is more than stupid. All warming comes from the Sun, and if you removed it the temperature would plummet to a few degrees above absolute zero within a very short time, greenhouse effect or not. It is thus equally obvious that if the Sun provides less warming, the temperature would drop, also regardless of any greenhouse effect. Similar if the Sun should provide more warming, temperature would go up.
As we have several periods of significant climate fluctuations in history and no known human or geological causes, it is obvious that the reason must be external, i.e. the Sun. So as long as the correlation between the Sun and the climate during these periods isn't explained, it is stupid to explain any variations seen today as caused by humans only. I'm not saying that humans have no influence but I'm saying that the simple and obvious answer is that the same factors that caused the historical fluctuations are at play again. It's Occam's Razor.
China suffers from the Inflated Bubble Syndrome. Everything goes so fast it's almost Potemkin-style. Their new bullet trains for instance has turned out to be fatally flawed in almost every way. Their general technology is pure 20th century and they repeat all the mistakes of the western world, just on a more massive scale. Pollution, garbage, corruption... combined with religious tensions, unsustainable imperialism (Tibet) and extreme poverty among people that are not ignorant (they know they're being oppressed). It is a very large powder keg waiting to explode, and any conflict that ties up too many resources will trigger it and cause a massive implosion that their opponents will know to feed and use to create even more instability and friction.
If I was leading a nation in conflict with China I would most certainly concentrate my efforts at destabilizing its structure and feeding any and all internal forces to cause maximum instability and then hit the weak spots to amplify discontent and cause the total collapse of the country, and then hit it traditionally so it stays down and stays broken.
For some reason any and all technological advances have been met with ludicrous resistance based on a combination of superstition and ignorance. Often the church was the driving force, seeing all changes as a threat to their wealth and power. In other words this is nothing new.
Nanotechnology and biotechnology is no more dangerous than other radical technologies. Nuclear power for instance has many more potential dangers than nanotechnology, and the dangers of biotechnology are well known and understood.
But going back a century or two and you'll find ridiculous resistance against things like steam power and the combustion engine. Even speed itself had its opponents that argued that the human body wasn't built to move faster than a horse could take it. They were certain that faster speeds would literary separate the body and soul and leave the soul behind (for the devil to take). Oh, and the Flat Earth'ers were convinced that any attempts at sailing past the edge of the world would be met with the full wrath of God, in essence triggering the Apocalypse.
Yes, crazy people have always been around, and sometimes they carry bombs...
Turkey really, really, really wants to become a member of EU, but there's been several obstacles already, including the state mandated denial of the Armenian Genocide and their less-than-equal treatment of women and other human rights violations. Adding full censorship to the list will make sure life will get better in Turkey as their desire to become an EU member is so strong it just might make them drop this stupid censorship and correct the other 'follies'...
Because the real terrorists communicate using twitter and are careful to include #terrorinindia in their tweets... or using the wall in a group called "Terror attack against India" on Facebook...
The Unabomber (Ted Kaczynski) wrote a very well written manifesto, full of brilliant work and logic - that just happen to be complete bullshit from end to end. Breivik copied quite a few passages verbatim, changing only a few words to make it fit his message. Most of Breiviks text is also complete bullshit, and I'm sure those codes are as well. Same thing applies to to other manifesto-like texts written by madmen, like "Mein Kampf" or the Quran for that matter.
We shouldn't be as afraid of the lone nutjobs like Kaczynski or Breivik as we should of any collective if people like them ever manage to collaborate. If they complement each other perfectly, their work might be flawless and actually make sense in a broader sense. There are after all tiny points of sense and reason in both manifestos and it would scare me shitless if someone should turn up with a manifesto that was right all the way.
Oh, and I'm NOT talking about the O.J. Simpson case here... That one was fucked up by incompetent police work and pathetic attempts at 'making sure' O.J. was convicted, which of course resulted in an acquittal due to reasonable doubt - the correct verdict given the circumstances.
It has been seen that people have been caught with the smoking gun in their hands, covered in the victims blood, having been filmed committing the murder, reliable witnesses present and so on, and yet still walk away acquitted.
It may be human to make errors, but it takes lawyers to seriously fuck things up...
There is a model-T that still runs in my area. I've seen the guy a few times in the grocery store parking lot, and cruising about the retail district. I'm pretty sure cybersecurity is not a problem for him.
In other words, the solution is: Duh! Cars don't need to be on any stinkin' network.
Exactly what I was going to say!
Until we have cars that can fully auto-drive without any driver intervention, all that electronic junk is basically unnecessary and if it poses a problem, junk it.
Cars ran fine back in the day (no need to go that far back, the 50's and 60's had great cars too with zero electronic junk in them) and there's no reason they can't do that again. Maybe on a different fuel but still just a basic combustion engine that Ford himself would be able to fix, should it break down.
If someone has a picture up there in which I can be recognized, but not tagged me in it, I'd never know. This feature will auto-tag me and presumably let me know just like any other tagging on Facebook. If I don't like the picture I can ask to have it removed. I can't do that if I don't know it's there.
If people are concerned with pictures of them behaving stupidly, revealing infidelity and insurance scams (in relation to work related injuries) and similar, the advice is mind-numbingly simple: JUST DON'T DO STUPID STUFF LIKE THAT!
When out in public always remember that someone might snap a picture of you and you'll never know where that picture ends up - Facebook, on some website, in possession of someone who'll use it for blackmail or similar. It's that simple. Don't do stupid things just because you think nobody is looking or you're too drunk to care. Just don't get that drunk, plain and simple.
But if you don't care, just go out and enjoy life. Get drunk or high or whatever. Hope that you don't get caught, one way or the other.
Finally someone recognizes the right of "not being recognized without consent".
Precisely, and that's the problem.
If Facebook's feature is illegal, so is any and all other form of random recognition. If you meet someone by chance on the street, you are not allowed to recognize this person. Not even in your mind. Well, unless you get approval in advance. But in order to do that you have to recognize and initiate contact, and you're not allowed to recognize without prior consent...
Am I the only one to think that the law in its interpretation in relation to Facebook is stupid? - because unless the law specifically is meant to discriminate against Facebook, this is how it has to be interpreted.
First of all, there will be a password prompt, in nice HUGE letters on the screen - you know in case the warden lost his reading glasses or something... You look around and notice a picture of his son on the table and a drawing signed "Joshua" on the wall... So now you know the password is "Joshua" (of course it is)
UNLOCK ALL INMATE DOORS "Ok"
DEACTIVATE SECURITY SYSTEM But wait! - the warden is not supposed to deactivate the security system! - "ACCESS DENIED!"
But the warden being the warden he types "OVERRIDE" and presto!
The CT part stands for "Copyright Theft" but that's grossly misleading... You're not stealing the rights, you're infringing on them. You're not stealing the content either, you're copying it.
They apparently refuse to learn! - Pure stupidity!:(
I was member of the debate forum at a newspaper website here in Denmark and I was using my real name as you were required to do.
Now, some debates - especially those concerning religion (Islam in particular) - quite often turned very aggressive. Then it happened - someone started posting addresses of some of the participants and issuing threats against them. As my name is pretty unique, I changed the name in my profile to protect myself and I was kicked off the forum. The person issuing the threats wasn't by the way. A few days later someone was assaulted and beaten severely. The victim was active on another similar forum and was tracked down from his name and attacked physically. Then 'my' forum changed the rules and allowed aliases - as long as the private section of the profile still held real info.
This is the way to go. You're still accountable in full but only to the site owner (and his moderators). Other readers cannot access your information and thus take the discussions to a physical level. That way you're both protected against other regular participants that are unable to keep the arguments on a verbal level and yet accountable with respect to the relevant laws (libel, racism etc.).
Actually the whole security theater should make everybody laugh out loud - if it wasn't so stupid it hurts.
Basically it doesn't work. Never did actually. The error rate (missed alerts) is so high it's ridiculous. The luggage scanner finds about 8% of the targets, the passenger metal detector (the portal thing) finds about 45% of the targets (of those a whopping 85% are missed in the follow-up wand screening), the carry-on scanner finds about 30% of the targets, the 'porn-scanner' is quite good - relatively - as it finds about 60% of the targets, but the 'grope-search' finds less than 25% of the targets.
Basically, the huge failure numbers are often due to obvious false alerts causing the true target to be dismissed.
The only way to catch terrorists with 100% certainty involves a time machine... but profiling helps. It would have caught all the 9/11 hijackers, while the scanners would not have caught their carbon fiber boxcutters... the 'porn-scanner' might, but not if they hid the knives inside their body.
... of a story from about 10-15 years ago here in Denmark. It was so absurd it made the news as a major story, and needless to say the company (KTAS) ended up accepting the customers position and disregard the bill in question...
The customer, an elderly couple with just one old phone with a rotary dial and everything, one day received a quarterly bill for an amount around DKK 200.000 (about $37.000) and this was some years ago, remember? - They contacted the phone company (KTAS A/S, now a part of TDC A/S) asking if it was an error. No, it was a bill for calls they've made so they just had to pay up. But what was on the bill? - Well, they weren't subscribed to an itemized bill so no, they couldn't be told that. But the phone company offered to get a retroactive itemized bill. It would be more expensive but if they paid in advance (after all they did owe the company a lot of money) they could get one. "Okay, how much?" they asked. A quite large number was quoted. "Why?" they asked. "Well, the retroactive itemized bill cost double the prepaid one, and you have to pay for expenses relating it, like paper, printing ink, handling and so on. "But how can that add up to that much?". "Well, there's 450.000 calls on the bill, and we can fit 80 calls on a single page of paper... That's about 5.500 pages of paper, and then we have to mail that to you..."
The couple went to the media that eagerly picked up the story. The bill was sent free of charge. Turns out the bill was 99.9999% calls to special internal service numbers, each call always between 2 and 5 seconds, made around the clock 24/7, and what's more, they were overlapping which is quite impossible with a single line. They complained to the phone company citing the overlapping calls. "No. We see no errors on your line" was the response. But we can - at a charge - send a technician to test it. The technician found no errors with the phone, the phone jack or the line to the junction. "We have checked everything. You made those calls. Just pay up." was the result.
The couple went to the media again. The media hit the CEO (a former politician) hard with the case, and he was forced to make internal inquiries. The very next day the couple got a letter saying that due to the computer malfunction their bill was 'incorrect' and that they would receive a new bill soon. The bill arrived and there was only the normal charge on it. But they never got an apology in any form.
The real issue is not the lack of morals in the tabloid press... We've always known that they never had any.
No, the real issue is how easy it was for some low-life private investigator to 'hack' voicemails all over the place. Most systems appear to use just 4-digit PINs and have no limits to how many times you can try your luck, as well as no logs (or nobody looking at the logs), so it's not surprising it is possible, but why haven't anything been done?! - This have been going on for 5 years or more, as we know from the early scandals involving this newspaper, and thus despite public knowledge nothing has been done?
Still waiting to see if they've fixed the serious leak in 4.0.1...
I have a lot of tabs - around 80 or so... and when FF 4.0.1 was freshly started it ate about 400MB of RAM. Do some surfing but essentially leave the same tabs open overnight results in perhaps 600-700MB usage after 24 hours and a few days later 1.2GB usage has been seen. Still mostly idling... What's up with that?
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What is meant is that they openly take stance against some of the semi-extreme dogma that the churches push. That includes abortion for instance, but also the dumb moves of "The Moral Majority" in the 70's. When they started to demand censorship against trivial things like talking about sex and homosexuality on television. A show like "Soap" really got them going and a lot of people got fed up because it was so innocent - and comedy!
So, it wasn't as much a deliberate move as it was a reaction to various bible thumpers making an ass of themselves. Add to that starting avalanche of high profile television ministries getting busted for everything from stealing money, over adultery to various other more or less 'deadly sins'. It was a growing group of voters and someone was bound to start catering for them. The democrats filled the hole.
Privacy? - There may be some private material but I doubt it would have been leaked unless there was sonething juicy and newsworthy in there - and that in itself justifies the leak.
Now, anyone here know what's in those leaked materials? - Something newsworthy like we saw it with the stuff leaked on Wikileaks?
Actually 4 years seems fine to me. After all their apparent intention was to assemble a mob and create havoc and cause damage. This could be regarded as a disorganized attempt at inciting revolution, something any society must deal with in a very severe manner with harsh penalties.
The guys on the street should get a lot more than 4 years, plus have to pay FULL restitution to those affected. Yes, I know the damages runs into the billions but the taxpayers or other insurance holders should not have to pay for it - it must be those causing it that have to pay. That way they get what they deserve and they'll also be taught a lesson they won't soon forget.
That was more than stupid...
1) Log on directly into one of the virtual servers.
2) Log on from there to the main server.
3) Delete the storage for the other virtual servers on that main server. Use a security wipe if possible.
4) Delete the server you're logged in through using a security wipe. That will also remove any information about where you came from. The main server will only have information on you logging in from the now securely deleted server.
Arguments about a perimeter firewall logs revealing where you came from - highly unlikely. No company I know of (except perhaps NSA) logs everything. If you've hidden your access using a standard port, odds are that access is not logged.
Oh, and for maximum damage sabotage the backup as well. Set it to backup something of no importance for a few weeks (long enough to make sure all valid backups are rotated off) so that a restore is impossible. Just stopping the job might raise an alarm (backup failed) revealing the server and what you've done.
Let's not forget what happened in London; one guy got killed and a whole town went apeshit (rightfully so)
Now that is bullshit. So because a cop causes a death in connection with doing his job, it's justified to set fire to countless random buildings, kill people protecting their property and generally cause damages nearing a billion pounds? None of which is to be paid by the police officer that killed the guy, nor his department by the way - it'll all be paid for by the insurance holders (almost everybody) and the taxpayers (everybody)... Utter lunacy!
Now, the dead guy that started it all - last I heard he was a drug kingpin who actually fired the first shot. Dunno if that is true but I seriously doubt that the police would shoot and kill a random occupant in a random taxi. Most normal cops in London aren't armed; only special armed squads are, so if they were in play, it wasn't Joe Average in that taxi. The details doesn't matter - if the dude was a criminal and he didn't surrender when the police ordered him to at gunpoint, he asked for it.
Well, I think the Global Warming cult started this by categorically denying that the Sun had anything to do with the Earths climate whatsoever... I mean it's obvious that it doesn't contribute any heat, not any ionization of the upper atmosphere, so better leave it completely out of the equation...
No, it's not a joke. In one of IPCC's reports they actually conclude that the Sun has no significant influence on Global Warming, which is more than stupid. All warming comes from the Sun, and if you removed it the temperature would plummet to a few degrees above absolute zero within a very short time, greenhouse effect or not. It is thus equally obvious that if the Sun provides less warming, the temperature would drop, also regardless of any greenhouse effect. Similar if the Sun should provide more warming, temperature would go up.
As we have several periods of significant climate fluctuations in history and no known human or geological causes, it is obvious that the reason must be external, i.e. the Sun. So as long as the correlation between the Sun and the climate during these periods isn't explained, it is stupid to explain any variations seen today as caused by humans only. I'm not saying that humans have no influence but I'm saying that the simple and obvious answer is that the same factors that caused the historical fluctuations are at play again. It's Occam's Razor.
Illegal file sharing is copyright INFRINGEMENT, not theft! - Get it right, people! Or are you too stupid to get it?
I disagree.
China suffers from the Inflated Bubble Syndrome. Everything goes so fast it's almost Potemkin-style. Their new bullet trains for instance has turned out to be fatally flawed in almost every way. Their general technology is pure 20th century and they repeat all the mistakes of the western world, just on a more massive scale. Pollution, garbage, corruption... combined with religious tensions, unsustainable imperialism (Tibet) and extreme poverty among people that are not ignorant (they know they're being oppressed). It is a very large powder keg waiting to explode, and any conflict that ties up too many resources will trigger it and cause a massive implosion that their opponents will know to feed and use to create even more instability and friction.
If I was leading a nation in conflict with China I would most certainly concentrate my efforts at destabilizing its structure and feeding any and all internal forces to cause maximum instability and then hit the weak spots to amplify discontent and cause the total collapse of the country, and then hit it traditionally so it stays down and stays broken.
Troll indeed,
For some reason any and all technological advances have been met with ludicrous resistance based on a combination of superstition and ignorance. Often the church was the driving force, seeing all changes as a threat to their wealth and power. In other words this is nothing new.
Nanotechnology and biotechnology is no more dangerous than other radical technologies. Nuclear power for instance has many more potential dangers than nanotechnology, and the dangers of biotechnology are well known and understood.
But going back a century or two and you'll find ridiculous resistance against things like steam power and the combustion engine. Even speed itself had its opponents that argued that the human body wasn't built to move faster than a horse could take it. They were certain that faster speeds would literary separate the body and soul and leave the soul behind (for the devil to take). Oh, and the Flat Earth'ers were convinced that any attempts at sailing past the edge of the world would be met with the full wrath of God, in essence triggering the Apocalypse.
Yes, crazy people have always been around, and sometimes they carry bombs...
Turkey really, really, really wants to become a member of EU, but there's been several obstacles already, including the state mandated denial of the Armenian Genocide and their less-than-equal treatment of women and other human rights violations. Adding full censorship to the list will make sure life will get better in Turkey as their desire to become an EU member is so strong it just might make them drop this stupid censorship and correct the other 'follies'...
Because the real terrorists communicate using twitter and are careful to include #terrorinindia in their tweets... or using the wall in a group called "Terror attack against India" on Facebook...
The Unabomber (Ted Kaczynski) wrote a very well written manifesto, full of brilliant work and logic - that just happen to be complete bullshit from end to end. Breivik copied quite a few passages verbatim, changing only a few words to make it fit his message. Most of Breiviks text is also complete bullshit, and I'm sure those codes are as well. Same thing applies to to other manifesto-like texts written by madmen, like "Mein Kampf" or the Quran for that matter.
We shouldn't be as afraid of the lone nutjobs like Kaczynski or Breivik as we should of any collective if people like them ever manage to collaborate. If they complement each other perfectly, their work might be flawless and actually make sense in a broader sense. There are after all tiny points of sense and reason in both manifestos and it would scare me shitless if someone should turn up with a manifesto that was right all the way.
Oh, and I'm NOT talking about the O.J. Simpson case here... That one was fucked up by incompetent police work and pathetic attempts at 'making sure' O.J. was convicted, which of course resulted in an acquittal due to reasonable doubt - the correct verdict given the circumstances.
It has been seen that people have been caught with the smoking gun in their hands, covered in the victims blood, having been filmed committing the murder, reliable witnesses present and so on, and yet still walk away acquitted.
It may be human to make errors, but it takes lawyers to seriously fuck things up...
There is a model-T that still runs in my area. I've seen the guy a few times in the grocery store parking lot, and cruising about the retail district. I'm pretty sure cybersecurity is not a problem for him.
In other words, the solution is: Duh! Cars don't need to be on any stinkin' network.
Exactly what I was going to say!
Until we have cars that can fully auto-drive without any driver intervention, all that electronic junk is basically unnecessary and if it poses a problem, junk it.
Cars ran fine back in the day (no need to go that far back, the 50's and 60's had great cars too with zero electronic junk in them) and there's no reason they can't do that again. Maybe on a different fuel but still just a basic combustion engine that Ford himself would be able to fix, should it break down.
If someone has a picture up there in which I can be recognized, but not tagged me in it, I'd never know. This feature will auto-tag me and presumably let me know just like any other tagging on Facebook. If I don't like the picture I can ask to have it removed. I can't do that if I don't know it's there.
If people are concerned with pictures of them behaving stupidly, revealing infidelity and insurance scams (in relation to work related injuries) and similar, the advice is mind-numbingly simple: JUST DON'T DO STUPID STUFF LIKE THAT!
When out in public always remember that someone might snap a picture of you and you'll never know where that picture ends up - Facebook, on some website, in possession of someone who'll use it for blackmail or similar. It's that simple. Don't do stupid things just because you think nobody is looking or you're too drunk to care. Just don't get that drunk, plain and simple.
But if you don't care, just go out and enjoy life. Get drunk or high or whatever. Hope that you don't get caught, one way or the other.
Finally someone recognizes the right of "not being recognized without consent".
Precisely, and that's the problem.
If Facebook's feature is illegal, so is any and all other form of random recognition. If you meet someone by chance on the street, you are not allowed to recognize this person. Not even in your mind. Well, unless you get approval in advance. But in order to do that you have to recognize and initiate contact, and you're not allowed to recognize without prior consent...
Am I the only one to think that the law in its interpretation in relation to Facebook is stupid? - because unless the law specifically is meant to discriminate against Facebook, this is how it has to be interpreted.
If you're going down that road...
First of all, there will be a password prompt, in nice HUGE letters on the screen - you know in case the warden lost his reading glasses or something...
You look around and notice a picture of his son on the table and a drawing signed "Joshua" on the wall... So now you know the password is "Joshua" (of course it is)
UNLOCK ALL INMATE DOORS
"Ok"
DEACTIVATE SECURITY SYSTEM
But wait! - the warden is not supposed to deactivate the security system! - "ACCESS DENIED!"
But the warden being the warden he types "OVERRIDE" and presto!
The CT part stands for "Copyright Theft" but that's grossly misleading... You're not stealing the rights, you're infringing on them. You're not stealing the content either, you're copying it.
They apparently refuse to learn! - Pure stupidity! :(
I was member of the debate forum at a newspaper website here in Denmark and I was using my real name as you were required to do.
Now, some debates - especially those concerning religion (Islam in particular) - quite often turned very aggressive. Then it happened - someone started posting addresses of some of the participants and issuing threats against them. As my name is pretty unique, I changed the name in my profile to protect myself and I was kicked off the forum. The person issuing the threats wasn't by the way. A few days later someone was assaulted and beaten severely. The victim was active on another similar forum and was tracked down from his name and attacked physically. Then 'my' forum changed the rules and allowed aliases - as long as the private section of the profile still held real info.
This is the way to go. You're still accountable in full but only to the site owner (and his moderators). Other readers cannot access your information and thus take the discussions to a physical level. That way you're both protected against other regular participants that are unable to keep the arguments on a verbal level and yet accountable with respect to the relevant laws (libel, racism etc.).
Actually the whole security theater should make everybody laugh out loud - if it wasn't so stupid it hurts.
Basically it doesn't work. Never did actually. The error rate (missed alerts) is so high it's ridiculous. The luggage scanner finds about 8% of the targets, the passenger metal detector (the portal thing) finds about 45% of the targets (of those a whopping 85% are missed in the follow-up wand screening), the carry-on scanner finds about 30% of the targets, the 'porn-scanner' is quite good - relatively - as it finds about 60% of the targets, but the 'grope-search' finds less than 25% of the targets.
Basically, the huge failure numbers are often due to obvious false alerts causing the true target to be dismissed.
The only way to catch terrorists with 100% certainty involves a time machine... but profiling helps. It would have caught all the 9/11 hijackers, while the scanners would not have caught their carbon fiber boxcutters... the 'porn-scanner' might, but not if they hid the knives inside their body.
... of a story from about 10-15 years ago here in Denmark. It was so absurd it made the news as a major story, and needless to say the company (KTAS) ended up accepting the customers position and disregard the bill in question...
The customer, an elderly couple with just one old phone with a rotary dial and everything, one day received a quarterly bill for an amount around DKK 200.000 (about $37.000) and this was some years ago, remember? - They contacted the phone company (KTAS A/S, now a part of TDC A/S) asking if it was an error. No, it was a bill for calls they've made so they just had to pay up. But what was on the bill? - Well, they weren't subscribed to an itemized bill so no, they couldn't be told that. But the phone company offered to get a retroactive itemized bill. It would be more expensive but if they paid in advance (after all they did owe the company a lot of money) they could get one. "Okay, how much?" they asked. A quite large number was quoted. "Why?" they asked. "Well, the retroactive itemized bill cost double the prepaid one, and you have to pay for expenses relating it, like paper, printing ink, handling and so on. "But how can that add up to that much?". "Well, there's 450.000 calls on the bill, and we can fit 80 calls on a single page of paper... That's about 5.500 pages of paper, and then we have to mail that to you..."
The couple went to the media that eagerly picked up the story. The bill was sent free of charge. Turns out the bill was 99.9999% calls to special internal service numbers, each call always between 2 and 5 seconds, made around the clock 24/7, and what's more, they were overlapping which is quite impossible with a single line. They complained to the phone company citing the overlapping calls. "No. We see no errors on your line" was the response. But we can - at a charge - send a technician to test it. The technician found no errors with the phone, the phone jack or the line to the junction. "We have checked everything. You made those calls. Just pay up." was the result.
The couple went to the media again. The media hit the CEO (a former politician) hard with the case, and he was forced to make internal inquiries. The very next day the couple got a letter saying that due to the computer malfunction their bill was 'incorrect' and that they would receive a new bill soon. The bill arrived and there was only the normal charge on it. But they never got an apology in any form.
The real issue is not the lack of morals in the tabloid press... We've always known that they never had any.
No, the real issue is how easy it was for some low-life private investigator to 'hack' voicemails all over the place. Most systems appear to use just 4-digit PINs and have no limits to how many times you can try your luck, as well as no logs (or nobody looking at the logs), so it's not surprising it is possible, but why haven't anything been done?! - This have been going on for 5 years or more, as we know from the early scandals involving this newspaper, and thus despite public knowledge nothing has been done?
Now that's the real scandal!
Still waiting to see if they've fixed the serious leak in 4.0.1...
I have a lot of tabs - around 80 or so... and when FF 4.0.1 was freshly started it ate about 400MB of RAM. Do some surfing but essentially leave the same tabs open overnight results in perhaps 600-700MB usage after 24 hours and a few days later 1.2GB usage has been seen. Still mostly idling... What's up with that?
By December 2014 the version number will overflow the DWORD holding it and everybody will enjoy the new and improved Firefox 0...