Well, now we know for sure that GPLv3 is desirable... Microsoft is against it. If only they could have taken this stance back when we were fighting over it, then we would have accepted GPLv3 without question.
They are also against killing puppies, you should look into that.
On my Mac (the horror! the horror!) I can log on, purchase and download the games that are released for Mac. I can even play them.
The trick is that once the Steam client has been ported, each individual game developer chooses whether to invest money in porting their awesome creation to OSX.
If Valve ported Steam to Linux, that would open a similar calculation for the developer. It would also mean that indie developers could develop on the Linux stack and sell their games to those who run Linux. Given careful selection of libraries, it's possible to run the same code on Linux, OSX and Windows. It would be sweet. But it depends on whether Valve thinks there would be enough money in the Linux market to pay for the development of a Linux client.
You do realize that a Linux steam client would get some subset of ports OS X has. Which is just a _staaaaagering_ amount of software, let me tell you. Yay, you can download Altitude for Linux.... from Steam now, win... Some cheesy cross platform puzzle games, wooooo.
There are lots (but not a high percentage of total PC software) of Mac ports outside of Steam. The Linux situation is more dire, so maybe Steam would give people wishing to target Linux something to focus on at least. Really though, Steam is just another marketplace for the Mac, it hasn't really increased the amount of software available to it, IMHO (other than what, orange box?). But on Linux, having just ONE AA title ported, even a Valve in-house job could be what, a 200% improvement over the commercial games it has now?
An engineer who is 1. bored 2. likes iPhones? Does not sound like much of an engineer.
Very intelligent people get bored when not tackling mentally challenging tasks, and they are usually paid a lot of money when they are, which is not all the time.
That's just my definition of a very intelligent person, which I am assuming most engineers are. I'm really curious what your or the moderator's definition of engineer is.
"Never bored because they all have Linux on their cellphones"? See, you've confused Linux fanboys with engineers, that's your mistake.
So basically organizations that do business with consumers would be allowed to scan the consumer PC. Great idea...
Take your foil hat off please. Yah, it's really nuts, my bank insists upon inspecting my future home before approving a loan for it. Assholes even demand to know who I am. While it would make a stupid mandatory requirement to do online business with customers due to the wide base of networked devices, it could be nice for corporate systems, and would be a great opt-in feature for others. [x] Only allow systems with recent health certificate, AV signatures, etc to access my account remotely. This isn't going to improve YOUR security measurably, but it gives the other end confidence to enable more online features. It would never work to deny access... which is what you're trying to scare us into thinking.
Next step, you have to allow the government, banks, Ebay, Paypal and what not to scan your PC otherwise they will refuse to do business with you. Since they may not have a linux or other OS scanners, you would be required to use Windows of course.
Why are you getting all excited about "require"? Even a complete idiot would see that is technically impossible given all the possible networked devices out there this would impact. On the other hand, as an opt-in feature this could be very useful.
The new comments system... is it supposed to be hiding responses to low rated comments? Take this one for example, it will start out life rated at 2 (including the karma bonus) but won't be visible on the page unless you have set filtering to -1 because the GP is rated at -1. This seems extremely broken to me.
My problem is that you have replied to a -1 post without quoting any of it and expect your voice to be heard over what you are responding to. This is bad, for you and everyone, because it ends up with a bunch of wasted competing up/down mods due to confusing/misleading/lack of context. It also, naturally, pisses off non-moderators reading it.
They can't make you quote stuff, but they can hide you behind hidden posts, where you wouldn't make any sense showing through anyway. (Or they could treat the post hierarchy with some fucking respect, but I'm not holding my breath.)
when you set up a network connection from half duplex to full duplex you do not see a double in speed, just a double in capacity.
So a car analogy would be if you took a one way road and doubled the lane count with opposite flowing lanes, the cars don't move twice as fast, but twice as many.
Did you really need to be explained to anyone?
How about if we stacked bidirectional lanes on top of each other so one lane represented both directions, and double capacity in the same square footage? Oooohh, I see what I did, deeeeeeeensittttyyyyy.
Doing this On the same frequency is remarkable. but the gains they are claiming can be had right now by using TWO frequencies.
Then they could move twice as much again with TWO full duplex frequencies!!11
Where others may see intractable, overly difficult methods, we see enlightenment, borne from years of learning, experience, and overall, logic.
^ That is not sane.
You know, our tools, and I mean the whole enchilada - OS and ISV unix software, they really really suck.
"UNIX|unix" OS software needs to GTFOOMW. The unix administration model has too much overhead for what the average person needs to do with it which is 9/10 times run some application in a little container of sorts without touching the dirty sides of the OS it sits in.
Flat files for configuration are fine, IF YOU PICK A CONSISTENT FORMAT AND RUN WITH IT, DOCUMENT IT, DESIGN IT FOR SOMETHING OTHER THAN YOUR OWN PARSER TO UNDERSTAND.
No, he's selling books and getting ratings and a lot of money. Folks who think Beck is crazy are just as bamboozled as any of his fans. It's really hilarious.
You're saying this on Slashdot you realize? The misleading summaries, inaccurate headlines, more opinion than fact, all to energize the audience and keep them coming back whether they hate it or not.
The same type of people who take Beck, Limbaugh, or any AM radio morning talk show seriously come to Slashdot for news.
Or you could be lulled into thinking that debate on an Internet forum with the tagline "news for nerds" means you are talking to a group of rational, logical, people with a grip on reality. Think about the people you hear calling into radio talk shows for a minute. Think about the format of this site. Why would the average person here be any more rational?
Like the others I mentioned, this is just for fun;)
This is a docking, charing, and connection port which includes support for USB3 and DisplayPort (which is easily converted to HDMI). It is like the non-proprietary equivalent of Apple's dock connnector.
Take your "facts" elsewhere mister, this is Slashdot! Galaxy Tab cannot connect to projectors simply because I cannot see a VGA port in any pictures of the device I find online in 10 seconds of searching. iPads suffer the same fate, regardless of the dock/VGA adaptors in plain sight at aisle ends in Target and Walmart. All of these devices are doomed too, because I cannot afford them, and I don't want anything I can't afford because that's how I cope with life. They're stupid toys, but I take posting on Slashdot seriously.
"+5" comments in a single story which disagree on key points - so long as those points are subjective and not factual.
/. should simply offer +/- 1 I [dis]agree, and +/- 1 [un]truthful
Then maybe we could have a filter that drops all subjective posts and squeeze some news for nerds out of this thing.
OR, we could filter the opposite and rally behind whichever subjective viewpoint fits us best and ignore pesky facts and that logic stuff, because you can't have black and white competing subjective arguments with that shit going around.
Linux can do it's open source, free software, "so free you can give it away for free" crap all you want buddy, no one is stopping it. However, I'm not hearing the reasoning for making everything else in the world revolve around THAT mentality. At what point in time did free software community shift from "nobody else will do this, so I'll make a free replacement" to "stuff I have to pay for is evil"? The whole viral $free aspect of Free Software is really, really starting to piss people off. You cannot deny that a market for software is beneficial to the users, the developers, the economy, all involved.
Why don't you all go back to writing free software (GNU) replacements and stop worrying about what other people are doing. It is getting very polarizing, it is not sustainable.
where Linux users privately infringe patents, and everybody else running a business that needs to use H.264 has to pay royalties.
It is shocking I know, but at some point in your career you will have to BUY software, and the people you bought it from in turn will have paid for licenses to use technology they didn't develop themselves.
I know all this exchanging of money for goods and services thing is alien to the free software world, but you can't bury your head in the sand and pretend everything is free of cost.
You claim that WL hasn't acted like a "normal charitable organisation".
Do you have any idea how much it takes to fund a decent legal defence when multiple state actors are out to get you?
That pretty much says it all.
Capitalizing on controversy is part and parcel of making people (not just geeks) aware.
Right, because they can't just pass the information on, they have to dramatize it. So you're more aware. And they don't have an agenda, they're just making sure you're really, really, really AWARE of something inside something that was leaked to them.
I don't know whether it's a big deal or not, but from reading the article it is more than just about documents from Wikileaks being leaked to another site. This Domschiet-Berg guy did something that compromised the anonymity of people who submit things to the Wikileaks website.
Who is naive enough to think their own confidentiality is secure while violating another's? This is like a the married woman you're having an affair with wouldn't cheat on you. Duh.
It doesn't matter if it goes 250mph if it sits on the track for an hour waiting for right of way. Granted, this is just one experience, but from reading up after it happened, it seems to be the norm. Back in 1999 I decided to take a leisure trip out to Arizona from Indianapolis and I decided to take a train for fun. Instead of a speedy ride up to Chicago, we ended up waiting for an hour on a side track to get right of way. On the way from Chicago to Flagstaff, AZ, at one point we sat on the tracks during the day for 3 or 4 hours waiting again for right of way. On the return trip the train was 5 hours late getting back to Chicago and I missed my connection train back to Indianapolis.
Sure, you can build a high speed train, but if its run by Amtrak and exists in this countries rail system mentality, it will quickly become worthless. Fix the real issues.
You were probably waiting for freight trains to pass, and I'm guessing that is because they make fewer stops than all but express passenger trains, and/or the company running the freight services own the tracks and/or makes more money off freight service than they do sharing tracks with Amtrack, regional commuter train service, or whatever. You can't really call that Amtrack's fault. You might as well be complaining to your cab driver about all the big trucks clogging highway arteries.
I believe, someone correct me if I am wrong, that the whole point of HIGH SPEED rail is that they would use their own HIGH SPEED rail system. Maybe they will run freight as well, but I'm having a hard time imagining high speed passenger service take a second seat to high speed freight. The govt would be pretty foolish to invest that kind of money into it and let that happen.
à The Ãoeroving wiretapà provision allows the FBI to obtain wiretaps from a secret intelligence court, known as the FISA court, without identifying what method of communication is to be tapped.
à The Ãoelone wolfà measure allows FISA court warrants for the electronic monitoring of a person for whatever reason Ã" even without showing that the suspect is an agent of a foreign power or a terrorist. The government has said it has never invoked that provision, but the Obama administration said it wanted to retain the authority to do so.
à The Ãoebusiness recordsà provision allows FISA court warrants for any type of record, from banking to library to medical, without the government having to declare that the information sought is connected to a terrorism or espionage investigation.
In the best traditions of bipartisanship, both parties want to take away your civil liberties and sell out the middle class to big business. The only difference between the two is which big business group they are puppets for.
And this is coming from a Constituional law professor, by the way. A guy who taught at one of the top Universities in the country - the University of Chicago - and was educated at the top law school in the country. If this is what he thinks the Constitution stands for, we're fucked.
Your argument appeals to the public more when you leave it at "Patriot Act is Evil" and not giving too many facts that when read aloud don't actually sound all that terrible.
Which part of the Constitution of the United States do you think these are stepping on? Enough of this revisionist BULLSHIT please. Can we debate privacy as fundamental human right or whatever without dragging the God damned Constitution or any other "sacred" text into this? This is the same Holy Constitution that started out only letting wealthy white men vote after all. The reason civil rights get violated and privacy has "issues" is because the book is still being written on this one.
Hey look, "Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof." See, that's the part that makes the federal govt telling the states how to standardize on a national ID unconstitutional! Oh WAIT! There's just no limit to the amount of fun we can have interpreting the Constitution, I'm telling you.
P.S. I am posting this with as much anonymity as you have, but get virtual kudos to beat off with.
What they call "leadership" is worth nothing, do they think it requires any talent to say "hey, you! make this thing work!"
I believe in Leadership as it was in the old days, the leaders were the people who had worked in the factory floor and had showed their talent there. They understood the processes, the technical details that made the company create the products people would buy.
Today, the MBAs know nothing about that, all they do is bullshit.
I don't think actual leadership skills are taught (... or learned) much outside of the military. This is just personal observation from over a few years.
Anonymous cannot be destroyed by prosecuting its individual members. In order to charge someone, the prosecution must first de-anonymize that person, which immediately voids their membership in Anonymous.
Quite frankly this has a darker story. The handler can't trust the person to push their own button, so the handler does it remotely without the persons consent. That would imply that a number of people have failed to do what they have been psychologically coerced to believe what their duty, when its not something they really wanted to do in the first place. Feelings of despair and insignificance are easily played upon by psychotic individuals.
Don't be a dipshit. Any remotely intelligent person would wonder why you'd do suicide bombing any other way. Relying on the bomber themselves to do this would be a huge sign these were not professionals. It says way more about the people behind the bombings than the people used for them.
You want to suggest that lack of follow-through is an indication that someone is sickly taken advantage of. How darker could it be than for someone to think even for a minute that blowing themselves up is a solution to any problem? Doing the deed does not in any way mean a suicide bomber was 'OK' in the head and not manipulated by a number of external things.
It seems rather dangerous to have it set off with any incoming SMS. You'd think they could've invested in the time to hook it to at least only respond to a particular number.
Maybe "spam" is a cover for a covert state agency knowingly sending the detonate signal in an uncontrolled, but relatively safe environment.
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Well, now we know for sure that GPLv3 is desirable... Microsoft is against it. If only they could have taken this stance back when we were fighting over it, then we would have accepted GPLv3 without question.
They are also against killing puppies, you should look into that.
On my Mac (the horror! the horror!) I can log on, purchase and download the games that are released for Mac. I can even play them.
The trick is that once the Steam client has been ported, each individual game developer chooses whether to invest money in porting their awesome creation to OSX.
If Valve ported Steam to Linux, that would open a similar calculation for the developer. It would also mean that indie developers could develop on the Linux stack and sell their games to those who run Linux. Given careful selection of libraries, it's possible to run the same code on Linux, OSX and Windows. It would be sweet. But it depends on whether Valve thinks there would be enough money in the Linux market to pay for the development of a Linux client.
You do realize that a Linux steam client would get some subset of ports OS X has. Which is just a _staaaaagering_ amount of software, let me tell you.
Yay, you can download Altitude for Linux.... from Steam now, win...
Some cheesy cross platform puzzle games, wooooo.
There are lots (but not a high percentage of total PC software) of Mac ports outside of Steam. The Linux situation is more dire, so maybe Steam would give people wishing to target Linux something to focus on at least. Really though, Steam is just another marketplace for the Mac, it hasn't really increased the amount of software available to it, IMHO (other than what, orange box?). But on Linux, having just ONE AA title ported, even a Valve in-house job could be what, a 200% improvement over the commercial games it has now?
An engineer who is
1. bored
2. likes iPhones?
Does not sound like much of an engineer.
Very intelligent people get bored when not tackling mentally challenging tasks, and they are usually paid a lot of money when they are, which is not all the time.
That's just my definition of a very intelligent person, which I am assuming most engineers are. I'm really curious what your or the moderator's definition of engineer is.
"Never bored because they all have Linux on their cellphones"?
See, you've confused Linux fanboys with engineers, that's your mistake.
hello ? privacy issues anybody ?
Way to kneejerk.
So basically organizations that do business with consumers would be allowed to scan the consumer PC. Great idea...
Take your foil hat off please. Yah, it's really nuts, my bank insists upon inspecting my future home before approving a loan for it. Assholes even demand to know who I am.
While it would make a stupid mandatory requirement to do online business with customers due to the wide base of networked devices, it could be nice for corporate systems, and would be a great opt-in feature for others. [x] Only allow systems with recent health certificate, AV signatures, etc to access my account remotely. This isn't going to improve YOUR security measurably, but it gives the other end confidence to enable more online features. It would never work to deny access... which is what you're trying to scare us into thinking.
Next step, you have to allow the government, banks, Ebay, Paypal and what not to scan your PC otherwise they will refuse to do business with you. Since they may not have a linux or other OS scanners, you would be required to use Windows of course.
Why are you getting all excited about "require"? Even a complete idiot would see that is technically impossible given all the possible networked devices out there this would impact. On the other hand, as an opt-in feature this could be very useful.
Now, kindly give me all your mod points.
The new comments system... is it supposed to be hiding responses to low rated comments? Take this one for example, it will start out life rated at 2 (including the karma bonus) but won't be visible on the page unless you have set filtering to -1 because the GP is rated at -1. This seems extremely broken to me.
My problem is that you have replied to a -1 post without quoting any of it and expect your voice to be heard over what you are responding to. This is bad, for you and everyone, because it ends up with a bunch of wasted competing up/down mods due to confusing/misleading/lack of context. It also, naturally, pisses off non-moderators reading it.
They can't make you quote stuff, but they can hide you behind hidden posts, where you wouldn't make any sense showing through anyway.
(Or they could treat the post hierarchy with some fucking respect, but I'm not holding my breath.)
when you set up a network connection from half duplex to full duplex you do not see a double in speed, just a double in capacity.
So a car analogy would be if you took a one way road and doubled the lane count with opposite flowing lanes, the cars don't move twice as fast, but twice as many.
Did you really need to be explained to anyone?
How about if we stacked bidirectional lanes on top of each other so one lane represented both directions, and double capacity in the same square footage? Oooohh, I see what I did, deeeeeeeensittttyyyyy.
Doing this On the same frequency is remarkable. but the gains they are claiming can be had right now by using TWO frequencies.
Then they could move twice as much again with TWO full duplex frequencies!!11
Where others may see intractable, overly difficult methods, we see enlightenment, borne from years of learning, experience, and overall, logic.
^ That is not sane.
You know, our tools, and I mean the whole enchilada - OS and ISV unix software, they really really suck.
"UNIX|unix" OS software needs to GTFOOMW. The unix administration model has too much overhead for what the average person needs to do with it which is 9/10 times run some application in a little container of sorts without touching the dirty sides of the OS it sits in.
Flat files for configuration are fine, IF
YOU PICK A CONSISTENT FORMAT AND RUN WITH IT,
DOCUMENT IT,
DESIGN IT FOR SOMETHING OTHER THAN YOUR OWN PARSER TO UNDERSTAND.
No, he's selling books and getting ratings and a lot of money. Folks who think Beck is crazy are just as bamboozled as any of his fans. It's really hilarious.
You're saying this on Slashdot you realize? The misleading summaries, inaccurate headlines, more opinion than fact, all to energize the audience and keep them coming back whether they hate it or not.
The same type of people who take Beck, Limbaugh, or any AM radio morning talk show seriously come to Slashdot for news.
Or you could be lulled into thinking that debate on an Internet forum with the tagline "news for nerds" means you are talking to a group of rational, logical, people with a grip on reality. Think about the people you hear calling into radio talk shows for a minute. Think about the format of this site. Why would the average person here be any more rational?
Like the others I mentioned, this is just for fun ;)
It has a PDMI connector.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDMI
This is a docking, charing, and connection port which includes support for USB3 and DisplayPort (which is easily converted to HDMI). It is like the non-proprietary equivalent of Apple's dock connnector.
Take your "facts" elsewhere mister, this is Slashdot!
Galaxy Tab cannot connect to projectors simply because I cannot see a VGA port in any pictures of the device I find online in 10 seconds of searching. iPads suffer the same fate, regardless of the dock/VGA adaptors in plain sight at aisle ends in Target and Walmart. All of these devices are doomed too, because I cannot afford them, and I don't want anything I can't afford because that's how I cope with life. They're stupid toys, but I take posting on Slashdot seriously.
=D
"+5" comments in a single story which disagree on key points - so long as those points are subjective and not factual.
/. should simply offer +/- 1 I [dis]agree, and +/- 1 [un]truthful
Then maybe we could have a filter that drops all subjective posts and squeeze some news for nerds out of this thing.
OR, we could filter the opposite and rally behind whichever subjective viewpoint fits us best and ignore pesky facts and that logic stuff, because you can't have black and white competing subjective arguments with that shit going around.
Linux users can't because it's patented to hell
Linux can do it's open source, free software, "so free you can give it away for free" crap all you want buddy, no one is stopping it. However, I'm not hearing the reasoning for making everything else in the world revolve around THAT mentality. At what point in time did free software community shift from "nobody else will do this, so I'll make a free replacement" to "stuff I have to pay for is evil"?
The whole viral $free aspect of Free Software is really, really starting to piss people off. You cannot deny that a market for software is beneficial to the users, the developers, the economy, all involved.
Why don't you all go back to writing free software (GNU) replacements and stop worrying about what other people are doing. It is getting very polarizing, it is not sustainable.
where Linux users privately infringe patents, and everybody else running a business that needs to use H.264 has to pay royalties.
It is shocking I know, but at some point in your career you will have to BUY software, and the people you bought it from in turn will have paid for licenses to use technology they didn't develop themselves.
I know all this exchanging of money for goods and services thing is alien to the free software world, but you can't bury your head in the sand and pretend everything is free of cost.
That if you advertise or support a company, and are paid for by the company - you had to declare it?
This is an honest question...
Which Youtube posts are paid advertisements.
Thanks, I'm here all day.
You claim that WL hasn't acted like a "normal charitable organisation".
Do you have any idea how much it takes to fund a decent legal defence when multiple state actors are out to get you?
That pretty much says it all.
Capitalizing on controversy is part and parcel of making people (not just geeks) aware.
Right, because they can't just pass the information on, they have to dramatize it. So you're more aware. And they don't have an agenda, they're just making sure you're really, really, really AWARE of something inside something that was leaked to them.
I don't know whether it's a big deal or not, but from reading the article it is more than just about documents from Wikileaks being leaked to another site. This Domschiet-Berg guy did something that compromised the anonymity of people who submit things to the Wikileaks website.
Who is naive enough to think their own confidentiality is secure while violating another's? This is like a the married woman you're having an affair with wouldn't cheat on you. Duh.
Do we really need yet another Apple-controlled walled garden? Don't we have enough of those already?
Open gaming platforms that don't suck? Um, do you think?
It doesn't matter if it goes 250mph if it sits on the track for an hour waiting for right of way. Granted, this is just one experience, but from reading up after it happened, it seems to be the norm. Back in 1999 I decided to take a leisure trip out to Arizona from Indianapolis and I decided to take a train for fun. Instead of a speedy ride up to Chicago, we ended up waiting for an hour on a side track to get right of way. On the way from Chicago to Flagstaff, AZ, at one point we sat on the tracks during the day for 3 or 4 hours waiting again for right of way. On the return trip the train was 5 hours late getting back to Chicago and I missed my connection train back to Indianapolis.
Sure, you can build a high speed train, but if its run by Amtrak and exists in this countries rail system mentality, it will quickly become worthless. Fix the real issues.
You were probably waiting for freight trains to pass, and I'm guessing that is because they make fewer stops than all but express passenger trains, and/or the company running the freight services own the tracks and/or makes more money off freight service than they do sharing tracks with Amtrack, regional commuter train service, or whatever. You can't really call that Amtrack's fault. You might as well be complaining to your cab driver about all the big trucks clogging highway arteries.
I believe, someone correct me if I am wrong, that the whole point of HIGH SPEED rail is that they would use their own HIGH SPEED rail system. Maybe they will run freight as well, but I'm having a hard time imagining high speed passenger service take a second seat to high speed freight. The govt would be pretty foolish to invest that kind of money into it and let that happen.
à The Ãoeroving wiretapà provision allows the FBI to obtain wiretaps from a secret intelligence court, known as the FISA court, without identifying what method of communication is to be tapped.
à The Ãoelone wolfà measure allows FISA court warrants for the electronic monitoring of a person for whatever reason Ã" even without showing that the suspect is an agent of a foreign power or a terrorist. The government has said it has never invoked that provision, but the Obama administration said it wanted to retain the authority to do so.
à The Ãoebusiness recordsà provision allows FISA court warrants for any type of record, from banking to library to medical, without the government having to declare that the information sought is connected to a terrorism or espionage investigation.
In the best traditions of bipartisanship, both parties want to take away your civil liberties and sell out the middle class to big business. The only difference between the two is which big business group they are puppets for.
And this is coming from a Constituional law professor, by the way. A guy who taught at one of the top Universities in the country - the University of Chicago - and was educated at the top law school in the country. If this is what he thinks the Constitution stands for, we're fucked.
Your argument appeals to the public more when you leave it at "Patriot Act is Evil" and not giving too many facts that when read aloud don't actually sound all that terrible.
Which part of the Constitution of the United States do you think these are stepping on? Enough of this revisionist BULLSHIT please. Can we debate privacy as fundamental human right or whatever without dragging the God damned Constitution or any other "sacred" text into this? This is the same Holy Constitution that started out only letting wealthy white men vote after all. The reason civil rights get violated and privacy has "issues" is because the book is still being written on this one.
Hey look, "Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof."
See, that's the part that makes the federal govt telling the states how to standardize on a national ID unconstitutional! Oh WAIT!
There's just no limit to the amount of fun we can have interpreting the Constitution, I'm telling you.
P.S. I am posting this with as much anonymity as you have, but get virtual kudos to beat off with.
Quick, everybody go buy a PS3 to hack, that will teach Sony to mess with us. Streisand Effect indeed!
What they call "leadership" is worth nothing, do they think it requires any talent to say "hey, you! make this thing work!"
I believe in Leadership as it was in the old days, the leaders were the people who had worked in the factory floor and had showed their talent there. They understood the processes, the technical details that made the company create the products people would buy.
Today, the MBAs know nothing about that, all they do is bullshit.
I don't think actual leadership skills are taught (... or learned) much outside of the military. This is just personal observation from over a few years.
Of course it's not "ethical",
Excuse me, why?
repositories in the US may work, but It'll just get some dudes to host them from a country with more loose ip laws
Lobby, duh.
Anonymous cannot be destroyed by prosecuting its individual members. In order to charge someone, the prosecution must first de-anonymize that person, which immediately voids their membership in Anonymous.
LOL
Quite frankly this has a darker story. The handler can't trust the person to push their own button, so the handler does it remotely without the persons consent. That would imply that a number of people have failed to do what they have been psychologically coerced to believe what their duty, when its not something they really wanted to do in the first place. Feelings of despair and insignificance are easily played upon by psychotic individuals.
Don't be a dipshit. Any remotely intelligent person would wonder why you'd do suicide bombing any other way. Relying on the bomber themselves to do this would be a huge sign these were not professionals. It says way more about the people behind the bombings than the people used for them.
You want to suggest that lack of follow-through is an indication that someone is sickly taken advantage of. How darker could it be than for someone to think even for a minute that blowing themselves up is a solution to any problem? Doing the deed does not in any way mean a suicide bomber was 'OK' in the head and not manipulated by a number of external things.
It seems rather dangerous to have it set off with any incoming SMS. You'd think they could've invested in the time to hook it to at least only respond to a particular number.
Maybe "spam" is a cover for a covert state agency knowingly sending the detonate signal in an uncontrolled, but relatively safe environment.
I'm being serious.