AT&T wants us to believe that because their website was so insecure that feeding it sequential data would reveal private customer information, the problem can be solved by throwing the "hacker" -- who notified them immediately and did not leak the customer information -- into jail.
Yeah, right. The overseas hackers aren't going to even care that much. They'll take your information, use it to rob you blind, and presumably AT&T will cover it up, since their response has not been to address the actual problem in this case.
Weev is caught in the crossfire. American industry wants to have government protect it from its own sloppy coding. The truth is that protecting industry encourages more sloppy coding, which then helps the Chinese hackers who are robbing us blind.
With the planned immigration amnesty, you'll soon be competing against another 30 million people, who will displace enough people from their jobs that they'll be aiming for yours.
Enjoy your future as perpetual serfs of the corporate-media-globalist machine!
First they came for the secure boot, and I did not speak up, because I was not a BIOS...
This will enable them to control all of our computing hardware from their centralized corporate mind-control chambers.
Soon they will make us intolerant of anyone not like us, and we will become flag-waving, hamburger-munching, Coke-swilling droids who cheer whenever the poor, brown or leftist people are slaughter by automated drones.
Running Windows ME....so how'd I do Reddit I mean Slashdot? Did I hive mind the right way? Shower me in imaginary internet karma points!!!
Do good, make people working for you feel they're doing something good for the world.
You underestimate two motivations:
1. Self-interest. Two months ago, Snowden was a nobody with a dysfunctional life. Now he's famous and has many fans. Like Assange or even Charles Manson.
2. Revenge. People who are nobodies love to take revenge on anything bigger than they are, and they'll do it for "altruistic" reasons in order to have support from the crowd. They're sociopathic manipulators.
If Snowden has any decency, he'll go out into the middle of a large field so no one else dies in the drone strike.
There's only two ways to peace. One side destroys the other to the point where the other side doesn't want to be exterminated, or both sides have the ability to exterminate each other and the cost of war is too great.
That's a profound observation reinforced by history.
I'm not sure why people fear it; it means we know what we need to do, instead of what we wish were true.
You'd think all the sciency types would be more open to that.
the ipod may be assembled in china but it sure exports american culture.
Is that culture, or just the most effective way to profit from the human weakness that demands constant entertainment in order to not feel lonely and existentially pointless?
Political: "We are a country, see, because we have a name and some documents, and we are united by our belief in capitalism (donuts) and equality (welfare). Anyone is welcome here who agrees with those."
Organic: "My people evolved in this land and have possessed it for centuries, improving it and themselves. We are inseparable from it. The only people welcome here are ourselves, and everyone else must find their own nation."
In government, you are not judged by results. You are judged by appearances, specifically how many people you can fool for long enough that they forget all the stuff you've screwed up.
This is why as little as possible should be entrusted to government. Even government workers will generally agree with this: government works best when it has a small set of goals and some way of measuring "success" other than cheering uninformed voters.
What won workers rights was the tendency of most companies to not follow the worst examples and, when those worst examples were exposed, to no longer be forced to compete with that at price levels that were abusive.
In other words, culture won out over greed.
In the meantime, we've gained unions, which are parasitic organisms that in every instance are linked to organized crime, low worker productivity, and the failure of industries.
The lesson of the Twinkie has re-shaped American labor. Unions are not needed and destroy our industry; there is a better way without unions.
I liked the way TechNet felt like a group of people united around the purpose of pushing MSFT's software beyond its stated limits. I think they improved a lot as a result of the feedback they got.
Culture? We have none. We are all citizens of the television.
Heritage? None. We are arbitrary, gray and without origins. We need government, television and shopping to feel a sense of place.
Values? We have nothing in common except that we like money, we like sex, and we like to shop.
It's the path to Idiocracy + Brave New World.
Why does Zuckerberg support it? Cheap labor. People who permanent vote for no majority rule. And more customers who haven't yet gotten jaded about the decay.
That's how they always kill it: they outsource to the perceived cheaper labor, which lets them claim that the product got discriminated against by the market, when the market is reacting to the fact that the project got farmed out, thus is unlikely to have frequent updates, thus is a dead-end project because users won't get the support they need or a competitive product. RIP
But a Machiavellian, like any true politician, does it for his own sake, not for theirs -- and Machiavelli thus talked about how to reconcile this fundamental selfishness with the need to keep the people's support.
I realize that he's projecting -- this was the only thing he could find that he thought was relevant, and he mistook that for reality at large. An unfortunate mistake.
In the process, he missed about a dozen more relevant quotations. That's why you read more than the Cliff's Notes, kids!
If government is allowing you to see these "leaks," they're benefiting in some way from the environment that results.
To assume that government is actually constrained by such things is to assume benevolence in government; perhaps it is most beneficial for them that you think this is all they have to reveal.
It's not paranoia to realize that in an age of utter selfishness, people will hoard power and use it deviously. What would Machiavelli do?
I dunno, release about a billion documents unrelated to what he's actually trying to hide.
Why do americans put the metal genre under the "rock" tag?
Not all of us do, and in fact, I'm very glad to meet someone else who agrees with me that this is an important distinction.
Metal is its own genre, composed by its own standards. It emerged from rock (specifically, prog rock, soundtracks to horror films, loud hard rock and early punk combined) but it is not rock.
If you're up for some analytical historical data, would you read The Heavy Metal F.A.Q.?
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AT&T wants us to believe that because their website was so insecure that feeding it sequential data would reveal private customer information, the problem can be solved by throwing the "hacker" -- who notified them immediately and did not leak the customer information -- into jail.
Yeah, right. The overseas hackers aren't going to even care that much. They'll take your information, use it to rob you blind, and presumably AT&T will cover it up, since their response has not been to address the actual problem in this case.
Weev is caught in the crossfire. American industry wants to have government protect it from its own sloppy coding. The truth is that protecting industry encourages more sloppy coding, which then helps the Chinese hackers who are robbing us blind.
FREE WEEV!
Any time dogma takes precedence over reality, you're going to fall like the Soviet Union.
With the planned immigration amnesty, you'll soon be competing against another 30 million people, who will displace enough people from their jobs that they'll be aiming for yours.
Enjoy your future as perpetual serfs of the corporate-media-globalist machine!
First they came for the secure boot, and I did not speak up, because I was not a BIOS...
This will enable them to control all of our computing hardware from their centralized corporate mind-control chambers.
Soon they will make us intolerant of anyone not like us, and we will become flag-waving, hamburger-munching, Coke-swilling droids who cheer whenever the poor, brown or leftist people are slaughter by automated drones.
Running Windows ME. ...so how'd I do Reddit I mean Slashdot? Did I hive mind the right way? Shower me in imaginary internet karma points!!!
You underestimate two motivations:
1. Self-interest. Two months ago, Snowden was a nobody with a dysfunctional life. Now he's famous and has many fans. Like Assange or even Charles Manson.
2. Revenge. People who are nobodies love to take revenge on anything bigger than they are, and they'll do it for "altruistic" reasons in order to have support from the crowd. They're sociopathic manipulators.
If Snowden has any decency, he'll go out into the middle of a large field so no one else dies in the drone strike.
Assassinate Snowden.
(Probably not the answer anyone wants to face, but ask your inner Machiavellian.)
That's a profound observation reinforced by history.
I'm not sure why people fear it; it means we know what we need to do, instead of what we wish were true.
You'd think all the sciency types would be more open to that.
Is that culture, or just the most effective way to profit from the human weakness that demands constant entertainment in order to not feel lonely and existentially pointless?
Political: "We are a country, see, because we have a name and some documents, and we are united by our belief in capitalism (donuts) and equality (welfare). Anyone is welcome here who agrees with those."
Organic: "My people evolved in this land and have possessed it for centuries, improving it and themselves. We are inseparable from it. The only people welcome here are ourselves, and everyone else must find their own nation."
In government, you are not judged by results. You are judged by appearances, specifically how many people you can fool for long enough that they forget all the stuff you've screwed up.
This is why as little as possible should be entrusted to government. Even government workers will generally agree with this: government works best when it has a small set of goals and some way of measuring "success" other than cheering uninformed voters.
What won workers rights was the tendency of most companies to not follow the worst examples and, when those worst examples were exposed, to no longer be forced to compete with that at price levels that were abusive.
In other words, culture won out over greed.
In the meantime, we've gained unions, which are parasitic organisms that in every instance are linked to organized crime, low worker productivity, and the failure of industries.
The lesson of the Twinkie has re-shaped American labor. Unions are not needed and destroy our industry; there is a better way without unions.
I liked the way TechNet felt like a group of people united around the purpose of pushing MSFT's software beyond its stated limits. I think they improved a lot as a result of the feedback they got.
We'll invite everyone in.
Culture? We have none. We are all citizens of the television.
Heritage? None. We are arbitrary, gray and without origins. We need government, television and shopping to feel a sense of place.
Values? We have nothing in common except that we like money, we like sex, and we like to shop.
It's the path to Idiocracy + Brave New World.
Why does Zuckerberg support it? Cheap labor. People who permanent vote for no majority rule. And more customers who haven't yet gotten jaded about the decay.
We got through the Cold War by reminding them that if they stepped out of line, we'd kill every last one of them.
That works.
Being a peace-oriented wuss encourages them to attack.
Don't send mixed signals.
Do bad, you die. (clear signal)
We want peace, bad is what? (mixed signal)
I'm reading The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, learning to farm, shoot and watch the northern paths for Vandals.
Seriously, this place is on its last legs.
You repeat yourself.
Wikipedia is one of the worst parts of the standardization/normalization of the web.
Think about it.
If American engineers are good enough, why import anyone?
If they're not good enough, what are they saying -- foreign engineers are better? For what reason?
The point is that other nations have less developed economies and so it's cheaper to import these people and then drop them when they hit 40.
Either way however, an American job is displaced and you're worth less as a result.
There will always be people who want to commit crimes of theft.
However, we can thin their ranks a bit. Support the death penalty for cyberthieves (at least in Texas).
What a good chance for us all to show off how we're obeying the dominant paradigm of equality!
I, too, bow before our egalitarian overlords, citizen!
That's how they always kill it: they outsource to the perceived cheaper labor, which lets them claim that the product got discriminated against by the market, when the market is reacting to the fact that the project got farmed out, thus is unlikely to have frequent updates, thus is a dead-end project because users won't get the support they need or a competitive product. RIP
97% of used car dealers agree this is a honey of a deal, and 97% of those would gladly take credit.
Self-interest creates a bias factor.
A dump is conveniently ambiguous. It also guarantees that 99.999% of us will not read it, and those who do, will skim.
This is what I was alluding to.
SirGarlon doesn't understand, and when he says:
I realize that he's projecting -- this was the only thing he could find that he thought was relevant, and he mistook that for reality at large. An unfortunate mistake.
In the process, he missed about a dozen more relevant quotations. That's why you read more than the Cliff's Notes, kids!
If government is allowing you to see these "leaks," they're benefiting in some way from the environment that results.
To assume that government is actually constrained by such things is to assume benevolence in government; perhaps it is most beneficial for them that you think this is all they have to reveal.
It's not paranoia to realize that in an age of utter selfishness, people will hoard power and use it deviously. What would Machiavelli do?
I dunno, release about a billion documents unrelated to what he's actually trying to hide.
Not all of us do, and in fact, I'm very glad to meet someone else who agrees with me that this is an important distinction.
Metal is its own genre, composed by its own standards. It emerged from rock (specifically, prog rock, soundtracks to horror films, loud hard rock and early punk combined) but it is not rock.
If you're up for some analytical historical data, would you read The Heavy Metal F.A.Q.?