So, here's a hearty 'Fuck YOU!', America!" Now, that's exactly how you would expect a bunch of foreign-owned corporations to think...
It seems far more like what a bunch of American executives would think. I don't think they'd act any differently, no matter who the ultimate owners are.
I found that before. It's just him complaining about being blocked. Nothing there about WHY he was originally blocked, presumably under a different name (or IP).
I read TFA, it just talks about banning him. All hte links I found just go to more discussions about banning him and how he's evading said bans. But I can't find what he did that caused all the commotion in the first place. Could someone who has worked it out, please enlighten me?
Why not just require user registration for IPs that come from Verizon?
That's exactly what the proposed "block" would do. It would only block anonymous editors, those identified only by IP. If you sign up for an account (for which you don't even have to give an email address) you can then edit. I got an account a few years ago, it makes people take your edits a bit more seriously, it's easier to keep track of subjects I'm interested in, and also to engage in edit wars with others of opposing views. It's a lot like Slashdot and "anonymous cowards" vs named accounts in that respect.
? EVERY indication it was a joke. NOBODY involved thought for a moment that it was a real threat.
Posted on what amounts to a popular public forum
"Published" in a message intended for his girlfriend only.
That's not even considering the possibility that Paul really was setting up a secret plot to bomb the airport
Yeah, announcing his "secret plot" on Twitter... You had me going there. Until that line I thought you really were a moron, but that went over the top.
At least we know that Slashdot isn't generated by robots. A robot wouldn't make the idiotic mistakes that the current human (for want of a better word) editors do. E.g. "one dedicated to each Division 1 college basketball tam in the US." Robots don't suffer from dyslexia, and aren't too lazy to use a spell check.
"it was more mind-blowing than the writers could have conceived - such as when the humans discover their mechanical Cylon persecutors have evolved to look human."
Give me a break. It's a novelty when so-called sci-fi TV show doesn't have aliens/robots that can (almost) perfectly mimic humans. May have something to do with it being easier to cast human that three-legged Pierson's Puppeteers. Most obviously this was done in Terminator, the original 1984 movie. And the "agent of the enemy that doesn't realise it, was done in The Manchurian Candidate, in 1962. There was absolutely nothing novel in BSG. It was the stories, characters and fan service sexbots that made it popular; not its SF chops. Not saying it was garbage, just that science and "mind blowing" high concepts had little to do with its success.
Now, how about if it's published everywhere and a million people find out about it at once?
A million Chinese have Kindles? Anyway, if Chinese people want to circumvent the Great Firewall, there are plenty of ways they can do so using various proxies and normal PCs.
Japanese... came into the English language during WW2
No, Chinese, and early 19th C.
Oxford Dictionary:
etymology: Chinese ko-tou, f. ko knock + tou the head.
quotations: 1826 DISRAELI Viv. Grey II. xii, The Marquess kotooed like a first-rate Mandarin, and vowed 'that her will was his conduct'. 1883 Harper's Mag. Mar. 578/2 The doctor kowtowed to him. 1836 T. HOOK G. Gurney II. 55 Hull, who watched his worship with an almost Koo-too-ing kindness. 1837 Jack Brag viii, The little group in the full exercise of Koo-too~ism. 1848 THACKERAY Bk. Snobs xxxvi, It was nothing compared to the bowing and kotooing. 1874 A. C. MACLAY Let. 1 May (1886) 47 Then followed a tempest of kow~towing that beggared description. 1961 Spectator 8 Sept. 313 They regard the Russians as..kow~towers to the West.
I mean, what language is that?
I'm sure that the Queen doesn't use such word.
It's an English word. It's in the Oxford Dictionary. The Queen could use it, though she'd never do it.
Like many English words, it was adopted from another language, in this case Chinese.
I do wonder why someone would make a post asking what a word meant, anonymously so they'll never know if it was replied to, rather than looking it up.
kowtow To kneel and touch the forehead to the ground in expression of deep respect, worship, or submission, as formerly done in China.
To show servile deference. ETYMOLOGY: From Chinese (Mandarin) kòu tóu, a kowtow : kòu, to knock + tóu, head
It's nothing like that at all, mainly because the average person would be well aware that they were screaming at the top of their lungs in the street, while the average person doesn't have a clue about WEP, WPA, etc. because they just bought some kit from their ISP and plugged it in, trusting that it would just work and not do crazy things like broadcasting all your private stuff to the world.
If you buy a "piece of kit", it's your responsibility to learn how to use it safely. Whether it's a chainsaw or a router.
If the kit from the ISP included a manual, than the user should have RTFM. Every wifi router manual I've seen explains how to use WPA or WEP quite clearly in the first few pages. If the manual wasn't included or was unclear, if the user should sue his ISP for leading him to expose his "private stuff".
In real life, I've noticed that even average homeowners seem to have worked this out. About 5 years ago when I turned on my laptop at home I could see 5 or so local wifi router signals, 2 or 3 were unencrypted. Now I can see 7 or 8, maybe one is unencrypted. On local TV there have been a couple of scare stories about how easy it is to snoop on wifi, that probably raised awareness. That's all it needs, not an advanced degree.
I've always thought that the pretence that the 100 or so national TLDs meant anything except the nation in question was stupid, and left you open to the vagaries of policy of a foreign government you probably know nothing about. Things like ".tv" for the island of Tuvalu; well Verisign (http://www.verisign.tv/) would have you believe it was "made for websites with video". No it fucking wasn't. It was made for inhabitants of the island of Tuvalu in the Pacific. And if they have a change of government they might simply cancel all your ".tv=television" domains and/or redirect them to Pyongyang.
Choose a TLD belonging to your own country, or one that is very stable. Or take your chances.
I live in Hong Kong, which was occupied by Japan in 1941. Terrible as that was, massacres, rape, starvation; it was over 60 years ago. The "memory" of what happened is not simply recollection of the few remaining people who suffered, but the great mythology promoted by the Beijing government, demonising the Japanese. Admittedly, it's not hard with things like the Nanjing Massacre. But that didn't happen in a vacuum. The Chinese Communists and before them , Nationalists, churned the country into bloody mud for decades in their struggle for power, and killing untold millions. And Mao in the 50s and 60s in his insane Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution killed at least 50 million of his own people. That is something that is simply ignored and never spoken of in China, let alone taught in school history. Yet the memory of the Japanese atrocities much longer ago is referred to daily -- many suspect as a way to distract attention from current or past problems.
And this current idiocy was triggered by a Chinese fishing boat that rammed a Japanese coastguard ship, and the captain was detained. The islands where this happened have been occupied by Japan for over a century and were never populated by anyone before that. After WWII Japan was forced to give back all the territory it had occupied in Korea and China, and none bothered at the time about these insignificant islands. But about 20 years ago Chinese started wrapping themselves in the flag and calling this a great violation of their sovereignty. An issue that should be settled by low level bureaucrats is over and over again used to tear open the scabs of a war that ended in 1945.
If you RTFA, it's a blog quoting a blog, and that says it's a "rumors".
And it makes no sense. Anyone who hates the show won't be watching it, so they won't get the "anti-message". If there's any truth in it at all, which I doubt, maybe some companies got third parties to send their stuff so they could remain aloof, say they don't endorse the show , but still cultivate the market. But no one would ever deliberately use "anti-product placement". It would be ineffective, and risks blowback.
There's a difference in badness between "hack" (into a computer) and "kill" (thousands of people). Furthermore the former is much less likely than the latter to latch on to some dark primeval instincts of a depressed juvenile. Moreover still, a discussion about hacking (the technical aspects, not the so much the social) will probably lead to someone learning something directly useful. A discussion about mass murder? Very few people spend their daily life with anything related to that, and many of those who do are called "paranoid".
Right, school teachers should never discuss war, genocide, or any event in the past that anyone might have strong feelings about; and should never, ever discuss why "enemies" of your country might feel as they do. In fact, studying history at all is double-plus ungood. Any teacher who even suggests that people from different cultures have any reason for their actions, other than "They're evil", should be immediately sent to a re-education camp till they understand how much Big Brother Loves Them.
(Sorry for the heavy handed irony -- but really; get a grip. If you can't discuss the real world in high school, when do you? )
They hit 2,100 ATM terminals in 280 cites and only cleared $9 million? Presumably they needed at least several hundred people for this. So each guy's take is a few thousand. The bosses maybe get half. And even if they hadn't got caught, they couldn't expect to be able to go back for a second taste.
I wouldn't say no to a few million profit, but it seems a very small return for compromising so many banks. Might have been better to have sold the method to the banks.
It's a census of ownership using the population "living in first-year residence halls",
Yeah, and most of them would have brand new computers. Almost all come with Windows or OSX preinstalled. So the measure is what they bought. What they use however, can change. After 6 months a proportion of these will , I'm sure, have installed Linux, at least as a dual boot. Probably still a tiny percentage, but more than a "rounding error".
A USB cable is a specialist tool when it comes to mobiles, most users have never, and probably will never, connected their phone to their computer. This concept is alien to most users.
My daughter (12) does it all the time to upload Java games, mp3s and videos, and occasionally to download photos to the PC. This "specialist tool" was included with the purchase, also with the manual, that tells you how to update the firmware using this.
Is this really any different than the police closing down a pawn shop for fencing stolen goods?
In every way. A pawn dealer looks at every single item that comes into his store. A company that hosts 71000 sites can't read and check every single page on it. And the pawn dealer pays for the goods and them sells them himself. The only thing a host sells is webspace and advertising. They aren't acting as middlemen.
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Anyone expecting their 20-year-old legacy system to run on a modern OS is insane.
I do half my work using 1980s DTP software (Ventura GEM). Runs in XP fine full screen in glorious VGA resolution. Prints to Postscript which my HP laser can print as-is; and I can convert to to PDF if I need to exchange files with anyone.
Old software doesn't wear out; it just gets faster as hardware gets exponentially more powerful.
But I will look at running it under Wine, probably a safer bet in the long term than hoping Microsoft doesn't break it.
Did I mention your name or even quote your text? So why do you think I'm "trying to tell you" anything?
I did that here to indicate that I'm responding directly to your post. Previous was just thematically related to its "parent".
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It seems far more like what a bunch of American executives would think. I don't think they'd act any differently, no matter who the ultimate owners are.
I found that before. It's just him complaining about being blocked. Nothing there about WHY he was originally blocked, presumably under a different name (or IP).
I read TFA, it just talks about banning him. All hte links I found just go to more discussions about banning him and how he's evading said bans. But I can't find what he did that caused all the commotion in the first place. Could someone who has worked it out, please enlighten me?
That's exactly what the proposed "block" would do. It would only block anonymous editors, those identified only by IP. If you sign up for an account (for which you don't even have to give an email address) you can then edit. I got an account a few years ago, it makes people take your edits a bit more seriously, it's easier to keep track of subjects I'm interested in, and also to engage in edit wars with others of opposing views. It's a lot like Slashdot and "anonymous cowards" vs named accounts in that respect.
? EVERY indication it was a joke. NOBODY involved thought for a moment that it was a real threat.
Posted on what amounts to a popular public forum
"Published" in a message intended for his girlfriend only.
That's not even considering the possibility that Paul really was setting up a secret plot to bomb the airport
Yeah, announcing his "secret plot" on Twitter... You had me going there. Until that line I thought you really were a moron, but that went over the top.
At least we know that Slashdot isn't generated by robots. A robot wouldn't make the idiotic mistakes that the current human (for want of a better word) editors do. E.g. "one dedicated to each Division 1 college basketball tam in the US." Robots don't suffer from dyslexia, and aren't too lazy to use a spell check.
I don't think they're "stealing" it. You would still be able to use it as much as you wanted, in most contexts, except to sell a competing video game.
samzenpus wrote the headline 'Nintendo Seeks To Trademarks "It's On Like Donkey Kong" ', adding some necessary qualification, and a verb misagreement.
I see Taco is keeping his usual high editorial standards.
After all these years he still can't spellcheck? Christ, in my browser it's underlined in red.
Give me a break. It's a novelty when so-called sci-fi TV show doesn't have aliens /robots that can (almost) perfectly mimic humans. May have something to do with it being easier to cast human that three-legged Pierson's Puppeteers. Most obviously this was done in Terminator, the original 1984 movie. And the "agent of the enemy that doesn't realise it, was done in The Manchurian Candidate, in 1962. There was absolutely nothing novel in BSG. It was the stories, characters and fan service sexbots that made it popular; not its SF chops. Not saying it was garbage, just that science and "mind blowing" high concepts had little to do with its success.
A million Chinese have Kindles? Anyway, if Chinese people want to circumvent the Great Firewall, there are plenty of ways they can do so using various proxies and normal PCs.
No, Chinese, and early 19th C.
Oxford Dictionary: etymology: Chinese ko-tou, f. ko knock + tou the head.
quotations: 1826 DISRAELI Viv. Grey II. xii, The Marquess kotooed like a first-rate Mandarin, and vowed 'that her will was his conduct'. 1883 Harper's Mag. Mar. 578/2 The doctor kowtowed to him. 1836 T. HOOK G. Gurney II. 55 Hull, who watched his worship with an almost Koo-too-ing kindness. 1837 Jack Brag viii, The little group in the full exercise of Koo-too~ism. 1848 THACKERAY Bk. Snobs xxxvi, It was nothing compared to the bowing and kotooing. 1874 A. C. MACLAY Let. 1 May (1886) 47 Then followed a tempest of kow~towing that beggared description. 1961 Spectator 8 Sept. 313 They regard the Russians as..kow~towers to the West.
It's an English word. It's in the Oxford Dictionary. The Queen could use it, though she'd never do it. Like many English words, it was adopted from another language, in this case Chinese.
I do wonder why someone would make a post asking what a word meant, anonymously so they'll never know if it was replied to, rather than looking it up.
kowtow To kneel and touch the forehead to the ground in expression of deep respect, worship, or submission, as formerly done in China. To show servile deference. ETYMOLOGY: From Chinese (Mandarin) kòu tóu, a kowtow : kòu, to knock + tóu, head
If you buy a "piece of kit", it's your responsibility to learn how to use it safely. Whether it's a chainsaw or a router.
If the kit from the ISP included a manual, than the user should have RTFM. Every wifi router manual I've seen explains how to use WPA or WEP quite clearly in the first few pages. If the manual wasn't included or was unclear, if the user should sue his ISP for leading him to expose his "private stuff".
In real life, I've noticed that even average homeowners seem to have worked this out. About 5 years ago when I turned on my laptop at home I could see 5 or so local wifi router signals, 2 or 3 were unencrypted. Now I can see 7 or 8, maybe one is unencrypted. On local TV there have been a couple of scare stories about how easy it is to snoop on wifi, that probably raised awareness. That's all it needs, not an advanced degree.
Choose a TLD belonging to your own country, or one that is very stable. Or take your chances.
And this current idiocy was triggered by a Chinese fishing boat that rammed a Japanese coastguard ship, and the captain was detained. The islands where this happened have been occupied by Japan for over a century and were never populated by anyone before that. After WWII Japan was forced to give back all the territory it had occupied in Korea and China, and none bothered at the time about these insignificant islands. But about 20 years ago Chinese started wrapping themselves in the flag and calling this a great violation of their sovereignty. An issue that should be settled by low level bureaucrats is over and over again used to tear open the scabs of a war that ended in 1945.
http://www.ev0.in/
And it makes no sense. Anyone who hates the show won't be watching it, so they won't get the "anti-message". If there's any truth in it at all, which I doubt, maybe some companies got third parties to send their stuff so they could remain aloof, say they don't endorse the show , but still cultivate the market. But no one would ever deliberately use "anti-product placement". It would be ineffective, and risks blowback.
Right, school teachers should never discuss war, genocide, or any event in the past that anyone might have strong feelings about; and should never, ever discuss why "enemies" of your country might feel as they do. In fact, studying history at all is double-plus ungood. Any teacher who even suggests that people from different cultures have any reason for their actions, other than "They're evil", should be immediately sent to a re-education camp till they understand how much Big Brother Loves Them.
(Sorry for the heavy handed irony -- but really; get a grip. If you can't discuss the real world in high school, when do you? )
I wouldn't say no to a few million profit, but it seems a very small return for compromising so many banks. Might have been better to have sold the method to the banks.
Yeah, and most of them would have brand new computers. Almost all come with Windows or OSX preinstalled. So the measure is what they bought. What they use however, can change. After 6 months a proportion of these will , I'm sure, have installed Linux, at least as a dual boot. Probably still a tiny percentage, but more than a "rounding error".
My daughter (12) does it all the time to upload Java games, mp3s and videos, and occasionally to download photos to the PC. This "specialist tool" was included with the purchase, also with the manual, that tells you how to update the firmware using this.
In every way. A pawn dealer looks at every single item that comes into his store. A company that hosts 71000 sites can't read and check every single page on it. And the pawn dealer pays for the goods and them sells them himself. The only thing a host sells is webspace and advertising. They aren't acting as middlemen.
I do half my work using 1980s DTP software (Ventura GEM). Runs in XP fine full screen in glorious VGA resolution. Prints to Postscript which my HP laser can print as-is; and I can convert to to PDF if I need to exchange files with anyone.
Old software doesn't wear out; it just gets faster as hardware gets exponentially more powerful.
But I will look at running it under Wine, probably a safer bet in the long term than hoping Microsoft doesn't break it.
Did I mention your name or even quote your text? So why do you think I'm "trying to tell you" anything? I did that here to indicate that I'm responding directly to your post. Previous was just thematically related to its "parent".