As I said "more inventive ones can get around them". But it blocks the "fuck you, you motherfucking fuckhead" type of stuff that the Post guy seemd to be distressed by. More literate abuse can be quite entertaining.
It's not the dissemination of ideas or the idea of anonymous communication that bothers him. It's the disruption of discourse by people who refuse to adhere to simple rules.
And it's not his annoyance at "disruption of discourse" that bothers me, it his suggested solution and the effects it would have. It's pretty simple to use a naughty word filter if that's what annoys him. That will frustrate most hotheads, though of course more inventive ones can get around them.
It's basically the same argument governments are using all over to attack privacy and basic freedoms, just saying "9/11" if you ask how effective it will be and if it will have negative consequences.
The first season is written by a schizophrenic that likes lesbian porn. Too many contradictory episodes and only two good ones. They need to get rid of the immortal, the generic asian chick and the geek, do something about the cop that doesn't know how to use a real gun and put a spine in her and flush the traitor down a toilet as organic residue. They really need to drown some of the writers.
Obviously you didn't see the finale of series 2. Two of your wishes were fulfilled.
Torchwood is pretty silly (especially in supernatural episodes with ghosts, Death Incarnate, zombies), but still watchable.
On another note, it's worrying that many of my fellow Americans have no problems with someone being put in prison for nine years for something like spamming. One year ok, two years maybe, but nine years?
I'm not an American, but I'd be happy if he was. But that was never going to happen. Sentenced to nine years, perhaps, how many years inside a jail cell? I don't think he's been in jail at all while appealing -- the fucker has made millions from his spamming, he can afford any bail they set. Even if he loses his appeal, he'd be unlucky to serve more than three years, I think.
But on the general issue, if spammers faced a real chance of say two years' jail, that would be a deterrent. But this guy is about the only one convicted in the last decade, and he has avoided doing time (apparently). Spammers have nothing to fear. The government does zip to enforce the multiple laws these guys break, because each offence is minuscule. Ignoring the fact that a small offence repeated millions of times does add up to a major offence against society, if not in law.
Think about special forces chasing Taliban around the rugged mountains of Afghanistan with their 130 lb backpacks. That is not something a forklift can help them do.
And it's not something the Raytheon suit will ever be able to do either.
Funny how we get all these articles about scientific "discoveries" that try to validate a comic book movie in the week its released. Eg:
King Kong Lived? "Jack Rink, associate professor of geography and earth sciences at McMaster, has determined that Gigantopithecus blackii, the largest primate that ever lived, roamed southeast Asia for nearly a million years...
It's pathetic and demeaning to the real scientists. Of course it makes the original publication and Slashdot look like whores too, but they don't have any credibility to lose.
There was news recently that the George W. Bush Library foundation (whatever its real name is, I'm unsure of) was having a great deal of difficulty with domain name squatters who had stolen every possible website they would want to put his library's web page on.
Most are.edu or.gov, which squatters can't use at all. I guess it's because everyone thinks the have to have a.com. Thus all the presidential candidates have an entirely inappropriate.com site instead of.org for their campaign, for instance. So they can't get "GWBushLibrary.com". Too fucking bad. Get GWBush.archives.gov or a subdomain of whatever institution manages it (probably a.edu).
I guess "nothing to do with TFA" is a mindset. I see them as related because both are actions by a government trying to limit a person's individual freedom.
Only to a monomaniac who sees EVERYTHING as an excuse to get on his soapbox and give his standard speech.
As far as changing of minds go, how do you propose we proceed then?
Just do it somewhere else. Try to understand that however important this is to you, it is not to everyone.
I don't see that it's a stupid debate at all.
Yes, it is a stupid fucking debate to be having when it has nothing to do with TFA. And in general it's a stupid fucking debate because NO ONE WEVER CHANGES THEIR MINDS. You just throw your talking points at each other for 400 posts and destroy the forum for anyone who wants to discuss anything else.
Public key encryption can be broken by anyone with sufficient time and computing power. PGP, SSL, SMIME, et. al. are all inherently breakable.
Really? Citation?
Last I heard it would take till the heat death of the universe to do break PGP. But maybe you have a magical method. Maybe pigs can fly.
http://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/faq/
Q: I heard that the US Government would never allow PGP to be published unless there was a back door. Is there one? Come on, you can tell me, I won't tell anyone, really, I promise.
A: Look, if you really feel the need to believe in conspiracy theories, here's an even better one: The government actually started these nasty rumors of back doors in PGP, because in fact they don't know how to break it. What better way to scare people away from using it? And you played right into their hands by falling for their clever rumors. Personally, I don't buy that theory either, because unlike some people, I'm not a conspiracy nut.
http://axion.physics.ubc.ca/pgp-attack.html
The Feasibility of Breaking PGP
http://senderek.de/security/secret-key.protection.html
How secure is PGP ? ... Theoretical attacks on PGP will be unsuccessful, as I will prove subsequently, because the use of RSA-keys of sufficient length makes it practically impossible to gain the user's secret key. The security of cryptographic methods is not merely based on religous faith but can be justified by the history of failed attempts to break them. As theoretical security is based on the results of recent research in the field of computer science it has to be constantly reviewed in the light of new knowledge....
f you already are going to fly there to securely exchange keys you might as well talk to the person.
You only have to meet once to do that. TFA says: "for the last two years. Every few weeks, he boards a plane in Portland and flies to the Middle East". So he's gone about 100 times. 99 of these are redundant.
e. Then, all of a sudden, they stopped resisting. Either the NSA decided they couldn't win -- which is frankly out of character for them
When the code can be printed on a T-shirt, and freely downloaded from any number of foreign sites, it is perfectly reasonable to concede that you can't stop the "bad guys" from using it, so you are just wasting effort and hurting "good guys" by trying to.
The question is whether the bizarre "lawyers dont no how to use teh computarz!!" spin of this story is justified.
It's a question I wish the reporter had asked. I'm sure that PGP is secure. All the attacks -- keyloggers, etc, are a risk. But does that mean the lawyer never makes notes on any digital device? If he does, then sending such communications encrypted with PGP does not increase his risk of interception. A device with full disk encryption, that only connects to a network to send or receive email, could be dedicated to this fuction for the cost of a generic PC. But then he wouldn't get his frequent flier miles.
And sorry, but I feel not the slightest sympathy for a lawyer who is paid to fly around the world business class and stay in 5-star hotels.
Great for spammers. They can load up posts promoting their viagra/penis enlargers/casinos/bestiality/stock scams/fake Rolexes to be released one per day for the next five years in one hit. So I'm not mussed that this "service" is not offered.
You realize that 'from' headers in emails and usenet posts aren't authenticated in any way, right? People can put whatever address/domain they want in there... gmail, slashdot, nasa etc.
It's harder to fake the other headers, created by news servers en route, and if you look at all headers:
It's clear that they really are being sent from Google Groups accounts.
The "Path" header alone tells you that, and it can be faked in part, but this for instance is Google from start to finish.
The awful thing is that for many people Google Groups is the only usenet access they have, as their ISPs drop support and refer those who want it to Google.
IN many groups recently over 90% of the messages are spam sent from Google Groups accounts. Complaining is pointless, there is no mechanism to get any response from Google, no way to have these messages filtered at source, or even from the display shown by Google Groups. Many people using conventional NNTP newsreaders are simply killfiling everything from Google. But Google doesn't care, it still sells ads to put on its Google Groups pages. The advertisers are their customers, not those who post and read usenet.
Care to give book recommendations for those authors?
I have not read anything by any of them except The Wizard of EarthSea, which I couldn't stand.
Well, that's one of Le Guin's best so obviously there's no point in recommending others of hers.
As for the rest:
Fritz Leiber:
the Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories ("Swords and Deviltry", etc)
Actually these, like much of his work, were originally short stories. Look for his anthologies.
Michael Moorcock:
He does stories on several styles. Pschedelic: The Jerry Cornelius books; dark heroic fantasy: the Elric stories; historical fantasies: "Gloriana".
Gene Wolfe:
The Book of the New Sun (4 books, could be considered science fiction rather than fantasy).
Roger Zelazny:
light hearted sword and sorcery: The Chronicles of Amber; religious themed: "Lord of Light", "Creatures of Light and Darkness".
But he wasn't a great wordsmith.
This statement makes me question how much you even know. While he may not have been the most moving or poetic speaker...
And that statement makes me question what your point is.
"[H]e may not have been the most moving or poetic speaker". That's what I meant. He was a great writer in many ways. Not in EVERY way, though.
interesting that all the authors you list are, I'd contend, as well or better known for their SF
Not really surprising, I read a lot more SF than fantasy. So naturally if I came across an SF writer in another genre I was more willing to give them a try. Poul Anderson and even Robert Heinlein are known for their hard SF, and wrote some excellent fantasy. Larry Niven turned his hand to it too, entertaining though not so successful as his SF. And the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction gave writers a market and encouragement to cross genres.
Slashdot Mirror
WTF does "its storyline which emerged through gameplay, not just cutscenes" mean in English?
And 2001 was the greatest SF movie ever made.
Anyway, you may recall another little film, Alien? "In space, no one can hear you scream".
As I said "more inventive ones can get around them". But it blocks the "fuck you, you motherfucking fuckhead" type of stuff that the Post guy seemd to be distressed by. More literate abuse can be quite entertaining.
And it's not his annoyance at "disruption of discourse" that bothers me, it his suggested solution and the effects it would have. It's pretty simple to use a naughty word filter if that's what annoys him. That will frustrate most hotheads, though of course more inventive ones can get around them.
It's basically the same argument governments are using all over to attack privacy and basic freedoms, just saying "9/11" if you ask how effective it will be and if it will have negative consequences.
Obviously you didn't see the finale of series 2. Two of your wishes were fulfilled.
Torchwood is pretty silly (especially in supernatural episodes with ghosts, Death Incarnate, zombies), but still watchable.
I'm not an American, but I'd be happy if he was. But that was never going to happen. Sentenced to nine years, perhaps, how many years inside a jail cell? I don't think he's been in jail at all while appealing -- the fucker has made millions from his spamming, he can afford any bail they set. Even if he loses his appeal, he'd be unlucky to serve more than three years, I think.
But on the general issue, if spammers faced a real chance of say two years' jail, that would be a deterrent. But this guy is about the only one convicted in the last decade, and he has avoided doing time (apparently). Spammers have nothing to fear. The government does zip to enforce the multiple laws these guys break, because each offence is minuscule. Ignoring the fact that a small offence repeated millions of times does add up to a major offence against society, if not in law.
Who was your favourite Aquaman: Vincent Chase or Jake Gyllenhaal?
And it's not something the Raytheon suit will ever be able to do either.
King Kong Lived?
"Jack Rink, associate professor of geography and earth sciences at McMaster, has determined that Gigantopithecus blackii, the largest primate that ever lived, roamed southeast Asia for nearly a million years...
It's pathetic and demeaning to the real scientists. Of course it makes the original publication and Slashdot look like whores too, but they don't have any credibility to lose.
Sounds like bullshit to me. See Contacting the Presidential Libraries. It lists the addresses of all the presidential libraries. eg:
- Herbert Hoover http://hoover.archives.gov/
- Franklin D. Roosevelt http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/
- Harry S. Truman http://www.trumanlibrary.org/
- Dwight D. Eisenhower http://eisenhower.archives.gov/
- George H Bush http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/
etc...Most are .edu or .gov, which squatters can't use at all. I guess it's because everyone thinks the have to have a .com. Thus all the presidential candidates have an entirely inappropriate .com site instead of .org for their campaign, for instance. So they can't get "GWBushLibrary.com". Too fucking bad. Get GWBush.archives.gov or a subdomain of whatever institution manages it (probably a .edu).
If they hijacked a topic that wasn't about the US govt, I would.
Anyway, if someone else pisses in the pool it doesn't make it right for you to.
Only to a monomaniac who sees EVERYTHING as an excuse to get on his soapbox and give his standard speech.
As far as changing of minds go, how do you propose we proceed then?
Just do it somewhere else. Try to understand that however important this is to you, it is not to everyone.
I don't see that it's a stupid debate at all. Yes, it is a stupid fucking debate to be having when it has nothing to do with TFA. And in general it's a stupid fucking debate because NO ONE WEVER CHANGES THEIR MINDS. You just throw your talking points at each other for 400 posts and destroy the forum for anyone who wants to discuss anything else.
Really? Citation?
Last I heard it would take till the heat death of the universe to do break PGP. But maybe you have a magical method. Maybe pigs can fly.
You only have to meet once to do that. TFA says: "for the last two years. Every few weeks, he boards a plane in Portland and flies to the Middle East". So he's gone about 100 times. 99 of these are redundant.
When the code can be printed on a T-shirt, and freely downloaded from any number of foreign sites, it is perfectly reasonable to concede that you can't stop the "bad guys" from using it, so you are just wasting effort and hurting "good guys" by trying to.
It's a question I wish the reporter had asked. I'm sure that PGP is secure. All the attacks -- keyloggers, etc, are a risk. But does that mean the lawyer never makes notes on any digital device? If he does, then sending such communications encrypted with PGP does not increase his risk of interception. A device with full disk encryption, that only connects to a network to send or receive email, could be dedicated to this fuction for the cost of a generic PC. But then he wouldn't get his frequent flier miles.
And sorry, but I feel not the slightest sympathy for a lawyer who is paid to fly around the world business class and stay in 5-star hotels.
Great for spammers. They can load up posts promoting their viagra/penis enlargers/casinos/bestiality/stock scams/fake Rolexes to be released one per day for the next five years in one hit. So I'm not mussed that this "service" is not offered.
It's harder to fake the other headers, created by news servers en route, and if you look at all headers:
It's clear that they really are being sent from Google Groups accounts. The "Path" header alone tells you that, and it can be faked in part, but this for instance is Google from start to finish.The awful thing is that for many people Google Groups is the only usenet access they have, as their ISPs drop support and refer those who want it to Google.
IN many groups recently over 90% of the messages are spam sent from Google Groups accounts. Complaining is pointless, there is no mechanism to get any response from Google, no way to have these messages filtered at source, or even from the display shown by Google Groups. Many people using conventional NNTP newsreaders are simply killfiling everything from Google. But Google doesn't care, it still sells ads to put on its Google Groups pages. The advertisers are their customers, not those who post and read usenet.
"Just a moment....Just a moment.
I've just picked up a fault in the AE-35 Unit.
Its going to go 100 percent failure within 72 hours."
Well, that's one of Le Guin's best so obviously there's no point in recommending others of hers.
As for the rest:
Actually these, like much of his work, were originally short stories. Look for his anthologies.
This statement makes me question how much you even know. While he may not have been the most moving or poetic speaker...
And that statement makes me question what your point is.
"[H]e may not have been the most moving or poetic speaker". That's what I meant. He was a great writer in many ways. Not in EVERY way, though.
That isn't the context. I was answering a post about great writers. Not about who has name recognition or could get a movie greenlighted.
Mind you "Left Hand of Darkness" does have the ring of a cool movie title, Oscar for sure!
Le Guin has had a few of her books made into movies, but most have been mediocre at best, sadly. No reflection on her.
Not really surprising, I read a lot more SF than fantasy. So naturally if I came across an SF writer in another genre I was more willing to give them a try. Poul Anderson and even Robert Heinlein are known for their hard SF, and wrote some excellent fantasy. Larry Niven turned his hand to it too, entertaining though not so successful as his SF. And the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction gave writers a market and encouragement to cross genres.
Just a moment, let me check... No, I didn't say that.
I'll leave you to argue with your strawman. Have a nice day.