Back in the 1980's when anything Japan, including the stinky sushi was the in thing, I shook my head in disbelieve
At that time I was still relatively new in America, and the "blindly following the trend" thing that was happening in the US of A was in some way, comparable to what happened in China back in the "culture revolution"
We human beings supposed to have enough brain power to think, but looking at how people were/are behaving, no matter if it's in the US of A or in China, sometimes I have to wonder if that defect in the human beings would one day cause our own downfall
Whenever I scan a document or an article and the word 'Diversity' pops up... sigh!, yet another useless Political Correctness piece of crap!
The theme is always the same --- no matter if it's tech, or business, or wealth, or whatever-you-can-think-of, their basic argument is that someone has been _WRONGED_ and we must do everything to right the wrong, to make sure that the disenfrenchised party is disenfrenchised no more !
The 'common theme' is 'GAP', and the adjective can be 'racial', or 'gender', or 'wealth', or whathaveyou
They never care to address the WHY, they only want to talk about the "injustice"
The society is not going forward if every time they come up with something new the rest of us have to stop everything in order to 'help the disenfrenchised'
I entered the field back in the 1970's and guess what? Patents were already there !
While it is true that patent trolling were not considered to be trendy back then, but the existence of patents in itself had already stiffen innovation somewhat
While we geeks and nerds kept on trying out new ideas, the institutions (universities and research labs) we worked for were sweating bricks and had to check with their attorneys to make sure that we were doing did not trespass on somebody else' patents
The idea of patents were good, when it was invented, however, that idea does not suit the present days environment anymore. Due to the abuse and trolling, patents have become a big hindrance to the society to move forward
If a drone running Linux causes a crash of a passenger plane the whole world around newspapers would carry " Linux crashes an air disaster " as their headlines
China is not afraid of the Americans stationed in South Korea
What China is truly afraid of, is what the Japanese could do, and the ensuing reaction from the Chinese people against the Japanese
The Japanese could take advantage of the power vacuum and set up a client state in place of the Kim dynasty
If that happens, the Chinese communist regime is afraid that they could no longer contain the Chinese people's anger against the Japanese and the resulting all out chaos
That is the one thing that truly worries the Chinese government
The point of the robot economy is that effectively they will
... Or the robots will just make enough for themselves and take nights of to dream of electric sheep...
In the human society, the animals that we human keep, from pets such as dogs and cats and tropical fish, to farm animals that we rear for meat, skin, fur, such as pigs, cows, chicken, sheeps, do have their respective intrinsic values
This leads to the central crucial aspect of TFA:
... hordes of citizens of zero economic value...
When human beings end up having zero economic value they will have less value than a chicken in the farm
What kind of future you think those zero-economic value human will have?
About 250 years ago the British army was fighting the French and their allies, the American Indians
The commanding officer thought up a very ingenious way to wipe out the French's allies by introducing smallpox to the American Indians, and he did it by seemingly by being kind to the American Indians --- he gave the Indians blankets
Of course he did not tell the American Indians that those blankets were used by people who were infected with smallpox
As a result of the biological warfare, untold number of the American Indians who fought alongside the French died
Now, back to 2014/2015
TOR seemingly offers the world a "security blanket", a "blanket" which would, by its reputation, ought to have give protection to the users from the authority's prying eyes
But like the blankets of yore, TOR came with "extra bonus"... bonus in which will allow the authority to not only track the users, but also know everything that the users did
The TOR infrastructure is filled with many weak links, weak links which can be, and are being, exploited by Uncle Sam
No matter if it's NSA or FBI or CIA or whatever three-alphabetic agency, TOR will reveal to them whatever they want to know
... See the ongoing silk road case, where the DOJ has yet to show how exactly they physically identified its owner and its server locations
TOR is a HONEY POT that enjoys a successful deployment beyond anyone's expectation !
It is not China nor Russia who came up with TOR, it was Uncle Sam which is the entity who funded the TOR project
TOR has several uses for USA ---
1. As you mentioned, to offer dissents within Russia / China or any other dictatorial nation a way to sneak out of the watchful eyes of their respective ruling regime
2. TOR also offers a false sense of security to those who wanted to do something not-so-legal, and in that way, "fish" them out from the real DARK NET and land them inside TOR while Uncle Sam gets to watch their every single fucking move
The highlighted quote above in itself has explained all --- that Uncle Sam knows everything that happens within the TOR domains, including the identity of those involved
Instead, there is an ulterior motive for blaming North Korea
I never thought I would want to see people being imprisoned in Gitmo, but for that square-head fatso, hey, that's one helluva perfect permanent resident tailor made for Gitmo
Hacking activities are happening around us, from companies managing parking garages to Sony to Staples to whatnots...
I've read Schneier's article which in essence telling us that there is no foolproof way to prevent hacking attempt
I do reckoned that "foolproof" in the IT field is nothing short of fairy tales, but still, I do think there ought to be ways, online and offline, that we can do, to at least cut down, to minimize, our companies' exposure to the (oft state-sponsored) hacking groups
Any link (or links), suggestion, recommendation, whatever, that you guys (and gals) can share?
...If you look on the last note on the 25120 data sheet, I had included, âoeDue credit to EIMAC for inspiration.â.
I had always admired an EIMAC high powered vacuum tube spoof data sheet put out by Eitel-McCullough,Inc. I saw it when I was a teen Ham Operator and must have memorized it. That was in the late 1940â(TM)s.
So far I havenâ(TM)t relocated a copy of the EIMAC spoof data sheet. You need it to see the relevance. It pictured a melted EIMAC power tube and offered humorous specifications. If you know where there is a copy, let me know...
Anyone here got a copy of the EIMAC Spoof Data Sheet?
This is what you get when you're short-sighted with your immigration policy
When they have the numbers, they will be up to their mischief
Look around the world, you'll see that this is not a new phenomenon -
They will first DOMINATE - becoming a very vocal minority
Then they will INTIMIDATE - and call anyone who disagree with them "racist" or "hater" and everything their opponents do as "hate speech", "hateful acts"
... and ultimately...
They will SUBJUGATE - the Middle East, Pakistan, Iran, North Africa, and so on, used to be places where the number of non-Muslims were larger than Muslims
Now?
In Pakistan they burned two Christians alive in a kiln
In Iraq / Syria they cut off the heads of Christians
In Northern Nigeria they kidnapped over 200 young girls and forced them to converted into Islam and then married them to much older Muslims
I think you should get your facts right Muhammad was not a warlord in fact he was a merchant until he became a religious leader at age 26
That false prophet had a grandpa who worked as a religious preacher, with the name of "Abdullah" (meaning, ' servant of Allah ' in the Arabian language)
He got bored with his own life and decided to do something different. He then went into a cave, came out and then proclaimed to anyone who would listen to him that the Archangel Gabriel came to him and told him the God had anointed him as a prophet
Afterward, that guy copied versus from the Jewish Torah and the Christian Bible, and then added / altered verses, to make himself "legit"
Since this has turned into a religious discussion, let us compare what the Koran said and what the Bible said:
In Koran:
Jesus, the son of Mary, said, "A messenger will come after me, named Ahmad." [ Koran 61:6]
Did Jesus ever say such a thing?
Nope! There was no mention at all within the many books which made up the Holy Bible that recorded Jesus ever uttered such a "speech"
That Koran verses was entirely a creation from that false prophet. It was Mohammad who insisted that Jesus had said something, several hundreds of years after the death of Jesus Christ !
We must never forget the warnings in Matthew 24:23-25
23"Then if anyone says to you, 'Behold, here is the Christ,' or 'There He is,' do not believe him" 24"For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will show great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect" 25"Behold, I have told you in advance"
... and also in Matthew 7:15-16
15"Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves" 16"You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes nor figs from thistles, are they?
In other words, that Mohammad guy was a FALSE PROPHET and that Koran is filled with innuendos, deceits and lies !
A book which is filled with innuendos, deceits and lies, no matter how you look at it, should never be considered as " holy " !!
Be forewarned, this message ain't gonna be Politically Correct
Babies born under hard times don't grown up to be homosexuals
If we are to survey the demography of various countries there is a clear pattern... that countries with larger percentage of homosexuals, bisexuals, trans-sexuals, and all that (male or female) tend to be those that are relatively more peaceful, with more plentiful offerings of food, and all that
Not to say that there is an absolute zero percentage of baby born during hard times that grow up to be homosexual... there are always the exception
Take China, for examples... during the warring / turbulent years (since the late 1800's to the late 1960's) percentage of Chinese homosexuals were very low
Now? With relative wealth and comfort, new generations that were born into kinder and gentler surroundings are experiencing an increase of the homosexual population
There supposed to be a difference between the "Good Guys" (ie The West) and the "BADDIES" (darn commies), but with all the NSA snoopin', the CIA "extraordinary rendering", the congress voted away all the rights of the citizens, and all that...
You missed everything I said about keeping the keys and decryption engine private
With NSA and all the spooks being given the blank check in snooping into every nook and cranny everywhere where do you think you gonna keep your files private?
How long you think your files can be safely kept private?
The problem with the American government - no, not just the POTUS, not just the NSA, not just the Congress, not just the Court System, it's everything - is that it is turning into a totally uncontrollable monster, and it is getting uglier by the day
... If you give the same intelligence test to (1) a wealthy, highly educated person from a supportive family and (2) the illiterate oldest child in a group of subsistence farmers...
... how about (3) a penny-less refugee from China landed in USA in his mid-teens, with nothing but the cloth he was wearing?
I know you gonna launch the Political Correctness thing but if I, a refugee from China, who when arrived at the U. S. of A. can't converse with anybody with any language except Mandarin, can make it, don't anyone tells me that a child of a farmer can't
I am sick and tired of your kind of PC creeps. What you guys are doing are actually hurting the underprivileged more than helping them
I do not think AI will be fully dangerous _after_ it becomes fully self-aware
Because of the speed of the computer it runs on, that self-aware AI can potentially think much faster than us, and can engage in thinking much more deeper thought than any human being could ever imagine
What I am most worry though, is when that AI reaches the semi-awareness stage --- with its thought not-yet-ready gel, and itself not-yet-comprehends the full spectra of the matter at hand... that's when AI could do the most harm
All of us have to face this fact, whether we like it or not --- The government of the United States of America is currently THE ONLY 800LB GORILLA IN THE ROOM
They get to do stuffs to others, anything at all, including meddling in internal matters of foreign nations, overthrowing foreign governments, even to the extent of assassination of foreign leaders. Yep, you name it, Uncle Sam has attempted it
If ever any foreign government dares to carry out the same thing it would be bombed back to the kingdom come by Uncle Sam
In comparison, getting access to servers located at foreign soil is small fly
... and I learned twice already from chinese expats in the west that their kids found the supposedly excellent local western schools too simple...
I came from China, landed on the US soil as a refugee
When I left China I was in my mid teen. The last school I attended in China (regular school) was something equivalent of a junior-high of the United States, and at the time I left, China's society was in a totally chaotic state, and the schools I attended were also upside down in terms of "teaching/learning"
But still, when I landed on the US soil, at first I was enrolled in an American high school (I knew almost nothing in English, except the A-Z alphabet and simple "Yes/No/Thank you") but when it came to math, it was, to me, totally ridiculous
In the American high school the math they were doing I did it in my primary school, in my 3rd and 4th year, as a matter of fact
After I got my English straightened out, I got into a community college, and even then, in the freshman and sophomore years (the first two years of my university life I studied in community college) the math they taught there was still lower than what I had (in "junior high") back in China, and I ain't talking about simple business math course either, as I was aiming for a science stream, so the math courses I was taking were things like Calculus, Advanced Calculus, and so forth
And yes, that was back in the 1970's, and even back then, the school standard of the United States was already lower than that of China
Today, the gap between the school standard in Asia, specifically those in Korea, China, Singapore, Japan and that of the West, specifically the U. S. of A. has grown wider, much wider
If the West do not improve, in a generation or two (give or take 50 years) Asia will lead the world in Science and Math
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Back in the 1980's when anything Japan, including the stinky sushi was the in thing, I shook my head in disbelieve
At that time I was still relatively new in America, and the "blindly following the trend" thing that was happening in the US of A was in some way, comparable to what happened in China back in the "culture revolution"
We human beings supposed to have enough brain power to think, but looking at how people were/are behaving, no matter if it's in the US of A or in China, sometimes I have to wonder if that defect in the human beings would one day cause our own downfall
Watch out for the boomerang, man !
Whatever the West is doing to Russia now it will ricochet and the amplified effect will eventually land on the lap of the West
Whenever I scan a document or an article and the word 'Diversity' pops up ... sigh!, yet another useless Political Correctness piece of crap!
The theme is always the same --- no matter if it's tech, or business, or wealth, or whatever-you-can-think-of, their basic argument is that someone has been _WRONGED_ and we must do everything to right the wrong, to make sure that the disenfrenchised party is disenfrenchised no more !
The 'common theme' is 'GAP', and the adjective can be 'racial', or 'gender', or 'wealth', or whathaveyou
They never care to address the WHY, they only want to talk about the "injustice"
The society is not going forward if every time they come up with something new the rest of us have to stop everything in order to 'help the disenfrenchised'
Disclaimer: I am a patent holder
I entered the field back in the 1970's and guess what? Patents were already there !
While it is true that patent trolling were not considered to be trendy back then, but the existence of patents in itself had already stiffen innovation somewhat
While we geeks and nerds kept on trying out new ideas, the institutions (universities and research labs) we worked for were sweating bricks and had to check with their attorneys to make sure that we were doing did not trespass on somebody else' patents
The idea of patents were good, when it was invented, however, that idea does not suit the present days environment anymore. Due to the abuse and trolling, patents have become a big hindrance to the society to move forward
If a drone running Linux causes a crash of a passenger plane the whole world around newspapers would carry " Linux crashes an air disaster " as their headlines
China is not afraid of the refugees
China is not afraid of the Kim dynasty of NK
China is not afraid of South Korea
China is not afraid of the Americans stationed in South Korea
What China is truly afraid of, is what the Japanese could do, and the ensuing reaction from the Chinese people against the Japanese
The Japanese could take advantage of the power vacuum and set up a client state in place of the Kim dynasty
If that happens, the Chinese communist regime is afraid that they could no longer contain the Chinese people's anger against the Japanese and the resulting all out chaos
That is the one thing that truly worries the Chinese government
The point of the robot economy is that effectively they will
In the human society, the animals that we human keep, from pets such as dogs and cats and tropical fish, to farm animals that we rear for meat, skin, fur, such as pigs, cows, chicken, sheeps, do have their respective intrinsic values
This leads to the central crucial aspect of TFA:
When human beings end up having zero economic value they will have less value than a chicken in the farm
What kind of future you think those zero-economic value human will have?
About 250 years ago the British army was fighting the French and their allies, the American Indians
The commanding officer thought up a very ingenious way to wipe out the French's allies by introducing smallpox to the American Indians, and he did it by seemingly by being kind to the American Indians --- he gave the Indians blankets
Of course he did not tell the American Indians that those blankets were used by people who were infected with smallpox
As a result of the biological warfare, untold number of the American Indians who fought alongside the French died
Now, back to 2014/2015
TOR seemingly offers the world a "security blanket", a "blanket" which would, by its reputation, ought to have give protection to the users from the authority's prying eyes
But like the blankets of yore, TOR came with "extra bonus" ... bonus in which will allow the authority to not only track the users, but also know everything that the users did
The TOR infrastructure is filled with many weak links, weak links which can be, and are being, exploited by Uncle Sam
No matter if it's NSA or FBI or CIA or whatever three-alphabetic agency, TOR will reveal to them whatever they want to know
TOR is a HONEY POT that enjoys a successful deployment beyond anyone's expectation !
It is not China nor Russia who came up with TOR, it was Uncle Sam which is the entity who funded the TOR project
TOR has several uses for USA ---
1. As you mentioned, to offer dissents within Russia / China or any other dictatorial nation a way to sneak out of the watchful eyes of their respective ruling regime
2. TOR also offers a false sense of security to those who wanted to do something not-so-legal, and in that way, "fish" them out from the real DARK NET and land them inside TOR while Uncle Sam gets to watch their every single fucking move
The highlighted quote above in itself has explained all --- that Uncle Sam knows everything that happens within the TOR domains, including the identity of those involved
Instead, there is an ulterior motive for blaming North Korea
I never thought I would want to see people being imprisoned in Gitmo, but for that square-head fatso, hey, that's one helluva perfect permanent resident tailor made for Gitmo
Hacking activities are happening around us, from companies managing parking garages to Sony to Staples to whatnots ...
I've read Schneier's article which in essence telling us that there is no foolproof way to prevent hacking attempt
I do reckoned that "foolproof" in the IT field is nothing short of fairy tales, but still, I do think there ought to be ways, online and offline, that we can do, to at least cut down, to minimize, our companies' exposure to the (oft state-sponsored) hacking groups
Any link (or links), suggestion, recommendation, whatever, that you guys (and gals) can share?
Thanks !
First the whacked the game scene and now they wanna whack the metal scene
http://www.metaltalk.net/colum...
If you are an American, you should know ...
The cops are there to enjoy Dunkin Donuts
The Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine are there to be used to invade yet another foreign country
The NSA, CIA, FBI are there to invade our privacy
The IRS are there to harass us and to take our money
As for the congress ? They are there to talk shit
From TFA:
I had always admired an EIMAC high powered vacuum tube spoof data sheet put out by Eitel-McCullough,Inc. I saw it when I was a teen Ham Operator and must have memorized it. That was in the late 1940â(TM)s.
So far I havenâ(TM)t relocated a copy of the EIMAC spoof data sheet. You need it to see the relevance. It pictured a melted EIMAC power tube and offered humorous specifications. If you know where there is a copy, let me know ...
Anyone here got a copy of the EIMAC Spoof Data Sheet?
Wanna share with us?
This is what you get when you're short-sighted with your immigration policy
When they have the numbers, they will be up to their mischief
Look around the world, you'll see that this is not a new phenomenon -
They will first DOMINATE - becoming a very vocal minority
Then they will INTIMIDATE - and call anyone who disagree with them "racist" or "hater" and everything their opponents do as "hate speech", "hateful acts"
... and ultimately...
They will SUBJUGATE - the Middle East, Pakistan, Iran, North Africa, and so on, used to be places where the number of non-Muslims were larger than Muslims
Now?
In Pakistan they burned two Christians alive in a kiln
In Iraq / Syria they cut off the heads of Christians
In Northern Nigeria they kidnapped over 200 young girls and forced them to converted into Islam and then married them to much older Muslims
... and so on, and so forth
I think you should get your facts right Muhammad was not a warlord in fact he was a merchant until he became a religious leader at age 26
That false prophet had a grandpa who worked as a religious preacher, with the name of "Abdullah" (meaning, ' servant of Allah ' in the Arabian language)
He got bored with his own life and decided to do something different. He then went into a cave, came out and then proclaimed to anyone who would listen to him that the Archangel Gabriel came to him and told him the God had anointed him as a prophet
Afterward, that guy copied versus from the Jewish Torah and the Christian Bible, and then added / altered verses, to make himself "legit"
Since this has turned into a religious discussion, let us compare what the Koran said and what the Bible said:
In Koran:
Jesus, the son of Mary, said, "A messenger will come after me, named Ahmad." [ Koran 61:6]
Did Jesus ever say such a thing?
Nope! There was no mention at all within the many books which made up the Holy Bible that recorded Jesus ever uttered such a "speech"
That Koran verses was entirely a creation from that false prophet. It was Mohammad who insisted that Jesus had said something, several hundreds of years after the death of Jesus Christ !
We must never forget the warnings in Matthew 24:23-25
23"Then if anyone says to you, 'Behold, here is the Christ,' or 'There He is,' do not believe him"
24" For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will show great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect "
25"Behold, I have told you in advance"
... and also in Matthew 7:15-16
15" Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves "
16"You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes nor figs from thistles, are they?
In other words, that Mohammad guy was a FALSE PROPHET and that Koran is filled with innuendos, deceits and lies !
A book which is filled with innuendos, deceits and lies, no matter how you look at it, should never be considered as " holy " !!
Be forewarned, this message ain't gonna be Politically Correct
Babies born under hard times don't grown up to be homosexuals
If we are to survey the demography of various countries there is a clear pattern ... that countries with larger percentage of homosexuals, bisexuals, trans-sexuals, and all that (male or female) tend to be those that are relatively more peaceful, with more plentiful offerings of food, and all that
Not to say that there is an absolute zero percentage of baby born during hard times that grow up to be homosexual ... there are always the exception
Take China, for examples ... during the warring / turbulent years (since the late 1800's to the late 1960's) percentage of Chinese homosexuals were very low
Now? With relative wealth and comfort, new generations that were born into kinder and gentler surroundings are experiencing an increase of the homosexual population
Disclaimer: I was from China
There supposed to be a difference between the "Good Guys" (ie The West) and the "BADDIES" (darn commies), but with all the NSA snoopin', the CIA "extraordinary rendering", the congress voted away all the rights of the citizens, and all that ...
Honestly, I dunno anymore
... cares for the nation ... works for the people
As long as we still rely on the Republicans and the Democrats to steer this country, USA is going nowhere fast
Unless there is an air gap in between your server and the Net, rest assure, they will find ways to access it
You missed everything I said about keeping the keys and decryption engine private
With NSA and all the spooks being given the blank check in snooping into every nook and cranny everywhere where do you think you gonna keep your files private ?
How long you think your files can be safely kept private?
The problem with the American government - no, not just the POTUS, not just the NSA, not just the Congress, not just the Court System, it's everything - is that it is turning into a totally uncontrollable monster, and it is getting uglier by the day
I know you gonna launch the Political Correctness thing but if I, a refugee from China, who when arrived at the U. S. of A. can't converse with anybody with any language except Mandarin, can make it, don't anyone tells me that a child of a farmer can't
I am sick and tired of your kind of PC creeps. What you guys are doing are actually hurting the underprivileged more than helping them
I do not think AI will be fully dangerous _after_ it becomes fully self-aware
Because of the speed of the computer it runs on, that self-aware AI can potentially think much faster than us, and can engage in thinking much more deeper thought than any human being could ever imagine
What I am most worry though, is when that AI reaches the semi-awareness stage --- with its thought not-yet-ready gel, and itself not-yet-comprehends the full spectra of the matter at hand ... that's when AI could do the most harm
All of us have to face this fact, whether we like it or not --- The government of the United States of America is currently THE ONLY 800LB GORILLA IN THE ROOM
They get to do stuffs to others, anything at all, including meddling in internal matters of foreign nations, overthrowing foreign governments, even to the extent of assassination of foreign leaders. Yep, you name it, Uncle Sam has attempted it
If ever any foreign government dares to carry out the same thing it would be bombed back to the kingdom come by Uncle Sam
In comparison, getting access to servers located at foreign soil is small fly
I came from China, landed on the US soil as a refugee
When I left China I was in my mid teen. The last school I attended in China (regular school) was something equivalent of a junior-high of the United States, and at the time I left, China's society was in a totally chaotic state, and the schools I attended were also upside down in terms of "teaching/learning"
But still, when I landed on the US soil, at first I was enrolled in an American high school (I knew almost nothing in English, except the A-Z alphabet and simple "Yes/No/Thank you") but when it came to math, it was, to me, totally ridiculous
In the American high school the math they were doing I did it in my primary school, in my 3rd and 4th year, as a matter of fact
After I got my English straightened out, I got into a community college, and even then, in the freshman and sophomore years (the first two years of my university life I studied in community college) the math they taught there was still lower than what I had (in "junior high") back in China, and I ain't talking about simple business math course either, as I was aiming for a science stream, so the math courses I was taking were things like Calculus, Advanced Calculus, and so forth
And yes, that was back in the 1970's, and even back then, the school standard of the United States was already lower than that of China
Today, the gap between the school standard in Asia, specifically those in Korea, China, Singapore, Japan and that of the West, specifically the U. S. of A. has grown wider, much wider
If the West do not improve, in a generation or two (give or take 50 years) Asia will lead the world in Science and Math