... he believes the virtual currency should be returned to him because Bitcoins are "not subject to seizure" by federal law.
See the bolded part ?
That Ulbricht still doesn't get it, does him ?
The master, aka the government, obeys NO law.
If they can ignore the highest law of the land, the Constitution just like that, what makes you think that they will follow mere "federal laws" ?
And they not only can seize your bitcoin, they can also take away your *LIFE*, if they want to.
Before you guys telling me that the government doesn't have the right to kill you, please look back to the incident that took place in Waco, Texas, USA, back in 1993.
They burn children to death.
Yes, *CHILDREN* and till today, 20 years later, *NOBODY WAS PUNISHED* for the death of those children, all of whom happened to be American Citizens.
Had it been in place in 2000 and 2001, I think that probably 9/11 would not have happened
Before 9/11 I posted a comment on/. warning of an impending attack by Islamic terrorists.
That comment of mine was modded to -1 by the libtards.
Few months later 9/11 happened
I had warned of the attack, although at that time I did not know when and where they were going to strike, I had already enough information that they would strike./. is not the only place I commented. I also passed on the info to an intelligent agency that I rather not mention here but they didn't take my warning seriously.
It was not that nobody know what was going to happen. There were people who knew, including me - we are part of the global network of "observers" who monitor things happening (not snooping on others, but rather, getting constant information feed from insiders belonging to extremist groups) especially those related to religious fanaticism.
I do not know if/. does keep that comment that I posted, but you guys who do have paid subscription for/. can try to search for it.
As an American, I am giving my moral support to Mr. Hyppone for his courage to speak up against the unspeakable and despicable things that NSA has done !
I do not trust Snowden just because he is Snowden. I do not know that guy in person. I only heard of his name after what he has disclosed what NSA had done - PRISM / GCHQ / tapping on foreign leaders, and so on.
Every single "story" about a leak that has been linked to Snowden file is just that, a "story".
After reading them, I re-traced the link back to the matter itself. If there are articles related to the matter, I give them a good read up.
The case regarding RSA for example - there have been case studies since 2006 (and earlier) that can be used as reference to what has just been reported.
That is why I say it is a very sad day when my country has turned into something worse than a banana republic.
Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages à Secret files show scale of Silicon Valley co-operation on Prism...
I won't be able to represent anybody but myself but my companies, at least the time I was running them, never get involved with NSA / CIA / FBI or any of those alphabet agencies.
Yes, from time to time they did flag us (and even contacted some of my co-workers). What we did in return was to move part of our operations out of USA in order to not getting involved.
Actually, I think that lady is trying very hard to circumvent the truth.
Witness:
... that we have never entered into any contract or engaged in any project with the intention of weakening RSA's products, or introducing potential 'backdoors' into our products for anyone's use
What the Snowden paper has revealed was not about "any contract" nor "any project", rather, it's about a one-time payment of $10 million (under table or not, unfortunately the Snowden's paper didn't state clearly) - and the result is a crippled RSA product for the rest of us.
If the $10 million payment was an under table transaction, then there would be *NO* contract signed nor any *official project".
What it entailed would be a change of a couple of lines of code, that is all to it.
It's a very sad day when we have media which prostituting themselves to the BIG BROTHER and companies betraying the trust of their customers for some breadcrumbs.
If all that happened in a banana republic we may say "Oh, but they are banana republics".
But no. All these are happening in the United States in America !
When I started learning programming, back in the early 1970's, there were 3 main races that I could see - Indians (from India), Caucasians (from Europe/America) and East Asians (Japanese, Koreans, Chinese, Vietnamese)
As the years gone by, more races were added, from the African continent and from South America (mainly Argentine, Brazil, Chile and Peru)
As for those "hyphenated-Americans" such as "Latino-Americans" or "African-Americans", yes, I saw them too, but their number is small.
Their number is small not because of racism - as far as I know, we in the tech field treasure people with skills, not people with a particular skin-hue - the main cause of their number is because of their culture do not care for people with brains.
I have had co-workers from the Latino-American and African-American communities and they told me of their struggle to "survive" the daily gauntlet from their own people - taunts, bully, threats and physical assaults.
It's okay to be a nerd if you are a white, an Indian, a Japanese, but if you happen to be an African American, a nerd is someone to be stepped on, to be pushed around, to be beaten.
If there is "racism" related to computer-science, the "racism" came not from the nerds, but from those who want to kick the nerds around.
Trying to hoodwink us with your fairy tales again, Cold Fjord ?
Just a few days ago NSA admitted that they have NO IDEA HOW EXTENSIVE IS THE SNOWDEN'S SECRET FILE COLLECTION ( http://www.dailydot.com/politics/nsa-snowden-files-unknown/ ) and the one who has the BIGGEST PANIC ATTACK is NSA, not Russia, not China, and of course, not the Germans.
The fact that the Berlin apartment of one Jacob Appelbaum was invaded, with 3 of his 4 alarms cut off, and his computers tempered with, signifies the SHEER PANIC ATTACKS NSA is suffering right now !
Had the Ruskies so hard up for the files, Edward Snowden is IN THEIR HAND RIGHT NOW and KGB sure knows a lot of ways to GET RESULT OUT OF PEOPLE WHO REFUSE TO TELL THEM ANYTHING.
And btw, Cold Fjord, you are NOT the only one who has worked in clandestine projects.
In Great Britain you don't need to troll as an AC, for in the British Parliament you get to see those "Lords" trolling each others to death whenever they get the chance.
United Kingdom used to snide at China for their infamous "Great Firewall of China" censorware. Now the table has turned.
At the very least, users from China can still access Slashdot, even with that "Great Firewall of China" playing at full blast.
"When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty."
I am surprised to read that quote from Mr. Jefferson inside your comment.
I am very very surprised because you're the same one who lambasted Edward Snowden for being a coward because according to you, Mr. Snowden should have remained INSIDE the USA and face the music for whatever he has done.
If you already know that what we have today is a tyranny, what do you get for wanting Mr. Snowden to face that tyrannical regime ?
If our government commits an illegal act, who is able to enforce it?
God ?
All right, all kidding aside... but the situation that we have as of now, anything short of a divine intervention there ain't no "legal" way to stop the government of the United States of America from committing illegal acts.
True, the code for that ill-fated website was really out-of-this-world in term of lousiness, but in the whole scheme of things the developers play but a very minor role in that disaster.
The ones who should shoulder the most blame are the people who awarded the entire project (without proper bidding process) to a totally incompetent company due to political reason ( read: cronyism )
The ones who should shoulder the second largest portion of the blame are those who, despite receiving untold millions in funding, they hired totally incompetent people to be in charge of that project.
Believe it or not, a thing gotta develop intelligence before it can discern the question of morality.
So, to answer you, the robots that we have right now are not intelligent enough, but that does not mean that robots in the future won't gain the level of intelligence that is needed to recognize the existence of morality.
But intelligence by itself is not sufficient, though, as evidenced by those "intelligence agencies" led by NSA which has no morality whatsoever.
The three laws as laid down by Asimov are still as valid as ever.
It's the people who willingly violate those laws.
Just like the Constitution of the United States - they are as valid as ever. It's the current form of the government of the United States which willingly violate the Constitution.
But Norton has failed to catch even the most simple "Recycler Virus".
One of my co-worker's thumbdrive has the "recycler virus", specifically the "855366bc.exe", and I tested the Symantec antivirus on several systems (from the 2012 edition all the way to the latest 2014) and none caught that virus !
Perhaps Norton is focus too much on the sophisticated virus and forgotten all about the simpler, old fashion ones.
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The islamists are taking over the asylum and they're a bit too close for my liking.
Islam is regarded as race now ?
What kind of fucking moron are you ?
Stuff that matters? - Nope
Correction: What happened in Turkey should be an inspiration for all citizens of the United States of America.
The American government has grown so corrupted that even a broken website cost the American tax payers One fucking Billion Dollars ! ( http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-02/obamacare-website-costs-top-1-billion )
When will we have FBI raiding the White House ?
Since before Internet was Internet I have been online, but unlike many others, I rather have my real identity to remain inconspicuous.
Why should I let Internet to "remember" me ?
I mean, what for ?
... he believes the virtual currency should be returned to him because Bitcoins are "not subject to seizure" by federal law.
See the bolded part ?
That Ulbricht still doesn't get it, does him ?
The master, aka the government, obeys NO law.
If they can ignore the highest law of the land, the Constitution just like that, what makes you think that they will follow mere "federal laws" ?
And they not only can seize your bitcoin, they can also take away your *LIFE*, if they want to.
Before you guys telling me that the government doesn't have the right to kill you, please look back to the incident that took place in Waco, Texas, USA, back in 1993.
They burn children to death.
Yes, *CHILDREN* and till today, 20 years later, *NOBODY WAS PUNISHED* for the death of those children, all of whom happened to be American Citizens.
Mars used to have plenty of water, a comfortable atmosphere, and perhaps some living microbes.
Mars had undergone a very nasty climate change, and the peculiar thing is, Mars has no human.
Anyone care to explain what happened to Mars (without the involving the Homo Sapiens Sapiens) ?
Assuming that you do read books, the dead-tree type, what genre of books do you like ?
Had it been in place in 2000 and 2001, I think that probably 9/11 would not have happened
Before 9/11 I posted a comment on /. warning of an impending attack by Islamic terrorists.
That comment of mine was modded to -1 by the libtards.
Few months later 9/11 happened
I had warned of the attack, although at that time I did not know when and where they were going to strike, I had already enough information that they would strike. /. is not the only place I commented. I also passed on the info to an intelligent agency that I rather not mention here but they didn't take my warning seriously.
It was not that nobody know what was going to happen. There were people who knew, including me - we are part of the global network of "observers" who monitor things happening (not snooping on others, but rather, getting constant information feed from insiders belonging to extremist groups) especially those related to religious fanaticism.
I do not know if /. does keep that comment that I posted, but you guys who do have paid subscription for /. can try to search for it.
As an American, I am giving my moral support to Mr. Hyppone for his courage to speak up against the unspeakable and despicable things that NSA has done !
I do not trust Snowden just because he is Snowden. I do not know that guy in person. I only heard of his name after what he has disclosed what NSA had done - PRISM / GCHQ / tapping on foreign leaders, and so on.
Every single "story" about a leak that has been linked to Snowden file is just that, a "story".
After reading them, I re-traced the link back to the matter itself. If there are articles related to the matter, I give them a good read up.
The case regarding RSA for example - there have been case studies since 2006 (and earlier) that can be used as reference to what has just been reported.
That is why I say it is a very sad day when my country has turned into something worse than a banana republic.
Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages à Secret files show scale of Silicon Valley co-operation on Prism ...
I won't be able to represent anybody but myself but my companies, at least the time I was running them, never get involved with NSA / CIA / FBI or any of those alphabet agencies.
Yes, from time to time they did flag us (and even contacted some of my co-workers). What we did in return was to move part of our operations out of USA in order to not getting involved.
the lady doth protest too much
Actually, I think that lady is trying very hard to circumvent the truth.
Witness:
What the Snowden paper has revealed was not about "any contract" nor "any project", rather, it's about a one-time payment of $10 million (under table or not, unfortunately the Snowden's paper didn't state clearly) - and the result is a crippled RSA product for the rest of us.
If the $10 million payment was an under table transaction, then there would be *NO* contract signed nor any *official project".
What it entailed would be a change of a couple of lines of code, that is all to it.
It's a very sad day when we have media which prostituting themselves to the BIG BROTHER and companies betraying the trust of their customers for some breadcrumbs.
If all that happened in a banana republic we may say "Oh, but they are banana republics".
But no. All these are happening in the United States in America !
What hath my beloved country turned into ?
When I started learning programming, back in the early 1970's, there were 3 main races that I could see - Indians (from India), Caucasians (from Europe/America) and East Asians (Japanese, Koreans, Chinese, Vietnamese)
As the years gone by, more races were added, from the African continent and from South America (mainly Argentine, Brazil, Chile and Peru)
As for those "hyphenated-Americans" such as "Latino-Americans" or "African-Americans", yes, I saw them too, but their number is small.
Their number is small not because of racism - as far as I know, we in the tech field treasure people with skills, not people with a particular skin-hue - the main cause of their number is because of their culture do not care for people with brains.
I have had co-workers from the Latino-American and African-American communities and they told me of their struggle to "survive" the daily gauntlet from their own people - taunts, bully, threats and physical assaults.
It's okay to be a nerd if you are a white, an Indian, a Japanese, but if you happen to be an African American, a nerd is someone to be stepped on, to be pushed around, to be beaten.
If there is "racism" related to computer-science, the "racism" came not from the nerds, but from those who want to kick the nerds around.
Trying to hoodwink us with your fairy tales again, Cold Fjord ?
Just a few days ago NSA admitted that they have NO IDEA HOW EXTENSIVE IS THE SNOWDEN'S SECRET FILE COLLECTION ( http://www.dailydot.com/politics/nsa-snowden-files-unknown/ ) and the one who has the BIGGEST PANIC ATTACK is NSA, not Russia, not China, and of course, not the Germans.
The fact that the Berlin apartment of one Jacob Appelbaum was invaded, with 3 of his 4 alarms cut off, and his computers tempered with, signifies the SHEER PANIC ATTACKS NSA is suffering right now !
Had the Ruskies so hard up for the files, Edward Snowden is IN THEIR HAND RIGHT NOW and KGB sure knows a lot of ways to GET RESULT OUT OF PEOPLE WHO REFUSE TO TELL THEM ANYTHING.
And btw, Cold Fjord, you are NOT the only one who has worked in clandestine projects.
Rule #1 was always that you don't troll as an AC
In Great Britain you don't need to troll as an AC, for in the British Parliament you get to see those "Lords" trolling each others to death whenever they get the chance.
United Kingdom used to snide at China for their infamous "Great Firewall of China" censorware. Now the table has turned.
At the very least, users from China can still access Slashdot, even with that "Great Firewall of China" playing at full blast.
This is more like if the NSA misled the FISA courts
Sorry, NSA did lie to the Congress.
NSA's director James Clapper, when testified, under oath, to the Congressional Oversight Committee, LIED.
http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/19/5228672/lawmakers-slam-intelligence-chief-james-clapper-for-lying-to-congress
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/18/rand-paul-clapper-lying-nsa-surveillance?guni=Network%20front:network-front%20main-3%20Main%20trailblock:Network%20front%20-%20main%20trailblock:Position2:sublinks
Go offline.
If you do that they win !
Internet is a threat to them. Internet is the one thing that can expose their evil deeds.
If there was no Internet, Edward Snowden's revelation will never get known to many of us.
The obvious answer is FPGA routers, made with fully open-sourced VHDL files.
How many years did the 0.17 release took ?
This release only take one year !!
Wow ! Congrats !!
... and American spooks misled the congress !
"When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty."
I am surprised to read that quote from Mr. Jefferson inside your comment.
I am very very surprised because you're the same one who lambasted Edward Snowden for being a coward because according to you, Mr. Snowden should have remained INSIDE the USA and face the music for whatever he has done.
If you already know that what we have today is a tyranny, what do you get for wanting Mr. Snowden to face that tyrannical regime ?
If our government commits an illegal act, who is able to enforce it?
God ?
All right, all kidding aside ... but the situation that we have as of now, anything short of a divine intervention there ain't no "legal" way to stop the government of the United States of America from committing illegal acts.
True, the code for that ill-fated website was really out-of-this-world in term of lousiness, but in the whole scheme of things the developers play but a very minor role in that disaster.
The ones who should shoulder the most blame are the people who awarded the entire project (without proper bidding process) to a totally incompetent company due to political reason ( read: cronyism )
The ones who should shoulder the second largest portion of the blame are those who, despite receiving untold millions in funding, they hired totally incompetent people to be in charge of that project.
Believe it or not, a thing gotta develop intelligence before it can discern the question of morality.
So, to answer you, the robots that we have right now are not intelligent enough, but that does not mean that robots in the future won't gain the level of intelligence that is needed to recognize the existence of morality.
But intelligence by itself is not sufficient, though, as evidenced by those "intelligence agencies" led by NSA which has no morality whatsoever.
The three laws as laid down by Asimov are still as valid as ever.
It's the people who willingly violate those laws.
Just like the Constitution of the United States - they are as valid as ever. It's the current form of the government of the United States which willingly violate the Constitution.
On the PDF http://dennistechnologylabs.com/reports/s/a-m/2013/DTL_2013_Q4_Home.1.pdf it lists Norton as the 3rd best antivirus, with 97% ranking.
But Norton has failed to catch even the most simple "Recycler Virus".
One of my co-worker's thumbdrive has the "recycler virus", specifically the "855366bc.exe", and I tested the Symantec antivirus on several systems (from the 2012 edition all the way to the latest 2014) and none caught that virus !
Perhaps Norton is focus too much on the sophisticated virus and forgotten all about the simpler, old fashion ones.