America used to be a free country and now where are we?
It's a 1984 style police state coupled with a Kafka style legal system. The NSA is in the process of wrecking your digital economy by destroying the trust it depends on. America might still be a nice place to live if you like living wild in the woods but most people like electricity.
I'm not so sure Blair was a Catholic when he was ordering military action in Iraq, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, or Afghanistan. He openly admits to praying for guidance before ordering such action in a few TV interviews. He practically admitted that he was getting involved in conflicts for personal religious reasons.
Wikipedia claims he only converted to Catholicism in 2007, well after he lost the power to order troops about.
The British people control their government in much the same way the US people control theirs. I.e. they get a choice between two different brands of lying self-interest every few years and that's it.
not only is that kind of delay noticeable by anyone with a bit of experience with networks, Kim Dotcom had FIBER OPTIC CABLE INSTALLED WITH 1-HOP ACCESS TO SUBSEA CABLES.
Sweet. Where do I get myself one of those and how much does it cost?
He runs servers. People who run servers often have some idea of the ping time to them. I know the ping time to my servers from home even though I can't react at super-human speeds, catch bullets in my teeth, fire lasers from my eyes, or anything of that nature.
20 to 30 milliseconds is a big change for your line speed. I'd notice that because I have a few servers that I more or less know the round trip times too. If you have ping times 20 to 30 milliseconds less than other people in the same area on the same ISP it's time to start worrying.
If I was him I'd pgp some abusive text crypted with an easy to guess password and send that though netcat on a few random ports. See how much nonsense data these spy monkies want to store.
Controllable in the sense of voting either democrat or republican to maintain the status quo and never daring to question where their tax money goes, why their civil liberties are getting stripped away one by one, or why government agents amass new powers almost weekly.
Uncontrolled members of the public should be questioning everything their government does and voting for the party most in line with their interests. And forming that party if it doesn't already exist.
I wasn't suggesting violent revolution if that's what you are implying because it just won't work in the US. The government is too well prepared for any 'well regulated militia' to make much impact.
I'm sure the U.S. is putting pressure on the Brits to gag Greenwald. This sounds like a typical NSA operation.
It's ineffective though. All the UK government is doing is drawing attention to how subservient to the NSA they are and provoking Greenwald for no reason whatsoever.
If understanding a law requires 'considerable legal training', then it's a bad law. How can Joe Public know whether they're breaking a law if they can't understand it?
Joe Public is not meant to understand the law. Joe Public is just meant to stay afraid of the police so he is controllable.
But the Obama promised us that it would change. Your argument is invalid and you're a racist.
Obama doesn't dictate what the UK government does.
No, hang on, he does. The UK government even goes to war when the US commands it to. Mind you that was partially down to the Christian nut-job war-criminal Blair and his Christian fundamentalist agenda.
Are they idiots, or do they think we are idiots? If a law can be abused, it will be abused. No exceptions.
They are idiots because they believed that police powers would be only used for the purpose they intended. Now the idiots have given the thugs these extra powers they will never be revoked and the thugs will start begging for even more powers to harass the innocent.
Let the left versis right stuff go. Both Democrat and Republican governments increase government power and screw over the population. Neither believe in the US constitution. They are both the problem.
Did you read the story or do you not realise that Heathrow airport is just outside London, England ?
Heathrow is in the London Borough of Hillingdon. As it's inside London the worst excesses of the anti-terror laws apply. Police can search anyone for no reason and they often do. Apparently they can steal property too which isn't entirely new to UK police.
You are right in what you say but can I just suggest regular encrypted backups? After all it's not just the police that steal things, regular thieves do too.
So when 10 armed US police are beating down someone who did something minor but doesn't deserve a lynching how many brave people stand up for the guy getting beaten? Nobody ever does because anyone that tried would be killed on the spot.
As far as I can remember I've only heard of that happening once when a group of UK police were beating down schoolchildren and a crowd thought the police were going too far.
That's a US thing. This man was held in the UK where they don't even pretend that people have rights anymore.
Under so call anti-terror laws the UK police can do pretty much anything to anyone without even needing the hint of suspicion. At least this man wasn't murdered by the police like Jean Charles de Menezes or Ian Tomlinson.
DUH what? CrazySpence was saying linux virtualization sucked and I gave 4 examples of companies that could have used vmware if they thought it was better.
I'm not sure if you are for or against linux virtualization. If you have any point at all you failed to express it.
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I'm not so sure, they both suck with the odd exception. Americans - check youtube for eastenders if you want to be depressed by British TV.
Doctor Who is good though.
It never had the technology to spy on everyone all the time before.
America used to be a free country and now where are we?
It's a 1984 style police state coupled with a Kafka style legal system. The NSA is in the process of wrecking your digital economy by destroying the trust it depends on. America might still be a nice place to live if you like living wild in the woods but most people like electricity.
I'm not so sure Blair was a Catholic when he was ordering military action in Iraq, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, or Afghanistan. He openly admits to praying for guidance before ordering such action in a few TV interviews. He practically admitted that he was getting involved in conflicts for personal religious reasons.
Wikipedia claims he only converted to Catholicism in 2007, well after he lost the power to order troops about.
The British people control their government in much the same way the US people control theirs. I.e. they get a choice between two different brands of lying self-interest every few years and that's it.
not only is that kind of delay noticeable by anyone with a bit of experience with networks, Kim Dotcom had FIBER OPTIC CABLE INSTALLED WITH 1-HOP ACCESS TO SUBSEA CABLES.
Sweet. Where do I get myself one of those and how much does it cost?
He runs servers. People who run servers often have some idea of the ping time to them. I know the ping time to my servers from home even though I can't react at super-human speeds, catch bullets in my teeth, fire lasers from my eyes, or anything of that nature.
If a for-profit entity offers you a service for free, you're not the customer -- you're the product.
Yeah, because a non-profit would never pull that? Riiiight.
Methinks you don't know how a non-profit works.
That's abductive reasoning. Just because for-profits don't always work in your interest doesn't mean that non-profits do.
20 to 30 milliseconds is a big change for your line speed. I'd notice that because I have a few servers that I more or less know the round trip times too. If you have ping times 20 to 30 milliseconds less than other people in the same area on the same ISP it's time to start worrying.
If I was him I'd pgp some abusive text crypted with an easy to guess password and send that though netcat on a few random ports. See how much nonsense data these spy monkies want to store.
Controllable in the sense of voting either democrat or republican to maintain the status quo and never daring to question where their tax money goes, why their civil liberties are getting stripped away one by one, or why government agents amass new powers almost weekly.
Uncontrolled members of the public should be questioning everything their government does and voting for the party most in line with their interests. And forming that party if it doesn't already exist.
I wasn't suggesting violent revolution if that's what you are implying because it just won't work in the US. The government is too well prepared for any 'well regulated militia' to make much impact.
I'm sure the U.S. is putting pressure on the Brits to gag Greenwald. This sounds like a typical NSA operation.
It's ineffective though. All the UK government is doing is drawing attention to how subservient to the NSA they are and provoking Greenwald for no reason whatsoever.
If you are going to do something anyway then threatening to do that thing doesn't carry much weight. Just publish the dam stuff and be done with it.
If understanding a law requires 'considerable legal training', then it's a bad law. How can Joe Public know whether they're breaking a law if they can't understand it?
Joe Public is not meant to understand the law. Joe Public is just meant to stay afraid of the police so he is controllable.
But the Obama promised us that it would change. Your argument is invalid and you're a racist.
Obama doesn't dictate what the UK government does.
No, hang on, he does. The UK government even goes to war when the US commands it to. Mind you that was partially down to the Christian nut-job war-criminal Blair and his Christian fundamentalist agenda.
You hope that the same system that allows police murder will prevent police theft and 9 hours of interrogation?
The UK police have done far worse and got away with it.
Are they idiots, or do they think we are idiots? If a law can be abused, it will be abused. No exceptions.
They are idiots because they believed that police powers would be only used for the purpose they intended. Now the idiots have given the thugs these extra powers they will never be revoked and the thugs will start begging for even more powers to harass the innocent.
It's just theft. Who do you complain to when the police steal your stuff? Nobody can do anything.
Let the left versis right stuff go. Both Democrat and Republican governments increase government power and screw over the population. Neither believe in the US constitution. They are both the problem.
Exactly. There isn't any point physically carrying this stuff when you can send it though the Internet or post it.
Did you read the story or do you not realise that Heathrow airport is just outside London, England ?
Heathrow is in the London Borough of Hillingdon. As it's inside London the worst excesses of the anti-terror laws apply. Police can search anyone for no reason and they often do. Apparently they can steal property too which isn't entirely new to UK police.
You are right in what you say but can I just suggest regular encrypted backups? After all it's not just the police that steal things, regular thieves do too.
It's not a hopeless situation, it's an almost hopeless situation.
Don't give up yet, the world has got over far worse.
Split the US in order to fix it? Nasty but it's the only plan I've seen that stands any chance of breaking the republican/democrat alliance.
That comes under :
Home of the brave (*)
So when 10 armed US police are beating down someone who did something minor but doesn't deserve a lynching how many brave people stand up for the guy getting beaten? Nobody ever does because anyone that tried would be killed on the spot.
As far as I can remember I've only heard of that happening once when a group of UK police were beating down schoolchildren and a crowd thought the police were going too far.
Land of the Free(*).
*Conditions may apply.
That's a US thing. This man was held in the UK where they don't even pretend that people have rights anymore.
Under so call anti-terror laws the UK police can do pretty much anything to anyone without even needing the hint of suspicion. At least this man wasn't murdered by the police like Jean Charles de Menezes or Ian Tomlinson.
DUH what? CrazySpence was saying linux virtualization sucked and I gave 4 examples of companies that could have used vmware if they thought it was better.
I'm not sure if you are for or against linux virtualization. If you have any point at all you failed to express it.