I think with all the drone strikes in the world you would realize the US has jurisdiction where ever it fucking feels like.
The US has less legal constants outside the US than inside it. The US can imprison, torture, or kill without legal comeback in most of the world, but can't even detain people without trail in the US. That's the reason Gitmo is in Cuba not Texas.
I'm don't know about copyright laws in China, but unless you breach your country law, the US can fuck off.
This Chinese man was silly enough to enter a US territory of his own free will. US agents lied to him about a business deal but even so he should have had some idea that maybe the US wanted him.
I second that. Firefox on a laptop on battery is a nightmare that is best shut down unless it is absolutely needed. I see 10% CPU usage when it's doing absolutely nothing. Come on Mozilla, stop wasting my CPU cycles!
You have to consider the source here too... its Microsoft. It was "sponsored" research, which translates to "rigged" test with rigged results. So it is indeed done for marketing purposes, or why else do it. Probably a simple web page with little css or js. You can't take anything they say at face value.
I don't think they go as far as rigging the research. What I think they do is pay for thousands of very specific research topics and publish the ones that show them favorably and bury all the others.
If this is the best they could come up with they really are losing the browser war.
That's over twice what I got paid on my first full time IT job, and it wasn't all that long ago. It might not buy you fancy cars or a mansion but it is not peanuts.
My advise is to read a lot and get some old systems and play with them at home. Or setup some cheap virtual servers and play with them.
I'm from Europe, and none of the people I know would take drugs for psychological problems. I've seen it depicted in movies that Americans take (prescribed) drugs when feeling bad, but I can't believe anyone would really do this - is this for real, or are the movies exaggerating? I mean, why would a doctor tell you to drug yourself, even if you feel depressed.
I've had this discussion before and American's won't understand your point of view. Drugs are so commonplace in American society that taking them for anything or in some cases nothing is seen as normal. There are cases where medication is the right answer but they are a minority of the cases, medication appears to be prescribed in the vast majority of cases.
So yes, American's get prescribed drugs when they tell their doctor they feel bad even where those drugs are inappropriate. People rarely question their doctor because they went to medical school so must know what they are doing.
Serious question - Every now and then I get a headache, or muscle ache, or hurt myself in some way. Regardless of the source of the pain if I take paracetamol I get no noticeable pain relief, it feels exactly like taking a placebo. Yet people around me keep taking this stuff like it actually does something.
Do not give them technical details, a before and after video will be enough. If you give them details they may just try and rip you off. If you give them details make sure they are not complete enough to reimplement your work.
Ideally don't deal with Venture Capitalists at all, these people are only interested in taking as much of your business away from you as they can get away with. They can't be trusted.
It sounds like what you really need is a sales guy to go out and sell this technology under license, not a venture capitalist.
What is good for the goose must be good for the gander. This is a clear green light.
The bad guys have always abused other people's systems to steal data. Anyone who sets up systems connected to the internet should expect sustained attacks from the bad guys.
The only thing that is happening here is that the Dutch government is stepping out of the shadows and going 'Look at me! I'm a bad guy! I'm going to h4x0r j00 with my l33t skillz!' Personally I'd null route the entire Dutch government for this, they admitted an intent to crack other people's systems and steal data.
Maybe their generation will be the ones to do something about that.
Maybe our generation should be doing something about it. Maybe they will just grow up thinking it's normal.
You know they have a program of fingerprinting children in UK schools? The kids don't know it's something they should object to and the parents are never consulted.
Sorry, sometimes the resentment leaks out a bit. Then I think of all the kids who don't even have electricity or running water and think I didn't get it that bad.
This stupid country is producing a generation of stupid kids, cowering and fearing the government, doing only as told.
I see the same in Europe. Kids these days are compliant drones scared of offending their masters or they fight back, join gangs, and commit stupid crimes. Either way it's out of balance and far from healthy.
I thought people involved in educational process are better than this...
The teachers often are. The administrators, no. Most teachers care about the kids, while the administrators tend to be risk-averse bureaucrats who find it easier to hide behind a rule book than to make tough decisions.
Time to let out some of my pent up resentment about the UK school system under that satan-incarnate Thatcher.
When I was at school not one teacher 'cared' about me in any sense whatsoever, they didn't even pretend to care. School was a punishment to be endured and it was made absolutely clear that any attempt to educate myself or to simply entertain myself would not be tolerated and that being white was something I should be very, very guilty of because of all those black slaves I personally oppressed. The only thing they didn't seem to care about was when I stopped turning up for a few months, one less kid to worry about I guess. They didn't teach the syllabus or allow me a copy of it so I could teach myself so I screwed up all the exams that I could have easily passed.
Also potato fries every day. No wonder I had a weight problem when all lunch options included deep fried potato every single day.
Maybe you went to a good school but in my case the teachers didn't care, the administrators were never seen, and there was nobody else anywhere who gave a dam if I lived or died.
You went to a better school than I did if you can honestly say 'mostly no'. In my UK school race was the overriding consideration in just about everything and all it did was fuel more racism.
Racism is still alive and well but it's a far more complex issue than simply white people believing they have to make up for past crimes to black people. It's become a self-perpetuating cluster-fuck of resentment on all sides.
1) Watch someone type their PIN in at an ATM. 2) Pickpocket their bank card or obtain it in some other non-violent way. 3) Withdraw as much cash as you can. 4) Get caught. 5) Claim it was all an April fools joke and donate the stolen money to Charity. 6) Somehow you are the good guy.
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I think with all the drone strikes in the world you would realize the US has jurisdiction where ever it fucking feels like.
The US has less legal constants outside the US than inside it. The US can imprison, torture, or kill without legal comeback in most of the world, but can't even detain people without trail in the US. That's the reason Gitmo is in Cuba not Texas.
Is it ?
I'm don't know about copyright laws in China, but unless you breach your country law, the US can fuck off.
This Chinese man was silly enough to enter a US territory of his own free will. US agents lied to him about a business deal but even so he should have had some idea that maybe the US wanted him.
I second that. Firefox on a laptop on battery is a nightmare that is best shut down unless it is absolutely needed. I see 10% CPU usage when it's doing absolutely nothing. Come on Mozilla, stop wasting my CPU cycles!
Bollocks. A few seconds? Seriously, I've seen people waste more time looking for a stapler.
That's true but I look for a stabler at most once a week and I use a browser more or less constantly.
And the people I work with keep moving the dam stapler!
I do notice Firefox uses a lot of CPU time on recent versions, even when it's displaying nothing but static pages.
If Mozilla take this seriously and save a few CPU cycles here and there some good might come out of this research.
You have to consider the source here too ... its Microsoft. It was "sponsored" research, which translates to "rigged" test with rigged results. So it is indeed done for marketing purposes, or why else do it. Probably a simple web page with little css or js. You can't take anything they say at face value.
I don't think they go as far as rigging the research. What I think they do is pay for thousands of very specific research topics and publish the ones that show them favorably and bury all the others.
If this is the best they could come up with they really are losing the browser war.
Ignore the CCNA weenies. Most Cisco admins are putzes who are glorified cable pullers.
That is a grossly unfair comment. And no I don't have a CCNA or spend more than about 20% of my time looking after network kit.
peanuts (Less than $30,000/year)
That's over twice what I got paid on my first full time IT job, and it wasn't all that long ago. It might not buy you fancy cars or a mansion but it is not peanuts.
My advise is to read a lot and get some old systems and play with them at home. Or setup some cheap virtual servers and play with them.
Don't drink too much of the Microsoft cool-aid!
I'm from Europe, and none of the people I know would take drugs for psychological problems. I've seen it depicted in movies that Americans take (prescribed) drugs when feeling bad, but I can't believe anyone would really do this - is this for real, or are the movies exaggerating? I mean, why would a doctor tell you to drug yourself, even if you feel depressed.
I've had this discussion before and American's won't understand your point of view. Drugs are so commonplace in American society that taking them for anything or in some cases nothing is seen as normal. There are cases where medication is the right answer but they are a minority of the cases, medication appears to be prescribed in the vast majority of cases.
So yes, American's get prescribed drugs when they tell their doctor they feel bad even where those drugs are inappropriate. People rarely question their doctor because they went to medical school so must know what they are doing.
Serious question - Every now and then I get a headache, or muscle ache, or hurt myself in some way. Regardless of the source of the pain if I take paracetamol I get no noticeable pain relief, it feels exactly like taking a placebo. Yet people around me keep taking this stuff like it actually does something.
Does Paracetamol actually work for people here?
Do not give them technical details, a before and after video will be enough. If you give them details they may just try and rip you off. If you give them details make sure they are not complete enough to reimplement your work.
Ideally don't deal with Venture Capitalists at all, these people are only interested in taking as much of your business away from you as they can get away with. They can't be trusted.
It sounds like what you really need is a sales guy to go out and sell this technology under license, not a venture capitalist.
Wrong.
The police are NOT avove the law. If anything, they are kept under even closer scrutiny than ordinary citizens.
Rubbish. For all practical purposes the police are above the law.
Newsflash - Police are above the law.
What is good for the goose must be good for the gander. This is a clear green light.
The bad guys have always abused other people's systems to steal data. Anyone who sets up systems connected to the internet should expect sustained attacks from the bad guys.
The only thing that is happening here is that the Dutch government is stepping out of the shadows and going 'Look at me! I'm a bad guy! I'm going to h4x0r j00 with my l33t skillz!' Personally I'd null route the entire Dutch government for this, they admitted an intent to crack other people's systems and steal data.
Maybe their generation will be the ones to do something about that.
Maybe our generation should be doing something about it. Maybe they will just grow up thinking it's normal.
You know they have a program of fingerprinting children in UK schools? The kids don't know it's something they should object to and the parents are never consulted.
Sorry, sometimes the resentment leaks out a bit. Then I think of all the kids who don't even have electricity or running water and think I didn't get it that bad.
What if her "science experiment" involved a pressure cooker?
What if it involved a home made nuke? It didn't so it's a pointless question.
This stupid country is producing a generation of stupid kids, cowering and fearing the government, doing only as told.
I see the same in Europe. Kids these days are compliant drones scared of offending their masters or they fight back, join gangs, and commit stupid crimes. Either way it's out of balance and far from healthy.
At least we are teaching them that those with authority and political power are not to be trusted.
You are also teaching that power granted by authority is absolute and beyond question and that using that power to crush people is fine.
He is saying that he believes that's what the state believes.
He is not saying that is his personal belief.
I thought people involved in educational process are better than this...
The teachers often are. The administrators, no. Most teachers care about the kids, while the administrators tend to be risk-averse bureaucrats who find it easier to hide behind a rule book than to make tough decisions.
Time to let out some of my pent up resentment about the UK school system under that satan-incarnate Thatcher.
When I was at school not one teacher 'cared' about me in any sense whatsoever, they didn't even pretend to care. School was a punishment to be endured and it was made absolutely clear that any attempt to educate myself or to simply entertain myself would not be tolerated and that being white was something I should be very, very guilty of because of all those black slaves I personally oppressed. The only thing they didn't seem to care about was when I stopped turning up for a few months, one less kid to worry about I guess. They didn't teach the syllabus or allow me a copy of it so I could teach myself so I screwed up all the exams that I could have easily passed.
Also potato fries every day. No wonder I had a weight problem when all lunch options included deep fried potato every single day.
Maybe you went to a good school but in my case the teachers didn't care, the administrators were never seen, and there was nobody else anywhere who gave a dam if I lived or died.
As a rule...mostly no.
You went to a better school than I did if you can honestly say 'mostly no'. In my UK school race was the overriding consideration in just about everything and all it did was fuel more racism.
Racism is still alive and well but it's a far more complex issue than simply white people believing they have to make up for past crimes to black people. It's become a self-perpetuating cluster-fuck of resentment on all sides.
Whatever they said and for whatever reason, they're making amends for their mistakes. I'm willing to extend them credit on that basis.
They are only making amends because they got caught. You don't need to extend them credit, they already stole enough of that.
1) Watch someone type their PIN in at an ATM.
2) Pickpocket their bank card or obtain it in some other non-violent way.
3) Withdraw as much cash as you can.
4) Get caught.
5) Claim it was all an April fools joke and donate the stolen money to Charity.
6) Somehow you are the good guy.
Because it's bad to rob a bank but fine to steal from people?