These are peanuts for monkeys. It is less than 1% of the 500 millions of profit Lenovo did.
I give more of my income to homeless, and I don't give a lot, neither do I benefit from their work. This kind of cheap PR operation makes me want to puke.
In France many judge know that their career is at risk when they engage in political affairs. Yet, several do. We had a former president condemned here (Chirac) and ongoing investigation on Sarkozy by a very independent judge who received threats and did not hesitate to involve counter-terrorism tools in this case (eh, exception laws can bite both ways!)
Actually, when I saw the title, as a French citizen, that was my first reaction. Then, I saw that this is actually a legal action. Depending on the judge chosen for this, the state may not have much options to stop the investigations. It could very well end with punishments, trigger the creation of privacy protection laws and cancel some treaties.
Why now? Probably because they just got some new files and want to keep them safe to prevent a repeat of the Bank of America failure, where a rogue employee destroyed all the backups they had.
Now the worst that a rogue employee could do is to release the key publicly.
The thing is, Western democracies have to get used to the Memory Hole, Cryptome, Wikileakeaks and the rest.
I'd rather have them get used to transparency, but I guess this is a first step, yes.
Because doing the right thing consistently is much harder than doing the evil things consistently. We have much higher standards for Mozilla than we have for Microsoft.
Also when America realized that these small little humans could indeed have an impact on the whole planet.
"I wonder if we can disrupt the Van Allen radiation belt with a nuclear bomb..."
BOOM!
"Oh! we can! neat! I wonder if it will regenerate and if it has any kind of uses for the ecosystem..."
Luckily, it does regenerate.
Actually, the unity plugin is now pre-installed in chrome under windows. I fear it will quickly become the new flash runtime.
I would not call it a malware, I do think that Google did a good job to clean it up, and that the Unity company really does need to stay clear of malware, given their business model, but I really despise the idea that we will have to indulge for yet another binary blob.
Oh yes, I do think that preserving US GDP is the main reason there. I find it highly ironical however that US declares that the IP laws (that are mainly a US invention in their current form) are valid, except when a large amount of money is involved and that this amount will be taken from US GDP.
If the ban was active, this flow of money would still exist but would go in a non-US company's pocket. This event is the admission that IP laws are just seen as a US domination tool. Not as a fair rule of the game.
I think we (the non Americans) should not miss the significance of this event, especially at a time where US is pressuring everyone into accepting software patents and extended copyright reforms. It shows that the white house is acknowledging that these laws are crazy and only to be used when it is in your country' economical interest.
I think it is very hard to believe that TOR mistakenly released a single version of their TOR browser with javascript conveniently activated. I wouldn't be surprised there was a concerted operation with FBI to reduce child porn on the TOR network. Actually, they could be legally coerced into doing exactly that.
I wonder if one could do a self-spreading malaware that would activate wifi and create a mesh network to the outer world, at least for people living close to the border...
I hate the situation as it is, but if the taxi drivers in SF are like those in Paris, you have to understand something about their demand: they had to pay a huge licence, often make a loan to pay for it.
Now they are told that the licence is not mandatory to do their job, they are rightfully angry. IMHO they should ask to be reimbursed at least partly their licence rather than preventing someone from doing the same job, but it is true that they suffer from an unfair situation.
Living in Tokyo, I have followed this a bit more closely.
Of course the neighbors won't like it. China just complains about any move in any direction, North Korea will threathen (again) to start a nuclear war. South Korea, who should be Japan's natural ally in the region, will probably have on of these strange indignation and Japan will continue to be racist against Koreans.
This is not a loving neighborhood. Actually, Japan getting an army is actually a good news for everyone. It means that Japan wants to become military independent from the US. China and NK should rejoice: it means that US presence in the region may soon end. To be fair, I can see how Japan can doubt that US would really get involved in a war against North Korea if the shit hit the fan. They want to be sure they can defend themselves, but more crucially, they need to have an independent military to have an independent diplomacy.
However, don't assume that their army is just for defence and diplomacy. Abe is also pleading its right-wing nationalists, who are gaining a lot of tractions. Racism against Korean (of both north and south) is very common and I am uncomfortable with some rhetorics where it is appropriate to call someone a "Korean" when it is a Japanese who lacks patriotism.
You are right that removing Okinawa's American base is a big motivation. After all, it happens frequently that american soldiers commit crimes (usually rape) and can not be judged by local tribunals but by a more lenient military tribunal. Once again, imagine that happening in US. A former prime minister had to resign in big part because he failed his promise to close this military base.
Actually, it may also be in US' interest to have Japan lead an independent diplomacy in NK. See, the stalemate that prevents US, UN or South Korea from invading NK and removing their leader is because of a single line of artillery : Seoul, one of the big metropolis of Asia and South Korea's capital is very close to the border and within range of at least 40 fortified artillery positions, which are suspected of being loaded with chemical weapons. When you take the subway in Seoul, you will see rack of gas masks there "just in case". But the day when a foreign force invades NK will cause the biggest war casualties of any day in the history of warfare.
Now if Japan comes, and says to NK "Ok, cross this line and we invade you. Seoul? We don't care, these are just Koreans." this may just work as a credible threat.
The truly hilarious label there is "extremist". What is extremism? Anarcho-terrorism? Anarchism? Communism? Syndicalism?
Note a single time has there been a "porn filter" that did not include highly political sites in its black lists.
Would you censor LGBT movements? Would you censor FEMEN? Would you censor news article talking/showing pictures of FEMEN activists? Hey, would you censor anti-censorship webste explaining how to circumvent your filters? Would this make you censor EFF or pirate party?
NEVER accept censorship, even if it advances under the cover of something that seems acceptable (like fighting against pedopornography or terrorism) because selective sensible censorship is not a stable state. As soon as a censorship mechanism exists, very high pressures will abund to extend it.
If you want to use therac-25 to represent the state of surgery robotics, I am asking that we consider a drunken drug addict who lied on his surgery certifications as the human comparison.
This means that the Parliament of Finland is required to take the Common Sense in Copyright initiative into processing.
And they will refuse this initiative according to the due process. Anyone who believes in 2013 that non-binding petition can make any tiny amount of difference needs to have a reality check.
You either have direct democracy inscribed in your constitution or you don't.
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These are peanuts for monkeys. It is less than 1% of the 500 millions of profit Lenovo did.
I give more of my income to homeless, and I don't give a lot, neither do I benefit from their work. This kind of cheap PR operation makes me want to puke.
Actually, this was in the news and had shockingly little effect. The DGSE said they were basically doing the same at a smaller scale and no one cared.
In France many judge know that their career is at risk when they engage in political affairs. Yet, several do. We had a former president condemned here (Chirac) and ongoing investigation on Sarkozy by a very independent judge who received threats and did not hesitate to involve counter-terrorism tools in this case (eh, exception laws can bite both ways!)
Actually, when I saw the title, as a French citizen, that was my first reaction. Then, I saw that this is actually a legal action. Depending on the judge chosen for this, the state may not have much options to stop the investigations. It could very well end with punishments, trigger the creation of privacy protection laws and cancel some treaties.
I expected slashdot (and many other news outlet) to have at least some specific technical details. What encryption did UN use? How was it compromised?
Which is just hilarious.
People who were stupid enough to not have offline copies of their mail can see these minutes as the longest of their lives...
Now the worst that a rogue employee could do is to release the key publicly.
The thing is, Western democracies have to get used to the Memory Hole, Cryptome, Wikileakeaks and the rest.
I'd rather have them get used to transparency, but I guess this is a first step, yes.
Or, you know, install it for the editor you use. Dude, this is 2013, there are autocomplete packages for vim, for god's sake.
Hehe, it sounds like the recent release of a neat version of GLFW woke up the SDL developpers. Can't say I will complain!
Because doing the right thing consistently is much harder than doing the evil things consistently. We have much higher standards for Mozilla than we have for Microsoft.
Also when America realized that these small little humans could indeed have an impact on the whole planet.
"I wonder if we can disrupt the Van Allen radiation belt with a nuclear bomb..."
BOOM!
"Oh! we can! neat! I wonder if it will regenerate and if it has any kind of uses for the ecosystem..."
Luckily, it does regenerate.
Actually, the unity plugin is now pre-installed in chrome under windows. I fear it will quickly become the new flash runtime.
I would not call it a malware, I do think that Google did a good job to clean it up, and that the Unity company really does need to stay clear of malware, given their business model, but I really despise the idea that we will have to indulge for yet another binary blob.
Whether or not he is actually going to get a benefit out of a startup environment is debatable though (he has a sizable personal fortune).
Money is not the only kind of benefit there is.
Oh yes, I do think that preserving US GDP is the main reason there. I find it highly ironical however that US declares that the IP laws (that are mainly a US invention in their current form) are valid, except when a large amount of money is involved and that this amount will be taken from US GDP.
If the ban was active, this flow of money would still exist but would go in a non-US company's pocket. This event is the admission that IP laws are just seen as a US domination tool. Not as a fair rule of the game.
I think we (the non Americans) should not miss the significance of this event, especially at a time where US is pressuring everyone into accepting software patents and extended copyright reforms. It shows that the white house is acknowledging that these laws are crazy and only to be used when it is in your country' economical interest.
I think it is very hard to believe that TOR mistakenly released a single version of their TOR browser with javascript conveniently activated. I wouldn't be surprised there was a concerted operation with FBI to reduce child porn on the TOR network. Actually, they could be legally coerced into doing exactly that.
If the laws are more or less correct, you can then hope to have a correct justice if you fight corruption in the judicial system.
The fact that the legal problem is just the first problem of a long list of things to solve is not a reason to not go and try to fix it.
I wonder if one could do a self-spreading malaware that would activate wifi and create a mesh network to the outer world, at least for people living close to the border...
Considering that 10 lashes send you to hospital, I read this as a death sentence.
I hate the situation as it is, but if the taxi drivers in SF are like those in Paris, you have to understand something about their demand: they had to pay a huge licence, often make a loan to pay for it.
Now they are told that the licence is not mandatory to do their job, they are rightfully angry. IMHO they should ask to be reimbursed at least partly their licence rather than preventing someone from doing the same job, but it is true that they suffer from an unfair situation.
Buying gametime, or dollars if you really have a lot of them. 500M of EVE's ISK is worth ~8 â right now.
Living in Tokyo, I have followed this a bit more closely.
Of course the neighbors won't like it. China just complains about any move in any direction, North Korea will threathen (again) to start a nuclear war. South Korea, who should be Japan's natural ally in the region, will probably have on of these strange indignation and Japan will continue to be racist against Koreans.
This is not a loving neighborhood. Actually, Japan getting an army is actually a good news for everyone. It means that Japan wants to become military independent from the US. China and NK should rejoice: it means that US presence in the region may soon end. To be fair, I can see how Japan can doubt that US would really get involved in a war against North Korea if the shit hit the fan. They want to be sure they can defend themselves, but more crucially, they need to have an independent military to have an independent diplomacy.
I mean, North Korean kidnapped civilians in the heart of Japan and launches missiles accross Japan without warnings. Imagine that one second in the USA: Cuba abducting random citizens and testing missiles accross Florida, and the army saying "that's ok, let's not have a war for that".
However, don't assume that their army is just for defence and diplomacy. Abe is also pleading its right-wing nationalists, who are gaining a lot of tractions. Racism against Korean (of both north and south) is very common and I am uncomfortable with some rhetorics where it is appropriate to call someone a "Korean" when it is a Japanese who lacks patriotism.
You are right that removing Okinawa's American base is a big motivation. After all, it happens frequently that american soldiers commit crimes (usually rape) and can not be judged by local tribunals but by a more lenient military tribunal. Once again, imagine that happening in US. A former prime minister had to resign in big part because he failed his promise to close this military base.
Actually, it may also be in US' interest to have Japan lead an independent diplomacy in NK. See, the stalemate that prevents US, UN or South Korea from invading NK and removing their leader is because of a single line of artillery : Seoul, one of the big metropolis of Asia and South Korea's capital is very close to the border and within range of at least 40 fortified artillery positions, which are suspected of being loaded with chemical weapons. When you take the subway in Seoul, you will see rack of gas masks there "just in case". But the day when a foreign force invades NK will cause the biggest war casualties of any day in the history of warfare.
Now if Japan comes, and says to NK "Ok, cross this line and we invade you. Seoul? We don't care, these are just Koreans." this may just work as a credible threat.
The truly hilarious label there is "extremist". What is extremism? Anarcho-terrorism? Anarchism? Communism? Syndicalism?
Note a single time has there been a "porn filter" that did not include highly political sites in its black lists.
Would you censor LGBT movements? Would you censor FEMEN? Would you censor news article talking/showing pictures of FEMEN activists? Hey, would you censor anti-censorship webste explaining how to circumvent your filters? Would this make you censor EFF or pirate party?
NEVER accept censorship, even if it advances under the cover of something that seems acceptable (like fighting against pedopornography or terrorism) because selective sensible censorship is not a stable state. As soon as a censorship mechanism exists, very high pressures will abund to extend it.
If you want to use therac-25 to represent the state of surgery robotics, I am asking that we consider a drunken drug addict who lied on his surgery certifications as the human comparison.
This means that the Parliament of Finland is required to take the Common Sense in Copyright initiative into processing.
And they will refuse this initiative according to the due process. Anyone who believes in 2013 that non-binding petition can make any tiny amount of difference needs to have a reality check.
You either have direct democracy inscribed in your constitution or you don't.