Unlike cannon, tanks and airplanes, it's comparatively easy to hit a western city with chemical weapons (or, for that matter, an oriental city like Tokyo).
So the west needs to have a vigourous response, to strongly discourage the demand for such weapons; it's out of self-interest. Weapons that are about as hard to smuggle and use as a can of coke are far more dangerous (in the eyes of the west) than all the conventional weapons at Assad's disposal.
Notice that while a lot of the rhetoric and fluff is about the morality of chemical weapons. When the talk gets serious it's not about the ethics, it's about national security.
It's a case in point; the Occupy movement was smashed by the FBI and Homeland security, by infiltration and (almost certainly) involving illegal interception of communication. See How the FBI coordinated the crackdown on Occupy for example.
The weak link there is "a few dozen trusted friends" - if you know them well enough to trust them, they''re likely to be easily identified. And it only takes one of them to be tricked, hacked or persuaded...how would you know if your "insurance" had been compromised?
Easy to tell if you run NTP (pretty much certain if you have servers). For example, take a look at the image here - you can clearly see the effect of route changes to remote servers.
His talk at 27C3 is very, very interesting and deserves to be more widely known. In particular, watch and listen to his explanations of how carefully he has to choose his words - right down to using "it" for the government person he has to deal with (since giving away "its" gendor could get him 10 years in jail).
Someone mod this up; we don't want to make it harder for real terrorists to be caught - the problem is the use of 'terrorism' as a justification for attacking all sorts of other things (for greed, power and profit)
In the UK, I was driving 4 engineers from Pakistan back to the airport (they'd come over for a training course) , we got pulled over by cops with guns - which is pretty damn rare in the UK.
I did let them search the car, and even let their dog slobber over the luggage (hey, there was a flight to catch, and men in black with guns at the ready). Afterwards they handed me a form to sign saying I'd willingly agreed to being stopped. About that point, I realised I'd been a bit slow on the uptake, and about the only bit I feel good about is refusing to sign the form.
In case it wasn't totally, blindingly obvious, the only reason for the "aiding the enemy" charge was so they could "lose" that one - and so have the media report "Bradley Manning not guilty of most serious charge".
You may laugh, but some of Geller's supporters claimed Randi was the worst of the worst, because he (Randi) really *was* using psychic powers to do the magic even while claiming to be only using tricks and illusions.
Interestingly if you google for 'porn', all the top hits (and most of the first page) is about Cameron's Crackdown. Presumably if the filters were on, these results would have been blocked.
Favourite quote? Paraphrased somewhat: "If I say something wrong about the gag order, I go to jail or 10 years; if those in power get it wrong in front of congress, they just say sorry."
How about looking at universities, and specifically fields where there is a lot of good to be done but aren't 'natural' homes for programmers? e.g. Life Sciences, agriculture, biology etc.
Separately, there are all the @home projects, which can always use programmers (and do occasionally recruit from amongst their contributors).
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xcb (the application, not the library) works nicely for multiple buffers.
Check out the code names.
Kind of hard to believe Intel could be coerced into including a sneaky key into their hardware.
Either trust it - or use something else.
4: You want slow turning (or no) fans for reliability - especially now that PC hardware doesn't become obsolete so quickly.
Unlike cannon, tanks and airplanes, it's comparatively easy to hit a western city with chemical weapons (or, for that matter, an oriental city like Tokyo).
So the west needs to have a vigourous response, to strongly discourage the demand for such weapons; it's out of self-interest. Weapons that are about as hard to smuggle and use as a can of coke are far more dangerous (in the eyes of the west) than all the conventional weapons at Assad's disposal.
Notice that while a lot of the rhetoric and fluff is about the morality of chemical weapons. When the talk gets serious it's not about the ethics, it's about national security.
The actual FBI docs revealing this are available online.
It's a case in point; the Occupy movement was smashed by the FBI and Homeland security, by infiltration and (almost certainly) involving illegal interception of communication. See How the FBI coordinated the crackdown on Occupy for example.
<Iggy Pop>
Boy, I feel so outgunned today.
But I get up and fight back anyway.
</Iggy Pop>
From "Main Street Eyes".
Em, it's already being used like that.
The weak link there is "a few dozen trusted friends" - if you know them well enough to trust them, they''re likely to be easily identified. And it only takes one of them to be tricked, hacked or persuaded...how would you know if your "insurance" had been compromised?
More importantly, they are also (and more hopefully) stimulating the next generation of activists.
Easy to tell if you run NTP (pretty much certain if you have servers). For example, take a look at the image here - you can clearly see the effect of route changes to remote servers.
According to this release, David Miranda is a Guardian employee. Anyone know if that's right, or a reporting glitch?
Nicholas Merrill fought this battle before.
His talk at 27C3 is very, very interesting and deserves to be more widely known. In particular, watch and listen to his explanations of how carefully he has to choose his words - right down to using "it" for the government person he has to deal with (since giving away "its" gendor could get him 10 years in jail).
Someone mod this up; we don't want to make it harder for real terrorists to be caught - the problem is the use of 'terrorism' as a justification for attacking all sorts of other things (for greed, power and profit)
And next time some random .gov or .mil website gets hacked, it'll be taken as "vindication" and proof of the correctness of his point of view.
The US government closing all its Embassies seems less about an actual threat than about keeping the NSA jackboot on top of us all.
Especially those of us who are kicking up a fuss.
51st State of America - 1986 song by New Model Army
In the UK, I was driving 4 engineers from Pakistan back to the airport (they'd come over for a training course) , we got pulled over by cops with guns - which is pretty damn rare in the UK.
I did let them search the car, and even let their dog slobber over the luggage (hey, there was a flight to catch, and men in black with guns at the ready). Afterwards they handed me a form to sign saying I'd willingly agreed to being stopped. About that point, I realised I'd been a bit slow on the uptake, and about the only bit I feel good about is refusing to sign the form.
...no need to go to any further degrees, as it's not just one subject (i.e. everyone, not just KB) the birthday paradox means they get 100% coverage.
Exactly; the issue is the "kept in check" part isn't working these days.
In case it wasn't totally, blindingly obvious, the only reason for the "aiding the enemy" charge was so they could "lose" that one - and so have the media report "Bradley Manning not guilty of most serious charge".
...not forgetting the monthly reboot.
You may laugh, but some of Geller's supporters claimed Randi was the worst of the worst, because he (Randi) really *was* using psychic powers to do the magic even while claiming to be only using tricks and illusions.
Interestingly if you google for 'porn', all the top hits (and most of the first page) is about Cameron's Crackdown. Presumably if the filters were on, these results would have been blocked.
Nicholas Merrill stood up to this before, and even gave a talk at 27C3 about it. It's seriously worth watching .
Favourite quote? Paraphrased somewhat: "If I say something wrong about the gag order, I go to jail or 10 years; if those in power get it wrong in front of congress, they just say sorry."
How about looking at universities, and specifically fields where there is a lot of good to be done but aren't 'natural' homes for programmers? e.g. Life Sciences, agriculture, biology etc.
Separately, there are all the @home projects, which can always use programmers (and do occasionally recruit from amongst their contributors).