Sorry, but why is a device that constantly can recieve and respond to a receive this email signal any safer than a device that does the same for a phone call?
Totally, utterly wrong. I'm not going to explain it, because you're obviously too self-righteous. Go ask your year 10 science teacher.
News flash: Your year 10 science teach was lying to you.
Just did a bit of digging on wikipedia to confirm the lectures I failed to attend while on my Physics degree:)
There are 4 fundamental forces as follows: Electromagnetic, Strong, Weak and Gravity.
Not sure what this electrostatic force everyone keeps going on about but it is not something I have heard of. Your separation of electromagnetism into separate forces is also incorrect though.
As to deflector shields, before you can discount it entirely you have to decide what you are discounting. What happens to a particle that comes into contact with the field? Is it vaporised or deflected (ie - repelled, anti gravity)
I am not saying they are possible, I am saying they are impossible. What I am saying is that the layman's (ie - you) knowledge of physics is so far away from where modern physics research is so it has become impossible to speculate what is possible from a laymans perspective.
When I studied physics to degree level I was told that the previous years classes were junk so many times I found it frustrating. In the case of Quantum Mechanics and Special Relativity were are getting conflicting views that were only an hour or so apart.
The reason I mentioned gravity above is that it is the fundamental force we experience every day, but are unable to model accurately for more than two bodies of approximately the same mass. In my mind that means we don't know enough about it to discount antigravity being just around the corner. Surely that could be used to produce a deflector shield of some kind although it would be very different to ones we see in the movies as it would act over greater distances and its effects would be far more gradual.
There is a difference between the hole you posted and the one that is being discussed though, a very big difference. The security hole in the Kernel that Ubuntu fixed required local access to the machine in question, the exchange bug could be exploited by sending the server an email so not access what so ever was required.
Privilege escalation vulnerabilities are generally considered to be of a lower priority to fix and not as severe as you must have modicum of trust in order to give someone a shell account. No trust is required to send someone an email.
Pricing is not that bad. I am posting this from a mobile phone hooked up to my laptop. I pay £15 per month for a mobile with 200 minutes and 300 texts. I then pay £7.50 per month on top for unlimited data. This is pretty reasonable in my book.
Ok, the ping is pretty bad but I cant complain about the price. I think they may cap my usage but I have never hit the cap so it does not make any practical difference. I have certainly used upwards of 2Gb in a month so it is fine for casual browsing. I have not tried bit torrent or any monster downloads but at least I do quite happily let windows update hammer my phone on patch Tuesday. I also quite happily browse on train journeys like this and not care about being charged.
I recently carried a 3 1/2 inch locking pen knife onto an airplane. I forgot it was in my hand luggage and didnt notice until I got to the other end of my international journey and my friend asked me for a bottle opener. When I produced it he immediately flipped out and went mad at me as he saw the bag I produced it from. He was scared that it would have screwed up our climbing holiday.
I had sharpened the knife just before we travelled so it would cut through 10mm weather proof climbing rope should that have ever been necessary. A knife that sharp that also locks out (will not fold up on your hand if used in a stabbing motion) is certainly an offensive weapon since it would likely go through clothing, skin then vein like butter. Anyone who has ever tried cutting modern dynamic climbing rope will probably know it is pretty tough to cut. Should you ever be in a position where it is him or both of you, you want the knife to work on the first attempt since you may not get a second.
I am guessing this was not noticed since I am white, middle aged and it was traveling in the same bag as my laptop. I do however have a past history of being arrested for stupid political disobedience. On my return journey I was asked to remove my laptop from its bag before it went through the scanner but I had learnt my lesson anyway, the knife was in the hold with the rest of my climbing gear.
If anyone is interested, we were going to climb in a place called Argentiere in France, on the lower slopes of Mont Blanc. A truly wonderful place to go climbing with many different types of rock, all within easy reach of the village. I am very much looking forward to going again this May.
I consider myself a member of the English left. I am vastly more leftwing than the current Labour government we have.
I do not blame the US for the current recession. I blame the bankers who lent money they did not have and our own government for letting us become to dependant on the financial services industry. I think almost everyone I talk to feels pretty similar.
I certainly have not heard anyone blaming the US as you were in recession long before us.
As for Europe going to war with the US that is just pie in the sky fantasy of some nutter american. There is no way anyone in Europe would support such a war. We have had too many wars on our own shores. After world war two we had to rebuild almost every city to some extent, we have no desire to repeat this. Another war of the scale the original poster talked about would almost certainly degenerate into a nuclear conflict. Only someone who had never seen their own country levelled would even consider such a conflict ever starting, so unless the US choose to invade us its not going to happen. The US is unlikely to ever invade since despite the occasional disagreement, we are actually on pretty good terms.
In this case it is probably just Berlesconi (A known criminal) trying to get utube to block all italian IP's from the site. He owns several media companies who are probably fed up of getting their content posted to utube.
While you may have several valid points about Americans these can also be applied to Italy. The fact is that thanks to the internet we now have to think in much more global terms, but this also applies to our own laws. Can every company be expected to be familiar with every countries laws? Especially when certain countries pass laws at will to benefit certain home companies.
It may also be that there is no case to answer but the Italian police have acted purely on a whim of their President. Bear in mind that a few years ago this president changed the laws of Italian accountancy to keep his worthless corrupt arse out of prison.
I find it very difficult to believe that this case a simple case of Google disregarding privacy laws. There are a great many media companies aligning them selves against google under the privacy flag simply because they are scaring them shitless.
That shit you link to in your sig is utter racism.
Lumping all Arabs in as one group and making them liable for the crimes of a few is no better than saying all Caucasians are responsible for Hitlers crimes. I am a Caucasian, but I have Jewish and Arabic friends, none of whom feel that murder is acceptable based on the race of another.
If you want to be taken seriously go and look up what racism is.
No, it is a commitment to democracy. If I cannot convince the majority that my way is right then I will agree to abide by their decision. Anything else is a little too close to dictatorship for my liking.
If you try and force my hand with the threat of any kind of violence it will most likely have the opposite effect. I am extremely stubborn.
Do you actually disagree with this? Get a brain for gods sake.
Of course your employer can monitor your work emails. In most countries they are liable for anything you say in those emails if they are work related. Since there is no way of telling if it is not work related they have to monitor everything, especially when you consider how wide the definition of work related could be.
Also, if it is not work related, then why the hell are you posting it at work using their equipment during the hours they are paying you for. If you want to send a private personal email, use your home PC in your own time.
And my final thought is regard to Virus checking. Could scanning you mail for viruses be considered a form of monitoring? Surely scanning your outgoing emails at the server for viruses then logging whoever sends a virus so the IT staff can go and clean their PC's could be considered an invasion of privacy? The alternative though is that the company could be sued for infecting another companies IT systems.
The fact that the person in question had been given a position of trust without being correctly vetted proved that the site has it flaws. Not in method but in leadership, pure and simple. The system of allowing anonymous edits is great, but the editors who have positions of power within the site must be vetted thoroughly and above all, academically qualified to decide upon the matters they do. Peer review means scientific peers, not some spotty kid studying the subject for the first time at grade school.
Maybe the Encyclopedia Britanica will get this right where Wikipedia has failed.
I would just like to point out that if you actually read the full article you will discover that Indymedia pulled the offending post themselves. They knew it was illegal and not something they wanted on their site.
This comes down to the fact that they allow people to post anonymously and do not log their IP address. The police have seized a single server to find out who posted the article.
Everyone here probably agrees that posting personal information about a judge is a pretty stupid thing to do. But should people have the right to post anonymously? I personally think people should have the courage to stand behind their convictions. If you do something illegal, you should be able to stand up and say why you did it in such a manner that a jury of your peers would understand.
I have always drawn the line however at violence against people. If you cannot convince them by peaceful means then trying to force your opinions on them is no better than them forcing their opinions on you.
The question remains though, should the police be able to wave a magic wand and disappear your right to be anonymous without even asking a judge for a warrant?
Would we all be so quick to condemn someone who posted information about scientologies weird rituals in the same way. They are known to have extensive contacts within the British police judging by the boy who was arrested for calling them a cult on a placard outside one of their churches. Should the police in this hypothetical example be able to turn up and find out who posted the information without ever going near the inside of a courtroom just because a senior officer happens to be a scientologist so will sign the warrant.
In Britain search warrants are no longer signed by a Judge, they are signed by a senior officer of the law, effectively rendering them a waste of time. The police just turn up without one, then say they can get one at the drop of hat if need be as it is largely true.
Actually Intel lobbied to get this changed as it was their crap onboard notebook graphics that were the issue. A lot of hardware makers were pissed off as it meant they sold far less of their premium notebooks than they were predicting so had a surplus they had to sell cheap.
Also remember that they came here for a reason, quite often it was more money. If they have savings it is quite possible they will go further in the country they came from. This is especially true if they have been sending money home to their families as is quite often the case. You go home to a warm welcome and see the place and people you have been missing while abroad.
If all you could get was low skilled work of the kind that illegal immigrants are stuck with why stay. You will probably have to vastly change your life style anyway as you could not afford the same rent and outgoings on below minimum wage as you could while doing a highly skilled job that got you an H1B in the first place.
No, most illegals overstay student visas or just jump the non existent fences. They are the people willing to clean your pool for a pittance, not they guy who has been working as an architect, software developer, engineer, doctor or accountant.
This reply is to lots of people who posted responses but u get it.
When I said affects hundred of miles I meant in terms of nuclear fallout. This drifts according to prevaling winds so can easily go across continents. Nuclear fallout from Chernobyl was detected in rain falling on Northern Europe. It easily travelled 600 miles in the stratosphere then came back down to earth. The other problem with nuking Iran would be contaminating the oil under that part or the world that we desperately need.
The last time nuclear weapons were used hardly anybody had them. Now loads of countries have them so if someone started using them we may find quite few flying around as other countries follow our example and try and get rid of their enemies too. Think Pakistan and India, for starters.
The nuclear toys need to stay in the box. They are a weapon of last resort, not convenience.
ideally: the post the videos in an ogg container, encode it with open standard codecs, and make the full content avilable on bittorrent (also an open standard with open source implementations)
Congratulations, you just made the content inaccessible to about 80% of your target market. All of the technologies you list require extra software installed to be able to use. Now while you may think nothing of installing ogg player, bittorrent and everything else for the majority of the population that is just too complicated.
I have to spend one day per week on frontline telephone support of people doing basic PC training (ECDL & ICDL). Most of these cretins cant even send an email saying what there problem is. You try telling em to grab a screent shot using ALT-PrintScreen and they still can then work out how to paste it into a word document.
Asking most people to install several pieces of software and a codec pack is just too much work. You also need to remember that government employees are not allowed to have BitTorrent software installed on their work PC's and they might want to look at whitehouse site for work reasons.
The fact is that to get the largest market utube is king in terms of infrastructure and accessibility. You go to the site and the videos just play, simple.
Sending some plutonium to Iran is something that numerous loyal Americans could live with. They want nuclear energy. We can give it to them.
But we need to be very careful not to miss, Russia is right next door.
This is the big problem with nuking anywhere. The fallout drifts and will affect friendly countries right next door. One of the reasons we were scared about nuclear weapons based in Cuba is that if we nuked them to stop a launch we would also be nuking ourselves. This is the big problem with weapons that have a blast radius large enough to level a city and cause poisons to rain down over hundreds of miles.
In fact, any attempt to launch nuclear weapons at Iran would probably set off the Russian early warning systems and they would just retaliate before our missiles hit their targets. The really worrying thing is that this would also probably true if Israel launched a nuclear strike on Iran. Since we throw billions of dollars in military aid to Israel a large number of people view us as culpable for their military actions.
Most people are scared of things they do not understand. So hide everything they dont understand and you have a winner. That is why windows is successful.
One of my work colleagues was in the states at Christmas visiting family. As far as he is concerned most mid range cars made for the US market are utter rubbish.
He put it down to the fact that over there your roads are very different. You have an awful lot of straight lines and much less traffic due to increased road capacity. He also pointed out that since you have loads cheaper Gas you will quite happily buy large engined monsters that take ages to reach a reasonable speed.
We have cluttered roads, incessant traffic calming measures and stupidly high Petrol (translation = Gas) prices. This gives us more efficient, faster accelerating and more comfortable cars (we have to site in them while stationary for long periods).
if the feds require multi-pass wipes for non-classified data and media destruction for classified data, why should I settle for anything less?
Because the feds have to worry about a highly determined foreign power somehoe getting hold of their discarded disks. You do not. If the feds want something from you, they will just drag your arse into custody and ask you for it very persuasive terms.
Most likely they would threaten you with making your life hell without actually throwing you in prison. If you are a well educated and well paid member of the united states they can just set the IRS on you and freeze all your funds and assets. You might eventually get access to your money again without complying, but in the mean time how do you feed your family? Alternatively they could put some quiet pressure on the people you work for. Would your boss be as resistant to government pressure if terrorism was mentioned and some tenuous link suggested. Would your wife be as understanding if it was suggested you had an affair with some very well produced fake photos? Would you be able to resist if some stunningly beautiful woman propositioned you subtly long before you knew you were a target? Not all the above would apply to you, but everyone has an Achilles Heel and if anyone can find yours it is the government.
Personally I would rather they recovered the data quietly off my harddisk without getting me involved as some of the above may involve a certain amount of preparing the ground they would do before asking me for a thing. That preparation may stay with you forever. A much better idea is to appear at first glance as a thoroughly reasonable, law abiding, patriotic citizen who would happily surrender any information they were asked for.
If you want to keep something safe, just encrypt it with a nice government friendly encryption algorithm that they can break in a week or two. Then simply wipe the disk, and drop it in a bucket of water and bleach overnight before you throw it away. This will not stop an electron microscope but will render it pretty much useless to most casual nosy people / criminals. If your really paranoid, drill a hole in the case first.
Just because they're n00bs (and not necessarily programmers) doesn't mean they can't be useful in reporting bugs, testing new features, amending documentation, suggesting UI improvements and so on.
I am a programmer and even I never bother with bug reports any more, especially with regard to usability enhancements. All that ever happens is some dev looks at it from a technical developer perspective and marks it INVALID-WONTFIX.
The reason Ubuntu has so many users is that the developers get given stuff to fix, not comment on why they think it is not a bug. Quite often software developers are not able to put themselves in the shoes of a user and see how inconvenient or annoying certain "features" are. In these circumstances it takes a senior manager of type to come in and say: "We pay you, go fix this." or to do a cost benefit analysis on forking the project simply to get an issue resolved.
The only example I can think of of the top of my head at work is the security warning that used to come up every time I double clicked on a file with the extension.asf and be told that I could not double click to open those files as they were actually of type.wmv. Clearly this was never a useful security warning as the two filetypes are interchangeable. Even if it was useful initially after a year or two everyone simply started ignoring those warnings entirely.
Linux will only succeed on the desktop if the people who create it learn to listen to users criticisms with a more open ear.
As someone who voted for Obama, I sure hope to hell if he does a tenth of the illegal crap Bush seems to have, he is vindictively hounded out of office a lot sooner than 4 years from now.
Don't worry, he know he would not even last that long. Whether something is legal or not at that level is ultimately decided by the Supreme Court. Seven of the current justices of the court were appointed by Republican presidents, while two were appointed by a Democratic president. I know they are not supposed to allow their political beliefs to influence their decisions but in practice this is very tricky to stick to even with the best intentions.
Then there will also be times when the stakes are so high that they flagrantly ignore the law and choose the verdict with the best political outcome. The first time Bush was elected the Supreme Court were always going to choose the best outcome for Bush as there were several judges who wanted to retire. They had help off on retirement as the current president got to pick their replacements.
The Supreme Court has always had more judges appointed by Republican presidents than Democrat presidents in recent history and certain elements of the Republican Party felt it was very important it remained this way. This gives the Republican Party the final say in whether a new law is constitutional and hence acts as a check against a democrat president. Although this would only be used in the rarest of cases it still remains that it could be used in this manner should a particular law be deeply unpopular with the Republican Party.
I used to work as a childrens entertainer in shopping centres (malls) and for schools and youth clubs.
Young kids were the easiest to deal with. They are young and naive and are simply amused by me making them balloon animals and doing a bit of juggling. They were great and seeing the smile I could put on their previously bored face as their parents dragged them around loads of shops they were not in the least bit interested in was rewarding beyond belief. The parents were usually over the moon with me as well as I gave them a moments peace.
The problem was the older bored teenagers. They were usually too old too be amused by anything I could do as it was not considered cool. The usually had no money and no entertainment suited for their age group and no parental supervision at the time. In dealing with them however you had to be very careful, however disruptive they would try and become it is very hard for someone dressed as clown to suddenly command respect.
Then there was the problem of the fact that they watch the news and see all this hype about paedophiles and such. They learn that there are certain things they can shout that will instantly make them the centre of attention and get the clown who was trying to get them to go away so he could do his job in some serious trouble.
The first time this happened to me I instantly changed my mind about living in a surveillance society. I was more than happy the entire incident was captured on CCTV even though the kids in question were known to the shopping centre security as being trouble makers. This was a major factor in me choosing a different career path.
My point is that kids see all this hype too and it influences the way they think and deal with situations.
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Sorry, but why is a device that constantly can recieve and respond to a receive this email signal any safer than a device that does the same for a phone call?
Totally, utterly wrong. I'm not going to explain it, because you're obviously too self-righteous. Go ask your year 10 science teacher.
News flash: Your year 10 science teach was lying to you.
Just did a bit of digging on wikipedia to confirm the lectures I failed to attend while on my Physics degree :)
There are 4 fundamental forces as follows: Electromagnetic, Strong, Weak and Gravity.
Not sure what this electrostatic force everyone keeps going on about but it is not something I have heard of. Your separation of electromagnetism into separate forces is also incorrect though.
As to deflector shields, before you can discount it entirely you have to decide what you are discounting. What happens to a particle that comes into contact with the field? Is it vaporised or deflected (ie - repelled, anti gravity)
I am not saying they are possible, I am saying they are impossible. What I am saying is that the layman's (ie - you) knowledge of physics is so far away from where modern physics research is so it has become impossible to speculate what is possible from a laymans perspective.
When I studied physics to degree level I was told that the previous years classes were junk so many times I found it frustrating. In the case of Quantum Mechanics and Special Relativity were are getting conflicting views that were only an hour or so apart.
The reason I mentioned gravity above is that it is the fundamental force we experience every day, but are unable to model accurately for more than two bodies of approximately the same mass. In my mind that means we don't know enough about it to discount antigravity being just around the corner. Surely that could be used to produce a deflector shield of some kind although it would be very different to ones we see in the movies as it would act over greater distances and its effects would be far more gradual.
There is a difference between the hole you posted and the one that is being discussed though, a very big difference.
The security hole in the Kernel that Ubuntu fixed required local access to the machine in question, the exchange bug could be exploited by sending the server an email so not access what so ever was required.
Privilege escalation vulnerabilities are generally considered to be of a lower priority to fix and not as severe as you must have modicum of trust in order to give someone a shell account. No trust is required to send someone an email.
Pricing is not that bad. I am posting this from a mobile phone hooked up to my laptop. I pay £15 per month for a mobile with 200 minutes and 300 texts. I then pay £7.50 per month on top for unlimited data. This is pretty reasonable in my book.
I am currently on a train moving between London and Manchester at 100+ miles per hour and get the following:
http://www.speedtest.net/result/404516397.png
Ok, the ping is pretty bad but I cant complain about the price. I think they may cap my usage but I have never hit the cap so it does not make any practical difference. I have certainly used upwards of 2Gb in a month so it is fine for casual browsing. I have not tried bit torrent or any monster downloads but at least I do quite happily let windows update hammer my phone on patch Tuesday. I also quite happily browse on train journeys like this and not care about being charged.
I have even considered signing up to a dedicated mobile broadband account at £30 per month just for an internet dongle for the convenience and fact that they throw in a free laptop:
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/editorial/get_connected_free_laptops/?int=home_nav
All this seems pretty reasonable to me.
Roaming charges are a good point but I don't have time to go into that now, I am just about to arrive in Manchester :)
I recently carried a 3 1/2 inch locking pen knife onto an airplane. I forgot it was in my hand luggage and didnt notice until I got to the other end of my international journey and my friend asked me for a bottle opener. When I produced it he immediately flipped out and went mad at me as he saw the bag I produced it from. He was scared that it would have screwed up our climbing holiday.
I had sharpened the knife just before we travelled so it would cut through 10mm weather proof climbing rope should that have ever been necessary. A knife that sharp that also locks out (will not fold up on your hand if used in a stabbing motion) is certainly an offensive weapon since it would likely go through clothing, skin then vein like butter. Anyone who has ever tried cutting modern dynamic climbing rope will probably know it is pretty tough to cut. Should you ever be in a position where it is him or both of you, you want the knife to work on the first attempt since you may not get a second.
I am guessing this was not noticed since I am white, middle aged and it was traveling in the same bag as my laptop. I do however have a past history of being arrested for stupid political disobedience. On my return journey I was asked to remove my laptop from its bag before it went through the scanner but I had learnt my lesson anyway, the knife was in the hold with the rest of my climbing gear.
If anyone is interested, we were going to climb in a place called Argentiere in France, on the lower slopes of Mont Blanc. A truly wonderful place to go climbing with many different types of rock, all within easy reach of the village. I am very much looking forward to going again this May.
I consider myself a member of the English left. I am vastly more leftwing than the current Labour government we have.
I do not blame the US for the current recession. I blame the bankers who lent money they did not have and our own government for letting us become to dependant on the financial services industry. I think almost everyone I talk to feels pretty similar.
I certainly have not heard anyone blaming the US as you were in recession long before us.
As for Europe going to war with the US that is just pie in the sky fantasy of some nutter american. There is no way anyone in Europe would support such a war. We have had too many wars on our own shores. After world war two we had to rebuild almost every city to some extent, we have no desire to repeat this. Another war of the scale the original poster talked about would almost certainly degenerate into a nuclear conflict. Only someone who had never seen their own country levelled would even consider such a conflict ever starting, so unless the US choose to invade us its not going to happen. The US is unlikely to ever invade since despite the occasional disagreement, we are actually on pretty good terms.
In this case it is probably just Berlesconi (A known criminal) trying to get utube to block all italian IP's from the site. He owns several media companies who are probably fed up of getting their content posted to utube.
While you may have several valid points about Americans these can also be applied to Italy. The fact is that thanks to the internet we now have to think in much more global terms, but this also applies to our own laws. Can every company be expected to be familiar with every countries laws? Especially when certain countries pass laws at will to benefit certain home companies.
It may also be that there is no case to answer but the Italian police have acted purely on a whim of their President. Bear in mind that a few years ago this president changed the laws of Italian accountancy to keep his worthless corrupt arse out of prison.
I find it very difficult to believe that this case a simple case of Google disregarding privacy laws. There are a great many media companies aligning them selves against google under the privacy flag simply because they are scaring them shitless.
That shit you link to in your sig is utter racism.
Lumping all Arabs in as one group and making them liable for the crimes of a few is no better than saying all Caucasians are responsible for Hitlers crimes. I am a Caucasian, but I have Jewish and Arabic friends, none of whom feel that murder is acceptable based on the race of another.
If you want to be taken seriously go and look up what racism is.
No, it is a commitment to democracy. If I cannot convince the majority that my way is right then I will agree to abide by their decision. Anything else is a little too close to dictatorship for my liking.
If you try and force my hand with the threat of any kind of violence it will most likely have the opposite effect. I am extremely stubborn.
Do you actually disagree with this? Get a brain for gods sake.
Of course your employer can monitor your work emails. In most countries they are liable for anything you say in those emails if they are work related. Since there is no way of telling if it is not work related they have to monitor everything, especially when you consider how wide the definition of work related could be.
Also, if it is not work related, then why the hell are you posting it at work using their equipment during the hours they are paying you for. If you want to send a private personal email, use your home PC in your own time.
And my final thought is regard to Virus checking. Could scanning you mail for viruses be considered a form of monitoring? Surely scanning your outgoing emails at the server for viruses then logging whoever sends a virus so the IT staff can go and clean their PC's could be considered an invasion of privacy? The alternative though is that the company could be sued for infecting another companies IT systems.
Way to completely miss my point.
My point is that they took away a very valuable piece of equipment without any sort of judicial oversight.
I lost a lot of faith in the wikipedia editors and Jimmy Wales himself when he stood by someone who was lieing about his academic credentials.
http://sethf.com/infothought/blog/archives/001158.html
The fact that the person in question had been given a position of trust without being correctly vetted proved that the site has it flaws. Not in method but in leadership, pure and simple. The system of allowing anonymous edits is great, but the editors who have positions of power within the site must be vetted thoroughly and above all, academically qualified to decide upon the matters they do. Peer review means scientific peers, not some spotty kid studying the subject for the first time at grade school.
Maybe the Encyclopedia Britanica will get this right where Wikipedia has failed.
I would just like to point out that if you actually read the full article you will discover that Indymedia pulled the offending post themselves. They knew it was illegal and not something they wanted on their site.
This comes down to the fact that they allow people to post anonymously and do not log their IP address. The police have seized a single server to find out who posted the article.
Everyone here probably agrees that posting personal information about a judge is a pretty stupid thing to do. But should people have the right to post anonymously? I personally think people should have the courage to stand behind their convictions. If you do something illegal, you should be able to stand up and say why you did it in such a manner that a jury of your peers would understand.
I have always drawn the line however at violence against people. If you cannot convince them by peaceful means then trying to force your opinions on them is no better than them forcing their opinions on you.
The question remains though, should the police be able to wave a magic wand and disappear your right to be anonymous without even asking a judge for a warrant?
Would we all be so quick to condemn someone who posted information about scientologies weird rituals in the same way. They are known to have extensive contacts within the British police judging by the boy who was arrested for calling them a cult on a placard outside one of their churches. Should the police in this hypothetical example be able to turn up and find out who posted the information without ever going near the inside of a courtroom just because a senior officer happens to be a scientologist so will sign the warrant.
In Britain search warrants are no longer signed by a Judge, they are signed by a senior officer of the law, effectively rendering them a waste of time. The police just turn up without one, then say they can get one at the drop of hat if need be as it is largely true.
Actually Intel lobbied to get this changed as it was their crap onboard notebook graphics that were the issue. A lot of hardware makers were pissed off as it meant they sold far less of their premium notebooks than they were predicting so had a surplus they had to sell cheap.
Also remember that they came here for a reason, quite often it was more money. If they have savings it is quite possible they will go further in the country they came from. This is especially true if they have been sending money home to their families as is quite often the case. You go home to a warm welcome and see the place and people you have been missing while abroad.
If all you could get was low skilled work of the kind that illegal immigrants are stuck with why stay. You will probably have to vastly change your life style anyway as you could not afford the same rent and outgoings on below minimum wage as you could while doing a highly skilled job that got you an H1B in the first place.
No, most illegals overstay student visas or just jump the non existent fences. They are the people willing to clean your pool for a pittance, not they guy who has been working as an architect, software developer, engineer, doctor or accountant.
This reply is to lots of people who posted responses but u get it.
When I said affects hundred of miles I meant in terms of nuclear fallout. This drifts according to prevaling winds so can easily go across continents. Nuclear fallout from Chernobyl was detected in rain falling on Northern Europe. It easily travelled 600 miles in the stratosphere then came back down to earth. The other problem with nuking Iran would be contaminating the oil under that part or the world that we desperately need.
The last time nuclear weapons were used hardly anybody had them. Now loads of countries have them so if someone started using them we may find quite few flying around as other countries follow our example and try and get rid of their enemies too. Think Pakistan and India, for starters.
The nuclear toys need to stay in the box. They are a weapon of last resort, not convenience.
ideally: the post the videos in an ogg container, encode it with open standard codecs, and make the full content avilable on bittorrent (also an open standard with open source implementations)
Congratulations, you just made the content inaccessible to about 80% of your target market. All of the technologies you list require extra software installed to be able to use. Now while you may think nothing of installing ogg player, bittorrent and everything else for the majority of the population that is just too complicated.
I have to spend one day per week on frontline telephone support of people doing basic PC training (ECDL & ICDL). Most of these cretins cant even send an email saying what there problem is. You try telling em to grab a screent shot using ALT-PrintScreen and they still can then work out how to paste it into a word document.
Asking most people to install several pieces of software and a codec pack is just too much work. You also need to remember that government employees are not allowed to have BitTorrent software installed on their work PC's and they might want to look at whitehouse site for work reasons.
The fact is that to get the largest market utube is king in terms of infrastructure and accessibility. You go to the site and the videos just play, simple.
Sending some plutonium to Iran is something that numerous loyal Americans could live with. They want nuclear energy. We can give it to them.
But we need to be very careful not to miss, Russia is right next door.
This is the big problem with nuking anywhere. The fallout drifts and will affect friendly countries right next door. One of the reasons we were scared about nuclear weapons based in Cuba is that if we nuked them to stop a launch we would also be nuking ourselves. This is the big problem with weapons that have a blast radius large enough to level a city and cause poisons to rain down over hundreds of miles.
In fact, any attempt to launch nuclear weapons at Iran would probably set off the Russian early warning systems and they would just retaliate before our missiles hit their targets. The really worrying thing is that this would also probably true if Israel launched a nuclear strike on Iran. Since we throw billions of dollars in military aid to Israel a large number of people view us as culpable for their military actions.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/U.S._Assistance_to_Israel1.html
Most people are scared of things they do not understand. So hide everything they dont understand and you have a winner. That is why windows is successful.
One of my work colleagues was in the states at Christmas visiting family. As far as he is concerned most mid range cars made for the US market are utter rubbish.
He put it down to the fact that over there your roads are very different. You have an awful lot of straight lines and much less traffic due to increased road capacity. He also pointed out that since you have loads cheaper Gas you will quite happily buy large engined monsters that take ages to reach a reasonable speed.
We have cluttered roads, incessant traffic calming measures and stupidly high Petrol (translation = Gas) prices. This gives us more efficient, faster accelerating and more comfortable cars (we have to site in them while stationary for long periods).
if the feds require multi-pass wipes for non-classified data and media destruction for classified data, why should I settle for anything less?
Because the feds have to worry about a highly determined foreign power somehoe getting hold of their discarded disks. You do not. If the feds want something from you, they will just drag your arse into custody and ask you for it very persuasive terms.
Most likely they would threaten you with making your life hell without actually throwing you in prison. If you are a well educated and well paid member of the united states they can just set the IRS on you and freeze all your funds and assets. You might eventually get access to your money again without complying, but in the mean time how do you feed your family? Alternatively they could put some quiet pressure on the people you work for. Would your boss be as resistant to government pressure if terrorism was mentioned and some tenuous link suggested. Would your wife be as understanding if it was suggested you had an affair with some very well produced fake photos? Would you be able to resist if some stunningly beautiful woman propositioned you subtly long before you knew you were a target? Not all the above would apply to you, but everyone has an Achilles Heel and if anyone can find yours it is the government.
Personally I would rather they recovered the data quietly off my harddisk without getting me involved as some of the above may involve a certain amount of preparing the ground they would do before asking me for a thing. That preparation may stay with you forever. A much better idea is to appear at first glance as a thoroughly reasonable, law abiding, patriotic citizen who would happily surrender any information they were asked for.
If you want to keep something safe, just encrypt it with a nice government friendly encryption algorithm that they can break in a week or two. Then simply wipe the disk, and drop it in a bucket of water and bleach overnight before you throw it away. This will not stop an electron microscope but will render it pretty much useless to most casual nosy people / criminals. If your really paranoid, drill a hole in the case first.
Just because they're n00bs (and not necessarily programmers) doesn't mean they can't be useful in reporting bugs, testing new features, amending documentation, suggesting UI improvements and so on.
I am a programmer and even I never bother with bug reports any more, especially with regard to usability enhancements. All that ever happens is some dev looks at it from a technical developer perspective and marks it INVALID-WONTFIX.
The reason Ubuntu has so many users is that the developers get given stuff to fix, not comment on why they think it is not a bug. Quite often software developers are not able to put themselves in the shoes of a user and see how inconvenient or annoying certain "features" are. In these circumstances it takes a senior manager of type to come in and say: "We pay you, go fix this." or to do a cost benefit analysis on forking the project simply to get an issue resolved.
The only example I can think of of the top of my head at work is the security warning that used to come up every time I double clicked on a file with the extension .asf and be told that I could not double click to open those files as they were actually of type .wmv. Clearly this was never a useful security warning as the two filetypes are interchangeable. Even if it was useful initially after a year or two everyone simply started ignoring those warnings entirely.
Linux will only succeed on the desktop if the people who create it learn to listen to users criticisms with a more open ear.
As someone who voted for Obama, I sure hope to hell if he does a tenth of the illegal crap Bush seems to have, he is vindictively hounded out of office a lot sooner than 4 years from now.
Don't worry, he know he would not even last that long. Whether something is legal or not at that level is ultimately decided by the Supreme Court. Seven of the current justices of the court were appointed by Republican presidents, while two were appointed by a Democratic president. I know they are not supposed to allow their political beliefs to influence their decisions but in practice this is very tricky to stick to even with the best intentions.
Then there will also be times when the stakes are so high that they flagrantly ignore the law and choose the verdict with the best political outcome. The first time Bush was elected the Supreme Court were always going to choose the best outcome for Bush as there were several judges who wanted to retire. They had help off on retirement as the current president got to pick their replacements.
The Supreme Court has always had more judges appointed by Republican presidents than Democrat presidents in recent history and certain elements of the Republican Party felt it was very important it remained this way. This gives the Republican Party the final say in whether a new law is constitutional and hence acts as a check against a democrat president. Although this would only be used in the rarest of cases it still remains that it could be used in this manner should a particular law be deeply unpopular with the Republican Party.
I used to work as a childrens entertainer in shopping centres (malls) and for schools and youth clubs.
Young kids were the easiest to deal with. They are young and naive and are simply amused by me making them balloon animals and doing a bit of juggling. They were great and seeing the smile I could put on their previously bored face as their parents dragged them around loads of shops they were not in the least bit interested in was rewarding beyond belief. The parents were usually over the moon with me as well as I gave them a moments peace.
The problem was the older bored teenagers. They were usually too old too be amused by anything I could do as it was not considered cool. The usually had no money and no entertainment suited for their age group and no parental supervision at the time. In dealing with them however you had to be very careful, however disruptive they would try and become it is very hard for someone dressed as clown to suddenly command respect.
Then there was the problem of the fact that they watch the news and see all this hype about paedophiles and such. They learn that there are certain things they can shout that will instantly make them the centre of attention and get the clown who was trying to get them to go away so he could do his job in some serious trouble.
The first time this happened to me I instantly changed my mind about living in a surveillance society. I was more than happy the entire incident was captured on CCTV even though the kids in question were known to the shopping centre security as being trouble makers. This was a major factor in me choosing a different career path.
My point is that kids see all this hype too and it influences the way they think and deal with situations.
hurray slow work day
Be careful, too many slow work days and you might find yourself with all the googling time you ever needed and then some.