Technology allows us to share both sides with equality. Having a higher standard puts that side at a big disadvantage.
It only puts you at a disadvantage when what you are trying to do isn't what you say you're trying to do.
If the U.S. military was interested in making the countries it invades better by it's citizens standards, it would be easier for it to engage in reasoned discourse, communicate with the populace, send messengers, avoid having enemies spawned by hatred, etc. If it set up and followed some guidelines.
Currently they have no rules, my breath gets caught in my throat when I go through a border checkpoint to the U.S., and I haven't DONE anything.
If you aren't clear about your morality then any attempt to spread your ideology is compromised. Fear leaks into the system, and fear leads not just to anger but to hopelessness and insanity.
The U.S. needs to face the fact that no one will sign a new Geneva convention giving them the powers they seem to think they have. They've been operating outside of international law so long no one trusts them. There have been no efforts to put in place new conventions on warfare though the world DESPERATELY needs them, largely because the rest of the world doesn't trust the U.S. to comply.
Last I checked, Microsoft, Apple, Android / Google were all U.S. owned companies and we're finding more and more that they have to do what their government says.
At least with communists you know that the government is filtering/monitoring/altering and that makes the U.S. just as bad.
There's a lot of laws going in really fast that are meant to be end game laws. For example SOPA - We need some way to control an internet (notice once it's controlled it's a seperate internet). DMCA - Information can't go free. We'll distract from the myriad free or sponsored media as long as we need to, no one is getting together for anything BUT MONEY! Wall Street Bailout - You were insanely greedy. But at least you were doing it for money. The eternal measure of a man's worth!
Note, the above were not tinfoil hat: those are scarier.
voip apps as well at any time by the way. Do you really think this? VOIP is a lot more like email than traditional phone service. So far none of the major email companies have gone belly up.
That's the problem, it's so cheap and easy it seems like magical beans. The fact that it's accessible from anywhere (like email, not like mail, home phone, or roaming phones).
I spoke to a city Councillor about getting them to put in the wiring for public internet access while they put it in for "Major Brand" phone provider. I'm in "Major City" but I got in to see him about it and pointed out it would cost Odd thing is we still don't have "Major Brand" phone service in the subway:)
I agree, keeping some networks anonymous is important. It's vital really. We could all wear the same mask and get together to talk somewhere but that's pretty silly.
Ironically I'm more concerned about the open corporations and governments who monitor my overt internet activity than I am about any of the people or groups monitoring what I would consider covert activity.
So the stuff aimed at the general public scares me the most. Makes me want to "go dark" the most. Sad really.
Agreed, no "cost" wars and drone vs drone war (and likely size cutting) leading to human subjugation (possibly by the winner but no reason it couldn't be collateral damage).
Are such obvious problems. it's rather amazing that these drone programs are proceeding at all.
Is there enough profit in finding a well done government level security abuse than a easy to find one? Think it scales anything like the difficulty?
Plus if Android/iPhone/Windows have backdoors the biggest enemy is virus scanner authors. Synaptec and Norton would probably need to be informed about where the most common data exit point was (random values in http requests/ specific hidden packets, other)... Perhaps the reason no linux distro has become Microsoft sized is because they'd have an internal affairs for their security department.
How sad is it that the open source code donated by so many might be polluted by governments like this.
Well more likely they hire someone smart (or a group of them do) to manage their money well. I still don't see how it being their money instead of 1000 people's money makes a difference in how it is allocated.
You shoulda seen the lawsuits we had back in the day! Check out the RIAA ones... fantastic. DeCSS. SCO. Microsoft's had some great ones. GPL scratch ups. Really the whole Copyleft story is great reading.
The samsung one was pretty hilarious though, especially the "2001 a space odyssey" preexisting prototype evidence:P
They produce 100 missile factories. Then they actually assemble one and write down all the things that it takes to fix it (assuming they can fix the other 99). The issue comes as soon as someone does something clever (like flick a needed switch) without documenting it.
So they end up with 99 useless missile factories and a boxed up one that they don't have perfect documentation for, or staff trained to operate it.
The people in the top.2% have so much power that they probably do more evil (without even noticing!) before breakfast than most psychopaths do all day!
It's totally ridiculous to tap other phones leaving theirs alone!
Plus statistics prove their all insane sociopaths, many have bunkers or remote cottages so when they blow up the world they and they alone can survive!
I'm with you 100% on the doesn't work. They hid some bombs on some unsuspecting people to test the system, 95% got through. It only made the news because one of the people made it home with his:P
Good point, but unlike Liberatrians like Ron Paul they don't have the most powerful country in the world to back up their idealism and naivete. Or prove that they're not that powerful, of course.
I really don't think the GPL has a leg to stand on when it combats other software makers who make add-on's or modifications for compatibility. It will if the crazy government initiatives to protect intellectual property owners pass of course, but as it currently stands that falls under fair use.
The real irony is that if the intellectual property owners get what they want, they'll successfully isolate the true innovators and find themselves on the outside, looking in.
Even Chinese citizens can access open source, the banning of open source the banning of the right to meet in the commons means tyranny plain and simple.
If everyone moved to open source there'd be money to let true tinfoil hatters from around the world set up safeguards to keep information itself free.
Brilliant minds will keep on inventing, they don't need a profit motive (but of course things run more smoothly when there is one, think usability for plebes).
Get a hold on the financial system before we invent everything that needs inventing.
Makes you think of open source and how few abuses it has been applied to. Is it immune to abuse? Probably not but it seems that it's pretty hard to hide abuses in and generally does things that are good in the short term and great in the long term!
Is it underfunded? Of course, it challenges the power elite who are terrified of an efficient transparent economy more than any act of war or violence.
Is is tampered with? Surely. But on the whole it just keeps getting better and better!
A bitcoin has intrinsic value as part of a whole which consists of a (relatively) strong encryption system.
For example I just launched a system whereby you give me a hash value and a copyrighted work: That copyright is transferred with the bitcoin. This removes the need for copyright law overnight. Now Bitcoin has value disproportionate to it's cost. Just because I did that. Right here in this comment. There is no inherent value to anything.
I don't like how gold looks to me it's inherent value is the fun I would get from flinging it at a moron (not unlike yourself). Or the perceived value of someone I can trade it for (Much like the perceived value a soul which I can capitalize on by bringing about a realization of inherent hyprocracy).
I'm a tentative supporter of BTC, I believe in taxation and government run efficiency and need (some things are definitely better provided by the government, crappy civil servants aside). The vehemence of people late to the party (due to ignorance and stupidity) is really starting to piss me off. Do you hate Slashdot because you don't have a #### UID?
You cannot, for example, use a BitCoin to do a certain amount of computer processing
You're wrong... from higher up in the SAME comments no less: www.bitvps.com
In fact this is one of the things BTC is GREAT at! Cloud computing and bitcoins will be such great friends it will be redonkulus... you sir, are an idiot.
Add to that the fact that nerds like bitcoins and nerds run servers and you're just extra super double stupid.
Currently the central bank is NOT issuing more Euro's to save their economy. Meanwhile the U.S. is issuing trillions a year. What's crazy is that the Euro is dropping against the USD, I really can't understand how this can be the case...
The actual amount of money involved is probablly a hell of a lot smaller than the aforementioned theoretical market cap.
Before attacking an international virtual currency it would be a lot cheaper to simply regulate the price... send in a hacker to create a panic (done). Sell coins to yourself at low value reducing the perceived value (almost impossible to prove). etc.
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Technology allows us to share both sides with equality. Having a higher standard puts that side at a big disadvantage.
It only puts you at a disadvantage when what you are trying to do isn't what you say you're trying to do.
If the U.S. military was interested in making the countries it invades better by it's citizens standards, it would be easier for it to engage in reasoned discourse, communicate with the populace, send messengers, avoid having enemies spawned by hatred, etc. If it set up and followed some guidelines.
Currently they have no rules, my breath gets caught in my throat when I go through a border checkpoint to the U.S., and I haven't DONE anything.
If you aren't clear about your morality then any attempt to spread your ideology is compromised. Fear leaks into the system, and fear leads not just to anger but to hopelessness and insanity.
The U.S. needs to face the fact that no one will sign a new Geneva convention giving them the powers they seem to think they have. They've been operating outside of international law so long no one trusts them. There have been no efforts to put in place new conventions on warfare though the world DESPERATELY needs them, largely because the rest of the world doesn't trust the U.S. to comply.
Fewer points of failure. Yay Cloud!
Last I checked, Microsoft, Apple, Android / Google were all U.S. owned companies and we're finding more and more that they have to do what their government says.
At least with communists you know that the government is filtering/monitoring/altering and that makes the U.S. just as bad.
There's a lot of laws going in really fast that are meant to be end game laws. For example
SOPA - We need some way to control an internet (notice once it's controlled it's a seperate internet).
DMCA - Information can't go free. We'll distract from the myriad free or sponsored media as long as we need to, no one is getting together for anything BUT MONEY!
Wall Street Bailout - You were insanely greedy. But at least you were doing it for money. The eternal measure of a man's worth!
Note, the above were not tinfoil hat: those are scarier.
voip apps as well at any time by the way.
:)
Do you really think this? VOIP is a lot more like email than traditional phone service. So far none of the major email companies have gone belly up.
That's the problem, it's so cheap and easy it seems like magical beans. The fact that it's accessible from anywhere (like email, not like mail, home phone, or roaming phones).
I spoke to a city Councillor about getting them to put in the wiring for public internet access while they put it in for "Major Brand" phone provider. I'm in "Major City" but I got in to see him about it and pointed out it would cost
Odd thing is we still don't have "Major Brand" phone service in the subway
I agree, keeping some networks anonymous is important. It's vital really. We could all wear the same mask and get together to talk somewhere but that's pretty silly.
Ironically I'm more concerned about the open corporations and governments who monitor my overt internet activity than I am about any of the people or groups monitoring what I would consider covert activity.
So the stuff aimed at the general public scares me the most. Makes me want to "go dark" the most. Sad really.
Agreed, no "cost" wars and drone vs drone war (and likely size cutting) leading to human subjugation (possibly by the winner but no reason it couldn't be collateral damage).
Are such obvious problems. it's rather amazing that these drone programs are proceeding at all.
Is there enough profit in finding a well done government level security abuse than a easy to find one? Think it scales anything like the difficulty?
Plus if Android/iPhone/Windows have backdoors the biggest enemy is virus scanner authors. Synaptec and Norton would probably need to be informed about where the most common data exit point was (random values in http requests/ specific hidden packets, other)... Perhaps the reason no linux distro has become Microsoft sized is because they'd have an internal affairs for their security department.
How sad is it that the open source code donated by so many might be polluted by governments like this.
Their counter suit where they find child porn on your device would hit much quicker.
I agree with the earlier comment... how can we live in a country where there's no penalty for this sort of software?
Is there anything in the newest version of your OS you wouldn't be willing to go back to a previous one over this surveillance technology?
Wouldn't you rather switch to OSS or Windows 2000?
What's holding you back? Is it DirectX11?
Well more likely they hire someone smart (or a group of them do) to manage their money well. I still don't see how it being their money instead of 1000 people's money makes a difference in how it is allocated.
This puts a huge hole in the "'your' flavor linux" side, I wonder who will fill it.
You shoulda seen the lawsuits we had back in the day! Check out the RIAA ones... fantastic. DeCSS. SCO. Microsoft's had some great ones. GPL scratch ups. Really the whole Copyleft story is great reading.
:P
The samsung one was pretty hilarious though, especially the "2001 a space odyssey" preexisting prototype evidence
They produce 100 missile factories. Then they actually assemble one and write down all the things that it takes to fix it (assuming they can fix the other 99). The issue comes as soon as someone does something clever (like flick a needed switch) without documenting it.
So they end up with 99 useless missile factories and a boxed up one that they don't have perfect documentation for, or staff trained to operate it.
The people in the top .2% have so much power that they probably do more evil (without even noticing!) before breakfast than most psychopaths do all day!
It's totally ridiculous to tap other phones leaving theirs alone!
Plus statistics prove their all insane sociopaths, many have bunkers or remote cottages so when they blow up the world they and they alone can survive!
(Above was facetious, but true).
I'm with you 100% on the doesn't work. They hid some bombs on some unsuspecting people to test the system, 95% got through. It only made the news because one of the people made it home with his :P
I'm never giving it.
Also apps can do ongoing charges, like in that daily show expose on the fish tank.
Finally I like to donate not pay, I get the feeling that more of the money makes it to the developer.
Good point, but unlike Liberatrians like Ron Paul they don't have the most powerful country in the world to back up their idealism and naivete. Or prove that they're not that powerful, of course.
I really don't think the GPL has a leg to stand on when it combats other software makers who make add-on's or modifications for compatibility. It will if the crazy government initiatives to protect intellectual property owners pass of course, but as it currently stands that falls under fair use.
The real irony is that if the intellectual property owners get what they want, they'll successfully isolate the true innovators and find themselves on the outside, looking in.
Even Chinese citizens can access open source, the banning of open source the banning of the right to meet in the commons means tyranny plain and simple.
If everyone moved to open source there'd be money to let true tinfoil hatters from around the world set up safeguards to keep information itself free.
Brilliant minds will keep on inventing, they don't need a profit motive (but of course things run more smoothly when there is one, think usability for plebes).
Get a hold on the financial system before we invent everything that needs inventing.
Makes you think of open source and how few abuses it has been applied to. Is it immune to abuse? Probably not but it seems that it's pretty hard to hide abuses in and generally does things that are good in the short term and great in the long term!
Is it underfunded? Of course, it challenges the power elite who are terrified of an efficient transparent economy more than any act of war or violence.
Is is tampered with? Surely. But on the whole it just keeps getting better and better!
We only need one Giant Death Ray to compete. I'm available for consultation.
A bitcoin has intrinsic value as part of a whole which consists of a (relatively) strong encryption system.
For example I just launched a system whereby you give me a hash value and a copyrighted work: That copyright is transferred with the bitcoin. This removes the need for copyright law overnight. Now Bitcoin has value disproportionate to it's cost. Just because I did that. Right here in this comment. There is no inherent value to anything.
I don't like how gold looks to me it's inherent value is the fun I would get from flinging it at a moron (not unlike yourself). Or the perceived value of someone I can trade it for (Much like the perceived value a soul which I can capitalize on by bringing about a realization of inherent hyprocracy).
I'm a tentative supporter of BTC, I believe in taxation and government run efficiency and need (some things are definitely better provided by the government, crappy civil servants aside). The vehemence of people late to the party (due to ignorance and stupidity) is really starting to piss me off. Do you hate Slashdot because you don't have a #### UID?
I transfer the coin into any machine. Put it on a CD and it's gone until I bring it back. There's no record, it's anonymous.
Imagine a world without recessions or excessive growth.... get the picture?
You cannot, for example, use a BitCoin to do a certain amount of computer processing
You're wrong... from higher up in the SAME comments no less: www.bitvps.com
In fact this is one of the things BTC is GREAT at! Cloud computing and bitcoins will be such great friends it will be redonkulus... you sir, are an idiot.
Add to that the fact that nerds like bitcoins and nerds run servers and you're just extra super double stupid.
No offense... there's always lotteries.
Currently the central bank is NOT issuing more Euro's to save their economy. Meanwhile the U.S. is issuing trillions a year. What's crazy is that the Euro is dropping against the USD, I really can't understand how this can be the case...
The actual amount of money involved is probablly a hell of a lot smaller than the aforementioned theoretical market cap.
Before attacking an international virtual currency it would be a lot cheaper to simply regulate the price... send in a hacker to create a panic (done). Sell coins to yourself at low value reducing the perceived value (almost impossible to prove). etc.