This is why I am moving to a Lagrangian point as soon as they have black jack and hookers there. Not because I am into black jack or hookers (I am not), but because those are the true symptoms of civilized and comfortable living. That, and I can spit on every planet in the Solar system from there.
There are a bunch of words and idioms for what we have: total(itarian) surveillance, Big Brother, panopticon. I totally agree it's silly to call an activity "spying" when it cannot be concealed, and the target is everyone.
Things got awkward, and eventually the guy was let go because nobody wanted to work with him anymore.
Did you want to make a comment about NSA with this story? Because it sounds like people who "let him go" are to blame, as well as "everybody", since they decided to ostracize him for no reason at all. For all we know, NSA was simply doing their job.
This. As you read further, it becomes more and more obvious that God created a whole crapload of people besides Adam and Eve. The very next thing Cain does after killing Abel is he builds a city. Not an outpost, not a village, not a town, but a frigging city. Who the hell for? The Godless savages, who were there all along, but not important enough to be mentioned by name or otherwise. Again, as ImWithBrilliant implies, scribes weren't pervs, they just concentrated on the protagonists and didn't give a crap about "others".
We created a concept of God (and other gods), not God himself. Christian God, at least, is ontologically unsound, so there is no hope of bringing him into "being".
Except that Nuclear is still the best solution if you are talking about the least toxic
Only this is a load of crap, you know? If it was "least toxic", you'd be able to insure it without capping the compensation. But as it stands, no private insurer will give you quote, and since THEY are unable to quantify the risk, you see how I am very skeptical about your claim.
Yah. Would be practical in the ultimate monoculture scenario, if everyone was coerced into running the same exact OS and kernel and dev stack, but not if the software is free and people are free to study it and use it any way they want.
In reality, slipping a backdoor into Linux is much easier: just code it into a proprietary wireless firmware blob which is already a part of the (non-free) kernel distributed at linux.org. The mal-firmware can then spy and report directly from the network card, or use DMA to elevate itself to ring 0 on the main CPU. What makes this scenario most FUN is the sheer likelihood of such a backdoor being in place RIGHT NOW, within the official Linux git repo, since no approval or knowledge by Linus would be required to slip it in.
I don't believe that just using racial slurs makes one a racist. Rather, it makes one an impolite dickhead, and only in a certain context (USA blacks seem perfectly content with calling themselves "niggas").
Does calling a woman "bitch" makes one a misogynist? No, even though it's a sexual slur. Politely denying contraception to women, on the other hand, makes one a misogynist.
Words don't hurt directly, but may incur emotional pain by telling one how the other feels about them. As long as the other doesn't act on that feeling, no real harm is done, and no one is racist. And, as far as insults go, the racial slurs are bottom-shelf. I would rather be called by a racial slur than a "piece of shit", because the latter dehumanizes me, and leads me to believe that the other will literally bury me, if given a chance.
#5 Claims of either privacy or security on either Windows or OS X are bogus. Both operating systems are irreparably compromised by the respective manufacturers, affiliates, and the law enforcement, and so all claims about an app being able to deliver privacy are lies.
While I don't disagree that today's big media is worse, I also think you overrate Walter Cronkite and the machine that created him as a journalist. Here's him, for example, cutting into Friskies commercial to report the shooting of Kennedy (thank you, Wikipedia, I wouldn't be able to make this up). One of the major problems journalism has in USA is its utter and complete subservience to the makers of pet food and sugar drinks. This bias results in stringent self-censorship which helps no one but the richest few. US media (including the journalistic part of it) has always treated people as a product. A good journalist treats people primarily as citizens.
It only takes ONE expert to find that Dell, HP, Microsoft, Apple, OSX, Windows, Linux, has all these supposed backdoors to blow the whistle.
What is your point? In all of these cases, you can count people with complete access to the source code with your fingers. Even in Linux there are binary blobs with no source. Each of these backdoors is known to 1-5 people in the world, so no one will blow any whistles.
You really cracked this problem. Wow. Now if only we could figure out how to explain basic facts to at least a quarter of all people in the world, we'd be set.
Manning conveyed over 10,000 documents to journalists. Of course, his treatment will compel future whistle-blowers to release their shit anonymously, and unedited. This is what we, as a society, will get for letting our secret police to attack the free press, but it's a small price to pay for a functional democracy.
What I am curious about is whether this phone comes with all free software or not. I am particularly wary of non-free firmware blobs in Linux kernel. I've been waiting for a free platform for years now, and I would get this thing for $80 in a heartbeat, as long as it's fully deblobbed.
I am cautiously optimistic. They must have found (or created) a loophole in the law, so the chances of prosecuting anyone may be small. But if the legislators are willing (and they seem to be warming up to change), all this spying, secret laws, and secret courts can be made very explicitly illegal.
That may be, but unlike other sites, TPB looks and works great without JavaScript, and the ad blocker does the rest. FORCING users to run non-free code and watch ads before they can get to the content is way sleazier than anything TPB does.
Recommend switching away from windows, a few will do so and a lot more will just not bother - and so the pool of people using Tor (and other encryption privacy "enhancing" services) shrinks just a little bit more.
So what. The pool of people who use TOR correctly will continue to expand. People who use TOR under Windoze are nuts: using the latter is as good as a signed contract that everything you see, type, or wave in front of the webcam is transmitted to the mothership. Using TOR on Windoze is like installing a vault door on a house with no back wall, and frankly, these users got what they asked for.
The same goes for using the stock Linux kernel, and in particular the non-free network adapter firmware. The very first requirement for secure and private communication on the Net is a fully free OS such as those endorsed by FSF, vanilla Debian, OpenBSD, or a custom deblobbed distribution.
The TOR project is not blameless, though. They did a great thing by wrapping TOR into the TOR Bundle, which is self-sufficient and requires zero configuration. But they are making a grave mistake by providing the said bundle for non-free platforms. In essence, they are bating users for the benefit of No Such Agencies, by giving them a false sense of privacy on a platform where privacy is impossible. They should discontinue all of the bundles but the ones designed specifically for free OSes, and they should tell the users up front that running TOR on a non-free OS, however easy it may be, is totally pointless.
I also have a beef with their stance on JavaScript. JavaScript should be off on arrival, and they should advise users to leave it that way until they have near-full confidence in its security (confidence based on history and the experiences of users who defiantly turn it on).
No, of course he isn't going to show you the revisions. He would have to show his own edits, for all of us to judge how stupid they are. Why would he want to do that?
Didn't you read what Jimmy said? Please identify your concrete concern and give links to the history. If there is a problem there, we'll fix it. If I could, I'd be betting money right now that you won't. Citing a statement and judging it racist is clear-cut NNPOV. Citing some zine which calls her racist is irrelevant. You are just asking too much from an article about a living person, while hinting at some IP-related conspiracy (say what?). Just chill and let the history judge her.
I am doing something like this on Wikibooks. I am typesetting exercises for the Calc textbook right now, and have students proofread them, with extra credit for catching typos and mistakes. They loooooove it.
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This is why I am moving to a Lagrangian point as soon as they have black jack and hookers there. Not because I am into black jack or hookers (I am not), but because those are the true symptoms of civilized and comfortable living. That, and I can spit on every planet in the Solar system from there.
There are a bunch of words and idioms for what we have: total(itarian) surveillance, Big Brother, panopticon. I totally agree it's silly to call an activity "spying" when it cannot be concealed, and the target is everyone.
Things got awkward, and eventually the guy was let go because nobody wanted to work with him anymore.
Did you want to make a comment about NSA with this story? Because it sounds like people who "let him go" are to blame, as well as "everybody", since they decided to ostracize him for no reason at all. For all we know, NSA was simply doing their job.
This. As you read further, it becomes more and more obvious that God created a whole crapload of people besides Adam and Eve. The very next thing Cain does after killing Abel is he builds a city. Not an outpost, not a village, not a town, but a frigging city. Who the hell for? The Godless savages, who were there all along, but not important enough to be mentioned by name or otherwise. Again, as ImWithBrilliant implies, scribes weren't pervs, they just concentrated on the protagonists and didn't give a crap about "others".
We created a concept of God (and other gods), not God himself. Christian God, at least, is ontologically unsound, so there is no hope of bringing him into "being".
Except that Nuclear is still the best solution if you are talking about the least toxic
Only this is a load of crap, you know? If it was "least toxic", you'd be able to insure it without capping the compensation. But as it stands, no private insurer will give you quote, and since THEY are unable to quantify the risk, you see how I am very skeptical about your claim.
Yah. Would be practical in the ultimate monoculture scenario, if everyone was coerced into running the same exact OS and kernel and dev stack, but not if the software is free and people are free to study it and use it any way they want.
In reality, slipping a backdoor into Linux is much easier: just code it into a proprietary wireless firmware blob which is already a part of the (non-free) kernel distributed at linux.org. The mal-firmware can then spy and report directly from the network card, or use DMA to elevate itself to ring 0 on the main CPU. What makes this scenario most FUN is the sheer likelihood of such a backdoor being in place RIGHT NOW, within the official Linux git repo, since no approval or knowledge by Linus would be required to slip it in.
That's not surprising, since every one I've seen consisted of a single digit.
They are not dupes: the story is truer every time.
I don't believe that just using racial slurs makes one a racist. Rather, it makes one an impolite dickhead, and only in a certain context (USA blacks seem perfectly content with calling themselves "niggas").
Does calling a woman "bitch" makes one a misogynist? No, even though it's a sexual slur. Politely denying contraception to women, on the other hand, makes one a misogynist.
Words don't hurt directly, but may incur emotional pain by telling one how the other feels about them. As long as the other doesn't act on that feeling, no real harm is done, and no one is racist. And, as far as insults go, the racial slurs are bottom-shelf. I would rather be called by a racial slur than a "piece of shit", because the latter dehumanizes me, and leads me to believe that the other will literally bury me, if given a chance.
#5 Claims of either privacy or security on either Windows or OS X are bogus. Both operating systems are irreparably compromised by the respective manufacturers, affiliates, and the law enforcement, and so all claims about an app being able to deliver privacy are lies.
While I don't disagree that today's big media is worse, I also think you overrate Walter Cronkite and the machine that created him as a journalist. Here's him, for example, cutting into Friskies commercial to report the shooting of Kennedy (thank you, Wikipedia, I wouldn't be able to make this up). One of the major problems journalism has in USA is its utter and complete subservience to the makers of pet food and sugar drinks. This bias results in stringent self-censorship which helps no one but the richest few. US media (including the journalistic part of it) has always treated people as a product. A good journalist treats people primarily as citizens.
dumped everything he could get his hands on
Manning did not dump anything. He conveyed everything directly to a journalistic organization, which then edited and published the relevant bits.
It only takes ONE expert to find that Dell, HP, Microsoft, Apple, OSX, Windows, Linux, has all these supposed backdoors to blow the whistle.
What is your point? In all of these cases, you can count people with complete access to the source code with your fingers. Even in Linux there are binary blobs with no source. Each of these backdoors is known to 1-5 people in the world, so no one will blow any whistles.
You really cracked this problem. Wow. Now if only we could figure out how to explain basic facts to at least a quarter of all people in the world, we'd be set.
Manning released over 10,000 documents.
Manning conveyed over 10,000 documents to journalists. Of course, his treatment will compel future whistle-blowers to release their shit anonymously, and unedited. This is what we, as a society, will get for letting our secret police to attack the free press, but it's a small price to pay for a functional democracy.
What I am curious about is whether this phone comes with all free software or not. I am particularly wary of non-free firmware blobs in Linux kernel. I've been waiting for a free platform for years now, and I would get this thing for $80 in a heartbeat, as long as it's fully deblobbed.
I am cautiously optimistic. They must have found (or created) a loophole in the law, so the chances of prosecuting anyone may be small. But if the legislators are willing (and they seem to be warming up to change), all this spying, secret laws, and secret courts can be made very explicitly illegal.
That may be, but unlike other sites, TPB looks and works great without JavaScript, and the ad blocker does the rest. FORCING users to run non-free code and watch ads before they can get to the content is way sleazier than anything TPB does.
Recommend switching away from windows, a few will do so and a lot more will just not bother - and so the pool of people using Tor (and other encryption privacy "enhancing" services) shrinks just a little bit more.
So what. The pool of people who use TOR correctly will continue to expand. People who use TOR under Windoze are nuts: using the latter is as good as a signed contract that everything you see, type, or wave in front of the webcam is transmitted to the mothership. Using TOR on Windoze is like installing a vault door on a house with no back wall, and frankly, these users got what they asked for.
The same goes for using the stock Linux kernel, and in particular the non-free network adapter firmware. The very first requirement for secure and private communication on the Net is a fully free OS such as those endorsed by FSF, vanilla Debian, OpenBSD, or a custom deblobbed distribution.
The TOR project is not blameless, though. They did a great thing by wrapping TOR into the TOR Bundle, which is self-sufficient and requires zero configuration. But they are making a grave mistake by providing the said bundle for non-free platforms. In essence, they are bating users for the benefit of No Such Agencies, by giving them a false sense of privacy on a platform where privacy is impossible. They should discontinue all of the bundles but the ones designed specifically for free OSes, and they should tell the users up front that running TOR on a non-free OS, however easy it may be, is totally pointless.
I also have a beef with their stance on JavaScript. JavaScript should be off on arrival, and they should advise users to leave it that way until they have near-full confidence in its security (confidence based on history and the experiences of users who defiantly turn it on).
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No, of course he isn't going to show you the revisions. He would have to show his own edits, for all of us to judge how stupid they are. Why would he want to do that?
Didn't you read what Jimmy said? Please identify your concrete concern and give links to the history. If there is a problem there, we'll fix it. If I could, I'd be betting money right now that you won't. Citing a statement and judging it racist is clear-cut NNPOV. Citing some zine which calls her racist is irrelevant. You are just asking too much from an article about a living person, while hinting at some IP-related conspiracy (say what?). Just chill and let the history judge her.
I am doing something like this on Wikibooks. I am typesetting exercises for the Calc textbook right now, and have students proofread them, with extra credit for catching typos and mistakes. They loooooove it.