Think how long it takes your computer to render a 3D image. Now, imagine that machine answering a question on ANYTHING, searching basically EVERYTHING, in the span of time a human can get a gut feeling and press a buzzer and finish formulating the thought as they answer.
Watson is DAMN impressive. If you don't think so, you don't know enough about what it's doing.
But it may be able to answer a lot of questions asked by, say, a phone support caller. Most human interactions of use to business aren't essays. They're small question and answer sessions, going back and forth. If a computer can do that even marginally we have no more need for India, which can't do it well either but at least the computer is a sunk cost.
Thunderbird + the Sunbird add-on works admirably well, and it connects with any CalDAV server. It's not a 100% drop-in replacement, but it does 95% of what Outlook does.
A custom CMS will protect you against most automated attacks against a "generic" CMS. But it will leave you more vulnerable to directed attacks, which is what happened here.
And yet, as soon as they find out the truth everything changes.
Let's see the government (or even HBGary) do an about-face like that.
I'd still rather have someone from Anonymous as a babysitter than someone from HBGary or any of the TLA's. At least Anonymous and Reddit know right from wrong and can admit a mistake.
This is ENTIRELY about morality. The shit that Aaron Barr was pulling, saying and doing was abjectly wrong. It may not have been illegal, but it was wrong. So Anonymous did what they felt was right. It wasn't legal, it may have been more vengeance than justice, but they felt it was right.
Morality is the central point here. That you miss that gives me an indication that you're the type of person who will follow a law no matter whether it's right or wrong just because it's the law. Just following orders is not an excuse.
And here in the US we keep trying to change the actions of the government, swapping political parties by voting differently and still getting the same shit out of the process. And people are pissed. Obama's "change" has included taking away more rights of citizens and doing very little of what was promised. He sure as shit hasn't released any of the powers that Bush acquired after 9/11, even though there's no serious present threat that would necessitate those. Our country is not in a constant state of war, no matter what the government would want you to believe.
The planning of the Boston Tea Party wasn't done in public. The Federalist Papers were written with a pseudonym. Anonymous has it's place and a very important sort of power that being publicly known removes, and will continue to get support from people as long as they keep doing things that are morally "right". Not legally. Morally. They're not the same.
Not sure you understand the subtexts of "the lulz". People don't hack government databases and then release the data for shits and giggles. There's a bit of a larger purpose behind it, a moral principle that while itself may be illegal is still perceived as the right thing to do.
There's legal, and there's right. Just because something is right doesn't make it legal, and just because something is legal doesn't make it right. Our monkey brains are very good at figuring out what's fair and what's not and who is getting fucked by whom. We're in a pretty sorry state in America right now because too many people confuse those concepts. And it's pissing off a lot of the very smart people who would otherwise leave well enough alone and amuse themselves.
What police sting? I see nothing referring to that anywhere in any article about a sting. Asking the guy to come down to the station for an interview is not a "sting". You don't set up stings at the cop shop. After the cop talked to him and he agreed to go in for an interview he posted again on facebook that he needed the "girl knocked off right now". That doesn't sound like the behavior of someone who is going to meet someone in a "sting".
Yes, false rape allegations can ruin lives. It is not something to be taken lightly. But, and this is a GIGANTIC but, that does NOT mean that all rape claims are inherently false. Rape can still happen, and more often than not it is male on female violence. Your #2 "step" is complete and utter bullshit, as well as everything after that. Some people get drunk and horny, but that doesn't mean this girl did, or even did in this case. Believe it or not, you can get drunk and still not want to have sex with someone. You cannot convict someone of lying about rape just because they had alcohol. Otherwise you're saying all drunk people are fair game. Can't wait until some big, violent homosexual sees you drunk. Can't be rape, you were drunk, right? You must have been ok with it.
Every single fact in this story that has been released, as well as the fact that the guy admitted to all of it points to you being wrong. If it was a false allegation of rape he could have fought it. If there was a CHANCE he could have been interpreted wrong, he could have fought it. But what he said and did is quite clear, and you defending him really sounds pathetic.
Frankly, you sound like a fratboy who is the type to say "I know when you say no you really mean yes".
The problem is you're running your entire diatribe off the assumption that she was not raped. You can't just look at everything separately... all the pieces of this together look very bad for Mr. Facebook here.
The details like "hit me up anyway possible", an inducement for contact, separates that kind of threat from just blowing off steam. Hell, his own lawyer has said that he significantly limited his defense strategies by posting that shit.
Not all women are out to get guys. Some are, but there are also a lot of guys who are just scumballs. You cannot make a judgement without objectively looking at the facts, and all of the facts in this case point the wrong way for the guy.
Problem being his posting of a SECOND request to kill her right after the police showed up and asked him to come talk with them. Without that, your version of events might be possibly believable.
Almost certainly a sympathizer that happened to be at RSA. As long as Anonymous keeps doing things that are morally right as far as many (most?) people are concerned, they will keep getting this kind of support.
But it's only on the Nexus S. They were going to release it for the Nexus One and others, but those plans seem to be on hold. I'm using 2.3 on my N1 via the nightly Cyanogen builds but it's definitely got a bunch of quirks in it still. I'm betting Google is going to just release 2.4 as their next "standard" release that's widely distributed.
VHS vs Beta is a misnomer. Same with Gameboy vs Lynx. The problem is that you seem to think that everyone should buy everything purely on technical mojo and not actual, you know, content.
VHS won because it had longer recording times than Beta, 120 minutes to Beta's 60. The slight picture quality difference was MUCH less important than being able to record more than an hour.
As for Gameboy vs Lynx, the whole problem is games. Just like it was with the Saturn, with the Dreamcast, with countless other failed technological marvels. It's an amazing piece of hardware that you couldn't actually use to play games because there were no games. Not compared to the Gameboy.
I do agree that our incarceration rates are way too high, but I fail to see what that has to do with the Olympics. I'm thinking you should make sure you're using actual tinfoil instead of aluminum foil though.
Sounds like the lesson should be that companies are overzealous in their "no drugs" stance. Because all they're ending up doing is only hiring the people that are better at hiding it and really... do you want to only hire the people that are good at hiding their discretions? Think that'll never end up biting you?
Maybe you need to look up the definition of the words "abuse" and "return". If he abuses tools and then returns them, he's getting use out of them and then getting money back after doing so.
Maybe if he said "had tools break and gotten them replaced" or something like that I'd think like you do. But return abuse is a very common way of stealing from stores.
...so you're saying you abuse the store as a free rental service? Nice. Sounds like a great way to kill their current policies. But who cares as long as you got yours, right?
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Think how long it takes your computer to render a 3D image. Now, imagine that machine answering a question on ANYTHING, searching basically EVERYTHING, in the span of time a human can get a gut feeling and press a buzzer and finish formulating the thought as they answer.
Watson is DAMN impressive. If you don't think so, you don't know enough about what it's doing.
But it may be able to answer a lot of questions asked by, say, a phone support caller. Most human interactions of use to business aren't essays. They're small question and answer sessions, going back and forth. If a computer can do that even marginally we have no more need for India, which can't do it well either but at least the computer is a sunk cost.
Thunderbird + the Sunbird add-on works admirably well, and it connects with any CalDAV server. It's not a 100% drop-in replacement, but it does 95% of what Outlook does.
Tits do not a girl make
A custom CMS will protect you against most automated attacks against a "generic" CMS. But it will leave you more vulnerable to directed attacks, which is what happened here.
It's funny and kinda sad that you think Anonymous is even the same group of people from minute to minute.
And yet, as soon as they find out the truth everything changes.
Let's see the government (or even HBGary) do an about-face like that.
I'd still rather have someone from Anonymous as a babysitter than someone from HBGary or any of the TLA's. At least Anonymous and Reddit know right from wrong and can admit a mistake.
I'm with you until this part:
This is ENTIRELY about morality. The shit that Aaron Barr was pulling, saying and doing was abjectly wrong. It may not have been illegal, but it was wrong. So Anonymous did what they felt was right. It wasn't legal, it may have been more vengeance than justice, but they felt it was right.
Morality is the central point here. That you miss that gives me an indication that you're the type of person who will follow a law no matter whether it's right or wrong just because it's the law. Just following orders is not an excuse.
Always look on the bright side of life!
And if you kill/imprison enough drug dealers, there will cease to be any drugs dealt... oh, wait...
And here in the US we keep trying to change the actions of the government, swapping political parties by voting differently and still getting the same shit out of the process. And people are pissed. Obama's "change" has included taking away more rights of citizens and doing very little of what was promised. He sure as shit hasn't released any of the powers that Bush acquired after 9/11, even though there's no serious present threat that would necessitate those. Our country is not in a constant state of war, no matter what the government would want you to believe.
The planning of the Boston Tea Party wasn't done in public. The Federalist Papers were written with a pseudonym. Anonymous has it's place and a very important sort of power that being publicly known removes, and will continue to get support from people as long as they keep doing things that are morally "right". Not legally. Morally. They're not the same.
Read some history, kid.
Not sure you understand the subtexts of "the lulz". People don't hack government databases and then release the data for shits and giggles. There's a bit of a larger purpose behind it, a moral principle that while itself may be illegal is still perceived as the right thing to do.
There's legal, and there's right. Just because something is right doesn't make it legal, and just because something is legal doesn't make it right. Our monkey brains are very good at figuring out what's fair and what's not and who is getting fucked by whom. We're in a pretty sorry state in America right now because too many people confuse those concepts. And it's pissing off a lot of the very smart people who would otherwise leave well enough alone and amuse themselves.
What police sting? I see nothing referring to that anywhere in any article about a sting. Asking the guy to come down to the station for an interview is not a "sting". You don't set up stings at the cop shop. After the cop talked to him and he agreed to go in for an interview he posted again on facebook that he needed the "girl knocked off right now". That doesn't sound like the behavior of someone who is going to meet someone in a "sting".
Yes, false rape allegations can ruin lives. It is not something to be taken lightly. But, and this is a GIGANTIC but, that does NOT mean that all rape claims are inherently false. Rape can still happen, and more often than not it is male on female violence. Your #2 "step" is complete and utter bullshit, as well as everything after that. Some people get drunk and horny, but that doesn't mean this girl did, or even did in this case. Believe it or not, you can get drunk and still not want to have sex with someone. You cannot convict someone of lying about rape just because they had alcohol. Otherwise you're saying all drunk people are fair game. Can't wait until some big, violent homosexual sees you drunk. Can't be rape, you were drunk, right? You must have been ok with it.
Every single fact in this story that has been released, as well as the fact that the guy admitted to all of it points to you being wrong. If it was a false allegation of rape he could have fought it. If there was a CHANCE he could have been interpreted wrong, he could have fought it. But what he said and did is quite clear, and you defending him really sounds pathetic.
Frankly, you sound like a fratboy who is the type to say "I know when you say no you really mean yes".
The problem is you're running your entire diatribe off the assumption that she was not raped. You can't just look at everything separately... all the pieces of this together look very bad for Mr. Facebook here.
The details like "hit me up anyway possible", an inducement for contact, separates that kind of threat from just blowing off steam. Hell, his own lawyer has said that he significantly limited his defense strategies by posting that shit.
Not all women are out to get guys. Some are, but there are also a lot of guys who are just scumballs. You cannot make a judgement without objectively looking at the facts, and all of the facts in this case point the wrong way for the guy.
Problem being his posting of a SECOND request to kill her right after the police showed up and asked him to come talk with them. Without that, your version of events might be possibly believable.
RTFA before posting next time.
Almost certainly a sympathizer that happened to be at RSA. As long as Anonymous keeps doing things that are morally right as far as many (most?) people are concerned, they will keep getting this kind of support.
Yes, it can: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4181/nvidias-project-kalel-quadcore-a9s-coming-to-smartphonestablets-this-year/3
If you use 300DPI in conjunction with a 10.1" display (assuming 16:9 ratio), you get ~2560x1440 resolution. The math isn't hard.
The first step when you find yourself in a hole? Stop digging.
I'm thinking that would be an improvement for most areas
But it's only on the Nexus S. They were going to release it for the Nexus One and others, but those plans seem to be on hold. I'm using 2.3 on my N1 via the nightly Cyanogen builds but it's definitely got a bunch of quirks in it still. I'm betting Google is going to just release 2.4 as their next "standard" release that's widely distributed.
VHS vs Beta is a misnomer. Same with Gameboy vs Lynx. The problem is that you seem to think that everyone should buy everything purely on technical mojo and not actual, you know, content.
VHS won because it had longer recording times than Beta, 120 minutes to Beta's 60. The slight picture quality difference was MUCH less important than being able to record more than an hour.
As for Gameboy vs Lynx, the whole problem is games. Just like it was with the Saturn, with the Dreamcast, with countless other failed technological marvels. It's an amazing piece of hardware that you couldn't actually use to play games because there were no games. Not compared to the Gameboy.
I do agree that our incarceration rates are way too high, but I fail to see what that has to do with the Olympics. I'm thinking you should make sure you're using actual tinfoil instead of aluminum foil though.
Sounds like the lesson should be that companies are overzealous in their "no drugs" stance. Because all they're ending up doing is only hiring the people that are better at hiding it and really... do you want to only hire the people that are good at hiding their discretions? Think that'll never end up biting you?
Maybe you need to look up the definition of the words "abuse" and "return". If he abuses tools and then returns them, he's getting use out of them and then getting money back after doing so.
Maybe if he said "had tools break and gotten them replaced" or something like that I'd think like you do. But return abuse is a very common way of stealing from stores.
...so you're saying you abuse the store as a free rental service? Nice. Sounds like a great way to kill their current policies. But who cares as long as you got yours, right?