As well as the US citizens that the government doesn't feel like dealing with that whole "due process" for. Good thing that Enemy Combatant trumps the former highest law in the land, the Constitution of the United States, or the gov't might actually have to start providing evidence and letting US citizens they have had locked up for months without trial go.
"Also with 1.3 Mozilla is now applying machine learning to improve the autocomplete feature."
Sounds good. Eventually I can just tell it "porn" and it will go grab all sorts of crazy shit for me to do naughty things to. Of course, I hope it doesn't work like the Tivo's related feature or I'll end up with 30 translations of goatse.cx and a giant pic of Janet Reno in a bikini.
Hey, I can be bought. Willing to help advertise your beer and hookers, compensated only by product. Both must be fresh on delivery, one hot and one cold, you figure out which is which. Act now before I get drunk and laid and lose interest.
Most Americans are always suspicious of anyone who enjoys themselves without the threat of pain or death being involved in some way. Hence the reason why sex and drugs, despite being insanely popular pasttimes, have always been widely vilified in this country. This also applies to video games, oddly enough, since the violence portrayed does not involve real people in any way and therefore does not actually appear to endanger anyone in the process, unlike football, movies, or crime dramas. I can only hope that if they finally do create true AI that they give it the same mindset else it might just realize how fucking stupid we are and wipe us off of the face of the planet.
There's nothing inherently wrong with bias. The problem lies when that bias isn't made readily apparent to the reader/viewer/whatever. Hell, biased sources are often great points of reference simply because of their increased access to information from those they favor, as the site of this article has demonstrated. Demonizing them with accusations of conspiracy or stupidity for their openly professed bias is simply the other side of the coin of your own complaint.
If your hatred for all things Microsoft runs so deep, read more sites like that one. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer, and all of that.:)
Re:Misleading title... it's NOT about HACKING
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Main Entry: bitch Pronunciation: 'bich Function: noun Etymology: Middle English bicche, from Old English bicce Date: before 12th century 1 : the female of the dog or some other carnivorous mammals 2 a : a lewd or immoral woman b : a malicious, spiteful, or domineering woman -- sometimes used as a generalized term of abuse 3 : something that is highly objectionable or unpleasant 4 : COMPLAINT
(source: www.m-w.com)
Rather ironic that you dispute the multiple meanings of the word "hacker" by performing an action that also has multiple meanings. Damn I love words, and bitching. And bitches come to think of it.
As in Take A Damn Shower. And go check out some night life. Jesus, you're using perceived social status as a criteria for choosing a fucking protocol. Who gives a rollicking rat's ass what people are going to think about your choice in protocols? Go worry about whether you should tell her before or let her find out the hard way that you're almost done. I suddenly feel vastly less nerdy for not ever having worried about looking like a dinosaur or a wimp because of my friggin file server's protocol.
Or do you think that the ISP should be allowed to block your identity when you perform illegal activities with their equipment?
If a law enforcement officer approaches my ISP with a warrant as part of an investigation into a criminal matter, then my ISP should hand over every bit of info that they have. But when a private fucking company sends a subpoena based upon a half-assed suspicion of an activity which might result in a civil suit, then YES, I do expect my ISP to shut the fuck up. That's just as stupid as them handing me their customer list because I write them a letter saying that I think one of their customers might have slandered me at some point in the past while using their service.
DMCA be damned, since it, or anything else short of a new amendment, does not supercede the protections afforded the people by the 4th Amendment of the Constitution. Admittedly, Americans have become such an incredibly meek group of pussies that they'll just ignore any violations in this area which DO take place, just as they have done so in many other areas for a long while now. But I suspect that's just a result of having the largest middle-class segment in history, so I really don't have any simple suggestions insofar as rectifying that particular issue since Americans seem hellbent on clinging to this pathetic two-party oligarchy which represents a mere fraction of the total population's interests.
In my opinion, these abuses are merely symptoms of much greater problems in our society. I doubt that we will be seeing workable corrections being made until after the inevitably necessary "attention-getter", whether it be natural or unnatural disaster, highly significant technological advance, or incredibly influential figure on the order of Gandhi, Hitler, or Jesus. The best we can do is continue to treat these symptoms the best we can and hope that something takes place fairly soon to break the American people out of their reverie without exacting too great a toll.
Pretty fucking deep for a story about some guy copying some music, eh?:)
And run it on what? Happy feelings and rainbows pouring out of their asses? Or do you have a massive cluster with an incredibly fat connection that you've been looking for someone to use for free? I love free shit as much as anyone, but they have to pay some serious bucks to keep this thing running, not to mention try and recoup that huge initial investment.
Their current ideas on financing the project seem to be pretty good, as you only pay for what you use, except for the bandwidth to go in and hang out. But that is their hook to get people in the first place, so it is probably best that they don't charge any sort of monthly fee. I imagine that it is going to take quite some time to fine-tune the system, but as long as most of the content is user created and auctioned to other users, they shouldn't have too many issues in that area, since it will be the users who dictate value for products and services. There Inc. collects the setup fee to implement new products and a small percentage of each transaction of those products, keeping the system running.
The only problems that I see are if they allow the world to stagnate rather than constantly updating the engine and providing new features in the APIs, and if they run out of funding before a sufficient user economy becomes established to support the project, since there won't be much going on for the first few months as they attract new users and the users get comfortable with creating new content and the idea of making micropayments for those products.
Given enough time, though, I see no reason why they cannot be successful, especially with scarcity well implemented into the system. After all, the MMOG maniacs buy and sell virtual items and cash by the digital truckload every day, and most of that stuff they could get for free with a bit of work in the game itself, as there is no scarcity except in the rare circumstance of an item spawn being discontinued. If hardware were free, then it wouldn't matter, but if they just allowed users to create and use giant multiple megabyte vehicles with a buttload of CPU-chowing options without cost, they'd be bankrupt in a matter of days.
To be honest, I don't expect much success from this project, being the pessimistic bastard that I am, but I do hope that I am wrong because I would love to see a Metaverse-style cyberspace actually be implemented. Then we'll just need the badass visual and audio devices for total immersion. Well, OK, and the groin devices as well, since pornography seems to be the spearhead of technological advancement.;)
When the lemmings start developing the innovations behind your air conditioners, motor vehicles, computers, or other methods that we humans use to make our lives more convenient, then I'll give a shit about what they have to do with anything. In the meantime, I need to bone up for analytical chem so that I can go work on things that might save human lives, take human lives, or just make someone's day a little bit cooler.
I don't blame Americans for becoming such pussies over the past century, since its understandable given the incredible level of comfort that we have acheived, so nobody wants to dick with the status quo too much. Its just kind of embarrassing to see how much ass that we've kicked in 200 years getting where we are only to watch it go the shit from complacency and fear.
And I can understand the reservations that you religious folks might have with what you might consider to be "playing god" although I have a hard time imagining a deity who would be so stupid as to create an animal, give it free will, and then place restrictions on it anyhow, but that's a whole other debate. Just always sounded like a coder who uses a random fuction generator to produce code and then gets pissed when it doesn't make him rich.
Christ, we've had automobiles for a long damn time and thousands of people still fuck up using those each day to varying degrees of consequence. Let's just compile the data, develop the experiment, and then see if we can't kick a hurricanes ass. When shit happens, as it inevitably will even if we nail down weather control to a tee, then so be it. We'll moarn, learn, litigate in grand pansy fashion, and move on as the occasional fuck up just a part of life.
I'm just glad that we still have people in this world like the original gents in the particle acceleration biz that had enough nut to step up and say, "Fuck it, let's go stir some shit up, even if we might end up bending some weird ass law of physics that we don't know about that wouldn't take kindly to bending." Else we might still be sitting around, stratching our asses, and playing "what-if" games instead of learning more and more about our universe.
I don't imagine that there will be too many available connections left to watch on after the NSA and FBI bogarts most of them to monitor things for themselves. I don't see them missing out on the opportunity to watch a crapload of different approaches to cracking all at the same time from the crackers' perspectives. That'd be like them not bothering to watch an international bank robbing competition.
Considering that you somehow missed his sarcastistically proliferous use of the letter "r" in place of "l" throughout the posting, I'd say that we have already discovered the failure in the progress of evolution in this thread. Given your incredible capacity for missing the obvious, I'll give you a hint: it lies between this post and the post that you commented on.
OK, I'll make it easily enough understood so that you'll have at least a 50% chance of getting it: IT IS YOU, DUMBASS
Precisely. I think its about time to enact a Constitutional amendment giving the popular vote real power and start getting a bit more liberal with the impeachment stick, given that our entire body of "representatives" only really represent a tiny fraction of the entire population. These are our employees, and just like employees in private enterprises they should be fired if doing a slipshod job. The added bonus in the case of government officials being that the replacements are damn sure aware of how and why the position became available to them and are more likely to act accordingly. Christ, this isn't the 1790s anymore; keeping the people informed of pertinent issues is a hell of a lot easier. Remember, its "We the people," not "Over the people."
I love you.:) Admittedly, I will miss seeing how long I can get the bastards to wait on hold, but a small price to not have to deal with (much of) that telemarketing crap anymore. I know where the goddamned store is and I have Internet access; some doofus who got turned down as the fry guy at McDonalds isn't providing me with any great shopping revelation.
Wiggum: If you've committed a crime, and want to confess, click "Yes". Otherwise, click "No".
[Homer clicks on "No"]
Wiggum: You have chosen "No", meaning you've committed a crime, but don't want to confess. A paddy wagon is now speeding to your home.
Homer: Hey!!
Wiggum: While you wait, why not buy a police cap or T-shirt. [T-shirts and baseball caps with the SPD logo circle Wiggum's head] You have the right to remain fabulous!
I have never understood why I should concern myself with those who wish to commit suicide. If they don't want to be alive anymore, that's their business. If anything, we should be making it easier, with convenient locations at which to do it.
This would save a whole lot of time on the part of the police as they would not have to investigate suicides to ensure that they weren't homicides instead, as well as having the meat wagon come out to take the bodies to the morgue. Just have people who want to kill themselves go directly to the morgue with $100 to help offset the cost of their disposal. Once inside, hand them a wicked poisonous pill, give them their guerney to lay down on, and stand by to tag their toe when they die.
For a nation that loves to brag about freedom, we in the US sure don't like to grant others the freedom to do what they want just because we ourselves don't want to.
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"non-US citizens pay for this with their lives."
As well as the US citizens that the government doesn't feel like dealing with that whole "due process" for. Good thing that Enemy Combatant trumps the former highest law in the land, the Constitution of the United States, or the gov't might actually have to start providing evidence and letting US citizens they have had locked up for months without trial go.
"Also with 1.3 Mozilla is now applying machine learning to improve the autocomplete feature."
Sounds good. Eventually I can just tell it "porn" and it will go grab all sorts of crazy shit for me to do naughty things to. Of course, I hope it doesn't work like the Tivo's related feature or I'll end up with 30 translations of goatse.cx and a giant pic of Janet Reno in a bikini.
Hey, I can be bought. Willing to help advertise your beer and hookers, compensated only by product. Both must be fresh on delivery, one hot and one cold, you figure out which is which. Act now before I get drunk and laid and lose interest.
Most Americans are always suspicious of anyone who enjoys themselves without the threat of pain or death being involved in some way. Hence the reason why sex and drugs, despite being insanely popular pasttimes, have always been widely vilified in this country. This also applies to video games, oddly enough, since the violence portrayed does not involve real people in any way and therefore does not actually appear to endanger anyone in the process, unlike football, movies, or crime dramas. I can only hope that if they finally do create true AI that they give it the same mindset else it might just realize how fucking stupid we are and wipe us off of the face of the planet.
There's nothing inherently wrong with bias. The problem lies when that bias isn't made readily apparent to the reader/viewer/whatever. Hell, biased sources are often great points of reference simply because of their increased access to information from those they favor, as the site of this article has demonstrated. Demonizing them with accusations of conspiracy or stupidity for their openly professed bias is simply the other side of the coin of your own complaint.
:)
If your hatred for all things Microsoft runs so deep, read more sites like that one. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer, and all of that.
Main Entry: bitch
Pronunciation: 'bich
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English bicche, from Old English bicce
Date: before 12th century
1 : the female of the dog or some other carnivorous mammals
2 a : a lewd or immoral woman b : a malicious, spiteful, or domineering woman -- sometimes used as a generalized term of abuse
3 : something that is highly objectionable or unpleasant
4 : COMPLAINT
(source: www.m-w.com)
Rather ironic that you dispute the multiple meanings of the word "hacker" by performing an action that also has multiple meanings. Damn I love words, and bitching. And bitches come to think of it.
As in Take A Damn Shower. And go check out some night life. Jesus, you're using perceived social status as a criteria for choosing a fucking protocol. Who gives a rollicking rat's ass what people are going to think about your choice in protocols? Go worry about whether you should tell her before or let her find out the hard way that you're almost done. I suddenly feel vastly less nerdy for not ever having worried about looking like a dinosaur or a wimp because of my friggin file server's protocol.
Oh, and real men use FTP.
Or do you think that the ISP should be allowed to block your identity when you perform illegal activities with their equipment?
:)
If a law enforcement officer approaches my ISP with a warrant as part of an investigation into a criminal matter, then my ISP should hand over every bit of info that they have. But when a private fucking company sends a subpoena based upon a half-assed suspicion of an activity which might result in a civil suit, then YES, I do expect my ISP to shut the fuck up. That's just as stupid as them handing me their customer list because I write them a letter saying that I think one of their customers might have slandered me at some point in the past while using their service.
DMCA be damned, since it, or anything else short of a new amendment, does not supercede the protections afforded the people by the 4th Amendment of the Constitution. Admittedly, Americans have become such an incredibly meek group of pussies that they'll just ignore any violations in this area which DO take place, just as they have done so in many other areas for a long while now. But I suspect that's just a result of having the largest middle-class segment in history, so I really don't have any simple suggestions insofar as rectifying that particular issue since Americans seem hellbent on clinging to this pathetic two-party oligarchy which represents a mere fraction of the total population's interests.
In my opinion, these abuses are merely symptoms of much greater problems in our society. I doubt that we will be seeing workable corrections being made until after the inevitably necessary "attention-getter", whether it be natural or unnatural disaster, highly significant technological advance, or incredibly influential figure on the order of Gandhi, Hitler, or Jesus. The best we can do is continue to treat these symptoms the best we can and hope that something takes place fairly soon to break the American people out of their reverie without exacting too great a toll.
Pretty fucking deep for a story about some guy copying some music, eh?
And run it on what? Happy feelings and rainbows pouring out of their asses? Or do you have a massive cluster with an incredibly fat connection that you've been looking for someone to use for free? I love free shit as much as anyone, but they have to pay some serious bucks to keep this thing running, not to mention try and recoup that huge initial investment.
;)
Their current ideas on financing the project seem to be pretty good, as you only pay for what you use, except for the bandwidth to go in and hang out. But that is their hook to get people in the first place, so it is probably best that they don't charge any sort of monthly fee. I imagine that it is going to take quite some time to fine-tune the system, but as long as most of the content is user created and auctioned to other users, they shouldn't have too many issues in that area, since it will be the users who dictate value for products and services. There Inc. collects the setup fee to implement new products and a small percentage of each transaction of those products, keeping the system running.
The only problems that I see are if they allow the world to stagnate rather than constantly updating the engine and providing new features in the APIs, and if they run out of funding before a sufficient user economy becomes established to support the project, since there won't be much going on for the first few months as they attract new users and the users get comfortable with creating new content and the idea of making micropayments for those products.
Given enough time, though, I see no reason why they cannot be successful, especially with scarcity well implemented into the system. After all, the MMOG maniacs buy and sell virtual items and cash by the digital truckload every day, and most of that stuff they could get for free with a bit of work in the game itself, as there is no scarcity except in the rare circumstance of an item spawn being discontinued. If hardware were free, then it wouldn't matter, but if they just allowed users to create and use giant multiple megabyte vehicles with a buttload of CPU-chowing options without cost, they'd be bankrupt in a matter of days.
To be honest, I don't expect much success from this project, being the pessimistic bastard that I am, but I do hope that I am wrong because I would love to see a Metaverse-style cyberspace actually be implemented. Then we'll just need the badass visual and audio devices for total immersion. Well, OK, and the groin devices as well, since pornography seems to be the spearhead of technological advancement.
When the lemmings start developing the innovations behind your air conditioners, motor vehicles, computers, or other methods that we humans use to make our lives more convenient, then I'll give a shit about what they have to do with anything. In the meantime, I need to bone up for analytical chem so that I can go work on things that might save human lives, take human lives, or just make someone's day a little bit cooler.
I don't blame Americans for becoming such pussies over the past century, since its understandable given the incredible level of comfort that we have acheived, so nobody wants to dick with the status quo too much. Its just kind of embarrassing to see how much ass that we've kicked in 200 years getting where we are only to watch it go the shit from complacency and fear.
And I can understand the reservations that you religious folks might have with what you might consider to be "playing god" although I have a hard time imagining a deity who would be so stupid as to create an animal, give it free will, and then place restrictions on it anyhow, but that's a whole other debate. Just always sounded like a coder who uses a random fuction generator to produce code and then gets pissed when it doesn't make him rich.
Christ, we've had automobiles for a long damn time and thousands of people still fuck up using those each day to varying degrees of consequence. Let's just compile the data, develop the experiment, and then see if we can't kick a hurricanes ass. When shit happens, as it inevitably will even if we nail down weather control to a tee, then so be it. We'll moarn, learn, litigate in grand pansy fashion, and move on as the occasional fuck up just a part of life.
I'm just glad that we still have people in this world like the original gents in the particle acceleration biz that had enough nut to step up and say, "Fuck it, let's go stir some shit up, even if we might end up bending some weird ass law of physics that we don't know about that wouldn't take kindly to bending." Else we might still be sitting around, stratching our asses, and playing "what-if" games instead of learning more and more about our universe.
I don't imagine that there will be too many available connections left to watch on after the NSA and FBI bogarts most of them to monitor things for themselves. I don't see them missing out on the opportunity to watch a crapload of different approaches to cracking all at the same time from the crackers' perspectives. That'd be like them not bothering to watch an international bank robbing competition.
Considering that you somehow missed his sarcastistically proliferous use of the letter "r" in place of "l" throughout the posting, I'd say that we have already discovered the failure in the progress of evolution in this thread. Given your incredible capacity for missing the obvious, I'll give you a hint: it lies between this post and the post that you commented on.
OK, I'll make it easily enough understood so that you'll have at least a 50% chance of getting it: IT IS YOU, DUMBASS
Precisely. I think its about time to enact a Constitutional amendment giving the popular vote real power and start getting a bit more liberal with the impeachment stick, given that our entire body of "representatives" only really represent a tiny fraction of the entire population. These are our employees, and just like employees in private enterprises they should be fired if doing a slipshod job. The added bonus in the case of government officials being that the replacements are damn sure aware of how and why the position became available to them and are more likely to act accordingly. Christ, this isn't the 1790s anymore; keeping the people informed of pertinent issues is a hell of a lot easier. Remember, its "We the people," not "Over the people."
I love you. :) Admittedly, I will miss seeing how long I can get the bastards to wait on hold, but a small price to not have to deal with (much of) that telemarketing crap anymore. I know where the goddamned store is and I have Internet access; some doofus who got turned down as the fry guy at McDonalds isn't providing me with any great shopping revelation.
Wiggum: If you've committed a crime, and want to confess, click "Yes". Otherwise, click "No".
[Homer clicks on "No"]
Wiggum: You have chosen "No", meaning you've committed a crime, but don't want to confess. A paddy wagon is now speeding to your home.
Homer: Hey!!
Wiggum: While you wait, why not buy a police cap or T-shirt. [T-shirts and baseball caps with the SPD logo circle Wiggum's head] You have the right to remain fabulous!
I have never understood why I should concern myself with those who wish to commit suicide. If they don't want to be alive anymore, that's their business. If anything, we should be making it easier, with convenient locations at which to do it.
This would save a whole lot of time on the part of the police as they would not have to investigate suicides to ensure that they weren't homicides instead, as well as having the meat wagon come out to take the bodies to the morgue. Just have people who want to kill themselves go directly to the morgue with $100 to help offset the cost of their disposal. Once inside, hand them a wicked poisonous pill, give them their guerney to lay down on, and stand by to tag their toe when they die.
For a nation that loves to brag about freedom, we in the US sure don't like to grant others the freedom to do what they want just because we ourselves don't want to.
Or the process to etch the number on the bullet would cost more than the bullet itself. ;)