People assume that relationships are a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... love-y wimey... stuff.
Why not? Add authors/news on every niche. Want a news section dedicated to ICANN/Internic, stuff on that scale? Web hosting? Security? Even if you just quote/selectively guide folks back to the other generalist locations like Ars or more specific niche places like discussions on NANOG, it could be a constantly updated field of info on all manner of stuff. Most people don't give a crap what the top 10-20 news stories of the day about botnets or DNS are, perhaps, but I bet you there are a lot of people who do, and that you'd be able to get at least a small team of maintainers/authors for various niches.
Fork now, go 100% anonymous, and every time you dump the data, immediately tip off at the same time the various news media contacts you have internationally, providing each with a redundant encrypted access avenue that is detached from the main 'body' of Wikileaks 2.0. No one person should ever be known by name. Cultural war is war, after all. Act like it.
I bet you this was planned all along and the leak was "accidental". That way, the market can begin to retire Blu-Ray for it's better successor, which will include a NEW way to lock down content, that will have planned obsolescence built into it as well.
You think they rolled out Blu-Ray for the consumer? Blu-Ray II will be Bigger and Better, and another excuse for us to rebuy our prior purchases. This is just the impetus. Wait till 2016 when Blu-Ray II is cracked, and version 3.0 is in the wings.
So if I spent $100,000 with CCP to buy... whatever amount of PLEX that is, how much ISK would I have?
What's to stop me from just going into EVE with that value of ISK (seriously, I'm curious--what would that be about for market value?) and just dominating the world fiscally? If I was insane and had money to burn I could buy my own Galactic Empire, right?
I see someone wrote above that "$34.95 USD PLEX (two pack) will net you about 600 million ISK". So $100,000 gets me about 2,861 PLEX two packs. Since this is assuming that the value wouldn't depreciate if I sold a LOT of them--people always need game time--even if I sold them at 80% of market rate I'd end up with...
About 1,373,280,000,000 ISK for my $100,000 investment? What kind of social damage could I do with that if I hired pilots for ISK payoffs?
So if I spent $100,000 with CCP to buy... whatever amount of PLEX that is, how much ISK would I have?
What's to stop me from just going into EVE with that value of ISK (seriously, I'm curious--what would that be about for market value?) and just dominating the world fiscally? If I was insane and had money to burn I could buy my own Galactic Empire, right?
When the cell phone radiation turns your family and neighbors into flesh-eating zombies, those Luddites will be laughing their asses off in your face. Until you eat THEIR faces.
The ground game sucked on the "random" encounters. They were completely dull and boring. The big scripted ground events were absurdly fun--for example, the one where you rescue diplomats at the beachfront starbase. It felt like a movie.
The Pentagon Papers precedent legally says the press CAN publish anything from the government. If someone leaked files that Elvis ordered the hit on JFK under pay from Queen Elizabeth and the hit was carried out by Frank Sinatra, because JFK was covering up a secret government project of a stargate under a Colorado mountain, the NY Times could publish it freely. Short of Obama ordering missiles into the NY Times building in Manhattan, he couldn't stop them. The "press" also has lots of lawyers that "bloggers" don't.
If he were American, I suspect it's illegal for us to publish such material, as well. For example, a spy bumps into me downtown while running from his NSA handlers, and drops some classified crap in my shopping bag. If I find it before the NSA or CIA or FBI retrieve it from me, scan it, and blog it, guess who goes to jail too?
"The problem is they don't want to have a court case because that would enable him to bring up all sorts of details concerning the same classified information that they are trying to keep out of the media in the first place."
Alternately, Wikileaks could simply sit on the REALLY bad leaks as insurance. "Arrest us, and THIS gets out. Kill us, and ALL of these will get out."
The more this happens and the more that Wikileaks (as they have so far) stick by their guns, the more likely it will be that government and business interests will leak to them.
If the system is built out with ruthless anonymity, security, and redundancy, the Internet may be the biggest bear of all, unless the governments take efforts to seize all the host names, which will then just push it all to torrent, or onto Freenet or onto YetToBeUnleashedNet. Can't stop all the signals. People have been trying that for generations.
Even a future without you, one way or the other.
Is Wikileaks structured--really, be honest--so that if you are forced to 'retire' that operationally it will be a blip on the radar? Is the project and it's resources designed to survive you?
Just pass a Federal law that says (subject to copyright limitations -- STFU, on any anti-copyright trolling, this isn't the place) that anything in any public-visible area may be recorded. A parking lot? A street corner? Front vestibule? My front yard? If the ABC or NBC news cameras can air it on television, ANYONE can record it. Pass that law, and specify that anyone in the space is fair game. Simple wording, and done.
Use PGP or some other encryption method of the content itself. ONLY connect to your mail servers via SSL--no exceptions, ever. Store NOTHING on the local machine, be it your iPhone, your laptop, your desktop. Build your own OS that connects to your mail server and build your own mail client software so that you know there are no possible backdoors. Build your own mail server the same. Routinely re-encrypt your entire remote mail store with the highest end encryption available. Don't store keys with the mail store. Don't save ANY mail logs. If you do, encrypt them just as tightly.
Next, only mail with people that use comparable basic levels of security.
Yes, it's horrible. Yes, it could have been possibly avoided. Or possibly not.
The REAL story however is that the Bush administration and the Pentagon under their control covered this up, presumably to shore up general political support in Iraq. THAT is the real story.
For all the griping about RPG elements missing from games and immersion and realism, not a single word about Bioware that I can see and only a passing reference to Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto Series. Really?
GTA4: Liberty City is insanely big, open world, no invisible borders, and fairly realistic physics, except that you--and to a lesser degree other characters--can take a slightly higher beating than in real life and survive. This is the closest you can get to "real", until Red Dead Redemption comes out.
Bioware, Mass Effect 1/2: gold standard for RPGs. Runner up: Dragon Age. Your actions shape the story outcome, responses, and so on. Leveling shapes the nature and tone of your character in play and combat.
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People assume that relationships are a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... love-y wimey... stuff.
Why not? Add authors/news on every niche. Want a news section dedicated to ICANN/Internic, stuff on that scale? Web hosting? Security? Even if you just quote/selectively guide folks back to the other generalist locations like Ars or more specific niche places like discussions on NANOG, it could be a constantly updated field of info on all manner of stuff. Most people don't give a crap what the top 10-20 news stories of the day about botnets or DNS are, perhaps, but I bet you there are a lot of people who do, and that you'd be able to get at least a small team of maintainers/authors for various niches.
What else could it be?
Fork now, go 100% anonymous, and every time you dump the data, immediately tip off at the same time the various news media contacts you have internationally, providing each with a redundant encrypted access avenue that is detached from the main 'body' of Wikileaks 2.0. No one person should ever be known by name. Cultural war is war, after all. Act like it.
I bet you this was planned all along and the leak was "accidental". That way, the market can begin to retire Blu-Ray for it's better successor, which will include a NEW way to lock down content, that will have planned obsolescence built into it as well.
You think they rolled out Blu-Ray for the consumer? Blu-Ray II will be Bigger and Better, and another excuse for us to rebuy our prior purchases. This is just the impetus. Wait till 2016 when Blu-Ray II is cracked, and version 3.0 is in the wings.
I'd like to see them sue for libel post mortum.
So if I spent $100,000 with CCP to buy... whatever amount of PLEX that is, how much ISK would I have?
What's to stop me from just going into EVE with that value of ISK (seriously, I'm curious--what would that be about for market value?) and just dominating the world fiscally? If I was insane and had money to burn I could buy my own Galactic Empire, right?
I see someone wrote above that "$34.95 USD PLEX (two pack) will net you about 600 million ISK". So $100,000 gets me about 2,861 PLEX two packs. Since this is assuming that the value wouldn't depreciate if I sold a LOT of them--people always need game time--even if I sold them at 80% of market rate I'd end up with...
About 1,373,280,000,000 ISK for my $100,000 investment? What kind of social damage could I do with that if I hired pilots for ISK payoffs?
So if I spent $100,000 with CCP to buy... whatever amount of PLEX that is, how much ISK would I have?
What's to stop me from just going into EVE with that value of ISK (seriously, I'm curious--what would that be about for market value?) and just dominating the world fiscally? If I was insane and had money to burn I could buy my own Galactic Empire, right?
Any communications product, vendor, or service that can't be backdoored by government(s) will be banned.
When the cell phone radiation turns your family and neighbors into flesh-eating zombies, those Luddites will be laughing their asses off in your face. Until you eat THEIR faces.
It's been leaked that City of Heroes is doing dialogue trees in the next major release, so it's coming. If Warcraft does it, everyone will.
The ground game sucked on the "random" encounters. They were completely dull and boring. The big scripted ground events were absurdly fun--for example, the one where you rescue diplomats at the beachfront starbase. It felt like a movie.
It's not like it's the encryption thing. You can do that on AIM (and for all I know, Yahoo, MSN, Jabber etc etc etc).
Like I said, "Lawyers". Can you personally afford to hire a guy to work 4,000 hours at $300 an hour?
The Pentagon Papers precedent legally says the press CAN publish anything from the government. If someone leaked files that Elvis ordered the hit on JFK under pay from Queen Elizabeth and the hit was carried out by Frank Sinatra, because JFK was covering up a secret government project of a stargate under a Colorado mountain, the NY Times could publish it freely. Short of Obama ordering missiles into the NY Times building in Manhattan, he couldn't stop them. The "press" also has lots of lawyers that "bloggers" don't.
If he were American, I suspect it's illegal for us to publish such material, as well. For example, a spy bumps into me downtown while running from his NSA handlers, and drops some classified crap in my shopping bag. If I find it before the NSA or CIA or FBI retrieve it from me, scan it, and blog it, guess who goes to jail too?
"The problem is they don't want to have a court case because that would enable him to bring up all sorts of details concerning the same classified information that they are trying to keep out of the media in the first place."
Alternately, Wikileaks could simply sit on the REALLY bad leaks as insurance. "Arrest us, and THIS gets out. Kill us, and ALL of these will get out."
The more this happens and the more that Wikileaks (as they have so far) stick by their guns, the more likely it will be that government and business interests will leak to them.
If the system is built out with ruthless anonymity, security, and redundancy, the Internet may be the biggest bear of all, unless the governments take efforts to seize all the host names, which will then just push it all to torrent, or onto Freenet or onto YetToBeUnleashedNet. Can't stop all the signals. People have been trying that for generations.
Even a future without you, one way or the other. Is Wikileaks structured--really, be honest--so that if you are forced to 'retire' that operationally it will be a blip on the radar? Is the project and it's resources designed to survive you?
Just pass a Federal law that says (subject to copyright limitations -- STFU, on any anti-copyright trolling, this isn't the place) that anything in any public-visible area may be recorded. A parking lot? A street corner? Front vestibule? My front yard? If the ABC or NBC news cameras can air it on television, ANYONE can record it. Pass that law, and specify that anyone in the space is fair game. Simple wording, and done.
And that's why you host your own e-mail on your own server with your own encryption.
Use PGP or some other encryption method of the content itself. ONLY connect to your mail servers via SSL--no exceptions, ever. Store NOTHING on the local machine, be it your iPhone, your laptop, your desktop. Build your own OS that connects to your mail server and build your own mail client software so that you know there are no possible backdoors. Build your own mail server the same. Routinely re-encrypt your entire remote mail store with the highest end encryption available. Don't store keys with the mail store. Don't save ANY mail logs. If you do, encrypt them just as tightly.
Next, only mail with people that use comparable basic levels of security.
Finally, don't mail anyone.
Yes, it's horrible. Yes, it could have been possibly avoided. Or possibly not.
The REAL story however is that the Bush administration and the Pentagon under their control covered this up, presumably to shore up general political support in Iraq. THAT is the real story.
For all the griping about RPG elements missing from games and immersion and realism, not a single word about Bioware that I can see and only a passing reference to Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto Series. Really?
GTA4: Liberty City is insanely big, open world, no invisible borders, and fairly realistic physics, except that you--and to a lesser degree other characters--can take a slightly higher beating than in real life and survive. This is the closest you can get to "real", until Red Dead Redemption comes out.
Bioware, Mass Effect 1/2: gold standard for RPGs. Runner up: Dragon Age. Your actions shape the story outcome, responses, and so on. Leveling shapes the nature and tone of your character in play and combat.