It appears that USA is applying lessons from 2001, which was that different intelligence networks (NSA, CIA, FBI, etc.) had information on terrorism but were not sharing it or "connecting the dots". The department of "Homeland Security" didn't appear to me to be the solution to that (Obama and Bush rotating leadership between CIA, NSA, Pentagon probably works better). But the analogy between Hackers and Al-Qaeda is perhaps apt, and in face of a disorganized organic opposition, sharing information doesn't seem like a bad response. Info gathered could be misused someday, sure. But are they organizing to compare notes and connect dots against cyber-criminals, or to find out individual search habits and credit card use? The banking industry has already cornered the latter market, government takeover of the banks would be the more direct path to Big Brotherhood than waging a united front on cybercrime.
Some of the commenters seem to be forgetting that Skype has not been an independent free service company since 2005, when it was purchased and left to flounder by ebay.com It's a European company, based in Luxemburg and Estonia, and the EU will probably keep Microsoft from messing it up, though I don't think it's clear that MS would be prone to do that.
As the headline reads, technically, this could also be used to prosecute an artist who is lip syncing the original video, right? Say I upload, without authorization, Milli Vanilli lip-syncing, it is the lip syncer and not the uploader? If not, and only the person who does the unauthorized upload is responsible (and not the lip syncer), then the headline (or the legislation) is truly off key. It assumes the kid lip syncing is the guilty party, when as always it was the unlawful distributor (uploader) and lip syncing has nothing to do with it.
Did you know that eating dirt is good for kids? Did you know that years of scrubbing hospitals of every bacteria has made them an incubator for resistent staph? It is not the occasional exposure to internet filth that alarms me as a parent. What would bother me would be my kid focusing on it and consuming it in unhealthy quantities. Building a filter to stop all exposure is lazy parenting. What you want is a relationship such that your kids, when they happen on something, talk to you about it rather than hiding it (also called "teaching to the moment"). Our society is constantly assuming that harms from overexposure demonstrate or indicate that zero exposure should be the norm.
Access to porn correlates with lower rates of sexual violence. And this study at a Taiwanese hospital turned up strong evidence that gamma rays (from radioactive rebar inadvertently used in the concrete walls of the hospital) reduced the level of cancer dramatically. http://stan-heretic.blogspot.com/2010/05/gamma-radiation-protects-against-cancer.html "A mom's job is to make sure the kids don't get hurt, the dad's job is to make sure they don't get killed." ETC.
Good example. As long as we have armies of grad students and professors in a "publish or perish" environment, we may as well have them making sure that stuff we do and pay for isn't snake oil.
Can't have it both ways. You either have science and the advantages of the internet, or you have censorship control. The more of the latter, the less of the former. This is why Germany and USSR had so many scientists defect, the lesser educated people (thugs) get into government command and control, and the more educated (professors and scientists and students) dislike the jock overlords. They find ways either out or around. Then both the thugs and the scientists go home for the day and try to find out how to download Israeli porn.
Well, you have to have people criticize your methodology to be taken seriously. That's how Kinsey Institute got its mojo.
Speaking of which, Kinsey Institute has many similar findings in previous research. http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/resources/FAQ.html#fantasy Now, I did find myself wondering, since I never heard of a MILF before the past decade, whether people are searching for something until they FIND it and then look for it over and over and over again. Survey may be biased against people who use bookmarks. So I've heard.
The freedom of speech is not in question in the article. The journalistic source is also not in question. It appears that people who find Twitter turning this information over to be controversial are mistaking Twitter for a journalism publication. Twitter is the mechanical "printing press". Freedom of speech is not the same as freedom on anonymity. The Boston Globe or NYT don't demand that THEIR identity be protected, they demand that the source be protected (and don't always win on that, and sometimes the journalist has to sit in the pen awhile).
In other words, there is good news and bad news about "self publication". The good news is that you don't have to convince a reporter or editor to run your story. The bad news is that you are identified the same as the editor or reporter is immediately identified when they run their story.
"Now the subject of an upcoming book and feature film in development by the author and producers behind 2010's "The Social Network," the student thieves were busted when the Belgian rock collector they contacted to buy the moon material contacted the FBI."
Slashdot falls for another planted story, news at 11.
The price of my Sprint Evo 4G phone ($400ish) was high enough that I expected to be able to ask for these to be removed at a Sprint Store. Instead, they removed the Task Killer application which I'd installed to automatically kill the Amazon, Nascar, NOVA, etc. The store representative said that once killed, Amazon and Nova are programmed to re-start themselves, creating potential conflicts. Yes, their resolution to that conflict was to remove the task killer. Also, I constantly delete data that NOVA etc. are gathering on the SD card (Amazon is the worst).
In other words, this isn't just pre-installed, it's apparently collecting data on my phone use, and restarting when I turn it off. The Sprint store rep put a shortcut to the "stop running programs" and said I should just turn them off several times per day and delete the data.
For weeks I've now been reading about how to "root" the phone so I can uninstall these applications, but the root-tweaking programs I've installed have these "installer beware" disclaimers saying that it may turn the $400 phone into a brick. I'm left feeling foolish that I am not confident enough about phone rooting, and I curl up in a ball hugging my knees to my chest.
History Channel should start running "American Pickers" and "Pawn Stars" episodes on murderer paraphernalia. Maybe do an episode on the auction from Bin Laden's TV, shawl and porn stash. Lee Harvey O's toybox. Eventually, America's supply side could glut the market.
I think that it's the use of the satellite to see under sand which distinguishes it. Since reading about the history of deforestation, e.g. how Turkey had been covered with sequoia-sized trees, I've wondered if all deserts (like the Sahara) have human civilization as a contributor or cause. It will be interesting to see if they find ancient cities in places we don't know about, buried in the Sahara, the Gobi, Arizona...
I've watched wikipedia edits where there has been a legal battle, like over "patent exhaustion principle" (where owners of copyrights and patents try to extend the lives of their patents over time or across parallel markets). If the maker of a disposable camera is willing to spend millions on lawyers to file depositions to fight, and lose, case after case chasing its claim of extended rights (you cannot fix and resell something I have a patent on) to the Supreme Court, and sees a rare UNANIMOUS Supreme Court ruling against them ("No, your patent does not keep someone from reselling your used product in the secondary market")...
Anyone willing to spend money on a lawyer will be willing one day to spend money editing wikipedia. Wikpedia is doing great now running on hope and excitement over its novelty. When it is taken for granted, and no more novel than a gas station or laundromat or phone book, the same money that pays lawyers to chase depositions will work into rewriting Wikipedia, and the more success they have, the more cynical we will become about it.
The Guardian and others are in a tough spot, as print journals have less and less income and are trying to cover bigger and bigger stories (like... China). While the event posted here may or may not have happened, a blogger I read regularly, Adam Minter (www.shanghaiscrap.com) has made mincemeat of almost every such story I've read in the western media during the past two years (latest case, that China censored Bob Dylan's concert there - apparently not, but the story was reprinted extensively). I've travelled a lot in China, often with officials, and would say that most Chinese government officials are as far from the source of censorship itch as we are here on/. I don't know if the answer is for the West to stop reporting on "twitter posts" by people who claim to have "thrown shoes" at "firewalls", and I personally know the Chinese government "command and control" is awful and stupid and a painful thing to watch... Still, having read dozens of these stories, I think we need to expose that (a) the Western Press often does not know what it is talking about and (b) is just as often making it up as it goes along.
I'm hoping for one small enough that I can further postpone cleaning my garage, via better mapping of the rakes, bicycles, and recycling bin placement.
This is the PSAT Rapture tomorrow. The SAT Rapture, according to the (Americas) Mayan Calendar is 2012. There may be some delays and syncronizing tomorrow, but be sure to pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
I just meant it is not evident from the article. Western press routinely reports false flags of government intervention (false reports that Bob Dylan's song list was censored in China last month, e.g.) I don't know, maybe there is something going on which is sinister, but it is in the interest of people who care that we not react to false alarms. I did not see anything in the article that told me whether the server was a 486 with a spam trojan, or a legitimate party mailing system abusively taken days prior to an election, or a massive denial of service machine aimed at shutting down the French online porn industry... There's just not enough in the article to form a strong opinion about.
Tough Crowd! Sorry for not explaining that the credit card companies can generate a number for this purpose which would appear to be a real number but they would not execute payment. I'm assuming that at least one bank could be found that doesn't like spam. I'm not saying there isn't a reason it cannot be done, just that I've never understood why not, and the retorts here don't really resolve that.
I've never understood why not, when a computer can generate millions of spam ads for viagra, that another computer cannot generate millions of (fake) orders for the viagra.
He had mastered Mario Brothers using a cheat code we installed for him, but could not rescue the princess in level 5. He finally became enraged, ripped the little gray Nintendo box from the TV plugs, and smashed it to the ground. Ok, that was a long time ago, but he's not going near my laptop.
Seriously, I'm not sure there is not enough here (unless it's in the German language, second link) to tell whether this is newsworthy or whether Jens lives in his mother's basement and sent a wormy email.
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They can cap USA alright. But the Cloud Computing is bigger in emerging markets. Comcast has a lot of work ahead of it.
It appears that USA is applying lessons from 2001, which was that different intelligence networks (NSA, CIA, FBI, etc.) had information on terrorism but were not sharing it or "connecting the dots". The department of "Homeland Security" didn't appear to me to be the solution to that (Obama and Bush rotating leadership between CIA, NSA, Pentagon probably works better). But the analogy between Hackers and Al-Qaeda is perhaps apt, and in face of a disorganized organic opposition, sharing information doesn't seem like a bad response. Info gathered could be misused someday, sure. But are they organizing to compare notes and connect dots against cyber-criminals, or to find out individual search habits and credit card use? The banking industry has already cornered the latter market, government takeover of the banks would be the more direct path to Big Brotherhood than waging a united front on cybercrime.
Some of the commenters seem to be forgetting that Skype has not been an independent free service company since 2005, when it was purchased and left to flounder by ebay.com It's a European company, based in Luxemburg and Estonia, and the EU will probably keep Microsoft from messing it up, though I don't think it's clear that MS would be prone to do that.
As the headline reads, technically, this could also be used to prosecute an artist who is lip syncing the original video, right? Say I upload, without authorization, Milli Vanilli lip-syncing, it is the lip syncer and not the uploader? If not, and only the person who does the unauthorized upload is responsible (and not the lip syncer), then the headline (or the legislation) is truly off key. It assumes the kid lip syncing is the guilty party, when as always it was the unlawful distributor (uploader) and lip syncing has nothing to do with it.
Did you know that eating dirt is good for kids? Did you know that years of scrubbing hospitals of every bacteria has made them an incubator for resistent staph? It is not the occasional exposure to internet filth that alarms me as a parent. What would bother me would be my kid focusing on it and consuming it in unhealthy quantities. Building a filter to stop all exposure is lazy parenting. What you want is a relationship such that your kids, when they happen on something, talk to you about it rather than hiding it (also called "teaching to the moment"). Our society is constantly assuming that harms from overexposure demonstrate or indicate that zero exposure should be the norm.
Access to porn correlates with lower rates of sexual violence. And this study at a Taiwanese hospital turned up strong evidence that gamma rays (from radioactive rebar inadvertently used in the concrete walls of the hospital) reduced the level of cancer dramatically. http://stan-heretic.blogspot.com/2010/05/gamma-radiation-protects-against-cancer.html "A mom's job is to make sure the kids don't get hurt, the dad's job is to make sure they don't get killed." ETC.
Wrote former burger flipper Ferd McFaddle in his blog.
He needs the work. It's not like anyone else is likely to hire him.
Good example. As long as we have armies of grad students and professors in a "publish or perish" environment, we may as well have them making sure that stuff we do and pay for isn't snake oil.
Can't have it both ways. You either have science and the advantages of the internet, or you have censorship control. The more of the latter, the less of the former. This is why Germany and USSR had so many scientists defect, the lesser educated people (thugs) get into government command and control, and the more educated (professors and scientists and students) dislike the jock overlords. They find ways either out or around. Then both the thugs and the scientists go home for the day and try to find out how to download Israeli porn.
Well, you have to have people criticize your methodology to be taken seriously. That's how Kinsey Institute got its mojo.
Speaking of which, Kinsey Institute has many similar findings in previous research. http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/resources/FAQ.html#fantasy Now, I did find myself wondering, since I never heard of a MILF before the past decade, whether people are searching for something until they FIND it and then look for it over and over and over again. Survey may be biased against people who use bookmarks. So I've heard.
The freedom of speech is not in question in the article. The journalistic source is also not in question. It appears that people who find Twitter turning this information over to be controversial are mistaking Twitter for a journalism publication. Twitter is the mechanical "printing press". Freedom of speech is not the same as freedom on anonymity. The Boston Globe or NYT don't demand that THEIR identity be protected, they demand that the source be protected (and don't always win on that, and sometimes the journalist has to sit in the pen awhile).
In other words, there is good news and bad news about "self publication". The good news is that you don't have to convince a reporter or editor to run your story. The bad news is that you are identified the same as the editor or reporter is immediately identified when they run their story.
"Now the subject of an upcoming book and feature film in development by the author and producers behind 2010's "The Social Network," the student thieves were busted when the Belgian rock collector they contacted to buy the moon material contacted the FBI."
Slashdot falls for another planted story, news at 11.
The price of my Sprint Evo 4G phone ($400ish) was high enough that I expected to be able to ask for these to be removed at a Sprint Store. Instead, they removed the Task Killer application which I'd installed to automatically kill the Amazon, Nascar, NOVA, etc. The store representative said that once killed, Amazon and Nova are programmed to re-start themselves, creating potential conflicts. Yes, their resolution to that conflict was to remove the task killer. Also, I constantly delete data that NOVA etc. are gathering on the SD card (Amazon is the worst).
In other words, this isn't just pre-installed, it's apparently collecting data on my phone use, and restarting when I turn it off. The Sprint store rep put a shortcut to the "stop running programs" and said I should just turn them off several times per day and delete the data.
For weeks I've now been reading about how to "root" the phone so I can uninstall these applications, but the root-tweaking programs I've installed have these "installer beware" disclaimers saying that it may turn the $400 phone into a brick. I'm left feeling foolish that I am not confident enough about phone rooting, and I curl up in a ball hugging my knees to my chest.
History Channel should start running "American Pickers" and "Pawn Stars" episodes on murderer paraphernalia. Maybe do an episode on the auction from Bin Laden's TV, shawl and porn stash. Lee Harvey O's toybox. Eventually, America's supply side could glut the market.
I think that it's the use of the satellite to see under sand which distinguishes it. Since reading about the history of deforestation, e.g. how Turkey had been covered with sequoia-sized trees, I've wondered if all deserts (like the Sahara) have human civilization as a contributor or cause. It will be interesting to see if they find ancient cities in places we don't know about, buried in the Sahara, the Gobi, Arizona...
Anyone willing to spend money on a lawyer will be willing one day to spend money editing wikipedia. Wikpedia is doing great now running on hope and excitement over its novelty. When it is taken for granted, and no more novel than a gas station or laundromat or phone book, the same money that pays lawyers to chase depositions will work into rewriting Wikipedia, and the more success they have, the more cynical we will become about it.
The Guardian and others are in a tough spot, as print journals have less and less income and are trying to cover bigger and bigger stories (like... China). While the event posted here may or may not have happened, a blogger I read regularly, Adam Minter (www.shanghaiscrap.com) has made mincemeat of almost every such story I've read in the western media during the past two years (latest case, that China censored Bob Dylan's concert there - apparently not, but the story was reprinted extensively). I've travelled a lot in China, often with officials, and would say that most Chinese government officials are as far from the source of censorship itch as we are here on /. I don't know if the answer is for the West to stop reporting on "twitter posts" by people who claim to have "thrown shoes" at "firewalls", and I personally know the Chinese government "command and control" is awful and stupid and a painful thing to watch... Still, having read dozens of these stories, I think we need to expose that (a) the Western Press often does not know what it is talking about and (b) is just as often making it up as it goes along.
I'm hoping for one small enough that I can further postpone cleaning my garage, via better mapping of the rakes, bicycles, and recycling bin placement.
Used all my mods up, but you are 4 baby
This is the PSAT Rapture tomorrow. The SAT Rapture, according to the (Americas) Mayan Calendar is 2012. There may be some delays and syncronizing tomorrow, but be sure to pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
I just meant it is not evident from the article. Western press routinely reports false flags of government intervention (false reports that Bob Dylan's song list was censored in China last month, e.g.) I don't know, maybe there is something going on which is sinister, but it is in the interest of people who care that we not react to false alarms. I did not see anything in the article that told me whether the server was a 486 with a spam trojan, or a legitimate party mailing system abusively taken days prior to an election, or a massive denial of service machine aimed at shutting down the French online porn industry... There's just not enough in the article to form a strong opinion about.
Tough Crowd! Sorry for not explaining that the credit card companies can generate a number for this purpose which would appear to be a real number but they would not execute payment. I'm assuming that at least one bank could be found that doesn't like spam. I'm not saying there isn't a reason it cannot be done, just that I've never understood why not, and the retorts here don't really resolve that.
I've never understood why not, when a computer can generate millions of spam ads for viagra, that another computer cannot generate millions of (fake) orders for the viagra.
He had mastered Mario Brothers using a cheat code we installed for him, but could not rescue the princess in level 5. He finally became enraged, ripped the little gray Nintendo box from the TV plugs, and smashed it to the ground. Ok, that was a long time ago, but he's not going near my laptop.
The movie will be 15 minutes long, with soundtrack by Andy Warhol's Velvet Underground. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jens_Seipenbusch.
Seriously, I'm not sure there is not enough here (unless it's in the German language, second link) to tell whether this is newsworthy or whether Jens lives in his mother's basement and sent a wormy email.