Seriously. Twitter is a company and will censor shit as all communication/media companies do from time to time. Twitter isn't "the voice of the people" or any shit like that. It is an inane website for mostly inane people to display their inanity in 140 characters and track the other inane peoples reactions. The only thing Twitter added to the systems that came before it was easy mobile access and popularity tracking, and no one actually seems to use the mobile version any more.
It is killing me that our already dumb society is trying to dumb itself down to thoughts that can fit in 140 characters.
P.S. Someone should invent a social media symbolic language. I bet you could cover the majority of posts with very few symbols.
I think Julian Assange is a monomaniacal self-aggrandising douche bag who is ruining Wikileaks with his editorialising bullshit, but this has pushed me into downloading and seeding the torrent.
Business records aren't "papers"? Are you clinically retarded or just a Big Brother Lover? Business records is exactly the kind of thing the Founding Fathers were thinking about, not your collection of Japanese scat porn.
The records detailing the service provided by your credit card provider/bank should be just as private as the records of a business you run. The whole point of the 4th amendment is to stop Government fishing expeditions (by requiring evidence of probable cause) which is exactly what this is.
The only way you can defend this is if you are a short sighted fool who thinks unlimited surveillance by the Government is the only way to stop the terrorists taking your freedoms (at least this objective would be achieved as the terrorists wouldn't want your freedoms after the Government has left muddy boot prints all over them).
Also get back to me when politicians, police, and prosecutors give disclosure of their business records on request so the public can be sure they aren't taking money from criminal activity. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
It really pisses me off how in most Western countries the train system got systematically dismantled over the past few decades in favour of corporate special interests and bullshit union pressure (truckers).
I live in northern NSW Australia and locally we spend a fortune repairing roads damaged by heavy trucks during the wet parts of the year while perfectly good train lines have gone disused for over ten years. Short haul trucking is fine but long haul city to city trucking should be banned and we should get trains back on tracks. With modern semi-automated systems getting cans off rail cars and onto short haul trucks isn't going to add any significant time or cost and trucking companies stop being able to externalise costs (road repairs). There is easily enough cargo going up and down the East coast of Australia to support enough trains to keep close to current shipping lead time.
The current truck obsession would be like the post office sending individual letters/packages out in one car city to city instead of the current bulk carry system or using Piper Cub airplanes instead of 747's for air passengers.
Any responsible ISP should be doing this voluntarily anyway. My ISP (Exetel) redirects you to a page telling you that you are infected and telling you how to fix it (and giving links to AV software hosted on their servers). Cars have mandatory yearly inspections or they aren't allowed on the road so Peter Coroneos was just trying to dodge legal liability not talking any kind of sense.
Botnets are a huge organised crime business and any ISP that isn't fighting them is either incompetent or is profiting from botnets (either being paid by the mob or making money selling DDOS protection and the like).
There are already a bunch of non-substitutable components that can't be used because of RoHS. Adding arsenic to make faster electronics is just not going to fly (it doesn't matter if current methods are just as toxic, everyone knows about Arsenic and RoHS is half PR). Researchers should be concentrating on making electronics less toxic so we don't keep poisoning African and Asian kids (working for electronics "recyclers") with last years iPhones.
If the effect was only with the puzzles learned when the current was applied this sounds like plain ol' conditioning and the "over clock" comment isn't even slightly related (wow, bad science reporting. Who would guess it?).
On the other hand there are effects I can vaguely re-call from my abnormal psych class where one hemisphere of the parietal robe is inhibitory and the other excitatory, and disrupting this balance can change the resulting behaviour (one example I have in my notebook is that asymmetry in EEG readings for these regions are related to depression). So the effect could be due to the right to left current changing this balance in favour of excitation* and left to right in favour of inhibition with the result of either changing neuro-architecture for specific types of problems OR just playing a part of general conditioning.
* A lot of the people who have problems with maths have maths phobia where it is this phobia inhibiting their displayed ability at maths, not an inherent deficiency at maths.
With Adblock plus, NoScript and BetterPrivacy Firefox addons I had to whitelist the domain before "Evercookie" would even work. And even then as soon as I revoked permissions for everything except NoScript the only bit that stuck was the cache image "cookie". Considering there are already addons to prevent normal cookies and flash cookies it would take all of a day, after this method for "eternal cookies" appeared in the wild, for an addon to be released that blocked it.
The only message from this and previous articles is "most people are stupid and don't follow basic steps to maintain their security and privacy".
Yeah I hate how high taxes and over regulation created those third world countries... oh wait they are almost universally libertarian fantasies in which even local policing is "outsourced" to "entrepreneurs".
This sort of Libertarian fantasy wank gets modded insightful?
P.S. The freedom crushing is being done at the behest of under-regulated corporate behemoths that can buy laws. Which is the end result of Libertarian fantasy wank.
Most of the "faith based" groups barking loudly for the filter DO NOT SUPPORT the Australian Labour Party*. The filter is getting pushed not to pay back the support of whining Christian groups (because this support doesn't exist) but for pure "Think of the Children!" politicking. And because all bureaucracies reach a life stage where instead of performing their function they instead focus on holding onto or acquiring more power.
Many Christian groups are against the filter because with the way Australian society is going it wouldn't be long until ACMA started censoring Christian web sites (as they were already going to filter abortion and euthanasia content).
* At least since the ALP went right wing on immigration policy. Australia does not have a large "Christian right" like America. We have a small Christian right and a slightly larger Christian left. The larger part of society is only religious in a "no atheists in a foxhole" way.
Rubbish. My GPU (Ati 4850, single slot cooler*) is set to run at 80 degrees Celsius IDLE by default (with a RivaTuner adjustment it runs 70 degrees IDLE). Under load with the default config it can hit 90-100 degrees with the fan going full speed. As it is nearing two years old now I am regularly getting crashes and artefacts because it has slowly been baking itself to death**. It is well known in the OCing world that those kinds of heat loads can not only kill the card but also fry motherboard components (my MB is a gamer version with solid caps which is probably the only reason it hasn't died).
I have kept it running for so long because I do not run it non-frame capped. I tried SCII and the cut scenes turning off frame capping caused it to crash. It is an issue when games don't obey the rules the user sets because they may have set them for a reason (it is quite common for laptops to have thermal problems even if they can technically run at a certain rate). Unfortunately for the consumer the nVidia 2XX and the ATI 4XXX series cards were generally given inadequate cooling for anything but perfect lab conditions and so heat death on new games is a common occurrence.
* Nearly all other versions of this card had a dual slot cooler. For a reason. Never try and save $10 on internet retailers. ** No air flow isn't my problem. I have a large spacious gaming case with no obstructed airflow and three large fans pushing a lot of air. The card is just badly designed.
No, the OP's point was aside from the PR damage why should being a war widow get you out of a contract for free? The ability to break contracts due to "exceptional circumstances" should be enshrined in law*, and not just happen due to the court of public opinion. Because we all know if Verizon couldn't provide the service for some reason or decided the customer wasn't worth the fee they would drop them like a rock and the customer would have no legal recourse.
* Also it should be illegal to only offer "free phone on a million year contract" deals.
Being able to choose to use a part of your brain as an adult that you developed as a child is completely different from never developing that part of your brain (or developing it very poorly). Our brains aren't hardwired to develop to "maturity", they develop based on environmental inputs and the brains flexibility decreases with age. If kids watch a lot of media through something like 3D glasses their motor-visual centres are not going to develop in a normal way. Switching between "modes" you have already had wired into your brain is completely different from never having those modes develop in the first place.
Do you not know what a "mirror" is in the context of the Internet? Maybe I should have been more clear. About half a dozen free malware removal tools are hosted within the quarantine domain.
Identity theft and fraud. Trojans and viruses aren't released "for teh lulz" like they were 10-15 years ago. They are released by organised crime syndicates to either steal personal info and to spam advertise dodgy (often illegal) products.
Many ISP's already throttle P2P at their routers, stop being so paranoid. Most ISP's realize that high capacity uses like P2P is the only reason they can sell expensive plans.
I am an Australian on Exetel. I have had the quarantine kick in twice due to my house mates getting infected. Both times it was a spam relay, so it was presumably easy to detect the massive jump in port 25 traffic. Once you are quarantined all ports but 80 are blocked and port 80 only serves up a page telling you that you are quarantined, what you need to do to remove the quarantine (clean your system then click a link to tell the automated system to check your outgoing traffic), and links to ISP mirrors of malware removal tools. Both times it took about 15-30 minutes to clean the infections and get the quarantine removed.
I think schemes like this are best practice and the only way the Internet is going to be usable with the rise in online crime. Even if you have a secure local OS nothing stops users downloading trojans.
So location specific ads that I still won't see because I have Adblock?
I wonder when the advertising industry will figure out the current amount of advertising has well exceeded the point of diminishing returns and is making consumers go out of there way to get rid of it.
This article is a load of crap. "Hardcore" games virtually don't exist any more (in the major publisher marjet) and are especially missing from consoles. Frat boys who play Madden and Halo aren't "hardcore" gamers* and aren't playing "hardcore" games**. If they mean the "bored housewife or grandmother who can't handle a game more complex than pacman" market they should just say so. Console games have been dumbed down and simplified for almost a decade now to appeal to the "broader" market. If someone can't get into your average console game they are either not very interested in games or stupid (remember a large portion of the public is on the wrong side of the bell curve).
Calling modern console games "hardcore" is like calling Michael Bay films "intellectually stimulating".
* An average SNES game would be unbeatable to the vast majority of modern gamers. ** FPSs have been slipping in difficulty for so many years that even on the highest difficulty I rarely find myself challenged and I am not greatly skilled at them.
I live in Australia, I deal with government forms all the time. They are almost universally Family name/Given Name/Other Given names. Information on these forms is for the use of the entity collecting it and therefore has to be usable by their staff, which makes having a system that accepts non-latin characters pointless because nearly none of the staff will be able to read them. I can see the use in the system storing Chinese characters for use in mailing but for internal use the system needs a latin character name*. This article is ridiculous as it even criticises the assumption that people will have family names. The author must have missed his history lesson explaining that family names only became popular in Western European culture when governments started tabulating people. In a rural village everyone knows that Jack the butcher is different from Jack the baker.
That said, many programmers are terrible at designing name fields. I have two middle names (not an exceptional case for Anglo-Saxon culture) and until a few years ago many input systems would not handle this.
*Even if the system did a conversion to a latin representation of an asian name most people can't pronounce them because they are based on different sound primitives. Which is why Asians tend to adopt westernised versions of their real names.
This is true. The thing most people don't realise is that there are so many laws these days that everyone is a criminal, it is just too man power intensive to track it all. As more and more automation of "crime" detection happens more and more average joes will end up in court and jail.
Well did you? Or did you watch wikileaks carefully edited short version?
The US troops who were being shot at and who arrived on the scene moments after the Apache attack found AK's and RPG's and photographed them in situ.
And they shot the van because according to the rules of engagement giving aid to an insurgent made you a target. War isn't a video game, they didn't have a hit box pop up showing there were children in the van. It was a bad call but understandable in the context.
And yes comparing this to WWII is an insult because the allied powers in WWII did not give a shit about civilian casualties* and continued bombing cities knowing full well it had no significant impact on enemy morale. The Nazis were bad guys but the Soviets were worse and the Western allies handed all of Eastern Europe over to them.
* In fact they deliberately targeted the areas to which civilians were fleeing.
Anyone who thinks Vietnam was different to WWII hasn't read enough (or anything) about the Pacific campaign. The rules of war came about to limit barbarity, and when one side violates them the other follows.
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Seriously. Twitter is a company and will censor shit as all communication/media companies do from time to time. Twitter isn't "the voice of the people" or any shit like that. It is an inane website for mostly inane people to display their inanity in 140 characters and track the other inane peoples reactions. The only thing Twitter added to the systems that came before it was easy mobile access and popularity tracking, and no one actually seems to use the mobile version any more.
It is killing me that our already dumb society is trying to dumb itself down to thoughts that can fit in 140 characters.
P.S. Someone should invent a social media symbolic language. I bet you could cover the majority of posts with very few symbols.
Fuck it!
I think Julian Assange is a monomaniacal self-aggrandising douche bag who is ruining Wikileaks with his editorialising bullshit, but this has pushed me into downloading and seeding the torrent.
Business records aren't "papers"? Are you clinically retarded or just a Big Brother Lover? Business records is exactly the kind of thing the Founding Fathers were thinking about, not your collection of Japanese scat porn.
The records detailing the service provided by your credit card provider/bank should be just as private as the records of a business you run. The whole point of the 4th amendment is to stop Government fishing expeditions (by requiring evidence of probable cause) which is exactly what this is.
The only way you can defend this is if you are a short sighted fool who thinks unlimited surveillance by the Government is the only way to stop the terrorists taking your freedoms (at least this objective would be achieved as the terrorists wouldn't want your freedoms after the Government has left muddy boot prints all over them).
Also get back to me when politicians, police, and prosecutors give disclosure of their business records on request so the public can be sure they aren't taking money from criminal activity. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
It really pisses me off how in most Western countries the train system got systematically dismantled over the past few decades in favour of corporate special interests and bullshit union pressure (truckers).
I live in northern NSW Australia and locally we spend a fortune repairing roads damaged by heavy trucks during the wet parts of the year while perfectly good train lines have gone disused for over ten years. Short haul trucking is fine but long haul city to city trucking should be banned and we should get trains back on tracks. With modern semi-automated systems getting cans off rail cars and onto short haul trucks isn't going to add any significant time or cost and trucking companies stop being able to externalise costs (road repairs). There is easily enough cargo going up and down the East coast of Australia to support enough trains to keep close to current shipping lead time.
The current truck obsession would be like the post office sending individual letters/packages out in one car city to city instead of the current bulk carry system or using Piper Cub airplanes instead of 747's for air passengers.
Any responsible ISP should be doing this voluntarily anyway. My ISP (Exetel) redirects you to a page telling you that you are infected and telling you how to fix it (and giving links to AV software hosted on their servers). Cars have mandatory yearly inspections or they aren't allowed on the road so Peter Coroneos was just trying to dodge legal liability not talking any kind of sense.
Botnets are a huge organised crime business and any ISP that isn't fighting them is either incompetent or is profiting from botnets (either being paid by the mob or making money selling DDOS protection and the like).
Restriction of Hazardous Substances.
There are already a bunch of non-substitutable components that can't be used because of RoHS. Adding arsenic to make faster electronics is just not going to fly (it doesn't matter if current methods are just as toxic, everyone knows about Arsenic and RoHS is half PR). Researchers should be concentrating on making electronics less toxic so we don't keep poisoning African and Asian kids (working for electronics "recyclers") with last years iPhones.
If the effect was only with the puzzles learned when the current was applied this sounds like plain ol' conditioning and the "over clock" comment isn't even slightly related (wow, bad science reporting. Who would guess it?).
On the other hand there are effects I can vaguely re-call from my abnormal psych class where one hemisphere of the parietal robe is inhibitory and the other excitatory, and disrupting this balance can change the resulting behaviour (one example I have in my notebook is that asymmetry in EEG readings for these regions are related to depression). So the effect could be due to the right to left current changing this balance in favour of excitation* and left to right in favour of inhibition with the result of either changing neuro-architecture for specific types of problems OR just playing a part of general conditioning.
* A lot of the people who have problems with maths have maths phobia where it is this phobia inhibiting their displayed ability at maths, not an inherent deficiency at maths.
YIAAPS.
Stargate command wasn't operational until the mid 90's.
With Adblock plus, NoScript and BetterPrivacy Firefox addons I had to whitelist the domain before "Evercookie" would even work. And even then as soon as I revoked permissions for everything except NoScript the only bit that stuck was the cache image "cookie". Considering there are already addons to prevent normal cookies and flash cookies it would take all of a day, after this method for "eternal cookies" appeared in the wild, for an addon to be released that blocked it.
The only message from this and previous articles is "most people are stupid and don't follow basic steps to maintain their security and privacy".
Yeah I hate how high taxes and over regulation created those third world countries... oh wait they are almost universally libertarian fantasies in which even local policing is "outsourced" to "entrepreneurs".
This sort of Libertarian fantasy wank gets modded insightful?
P.S. The freedom crushing is being done at the behest of under-regulated corporate behemoths that can buy laws. Which is the end result of Libertarian fantasy wank.
Most of the "faith based" groups barking loudly for the filter DO NOT SUPPORT the Australian Labour Party*. The filter is getting pushed not to pay back the support of whining Christian groups (because this support doesn't exist) but for pure "Think of the Children!" politicking. And because all bureaucracies reach a life stage where instead of performing their function they instead focus on holding onto or acquiring more power.
Many Christian groups are against the filter because with the way Australian society is going it wouldn't be long until ACMA started censoring Christian web sites (as they were already going to filter abortion and euthanasia content).
* At least since the ALP went right wing on immigration policy. Australia does not have a large "Christian right" like America. We have a small Christian right and a slightly larger Christian left. The larger part of society is only religious in a "no atheists in a foxhole" way.
Rubbish. My GPU (Ati 4850, single slot cooler*) is set to run at 80 degrees Celsius IDLE by default (with a RivaTuner adjustment it runs 70 degrees IDLE). Under load with the default config it can hit 90-100 degrees with the fan going full speed. As it is nearing two years old now I am regularly getting crashes and artefacts because it has slowly been baking itself to death**. It is well known in the OCing world that those kinds of heat loads can not only kill the card but also fry motherboard components (my MB is a gamer version with solid caps which is probably the only reason it hasn't died).
I have kept it running for so long because I do not run it non-frame capped. I tried SCII and the cut scenes turning off frame capping caused it to crash. It is an issue when games don't obey the rules the user sets because they may have set them for a reason (it is quite common for laptops to have thermal problems even if they can technically run at a certain rate). Unfortunately for the consumer the nVidia 2XX and the ATI 4XXX series cards were generally given inadequate cooling for anything but perfect lab conditions and so heat death on new games is a common occurrence.
* Nearly all other versions of this card had a dual slot cooler. For a reason. Never try and save $10 on internet retailers.
** No air flow isn't my problem. I have a large spacious gaming case with no obstructed airflow and three large fans pushing a lot of air. The card is just badly designed.
No, the OP's point was aside from the PR damage why should being a war widow get you out of a contract for free? The ability to break contracts due to "exceptional circumstances" should be enshrined in law*, and not just happen due to the court of public opinion. Because we all know if Verizon couldn't provide the service for some reason or decided the customer wasn't worth the fee they would drop them like a rock and the customer would have no legal recourse.
* Also it should be illegal to only offer "free phone on a million year contract" deals.
Being able to choose to use a part of your brain as an adult that you developed as a child is completely different from never developing that part of your brain (or developing it very poorly). Our brains aren't hardwired to develop to "maturity", they develop based on environmental inputs and the brains flexibility decreases with age. If kids watch a lot of media through something like 3D glasses their motor-visual centres are not going to develop in a normal way. Switching between "modes" you have already had wired into your brain is completely different from never having those modes develop in the first place.
Do you not know what a "mirror" is in the context of the Internet? Maybe I should have been more clear. About half a dozen free malware removal tools are hosted within the quarantine domain.
Identity theft and fraud. Trojans and viruses aren't released "for teh lulz" like they were 10-15 years ago. They are released by organised crime syndicates to either steal personal info and to spam advertise dodgy (often illegal) products.
Many ISP's already throttle P2P at their routers, stop being so paranoid. Most ISP's realize that high capacity uses like P2P is the only reason they can sell expensive plans.
I am an Australian on Exetel. I have had the quarantine kick in twice due to my house mates getting infected. Both times it was a spam relay, so it was presumably easy to detect the massive jump in port 25 traffic. Once you are quarantined all ports but 80 are blocked and port 80 only serves up a page telling you that you are quarantined, what you need to do to remove the quarantine (clean your system then click a link to tell the automated system to check your outgoing traffic), and links to ISP mirrors of malware removal tools. Both times it took about 15-30 minutes to clean the infections and get the quarantine removed.
I think schemes like this are best practice and the only way the Internet is going to be usable with the rise in online crime. Even if you have a secure local OS nothing stops users downloading trojans.
So location specific ads that I still won't see because I have Adblock?
I wonder when the advertising industry will figure out the current amount of advertising has well exceeded the point of diminishing returns and is making consumers go out of there way to get rid of it.
This article is a load of crap. "Hardcore" games virtually don't exist any more (in the major publisher marjet) and are especially missing from consoles. Frat boys who play Madden and Halo aren't "hardcore" gamers* and aren't playing "hardcore" games**. If they mean the "bored housewife or grandmother who can't handle a game more complex than pacman" market they should just say so. Console games have been dumbed down and simplified for almost a decade now to appeal to the "broader" market. If someone can't get into your average console game they are either not very interested in games or stupid (remember a large portion of the public is on the wrong side of the bell curve).
Calling modern console games "hardcore" is like calling Michael Bay films "intellectually stimulating".
* An average SNES game would be unbeatable to the vast majority of modern gamers.
** FPSs have been slipping in difficulty for so many years that even on the highest difficulty I rarely find myself challenged and I am not greatly skilled at them.
They have family names, they are just not consistent across generations. Which is largely not an issue for a computer based system.
I live in Australia, I deal with government forms all the time. They are almost universally Family name/Given Name/Other Given names. Information on these forms is for the use of the entity collecting it and therefore has to be usable by their staff, which makes having a system that accepts non-latin characters pointless because nearly none of the staff will be able to read them. I can see the use in the system storing Chinese characters for use in mailing but for internal use the system needs a latin character name*. This article is ridiculous as it even criticises the assumption that people will have family names. The author must have missed his history lesson explaining that family names only became popular in Western European culture when governments started tabulating people. In a rural village everyone knows that Jack the butcher is different from Jack the baker.
That said, many programmers are terrible at designing name fields. I have two middle names (not an exceptional case for Anglo-Saxon culture) and until a few years ago many input systems would not handle this.
*Even if the system did a conversion to a latin representation of an asian name most people can't pronounce them because they are based on different sound primitives. Which is why Asians tend to adopt westernised versions of their real names.
This is true. The thing most people don't realise is that there are so many laws these days that everyone is a criminal, it is just too man power intensive to track it all. As more and more automation of "crime" detection happens more and more average joes will end up in court and jail.
Well did you? Or did you watch wikileaks carefully edited short version?
The US troops who were being shot at and who arrived on the scene moments after the Apache attack found AK's and RPG's and photographed them in situ.
And they shot the van because according to the rules of engagement giving aid to an insurgent made you a target. War isn't a video game, they didn't have a hit box pop up showing there were children in the van. It was a bad call but understandable in the context.
And yes comparing this to WWII is an insult because the allied powers in WWII did not give a shit about civilian casualties* and continued bombing cities knowing full well it had no significant impact on enemy morale. The Nazis were bad guys but the Soviets were worse and the Western allies handed all of Eastern Europe over to them.
* In fact they deliberately targeted the areas to which civilians were fleeing.
Anyone who thinks Vietnam was different to WWII hasn't read enough (or anything) about the Pacific campaign. The rules of war came about to limit barbarity, and when one side violates them the other follows.