> Googling someone to see if they're a Nazi child molester on the no-fly list is perfectly legal, and as a hiring manager, you can bet I'm going to keep doing it
I guess most dangerous criminals put their achievements on the web, happy hunting.
Back to topic, it figures. Real power is held by big banks, big corps. Their real objective is to shape the way people think. That's the only way to keep people doing things for money: demolishing whatever other system of thought competes with the "life is a game and money is how you keep the score" blatant propaganda that you were made to think it's the way the world goes.
So EACH ASPECT OF LIFE must be submitted to work and pay. Which explains how the PHB generation controlling their human resources on the web gets bonuses. In a system with true competition, treating workers like humans, respecting their privacy while judging them from their performance, would yield a competitive advantage. In a system where all firms need financing to stay in business, banks control who wins and who lose more than the free market, and PHBs help them shape society. Suddenly the world becomes rational again:D
To get to the bigger picture, the cyclic economic crisis, the wars and reconstructions, the governments' bankrupcies all ensure people keep struggling and never get enough money to think about else. Is this part of a plan or simply the inherently present class of sociopaths trying to control their neighbours?
Defining the current system "capitalism + communism" is helpful in appreciating that they are both focused on which class has to get more money without ever dealing with the bigger problem: who controls money and how much interest can be charged before people have to trade real assets for a debt that is mathematically impossible to pay off. Communist countries have bred a generation which is focused on money and western lifestyle as it were the solution to all problems. Communism and capitalism can't conceive a free market built by people enforcing a minimal ethical system ("treat others like you want them to treat you - unless you're a masochist of course") where people can get relatively rich without hurting others.
since we are into money aspects, let's deal with it completely: publicize the fact that when you give MS or any other corp. that engages in patent trolling, you are indirectly hurting the companies that MS brings down with patent abuse.
'It's evolving. It's doing what we designed it to do,'
Isn't that statement eating itself?
No, it is proof that the ID vs. evolution argument is bogus. Something can both evolve AND be the product of the will of somebody. Also, for a hypothetical eternal god POV, not bound by time, there is no "let's setup something and see how it evolves". It is more like "Let's do it, done.", even if it involves uncertainty, free will, evolution: all of those concepts are bound to time, a god is not.
A more classic proof of the argument being bogus is the fact that evolution is not a dogma and ID is not an acceptable scientific theory (unless you have scientific proof of a god to back it up, which slashdot has not reported AFAIK:) )
A cynic proof of the argument being bogus is: it doesn't solve anything, it needlessly divides people, it is perfect for the media to fill up pages instead of giving people useful information. No ruling class ever liked their sheep to get too smart.
Of course, having proved ID independent from evolution and doesn't mean either is true.
That's the point. Users cannot be trusted to do this and the government will do this for us. They will have unfettered access to all your activity at this point.
Funny, that was my prediction for web 3.0: people will be forced to use only selected web 2.0 sites (that have already imposed the 'all your data are belong to us' model).
All it needs is another "pearl harbor" as justification: terrorists using the net as infrastructure or target of an attack will make regulators pass anything. Want mandatory big brother style webcams? no prob. But that's web 4.0:D
The point being that three judges to authorize wiretaps is a braindead way to do anything you brought up.
- Blocks everything else judges were working on.
- Doesn't discriminate about important wiretaps.
- Doesn't block leaking to the press (which is a different matter altogether: leaking to the press usually give the accused party the right of screaming "conspiracy!" while putting in second place the reasons about the guy was suspected in the first place - the fact you brought this up tells enough about how easy is to manipulate your opinion)
> Now, there is a problem with how long trials last in Italy. It's a hard issue to tackle, in part due to the magistrates' staunch opposition to any sort of reform.
Dear readers, please look up the reasons for the opposition to the reforms before believing this bloke. Let's see the most recent one
A council of three judges to initiate wiretapping, plus other 5 of 6 to end a trial. All different. That must speed up trials by making them impossible, I guess.
As a more general example that would make Romans laugh their classical asses off, see wikipedia on Berlusconi 'problems': All Iberian 2 (false accounting): not guilty (law changed by his own administration)
First Court: on September 26, 2005 Berlusconi was acquitted because the new law on false accounting makes it illegal only if there is a specific damaged party reporting the fact to the authorities [1]. This new law was passed by Berlusconi's coalition after the beginning of the trial, and was claimed by the opposition to be an ad personam law, i.e. aimed at acquitting Berlusconi.
PS. I am Italian too, so according to your fine ad-personam self deprecation theory, I am wrong too, not to worry about my examples, right? LOL
Microsoft is inherently evil, their products are assumed to be inferior, whether or not you've actually used them.
You are so totally right. Insead we should base our decisions about software on the immediate perceived advantage of one choice, without caring about the past action of the company selling the product. I mean, nobody ever needed that thing call experience, in life.
Financing advocates of software patents? why not! the worst it can happen is that they choose what ideas you can use no matter whose ideas they were to begin with.
note to editors, IE8 is the second browser to protect from clickjacking the first is firefox with noscript extension.
gnome gksu lets you keep the password for the entire session. Opening a root terminal does the same.
You could also use passwordless pub/private key. Put the private key onto read only mounted usb, login and remove it. IIRC that requires messing with PAM, but a.bashrc script to enable a localhost ssh -X session would work too.
> since Linux, unlike Windows, doesn't encrypt data using your login credentials)
Hopefully not even windows does that. A forgotten password would mean losing all the data, a changed password would mean reencoding all the data!
Instead, storing a random password file and using it as key to mount an encfs directory is quite easy to do in the.bashrc - sure it doesn't hide data from root, but if root wants to sniff you out you're fscked anyway. I would prefer a single encrypted partition with the standard unix file permission model, having groups comes in handy.
I disagree. If you're using digital media you will eventually need to know why the data you put with appliance A can't be read by appliance B. Formatting and choosing a filesystem makes you start wondering. Better sooner than too late.
They ship formatted because 1. it's practical 2. commercial reasons (lock in, trying to sell added value... some companies develop completely redundant usb storage drivers for their pens don't they?)
> I've always believed that it is better to regret having done something than to regret having not done it.
Let's apply a bit of logic. "something" will end up being, good, or substantially neutral. If it ends up being good, regretting having done it makes no sense.
If it ends up being bad, worse becomes better than good. "I regret having lost my wallet, i'd rather regret having it still in my pocket". Bullshit.
If it ends up being neutral, doing it or not doing it is the same, so you essentially prefer regretting having wasted time.
I don't advocate behaving like dr. spock, but this philosophy is being driven by fear of subsequent regret. It's worse than being driven by instinct, worse than being driven by reason.
So, putting dissident activists together with terrorists kinda screws up the data mining efforts.
Given the amount of arbitrary power that governments award themselves in the name of national security, I would not be suprised if malice > stupidity in this case.
actually, for my own digital assets repo - see signature - i see two features of git which might be handy, atomicity of commits and hashes which avoid storing duplicates. git has "plumbing" commands which might help. Still haven't explored it.
BTW if you have enough band you could do away with a doxroom instance on a host, don't forget to backup files and db and remember it's alpha quality.
I don't exactly like the way you formulated the question, but that rings a bell... occam's razor would suggest that if we have to postulate we are in a peculiar place, chances are that our models are flawed to begin with. "Precession of the perihelion of Mercury" all over again?
Hey, seen him in person this summer, Stallman is as clean as the next hacker... oh wait. Seriously, he's clean.
And he is mostly right. Cloud computing is a trap UNLESS your local machine is a dedicated local node of the cloud that can work stand alone, communicating with free protocols and free software, form a competing cloud and so on. That is, if you can say bye to the cloud service without experiencing any loss of time and data.
Thank you all for the informative replies. I have one couple last observations though. Modelling fires could be extremely tricky, but how hard do you really need to try since three buildings collapsed with fire set in different places and at least under two different conditions (inbound plane vs. whatever set fire to wtc7)? Besides, just collapsing because of fire would undermine some 911 truth claims.
Starting with gnewsense and adding stuff is a little different than going to ubuntu. For example one may not feel necessary to add GLX for 3d. Or use epiphany, or iceweasel/burningdog/whatever to browse instead of FF3.
Or, being very paranoid, blobs in the kernel or in drivers are not active until a single line of obfuscated code does the job.
The 911 truth sites i visited seemed focused on the peculiarity of inflamed building collapsing on themselves. Did nobody make a rough scale model of a skyscraper, comparatively more fragile than the wtc 1 2 or 7, imbibe it in fuel, light it up and see what happens? Scale matters but as I said making it more fragile should compensate. Simulations are not as effective: given three years and a beowulf cluster one can model improbable events, and an improbable event verified three out of three times in the case of the WTC buildings won't satisfy conspiracy theorists.
on gnewsense 2.0 one could install the intel wifi drivers package(s) and separately install the firmware from a ubuntu deb (i did it with a lenny deb IIRC, it works). It taints the distro, yet you have the minimum amount of blobs installed. Of course one of the best possible places to hide spyware is in the wireless firm...[NO CARRIER]:)
Except that worms for linux would find most servers on the net vulnerable- do you realize the potential for mischief? In fact worms for linux were produced.
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> Googling someone to see if they're a Nazi child molester on the no-fly list is perfectly legal, and as a hiring manager, you can bet I'm going to keep doing it
I guess most dangerous criminals put their achievements on the web, happy hunting.
Back to topic, it figures. Real power is held by big banks, big corps. Their real objective is to shape the way people think. That's the only way to keep people doing things for money: demolishing whatever other system of thought competes with the "life is a game and money is how you keep the score" blatant propaganda that you were made to think it's the way the world goes.
So EACH ASPECT OF LIFE must be submitted to work and pay. Which explains how the PHB generation controlling their human resources on the web gets bonuses. In a system with true competition, treating workers like humans, respecting their privacy while judging them from their performance, would yield a competitive advantage. In a system where all firms need financing to stay in business, banks control who wins and who lose more than the free market, and PHBs help them shape society. Suddenly the world becomes rational again :D
To get to the bigger picture, the cyclic economic crisis, the wars and reconstructions, the governments' bankrupcies all ensure people keep struggling and never get enough money to think about else. Is this part of a plan or simply the inherently present class of sociopaths trying to control their neighbours?
Defining the current system "capitalism + communism" is helpful in appreciating that they are both focused on which class has to get more money without ever dealing with the bigger problem: who controls money and how much interest can be charged before people have to trade real assets for a debt that is mathematically impossible to pay off. Communist countries have bred a generation which is focused on money and western lifestyle as it were the solution to all problems. Communism and capitalism can't conceive a free market built by people enforcing a minimal ethical system ("treat others like you want them to treat you - unless you're a masochist of course") where people can get relatively rich without hurting others.
I'm not sure there are two sets of elite involved in communism and fascism. To govern sheep you need dogs on both sides.
The style's more like dogbert the evil HR director's, from http://dilbert.com/.
Only, he'd have labelled the vote button "Back to inbox"
purrr purrr
> ID is dependent on the creation stories in Genesis, and is strictly anti-evolution.
"for dust you are and to dust you will return" seems evolutionary enough to me :D but i digress. Thank you for your comment.
since we are into money aspects, let's deal with it completely: publicize the fact that when you give MS or any other corp. that engages in patent trolling, you are indirectly hurting the companies that MS brings down with patent abuse.
No, it is proof that the ID vs. evolution argument is bogus.
Something can both evolve AND be the product of the will of somebody. Also, for a hypothetical eternal god POV, not bound by time, there is no "let's setup something and see how it evolves". It is more like "Let's do it, done.", even if it involves uncertainty, free will, evolution: all of those concepts are bound to time, a god is not.
A more classic proof of the argument being bogus is the fact that evolution is not a dogma and ID is not an acceptable scientific theory (unless you have scientific proof of a god to back it up, which slashdot has not reported AFAIK :) )
A cynic proof of the argument being bogus is: it doesn't solve anything, it needlessly divides people, it is perfect for the media to fill up pages instead of giving people useful information.
No ruling class ever liked their sheep to get too smart.
Of course, having proved ID independent from evolution and doesn't mean either is true.
Funny, that was my prediction for web 3.0: people will be forced to use only selected web 2.0 sites (that have already imposed the 'all your data are belong to us' model).
All it needs is another "pearl harbor" as justification: terrorists using the net as infrastructure or target of an attack will make regulators pass anything. Want mandatory big brother style webcams? no prob. But that's web 4.0 :D
Missed the point, did you?
The point being that three judges to authorize wiretaps is a braindead way to do anything you brought up.
- Blocks everything else judges were working on.
- Doesn't discriminate about important wiretaps.
- Doesn't block leaking to the press (which is a different matter altogether: leaking to the press usually give the accused party the right of screaming "conspiracy!" while putting in second place the reasons about the guy was suspected in the first place - the fact you brought this up tells enough about how easy is to manipulate your opinion)
I see an OC3 connection with propaganda here.
> Now, there is a problem with how long trials last in Italy. It's a hard issue to tackle, in part due to the magistrates' staunch opposition to any sort of reform.
Dear readers, please look up the reasons for the opposition to the reforms before believing this bloke. Let's see the most recent one
A council of three judges to initiate wiretapping, plus other 5 of 6 to end a trial. All different. That must speed up trials by making them impossible, I guess.
As a more general example that would make Romans laugh their classical asses off, see wikipedia on Berlusconi 'problems':
All Iberian 2 (false accounting): not guilty (law changed by his own administration)
First Court: on September 26, 2005 Berlusconi was acquitted because the new law on false accounting makes it illegal only if there is a specific damaged party reporting the fact to the authorities [1]. This new law was passed by Berlusconi's coalition after the beginning of the trial, and was claimed by the opposition to be an ad personam law, i.e. aimed at acquitting Berlusconi.
PS. I am Italian too, so according to your fine ad-personam self deprecation theory, I am wrong too, not to worry about my examples, right? LOL
You are so totally right. Insead we should base our decisions about software on the immediate perceived advantage of one choice, without caring about the past action of the company selling the product. I mean, nobody ever needed that thing call experience, in life.
Financing advocates of software patents? why not! the worst it can happen is that they choose what ideas you can use no matter whose ideas they were to begin with.
note to editors, IE8 is the second browser to protect from clickjacking the first is firefox with noscript extension.
gnome gksu lets you keep the password for the entire session. Opening a root terminal does the same.
You could also use passwordless pub/private key. Put the private key onto read only mounted usb, login and remove it. IIRC that requires messing with PAM, but a .bashrc script to enable a localhost ssh -X session would work too.
> since Linux, unlike Windows, doesn't encrypt data using your login credentials)
Hopefully not even windows does that. A forgotten password would mean losing all the data, a changed password would mean reencoding all the data!
Instead, storing a random password file and using it as key to mount an encfs directory is quite easy to do in the .bashrc - sure it doesn't hide data from root, but if root wants to sniff you out you're fscked anyway.
I would prefer a single encrypted partition with the standard unix file permission model, having groups comes in handy.
I disagree. If you're using digital media you will eventually need to know why the data you put with appliance A can't be read by appliance B. Formatting and choosing a filesystem makes you start wondering. Better sooner than too late.
They ship formatted because
1. it's practical
2. commercial reasons (lock in, trying to sell added value... some companies develop completely redundant usb storage drivers for their pens don't they?)
> I've always believed that it is better to regret having done something than to regret having not done it.
Let's apply a bit of logic.
"something" will end up being, good, or substantially neutral.
If it ends up being good, regretting having done it makes no sense.
If it ends up being bad, worse becomes better than good. "I regret having lost my wallet, i'd rather regret having it still in my pocket".
Bullshit.
If it ends up being neutral, doing it or not doing it is the same, so you essentially prefer regretting having wasted time.
I don't advocate behaving like dr. spock, but this philosophy is being driven by fear of subsequent regret. It's worse than being driven by instinct, worse than being driven by reason.
and how do you plan to decode other people's 2003, 2007 doc formats?
as for oo being so slow, try it under linux.
So, putting dissident activists together with terrorists kinda screws up the data mining efforts.
Given the amount of arbitrary power that governments award themselves in the name of national security, I would not be suprised if malice > stupidity in this case.
the demo of doxroom is on bluehost which offers unlimited space, shell and so on. vps are more flexible though
actually, for my own digital assets repo - see signature - i see two features of git which might be handy, atomicity of commits and hashes which avoid storing duplicates. git has "plumbing" commands which might help. Still haven't explored it.
BTW if you have enough band you could do away with a doxroom instance on a host, don't forget to backup files and db and remember it's alpha quality.
I don't exactly like the way you formulated the question, but that rings a bell... occam's razor would suggest that if we have to postulate we are in a peculiar place, chances are that our models are flawed to begin with.
"Precession of the perihelion of Mercury" all over again?
Hey, seen him in person this summer, Stallman is as clean as the next hacker... oh wait. Seriously, he's clean.
And he is mostly right. Cloud computing is a trap UNLESS your local machine is a dedicated local node of the cloud that can work stand alone, communicating with free protocols and free software, form a competing cloud and so on. That is, if you can say bye to the cloud service without experiencing any loss of time and data.
BTW are there such web2.1 services around?
Thank you all for the informative replies. I have one couple last observations though. Modelling fires could be extremely tricky, but how hard do you really need to try since three buildings collapsed with fire set in different places and at least under two different conditions (inbound plane vs. whatever set fire to wtc7)? Besides, just collapsing because of fire would undermine some 911 truth claims.
and an improbable event verified three out of three times
Sorry, are you arguing against or for the conspiracy theories?
The problem is, for a real scientific discussion it shouldn't matter.
Starting with gnewsense and adding stuff is a little different than going to ubuntu. For example one may not feel necessary to add GLX for 3d. Or use epiphany, or iceweasel/burningdog/whatever to browse instead of FF3.
Or, being very paranoid, blobs in the kernel or in drivers are not active until a single line of obfuscated code does the job.
The 911 truth sites i visited seemed focused on the peculiarity of inflamed building collapsing on themselves. Did nobody make a rough scale model of a skyscraper, comparatively more fragile than the wtc 1 2 or 7, imbibe it in fuel, light it up and see what happens? Scale matters but as I said making it more fragile should compensate. Simulations are not as effective: given three years and a beowulf cluster one can model improbable events, and an improbable event verified three out of three times in the case of the WTC buildings won't satisfy conspiracy theorists.
on gnewsense 2.0 one could install the intel wifi drivers package(s) and separately install the firmware from a ubuntu deb (i did it with a lenny deb IIRC, it works). It taints the distro, yet you have the minimum amount of blobs installed. Of course one of the best possible places to hide spyware is in the wireless firm...[NO CARRIER] :)
Except that worms for linux would find most servers on the net vulnerable- do you realize the potential for mischief?
In fact worms for linux were produced.