If they just want Acidus and Virgil nailed, they
can let the two speak and then file criminal complaints. If the vulnerability is not a big deal,
that is. Their system is shown to be robust, and
they get their dose of spite by seeing Acidus &Co in cuffs. But if it is a big deal, then they have some explaining to do on why they didn't tell the colleges.
Anyway, you're right that the devices are boxed in well, But it doesn't take much effort to trace the conduits and find a place top patch in.
In India, one of the main ways in which
workers strike back at their employers during
a labor dispute is to feign incompetence.
In these call centers, the people are required
to fake American accents and even use American names and have enough clue about life in America for small talk. If the guy who answered your phone was speaking with an Indian accent, the people there were preparing for a strike.
If you don't have the time, don't do it. If you do, first you need to get what information you can out of Spamhaus.org to identify those spams that are coming to you from Ralsky. Then you type up the papers and go to small claims.
(Typing from a wierd 'puter, so I can't cut and paste the links.) Google for 'meganet', 'encryption', and 'doghouse' and you'll find two Doghouse entries for these guys on Cryptogram. One makes fun of their product; the other for them changing their name in response to the first entry.
What happens if these bacteria are fed the red pill?
We won't be screwed forever.
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One day, may it come soon, Indian customers will want tech support for their questions about
MS Hindi Windows. And Philipino hell desk workers will decide that they went into the business because it was better than having to scavenge through the
garbage dumps outside Manila for recyclables, but since then their country has turned around, and help desk work is boring, and they want better pay. And when Hungary, and India, and Costa Rica are finally able to provide demand for goods and services and not just supply, there will be few (hopefully none) reserves of cheap labor in the world. Till then, this techie is renewing his EMT license and looking for work in that field. Lord knows you can't outsource ambulance drivers...
250 times normal rain would be enormously dangerous in desert areas, (albeit for small numbers of people). In the Southwestern US people die in flash floods all the time.
If a bunch of idiots conspire to trash a city amidst a demonstration, the US is empowered to arrest them, using their Web banter as as evidence of conspiracy. But to block the sites at the ISP is not within the US's powers.
Good! We need more of these incidents.
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If the general public learns as a matter of
habit to just go to bed and find out the
full count the next day, the United States will
be a great deal better off.
No.
The American Trial Lawyer's Association has Congress giving it sexual favors. Laws against vexatious litigation are weak and unlikely to be strengthened any time soon.
Whenever a country experiences a surge in crime,
(because of a bad economy or new methods by crooks
or a new street drug) it runs the risk of a
major backlash in the form of draconian punishments,
abolition of civil liberties, and sometimes vigilantism. The backlash never solves the problem,
which means it can repeat itself again and again. The appearance of crack cocaine in America caused the public to tolerate aggressive tactics by the
DEA and then by other TLAs, culminating in Waco.
Europe and Australia now tolerate promiscuous phone tapping. Britain is almost a panopticon now,
and is loosening regulations on psychiatric commitment. Eternal vigilance, folks. Nothing else suffices.
Hint #1: the war in Afghanistan was not a "so-called" war. It was, and is a war. "So-called" isn't a phrase to be casually added to things you don't like. Hint #2: if you think there was no evidence giving cause to this war, you clearly have not been keeping up with the news. Hint #3: the state of war with Iraq begun in 1991 never ended. There is still a war on. No need for the scare quotes. And W's main reason for wanting it done is to get it over with beore Saddam ets some new toys. Hint #4: The legalities behind Lindh and Padilla's handling are indeed controversial. But the charges are not at all spurious. Hint #5:
Nothing wrong with Guantanamo. The inmates live more comfortably than their guards there. Hint #6:
The US has as much right to effect regime changes as every other country that has set out to do such things. It's a jungle out there. Hint #7: the Middle East is actually improving right now. It's been a while since the last suicide bombing, and Hamas is almost defunct. Then again, in your view that might be a worsening. Hint #8: if as far as you can see, this war effort is motivated by revenge, then you are quite myopic. Hint #9: those international criminal courts have are lacking in the same constitutional safeguards whose erosion you complained about earlier. The US is right to oppose them.
The Ku Klux Klan engaged in terrorism in the 50's and 60's because they felt they had no alternative. Should the US have made the KKK feel secure? Should the US have given the KKK a way to exist without desparation? It's a moot point now. The US decided to take the opposite approach. They made the KKK not only feel insecure, but feel utterly hopeless. And thus KKK terrorism stopped. I prefer that approach to yours.
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Using accurate arithmetics to improve numerical reproducibility and stability in parallel applications, also available here if you're one of the unwashed masses. It has algorithms to see if your app is facing floating point trouble.
No, you're wrong. Mohammad Attah was college educated, as were several others on the 9/11 team.
If they just want Acidus and Virgil nailed, they can let the two speak and then file criminal complaints. If the vulnerability is not a big deal, that is. Their system is shown to be robust, and they get their dose of spite by seeing Acidus &Co in cuffs. But if it is a big deal, then they have some explaining to do on why they didn't tell the colleges. Anyway, you're right that the devices are boxed in well, But it doesn't take much effort to trace the conduits and find a place top patch in.
Well then, why the restraining order?
That only matters if the state involved
has an anti-SLAPP measure.
In India, one of the main ways in which workers strike back at their employers during a labor dispute is to feign incompetence. In these call centers, the people are required to fake American accents and even use American names and have enough clue about life in America for small talk. If the guy who answered your phone was speaking with an Indian accent, the people there were preparing for a strike.
Frankly, some of us could learn from them.
If you don't have the time, don't do it.
If you do, first you need to get what information
you can out of Spamhaus.org to identify those
spams that are coming to you from Ralsky. Then
you type up the papers and go to small claims.
1. That Ralsky fellow, him what allegedly got millions by spamming, lives in Michigan. 2. So do many Slashdotters. Hmm....
(Typing from a wierd 'puter, so I can't
cut and paste the links.) Google for
'meganet', 'encryption', and 'doghouse'
and you'll find two Doghouse entries for these
guys on Cryptogram. One makes fun of their
product; the other for them changing their
name in response to the first entry.
What happens if these bacteria are fed the red pill?
One day, may it come soon, Indian customers will want tech support for their questions about MS Hindi Windows. And Philipino hell desk workers will decide that they went into the business because it was better than having to scavenge through the garbage dumps outside Manila for recyclables, but since then their country has turned around, and help desk work is boring, and they want better pay. And when Hungary, and India, and Costa Rica are finally able to provide demand for goods and services and not just supply, there will be few (hopefully none) reserves of cheap labor in the world. Till then, this techie is renewing his EMT license and looking for work in that field. Lord knows you can't outsource ambulance drivers...
Which isn't much in such a case.
Geez, it isn't rocket science.
This is a war to establish quite firmly that
the technique known as terrorism will not work.
Specifically, someone with such a token getting clubbed on the head and stuffed in the office supplies closet, and his token stolen.
250 times normal rain would be enormously
dangerous in desert areas, (albeit for small
numbers of people). In the Southwestern US
people die in flash floods all the time.
If a bunch of idiots conspire to trash a city
amidst a demonstration, the US is empowered to
arrest them, using their Web banter as as
evidence of conspiracy. But to block the sites
at the ISP is not within the US's powers.
If the general public learns as a matter of habit to just go to bed and find out the full count the next day, the United States will be a great deal better off.
In the split second before the disco ball
melts down to nothing, anyone in the vicinity
would be made very, very unhappy.
No. The American Trial Lawyer's Association has Congress giving it sexual favors. Laws against vexatious litigation are weak and unlikely to be strengthened any time soon.
Whenever a country experiences a surge in crime, (because of a bad economy or new methods by crooks or a new street drug) it runs the risk of a major backlash in the form of draconian punishments, abolition of civil liberties, and sometimes vigilantism. The backlash never solves the problem, which means it can repeat itself again and again. The appearance of crack cocaine in America caused the public to tolerate aggressive tactics by the DEA and then by other TLAs, culminating in Waco. Europe and Australia now tolerate promiscuous phone tapping. Britain is almost a panopticon now, and is loosening regulations on psychiatric commitment. Eternal vigilance, folks. Nothing else suffices.
This is awesome. Time to stock up on weed.
That our capacity to suffer fools isn't limitless, for example.
Hint #1: the war in Afghanistan was not a "so-called" war. It was, and is a war. "So-called" isn't a phrase to be casually added to things you don't like. Hint #2: if you think there was no evidence giving cause to this war, you clearly have not been keeping up with the news. Hint #3: the state of war with Iraq begun in 1991 never ended. There is still a war on. No need for the scare quotes. And W's main reason for wanting it done is to get it over with beore Saddam ets some new toys. Hint #4: The legalities behind Lindh and Padilla's handling are indeed controversial. But the charges are not at all spurious. Hint #5: Nothing wrong with Guantanamo. The inmates live more comfortably than their guards there. Hint #6: The US has as much right to effect regime changes as every other country that has set out to do such things. It's a jungle out there. Hint #7: the Middle East is actually improving right now. It's been a while since the last suicide bombing, and Hamas is almost defunct. Then again, in your view that might be a worsening. Hint #8: if as far as you can see, this war effort is motivated by revenge, then you are quite myopic. Hint #9: those international criminal courts have are lacking in the same constitutional safeguards whose erosion you complained about earlier. The US is right to oppose them.
The Ku Klux Klan engaged in terrorism in the 50's and 60's because they felt they had no alternative. Should the US have made the KKK feel secure? Should the US have given the KKK a way to exist without desparation? It's a moot point now. The US decided to take the opposite approach. They made the KKK not only feel insecure, but feel utterly hopeless. And thus KKK terrorism stopped. I prefer that approach to yours.
How about collating SatireWire's articles and publishing a book, a la Dispatches from the 9th CIrcle?