You don't think his successor would be a little slower to be such an attention whore if Assange was assassinated?
I don't know about you, but if I was going to follow in his foot steps, I'd take an entirely different track once I realized that I'm taking his spot because they erased the last guy in that spot. You can talk brave all you want, but you'd be an idiot to repeat his mistakes, and probably end up dead as well.
All this assumes someone would bother assassinating him, really, theres no point, he hasn't really released anything that wasn't already available for the most part, and what he does release seems to make America look better rather than worse, unless you're one of those irrational people that think its wrong regardless of what it is when America does it.
No one seriously cares about him, his 'world changing leaks' turn out to be just a bunch of documents that while some of them are 'leaks', its not really anything Earth shattering or previously unknown, most just confirm what we already knew or shock us by showing the US isn't nearly as evil as all the people we're working with in the middle East. Why kill him, he's more of a help than harm once you exclude the raving nutters that follow him like a religion.
No. I'd call it an attempt to cover its shitty image, but in reality we won't know till we see what they release.
If its squarely aimed at US companies... then what?
Its going to be hard for it NOT to be aimed in that direction given that they are complete bastards who deserve to die and have scammed billions and scared the world into an economic slowdown.
I seriously doubt this will do any good for their reputation even if everything they do is 100% unbiased, honest, good work that we'd all agree with.
our employees are much less likely to screw you over if they’re not screwing other people over.
You live in a fantasy world of ignorance. An ethical employee won't screw over anyone, its unethical.
An unethical person doesn't care and will screw over anyone they see fit as they see fit when they see fit and it suits them.
An ethical person won't work for an unethical company once they realize whats going on, the people who stay are not saints because they steal info, they are just as much a part of the problem as the people making the decisions.
Making arbitrary rules so you can justify your actions doesn't actually change the definition of the words even if it did in your little head.
Theres nothing heroic about hiding in the shadows.
Theres nothing heroic about leaking information related to corrupt bankers, if you didn't know it already, you won't know it after the 'leaks' are released.
This is just theft and corp espionage.
No matter how many times you ignore it, 2 wrongs don't make a right.
Other than its retarded to ignore than me talking about the GLOBAL economy? No, no reason at all to bring them into it... they aren't massive economic powerhouses much like the US or anything.
The coming months will see a new world, where global history is redefined.
That to me pretty much invalidates any sort of claims of neutrality, not directly, but as a side effect of the clear intention to gather attention by saying they are going 'change the world'.
I realize I just read a completely sensationalist summary on slashdot, but I must say reading 'proof of life on titan' to 'first contact' sent that feeling through my body of true excitement and anticipation in a way that I haven't felt in a long time. You know, that spine tingling feeling (not in a bad way).
I'm sure it will be a complete let down now, but finding life somewhere outside of our planet would really be one of those Earth shaking events I think, even if its just fossils from things long dead.
Its nothing dangerous or NASA wouldn't be telling us about it, and its certainly not first contact as the governments wouldn't let them tell us about it, but... OMFG I don't think I want to wait till Thursday
Except the article is about facebook tracking everyone on sites other than facebook, such as when you go to some stores website and they have a 'Like It' button for all their products... facebook is tracking you and that you've viewed that item, regardless of wether you have a facebook account or not.
But don't bother reading the article or even the summary or anything.
The problem is that it is tracking ME. Someone who has NEVER had and NEVER WILL HAVE a facebook account, because I visit some random companies website and they have that retarded Like It button.
This has nothing to do with tracking facebook users, it has to do with tracking EVERYONE regardless of their facebook account, or lack of one.
In reality though, its no different than any other web tracker, except now instead of using 1 pixel sized transparent GIFs, they put a visible button on the page.
While it may not be typical for them to become 'rapist', you're a complete and total idiot if you don't realize fame brings out the stupid in people. Maybe you're not American and you've not seen what happens in Hollywood?
Whats more likely is that his head got so fucking big after the first leak and he became so self absorbed that he thought he could get by with something.
He's an attention whore, last time he got a bunch of attention, he got a raging hardon and had to go get laid. Judging by his personality, he probably hasn't had too many women in his life and didn't really know what he was doing.
He certainly isn't very intelligent or he would have realized that fucking around with a couple whores was a REALLY BAD IDEA at that point in time.
Pretty much no matter how you look at it, he did this to himself. He might have raped some girls, but he most certainly acted irresponsibly by whoring around with them in the first place when the eyes of the world were on him. This again goes back to his need to be the center of attention.
EVERYTHING this guy does screams socially inept douche bag... yet you guys keep praising him. He's not your roll model, you really don't want to be like him.
That makes you effectively even more retarded than she is.
When you base things on doing the opposite of someone else rather than thinking for yourself, it makes you look like an ignorant fuck, just letting you know.
I hardly think an orchestrated DDoS attack seems unlikely.
Actually, those things are exactly why an orchestrated DDoS attack is highly unlikely.
If they wanted it to stop, the people involved would simply disappear.
You start your post off with 'the US just kills people that do far less damaging things' and end it with 'because they kill people for less, they would totally be pussies and just slow this down rather than ending the lives of those doing it'.
Seriously, if they REALLY wanted to stop it, they would have.
Why wouldn't I expect Google to tell me about Google first?
What retarded business DOESN'T push their own services FIRST if possible, then offer someone elses?
You know why I go to Google? Because they give me better results than anyone else, ESPECIALLY the retarded little SCAMMERS like Foundem, which are essentially people who copy someone elses pages, incorrectly or out of date and draw people in to get ad impressions while providing me nothing that I couldn't have found if I'd clicked one of the earlier links on Google.
I EXPECT Google to do this, they are effectively weeding out 'companies' that have no business, simply people trying to make money off the shear number of people they can trick into visiting their site.
Or you get DoS'd, or you get a virus or a bunch of large OS updates come out or a whole lot of other things that just happen because the entire world more or less realizes that charging per byte was the wrong way to go about it.
You charge for the rate, not the amount. Once the ISP can provide the rate, there is no additional cost to them based on the volume over time.
You don't charge based on how much data they use because that has no relation to cost, you charge based on how fast they can get data because THAT is what determines how much Comcast has to spend to serve their customers.
ISP's DO NOT HAVE COMMON CARRIER STATUS ISP's DO NOT HAVE COMMON CARRIER STATUS ISP's DO NOT HAVE COMMON CARRIER STATUS ISP's DO NOT HAVE COMMON CARRIER STATUS ISP's DO NOT HAVE COMMON CARRIER STATUS ISP's DO NOT HAVE COMMON CARRIER STATUS ISP's DO NOT HAVE COMMON CARRIER STATUS
Now, would you people PLEASE FUCKING STOP THINKING THEY DO.
Level 3 need to pay for the data used over Comcast pipes.
No, Comcast customers already paid for the data used over Comcasts pipes. Comcast wants to charge their customers AND their suppliers, and they my friend, is fucked up.
Considering Comcast customers want the data, I really don't see why L3 should pay comcast, sounds like Comcast should pay L3 for delievering the content too them over a private peering line rather than the general Internet.
Reality:
Without that peering arrangement, the traffic would flow over the general Internet connections that Comcasts uses with other peers... That isn't a good thing for Comcast, so instead, they'll block the traffic all together...
No matter how you word it, Comcast charging someone else is fucking retarded because they've already sold the access to the data to their customers, now they're trying to charge more for someone else to less the load on their network infrastructure.
Its not double dipping, its more like triple dipping.
In general? It got the guys firing the Gatling gun killed because the technology at the time couldn't produce a viable weapon of that type, so I'd say it worked out great. The fight ended quicker because even the crappy rifles were WAY more accurate than a gatling and the gatling had half melted itself and jammed before it actually hit anyone.
The wrong can be timed to blow up at a specific distance or on impact.
Problem solved.
If you use it in timed mode, you set it to explode shortly before your targets.
If your targets are behind a while, you set it to explode just after impact, you then shoot the wall, the bullet explodes inside the wall, and now the back side of the wall becomes a massive amount of fragmentation material taking out everything behind it.
This isn't new, this sort of thing has been in the field for 20 years at least and is one of the ways that snipers get 'one shot, multiple kills'
The timing is set/controlled by the number of rotations the round takes before it explodes.
Keep in mind, this round is spinning, so the blast will go in all directions. It is not possible to tell the bullet to fire downwards when over the target.
Actually, yes it is, they've been doing it for years. The spinning of the bullet is the timer, its fairly consistent and easy to calculate. Since the spin is the timer, you know how the bullet will be rotated at a specific point in its flight, its fairly easy to direct the blast. Its been done for years.
You severely underestimate the amount of technology and research that has went into ammunition these days.
Snipers have had them for years, I know they were used in desert storm, nearly 20 years ago.
You know the bad guys are hiding behind a cinder block wall, you should into the wall, the bullet explodes shortly after it impacts (so its inside the wall when it explodes) and the other wide of the wall opens up like a massive shotgun blast killing everything behind it or against it.
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You don't think his successor would be a little slower to be such an attention whore if Assange was assassinated?
I don't know about you, but if I was going to follow in his foot steps, I'd take an entirely different track once I realized that I'm taking his spot because they erased the last guy in that spot. You can talk brave all you want, but you'd be an idiot to repeat his mistakes, and probably end up dead as well.
All this assumes someone would bother assassinating him, really, theres no point, he hasn't really released anything that wasn't already available for the most part, and what he does release seems to make America look better rather than worse, unless you're one of those irrational people that think its wrong regardless of what it is when America does it.
No one seriously cares about him, his 'world changing leaks' turn out to be just a bunch of documents that while some of them are 'leaks', its not really anything Earth shattering or previously unknown, most just confirm what we already knew or shock us by showing the US isn't nearly as evil as all the people we're working with in the middle East. Why kill him, he's more of a help than harm once you exclude the raving nutters that follow him like a religion.
I'm pretty sure the same thing was said when the switch to CIDR instead of the old class based allocations was taking place too.
They don't run Linux? /SARCASM
No. I'd call it an attempt to cover its shitty image, but in reality we won't know till we see what they release.
If its squarely aimed at US companies ... then what?
Its going to be hard for it NOT to be aimed in that direction given that they are complete bastards who deserve to die and have scammed billions and scared the world into an economic slowdown.
I seriously doubt this will do any good for their reputation even if everything they do is 100% unbiased, honest, good work that we'd all agree with.
You live in a fantasy world of ignorance. An ethical employee won't screw over anyone, its unethical.
An unethical person doesn't care and will screw over anyone they see fit as they see fit when they see fit and it suits them.
An ethical person won't work for an unethical company once they realize whats going on, the people who stay are not saints because they steal info, they are just as much a part of the problem as the people making the decisions.
Making arbitrary rules so you can justify your actions doesn't actually change the definition of the words even if it did in your little head.
Theres nothing heroic about hiding in the shadows.
Theres nothing heroic about leaking information related to corrupt bankers, if you didn't know it already, you won't know it after the 'leaks' are released.
This is just theft and corp espionage.
No matter how many times you ignore it, 2 wrongs don't make a right.
Other than its retarded to ignore than me talking about the GLOBAL economy? No, no reason at all to bring them into it ... they aren't massive economic powerhouses much like the US or anything.
From the summary:
That to me pretty much invalidates any sort of claims of neutrality, not directly, but as a side effect of the clear intention to gather attention by saying they are going 'change the world'.
I realize I just read a completely sensationalist summary on slashdot, but I must say reading 'proof of life on titan' to 'first contact' sent that feeling through my body of true excitement and anticipation in a way that I haven't felt in a long time. You know, that spine tingling feeling (not in a bad way).
I'm sure it will be a complete let down now, but finding life somewhere outside of our planet would really be one of those Earth shaking events I think, even if its just fossils from things long dead.
Its nothing dangerous or NASA wouldn't be telling us about it, and its certainly not first contact as the governments wouldn't let them tell us about it, but ... OMFG I don't think I want to wait till Thursday
Except the article is about facebook tracking everyone on sites other than facebook, such as when you go to some stores website and they have a 'Like It' button for all their products ... facebook is tracking you and that you've viewed that item, regardless of wether you have a facebook account or not.
But don't bother reading the article or even the summary or anything.
The problem is that it is tracking ME. Someone who has NEVER had and NEVER WILL HAVE a facebook account, because I visit some random companies website and they have that retarded Like It button.
This has nothing to do with tracking facebook users, it has to do with tracking EVERYONE regardless of their facebook account, or lack of one.
In reality though, its no different than any other web tracker, except now instead of using 1 pixel sized transparent GIFs, they put a visible button on the page.
While it may not be typical for them to become 'rapist', you're a complete and total idiot if you don't realize fame brings out the stupid in people. Maybe you're not American and you've not seen what happens in Hollywood?
Whats more likely is that his head got so fucking big after the first leak and he became so self absorbed that he thought he could get by with something.
He's an attention whore, last time he got a bunch of attention, he got a raging hardon and had to go get laid. Judging by his personality, he probably hasn't had too many women in his life and didn't really know what he was doing.
He certainly isn't very intelligent or he would have realized that fucking around with a couple whores was a REALLY BAD IDEA at that point in time.
Pretty much no matter how you look at it, he did this to himself. He might have raped some girls, but he most certainly acted irresponsibly by whoring around with them in the first place when the eyes of the world were on him. This again goes back to his need to be the center of attention.
EVERYTHING this guy does screams socially inept douche bag ... yet you guys keep praising him. He's not your roll model, you really don't want to be like him.
That makes you effectively even more retarded than she is.
When you base things on doing the opposite of someone else rather than thinking for yourself, it makes you look like an ignorant fuck, just letting you know.
I don't know what hole you live in, but Napster and P2P in general has been effectively dead to the public for years.
At one point, pretty much everyone knew what napster was, now, only geeks or semi-techies know what P2P is, or have even heard about BitTorrent.
I think if they accomplished the same thing with Wikileaks they'd be rather happy.
Actually, those things are exactly why an orchestrated DDoS attack is highly unlikely.
If they wanted it to stop, the people involved would simply disappear.
You start your post off with 'the US just kills people that do far less damaging things' and end it with 'because they kill people for less, they would totally be pussies and just slow this down rather than ending the lives of those doing it'.
Seriously, if they REALLY wanted to stop it, they would have.
You should probably loosen your tinfoil a bit.
I expect Google's results to be first.
Why wouldn't I expect Google to tell me about Google first?
What retarded business DOESN'T push their own services FIRST if possible, then offer someone elses?
You know why I go to Google? Because they give me better results than anyone else, ESPECIALLY the retarded little SCAMMERS like Foundem, which are essentially people who copy someone elses pages, incorrectly or out of date and draw people in to get ad impressions while providing me nothing that I couldn't have found if I'd clicked one of the earlier links on Google.
I EXPECT Google to do this, they are effectively weeding out 'companies' that have no business, simply people trying to make money off the shear number of people they can trick into visiting their site.
Or you get DoS'd, or you get a virus or a bunch of large OS updates come out or a whole lot of other things that just happen because the entire world more or less realizes that charging per byte was the wrong way to go about it.
You charge for the rate, not the amount. Once the ISP can provide the rate, there is no additional cost to them based on the volume over time.
You don't charge based on how much data they use because that has no relation to cost, you charge based on how fast they can get data because THAT is what determines how much Comcast has to spend to serve their customers.
ISP's DO NOT HAVE COMMON CARRIER STATUS
ISP's DO NOT HAVE COMMON CARRIER STATUS
ISP's DO NOT HAVE COMMON CARRIER STATUS
ISP's DO NOT HAVE COMMON CARRIER STATUS
ISP's DO NOT HAVE COMMON CARRIER STATUS
ISP's DO NOT HAVE COMMON CARRIER STATUS
ISP's DO NOT HAVE COMMON CARRIER STATUS
Now, would you people PLEASE FUCKING STOP THINKING THEY DO.
No, Comcast customers already paid for the data used over Comcasts pipes. Comcast wants to charge their customers AND their suppliers, and they my friend, is fucked up.
Considering Comcast customers want the data, I really don't see why L3 should pay comcast, sounds like Comcast should pay L3 for delievering the content too them over a private peering line rather than the general Internet.
Reality:
Without that peering arrangement, the traffic would flow over the general Internet connections that Comcasts uses with other peers ... That isn't a good thing for Comcast, so instead, they'll block the traffic all together ...
No matter how you word it, Comcast charging someone else is fucking retarded because they've already sold the access to the data to their customers, now they're trying to charge more for someone else to less the load on their network infrastructure.
Its not double dipping, its more like triple dipping.
In general? It got the guys firing the Gatling gun killed because the technology at the time couldn't produce a viable weapon of that type, so I'd say it worked out great. The fight ended quicker because even the crappy rifles were WAY more accurate than a gatling and the gatling had half melted itself and jammed before it actually hit anyone.
The wrong can be timed to blow up at a specific distance or on impact.
Problem solved.
If you use it in timed mode, you set it to explode shortly before your targets.
If your targets are behind a while, you set it to explode just after impact, you then shoot the wall, the bullet explodes inside the wall, and now the back side of the wall becomes a massive amount of fragmentation material taking out everything behind it.
This isn't new, this sort of thing has been in the field for 20 years at least and is one of the ways that snipers get 'one shot, multiple kills'
The timing is set/controlled by the number of rotations the round takes before it explodes.
Actually, yes it is, they've been doing it for years. The spinning of the bullet is the timer, its fairly consistent and easy to calculate. Since the spin is the timer, you know how the bullet will be rotated at a specific point in its flight, its fairly easy to direct the blast. Its been done for years.
You severely underestimate the amount of technology and research that has went into ammunition these days.
Snipers have had them for years, I know they were used in desert storm, nearly 20 years ago.
You know the bad guys are hiding behind a cinder block wall, you should into the wall, the bullet explodes shortly after it impacts (so its inside the wall when it explodes) and the other wide of the wall opens up like a massive shotgun blast killing everything behind it or against it.
So I'm guessing you have absolutely no clue what 'decentralize' means, do you?