Although I should point out, Beria actually was a sick fuck. They didn't have to make up half that shit about him. It's just that no one actually could or would do anything about it while Stalin was alive and Beria was still the top flunky.
What we have is the 'testimony' of nobodies like Kruschev and Kosygin that Beria was indeed a rapist and child molester. Remember, history is written by the victors. What was Beria like, other than being one King-Kong scary motherfucker? Nobody really knows.
We do have to be somewhat real about this. Lolita City, the pedophile HQ of the internet, has over 15,000 members (and who knows how many 'guests'). Of course the FBI was going to attack these massive pedophile rings. Good for them.
But again, there are legal issues here. Why did the FBI have the right to infiltrate TORmail? They are using general warrants here, just like the NSA does. Because one person may be using TORmail for illicit purposes, the FBI feels that it can install tracking and search software on every user.
Point is, the 3 Letter Agencies do NOT have the right to circumvent or break the law in order to enforce it. What part of 'Where's your fucking warrant???' are you having problems understanding? The entire justice system is (supposed to be, anyway) based on the theory of 'innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt'. Fishing expeditions have traditionally been illegal until recently.
Actually, a judge has yet to find whether it's OK or not. The admissibility of the evidence in these cases is going to hinge on whether or not it was collected through legal means. And no matter which way the judge finds, the loser is going to appeal. As far as I know, this is all untested legal ground.
You're forgetting something: They said 'pedophile' in the press release.
An old Soviet trick to remove a recalcitrant politician or bureaucrat who just wouldn't step down when asked nicely then threatened was to label them a pedophile or a rapist, then 'disappear' them. That's how they got rid of Beria rather than let him take over the whole Soviet Union after Stalin.
Translation: "Make our business process patents sweeping, broad and invulnerable. Make everybody else's go away so we can file on them later and outright steal them. Oh, and backdating these patents would be lovely, if you get the chance..."
I am my 15 year old son's friend. We share common interests (computers, video games, technology, etc.) and so we get along great. But his computer is in the basement right next to mine and it's going to be that way until he moves out. It has worked well, and while I did have parental control software on it when he was younger, I removed all of it and gave him admin access a couple years ago. Raise them right, give them some freedom, but supervise, and it all works out. Can he access porn when I'm not around? Sure. But at 15 1/2 I'm not too worried about it.
At 15 1/2, I'd be worried if he didn't try to access porn...
Another year another multi-100s GB optical disc announced. So is this one going to actually come to market this time?
Will there be any optical drives left in the wild by the time such a beast makes it out of the lab?
Probably not, so I wish they'd hurry up. I'm gonna need 4 dozen of these new high capacity discs. 2 dozen for my porn collection and another 2 dozen for backups...
There was a TV show called Century City about future lawyers. One of the cases involved a woman who had a dick implant, though still fully functional female. Rather interesting episode, definitely an interesting show. Too bad it got cancelled out so fast (only 9 episodes were filmed).
Sounds like that movie, Minority Report, when Tom Cruise went into that store with his new eyes and the hologram asked him "How are those Dockers working out for you?
I read horrible reviews about that new Dyson's cyclone blabla, it sucks everything but dust.
Apparently Microsoft secretly bought out Dyson.
Obviously, they hardcoded DRM into the vacuum cleaner's BIOS then, cause it's borderline useless as a vacuum cleaner. If it indeed did suck, it would be a good design.
This is why I wish at times it were possible to rewrite human nature--essentially strip out the greed, petty cruelty, and shortsighted stupidity and distribute the fix like a software patch. Society would work a lot better if we didn't have these flaws.
That'll take some serious genetic engineering followed by some serious behavior modification therapy starting from birth. And keep in mind that some people will fight to the death to hold onto their greed, petty cruelty, and shortsighted stupidity, basically, anybody in power at the moment anywhere on the planet. The rest of us? We're trying to make a living, raise the kids to be somewhat sane in an insane world, and maybe find a few fleeting moments of happiness before the hammer falls.
Yeah, but I work on five different computers and cloud storage has greatly enhanced my productivity. Next to this $100 is a joke. Everything is synced automatically and I can plop down in front of any computer in the world and get my stuff.
The question remains, who else gets your stuff too?
Clay tablets worked for the Sumerians, once you baked them to get all the water out of them They turned into bricks. We still have Sumer's database laying around in museums all over the planet.
and the hope that 1 million years from now an extra terrestrial alien race will find our collective works and knowledge? I guess thats a stupid idea right?
or a way for DisneyCorp to assure their perpetual copyright?
Personally, I wonder how they'll collect royalties off of said aliens reading our database long after we're gone. Will the avatar of the Mouse destroy all who look at the records unless paid off first?
Read the books, saw the movies (the original and the SF remake), even bought the soundtrack, dont remember the reference. Thanks!
It's in the first book, of course, and in the Dino de Laurentis movie, it's what Piter deVries chants on the tram as he's going to meet the Baron for the first time onscreen.
Sounds like you could use this technology to remember this kind of trivia
There is still risk of Martian microbes that Earth life has no immunity too. Sure, it's a very small chance, but one that has potentially apocalyptic consequences if it happens.
Perhaps the samples should be baked at an intermediate station.
Naw, just build a sampling lab on the Moon and process them there. Hell, you could even teloperate it, it's only a 3 second lag, wouldn't even need to send any people up there, which would make the Congresscritters happy..
...the problem seems to be that just knowing the IP of your stolen computer is not enough for the police to get it back for you. It seems they also want a photo of the thief taken while using the computer, which complicated matters a lot. At least that's what other users have reported.
Not to mention the police will want to talk to you about all that Indonesian plant porn the thieves downloaded onto your laptop after they stole it. Denying that you did it just won't work with them, but might work with a jury if you have a good enough l*wy*r.
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Although I should point out, Beria actually was a sick fuck. They didn't have to make up half that shit about him. It's just that no one actually could or would do anything about it while Stalin was alive and Beria was still the top flunky.
What we have is the 'testimony' of nobodies like Kruschev and Kosygin that Beria was indeed a rapist and child molester. Remember, history is written by the victors. What was Beria like, other than being one King-Kong scary motherfucker? Nobody really knows.
We do have to be somewhat real about this. Lolita City, the pedophile HQ of the internet, has over 15,000 members (and who knows how many 'guests'). Of course the FBI was going to attack these massive pedophile rings. Good for them.
But again, there are legal issues here. Why did the FBI have the right to infiltrate TORmail? They are using general warrants here, just like the NSA does. Because one person may be using TORmail for illicit purposes, the FBI feels that it can install tracking and search software on every user.
Point is, the 3 Letter Agencies do NOT have the right to circumvent or break the law in order to enforce it. What part of 'Where's your fucking warrant???' are you having problems understanding? The entire justice system is (supposed to be, anyway) based on the theory of 'innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt'. Fishing expeditions have traditionally been illegal until recently.
Actually, a judge has yet to find whether it's OK or not. The admissibility of the evidence in these cases is going to hinge on whether or not it was collected through legal means. And no matter which way the judge finds, the loser is going to appeal. As far as I know, this is all untested legal ground.
You're forgetting something: They said 'pedophile' in the press release.
An old Soviet trick to remove a recalcitrant politician or bureaucrat who just wouldn't step down when asked nicely then threatened was to label them a pedophile or a rapist, then 'disappear' them. That's how they got rid of Beria rather than let him take over the whole Soviet Union after Stalin.
Translation: "Make our business process patents sweeping, broad and invulnerable. Make everybody else's go away so we can file on them later and outright steal them. Oh, and backdating these patents would be lovely, if you get the chance..."
I am my 15 year old son's friend. We share common interests (computers, video games, technology, etc.) and so we get along great. But his computer is in the basement right next to mine and it's going to be that way until he moves out. It has worked well, and while I did have parental control software on it when he was younger, I removed all of it and gave him admin access a couple years ago. Raise them right, give them some freedom, but supervise, and it all works out. Can he access porn when I'm not around? Sure. But at 15 1/2 I'm not too worried about it.
At 15 1/2, I'd be worried if he didn't try to access porn...
Anonymous Cowards proclaiming their freedom to swear and not even daring to spell out "fuck" properly. Cunts.
But that's how they spell it in their country. D*mned arrogant *mericans! Don't even have the letter "*" in their alphabet!
At least he didn't spell out l*wy*r.
Profanity, motherfucker! Do. You. Speak. It?
Fuck yeah.
There are people who don't have fast internet.
There are people who PREFER to view content on non-Internet-connected devices to avoid tracking.
There are people who don't want to be locked out of their legally aquirred data and media. Me, for one.
Another year another multi-100s GB optical disc announced. So is this one going to actually come to market this time?
Will there be any optical drives left in the wild by the time such a beast makes it out of the lab?
Probably not, so I wish they'd hurry up. I'm gonna need 4 dozen of these new high capacity discs. 2 dozen for my porn collection and another 2 dozen for backups...
Yup. In the West, they vote with dollars. The voter with the most dollars elects their own government.
There was a TV show called Century City about future lawyers. One of the cases involved a woman who had a dick implant, though still fully functional female. Rather interesting episode, definitely an interesting show. Too bad it got cancelled out so fast (only 9 episodes were filmed).
Sounds like that movie, Minority Report, when Tom Cruise went into that store with his new eyes and the hologram asked him "How are those Dockers working out for you?
You, sir, have won the thread.
I still play Masters of Orion 2. I have to run it in DosBox on my Linux machine, but it works...
I read horrible reviews about that new Dyson's cyclone blabla, it sucks everything but dust.
Apparently Microsoft secretly bought out Dyson.
Obviously, they hardcoded DRM into the vacuum cleaner's BIOS then, cause it's borderline useless as a vacuum cleaner. If it indeed did suck, it would be a good design.
This is why I wish at times it were possible to rewrite human nature--essentially strip out the greed, petty cruelty, and shortsighted stupidity and distribute the fix like a software patch. Society would work a lot better if we didn't have these flaws.
That'll take some serious genetic engineering followed by some serious behavior modification therapy starting from birth. And keep in mind that some people will fight to the death to hold onto their greed, petty cruelty, and shortsighted stupidity, basically, anybody in power at the moment anywhere on the planet. The rest of us? We're trying to make a living, raise the kids to be somewhat sane in an insane world, and maybe find a few fleeting moments of happiness before the hammer falls.
But some of us would be happy if the now often unreadable magnetic records from 70 years ago would have been stored on something more durable.
Because those TPS reports will make great reading?
What, you're having problems with your TPS reports? We'll have to schedule you in for a meeting with The Bobs.
Yeah, but I work on five different computers and cloud storage has greatly enhanced my productivity. Next to this $100 is a joke. Everything is synced automatically and I can plop down in front of any computer in the world and get my stuff.
The question remains, who else gets your stuff too?
etch it in stone, it worked for the Egyptians.
Clay tablets worked for the Sumerians, once you baked them to get all the water out of them They turned into bricks. We still have Sumer's database laying around in museums all over the planet.
Hell, some of us have petabytes of PORN and could use a good backup solution.
and the hope that 1 million years from now an extra terrestrial alien race will find our collective works and knowledge? I guess thats a stupid idea right?
or a way for DisneyCorp to assure their perpetual copyright?
Personally, I wonder how they'll collect royalties off of said aliens reading our database long after we're gone. Will the avatar of the Mouse destroy all who look at the records unless paid off first?
Read the books, saw the movies (the original and the SF remake), even bought the soundtrack, dont remember the reference. Thanks!
It's in the first book, of course, and in the Dino de Laurentis movie, it's what Piter deVries chants on the tram as he's going to meet the Baron for the first time onscreen.
Sounds like you could use this technology to remember this kind of trivia
There is still risk of Martian microbes that Earth life has no immunity too. Sure, it's a very small chance, but one that has potentially apocalyptic consequences if it happens.
Perhaps the samples should be baked at an intermediate station.
Naw, just build a sampling lab on the Moon and process them there. Hell, you could even teloperate it, it's only a 3 second lag, wouldn't even need to send any people up there, which would make the Congresscritters happy..
...the problem seems to be that just knowing the IP of your stolen computer is not enough for the police to get it back for you. It seems they also want a photo of the thief taken while using the computer, which complicated matters a lot. At least that's what other users have reported.
Not to mention the police will want to talk to you about all that Indonesian plant porn the thieves downloaded onto your laptop after they stole it. Denying that you did it just won't work with them, but might work with a jury if you have a good enough l*wy*r.
Baby Spice was cuter.