...but I think a reasonable argumant can be made that the only reason for posting lists like this is to incite illegal acts,...
Okay, fine. But think just one level deeper. To reach the conclusion that posting the information is to incite illegal acts is to make an assumption of thought or motivation. There is ZERO evidence that the lists were posted to incite illegal acts. ZERO. They are simply policing thought, nothing else.
However, what is clear, is that the only action being taken here with the "intention to intimidate" is the Secret Service's demand for the list of ip addresses.
It's called policing thought and that is fundamentally un-American. It is a completely fascist methodology to suppress dissent of the state.
Your RED flags should being going up like tombstones in Iraq right about now.
i don't think that the availability of the information is the issue that the dept. of justice is after.. moreso the motive of posting it.
Hmmmmm...sounds a bit like the Secret Service's "secret" is that they are actually the "thought police" now?
This pre-emptive strike sh1t is just sliding down the slippery slope. Think about it:
No crime has been committed
The information is already in the public domain It's contextually appropriate - the list contains information about delegates attending the RNC - which is being protested (legally)
The ONLY REASON the SS are poking their noses in there is to INTIMIDATE dissenting THOUGHT. PsyOps 101
When the presidency of the United States starts getting passed down any family line, it's time to start over.
I think someone already got that idea when they took out the Kennedy brothers. Just a hunch, but I'm pretty sure that's why old Ted Kennedy decided not to run for presidency.
And the Republicans speak of intimidation? *scoff*
Meanwhile, Spirit, which has now climbed about 10 yards up a hillside, getting above the Gusev plain, found an interesting rock dubbed 'Longhorn'.
And in other News...today the Mars Spirit rover, after spotting an interesting rock dubbed 'Longhorn', experienced a massive failure and is now permanently transmitting back to Earth what is known in the IT world as the 'Blue Screen of Death'. JPL engineers have tried to correct the problem by renaming the interesting rock to 'Red Hat Linux 8.0'. They have no response from the catatonic rover as of yet.
What's even more suspicious is that the if you check out "their" website, they are currently using PDA's with sofware already on them! They show pictures of it in Widows CE. No mention of custom chips!
I think the poster found the website on google, is posing as this professor, and is asking for advice on a totally different project...very dubious.
OMG, think of the possiblities on how you could play jokes on these researchers!
strange conversations...with no one...
nasty bathroom noises... "I forgot to turn it off before I got into bed with my girlfriend..." ambiguously legal/illegal activities... keyboard typing sounds... all...day...long... just leave the recorder in a sorority bathroom... leave the recorder in your bosses desk...hmmmm... a 30 second blood curdling scream in the middle of a normal day... a big fat bong hit followed with the next 20 clips of a eating/munchie sounds...
Keep this one on the "down low" fellas....
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ID Software has 3 ideas they're toying with, one of which is mine! It's totally sweeet. Todd Hollenshead said it fits right into their plans of totally turning the gaming world on hits head. He said it was "Revolutionary!".
You find yourself in 1980 after just loosing a Presidential Election... Your Mission: Travel around the world for the next couple decades negotiating world peace! It's called "HOPE - Agent Jimmy Carter". What'd'ya think!?!
But, shhhhh. Don't spread the thread, dudes.
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You didn't RTFA. You STFV
We all got the RTFA part, but what is "STFV"? My first guess is "Svenska folkskolans vänner" except I can't place the "T". Could it be "Tävlingstiden"? I don't know, my Finnish is a little rusty.
Like if a nuke was detonated and people were told that some city was safe to return to, even when in reality a bunch of nuclear fallout was starting to cling to everything within miles of the blast.
If a nuclear war has already happened, this "EAS" spoof is going to be the absolute least of anyone's worries. Likewise, if a nuclear war is starting, knowing about it in advanced isn't going to do you, I, or anyone any good, except governement officials that have bunker VIP passes. As for me, I'd rather be listening to my favorite music on headphones in my last 15 minutes rather than some dork announcing the end-of-the-world-is-coming-so-you-better-hide- under-your-desk-Johny!
Now if they could just get rid of these 30 second pop-up ads that appear on my TV 4 or 5 at a time. Like, I'll be watching a movie, it'll get to a really good part, and then BAM!, 6 pop-ads about feminine products, male enhancement pills, etc.
The worst part is they seem to get more agressive towards the end of the movie. Once I saw like 15 pop-up ads before the cliff hanger ending last scene. When is the FTC going to outlaw this madness!?
Have fun using this "sailing" vessel to traverse the Ort cloud. Try crossing ice berg infested waters at over 70,000 mph!
I know from experience: Have you ever played Asteroids while at full thrust!? You last about 15 seconds tops. Now just add a big friggin' sail to act like a drift net and you've got a gourmet recipe for disaster.
I'd rather try my luck playing golf in a thunderstorm.
Even if SETI is looking at optical or radio waves, what if the message is hidden in the Spectral Lines? That way, you have a continuous light source in which to write a message in a sort of barcode or variant system. A simple primer is all you need to act as a beacon.
Maybe some day an astronomer performing a spectral analysis will one day come across a pattern that has a distinctly intelligent look to it....
If you're serious about that, just hire some cute girl to talk to the target for 3 minutes. But, this is/. so whose serious, right?
Re:Kinda gives a new meaning to '1337 hAx0r2'.
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They should turn this rifle into a head mounted unit with a Large parabolic dish attached to the top.
That would result in:
1) You would get laughed at by police instead of shot
2) Nerd factor points increase in orders of magnitude
Blue War Walking....?
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He conducted a similar test at Britain's House of Parliament, carrying a laptop in his backpack. After going through security, he wandered the ground floor for 14 minutes looking at paintings and passing politicians while the attack ran automatically from his backpack. Of 46 Bluetooth devices he found, eight phones were vulnerable to attack.
Using this hack in the 'research' stage of a social engineering attack would be quite useful. Between this and the photos of the blue tooth sniper rifle, why hasn't MI5 highered these guys? Honestly! The guy in the photo reminded me of 'Q' in James Bond. Brilliant work.
"Microchips embedded in fasteners respond only to encrypted signals, restricting access to service procedures."
I can't wait for the 2600 articles in the future that will give new meaning to the term War Driving: Driving around and seeing which cars you can make fall apart...while they are parked of course.
Honestly though, this is the most hairbrained idea I've ever heard of. I RTFA and can't believe they want do this. But then again, the automobile industry was never accused of trying to design cars that are "easy" to work on.
I was making an attempt (obviously I failed) to comment on the human laws of economics and how those can seem to influence our ability to contend with the natural laws of physics.
The point being, that although we humans are perfectly capable, technologically speaking, of using nothing but solar power and it's numerous related alternative energy sources, we don't. Why? Because of economics. However, if the oil did suddenly just stop flowing, would it become economically viable to start using alternative sources? Probably so. So when the oil dies, the sun will be un-run out.
This discussion is actually On Topic, because from the article, one of the reasons the future never turned out the way it was invisioned was because they couldn't forcast what the economics of the future would allow.
Our consciousness, our self-awareness, the thoughts that run through our minds, all of it... one can argue that all of that is made up simply of physical things like chemical reactions and electrical impulses.
I don't disagree that a lot, if not ALL of our psychology is dictated or processed by the physical structures of our nervous system. However, I liken those physical structures of our nervous system to the hardware & software of a computer system. Without electricity, a computer just sits there, and the same with a body. "Life" or "Spirit" is the electricity that runs that system. The reason I like that analogy, is that our spirits are really coming from the same grid, or source...
Humans decided decades ago that scavenging the suns energy was too expensive to harness, so according to that Association's logic, the sun has already "run out".
What a bummer, cause it's still going to burn for several billion more years....
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However, what is clear, is that the only action being taken here with the "intention to intimidate" is the Secret Service's demand for the list of ip addresses.
It's called policing thought and that is fundamentally un-American. It is a completely fascist methodology to suppress dissent of the state.
Your RED flags should being going up like tombstones in Iraq right about now.
This pre-emptive strike sh1t is just sliding down the slippery slope. Think about it:
The information is already in the public domain
It's contextually appropriate - the list contains information about delegates attending the RNC - which is being protested (legally)
The ONLY REASON the SS are poking their noses in there is to INTIMIDATE dissenting THOUGHT.
PsyOps 101
And the Republicans speak of intimidation? *scoff*
JPL engineers have tried to correct the problem by renaming the interesting rock to 'Red Hat Linux 8.0'. They have no response from the catatonic rover as of yet.
What's even more suspicious is that the if you check out "their" website, they are currently using PDA's with sofware already on them! They show pictures of it in Widows CE. No mention of custom chips!
I think the poster found the website on google, is posing as this professor, and is asking for advice on a totally different project...very dubious.
- strange conversations...with no one...
any other ideas?nasty bathroom noises...
"I forgot to turn it off before I got into bed with my girlfriend..."
ambiguously legal/illegal activities...
keyboard typing sounds... all...day...long...
just leave the recorder in a sorority bathroom...
leave the recorder in your bosses desk...hmmmm...
a 30 second blood curdling scream in the middle of a normal day...
a big fat bong hit followed with the next 20 clips of a eating/munchie sounds...
Emergency Alert System is Pretty Much Fucked
ID Software has 3 ideas they're toying with, one of which is mine!
It's totally sweeet. Todd Hollenshead said it fits right into their plans of totally turning the gaming world on hits head. He said it was "Revolutionary!".
You find yourself in 1980 after just loosing a Presidential Election...
Your Mission: Travel around the world for the next couple decades negotiating world peace!
It's called "HOPE - Agent Jimmy Carter". What'd'ya think!?!
But, shhhhh. Don't spread the thread, dudes.
Am I anywhere in the ballpark?
Now if they could just get rid of these 30 second pop-up ads that appear on my TV 4 or 5 at a time. Like, I'll be watching a movie, it'll get to a really good part, and then BAM!, 6 pop-ads about feminine products, male enhancement pills, etc.
The worst part is they seem to get more agressive towards the end of the movie. Once I saw like 15 pop-up ads before the cliff hanger ending last scene. When is the FTC going to outlaw this madness!?
Now if we could just get spammers to obey the law...that would be progress.
Have fun using this "sailing" vessel to traverse the Ort cloud. Try crossing ice berg infested waters at over 70,000 mph!
I know from experience: Have you ever played Asteroids while at full thrust!? You last about 15 seconds tops. Now just add a big friggin' sail to act like a drift net and you've got a gourmet recipe for disaster.
I'd rather try my luck playing golf in a thunderstorm.
Another example of looking for the wrong thing:
Even if SETI is looking at optical or radio waves, what if the message is hidden in the Spectral Lines? That way, you have a continuous light source in which to write a message in a sort of barcode or variant system. A simple primer is all you need to act as a beacon.
Maybe some day an astronomer performing a spectral analysis will one day come across a pattern that has a distinctly intelligent look to it....
If you're serious about that, just hire some cute girl to talk to the target for 3 minutes. But, this is /. so whose serious, right?
That would result in:
2) Nerd factor points increase in orders of magnitude
Honestly though, this is the most hairbrained idea I've ever heard of. I RTFA and can't believe they want do this. But then again, the automobile industry was never accused of trying to design cars that are "easy" to work on.
...you know, the /. geek in the Yugo dislikes the SUVs as much as the next guy on a Harley.
Well, duh! He's in a 1986 Escort. He simply accelerates to 24,320 mph!
It's a conspiracy!
"Yeah, but, Ms.Jones is blind! She doesn't care!"
I was making an attempt (obviously I failed) to comment on the human laws of economics and how those can seem to influence our ability to contend with the natural laws of physics.
The point being, that although we humans are perfectly capable, technologically speaking, of using nothing but solar power and it's numerous related alternative energy sources, we don't. Why? Because of economics. However, if the oil did suddenly just stop flowing, would it become economically viable to start using alternative sources? Probably so. So when the oil dies, the sun will be un-run out.
This discussion is actually On Topic, because from the article, one of the reasons the future never turned out the way it was invisioned was because they couldn't forcast what the economics of the future would allow.
But, we digress....
The sun has run out - already.
Humans decided decades ago that scavenging the suns energy was too expensive to harness, so according to that Association's logic, the sun has already "run out".
What a bummer, cause it's still going to burn for several billion more years....