Unprovoked attack? Back then it was also about oil! The US wanted so bad in the war, that they taunted Japan, and cut off their oil supply, which Japan required to continue the war. Of course the US was gonna be attacked. Unprovoked my ass.
Do you really think the US allows inspections at their nuclear facilities? Also, The UN inspected Iraq. Then the US lied about the inspections and used that fake intel to bomb the fuck out of them. Not a single WMD was found.
And realize their vision of the world was completely misleading. b) How many other citizens of the US are so embarrassed of people like you, when they vacation at some of our best touristic destinations, they say they are Canadian (I can always tell by the accent and lack of sophistication)
Ok, it seems I had friended you for a reason. There are/where some reasonable people in the military after all.
I won't call you a pussy, that macho attitude of going to war is completely obsolete. I wouldn't go to war either.
or at least the people who subscribe to one or more of the three monotheistic religions of the Middle-East, would drop dead on the spot. That is where the trouble lies.
We need to get rid of the christians in the west too. That's where most of the trouble lies.
Except we have no evidence to believe they are making a nuclear weapon, they say they are not making nuclear weapons, and this was about fucking concrete.
But, isn't it awesome how versatile conservatives are? They say in a perfect world there might be no weapons, but since in this world there are weapons, then every citizen must have one. But somehow, that doesn't apply to other countries, just let the US be the worlds police.
I'll tell you something, my country is not a belligerent asshole, we don't have nuclear weapons, and we don't constantly murder people overseas, so we have 0 chance of Iran ever trying to bomb us. On the other hand, the chances of the US ever bombing every other country is fairly fucking high. So, since the US will keep fucking with everybody, I still have hopes one day they will fuck with the wrong kind of crazy and get an H bomb dropped right in fucking Washington D.C. So, if Iran, or Iraq, or Afghanistan want to get some nuclear power, then by all means we should help the crazy bastards out. It might even the playing field a little bit, and if we get really lucky, we might also get rid of the Israel too.
I sincerely don't think it's about the oil anymore. I think the war industry is even bigger than the oil industry, and the owners of the US have as much interests in Lockheed as they do in Exxon.
A sincere question: Why the fuck did you join the military? There are only three possible explanations that I know of:
a) you are a sociopath, and you enjoy murder b) you are stupid, and had no other way to get money. somehow you thought murder was better than sucking dicks or picking up garbage. c) you drank all of the cool aid, and truly believed you where doing something good.
You don't sound stupid, and you don't sound like a sociopath. If you did drink all the cool aid back then, you seem to be better now.
Iran is a very religious country, so is the US. Muslims want to kill Christians, Christians want to kill Muslims. Iran has corrupt leaders, that allow their people to suffer hunger, poor health care and bad education in order to spend millions in armament, this is also true about the US. It's also true that Iran is a fairly small country with few resources, while the US is a huge country and the most resourceful on the planet, and while Iran has failed in most military operations it has attempted, the US has succeeded. Iran is trying to get some nuclear weapons, the US is the only country to have ever used them on a civilian population. Currently Iran has no nuclear weapons, while the US has thousands. Iran is not currently at war, while the US has been consistently starting wars every year for 200 years.
And yet, when the US develops a new weapon, a new fighter, a new bomb, a new droid, or any other military advancement and clearly plans to use it soon at war, it's praised for its technological achievement. But when Iran develops a new construction technology, that has tens of applications, one of them, defense, then it's something we should be worried about and it makes Iran evil, and we should ask the glorious united states of america to destroy them real soon.
Fuck that bullshit, your western christian theocracy is no better than the eastern muslim theocracies, and just as crazy, delusional and violent.
Don't use facebook. I've never had facebook, or orkut, or twitter, or any of that crap.
I use the internet in just about the same way I used it when I was a kid, except now I use SSH instead of Telnet, and SCP instead of FTP. I use the web to retrieve information, as was its original purpose, and of course as a replacement for USENET. Why people find the need to use all of this new crappy services offered over the web? Why do they find the need to register to every new stupid service they find? Now most of the web requires some stupid registration. Fuck, every stupid blog or forum requires registration to view download links! I use bugmenot.
If you enjoy your privacy, LOG THE FUCK OUT. You don't need it to begin with. It ain't that fucking difficult, why do we keep having this conversation every other day?
"But worse still, BitDefender even found one painting application where the very act of swiping the paintbrush over an online pet to change the colour of the virtual animal was enough to trigger redirection to an infected site"
No way! You mean a scripting language reacted to user input such as onMouseOver and executed a forbidden instruction such as redirecting the site, by exploiting a vulnerability in document.location.href? This is clearly ADVERTISEMENT for BitDefender who is mentioned throughout the article as a "researcher" while showing no actual "research".
They are not actually talking about the attack vector, because they haven't found anything. They are essentially saying that a href is a vulnerability because it might lead to an "infected" (whatever that means) site.
He claims that he created a program called "email", and he says, it was the first. Well, except for the fact that the Unix mail program dates from '72. And that there are RFCs for protocols referring to electronic mail way before that. If we want to be strict about it, email probably started with the telegraph.
Close enough. He essentially used deduplication instead of real compression (well, he also used some compression in the end). He essentially split messages into headers/body, then used line deduplication. Then compressed any messages above a certain threshold.
I live in Argentina and I complain almost constantly about my 3G connection. I pay 119 pesos a month (that's 27 dollars) for unlimited bandwidth. I usually download at around 2mbps until I hit the 3GB limit, after that I download at ~1mbps as much as I want (but most of the time the speed is closer to 750kbps). Coverage is pretty good (most of the country, even out on the road), and certainly anywhere in the city. If out of town and there's no 3G, it falls over to GPRS at no additional cost, that ain't fast but it gets me my email.
Biggest piece of shit is probably we are all behind a proxy, so we all share the same IP. That means most filesharing services (such as rapidshare or wupload) don't work since there's almost all the time somebody downloading. I fix that by having a premium account at some of those services, or just using SSH port forwarding (Android rocks) to one of my servers.
I guess it's not as bad as I thought, seeing how it's in some other places...
People from the US, even in the south, don't know how to prepare, cook and eat a cow./That's not blood. That's wasted Morcilla.//http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_pudding///It's absolutely delicious, and would have never been wasted like that in here (Argentina)
I didn't say science can define ethics, I said science can determine what is a human being and what isn't. What is a fetus and what is a baby, that's science territory.
That is stupid. It's hypocritical to support abortion but don't support euthanasia, or the other way around. But the death penalty is a whole different thing. You are intentionally murdering an adult because you THINK he did something wrong. So you are doing something even worse than what he did in order to punish him?
Absolutely. I am pro life. I am alive, and I consider life to be one of the most amazing things in the universe, and, as a thing that is alive, I tend to strongly support life, out of pure self interest. On the other hand, I think woman should have the right to abort their pregnancies. The reason this assholes call themselves pro-life is because nobody will rationally say they are "anti life".
I am sorry, but facts are not "negotiable". We can't negotiate how old the earth is, and we can't negotiate the terminal velocity of an object falling to earth.
In a similar fashion, science shows precisely when abortion is no longer ethical, and it is when the baby develops a substantial part of its central nervous system.
That is the main problem with religion, people "believe" and people "decide" and "compromise" in areas where those words don't apply.
SSH is all you'll ever fucking need. You can do anything you need over SSH, including a true VPN or just VPN-like functionality. And it's as secure as it gets.
I manage all of my servers from my android devices, and have done so for a long time. What the hell is this guy complaining about?
Regarding the guy talking about the remote wipe... well, that's a stupid concept. A lost/stolen phone usually doesn't have network access, and even if you do it as a deads man switch, it's not really secure. Just encrypt whatever important data you have on your device, or even better, just keep it in the cloud and access it from anywhere. All you have to do is wipe your cache regularly.
I own a software development company, among other things, we develop a DVR solution that is partly server-side, partly distributed hardware in the customer's premises. As we speak, my systems are handling and recording ~160 thousand megapixels per second. I know a few things about scalability.
Now, having a consistent development environment when developing huge applications is not just important, but mandatory. But we where talking about web pages, and a guy that is trying to get started with it. Do you think that using 50mb of frameworks to support 100k of code is a good idea?
Regardless, stock frameworks don't scale nicely either, and when you get close to the really-fucking-big-system side of development, they are a liability.
Here's a little secret for you: Anyone that uses the word "enterprise" is full of shit. It is used by mediocre developers who work at relatively big corporations and have been forced through the years to work with a bunch of bureaucracy. This people can't release a fucking shell script without 10 formal test cases, 50 meetings, 10 flowcharts, and it's own repository.
Serious huge projects are written in C++. Serious huge projects that need incredible performance are written in C with assembly optimizations. When somebody tells you that you can't write anything if it's not done in Java, that guy is a corporate droid. If somebody tells you the same for Perl, he's an old monk. If somone tells you that for Ruby/Python/Brainfuck, he's a snob and a fan of that particular language, ignore him too.
Truth is, leaving aside the obvious differences, when it comes to features that help organize huge projects, C has nothing that PHP doesn't implement on some way. Don't get me wrong, I'm not comparing the base of all modern computing with a modern and not very well designed interpreted language, I'm talking about features that some idiots would call "corporate". And yet, there are incredibly HUGE projects written entirely in C. And yes, there are also huge projects written in PHP.
Truth is, if you are a good coder, you'll do a good job even if you have to use Basic. And if you are not, you'll write spaghetti code even in C++.
PHP is a simple, straight to the point language, with a very clear syntax, that is great for web development. It's syntax is very much C-like, just like Javascript, and that certainly helps when you are writting web apps. It's easy to find PHP coders, and that certainly helps too.
The problem with PHP's reputation is that it's incredibly easy to just write some script or modify an existing one, and call yourself a coder. So the amount of bad PHP code out there is incredibly huge and incredibly public. Of course, if you reviewed each of those Corporate-enterprise-mega-super-jumbo java apps, you would find as many WTFs as you could in your average PHP project, the only difference is that the assholes rooting for Java won't show you their code, and they'll act very dignified.
Also, avoid the motherfucking frameworks. You don't need them, at all.
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Unprovoked attack? Back then it was also about oil! The US wanted so bad in the war, that they taunted Japan, and cut off their oil supply, which Japan required to continue the war. Of course the US was gonna be attacked. Unprovoked my ass.
You know perfectly damn well that the US disregards all UN authority. And you know perfectly damn well they are only showing what they want to show.
Go to the US with a few copies of the Qur'an and see what happens.
Do you really think the US allows inspections at their nuclear facilities? Also, The UN inspected Iraq. Then the US lied about the inspections and used that fake intel to bomb the fuck out of them. Not a single WMD was found.
So, what reasons has Iran to allow inspections?
You know what's the best about the uneducated people from the US that thinks the entire world looks like Afghanistan?
a) Their faces when they finally travel a little bit and get to see, for example, the city where I live:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QRpO2B1C6Xg/TT1yt1_PggI/AAAAAAAAACA/qal-vpr50pI/s1600/buenos-aires.jpg
http://buenosairestourism.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Buenos-Aires-Tourism2.jpg
http://www.ladygardens.net/storage/buenos_aires03.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1243881190062
And realize their vision of the world was completely misleading.
b) How many other citizens of the US are so embarrassed of people like you, when they vacation at some of our best touristic destinations, they say they are Canadian (I can always tell by the accent and lack of sophistication)
Ok, it seems I had friended you for a reason. There are/where some reasonable people in the military after all.
I won't call you a pussy, that macho attitude of going to war is completely obsolete. I wouldn't go to war either.
or at least the people who subscribe to one or more of the three monotheistic religions of the Middle-East, would drop dead on the spot. That is where the trouble lies.
We need to get rid of the christians in the west too. That's where most of the trouble lies.
Except we have no evidence to believe they are making a nuclear weapon, they say they are not making nuclear weapons, and this was about fucking concrete.
But, isn't it awesome how versatile conservatives are? They say in a perfect world there might be no weapons, but since in this world there are weapons, then every citizen must have one. But somehow, that doesn't apply to other countries, just let the US be the worlds police.
I'll tell you something, my country is not a belligerent asshole, we don't have nuclear weapons, and we don't constantly murder people overseas, so we have 0 chance of Iran ever trying to bomb us. On the other hand, the chances of the US ever bombing every other country is fairly fucking high. So, since the US will keep fucking with everybody, I still have hopes one day they will fuck with the wrong kind of crazy and get an H bomb dropped right in fucking Washington D.C. So, if Iran, or Iraq, or Afghanistan want to get some nuclear power, then by all means we should help the crazy bastards out. It might even the playing field a little bit, and if we get really lucky, we might also get rid of the Israel too.
I sincerely don't think it's about the oil anymore. I think the war industry is even bigger than the oil industry, and the owners of the US have as much interests in Lockheed as they do in Exxon.
A sincere question: Why the fuck did you join the military? There are only three possible explanations that I know of:
a) you are a sociopath, and you enjoy murder
b) you are stupid, and had no other way to get money. somehow you thought murder was better than sucking dicks or picking up garbage.
c) you drank all of the cool aid, and truly believed you where doing something good.
You don't sound stupid, and you don't sound like a sociopath. If you did drink all the cool aid back then, you seem to be better now.
So, what was it?
Iran is a very religious country, so is the US. Muslims want to kill Christians, Christians want to kill Muslims. Iran has corrupt leaders, that allow their people to suffer hunger, poor health care and bad education in order to spend millions in armament, this is also true about the US. It's also true that Iran is a fairly small country with few resources, while the US is a huge country and the most resourceful on the planet, and while Iran has failed in most military operations it has attempted, the US has succeeded. Iran is trying to get some nuclear weapons, the US is the only country to have ever used them on a civilian population. Currently Iran has no nuclear weapons, while the US has thousands. Iran is not currently at war, while the US has been consistently starting wars every year for 200 years.
And yet, when the US develops a new weapon, a new fighter, a new bomb, a new droid, or any other military advancement and clearly plans to use it soon at war, it's praised for its technological achievement. But when Iran develops a new construction technology, that has tens of applications, one of them, defense, then it's something we should be worried about and it makes Iran evil, and we should ask the glorious united states of america to destroy them real soon.
Fuck that bullshit, your western christian theocracy is no better than the eastern muslim theocracies, and just as crazy, delusional and violent.
Don't use facebook. I've never had facebook, or orkut, or twitter, or any of that crap.
I use the internet in just about the same way I used it when I was a kid, except now I use SSH instead of Telnet, and SCP instead of FTP. I use the web to retrieve information, as was its original purpose, and of course as a replacement for USENET. Why people find the need to use all of this new crappy services offered over the web? Why do they find the need to register to every new stupid service they find? Now most of the web requires some stupid registration. Fuck, every stupid blog or forum requires registration to view download links! I use bugmenot.
If you enjoy your privacy, LOG THE FUCK OUT. You don't need it to begin with. It ain't that fucking difficult, why do we keep having this conversation every other day?
"But worse still, BitDefender even found one painting application where the very act of swiping the paintbrush over an online pet to change the colour of the virtual animal was enough to trigger redirection to an infected site"
No way! You mean a scripting language reacted to user input such as onMouseOver and executed a forbidden instruction such as redirecting the site, by exploiting a vulnerability in document.location.href? This is clearly ADVERTISEMENT for BitDefender who is mentioned throughout the article as a "researcher" while showing no actual "research".
They are not actually talking about the attack vector, because they haven't found anything. They are essentially saying that a href is a vulnerability because it might lead to an "infected" (whatever that means) site.
He claims that he created a program called "email", and he says, it was the first. Well, except for the fact that the Unix mail program dates from '72. And that there are RFCs for protocols referring to electronic mail way before that. If we want to be strict about it, email probably started with the telegraph.
This guy is an idiot looking for attention.
Close enough. He essentially used deduplication instead of real compression (well, he also used some compression in the end). He essentially split messages into headers/body, then used line deduplication. Then compressed any messages above a certain threshold.
It's an interesting article, you should read it.
I live in Argentina and I complain almost constantly about my 3G connection. I pay 119 pesos a month (that's 27 dollars) for unlimited bandwidth. I usually download at around 2mbps until I hit the 3GB limit, after that I download at ~1mbps as much as I want (but most of the time the speed is closer to 750kbps). Coverage is pretty good (most of the country, even out on the road), and certainly anywhere in the city. If out of town and there's no 3G, it falls over to GPRS at no additional cost, that ain't fast but it gets me my email.
Biggest piece of shit is probably we are all behind a proxy, so we all share the same IP. That means most filesharing services (such as rapidshare or wupload) don't work since there's almost all the time somebody downloading. I fix that by having a premium account at some of those services, or just using SSH port forwarding (Android rocks) to one of my servers.
I guess it's not as bad as I thought, seeing how it's in some other places ...
People from the US, even in the south, don't know how to prepare, cook and eat a cow. /That's not blood. That's wasted Morcilla. //http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_pudding ///It's absolutely delicious, and would have never been wasted like that in here (Argentina)
WHAT? The Catholic church has been one of the leading causes of death for a few thousand years.
I didn't say science can define ethics, I said science can determine what is a human being and what isn't. What is a fetus and what is a baby, that's science territory.
That is stupid. It's hypocritical to support abortion but don't support euthanasia, or the other way around. But the death penalty is a whole different thing. You are intentionally murdering an adult because you THINK he did something wrong. So you are doing something even worse than what he did in order to punish him?
Absolutely. I am pro life. I am alive, and I consider life to be one of the most amazing things in the universe, and, as a thing that is alive, I tend to strongly support life, out of pure self interest. On the other hand, I think woman should have the right to abort their pregnancies. The reason this assholes call themselves pro-life is because nobody will rationally say they are "anti life".
I am pro abortion. Just imagine, if we had preemptively aborted all of this religious wackos we wouldn't be having this stupid discussion now.
I am sorry, but facts are not "negotiable". We can't negotiate how old the earth is, and we can't negotiate the terminal velocity of an object falling to earth.
In a similar fashion, science shows precisely when abortion is no longer ethical, and it is when the baby develops a substantial part of its central nervous system.
That is the main problem with religion, people "believe" and people "decide" and "compromise" in areas where those words don't apply.
SSH is all you'll ever fucking need. You can do anything you need over SSH, including a true VPN or just VPN-like functionality. And it's as secure as it gets.
I manage all of my servers from my android devices, and have done so for a long time. What the hell is this guy complaining about?
Regarding the guy talking about the remote wipe ... well, that's a stupid concept. A lost/stolen phone usually doesn't have network access, and even if you do it as a deads man switch, it's not really secure. Just encrypt whatever important data you have on your device, or even better, just keep it in the cloud and access it from anywhere. All you have to do is wipe your cache regularly.
I own a software development company, among other things, we develop a DVR solution that is partly server-side, partly distributed hardware in the customer's premises. As we speak, my systems are handling and recording ~160 thousand megapixels per second. I know a few things about scalability.
Now, having a consistent development environment when developing huge applications is not just important, but mandatory. But we where talking about web pages, and a guy that is trying to get started with it. Do you think that using 50mb of frameworks to support 100k of code is a good idea?
Regardless, stock frameworks don't scale nicely either, and when you get close to the really-fucking-big-system side of development, they are a liability.
Here's a little secret for you: Anyone that uses the word "enterprise" is full of shit. It is used by mediocre developers who work at relatively big corporations and have been forced through the years to work with a bunch of bureaucracy. This people can't release a fucking shell script without 10 formal test cases, 50 meetings, 10 flowcharts, and it's own repository.
Serious huge projects are written in C++. Serious huge projects that need incredible performance are written in C with assembly optimizations. When somebody tells you that you can't write anything if it's not done in Java, that guy is a corporate droid. If somebody tells you the same for Perl, he's an old monk. If somone tells you that for Ruby/Python/Brainfuck, he's a snob and a fan of that particular language, ignore him too.
Truth is, leaving aside the obvious differences, when it comes to features that help organize huge projects, C has nothing that PHP doesn't implement on some way. Don't get me wrong, I'm not comparing the base of all modern computing with a modern and not very well designed interpreted language, I'm talking about features that some idiots would call "corporate". And yet, there are incredibly HUGE projects written entirely in C. And yes, there are also huge projects written in PHP.
Truth is, if you are a good coder, you'll do a good job even if you have to use Basic. And if you are not, you'll write spaghetti code even in C++.
PHP is a simple, straight to the point language, with a very clear syntax, that is great for web development. It's syntax is very much C-like, just like Javascript, and that certainly helps when you are writting web apps. It's easy to find PHP coders, and that certainly helps too.
The problem with PHP's reputation is that it's incredibly easy to just write some script or modify an existing one, and call yourself a coder. So the amount of bad PHP code out there is incredibly huge and incredibly public. Of course, if you reviewed each of those Corporate-enterprise-mega-super-jumbo java apps, you would find as many WTFs as you could in your average PHP project, the only difference is that the assholes rooting for Java won't show you their code, and they'll act very dignified.
Also, avoid the motherfucking frameworks. You don't need them, at all.