Which would only work should 'the hacker' not intercept the firmware update prior to it being applied and 'fixing' it to remove that bit.
Remember, once the silicon is compromised, nothing you do in the software can be trusted to be secure. To apply the firmware, it'd have to be signed with the compromised keys. Which means it could be 'easily' subverted before it ever got written to memory. At which point they've gone to all that work and still not stopped a single thing.
Following orders has never been a valid defense for doing the wrong thing. Especially when keeping your oath conflicts with the other oath you took to protect our nation and uphold the Constitution.
Especially when keeping your oath means turning a blind eye to your government breaking it's oaths.
What's the old line? "For evil to triumph, all that is necessary is for good men to do nothing."
Manning may have indeed violated his oath. But as the leaked wires have already shown in as least some cases what he leaked was evidence of wrongdoing on the part of our own government.
Thank you for reminding me again why I have a red dot next to your name. I hope to hell you never have to experience what he's going through simply for doing what you think is right, regardless of whatever your misshapen idea of right is.
If you can't get worked up over being put in solitary for seven months, being forced to answer every five minutes if you are ok, being woken up every five minutes if your guards decide they can't tell if you are alright on their own, or being denied the ability to exercise outside of pacing for an hour a day for seven months straight, then you either are young enough to be anyone's naive neo-con's child or you really are John Yoo and have no fucking clue what torture is about.
That, or I really did need to link to the article for you, as you obviously hadn't read it and apparently still haven't.
PFC Manning is held in his cell for approximately 23 hours a day.
The guards are required to check on PFC Manning every five minutes by asking him if he is okay. PFC Manning is required to respond in some affirmative manner. At night, if the guards cannot see PFC Manning clearly, because he has a blanket over his head or is curled up towards the wall, they will wake him in order to ensure he is okay.
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He is prevented from exercising in his cell. If he attempts to do push-ups, sit-ups, or any other form of exercise he will be forced to stop.
He does receive one hour of “exercise” outside of his cell daily. He is taken to an empty room and only allowed to walk. PFC Manning normally just walks figure eights in the room for the entire hour. If he indicates that he no long feels like walking, he is immediately returned to his cell.
When PFC Manning goes to sleep, he is required to strip down to his boxer shorts and surrender his clothing to the guards. His clothing is returned to him the next morning.
Son, he's been held in that condition for about seven months now and hasn't yet even had a pre-trial hearing. I don't care if you are fucking John Yoo behind that Anonymous mask of yours. There's no way you can effectively argue that isn't psychological torture being performed there.
Answering questions like "Did Manning really claim to have physically dropped off a hard drive with Assange" doesn't require anything more than a yes or no or at worse, the relevant portion of the chat logs published.
And obviously, they know how and are willing to do just that, or they'd have not published anything at all.
Which leads us back to the argument I've made. This has squat to do with 'journalistic integrity' or 'protecting national secrets'. It's about either being part of a frame up or milking their limelight of being the only folk with access to the logs.
If they were just sitting on it, you'd have a point. But what they actually did was release choice tidbits of the chat logs and then refuse to publish anymore or even answer questions such as "Did Manning actually say this in the logs?".
Which only makes sense if you are trying to frame Manning or milk your 'exclusivity' to the detriment of Manning.
And until then, they are free to torture him to their hearts content in an effort to force compliance out of him? I think not.
When did acting like the villains out of a WWII or Cold War spy flick become publicly acceptable for the country that prides itself on being the leader of the free world?
Nothing, it's what every investigative journalist out there does. The government, and the people buying into their bullshit are just reaching for anything they can throw right now, because they are pissed about being caught with their pants down.
My main single player world is currently 128 megs large, around 40,000 chunks. If you were to make that a single file, a single crash could wipe out the entire thing.
As it stands, if a single file gets corrupted, you simply regenerate that section and keep going. It isn't that odd an idea.
In case you want to get rid of that grind, it's fairly easy to come out with a jackpot every-time if you switch your role from 'miner' to 'Indiana Jones'-styled explorer of caves.
It does take a modicum of digging to get to most systems, but most cave systems are formed with enough knots and twists that you can hit bedrock and not even realize that you've actually gone that far down. And a tunnel in the 'sweet spot' levels just above the ceiling where lava spawns a veins will be full of resources just sitting out in the open waiting for you to scoop up. You just have to be able to get down there and back.
Full daylight provides the maximum brightness of 15. Each value below this is 80% as bright as the one above it. For example, 14 is 80% as bright as sunlight, and 13 is 64% bright.
Torches emit light level 14 and monsters spawn at light level 7 or below. Light levels drop by one for every block away from the source. So if you aren't placing light sources about every 5 or so blocks, you will be working in the dark when the sun goes down/you go underground and you'll be always doing the Crazy Ivan to check for Creepers sneaking up on you.
Coal and wood aren't exactly rare, I've gone on simple 'camping' trips above ground and come back with two or more stacks of coal by the end of the day, and wood is even easier to collect. Your problem is you want your world to match your aesthetics rather than how the game was setup.
Which is why you lie. Consistently and constantly to those questions.
What was your birth place? Pizza Hut, Luna City What was your first pet's name? Sir Fucks-a-lot What was your mother's maiden name? Jack Daniels What is your favorite food? Glass
If you do so, no amount of digging into your personal life is going to come up with the right answers and as long as you give the same answers each time, it's not that difficult to remember.
Of course, then you have the problem where THAT database is compromised, given unlike the password data base the answers probably weren't encrypted...
And more to the point, it's been pointed out already that they haven't removed the caps lock functionality, just a key dedicated to it. You can still go into CAPS LOCK mode by double taping the shift key or if you are really really adverse to change, go into the settings and change the key back to being caps lock.
Unfortunately the two groups of crazies don't cover the full Venn diagram, it's more like they both challenge 25% of the same stuff, and an additional 25% of the stuff that just gores their own ox, and leave the remainder out there for folk to get screwed over because they both either believe that it's 'good' or that it's too 'dangerous' to attack.
See: TSA, Patriot Act, anything that has to do with State Rights, 'protecting the children', or responsible sex education.
If it's an iPhone, you may not want to replace it every year or two, but you can damn well bet on the fact that Apple will be doing everything in it's power to push you into doing so regardless.
Apple didn't become the Saint of Obsolescence by playing fair with its products.
The problem lies in the fact that they discovered this when the gardener stepped into some of the residue left over from the creation of some of these explosives, and went "BOOM!".
Tell me how many weeks you think they'd be able to play the lottery and not have the whole thing go off in their face as they are attempting to carry stuff out?
"This is a truly unknown situation," said Neal Langerman, the top scientist at the safety consulting firm, Advanced Chemical Safety in San Diego. "They've got a very good inventory of what's in there. Do I anticipate something going wrong? No. But even in a controlled burn, things occasionally go wrong."
"Prosecutors say Serbian-born George Jakubec quietly packed the home with the largest amount of homemade explosives ever found in one location in the U.S. and was running a virtual bomb-making factory in his suburban neighborhood. How the alleged bank robber obtained the chemicals and what he planned to do with them remain mysteries."
I don't want to ever pay for the privilege of being someone elses product. And when I can't avoid it, I do not buy into bullshit like "this information is going to be used to help us make the magazine focused more on you" because I'm self aware enough to know that for every inclination I have, there is an Anti-Chyeld out to cancel that out.
New to Earth? Pretty much anyone whose been around for the past oh, 16 years could tell you that. They don't give a shit, she's a female Republican and convenient foil to those who claim the neo-cons have forgotten the common man.
Stupid, 'rural', and willing to play up her ignorance as a plus. If she wins a GOP nomination and Obama doesn't up his game dramticly soon, he'd have to announce having caught Osama bare handed while fighting off a bare chested Putin for the honor of killing the terrorist to avoid being buried by the wave.
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Which would only work should 'the hacker' not intercept the firmware update prior to it being applied and 'fixing' it to remove that bit.
Remember, once the silicon is compromised, nothing you do in the software can be trusted to be secure. To apply the firmware, it'd have to be signed with the compromised keys. Which means it could be 'easily' subverted before it ever got written to memory. At which point they've gone to all that work and still not stopped a single thing.
Following orders has never been a valid defense for doing the wrong thing. Especially when keeping your oath conflicts with the other oath you took to protect our nation and uphold the Constitution.
Especially when keeping your oath means turning a blind eye to your government breaking it's oaths.
What's the old line? "For evil to triumph, all that is necessary is for good men to do nothing."
Manning may have indeed violated his oath. But as the leaked wires have already shown in as least some cases what he leaked was evidence of wrongdoing on the part of our own government.
And so was Guantanamo Bay, when it finally came out. Didn't make it any more righteous either.
Thank you for reminding me again why I have a red dot next to your name. I hope to hell you never have to experience what he's going through simply for doing what you think is right, regardless of whatever your misshapen idea of right is.
If you can't get worked up over being put in solitary for seven months, being forced to answer every five minutes if you are ok, being woken up every five minutes if your guards decide they can't tell if you are alright on their own, or being denied the ability to exercise outside of pacing for an hour a day for seven months straight, then you either are young enough to be anyone's naive neo-con's child or you really are John Yoo and have no fucking clue what torture is about.
That, or I really did need to link to the article for you, as you obviously hadn't read it and apparently still haven't.
From your link:
Son, he's been held in that condition for about seven months now and hasn't yet even had a pre-trial hearing. I don't care if you are fucking John Yoo behind that Anonymous mask of yours. There's no way you can effectively argue that isn't psychological torture being performed there.
Answering questions like "Did Manning really claim to have physically dropped off a hard drive with Assange" doesn't require anything more than a yes or no or at worse, the relevant portion of the chat logs published.
And obviously, they know how and are willing to do just that, or they'd have not published anything at all.
Which leads us back to the argument I've made. This has squat to do with 'journalistic integrity' or 'protecting national secrets'. It's about either being part of a frame up or milking their limelight of being the only folk with access to the logs.
If they were just sitting on it, you'd have a point. But what they actually did was release choice tidbits of the chat logs and then refuse to publish anymore or even answer questions such as "Did Manning actually say this in the logs?".
Which only makes sense if you are trying to frame Manning or milk your 'exclusivity' to the detriment of Manning.
And until then, they are free to torture him to their hearts content in an effort to force compliance out of him? I think not.
When did acting like the villains out of a WWII or Cold War spy flick become publicly acceptable for the country that prides itself on being the leader of the free world?
Nothing, it's what every investigative journalist out there does. The government, and the people buying into their bullshit are just reaching for anything they can throw right now, because they are pissed about being caught with their pants down.
Each file contains the block and entity information for a 'chunk' which is a 16x16 128 block high area.
The file format is already a tree.
My main single player world is currently 128 megs large, around 40,000 chunks. If you were to make that a single file, a single crash could wipe out the entire thing.
As it stands, if a single file gets corrupted, you simply regenerate that section and keep going. It isn't that odd an idea.
In case you want to get rid of that grind, it's fairly easy to come out with a jackpot every-time if you switch your role from 'miner' to 'Indiana Jones'-styled explorer of caves.
It does take a modicum of digging to get to most systems, but most cave systems are formed with enough knots and twists that you can hit bedrock and not even realize that you've actually gone that far down. And a tunnel in the 'sweet spot' levels just above the ceiling where lava spawns a veins will be full of resources just sitting out in the open waiting for you to scoop up. You just have to be able to get down there and back.
Except that's exactly how it's suppose to be.
Torches emit light level 14 and monsters spawn at light level 7 or below. Light levels drop by one for every block away from the source. So if you aren't placing light sources about every 5 or so blocks, you will be working in the dark when the sun goes down/you go underground and you'll be always doing the Crazy Ivan to check for Creepers sneaking up on you.
Coal and wood aren't exactly rare, I've gone on simple 'camping' trips above ground and come back with two or more stacks of coal by the end of the day, and wood is even easier to collect. Your problem is you want your world to match your aesthetics rather than how the game was setup.
Which is why you lie. Consistently and constantly to those questions.
What was your birth place? Pizza Hut, Luna City
What was your first pet's name? Sir Fucks-a-lot
What was your mother's maiden name? Jack Daniels
What is your favorite food? Glass
If you do so, no amount of digging into your personal life is going to come up with the right answers and as long as you give the same answers each time, it's not that difficult to remember.
Of course, then you have the problem where THAT database is compromised, given unlike the password data base the answers probably weren't encrypted...
We've done this before, anyone remember thin clients?
Maybe this time 'the cloud' will take off, maybe not.
But either way, yes this has the potential for being big.
And more to the point, it's been pointed out already that they haven't removed the caps lock functionality, just a key dedicated to it. You can still go into CAPS LOCK mode by double taping the shift key or if you are really really adverse to change, go into the settings and change the key back to being caps lock.
Unfortunately the two groups of crazies don't cover the full Venn diagram, it's more like they both challenge 25% of the same stuff, and an additional 25% of the stuff that just gores their own ox, and leave the remainder out there for folk to get screwed over because they both either believe that it's 'good' or that it's too 'dangerous' to attack.
See: TSA, Patriot Act, anything that has to do with State Rights, 'protecting the children', or responsible sex education.
MY business is not the government's business.
However, the government's business is most definitely my business.
That isn't hypocrisy, that's the realization that this isn't a symmetrical relationship.
If it's an iPhone, you may not want to replace it every year or two, but you can damn well bet on the fact that Apple will be doing everything in it's power to push you into doing so regardless.
Apple didn't become the Saint of Obsolescence by playing fair with its products.
The problem lies in the fact that they discovered this when the gardener stepped into some of the residue left over from the creation of some of these explosives, and went "BOOM!".
Tell me how many weeks you think they'd be able to play the lottery and not have the whole thing go off in their face as they are attempting to carry stuff out?
"This is a truly unknown situation," said Neal Langerman, the top scientist at the safety consulting firm, Advanced Chemical Safety in San Diego. "They've got a very good inventory of what's in there. Do I anticipate something going wrong? No. But even in a controlled burn, things occasionally go wrong."
"Prosecutors say Serbian-born George Jakubec quietly packed the home with the largest amount of homemade explosives ever found in one location in the U.S. and was running a virtual bomb-making factory in his suburban neighborhood. How the alleged bank robber obtained the chemicals and what he planned to do with them remain mysteries."
I don't want to ever pay for the privilege of being someone elses product. And when I can't avoid it, I do not buy into bullshit like "this information is going to be used to help us make the magazine focused more on you" because I'm self aware enough to know that for every inclination I have, there is an Anti-Chyeld out to cancel that out.
No mater what Google says, you can share your spouse with whomever you like, as long as the spouse is into that sort of thing...
New to Earth? Pretty much anyone whose been around for the past oh, 16 years could tell you that. They don't give a shit, she's a female Republican and convenient foil to those who claim the neo-cons have forgotten the common man.
Stupid, 'rural', and willing to play up her ignorance as a plus. If she wins a GOP nomination and Obama doesn't up his game dramticly soon, he'd have to announce having caught Osama bare handed while fighting off a bare chested Putin for the honor of killing the terrorist to avoid being buried by the wave.