This has been a long project by Australian Labor and the Liberal/Nationals - and let's not kid ourselves, especially the Attorney-General's Department who have been pulling the puppet strings of both for decades. Unelected bureaucrats, perpetually drunk on the hubris of the power they wield, that even the government in power can't get rid of.
Once census and data retention scheme information are merged, all of our individual dossiers will be complete. Even the Stasi would cream their pants at the mere thought of what they have achieved. Bravo. They very least all concerned can do is thank the Australian public who have been asleep at the wheel for the last 30 years.
They're gonna start running out of wells to poison pretty soon. I don't blame SJWs for this - they are just exploiting the environment - an environment is created by "moderates" and fence sitters that credulously give the benefit of the doubt to any loser with a wolf story - and enthusiastically dog-pile on any voices that dare to express skepticism. And these 'moderates" are for the most part stupid, well-meaning white males - that most demonised and despised of social demographics.
This is an endless drone. I wonder how many women out there have ever had their genitals smeared with engine grease and drill shavings - something way to many boys did in apprenticeships. They all refused to curl into foetal positions and cry for nanny to save them and generally got over it and progressed to be something in their fields.
This is the bubble wrap child generation reaching their mutated version of "maturity" - and expecting the same coddling as when they were in "everyone is a winner" school. I feel more nauseous each time another one of these #SJW articles barfs itself all over my screen. Heat and kitchens etc.
What I've found is that it's mostly right wing folks who want these laws.
Bollocks. The biggest war on anonymity is being waged by the social justice left. They can't live with the idea that people can shoot holes in their gibberish with impunity and not have their personal data on public view in order to contact employers and get them fired.
I didn't see any part Sarah's post that brought gender into this, and it immediately people started making assumptions of such.
The words of someone who's own playground has never been attacked by SJWs. I've dug back through Sharp's online history. She is operating from the same SJW template that has attacked gamers, sci-fi freaks, atheists, Occupy and an endless list of others, even metalheads and bondage nuts. It's a cut and paste job.
I posted above she is on the soon-to-be defunct ADA/donglegate Initiative board and the fact that she tried to start a similar LKML dung fight in 2013. Keep on smiling at the crocodile - maybe you'll get eaten last.
//Brianna: So, I can’t talk specifically about all of our funding. But I can say how we started Giant Spacekat and made our "minimal viable product." I quit my job when I married my husband, and followed him to Boston. I was trying to figure out what to do with my life. I wasn’t sure if I wanted to pursue a graduate degree or start my own company.
A family relative offered us the chance to live in Frank’s grandmother’s house for free if we renovated it. That would free up capital for us, so I jumped at the chance. I spent half a year renovating the house. Then, we moved in - took our rent money, and used it to hire our first employee.//
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What a crock. Wu even tweeted about this - mommy and daddy gave the thing $200,000.
... that Wu then proceeds to claim to be entitled to speak on behalf of ALL women IS.
That all is a red-herring anyway. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Brianna Wu. Nothing here that can't be independently verified -
http://www.dailymotion.com/vid...
I really thought this place knew better than to allow professional propagandists and pan-handlers a stage and a microphone.
You are an occupied state. The military/surveillance industry has moved beyond simply corrupting the political process via high-priced, slick and efficient think tanks/lobbyists and now effectively owns the White House. Your current crop of politicians are either terrified into submission by security Grand Guignol theater; bought off like cheap hookers; or blackmailed into compliance by dirt accidentally turned up by the "legitimate" surveillance programs.
Using estimates from Dana Priest and William Arkin at WashPo, the combined membership of the military and security apparatus is now pretty close to 2% of the entire population - funnily enough, the same number Orwell gave for the Inner Party in _1984_.
Democracy has ceased to be - you now live in the United Occupied States of America. Who you vote in makes fuck all difference. Get used to it. The only hope the rest of the planet has is in your imminent bankruptcy and economic implosion. Unfortunately, neither privatised prisons nor a perpetual war footing are viable long term business models. Just look at what happened to your prototype - the former Soviet Union.
fiannaFailMan: Funny how quickly the defenders of racism come out of the woodwork. A bit more subtle than the pointy white hoods it it's still with us, as your post demonstrates.
What complete and utter bollocks. The hysteria mill for nonsense like this is almost exclusively driven by pudgy, pink, extremely entitled, privileged, middle-class NORTH AMERICANS. Those that have poisoned liberalism and made it look *exactly* like the parody liberalism as pushed on Fox News by the likes of Glen Beck and Ann Coulter. These are people who no longer have genuine grievances to fight the righteous fight for, so they clutch at trivia - any life destroyed is a proudly claimed as a shrunken head trophy, no trivia is to small to shriek about. Welcome to the jungle of the Social Justice Warrior. Welcome to the Colosseum. http://davidthompson.typepad.com/davidthompson/2013/12/because-lying-and-resenting-is-what-angels-do.html
AV is really a second line of defence. Basically, we're well past the point that signature scans can keep up, and heuristics can only do so much - the more you increase the sensitivity, the more false positives it generates and confusion sets in.
I've found the best primary defense is a good personal firewall. At the risk of being accused of shilling, I've found Comodo free version as an excellent example for windows (caveat, haven't used it for a couple of years now) - which keeps track of all processes and files that are requesting stuff over the network. It always alerts when a new event occurs and asks for your blessing before allowing. It picked up stuff that went straight through AV - and submitting what it alerted usually returned a new malware variant when vendors looked at it.
This is not a reason to not run AV - but a reason to think of firewalling as your primary protection.
Thanks. You're the only one that actually answered the question. I was working off the list at Torrentfreak. I had Ipredator short listed, but dropped them as they had limited endpoints. I tentatively chose privateinternetaccess and said so, of course got accused for spamming/shilling, but my question was more are they trustworthy? The other two were BTGuard and Torguard.
Really thought this was a straightforward question. Should know better than to expect straightforward answers.
Don't take it seriously
The privacy policy, the contact us page — it’s all a joke. We came up with the idea of building a crawler like this and keeping the maintenance price under $300 a month. There was only one way to prove our theory worked — to implement it in practice. So we did. Now, we find ourselves with a big crawler. We knew what it did but we didn’t know how to use it. So we decided to make a joke out of it. That’s the beauty of jokes — you can make them out of anything.
However, if you have a better idea — don’t hesitate to contact us.
Chopra also wants to create a woo equivalent of the Templeton Prize for this kind of crap. As others have mentioned - this is old news and something of a personal obsession with Penrose and requires numerous leaps of faith to follow. Penrose has been taken down by Victor Stenger quite some time ago - http://www.csicop.org/sb/show/is_the_brain_a_quantum_device/
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This has been a long project by Australian Labor and the Liberal/Nationals - and let's not kid ourselves, especially the Attorney-General's Department who have been pulling the puppet strings of both for decades. Unelected bureaucrats, perpetually drunk on the hubris of the power they wield, that even the government in power can't get rid of.
Once census and data retention scheme information are merged, all of our individual dossiers will be complete. Even the Stasi would cream their pants at the mere thought of what they have achieved. Bravo. They very least all concerned can do is thank the Australian public who have been asleep at the wheel for the last 30 years.
Seriously, it's a dying art form. Thank glub for folks like Olaf Ittenbach who maintain the faith.
They're gonna start running out of wells to poison pretty soon. I don't blame SJWs for this - they are just exploiting the environment - an environment is created by "moderates" and fence sitters that credulously give the benefit of the doubt to any loser with a wolf story - and enthusiastically dog-pile on any voices that dare to express skepticism. And these 'moderates" are for the most part stupid, well-meaning white males - that most demonised and despised of social demographics.
This is an endless drone. I wonder how many women out there have ever had their genitals smeared with engine grease and drill shavings - something way to many boys did in apprenticeships. They all refused to curl into foetal positions and cry for nanny to save them and generally got over it and progressed to be something in their fields. This is the bubble wrap child generation reaching their mutated version of "maturity" - and expecting the same coddling as when they were in "everyone is a winner" school. I feel more nauseous each time another one of these #SJW articles barfs itself all over my screen. Heat and kitchens etc.
What I've found is that it's mostly right wing folks who want these laws.
Bollocks. The biggest war on anonymity is being waged by the social justice left. They can't live with the idea that people can shoot holes in their gibberish with impunity and not have their personal data on public view in order to contact employers and get them fired.
Forgotten work of genius that ended the previously Academy Award nominated director's career - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt00...
I didn't see any part Sarah's post that brought gender into this, and it immediately people started making assumptions of such.
The words of someone who's own playground has never been attacked by SJWs. I've dug back through Sharp's online history. She is operating from the same SJW template that has attacked gamers, sci-fi freaks, atheists, Occupy and an endless list of others, even metalheads and bondage nuts. It's a cut and paste job. I posted above she is on the soon-to-be defunct ADA/donglegate Initiative board and the fact that she tried to start a similar LKML dung fight in 2013. Keep on smiling at the crocodile - maybe you'll get eaten last.
Female dev's outburst against Torvalds was planned
Welcoming Sarah Sharp and Selena Deckelmann to our [ADA Initiative] advisory board!
A family relative offered us the chance to live in Frank’s grandmother’s house for free if we renovated it. That would free up capital for us, so I jumped at the chance. I spent half a year renovating the house. Then, we moved in - took our rent money, and used it to hire our first employee.//
What a crock. Wu even tweeted about this - mommy and daddy gave the thing $200,000.
::crickets::
... that Wu then proceeds to claim to be entitled to speak on behalf of ALL women IS. That all is a red-herring anyway. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Brianna Wu. Nothing here that can't be independently verified - http://www.dailymotion.com/vid... I really thought this place knew better than to allow professional propagandists and pan-handlers a stage and a microphone.
... That is Facebook's entire business model.
Boom times ahead for Indian antivaxxers
You are an occupied state. The military/surveillance industry has moved beyond simply corrupting the political process via high-priced, slick and efficient think tanks/lobbyists and now effectively owns the White House. Your current crop of politicians are either terrified into submission by security Grand Guignol theater; bought off like cheap hookers; or blackmailed into compliance by dirt accidentally turned up by the "legitimate" surveillance programs. Using estimates from Dana Priest and William Arkin at WashPo, the combined membership of the military and security apparatus is now pretty close to 2% of the entire population - funnily enough, the same number Orwell gave for the Inner Party in _1984_. Democracy has ceased to be - you now live in the United Occupied States of America. Who you vote in makes fuck all difference. Get used to it. The only hope the rest of the planet has is in your imminent bankruptcy and economic implosion. Unfortunately, neither privatised prisons nor a perpetual war footing are viable long term business models. Just look at what happened to your prototype - the former Soviet Union.
fiannaFailMan: Funny how quickly the defenders of racism come out of the woodwork. A bit more subtle than the pointy white hoods it it's still with us, as your post demonstrates.
What complete and utter bollocks. The hysteria mill for nonsense like this is almost exclusively driven by pudgy, pink, extremely entitled, privileged, middle-class NORTH AMERICANS. Those that have poisoned liberalism and made it look *exactly* like the parody liberalism as pushed on Fox News by the likes of Glen Beck and Ann Coulter. These are people who no longer have genuine grievances to fight the righteous fight for, so they clutch at trivia - any life destroyed is a proudly claimed as a shrunken head trophy, no trivia is to small to shriek about. Welcome to the jungle of the Social Justice Warrior. Welcome to the Colosseum. http://davidthompson.typepad.com/davidthompson/2013/12/because-lying-and-resenting-is-what-angels-do.html
Defund the NSA, kick them out of the Utah data center - and do something useful with it. Like giving all the lost data a permanent home.
The NSA is like cancer spreading through the lymph nodes.
AV is really a second line of defence. Basically, we're well past the point that signature scans can keep up, and heuristics can only do so much - the more you increase the sensitivity, the more false positives it generates and confusion sets in. I've found the best primary defense is a good personal firewall. At the risk of being accused of shilling, I've found Comodo free version as an excellent example for windows (caveat, haven't used it for a couple of years now) - which keeps track of all processes and files that are requesting stuff over the network. It always alerts when a new event occurs and asks for your blessing before allowing. It picked up stuff that went straight through AV - and submitting what it alerted usually returned a new malware variant when vendors looked at it. This is not a reason to not run AV - but a reason to think of firewalling as your primary protection.
Thanks. You're the only one that actually answered the question. I was working off the list at Torrentfreak. I had Ipredator short listed, but dropped them as they had limited endpoints. I tentatively chose privateinternetaccess and said so, of course got accused for spamming/shilling, but my question was more are they trustworthy? The other two were BTGuard and Torguard. Really thought this was a straightforward question. Should know better than to expect straightforward answers.
Could you imagine the nightmare if Apple patented the qwerty keyboard?
"if you happened to have attracted a stalker and want to get rid of him." Why necessarily *him*?
Chopra also wants to create a woo equivalent of the Templeton Prize for this kind of crap. As others have mentioned - this is old news and something of a personal obsession with Penrose and requires numerous leaps of faith to follow. Penrose has been taken down by Victor Stenger quite some time ago - http://www.csicop.org/sb/show/is_the_brain_a_quantum_device/
I really don't care. I still play DooM.