Right, although what if your rental lease is not a "debt" and next month's rent they want... well, we're not taking cash. Oh, you don't have a bank account? You just cash checks at Wal-Mart? Well, we're evicting you.... That'll get rid of the well-funded rabble. (some people are just poor enough that they keep hitting bank fees that start killing them)
I'm curious, though: why are you jumping to violence? Why not try to affect change through the system? I would preemptively guess your response to be something along the lines of, "the system is broken beyond repair," or "the system is rigged to prevent those who aren't part of the elite from getting in and making change." But is it true?
No, the system is not broken beyond repair. There is an unfortunate difference between something that "Can be fixed" and something that "will be fixed." This is not the French Revolution or the American Revolution; we are not out of choices. But there's a difference.
Back then people felt empowered. People went to jail because they were fed up, they spit in their leaders' faces, they told the police to shove it, they refused to pay taxes. They were hopelessly worthless, and they got arrested for trying.
Today, people want to stay out of the way. Nobody wants to be the first to fall. They all want to land somewhere in an office job off to the side where nobody's quite sure what they do and so they're not accountable for anything. They don't want the police watching them; they're scared even when they get a speeding ticket.
Some of them will hide behind a chair and get very loud. This is 90% of slashdot, talking about how "we need to take down the man!" Look around you, you see it too.
Nobody is willing to stand up and do anything, though. I think it's not yet time; I think it's fixable as of yet. But there are those that think now is the time for revolution, and they're... grumbling to themselves that somebody needs to stand up and start a revolution. Somebody really needs to write their congressmen. Somebody really needs to start a movement. But none of them are doing it, even though they think the time is now.
No, the time is not now to raise weapons and go to war with our own leaders. Unfortunately, nobody is going to take the appropriate measures; and we will see it come to pass when we live as slaves under a tyranny and will continue to do so until somebody raises their weapons and fights.
It's not that I want to start a bloody revolution now, chop off their heads and tear the whole thing down; it's that I think one day I'm going to wake up in a world where it's too late for anything else. Worse, I'm going to wake up and realize I've been in that world forever, watching someone get their skull stamped out by the police for saying something cheeky or just get kicked down to their knees and executed with a bullet to the back of the skull, right there. And I'm going to realize this is the status quo, this is the world I live in, this is how it's going to be.
I can't live in that world, and I can't survive fixing it. If it falls that way, I'll have to stand up and do something. And I won't make it out the other end; I probably won't even get to see if people ever get their freedom back. It's the price you pay, and everyone knows it. All options open, even in a stable system that's corrupting itself, are civil disobedience; some of us will have to go to jail for this, and it will ruin our lives, so nobody wants to stand up and do it. If only a few stand up, they won't change it.
You try starting a new political party. We have an endless slew of them in the US.
I've considered trying to run for mayor, governor, anything, try to get into the school district or somewhere where I can improve something. Not cram ideals down peoples' throats, but look for damage and fix it. I am unqualified for most of the job, though; and the parts I do understand are too radical to change (the very structure of the education system is broken, for example; but we all know this).
I'm pretty confident I can be overpowered inside the system, or else I'll find myself uselessly underqualified to do anything right. Either way I'll probably make more of a mess. And besides, I'm one person; do you want to learn that one person can con his way into a government office and begin reshaping all of society to his individual, personal will?
No, but in 20-40 years' time our government will be behind the rocket bombs "coming from eastasia." It doesn't have to already be happening for it to be going that way: a bus running out of control towards a cliff most certainly did not fall off a cliff before, but it's certainly going in that direction.
2) There was a second shooter on the grassy knoll
Kennedy? No, of course not. The bullet went through his head, turned around, came back through, then turned around again and came through again.
3) The moon landings were a hoax
Been there, done that, brought back rocks. NASA is mainly a hoax today; back then... they really did things.
4) The "Terminator" movie series is an accurate prediction of the future.
1984 more like. We have the European Union, waiting for the Eastasian union. I still say the UN was a horrible idea.
To you, it's all for naught anyway, so what does it matter if it was saved, or not? But, please, pray tell - what's it is like to be that stupid?
Where's the Save button on my life? And how do I hit "restore" in 100 years after I die the first time?
I think O-sensei needed to know more than the generations that followed.
Disagree. To know how to do Aikido moves and how to fight and defend yourself, you only need the physical. To know Aikido, "The Art of Peace," you need to study O-Sensei's philosophy. This will inevitably lead you to study Taijutsu or other martial arts; such study doesn't just "make you like O-Sensei," but rather gives you the underlying reasoning behind Aikido.
As an example, learning to use a sword is a good thing because O-Sensei based his movements off the sword: I'm sure they've taught you that, i.e., Shihonage is a sword cut, right? Under, turn, grab, over, this is a sword stance now so bring the blade down just as you would strike with a Katana. Down he goes. You can spend a decade practicing your shihonage throw; or you can go, "Oh, wait, this is a sword strike," and repeat the same motion. I think Yonkyo and Gokyo are also sword strikes at one point? The part where you grab the wrist, then grab above with the other hand and bring the forearm down while moving your body forward....
It is a lot to actually know something. Working in IT I see people who only know how to click their sequence of buttons; they run to us who don't know wtf they're doing because we know what's happening underneath. I've never seen this... but I can figure it out because I have all this basic knowledge. All things are as that.
And this is what makes Aikido great -- it is something you can do your whole life and never master.
In four thousand years, nobody has ever mastered Go. If God could play a perfect opening in Go, he would have created a much bigger universe.
Okimura Shihan says he is still learning Aikido.
I pity the karate types who line up a bunch of bricks, bust them all and think "Man, I am something special" when they are done. With Aikido, those who are in it for the belts soon go. With our kids I deliberately hold them back from testing for their next belts. We often have two or three times the training days needed. And in at least one case I asked the sensei to not give them a belt, to take it back. The point is, all of this comes from the parents.
Good. I am stuck on the philosophy thing, though, as you've noticed. As you said, there are the "train train train" people, the ones who break bricks; but there are also the ones who sit and meditate, who contemplate, who play Go and relate it to their studies. There are the ones who look at tests and belts and go, "Why? I don't go into Aikido 102; the Dan level players are all here, training with me. I don't need a rank and will get it when I am ready."
I will never study for my Aikido tests. My sensei pushes me to study what's on the test, and I just shrug at her. I continue to train, I ask questions, sometimes I skip the beginner's class and just meditate (for an hour) in the back of the dojo; two hours of Aikido seems like a waste of my time, but switching sensei is not wasteful because each has their own teaching style and thus impart different insight.
The meditation... is something I do; the ability to not only do this, but also to benefit from it, is highly conducive to my learning and my general practice of life. Honestly I go into an altered state of consciousness (meditation is like almost-sleeping) and get bored, and then use the enhanced mental abilities to review Go games and experiment with tesuji, tsumego, and openings beyond what I'm usually capable of mentally.
On the mat, I will at times bring my focus internally to become fully aware of my body and my opponent; I don't only learn by practicing as Nage, but I actually study both my Ukemi and the forms as Uke, watching how my body is moved as I am thrown. Sometimes I cannot refine my understanding of a form by watching or by doing; I'll have somebody receive the attack and show me, full speed, without stopping to explain. To everyon
At close range, getting out a gun is useless. Even Miyomoto Musashi said guns and bows were supreme weapons on the battlefield... until you're within sword clashing distance. You can't turn fast enough to point the tip of a sword at an attacker; but you can bring the broad side up to block the other sword. Similarly, if you're within stabbing range it's too late to "get out my gun." If you already have a gun pointed at you, it's also well into too late.
The threat model for carrying a gun is when you notice the attacker outside of the effective range of a knife/sword/jo/nunchaku/fist AND he doesn't have a gun/crossbow. Mind you if he does have a firearm, at range, you have a chance of evading it; if he's within stabbing range though, he's not going to miss. With a gun pointed at your face you're screwed; with a knife, forget the gun and go hand-to-hand. Hand-to-hand because reaching for a knife is also wasting time; you are faced with a weapon now and need to react now. This isn't the movies; you can't pull out a huge knife and start cutting up his leather jacket. There will be no penis contest; he will kill you with his smaller penis-blade while you're unzipping.
I'm not so much saying you go into a martial arts class and they go, "Oh let's learn to kick ass, it'll be cool!" I'm also not saying that a 4 year old is a swordsman.
What I'm saying is, back then, these people were actually paying attention. They didn't say: come to the dojo, pick up the sword, punch the bag, perform this motion 500 times, spar with wooden swords. You came to the dojo and they asked you questions that didn't make any sense. They asked your motivation. They asked WHY they should teach you. They made you carry buckets of water around, they made you work, they made you wait. They made you sit down, meditate, and then answer complicated questions about life that have no answers. They made you search your soul for the meaning behind your desires.
When you take a martial arts class in America, they make you pay $75. And bow in. If you are noisy they politely ask you to quiet down, as if you are doing nothing wrong and this is simply a request.
It's all a show. They don't care who you are or how you act, as long as you're paying and not causing a ruckus in the dojo. In many Aikido dojo, they show you how to hit people or cause severe injury, and tell you to do that "on the street" but not in the dojo; they know NOTHING of Morihei Ueshiba O-Sensei's backing philosophies. Paradoxically, I am under the impression that Ueshiba wasn't really such a hippie: he might try to come out without hurting his opponent, but he was a FIERCE warrior skilled in Taijutsu and Aiki-Jujutsu, and very much advocated the study of more solid, violent arts (he said HE couldn't even understand what he needed to about martial arts without his Taijutsu background). Ideals are just that: reality sometimes doesn't let us have them.
We have some ideals about martial arts, too. We say, even in America, that they teach you discipline. They teach you no such thing. It is a happy reality that discipline is exactly what you need to be in a martial arts class, because it's long and boring and repetitive and silly. That doesn't mean they teach discipline; if they can keep you OCCUPIED you can come out being a jackass that knows how to beat people up, and they probably won't care.
You study Aikido, yes? Walk away from the dojo once in a while, pick up a book about Ueshiba. Weave your way around the bullshit; a lot of stuff written down about him is major hyperbole. Find the man's core philosophy. Trust me, he is an amazing warrior and a great philosopher; all the magic is fluff, but this is not a stupid man elevated to legendary status by glass-eyed drunkards. When you understand him, you will understand the truly sad state of martial arts study in this country.
Ueshiba was an excellent Go player (Tokaku Sakeda, his Daito-Ryu in Aiki-Jujutsu, was one of the few people that could consistently beat him). He was also an excellent philosopher. He would not be the warrior he was and would not have developed Aikido if he did not spend a large amount of his time contemplating the intricacies of the world around him. That is what Aikido IS, and that is who Ueshiba O-Sensei is. If you only see the man as "the founder of Aikido," you don't understand what you are talking about.
My existence does matter - to me, at least. I'd like to make sure my daughter doesn't have to be deprived of her daddy, because some creepy little fuck, like you, decided to commit suicide and take a few other innocent people out along the way.
Mine doesn't because I will die one day. It's like when you work on an engineering project all night... then your CAD program crashes and you didn't save. One day I will be able to speak 6000 languages, beat anyone in Go, build nuclear reactors that neither shutdown nor breed weapons-grade nuclear materials yet still recycle spent fuel into fresh fuel... and then nothing. All those abilities vanish as the electrical processes of my brain shut down.
One day you'll cower in your home because you don't want your daughter to lose her daddy. You'll stay there when the US government rolls over college students with tanks and suppresses the news, closing your ears to the whispers of dissent. You'll watch your coworkers and your neighbors disappear, taken by the police for heinous crimes for whispering such things... and believe it must be something more heinous. And you'll huddle down out of sight.
20 years later, they'll come for your daughter when she's barely in her 40s, and strip her away from your grandkids.
And the whole time, you'll shout about the dissenters, you'll distance yourself from anyone who questions the authority of your protective government, you'll learn to be afraid of THEM... and be glad when they vanish in the night.
That's your future. That or a bloody revolution. Whichever one comes, I'll be out there fighting in it. It'll start when they come for someone and I have to stop them... or when someone else decides it's time to stop them and the mob refuses to be beaten down. It's all a matter of timing; now is not the time.
I doubt the mob will ever come. I don't doubt I'll live to see them come for those outspoken with undesirable political opinions though.
You don't understand anything. When they come for your neighbors you'll huddle down and hope they don't come for you. When they come for MY neighbors I'll have a choice of doing something about it or vomiting up a lung in disgust at myself.
One day you will look around you, and you'll realize everyone is poor; the production of boots is constantly increasing but half the population goes barefoot; we're constantly at war but we've never even seen the enemy; the food tastes like oil and poison and we're told it's better than it was 20 years ago...
And you'll just shrug and go to work and believe everything on TV and in the news, because... whatever. There's stale food and a barely-standing building, there's pay and you're still living.
No one is going to do anything about it.
I wouldn't want to do anything about it. There is a cost associated and I don't get to enjoy the benefit if I actually set something worthwhile into motion.
I don't think I'd be able to just stay down and stay out of it forever though. Eventually I'd HAVE to do something. I just can't help it.
Unfortunately I see the world spiraling to that eventuality, where we live in fear, where we live under a KGB or a north vietnamese regime or something equally sinister. Where every neighbor might be a terrorist, where schools teach you propaganda, and where a phone call about your neighbor doing "something suspicious" results in your neighbor disappearing shortly after sunset.
They probably will come for me first. They'll pick me out eventually, see a threat, and come to get rid of it.
I guess that makes things easy. At least when I'm walking into their den to destroy them all I can remind them they started it.
This is all important. Being able to record the police is one of the best ways to ensure that the police are held accountable for their actions. Privacy has to be viewed in the context of relative power. For example, the government has a lot more power than the people. So privacy for the government increases their power and increases the power imbalance between government and the people; it decreases liberty. Forced openness in government -- open government laws, Freedom of Information Act filings, the recording of police officers and other government officials, WikiLeaks -- reduces the power imbalance between government and the people, and increases liberty.
Privacy for the people increases their power. It also increases liberty, because it reduces the power imbalance between government and the people. Forced openness in the people -- NSA monitoring of everyone's phone calls and e-mails, the DOJ monitoring everyone's credit card transactions, surveillance cameras -- decreases liberty.
I think we need a law that explicitly makes it legal for people to record government officials when they are interacting with them in their official capacity. And this is doubly true for police officers and other law enforcement officials.
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The sad thing is one day I might not be able to live in it. I am sliding more and more into a warrior's philosophy each day... I try to stay out of it, but one day I'm going to look around and realize I can't let things be the way they are.
It doesn't matter. The whole impact of my existence is zero; if I die today it's fine. Never had a girlfriend, no kids, no need for that sort of thing; and I've completely rejected the part of society directly connected to me in the biological tree. and anyone tied to them usefully in the association graph.
Schwarzenegger had some real human life behind his acting. He played the part but he played as himself. He played the part of a lifeless robot pretty good. He played his part in Last Action Hero as a no-bullshit cop pretty good. He never portrayed his character over-dramatized, fluffed, and out of sync with the reality he was in; the character was fluid and fitting.
One possibility is that Wikileaks and Assange are losing public support. Interfering with a war is one thing, interfering with diplomacy- the attempt to settle issues without military action- is harder to justify.
Diplomacy does not have to be in the PUBLIC interest. It can be a huge rouse to help solidify government control by supporting counter-antigovernment actions and removing international tensions that draw focus away from controlling the sheep populous.
At times I think the UN might be the worst thing to ever happen, and the end of classic wars and attempts to expand territory and take over the world has marked the end of civilization and the beginning of a giant puppet show.
Reports that Wikileaks released the names of Afghan informants hasn't helped, and even setting aside the controversial charges against him, profiles of Assange (such as the one in the New York Times) don't paint him in a very flattering light.
Regardless of what opinions you have on what Assange has done, he is a giant ass hat. This is true whether he is guilty of any crime or of any act of heroism to the cause of humanity. Even heroes can be ass hats.
Because Windows, as the OS handles the hardware. You want to play a sound in Windows? You tell Windows to play a sound through an API call. It's up to Windows to take the request and hand it off to the driver which translates it and hands it to the hardware........
And...
I see no reason why Android can't do things this way, assuming they don't now.
Android is Linux, by the way. How do you imagine it works?
I don't see the argument here. Some computers have faster CPUs, several gigs more RAM, more CPUs, bigger screens, and graphics cards that can handle lots and lots of effects. Some computers have 1024x768 resolution, a gig of RAM in this day and age, two core at 2GHz each, and on-board graphics that can't handle anti-aliasing. This is as fragmented as cell phones.
As much as I dislike Apple, iPhones are a solid platform. They have a few different versions of the OS (there needs to be progress, right?), but that's it. Much better for developers and for users. While Windows Phone 7 has definitely taken a better approach than before, they also haven't considered this issue.
Basically you babbled about how there's approximately 1 iPhone. I mean face it, Linux runs on SPARC and PPC and x86 and x86-64; Windows has gone through multiple API versions and even just Vista has 40 different versions and runs on computers with one or two or six processor cores, sometimes shared, sometimes with different memory access models (flat, NUMA, single-processor-multi-core vs multi-processor vs multi-multicore and memory/cache sharing and access models) that affect performance, some with a scroll wheel or a 7 button mouse, some with joypads or joysticks, most with physical keyboards. Some very few have touch screens. Some have 3D graphics to different levels of performance.
The suit claims her existing obsessive-compulsive disorder was worsened by the anxiety brought on by the photo, as she feared that everything she was doing throughout the day was being secretly recorded.
That's what I'm leaning from this. The whole US government classified bullshit is interesting and controversial; moreso, however, is the idea that businesses can basically kill off anyone they don't like by shutting their doors to them. Paypal goes down, BAC goes down, Visa/Mastercard goes down, and your business dies. Wal-Mart has threatened to stop selling CDs and DVDs because, frankly, they make 2% of their money from the merchandise and could use the space for something more profitable; while the labels make a vast portion of their CD sales from Wal-Mart, something like a third.
Please take a look at our presentation slides, it only takes a few minutes. Then you might have more specific questions on the implementation, which I'd be happy to answer.
Yes, I stopped my arguments short because I detected I have a distinct lack of information and there's too many possibilities I'm becoming cognizant of to continue without reading up some more.
... he was more experienced than me...
Please note that what I wrote in my reply to your comment was quite different. I never said anything about your experience. Now that you raised this topic, I can say that you appear to be familiar with Unix security. You simply had not looked at our stuff before you wrote your comment, that's all.
True, but my comment was more to illustrate that anyone can be wrong, regardless of who they are. I learn new stuff all the time. Ueshiba O-sensei said failure is the key to success, and each mistake teaches us something; if I seem to know something about anything it's because at one point I was wrong about something and someone directed me to the appropriate information.
I find your comment re: the cost of PIE interesting, thanks! It leaves many questions, though. 6% on 32-bit x86 is the number I had been aware of before. Your statement that "the affected code was actually running less than 2% of the time" is curious and potentially very useful. However, this, assuming that it's true, does not yield your claimed 0.0012%; it yields 0.12%. Of course, 0.12% may be considered acceptable (far more likely than 6% at least). I am curious about the details of your test; I guess, some systems will actually run "the affected code" 100% of the time - e.g., this happens if I build John the Ripper as PIE and run it for days (which is why I dislike Gentoo building JtR like that, and have to recommend JtR users to make their own builds).
John might be a special case because it's run entirely in its own code. In general, however, shared objects are all -fPIC; this is an assumption I make because non-PIC relocatable libraries pose some problems under PaX (there's code to handle it, but it opens up an exploit path), and also break the virtual memory system (every page containing a pointer to another part of the binary needs modification, so those pages can't be shared between instances). So these already suffer from the performance impact of position independent code.
X11 runs mainly in shared objects (video drivers, rendering code, X libraries...). Rhythmbox and XMMS and Totem and Xine run mostly in shared objects (liblame, libvorbis, ffmpeg, etc doing the decoding). bzip2 uses libbz2(!). In general, everything runs its heavy lifting in shared objects. Again, JtR might be a special case here; there are likely many others, i.e. anything with ALL its code in its main executable.
Back then the kernel included a facility called OProfile that could profile the entire system. I simply measured the CPU time run in the kernel and every loaded executable object individually (shared objects and main executables appeared separately). It turned out overall the system didn't run much in main executables at all. X ran 5% of its time in the main executable and Battle for Wesnoth's dedicated server ran something like 10%, which I thought was weird; the next biggest contender was under a quarter of a percent.
If I can dig up the thread I'll e-mail it to you. It's been half a decade since I cared about this stuff.
Your comments about cron/at are similar to what we thought of when we designed the system.
Then I spoke without thinking. This is how I lose when playing Go; it's no surprise I come out behind in arguments over system security designs this way too.
As for a 7 year old punch to the balls being enough to stop child abduction... do you have a 7 year old? My son can certainly hit to hurt if he wanted to, but if it came right down to it, I could easily overpower him.
My cousin was allowed to carry sais, short knives, and nunchucks when he was 7. This was a bad decision on the part of the parents (my family is full of morons), because the kid was raised with no discipline and put in martial arts classes when he was like 4. In America, martial arts classes--even for adults-- are horrible. You're not training under Morihei Ueshiba or Miyomoto Musashi; they don't shout at you for not being quiet, they don't force you to meditate, they don't hammer philosophy in your head. They tell you you're not here to learn to beat people up... and then proceed to teach you to beat people up.
He hit me a few times and he hit me HARD, even for being a third my weight. That said, little bastard didn't know who he was fucking with; Ali can't move as fast as I can, much less some temporally-deficient brat that thinks he's some kind of ninja.
In another vein, though, I've seen a properly raised 10 year old unload judo on some big fucking mid-20s guy that grabbed him from behind. His reflexes were fast, and he changed his stance and lowered his center of gravity immediately; the guy wound up going over and landing on his back. It was comical; who gets beat up by a 10 year old?
They say the element of surprise is powerful. Running is always a great option; but nobody expects a 7 year old to be a competent fighter. When it comes down to it, maybe you can beat them down; but when your first advance unexpectedly misses and they nail you right in the gut, then in the balls, then inside the thigh or behind the kneecap and buckle your legs out from under you, it's too late to bother talking about how you can take a 7 year old "if you want to." You probably could have if you saw this coming; too bad you didn't.
Why make your child defenseless? Give them every defense. Give them the reasoning to keep proper awareness; give them the incentive to run from danger; and give them the means to combat the dangers they can't escape. Then you can let them off their leashes and feel relatively safe about this. If someone "tries to grab" a kid, it's too late to run; and most people expect them to scream, so they're going to gag them (cover his mouth) and make a planned quick escape. You need to see this from a distance, and you need to have a plan both to keep that distance and to deal with that distance vanishing.
As for ignoring the pain... right. How many times have you been punched in the gut or the balls? A punch to the mouth okay. Arms.. legs... kneecap hell no, you can't even run what is this? (trust me a 20 pound kid can take out an adult's kneecap if he's taught to kick properly: you drop your weight into it, COMPLETELY off your back leg, and you only need 13 pounds of pressure). A shot to the liver, kidneys, intestines, spleen... that's not going to work out; you can't ignore that. Your body is going to go "VITAL!" and you are going to wake the fuck up.
Remember rabbits are prey animals. They get eaten a lot. Violent little pigs are not prey animals (tigers eat pigs; in many cases, the pig kills the tiger). Sure they'll run; but when they're through running they kill things and then go about their business.
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Right, although what if your rental lease is not a "debt" and next month's rent they want ... well, we're not taking cash. Oh, you don't have a bank account? You just cash checks at Wal-Mart? Well, we're evicting you.... That'll get rid of the well-funded rabble. (some people are just poor enough that they keep hitting bank fees that start killing them)
I'm curious, though: why are you jumping to violence? Why not try to affect change through the system? I would preemptively guess your response to be something along the lines of, "the system is broken beyond repair," or "the system is rigged to prevent those who aren't part of the elite from getting in and making change." But is it true?
No, the system is not broken beyond repair. There is an unfortunate difference between something that "Can be fixed" and something that "will be fixed." This is not the French Revolution or the American Revolution; we are not out of choices. But there's a difference.
Back then people felt empowered. People went to jail because they were fed up, they spit in their leaders' faces, they told the police to shove it, they refused to pay taxes. They were hopelessly worthless, and they got arrested for trying.
Today, people want to stay out of the way. Nobody wants to be the first to fall. They all want to land somewhere in an office job off to the side where nobody's quite sure what they do and so they're not accountable for anything. They don't want the police watching them; they're scared even when they get a speeding ticket.
Some of them will hide behind a chair and get very loud. This is 90% of slashdot, talking about how "we need to take down the man!" Look around you, you see it too.
Nobody is willing to stand up and do anything, though. I think it's not yet time; I think it's fixable as of yet. But there are those that think now is the time for revolution, and they're ... grumbling to themselves that somebody needs to stand up and start a revolution. Somebody really needs to write their congressmen. Somebody really needs to start a movement. But none of them are doing it, even though they think the time is now.
No, the time is not now to raise weapons and go to war with our own leaders. Unfortunately, nobody is going to take the appropriate measures; and we will see it come to pass when we live as slaves under a tyranny and will continue to do so until somebody raises their weapons and fights.
It's not that I want to start a bloody revolution now, chop off their heads and tear the whole thing down; it's that I think one day I'm going to wake up in a world where it's too late for anything else. Worse, I'm going to wake up and realize I've been in that world forever, watching someone get their skull stamped out by the police for saying something cheeky or just get kicked down to their knees and executed with a bullet to the back of the skull, right there. And I'm going to realize this is the status quo, this is the world I live in, this is how it's going to be.
I can't live in that world, and I can't survive fixing it. If it falls that way, I'll have to stand up and do something. And I won't make it out the other end; I probably won't even get to see if people ever get their freedom back. It's the price you pay, and everyone knows it. All options open, even in a stable system that's corrupting itself, are civil disobedience; some of us will have to go to jail for this, and it will ruin our lives, so nobody wants to stand up and do it. If only a few stand up, they won't change it.
You try starting a new political party. We have an endless slew of them in the US.
I've considered trying to run for mayor, governor, anything, try to get into the school district or somewhere where I can improve something. Not cram ideals down peoples' throats, but look for damage and fix it. I am unqualified for most of the job, though; and the parts I do understand are too radical to change (the very structure of the education system is broken, for example; but we all know this).
I'm pretty confident I can be overpowered inside the system, or else I'll find myself uselessly underqualified to do anything right. Either way I'll probably make more of a mess. And besides, I'm one person; do you want to learn that one person can con his way into a government office and begin reshaping all of society to his individual, personal will?
1) President Bush was behind the Sept 11 attacks
No, but in 20-40 years' time our government will be behind the rocket bombs "coming from eastasia." It doesn't have to already be happening for it to be going that way: a bus running out of control towards a cliff most certainly did not fall off a cliff before, but it's certainly going in that direction.
2) There was a second shooter on the grassy knoll
Kennedy? No, of course not. The bullet went through his head, turned around, came back through, then turned around again and came through again.
3) The moon landings were a hoax
Been there, done that, brought back rocks. NASA is mainly a hoax today; back then... they really did things.
4) The "Terminator" movie series is an accurate prediction of the future.
1984 more like. We have the European Union, waiting for the Eastasian union. I still say the UN was a horrible idea.
To you, it's all for naught anyway, so what does it matter if it was saved, or not? But, please, pray tell - what's it is like to be that stupid?
Where's the Save button on my life? And how do I hit "restore" in 100 years after I die the first time?
Achmed is funny and everyone loves him.
I lived on revolving credit for a while. It was a horrible, horrible idea.
Yes, as I said, currency. We don't have one.
I think O-sensei needed to know more than the generations that followed.
Disagree. To know how to do Aikido moves and how to fight and defend yourself, you only need the physical. To know Aikido, "The Art of Peace," you need to study O-Sensei's philosophy. This will inevitably lead you to study Taijutsu or other martial arts; such study doesn't just "make you like O-Sensei," but rather gives you the underlying reasoning behind Aikido.
As an example, learning to use a sword is a good thing because O-Sensei based his movements off the sword: I'm sure they've taught you that, i.e., Shihonage is a sword cut, right? Under, turn, grab, over, this is a sword stance now so bring the blade down just as you would strike with a Katana. Down he goes. You can spend a decade practicing your shihonage throw; or you can go, "Oh, wait, this is a sword strike," and repeat the same motion. I think Yonkyo and Gokyo are also sword strikes at one point? The part where you grab the wrist, then grab above with the other hand and bring the forearm down while moving your body forward....
It is a lot to actually know something. Working in IT I see people who only know how to click their sequence of buttons; they run to us who don't know wtf they're doing because we know what's happening underneath. I've never seen this... but I can figure it out because I have all this basic knowledge. All things are as that.
And this is what makes Aikido great -- it is something you can do your whole life and never master.
In four thousand years, nobody has ever mastered Go. If God could play a perfect opening in Go, he would have created a much bigger universe.
Okimura Shihan says he is still learning Aikido.
I pity the karate types who line up a bunch of bricks, bust them all and think "Man, I am something special" when they are done. With Aikido, those who are in it for the belts soon go. With our kids I deliberately hold them back from testing for their next belts. We often have two or three times the training days needed. And in at least one case I asked the sensei to not give them a belt, to take it back. The point is, all of this comes from the parents.
Good. I am stuck on the philosophy thing, though, as you've noticed. As you said, there are the "train train train" people, the ones who break bricks; but there are also the ones who sit and meditate, who contemplate, who play Go and relate it to their studies. There are the ones who look at tests and belts and go, "Why? I don't go into Aikido 102; the Dan level players are all here, training with me. I don't need a rank and will get it when I am ready."
I will never study for my Aikido tests. My sensei pushes me to study what's on the test, and I just shrug at her. I continue to train, I ask questions, sometimes I skip the beginner's class and just meditate (for an hour) in the back of the dojo; two hours of Aikido seems like a waste of my time, but switching sensei is not wasteful because each has their own teaching style and thus impart different insight.
The meditation... is something I do; the ability to not only do this, but also to benefit from it, is highly conducive to my learning and my general practice of life. Honestly I go into an altered state of consciousness (meditation is like almost-sleeping) and get bored, and then use the enhanced mental abilities to review Go games and experiment with tesuji, tsumego, and openings beyond what I'm usually capable of mentally.
On the mat, I will at times bring my focus internally to become fully aware of my body and my opponent; I don't only learn by practicing as Nage, but I actually study both my Ukemi and the forms as Uke, watching how my body is moved as I am thrown. Sometimes I cannot refine my understanding of a form by watching or by doing; I'll have somebody receive the attack and show me, full speed, without stopping to explain. To everyon
This bill is legal tender for all debts public and private. That does not of course mean you can use it as currency.
At close range, getting out a gun is useless. Even Miyomoto Musashi said guns and bows were supreme weapons on the battlefield ... until you're within sword clashing distance. You can't turn fast enough to point the tip of a sword at an attacker; but you can bring the broad side up to block the other sword. Similarly, if you're within stabbing range it's too late to "get out my gun." If you already have a gun pointed at you, it's also well into too late.
The threat model for carrying a gun is when you notice the attacker outside of the effective range of a knife/sword/jo/nunchaku/fist AND he doesn't have a gun/crossbow. Mind you if he does have a firearm, at range, you have a chance of evading it; if he's within stabbing range though, he's not going to miss. With a gun pointed at your face you're screwed; with a knife, forget the gun and go hand-to-hand. Hand-to-hand because reaching for a knife is also wasting time; you are faced with a weapon now and need to react now. This isn't the movies; you can't pull out a huge knife and start cutting up his leather jacket. There will be no penis contest; he will kill you with his smaller penis-blade while you're unzipping.
I'm not so much saying you go into a martial arts class and they go, "Oh let's learn to kick ass, it'll be cool!" I'm also not saying that a 4 year old is a swordsman.
What I'm saying is, back then, these people were actually paying attention. They didn't say: come to the dojo, pick up the sword, punch the bag, perform this motion 500 times, spar with wooden swords. You came to the dojo and they asked you questions that didn't make any sense. They asked your motivation. They asked WHY they should teach you. They made you carry buckets of water around, they made you work, they made you wait. They made you sit down, meditate, and then answer complicated questions about life that have no answers. They made you search your soul for the meaning behind your desires.
When you take a martial arts class in America, they make you pay $75. And bow in. If you are noisy they politely ask you to quiet down, as if you are doing nothing wrong and this is simply a request.
It's all a show. They don't care who you are or how you act, as long as you're paying and not causing a ruckus in the dojo. In many Aikido dojo, they show you how to hit people or cause severe injury, and tell you to do that "on the street" but not in the dojo; they know NOTHING of Morihei Ueshiba O-Sensei's backing philosophies. Paradoxically, I am under the impression that Ueshiba wasn't really such a hippie: he might try to come out without hurting his opponent, but he was a FIERCE warrior skilled in Taijutsu and Aiki-Jujutsu, and very much advocated the study of more solid, violent arts (he said HE couldn't even understand what he needed to about martial arts without his Taijutsu background). Ideals are just that: reality sometimes doesn't let us have them.
We have some ideals about martial arts, too. We say, even in America, that they teach you discipline. They teach you no such thing. It is a happy reality that discipline is exactly what you need to be in a martial arts class, because it's long and boring and repetitive and silly. That doesn't mean they teach discipline; if they can keep you OCCUPIED you can come out being a jackass that knows how to beat people up, and they probably won't care.
You study Aikido, yes? Walk away from the dojo once in a while, pick up a book about Ueshiba. Weave your way around the bullshit; a lot of stuff written down about him is major hyperbole. Find the man's core philosophy. Trust me, he is an amazing warrior and a great philosopher; all the magic is fluff, but this is not a stupid man elevated to legendary status by glass-eyed drunkards. When you understand him, you will understand the truly sad state of martial arts study in this country.
Ueshiba was an excellent Go player (Tokaku Sakeda, his Daito-Ryu in Aiki-Jujutsu, was one of the few people that could consistently beat him). He was also an excellent philosopher. He would not be the warrior he was and would not have developed Aikido if he did not spend a large amount of his time contemplating the intricacies of the world around him. That is what Aikido IS, and that is who Ueshiba O-Sensei is. If you only see the man as "the founder of Aikido," you don't understand what you are talking about.
My existence does matter - to me, at least. I'd like to make sure my daughter doesn't have to be deprived of her daddy, because some creepy little fuck, like you, decided to commit suicide and take a few other innocent people out along the way.
Mine doesn't because I will die one day. It's like when you work on an engineering project all night... then your CAD program crashes and you didn't save. One day I will be able to speak 6000 languages, beat anyone in Go, build nuclear reactors that neither shutdown nor breed weapons-grade nuclear materials yet still recycle spent fuel into fresh fuel... and then nothing. All those abilities vanish as the electrical processes of my brain shut down.
One day you'll cower in your home because you don't want your daughter to lose her daddy. You'll stay there when the US government rolls over college students with tanks and suppresses the news, closing your ears to the whispers of dissent. You'll watch your coworkers and your neighbors disappear, taken by the police for heinous crimes for whispering such things... and believe it must be something more heinous. And you'll huddle down out of sight.
20 years later, they'll come for your daughter when she's barely in her 40s, and strip her away from your grandkids.
And the whole time, you'll shout about the dissenters, you'll distance yourself from anyone who questions the authority of your protective government, you'll learn to be afraid of THEM ... and be glad when they vanish in the night.
That's your future. That or a bloody revolution. Whichever one comes, I'll be out there fighting in it. It'll start when they come for someone and I have to stop them... or when someone else decides it's time to stop them and the mob refuses to be beaten down. It's all a matter of timing; now is not the time.
I doubt the mob will ever come. I don't doubt I'll live to see them come for those outspoken with undesirable political opinions though.
You don't understand anything. When they come for your neighbors you'll huddle down and hope they don't come for you. When they come for MY neighbors I'll have a choice of doing something about it or vomiting up a lung in disgust at myself.
lol fertilizer.
One day you will look around you, and you'll realize everyone is poor; the production of boots is constantly increasing but half the population goes barefoot; we're constantly at war but we've never even seen the enemy; the food tastes like oil and poison and we're told it's better than it was 20 years ago...
And you'll just shrug and go to work and believe everything on TV and in the news, because ... whatever. There's stale food and a barely-standing building, there's pay and you're still living.
No one is going to do anything about it.
I wouldn't want to do anything about it. There is a cost associated and I don't get to enjoy the benefit if I actually set something worthwhile into motion.
I don't think I'd be able to just stay down and stay out of it forever though. Eventually I'd HAVE to do something. I just can't help it.
Unfortunately I see the world spiraling to that eventuality, where we live in fear, where we live under a KGB or a north vietnamese regime or something equally sinister. Where every neighbor might be a terrorist, where schools teach you propaganda, and where a phone call about your neighbor doing "something suspicious" results in your neighbor disappearing shortly after sunset.
They probably will come for me first. They'll pick me out eventually, see a threat, and come to get rid of it.
I guess that makes things easy. At least when I'm walking into their den to destroy them all I can remind them they started it.
This is all important. Being able to record the police is one of the best ways to ensure that the police are held accountable for their actions. Privacy has to be viewed in the context of relative power. For example, the government has a lot more power than the people. So privacy for the government increases their power and increases the power imbalance between government and the people; it decreases liberty. Forced openness in government -- open government laws, Freedom of Information Act filings, the recording of police officers and other government officials, WikiLeaks -- reduces the power imbalance between government and the people, and increases liberty.
Privacy for the people increases their power. It also increases liberty, because it reduces the power imbalance between government and the people. Forced openness in the people -- NSA monitoring of everyone's phone calls and e-mails, the DOJ monitoring everyone's credit card transactions, surveillance cameras -- decreases liberty.
I think we need a law that explicitly makes it legal for people to record government officials when they are interacting with them in their official capacity. And this is doubly true for police officers and other law enforcement officials.
No real content, you say?
The sad thing is one day I might not be able to live in it. I am sliding more and more into a warrior's philosophy each day... I try to stay out of it, but one day I'm going to look around and realize I can't let things be the way they are.
It doesn't matter. The whole impact of my existence is zero; if I die today it's fine. Never had a girlfriend, no kids, no need for that sort of thing; and I've completely rejected the part of society directly connected to me in the biological tree. and anyone tied to them usefully in the association graph.
Schwarzenegger had some real human life behind his acting. He played the part but he played as himself. He played the part of a lifeless robot pretty good. He played his part in Last Action Hero as a no-bullshit cop pretty good. He never portrayed his character over-dramatized, fluffed, and out of sync with the reality he was in; the character was fluid and fitting.
Google Japanese Soroban. Also try some better written algebra books instead of the mind-crippling shit that passes as "enhanced" these days. You will be able to tackle any math if your understanding of algebra is firm.
One possibility is that Wikileaks and Assange are losing public support. Interfering with a war is one thing, interfering with diplomacy- the attempt to settle issues without military action- is harder to justify.
Diplomacy does not have to be in the PUBLIC interest. It can be a huge rouse to help solidify government control by supporting counter-antigovernment actions and removing international tensions that draw focus away from controlling the sheep populous.
At times I think the UN might be the worst thing to ever happen, and the end of classic wars and attempts to expand territory and take over the world has marked the end of civilization and the beginning of a giant puppet show.
Reports that Wikileaks released the names of Afghan informants hasn't helped, and even setting aside the controversial charges against him, profiles of Assange (such as the one in the New York Times) don't paint him in a very flattering light.
Regardless of what opinions you have on what Assange has done, he is a giant ass hat. This is true whether he is guilty of any crime or of any act of heroism to the cause of humanity. Even heroes can be ass hats.
Because Windows, as the OS handles the hardware. You want to play a sound in Windows? You tell Windows to play a sound through an API call. It's up to Windows to take the request and hand it off to the driver which translates it and hands it to the hardware........
And...
I see no reason why Android can't do things this way, assuming they don't now.
Android is Linux, by the way. How do you imagine it works?
I don't see the argument here. Some computers have faster CPUs, several gigs more RAM, more CPUs, bigger screens, and graphics cards that can handle lots and lots of effects. Some computers have 1024x768 resolution, a gig of RAM in this day and age, two core at 2GHz each, and on-board graphics that can't handle anti-aliasing. This is as fragmented as cell phones.
As much as I dislike Apple, iPhones are a solid platform. They have a few different versions of the OS (there needs to be progress, right?), but that's it. Much better for developers and for users. While Windows Phone 7 has definitely taken a better approach than before, they also haven't considered this issue.
Basically you babbled about how there's approximately 1 iPhone. I mean face it, Linux runs on SPARC and PPC and x86 and x86-64; Windows has gone through multiple API versions and even just Vista has 40 different versions and runs on computers with one or two or six processor cores, sometimes shared, sometimes with different memory access models (flat, NUMA, single-processor-multi-core vs multi-processor vs multi-multicore and memory/cache sharing and access models) that affect performance, some with a scroll wheel or a 7 button mouse, some with joypads or joysticks, most with physical keyboards. Some very few have touch screens. Some have 3D graphics to different levels of performance.
How is this different?
It seems I had to import Post B from another source, and lacked comments of my own.
The suit claims her existing obsessive-compulsive disorder was worsened by the anxiety brought on by the photo, as she feared that everything she was doing throughout the day was being secretly recorded.
This.
That's what I'm leaning from this. The whole US government classified bullshit is interesting and controversial; moreso, however, is the idea that businesses can basically kill off anyone they don't like by shutting their doors to them. Paypal goes down, BAC goes down, Visa/Mastercard goes down, and your business dies. Wal-Mart has threatened to stop selling CDs and DVDs because, frankly, they make 2% of their money from the merchandise and could use the space for something more profitable; while the labels make a vast portion of their CD sales from Wal-Mart, something like a third.
Please take a look at our presentation slides, it only takes a few minutes. Then you might have more specific questions on the implementation, which I'd be happy to answer.
Yes, I stopped my arguments short because I detected I have a distinct lack of information and there's too many possibilities I'm becoming cognizant of to continue without reading up some more.
... he was more experienced than me ...
Please note that what I wrote in my reply to your comment was quite different. I never said anything about your experience. Now that you raised this topic, I can say that you appear to be familiar with Unix security. You simply had not looked at our stuff before you wrote your comment, that's all.
True, but my comment was more to illustrate that anyone can be wrong, regardless of who they are. I learn new stuff all the time. Ueshiba O-sensei said failure is the key to success, and each mistake teaches us something; if I seem to know something about anything it's because at one point I was wrong about something and someone directed me to the appropriate information.
I find your comment re: the cost of PIE interesting, thanks! It leaves many questions, though. 6% on 32-bit x86 is the number I had been aware of before. Your statement that "the affected code was actually running less than 2% of the time" is curious and potentially very useful. However, this, assuming that it's true, does not yield your claimed 0.0012%; it yields 0.12%. Of course, 0.12% may be considered acceptable (far more likely than 6% at least). I am curious about the details of your test; I guess, some systems will actually run "the affected code" 100% of the time - e.g., this happens if I build John the Ripper as PIE and run it for days (which is why I dislike Gentoo building JtR like that, and have to recommend JtR users to make their own builds).
John might be a special case because it's run entirely in its own code. In general, however, shared objects are all -fPIC; this is an assumption I make because non-PIC relocatable libraries pose some problems under PaX (there's code to handle it, but it opens up an exploit path), and also break the virtual memory system (every page containing a pointer to another part of the binary needs modification, so those pages can't be shared between instances). So these already suffer from the performance impact of position independent code.
X11 runs mainly in shared objects (video drivers, rendering code, X libraries...). Rhythmbox and XMMS and Totem and Xine run mostly in shared objects (liblame, libvorbis, ffmpeg, etc doing the decoding). bzip2 uses libbz2(!). In general, everything runs its heavy lifting in shared objects. Again, JtR might be a special case here; there are likely many others, i.e. anything with ALL its code in its main executable.
Back then the kernel included a facility called OProfile that could profile the entire system. I simply measured the CPU time run in the kernel and every loaded executable object individually (shared objects and main executables appeared separately). It turned out overall the system didn't run much in main executables at all. X ran 5% of its time in the main executable and Battle for Wesnoth's dedicated server ran something like 10%, which I thought was weird; the next biggest contender was under a quarter of a percent.
If I can dig up the thread I'll e-mail it to you. It's been half a decade since I cared about this stuff.
Your comments about cron/at are similar to what we thought of when we designed the system.
Then I spoke without thinking. This is how I lose when playing Go; it's no surprise I come out behind in arguments over system security designs this way too.
As for a 7 year old punch to the balls being enough to stop child abduction... do you have a 7 year old? My son can certainly hit to hurt if he wanted to, but if it came right down to it, I could easily overpower him.
My cousin was allowed to carry sais, short knives, and nunchucks when he was 7. This was a bad decision on the part of the parents (my family is full of morons), because the kid was raised with no discipline and put in martial arts classes when he was like 4. In America, martial arts classes--even for adults-- are horrible. You're not training under Morihei Ueshiba or Miyomoto Musashi; they don't shout at you for not being quiet, they don't force you to meditate, they don't hammer philosophy in your head. They tell you you're not here to learn to beat people up... and then proceed to teach you to beat people up.
He hit me a few times and he hit me HARD, even for being a third my weight. That said, little bastard didn't know who he was fucking with; Ali can't move as fast as I can, much less some temporally-deficient brat that thinks he's some kind of ninja.
In another vein, though, I've seen a properly raised 10 year old unload judo on some big fucking mid-20s guy that grabbed him from behind. His reflexes were fast, and he changed his stance and lowered his center of gravity immediately; the guy wound up going over and landing on his back. It was comical; who gets beat up by a 10 year old?
They say the element of surprise is powerful. Running is always a great option; but nobody expects a 7 year old to be a competent fighter. When it comes down to it, maybe you can beat them down; but when your first advance unexpectedly misses and they nail you right in the gut, then in the balls, then inside the thigh or behind the kneecap and buckle your legs out from under you, it's too late to bother talking about how you can take a 7 year old "if you want to." You probably could have if you saw this coming; too bad you didn't.
Why make your child defenseless? Give them every defense. Give them the reasoning to keep proper awareness; give them the incentive to run from danger; and give them the means to combat the dangers they can't escape. Then you can let them off their leashes and feel relatively safe about this. If someone "tries to grab" a kid, it's too late to run; and most people expect them to scream, so they're going to gag them (cover his mouth) and make a planned quick escape. You need to see this from a distance, and you need to have a plan both to keep that distance and to deal with that distance vanishing.
As for ignoring the pain... right. How many times have you been punched in the gut or the balls? A punch to the mouth okay. Arms.. legs... kneecap hell no, you can't even run what is this? (trust me a 20 pound kid can take out an adult's kneecap if he's taught to kick properly: you drop your weight into it, COMPLETELY off your back leg, and you only need 13 pounds of pressure). A shot to the liver, kidneys, intestines, spleen... that's not going to work out; you can't ignore that. Your body is going to go "VITAL!" and you are going to wake the fuck up.
Remember rabbits are prey animals. They get eaten a lot. Violent little pigs are not prey animals (tigers eat pigs; in many cases, the pig kills the tiger). Sure they'll run; but when they're through running they kill things and then go about their business.