What is news, is the fact that governments use this as an excuse to accept bribes from industry and try to justify laws using those ridiculous numbers.
Odds are he would have had a trial and then been killed anyway. Even if he didn't resist (which he probably did knowing the most certain outcome), likely it did pass the execs minds that having a trial and drawing it out could just make it dangerous terroristwise. Best if he just got shot in the raid. Not saying that is what happened, but I bet orders official or not were probably leaning in that direction.
Personally I think (and have been disgusted with the media and governments over the years), not a big deal should have been made about these guys. Stop all the cult of the personality, and hype, and BS. Without fanfare, dead, out airlock, keep walking. I am a firm believer that the type of attention these guys have gotten around the world only emboldens other to follow their footsteps. They see these idiots becoming world famous. The message that should have been is "do this kind of stuff and you will die, and no one will care".
Ban corporate political donations. Set a cap on individual political donations to 1000$. Make tough laws for electoral fraud, and enforce them.
All your problems are solved.
Good luck getting the politicians who receive millions of dollars in "donations" to agree to that.
I put quotes around donations because I believe at a certain threshold they cease to be about supporting a political group and their bid for election because they have similar ideals, and more about a BRIBE from special interest groups so that their ideals and agenda with become part of the parties to do list.
Like a tax, once an ISP has implemented a cap, it will only get worse not better. Unless government rips the privilege from their cold dead hands, which will not happen as much like in the USA, the regulators are in bed with industry.
So it went from no caps, like 3 years ago, to caps, to tiered caps... So it used to be that everyone got the same cap. Then they figured we can make even more money of this and separated it into usually 3 tiers, light, regular, and Pro... Basically most Canadians can go with the Cable company (Rogers) or Phone/DSL company (Bell).
For a regular DSL account with BELL in Ontario, Canada (I know because I was looking to switch recently from Cable as the caps suck), the Uupload/Download Cap is 2GB. Yes that's right, that is not a typo, not 150GB but 2!. Their "Performance has 25GB.... I am not kidding here is the link:
It is absolutely ridiculous. Pathetic. We live in the dark ages. Now there are new "Fiber" accounts you can get which are much better, however you have to live within certain "Areas". I live in a medium sized city in the most populous area of Canada and I can't get it. I suspect you have to actually live within Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal to get it so not available to most Canadians.
I am with cable and my current Cap is 60GB so it isn't nearly as bad, but it is still stupid compared to just about anywhere else. We just had an election and the Internet and price gouging actually became a pretty big topic during the election, we shall see if the elected Conservative government actually does anything about it... I'm not going to hold my breath.
My personal favorite is when using a highly specialized expensive software is a requirement of the job. There are plenty to choose from in CS.
Son unless you already have a job doing exactly the job you're applying for (which begs the question about why you are looking for a job anyway as you already have one, unless you are just trying to get more money which is just job pouching really), there is no way you can be qualified for it.
I know I can't afford the crazy training fees or the cost of the software itself to try and self learn the stuff. Either is in the order of 1000-10,000$ of dollars. It's unrealistic for employers to expect employees to eat that.
I always thought it was funny that (well maybe not funny, weird might be a better word) in many places suicide is "illegal".
I guess unless you fail, what exactly are they going to do about it?
Its like that news story about the person that got caught in Vietnam (or was it Thailand?) trafficking cocaine, and were sentenced to death by firing squad AND fined 100,000 dollars... I don't think I'd pay the fine.
Doesn't anyone find it the least bit ironic that a company like Sony that spent so much time and money on DRM and effecting security to limit and put security over its paying customers, then does such a crappy job at overall network security that some jerks hack their entire network and make off with personal information, credit card numbers, etc... but ohhhh no, you better not pirate that 1$ disk of Madden Football 14.
Maybe if they spent as much time securing their stupid network as trying to enforce DRM on paying customers they might not be in the mess they are in.
I mean how is it, that the game is encrypted, on an encrypted system, using keys etc... and then online verification of that encryption, but your bloody VISA number is in a GD text file on one of their servers or something...
I am with Cogeco Cable in Ontario, Canada. I have a 60GB Upload/Download Cap. They have a "feature" as part of their website that will allow you to check your bandwidth. The problem is it is only updated once a day (at midnight presumably). Considering 12MB/s on a 60GB cap, I can blow through a HUGH chunk of it, without knowing. Particularly if for instance I am downloading some pretty obscure garbage with few seeders, I might queue up a whole lot of stuff thinking it will be slowly downloading over a period of weeks... when all of a sudden some folks log on, and zip I suck it all down in an evening.
I accidentally doubled my cap one month because of that, @1.25$ per GB.
Having something that could read bandwidth on real time would be useful. Having something that would do that AND shut down my torrents once a certain threshold would also be nice.
Currently I try to just be careful and keep track in my head how many GB I have and will download. However with more software doing massive updates in the background this can be hard to manage, and will only get worse.
"One helicopter suffered a "hard landing" inside the compound after experiencing a mechanical failure and had to be destroyed on the site, according to one defense official."
I'm pretty sure that is just a pretty way of saying that it crashed...safely.
Also I love how this sounds: "He said a “small team” of Americans went after bin Laden in Abbottabad on Sunday. “After a firefight, they killed Usama bin Laden and took custody of his body,” the president said."
Tho, it should be mentioned that Jack Layton has been criticized by ALL the other parties for actually allowing his MP's a free vote on the Long Gun Registry. The NDP were the only party that didn't whip its members to all vote the same way.
When questioned immediately afterwords why Jack basically admitted that the position within his party is very different from MP to MP (likely because it is one of the few parties that not only is not very regional dependent, but also a mix of rural and urban ridings).
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Tried to check it out last night.
Why does Google hate Canadians?
News at 11.
What is news, is the fact that governments use this as an excuse to accept bribes from industry and try to justify laws using those ridiculous numbers.
Odds are he would have had a trial and then been killed anyway. Even if he didn't resist (which he probably did knowing the most certain outcome), likely it did pass the execs minds that having a trial and drawing it out could just make it dangerous terroristwise. Best if he just got shot in the raid. Not saying that is what happened, but I bet orders official or not were probably leaning in that direction.
Personally I think (and have been disgusted with the media and governments over the years), not a big deal should have been made about these guys. Stop all the cult of the personality, and hype, and BS. Without fanfare, dead, out airlock, keep walking. I am a firm believer that the type of attention these guys have gotten around the world only emboldens other to follow their footsteps. They see these idiots becoming world famous. The message that should have been is "do this kind of stuff and you will die, and no one will care".
Ban corporate political donations. Set a cap on individual political donations to 1000$. Make tough laws for electoral fraud, and enforce them.
All your problems are solved.
Good luck getting the politicians who receive millions of dollars in "donations" to agree to that.
I put quotes around donations because I believe at a certain threshold they cease to be about supporting a political group and their bid for election because they have similar ideals, and more about a BRIBE from special interest groups so that their ideals and agenda with become part of the parties to do list.
Like a tax, once an ISP has implemented a cap, it will only get worse not better. Unless government rips the privilege from their cold dead hands, which will not happen as much like in the USA, the regulators are in bed with industry.
So it went from no caps, like 3 years ago, to caps, to tiered caps... So it used to be that everyone got the same cap. Then they figured we can make even more money of this and separated it into usually 3 tiers, light, regular, and Pro... Basically most Canadians can go with the Cable company (Rogers) or Phone/DSL company (Bell).
For a regular DSL account with BELL in Ontario, Canada (I know because I was looking to switch recently from Cable as the caps suck), the Uupload/Download Cap is 2GB. Yes that's right, that is not a typo, not 150GB but 2!. Their "Performance has 25GB.... I am not kidding here is the link:
http://www.bell.ca/shopping/PrsShpGnl_PrdCompare.page?oct_browse_page_url=PrsShpInt_Access&oct_catalog_category_id=SympaticoOffers&skuListComp=DSLTIEPlusNCOONNewMass;DSLTIPONNewMassNCOPF10;
It is absolutely ridiculous. Pathetic. We live in the dark ages. Now there are new "Fiber" accounts you can get which are much better, however you have to live within certain "Areas". I live in a medium sized city in the most populous area of Canada and I can't get it. I suspect you have to actually live within Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal to get it so not available to most Canadians.
I am with cable and my current Cap is 60GB so it isn't nearly as bad, but it is still stupid compared to just about anywhere else. We just had an election and the Internet and price gouging actually became a pretty big topic during the election, we shall see if the elected Conservative government actually does anything about it... I'm not going to hold my breath.
Yes because a drug dealer would never think about stealing power from you, so when SWAT comes they are breaking down your door.
I can just imagine all the teasing that Taylor Swift and Angelina Jolie had to endure. Oh the humanity.
Pirates, Terrorists, whatever...
President Obama: "Whatzuppppppp!"
Nuke it from Orbit. It's the only way to be sure!
...To "Kick Evil In The Balls"
"Fuck you I'm not peddling anymore!" :)
My personal favorite is when using a highly specialized expensive software is a requirement of the job. There are plenty to choose from in CS.
Son unless you already have a job doing exactly the job you're applying for (which begs the question about why you are looking for a job anyway as you already have one, unless you are just trying to get more money which is just job pouching really), there is no way you can be qualified for it.
I know I can't afford the crazy training fees or the cost of the software itself to try and self learn the stuff. Either is in the order of 1000-10,000$ of dollars. It's unrealistic for employers to expect employees to eat that.
Just like OtherOS on the PS3?
No thanks Sony.
lol, i love it!
The problem I see is that I am sure they will have a bunch of races and classes to be, but seriously its going to be like 99% Jedi ratio.
I mean who the fuck wants to be a Bothen Spy or a Clone Trooper when you can be a Jedi with double lightsabers...
Just sayin', is gonna be one big mass of Jedi slashing about...
I always thought it was funny that (well maybe not funny, weird might be a better word) in many places suicide is "illegal".
I guess unless you fail, what exactly are they going to do about it?
Its like that news story about the person that got caught in Vietnam (or was it Thailand?) trafficking cocaine, and were sentenced to death by firing squad AND fined 100,000 dollars... I don't think I'd pay the fine.
Just think about the Chinese workers who have to actually make the suicide nets, now that's depressing...
Doesn't anyone find it the least bit ironic that a company like Sony that spent so much time and money on DRM and effecting security to limit and put security over its paying customers, then does such a crappy job at overall network security that some jerks hack their entire network and make off with personal information, credit card numbers, etc... but ohhhh no, you better not pirate that 1$ disk of Madden Football 14.
Maybe if they spent as much time securing their stupid network as trying to enforce DRM on paying customers they might not be in the mess they are in.
I mean how is it, that the game is encrypted, on an encrypted system, using keys etc... and then online verification of that encryption, but your bloody VISA number is in a GD text file on one of their servers or something...
I am with Cogeco Cable in Ontario, Canada. I have a 60GB Upload/Download Cap. They have a "feature" as part of their website that will allow you to check your bandwidth. The problem is it is only updated once a day (at midnight presumably). Considering 12MB/s on a 60GB cap, I can blow through a HUGH chunk of it, without knowing. Particularly if for instance I am downloading some pretty obscure garbage with few seeders, I might queue up a whole lot of stuff thinking it will be slowly downloading over a period of weeks... when all of a sudden some folks log on, and zip I suck it all down in an evening.
I accidentally doubled my cap one month because of that, @1.25$ per GB.
Having something that could read bandwidth on real time would be useful. Having something that would do that AND shut down my torrents once a certain threshold would also be nice.
Currently I try to just be careful and keep track in my head how many GB I have and will download. However with more software doing massive updates in the background this can be hard to manage, and will only get worse.
OK I just watch the anime: Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Solid State Society.
Story reminded me me of Section 9, investigating some servers, but it was a virus trap... They were unable to shut down, controls unresponsive...
Break the glass and grab the fire axe, now find a power conduit and start chopping! :)
(Envisioned some roided out Sony Exec breathing heavy wielding a huge axe standing over sparking freshly cut power cable...)
At least they didn't start at 60GB like Bell and Rogers in Canada and actually make some accounts lower than that...
"One helicopter suffered a "hard landing" inside the compound after experiencing a mechanical failure and had to be destroyed on the site, according to one defense official."
I'm pretty sure that is just a pretty way of saying that it crashed...safely.
Also I love how this sounds: "He said a “small team” of Americans went after bin Laden in Abbottabad on Sunday. “After a firefight, they killed Usama bin Laden and took custody of his body,” the president said."
10$ says that's a movie!
"We're not banging two rocks together here folks" - Cave Johnson
Tho, it should be mentioned that Jack Layton has been criticized by ALL the other parties for actually allowing his MP's a free vote on the Long Gun Registry. The NDP were the only party that didn't whip its members to all vote the same way.
When questioned immediately afterwords why Jack basically admitted that the position within his party is very different from MP to MP (likely because it is one of the few parties that not only is not very regional dependent, but also a mix of rural and urban ridings).
Anyway just sayin' :)