Privacy has been bad for the internet. There, I said it.
The net circa 1995-2004 or so, being anonymous was trivial to achieve. And what did it result in? A putrid culture of hacking, piracy, foul language and lack of manners, incessant and destructive celebrity gossip, porn up the wazoo, and more piracy.
The net is a cesspool, the Chinese are running around jiggling everybody's locks, and allowing comments at the end of online newspaper articles has revealed a deeply divided America, Europe and World. Sport just makes it worse, the Olympics don't bring humanity together, it divides it further.
You all have Big Brother because the collective WE have been such asswipes about the net as a medium. My concluding evidence for my argument: Youtube comments.
Deef Pirmasens, the blogger who discovered the passages taken from “Strobo,” said that he could understand a few words or phrases seeping into the work through inspiration, but that he quickly noticed that there were too many for it to be a coincidence. “To take an entire page from an author, as Helene Hegemann admitted to doing, with only slight changes and without asking the author, I consider that illegitimate,” Mr. Pirmasens said.
Entire pages verbatim? She is the Vanilla Ice of literature sampling then.
Number 10. Carmack and Romero fist fight
Number 9. Woz sex with Kathy Griffin
Number 8. A series of tubes, not a big truck
Number 7. Wesley Crusher sucked into a warp drive
Number 6. Ballmer doing Dancing with the Stars to the 'Developers Developers Developers Developers' remix
Number 5. Darl McBride being force fed into a wood chipper by the guys from Fargo
Number 4. Stallman and Schneier as banjo dueling Santas
Number 3. Cowboy Neal
Number 2. 10,000 Anonymous Cowards hacked to bits by the 300 Spartans yelling "This is Slashdot!"
And the Number one re-enactment wish for Slashdot: Duke Nukem Forever
I have no great love for Wert and the Jalopniks, finding them to consistently side with the GOP on social issues and sidestep into political discourse way too much for a blog on cars.
However, they have been frontrunning this story and trying to lead the charge to push it up to the MSM.
Woz is Woz, he needs no introduction on/. If he calls bullshit on software design, it will get attention. Worse off, as Jalopnik shows on the bit on the Today show appearance by the Toyota CEO - they seem willing and ready to lie through their teeth about what was known, when it was known, and what their responses to the NTSB have been. Matt Lauer is sitting there with a copy of the NTSB report on his lap, saying they knew humidity was causing pedals to stick in 2007, and there is the Toyota CEO lying his ass off, saying only in October of 2009 was it brought to their attention. Toyota is recalling a shitload of Camrys and Corollas, and now Woz drops this bomb about Prius software design on them. It's time for the Hedge fund managers to make more money and short the hell out of Toyota.
Note, in NTSB reports - many of these cars have had the brake pads TOTALLY burned through, indicating that once these cars took off on people, they COULD NOT stop. In the fatality cases, if the driver had forced the car into neutral (the linkage would have resisted, you would have needed to really muscle it) they could have saved themselves. Instead they rode the brake into an obstacle.
This is PR nightmare time for Toyota. It will make the Ford-Firestone debacle look like simple times.
Obama taught, was editor of the Harvard Law Review, and graduated top of his class.
How he can abide this DOJ finding is really unknowable, outside of politics. It is behavior and outcomes like this that cost his party Mass. last night, and may well cost him his re-election bid in 2012. Pollingplace.com showed that last night in Mass., 37% of voters that voted for this independent that won, did so in protest of Democrats favoring Wall Street in the bailout.
The lesson is simple: Either the DOJ and the Obama administration stop taking sides against Main Street and for the big corporate interest, or they will keep losing.
Turns out a single badass Deltal only known by his codename 'Dutch' (real name: Alan Schaeffer) killed a space alien in the jungle after a protracted stalking, and procured this weapon from the alien armor suit. The alien had managed to kill the rest of Dutch's team but somehow Dutch set off a low yield nuclear weapon and destroy the creature. This report was leaked by the tin foil underground movement, and is the real source of this new weapon.
TCP reset technology brought to courtesy of Cisco Systems.
Cisco, our motto is the "Human Network". What we really mean is, the "Repress Humans Network". After all John Chambers needs his rogaine for that 3 hair comb over he sports, and that stuff isn't cheap! CVS Pharmacy started locking it up!
If you read into these articles, Raimi walked because the studio wouldn't go along with the Vulture story, and specifically Raimi wanted John Malkovich to play the Vulture. And he wanted Anne Hathaway to be the Vultress. I am not making this up.
The studio told Raimi he didn't need an expensive star like Hathaway in that role, and they didn't want Malkovich and they didn't like the Vulture as the bad guy at all.
Now consider how Raimi has approached bad guys so far. Doc Ock? He was a good scientist, distraught over his wife's death, and the tenatcles took over his mind. Harry Osborn? Tormented by his father, instead of becoming the Hobgoblin he turns back to good. The Sandman? Just a father trying to redeem himself to his family.
Even Dafoe as the Green Goblin was obviously mentally ill. He was mad/evil, yes, but almost sympathetic. He really did get his company taken away by the corporate board, it really was all his genius, and the military was choosing an inferior technology due to politics. In some respects, he was kind of justified to get that pissed off.
Now imagine how Malkovich's Vulture would have come off? Probably just a sex freak with Anne Hathaway as the Vultress. Maybe he's bad because he was abused as a child. Maybe his mind was taken over by a Hippie played by John Cusack. So many possibilities.
In any case, it would have probably been the most way out there movie, really for the hardcore comic crowd and probably would have totally lost the under 21 crowd.
Bond's license to kill came from the British government. He understood the risks when performing assassination on foreign soil. If he was caught, he would be killed or at least tried for murder.
What INTERPOL has is *BETTER* than a license to kill!!! It says, you can use deadly force within the US, and can't be prosecuted by the US! It's a get out jail free card!!!!
I've seen the film, in IMAX 3D (gave me a two day headache) - and I guess I missed the giant stone arches near the end of the film.
But, somebody who worked on the film anonymously emailed the writer of the article to explain some of the problems they saw. Namely: the gas giant rotating faster than it possibly could. And there is speculation that the floating mountains contain unobtainium, which is a room temp superconductor.
The mountains were formed on the land, and "broke off" sailing upwards over the magnetic pole of the planet. They are repelled by the magnetic field underneath them, counteracting gravity.
This is very silly, as minor magnetic perturbations would make the mountains flail about wildly, just as trying to hold a magnet up in the air with another magnet is very difficult.
Also, he doesn't address what properties of unobtainium exist that would likely "save Earth". Why would a rock that was a room temperature superconductor save Earth? You couldn't build nuclear power plants from it. Perhaps it has properties that make it 1000x more powerful than uranium? None of this gets addressed.
Take massive quantities of LSD, combined with strobe light therapy, aka MK Ultra stuff - until you develop Dissociative Identify Disorder aka Sybil Effect and then assign each one of your personalities a non-competing task. Note: you may have to go Memento on this, and write the tasks on your body for the next personality to see.
What you should find is that you cycle personalities often enough to load balance the work properly. Take Thorzine as needed to adjust timing.
I think you will find that.... errerggshdgs... wait, what? Ignore that advice!
In times like these, people don't want to be seen as expensive to their company. Unless the conference is for hard technical skills, people don't want to attend. Even for people who are not hardcore technical, the conferences have to be seen as "must attend".
The new version of Apple MACOS will have a built in app that uses bluetooth to find local escorts in your hotel that want to sleep with you based on your fame on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.
Steve Jobs announced this 10.7 will be called "Woods Tiger"
The DLP market, Data-Loss Prevention, is a burgeoning and growing market.
Trend Micro purchased Provilla to jumpstart their way to catching Symantec. Cisco's CSA Agent can act as a DLP device when paired with sniffers.
DLP modules can be particularly nasty. They are, in effect, beneficial (to the company) rootkits. Often, the good ones like Leakproof (I have no affiliation with the product, it won SC magazine's product 5/5 Award - http://www.scmagazineus.com/trend-micro-leakproof/review/2632/) can't be seen or can be explicitly exempted from A/V scans.
They follow rules, like notify if any workstation copies a PDF to a USB drive or attaches it to a webmail outbound message.
This will become more and more common in the workplace. Virtual desktops plus rootkits with no local admin rights to the user.
In this way, the same effects as regions and LPARs and mainframe access rights are re-achieved in the modern age with virtual desktops and VPN.
It may not be everyone's idea of utopia, but private companies are doing this more and more. Even road warriors are getting thinbooks and asked to use remote VPN desktops to control everything.
I say everyone on/. should head over the St. Louis Post Dispatch page and post variations on the word. There must be 100 words in the English language for it, so let's get started....
I've seen too many UNIX people move to MAC-OS for my liking. I was one of them, and now I am realizing my mistake and turning around. We need to keep plugging at GNOME and KDE (I don't have a dog in that fight, although I use KDE). Because pretty soon, I think we're going to want to run it on laptop hardware. I'm already unhappy with some features in Snow Leopard, and am making the move to building my Linux laptop. Adware built into a pre-compiled kernel without access to source?
Slashdot Mirror
Privacy has been bad for the internet. There, I said it.
The net circa 1995-2004 or so, being anonymous was trivial to achieve. And what did it result in? A putrid culture of hacking, piracy, foul language and lack of manners, incessant and destructive celebrity gossip, porn up the wazoo, and more piracy.
The net is a cesspool, the Chinese are running around jiggling everybody's locks, and allowing comments at the end of online newspaper articles has revealed a deeply divided America, Europe and World. Sport just makes it worse, the Olympics don't bring humanity together, it divides it further.
You all have Big Brother because the collective WE have been such asswipes about the net as a medium. My concluding evidence for my argument: Youtube comments.
Deef Pirmasens, the blogger who discovered the passages taken from “Strobo,” said that he could understand a few words or phrases seeping into the work through inspiration, but that he quickly noticed that there were too many for it to be a coincidence. “To take an entire page from an author, as Helene Hegemann admitted to doing, with only slight changes and without asking the author, I consider that illegitimate,” Mr. Pirmasens said.
Entire pages verbatim? She is the Vanilla Ice of literature sampling then.
Number 10. Carmack and Romero fist fight
Number 9. Woz sex with Kathy Griffin
Number 8. A series of tubes, not a big truck
Number 7. Wesley Crusher sucked into a warp drive
Number 6. Ballmer doing Dancing with the Stars to the 'Developers Developers Developers Developers' remix
Number 5. Darl McBride being force fed into a wood chipper by the guys from Fargo
Number 4. Stallman and Schneier as banjo dueling Santas
Number 3. Cowboy Neal
Number 2. 10,000 Anonymous Cowards hacked to bits by the 300 Spartans yelling "This is Slashdot!"
And the Number one re-enactment wish for Slashdot: Duke Nukem Forever
I have no great love for Wert and the Jalopniks, finding them to consistently side with the GOP on social issues and sidestep into political discourse way too much for a blog on cars.
/. If he calls bullshit on software design, it will get attention. Worse off, as Jalopnik shows on the bit on the Today show appearance by the Toyota CEO - they seem willing and ready to lie through their teeth about what was known, when it was known, and what their responses to the NTSB have been. Matt Lauer is sitting there with a copy of the NTSB report on his lap, saying they knew humidity was causing pedals to stick in 2007, and there is the Toyota CEO lying his ass off, saying only in October of 2009 was it brought to their attention. Toyota is recalling a shitload of Camrys and Corollas, and now Woz drops this bomb about Prius software design on them. It's time for the Hedge fund managers to make more money and short the hell out of Toyota.
However, they have been frontrunning this story and trying to lead the charge to push it up to the MSM.
Woz is Woz, he needs no introduction on
Note, in NTSB reports - many of these cars have had the brake pads TOTALLY burned through, indicating that once these cars took off on people, they COULD NOT stop. In the fatality cases, if the driver had forced the car into neutral (the linkage would have resisted, you would have needed to really muscle it) they could have saved themselves. Instead they rode the brake into an obstacle.
This is PR nightmare time for Toyota. It will make the Ford-Firestone debacle look like simple times.
There is no dark side of the moon really.
Matter of fact it's all dark.
Correction: Pollingreport.com
Obama taught, was editor of the Harvard Law Review, and graduated top of his class.
How he can abide this DOJ finding is really unknowable, outside of politics. It is behavior and outcomes like this that cost his party Mass. last night, and may well cost him his re-election bid in 2012. Pollingplace.com showed that last night in Mass., 37% of voters that voted for this independent that won, did so in protest of Democrats favoring Wall Street in the bailout.
The lesson is simple: Either the DOJ and the Obama administration stop taking sides against Main Street and for the big corporate interest, or they will keep losing.
Turns out a single badass Deltal only known by his codename 'Dutch' (real name: Alan Schaeffer) killed a space alien in the jungle after a protracted stalking, and procured this weapon from the alien armor suit. The alien had managed to kill the rest of Dutch's team but somehow Dutch set off a low yield nuclear weapon and destroy the creature. This report was leaked by the tin foil underground movement, and is the real source of this new weapon.
Avatard: Sarah Palin on Pandora!
TCP reset technology brought to courtesy of Cisco Systems.
Cisco, our motto is the "Human Network". What we really mean is, the "Repress Humans Network". After all John Chambers needs his rogaine for that 3 hair comb over he sports, and that stuff isn't cheap! CVS Pharmacy started locking it up!
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/4/30/163555.shtml
If you read into these articles, Raimi walked because the studio wouldn't go along with the Vulture story, and specifically Raimi wanted John Malkovich to play the Vulture. And he wanted Anne Hathaway to be the Vultress. I am not making this up.
The studio told Raimi he didn't need an expensive star like Hathaway in that role, and they didn't want Malkovich and they didn't like the Vulture as the bad guy at all.
Now consider how Raimi has approached bad guys so far. Doc Ock? He was a good scientist, distraught over his wife's death, and the tenatcles took over his mind. Harry Osborn? Tormented by his father, instead of becoming the Hobgoblin he turns back to good. The Sandman? Just a father trying to redeem himself to his family.
Even Dafoe as the Green Goblin was obviously mentally ill. He was mad/evil, yes, but almost sympathetic. He really did get his company taken away by the corporate board, it really was all his genius, and the military was choosing an inferior technology due to politics. In some respects, he was kind of justified to get that pissed off.
Now imagine how Malkovich's Vulture would have come off? Probably just a sex freak with Anne Hathaway as the Vultress. Maybe he's bad because he was abused as a child. Maybe his mind was taken over by a Hippie played by John Cusack. So many possibilities.
In any case, it would have probably been the most way out there movie, really for the hardcore comic crowd and probably would have totally lost the under 21 crowd.
Bond's license to kill came from the British government. He understood the risks when performing assassination on foreign soil. If he was caught, he would be killed or at least tried for murder.
What INTERPOL has is *BETTER* than a license to kill!!! It says, you can use deadly force within the US, and can't be prosecuted by the US! It's a get out jail free card!!!!
Two Words: Carly Fiornia
I hope she becomes Gov of California. She'll probably try and merge with Hawaii and then half the state will fall into the ocean.
I've seen the film, in IMAX 3D (gave me a two day headache) - and I guess I missed the giant stone arches near the end of the film.
But, somebody who worked on the film anonymously emailed the writer of the article to explain some of the problems they saw. Namely: the gas giant rotating faster than it possibly could. And there is speculation that the floating mountains contain unobtainium, which is a room temp superconductor.
The mountains were formed on the land, and "broke off" sailing upwards over the magnetic pole of the planet. They are repelled by the magnetic field underneath them, counteracting gravity.
This is very silly, as minor magnetic perturbations would make the mountains flail about wildly, just as trying to hold a magnet up in the air with another magnet is very difficult.
Also, he doesn't address what properties of unobtainium exist that would likely "save Earth". Why would a rock that was a room temperature superconductor save Earth? You couldn't build nuclear power plants from it. Perhaps it has properties that make it 1000x more powerful than uranium? None of this gets addressed.
Here's a novel approach:
Take massive quantities of LSD, combined with strobe light therapy, aka MK Ultra stuff - until you develop Dissociative Identify Disorder aka Sybil Effect and then assign each one of your personalities a non-competing task. Note: you may have to go Memento on this, and write the tasks on your body for the next personality to see.
What you should find is that you cycle personalities often enough to load balance the work properly. Take Thorzine as needed to adjust timing.
I think you will find that.... errerggshdgs... wait, what? Ignore that advice!
In times like these, people don't want to be seen as expensive to their company. Unless the conference is for hard technical skills, people don't want to attend. Even for people who are not hardcore technical, the conferences have to be seen as "must attend".
The new version of Apple MACOS will have a built in app that uses bluetooth to find local escorts in your hotel that want to sleep with you based on your fame on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.
Steve Jobs announced this 10.7 will be called "Woods Tiger"
Of Osama Bin Laden getting bufu'ed by Liberace probably got me flagged. Ah well, it was worth it....
The DLP market, Data-Loss Prevention, is a burgeoning and growing market.
Trend Micro purchased Provilla to jumpstart their way to catching Symantec. Cisco's CSA Agent can act as a DLP device when paired with sniffers.
DLP modules can be particularly nasty. They are, in effect, beneficial (to the company) rootkits. Often, the good ones like Leakproof (I have no affiliation with the product, it won SC magazine's product 5/5 Award - http://www.scmagazineus.com/trend-micro-leakproof/review/2632/) can't be seen or can be explicitly exempted from A/V scans.
They follow rules, like notify if any workstation copies a PDF to a USB drive or attaches it to a webmail outbound message.
This will become more and more common in the workplace. Virtual desktops plus rootkits with no local admin rights to the user.
In this way, the same effects as regions and LPARs and mainframe access rights are re-achieved in the modern age with virtual desktops and VPN.
It may not be everyone's idea of utopia, but private companies are doing this more and more. Even road warriors are getting thinbooks and asked to use remote VPN desktops to control everything.
BOOM! POWZA!
I say everyone on /. should head over the St. Louis Post Dispatch page and post variations on the word. There must be 100 words in the English language for it, so let's get started....
Can we have the Gene Hackman / Lex Luthor solution to real estate prices now?
in the future, we can all haz cheeseburger?
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_X1IWXuEbgXI/SY_U2tV1tPI/AAAAAAAABAY/D1K3CBvtlpo/s1600-h/Hurley+I+can+haz+cheeseburger+lost.dib
I've seen too many UNIX people move to MAC-OS for my liking. I was one of them, and now I am realizing my mistake and turning around. We need to keep plugging at GNOME and KDE (I don't have a dog in that fight, although I use KDE). Because pretty soon, I think we're going to want to run it on laptop hardware. I'm already unhappy with some features in Snow Leopard, and am making the move to building my Linux laptop. Adware built into a pre-compiled kernel without access to source?
Fuck you Jobs.
I have no idea why that comment was modded as troll.