There is no war on terror. It's all just media propaganda. There has not been a single major terrorist attack the last 100 years which was not a false-flag attack. If you still haven't figured out that 9/11 was an inside job then consider this: There's hundreds of videos and pictures who clearly show massive steel beams being thrown up and away during the _demolition_ of WTC 1 and 2. The official story is that gravity made these buildings come down. Gravity does not make things fall up. Try dropping something and check it out for yourself. You're in a fascist dictatorship with an illusion of freedom, just like everyone else within the NATO alliance.
Looks like the Slashdot Propaganda Ministry is working overtime this week. Want to end terrorism? Investigate the 7/7 london bombings. Investigate 9/11. Look into the history of Al-CIAda. It really is very simple: If you learn the truth and tell as many people about it as you can then governments will no longer see false-flag terrorism as a viable means to rally the people and they will simply stop doing it and find other ways to fool the people to support wars and such. Buy into government propaganda and stories like this./ propaganda article and you show you are buying this crap - and that actually encourages NATO & governments to carry out more false-flag attacks. Government kills someone you love in a false-flag terrorist attack? Well, it's your own fault for being stupid & ignorant.
Western NATO countries like Norway use surveillance as a first initial step against people who say anything which goes against government propaganda. Sabotage is the next and that's usually followed by torture. So keep in mind that surveillance is not the big problem here, they just do surveillance to find out who to target and torture for writing or saying the "wrong thing". Stop the surveillance of everyone and fewer people get tortured. You can debate if surveillance is a human rights violation or not, but it should be obvious that torture is.
"conspiracy theorist" is a term with two words, conspire and theory. If two people rob a bank and the bank manager calls the police then the police does not respond by saying "that's a stupid conspiracy theory", they actually look at the evidence. "conspiracy theorist" today means "person who thinks for himself" and it is used exclusively by people who don't.
I agree that one should question RedHat and a few other GNU/Linux distributions. Luckily we do not have to use RedHat if we choose to use GNU/Linux, there are many other variants. NSA may have a harder time getting their backdoors into Debian / Ubuntu than they have with RH, but there are questions there too. Anyone remember that "mistake" in Debians OpenSSL code which made it generate useless certificates for years without anyone noticing? As for the kernel itself.. I don't see it as likely that anyone would manage to put a backdoor in there. But it's open source, so you can I can and should take a look. Overall, I'd say you are much better off using Linux than Windows.
Don't expect this or other mainstream sites to tell the truth on this one ever. It will probably be like the gulf of tonkin incident 20 years from now, CIA admitted it was all fake and all fabricated 10 years ago yet local school history book still stick with the official story.
Actually, a lot of NATO countries covertly tortured people for telling the truth about 9/11. Surveillance and sabotage just wasn't enough for the intelligence services within NATO 10 years ago. Today everyone but the most naive and stupid have figured out that an official story which requires gravity to make massive steel beams fall up does not hold water. Yes, official 9/11 government story can only be true if gravity sometimes makes things fall up. Feel free to keep calling people who understand this "crackpots", I'm fine with it. Most people have figured it out by now and I don't see much hope for those who still don't get it.
All I am asking is that people here be aware that there are many methods to stifle dissent, and that social media (Slashdot included) is now a powerful tool to both monitor and shape public opinion.
I first noticed that some subjects and opinions are silently removed from Slashdot back in 2004. Glad you're finally catching on. Using a site with a high number of visitors? Expect this sort of thing.
It's interesting how the "revelations" from "former" CIA employee and short-term NSA external contractor are so ground-breaking and not just what people who don't own a TV have known for years. Bread and circus, knew the Roman Empire, keep people from revolt. Snowden is a circus. Putin said it best when he pointed out that FSB had no interest in Snowden, it would be like trying to skin a pig: Lots of screams but no wool.
Yeah, I know this is too true information even for slashdot, I'm guessing this will be modded down.
You're missing this: If you have an old Windows XP system and a old graphics card and your harddrive breaks but you want to keep using it and your friend gives you a new harddrive then you'll need graphics drivers.. but they are gone from AMDs website and now you're screwed. You have to use the not-exactly-perfect free drivers for old cards in Linux since support is removed from AMDs proprietary driver and it's hard/impossible to get old versions of it.
Make sure you buy an older card. The free software driver driver for 7000+ cards is a broken joke. Works well for older cards, though. Evil proprietary drivers does sort-of work alright with newer cards but doesn't support older cards. Also know that you can't use 1 old and 1 new card since free driver only works with old cards and proprietary only new.
Google is more and more moving towards controlling everyone who uses their services. I used Adsense for years, but I started getting more and more junk mail from Adsense saying I had 3 days to change pages with "Adult" content. The last case was a poem from the 18th century with the word "Lover" in it. That made me drop Adsense. Google changing their Blogger policy should come as no surprise. They simply want everyone to use Adsense and they do not want other advertisements on Blogger - or elsewhere. Adsense users know that Google now considers using other advertisement networks or even other ads in some cases is "against their policy". Expect Google to try to dictate more and more, they want to control what ads you show, what words you use (the word "Lover" is now against their terms..) and what you write. Google isn't gradually becoming more and more evil, they have a long history of scamming people (search on bing other other search engines to find dozens and dozens of examples of people who've got their adsense account closed the day before payouts).
You may not have noticed, and may be in denial, but the relevant part for the United States today is âoeSomeone once said that every form of government has one characteristic peculiar to it and if that characteristic is lost, the government will fall. In a monarchy, it is affection and respect for the royal family. If that is lost the monarch is lost. In a dictatorship, it is fear. If the people stop fearing the dictator he'll lose power. In a representative government such as ours, it is virtue. If virtue goes, the government fails. Are we choosing paths that are politically expedient and morally questionable? Are we in truth losing our virtue? . . . If so, we may be nearer the dustbin of history than we realize."
I've got a HD3300 IGP and that works alright with the open source driver. Not good, but alright. Then I bought a HD7850 and tried using the latest open source drivers. By latest I mean MESA snapsot from 20130619 and all the latest pieces. It is utterly broken and useless. Scrolling in applications cause artifacts. Starting some applications (like LibreOffice) just makes X hang. There is no usable open source drivers for the latest AMD cards. Yes there is something available, but it's a broken joke you can't actually use.
It is possible to use the open source driver to have one monitor on the HD3300 IGP and two monitors on the HD7850 without accelration on any of the monitors. Try the same setup with accelration and their driver segfaults.
I basically bought a HD7850 because AMD claims there's a open source driver for it. When you try it you'll find that there is no such thing as a functioning open source driver for this card and cards in this family.
The new kernel patches are probably a step in the right direction, but it won't help with the latest cards. AMD developers have in their wizdom decided to provide no 2D driver at all, instead they rely on 3D for 2D using MESA and "glamor". glamor is a buggy joke at this point and it will probably take years before that changes. I wish I could point to AMD and say "they've got great open source support" but the truth is that it's crappy at best. Intel is the only alternative if you want working free software drivers as of now.
Hey other genius, you can. There are other currencies besides USD, or you can trade to BTC and withdraw it.
Guy needs money. Guy sends BTC to MtGox and sells them netting about $25.000. Guy tries to withdraw said $25.000 on June 6th. MtGox lists the withdraw as "Processed". Money doesn't show up. Guy contacts customer service. They give him the runaround and BS him. Guy asks for said $25.000 to be reinstated into his account so he can buy bitcoins and send them to another exchange sell them there. MtGox says they can't do that because the withdraw is listed as "Processed". What "Processed" means is unclear since they have not initiated any wire transfer. Guy is _still_ waiting for his money. Note that this withdraw was initiated well before they stopped withdraws. And he's not the only one waiting for five figure amounts out of MtGox. So NO, you can't trade to BTC and withdraw it in many cases. Yes, you can - in theory - but not in real life. And EUR out of MtGox? That has always cost a 1% fee on the amount transfered (!) and it's always taken two-three weeks - sometimes longer. EUR out of Bitstamp, on the other hand, takes 1-2 days and costs a fixed 1 EUR fee.
You can believe it's easy to get money out of MtGox if you want. But please actually try and see how well it works before you make such claims.
The reason no digital currency will ever be used to such an extent is that they are truly worthless.
The vast majority of USD and EUR are digital. Only a small percentage exist as cold hard cash. Bitcoin is just another digital currency, just like USD, EUR and JPY. Yes, USD and EUR and JPY also have non-digital versions - but the amount is insignificant.
Bitcoins are actually becoming more plentiful to the tune of 3600 more being created each day
^^^ THIS. People say that Bitcoin has deflation. This is currently NOT true, it is subject to inflation. If we assume that all new coins are sold then $388.800 new money needs to come in each and every day at current MtGox ticker price $108. Say $100 and that's still $360.000 new fiat money required each and every day.
Note that they're only stopping withdrawals from Mt. Gox, not inbound transfers
As said in another comment above: A typical sign of a ponzi is that they start to limit withdraws when they start to collapse. The problems with withdraws isn't new, btw. There are several people I know who are still waiting for five figure USD withdraws initiated in the beginning of this month. Do they have the money? You'd think so, but nobody really knows how much DHS took from their Dwolla account. And then there is the coinbase debacle
People who use bitcoin and drive up it's value are living inside a reality distortion field of their own making
lol, ever tried paying for something using Bitcoins? It's way faster and cheaper than paying using credit cards. A lot of places give you a discount if you pay using Bitcoin. Saying people who use Bitcoin are "living inside a reality distortion field" is as silly as saying the same thing about people who use other currencies like USD and EUR.
As for it's current value and those driving up the price.. my USD/BTC position is currently minus a three digit figure (yes, everyone on ##BTCPro is net short right now)
Bitcoin itself is just a currency and it's traded on numerous exchanges. But the latest MtGox move is interesting: A typical sign of a ponzi scheme is that they start limiting withdraws when they start to collapse. Who knows how much MtGox actually lost when DHS took their Dwolla account? And keep in mind that they just announced that there will be no more withdraws on June 20th. There are people who've been waiting for withdraws - still not processed - since June 5th. Also have a friend who managed to withdraw on June 12th but his second withdraw June 13th never came through.
We've got the Internet, so why dumb yourself down by passivly staring at a propaganda box? They do call it "TV programs" as in "programming" (mind control). I haven't had a TV for about 12 years and I see a clear colleration between how much people watch TV and how much they know about what is really going on in the world around them. There also seems to be a colleration between the amount of time spent in front of a TV and the ability to think clearly and critically. Seriously, get rid of your TV if you have one, you'll feel more clear-minded just after a few months.
This is also about Censorship and Control. Yes torrents are used to distribute some pirated content. But they are also used to distribute home made videos, free educational videos and so on. I have a.torrent site where I mainly distribute videos by Alex Jones / http://infowars.com/ and I can legally distribute everything on that site. I had Google Adsense on it for a while but one day they sent me an e-mail saying that having a.torrent file on your site violates their policy. It apparently doesn't matter to Google _what_ you distribute with a torrent, just using torrents is "bad". That's as stupid as saying "using http is against our policy" regardless of what you serve, but that's the "do evil" corporation for you. The Pirate Bay may have some "bad" content, but there's also a whole lot of important _legal_ content there. You can't easily censor videos distributed using BitTorrent. BitTorrent is important for free speech and free thought. I do understand why Disney wants to shut down sites who distribute videos with information that goes against their propaganda, but it's not alright.
Having your own government carry out a false-flag terrorist attack to remove your liberties is never worth anything. As for the ridiculous "And if it turns out that he just blew what might have prevented several 9/11 level attacks?" comment in parent post.. no, spying on citizens will not prevent your government from carrying out false-flag attacks, specially when the goal of those false-flag attacks is to remove civil liberties & start wars.
I've heard this Windows thing has become better, much much better, since Windows 95. I've seen it on other peoples computer and it looks real nice. What's keeping me off trying this Windows thing is that I'm really happy with my computer as it is, I have the software I need and it's stable and I get what I need to get done. I've also got the impression that this Windows this is very limited when it comes to the command line (which I use all the time), multiple virtual desktops, good editors and so on. But I may be wrong, all these things and more may exist in the Windows world - I haven't really paid much attention to what's going on there, but I do have the impression that Windows has become a lot better since I switched.
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There is no war on terror. It's all just media propaganda. There has not been a single major terrorist attack the last 100 years which was not a false-flag attack. If you still haven't figured out that 9/11 was an inside job then consider this: There's hundreds of videos and pictures who clearly show massive steel beams being thrown up and away during the _demolition_ of WTC 1 and 2. The official story is that gravity made these buildings come down. Gravity does not make things fall up. Try dropping something and check it out for yourself. You're in a fascist dictatorship with an illusion of freedom, just like everyone else within the NATO alliance.
Looks like the Slashdot Propaganda Ministry is working overtime this week. Want to end terrorism? Investigate the 7/7 london bombings. Investigate 9/11. Look into the history of Al-CIAda. It really is very simple: If you learn the truth and tell as many people about it as you can then governments will no longer see false-flag terrorism as a viable means to rally the people and they will simply stop doing it and find other ways to fool the people to support wars and such. Buy into government propaganda and stories like this ./ propaganda article and you show you are buying this crap - and that actually encourages NATO & governments to carry out more false-flag attacks. Government kills someone you love in a false-flag terrorist attack? Well, it's your own fault for being stupid & ignorant.
Western NATO countries like Norway use surveillance as a first initial step against people who say anything which goes against government propaganda. Sabotage is the next and that's usually followed by torture. So keep in mind that surveillance is not the big problem here, they just do surveillance to find out who to target and torture for writing or saying the "wrong thing". Stop the surveillance of everyone and fewer people get tortured. You can debate if surveillance is a human rights violation or not, but it should be obvious that torture is.
"conspiracy theorist" is a term with two words, conspire and theory. If two people rob a bank and the bank manager calls the police then the police does not respond by saying "that's a stupid conspiracy theory", they actually look at the evidence. "conspiracy theorist" today means "person who thinks for himself" and it is used exclusively by people who don't.
I agree that one should question RedHat and a few other GNU/Linux distributions. Luckily we do not have to use RedHat if we choose to use GNU/Linux, there are many other variants. NSA may have a harder time getting their backdoors into Debian / Ubuntu than they have with RH, but there are questions there too. Anyone remember that "mistake" in Debians OpenSSL code which made it generate useless certificates for years without anyone noticing? As for the kernel itself.. I don't see it as likely that anyone would manage to put a backdoor in there. But it's open source, so you can I can and should take a look. Overall, I'd say you are much better off using Linux than Windows.
Don't expect this or other mainstream sites to tell the truth on this one ever. It will probably be like the gulf of tonkin incident 20 years from now, CIA admitted it was all fake and all fabricated 10 years ago yet local school history book still stick with the official story.
Actually, a lot of NATO countries covertly tortured people for telling the truth about 9/11. Surveillance and sabotage just wasn't enough for the intelligence services within NATO 10 years ago. Today everyone but the most naive and stupid have figured out that an official story which requires gravity to make massive steel beams fall up does not hold water. Yes, official 9/11 government story can only be true if gravity sometimes makes things fall up. Feel free to keep calling people who understand this "crackpots", I'm fine with it. Most people have figured it out by now and I don't see much hope for those who still don't get it.
All I am asking is that people here be aware that there are many methods to stifle dissent, and that social media (Slashdot included) is now a powerful tool to both monitor and shape public opinion.
I first noticed that some subjects and opinions are silently removed from Slashdot back in 2004. Glad you're finally catching on. Using a site with a high number of visitors? Expect this sort of thing.
It's interesting how the "revelations" from "former" CIA employee and short-term NSA external contractor are so ground-breaking and not just what people who don't own a TV have known for years. Bread and circus, knew the Roman Empire, keep people from revolt. Snowden is a circus. Putin said it best when he pointed out that FSB had no interest in Snowden, it would be like trying to skin a pig: Lots of screams but no wool.
Yeah, I know this is too true information even for slashdot, I'm guessing this will be modded down.
You're missing this: If you have an old Windows XP system and a old graphics card and your harddrive breaks but you want to keep using it and your friend gives you a new harddrive then you'll need graphics drivers.. but they are gone from AMDs website and now you're screwed. You have to use the not-exactly-perfect free drivers for old cards in Linux since support is removed from AMDs proprietary driver and it's hard/impossible to get old versions of it.
Make sure you buy an older card. The free software driver driver for 7000+ cards is a broken joke. Works well for older cards, though. Evil proprietary drivers does sort-of work alright with newer cards but doesn't support older cards. Also know that you can't use 1 old and 1 new card since free driver only works with old cards and proprietary only new.
Google is more and more moving towards controlling everyone who uses their services. I used Adsense for years, but I started getting more and more junk mail from Adsense saying I had 3 days to change pages with "Adult" content. The last case was a poem from the 18th century with the word "Lover" in it. That made me drop Adsense. Google changing their Blogger policy should come as no surprise. They simply want everyone to use Adsense and they do not want other advertisements on Blogger - or elsewhere. Adsense users know that Google now considers using other advertisement networks or even other ads in some cases is "against their policy". Expect Google to try to dictate more and more, they want to control what ads you show, what words you use (the word "Lover" is now against their terms..) and what you write. Google isn't gradually becoming more and more evil, they have a long history of scamming people (search on bing other other search engines to find dozens and dozens of examples of people who've got their adsense account closed the day before payouts).
You may not have noticed, and may be in denial, but the relevant part for the United States today is âoeSomeone once said that every form of government has one characteristic peculiar to it and if that characteristic is lost, the government will fall. In a monarchy, it is affection and respect for the royal family. If that is lost the monarch is lost. In a dictatorship, it is fear. If the people stop fearing the dictator he'll lose power. In a representative government such as ours, it is virtue. If virtue goes, the government fails. Are we choosing paths that are politically expedient and morally questionable? Are we in truth losing our virtue? . . . If so, we may be nearer the dustbin of history than we realize."
I've got a HD3300 IGP and that works alright with the open source driver. Not good, but alright. Then I bought a HD7850 and tried using the latest open source drivers. By latest I mean MESA snapsot from 20130619 and all the latest pieces. It is utterly broken and useless. Scrolling in applications cause artifacts. Starting some applications (like LibreOffice) just makes X hang. There is no usable open source drivers for the latest AMD cards. Yes there is something available, but it's a broken joke you can't actually use.
It is possible to use the open source driver to have one monitor on the HD3300 IGP and two monitors on the HD7850 without accelration on any of the monitors. Try the same setup with accelration and their driver segfaults.
I basically bought a HD7850 because AMD claims there's a open source driver for it. When you try it you'll find that there is no such thing as a functioning open source driver for this card and cards in this family.
The new kernel patches are probably a step in the right direction, but it won't help with the latest cards. AMD developers have in their wizdom decided to provide no 2D driver at all, instead they rely on 3D for 2D using MESA and "glamor". glamor is a buggy joke at this point and it will probably take years before that changes. I wish I could point to AMD and say "they've got great open source support" but the truth is that it's crappy at best. Intel is the only alternative if you want working free software drivers as of now.
Hey other genius, you can. There are other currencies besides USD, or you can trade to BTC and withdraw it.
Guy needs money. Guy sends BTC to MtGox and sells them netting about $25.000. Guy tries to withdraw said $25.000 on June 6th. MtGox lists the withdraw as "Processed". Money doesn't show up. Guy contacts customer service. They give him the runaround and BS him. Guy asks for said $25.000 to be reinstated into his account so he can buy bitcoins and send them to another exchange sell them there. MtGox says they can't do that because the withdraw is listed as "Processed". What "Processed" means is unclear since they have not initiated any wire transfer. Guy is _still_ waiting for his money. Note that this withdraw was initiated well before they stopped withdraws. And he's not the only one waiting for five figure amounts out of MtGox. So NO, you can't trade to BTC and withdraw it in many cases. Yes, you can - in theory - but not in real life. And EUR out of MtGox? That has always cost a 1% fee on the amount transfered (!) and it's always taken two-three weeks - sometimes longer. EUR out of Bitstamp, on the other hand, takes 1-2 days and costs a fixed 1 EUR fee.
You can believe it's easy to get money out of MtGox if you want. But please actually try and see how well it works before you make such claims.
The reason no digital currency will ever be used to such an extent is that they are truly worthless.
The vast majority of USD and EUR are digital. Only a small percentage exist as cold hard cash. Bitcoin is just another digital currency, just like USD, EUR and JPY. Yes, USD and EUR and JPY also have non-digital versions - but the amount is insignificant.
Bitcoins are actually becoming more plentiful to the tune of 3600 more being created each day
^^^ THIS. People say that Bitcoin has deflation. This is currently NOT true, it is subject to inflation. If we assume that all new coins are sold then $388.800 new money needs to come in each and every day at current MtGox ticker price $108. Say $100 and that's still $360.000 new fiat money required each and every day.
Note that they're only stopping withdrawals from Mt. Gox, not inbound transfers
As said in another comment above: A typical sign of a ponzi is that they start to limit withdraws when they start to collapse. The problems with withdraws isn't new, btw. There are several people I know who are still waiting for five figure USD withdraws initiated in the beginning of this month. Do they have the money? You'd think so, but nobody really knows how much DHS took from their Dwolla account. And then there is the coinbase debacle
People who use bitcoin and drive up it's value are living inside a reality distortion field of their own making
lol, ever tried paying for something using Bitcoins? It's way faster and cheaper than paying using credit cards. A lot of places give you a discount if you pay using Bitcoin. Saying people who use Bitcoin are "living inside a reality distortion field" is as silly as saying the same thing about people who use other currencies like USD and EUR.
As for it's current value and those driving up the price.. my USD/BTC position is currently minus a three digit figure (yes, everyone on ##BTCPro is net short right now)
Bitcoin itself is just a currency and it's traded on numerous exchanges. But the latest MtGox move is interesting: A typical sign of a ponzi scheme is that they start limiting withdraws when they start to collapse. Who knows how much MtGox actually lost when DHS took their Dwolla account? And keep in mind that they just announced that there will be no more withdraws on June 20th. There are people who've been waiting for withdraws - still not processed - since June 5th. Also have a friend who managed to withdraw on June 12th but his second withdraw June 13th never came through.
We've got the Internet, so why dumb yourself down by passivly staring at a propaganda box? They do call it "TV programs" as in "programming" (mind control). I haven't had a TV for about 12 years and I see a clear colleration between how much people watch TV and how much they know about what is really going on in the world around them. There also seems to be a colleration between the amount of time spent in front of a TV and the ability to think clearly and critically. Seriously, get rid of your TV if you have one, you'll feel more clear-minded just after a few months.
This is also about Censorship and Control. Yes torrents are used to distribute some pirated content. But they are also used to distribute home made videos, free educational videos and so on. I have a .torrent site where I mainly distribute videos by Alex Jones / http://infowars.com/ and I can legally distribute everything on that site. I had Google Adsense on it for a while but one day they sent me an e-mail saying that having a .torrent file on your site violates their policy. It apparently doesn't matter to Google _what_ you distribute with a torrent, just using torrents is "bad". That's as stupid as saying "using http is against our policy" regardless of what you serve, but that's the "do evil" corporation for you. The Pirate Bay may have some "bad" content, but there's also a whole lot of important _legal_ content there. You can't easily censor videos distributed using BitTorrent. BitTorrent is important for free speech and free thought. I do understand why Disney wants to shut down sites who distribute videos with information that goes against their propaganda, but it's not alright.
I bet you don't own a TV
You're right, I don't have a TV. Haven't had one since a GF insisted on it 10+ years ago.
Having your own government carry out a false-flag terrorist attack to remove your liberties is never worth anything. As for the ridiculous "And if it turns out that he just blew what might have prevented several 9/11 level attacks?" comment in parent post.. no, spying on citizens will not prevent your government from carrying out false-flag attacks, specially when the goal of those false-flag attacks is to remove civil liberties & start wars.
I've heard this Windows thing has become better, much much better, since Windows 95. I've seen it on other peoples computer and it looks real nice. What's keeping me off trying this Windows thing is that I'm really happy with my computer as it is, I have the software I need and it's stable and I get what I need to get done. I've also got the impression that this Windows this is very limited when it comes to the command line (which I use all the time), multiple virtual desktops, good editors and so on. But I may be wrong, all these things and more may exist in the Windows world - I haven't really paid much attention to what's going on there, but I do have the impression that Windows has become a lot better since I switched.