In other words, same shit as always, but now with much lower body counts?
Depends on how you measure "body count" - if it takes death by kinetic weapon to qualify, then sure. If it means slow deaths, like losing 10 years off a person's lifespan due to poor medical care, malnutrition, environmental pollution or whatever because resources were poorly allocated then no.
Furthermore, just as tasers seem to encourage misuse because of their advertised non-lethality, we stand a good chance of finding escalation of international conflict because of the less-obvious lethality of this sort of engagement.
I'm guessing that was an unintended consequence of those malware programs. Unless there's an advantage I don't see with Iran and North Korea strengthening ties.
The military-industrial complex needs enemies. I'm on the edges of the "cybersecurity" business and its been apparent for years now that there is a huge push to play up the risks with respect to national security because there are Cosmos-level contracting dollars at stake (i.e. billions and billions). This sort of escalation perfectly feeds that narrative.
Stuxnet is going to pay huge dividends for the company that wrote it, not because of the success in Iran, but because of the massive funding for the coming "cyberwar" that stuxnet provoked - imaginary or otherwise.
You know whats stupid? The idea that you can prevent stupid people from doing stupid things by eliminating the stupid things instead of educating the stupid people.
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time...
Fact is you DO have the WiFi bands open, and yet very few people setup mesh networks.
Another technically true, but misleading statement. The wifi frequencies are "open" they just aren't open enough because transmitter power is still extremely limited. To the point where it is unreasonable to expect a single wifi access point to cover more than an acre of so of open land. Ham radio operators are allowed to transmit at levels of power that are orders of magnitude stronger.
Get back to this argument when anyone can run a wifi base-station that will cover at least 5 square miles.
Then who deserves to die? You are just another wannabe hippy. Someone who doesn't love all but who is just to afraid to just admit some people deserve dead.
So, let's see if I got what you are saying -- if you don't "love all" that means you absolutely hate some people so much that you must believe they deserve death. That there can be no middle ground where even really big jerks don't deserve death. Where parking in handicap spaces should mark one for death.
Is anyone keeping track of the apps that Apple has forbidden from the appstore?
I used to be reduced to pointing at the bouncy-boobs type apps (shake the phone and watch a girl's tits bounce) until recently when a friend had to deal with an abusive spouse.
I went looking for an iphone app that records video and audio with the screen turned off - she wanted evidence of him being violent - but as far as I could tell apple doesn't permit such apps. There are some available in the jail-break version of the appstore, but jail-breaking is not an option for the typical battered woman.
Then we went looking for an app that would automatically forward all received text messages to an email address, because the guy likes to send threatening texts and it would be helpful to automatically archive them. Again no go - apparently you have to cut-n-paste them one at a time or rely on a significant level of technical expertise to manually extract them from the icloud(?) backups of the phone.
Win7 firefox 14.0.1 64-bit, scrolls smooth whether I drag the scrollbar or click in the trough. Mint12 firefox 14.0.1 64-bit pretty much the same, maybe slightly more fluid when dragging the scrollbar compared to Win7.
The Win7 page took noticeably longer to load though.
Privacy invading trackers? You mean the ones they use to know if they have any traffic and if so is it getting where it wants to go on the site?
If they weren't happy to hand that data off to 3rd parties by using 3rd party trackers then you would have point.
Nobody cares about you as an individual in this regard.
The key here is "in that regard" -- once that data is collected, especially once it is collected by companies that collect it from thousands of other websites, it can and will eventually be repurposed for other uses.
Does Consumer Reports still have a good reputation? If so, problem solved
Sort of. Their website is littered with the same privacy-invading trackers as most other sites. As far as I am concerned that's a major no-no for an organization that claims to be on the consumer's side and that's enough for me to not renew my yearly subscription. But I have not yet heard of a case where that same attitude has poisoned anything else there... yet.
Is this the same notorious patent troll owned by former microsoft bazillionaire Nathan Myhrvold? The company that makes nothing but taxes just about everybody in the tech world and claims to be doing God's Work by not actually selling a mosquito-killing laser gun?
They want to interview him as part of their prosecution procedure, where the interview is a formal sit-down-and-discuss-things-before-charging thing and (from my limited understanding of Swedish criminal procedural rules) they can't do the latter part outside Sweden, or at least, when he isn't in their custody.
It is hard to believe that Swedish law does not provide for a way to charge someone in absentia.
When you include payroll tax, that number goes down to 18.1%. Technically payroll tax is not income tax - only because it is taken out before the money is "yours," otherwise it is the same thing - it wouldn't be paid if you weren't earning an income.
Then when you rule out the retired, the number drops down below 8%.
What's left? 7% who have incomes less than $20K/yr and 1% of who-knows-what. Include in those other taxes like property taxes (auto and real-estate, which renters indirectly pay) and sales taxes and it is much closer to the truth to say that 0% of the population pays no taxes.
You'll need to do more than eat your words. What is the proper way to apologize for smearing rape victims?
You might be right about Assange, but you undermine your position on his guilt when you take a criticism of this case and generalize it like that. It makes it look like you are transferring your personal circumstances onto this case. That's no better than people knee-jerk defending Assange simply because of the laudable goals of the wikileaks organization.
Only in the case of the now out-dated cameras that use a flash. The kind of ANPR systems that have become ubiquitous in recent years don't use a flash.
However, I've been thinking that a clear license plate cover that embedded infra-red LEDs in strategic locations would be useful in obscuring the number to cameras - many (most?) of which are sensitive to IR in order to improve capture quality in low-light conditions - without being obvious to the naked eye.
All I am saying is that people should be less surprised than they are when things that are obviously quite possible happen.
No one is surprised about the technical details - that is a total canard. We are outraged that basic constitutional principles are so easily discarded by the courts.
I don't get this persistent desire of people to ignore reality. If something can be done, it will be. Should it be? Possibly not, but again you are ignoring the REALITY.
Congratulations, you have just argued away the need for the government get a warrant in any situation at all.
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In other words, same shit as always, but now with much lower body counts?
Depends on how you measure "body count" - if it takes death by kinetic weapon to qualify, then sure. If it means slow deaths, like losing 10 years off a person's lifespan due to poor medical care, malnutrition, environmental pollution or whatever because resources were poorly allocated then no.
Furthermore, just as tasers seem to encourage misuse because of their advertised non-lethality, we stand a good chance of finding escalation of international conflict because of the less-obvious lethality of this sort of engagement.
so: do you think the cliques in power in tehran and north korea should be opposed? if not, why not?
They should be opposed with a level of effort equal to their level of threat - not their level of venom.
but this does not mean that enemies are just made up hoaxes
the venom from north korea and iran is real. just ask a japanese, or a syrian
this is where you lecture me
Stupid war pig, tricks are kids.
Venom does not equal realistic threat. If it did, Osama would have killed millions and the KKK would have purified the country.
I'm guessing that was an unintended consequence of those malware programs. Unless there's an advantage I don't see with Iran and North Korea strengthening ties.
The military-industrial complex needs enemies. I'm on the edges of the "cybersecurity" business and its been apparent for years now that there is a huge push to play up the risks with respect to national security because there are Cosmos-level contracting dollars at stake (i.e. billions and billions). This sort of escalation perfectly feeds that narrative.
Stuxnet is going to pay huge dividends for the company that wrote it, not because of the success in Iran, but because of the massive funding for the coming "cyberwar" that stuxnet provoked - imaginary or otherwise.
It was a convention and it was for fans... so I don't agree with you on this.
DRM is all about fucking over the fans.
The sooner they learn that, the better.
You can't buy targetted "advertising" as good as this.
You know whats stupid? The idea that you can prevent stupid people from doing stupid things by eliminating the stupid things instead of educating the stupid people.
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time ...
Fact is you DO have the WiFi bands open, and yet very few people setup mesh networks.
Another technically true, but misleading statement. The wifi frequencies are "open" they just aren't open enough because transmitter power is still extremely limited. To the point where it is unreasonable to expect a single wifi access point to cover more than an acre of so of open land. Ham radio operators are allowed to transmit at levels of power that are orders of magnitude stronger.
Get back to this argument when anyone can run a wifi base-station that will cover at least 5 square miles.
Then who deserves to die? You are just another wannabe hippy. Someone who doesn't love all but who is just to afraid to just admit some people deserve dead.
So, let's see if I got what you are saying -- if you don't "love all" that means you absolutely hate some people so much that you must believe they deserve death. That there can be no middle ground where even really big jerks don't deserve death. Where parking in handicap spaces should mark one for death.
Sounds like you live in a really shitty universe.
Is anyone keeping track of the apps that Apple has forbidden from the appstore?
I used to be reduced to pointing at the bouncy-boobs type apps (shake the phone and watch a girl's tits bounce) until recently when a friend had to deal with an abusive spouse.
I went looking for an iphone app that records video and audio with the screen turned off - she wanted evidence of him being violent - but as far as I could tell apple doesn't permit such apps. There are some available in the jail-break version of the appstore, but jail-breaking is not an option for the typical battered woman.
Then we went looking for an app that would automatically forward all received text messages to an email address, because the guy likes to send threatening texts and it would be helpful to automatically archive them. Again no go - apparently you have to cut-n-paste them one at a time or rely on a significant level of technical expertise to manually extract them from the icloud(?) backups of the phone.
A few more generations of RapReps will kill what remains.
Ominous Voice-Over: You wouldn't steal a car, so why would you steal a movie?
Me: If I could download a car, I probably would!
Win7 firefox 14.0.1 64-bit, scrolls smooth whether I drag the scrollbar or click in the trough.
Mint12 firefox 14.0.1 64-bit pretty much the same, maybe slightly more fluid when dragging the scrollbar compared to Win7.
The Win7 page took noticeably longer to load though.
Privacy invading trackers? You mean the ones they use to know if they have any traffic and if so is it getting where it wants to go on the site?
If they weren't happy to hand that data off to 3rd parties by using 3rd party trackers then you would have point.
Nobody cares about you as an individual in this regard.
The key here is "in that regard" -- once that data is collected, especially once it is collected by companies that collect it from thousands of other websites, it can and will eventually be repurposed for other uses.
Does Consumer Reports still have a good reputation? If so, problem solved
Sort of. Their website is littered with the same privacy-invading trackers as most other sites. As far as I am concerned that's a major no-no for an organization that claims to be on the consumer's side and that's enough for me to not renew my yearly subscription. But I have not yet heard of a case where that same attitude has poisoned anything else there ... yet.
Give us a link that doesn't require registration.. aieet?
FWIW, It worked for me.
I get past most of these semi-porous paywalls with a combo of firefox add-ons:
RefControl (for most it is sufficient to set the referrer to http://google.com/)
CS Lite (block all cookies from the paywalled site)
I also have noscript, Ghostery, RequestPolicy and RedirectRemover installed but they usually aren't necessary to get past the paywall.
Is this the same notorious patent troll owned by former microsoft bazillionaire Nathan Myhrvold? The company that makes nothing but taxes just about everybody in the tech world and claims to be doing God's Work by not actually selling a mosquito-killing laser gun?
Yes they say the words that make you happy... do they actually deliver?
Weak sauce dude, weak sauce.
I think someone got their bits and bytes mixed up...
They never said how big the blurays actually were.
You don't need to have control over the firewall if you only need an outgoing connection - that's what listen mode is.
They want to interview him as part of their prosecution procedure, where the interview is a formal sit-down-and-discuss-things-before-charging thing and (from my limited understanding of Swedish criminal procedural rules) they can't do the latter part outside Sweden, or at least, when he isn't in their custody.
It is hard to believe that Swedish law does not provide for a way to charge someone in absentia.
It seems equally absurd that 50% of americans don't pay any taxes at all, and a good chunk of those actually get money back.
You probably mean "income tax" and even then that's one of those technically true but misleading facts.
When you include payroll tax, that number goes down to 18.1%. Technically payroll tax is not income tax - only because it is taken out before the money is "yours," otherwise it is the same thing - it wouldn't be paid if you weren't earning an income.
Then when you rule out the retired, the number drops down below 8%.
What's left? 7% who have incomes less than $20K/yr and 1% of who-knows-what.
Include in those other taxes like property taxes (auto and real-estate, which renters indirectly pay) and sales taxes and it is much closer to the truth to say that 0% of the population pays no taxes.
You'll need to do more than eat your words. What is the proper way to apologize for smearing rape victims?
You might be right about Assange, but you undermine your position on his guilt when you take a criticism of this case and generalize it like that. It makes it look like you are transferring your personal circumstances onto this case. That's no better than people knee-jerk defending Assange simply because of the laudable goals of the wikileaks organization.
Get license plate spray. It works.
Only in the case of the now out-dated cameras that use a flash.
The kind of ANPR systems that have become ubiquitous in recent years don't use a flash.
However, I've been thinking that a clear license plate cover that embedded infra-red LEDs in strategic locations would be useful in obscuring the number to cameras - many (most?) of which are sensitive to IR in order to improve capture quality in low-light conditions - without being obvious to the naked eye.
All I am saying is that people should be less surprised than they are when things that are obviously quite possible happen.
No one is surprised about the technical details - that is a total canard. We are outraged that basic constitutional principles are so easily discarded by the courts.
I don't get this persistent desire of people to ignore reality. If something can be done, it will be. Should it be? Possibly not, but again you are ignoring the REALITY.
Congratulations, you have just argued away the need for the government get a warrant in any situation at all.
Yep, telling your kid that they're failures has always been a great way to turn them into educated, stable, confident adults.
Ttelling them they are smart and winners is at least as bad. The best current advice seems to be to tell them that failing is part of the process of succeeding and is nothing to be ashamed of.