That's why you don't "announce" leaks. You either release or don't release documents.
This is one of the reasons why Daniel Domscheit-Berg (and several others) left Wikileaks. He thought it was wrong of Julian Assange to make threats about releasing specific leaks.
Also: Since last year, Wikileaks doesn't have a working submission system. There's still no way to send wikileaks anything right now. Assange stated in several interviews that Wikileaks wasn't accepting documents anymore because they were overwhelmed with the Iraq war/Afghanistan/State cable leaks and that they didn't have the staff to process new submissions. That was only half of the story. The other half is that one of the Wikileaks members that left last year at the same time as Daniel Domscheit-Berg was the guy who coded the submission system. When the coder left, Wikileaks wasn't able to keep the submission system running because there was no one else capable of maintaining it and making sure it stayed secure (given that the submission system is probably the most sensitive part of the site).
Toy Size Spy Drones, Live government cell phones tracking, ACTA, Arbitrary domain names seizing, Law mandated year-long ISP data retention policies. Innocent citizens detained at airports (during which agents copy and/or seize their laptops and cellphones).
In short, the MPAA rating system has four objectives:
- Lock out the competition. The MPAA makes sure independent/foreign movies are kept out of the commercial loop by rating them very harshly (or by refusing to rate them). This essentially limits their potential commercial success (R) or kills it off altogether (NC-17, Not rated).
By opposition, big studio (MPAA members) productions are usually rated very leniently (PG-13 for action/violent movies). Contrary to independent film makers who (naively) try to make the best film they can, studios "know what it takes" to get their movies rated PG or PG-13.
- Make sure the government doesn't come out with its own rating system, which would essentially level the playing field.
- Prevent lawsuits from morality/christian nutjob groups.
Nothing Ironic about it al all. I think this is the hundredth time have heard this false dichotomy.
Wikileaks is about exposing governments and corporations wrongdoings, not about ending privacy for individuals (this is facebook business model).
Corporations and governments should operate transparently, they have no *inherent* right to privacy, private individuals however do.
As a private citizen, and as long as I don't break any law (and posting anonymously on the internet is definitely not a crime), I should have a reasonable expectation of privacy.
When you say Wikileaks is against privacy, you're either misinformed or spreading lies.
>Finally, remember that if any school child even hears the word "God" used in anything other than a derogatory manner or even sees a Bible that isn't being desecrated, that school child will forever mentally scarred beyond comprehension. Censorship is good!
Congratulation. You've just equated separation of Church and state with censorship.
I wish Christians in America weren't such an oppressed minority with no voice (apart from several media empires) and nobody to represent them (apart from the whole Congress).
This is not simply about the DDoS, these guys are being made an example of.
Every police investigation and judicial action related to Wikileaks, from Bradly Manning "Hannibal Lecter"-like punitive detention to Assange's no charge house arrest to this recent (and amazingly fast) wave of DDOS arrests, everything linked to Wikileaks has been given "special priority".
It warms my heart to see US, UK and EU law enforcement agencies and governments working hand in hand this way. If only they would show that same level of collaboration and efficiency in combating (real) international crimes like human trafficking or corporate tax evasion.
Seriously, an incredible number of computer crime operations (spam, commercial DDoS etc.) go unpunished for years, but these guys are in prison less than 2 months after having DDoS'ed Visa showroom website for a few hours?
Silly me, I thought the judicial branch was supposed to be independent and not bow to government or political pressure.
Exactly, do you even think for a second that this guy would be sitting in a federal prison if he had guessed your neighbor's Yahoo account security question?
This is very much a case of a commoner being dealt a disproportionally harsh punishment because the victim is part of the ruling class.
And Sarah Palin didn't even get a slap on the wrist for using her private email to shield government business from public scrutiny.
I remember September 2008, wasn't this the time wall street bankers nearly crashed the world economy? Anybody charged, convicted or sitting in a federal prison yet?
So reality TV, Sarah Palin, American Idol and Fox News are all perfectly fine... but a guy playing Donkey Kong is the end of civilization?
Sure, video games are pointless time wasters, the opium of the people... as oppose to commenting on slashdot, which as we all know, is the last bastion of resistance preventing the downfall of the western world.
"Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted." -John Lennon
You don't understand, there are two kinds of copyright infringement.
The commercial one, in which benevolent publicly-traded corporations profit form the work of unpaid artists and the evil non-commercial kind, performed by individuals, which doesn't generate any profit at all.
The non commercial one is of course far more immoral and dangerous to society, and it should be punished to the full extent of the law (in this case $1,920,000 in statutory damages for sharing 24 songs).
Remember kids, when you download MP3s, you're downloading communism!
U.S. of A., the United States of Advertising. Freedom of expression is guaranteed... If you've got the money!
Everyone has the right to speech, but if they want a megaphone, someone has to pay for it.
The megaphone part is exactly what is wrong with free speech in America right now. Go ahead and exercise your first amendment right in the woods (aka a “Free speech zone”), but good luck if you want to exercise that same right on any kind of mass media. Want to say anything on a national level that might upset a corporation? Not possible unless you’ve got the resource to outspend them.
In essence, freedom of expression now has a financial barrier of entry and this prevents significant critical discourse from ever reaching the broad public. This is how you manufacture consent, by keeping dissident voices out of the loop.
Money dictates the public and political discourse in America. The government isn't telling Americans what they can and can't say, corporations are. And the TV-Tropes case is a perfect example of that.
https everywhere is indeed a great extension, and everybody should be using it.
But some of the services that Firesheep target don't offer an https option *at all*. This is no rebuttal, it only proves Firesheep developer's point : these services have an unappropriate level of security.
The worst offender is probably Yahoo! Mail. They don't even offer https to their paying customers! For one of the leading webmail service this is utterly unacceptable. https for login is a fig leaf, the only thing this does is give users a false sense of security.
Totally agree with you about keeping religion out of government and public life in general.
That being said, can we please not make this story about Islam?
This has nothing do to with Islam or cultural relativism and everything to do with Lybia being a totalitarian regime. Gaddafi is the local thug and dictator, but he is not an islamist by far. He's an arab nationalist, an ideology that is largely secular (very much like Saddam Hussein was), yet he has supported and backed terrorism several times in the past (Lockerbie Bombing). Please try to have a wider perspective, most of the dictators in power in Muslim countries don't give a shit about Islam, they are only looking out for themselves. They might use religion to try to legitimize their regimes or as a populist tool to fight their democratic opponents.
This is what happen we you do business with autocratic regimes that have no respect for the law or for basic human rights and liberties. The only real rule is the whim of the local leader/prince.
Switzerland learned the hard way, when Lybia kept two Swiss nationals hostage during several months as retaliation. This because the Swiss police arrested Gaddafi's son for beating his servants and treating them as slaves.
Bottom line: If you do chose to do business in authoritarian non-democratic countries, be prepared to pay the cost and lose it all at any point in time.
Maybe you could add a "whitelist this site for cookies y/n?" query right after "do you want to save the password for this site"?
CookieCuller for Firefox does exactly that. You can white-list cookies for sites you trust and the rest of them are flushed every time you close your browser.
Don't fool yourself. Boards don't give a damn about CEOs and top managers sexually harassing employees (even if it wasn't the case here) and they couldn't care less about expense account abuses (record companies executives anyone? hookers and blow etc.) or about rampant corruption. They only care when any of it goes public, then heads have to roll (damage control and PR bullshit). This is what happened here.
Try swyping words like shit, cunt, fuck... Yep, it doesn't work. Swype will not predict "offensive" words.
Aren't these words part of the English language? Aren't they in every single modern English dictionary? Then why can't input them on my phone keyboard? I guess I need to add them to my user dictionary as if they were something special and not part of normal day-to-day communication.
This has gone way too far. This isn't even political correctness out of control anymore, we have entered thought control territory. A pen that refuses to write offensive thoughts? Wake the fuck up America. You are asleep at the fucking wheel.
integration with the existing iTunes ecosystem, revenue generation features for third-party developers built into the system, ability to draw on existing iPhone/Mac developer pool obsessed with user experience, etc.
Yes, things that Apple got "exactly right". All of these are of course fully accessible to non-Apple competitors since Apple is such a strong supporter of standards and open solutions.
don't waste your time on the HTC Hero.. wait another week
Or better yet, wait a few more weeks and get an Andoird 1.6 phone, with a WVGA (800x480) display.
I'm fed up with all smartphones using 480x320, that's one area where the iphone did hurt the market: it set a low standard for display resolution. Japanese manufacturers (Sharp etc.) have been releasing phones with FWVGA (854 x 480) displays for a few years now, I really don't understand why the western market has been lagging behind all this time.
Slashdot Mirror
That's why you don't "announce" leaks. You either release or don't release documents.
This is one of the reasons why Daniel Domscheit-Berg (and several others) left Wikileaks. He thought it was wrong of Julian Assange to make threats about releasing specific leaks.
Also: Since last year, Wikileaks doesn't have a working submission system. There's still no way to send wikileaks anything right now. Assange stated in several interviews that Wikileaks wasn't accepting documents anymore because they were overwhelmed with the Iraq war/Afghanistan/State cable leaks and that they didn't have the staff to process new submissions. That was only half of the story. The other half is that one of the Wikileaks members that left last year at the same time as Daniel Domscheit-Berg was the guy who coded the submission system. When the coder left, Wikileaks wasn't able to keep the submission system running because there was no one else capable of maintaining it and making sure it stayed secure (given that the submission system is probably the most sensitive part of the site).
Check out this interview with Domscheit-Berg for more about why he left Wikileaks.
Toy Size Spy Drones, Live government cell phones tracking, ACTA, Arbitrary domain names seizing, Law mandated year-long ISP data retention policies. Innocent citizens detained at airports (during which agents copy and/or seize their laptops and cellphones).
It sure is nice living in the future.
Right, because logs show what was *inside* all the traffic. Not.
As far as web traffic goes: websites logs + ISP logs = recorded phone call
How The MPAA Rating System Killed Movies
Fixed.
In short, the MPAA rating system has four objectives:
- Lock out the competition. The MPAA makes sure independent/foreign movies are kept out of the commercial loop by rating them very harshly (or by refusing to rate them). This essentially limits their potential commercial success (R) or kills it off altogether (NC-17, Not rated).
By opposition, big studio (MPAA members) productions are usually rated very leniently (PG-13 for action/violent movies).
Contrary to independent film makers who (naively) try to make the best film they can, studios "know what it takes" to get their movies rated PG or PG-13.
- Make sure the government doesn't come out with its own rating system, which would essentially level the playing field.
- Prevent lawsuits from morality/christian nutjob groups.
- Forever ruin American mainstream cinema.
Aaron Barr and HBGary are the laughing stock of the industry. Why would they want to attend a public event right now? Makes no sense.
They probably wrote that note themselves in order to say their booth was "vandalized" so they could bail on the whole thing.
Their own leaked Powerpoint presentations recommend using to these kind of falsification tactics.
Nothing Ironic about it al all. I think this is the hundredth time have heard this false dichotomy.
Wikileaks is about exposing governments and corporations wrongdoings, not about ending privacy for individuals (this is facebook business model).
Corporations and governments should operate transparently, they have no *inherent* right to privacy, private individuals however do. As a private citizen, and as long as I don't break any law (and posting anonymously on the internet is definitely not a crime), I should have a reasonable expectation of privacy.
When you say Wikileaks is against privacy, you're either misinformed or spreading lies.
>Finally, remember that if any school child even hears the word "God" used in anything other than a derogatory manner or even sees a Bible that isn't being desecrated, that school child will forever mentally scarred beyond comprehension. Censorship is good!
Congratulation. You've just equated separation of Church and state with censorship.
I wish Christians in America weren't such an oppressed minority with no voice (apart from several media empires) and nobody to represent them (apart from the whole Congress).
This is not simply about the DDoS, these guys are being made an example of.
Every police investigation and judicial action related to Wikileaks, from Bradly Manning "Hannibal Lecter"-like punitive detention to Assange's no charge house arrest to this recent (and amazingly fast) wave of DDOS arrests, everything linked to Wikileaks has been given "special priority".
It warms my heart to see US, UK and EU law enforcement agencies and governments working hand in hand this way. If only they would show that same level of collaboration and efficiency in combating (real) international crimes like human trafficking or corporate tax evasion.
Seriously, an incredible number of computer crime operations (spam, commercial DDoS etc.) go unpunished for years, but these guys are in prison less than 2 months after having DDoS'ed Visa showroom website for a few hours?
Silly me, I thought the judicial branch was supposed to be independent and not bow to government or political pressure.
Mark Zuckerberg has "fans"?
I guess sycophancy and worshiping the rich never goes out of style.
This re-design = New Coke
It is *incredibly* slow and heavy for no good reason and they pushed put it out way too soon (hello major display bug).
I'm sorry but this is fucking terrible.
At least give us the option to turn most that crap off and go back to the old design.
Scanning...
You've been identified as:
- Elton John
- Chewbacca
- Hitler
- Morbidly obese middle-aged guy
- 15 years old Taiwanese schoolgirl
Computing recommendation...
Here, why don't you try $MOST_EXPENSIVE_PRODUCT ?
Our super-advanced recommendation technology has determined it's just what you need!
Exactly, do you even think for a second that this guy would be sitting in a federal prison if he had guessed your neighbor's Yahoo account security question?
This is very much a case of a commoner being dealt a disproportionally harsh punishment because the victim is part of the ruling class.
And Sarah Palin didn't even get a slap on the wrist for using her private email to shield government business from public scrutiny.
I remember September 2008, wasn't this the time wall street bankers nearly crashed the world economy? Anybody charged, convicted or sitting in a federal prison yet?
The system works.
So reality TV, Sarah Palin, American Idol and Fox News are all perfectly fine... but a guy playing Donkey Kong is the end of civilization?
Sure, video games are pointless time wasters, the opium of the people... as oppose to commenting on slashdot, which as we all know, is the last bastion of resistance preventing the downfall of the western world.
"Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted." -John Lennon
You don't understand, there are two kinds of copyright infringement.
The commercial one, in which benevolent publicly-traded corporations profit form the work of unpaid artists and the evil non-commercial kind, performed by individuals, which doesn't generate any profit at all.
The non commercial one is of course far more immoral and dangerous to society, and it should be punished to the full extent of the law (in this case $1,920,000 in statutory damages for sharing 24 songs).
Remember kids, when you download MP3s, you're downloading communism!
Everyone has the right to speech, but if they want a megaphone, someone has to pay for it.
The megaphone part is exactly what is wrong with free speech in America right now. Go ahead and exercise your first amendment right in the woods (aka a “Free speech zone”), but good luck if you want to exercise that same right on any kind of mass media. Want to say anything on a national level that might upset a corporation? Not possible unless you’ve got the resource to outspend them.
In essence, freedom of expression now has a financial barrier of entry and this prevents significant critical discourse from ever reaching the broad public. This is how you manufacture consent, by keeping dissident voices out of the loop.
Money dictates the public and political discourse in America. The government isn't telling Americans what they can and can't say, corporations are. And the TV-Tropes case is a perfect example of that.
https everywhere is indeed a great extension, and everybody should be using it.
But some of the services that Firesheep target don't offer an https option *at all*. This is no rebuttal, it only proves Firesheep developer's point : these services have an unappropriate level of security.
The worst offender is probably Yahoo! Mail. They don't even offer https to their paying customers! For one of the leading webmail service this is utterly unacceptable. https for login is a fig leaf, the only thing this does is give users a false sense of security.
If I had super-smarts I would be cracking the stock market or starting a revolutionary tech company.
I'd rather crash the stock market and start a revolution.
You know. Stir things up a bit.
Totally agree with you about keeping religion out of government and public life in general.
That being said, can we please not make this story about Islam?
This has nothing do to with Islam or cultural relativism and everything to do with Lybia being a totalitarian regime. Gaddafi is the local thug and dictator, but he is not an islamist by far. He's an arab nationalist, an ideology that is largely secular (very much like Saddam Hussein was), yet he has supported and backed terrorism several times in the past (Lockerbie Bombing). Please try to have a wider perspective, most of the dictators in power in Muslim countries don't give a shit about Islam, they are only looking out for themselves. They might use religion to try to legitimize their regimes or as a populist tool to fight their democratic opponents.
This is what happen we you do business with autocratic regimes that have no respect for the law or for basic human rights and liberties. The only real rule is the whim of the local leader/prince.
Switzerland learned the hard way, when Lybia kept two Swiss nationals hostage during several months as retaliation. This because the Swiss police arrested Gaddafi's son for beating his servants and treating them as slaves.
Bottom line: If you do chose to do business in authoritarian non-democratic countries, be prepared to pay the cost and lose it all at any point in time.
Maybe you could add a "whitelist this site for cookies y/n?" query right after "do you want to save the password for this site"?
CookieCuller for Firefox does exactly that. You can white-list cookies for sites you trust and the rest of them are flushed every time you close your browser.
They just aren't allowed to say it out loud.
Don't fool yourself. Boards don't give a damn about CEOs and top managers sexually harassing employees (even if it wasn't the case here) and they couldn't care less about expense account abuses (record companies executives anyone? hookers and blow etc.) or about rampant corruption. They only care when any of it goes public, then heads have to roll (damage control and PR bullshit). This is what happened here.
Except it is fucking *censored*.
Try swyping words like shit, cunt, fuck... Yep, it doesn't work. Swype will not predict "offensive" words.
Aren't these words part of the English language? Aren't they in every single modern English dictionary? Then why can't input them on my phone keyboard? I guess I need to add them to my user dictionary as if they were something special and not part of normal day-to-day communication.
This is totally unacceptable. After Apple censoring apps that are adaptations of classic literature and Steve Jobs "Freedom from porn", now this. What is this nonsense? "Swype: Freedom from swearing"?
This has gone way too far. This isn't even political correctness out of control anymore, we have entered thought control territory. A pen that refuses to write offensive thoughts? Wake the fuck up America. You are asleep at the fucking wheel.
That line of defense did wonders for Alberto Gonzales...
integration with the existing iTunes ecosystem, revenue generation features for third-party developers built into the system, ability to draw on existing iPhone/Mac developer pool obsessed with user experience, etc.
Yes, things that Apple got "exactly right". All of these are of course fully accessible to non-Apple competitors since Apple is such a strong supporter of standards and open solutions.
I would forsee the unlikely coalition of far rightists and far leftists
'Far leftists' in the US Senate? How's the weather in your parallel universe?
Or are you talking about the few liberals that might be labeled as center in the rest of the world?
don't waste your time on the HTC Hero.. wait another week
Or better yet, wait a few more weeks and get an Andoird 1.6 phone, with a WVGA (800x480) display.
I'm fed up with all smartphones using 480x320, that's one area where the iphone did hurt the market: it set a low standard for display resolution. Japanese manufacturers (Sharp etc.) have been releasing phones with FWVGA (854 x 480) displays for a few years now, I really don't understand why the western market has been lagging behind all this time.